Chapter 8 Hometown (4100)(1/2)
Compared with the meal I ate in a rental house in Shanghai, today's meal is much worse. It can be clearly seen from Rongguang's dining table that his family conditions are. A plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes is already the most dazzling dish on the table.
My younger brother Rongfu almost finished the dish by himself.
Whether it was grandparents, brothers and sisters, they all looked at him and did not compete with him.
Rongguang talked about his experience in Brazil, but since his grandparents and younger brother didn't understand it very well, he said it very simply.
The point is to tell them that they have made a lot of money outside, so that the family will not have to live such a hard life.
He wanted to take his younger brother to study in Shanghai, where the teaching quality was much better than that in the village's primary schools.
When my younger brother Rongfu heard that he could go to Shanghai, he was also very excited and stopped eating scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
Grandpa also nodded in agreement.
But when it comes to the arrangements between grandpa and grandma, there are differences.
Glorious hope brings grandpa and grandma out too, anyway, she can get a house in Shanghai and she can live in it.
But grandpa shook his head without hesitation and refused: "What should I do if the land at home?"
"Lease it to others to plant it." Rongguang said.
Grandpa was silent and silent.
Grandma said next to her, "I've left, what should I do with this house? It's just been built for less than two years..."
Rongguang wanted to say something, but his younger brother Rongfu said first: "If grandparents don't leave, then I won't leave anymore. I'll stay with them."
What else Rongguang wanted to say was held down by his sister.
"Okay, then don't leave." Rong Xiaomo said with a smile, then she turned her head to look at Rongguang. "Don't you have some money left? If you are worried about your younger brother going to school here, then re-enter the primary school in the village
Glory eyes lit up.
Yes
Didn’t I be ready to come back and see what I could do for the village?
What's better than studying a school?
I have also studied in school for several years, and I still remember the dilapidated school.
It was a school with only one decent classroom, and the principal and teacher were only two people.
My sister, myself and my younger brother are studying in this elementary school and receiving the most basic education.
He is not an illiterate person, so thanks to this shabby school.
Now that he has money, he should indeed renovate the broken school.
In this way, at least in terms of hardware facilities, my younger brother will not be as difficult as before when he continues to go to school in his hometown.
The mind of glory began to diverge.
How can we improve the software after the hardware facilities are upgraded?
There are only two teachers in the school, a couple. The man is the principal and Chinese teacher, the physical education teacher, and the woman is the math teacher, the music teacher, and the art teacher.
They had a meager salary, but they stayed in this mountain village elementary school for fifteen years.
They are their sister's teachers, their own teachers, and their younger brother's teachers.
Rongguang thinks he should help them?
Also, there is a long road from the county to the village, and different cars. Because the road is too bad, you can only rely on hiking or tractors to take agricultural machinery. The road is difficult to walk and takes a long time, so it is not easy for everyone to go to the county town.
Should this section of the road be repaired?
Rongguang suddenly thought of a lot.
Then I felt that the money I made seemed to be a little insufficient...
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The next day, Rongguang and his sister went to the old village party secretary first and told the old party secretary that they wanted to build a new primary school.
The old branch secretary naturally had strong support and summoned the village accountants to go to the school together.
When the principal wearing thick bottle glasses heard that Rong Guang was coming to Xiuxin Primary School, his face was filled with laughter, and he seemed very excited.
"Just, I know you will definitely have a promising future." The principal is 47 years old this year, less than fifty years old, but he has gray hair and looks older than his actual age.
The dark blue Zhongshan suit has been rinsed repeatedly and almost turned white, with chalk gray on both sleeves.
The principal's lover taught several classes of children in the classroom to take math classes together, but he didn't come out.
The uneven sound of young reading came from the simple classroom with air leakage on all sides.
"One gets one gets one gets two gets two gets three gets four..."
"One plus one equals two, one plus two equals three..."
The mountain wind blows, bringing the sound of books to the blue sky.
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The three parties agreed that half of the money would be handed over to the principal for custody, and the remaining half would be in the hands of Rongguang's sister. The village accountant was responsible for supervising the account book.
Rongguang paid for the materials, and the village used labor to set up a piece of land next to the current school to build a new primary school.
The new primary school must have a two-story teaching building and a large playground, which consists of a football field and two basketball courts.
The principal and his family also have to build a house in the school for them to live and live.
After all these were discussed, Rongguang left with his sister with great thanks from the principal.
The village party secretary also wanted to invite Rongguang to dinner, but Rongguang also declined.
But Rongguang did not go home directly.
He and his sister came to the hill where he used to go to herd sheep.
The two of them sat on the edge of a cliff and ignored the abyss beneath their feet. Children in the mountains often used to this kind of thing in such an environment.
"Sister, I remember when I was in school, I always walked along the wall when I saw the principal, for fear that he would cause trouble for me. In my impression, the principal was a very fierce person. But today he nodded and bowed in front of me because I had money?" Rong Guang asked in confusion.
Rong Xiaomo smiled and said, "How is that possible? The principal is not the one who nodded and bowed for money. He is so polite to you because you said you wanted to build a school. If not, what does it have to do with him? Didn't you see how excited he was when you said you wanted to build a school? He respects you."
Rong Guang scratched his head and laughed.
It feels good to be admired and respected.
"Guangzi, I really admire you. You went to Brazil alone and made a lot of money. After you come back, you can build a new primary school for the village. I think Guangzi, you are already an adult." Rong Xiaomo sighed at the mountain ridge in the distance.
"Of course, sister. I'm going to be eighteen soon. I suddenly had an idea, sister. I want to make more money, and then rebuild the road from our village to the town, and build it into a road where you can run cars. In the future, every time we come back, we won't have to feel uncomfortable anymore."
"Building roads costs a lot of money..."
"So I have to work harder to make money. Also, sister, don't you like reading books? I will open a bookstore for you, and the whole room is full of books. You will be the boss in the store. When there are customers, you will sell books, and when there are no customers, you will read books. How great is it? So don't think about finding a job again, okay?"
Rong Xiaomo obviously didn't expect Rongguang to have such plans.
She did consider accompanying her younger brother to her hometown, but she still had to find a new job when she returned to Shanghai. Although her younger brother has made a lot of money now, that is his money. How could her sister ask for her younger brother’s money?
But when her younger brother said this, she couldn't say anything to refuse beyond her expectations.
Because her younger brother hit her with one sentence - she really dreamed of having her own bookstore so that she would not have to buy those old books back, and she could not even put them at home...
When the younger brother used such a reason to convince himself to accept his kindness, Rong Xiaomo really had no way to refuse.
After a long time, Rong Xiaomo sighed and said in a somewhat helpless and joyful tone: "Guangzi, you have really grown up..."
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Rongguang stayed in the village for a few days. Except for visiting relatives, he was no different from before playing football. He carried steamed buns and ran and played among the ridges.
This time, there was no sheep for him to let go, but he would still run around.
He likes the feeling of running freely in the mountains.
When he left his hometown, the first batch of wood had been piled up on the school playground.
Two hundred meters away from it, the village party secretary is leading the villagers to level the land and prepare for the construction of the new school.
When Rongguang came to the construction site for the last time, it was already a bustling scene.
He remembered that he had just built his new house when he left here last time.
This time I left again and I repaired another new thing.
It seems that there will be a big change every time.
Rongguang also knew that he would bring more changes to this remote mountain village in the future.
His grandparents did not want to leave their homes that had lived for the rest of their lives. He could not bring them to the bustling metropolis to fulfill their filial piety, so he naturally had to choose a different way to fulfill his filial piety - to make them live more comfortable here and make this ancient village better.
Under the crooked tree at the entrance of Rongjiagou Village, Rongguang said goodbye to his family.
He told his younger brother very seriously: "Grand and grandma will leave it to you. You have to take good care of them, have you heard?
Rongfu nodded vigorously: "Brother, don't worry, there are me and Mantou."
The steamed buns were also rubbing under the feet of Glory, as if they were reluctant to leave Glory.
To be continued...