Wan Likai never thought that he would be so diligent. He never dreamed that he would dig wild vegetables and feed pigs! But what if he doesn't do it, can he watch a woman like Yajie'er, who can be called the best choice in terms of both appearance and inner temperament, circling around the pigsty he has built? !

Whether it is said that Wan Likai respects his master, whether it is that he also has machismo feelings in his heart, whether it is that he wants to show his performance, or take this opportunity to tie up the battle song, in short, on the first day he entered this primary school, he snatched the work of feeding pigs, carrying water, and digging wild vegetables from Yajieer's hands, and all of them were rounded.

Wan Likai looked at the turbid well water in the bucket, Yajieer actually fished out a swollen mouse from the bucket, as soon as he thought that he would have to drink this kind of well water soaked in dead rats in the future, Wan Likai immediately felt a surge in his stomach, and he let out a helpless wail in his heart: "Damn, what the hell is this place?" ”

There is no river near this mountain village, and more than a dozen wells have been drilled in the well, but no water veins have been found, and all these wells have become dry wells. The people of the whole village rely on the rainwater accumulated in these dozen dry wells when it rains usually. Although water is not as expensive as oil here, it must be carefully economized.

The village also pulled wires, but twenty-four hours a day, there were at least twenty hours of power outages, and on weekends, holidays, and when the aunt of the wife of the director of the power supply station came, there was a power outage all day, and the light bulbs hanging on the roof of every household were not so much a lighting tool, but rather a decoration that represented the entire small mountain village into the era of electrification!

Due to the drought, the types of crops that can be grown here are very scarce, there is no mechanized farming, no water conservancy projects, and it is really dependent on the sky for food. Affected by the seasons, the residents of the entire small mountain village have no work to do for more than 200 days a year, and the women sit in front of the door every day, pulling and pulling together; And the men who were supposed to hold up a piece of the sky for the whole family became drunkards en masse, and they drank a cheap bud grain wine every day, and drunk themselves like mud. On these men's wine tables, being able to put a few salted eggs is already a very luxurious treat.

Wan Likai looked at the drunken villagers who passed by him, and he had to admit that the poor man must have something to hate, and this sentence was really very reasonable.

When Wan Likai, who was only nineteen years old, stood on the podium of the classroom for the first time and faced more than 30 pairs of children's eyes, Wan Likai, who could only be regarded as a big boy at most, couldn't help but sigh lightly in his heart. Even the children in front of him are stupid, a group of children who have no spiritual surname and no vitality, what will their future life look like?

This shows the enormous influence of the environment on people.

I don't know why, at this time, Wan Likai suddenly remembered a joke.

A reporter went to a remote mountain village to cover the news, and on the way he met an old man who was herding sheep, so he walked over and asked, "Uncle, what are you doing?" ”

The old man replied, "Herding the sheep!" ”

The reporter asked again: "What are you doing with sheep?" ”

"Make money".

The reporter continued to ask: "What do you do when you make money?" ”

The old man replied without replying: "Marry a daughter-in-law!" ”

The reporter took out a pen and paper and asked, "What do you do when you marry a daughter-in-law?" ”

The old man replied angrily again: "Give birth!" ”

Before the reporter could ask again, the old man said loudly: "What do you do when you have a child?" Sheep! ”

Faced with the group of children in front of him who were glazed-eyed, had no spiritual surname, and whose creativity had already been completely imprisoned by a bad life, Wan Likai recalled the joke, and he found that he could no longer laugh.

Suddenly there was a loud baby's cry in the classroom, a little girl was busy changing the diaper of her sister who was only more than a year old, and in the face of a scene that often appeared in TV documentaries, even Wan Likai could only shake his head and smile bitterly, but when his eyes inadvertently swept over the entire classroom, his attention was attracted by a girl!

The schoolgirl was only eleven or twelve years old, and she looked like she was supposed to be a timid and introverted little girl, but she dared to put on a sinister face in class with a pair of toy glasses made of corn cobs. The most excessive thing is that in the face of Wan Likai's angry eyes, she did not feel ashamed of her bad behavior at all, and even intensified her eyebrows at Wan Likai.

Wan Likai stretched out his hand and pointed at the female student and ordered: "You, stand up for me!" ”

The female student was still sitting there without moving, until the classmate next to her reached out and gently poked her arm, and she slowly stood up with a pair of big confused eyes.

Wan Likai didn't pay attention to her anymore, and directly opened the textbook in his hand, and until the end of class, Wan Likai didn't let the female student sit down. Let the tears of grievance keep flowing out of her eyes.

After class, Yajieer invited Wan Likai to her room and office.

"I'm sorry I didn't explain the situation of my classmates to you clearly......"

In Yajie'er's introduction, Wan Likai finally understood why the girl named Li Ping, who had been punished by him for standing for a whole class, still wore a pair of toy glasses made of corn cobs in a mischievous manner during class.

Li Ping suffers from severe myopia with a congenital surname, and the average vision of her two eyes is only about 0.2, and she must go to a regular eye hospital for treatment to correct her vision, but the cost of surgery of tens of thousands of yuan is undoubtedly a terrible astronomical amount for such a small mountain village with an average annual income of only a few hundred yuan. If there is no accident, Li Ping's life is destined to live this half-blind life.

She heard from Yajieer that glasses can help her see things clearly, so her biggest dream is to have a pair of glasses, and her biggest hobby is to use corn cobs to make glasses and wear them in front of her eyes.

After a long time, she developed such a psychological habit of dependence.

Speaking of which, Yajie'er's face was full of bitterness and helplessness, with Li Ping's severe myopia, even if she was given a pair of myopia glasses, what could she do?

That night, Wan Likai and Yajieer talked a lot and talked for a long time.

On this night, Wan Likai really learned about the Hope Project.

The Hope Project is a social welfare undertaking initiated and organized by the China Youth Development Foundation, whose purpose is to subsidize out-of-school children in poor areas to return to school, build Hope Primary Schools, and improve the conditions for running schools in rural areas. Since its implementation in October 1989, Project Hope has funded 2.3 million out-of-school children to return to school, built more than 8,000 Hope primary schools, and trained more than 2,300 teachers in Hope primary schools and rural primary schools. According to the evaluation of the China Science and Technology for Development Research Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Hope Project has become the most extensive and influential civil society public welfare undertaking in China in the 90s of the 20th century.

These numbers sound pretty good, but if you average them out over China's 9.6 million square kilometers of land, what a humble number?

Such a "hope project" that has been led by the state since the first year and completely raised funds from the private sector has only been donated by more than 10 or 2 billion yuan, compared with the more than 20 billion yuan allocated by the state to Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University in a few years, these funds are really a drop in the bucket!

At first, she thought of donating. According to the Hope Project Regulations, as long as you donate 200,000 RMB, you can build a rural Hope Primary School, and donate 100,000 RMB to repair the dilapidated school building of a rural primary school. But when Ya Jie'er spent six months visiting Hope Primary School, she changed her mind.

In the past 20 years, more than 8,000 Hope Primary Schools have been established, but what about these Hope Primary Schools after they are built? In 20 years, only 2,300 primary school teachers have been trained, which is destined to create a huge numerical disparity between primary schools and the source of teachers.

The serious shortage of teachers has greatly hindered the progress of the Hope Project, and the most unacceptable thing for Yajieer is that in many schools, the books donated by the private sector have been sealed in the school library, but they are not open to students, because students are not interested in such extracurricular books. Many hope primary schools have computer labs, but these computer labs are never open to students, and can only be used as a tool for teachers' leisure and entertainment, because there is no follow-up funding to ensure the regular use and maintenance of these computers.

As for what chemical laboratories, physics laboratories, many have become teachers' rest areas, chemical instruments are there, chemical laboratories are standard, must be established, but ...... If these laboratories are open to students, where can we replenish the consumption of experimental materials generated in the teaching process?! Think about it, who will donate a batch of chemical instruments to Hope Primary School regularly and quantitatively to donate various raw materials for chemical experiments?

If you want to wait for the Education Bureau to allocate funds to replenish it, don't be stupid! In many rural primary schools, students have no desks or benches, plastic sheets can only be nailed to the glass windows, and when the north wind blows, there is a chaotic sound of "bang, bang", and the salaries of teachers and staff in many villages and townships are only a few hundred yuan per month, and they are still in arrears for more than half a year...... Speaking of money, how many cents does the Education Bureau have in its hands? There are too many monks to fill the porridge and too few people to fill it, and as for your request for funds to supplement the chemical raw materials used by the students' experiments, it is still indefinite and so on.

Speaking of these things that she had seen with her own eyes and heard with her own ears, Yajie'er's face was full of sorrow. Across China, I don't know how many people like her have founded private hope primary schools with the idea that "money should be used practically". But in the face of the general environment, a group of people like them can only be regarded as a drop in the ocean relatively speaking.

Nine years of compulsory education, in the face of this helpless status quo, also seems too pale and helpless.

"If a boy doesn't study, it will only ruin his own life. And the mother is the child's first enlightenment teacher, if the girl does not study, then it will be ruined for two generations. ”

With this in mind, Yajieer stayed in this desolate mountain village that was not even qualified to establish a Hope Primary School. With this in mind, Yajieer not only waived all the tuition and fees for female students, but she also kept traveling around a dozen nearby mountain villages, visiting their homes, lobbying those parents, and sending her daughter to school. In the past year or so, adding up the mountain roads that Yajieer has walked, she may have been able to walk from Yanjing to Shanghai.

In the end, Wan Likai looked at Yajie'er's gaze, in addition to respect or respect. Yajie'er has done all this, and only a small number of people can be affected, but she is enough to be called the great man of the country and the people!

But in Wan Likai's heart, there is a question: "The next generation, why should you put your hope on the next generation of those children?" In the face of such a lifeless environment, without any competition, and without any motivation, what do the next generation that they still want to survive here rely on to fulfill the hopes given to them by their parents? ”

When he was in class the next day, Wan Likai found that when he talked about trains, computers, and spaceships to the children in front of him, he was faced with a pair of confused eyes. These things are so far away from these children that they can't even fathom them, and they can only look at the pictures in the textbooks and try to think about what these things really look like.

Wan Likai was really silent.

On the morning of the third day, when Yajieer was waking up Wan Likai, she was surprised to find that she didn't know when, Wan Likai was no longer there. Looking at the empty bed, and then at the neatly folded bedding, which had obviously not been touched at all, Yajieer stood in front of the door of Wan Likai's room for a long time, and finally she tied her apron as usual, and began to prepare breakfast for the students.

When the day's class was over, although she knew that it was Wan Likai who said goodbye, Yajieer still couldn't help but go to Wan Likai's room again. Looking at the empty room, Yajie'er's heart couldn't help but feel a faint sense of loss. Yajie'er finally let out a soft sigh in her heart, "The living conditions here are indeed too difficult, perhaps, he will never return to this place in his life." ”

However, Yajie'er was wrong.

A week later, just when Yajieer was once again accustomed to supporting the school alone, a transport team with high-powered off-road vehicles as the carrier arrived in this small mountain village. A group of staff members then gathered around Yajie'er's primary school and began to get busy.

Ya Jie'er looked at the staff in amazement, and installed the solar panels on the hillside, and sent them to the elementary school, with twelve sets of high-capacity batteries.

And who is Wan Likai, who took the lead in moving the two computers to the elementary school, not even saying hello, not even leaving a message, and running away at night?! Wan Likai was far away, so he shouted loudly: "Master, I'm back!" ”

Behind Wan Likai, there is a group of staff carrying a full set of household appliances such as TVs, refrigerators, microwave ovens, etc., the most laughable thing is that Wan Likai actually took the slogan of "Shi Niang should work hard to protect the delicate skin and put an end to the straw stove", brought her a liquefied gas stove, plus two large tanks of liquefied gas that will be used in the restaurant kitchen, if nothing else, these liquefied gases are enough for Yajieer to use for two years!

It may be that the memory of a dead mouse fished out of the bucket is too deep, and Wan Likai actually installed three sets of small water purification systems in the school at once.

Watching a group of people go in and out of their own homes under the leadership of Wan Likai's bastard boy, putting all kinds of household appliances and entertainment equipment that are incompatible with this small mountain village into the primary school without shame, in the face of this situation, no matter how good Yajie'er's temper is, she can't help but raise a trace of anger on her face.

At this time, a man in his forties walked in front of Yajie'er.

"Sorry to interrupt me."

As soon as this man spoke, he showed good upbringing and demeanor, "My name is Su Huaguang, and I am Wan Likai's second uncle. There are many presumptuous aspects of our trip, and we ask for your forgiveness. But...... I don't think you would refuse a donation to your school from someone who is also enthusiastic about Project Hope and wants to use the money they donate to education? ”

Seeing that the corners of Yajie'er's lips moved slightly, but finally didn't say anything, Su Huaguang smiled, "I think you want to ask me, why do you want to donate these things that have nothing to do with teaching at all, instead of donating books and stationery directly?" ”

Jacques nodded slightly.

"Li Kai came to me five days ago and proposed the idea of asking me to donate to your school, and when he handed me the purchase list, even my second uncle's eyes widened. You may not know that this kid even had the audacity to ask me to add two game consoles to the donated materials. And I really agreed to him in the end! Not only did I buy him the latest console on the market, but I also bought him all the gaming accessories and sent them to your school. ”

Ya Jie'er looked at Su Huaguang in surprise, no matter how she thought of Su Huaguang, he was not the kind of person who would go crazy like Wan Likai.

"It was Likai's words that struck me. Li Kai said to me at the time that if this small mountain village was the Manchu political axe that implemented the political axe of closing the country and closing the country hundreds of years ago, then he is now the great power that used heavy artillery to open this barrier! ”

The corners of Su Huaguang's mouth raised a smile of pride, and he said softly: "Li Kai thinks that this small mountain village is too calm, as calm as a pool of stagnant water. If there is no strong external impact, and if they do not show in front of them a state of life that is far beyond them, or even beyond their understanding, they may never truly understand how far their lives are from the outside world. Then they may never find a reason to change their lives by working hard! ”

In the end, Su Huaguang made a simple summary of what he said: "Jealousy can sometimes become a powerful motivation!" You can at least use your own practical actions to make these living people who only know the mechanical surname understand what life is! ”

The whole small mountain village was a complete sensation.

When night falls, Yajie'er's primary school is still brightly lit, and a group of children gather around Wan Likai to watch him play the latest racing game with a vibration simulator. The excellent sound and light effects, the tense rhythm, and Wan Likai's excellent performance of sometimes exclamating and sometimes laughing, firmly attracted the first audience around him.

The children of the mountain village, who had come into contact with this kind of game console for the first time, finally flashed in their dull eyes.

And in Yajie'er's room, it was a room full of guests, and almost all of them stared wide-eyed, looking at the LCD TV that was playing a variety show.

Just as Wan Likai expected, he and his second uncle Su Huaguang teamed up to indeed give this small mountain village that was too calm a slam that was no less than a nine-magnitude earthquake!

However, it doesn't end there......

The next day, Wan Likai and Ya Jieer took all the children in the school to the foot of the mountain with the delivery convoy, and then took the tour bus that Su Guanghua had already chartered for a three-day tour of the city.

On the first day, Wan Likai invited all the students to eat a cream popsicle. When he led the students past the cold drink shops again, all the children's eyes lit up, and they all looked at Wan Likai with a pleading gaze, but Wan Likai deliberately didn't see it. Seeing that Yajie'er's face moved slightly, as if she was ready to pay for the students to eat cream popsicles again, Wan Likai glanced at Yajie'er and stopped her behavior.

When the children fell asleep at night in the hostel, Wan Likai and Ya Jie'er checked together, and they saw that some of the children were still muttering the wooden sticks in the cream popsicles even after they were asleep, and one of them had even chewed one end of the wooden stick.

Gently taking the wooden stick from the child's mouth, which was about to be chewed, Yajie'er sighed softly, "Why bother? Anyway, they don't have much money, so if they like it, let them eat it a few more times! ”

Wan Likai didn't answer Yajie'er's words, he suddenly asked: "Shi Niang, do you know why the game team I originally participated in was called the 'Violent Bear' Special Forces?" ”

Jager shook her head.

Wan Likai raised his head, and he said in a deep voice: "Bears are a very powerful animal in nature. Every cub is raised by a female bear, but traditionally, a female bear is not a good mother. They teach bears how to distinguish the rhizomes of plants that can be eaten, but after they have captured their prey, they tend to eat the whole prey and leave no scrap of meat for the bears. But they will deliberately leave a little blood of their prey, and the bear cubs who follow them but get nothing can only stick out their tongues and lick the blood that falls to the ground. ”

Speaking of this, Yajie'er, who was still holding the wooden stick that was chewed up at one end, also knew the surname of the bear, and already understood what Wan Likai meant.

If the bear wants to taste the taste of blood again, or even the meat of the prey that the mother bear never gives it to eat, it must learn to hunt on its own!

In the same way, if these children in mountain villages whose horizons have been opened want to eat cream popsicles again, want to eat hamburgers again, and want to enjoy the convenience brought by the high material civilization in the city, they must learn to get out of that small mountain village, learn to change their lives, and jump out of the circle that their ancestors have not jumped out of!

It's just a popsicle, Wan Likai planted the seed of ** in the hearts of these children, and they don't have to wait for the next generation, they will have a heart that is unwilling to sink in a small mountain village anymore.

It's just that using this law of nature to forcibly twist consciousness is indeed a little cruel for a group of children growing up in mountain villages!

(To be continued)