Great Power Technology.

Chapter 512

West of Sichuan and Sichuan, Liangshan.

This is the largest gathering area of ​​the Yi people in the country, and it was once one of the contiguous areas of deep poverty.

The traffic here is blocked, like an isolated island, looking around, all you can see is endless mountains, but it is difficult to see a road that is easy to pass.

Even though the government has invested a huge amount of resources in this area, objectively speaking, these resources are like dripping into the sea in the face of numerous problems. Maybe it has indeed brought about some changes in basic life, but when it comes to those details When it comes to sub-divided areas, it seems powerless.

Among them, education is the most complex and difficult problem to solve.

It is like a hard and stubborn tumor, deeply rooted in the flesh and blood of this mountain, blocking blood vessels and hindering the operation of other bodily functions.

If this problem cannot be solved, then no matter how many resources are invested in this body, it will not be able to change its decay from the inside out after all.

Everyone knows the importance of education in this area, but how to solve it?
Nobody knows.

Building schools, hiring teachers, and buying large quantities of teaching materials. Almost all of these conventional means have been tried, but hardly any commendable results have been achieved.

The reason is simple, it is a question of cultural foundation.

When people in a place generally believe that it is difficult to change their destiny through reading, or that the cost-effectiveness of reading is lower than other activities, it becomes difficult to let them continue to bet on education and bet on reading. It was extremely difficult.

There is only one way to change this cultural foundation, and that is to let the education here achieve a wide range of achievements. This kind of achievement cannot stay on TV or official propaganda, but let the people here see it with their own eyes. Come, hear it with your own ears.

The story of a far-away, never-before-seen college entrance examination champion who finally entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences and became a pillar of the country. He and his neighbors were admitted to a bachelor's degree. After graduation, they found a decent job in the city with an annual salary of 20. The impact of the two on the local cultural foundation is completely different.

Only the latter can truly change the status quo of local neglect of education.

But the problem is that to achieve the latter effect, the necessary condition is that the level of education can keep up.

Therefore, this forms a cycle of contradictions: in order to improve the level of education, the cultural foundation must be changed first, but in order to change the cultural foundation, the education level must be improved.

There is no way to break this cycle, and that is to rely on some form of coercive force to detain school-age students who are unwilling to study or whose family conditions do not allow them to continue to receive higher education, and to restrain them with a common atmosphere and goals. They eliminate all noise from family and society.

However, the cost of doing so is too high.

How many resources does the country have to squander?How much administrative power can be overdrawn?

Not every principal is named Zhang Guimei, and not every school can survive like Huaping Girls High School.

Just at this moment, 16-year-old Ran La Azi is facing a problem she never imagined: the high school she attended has closed down.

That's right, high schools outside of the nine-year compulsory education will also go bankrupt --- especially the pure public welfare high schools like Weijiluo Township Private High School that do not charge any tuition and miscellaneous fees. When it breaks, closure becomes inevitable.

Of course, for a school, closure does not mean the closure of the school, but the switch from free to fee, but for the vast majority of students, this change is a catastrophe.

AhZi walked on the mountain road home silently, with her luggage on her back, her eyes blank.

The family didn't know the news of the closure of the school, even she herself only found out last night, and then this afternoon, most of the students started to leave the school one after another.

Although the school leaders promised to find other suitable schools willing to accept them, and although they promised that the students could still stay in the dormitory until they found a school, everyone knew that this was actually just a vain hope.

The core of the problem has never been the attitude of the school, but the attitude of the family.

In the entire Weizhiluo Township, and even the entire Butuo County, where can we find a second school that is free of tuition and boarding fees, and has enough capacity to accept hundreds of students?
Probably the final result can only be to send some students who are approaching the college entrance examination to other public high schools after a few months of delay, so that they can finish the college entrance examination with the last bit of funds.

And high school sophomores like myself can only find their own way out.

To a large extent, finding a way out by oneself means that there is no way out.

Because it is impossible for her family members to be willing to waste thousands of dollars of extra expenses on a girl like her—so what if she goes to high school?What if I am admitted to university?

It's not about getting married.

Of course, she also heard that in some places, the bride price for marriage, especially for female college students, can be very high. She also used this reason to convince her father at the time, but the problem is that the benefits are too far away, far away. Even I can't be sure if it will happen or not.

Not to mention his own father, he was a man who would directly kill a lamb the day after he was sent out by the poverty alleviation work group.

Thinking of this, Ah Zi let out a long sigh.

The backpack behind her was not heavy, but it made her feel a little breathless.

What's inside is actually a thin quilt, plus two sets of clothes, and a toothbrush.

For two full years, she lived a life like an ascetic monk in school. She thought that with her own hard work, she could be admitted to the university, walk out of this mountain, and have a look at the bigger world—if If possible, try to change the place where she was born.

But now, the force majeure beyond her control has destroyed her ideals, and all the roads that were originally laid collapsed overnight.

The road got farther and farther away, and Ah Zi was far away from the main road of Weizhiluo Township, and began to embark on the small road back to the village. Before arriving home, she had to climb four mountains, cross two rivers, and then climb up Only a hundred-meter-high ladder can truly reach the place called "home".

She walked for six hours on this road, but when she opened the door, what she saw was not the warm lights and hot meals that she expected, but a drunken man lying on the ground. The father and the mother with bruised eyes who were tidying up the broken dishes and chopsticks.

"Mom!"

AhZi's heart throbbed suddenly, she dropped her backpack and went forward to hold her mother, and asked anxiously:
"He hit you again?"

Mother nodded and said nothing.

"Why hit you again? What's the matter?"

Looking at Ah Zi's dusty face, the mother sighed and replied:

"Someone came to sell that thing. He bought it with family money, but it turned out to be fake. He beat me so angry."

Hearing this, Ah Zi's face showed a bit of anger. She fully understood what the "that thing" her mother said. His father was one of the victims.

In other words, a self-willed pervert.

However, under the continuous crackdown for many years, drugs have almost disappeared in this area, and the father who could not buy drugs turned to alcoholism. Every time he was drunk, he would use various reasons to commit violence against himself and his mother—— And that's one of the reasons why she couldn't wait to escape from this place.

"Where's the money? He took all the money at home? Is there any more?"

"No, not a single point. I originally saved some for you to take to school next month, but I couldn't stand his beating, so I asked him to buy wine."

Speaking of this, two lines of tears finally flowed from her mother's indifferent eyes, Ah Zi clenched her fist tightly, her nails almost penetrated into her flesh.

She couldn't help but look at the kitchen knife that fell on the ground, and crazy thoughts kept churning in her heart.

Maybe as long as I pick up the knife by myself, maybe as long as I swing it lightly, the mother's pain can at least end, right?
She took two steps forward, holding the kitchen knife in her hand, and after standing silently for a long time, she finally put the knife back on the cutting board next to the ground pot.

She couldn't take that step, emotionally or intellectually.

Ah Zi and her mother cleaned up the mess on the ground in silence, until it was getting late, they repaired the last stool, sat outside the house, and closed the door tightly, as if to shut those painful memories inside.

"Today is not Saturday, why are you back?"

Mother took Ah Zi's hand and asked softly.

Ah Zi didn't know how to answer this question, she really wanted to spread the word, saying that everything was fine at school, it was just a holiday, and she would go back in two days.

At that time, the big deal is going out to work like other people, and the money earned can also subsidize the family.

But in her heart, she was really not reconciled to such a result.

I can obviously study, and my grades can obviously be admitted to a second university, even if it is not so good, but it is enough to change my fate.

".The school has no money, and it will start charging for accommodation next month. I won't go to school."

Ah Zi thought that her mother would be shocked by this answer, but in fact, the latter just nodded slightly.

"If you can't get in, you can't get in. You're 16, go out and work. It's fine to go out, as long as it's not here, it's fine to go anywhere."

A'Zi was stunned for a moment, and wanted to say something, but finally swallowed the words that came to her lips.

In fact, my mother, like my father, couldn't understand the meaning of the so-called "reading" and "going to school".

That is a future they cannot see.

"I see."

Ah Zi sighed, then forced a smile and said:
"Grandma, it doesn't matter if you work part-time. If you earn money from part-time work, I'll keep it for you. When I save enough money, I'll take you out. Don't live with him—you divorce him."

"It's inseparable. Why divorce? It's just like this in this life. In the future, you have to be optimistic. It doesn't matter if you study less, but you must find a good man."

Ah Zi smiled helplessly, but did not answer.

The most important thing in the mother's eyes, in her view, is actually just a bondage.

However, now she has no way to refute, because she has no ability to change all this.

Since he is powerless to change, no matter how hard he speaks, it is just a joke.

The sun had gradually set, and she supported her mother to stand up, and when she was about to enter the house to prepare dinner, she suddenly saw a few people walking on the mountain road not far away.

The leader was a girl with glasses. Her fair skin and slender arms made her look a bit dazzling in the mountains.

After noticing Ran La'Azi's gaze, the girl raised her head with a smile, and asked:
"Are you Ranla Azi?"

Ah Zi nodded, and looked at the other party suspiciously.

And the girl opposite her, or Chu Ya, let out a long sigh of relief and continued:
"Finally found you. I heard your school closed down?"

"It's okay, starting today, you probably won't need school anymore."

(End of this chapter)