Chapter 47: The Most Beautiful Foreigner

There is such a foreigner, who went to a remote mountain village in China to teach at a young age, and stayed for ten years, this move touched countless people, but he said that he didn't want to move Huaxia......

In July 2001, a blonde and blue-eyed foreigner came to Lin Guangtun in Pola Village, Donglan County. He rented a house in the village for 10 yuan a month to open a school for local out-of-school children.

At that time, Lin Guangtun did not have access to telephones or roads, and most of the locals could only speak the Zhuang dialect.

People think that this foreigner is really a strange person, who does not want to stay in his own country, but he goes to the countryside of China to teach students and does not want a salary.

A few days later, the villagers learned that the foreign monster's name was Luanke, and that he did not eat meat, drink, smoke, or gamble. It never occurred to the locals that a foreigner would volunteer to go to the mountains to teach children and not ask for money.

In the eyes of the villagers, the strange man Lu Anke is Yang Lei Feng, who came to help Huaxia with education, and the old people and children affectionately call him "Teacher Lu" or "Old Lu".

Luanke was born in Hamburg in 1968, the younger brother of twins. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as a sailing factory worker, sailing instructor, and as a soldier, and then entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg to study industrial design.

The first time he came to China was a tourist, and then he came to Southeast University to live with Chinese students, and because he wanted to live with Chinese students, he transferred to the Agricultural College.

In 1997, Lu Anke taught German as a volunteer teacher at a school for the disabled in Nanning, but was fined 3,000 yuan by the Public Security Bureau for failing to obtain an "employment permit".

In 1999, he returned to Lin Guangtun from abroad and went to a junior high school teacher in a county middle school in the Hechi area.

In order to be able to teach for free in these poor schools, Luanke set up an office in 1999.

"The office is approved by the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Commission, and the Education Bureau can't control me, and the school I go to doesn't have the right to hire foreign teachers, but I have the legal right to engage in educational work, and I can do educational practice research. ”

The children regard Luanke as their most trusted playmate, and Luanke is also the one who knows the children in the mountains best.

Luanke and the children love nothing more than to climb trees, dig loaches and roll in the mud. During the day, Luanke goes with the students to herd cattle and do farm work, and in the evenings, the children watch a TV series while he translates his books.

Lu Anke has a very close relationship with the children, and many children will climb on Lu Anke and introduce: "He is Lu Anke, we all call him Lao Lu, and Lao Lu is my father." ”

He has translated millions of words of educational treatises, and posted his research and insights on his blog in the hope that they would be helpful to others.

This is what an ordinary foreigner does in the land of China.

After 10 years of volunteer teaching in Huaxia Mountain Village, hiding from reporters has become part of Lu Anke's daily life. Whenever a reporter came to cover the news, he would hide far away from the student's house and wait for the reporter to leave, and then return to school.

"The media will portray me as a celebrity, I just want to do my job, I don't want to be famous, being a celebrity will only affect my work and life," he said. ”

"I'm scared to move people. In 2006, someone recommended me to participate in the selection of moving Chinese figures, and I was terrified and hurriedly wrote to the selection committee to ask them not to choose me. I don't want to move Huaxia, I can only move Huaxia. ”

He has received warnings from certain departments not to appear in the media and not to talk about education and left-behind children in China. Otherwise, he will be held accountable for his "wrongdoing" and deported at any time.

Lu Anke: "I don't want to change the education of Huaxia, that's the business of the Huaxia people themselves, and I shouldn't interfere." ”

On May 20, 2010, Anke announced the closure of his blog on his blog homepage, stating:

"I'm not a native, and I still take care of some things that outsiders shouldn't be in charge of, which makes my natives a little uncomfortable. In order not to hurt your self-esteem, I should not care about the left-behind children. But if I give up, my students are sad again.

There is only one solution to this contradiction: if you don't let people outside know about it, no one will feel bad about my actions. ”

On October 28, 2012, Lu Anke briefly left Huaxia due to his family's opposition, and returned to Huaxia a month later to continue his research on the education of rural children.

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Li Zhuo asked Jiang Xinran and Guan Xiaoting to say after reading the news: "What do you think?"

Jiang Xinran said: "Well, it's really not easy, as a foreigner, you can do this, what are you going to do?"

Guan Xiaoting also understood that Li Zhuo was trying to help this foreigner, but she didn't know how he could do it.

Li Zhuo said: "Haven't you always been in charge of our foundation now? I am going to directly let him be the general manager of the Zhuoyuan Foundation." ”

Jiang Xinran was taken aback, not because Li Zhuo didn't let her take care of the foundation, she was the agent herself, she had a lot of things to manage, and it was a lot easier not to care about the foundation, she just didn't expect Li Zhuo to pay so much attention to this foreigner, Guan Xiaoting was also surprised.

Li Zhuo said: "Zhuoyuan Foundation must take the international route in the future, in the words of foreigners, it can be regarded as a better connection in the future, and his example can be regarded as the best publicity for Zhuoyuan Fund." ”

Jiang Xinran said: "Okay, I'll do it." ”