(Sorry, there has been no network, just now there is a network)

After coming out, Yang Fan used Lin Nuolan's mobile phone to dial the number of "Lao Zou".

To his surprise, the phone rang for a while, and no one answered. He could only check the place where the number belonged, and unexpectedly found that it was not from Hua'an City, but the number of a small place in another province.

If it's a scammer, it should be nearby to threaten people. Could it be from her hometown? Owed a debt to someone in your hometown? Father's debt to the son?

Such a possible surname has made Yang Fan more calm and calm, and he is ready to talk to this old Zou.

After half an hour, he didn't call back, so he called again.

This time there was still no answer, but after a while, just as he was about to hang up, the call was answered.

"Is it Nolan? I didn't have my phone with me. The other party was a little gasped, probably because he heard the mobile phone ringing and ran to answer.

Yang Fan was silent for a while, this was a man's voice with a strong country accent, it was estimated that he should be at least forty years old. I don't know why, just from the sound of his voice, he thinks this should be an honest person. And judging from his name "Nuolan", he should be very familiar with Lin Nuolan.

This made him have no position to ask, he was just a friend who had only looked at Lin Nuolan for half a month.

"Mr. Zou, right? I'm a friend of Nuolan, and I received a message from you last night, and I ...... Can you ask what the situation is? Yang Fan tried to phrase tactfully, "Don't worry, I don't have any opinions." I just want to shoulder it with her! ”

This time it was Lao Zou's turn to be silent, and after a while, he said more politely than Yang Fan: "You must be Nuo Lan's boyfriend, right?" Nuolan is a good girl, in fact, we dragged her down, I'm sorry! ”

Yang Fan was a little puzzled: "Can you tell me about the situation?" ”

"Okay!" Lao Zou agreed very simply: "It seems that you don't know at all, Nuo Lan didn't tell you at all, if you hadn't seen the information this time, she would still be hiding it from you." So that's what I'm supposed to talk about...... You know Nolan is an orphan, right? ”

Yang Fan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "I see that Nuo Lancun calls you Lao Zou with your number, so I won't be polite to you, and I will call you Lao Zou with her." Lao Zou, can you tell me more about it? If you have time. ”

Lao Zou hesitated slightly: "Then I'll tell you!" ”

From Lao Zou's narration, Yang Fan learned about Lin Nuolan from the side. She grew up in a backward and impoverished mountainous area, although this kind of place is gradually decreasing, but there are still many of them, and her family is one of the poorest in the area.

Nuolan's father was one of the first people to go out of the mountains to work in the city, and met her mother in the city, and the two of them had her together, and then followed her father back, and found that it was such a remote and backward place, her mother stayed for one night, and then couldn't stand the backwardness, and left the next day.

Nuolan's father had to take Nuolan back to the city as a baby, but then she didn't know what happened, and her father returned to his hometown very disappointed, handed over the child to his parents, and left by himself. Then there was no more news, and later there were several versions of the story from other people in the village who had returned from work.

Some said that her mother disliked her father and ran away with a boss. After her father sent him back to Nolan, he went after him, but he didn't know where he went; Some said that her mother married a rich man and gave birth to a son, but her father couldn't stand the stimulation and tried desperately to find the man, and was finally arrested and imprisoned; Some also said that her father couldn't stand the blow and committed suicide......

Perhaps all the stories are based on her mother's dislike of the poverty of her family in the mountain village and her father's lack of news, but one thing is true: until Nuolan grew up, they never heard from him again!

Nuo Lan was brought by his elderly grandparents, who used to rely on his son to work and remit money, but then his son had no news, and they were old and did not have much income in the poor and backward mountainous areas, and gradually became more and more degraded. When Nuolan was six years old, her grandfather died, leaving her and her grandmother to live together.

Her grandmother's health is also very poor, skinny, but she still insists on living! The old people don't dare to get sick or die! If you are sick, it will be even worse, and if you die, Nuolan will have no support at all! And even if she had a bad time, she insisted on letting Nuo Lan go to school!

At that time, there were still people in the local area who thought that girls didn't need to go to school much, and they could just know a little word. But the grandmother firmly believes that only by letting Nuolan go to school can she change the fate of poverty that she has been trapped all her life, and she may have a chance to find her son when she goes to study in the big city in the future......

Although Nuolan didn't grow up eating hundreds of meals, he was basically taken care of by many villagers. Whoever comes to kill chickens, kill pigs during the New Year, or something, will send a bowl to their family. There are fish leftovers for red and white ceremonies, and some will be sent to their families. As for new clothes, milk, bread, toys and other things that ordinary families are not short of, they have never been on Xiao Nuolan's body!

Eating can be a little worse, wearing can be a little older, playing can be a little less, these can be overcome with gritted teeth, the most difficult is the problem of going to school!

At that time, compulsory education had not yet been implemented in rural areas without full tuition, and when she was in elementary school, Grandma Nuolan could still rely on the money her father had saved for the New Year. And after her father met her mother, he had a lot of expenses and didn't have much money to go home, and even more so after having Nuolan, this saving money was still given when he just went out to work.

Later, I couldn't afford to go to junior high school, and all my grandma could do was save a little egg to pay back. At that time, Xiao Nuolan wanted to work and study, and there was no place to do odd jobs, all she could do was to grow food and vegetables for two people.

Lao Zou was the principal of the primary school at that time, the primary school was not large, and the children of several nearby mountain villages went to school, the conditions were too poor, and there were not many teachers, and he sometimes had to act as a teacher for several subjects and several ages. But Nuo Lan's academic performance and Nuo Lan's grandmother's persistence made Lao Zou take the lead in raising money for her, issuing a poverty certificate for her, and reducing the tuition fee of the middle school. At that time, a key middle school that was admitted with excellent grades was reluctant to make an exception, and ended up attending a middle school that was willing to reduce tuition fees.

This is how they survived those years, and when Nuo Lan was admitted to university with excellent grades, the whole village was proud, and Lao Zou and others were also very proud. But expensive tuition fees are another heavy problem! And the grandmother finally couldn't hold it anymore, and the old man, who had run out of oil lamps, closed his eyes with relief.

It's still Lao Zou, and the family goes to ask for some donations for Nuolan. The local people are not rich, and the same village group is better, and the other village groups will say a few good words sympathetically. The villagers who helped take care of their grandmother's funeral also gave donations of 10 yuan or 20 yuan, but in the end it was less than 1,000 yuan, which was far from enough for tuition. Fortunately, because the middle school was admitted to a good university, it earned them face, and gave them a scholarship to make up enough for the tuition fee for the first semester.

Later, after college, it was the student loan that Nuolan applied for and the scholarship he received, and his usual living expenses were maintained by work-study such as tutoring and distributing leaflets. Every year during the winter and summer vacations, she didn't go home, one was that she needed travel expenses, and there was no one to go home, and the other was to hurry up and work to earn money.

In those years, other classmates were filming and having fun, catching up with fashion, and watching celebrity concerts, but she spent it in hardship. After being a little more active, Nuo Lan went home for the New Year and repaid the money donated by the villagers one by one, and she remembered it all!

She also wanted to repay the money to Principal Zou, who had helped her a lot, but Lao Zou didn't ask for it, saying that when she worked in the future, she would just give back and help the children here when the conditions were good.

After Nuolan graduated, after the income from his job paid off the student loan, he began to subsidize the village primary school. Although the tuition fee is reduced, there are still fees such as test papers and textbooks, and the conditions are too poor to retain teachers. At Nuolan's insistence, she divided part of her monthly income into a subsidy for the school, including student fees, subsidized teachers' salaries, purchased books and tools, improved the school environment, and so on.

Books and the like are given once, student fees are paid twice a year, and the improvement of school conditions can be done gradually, and only the subsidized teachers need to be fixed. As Nolan's income slowly increases, she is now part of a new project: a free lunch for all teachers and students! She doesn't want her children to go to school like she did back then......