love letter to summer

"I want to set up a social enterprise to solve the problem of food shortage in poor families," Xia Tang said.

What is a social enterprise? How does Xia Tang know so many strange things?

"Hey, you don't know what this is, do you?" Xia Tang laughed like a villain.

Ye Ji: "Hmm..."

"Don't be afraid, ignorance is not wrong." Xia Tang patted Ye Ji's shoulder kindly and said, "Come on, let my brother explain to you. There is no unified definition of 'social enterprise' yet. Simply put, it is It is an enterprise, like all other ordinary enterprises, conducts commercial activities through the market mechanism, but what is special about it is that its purpose of existence is not to make money, but to solve a certain social problem.”

"For example." Xia Tang raised her index finger, "Do you still remember that I took you to an Italian restaurant for dinner last year? The waiters in that restaurant were all young, and you said at the time that those waiters seemed to have a mysterious and hooligan temperament .”

Ye Ji nodded.

In fact, the waiters in that restaurant have a good working attitude and are quick in their hands and feet, but they look very wild and unruly, and several of their arms have tattoos.Although it was a bit scary, overall, Ye Ji was very satisfied with their service, and even felt that they were better than the waiters in other restaurants.

Xia Tang: "That restaurant is a social enterprise. Its purpose is to help delinquent youth find jobs again."

Ye Ji: "A young man who has lost his footing?"

"Well, those waiters are all people who have been in juvenile prisons or labor education centers. They were sentenced to prison at a very young age, so most of them have very low education. It is difficult to find a job after being away from society for a long time. So someone opened that restaurant to hire such young people. After deducting the necessary expenses from the income earned by the restaurant, all of them are distributed to the employees.”

Xia Tang: "In other words, you can also regard 'social enterprise' as a non-profit charity organization, except that it does not rely on donations, but is fully responsible for its own profits and losses, self-reliant, and can operate independently."

"What I want to set up is such a company." Xia Tang said.

Ye Ji: "Aunt and uncle agree?"

Xia Tang acted bitterly and bitterly, and said, "How could you agree? I'm already thankful that I didn't scold me bloody. My mother always said that if I really want to go this way, I'll just wait for the next step." beggar..."

Ye Ji: "Where's your father?"

"It's unrealistic to say that I'm so ambitious." Xia Tang frowned, but he didn't seem to be worried, but more helpless. "He thinks I think things too simply. He said these things are systematic, Social problems cannot be solved by me alone, even if I work hard for a lifetime, it is impossible to bring about much change."

Xia Tang said: "I never thought that I would have the ability to change the world. I just think that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and any great achievement is accumulated by the efforts of countless small people. If no one is willing to Reach out and things will never go anywhere."

He fell silent.

After a while, Xia Tang sighed softly, and continued: "Actually, I understand that the wishes of parents are very simple. They just hope that their children can have a job with less money and closer to home. It doesn't matter if they don't get rich , the most important thing is that this life can be safe and secure. But I feel like a puppet, under their control all my life."

His words reminded Ye Ji of one thing. Ye Ji said: "I have a friend who is a graduate student in the physics department of the school next door. Their department hired an assistant professor last year. There was an excellent applicant with more than [-] citations. But because the research direction is more theoretical, the school thinks that his research is not easy to get funding, so he is not allowed to interview directly.”

Xia Tang: "No way...Even your academia is like this, this world really can't be better..."

Ye Ji: "There is a professor in the biology department of our school. He has been in the school for 20 years and has achieved fruitful research results. However, he has been the deputy head of the department for six years and has not been promoted again. The reason is that the leaders above don't like him. disobedient."

Xia Tang: "..."

Power, money, and connections, like invisible hands one after another, permeate the entire human society and control everything, even academia is hardly immune.

Is this sad?Of course sad.

But that's the reality of society.

Ye Ji: "Man is born free, but he is subject to chains everywhere."

Humans once had absolute freedom, or in other words, in the original state, all people were completely free. However, once people entered this "human society", they had to give up or sacrifice part of their freedom.

Everyone's body is full of shackles, which may come from power, money, connections, or from family, love, friendship, and morality.

People are not always free.

The setting sun sank to the horizon, and the afterglow dyed the sky red.

The wild cats were all gone, the birds disappeared, and the insects that were usually seen everywhere also hid there. It seemed that all the animals in the garden had left.

The park has become very quiet.

Xia Tang lowered his head dejectedly, rubbed his face for a while, and said helplessly: "I know, of course I know this." He thought for a while, then lowered his head dejectedly again, buried his face in his hands, and said , "Hey, but, I still hope that someone can support me."

Ye Ji: "I support it."

Xia Tang raised his head suddenly, opened his eyes wide, and looked at him in surprise.

"You...Are you serious?" Xia Tang asked.

Ye Ji nodded calmly.

Xia Tang: "Why?"

"Compared to ease, I want you to live freely."

Xia Tang was very moved, looked at Ye Ji with big eyes, and slapped his eyelashes.Ye Ji felt that his heart was about to melt, and then Xia Tang said, "It would be great if you were my dad."

Ye Ji: "..." He patted Xia Tang on the back of the head, Xia Tang covered her head and laughed, and after laughing for a while, he leaned over and said, "Thank you."

Ye Ji looked down at him, his eyes were round, like those of a deer.The world has always been clean and gentle in his eyes.It's unbearable to hurt him.

Ye Ji really wanted to hug him and tell him, do what you like, don't hesitate or be afraid, I will always support you.

Ye Ji thought about it for a while, and felt that it was too sensational to say it out loud. He put his arm around Xia Tang's shoulder, patted it, and said, "Come on."

Xia Tang clenched her fist with her right hand and replied with a smile, "I will!"