First Secretary of Rebirth

After sleeping all night, Jiang woke up He Chaoyang and Tang Xiaoli at dawn the next day.

There is still a long way to go today, so there is no delay.

After a hasty breakfast, the group continued on their way.The villages in Yangzhanglan Township were scattered and difficult to walk. By the time they reached the second village, it was already noon.

Lao Jiang only knows simple Xinjiang dialect, so he has problems communicating with parents alone. Fortunately, there are many Xinjiang cadres in their team, and it is more convenient to contact parents.

"Secretary, Ablizi's family is not going to let the child continue to go to school." Sabir took the registration book and went door to door to contact the students, and reported a new situation to Lao Jiang when he came back.

"Why?" Old Jiang frowned, "The children in his family are in grade three and grade five. Why don't they go to school?"

Sabir wondered: "He didn't say the reason, just said that the child didn't want to go to school."

"Impossible!" Old Jiang replied decisively: "Before the holiday, Rena said she was waiting for us to pick her up. How could she not want to go to school after a holiday?"

"Secretary, let's go to their house and have a look."

Lao Jiang nodded, and walked quickly to Abliz's house.He Chaoyang and Tang Xiaoli looked at each other and followed.

Abliz's house is located on the edge of a small village. It is a small house made of three adobe bricks. The house is so small that Lao Jiang and his party simply sat outside and talked to Abliz.

"Abulizi, why didn't the child go to school all of a sudden?" Old Jiang calmed down and asked Sabir to translate his words to Abulizi.

Ablzi looked at the two daughters hiding in the house, and said with a smile: "They don't want to go."

"Abliz, it's a good thing for children to go to school. Now the government has reduced or exempted the children's tuition fees. Let them go to school if conditions permit."

"But..." Ablzi was a little embarrassed, he raised his voice and said to the children in the room: "Are you willing to go to school?"

The two children came out of the house slowly, looking at their father's face, and said in a low voice, "No...willing."

"Rena, you are my sister, why don't you want to go to school, tell Uncle?" Lao Jiang said to a tall girl.

"I, I..." Rena shrank back, staring at her toes without speaking.

"Re Yihan, if my sister doesn't say it, you say it!"

The short little girl looked at her father, then at her shy sister, tears streaming down her face, "Uncle, I want to go to school!"

"Okay, okay, don't cry." Old Jiang held the little girl in his arms, wiped her tears and said in a low voice: "Tell Uncle, what happened at home? Why doesn't Dad let you go to school?"

Reyihan was a little shy. She looked at this uncle who escorted them through the cliffs and rivers every year, and said in a voice as loud as a mosquito: "Uncle, my sister and I have no shoes to wear."

"What?" Old Jiang was taken aback, he never thought it would be this reason.

"It's true." As she spoke, Re Yihan's tears were about to fall again. The little girl had a strong self-esteem, and in front of so many adults, she really didn't want to lift her worn-out feet.

"Abliz, is it true?" Lao Jiang thought about various situations, but he never thought that it would be such a simple and heartbreaking reason.

Abliz looked at his two daughters, and turned his head away in shame.

He Zhaoyang and Tang Xiaoli were stunned. Rena and Reyihan could speak Mandarin, so they sounded stress-free. Just a pair of shoes stopped the child from studying. This, this...

Seeing that they didn't believe it, Re Yihan lifted his feet helplessly. The surface of the sneakers was still intact, but the hole the size of a ping-pong ball on the soles instantly caught the eyes of many adults.

A pair of the cheapest sneakers are worn like this, how difficult is the condition of this family!

Looking at this poor family, He Zhaoyang felt very sad. He knew that the conditions in the frontier were difficult, but he did not expect that such a family in the Tiannan area is not a special case. How can the people in the frontier become rich as soon as possible, so that children will not fall into poverty just because of a pair of shoes? Not being able to go to school has become the most important issue before him, the deputy secretary of the prefectural committee.

"Re Yihan, Uncle will take you to buy shoes. No matter what, we have to go to school." Lao Jiang carefully put the little girl's feet on the ground. We have to study hard after spending our whole life in this poor mountain ditch."

Looking at Lao Jiang's encouraging eyes, Re Yihan nodded emphatically.

I bought two pairs of new shoes for 35 yuan, and the little girls seemed to be radiant after putting on the new shoes. Not only did they not have to wade through the piercing Yimu River barefoot, but they could continue to study in the classroom.

"Dad, I can go to school now!" Reyihan said happily to his father.

Abliz patted his daughter's head, his eyes were red.

After making an appointment with the Rena sisters for the return trip, the group continued on their way.

Along the way, although the journey was very hard, the scenery along the way and the fruit trees full of fruits made He Chaoyang have more calculations in his mind.

"Old Jiang, why is no one picking these fruits!" Tang Xiaoli asked as he ate a bunch of sweet dates when he saw the piles of fruits on the side of the road.

Old Jiang smiled helplessly and said, "Is this fruit sweet?"

"En." Tang Xiaoli nodded vigorously and said, "It's delicious."

"Natural food that is guaranteed to be free from chemical fertilizers and pesticides." Old Jiang ate a handful as he walked.

"Then let them rot in the mountains?"

"Otherwise what else?"

One sentence choked Tang Xiaoli, he chewed the fruit, and suddenly found the sweet taste hard to swallow.

"Brother, look..." Tang Xiaoli turned to look at He Chaoyang, who smiled at him, and said, "There is always a way, let's go first."

Tang Xiaoli paused, and followed silently.

He is good at marching and fighting, but he doesn't know anything about improving the economy and improving people's livelihood. However, He Chaoyang has been in the officialdom for so many years and is known as a strong man in economic construction. I believe his arrival can bring unexpected changes to the people of Tiannan.

"Brother, these people are suffering too much." Tang Xiaoli, who had always been immersed in his military career, couldn't help feeling compassionate.

He Chaoyang patted him on the shoulder and said in a deep voice, "I know."

After a day of driving, I finally arrived at the final destination, Yigu Village, in the evening.

Yigu Village is a small village farthest from Yangshilan Township, with more than 30 households and more than 200 people.Because of the inconvenient transportation, there are few outsiders in the village. The four times a year to pick up and drop off the students is the time when the most people come to the village.

Seeing Lao Jiang's figure, the village head came out from a distance.

"Secretary Jiang, hello." The village chief stretched out his hands and shook hands with Lao Jiang enthusiastically.

"Maimati village chief, hello!" Lao Jiang was obviously an old acquaintance with the village chief, and he gave the village chief a big hug according to the etiquette of the Xinjiang people.

"Secretary Jiang, you've worked hard all the way." Maimaiti smiled kindly, and said, "Let's rest at home first, the children in the village are all ready, and the family will escort them out of the mountain tomorrow morning."

"Thank you to the village head for your support for the work in the village. The higher-ups have allocated some agricultural resources to the village this time. They will be sent to you when the river water drops again."

"That's a big thank you to the secretary!" Maimaiti said in surprise.

"You don't have to thank me, it's all the policy of the central government!" Lao Jiang also spoke in an official tone at this time, and he smiled and said to Maimaiti: "The village chief, although it is to send agricultural materials, but also the strong people in the village Let Lao Li go out to meet it, otherwise the precipitous cliffs cannot be transported with only the hands of the village."

"Secretary, you're too polite. I'll just send someone to pick it up when the river drops a little more." Maimaiti said with a smile, "We're content with the free stuff from above, but we don't dare to bother the cadres in the village."

"Okay, then we will arrange it later." Old Jiang was not polite to Maimaiti. The villagers of Yigu Village have lived in this mountain for generations. In terms of foot strength, the cadres in the village are far behind.

Maimaiti is not young, but he still attaches great importance to education. Since the above-mentioned fund was allocated to build a full-time boarding and primary school in Masi County the year before last, he has been working door-to-door and asked the villagers to send their children to the county to go to school. .At first, the villagers couldn't figure out that they had been farmers for generations and had lived in this small isolated village. Now that they were suddenly asked to send their children to a county town hundreds of kilometers away, many people were extremely worried.

"Do you still want the dolls to eat in the soil like us?" Maimaiti saw that some parents couldn't figure it out, and jumped up and said: "We don't have telephones or TVs here, and you know what the outside world has become. We have been suffering all our lives, do we still let the dolls suffer with us for the rest of our lives? Not only male dolls have to go to school, but also female dolls have to go to school! Let me tell you, if the dolls are delayed, not only the male dolls will be useless, but also the female dolls will have to go to school. Can't find her husband's family! What era is it now, which husband's family would want a girl who can't even write her name?"

The words of Maimaiti were very rough, but they still talked to a few families. They sent their children out with the mood of giving it a try. They thought that the children would not be able to adapt, so they quickly picked them up. After half a semester, these The children who walked out of the mountains for the first time seemed to be different people. They became more sensible, and their ignorant eyes also had light. The world outside the mountains is so vast and wonderful. It’s not that they don’t have dreams, they just An opportunity is missing.

Birth cannot be chosen, but fate can be fought.

No one is destined to be a farmer all his life. They want to get back the dream that their parents lost.

So when Lao Jiang led the team into Yigu Village, the children who were waiting to go to school rushed over excitedly. Counting the time, it will be the start of school soon. They have long wanted to go to school to get together with their friends .

In the pair of big eyes, there is a light of seeking knowledge.

There were still some candies in He Zhaoyang's rucksack, and he distributed them to the children one by one, and got the most kind smiles.

The candy in the rucksack was bought out of curiosity when he was inspecting below, and he wanted to send it to Ling Wei to try something new. Now that he saw these children, he was really embarrassed to cover the candy in the rucksack and not take it out.

"Brother, how old are you and you still like to eat candies." Tang Xiaoli watched the children running away with candies, and rubbed over with a playful smile.

"Do you think I didn't leave you two yuan?"

Tang Xiaoli can't keep up with He Chaoyang when it comes to words and kung fu. Hearing what He Chaoyang said, he laughed and said, "I don't eat candy."

"Okay, I brought it for someone, and I happened to borrow flowers to present Buddha." He Chaoyang waved his hand and said, "Have you arranged the place to live?"

Tang Xiaoli nodded and said, "Don't worry about Lao Jiang's work, everything has been arranged."

The two walked along the path in the village. Yigu Village is very small. Standing on a high hill, you can almost see the whole picture. The low adobe houses and the yard where the crops are drying are very simple, but they are also really poor.

He Chaoyang stood on the high hill for a long time, until Lao Jiang called them to eat with his voice, and then he and Tang Xiaoli walked into the village head's house slowly.

Nang, noodle soup, fruits grown on their own trees.

The villagers of Yigu Village have brought out their best things to entertain guests, but they still look very shabby.

He Chaoyang ate big mouthfuls, unable to speak the language, so he could only express his kindness to the villagers of Yigu Village with actions. After the meal, the table was moved away, tambourines were played, and the Xinjiang people began to sing and dance with the guests.

He Zhaoyang has never danced the Xinjiang ethnic dance, but he has a flexible body, and after being led twice, he can dance in a certain way.

Sitting in the corner, Tang Xiaoli watched He Chaoyang mingle with the local villagers, thinking that who would have known that this singing and dancing man would be the prince of a powerful family.

There are always people who criticize the princes of big families for being domineering and bullying, but from Tang Xiaoli's point of view, if every prince is like He Chaoyang, he really doesn't mind if there are more such privileged classes.

The room was still laughing, but Maimaiti took advantage of the dance interval to wink at Sabir who came with the team.

Sabir remained calm, and after Maimaiti went back to sleep with the excuse of being tired, he laughed and danced two more dances, and then walked out calmly.