In the eyes of everyone, Guangdong is a wealthy province and a beneficiary of reform and opening up. However, few people know that in some remote areas of Guangdong, surrounded by mountains, there are places known to outsiders.
Poverty that you don’t understand. Just like there are beggars in even the richest city, Qianshan Town is the beggar town in Guangdong Province.
The reason why Qianshan Town is so poor is that, as its name depicts, it is surrounded by countless mountains, making it very difficult to communicate with the outside world.
If you want to be rich, you must first build roads. But the roads in Qianshan Town are really difficult to build. There is only one road in the whole town, which leads directly to the town. As for some remote mountain villages below, there are only those bumpy mountain roads. In the village
People who want to come to the town can only rely on the tractors of a few people in the village.
This place is just like some mountainous areas in the north twenty years ago. It is full of poverty and backwardness. Many local young people have gone out to work, which has caused a shortage of labor in the entire town.
Young people have all gone away, leaving only the elderly and children in the town. Like all poor areas with this situation, the problem of left-behind children is a problem for the town.
There is a school in the town where children can go to school, but it is impossible for children in remote areas to walk dozens of miles of mountain roads to reach the town every day. How to solve the education of these children is a problem.
However, for the people of Qianshan Town, there is one person whose name is known to everyone in their town, and they are full of respect for this person.
Zhang Qitao, a teacher who took root in Qianshan Town ten years ago.
In the past ten years, many supporting teachers have left, but he is still there. He is present in the five most remote villages in Qianshan Town. In the past ten years, how many children have walked out of the mountains under his guidance.
, went to the county town to study, and some have even been admitted to university.
Not to mention that the world has been full of peaches and plums for ten years, but when the name Zhang Qitao is mentioned, everyone in the town will raise their thumbs. This is a person worthy of respect.
"Mr. Qin, I have asked in the town. Zhang Qitao is now teaching at a Hope Primary School in Wangshan Village. He is the only teacher in the whole school."
In Qianshan Town, Qin Yu stood at the door of the town government, and beside him stood Meng Yao, Qiao Lian, and the brothers Song Yuanguo and Qian Duoduo.
Qin Yu looked at the commoner he stopped in front of him with a complicated expression on his face, "So, Zhang Qitao has a very good reputation in your town?"
"Of course, Teacher Zhang is a good person. My son was brought out by Teacher Zhang, and now he is studying at a university in Beijing. When my son was admitted to university, our family was poor. After Teacher Zhang found out about this situation,
They also went out of their way to help pay for my son’s school meals.”
When the middle-aged man mentioned Zhang Qitao, he had a look of deep respect on his face. From his words, it was not difficult for Qin Yu and others to feel Zhang Qitao's status in the hearts of the people in this town.
A person has dedicated his best ten years to mountain villages and children in poor areas. No matter who hears this news, they will have admiration for this person.
But what makes Qin Yu feel complicated is that this person can't be anyone, but it can't be Zhang Qitao. Because, according to Wang Haiyang's explanation, Zhang Qitao was the murderer who killed Wang Xiuqin.
A murderer, a few years after killing someone, suddenly went to a mountain village to become a teacher and took root in the mountain village from then on. What is this? Could it be that he suddenly wakes up and plans to atone for his sins?
"Let's go, no matter what, go find Zhang Qitao first."
Qin Yu decided not to think so much and said to Qiu Yun and others.
Wangshan Village, dozens of miles of mountain roads.
When Qin Yu and his party arrived at Wangshan Village, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. Only a few smokes rose in the whole village, and many villagers were cleaning sweet potatoes on the flat ground in the middle of the village.
"Fellow, how can I get to the Hope Primary School in your village?" Qiu Yun stepped forward and asked a local villager.
"Ask the school. Pass through those houses and walk straight ahead for a few hundred meters." After the villager introduced the route, he glanced at Qin Yu and others behind Qiu Yun and asked, "Are you here?
Are you teaching?"
"Fellow, why do you say we are here to support education?" Qin Yu, who was behind Qiu Yun, asked curiously.
"You look like you are from the city. People from the city will not come here except to teach here. But I think you should not go to school. You are not Teacher Zhang."
The villagers seemed to be disdainful of Qin Yu and others, which made Qiu Yun ask unconvinced: "Why are we not Teacher Zhang anymore? Since Teacher Zhang can support teaching, why can't we?"
"You can't bear this hardship." The villagers' eyes fell on Meng Yao, "This little girl has thin skin and tender flesh. I'm afraid she can't even be used to the simple food in the mountains. Our village has had many little girls like you before, but
The longest one only stayed for a month and then left. Only Teacher Zhang stayed for several years."
"Old man, the teacher Zhang you are talking about is Zhang Qitao, right?" Qin Yu asked.
"What Zhang Qitao? I don't know what Teacher Zhang's name is. Anyway, we all call him Teacher Zhang. Teacher Zhang is an amazing and good person. For the sake of these children in our village, he has not been home for several years."
When Zhang Qitao was mentioned, the fellow villagers' expressions were the same as those of the people when Qin Yu asked about Zhang Qitao in the town, which made Qin Yu's eyes even more complicated.
"Thank you, fellow man, but we are not here to teach, we are here to see Zhang Qitao."
"You are here to see Teacher Zhang. Teacher Zhang should be at school at this time, but school will be out a little later, and Teacher Zhang will have to rush back to town to give night classes to the children in the town.
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After bidding farewell to their fellow villagers, Qin Yu and his party finally saw Hope Primary School after walking through several houses.
It is a two-story school with no buildings except the teaching building. In front of the school there is a piece of flat land with an iron pole erected on it and a red flag flying on it.
A hundred meters away from the school, Qin Yu and others heard the laughter and reading sounds of children coming from the teaching building. There were only three classes in the two-story teaching building.
When Qin Yu and his group approached the campus, a man walked out of a classroom at that moment.
The man was holding a box of chalk and a textbook in his hand. His face was full of wrinkles, and his hair was curled up because he hadn't washed it for a long time. He was wearing a gray coat, but it had a faint tint because of the chalk dust.
white.
Seeing this man, Qiu Yun showed a trace of doubt on his face, because he was not sure whether the man in front of him was Zhang Qitao.
According to the information he got, Zhang Qitao was only in his early forties, his family was well-off, and he was a son of a high-ranking official. How could such a person look like this? He was a completely different person from the photo of Zhang Qitao he obtained.
However, according to what the villager said, there is only one teacher in this school, Zhang Qitao, and the rest are children from the village, so there is no doubt that the man in front of him is Zhang Qitao.
"Zhang Qitao!" With an uncertain attitude, Qiu Yun shouted towards the man.
After Qiu Yun said this, the man turned around, looked at Qiu Yun, and asked doubtfully: "Who are you?"
This man is really Zhang Qitao.
"Zhang Qitao, we are here to find you."
After confirming the identity of the other party, Qiu Yun secretly made a gesture to several of his men, then approached Zhang Qitao, quietly surrounding Zhang Qitao.
"Do you have anything to do with me? If you are media reporters, then I'm sorry, I have said it a long time ago that I will not accept any interviews or reports."
Facing Zhang Qitao's words, Qiu Yun was about to reply, but Qin Yu beat him to it.
"Why is Teacher Zhang unwilling? You know, Teacher Zhang, if your story of teaching in this remote mountainous area for ten years is reported, it will definitely touch many people. By then, Teacher Zhang will also become a well-known hero model."
"I am not interested in heroic models or anything like that. I only know that I am a teacher. My responsibility is to teach children knowledge and teach them to read and write. I just fulfilled my due responsibilities."
"But even if Teacher Zhang doesn't care about his own reputation, doesn't Teacher Zhang think about the children? Once your deeds, Teacher Zhang, are publicized, I believe there will be kind people from all over the world to donate to the children in the small town, and even
More and more people are joining the teaching business here.”
Qin Yu's words made Zhang Qitao silent, because what Qin Yu said was true. There is no shortage of caring people in the country. If this matter is publicized, caring people from all over will definitely donate money and materials.
"Still, Teacher Zhang, you feel that you are unworthy and dare not accept interviews with reporters, because all your actions are not out of love for children and your profession as a teacher, but because of something that cannot be announced to the public.
The reason, say, for atonement?”
Qin Yu's words shocked Zhang Qitao, his eyes stared at Qin Yu urgently, and the expression on his entire face froze for a moment, and then he said: "I...I don't know what you said?"
"Teacher Zhang, is he really unaware or is he pretending not to know?" Qin Yu asked meaningfully.
"I don't know what you are going to say. I have to go to class for my children and I don't have time to accompany you."
Zhang Qitao turned around and was about to leave. Looking at Zhang Qitao's tense body, Qin Yu also sighed slightly. The next moment, he said: "It seems that Teacher Zhang has forgotten about that incident more than ten years ago."