After Yunxia left, Uncle Sun praised her for being a good girl, and she would definitely be able to find a good in-law in the future, and he made everyone laugh. Xiaobin said that it was okay, this time he completely cleaned up, at least he could manage it for a while, and he should maintain the habit of taking a bath frequently in the future, and he would be in a better mood when he cleaned up outside the house. Uncle Sun said that the front and back of his house were very clean before, but he was disappointed in his life and no longer had any illusions.

"There are a lot of people who have been through the same way as you, some of them are more miserable than you, they are seriously ill, they are bedridden, and that is the real misfortune, you speak loudly and forcefully, you go to a nursing home, and you are their role model. I heard that you are still literate, can speak ancient and modern, and can sing flower drums, this life has been figured out, and you are also living for yourself, you are like this, people who are far away will not know, even if you have a soul, they don't want you to waste yourself so much. Xiaobin painstakingly persuaded him, and Chang Xin thought that what he said made sense.

Uncle Sun has nothing else wrong with his body except for the garlic nose that has been infrared, and it should be no problem to live eighty or ninety. Some people in the village often say that he is like a red-nosed old man on TV, and there are still some small holes on the bridge of his nose that resemble insect eyes, as if he has been bitten by insects. If you enter a nursing home, your food and clothing are all public, and you may be able to live longer.

"I think so, since the big cadres have come to persuade me, I will agree to go to the nursing home, but I have to wait until I can't move. Starting from next year, I will farm the land with my heart, there is no problem with food and drink for a year, plus the money from the public subsidy, I will have enough life and I will not worry. Uncle Sun smiled and assured that he was such a proud person, although he was not a call for wind and rain, but his days never fell behind. Now it makes people laugh that they live on state relief, and there is good land in front of and behind the house, and they can support themselves whatever they plant.

"Okay, as long as you are in good health, then I won't persuade you much, and report any difficulties to the town." Xiaobin really met a stubborn old man.

Uncle Sun said with a smile, in fact, his body of dirt was left to Ma Yunxia's family before, their family has a small population, and Yunxia goes out to study, and the manure water is not enough during spring plowing every year, so Ma Changgui boils a few jars of water, so that he can wash his whole body thoroughly several times, and wash his clothes cleanly. The first time Xiaobin heard such an interesting story, Chang Xin explained that Brother Ma's family was poor, and it cost money to buy fertilizer, which was also impossible.

Before the water boiled, Yunxia ran back with white smoke in her mouth, Xiaobin saw that there was mud on her body, and helped to pat it, and accidentally touched her hands, and the two immediately separated like an electric shock. Xiaobin was also in a hurry, Yunxia explained, the snow road was slippery, and he fell, but it was fine. The neighbor heard that he had changed and washed Grandpa Sun, and he also sent some clean clothes, and Uncle Sun said that he had clean clothes, but he was not willing to wear them, and he was too lazy to wash.

The water was boiling, Chang Xin helped scoop the water and put it into the big wooden jar, the scene was really like a pig in the soup for the New Year, Yunxia said to take out the change of clothes, and she washed it. Chang Xin continued to help boil hot water on the stove, and Xiaobin helped Yunxia carry hot water. Yunxia said that it is not enough to just wash clothes, and the quilt must also be dismantled and washed. Xiaobin had seen too much, and he would be busy for a while, and suddenly found that there was a semi-automatic washing machine behind the door. The old man was really too lazy to describe, maybe he didn't know how to use it, the two of them immediately became excited, tried it, it was good, so they endured the stench, took out the urine bucket, sprinkled it with small ash, removed the dirty quilt, put it in the washing machine, and searched out all the dirty things they saw to clean it.

"Is it the first time you have seen such a sloppy scene in the city, in fact, it is also the first time I have seen him, he used to pass in front of our door and occasionally drink saliva." Yunxia was afraid that he would not be able to bear it.

"It's the first time I've seen it, but I've been in the countryside for more than two years, and I'm quite receptive." Xiaobin endures the stench, girls can do it, and he doesn't have to be hypocritical.

"What is the reason why you came to the countryside, and now people are desperately going to the city, and you are going the other way." She wanted to distract herself by talking.

"Faith!" Xiaobin has always told himself this, and his father also said that only by going down to the grassroots level can we truly understand what the people need and how to change. They were soldiers back then, went to the countryside to open up wasteland and farmed, and did everything. In today's countryside, both the economy and people's ideological concepts are many times stronger than those of my father's time, as long as you adhere to a belief, you feel that every day is worth living.

"Faith? What a belief! It was the first time Yunxia heard such words, and it was a thing of the past for urban intellectuals to go to the countryside, and it was really admirable that they could still be regarded as people of faith.

"The belief to change the face of the countryside is the belief that the economic income, children's education, and family life of rural people will be improved!" Yunxia was a little touched when she heard this, in today's society, in addition to money, there is such a simple belief, which is easier said than done.

"Then you can choose villages and towns like Eight Immortals, Chang'an, and Yunfu that extend in all directions, why do you come to Qiang?" It is not ordinary poverty, just say that in Xiangyin Village, the grain collected from one acre of land can only be used as one-third of the land near the center of the market town.

"The town is far away from the county seat, located in a remote area, economically backward, and ideologically backward. I remember when I was in college, there was a debate tournament about whether we had ended hunger. Children in the city say that they have a house, a car, and a complete range of household appliances, and they have long lived a well-off life, and hunger cannot exist. The reason why they are poor and hungry is because rural people are too lazy and stupid in their brains. This has given a lot of mental blow and pressure to the children from the countryside, and they have climbed out of the mountains in order to live such a life in the future. They are not lazy at all, they set off to study before dawn in the morning, and when they get home after dark, they don't have any extracurricular tutoring materials and tutors, so they can only memorize the things on the book, and they can come out of it as one in a thousand. The debate was won on the basis that the countryside was still poor and hungry, but the reality was despised. ”

Xiaobin recalled that although he won the debate with Shengli, he cried. Even if rural people go to the city with great difficulty, sit in the same classroom with them, and enjoy equal education, they will never be treated equally spiritually. After graduating, people in the city can get into a good unit by finding a relationship, while people in the countryside are assigned to the same place or a more remote place. People in the city have pensions when they are old, and some of the elderly in the countryside are still farming at the age of 90. Nowadays, the change is even more incomparable, in the city you can use the Internet to shop and chat without going out, while in the countryside, more than half of the households do not even have a household appliance.

"You are so great, we have also debated, morality and food and clothing, Guan Zhong said, 'If the country has more wealth, those who are far away will come, and the land will be lifted. Where the people stay, they know the etiquette and know the etiquette when they have enough food and clothing.'" Yunxia looked at him and said that she didn't dare to look at the cadre at first, but now she knew that he was working hard for this simple and great dream, and she was in awe.

"It's serious, it's good to work at the grassroots level." Xiaobin knew in his heart that he still had Shengli's dream, if it weren't for Ting Liang, she would definitely finish her studies and return to the countryside in the future. The two cleaned the room and began to clean the yard again, Xiaobin said that he would pile up the snow, just enough to make a big snowman, so he should take a holiday for himself, and he was busy and had a good time. Yunxia said yes, it was an honor to be able to do these things with the leader, Xiaobin smiled, this tone was too similar to Shengli.

"I'm actually quite rebellious." Yunxia watched the snowmen pile higher and higher, remembered the past, and said casually, "When I was in junior high school, I also played with my friends to build snowmen, and when we were having fun, my mother suddenly came to tell me that someone who proposed relatives was about to arrive at the door, and I was so frightened that I immediately ran away from another way and spent the night at a friend's house." That time, it made my parents so angry that they almost broke my legs. Yunxia said with a smile, as if she was telling someone else's story, after all, it was all in the past, and now she is a college student, and her parents can no longer interfere.

"You're fighting against ignorance, aren't they particularly proud of being a college student now?" Xiaobin has been here for so long, and it is the first time that she is so talkative, and she probably really regards her as the shadow of Shengli back then.

"This is all thanks to Brother Shengyang and Sister Shengli, they have changed my life. Otherwise, my parents have an annual income of less than 2,000, how can they live. My family is a poor household, you know, in fact, I also wonder why my family has been borrowing food to eat until now. Fortunately, there is a subsidy for returning farmland to forests, otherwise it will continue to borrow in the future. Yunxia is not taboo, their family began to eat for four people, there is a reason why they can't eat enough, and when their younger brother dies, they can't eat enough for three people, until they are in high school, and there are only two meals left in the family, and they still have to borrow food, so they are very puzzled. The life of other people's families is getting better and better, but her family is getting worse and worse.

"Soon, you will also graduate, and life will be better." Xiaobin comforted that it has been much better over the years, but poverty cannot be eliminated all at once.

"Yes, in the future, everyone's life will be better, thank you for your hard work." Yunxia discovered that the reason why Xiangyin Village is poor is not only because of the geographical environment, but also because of people's laziness. Uncle Sun, his father, and Uncle Chang Xin, etc. Uncle Chang Xin works all year round, and the money he earns is not known to be spent by anyone. There is no shortage of food at home, and it is completely done by the two old men who get up early and are greedy for darkness.

"No matter how hard we try, there are people who are misunderstood, and when we see officials, we say that they are corrupt officials." Xiaobin said casually, and found that he was wrong. As a cadre, he should be a role model, he can't complain in front of the people, and he probably regards Yunxia as a friend like Shengli from the heart. In the first half a year, he did have a lot of disappointments and grievances in his heart, and he wanted to give up and go home many times, but his father has been silently supporting him, and it is only now that he understands the true meaning, as long as the people laugh, it is worth it how much they suffer.

"If you are not in your position, you will naturally not empathize, to be honest, I have been instilled with such a concept since I was a child, you must not be careful. But now that I'm older, I see things in two ways. Yunxia told the truth.

"Of course not, if I covet power, I can work in Xi'an as soon as I graduate, but I hope that the countryside can progress rapidly while maintaining the original ecology." Yunxia's words also gave him a step down, he now really likes the countryside and loves the countryside.

"Returning farmland to forest is to protect the original ecology, and the development of tea, gynostemma, and silk in recent years has been very good." Yunxia saw progress from someone else's family, but his family's reputation with the help of Shengyang was also considered an improvement in reputation. When I heard that it was a college student family, there was less ridicule and more envy.

"Don't talk about raising silkworms, now many people are starting to stop raising silkworms, go out to work, and even cut down mulberry trees to burn firewood." Xiaobin is a pity for these farmers, silkworm raising is only more than 40 days per season, men go out to work, women can actually raise, cutting down is indeed an economic waste.

"Actually, in your debate competition, people are right, the diligent people go out to work, and the lazy people stay at home and continue to be poor." People who have made money think that raising silkworms is actually a small amount of money, but they can raise it or not, it is better to cut it neatly. Yunxia suddenly felt that Xiaobin had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, but he couldn't do anything about it. The snowman was built, and the two looked at the smiling snowman and clapped their hands in satisfaction.

Xiao Bin was happy, but was attracted by the mountain that he had just walked down on the opposite side. Yunxia saw that he was looking intently, so she asked if this mountain statue was not like a big foot stretched out, some people said it was a Buddha's foot, some people said it was a monk's foot. Xiao Bin nodded, how could the mountain of Xiangyin Village be so magical. Yunxia asked him to look at a small hill opposite, like a little monk. Therefore, it is believed that these two mountains must have evolved from the old monk and the young monk. Because one foot stretches out, there is little sunlight under the mountain all year round, so it is called Xiangyin Village.

Xiaobin suddenly felt that this trip was not in vain, he met a girl who looked like Shengli, and also saw a different scenery. The other side of the river is not under the jurisdiction of Xiangyin, but it is also as poor as Xiangyin Village. They live in such a dark ravine, and what is his ability to help them change their fate?

In the house, Chang Xin helped Grandpa Sun shave his hair and beard, put on a military hat, put on clean clothes and cotton liberation shoes, and the tall and burly old man appeared in front of them. This is what Yunxia remembers, his son is also a big man, and he can carry 200 pounds up and down the mountain at a time.

Several people were busy for most of the day, only to find that they were hungry, Yunxia saw that the dishes and chopsticks were also dirty, so they asked them to go to her house to eat, Grandpa Sun said, the dishes and chopsticks can be washed, there are noodles and sauerkraut, a simple meal, he is hungry, he can't wait. Yunxia asked Xiaobin if he dared to eat, Xiaobin said that it was okay, and he was relieved that she was doing things. Chang Xin said that there is boiling water in the pot, put the dishes and chopsticks in it to heat and sterilize, and cook noodles in another pot. It is also fast to move, Yunxia fished out the wild rape sauerkraut, the taste floated out, Xiaobin swallowed his saliva, the wild rape is made of noodles, only the farmers on the mountain have it, and the unit eats cabbage and sauerkraut, and the taste is completely different.

After a while, a large bowl of noodles was served to each of the four, and Xiaobin admired Yunxia's ability to do things, as if she was doing a trick, and the taste was just right. There was also a small bowl of tofu on the table, which was also freshly scooped out of the jar. Grandpa Sun said that he asked someone to make it, Xiaobin tasted it, the taste was mellow and authentic, and the spicy taste was just right, and Yunxia ate it unceremoniously. Chang Xin praised Yunxia for her ability, and Grandpa Sun kept praising it, Yunxia blushed a little when she saw Xiaobin present, all because her parents let her do everything and exercise since she was a child.

After the meal, Yunxia cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and Xiaobin helped to hang the sheets and clothes next to the fire in the hall, Yunxia said that when the quilt was dry, she came to sew the quilt, Grandpa Sun was grateful, and the quilt had not been washed for several years. The three of them left, Grandpa Sun's tough guy's eyes moistened again, the sound of clicking in the snow gradually faded away, and he and a snowman were left in the yard. The snowman looked at him with a smile, he was not short of money, he lacked companions, he would have a dog and a cat as a companion in the coming year, saying that everything has spirituality, it still depends on the person's state of mind.