si-mexico Chapter 858 I have something to ask him
Chapter 858 I have something to ask him
Hongbo's eyes sparkled, "Mom, please tell me."
"This morning star is actually Venus, which was called Taibai Venus in ancient times. When it appears in the eastern sky in the early morning, it is called the 'Morning Star, the Morning Star, and the Star'. When it appears in the western sky in the evening, it is called the 'Evergreen Star' or the 'Evening Star'." Su Yunyun thought of what was said in the book and began to tell the story.
"Then our ancient great poet Li Bai is very legendary. It is said that his birth was extraordinary. His mother dreamed that the Venus Taibai fell into her arms, so she named him Li Bai, with the courtesy name Taibai."
Hongbo and Wenhan listened attentively, and Xiaotian and others who were following them also listened with great interest.
In their opinion, Su Yunyun is still the most amazing one as she can easily quote such knowledge and allusions.
They will have to read more and study more in the future. They cannot become knowledgeable scholars, but it is also very good to be able to improve their status and control the situation when bragging and chatting with others.
Su Yunyun, who didn't know what Xiaotian and the others were thinking, said after sharing some knowledge about Morning Star with Hongbo and Wenhan, "Xiaotian, the weather is too hot. Let's go find a hotel or guesthouse to get accommodation first. Everyone should wash up and go for the field visit in high spirits. Otherwise, it would be disrespectful for us to go there in the state we are in now."
Xiaotian looked at himself and the others. After a night of exhaustion on the train, they all looked a little listless, unlike Su Yunyun who was full of energy, so he immediately agreed, "Okay, someone came here before and said there is a guesthouse with good accommodation conditions. Let's go directly there."
Su Yunyun nodded and let Xiaotian lead the way to find the place.
When allocating rooms, Su Yunyun was placed in the same room with Hongbo and Wenhan for easier care.
After washing up, everyone gathered at the entrance of the guesthouse and had breakfast. Then, led by Oda, they took a bus to a remote town and walked for almost an hour before they could vaguely see the outline of a village.
"It's just ahead!" Xiaotian pointed to the outline of the village and told Su Yunyun.
"So far!" Su Yunyun became determined to sponsor local students to return to school.
Transportation here is inconvenient, and farmers have to rely on the output from the land to make a living.
It seems that the land here is very barren and the output will not be very high.
"Yes, we also found out about this place by accident. We were shocked at the time, so we made preparations in advance." Oda explained the reason for the source of the information they had.
"Well done." Su Yunyun praised Xiaotian, Shen Hong and others for their good work.
"Mom, how do the kids here go to school?" Hongbo asked after hearing what Xiaotian and the others said. "Wenhan and I saw a primary school in town, but compared to our school, that school is so small and shabby. Could it be that no one is going to school?"
Su Yunyun touched Hongbo and Wenhan's heads and said, "Mom doesn't know how they go to school. We can only find out the details in the village. It's possible that there is a village primary school."
"Mr. Su, no," Shen Hong was silent for a long time before speaking, "there is no village primary school in the village."
Then he looked at Hongbo and Wenhan and said, "The primary school they saw in the town is where the children in this village go to school. They have to get up before dawn every day to go to school in the dark. In the afternoon, after school, they often have to rush back in the dark. If it is windy, rainy, or snowy, it is difficult for the children here to go out to school."
After Su Yunyun heard Shen Hong's words, she carefully recalled how tired she was walking all the way from the town. She didn't say anything, but just told everyone, "Hurry up."
Afterwards, everyone walked forward in silence, including Hongbo and Wenhan, and it was very quiet along the way.
When the group arrived at the village, they were once again hurt by the scene there.
The rooms here are low and dilapidated. There is not a single blue brick house to be seen. They are all mud houses with traces of rain washing on them. Some of them have big gaps in the middle, which are stuffed with straw, so you can barely see what's going on inside the house.
Some mud houses have become dilapidated due to their age, and the backyard walls of some houses are supported by wood.
Seeing Su Yunyun staring at him, Xiaotian explained in a low voice, "That's a support specially made to prevent the wall from collapsing."
After hearing Oda's explanation, everyone didn't know what to say.
Then I saw that because there were strangers coming, many villagers stood timidly at the door or stared at them from afar.
These people's clothes are very shabby, but fortunately it is summer and not much fabric is needed, so they are dressed quite neatly.
"If it's winter, even if there's some big news, we won't see so many people," Shen Hong looked at the villagers. "Many of them only have one set of clothes for going out to meet guests, commonly known as tea clothes. Whoever has something to do at home wears them. At other times, they can only stay at home and not go out."
Su Yunyun was deeply shocked.
Now it is the 80s, and she thinks it is unrealistic for some remote and backward areas to achieve moderate prosperity, but they should at least struggle to stay below the poverty line.
But these people are far from reaching the poverty line, let alone the poverty line standard.
Hongbo and Wenhan saw that many children were pale and thin, and the clothes they wore did not fit them well, some were too big and some were too small. It was very sad to see them.
They held each other's hands.
This was too much of a shock to both of them.
"With the situation in the village like this, are there still families who let their children go to school?" Su Yunyun asked Shen Hong in a low voice.
"Yes, families with better conditions do their best to send their children to school," Shen Hong thought of the information he had learned before, "but they can't go to school for long. Although the tuition is not very high, it is already a big expense for these families. What's more, although the children's schooling, food, clothing, housing and transportation have been reduced to the minimum standard, they can't afford it for a while. So the children who can go to school can only go to the second or third grade at most, and then they have to go home."
"Second or third grade?" Su Yunyun muttered to herself.
Shen Hong thought Su Yunyun was asking him, "Yes, to be able to go to the second or third grade, you still need a good year. Here, people who graduate from the second and third grades are all educated people."
Su Yunyun learned about the local poverty situation through Shen Hong's simple description.
This is not poverty, this is extreme poverty!
Su Yunyun had an idea in her mind, but she didn't say it out loud. Instead, she asked Shen Hong to find someone to come over.
She said to Shen Hong, "When you came here for a field visit, who did you contact? Call that person over. I have something to ask him."