Chapter 126 Children in the Mountains

Some people say that today's society, no matter what, is better than life in the era of the national planned economy.

In fact, in the imagination of many people, standing in this society, as long as you work hard, even if you don't live too well, you will never be too bad. Even for those who work on the construction site, although they get up earlier than dogs, eat worse than pigs, and work more than cattle, after a month of hard work, they will always get 2,000 yuan. Although such money is not much, it can also meet the basic needs of life.

Be careful, it doesn't matter if a person has meat to eat every day.

This is not an era of extreme material resources, so many people think that this is a very beautiful era, and everyone's life will not be too bad. Even Niu Ben, who has lived in the countryside since childhood, does not feel that there is anything wrong with today's society. Even now, every family in rural areas eats pure natural green vegetables, and the meat is also chickens, ducks and pigs of their own sheep in rural areas, which is much better than in cities.

In Niu Ben's cognition, although the countryside will not be too rich, it will never be too bad.

But when he came to Dabie Mountain, which was called Xinxing Primary School, he felt that his worldview seemed to collapse and turned into pieces that could not be connected.

Niu Ben and Lin Beauty came to Tianya City at 12:30 p.m. Since it is a place in the mountains, it is naturally not connected by plane. So they had to get off the plane in Tianya, and then took a stop car when they left the airport. It took about two hours to get to Longxi Town with 400 yuan. After arriving in Longxi Town, it took three and a half hours to get to the target location in a van.

Guihua Village, Longxi Town, Tianya City.

Niu Ben got on the plane at 10 p.m., but it was already 5:30 p.m. when they arrived at the target location. In the first two and a half hours, the two crossed a distance of about 1,300 kilometers by plane, but in the next five and a half hours, they only traveled 300 kilometers. In particular, the distance of the last 100 kilometers took three and a half hours. You can imagine how difficult it is to travel this 100 kilometers.

The van drives very fast at full speed, but in the face of the potholed mountain and stone roads, the speed can only be described as snail climbing.

Because he contacted a teacher surnamed Qiu of this school in advance, when he arrived in Guihua Village, Niu Ben had to call someone to pick him up without knowing where the school was. Mr. Qiu is a black and thin man about 30 years old, wearing a horizontal blue and white bar, which is somewhat similar to the short sleeves of navy fir. After seeing Niu Ben, he enthusiastically stretched out his hand and shook Niu Ben for a while, and then began to lead the way while introducing the situation.

Although it was a road, when the three came, Niu Ben felt like climbing a mountain. It was not until he came to the school that he looked behind him and found that they had come to a very high place unconsciously. Looking around, Niu Ben suddenly saw the towering mountains. In other words, the current position is all over the way, and the school is also halfway up a mountain.

According to Mr. Qiu, it is 1,200 meters above sea level.

At this time, Niu Ben still doesn't have many psychological ups and downs. Just as he heard Mr. Qiu introduce that this school is a private school. From kindergarten to the sixth grade, when there were less than 200 people, he did not feel anything wrong. However, when he walked into the school with Mr. Qiu, Niu Ben suddenly felt a "buzzing" in his head, and his whole mood was a little gloomy.

This is a school that covers an area of only four or five mu. Except for a three-storey teaching building that occupies about one mu of land, other places are a very empty playground. There is a basketball court next to the playground, but the basketball shelf is shabby, and the iron utensils on it are rusty. I'm afraid it's been a long time, or no one has used it at all. When Niu Ben asked about this question, Mr. Qiu had no choice but to tell him that the school didn't even have a ball three years ago.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the children who are still at school are having dinner at close to six o'clock.

Niu Ben glanced casually and suddenly felt that his mood was gray. Because he found that in these children's lunch boxes, except for a few vegetables, mushrooms and other dishes, most people's rice was the kind of pickled cabbage with a dark color. As a rural person, Niu Ben knows that this kind of sauerkraut is a kind of vegetable made from spicy vegetables. When eating cold noodles in cities, it is usually used as a side dish.

This situation made Niu Ben's heart twitch and couldn't help asking, "Mr. Qiu, the main dish served with rice in the school canteen is sauerkraut?"

"In the school canteen, there is really no way to provide vegetables to the students." Teacher Qiu's face was gloomy and said, "Because the students' homes are far away from the school, except for the children in Guihua Village, the other nearest students have to go home and walk more than ten miles of mountain roads. The farthest one is even 37 miles of mountain road to get home. We are far away from the town, and it is not convenient to buy vegetables. And even if you buy a student at an affordable price, everyone basically can't afford it. So the students all bring their own food. Some families are too difficult and have no choice but to eat some rice to fill their stomachs.

"Uh!" Niu Ben was stunned and looked around again. Only then did he find that the clothes worn by many children had patches, and the only few children without patches were also very old, which looked a little unbearable to see. These are still some primary school students. Which of the children in the city is not dressed like a princess young master, but the children in front of them are really dressed in the countryside.

In particular, these children are yellow and thin, which is obviously malnourished.

In this situation, not only Niu Ben looked depressed, but also the beautiful Lin around him was also beautiful and serious, completely lost her smile and happiness along the way. Then she saw that there was no vegetable star in a lunch box of a child about twelve or three years old. She handed over a bag of beef jerky from her bag and said softly, "Little brother, if you want to eat, can I eat this for you?"

The child was obviously stunned when he saw Beauty Lin, and then stared at Beauty Lin pouring beef jerky into her bowl. Most of the time, he smelled beef jerky. He immediately buried his head and ate a big mouthful of food. Occasionally, he picked up a small piece very carefully and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly... Even after eating, this bag of beef jerky was only one-third.

Then, the little boy gently closed the lunch box and didn't know whether he was going to leave the remaining beef jerky for the next meal or find a good time to have a good aftertaste.

The little boy's treasure-like appearance made Niu Ben's heart twitch several times, and his eyes couldn't help getting wet.

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This chapter is based on an example in the online literary circle. You can read the following two posts.

http://www.lkong.net/thread-374163-1-1.html

http://www.lkong.net/thread-374972-1-1.html