Chapter 1927 I am a small town and a problem solver (28)
"A person's future is meaningless to me. What I want to pursue is the future of all people in the village. I want the elderly in the village to go to the hospital to see a doctor when they are sick, instead of suffering at home.
I want the children in the village to go to elementary school, junior high school, high school or even college, and be knowledgeable, cultured, educated and connotative. I hope that one day they will be proud to express their wishes in the classroom and move towards this.
The goal is to move forward all the way, instead of having no choice but to face the loess and back to the sky for generations. I want the young people in the village to have a craft and ability to make money to support their families. I want..."
Gu Mo's words were resounding, they were all the true words of the original person, but they were just spoken by her.
The villagers were touched.
Xiaomo couldn't let them go, he came back for them.
"You don't need to worry about us. We are uneducated and that's how it will be in this life..."
"Where are your children and your grandchildren? Do you also want them to be like you, looking for something to eat in this barren soil all their lives?"
Gu Mo said: "You are right. I am the only college student. I am educated and knowledgeable. I can help everyone."
"But, how can your future be delayed just because of old guys like us..."
Gu Mo looked at these fellow villagers with tears in his eyes and said, "My future has always been in the village."
Anyway, no matter how much the villagers didn't understand, Gu Mo just stayed.
Of course, some people gossiped that she returned to the village because she could no longer survive in the city.
For example, Chen Laipi, who was blind in one eye, wandered around Gu Mo's house without fear of death a few days after Gu Mo returned to the village. One time, he even wanted to come in while Gu Mo was the only one at home.
Gu Mo held him down and beat him half to death, so he didn't dare to come, but that didn't stop him from exaggerating and spreading rumors everywhere.
"A college student came out of the village. Gujiacun was very lively at that time. Look, now, he has been driven back to the village in despair. What's the use of studying in college? If you have the spare money, you might as well buy a few more bottles of wine...
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Gu Mo is a college student, and in the eyes of Shiliba Village, college students are very valuable.
But now this college student, who had high hopes for him, just returned to the village. Wasn’t his college education in vain?
So everyone really thinks that what Chen Laipi said has some truth - it is useless to go to college, it is better to work in the fields honestly.
The strange looks and ridicule from outsiders also made Gu’s parents unable to hold their heads up.
Gu's mother sighed every day, and Gu's father smoked leaf cigarettes with a sad face every day.
Gu Mo knew that it would be useless to talk to them more and more. They had to take practical actions to be convincing, so she just kept her head down and did not say anything more.
The village party secretary election meeting was coming soon, and Gu Mo's mobilization was very effective. In addition, she was the only college student in the village, and the village committee also liked her very much, so she was naturally elected in the end.
The first thing Gu Mo did after being elected was to build roads.
She has six million in hand, which is definitely enough to build a road, but she certainly can't afford all the money alone.
After all, for a poor college student to suddenly spend so much money, it is easy for people to think too much, not to mention that there will be many places to spend money in the future.
Gu Mo understood the policy and knew that the government had a subsidy plan for building village roads, which meant that the government provided half of the money and the village provided half of the money. However, because Gujiacun could not afford the other half, this road has never been able to be built.
Completed.
Gu Mo first made a budget to build the road in Gujia Village to a second-level road, which cost about 800,000 yuan. She first went to the government and made several trips, and finally got a commitment from the relevant person in charge - given that
Gujiacun is a particularly poor area, so the government can bear 60% of the costs.
The remaining 40%, which is about 320,000, is left to the villagers to figure out their own solutions.
Gu Mo returned to the village to mobilize the villagers.
I was quite happy to hear Gu Mo talk about building a road in the village before, but now I heard that he wanted to pay 320,000 yuan, and everyone looked very dishonest.
"Oh, we don't have cars to build roads, so why don't we just forget about it..."
"Yes, yes, we usually take small roads to get in and out, and we are used to it. It doesn't matter if there is a highway or not..."
Gu Mo told everyone about the importance of roads, and finally said: "I know that the folks are not rich at home, and they don't usually save much money. In this way, everyone can contribute as much as they can, and the rest,
I'll figure it out."
Gu Mo was very determined, "For the future development of the village, I will definitely find a way to build this road!"
Everyone looked at each other and said nothing for a while.
After a long time, the old man in the village said: "Xiaomo has studied and been to big cities and is knowledgeable. She said that building roads will be good for the village. Let's just listen to her. Every household can take as much as they can."
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At the call of the old people, everyone went home to get money. Gu Mo wrote down how much money each household paid in their account one by one. He said that when the road was repaired, he would erect a monument on the side of the road.
Write the name of the person who made the money on the monument.
When the people in the village heard this, they immediately felt that they would honor their ancestors in the future and were very happy.
There were a very few companies that were unwilling to pay, but they did so in the atmosphere of everyone.
After all, in a village, if the road is repaired and you haven't paid for it, it will be embarrassing to walk on this road in the future.
In the end, every household in the village basically contributed 500 yuan, and a few households with particularly difficult conditions also contributed 200 yuan.
There are more than 40,000 in total. If I spend another 280,000, the government will be able to allocate funds.
But two hundred and eighty thousand is still a sky-high price to the villagers.
How long has Gu Mocai been working in the city? Where can she get so much money? It is impossible for her to find a way to get more than 200,000 yuan at once.
So people in the village gave Gu Mo advice.
"Xiao Mo, look, Chenjia Village and Shangshu Village are both adjacent to our village. Let's build a road that leads directly to their village. It's not very long. How about we mobilize them too?"
Gu Mo thought this was a good idea.
The old people in the village took the initiative to take over this task and went to discuss it with the old people who could make the decision in the two villages, while Gu Mo went to the village party secretaries of the two villages.
The village party secretaries of these two villages are also university student volunteers participating in the agricultural support program. Naturally, Gu Mo does not need to say anything more about the importance of road repair.
Moreover, they soon realized that although the three villages were right next to each other, they were different villages. They could also ask the government for subsidies on the grounds that their own village needed to build roads.
Although it may not cost much, it is better than nothing.
As a result, the village party secretaries of the two villages also took action and started running towards the government.
