rebirth of change

In the following time, Chen Kangjie was still busy attending classes, preparing lessons and revising homework every day. However, after school, he focused on deepening his understanding of the students and their families.

"Zhang Wenming, how far is your home?" Chen Kangjie, who threw away the twig in his hand and stood on the mountain bag, looked at the opposite mountain and asked.

"Mr. Chen, we're almost there. Take a detour here, and you'll find those big trees behind." Zhang Wenming, who was carrying a new schoolbag, stood beside Chen Kangjie, pointing to a forest halfway up the mountain diagonally opposite.

After school today, Chen Kangjie offered to visit Zhang Wenming's home.Chen Kangjie felt that in order to have a thorough understanding of the local area, he could not stay in the school and Jiezi Village all the time. By visiting Zhang Wenming's home, he could go further and understand the local area more deeply.

Hearing that Mr. Chen was willing to visit his home, Zhang Wenming was very happy, regardless of whether it would bring a burden to the family, he readily agreed.

After school, Chen Kangjie had already walked the mountain road for 10 minutes under the leadership of Zhang Wenming.

Although this is a high-altitude mountainous area, it has already entered summer after all, and the sun in the sky is still very hot even if it is past the hottest time at noon.

Chen Kangjie and Zhang Wenming, who were wearing white shirts, stood on the mountain bag. From a distance, the height difference between the two formed an interesting back view behind the greenery.

"Do you come to school alone every day?" Chen Kangjie raised his hand to make a shed to cover the sun, and checked the distance with his eyes. He estimated that it would take half an hour to reach Zhang Wenming's house.

"Yes, I am alone every day. In Zhangjiatun, I am the only one studying at Jiezi Primary School. There were two before, but one dropped out of school, and the other went outside as an apprentice after graduating from the sixth grade. "Zhang Wenming is young, but his speech is very decent.

"Oh, why did the dropout drop out?" Chen Kangjie and Zhang Wenming chatted while walking on the mountain road.

"Her family is poor, and her father thinks that she should not go to school as a girl, and asks her to stay at home and help with farm work." Zhang Wenming said flatly, "By the way, Teacher Chen, you are really the one who wrote that book." Did it come after the letter?"

"Of course, you are very sensible and brave. If you hadn't written that letter, I wouldn't know there is such a place as Jiezi." Chen Kangjie admitted.

Since Chen Kangjie wanted to visit Zhang Wenming's home, of course he had to have an excuse, and that letter was it.Of course, Chen Kangjie didn't say that he was the recipient of his letter, he just said that he asked to come because he knew about the letter.

"Then do you know brother Chen Kangjie? He is amazing." When Zhang Wenming said this, there was admiration and fascination in Zhang Wenming's eyes.

"It's considered acquaintance." Chen Kangjie replied very simply, without too much explanation or avoidance, "As long as you study hard, I believe you will become great in the future."

"Hehe, I also think I'm okay." Zhang Wenming turned his head and smiled at Chen Kangjie, "Although I don't contribute as much to the country as he does, I can also help the family with many things. I can mow grass and herd cattle. He can also plant corn and grow vegetables.”

Chen Kangjie pursed his lips, and clapped his hands encouragingly: "You are better than Mr. Chen, I don't know much about these things."

"Mr. Chen, are the buildings in big cities very tall? Can one building accommodate dozens of people?" Zhang Wenming asked curiously.

"Ah, the shorter ones can house dozens, the taller ones can house hundreds, and some can even house thousands of people."

"Wow, there are so many, wouldn't it be possible to fit people from several of our villages in it? How crowded."

"Hahaha, it's a bit crowded, but there's nothing I can do about it. If it's not crowded, there's no room for so many people." Chen Kangjie laughed amusedly.

"Mr. Chen, I would like to ask, since they don't have land, so many people are crowded together, what do they eat? We grow our own vegetables and yams here. They don't grow anything, so where do they get food?" Chen Kangjie was a little unexpected that this little guy Zhang Wenming would ask such a question.

For adults, this question is definitely of the naive type.But for a primary school student in the mountains, this question in turn sets off his thinking.

Is the question simple?It is really not easy to answer thoroughly. It involves market economy, urban economy, industrial division of labor and so on.It is even more difficult to answer in such a way that a primary school student can understand.

"Well, although they don't grow food, don't you grow it here? People in the city mainly make industrial products, such as the pens you use, the clothes you wear, the notebooks you use, and the soy sauce you eat at home. These things are made in the city, while in the countryside they grow food, vegetables, pigs, etc. Then everyone can exchange, just like your family grows cabbage, and your next door grows radishes, then you can use your house. It’s like exchanging the cabbage for his radish.” Chen Kangjie tried his best to make his explanation easy to understand.

"But if my family wants to eat the radishes from the neighbor's house, there is no need to change them. You can just pull them out. His family won't mind, and if his family wants to eat my cabbage, they can also cut it themselves. Moreover, my family's grain It seems that in addition to handing over some to the village, it is also kept to feed the pigs and not sold. But you just said that we have to use money to buy the things made by the people in the city." Zhang Wenming didn't seem to agree with Chen Kangjie's explanation. continue to wonder.

Chen Kangjie could only shake his head helplessly. This little guy's problem went deeper. Not only did it involve the social situation in the countryside, but it also involved the injustice between urban and rural areas.

"Chen Wenming, if you don't sell your food, it doesn't mean that other people's don't sell it either. If you feed your pigs with rice, the pigs will also be sold. Let me put it this way, your Mr. Liang, he doesn't care too much. Right? But he teaches, he gives you classes, so he is also working and paying. He gets a little money, and he can use it to buy food, vegetables, and clothes when he rushes to the market. Teacher Liang is quite So you are from the city, but your parents are equivalent to those from the countryside. In this way, do you understand?"

Zhang Wenming kept silent, walking on the trail and meditating.

Chen Kangjie thought to himself, he finally explained this problem clearly to this kid.

Just as Chen Kangjie was comforting himself, Zhang Wenming turned around with tears in his eyes.

"Zhang Wenming, what's wrong with you?" Chen Kangjie said in surprise.

"I...Ms. Chen, Mr. Liang is not from the city. His money is used to help us. Mr. Liang is not as good as the people in the city. He has no money to buy clothes, he has no money to see a doctor, He doesn't have money to eat meat, woo woo woo..." Zhang Wenming began to cry as he spoke.

Chen Kangjie stepped forward and put his arms around Zhang Wenming's thin shoulders. His heart was like a pot of boiling water. He didn't know how to retract his metaphor, and he didn't know how to explain it to ease Zhang Wenming's mood.

After such a small episode, Chen Kangjie and Zhang Wenming talked less, and the two seemed to be depressed in their own way.It wasn't until he entered Zhangjiatun, Zhang Wenming's home, that Chen Kangjie's attention was diverted by the poverty here.

Zhangjiatun is not actually a village, it's just a small team, including Zhang Wenming's family, there are only six families.

Among the six households, only two lived in stone houses, and the other four, including Zhang Wenming's, lived in old crooked wooden thatched houses.Moreover, people live on the first floor and livestock on the first floor.From a hygienic point of view, it is indeed very bad.

When I came to the stone wall at the entrance of Zhang Wenming's house, through the low wall, I could see a disheveled woman chopping pigweed in the yard inside.

"Mom, I'm back." As soon as he entered the outer door, Zhang Wenming called out to the woman.

"When you come back, hurry up and go to the back mountain to cut a back of grass with your back on your back." The woman didn't look up, and continued to work on her own, but she gave Zhang Wenming instructions in her mouth.

If children in rural areas want to get ahead by studying, they are already far behind the children in cities at the initial stage.Children in the city just do their homework when they come home from school, and some children have to go to various cram schools.But here, Zhang Wenming was so young, and after walking for nearly an hour after school, not only could he not put down his schoolbag to study and eat, but the first thing he faced was to mow grass on the mountain.

Standing behind Zhang Wenming, Chen Kangjie suddenly felt that the farmers in our country were suffering, and the children of farmers seemed to suffer even more.However, the development of our country and the prosperity of this country cannot be achieved by relying on cities alone, nor are they complete.As the saying goes, only the well-off of the whole people is the real well-off.

And Chen Kangjie also knows that there is still a long way to go to change this situation, and there is a long way to go.The pioneers of the revolution once said that the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades need to work hard.

Speaking of which, he, Chen Kangjie, is now also a party member, and the task of a party member is to play a vanguard and exemplary role and lead the people of the country to strive for a better life.

"Mom..." Zhang Wenming was not as straightforward as usual.

Zhang Wenming's mother noticed something strange and turned her head to teach him a few words, but when he turned his head, he saw Chen Kangjie standing at the entrance of the yard first.

"Xiao Ming...this is...."

"Mom, he is our Teacher Chen, and he is visiting our house today." Zhang Wenming introduced while pointing at Chen Kangjie with his head down.

"Oh, Mr. Chen, please come in, please come in, Xiao Ming, what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and bring a stool for the teacher to sit on, you are not sensible at all." Upon hearing that Chen Kangjie was a teacher, Zhang Wenming's mother said Standing up in an instant, he wiped the scarf tied around his waist casually, and quickly directed to Zhang Wenming, "Oh, forget it, I'll fetch the stool, your father is in the field of Moon Slope, you hurry to call him return."

Zhang Wenming put down his schoolbag and ran out. His mother broke the stool for Chen Kangjie, poured boiling water for Chen Kangjie, and grabbed sunflower seeds.