Wan Shunshui, the director of Wanjia Town Reclamation Farm, learned that Commissioner Hua from the group came to investigate in person, so he rushed all the way from the town to the dam construction site to greet him. He was accompanied by villagers from two administrative villages.
The two are respectively Wan Yushan from Dawan Village and Wan Qiyun from Xiaowan Village.
Hua Nianping remembered that there was room in the van he brought, so he asked Wan Shunshui and the other three people to squeeze into the same car with him, and asked them to leave the car they brought from the town at the dam construction site for Chief Engineer Qian Yinxu.
Temporary call.
Wan Shunshui knew that Hua Nianping always advocated efficient use of buses and immediately followed his advice.
When he was approaching Wanjia Town, Hua Nianping saw a bunch of dilapidated houses not far ahead, with an old national flag fluttering in the wind in the open space in the middle, so he asked Wan Shunshui if this should be a school.
Wanshunguo's answer is indeed yes.
Wan Yushan on the side said that this is the Dawancun Primary School. Because the central primary school in the town stopped construction halfway through, it had to be kept and classes continued.
Hua Nianping asked the reason why the construction of the Central Primary School was suspended because follow-up funds had not kept up, and immediately suggested that Deputy County Magistrate Zhou come up with a solution as soon as possible.
Then he ordered the driver to stop immediately and planned to go to the school in front of him.
But Wan Shunshui glanced at Deputy County Magistrate Zhou and blocked the car door to prevent Hua Nianping from getting out.
He persuaded that there were only sixty or seventy children in this primary school and it was not worthy of Commissioner Hua getting out of the car to inspect. He should instead ask Commissioner Hua to go to the school department in the town to inspect and guide the work.
Ge Cunyi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around, noticed that Hua Nianping's expression seemed to be angry, and hurriedly gave Deputy County Magistrate Zhou a wink.
Deputy County Magistrate Zhou immediately understood that Commissioner Hua was determined to get off the bus, so he had no choice but to wave his hand to Wan Shunshui and ask him to lead the way.
When Hua Nianping and a few others walked into the school, it happened to be time for classes to end.
Wan Shunshui found a middle-aged man wearing myopia glasses and introduced him to Hua Nianping as Lin Shijie, the principal of this elementary school.
Hua Nianping asked Principal Lin Shijie how many teachers, how many children, and how many classes were there in the school?
Lin Shijie said that there are eight teachers in the school, including him and his wife. There are nearly a hundred children studying here, most of whom are left-behind children. They are divided into seven classes. There are six grades in the primary education level, and none of them are
lack.
Hua Nianping asked puzzledly. On average, there were less than twenty students in each grade. How could there be one more class?
Lin Shijie said that the extra class actually only had two students, who came from AIDS families in Xiaowan Village, and they were isolated and had separate classes.
Under the leadership of Lin Shijie, Hua Nianping took a careful look around the school and found that there was neither a principal's office nor a separate teacher's office. The teachers all stayed in the classroom to correct homework, but there were
There were many empty houses vacant, so I asked Lin Shijie what was going on?
Lin Shijie said that the school originally had more than a dozen classrooms, but later it was discovered that some classrooms had wall cracks. For the safety of teachers and students, they had to be concentrated into a few relatively safe classrooms.
As for the principal's office, it is located in his home behind the school.
Wan Yushan said that when Principal Lin and his wife graduated from the normal technical secondary school 20 years ago, they were assigned to teach at the Dawancun Primary School on the farm. Over the years, many teachers in the school have come and gone, and only the couple
Insisted on staying.
Wan Yushan also said that Principal Lin’s wife, Teacher Guan, who was voted “the most beautiful rural female teacher” in an online poll, had been suffering from severe uremia for several years, and she had no choice but to stop speaking until she was unable to speak on the podium this spring.
Substitute class.
Hua Nianping was deeply moved after hearing this, and immediately decided to go to Lin Shijie's home to visit the sick Teacher Guan.
Lin Shijie's home is separated from the school by a wall. There are three ordinary old-fashioned blue brick houses. The tiles on the beams are broken in several places. In order to prevent rain from leaking, the owner used plastic sheets or cow felt to cover them with heavy objects.
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There is no yard, and there is a path paved with slag mats leading to the entrance of the main house, about ten meters long.
Several jujube trees were planted on the left side of the trail. They seemed to be decades old, and their trunks had grown to the thickness of a bowl. A small vegetable plot was opened on the right side of the trail, where green onions, cucumbers and other crops were scattered.
Lin Shijie and his wife are not natives of Linhuai County. They have been teachers at Dawancun Primary School for more than 20 years. Except for two years ago when Teacher Guan was named the "most beautiful rural female teacher", the county's education office
The deputy director came to his home to express his congratulations, and no other leaders of all sizes came to visit him.
Now, Lin Shijie did not expect Commissioner Hua from Enyuan Group to come directly to his home to visit his sick wife. He felt very nervous because he could not even get a decent chair at home so that such an important person could sit there.
Take a seat in the room.
After Hua Nianping graduated from Peking University, he stayed at the school and worked as a teacher for several years. He originally felt proud to be the same teacher as Lin Shijie and his wife, but the desolate scene of the Lin family in front of him made him shake his hands for a while.
sigh.
Teacher Guan was lying weakly on the old bed in the back room. A small table was covered with a large number of pill boxes and bottles. The wall behind him was covered with old newspapers. A table was placed on a low cabinet with a door missing.
A black and white TV set from many years ago.
There is a cracked full-length mirror mounted on the wall against the door.
Lin Shijie brought Hua Nianping to his wife's bed and told Teacher Guan that Commissioner Hua came to visit her in person.
Teacher Guan's swollen and dull eyes suddenly lit up, and he struggled to squeeze out the word "thank you" from his throat.
Lin Shijie said that his wife's voice started to become difficult to speak last year, but because she suffers from uremia and needs long-term dialysis treatment, and her son is attending college outside the province, her salary will be deducted if she takes leave and does not attend classes.
Because there was a shortage of teachers in the school, I insisted on not being able to attend classes until a few months ago, so I had no choice but to say goodbye to the podium.
When Hua Nianping left Lin Shijie's house, he secretly stuffed the 500 yuan he was carrying under Teacher Guan's pillow.
After leaving Dawancun Primary School, Hua Nianping remembered the two students from Xiaowancun AIDS families mentioned by Lin Shijie, and asked Wan Qiyun, the head of Xiaowancun Village, to lead them to visit several poor AIDS families.
Xiaowan Village is a famous AIDS village in Huaishang City. During the blood selling trend in this village in the 1990s, dozens of men and women went to other places to sell blood. Many of them were infected with HIV and were cross-infected after returning.
Sexual partners have gradually entered the disease stage in recent years.
What is even more frightening is that there are many children in Xiaowan Village who are infected with HIV in their mothers before they are born.
Wan Qiyun told Hua Nianping that there was an incident in the village where a young child named Ge lost his parents to AIDS, and his uncle and aunt put the child in a pig pen for adoption because they were afraid of infection.
Hua Nianping saw that all patients after the onset of HIV have basically lost their ability to work and their lives are extremely difficult.