Entertainment Reborn Rhapsody

Chapter 69: Chapter Seventy: Boli Village

The next day, Wu Di rushed to the County Poverty Alleviation Office early in the morning to negotiate with him, hoping that they could send someone to visit Boli Village together.

Shanhe participated in the discussion of the filming plan with the film crew. Around ten o'clock, Wu Di returned to the guest house with a short, middle-aged man in a tunic.

"This is Deputy Director Wang of the Poverty Alleviation Office. He will visit Boli Village with us today. Everyone is almost ready! Let's go."

The van stopped in front of a loess depression, and Wu Di called everyone to get off.

"The car can only drive here, and there are still three miles to go. We have to walk into the mountain and get off the car with our supplies."

Shanhe got out of the car with the team members. Everyone was carrying stationery and books, as well as some donated old clothes, and Shanhe carried some snacks.

The mountains here are completely different from those in the south. If you look around, you can hardly see a big tree in the mountains and rivers. Perhaps because of the season, the whole yellow area is only dotted with a few green spots, all of which are bushes and low weeds.

Occasionally, you can see a few goats eating in the bushes, and you will also meet a sheep-herding child curiously looking at them on the opposite mountain bag.

"The biggest income here is herding sheep, but goats will destroy the vegetation, and the mountains here will become more and more barren, leading to greater water shortages!" Wu Di told Shanhe.

"How bad is the water shortage?" Shan He asked.

Wu Di put his backpack up, "People and animals have no problem drinking water most of the time. There are some puddles caused by small springs here, but the water for planting and agriculture is very tight. Most of the cultivated land can be watered twice a year at most. The amount of watering It's not big, and the agricultural crop yield is very low!"

Shanhe bent down to pick up the loess mud, and with a gentle squeeze, the crisp mud was broken into powder.Looking around, it is almost all solidified land.

Things are bad here!

It was already noon when we arrived at Boli Village Primary School.

This school is similar to what Shanhe imagined. A small playground is surrounded by several earth-embryo houses, with a thin wooden flagpole in the middle, and messy dry grass and shrubs are piled up in front of the earth-embryo houses.

"This is already the best house in the village, we will live here for a few days!" Wu Di said to several volunteers who came here for the first time.

Shanhe put down his backpack and walked into the classroom of the soil embryo room. There were a few old chairs scattered in the classroom. It could be seen that they had been repaired many times, and the blackboard was no longer oily.Apart from these, there is nothing else, there is no teacher's desk, and there are only two windows.

Shanhe is a bit sad, the only elementary school with thousands of people living around it, there are only a few soil embryo classrooms, and there are only a few seats in the classroom, how many children can come to school!

At this time, Wu Di walked in, "Shanhe, I know you want to build a primary school here, but it's useless. After the school is built, there are not many students to study. Does it make sense for you to build it?"

Shanhe listened, and asked Wu Di: "How many students can come to school now?"

"A dozen or twenty, our pre-work effect is very poor, there is no way, here is poor!"

Shanhe heard Wu Di's helplessness, "What can the deputy director of the Poverty Alleviation Office do?"

Wu Di shook his head in disappointment, "They only have so little money for the Poverty Alleviation Office. There are so many villages in the county, it's a drop in the bucket!"

It seems that if the problem of water shortage and poverty is not alleviated, the work of the Hope Project will be difficult to carry out.

Shanhe walked out of the classroom and worked with other volunteers to organize another earth embryo room, which will be their dormitory.

"Shanhe, will you go with us to the village chief's house to move the bedding we left behind?" asked the newcomer.

"You guys wait for me for a while." Shanhe brought in the backpack.

Shanhe followed a few people along the path and walked into the center of the village. A whole piece of earth embryo houses surrounded a small soil tightly, and Shanhe walked into one of the small courtyards surrounded by shrub branches.

"Village Chief, are you at home?"

With the sound of shouting, the door opened, and a woman who appeared to be about 60 or [-] years old came out and replied in a voice with a strong dialect flavor: "He is not at home, they have gone to the field!"

"Ma'am, we are volunteers of the Hope Project, here to pick up the quilts we deposited last time, do you remember us?"

"I know, come in and move out!" The woman led the volunteers into the house.

Shanhe followed into the house, and there was nothing in the room except a large kang with a cabinet standing on top of the kang.

The aunt climbed onto the kang and moved down the thick stacks of quilts from the top of the cabinet, and several people hurried forward to help.

At this time, voices came from outside the courtyard, it should be that the owner of the house came back.

"Liying, someone is here!" A deep and deep voice sounded.

"These city children who persuaded their children to go to school are back again, and they come to the house to get their bedding, old man, you must go and see them!"

Looking back, Shanhe saw a man in his 60s and [-]s with a dark face and a square face who spoke.

"Major Niu, I am Li Zhihua, a volunteer from the Hope Project. We came here for a return visit this time and brought some things for the children to study. We are still staying in the original house and come to pick up bedding!"

Village Chief Niu wrinkled his wrinkled forehead, "You guys from the city are back again, I'm afraid things won't be easy for you!"

"Uncle Niu, our volunteers are here for the children. If the children don't study, they will still be poor in the future, so don't delay!" Xiao Li urged the village chief anxiously.

Lao Niu sighed, and replied: "I understand the truth. You told everyone last time, but the dolls in school can't help the house. Some families have several, and they have to take younger brothers and sisters with them. Besides, the teacher can't do it." Not enough, everyone thinks that if you can’t learn it, there is still a ball to use, if you can learn it, go to school if you can learn it, and if you can’t learn it, go home and work!”

What Lao Niu said made Xiao Li speechless, and he was silent for a while, "Village chief, at least let the children be literate, and after they can't read, they will be inferior to others in everything they do!"

Village Chief Niu stopped talking. Shanhe looked at the situation and walked over and said, "Brother Li, let's move the bedding back first and ask the village chief to sit at our place. Aren't there still some supplies that the village chief needs to discuss and distribute?"

Xiao Li looked back at Shanhe, nodded, and said: "Uncle Niu, we have brought some children's clothes. Come with us and see how to distribute them to the children who need them most."

The old cow glanced at the mountains and rivers, then turned his head and explained to his wife: "Liying, I'll go and have a look. When Dunzi and his wife come back later, let them pick up the yard."

Several people carried the bedding and the old cow back to the elementary school.

"Uncle Niu, you came just in time. We have to trouble you this time. We also brought some food for the children. You can score points as you watch!" Wu Di stepped forward to greet Lao Niu enthusiastically when he saw him coming.

The old cow was a little moved, and he shook Wu Di's hand and responded: "We all know that you city children are kind and want to help us, and let the children run out of this poor mountain, but it's not because we don't want to, it's because we can't help it." Ah, look at Maizi, seeing that he needs to drink water again, we have to turn over the bottom of the box to water this crop of land, and the whole family eats by pointing at it, and the children must eat their fill first!"

(End of this chapter)