Liang Jianhong was cooking in the kitchen, and when he heard Sun Honggang's voice, he quickly turned off the gas stove and ran out.

"Why is Qiao Xi lying outside our house?" She is in her fifties, a teacher at the town middle school, wearing a white printed gown, her eyes are very bright, her hair is a little gray, and her face has left traces of time, but she can't hide her former beauty.

"You ask me, who do I ask? You don't listen to the sound, and you don't know how long this kid has been in the doorway? Sun Honggang touched Qiao Xi's forehead, "It looks like I have a fever, so let's move to the bedroom first." ”

Sun Zhigang carried Qiao Xi's legs, Liang Jianhong dragged Qiao Xi's shoulders, and the two of them carried her into the bed in the bedroom.

“…… Secretary Sun, Aunt Liang. Qiao Xi slowly opened his eyes, saw the person in front of him clearly, and hurriedly moved his body to get up.

"I have a fever, so lie down." Liang Jianhong poured a cup of hot water and carefully fed Qiao Xi to drink.

"Qiao Xi, tell Auntie, isn't that Xiaoquanzi Village where you went to very bitter?" Liang Jianhong dragged Qiao Xi to the head of the bed and took off her raincoat.

She still remembered how Qiao Xi looked when she first came to her house, with a ponytail, a beautiful white dress, and a face full of youthful luster.

It's only been half a month, and she can feel the exhaustion from Qiao Xi's body, from the exhaustion of the spirit. The person also lost some weight, her clothes were all muddy, and there were a few blood blisters on her hands, which made her unbearable to look at.

"It's good." Qiao Xi shrugged her shoulders and showed her usual smile.

"Jianhong, you are not as conscious as Qiao Xi. Since we have decided to go to the grassroots level of the village to carry out work, we must be mentally prepared. Sun Honggang glared at Liang Jianhong.

"I'm not enlightened, right?" Liang Jianhong said angrily: "Are you conscious?!" You have the consciousness to send such a small number of children to such a bitter village. ”

Sun Honggang muttered, "What do you know about the woman's opinion?" ”

Qiao Xi hurriedly interrupted Liang Jianhong's words to continue refutation, and said a little embarrassed: "Aunt Liang, I'm really not bitter, you don't have to worry about me." Everything is only temporary, and it will get better and better. ”

Liang Jianhong sighed, walked to the cabinet, opened the drawer, put on reading glasses, and rummaged through the thermometer.

"Secretary Sun, it has rained for three days in a row, and the wheat in the village has fallen, and everyone hopes that there will be a wheat harvester to harvest the wheat as soon as possible." Qiao Xi touched his hot forehead and asked.

Sun Honggang frowned slightly, and said a little angrily: "You came to me because of this matter?" You didn't come to such a difficult road, did you? Why don't you call me? What should I do if I faint on the road? ”

Qiao Xi said with a wry smile: "Now the wheat cutters are busy, and I am worried that it will be difficult for you to do it, so I think it is better to come to the door to make it clear." ”

"Afraid I won't help you?" Sun Honggang asked rhetorically, seeing Qiao Xi lowered his head embarrassedly, picked up the umbrella and walked to the bedroom door.

"Where are you going, grandson?" Liang Jianhong found a thermometer and came over with a plate of cold medicine in his hand.

Sun Honggang glared at Qiao Xi hatefully, "Of course it's to help this little girl contact the wheat cutter, she has walked so far in the mountains, she can't let her run away in vain." ”

Qiao Xi smiled and reluctantly got out of bed, "Secretary Sun, thank you." ”

Sun Honggang waved his hand, "You have a good rest here, I'll contact you to take a look, and I can't guarantee that I can find a wheat harvester for your village." Now that it has rained for such a long time, it is unlikely that the wheat harvester will enter the field, and the land in the village will also have to be dried, and the earliest wheat harvester will enter the village tomorrow afternoon. ”

Liang Jianhong hurriedly went over and added: "You go to the community hospital by the way to ask the doctor to come over, Qiao Xi's fever must not be light, hang a bottle of saline for her." ”

Sun Honggang nodded sullenly and quickly went downstairs.

Liang Jianhong helped Qiao Xi to the bed, let her clip the thermometer, and when she took it out, she said in surprise, "More than thirty-nine degrees, Qiao Xi, you are so bold, you dare to run to the town with such a high fever." ”

"It's okay, the people in the village are waiting for the wheat cutter......" Qiao Xi smiled, his throat was torn and hurting, and he leaned on the bed and was confused.

It didn't take long for the community doctor to come over and give Qiao Xi salt water, and she also woke up in a daze.

Liang Jianhong peeled an apple and handed it to her, "Qiao Xi, when you finish the salt water, we will eat." ”

Qiao Xi took a bite of the apple and asked, "Hasn't Secretary Sun come back yet?" ”

Liang Jianhong said indifferently: "If he doesn't finish his work, he won't go home, I'm used to it." It's okay, we don't need to wait for him, we just eat it ourselves. ”

Qiao Xi was a little reluctant, thought about it, and still asked stubbornly: "Aunt Liang, in fact, I came here to ask you for help?" ”

"It's not right for you Comrade Xiao Qiao to be like this, you can't catch the family if you ask for help!" Liang Jianhong feigned anger, and then she and Qiao Xi laughed at the same time, she tucked the corner of Qiao Xi's quilt and asked, "Say, what is the matter?" ”

"That's Aunt Liang, our village is building a school to gather all the children in the village so that they can enjoy nine years of compulsory education." Qiao Xi pondered for a moment, "Regarding the teacher's matter, the village can barely solve it. Now it's a textbook thing, and I need a whole set of textbooks for all subjects from elementary school to junior high school, even if it's for children of the same age to read the same book. You're a teacher, and I'd like to ask you to help. ”

"This is no problem, I will contact the education team and solve the textbook matter for your village." Liang Jianhong readily agreed, thought about it and added: "Textbooks alone don't seem to be enough, it's best to prepare some books for children, so that they can better understand the world outside the mountains." ”

After all, she is a teacher, and she knows how to train children.

Qiao Xi is grateful to Sun Honggang's family in his heart, Sun Honggang, as the secretary of the town party committee, has no official pretensions, and only thinks of the people. Although Liang Jianhong does not understand these things about poverty alleviation, she is not ambiguous about her children, and she has asked many about the current situation in the village, and expressed concern about these children who have never gone to school.

Qiao Xi stayed at Sun Honggang's house that night, because his body was too tired, he didn't wake up until noon the next day.

She looked at the time and hurried out of the bedroom. Sun Honggang hadn't gotten off work yet, and Liang Jianhong had just gone home for a short time, and was choosing vegetables in the kitchen.

She saw Qiao Xi come out of the bedroom, washed her hands, came over and touched Qiao Xi's forehead, and said with a smile: "It's good to be young in the end, after a night, the fever will subside." ”

"Aunt Liang, when will Secretary Sun get off work?" Qiao Xi hurriedly asked, "Did he contact the wheat cutter for our village?" ”

"Nope." Liang Jianhong sighed faintly.

Qiao Xi lowered her head, a look of frustration.

Liang Jianhong smiled and patted her on the shoulder, "Auntie was teasing you just now, Lao Sun has already contacted you, the wheat cutter is transferred from other towns, and it will go to your village in the afternoon, and it won't come back if you don't finish harvesting the wheat." He also asked me to tell you to wait at home for him to call, and he would have the harvester come and take you back to the village. ”

Qiao Xi was faintly excited, and the wheat in the village finally fell.

Xiaoquanzi Village can have three or four hundred acres of wheat land, but it rained overnight, and the ground was too muddy, and the people who went to the field to cut wheat with a sickle also gave up, the speed was too slow, and they also trampled on pieces of wheat and seedlings.

After noon, the sun was scorching, the fields were dry, and many people in the village blocked the entrance of the village committee.

Everyone knows one thing, Qiao Xi threw away this mess and ran away.

One by one, they all came to the village chief Zhang Shouye to ask for an explanation, and the second daughter-in-law of the old Xu family even pulled her voice and said: "Old village chief, you heard Qiao Xi say at the time that if the wheat rots in the ground because there is no harvester to delay the harvest, she will smash the pot and sell the iron to pay the money to our family." ”

Zhang Shouye was irritable and called Qiao Xi's phone again and again at the table, but he kept saying that he couldn't get through.

The other villagers, when they heard what the second daughter-in-law of the old Xu family said, they all shouted, "You can't just compensate your family, if our family's wheat rots to the ground, we must also let her accompany you." ”

"Yes, yes, she should pay for it, who told her to stop the purchase of wheat harvesters in the first place, what school did she have to build, what is the use of building that?"