Chapter 286 A few cents are enough!
The calmer the words, the more powerful their impact.
The child's words, "These are livestock raised for the teachers," and Li Sixin's words, "Children in the mountains are full of energy; two kilometers is nothing to them," kept lingering in Xu An's mind, appearing repeatedly.
After tossing and turning for a long time, Xu An finally sighed, tiptoed out of bed, left the warm bed, put on his coat, and walked out of the room.
As soon as I stepped out of the room, my peripheral vision caught sight of a figure leaning against the balcony. Looking up, I saw that it was Xu Heping.
"Why are you standing here in a daze so late instead of sleeping?" Xu An tightened his clothes and walked over to Xu Heping, standing next to him.
"Can't sleep..." Xu Heping glanced at Xu An: "Are you getting up in the middle of the night?"
“No…” Xu An shook his head and smiled, “Just like you, I can’t sleep.”
After these words, the two fell into a long silence, quietly watching the bright moon in the sky, watching the ethereal clouds gradually obscure the moon, then slowly drift away, until finally only the bright moon remained in the sky.
“Today I talked to those kids about school. Do you know why Secretary Li didn’t answer the question about your school’s college entrance rate?” Xu Heping’s voice was very soft, deep, and muffled, which was very different from his usual image as a leader of children.
"Hmm, what did the children say?"
Li Sixin was about to say something when He Zibao's door creaked open. He Zibao rubbed his eyes and walked towards the stairs. He had only taken two steps when he saw Xu and his wife staring at him, and he was immediately startled.
Xu continued speaking while waiting for Li Sixin to respond.
"The purchasing staff need to be stationed there long-term. At the very least, they need to be busy there for eight or seven months of the year. They usually stay outside the village office every time they come... It's not as warm as the sorting and packing area I saw yesterday. In another two weeks, when it snows, it will be so cold that it will be impossible to work... Plus, the previous hot pot..."
As Li Sixin spoke, he suddenly turned to look at Xu Shi, revealing a meaningful expression.
Aha————
Even calculating that far isn't enough. The average annual income in those villages is just over ten thousand yuan, and a child's schooling alone costs two thousand yuan a year. Yet, a typical family there usually has no more than two children, and their ages are generally only one or two years apart...
If the donation amount were increased to seven cents, it wouldn't be seventy-seven people!
"What do you mean, how about..." Xu suddenly realized halfway through her sentence and exclaimed in surprise, "He means, he wants to stay there as a factory-based purchasing agent?"
"Yes, yes." Li Sixin shook his head again, then revealed the answer: "Eight. Out of a hundred people, only eight can attend junior high school."
"one?"
That guy from Hezibao once said that I almost dropped out of school because of the lack of living expenses... More than ten years have passed since then, and that obstacle is still there...
Um?
The drowsiness that had just washed over her suddenly dissipated a bit. Xu switched the page to the browser's search page, entered 'charity baby', and went back to the search.
"We bumped into each other when we got up to use the restroom. Secretary Li is also going to the toilet, let's go together!"
"When they heard us talking, they didn't seem to have any urge to help us out, but..." Li Sixin sighed softly, not continuing.
"How come I heard Seventh Grandpa and I talking about that?"
"He's come over there, what will happen to his dozen or so fishponds?"
"Hmm." Madam Xu nodded: "Wan Tangwen exported and organized the sales data of Xu Heping's agricultural products and sent it to you. The data is quite accurate, and it is a source of income for us. Long-term cooperation would be a mutually beneficial thing."
That was a charity program launched by Taobao in 2006, where stores decided whether to participate, the amount of donation before each order was completed, and so on...
"But isn't there four years of compulsory education?" Upon hearing those numbers, Xu was speechless, and even a guess arose in her mind: "Could it be...?"
"That's pretty bad." Hearing Wei Jing's words, Li Sixin felt the weight on his heart lift a little, but then, as if remembering something, he asked, "Have the acquisition personnel been selected?"
"Is he planning to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Xu Heping's side?"
"Are your parents still alive? And now that there's aquaculture being developed outside the village, your parents are considering selling the fishpond so they can focus on doing aquaculture outside the village."
"Also, search quickly before you go back. It's probably a bad search, so you'll have to trouble them to keep an eye on things there for you during that time..."
Wei Jing immediately pulled Li Sixin along, and the eight of them went to the toilet together and came back together. Before returning, they each went to their own rooms, and the night fell in peace.
Over the past two days, it's clear that the villages around Xu Heping produce a wide variety of crops. Potatoes and peanuts are common, but there are also many cash crops like prickly pears, crisp plums, pears, and grapes. If the purchasing plant is successfully established, they might only buy potatoes and peanuts, but they'll also try selling other cash crops...
"In Hezibao, a small number of people don't finish school until they're four. Their parents prayed that they would finish their studies, but even if they didn't, they hoped they would learn to read. In the past, becoming a vagrant meant certain death... Starting school at four means being seventeen in eight years, a grown adult... A small number of them are taken by their parents to work half-price jobs in construction sites and factories to earn money... Most stay at home to do farm work... A very, very small number of them are able to continue to junior high school..."
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