Quick travel to save a miserable life

Lin Hui has been away for two years.

She first went south to Hong Kong Island, which she had just returned to. The reason she stayed in Zhongzhou for so long after signing was just to wait for the pass to come down.

However, Hong Kong Island at this time was far from being as tolerant as Lin Hui had seen.

Because this small island has been occupied and ruled by foreign countries for many years, the local residents' ideas have been seriously assimilated. There are also many differences in the economic conditions and residents' living standards between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. For various reasons, the local residents are very unfriendly to mainlanders.

Because Lin Hui was still wearing the same clothes she was wearing when she first crossed the sea, and she looked very rustic. If she hadn't been fluent in Cantonese and English, she would have almost been discriminated against.

Later, although she put on fashionable new clothes and stayed in a luxurious hotel, and everyone she encountered was polite and courteous to her, she still felt uncomfortable thinking about what she had just seen and encountered.

Originally, she came to Hong Kong Island to watch the year-long financial war and see if she could make profits from it.

But when she arrived in Hong Kong, she bought the local newspaper, read the relevant reports in detail, and went to the stock trading floor to observe, she found that she still took it for granted.

This is a situation that the international financial giants have worked hard for several years. The financial market of Hong Kong Island was hit so hard that it was unable to fight back. In the end, it was the country that took action personally, devoted all its efforts and painstaking efforts, and narrowly won this war without gunpowder. .

After understanding the current process, Lin Hui gave up the idea of ​​getting a piece of the pie, packed up her things, and returned to the mainland.

It's August now, and the summer in the south is really hot and humid. It's fine if you stay in an air-conditioned room, but once you go out, you'll be covered in sweat within three minutes.

Lin Hui was intolerant of heat and hated humidity. She didn't want to stay in Guangdong Province anymore, so she headed west to Guizhou Province.

There are many mountains and vegetation there, and the climate is cool, making it a good place to escape the summer heat.

After entering Guizhou, Lin Hui began to travel independently, carrying a suitcase on her back, avoiding big cities, and walking around.

However, the more I looked at it, the more shocking it became that the mountain people here were really too backward.

Due to inconvenient transportation and rugged roads, farming in many places has not yet been mechanized and basically relies on manual labor. After a year of hard work, the income received is incredibly low.

Because of poverty, labor is needed for work, and there are few schools. The distance between some villages and schools is really far. It has become normal for children to be unable to complete the nine-year compulsory education.

In fact, it is considered good to be able to successfully graduate from primary school. Many children only go to school for two or three years and can write their own names and recognize some numbers, but are ordered by their families to drop out of school and go home to help with the work. .

Seeing a child who should be sitting and studying at school, carrying a backpack and a hatchet, skillfully doing farm work, Lin Hui felt that her heart was sore.

She is fifty-two years old in this world. Her eldest grandson, Zhu Hongxing, is twelve years old. She is a chubby little boy who loves to eat and play. During the Chinese New Year this year, she even told Lin Hui that she wanted a learning machine and begged her to Buy it for him.

However, Lin Hui knew that he only wanted to use it to play games, not to study at all. In addition, his father Zhu Jianli was very arrogant at that time, which made Lin Hui unhappy, so she did not agree.

The little fat man was very unhappy about this and pouted for a long time.

Comparing Zhu Hongxing's white and rosy cheeks with the dark and thin boy in front of her, Lin Hui couldn't tell how she felt.

The two were of the same age, and the little fat man's biggest worry was that he didn't get the game console he wanted, but the boy in front of him had already begun to take on the important task of supporting the family.

The boy's name is Liao Wei. His mother ran away a few years ago and left the mountain, never coming back.

From then on, my father fell into despair and only drank wine all day long. Later, he fell into a ditch and died when he was drunk.

Now only he and his grandfather depend on each other. His grandfather is in poor health and cannot work. He can only rely on his one and a half-year-old child to farm and raise sheep to maintain the family's livelihood.

Of course he wanted to go to school, but he didn't dare to think about it.

Ever since he dropped out of school in the third grade, he had never thought about going back to school. It was not something he could imagine.

His biggest wish now is to save money for his grandfather to go to the county for medical treatment, so that he can get well and stay with him for a longer time.

Lin Hui went to the village party secretary to inquire about the situation of Liao Wei's family, mainly about his grandfather's illness and the cost of treatment.

Lin Hui breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that what Grandpa Liao Wei had was just kidney stones.

When Liao Wei learned that Lin Hui was going to pay for his grandfather's medical treatment and would fund his own schooling in the future, his eyes widened and his mouth opened in surprise.

He thought: This mother-in-law must be stupid, how can anyone give money to others for free?

Lin Hui spent a lot of effort to convince Liao Wei that she really wanted to help them and did not ask for anything in return.

Liao Wei asked two villagers to help him push Liao Wei's grandfather on a cart and walked more than ten miles on the mountain road to the town, and then took a car to the county seat.

Kidney stones are just a very simple minor surgery, but Grandpa Liao Wei is in poor health. Not only is he malnourished, but he also has hyperthyroidism and other symptoms. He needs to be hospitalized for treatment before surgery can be performed.

Lin Hui and Liao Wei lived in the guest house next to the hospital. Lin Hui took him to the bookstore and bought fourth grade textbooks and several fairy tale books that interested him.

As soon as Liao Wei got the book, he couldn't wait to read it.

He had been away from school for several years, and the original textbooks were torn because he read them frequently, no matter how careful he was.

Now that he has got a brand-new book, he cherishes it very much. When he takes care of his grandfather in the hospital, he takes the book with him and reads it from time to time.

A month later, Liao Wei's grandfather was finally discharged from the hospital. Lin Hui sent them home and left [-] yuan. She made an agreement with Liao Wei's grandfather that when his health got better in a year, Liao Wei would be asked to join the class. Go to fourth grade, and she will send them the subsequent tuition fees, so they don’t have to worry.

It's not that she doesn't want to give more. There are only one old man and one young child in this family, and there is no strong labor force. Giving too much will only attract the covetousness of others and bring trouble to the grandfather and grandson.

During Lin Hui's subsequent journey, she met more children like Liao Wei or in worse situations than him. Whenever she encountered them, she could not just sit idly by and help them as much as possible.

So, she transformed into a "money-spreading boy" and took out money along the way.

However, what she can give is only a small amount of money, which can solve the current predicament and save them from the crisis of missing school for a while, but cannot determine their future.

Lin Hui knew that many of them would spend the money they gave on other things after they left, instead of sending their children to school.

However, she is currently powerless against this situation.