When Sun Yiyi saw the old man, she introduced to Shi Lei: "That's the village chief of this village. She is in her sixties and the young people have run out. He can't even retire if he wants to."
Shi Leixin said that the village chief is only at the level of a clerk. In such a village, it is probably too lazy to send village officials. Even if he is sent, his words may not be effective. It is better to let the villagers here manage themselves.
Seeing this alone, Shi Lei had a very deep understanding of the difficult situation in the village.
After stopping the car, the village chief rushed up with the villagers. Seeing a few people getting out of the car, the village chief stretched out his calloused hands with excitement, looked at the five people, and reached out to Shi Lei, who looked the most mature.
"Thank you, the children in our village have come to you. Is this the leader of your school? I don't know what to call it?"
It has a local accent, but it is still quite good in Mandarin.
Shi Lei shook hands with the old village chief and said, "I am not a leader, I just graduated a little earlier than them. The school is still on holidays, so it is not easy to get the support and help from the school. I dare not ask them to send teachers to send them to them. You are the village chief, Hello, my name is Shi Lei. You should have seen these people?"
"I have seen each other, and they are all good people. I have sent books and stationery to the children in our village, but I dare not forget it. Don't stand here. Let's go in first. I will take a few teachers to see the place they arranged for them. We are poor here and the conditions are a little worse, so don't be surprised."
Although the other villagers rushed up, they were obviously a little timid. After all, they were all very old people and had never left the village. They were a little timid when they saw the college students coming from the city.
Shi Lei greeted the villagers, looked back at Sun Yiyi and the other four. The five followed the village chief and the villagers into the village together.
The house was obviously specially cleaned up, but it was still the kind of old-fashioned acre-brick house. The floor inside the house was also solid soil, and only a few wooden boards were laid on the floor of the sleeper in the inner room.
The house was clean and the house was not small. There was a main hall on the front, an Eight Immortals table in the middle, and some wrinkled oranges were placed on it as offerings. There was a small portrait of the table against the wall.
Everyone followed the village chief into the house, and the other villagers all squatted down in the yard. The old village chief pulled two long benches, wiped them with his sleeves, and said with a little embarrassment: "The conditions here are not good, so several teachers will take care of them."
Shi Lei smiled and sat down first, then said, "Don't let the old men and women squat outside, just go into the house. The sun is still fierce outside."
The village chief waved his hand and said, "It's okay, we are used to it. This room was specially cleaned up for several teachers. The room on the left is bigger, so I'll ask the two teachers to squeeze it. The room on the right is smaller, and there is a room behind, which is just enough to live in. However, the kitchen next to the room behind may taste a little..."
Shi Lei pulled the village chief and stopped him from pouring water for him. After he asked him to sit down, Shi Lei said: "Although the conditions are simple, it can be seen that the village chief has arranged for people to clean up carefully. I think they should not have any problems."
Sun Yiyi and Wu Rourou hurriedly said, "It's okay, this is already very good."
An old lady suddenly spoke outside and said, "That must be better. This house is the village chief's home, and his daughter is a technical secondary school student, which is much more particular than us. Although she may not come back once this year, she sends the most money to her father in our village."
Only then did the five realize that in order to arrange the lives of four college students, the village chief cleaned up his house.
"Village Chief, where do you live?" Shi Lei and Sun Yiyi asked almost at the same time.
The village chief smiled honestly and said, "The young people in the village are all in other places. Who can't live with me for a while? The main reason is that the village is poor and the houses are relatively small. I was just a few years ago when my daughter came back and paid for two rooms to add to the back. I'm sure a few of you, before, we slept with the big house on the left, and my daughter and my wife, all sleeping in that house. The house on the right is cooking. But don't worry, the house hasn't cooked for years, and my daughter has filled in the stove, which is no different from an ordinary house. Why don't you guys take a look? I'll ask them to clean up..."
Shi Lei winked, and Sun Yiyi and the other four walked around the room. After coming out, Sun Yiyi said, "Village Chief, I think we might as well live in the school, you don't have to go to another house to live, just live with your own house."
"Is there something unsatisfactory? Just say it, I'll let them clean up quickly."
"Nothing is not dissatisfied with, I just don't want to cause trouble for you."
"Then what's the trouble? It's our village that causes trouble for you guys. There's nothing on the school, and there's something wrong. I can't even shout someone nearby. It's close to ten miles away."
Sun Yiyi still wanted to persist, but Shi Lei said: "Yiyi, don't argue. Since the old village chief has arranged it, you can live here. But the distance from the school here is indeed a bit far, and it is not convenient to go to class and after class. Old village chief, there is nothing else in the village that can let students teach? I heard that there are only more than twenty children..."
"Teacher Shi, you don't understand the situation. These more than 20 children are from our village, and there are also several nearby villages. That school was used to be a supply and marketing cooperative here, but later it was useless. It was almost the same distance from several nearby villages, so it was changed to an elementary school. There were seven houses, one office for the teacher, and one for the other six for the children, one for each grade. The village is not completely unable to find a place to attend classes. The ancestral hall is relatively spacious, but in this case, the children in our village are convenient. Children in other villages have to walk twenty miles a day to reach our village, and the ones nearest can also be fifteen or sixteen miles away."
Shi Lei nodded, thinking that there was still such a situation. He frowned and said, "Who are going to school every day?"
"If you have cows at home, just drive a cart to take them over. Most of the children can only walk by themselves. But don't worry, we are poor here, but there are no bad people. There will be no dangers on the way to school and after school."
Shi Lei pondered for a moment and said, "Is anyone in our village able to ride a bicycle? Where are the other villages?"
"That thing is not difficult. You can ride it no matter how hard you step on it."
"Old village chief, if I donate a batch of bicycles to various villages, can the villagers here ride their bikes to send their children to school?"
"That's fine, but don't spend money. The road here is not good, and the bicycles are expensive, and if you can't ride, they will be broken. Moreover, we don't dare to let you spend money anymore. You are already grateful for your help to make up for the lessons."
Shi Lei smiled and said, "I happened to make this one, and the cars we produce have no other characteristics, they are sturdy and durable. And the cost is not much, so you don't have to worry. How many villages are there in total?"
Laocun refused to say it for a long time, but a voice outside said, "Seven."
Chapter completed!