"I resolutely disapprove of the sale of livestock, old man, without scalpers, what will you do next year? Even if it is sold, how much will it be worth? The old village chief suddenly spoke.

The villagers felt justified and stopped talking, and the office fell silent.

Lin Yuhan just came back from outside with the children, he looked at the atmosphere in the office a little serious, and guessed seven or eight points in his heart, so he dismissed the children and quietly listened to everything they discussed outside the door, but the office was quiet, and his heart sank.

Just when the villagers and the old village chief had nothing to do, suddenly the school's only landline phone with the outside world rang sharply on the village chief's desk, and the village chief grabbed the phone tightly like grasping a life-saving straw, and after a few seconds, he nodded vigorously at the phone, and the wrinkles on his brow and forehead slowly unfolded.

When he hung up the phone, the old village chief's face was flushed with excitement, and everyone's eyes were on him, not understanding why the old village chief, who was still frowning just now, changed his appearance after answering a phone call.

"Solved! Solved! The old village chief muttered, and suddenly the man sat down heavily on the stool like a collapsed machine.

"Village Chief, are you alright?" The villagers were nervous, not knowing what the village chief meant by the solution.

After a while, the old village chief regained his serious expression, he slowly stood up, and then told the story of the incident.

It turned out that Yuquan Town took into account the poverty situation of Pigeon Cave Village, so it reflected this situation to the city, and the city reported it to the province, and after layers of reports and actual investigations, the province finally designated Pigeon Cave Village as a special situation, and specially approved 20 students, the living expenses were halved, and the book fees and all other expenses were all free, and one exemption was three years.

This news is undoubtedly another great joy worth celebrating for Pigeon Cave Village, so when the old village chief announced the news, the whole office suddenly boiled. The old village chief looked at the excited villagers, and finally smiled with satisfaction, laughing so relaxed and satisfied for the first time.

Just the cost of books and living expenses, I saved more than half of the expenses, and the other expenses, each family has a baby, and the money donated by Yuhan's brother, except for some expenses for school repairs, the rest has been counted in the public funds of the village primary school, and this time I just took some out, as a subsidy for each child, I believe that the children don't have to worry about food and clothing in the past three years.

The old village chief, who solved the problem of children's reading, took out a cigarette on his body again, turned his head and saw Lin Yuhan leaning against the office door and looking at himself mockingly, the old village chief waved his fist at Lin Yuhan like a naughty child, as if to say, 'You kid is not praised', the latter said that he received it, and then slowly walked in front of the old village chief, both men waved their fists at each other's chests, of course, not really waved, and then the two looked at each other and smiled.

Yes, all the problems have been solved, and the hearts of the two of them have really relaxed. Ahead, there is nothing to stop those children from going to school, and the old village chief no longer has to feel sorry for the villagers of Pigeon Cave Village because of his daughter Qianqian's departure.

When Lin Yuhan was feeling a little sour in his nose, he suddenly felt as if his body was in the air, and he looked at the old village chief in puzzlement, but the old village chief's expression was not much better than his own.

"What the hell is going on?" Lin Yuhan shouted, his hand grabbed vigorously in the air, but in exchange for a burst of laughter, he looked down sharply, only to find that he and the old village chief were being lifted up and thrown as a 'ball'!

"Old man, can you still bear it?" Lin Yuhan mischievously grimaced at the old village chief.

"My old man is fine, but if you throw it like this a few more times, it will fall apart." Fortunately, the old village elder was not old, and he teased without blushing or panting.

"Village Chief, who in the village doesn't know that your old bones are tough! Even if the old tractor in the village falls apart, your body may not fall apart. I don't know who teased the old village chief, and the villagers laughed, so the atmosphere of the whole office became more lively.

Outside the office, a woman in black watched the scene, hid her face and fled.

"Qianqian, it's Qianqian!" The old village chief's eyes were sharp, and he noticed a young woman standing at the door, and after looking at it carefully, he immediately opened his mouth and shouted.

The villagers stopped moving and lowered him to the ground, and he quickly ran to the door of the office after standing still, but he had already noticed that there was no one outside the door.

"Qianqian--, is it really you?" The old village chief said blankly.

A few days before the start of the school year, the city and the town sent special personnel to visit, accompanied by the old village chief, and people visited and investigated the children's families one by one.

"Village Chief Liang, before I came, the city leaders repeatedly instructed that no child in the pigeon cave should be allowed to drop out of school, and let me tell you that in terms of education, there will be some new policies coming down soon, which are specifically for poor villages and towns, and considering the situation in your village, they will be the first to start implementing the new policies before they are released." Secretary Chen, who was sent by the city, said earnestly to the old village head.

"Secretary Chen! It's the old man, I don't have the ability, I can't lead the villagers to get rich, and I have to drag down the country, you have to thank the leaders for me! He was deeply disturbed by the city's care.

"Old village chief, this is the country's policy and trend, so you don't have to worry about anything, although you train students, you don't have to worry so much about the rest in the future."

"Thank you for the leaders' concern, and I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of the villagers of the entire Pigeon Cave Village!"

"Old village chief, there is another thing I forgot to tell you, the school will arrange two more teachers to come, and they will definitely come voluntarily, and now one person has registered, and he will arrive the day before the start of school, and he is still a college student!" Another town official also spoke.

"That's great, my old man doesn't have to stand on the podium anymore and mistake people's children!" The old village chief held the hand of the town cadre and said self-deprecatingly.

"Haha--" The old village chief teased himself, causing the atmosphere present to be extremely harmonious.

As the saying goes, people are in good spirits on happy occasions, and the old village chief is in a better mood than ever these days, so he asked the eldest lady to fry two more side dishes, and then took out the remaining half of the old wine, and pulled Lin Yuhan to drink and chat.

"Come, let's have another drink." The old village chief kept pouring wine at Lin Yuhan.

"Old man, don't worry about your own happiness, the child can't drink much, and you still force him to drink." The eldest lady also sat down and snatched the cup from the village chief's hand.

"Just another drink, shall we? Stinky boy is also in a good mood today. The village chief snatched the cup from the eldest mother's hand again, and the two argued like this.

Lin Yuhan looked at the two old men grabbing the wine glasses childishly, and couldn't help laughing, and his eyes inadvertently saw a woman standing at the door, and there was a big travel bag beside her, which was stuffed and bulging.

"Who are you?" Lin Yuhan hurriedly got up and asked.

The woman didn't answer, just nodded politely at him, and then walked slowly towards the old village chief.

"Qianqian--" The village lady's eyes were sharp, and the wine glass slipped in her hand and then turned into pieces on the ground.

"Dad, Mom, my daughter has come back to excuse you." The woman suddenly knelt down in front of the two old men, crying silently.

The old village chief turned his head slowly, he looked at his daughter who he hadn't seen for many years with mixed feelings, silent and didn't squeak, Lin Yuhan suddenly felt that his nose was a little sour, he sniffed hard, and then quietly retreated.

Lin Yuhan unconsciously came to the back mountain of the school again, he sat down next to the steep rock, habitually smoked a cigarette, in the smoke, he seemed to see the haggard mother and brother lonely figures, and the girl she loved deeply, was looking at himself in panic, almost a year, he suddenly found that the longing for his hometown and his love for his relatives have not decreased, but are increasing day by day.

"Maybe it's time to go back......"

Liang Qianqian, the daughter of the old village chief, is back, and she is the teacher who volunteered to sign up to teach in Pigeon Cave Village that the town cadres told the old village chief. Before this, there may have been many villagers who did not understand her, and even many people were skeptical, but no matter what, after she came back, there was more laughter in the old village chief's house, and more laughter in the village primary school, and the simple and kind villagers finally forgave her and let her teach the children in the village.

The mood of parting is always sentimental, Lin Yuhan has free time these days, he came to the cliff side of the mountain behind the school alone, looked at this yellow sand land from a distance, recalled the bits and pieces in the pigeon hole this year, and then picked up the flute and played the song "Dream Water Town" that had not been blown for a long time.

"Teacher Lin--" At some point, Liang Qianqian came to his side and sat down.

"Sister Qianqian, is my flute noisy to you?" Lin Yuhan and Liang Qianqian said apologetically.

"Frankly speaking, it was the sound of your flute that attracted me, and it is difficult to hear such a melodious flute in this desolate land of wind and sand."

"Sister Qianqian, do you know how to play the flute?"

"It's just a little bit, and compared to yours, it can't be compared."

"That's right, this flute in my hand has been with me for many years, if you don't mind, I'll give it to you as a souvenir!"

"That's unacceptable, I remember that every time I came back secretly, I would often hear you playing the flute here, and I was thinking at that time, you must be missing your relatives back home, otherwise how could the flute contain such strong feelings?"

"Do you even hear that? Indeed, when I first came out, I ran away because of willfulness, and for the past year, I have been thinking about my mother and brother day and night, and the person who made my heart ache, and now that I am going back, I actually have a feeling of being close to home. Lin Yuhan laughed at himself.