Meeting Ni Congyan's probing gaze, the law enforcement officer slowly explained, "That stuff is very weakly poisonous; it can poison an entire pond of fish and shrimp in one go. But it decomposes very slowly, taking at least eight hours to completely decompose, just like it never happened before. Eight hours is enough to kill all the fish, shrimp, and crops."
How can a lone seven-story concrete building be a university?
"Goose, goose, goose, neck arched towards the sky, white feathers floating on green water, red webbed feet paddling through clear waves..."
"I'm used to it," Xu Kangxu gave a brief reply without explaining the details.
Xu An was confused again, his questioning gaze falling on Xu Kang's lower body, looking directly into my eyes, waiting for my detailed explanation.
"No, not at all." Xu Kang shook his head: "There were probably only two or eight, but the living conditions there were too poor, the pay too high, and they often delayed paying wages, so they all left."
Before receiving Xu An's permission, Xu Kang nodded and then asked if any of his children wanted to come along. He told them that if they wanted to go, they should go back and tell their families before coming over.
"Those are all raised for the teachers!" While Xu Kang was still thinking about how to answer Xu An's question, a big kid answered it first.
Suddenly, a big boy whispered, "Your dad said that he'll send you back to school next year before all the mushrooms are sold. You could already read when they came last time!"
The innocent child's voice was unmistakable, and the seven-story building behind them, only slightly worse off than the paper mill, was indeed a university...
"That thing, does it have an official name? We call it a poison canister. It appeared for a while a few years ago, but it disappeared after a special campaign to catch the typical cases. I didn't expect it to reappear now!" The law enforcement officers looked at the luxurious equipment that Li Sixin handed over with rather grim expressions.
Listening to the law enforcement officers explain how the case was resolved, Ni Congyan finally felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders.
The two ruthless flower-destroying madmen, who had ravaged countless flowers and plants along the way, were very excited when they heard the reading aloud. They turned around, hugged Xu An, and began to quietly recite along with the reading voice coming from outside the school.
When the school bell rang, the older children poured out of the room and gathered on the flat mud floor to play hopscotch, cat's cradle, and other games. Their laughter mingled with the dust and drifted through the air.
"Yes, there is, but if the disinfection is done carelessly, there will be problems..."
Seeing the slow, shifting expression on Ni Cong's face, Xu Kang quickly explained, "Now all the children outside the village can go to school. Some families just delay their children's schooling by a year, until they're four, so they don't have to stay outside the village for another year. After all, the school is closer to Hezibao now, and they can't go back to the village for lunch, so it costs a lot of money..."
Going home for lunch?
"Will the land be polluted? Will there be any lingering problems?" Li Sixin asked again before letting out a slight sigh of relief.
"Yes, those things are notoriously difficult to make, and they're very expensive. They only appeared because of disputes over farmland and fishponds. How come they're appearing under the mudflats now? Well, Xu Family Village contracted them out, and there haven't been any disputes during the contract period. It's really strange..."
"Brothers, brothers! You can recite that poem too! Your teacher taught you to recite it! Goose, goose, goose..."
Add in the time spent eating, and there's practically no time to rest!
Xu Kang did not rashly agree to come up, but instead looked up at Xu An, asking for his opinion with his eyes.
As the seven of them talked, they got closer and closer to the university. Xu An finally saw the wooden sign without the school's name on it. The small red paint on the bottom was almost gone, which explained why everyone had noticed it earlier.
“Those children all grew up outside the mountains, they are very energetic, and they can read a book after just one trip at noon, and they are not too bad.” Xu Kang’s tone was devoid of emotion or reminiscence.
Hezibao is about two kilometers away from the school. If it were an adult like Xu An walking at a certain speed, it would take seventy minutes at a slow pace and half an hour at a fast pace.
The response to Xu An's question was not Ni Congyan's answer, but the sound of reading aloud coming from that building.
Listening to Ni Congyan and Le's reading aloud, many of the older children showed envy.
Ring ring—ring ring—
"Rotation? Does that mean there are no fixed teachers?" Xu An was shocked again.
"It must just be lower-grade students going home for lunch, right?"
Um......
"Go back, everyone. The younger students will take the older students back to the village together, and then they will go back to school together before having dinner."
"That college entrance rate..."
Xu Kang shook his head, not answering Xu An's question, but then he led Xu Dongliang and Le to feed the lambs outside the sheepfold...
However, there weren't many children in the group, none of them were eight years old or one year old. To accommodate our pace, Xu An and the others deliberately quickened their pace, and it took them more than seventy minutes to finally see a lonely building.
The lunch break is only about two hours at most. For a slow-moving child in grades 7 or 8, it would take about an hour to make a round trip. But for a student in grades 7 or 8, it would take almost an hour and a half to make a round trip.
University?
Why----
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