Wan Shunshui, the director of Wanjia Town's reclamation field, learned that the group's Hua commissioner personally came to investigate, and rushed from the town to the dam site to greet him, and he was accompanied by the village chiefs of two administrative villages, namely Wan Yushan of Dawan Village and Wan Qiyun of Xiaowan Village.

Hua Nianping remembered that there was still a vacancy in the van he brought, so he called Wan Shunshui and the three of them to squeeze into the same car with him, and asked them to leave the car brought from the town on the dam site for Chief Engineer Qian Yinxu to call for temporary use.

Wan Shunshui knew that Hua Nianping had always advocated the efficiency of bus use, and immediately complied.

When he was about to arrive at Wanjia Town, Hua Nianping saw a bunch of dilapidated houses not far in front of him, and an old national flag fluttering in the wind in the open space in the middle, so he asked Wan Shunshui, this should be a school.

Wan Shunshui replied yes.

Wan Yushan, who was on the side, said that this is the Dawan Village Primary School, because the town's central primary school stopped halfway through construction, so it had to be kept and continue to open.

Hua Nianping asked the reason for the suspension of the construction of the Central Primary School because the follow-up funds did not keep up, and immediately suggested that Deputy County Magistrate Zhou come up with a solution as soon as possible.

Then he ordered the driver to stop immediately, intending to go around the school in front of him.

But Wan Shunshui glanced at Deputy County Magistrate Zhou, but blocked the car door to prevent Hua Nianping from going down.

He persuaded that there were only 60 or 70 children in this small school, and that it was not worth getting off the bus for inspection by Commissioner Hua, so he asked Commissioner Hua to go to the field department in the town to inspect and guide the work.

Ge Cunyi, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, turned his face and noticed that Hua Nianping's expression seemed to bring out an angry look, and hurriedly gave Deputy County Magistrate Zhou a look.

Deputy County Magistrate Zhou immediately understood that Commissioner Hua was determined to get off the bus, so he had to wave his hand at Wan Shunshui and ask him to lead the way.

When Hua Nianping and a few people walked into the school, it happened to be time to finish class.

Wan Shunshui brought a middle-aged man wearing myopic glasses over and introduced him to Hua Nianping as the principal of this elementary school, Lin Shijie.

Hua Nianping asked Principal Lin Shijie, how many teachers are there in the school, how many children are there, and how many classes are set up?

Lin Shijie said that including him and his wife, there are eight teachers in the school, and nearly 100 children are studying here, most of them left-behind children, divided into seven classes, and there is no shortage of six grades at the primary school education level.

Hua Nianping asked puzzledly, with an average of less than 20 students per grade, how could there be an extra class?

Lin Shijie said that there were actually only two students in the extra class, from an AIDS family in Xiaowan Village, who were isolated and started classes separately.

Under the leadership of Lin Shijie, Hua Nianping took a serious look around the school and found that there was neither a principal's office nor a separate teacher's office in this school, and the teachers all stayed in the classroom to correct their homework, but there were many empty houses that were idle, so he asked Lin Shijie what was going on?

Lin Shijie said that there were originally more than a dozen classrooms in the school, but later it was found that the walls of some classrooms were cracked, so for the safety of teachers and students, they had to gather in a few relatively safe classrooms.

As for the principal's office, it is located in his home at the back of the school.

Wan Yushan said that when Principal Lin and his wife graduated from the normal secondary school 20 years ago, they were assigned to teach at the Dawancun Primary School on the farm.

Wan Yushan also said that Ms. Guan, the wife of Principal Lin, who had been voted "the most beautiful rural female teacher" in an online vote, had been suffering from severe uremia for several years, and had to stop teaching substitute teaching until she was unable to speak on the podium this spring.

Hua Nianping was moved when he heard this, and immediately decided to go to Lin Shijie's home to visit the sick teacher Guan.

Lin Shijie's home is separated from the school by a wall, and there are three ordinary old-fashioned blue brick houses, and the tiles on the beams have been broken in several places, and in order to prevent rain leakage, the owner uses plastic sheeting or cow felt to cover it with some heavy objects.

There is no yard, and there is a path paved with slag mats at the entrance of the main house, which is about ten meters long.

On the left side of the trail are planted a few jujube trees, which seem to be decades old, and their trunks have grown to the thickness of a bowl; On the right side of the trail, there is a small vegetable patch, scattered with green onions, cucumbers and other crops.

Lin Shijie and his wife are not locals in Linhuai County, they have been teachers in Dawancun Primary School for more than 20 years, except for two years ago, when Teacher Guan was named "the most beautiful rural female teacher", the deputy director of the county's education office came to congratulate the family, and there have been no other kinds of leaders of all kinds to visit.

Now, Lin Shijie didn't expect that Commissioner Hua of Enyuan Group would come directly to visit his sick wife at home, and he was very nervous, because his family couldn't even get a decent chair so that such an important person could sit in the house.

After graduating from Beijing University, Hua Nianping stayed in school as a teacher for several years, and originally felt a sense of pride in being a teacher with Lin Shijie and his wife, but the sad scene of the Lin family in front of him made him shake his wrists and sigh for a while.

Teacher Guan lay weakly on the old bed in the inner room, a small table filled with a large pile of medicine boxes and medicine bottles, the wall behind him was pasted with old newspapers, and a black and white TV set from many years ago was placed on the low cabinet with a door dropped.

Leaning against the wall of the doorway, a cracked dressing mirror is inlaid with it.

Lin Shijie took Hua Nianping to his wife's bed and said to Teacher Guan that Commissioner Hua came to visit her in person.

Mr. Guan's puffy eyes suddenly flashed, and he struggled to squeeze out the word "thanks" from his throat.

Lin Shijie said that his wife's voice began to struggle last year, but because she suffered from uremia and needed to pay for long-term dialysis treatment, and her son went to college outside the province, she had to deduct her salary once she took leave and did not take classes.

When Hua Nianping left Lin Shijie's house, he secretly stuffed the 500 yuan he was carrying under Mr. Guan's pillow.

Leaving Dawan Village Primary School, Hua Nianping remembered the two students from Xiaowan Village AIDS families mentioned by Lin Shijie, and asked Wan Qiyun, the head of Xiaowan Village, to lead him to visit several poor AIDS families.

Xiaowan Village is a well-known AIDS village in Huai City, this village in the 90s of the last century, there are dozens of men and women who went to other places to sell blood, many people are infected with HIV, and after returning there are cross-infected sexual partners, in the past few years has entered the onset period one after another.

What's even more terrifying is that there are still many children in Xiaowan Village who have not been born and are infected with HIV in their mothers.

Wan Qiyun told Hua Nianping that there was a young child surnamed Ge in the village, whose parents died of AIDS, and his uncle and aunt were put in a pigsty for fear of infection.

Hua Nianping saw that all patients after the onset of HIV have basically lost their ability to work, and their lives are extremely difficult.