In the next two days, Yun Feng proposed to visit the primary school in a nearby village or town.

Yaohe Town is the same as many towns, a town center middle school, a town center primary school, and the others are all village schools set up in the township, some village schools have neat grades one to six, some are only one to three grades, some village schools have playgrounds, teaching buildings, flag-raising platforms and other buildings, and some are adobe houses, the scale is determined by the local economic situation and the number of students.

Yun Feng looked at the primary school in the center of the town, as if he saw the scene of his school in the central primary school back then, but the shape of the flag-raising platform was different, and everything else was very similar. The nearby village elementary school is only in the first to third grades, and it is like the Yunjia village primary school when Yun Feng was in the first grade, the red adobe bricks are covered with gray and black tiles, and there are two basketball hoops on both sides of the small playground.

"Is Huaxiang Elementary School still there?"

Vice President Wang turned his head and asked the mayor of Yaohe Town and Section Chief Ye who were accompanying him.

"In, in."

The mayor replied with a smile.

"Then let's go to Huaxiang Primary School tomorrow, shall we?"

Vice President Wang proposed.

"You'll have to test your driving skills there."

The mayor said with a smile.

Yun Feng remembered that the life committee member of his class was in Huaxiang, and the primary school originally seemed to be Huaxiang Primary School, but later he heard that after the third grade, he was transferred to the town center primary school to board, so he couldn't help but smile and asked:

"Mayor Mare, is it a mountain road? Is the mountain road a winding mountain road? ”

"Teacher Yun is really knowledgeable, but the winding mountain road is relatively narrow. Afraid? ”

Mayor Mare replied with a smile on his face.

"Hehe, I don't know how to drive anyway, Section Chief Ye and Wang Xiao drive, I'm not worried."

Yun Feng quipped.

"Then how can Ye Ke and Wang Xiao drive, you really have to be familiar with the road. Tomorrow you go, we will arrange for two people who are familiar with the road to help you drive. ”

Mayor Mare said.

The next day, the mayor brought two young men to drive. The winding mountain road reminded Yun Feng of the song "Eighteen Bends of the Mountain Road", looking at the high blue sky, imagining the high-pitched singing, sitting on the rickety car climbing up, Yun Feng was still very poetic in his heart. But by accident, she saw the bottom of the mountain, but it was a vertical and blue depth of dozens of meters under the mountain, like a green bottom-to-earth abyss with the mountain, only to realize that the narrow lane was actually a mountain cliff, and couldn't help but be frightened, and asked worriedly:

"Well, there's no car coming across the street, right?"

"Generally not, there are very few cars here, and the young people who usually have cars are working hard in the outside world, and the people who live are all old people and children, and they can't drive without a car. Cars leaving the market are usually out long ago, and if they do, they will honk their horns around the corner, stop and be careful to give way. “

The young boy who was driving replied. Yun Feng remembered that every time they crossed a steep turn, their car horn would sound a few times in advance.

The two cars cautiously reached most of the mountainside before turning into a small village and stopping under a large banyan tree next to the village.

"Grandma Wang, why are you sitting here again?"

The two young men who were driving were really acquainted, and they saw an old man sitting next to a mud-brick house weaving a bamboo dustpan and greeted him.

"Oh, yes, you're coming to see us again?"

The old man replied with a deflated mouth without front teeth. Her thick black fingers, protruding from her green muscles, continued to weave the bamboo strips, and she looked up to see if there was a smile, but her face was calm, and the old age spots on her wrinkled face moved in the sunlight with the wrinkles she had pulled as she spoke.

"Isn't it, what about your eldest grandson? Why didn't you see him come out? “

"Then I went to the mountains to cut bamboo. I'll have to come back at noon. “

When the old man talked about his grandson, he stopped a little in his hand and replied with a somewhat sluggish face.

"Grandma Wang lives alone with her grandson. Her grandson is 10 years old this year, and he is a late student, and he is in the third grade in the village primary school in this village. “

The young man who drove the car for Yun Feng introduced.

"Oh, then Grandma Wang's son and daughter-in-law are all working outside?"

Yun Feng asked casually.

"It's not. The old man's son went to the mountains to cut bamboo five years ago and was bitten by a snake, and when he came back, he became inflamed, had a serious illness, and left, and his daughter-in-law left the child and went to work with someone, and then he never came back, and there was no news. Now Grandma Wang is taking her grandson to live together. The town and the township arranged for the village to take care of it. “

The young man said softly.

"Oh-"

As soon as Yun Feng heard this, he lowered his eyes. She couldn't hear such a thing at all, and there was already a full tear in her eyes that couldn't stop falling into the dirt when she lowered her head. Li Feng, who was standing beside her, also had a sad face, bowed his head and said nothing.

"In fact, almost all the people left behind in this village are the elderly and children. The young and strong have already gone out to work, and there are also days when they have a good life because of their part-time jobs, so they build a house in the town under the mountain, and take the old people and children to go to school in the town to live. “

"Now there are more than 30 families left behind, and some are looking to move out, and these children have almost grown up with the elderly and are enrolled in school nearby. Originally, the township and the town wanted to get the tourism here, just like a few villages at the foot of the mountain, a large piece of peach blossoms and plum blossoms planted in spring, and the ginkgo biloba leaves were yellow all over the mountain in autumn, and the people of Guangzhou and Shenzhen were willing to come and see, but the mountain road in this Huajia village was too steep, and the traffic of people could not bear it, but the dangerous accidents could not be prevented, and then they gave up, just took care of the life of the people who remained in the mountains. It was also because it was too troublesome to enter and exit the mountain, so the village was kept as a small school. “

"A few years ago, the town renovated the elementary school classrooms, but they are sturdy, and it no longer rains as before, and I use my face to catch the rain in the classroom while attending classes. The year before last, a basketball court was built and a table tennis table was installed, which was used by the children during the school day, and the adults who stayed behind when the children went home to work after school. “

The two young men who drove took turns to introduce the situation to Yun Feng and Li Feng, as well as several teachers who accompanied them. The mayor of the town walked in front of the crowd with Section Chief Ye and Vice Principal Wang.

After a while, Yun Feng's group of people arrived at Huajia Rural Elementary School, the gate of the school, which is the wall gate that opens after the wall is enclosed, and there is a wooden sign with red characters on the lintel, and the five big characters of Huajia Primary School are written in regular letters. As soon as you enter the door, there is a playground and a table tennis table, and in front of you are five rows of tiled houses, three are classrooms, two are teachers' offices, looking out of the window, the classroom is a wooden table and chairs, the original wood color, not old, not new, three rows are neatly placed, there are blackboards on the front and back walls, and the podium is also formal. In the teacher's office is a row of desks, and there are also homework books and teaching references stacked on the table.

Behind the classroom and office, across an open space, is the teacher's residence, and there are also five rows of red brick houses, the doors and windows are closed, and it is estimated that the teachers have gone home during the holidays.

"Where are the teachers?"

Yun Feng asked curiously.

"There are two teachers here, including three local teachers in their forties and fifties who are stationed in the village all the year round. There are five teachers in total. Every year, teachers from different schools come, and three local veteran teachers teach Chinese, mathematics, music, art, and physical education. There are only 1st to 3rd grades, one class per grade, and there are no more than 10 people in each class now. They all finished the third grade, and went to the town center primary school without taking the exam. ”

The mayor answered Yun Feng's question and also introduced it to everyone.