There are many villages around Shenjia Village, but only Xinxue Village has a school. Then, only the town and the county seat have schools.

Shenjia Village happened to be closer to the Xinxue Production Brigade, and it took less time to walk there. Therefore, all the children in the village went to the primary school in Xinxue Village.

“Building a school, is this possible?”

Shen Guoqing was unsure, as he had never considered this before. But the old man's words made him feel that this was a way out.

After all, life in the countryside is too hard. For children, the best way out of the countryside is to study.

No one wants their children to stay in the countryside, live a poor and hard life, and worry about food.

Zheng Yaozu drank a few sips of tea and analyzed calmly, "Of course it is feasible. Letting children read more will be of great help to their future. If you can open a school in your own village, it will also allow children in the village to go to school. This is a good thing."

Shen Yao silently filled the tea cup for Grandpa. The main room was quiet and everyone listened to their conversation without anyone making a sound to disturb them.

In fact, she wanted to donate money to build a school in the village so that all the girls in the village could learn to read and write.

I hope that through studying, they can acquire a certain amount of cultural knowledge and broaden their horizons.

Let them be able to solve problems through learning when they encounter them, and let everyone know that girls are not slaves in the family.

"Mr. Zheng, you are right! It is better to study. If you are not educated, you will be trapped in the village for the rest of your life and live a hard life. What hope can there be in such a life? But building a school is not an easy task. It is not easy to find teachers, desks and books."

Shen Guoqing sighed and said that his family was not the kind of pedantic people. They all agreed that one should read more books so that one would have the opportunity to go out.

However, the decision to build a school was not his alone. There were other cadres in the village. Although he was the village chief and party secretary, he could not make the final decision.

Zheng Yaozu said calmly, "I can help you with teachers and textbooks. As for desks, your village is close to the mountains, and I believe many villagers are carpenters, so making some desks is not difficult."

To him, these are just small matters, it just depends on whether the people in the village will think about it.

If they want their descendants to be blind, that is their own business.

The old man explained it so clearly that Shen Guoqing began to feel moved.

He found that things he had never considered before, now that his old man said so, did not seem to be such a difficult thing.

"Okay, I'll go discuss this with the village officials now, and then call a meeting for the entire village."

Shen Guoqing greeted his old man and prepared to go to the village office to find someone. Now that he had been enlightened by Mr. Zheng, he wanted to get things done as soon as possible.

Zheng Yaozu smiled and shook his head, "No hurry, it won't be too late to go later!"

"Mr. Zheng, do you have any other instructions?" After hearing this, Shen Guoqing could only sit back on the stool and look at Zheng Yaozu with some confusion.

Grandpa, please don't give him any difficult questions. It's still a question whether this school can succeed. If he raises the requirements, he won't be able to do it.

Zheng Yaozu looked at him and asked calmly, "Guoqing, if we build a primary school with bricks and tiles, six classrooms, two teacher offices, and two dormitories, how many bricks and tiles do we need in total?"

Shen Guoqing was completely dumbfounded. He felt that Mr. Zheng was making things difficult for him.

It would be good enough if he could convince the villagers to build a few thatched houses, but how could they build brick and tile houses?

What's more, it's a brick and tile house with ten rooms. It can't be built without a cost of thousands of dollars.

"Grandpa, you're putting me in a difficult position. The total public funds in our village are not even a few hundred yuan. We can't build such a large brick and tile house." Shen Guoqing replied with a bitter look on his face.

The Shen family members sitting in the house were also stunned. Ten brick and tile houses were only seen in the city. How could there be such a large school in their country? It was totally impossible.

Zheng Yaozu smiled and said, "If my Zheng family donates a sum of money, can it be built? And if the school is built, can you ensure that all girls in the village can go to school?"

After hearing what the old man said, Shen Guoqing looked at him in shock, "Mr. Zheng, is everything you said true?"

Why did he feel it was so unreal, as if he was walking on cotton, so light and airy, just like a dream!

"It's true!" Zheng Yaozu nodded with a smile. He asked his eldest son to take out the prepared money and put it on the table. "Guoqing, here is 3,000 yuan. Real money is here. It depends on whether you can convince the villagers to let their daughter go to school."

Shen Guoqing looked at the big black ten on the table, his eyes full of shock, and said excitedly, "My God, this is actually true. Mr. Zheng, don't worry! I will go to discuss it with everyone now, and I guarantee to give you a satisfactory answer!"

After saying that, Shen Guoqing immediately rushed out, he was worried that he was dreaming, so he stretched out his hand and pinched his thigh hard.

Oh my god, it actually hurts.

He laughed out loud with joy, and it hurt, which meant that the old man really didn't lie to him!

Shen Qiu opened her mouth wide. She looked at Shen Guoqing who disappeared quickly in the yard. Was this still her father who could handle everything? The speed at which he rushed out was as if someone was chasing him.

"Grandpa, have you really thought it through? This is thousands of dollars, not just a few bucks." Xu Dani asked anxiously.

Zheng Yaozu nodded with a smile, "I've thought about it. My granddaughter was born in Shenjia Village. She wants to do something for the girls in the village. As a grandfather, I must help her realize it."

Gao Shujuan smiled and said, "Sister Xu, building a school in the village is a good thing. Money is a small problem for us. As long as the girls in the village can go to school, donating the money is worth it."

As the elders, they will definitely give their full support to whatever her daughter wants to do.

Besides, donating money to build a school in the village so that children can learn to read and write is a good deed in itself, and they have no reason to object.

Of course, the premise is that the villagers know how to be grateful. If they don't know how to be content and are greedy, that's another matter.

Xu Dani nodded and said, "That's really good."

Chen Lanhua and her husband readily agreed. As mothers themselves, they also hoped that their children would read more and be able to leave Shenjia Village in the future.

Neither of them wanted their children to stay in the countryside all their lives, as life there would be too tiring and hard.

Shen Guoqing worked very quickly. When the villagers were about to finish work in the afternoon, he asked everyone to go to the village office for a meeting at 6 o'clock in the evening.

In the afternoon, he first found the village cadres to hold a meeting to discuss the matter.

Finally, except for that idiot Ye Zhiguo, all other village officials agreed unanimously.

Someone is willing to donate money to build a school in the village. This is a great thing, so how could they not agree?

The work of the village cadres has been done, and now all that remains is for the villagers to make a decision after the meeting in the evening.

Because the village chief asked everyone to hold a meeting in the evening, after finishing work, every household hurried home to prepare dinner.