Although several students were sweaty, for them, they were not very tired after walking the mountain road every day.

"Thank you, teacher, we are not tired, we will go down the mountain after a short rest here. Teacher, do you also go to school? Teacher Zhang is not at school today. ”

Teacher Zhang?

Ye Zhiran asked unintentionally, "Hmm, where did Teacher Zhang go?" What about the other teachers in the school? ”

"The other teachers are here, aren't you looking for Teacher Zhang?"

Listening to the tone of several of them, it seems that people from outside are generally looking for Teacher Zhang.

"Uh, is Mr. Zhang your principal?"

"No, the principal's surname is Zhou. You're really not here to find Mr. Zhang? He added: "However, even if I came to see Mr. Zhang today, I can't meet him, Mr. Zhang took an engineer to survey the terrain today, and he wants to help us repair the kind of road that can drive a car." ”

"Oh?" Ye Zhiran felt a little surprised. It's not that the village doesn't need roads, but because it's a paradise, not only remote, but also hidden deep in the mountains, surrounded by mountains, and the cost of building roads is quite high. For the local government, the cost of such a road is estimated to be unaffordable. From an investment point of view, building such a road will not produce much economic benefit.

"Build a road from Xishan Village?" He asked.

It took him about an hour to climb from the foot of the mountain to here, and it is estimated that it will take more than 20 minutes to walk down the mountain to the village, and it is estimated that it will take seven or eight kilometers to build such a road that can drive cars to the small market town, and the number of kilometers will increase if he has to build a road around the mountain.

"Yes, yes, teacher, you come here to see ......"

The girl's face was flushed, and her eyes were shining. Pointing to the mountain crack in the west, he said: "Teacher Zhang said that if you build a road from the village to this mountain crevice, you can go directly to the national highway without going around the mountain, and the distance can be shortened by more than half." ”

Ye Zhiran looked in the direction that Song Cheng had seen before. Looking at the village again, it is true that building a road from the crack in the mountain can save a lot of travel.

"Hmm, classmate, why doesn't Mr. Zhang go to class to take care of road repairs? Isn't road construction the government's business? ”

"Teacher Zhang said that the government has no money. We need to be self-reliant. Blow up the slopes on both sides of the mountain cracks, and the stones blown down from the mountain slopes can fill the section from the village to the mountain cracks, so that the people in the village will work by themselves, and first repair the road from the village to the mountain cracks, and then Mr. Zhang will find a way to repair the outside of the road. We won't need to climb mountains in the future. Moreover, Mr. Zhang said that the treasures in the mountains can be transported out in a steady stream, and our village will not be poor in the future. ”

"Well, Mr. Zhang is very smart and capable. Classmate, what treasures do you have in the mountains? ”

"That's a lot, look at the ...... over there," the girl pointed to the depths of the village to the south. He said: "The tea, trees, herbs, wild mushrooms in the deep mountains, as well as the wild fish in the waterhole over there, etc., are worth a lot of money when they are sold down the mountain." Mr. Zhang also said that there may be mineral deposits in the deep mountains, and the full text of the Secret Domain Archives is read. ”

Ye Zhiran slowly became a little interested in this teacher Zhang who had never met him, and asked, "Classmate, can you tell us what kind of person Teacher Zhang is?" ”

The girl looked like a class cadre, nodded, turned around and greeted her classmates: "Okay, okay, we can continue on our way." Accompany the teacher to the village. ”

Five or six classmates who were sitting crookedly behind them stood up obediently, carried their bags diagonally, and followed the girls down the mountain.

"This classmate, will you tell me your name?"

"My name is Lan Shanyun, what is your surname, teacher?"

The She people only have three surnames: "Zhong, Lan, and Lei". According to the clan rules, it is forbidden to intermarry with a foreigner. After the liberation, the She people here have abolished the ethnic rule that they cannot intermarry, but even so, there are still not many cases of She and foreigners marrying. Moreover, if a She woman marries a foreigner, she generally has to change her surname, as is the case with Mayor Jiaxin.

"Hehe, my surname is Ye, so call me Teacher Ye."

Lanshan Yun jumped up and down and said, "Teacher Ye, what are you doing in the village?" Is it a random inspection of the quality of education in Xishan School? We have Teacher Zhang in our school, it's not bad. ”

"Didn't you say that Teacher Zhou is the principal? Could it be that Mr. Zhang is even more powerful than Mr. Zhou? ”

"Hmm, it's not that Principal Zhou is bad, but Teacher Zhang is too capable...... It's a pity that Mr. Zhang is here to teach, and I don't know when I will leave Xishan Village. The girl looked a little gloomy.

"Classmate, why did the school let you go down the mountain to get the book? Teachers don't go? ”

"Oh, no. A few of us were going to participate in the competition, and it just so happened that a batch of books was handed out, and the teacher asked us to bring them back. I didn't go out of my way to get the book. ”

Talking to this lively girl all the way, soon, Xishan Village is close at hand.

Ye Zhiran came to this village to investigate, and there was no fixed goal, but after listening to the girls introducing Teacher Zhang endlessly along the way, he became interested in him in his heart, so he followed them to the school.

The school is not large, with two rows of bungalows and a playground in between.

When I arrived at school, it was the end of class, and there were about a few dozen students on the playground.

The girl's eyes were sharp, and she saw Principal Zhou from a distance, raising her arms and shouting: "Principal Zhou, there are people from the town." ”

Principal Zhou saw Ye Zhiran and the others, walked over, and asked with a smile: "Are you from the county?" ”

He basically knew all the teachers in the central school of Nanxi Town, and when he saw Ye Zhiran and the other three students face to face, he immediately guessed that they were teachers in the county or cadres of the Education Bureau.

"Principal Zhou." Ye Zhiran went up and shook hands with him, and said, "We are from Lifeng City, and we have no purpose, just to take a walk in the village and take a look." ”

Teacher Zhou, who is supposed to be a local She teacher, tied a headband on his head, and asked suspiciously, "Hmm? Who are you...... Reporter? ”

There is no purpose, to walk around and see, it seems that it should be something that journalists should do.

Ye Zhiran said with a smile: "Almost, Principal Zhou, Teacher Zhang is not here, I listened to Lan Shanyun's introduction to Teacher Zhang along the way, which aroused my curiosity." ”

Mr. Zhou was sure that the three of them were really reporters, and only reporters had such great curiosity. When a reporter came to the village, Principal Zhou welcomed it. Their village is almost isolated from the outside world, and very few people know about it, so if reporters come here to interview and publicize it, it will be very beneficial to the development of the village.

Principal Zhou graciously invited them into the principal's office.

Ye Zhiran moved out of his original question again, and wanted to get confirmation from Principal Zhou about the latest chapter of the reborn business girl.

"Principal Zhou, Teacher Zhang wants to build a road for the village, which is a great thing, why not complete it through government channels?"

"Why don't you want to? It doesn't work. Some engineers have calculated that it will take more than 100 million yuan to build this 10-kilometer road. There is not so much money in the town or county. ”

"However, it costs a lot of money to build the road by yourself, how can the village make it up?"

"Mr. Zhang's meaning, just scrape together the money for explosives, blow up the slopes on both sides of the mountain crack in the north of the village more gently, and the falling rocks are just used to build the road.

Ye Zhiran said: "Even so, asking someone to design, buy explosives, and arrange someone to blow up the mountain is not a small amount, I'm afraid it will cost millions, right?" Can you make it up in the village? ”

Teacher Zhang organized people to go to the mountains to look for mountain goods, and found a kind of herb, which was about the same value as Cordyceps, and collected a lot of mountain mushrooms, which they sold in the city, and they could be sold for a large price. The part that is not enough, he is trying to find a way to raise it. This thing can't be done by others, but Mr. Zhang should do it. He is a volunteer teacher who came down from Hudong, and his path is very wild, so he should find a way. ”

"Principal Zhou, when you say that, I want to see Teacher Zhang more and more soon."

"It's unfortunate that you came, Mr. Zhang went down the mountain early this morning, and I heard that I invited a few engineers to survey the site, but I can't see you."

Ye Zhiran made up his mind and said, "It's okay, we can stay in the village and see him tomorrow." ”

"Well, that's fine, let's go, I'll take you to see the village chief."

After meeting and exchanging a few words politely, the village chief said: "Comrade Ye, the night is a little harder, let's live in the school, we don't have a hotel here, there are still two rooms in the school that can accommodate people, and people from the town used to live there." ”

"If the village chief has bothered, we will live in the school, thank you."

"Although you didn't come at a good time and didn't see Teacher Zhang during the day, there is a traditional She song competition tonight, please come and participate in it, and it will be lively."

It is said that there are several kinds of duets of the She ethnic group, which are quite famous. The most interesting duet is, of course, the duet of the nature of a blind date between young men and women. Contrary to the legend, the duet here is not the most primitive courtship duet between strange men and women, but between men and women who originally intended to fall in love, and took this opportunity to confess the relationship.

That night, in the school playground, many people from the village were seated, and a bonfire was lit in the middle of the playground, around which young men and women danced and began to sing to each other.

Halfway through the event, Principal Zhou brought a man in his thirties over and said, "Comrade Ye, Teacher Zhang is back. ”

"Ahh Teacher Zhang, before I arrived in Xishan Village, your name was grinding out cocoons in my ears. ”

"Listen to Principal Zhou, are you a reporter?"

“…… Right! I came here to learn more about Xishan Village, but now I am far more interested in you than Xishan Village. ”

Mr. Zhang is from a big city and is well-informed. When Ye Zhiran introduced Song Cheng and Liu Dacheng behind him to know him, Song Cheng and Liu Dacheng didn't have a special reaction to him, but they seemed to have a lot of respect for this reporter surnamed Ye...... Not just respect, but with a heartfelt obedience. He guessed that Ye Zhiran should have some identity and origin.

He just needs such a person to contribute to the road construction plan of Xishan Village, and said with a smile: "Reporter Ye, it is more important to promote Xishan Village." This village is probably the best-preserved She village, the original one. If Xishan Village attracts everyone's attention, it will be of great benefit to help the villagers get rid of peace and become rich. It has also given us a big boost to our road construction program. ”

Hearing him mention road construction, Ye Zhiran's interest came, and he said, "Teacher Zhang, let's go into the house and talk, I have a lot of questions to ask." ”