After saying goodbye to her, I drove back to the hotel.
It's already very late, and I'm tired after working on it for so long.
After returning to the hotel, I made a bucket of instant noodles with the hotel's boiling water. After eating it, I prepared to go to bed, planning to search for Wang Yi's whereabouts early tomorrow morning.
Only then did I remember my own business, and then suddenly I remembered that the two people just now were the teaching assistants. Maybe asking them would know the whereabouts of Wang Yi?
I quickly took out my phone and sent a WeChat message to the female teacher.
"Let me ask you something. You are here to teach. Have you ever heard of Wang Yi?"
It took about two minutes for the message to come back: "What are you looking for her for?"
As soon as I saw this message, I immediately became excited. It seemed like she knew!
I said hurriedly: "It's something urgent. I came here specifically to see her. If you know, please tell me."
"I haven't heard of it, sorry."
Seeing this reply, my excitement was instantly extinguished.
But I didn't give up and continued to ask: "Ask the male teacher with you if he has heard of it?"
"I asked, but he didn't know." After a while, she replied to me.
I looked back with a sweaty expression, and then said: "Okay. By the way, I heard you said before that all the money you raised was cheated. What happened? Who was cheated?"
“I was deceived by a person selling teaching materials.”
"How could you be deceived by someone selling textbooks?"
"That money was actually money for the school's teaching materials and had been kept by the school principal. However, he was too kind-hearted and easily trusted people, so he was deceived."
"How much money was defrauded?"
"Probably more than 20,000!"
"No wonder you want me to take 20,000 yuan. This money is neither too much nor too little. Have you found the liar?"
"It'll be great if you find it. I don't know the details. Only the old principal knows."
I hesitated for a while and then said: "Can you take me to your school tomorrow morning?"
I say this, but more importantly, I want to go to the old principal to get to know Wang Yi as a person, maybe there will be surprises.
"What are you doing in our school?"
"Go see your principal and see if you can help."
"I won't trouble you, we have already called the police."
"Oh, don't worry, I won't tell anyone what happened today. I just want to ask your principal about Wang Yi, nothing else."
"Then I can go back and ask the principal for you."
"Don't put it off any longer. I just happened to go and see if you were telling the truth."
"You still don't believe me yet?"
"Well, I didn't know whether it was true until I went to your school. What if you guys teamed up to lie to me? I'm not familiar with the place here."
I said that on purpose, just to get her to take me to school.
After a while, she finally replied: "Okay! When will it be tomorrow morning?"
"At eight o'clock in the morning, you can wait for me at the door of the hotel where I live, which is the hotel today."
"Okay, see you tomorrow then."
I got up early the next morning, and the female teacher from yesterday was already waiting for me downstairs in the hotel.
After I briefly washed myself, I went downstairs to meet her. She was obviously different today than she was yesterday.
Yesterday she wore a short skirt, black stockings, and exquisite makeup. She was obviously dressed up carefully.
Today, not only was she dressed plainly, but she also had no makeup on her face.
But she makes me feel more charming without makeup, especially her eyes. Although she has single eyelids and the eyes are not big, they give people a sense of story.
Her whole face is full of a sense of story, and she really looks better and better the more you look at her.
"Good morning!" I greeted her after meeting.
"Morning." She replied calmly.
"Let's set off now, you lead the way."
I said, took her into the car, and then started the car.
This road is not easy to walk, and it is all mountainous. The average speed of the car can only be about 30 yards.
It was a bumpy road and we drove for almost two hours before we finally arrived at a Hope Primary School called Damagou Hope Primary School.
The difference between this Hope Primary School and the Hope Primary School I was in Zhaojue County yesterday is not the slightest bit different. This place can only be described as "poor".
The teaching building is even an earthen building, and the playground is just an open space without even cement.
A school in such a difficult situation was defrauded of more than 20,000 yuan in teaching material fees. How unconscionable is that scammer?
The sound of the car's engine soon attracted the attention of the children in the school. Just when get out of class was over, the students ran out one after another when they heard the sound.
Standing in a row in front of the school, there were about twenty children, some tall and some short, but they were all very thin and looked malnourished.
When I stopped the car, I realized that the clothes on the children in front of me were very shabby. Some of the children who were originally very tall were still wearing very small clothes, and some of them were even barefoot.
It's already winter! The temperature in this mountain is obviously lower.
Seeing this scene, I felt a little uncomfortable.
Before this, I simply could not believe that our country still had such poor and backward areas. Even in remote areas of Tibet, every household raised yaks.
But here, I really saw what poverty is.
After getting off the bus, the children ran over and surrounded their teacher.
Although the children look dirty, there is a clear light in every child's eyes.
The children asked one after another: "Teacher, teacher, is Shi Shi's illness getting better?"
With a smile on her face, she said, "Well, he's feeling better."
"Teacher, when can Shitou come back to class?" Another student asked.
"Come on, Shitou will be able to go back to school and join you in class soon."
"Teacher, who is this uncle?" One of the children found me.
She looked back at me and said to the children, "He is"
Then I stepped forward and introduced myself: "Hello, classmates, my name is Chen Feng, you can call me Uncle Chen."
"Hello, Uncle Chen." The classmates shouted together.
This neat greeting instantly made the hairs all over my body stand up.
At that moment, I really felt the power of the mountains.
I went back to the car, looked through some mineral water, a few unfinished Red Bulls, and a few packets of biscuits that I had bought before, and took them all out.
He shouted to the children: "Classmates, I still have some food here. Come share a share."
To my surprise, the children did not swarm over to grab the food. On the contrary, the children were very well-behaved.
Until their teacher said: "Daniu, you are the class monitor. Go and give points to your classmates. The teacher has something else to do."
After the classmate named Daniel answered, he led the children over to share the food. Everyone lined up in a very orderly manner.
Seeing this scene couldn't help but make my heart palpitate, and an indescribable feeling spread in my heart.
Finally, under the guidance of the female teacher, I finally met the principal, an old man in his fifties.
The female teacher briefly introduced me to the principal, and then told the principal where I came from.
The principal told me that I had never heard of Wang Yi, and asked me if I was sure I was teaching in Meigu County?
In fact, I wasn't very sure. The principal of the Hope Primary School just told me that I might be here, so I came.
I feel that this trip was in vain, but coming here also makes me respect these teachers who come to teach.
The conditions here are really terrible, I can't even describe how bad they are, but they still persevere, which is really great.
However, just when I was about to leave, the female teacher stopped me.
"Tell me what exactly you are looking for Wang Yi for? I lied to you last night. In fact, I know her."