Even though there were five or six bullock carts, after putting down supplies and large luggage, everyone still had to carry a backpack.
At this time, Xiao Muyou magically took out a hiking pole from her backpack. Well, okay, this was prepared for her by Lei Yan, who had rich experience in surviving in the wild. Xiao Muyou didn't expect that it would really work.
Use it.
Zhang Shijie on the side took out the hiking poles from his backpack without haste at this time, and looked at the remaining nine people who were all envious.
"Mr. Xiao, Lao Zhang, you are fully prepared. Next time I must ask you for the travel list in advance."
The speaker was another old employee of the company who entered the company at the same time as Zhang Shijie, named Liu Xueming.
"Old Liu, you are also someone who has participated in two activities. You didn't expect this. I have already checked the terrain near Yang County where we came this time. Most of them are mountain roads. There are no trekking poles to travel.
It takes some effort.”
"Okay, you were just thinking it later. You didn't remind me earlier."
"Dear well-wishers, if you don't mind, just use these as hiking poles. Don't worry, I've asked people in the village to wrap a cloth around them so that they won't hurt their hands."
At this time, a fellow man about forty or fifty years old came over with a bundle of wooden sticks. They looked a bit like crutches, but they were all new at first glance, especially the top of each wooden stick was wrapped with a thick layer of leather.
Layer cloth.
When Liu Xueming saw it, he immediately took it and said to the fellow.
"Oh, brother, thank you so much. I don't dislike it, not at all. Did the villagers do this all by themselves? It's really troublesome."
The fellow scratched his head and said naively.
"Hey, it's not troublesome at all. We have a lot of wood in the mountains."
Afterwards, a group of people and five or six ox-carts, led by fellow villagers, set off toward their destination.
Even though there are only the last three kilometers left, this is in the mountains, and the mountain road is very narrow. Especially as you go further in, the road becomes narrower and narrower. At the narrowest point, a one-meter-wide ox cart can just barely scrape the edge.
Everyone is becoming more and more cautious.
"Mr. Xiao, how about I help you carry your bag?"
After half an hour, the group had only walked more than a kilometer. By this time, everyone was exhausted and sweating profusely, and their speed had obviously slowed down.
At this time, one of the local guides came to Xiao Muyou's side. They all knew who the boss of the team was. It was obvious that this guide had been instructed by someone above him.
Xiao Muyou glanced at the young man next to her and politely declined.
"Thank you, guide Xiao Xu. My backpack looks big, but it actually doesn't weigh much."
Xiao Muyou told the truth. Her luggage was all packed by Lei Yan, so Lei Yan put some bulky but inconsequential items in this backpack, which just looked big when carried on his back.
Seeing what Xiao Muyou said, Guide Xiao Xu stopped insisting and went to help another woman in the team carry something.
It took almost two hours, and before it was completely dark, the group finally arrived at their destination, a local school.
This school is located on a mountainside among the mountains. It is desolate everywhere. Apart from a few scattered low houses, there are no other traces of life.
But this school has solved the problem of schooling for children in seven or eight villages within a radius of more than ten miles.
This school was newly built seven or eight years ago. From elementary school to junior high school, it consists of two buildings. The three-story building in the front is the teaching building, the lower two floors are the primary school, and the third floor is the junior high school.
There is a three-story building behind this building, which covers a much larger area. The first floor is the offices of all teachers, and the upper two floors are the dormitories for all students.
Because the farthest students who come here to study live are about ten kilometers away from here. If it is in the plains, it only takes twenty or thirty minutes to ride ten kilometers, but it can take several hours to walk on the mountain road, so those who are farther away will choose
stay.
The school also has an open space, which can be regarded as the school's playground. However, because it rained yesterday, the playground is full of potholes and it is not convenient to walk, let alone exercise here.
When the group arrived here, the school had already ended. Except for the teachers in the junior high school who still had their lights on, the two floors below were completely dark.
Arriving at the school gate, the fellow in his forties or fifties was about to knock on the door, but the school door opened from the inside, and then he saw a gray-haired old man walking out with seven or eight teachers, each with a face on his face.
There were smiles on their faces, but Xiao Muyou and the others saw a hint of sadness behind their smiles.
"These are the volunteers who came from Kyoto. Thank you so much. Come in quickly. You must have worked hard along the way."
The person who spoke was the gray-haired old man. After being introduced by the guide Xiao Xu, Xiao Mu knew that this was the principal of this school, Chen Weiguo.
As soon as he heard this name, Xiao Muyou knew that this principal must be a good principal who cares about his students, otherwise he would not be still working hard here at his old age.
"Principal Chen, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Xiao, the director of Yew Wah Kyoto Cultural and Creative Industries, and the initiator of our charity event of sending books to the mountains. This year she came to us with everyone to see these children."
As the middleman between the two parties, the guide Xiao Xu naturally had to introduce each other. Later, Xiao Xu also briefly introduced Principal Chen's resume to Xiao Muyou.
"Mr. Xiao, Principal Chen took the initiative to come here to be the principal after the school was built. He had been the principal of our county high school before and was about to retire for a year. He heard that we had built a school here, so he took the initiative to come here.
I have been here for seven or eight years, and my hair has turned gray."
"Xiao Xu, this is an exaggeration. My hair has been like this before. I am almost seventy years old, can I not be white? Hurry, come in first, and go to our canteen first. We are too remote.
There is nothing we can prepare, so we can only prepare some dishes sent by local fellows."
"Principal Chen, you're welcome. We are here to help the children here. As long as we can fill our stomachs, there is no need to be extravagant and wasteful."
Xiao Muyou never cared about this. She also knew that there were a lot of inconveniences in this kind of place, so as long as she could eat enough.
After that, a group of people helped the fellow villagers move the supplies they brought into a vacant classroom, and then went to the cafeteria.
Six dishes and one soup are already very rich. According to what Xiao Muyou learned just now, the students here usually only have one meat and one vegetable dish in one meal, but this time they have already used all the good things in the cafeteria.
The food is almost gone.
"Everyone, I don't know if you can get used to the simple meal."
Principal Chen looked at the not-so-luxurious dinner on the table and felt a little sorry. He had just seen that Xiao Muyou and the others not only brought various books this time, but also sent a lot of school supplies to the school. You know, here
, some students even use a pen carefully.
"Principal Chen, this is already very rich. We are here to help these children. You really don't need to prepare so much. We will be the same as the children in the next two days. We will eat whatever they eat."
Xiao Muyou spoke with a very firm attitude. Principal Chen was still a little embarrassed. After all, he was a guest from afar, but Xiao Xu on the side saw this and helped him speak.
"Principal Chen, just listen to Mr. Xiao. They are here to do practical things. They are different from before."
Everyone present knows this sentence well. Every year, there are always some people who come to schools in remote mountainous areas under the pretext of doing charity, take pictures, make a small donation, and then they can gain publicity. But in fact,
Maybe the supplies the school received were only one-tenth of what was advertised, and the school had to provide delicious food and drinks, so Principal Chen was so worried.
Xiao Muyou and the others didn't say much after hearing this. Everyone was accustomed to this kind of thing. This is one of the reasons why Xiao Muyou insisted that the people of Yaohua Media take personal responsibility instead of relying on others.
"Principal Chen, how many students do you have here now?"
While eating, Xiao Muyou and Principal Chen learned about the situation here.
"There are less than two hundred students. The main students here are children from eight nearby villages. However, in the past two years, as many children have gone to other cities with their parents, the number of students here has been decreasing year by year. Now there are
There is only one class for the second and third grade students, and there are only about twenty children in each class."
Xiao Muyou listened and just nodded. This is a normal situation. As major cities have reduced the enrollment procedures for children of migrant workers, more and more children are following their parents out of the mountains. In fact, this is okay.
, after all, big cities have richer educational resources and children can see more of the world.
"I am now hoping that one day we will not have any children here, and all of them will go to county towns, provincial capitals, or even larger cities to study. In this way, our children will be more promising, and these young teachers here will also
Can shine on a broader platform."
Xiao Muyou also noticed that the teachers here are all older, because young people nowadays don't want to come to these remote areas to teach. Who can bear the hardship of traffic congestion and shortage of supplies here.
After eating for an hour, Xiao Muyou also had a general understanding of the situation here. Overall, it was much better than expected. After all, the country is paying more and more attention to children's education, but compared to outside