Although several students were sweating, for them, they were not very tired when they were used to walking the mountain road every day.

"Thank you, teacher, we are not tired. We will rest here for a while before going down the mountain. Teacher, are you going to school too? Teacher Zhang is not at school today."

Teacher Zhang?

Ye Zhiran asked casually: "Well, where has Teacher Zhang gone? Where are the other teachers in the school?"

"The other teachers are here, don't you look for Teacher Zhang?"

Judging from their tone, it seemed that people from outside were usually looking for Teacher Zhang.

"Uh, is Teacher Zhang your principal?"

"No, the principal's surname is Zhou. Are you really here to find Teacher Zhang?" He said again: "However, even if you come to find Teacher Zhang today, you can't meet. Teacher Zhang today led the engineer to survey the terrain and wanted to help us repair the road that can drive cars."

"Oh?" Ye Zhiran felt a little surprised. It was not that this village did not need to be connected to a highway, but because this village was like a paradise, not only remote, but also hidden in the deep mountains, surrounded by mountains, and the cost of building roads was quite high. For the local government, such a road construction cost was probably not affordable. From an investment perspective, building such a highway would not produce much economic benefits.

"Get out of Xishan Village to build a road?" he asked.

It took him about an hour to climb here from the foot of the mountain, and it would take more than twenty minutes to go down the mountain to the village. It would take seven or eight kilometers to build such a car-driven road to the small market town, and it would also take a circumference of the mountain to build roads, and the number of kilometers would increase.

"Yes, yes, teacher, come here to see..."

The girl's red face and eyes shining. She pointed to the crack in the west and said, "Teacher Zhang said that when you build a road from the village to this crack in the mountains, you can directly lead to the national highway without going around the mountain, and the distance can be shortened by more than half."

Ye Zhiran looked at the direction Songcheng looked at before. Then he looked at the village. Indeed, when he went out of the mountain cracks, he could save a lot of distance.

"Well, classmate, why doesn't Teacher Zhang go to class to manage road construction? Isn't the government responsible for road construction?"

"Teacher Zhang said that the government has no money. We must be self-reliant. Fry the hillsides on both sides of the mountain cracks bigger, so that the stones blown off on the hillside can fill the gap between the village and the mountain cracks. In this way, the people in the village work themselves and repair the road from the village to the mountain cracks first, and then find a way to repair the road outside. We don't need to climb the mountain in the future. Moreover, Teacher Zhang said that the treasures in the mountain can be transported out continuously, and our village will be endless in the future."

"Well, so Teacher Zhang is very smart and capable. Classmate, what treasures are there in your mountain?"

"That's a lot, look over there..." The girl pointed to the depths of the village in the south and said, "The tea, trees, herbs, wild mushrooms, and wild fish in the pools in the deep mountains, and it's worth a lot of money to sell it down the mountain. Teacher Zhang also said that there may be a full text of the archives of the mines in the deep mountains."

Ye Zhiran gradually became interested in Teacher Zhang, who had never met before, and asked: "Classmate, tell us what kind of person Teacher Zhang is."

The girl seemed to be a class leader. She nodded and turned around to greet her classmates: "Okay, okay, we can continue on our way. Let's accompany this teacher to the village."

Five or six students sitting tilted behind them stood up obediently, put their bags on their backs, and followed the girl down the mountain.

"Student, do you tell me your name?"

"My name is Lan Shanyun, teacher, your surname is?"

The She people only have three surnames: "Zhong, Lan, and Lei". According to the clan rules, they cannot intermarry with foreign races. After the liberation, the She people here have abolished the clan rules that cannot intermarry, but even so, there are still not many She people and foreign races. Moreover, if She women marry foreign races, they generally have to change their surnames, and Mayor Jiaxin is an example.

"Haha, my surname is Ye, so I'll call me Teacher Ye."

Lan Shanyun jumped and said, "Teacher Ye, what are you doing in the village? Are you randomly checking the quality of education in Xishan School? With Teacher Zhang in our school, it's not bad."

"Didn't you say that Teacher Zhou is the principal? Is Teacher Zhang even more powerful than Teacher Zhou?"

"Well, it's not that Principal Zhou is not good, but that Teacher Zhang is too capable... Unfortunately, Teacher Zhang is here to teach, and I don't know when I will leave Xishan Village." The girl looked a little sad.

"Student, why did the school ask you to go down the mountain to get the books? The teacher doesn't go?"

"Ah, no. We were going to participate in the competition. A batch of books happened to be sent out, and the teacher asked us to bring them back. We didn't make a special trip to get the books."

I talked to this lively girl all the way, and soon Xishan Village was approaching.

Ye Zhiran came to this village for investigation and had no fixed goal. After listening to the girl's talk about Teacher Zhang all the way, he became interested in him and followed them to school.

This school is not big, with two rows of bungalows and a playground in the middle.

When we arrived at school, it was the end of get out of class and there were about dozens of students on the playground.

The girl saw Principal Zhou from a distance, raised her arms and shouted: "Principal Zhou, someone is coming from the town."

Principal Zhou saw Ye Zhiran and others and walked over and asked with a smile: "Do you come from the county?"

He basically knew all the teachers of Nanxi Town Central School. When he saw Ye Zhiran and the other three students, he immediately guessed that they were teachers from the county or cadres of the Education Bureau.

"Principal Zhou." Ye Zhiran went up and shook hands with him, and said, "We came from Lifeng City. We have no purpose. We just come and take a walk in the village and take a look."

Teacher Zhou should be a local She nationality teacher with a headband on her head and asked in confusion: "Well? Are you... reporters?"

It has no purpose, so it seems that it should be something that the reporter did.

Ye Zhiran smiled and said, "It's almost like Principal Zhou, whether Teacher Zhang is here or not? I heard Lan Shanyun introduce Teacher Zhang along the way, which aroused my curiosity."

Teacher Zhou was sure that the three of them were really journalists, and only journalists were so curious. Principal Zhou was still very welcome when a reporter came to the village. Their village was almost isolated from the outside, and there were very few people who knew about it. If a reporter came here to interview and promote it, it would be of great benefit to the development of the village.

Principal Zhou diligently invited them into the principal's office.

Ye Zhiran brought out his original questions again and wanted to get the latest chapter of the rebirth of the business concubine from Principal Zhou.

"Principal Zhou, Teacher Zhang wants to build roads for the village. This is a great thing. Why not do it through government channels?"

"Why don't you think? It won't work. An engineer has calculated that it will cost more than 100 million to build this ten-kilometer road. There is no such much money in the town or the county."

"But, it costs a lot of money to build your own roads. How can you get it in the village?"

"Teacher Zhang means to raise money for explosives and blow up the hillsides on both sides of the mountain crack in the north of the village to a more gentle one. The falling rocks are just used to build a road. After this section is repaired, the situation will be reported to the top so that the top can agree."

Ye Zhiran said: "Even if you ask someone to design, buy explosives, and arrange for people to blow up mountains, the cost is quite large. I'm afraid it will cost millions? Can you get it from the village?"

"Teacher Zhang organized people to go to the mountains to find mountain products and found a herb that is similar to Cordyceps sinensis. He also collected a lot of mushrooms and sold them in the city, which can be sold at a high price. He was trying to find a way to raise the part that was not enough. If others failed, Teacher Zhang should do it. He was a teaching teacher from Hudong. His path was very wild and he should find a solution."

"Principal Zhou, after you said this, I want to see Teacher Zhang more and more quickly."

"You guys came unfortunately. Teacher Zhang went down the mountain early this morning. I heard that he had invited several engineers to inspect the scene, but he couldn't see him."

Ye Zhiran made up his mind and said, "It doesn't matter, we can live in the village and see him tomorrow."

"Well, it's good to do this. Let's go, I'll take you to the village chief."

When we met, we exchanged politely for a few words. The village chief said, "Comrade Ye, it's a little harder tonight, so stay in the school. We don't have a hotel here, and there are two rooms in the school to live in. In the past, people from the town lived there."

"We have to live in the school after we have trouble, thank you."

"Although you came unfortunately and didn't see Teacher Zhang during the day, there will be a traditional song competition for the She ethnic group tonight. Please invite guests to participate, and it will be lively."

There are several types of She people's songs, which are quite famous. The most interesting songs are of course the blind date of young men and women. What is inconsistent with the legend is that the songs here are not the most primitive courtship songs between strangers and women, but occur between men and women who are originally in love, and take this opportunity to express their relationship to the outside world.

That night, on the school playground, there were many people sitting around the village. A bonfire was burned in the middle of the playground. Young men and women danced around the bonfire, and then began to sing.

Halfway through the activity, Principal Zhou led a man in his thirties to come over and said, "Comrade Ye, Teacher Zhang is back."

"Ah! Teacher Zhang, before I arrived in Xishan Village, your daimyo was grinding a calluse in my ears."

"I heard from Principal Zhou, are you a reporter?"

"...Yes! I came here to learn about Xishan Village, but now I have much more interest in you than Xishan Village."

Teacher Zhang is from a big city and is knowledgeable. When Ye Zhiran introduced Song Cheng and Liu Dacheng behind him to know him, Song Cheng and Liu Dacheng did not react particularly to him, but seemed to respect this reporter named Ye... not only respect, but also a kind of sincere obedience. He guessed that Ye Zhiran should have some identity and origin.

He was just in need of such a person to contribute to the road construction plan of Xishan Village, and said with a smile: "Reporter Ye, it is more important to promote Xishan Village. This village is probably the best preserved She ethnic village, the original type. If Xishan Village attracts everyone's attention, it will be of great benefit to help villagers get rid of peace and become rich. It will also greatly promote our road construction plan."
Chapter completed!