Fenglin Village is under the jurisdiction of Yichun and is a small village among several mountains.

The small village is not big, there are only three houses in total, which are about thirty or forty families.

In this village, the proportion of adobe houses is relatively large. Basically more than 70% of the houses are adobe houses, and only a few houses are brick-shaped houses. Moreover, these old houses with brick-shaped structures all look very dilapidated.

It was summer. When Yan Liguo arrived at this place, it had just rained heavily. Although the air was very fresh, the road in the village was muddy.

Yan Liguo wrote that after I arrived in Fenglin Village, I felt that the village was small and dilapidated, all of which were the adobe houses he saw when he went to the surrounding rural areas when he was a child, which was the appearance of more than 30 families.

In this village, there are no cement roads, just pure dirt roads. Because it rains, my shoes on my feet were all covered with mud.

I inquired all the way, and then stumbled to find the village committee according to my instructions. When I arrived at the place, I found that the village committee in that place, although called the village committee, was a personal home, and it was nothing more than three large brick and tile houses built with red bricks.

After I arrived here, I signed up for my own home. I was warmly welcomed by the village chief and the village party secretary. I arranged for me to live in the village chief’s house and have dinner at the village chief’s house at night.

This thing seems very normal, but it reflects the status of our Zhongxin Company in this place. If someone else came here, there would be no such treatment.

Even so, I felt a sense of shock.

The village chief’s house has two brick and tile houses, and there is basically no furniture inside. Each room has only a large kang, and there are some quilts and other things on the kang. In the kitchen outside, there are basically a large eight-seal iron pot and some pots and pans.

When I arrived in the village, it was almost evening. I ate dinner directly at the village home, with the village chief, village party secretary and village director.

The meals are the easiest meals, a stewed chicken, a large pot of dipped pickles, and a scrambled eggs and beans stewed potatoes.

After drinking some bulk liquor at the dinner table, I realized that the reason why there are so many delicious foods is because they regard me as their most honorable guest.

Fenglin Village is one of the poverty alleviation villages within Zhongxin Company's plan. Zhongxin Company previously donated a lot of things here, including students' school supplies, some daily necessities, etc. Therefore, when Yan Liguo arrived here, they regarded Yan Liguo as a distinguished guest.

Only by chatting with the village chief and the village party secretary, I realized what Fenglin Village is like.

This place was originally a branch of the forest farm, but the forest farm was already ruined in the 1980s, and their branch was directly out of management and was changed to Fenglin Village by local townships.

At the earliest, the people in their village mainly relied on logging wood as their source of living, but now, at this time, they no longer have any source of living.

These people are in Fenglin Village! Basically, they are all relatives. At this time, there are about 200 people in the village. Many of them have left the village and worked hard outside. However, the elderly and children are still living in this place.

Because we can only grow some food here and it is too far from the townships, we are extremely poor at this time. The country often gives some subsidies to their villages, but these subsidies cannot make the people in Fenglin Village live a better life.

The town government also told the people from Fenglin Village that they hoped they would move out of Fenglin Village, but they needed to find a living and a house by themselves.

When the people in Fenglin Village heard this, they naturally didn't want to move outside. No matter what, there was a house and some land here. If they got outside, they would have nothing. So, this situation has now formed.

If children in the village want to go to school, they basically need to walk for a long time before they can reach the central school in the town. A slightly older child basically needs to help adults do farm work or do some other things at home. Only some children of appropriate age are asked by the township to study in the town.

Before, the children here didn't want to study in the town because they had no money and could not afford to study. However, because Zhongxin Company donated student desks to the central school, donated books for students, and established a canteen for the school so that children who walked out of the mountain could eat for free in the school cafeteria and sleep in the dormitory built by the school.

It is precisely for this reason that the children in Fenglin Village can study at the central school in the town.

Because the elderly and some middle-aged people in Fenglin Village also figured it out that children going out to study is a good thing for children. They cannot be like them. Most people are illiterate and have no education, and have suffered a lot in this society.

The most important thing is that when children go out from home to school, they don’t have to bear anything, and they will reduce the amount of money they pay at home. Therefore, at this time, most of the seven to thirteen-year-old children in Fenglin Village were sent to the central school.

A child who can keep up with his studies can go to the town middle school. For example, when Yan Liguo came, the school was on holiday, so Yan Liguo could see a lot of children in the village.

Yan Liguo had a lot of thoughts after entering Fenglin Village. He wrote in his letter recalling the bitterness and sweetness that after I simply walked in the village, I saw a scene that I would never forget for my life.

The five-year-old girl and boy who are as old as my child in the village are basically naked at this time. I won’t mention this without new clothes, and I don’t even have old clothes to wear. According to the adults in the village, on rainy days, these children will get dirty when wearing those clothes. They also need adults to wash clothes, and they just run on the ground with their bare butts. The children raised in heaven are in good health.
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