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The original owner's grades are very good, and he can play the piano well. After Ji Ke's two weeks of training, he can basically use the original owner's skills as his own.

It is reasonable to say that the final exam results of colleges and universities are linked to their usual attendance, but art colleges often have students with strong abilities who go to perform in various places, or even go abroad for art exchanges, so if there is a legitimate reason, usually Grades do not play a large role in final exams.

With the original owner's good grades and awards, Ji Ke successfully passed the final exam.

On the second day after the exam, the students returned home one after another.

Ji Ke followed what the teacher said, and arrived at the train station with his big and small bags of luggage.

Lianhua Village is located in the mountainous area of ​​Yunnan, and the journey is far away. The whole journey is expected to take three days.

I don't know how many students came to Lianhua Village to teach this time. Anyway, when Ji Ke arrived at the train station, there was only one person as far as he could see.

Ji Ke went to a nearby noodle shop to eat a bowl of noodles. After eating, he came back and waited for a long time in the waiting hall of the train station. When it was time to check the ticket, he finally waited for a girl.

The girl was like him, wearing a T-shirt issued by the school.

The two recognized each other's clothes from a long distance away. The girl trotted up to Ji Ke, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, it took me a while to pack things, I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Ji Ke looked behind the girl, "Are you alone?"

"That's right." The girl also looked behind Ji Ke, "I also want to ask you, are you alone?"

The two looked at each other quietly for a while, with helplessness on their faces, "Then it seems that we are the only ones going to Lianhua Village to teach this time."

At the beginning of the ticket check, Ji Ke helped the girl carry some heavy luggage, and the two queued up to get on the high-speed rail together.

Chatting on the road, Ji Ke had a general understanding of the girls who traveled with him this time.

The girl's name is Shen Ling, she is a vocal music student, and she is in the second grade this year. The reason for participating in this project to support education in the countryside is very simple, just wanting.

She said that she had wanted to go to the countryside to support education since she was in middle school, but her family disagreed, thinking it was too dangerous for girls to go to the mountains, so she came to Lianhua Village this time and sneaked out.

From the imperial capital to Yunnan, the high-speed train took about ten hours.

It was eleven o'clock in the evening when they arrived in Kunming, and the two found a random guest house to settle down.

The next morning, before [-] o'clock, the two of them got up quickly again, took the green leather train first and then the bus, wandering all the way from Kunming to Lianhua Town.

The road to Lianhua Town happened to take a day. They rested in the town at night, got up at dawn on the third day, and then set off for Lianhua Village.

There is no means of transportation for the distance from Lianhua Town to Lianhua Village, so the two can only walk.

Ji Ke tried his best to put all the heavy luggage on himself, and asked Shen Ling to get the lighter ones.

It was okay when I just set off from the town, the foot is a relatively flat dirt road, the further up the mountain, the more rugged the road.

When we got near Lianhua Village, the steep narrow path was basically just a step and a kick.

The two of them were almost exhausted, and finally arrived at Lianhua Village before dark.

The school should have greeted the village in advance. When they arrived, they saw a middle-aged couple standing at the gate of the village waiting for them.

When the couple met the two, they first introduced themselves, saying that they were the village chief and his wife, and then said a few polite words to the two with a less enthusiastic attitude, and then led them into the village.

The village chief and his wife led the way, followed by Ji Ke and Shen Ling.

Ji Ke and the others had a lot of luggage on them, but the couple had no intention of slowing down and waiting.

Shen Ling's feet hurt when she walked. She thought that the people in front couldn't hear her, so she couldn't help complaining to Ji Ke in a low voice: "Why do I feel that they don't like us very much? It doesn't help that we have so many things. Forget it, don’t even say wait.”

"I also think they don't like us very much." Ji Ke also answered her in a low voice.

"Why?" Shen Ling was very puzzled, "We came to teach their children here for free. The conditions in this place are so poor, we haven't turned away yet, they turned away from us first?"

Ji Ke didn't speak, but looked up and looked around. In fact, he had been observing here since he entered the village.

This Lianhua Village should have been out of absolute poverty in the past two years. For them now, maybe maintaining food and clothing is not a problem, but they are still very poor.

Poverty here refers not only to economic poverty, but also to ideological poverty.

Shen Ling was still complaining in a low voice, Ji Ke approached her and said, "I can probably guess why people here don't welcome us?"

Shen Ling paused, "Why?"

"Look at the situation in this village," Ji Ke said: "It's located deep in the mountains, the signal is so weak that there is almost no signal, it's just barely connected to electricity, and the water you drink is from springs and wells, not tap water."

"Every household here has its own poultry, and you can see the crops they grow from the back of the mountain. They have lived in the mountains for generations, relying on this mountain, and eating this mountain."

"So for them, rather than studying, learning some seemingly useless knowledge, farming and hunting is the skill to ensure that they don't go hungry."

"Those of us who teach their children to read may seem to them more like the kind of people who prevent their children from learning survival skills."

After listening to Ji Ke's analysis in a daze, Shen Ling didn't know what to say.

For a child like her who lives in a big city, the idea she has accepted since she was a child is that no matter what she wants to do in the future, reading is essential.

It never occurred to her that the people living in the mountains had different thoughts from them.

Shen Ling began to doubt himself, "Then tell me, have we disrupted their original way of life by coming here to teach?"

She looked into Ji Ke's eyes, "He used to live well here, relying on the mountains and eating mountains, but we came here to instill new ideas in him, it seems like superfluous, superfluous."

"Why do you think so?" Ji Ke couldn't help laughing, "The Lianhua Village came to what it is today after being helped to help the poor. Many planting and breeding skills were brought to them by the poverty alleviation workers. Those poverty alleviation workers But they are all educated, after all, isn’t knowledge helping them get rid of poverty?”

"Besides, we live in a big city, and we still study vocal music and piano. From our point of view, the purpose of studying and acquiring knowledge is to get a certificate for the exam and find a good job in the future. But if these children from the mountains go out of the mountains and study agriculture, What the knowledge brings to them can be realized, allowing them to eat better and earn more.”

"In addition to agronomy, there are also electricity, the Internet, and construction. These are all majors that can improve their lives. How can it be called unnecessary?"

After hearing Ji Ke's words, Shen Ling nodded, "You're right... I'm too tired, and I can't help but think that the situation is getting worse."

"You're right. How can reading more books be bad? Literacy and courtesy are not bad things at all."

"That's right. And not only to improve life, reading can also change people's thinking." Ji Ke's expression became serious, "Like this impoverished mountainous area, the situation of buying and selling daughter-in-law is most likely to occur. Solving this deformed thinking can also be regarded as making a small contribution to reducing human trafficking.”

Mentioning this, Shen Ling couldn't help becoming excited.

"Yes!" She said, "Well, I, really... I really want to come to the mountainous area to support education because I have read a lot of such news before. I really need to change my mind in order to solve the phenomenon of buying and selling daughter-in-law in poverty-stricken areas. .”

"The other thing is to allow little girls to read and learn knowledge. The phenomenon of patriarchy in this place is also very serious!"

Ji Ke and Shen Ling were a few steps behind, discussing the meaning of supporting education intensely, but the village head and his wife had already stopped in front of them.

Seeing this, the two of them shut up and followed suit.

"It's the place." The village chief said in substandard Mandarin, "Teachers, this is the accommodation for you. The village is relatively poor, so this is a good place. Please take care of me, two teachers."

"There are latrines and stoves in the house, you can use whatever you want."

"There's already some food in it, if it's not enough, you can just go to my house and find me."

In front of him was a small adobe house. From the outside, there were about two rooms inside, and it happened that Ji Ke and Shen Ling shared one room.

The house is surrounded by a fence, and a small open space is circled in front of the house.

There were several sacks leaning against the corner of the house, which seemed to be the food that the village chief said was prepared for them.

Ji Ke smiled at the village chief, "I'm sorry for your trouble that you came to pick us up so late."

The village head didn't understand what he said for a while, Ji Ke repeated it word by word, and the village head smiled and said: "It's not hard work, it should be."

Ji Ke's house was for the middle of the village. When the village chief and his wife left, some people came out and stood at the door, looking at them.

Ji Ke waved at them as a greeting, and then entered the room with Shen Ling.

The adobe house is warm in winter and cool in summer, and they felt a burst of coolness after entering the house. The two of them, who were sweaty, tired and hot, finally felt the first good thing after coming to Lianhua Village.

Regardless of his image, Shen Ling spread out on the chair, "Oh my God, I'm exhausted."

She unscrewed the bottle and took a big gulp of water, "I was prepared to suffer and suffer before I came here, but after really experiencing the life in Dashan, I still feel very broken."

"And what broke me the most is that the village chief's Mandarin is really not up to standard. I can't even understand what he is saying!"

Ji Ke sat down next to her, "I checked the information before I came, and the villagers in Lianhua Village are mainly Yi people. The village head is not bad, and he must have communicated with the poverty alleviation workers before. Although it is not standard, he can still speak Mandarin. Said."

"I'm afraid that in the future we may meet people who can't even speak Mandarin."

Shen Ling took a deep breath, "My God."

"But I have this." Ji Ke took out his mobile phone, clicked on a program, and handed it to Shen Ling, "I have learned programming, and I wrote a small program before I came here, a Putonghua Yihua converter, which contains common vocabulary , can be used without internet connection.”

"With it, communication shouldn't be a problem."

"Damn it." Shen Ling's eyes were filled with admiration for an instant, and she gave Ji Ke a thumbs up, "Nice!"