"Hello, Second Uncle!"

"Fourth Aunt, where's Little Sheep? I haven't seen her in so long. I wonder what she looks like now!"

"Fourth Uncle is home too! I didn't see him yesterday, I thought he had gone out!"

Lin Yifeng woke up with a smile and greeted each of his relatives in the yard.

My uncle and aunt care so much about me, and they don't want me to teach in Paishi Village. They said calmly, "If it were before, I definitely wouldn't have come back to teach in our village."

"How could I not know what's going on in our village?"

“Back when I was in school, I had to walk five kilometers to Panshang to attend primary school. When I got to junior high school, it was even more exaggerated; I had to go to Shuiyun Town to attend junior high school.”

"To put it bluntly, this school in our village could be demolished and no one would even notice!"

It was very difficult to go to school in Paishitou Village. When Lin Yifeng went to school, he had to walk five kilometers to Panshang to attend primary school.

Every morning around 5 a.m., Lin Yifeng would get up to go to school in Panshang. He would get up early that day, bring steamed buns and pickled vegetables, and have lunch there.

If the weather is bad, Lin Yifeng needs to get up even earlier, or even...

He couldn't go to school that day.

When Lin Yifeng reached junior high school, he had to go to Shuiyun Town to attend school.

It's no exaggeration to say that the three years Lin Yifeng spent studying in Shuiyun Town were the most difficult three years of his life. Fortunately, Lin Yifeng was quite capable and studied hard for three years, and was admitted to a vocational school that everyone envied.

"You know that too, Xiaofeng? If you know that, why did you come back?"

Aunt Si tried to persuade Lin Yifeng: "Look at our village, whose child goes to school? Putting aside the issue of whether it costs money or not, once the child grows up, you won't let him help with chores?"

"The smaller ones can weed the fields, the larger ones can cut down trees, and the even bigger ones can blast mountains or carry stones."

The students of Paishitou Village, if they don't go to school, become half-grown laborers.

Washing clothes, cooking, weeding in the fields, cutting down trees, blasting mountains, and so on.

Almost no one is willing to pay for their child to go to school.

Logically speaking, the poorer the place, the more students should study.

For them, studying is the only way to change their social class and leave the mountains!

but!!!!

Once you truly delve into the world of experts, you'll find that it's not like that at all.

Lin Yifeng was aware of all this, and he still kept his hands in his pockets, smiling: "Fourth Aunt, you probably don't know."

"Now, in order to encourage education, the government has established student grants and scholarships!"

"The scholarship is to help students with their studies. The amount is not large, only about twenty yuan a month."

As soon as Lin Yifeng finished speaking, Aunt Si's eyes widened:

"Xiaofeng, how much do you want?"

"Twenty yuan or so?"

"Are you sure it's around twenty yuan, not two mao (0.2 yuan) or two yuan??"

Fourth Aunt's voice is very loud!

Lin Yifeng nodded and said, "Yes, it's about twenty yuan, to be precise, twenty-one yuan and fifty-four cents!"

Lin Yifeng gave an "accurate" number!

"A student grant of 21.54 yuan???"

Aunt Si's voice became shrill. She looked at her husband with disbelief, then at Lin Jinshui, Feng Cuie, and the others.

What does a student grant of 21.54 yuan mean?

So that's what I mean!

The vocational high school that everyone wanted to attend, known as the pride of the times, only received a monthly government subsidy of about twenty yuan.

It's similar to the scholarship that Lin Yifeng mentioned.

That's how it was; vocational school students became the first choice for rural people in this era, and only those who couldn't get into vocational school would consider going to high school.

Now, students receive as much as 21.54 yuan in financial aid.

The amount was unbelievable to Aunt Si, who even thought Lin Yifeng was lying.

"Let me finish speaking!"

Lin Yifeng ignored Zhou Xuelan's questioning gaze and continued, "As I just said, the scholarship isn't a large amount; it's to help students with their studies!"

"Scholarships are where the real money is!"

Do you know how much the scholarship is each semester?

Lin Yifeng looked at his fourth aunt. In her youth, she was a famously beautiful wife in the surrounding villages. However, now, due to the combined effects of age and hard work, she had deep wrinkles around her eyes, calluses on her hands, and a severely overweight and out-of-shape figure. She was almost no longer beautiful at all.

Fourth Aunt shook her head vigorously. Seeing this, Lin Yifeng held up a finger to give her a hint.

"one?"

"More than a hundred?"

My aunt boldly quoted an amount: in the 1990s, the wages of those respected state-owned enterprise workers were only a hundred or so yuan a month. For rural people, earning 50 yuan a month was already quite impressive.

My aunt's family works hard all month, but in a year, their gross income is only four or five hundred yuan, which is less than 40 yuan per month on average!

How can you support a large family on 40 yuan a month?

It's very simple!

We don't use electricity, we use candles.

They grow their own vegetables and grains, and raise some poultry. They hardly eat meat or fruit, and use their money only to buy seasonings and oil. They can save ten or even twenty yuan a month from their 40 yuan.

Therefore, for Aunt Si, a sum of over one hundred yuan was already quite high.

but!

Lin Yifeng shook his head!

Under the shocked gazes of the crowd, he whispered, "1000!"

"It's 1000 yuan!"

Lin Yifeng paused for a moment, then continued, "It's not 1000 per year, it's 1000 per semester!!!"

"Fourth Aunt, there are two semesters a year. If your child's grades are good enough, he can get first place in every exam!"

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