The Hummer drove out of the courtyard of the township government and rushed along the muddy mountain road to the top of the mountain.

Luo Yubin wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve and said, "Big brother, thank you so much, only your car can drive on this broken road, otherwise, my students and I will probably be busy for several days." ”

Although the mountain road from the township government to the primary school on the top of the mountain is only a few kilometers, if there is no means of transportation that can climb the hillside, it is indeed difficult to carry it on the shoulder.

Xiang Wanqing asked, "Teacher Luo, why did you come to Xinglin Township to teach?" ”

Luo Yubin said: "This is my hometown, close to my home, and I want to take care of my family, so I came back from Shenzhen and was admitted to the Provincial Department of Education's 'Rural Teacher Funding Action Plan'. ”

Xiang Wanqing asked, "How many young teachers like you are there in the school?" ”

Luo Yubin said: "I am the youngest one, and there is another one in his thirties, who is not in good health, and the rest are two private teachers in their fifties, who have been in the school for more than 30 years, teaching during the day and living in the school at night." ”

Xiang Wanqing asked, "After the education is over, will you leave here?" ”

"Yes." Luo Yubin was silent for a while, and said, "So, I hope to do my best to improve the children's learning and living conditions before I leave." ”

"Why do you want to leave?"

"I stay here to give a small amount of help to the few children here, I don't want to hide anything, my dream is to have a bigger platform to completely change the education of children in the whole mountainous area."

Chu Tianshu had been listening silently, and when he heard this, he had to be impressed by this thin Luo Yubin, and he couldn't help but think in his heart, how could he help this thin young man realize his dream.

Xiang Wanqing had already entered the interview state, and she continued to ask, "Teacher Luo, what is the difference between the children here and the children you have come into contact with in big cities?" ”

Luo Yubin said: "Compared with the children in the big city, these children are dark and thin, but they are simple and simple, sensible and distressing, and they work hard in their studies. It's a pity that no matter how hard they try, I'm afraid it will be difficult to change their fate. ”

Xiang Wanqing asked, "What is it for?" ”

"They lost at the starting line from the start." Luo Yubin was a little emotional when he said this, he paused, and then said: "Let me give you an example, the children here, from the first grade to the sixth grade, have never been exposed to English, you say, let them compete with the children in the city, can they compete?" It was only after I came here last year that the school offered English classes for the first time, and it was very popular. The children in the city, if their academic performance is a little worse, can also choose the art test, but our children don't know what music is and what art is. ”

Xiang Wanqing asked, "Teacher Luo, as the teacher of these children, what do you think they need most?" ”

Luo Yubin looked into the distance and said slowly: "They need a road, a way to get out of the mountain." ”

Xiang Wanqing said: "Teacher Luo, I want to make it clear to you again, what you say about this road refers to the road under our feet, or does it mean that there is a way to change the fate of children." ”

"It's a bit of both." Luo Yubin's eyes were still so deep. "A lot of novels, TV dramas, including some news programs, always say that poor children are admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University and become masters and doctors. I don't deny that this phenomenon does exist, but it is only a very unlikely case, at most a drop in the bucket, a beautiful inspirational story, all of which has almost no meaning to my children. They first had to get out of this mountain, and then they could talk about a way to change their fate. ”

Xiang Wanqing said, "Teacher Luo, what you said is so good. ”

Luo Yubin said: "To reporters, I am very willing to accept your interview, I don't want you to promote me, I just want to let more people see the situation of our children through the broadcast of your program, and let the leaders with decision-making power hear my appeal, so as to accelerate the realization of my dream." ”

Xiang Wanqing secretly glanced at Chu Tianshu, and he was also moved.

After driving hard for more than ten minutes, the road was relatively gentle, and not far from the lights, you could already see a campus fenced with bamboo fences, a small playground and several red brick tile houses.

Hearing the noise, a light was turned on on the playground, and there was only a table tennis table made of broken bricks, a basketball hoop supported by tree trunks, and the basket was still bent with thin steel bars.

A five-star red flag fluttering on a tall bamboo pole is particularly eye-catching.

Xiang Wanqing hurried up and asked, "Teacher Luo, if what you said just now is a relatively distant dream of yours, then what is your most realistic dream?" ”

Luo Yubin looked excited: "It's very simple, I just hope that the more than 50 boarders here can each have a mosquito net, so that they can sleep peacefully at night." ”

Listening to Luo Yubin's simple and down-to-earth language, Chu Tianshu couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and he said, "Teacher Luo, there will be, and there will be soon." ”

They were still greeted by a barking dog.

Luo Yubin got out of the car, opened the fence of the bamboo fence, drank away the dogs on campus, and stood in the yard and shouted loudly: "Children, come out to move things." ”

Dozens of children ran out of the classroom cheering, gathered around Luo Yubin, and looked timidly at the army-green behemoth.

Luo Yubin motioned to the children not to move, and asked a big boy to form a whole team for them, saying: "Classmates, don't worry, don't worry, thank you for these two big brothers and sisters first." ”

Under the leadership of the big boy, the children bowed deeply to Chu Tianshu and Xiang Wanqing in unison.

Xiang Wanqing held a miniature video camera, tears flashing in her eyes.

The trunk of the Humvee was opened, and the children, under the command of the older boy, carried things down from the car in an orderly manner, the older one was carried by two boys, the younger one was carried by one person, and a little girl with a round face carried a bundle of books under her arm, and even forgot to go, and opened a magazine to read it with relish in the light.

A huge flower-legged mosquito bitten the little girl's tiny arm, but she didn't know it.

Xiang Wanqing walked over gently, opened his palm, and slapped the mosquito in his palm.

Only then did the little girl raise her head, rush to Wanqing and smile, holding a small bundle of books under her arm, and ran to a classroom.

Luo Yubin said hello to Chu Tianshu and Xiang Wanqing, and asked the eldest boy to accompany Chu Tianshu and Xiang Wanqing to walk around, while he himself was busy handling the clothes, books and stationery that he had just brought up.

Xiang Wanqing, led by the older boy, photographed the school's exterior, classrooms and dormitories.

Chu Tianshu accompanied him, busy helping Xiang Wanqing drive away the flower-footed mosquitoes that smelled the fragrance.

The "Hilltop Elementary School" lives up to its name, surrounded by mountains and a small river meandering from behind the campus.

This full-day boarding primary school, built on the highest unknown hill in Xinglin Township, serves more than a dozen surrounding natural villages, with more than 130 students in six classes, including more than 50 boarders, most of whom are left-behind children from poor families.

The lights in the classroom have been turned off, the excitement of moving things just now has passed, and the campus is silent again.

Xiang Wanqing did not rush to find Luo Yubin, but asked the big boy to take him to the student dormitory.

The so-called dormitory was actually converted from four old classrooms, and there were many students and classes in the past, but now many children have gone out with their parents, and the extra classrooms have been converted into dormitories.

When he arrived at the door of the girls' dormitory, the big boy insisted on not going forward, and knocked on the door when he walked to Wanqing, and a girl's voice shouted, and after Xiang Wanqing agreed, the door opened.

The dark red brick house, the wooden windows, a few pieces of glass were broken, covered with plastic sheeting.

Twelve bunk beds were neatly arranged, and more than a dozen girls of different ages were crammed into this classroom.

The beds were all empty, there was not a single mosquito net, and the windows on the north side were open.

With a "buzzing" sound, a little girl shouted "The mosquitoes are coming", picked up a shirt at the head of the bed and threw it around.

Xiang Wanqing wanted to step forward and close the window, but the female classmate who was waiting to read a book just now whispered: "Sister, you can't close it, it's too boring." ”

Xiang Wanqing looked up and saw that the roof of the bedroom was bare, with no fan, not to mention the air conditioner.

An older girl took a fan and followed Xiang Wanqing who was holding a camera very sensibly, constantly fanning and helping her drive away the buzzing mosquitoes.

Xiang Wanqing counted several red and swollen bags on the neck and arms of the little girl who was reading, and the little girl did not shy away from it, letting Xiang Wanqing shoot, and also lifted her clothes to let her see the red spots on her belly, because she scratched it with her hand, there was a red and swollen bag that had broken the skin, and raised a red and swollen bag.

The little girl said: "At this time, there are not the most mosquitoes, and in the summer, it is terrible. ”

Speaking of mosquitoes, the childish little girl did not hate it, but was very helpless.

She told Xiang Wanqing that although the teacher lit mosquito coils in the dormitory every night, there were always some mosquitoes sneaking in. One night last semester, I couldn't stand the bite, and the whole dormitory got up to fight mosquitoes, but I got into trouble and broke the glass in the dormitory.

The little girl smiled embarrassedly at this.

Xiang Wanqing asked, "Then what should you do?" ”

"There's no good way," the little girl slapped a few times, and said, "I couldn't stand it anymore, so I covered my head and feet over the quilt, and after falling asleep, I got feverish, and kicked the quilt again, and I still had to be woken up by mosquito bites." Later, we didn't fight when we were bitten, anyway, the mosquitoes were full of blood and would always fly away. ”

The little girl said it as if nothing happened, and when she heard it to Wanqing, her nose was sour, and her body felt itchy.

The girl who fanned Xiang Wanqing smiled sensibly and said, "Sister, get used to it, it's okay, we call it sleeping with mosquitoes." ”