Song Ziqing looked at Song Youying with appreciation, "It's good that you have such an idea. If you are short of money, I can also sponsor you some. Money is the last thing we need right now."
Song Youying gazed at Song Ziqing with deep gratitude, her eyes shining with determination, and said softly, "Thank you, Aunt. But we hope to achieve our goals through our own efforts."
Today, the village has a seafood drying workshop. After more than ten years of hard work, our village has long since escaped poverty, and funding is no longer a problem.
The reason why the school could not be built in the past was that the town leaders were not very supportive of the matter.
However, with the recent change in town leadership, the new leaders seem to have a positive attitude towards our construction of schools and factories.
In the future, we plan to build a primary school in the village and gradually expand and upgrade the existing dried seafood workshop into a large-scale factory!
After thinking for a moment, Song Ziqing suggested, "How about this: we will fund the purchase of a batch of books for you. This includes not only textbooks for primary school, but also all course books covering the entire primary to high school period."
In addition, there will be some professional books and periodicals on aquaculture, planting, and fisheries. This way, everyone can immerse themselves in this knowledge when they have free time!
Oh, by the way, did you all take those related books we placed in the ancestral home before? I clearly stated beforehand that you were free to browse the books in the house.”
After listening attentively to Song Ziqing's suggestions, Song Youying nodded repeatedly in praise, saying, "Auntie, your idea is absolutely brilliant! With these books, our villagers will be able to acquire knowledge more efficiently, broaden their horizons, and thus promote the vigorous development of local industries."
As for the books stored in the ancestral home, everyone has always cherished them, but unfortunately, in the past, they were too busy making a living to have the time to study them carefully.
Now that I finally have some free time, I will definitely devote myself to studying its mysteries.
After hearing what Song Youying said, Song Ziqing smiled slightly and replied, "That's very good. However, these books alone are not enough. We still urgently need someone to come and impart knowledge."
After you return to the village, you can try to communicate and negotiate with the relevant leaders in the town and ask them to help contact some of the intellectuals who were sent down to our village to settle down and receive re-education.
In this way, those people can both participate in rural labor and undergo ideological reform, and also serve as teachers in our village without receiving any compensation, responsible for teaching more advanced and complex cultural knowledge to all of you villagers.
Upon hearing this, Song Youying was overjoyed and exclaimed, "Oh my, Aunt, you are so thoughtful and meticulous!"
If we could truly invite experienced and professionally qualified teachers and mentors to come to our village to provide instruction and guidance, everyone's learning outcomes would undoubtedly improve significantly!
Song Youying said excitedly, "Auntie, I'll go back and discuss this with the village chief, and try to invite the teacher over as soon as possible."
Song Ziqing smiled and nodded, "Yes, but we must also respect the teachers' wishes and needs while arranging for them to work in the fields every day. We can't let them be too idle, after all, they are here to receive re-education."
Song Youying repeatedly agreed, indicating that she would definitely handle her relationship with the teachers well.
"By the way, Youying, where's Youjun? Why didn't he come to Guangcheng with you? Did you tell him that I miss him a lot?"
How's your grandfather/uncle doing lately? Has he been taking his medicine on time? Are your parents busy with work? Remember to get some rest!
How are the villagers doing now? Have they encountered any trouble or difficulties that require our help?
Song Ziqing held Song Youying's hand tightly, and the two strolled and chatted for a long time without realizing it.
Suddenly, as if remembering something important, Song Ziqing asked.
She knew very well that her ancestral home was always well taken care of by Song Youjun.
Moreover, the kind-hearted and amiable village chief and his sister-in-law had always treated her like a younger sister, so she sincerely hoped that her relatives in her hometown would be safe and well.
“My brother has been busy managing the village workshops lately, and my dad, now the village chief, also needs to be there. My mom is at home helping my sister-in-law take care of our children and can't leave at all.”
Ah Xiang, as you all know, he's in charge of this Canton Fair, and he'll be busy with Canton Fair matters starting tomorrow.
Thanks to the seafood workshop you proposed, every household in our village now receives a share of money every year, so there's no shortage of funds, and no one is in financial difficulty anymore.
Thinking about this, Song Youying truly felt that Song Ziqing, this elder, was a very wise person.
Because of the solid foundation laid by the couple for the village, even after so many years, their village still has partnerships with several factories in the mainland, and can occasionally exchange for a lot of supplies that their seaside village lacks.
They have no shortage of money and supplies; their village's life is considered good compared to the rest of the town.
That's why she dared to tell Song Ziqing that they didn't need her help to set up the school, as their village was fully capable of building it.
The town didn't support building it before, but now that the leadership has changed, building the school is on the agenda.
"That's good. I'm happy to see everyone's lives getting better and better." Song Ziqing smiled with satisfaction.
Song Youying hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Aunt, there's something else I don't know if I should tell you."
"Just say what's on your mind," Song Ziqing said softly, looking at the other person with a firm and encouraging gaze.
Song Youying frowned and said with a worried look, "It's like this, our village is going to build a school, but building a school requires land! But most of the land in our village has been used to build houses and grow crops."
There's another vacant lot that the village plans to use to open a factory, but now they simply can't find any extra land to build a new school. He sighed after saying that.
After hearing this, Song Ziqing remained silent, seemingly lost in thought.
After a while, he slowly spoke: "This is indeed a tricky problem... but in my opinion, we can think of another way. How about this, we can simply lend our ancestral home to the village to be used as a school!"
Anyway, the chances of our family coming back to live here permanently are very small. You can totally convert the front yard into a classroom, while we can keep the back yard for our own use.
"Please help me move all the furniture from the front yard to the house in the back yard."
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