Looking at the little girl in front of her, wearing a dirty and worn out dress, her hair was even tangled and tangled, eating watermelon in big mouthfuls.

The red juice of the watermelon kept dripping along the corners of his mouth, and the little girl who was eating sweetly didn't care about wiping it.

Soon, almost before Wang Yong and Principal Zhang could react, the flesh of a piece of watermelon was cleaned. The little girl was still unwilling to throw the melon peel and gnawed the white part close to the melon peel bit by bit.

"The white ones are not delicious, come and eat this one!"

Yuanyuan handed another piece of watermelon to the little girl, and Principal Zhang didn't react until this time.

"Zhang Min, why are you here? Are you here to pay the money? Why didn't your dad come?"

"Second uncle, my dad went to borrow money but didn't borrow it, so he said, "The little girl held a piece of watermelon and lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Principal Zhang, for fear that he would not agree to drive him out and not allow him to go to school again.

"Okay! Okay, you go back to class first!"

When the little girl heard this, she didn't even say hello, turned around and ran away, as if she was afraid that the principal would repent. In a blink of an eye, Yuanyuan, who was chasing her, saw the little girl running to the door of a classroom and running straight in.

"Principal Zhang, is this?"

"Hey! This is from the same village as me. The child in our village has to call me the second uncle. His father injured his leg when he went out to work. After he came back, he had been recuperating for more than half a year. Not only did he spend all the money he gave, he also owed a lot of foreign debts. Now he relies on his mother to plant a few acres of land at home, so he can barely live!"

"You just said you paid the money? What is the money?"

"The book fee, this child hasn't paid for a year, and it's more than 100 yuan in total."

When Yuanyuan and Wang Yong heard Principal Zhang say this, they were both stunned. One hundred yuan! They couldn’t even borrow one hundred yuan?

Is it because their family has a bad relationship with others, or is it because this place is really too poor and can't even make up a hundred dollars?

Yuanyuan was stunned for a moment, and then without hesitation, she took out 200 yuan from her bag and told Principal Zhang that she was handing it over to the school for the little girl just now.

Principal Zhang was stunned by Yuanyuan's actions, but he soon woke up. He sighed, took the two hundred yuan, and found a piece of white paper to write a receipt for Yuanyuan.

The above clearly states that the book fee donated by caring people to Zhang Min is 200 yuan, in order to prove that he will not be greedy for the money, and it is also the basis for Yuanyuan to verify in the future.

Soon, Principal Zhang went out with the money and soon took Zhang Min back. The little girl solemnly bowed to Yuanyuan and Wang Yong.

The little girl has never seen the world, and her own living environment makes her not know how to express her gratitude. In the end, she can only bow with tears in her eyes to express her gratitude.

Yuanyuan walked forward with distress and pulled her up, then pulled Zhang Min to the office and sat on the sofa and chatted with questions and answers.

"Is your name Zhang Min?"

"Um."

"How old are you this year? How many grades are you in?"

"Thirteenth. Fifth Grade."

"Who are there in the family?"

"My dad, my mom, my brother."

Yuanyuan deliberately lowered her voice when she spoke, for fear of scaring the sensitive child. However, she didn't expect that the child who obviously recognized her voice was lower than Yuanyuan. If Yuanyuan hadn't been close to her, she wouldn't be able to hear what she said.

“Is the watermelon delicious?”

"tasty!"

Zhang Min said this word very happily, without hesitation at all, and the sound was very loud.

"Have you eaten before?"

When Zhang Min heard this question, she didn't say anything, but just shook her head, and didn't even dare to look at Yuanyuan. This is a sensitive but very strong girl! Wang Yong commented in his heart.

"What's the best thing you've ever eaten before?"

Zhang Min's eyes lit up obviously, and then the Adam's apple moved for a moment. He ignored what he seemed to think of immediately. He lowered his head again, and it took him a long time to give the answer in a low voice.

"orange."

"Orange?" Yuanyuan felt ache in her heart. It can be imagined that Zhang Min said that the most delicious thing was orange. That was because she had no chance to see other fruits.

Maybe the orange was brought to her when his father was working outside. Even so, I'm afraid she wouldn't have the chance to eat it a few times.

Bananas, pineapples, dragon fruits, mangos, mangos, wax mist... Needless to say, if she couldn't go out by going to school, she would never have the chance to see these southern fruits.

Yuanyuan was really shocked by the poverty of the people here! This was something she had never thought before. There was such a place in China now? She couldn't afford to study compulsory education for nine years?

At this moment, Yuanyuan was filled with confusion. Why? Ask me why the people here are so poor? Are the people here lazy? Is the environment here not suitable for survival? Or is it because the local government is doing something wrong, which makes people live in trouble?

Yuanyuan's doubts did not last long because her husband Wang Yong directly raised this question.

"Principal Zhang, why is it so poor here? Has no one thought of any way to change the situation here over the years?"

Zhang Shiping was silent and took out a cigarette and handed it to Wang Yong. As a result, he was shocked by the soft China that Wang Yong took out. He lit it carefully, took a sip, and let out a stream of smoke, with a look of satisfaction.

Then I opened up the conversation and mentioned the reasons why people live so hard here.

It turns out that the main reason is really the problem of the natural environment.

The climate here is dry and rainy, and almost all crops are based on the weather for food. If God rains a few less rain, the fields will not be harvested even if they are not. As for the reduction of yield, it is a normal situation that occurs almost every year.

The appearance of a little girl is definitely common here. Because of the lack of water, many elderly people have never taken a bath several times in their lives. It is difficult to even drink water, let alone wash their hair and clothes all day long?

For this reason, people here try to plant some drought-tolerant crops and short-ripening periods, such as buckwheat that has only more than 50 days of maturity, which are the main crops grown here.

In order to make your family happier, most of the people here go out to work. However, because they are not well educated, they can only do some minimum work and earn a salary that is meager but much better than farming at home.

Because of poverty, few children here can graduate from high school, let alone college. Even if there are many children in nine years of compulsory education, they cannot finish their studies normally. Anyway, it is impossible to get started at university. It is better to go home to work early. This is the consensus of most people in this area.

I followed the villagers to work from all over the world to earn money to support my family. Then I felt like I was in a vicious circle. The less money the children of the other family were unable to study and go to school, and the poorer they became.

Principal Zhang said that one of his old friends is the principal of a junior high school in the township. There are about 200 people in their school. If the annual per capita income of a family is positioned at 400 yuan (you read it correctly, it is really 400 yuan. Those who are low are outrageous!), then one in ten poor students in the school.

Every year, junior high school can recruit more than 100 students, but only fifty students will take the high school entrance examination in three years. And then, there may not be even ten students who can continue to go to high school.

Here, poor students who cannot afford miscellaneous fees in primary and secondary schools can account for more than one-tenth of the total number of students, and more than 30% of the high school students!

The dropout rate of junior high school children here can reach 5% (this is the official statement), while the national regulations are not more than 3%. As for this dropout rate, it is said that it is better in several nearby counties!

Wang Yong was very touched when he heard this. Yu Qiuyu, a master of the generation, once said that the reasons for poverty must be found in culture. In today's world that is gradually becoming more and more technological. Without cultural knowledge, it is becoming increasingly difficult to survive.

Things like those in the early days of reform and opening up that as long as you are willing to work and dare to do something, you will always achieve something. In modern society, the understanding and renewal of knowledge is getting faster and faster. If you can't catch up, you may be a lifetime of backwardness and will never catch up.

Principal Zhang introduced the situation of the school again, especially the large number of teachers in the school. Their school originally had eighteen teachers, but because of the low salary, there are only eight left.

Three people found opportunities to go to schools in other provinces and cities. Two of them simply changed careers and started other jobs. As for the remaining five, they were forced to teach in junior high schools and even high schools because of the same large number of teachers who were lost in junior high schools.

It is conceivable that if the original primary school teacher teaches junior and high school students, it would be strange if the quality of education is guaranteed!

But then what can I do? There can be no teacher, right? Once I find an opportunity, nine out of ten of these teachers will definitely choose to leave without hesitation and choose a better place to live.

Principal Zhang gave an example. In this school, there was a teacher who was originally a regular teacher graduate from a regular teacher training college two years ago. He could be said to be the best teacher in this school.

As a result, I couldn't stand it after working here for half a year. Through connections, I went to a school in a mountainous county in the capital.

Here, all his income is at most 1,000 yuan, and there, the first month's probation period is 3,000 yuan! 3,000 yuan!

This is because of poor treatment. There is a math teacher in the high school in the township, who is the only provincial special teachers here. He teaches well! Even people in the city know him. He was poached by a private school in the city.

As soon as I arrived in the city, people directly solved the housing, raised their wages, and solved the work problems for their families. This kind of treatment is simply a fantasy locally, and people can only be retained by feelings here.

The county in the capital where the primary school teacher mentioned above is located has only a population of 220,000, but the annual education fund is as high as 120,000 to 100 million. Here, the county has a population of 360,000, and the investment in education is less than 40 million, and it has to face frequent misappropriation.

This is the gap! The gap between poor and wealthy areas! Especially this gap is still widening! (To be continued, please search Piaotianyi, novels are better, updated and faster!
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