good old days

Chapter 686 Fund Raising
Chen Xiuyun had something on her mind and kept walking forward with her head down.

Zhou Shunyi caught up with her and said, "Can you walk slower? If you have a problem with me now, I won't stop you from having surgery to remove it."

Chen Xiuyun stopped and looked at him: "Why?"

Zhou Shunyi smiled helplessly: "Didn't the doctor just say that having a baby at your age is risky and prone to problems?"

As sad as he felt, his smile was bitter.

But an unborn child still cannot compare with an adult.

Although they were a couple halfway through, he still wanted to go there after spending time with her.

Seeing her like this, Chen Xiuyun felt soft.

Both of them are forty years old. Unlike young people, they don't care about their energy when they are in a mood, and they can talk calmly about anything.

"I haven't thought about it yet. Let's talk about it when we get back. I'll bring the letter to Xinyu first."

I couldn't contact him directly by phone, but Chen Xiuyun also sent a telegram.

Jiang Xinyu has been in the countryside of Northern Hebei Province these days.

The team from the foundation came at an unlucky time. It started raining less than two days after arriving. It rained lightly for several days. The rain was not heavy, but the continuous pattering did affect people's travels.

Not long after the rain stopped, hail started to fall. Jiang Xinyu stood under the dilapidated eaves and looked at her watch. In less than ten minutes, the hail on the ground was one centimeter thick.

Director Hu caught a cold due to the weather and came out of the room sneezing in his hands.

"You said before that the suburbs of Beijing are not really rural. At that time, I thought you said that deliberately to avoid getting into trouble with me."

Director Hu was afraid of infecting others, so he stood on the other side with a handkerchief covering his nose and spoke in a muffled voice.

The group of people lived in the school dormitory, and they were in the school now.

This school only has a few classrooms, all of which are mud houses. The flat ground at the door has not been hardened. The tables in the room are scratched and look like they have been used for many years. As for the chairs, they are still long and thin benches, not one for each person. Individual stool.

How should I put it? When Director Hu first arrived at the school here, he was afraid that the school building would collapse when he looked at it.

Living in the house, it was raining outside, and it was raining lightly in the house. I watched the roof leaking, and I was worried about whether the house would collapse when I lay there.

The schools in the suburbs of Beijing are much worse than those in the city, but the school buildings are not dilapidated buildings, and roads extending in all directions have been built around them. Even if they are not hardened, they will not hinder people's travel.

Unlike here, the school is dilapidated and the road to school is particularly difficult. It takes more than two hours to walk to school in a village far away. The road conditions are so bad that you need to climb hillsides. All the paths are made by people. , it is not a built road, it is not easy for adults like them to walk, let alone those children.

There is also a gap between rural areas. No matter how bad the comparison between the suburbs of Beijing and the inner city is, it still belongs to the capital and can be seen. Unlike here, it is generally like this in the villages. Due to various reasons, it will change for a while. It cannot develop either.

Jiang Xinyu said: "There is a central primary school in my hometown village. I never had to walk to school when I was a child. But later on, I had to walk a long way to go to junior high school and high school, but the roads were easier to walk than here. Overall, our Although it’s not rich there, it’s easier to go to school than here.”

Director Hu, a cadre of the Women's Federation, has been deeply touched these days. After sitting in office buildings in the capital for so many years, and also walking through the streets and alleys of the capital, the poverty here is different from the poverty she knew in the past.

"Looking at the condition of the school, it might collapse one day. The money from our foundation is for girls to go to school, so it's not easy to use it to build schools for them."

Jiang Xinyu doesn't hate Director Hu anymore. After getting along with him these days, she found that Director Hu has a good heart and considers the people.

"The house looks weak from the outside, but it should last a few years."

Director Hu's eyes widened, as if he was joking, "Both the classrooms and the dormitories are leaking. I don't think it can last long."

Jiang Xinyu: "It took ten years for the mud house of my third uncle's house to collapse due to rain. I asked the principal yesterday and he said that the house was overhauled a year ago and it should still be able to hold on."

Director Hu didn't speak for a long time, and finally muttered: "It would be great if someone donated more money. With the money, we can build schools and roads here."

Jiang Xinyu's family is rich, but even if her family donates all the money, there are still many places in the country that are poor and need help.

But Director Hu's words reminded her of the welfare lottery.

How can the power of one person be as powerful as the power of uniting society?
She doesn’t know when the welfare lottery started, but she knows that the original intention of the lottery was to unite people from all walks of life who are enthusiastic about social welfare undertakings, carry forward the humanitarian spirit to raise social funds, establish welfare undertakings and help people in need.

"Director, one person's power is limited. If you want to help more people, you can think of other ways to unite more people."

Director Hu looked at her, "What do you think?"

Jiang Xinyu said: "You can set up prize-winning quizzes and issue lottery tickets. The winners will receive monetary rewards. Every time everyone buys a lottery ticket, they will contribute a certain amount of public welfare funds to the country..."

Director Hu: "Wait a minute, what is a lottery? Where does the reward for the winner come from?"

Jiang Xinyu: "You can think of lottery tickets as lottery tickets. To put it simply, it is a way to raise money by drawing lots. Each lottery ticket has a number and is sold at the same face price. There is a long time between selling the lottery tickets and the drawing of the lottery. As time passes, more lottery tickets are sold, making the amount raised even larger. After the lottery is drawn, those who hold the winning number lottery tickets can claim the prize according to regulations. If the selling price of a lottery ticket is two yuan, if ten yuan are sold in the same period, Ten thousand lottery tickets raised two hundred thousand, which is where the winning amount comes from, and each ticket includes welfare funds.”

Jiang Xinyu explained clearly enough. Director Hu understood it and said, "According to what you said, the prize amount is set before the lottery tickets are sold. That means if you can't sell so many lottery tickets, you will still suffer a loss."

Jiang Xinyu: "Director, most people are taking chances. Who doesn't want to exchange two dollars for one hundred or one thousand dollars? There will definitely be many people who want to participate in the legitimate business of small and large."

It is impossible to lose money. If it is established at this stage, there should be no problem of lottery players punching first in the future.

Director Hu shook his head: "What you just said was not trading, but gambling."

Jiang Xinyu: "..."

"I just said it casually, just listen to it."

Director Hu looked her up and down: "You college students are so flexible in your brains that you can think of anything."

Jiang Xinyu couldn't bear it. The lottery thing was not her idea, and she didn't have the brains to raise funds.