Chapter 188

Before 188, Jiang Xi was admitted to Peking University in advance. Various interviews were broadcasted, letting the girls in Wujiang City know one thing, that is, girls do not lack stamina when they reach high school. Girls can also rush faster and harder than boys. This incident was like a shot of adrenaline for the girls who had been brainwashed that "girls' grades will not be good when they reach high school". It gave them a direction to work hard. Whenever they were tired and felt that they might not be able to do it, they would look at Jiang Xi's photo in the newspaper. Looking at Jiang Xi, they seemed to have the strength and confidence to continue.

Even though before, because of Jiang Xi's admission to Peking University, the Linhe Brigade, or in other words, the people of Jiangjia Village, paid more attention to girls' education, but the impact on the whole Wucheng was still small. Then, at this moment, what she influenced was the change in the views of everyone in Wucheng on girls' education.

Because those who came here today to register and count the number of disaster victims are all township heads, town heads, brigade secretaries and village heads. They are the ones who can truly decide the fate of girls in a town, a township, a brigade and a village. If the village heads attach importance to girls' education, the brigade secretaries attach importance to girls' education, and the township heads and town heads attach importance to girls' education, it will truly be implemented in thousands of households and change the fate of girls' education in a village, instead of having a unified policy that after graduating from primary school or middle school, they go out to work in factories and the greatest vision of their life is to work in a factory.

Although with the popularization of nine-year compulsory education, more and more families are sending girls to school, but only a small number of girls can actually go to high school or even high school, and these are families who love their daughters very much.

In order to make them pay attention to girls' education and let them go to high school and college, in addition to the change in concepts, there must also be enough benefits to make them see the benefits. The emergence of Jiang Xi has disintegrated the past concepts of "girls' education is useless" and "girls' education is for others' sake". They have seen that it is not useless for girls to study, and girls can also bring honor to the family.

Look at Jiang Xi from Linhe Brigade. Who knew Linhe Brigade in the past? Who doesn't know Linhe Brigade now? Who doesn't know that Linhe Brigade has a Jiang Liu? The prestige of the entire Jiangjia Village in the surrounding villages has risen sharply.

Jiang Hongjun and his two brothers have been following their father since they were young, building houses for people in the surrounding villages. They have traveled far and wide, and have traveled all over Wucheng. This month they built a house in this family, and next month they went to another town to build a house. Therefore, if we talk about the understanding of the towns and villages around Wucheng, there are really not many people who know it better than these three brothers.

The three brothers were smart and lively. They knew all the statistics submitted by the villages and towns. Especially since it was their sister's money, they would never let anyone take advantage of them. They were very serious and responsible. With the three of them joining, Mayor Jiang could spare time to do other things.

Seeing that Mayor Jiang finally had time, Village Chief Jiang also came up to him and asked, "Guoding, were those materials really donated?"

He was referring to the large cargo ship.

Mayor Jiang nodded and said, "It was donated by Liu Liu. Half of it was donated by Liu Liu personally, and the other half was donated by the society."

Even though he had heard about it before, Mayor Jiang still took a breath and said, "How much money does this cost? Where

did Liu Liu get the money?" Mayor Jiang rubbed his face vigorously with his hands, and then he put his hands on his hair and rubbed his hair vigorously and said, "Where else can the money come from? Her scholarship..."

Before he finished speaking, Mayor Jiang exclaimed, "She got so much scholarship?"

Mayor Jiang had never seen a student who had studied to Jiang Liu's level in all these years. Hearing this, he said, " I heard from her that she is...” Thinking of the stock market, Town Chief Jiang was afraid that after this matter got out, it would be as easy for others to make money in the stock market and they would all invest their money in the stock market, so he did not continue: "In short, it is legitimate money. You would not understand even if I told you, so don't worry about it. Count it and take the supplies back. Make sure to distribute them to every disaster-stricken person. After our team has distributed them, we will count some people who have nothing to do at home but can still work, and distribute the disaster relief supplies to other places. Tell them to keep an eye on them and don't let others embezzle the supplies."

Village Chief Jiang nodded repeatedly.

Regarding the fact that Jiang Qing made money in the stock market while other stockholders lost their fortunes and committed suicide, Mayor Jiang’s personal opinion was that he was a smart person who could make money anywhere, but most people in their village were ordinary people and could not trade in the stock market.

After registering the list of disaster victims in each brigade, the county government arranged people to move supplies according to the number of people.

By the time all this was done, it was already night, and boats could not sail on the river at night, which was very dangerous.

Jiang Xi brought more than 50 volunteers this time. The Linhe Brigade brought three boats with a total of 25 people, including the three Jiang brothers from Jiangjia Village, the village chief, the accountant, and ten capable people from the village, and ten people from Xujia Village. Mayor Jiang called these people and asked them if they were willing to go with other boats to other places for disaster relief, mainly to supervise the supplies so that they would not be embezzled.

When the people from Xujia Village heard that they were going to be supervisors, they were excited and eager to try.

They had always been bandits who robbed others, and had never supervised others. Of course, they wanted to do something so prominent.

Mayor Jiang also knew the character of the people in Xujia Village. They should be matched with people from Jiangjia Village and Xujia Village. Don't send them out alone. If they do, the people from Xujia Village will steal and that would be a joke.

The more than 50 volunteers brought back by Jiang Xi, as well as the cadres and police sent by the county government, were organized into teams. They followed the ships that transported supplies and went down the next morning. Jiang Xi did not follow the ship to the Linhe Brigade, but went to the next brigade.

The next brigade is located in the middle of Shahe. Half of the brigade village is built on the mountain, just like Jiangjia Village, and the other half is on the other side of the river bank, built on the river. Generations have made a living from the river. Grandma Jiang's family is in this brigade, which is also one of the most severely affected areas nearby.

In Jiangjia Village, only the fields were flooded, resulting in a total crop failure this year. However, in this brigade, all the houses were flooded. When the river passed by, many villagers stood on the roofs of their houses and cried. Some of the rice and grain in their homes were also moved to the roofs, waiting for rescue.

Hearing that the relief team was coming to distribute food, clothing and other supplies, the victims, who were standing on the roofs of their houses in the vast ocean, burst into tears and shouted, "Avalokitesvara, the living Bodhisattva, saves the suffering!"

The villages of this brigade were all built by the water. Although the houses were flooded, fortunately, no one was killed or injured because everyone in the village, from the old men and women in their seventies and eighties to the children of four or five years old, can swim. Since they were born, the people here have followed their parents and elders to fish and catch shrimps, and they are proficient in various water skills. It was very familiar, and every household had either a small boat or a water chestnut basin. The food and other items in the house had long been pulled up to the mountain built on the hillside using the water chestnut basins or small boats. However, the heavy rains kept coming. Those who had relatives in the village above could stay at their own homes. Those who had no relatives could only find caves in the mountains or build a small shed temporarily with rain cloth. Several people in a family would live in this shed of several square meters. When it rained heavily outside, it was also damp inside.

It would be fine if they didn't get sick, but if they did, it would be like adding insult to injury.

Fortunately, it was June and the weather was getting hotter and not so cold. As long as they had food, it wasn't so hard to bear.

What made them sad was that they had lost all their harvest this year and their houses. Compared with Linhe Brigade, this brigade was poorer. Unlike many families in Linhe Brigade who had built buildings, many families here still had brick-and-earth structures like Jiang Xi's old house, with bricks underneath and earth bricks on top. Such earth bricks would basically be destroyed if they were soaked in the flood.

What made them even more desperate was that the lotus roots that they relied on to make money every year were also flooded.

It is said that if you live by the mountain, you can eat by the mountain; if you live by the water, you can eat by the water. They are typical people who live by the water. Almost all of their ways of making money come from the water. Shahe River is contracted out to others, so they can't go fishing, so they can only plant lotus roots and make money every year by selling lotus roots and lotus buds.

After planting lotus roots, they don't

need to be planted every year. If they dig them this year, they will continue to grow next year. But lotus roots that have been flooded are different. When lotus roots are drowned, all the seed lotus roots below are drowned. They either have to plant lotus roots again next year, or they have to wait for four or five years for the lotus seeds below to slowly sprout and grow again. It will take about five, six or seven years to create a large lotus beach again.

The latter, they definitely can't wait, but if they want to plant again, they have to spend a lot of money.

The whole brigade makes money by selling lotus roots, which is not a small amount. The whole river beach is planted with lotus roots.

In addition to lotus roots, there are also water chestnuts.

Now, whether it is the rice fields that provide them with food, or the lotus roots and water chestnuts, they are all flooded. Even the houses are gone. You can imagine how desperate these people are.

Even though the fish originally raised in the Shahe River have all swam into the rice fields of ordinary people because of the Shahe River bursting its banks, even though there are speedboats patrolling everywhere every day to prohibit farmers from fishing, they are fishing in their own rice fields and not in the Shahe River.

Now every household has enough fish to eat, but because there is no shortage of fish to eat, they can't sell the fish they catch, so they can only eat it themselves or pickle it.

Then they stood in the wind and rain every day, watching the water level of the Shahe River rise day by day, the river water gradually submerged the beams of their own house, then submerged the roof of their own house, and finally they could not even see the eaves of the roof. All they could see was a vast expanse of white.

These people had numb expressions and dull eyes. The brigade headquarters was flooded, and the loudspeaker used for notifications from the brigade headquarters could not be used. The brigade secretary used a hand-operated loudspeaker to repeatedly shout in the village: "My dear friends! My fathers! Cheer up! The motherland has not forgotten us! The government has not given up on us! Jiang Gui from the Linhe brigade next door! Seeing us suffer from the flood! Together with her classmates, she organized social donations, and she personally Donate money, we will get relief supplies! Every household, bring rice baskets, line up at Zhangjiaba to receive supplies! Don’t mess around! Don’t rush! Line up! Everyone will get some! "

When these disaster victims heard that there were relief supplies, their first reaction was to rush to grab them, for fear that if they ran too slow, the supplies would be snatched away by others. But when they arrived at Zhangjiaba, they found that the boat carrying the supplies had not docked at all, and was still about a hundred meters away from the shore.

A hundred meters is a quick distance for those river people who can swim. But what should they do after they get there? Where should they put the stolen supplies? Even if they have water chestnut basins and small boats, no matter how fast the small boats are, they are paddled with wood pulp. That boat is obviously a diesel boat. If you go over to grab it, they will drive away the boat. What should we do if we don’t send disaster relief supplies?

Jiang Xi’s uncle heard that it was Jiang Xi from the Linhe Brigade next door, and he ran around excitedly, shouting everywhere: "It’s my eldest sister’s granddaughter! It’s my eldest sister’s granddaughter who saw our hometown was hit by the disaster and donated supplies to us! It’s my eldest sister’s granddaughter!"

"Don’t crowd, don’t grab, that’s my eldest sister’s granddaughter!"

"Ting-ting! Ting-ting!" Standing on the embankment of the Zhangjiaba Dam, which was almost completely submerged, my uncle, who was a dozen years younger than Grandma Jiang, waved his hands vigorously and said excitedly to the victims queuing behind him: "See? That's my daughter, Jiang Xiao, my eldest sister's granddaughter, who was on TV last year. Did you see her?"

His tone was full of pride and pride.

Even Song Peifeng, who was standing next to Jiang Xiao, could feel the envy, pride, care, and even curiosity in the eyes of these villagers looking at Jiang Xiao.

The originally restless crowd calmed down. No one wanted to grab supplies anymore. They all lined up obediently, waiting to receive supplies, and then looked at Jiang Xiao with curious eyes.

Jiang Xiao was not shy at all. He greeted his uncle in the local dialect, "Uncle!"

A woman in her fifties next to his uncle called out kindly, "Is it Xiao Xiao? The last time I saw you, you were only as tall as my legs. In the blink of an eye, you've grown up! I'm your aunt, do you remember me?"

Jiang Xiao called out affectionately in the local dialect, "Aunt!" Then he greeted everyone one by one, "Uncle, aunt, brother, and sister-in-law." ! "

Many people have seen Jiang Xiao when the Jiang family held a wine ceremony for the beams of the river during the Chinese New Year this year. They were all very friendly and spontaneously stood up to maintain order, saying, "This is Jiang Xiao, the little granddaughter of my great-grandmother's family, our own granddaughter, a member of our team who went out, now she is a college student at Beijing University, a literary star in the sky!"

People who did not know Jiang Xiao but had seen Jiang Xiao on TV also greeted Jiang Xiao.

The children, who did not feel too deeply about the disaster, were like nimble fish, suddenly diving into the water, then poking their heads out of the water, lying on their own wooden basins, and curiously tilting their heads to look at the little girl standing at the bow of the boat, shaking hands with everyone with an expression that empathized with them.

Many people came over carrying bamboo baskets, and the twelve or thirteen-year-old girls who followed their parents also looked at her curiously.

Jiang Xi did not exchange many pleasantries. After greeting many people warmly, he asked the brigade secretary to arrange people to move supplies and distribute rice, clothes, school bags, and stationery according to the number of people and the situation of the children in the family.