Finally entered Jinshatan Village.
The surrounding environment is so shabby that it seems like it was specially built for a movie.
Jiang Yun looked at Huang Hubo with admiration.
She could understand Huang Huber and why she praised the outside world so highly.
Jinshatan Village does not even have the original value for tourism development.
Who on earth is so talented that gave their village such a name?
They had what was said to be the most sumptuous meal in the history of the village at the village chief's house. There was only one dish, a big pot full of fish, which was said to be braised. Under the dim candlelight, it was impossible to tell the big and small pieces. It was scooped into the rice bowls with a big soup spoon.
Mayor Zhou personally accompanied Qin Xiao and the others to Jinshatan Village. He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, not knowing why these people had come so unexpectedly. "There was no time to prepare anything. The leaders have suffered!"
Qin Xiao simply replied: "It's already very good!"
These fish were brought by Mayor Zhou.
Otherwise, their dinner would only be porridge with dried vegetables.
Jiang Jun ate very little, not because she disliked the food, but because the chewing sounds at the table were too loud for her to sit still.
Huang Hupo hurriedly accompanied Jiang Jun out: "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, let's go to my house and rest."
Huang Hupo had just gone home to clean up the situation, and only rushed to the village chief's house when she felt she could still handle it.
The villagers who were standing outside the village chief's house, wanting to watch the excitement and chattering, saw Jiang Jun and Huang Hupo coming out, and came over and followed them closely.
Huang Hupo was embarrassed: "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, please don't be offended!"
Jiang Yun, on the other hand, didn't think it was a big deal: "Everyone is very simple and honest, that's great!"
This is the custom of the people; it is simply a characteristic of the times.
In a few decades or hundreds of years, every corner will change and nothing will remain unchanged.
They walked at night with flashlights.
More than half of the people in the village still live in adobe houses and thatched houses.
It was pitch black everywhere.
At Huang Hupo's parents' home, the beds were covered with straw and there was a damp and moldy smell.
"It's not that I don't want to light candles, I'm just worried it's unsafe." Huang Hupo explained carefully, "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, you and I will sleep in my room. The sheets and quilts are only given to me when I go back to my parents' home. They are all clean. No one dares touch them when I'm not at home."
Jiang Jun had been a soldier before, so he wasn't picky about the quality or simplicity of his accommodations. "A flashlight is enough. I brought two extra batteries."
It’s okay if it’s dark and I can’t see anything clearly, as there aren’t so many psychological barriers.
Huang Hupo added, "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, our home is so poor. I was afraid you might have to get up in the middle of the night, so I stayed with you. I know you have the habit of sleeping on your own."
Jiang Jun was stunned. She hadn't really thought of this. "Chief Huang, you're so thoughtful. Thank you!"
Huang Hupo was really touched. She herself despised her own family, but she didn't expect to be thanked by Jiang Jun again and again. People from the capital are just different!
Some people were crowding at the door, wanting to come in and talk.
Jiang Yun said, "Let's talk in the living room. It's spacious."
When we sat in the room and talked, we had to light candles, and the beds were made of straw, which made people feel uneasy.
So, in the small hall of the Huang family, a group of people gathered around Jiang Yun.
Jiang Jun sat down, used her handbag as a small table on her legs, spread out a pen and paper, held a flashlight in her left hand, and started taking notes as soon as she was asked questions.
Everyone was very nervous, holding their breath and watching Jiang Jun's every move, and no one dared to speak.
Jiang Jun waited for a while, and when no one spoke, he took the initiative to ask, "It's so cold, when do we start sowing?"
They were all farming-related questions, like: When does the busy farming season begin? Is harvest season the most tiring time of the year? When it comes to paying grain, do the grain management office come to collect it, or do we have to haul it to the grain management office? How long does it take to walk such a long distance?
And so on, they are all closely related to our daily life.
These questions are simple and everyone is happy to answer them.
Some people laughed and thought that people from the city were rare. They spoke so nicely but didn't even know how to farm.
Suddenly, someone in the crowd asked Jiang Jun, "How much education have you had? How come you write so fast? Even faster than Li Laoer from our village!"
Huang Hupo explained, "Li Laoer was an educated youth who settled in Jinshatan Village. Just now, when we were coming from the village chief's house to mine, we passed by his house. They had two mud houses next to each other, and there was the sound of a baby crying in the house."
Jiang Jun remembered the faint crying sound. She was sighing in her heart at that time. Why give birth to a baby in such a poor place?
There are no hospitals, no nutritional supplements, and not even enough food. People are struggling here relying entirely on their natural vitality.
"I've finished middle school!" Jiang Jun was full of curiosity about Li Lao Er and wanted to steer the conversation: "Does reading more make you write faster?"
Jiang Yun's complete understanding of textbooks of this era came from Hong Hao. Hong Hao worked in a publishing house and was familiar with the compilation of textbooks across the country. The difficulty level of textbooks in different regions varied greatly.
Huang Hupo said, "Li Laoer is the only person in our village who has attended high school."
Jiang Yun was very surprised.
The uneducated girls in the village are trying their best to get married. How could a city dweller who has only graduated from high school be willing to settle down in this remote and poor place?
What kind of ideals and passions gave Li Laoer the courage to take root in such a place?
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Jun asked, "Who else has settled here?"
There were responses from the crowd.
Huang Hupo helped translate: "The village chief's daughter-in-law is Xiaoqin, and the branch secretary's sister-in-law is Xiaolu."
"Oh!" Jiang Jun could roughly guess the reason. Besides her age, the woman was able to settle down because she could be taken care of by the village head's or party secretary's family. "Are they all educated youth? Is the educated youth settlement far from here?"
Huang Hupo was a little nervous: "Do we still need to investigate the situation of the educated youth?"
Jiang Jun smiled. "I'm just asking. They're all here for re-education. Do they have to farm with everyone else? Do they have to plant rice? Do they have to carry water to irrigate the fields?"
Huang Hupo breathed a sigh of relief: "We all have to do farm work together!"
Jiang Jun smiled and said, "I thought they would help teach the children in the village to read."
In the original time and space, Jiang Yun had several classmates who went to the mountainous areas to teach on a voluntary basis, and they also organized fundraising for school supplies and clothes for the children in the mountainous areas in the class group.
Someone in the crowd said something and everyone started laughing.
Huang Hupo explained: "They said that in our village, we must obey the leadership of the village chief, otherwise we will be locked up on the farm and severely educated."
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