Chapter 618 The Other Side of Su Ye

In the backcountry surrounded by mountains, a winding road runs through the mountains and forests.

The road has been in disrepair and dilapidated for many years.

There is a steep mountain wall on one side, and an abyss on the other side. Even when the weather is clear, the driver does not dare to be careless when driving on the road, not to mention that after the rain, although there is no danger, he still has to be careful.

One after the other, two off-road vehicles drove slowly on this muddy mountain road.

Yang Yang and Su Ye sat in the back row of the next car, bumping along the way.

They came to Yunnan two days ago. After going out for a day, they set off yesterday for the mountainous area in northwest Yunnan.

First I went to a county, and after a night, I set off early this morning, but it turned out that the distance of fifty or sixty kilometers took an hour to arrive in an area with good road conditions. Walked all morning.

Originally, both he and Su Ye were full of leisurely feelings about the surrounding mountains and forests, but gradually, they both lost interest.

This time, they followed the expedition to the mountains.

The expedition team belongs to a charity organization in Beijing. The purpose of their trip is to visit a mountain primary school.

The person in charge of this charity organization is a student of Su Wenhong, Su Ye's senior, called Shen Jun, a man in his thirties, from a good family. After graduating from college, he went to teach in the mountains and has since been engaged in charity work, dedicated to helping the mountains. The children improve the school environment and have frequent contacts with Su Wenhong.

At the beginning of the year, after Su Ye signed Armani, he made three movies and several advertising endorsements in succession, earning a lot of money. After discussing with Su Wenhong, he decided to pledge a donation to a school, with an investment of about 2 million.

This time, they came to inspect the school.

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In the impoverished mountainous area, few outsiders come all the year round. Suddenly, two large cars came. Although the road was covered with mud, they quickly attracted the attention of the whole village.

According to the information provided by Shen Jun, there are about 3,000 people in this village. Within a radius of one kilometer, there are three other villages, but the scale is smaller than here, about 1,000 people, but the children in these four villages are basically all study in the same primary school.

The average annual income of the surrounding villages is about 800 yuan, and life is very poor, but the enrollment rate is very high, reaching 100%, so there are many students in the school, about 300 to 400 people.

In recent years, as more and more adults leave the mountains and go out to work, the students have gradually become left-behind children. Many even have no adults at home and are boarding in schools, but the conditions of the schools are extremely poor.

Just after the Spring Festival, most of the villagers have not gone out to work. When they heard that the charity organization that aided the construction of the school came, they all rushed to see it, and the village cadres and school leaders came to receive them.

Yang Yang and Su Ye were both wearing cotton caps and masks, and they were not afraid of being recognized, but when they got off the bus, they were a little stunned when they saw the school's situation.

Sometimes the expression of language is very limited.

Along the way, Shen Jun told them a lot about the school, and they had imagined it, but when they saw it with their own eyes, they still found that they had underestimated it.

According to the introduction of school leaders and village cadres, this school has been in existence for more than 60 years. The current teaching building was built 30 years ago. watt.

Due to its long disrepair, the beams and wood have long since decayed and damaged, and many of the walls are tilted and cracked everywhere.

Yang Yang stood on the playground and looked at the two-story teaching building from a distance. The walls were mottled, the windows were broken, and the ceiling gave the impression that it was crumbling and might fall off at any time. People looked a little scared.

The school leaders are big-hearted, or maybe they are used to it. They smiled and said that it was not in the way. They just strengthened it again before the new year.

Next to it is a single-storey long row of brick and wooden bungalows, which are the dormitories of the school teachers and students.

There is also a small bungalow with a kitchen and canteen. Yang Yang took a look at it and found that the kitchen was burning firewood. The ground was just swept with a layer of grout, the white walls were yellowed on all sides, there was oil everywhere, and the sanitary conditions were not good at all. Nothing to talk about.

When Yang Yang walked to the other side of the playground, he noticed that there was a small soil slope behind the teaching building. A wall was built with stones to reinforce it to prevent the soil from slipping off the hillside in rainy days. The wall looks crumbling already, God knows if the next heavy rain will wash it down?

And if the wall is washed away, the mud flowing from the hillside will rush directly to the place where the students play between classes downstairs.

Yang Yang and Su Ye looked around, and the conditions here were far worse than they expected.

Accompanied by village cadres and school leaders, Shen Jun took his colleagues around to take pictures, because after they made an on-the-spot inspection and decided to help build the school, they would immediately draw up a construction aid plan, make a budget, and announce it. Fundraising online.

This time, because Su Ye pledged to donate, they don't need to raise funds externally, but the process to follow is still to go, and it will be announced to the public, but Su Ye's name will be hidden.

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When Yang Yang and Su Ye returned to the playground, Shen Jun and others also returned.

"The conditions here are really bad." Yang Yang said with a frown.

But Shen Jun shook his head, "This is a good place. According to their own words, there are worse things in their county than here, so the county government will give the budget and funds to others first, and they will be at the back."

"Is there anything worse?" Su Ye was surprised.

She has lived in Beijing since she was a child. Even if she had heard of it before, she had only heard of it, and the photos she had seen were only a glimpse of the leopard. After the field investigation, she really felt the poverty here.

"I don't know about other places. Among the schools we visited and aided in construction, the conditions here are indeed not the worst." Shen Jun shook his head and sighed.

"Every time we go to a place to investigate, the more we people can understand the limited manpower, there are too many people who need help, but our ability is only a little bit, we can only do what we can, and have a clear conscience."

Yang Yang and Su Ye glanced at each other, and they both had a relationship.

After reading it on paper, I finally feel shallow, and only when I actually come to the scene can I feel the poverty of the motherland.

"What are you going to do next?" Yang Yang asked with concern.

"After the on-site inspection, I will continue to stay in the county, negotiate with the county leaders, and determine the preliminary plan as soon as possible. After that, we will select the site, invite the construction company to plan and design, and conduct bidding and acceptance of the project."

When Shen Jun said this, he looked at Su Ye, "After the initial plan came out, we should have raised funds online, but now that Ye Ye said he wanted to make a donation, he omitted some steps in the middle. Look, two million should be enough."

Su Ye nodded, "That's good, if it's not enough, tell me."

Shen Jun smiled and nodded.

"Brother Jun, I heard that many elementary schools in mountainous areas are now withdrawing, is that true?" Yang Yang asked.

Before he came, he also did some homework specially, including getting to know Shen Jun and his charitable organization through Wei Zhen, and Shen Jun and Wei Zhen brothers also knew each other, confirming that Shen Jun is indeed a kind person who is enthusiastic about charity .

And now, Yang Yang really wants to know more about the situation.

"The situation you said is true, so there will be some private donations, and the school will be built, but it will be withdrawn and merged not long after, and the phenomenon of people going to empty buildings, I think this is also a problem."

Yang Yang thought so.

Kindness is worthy of affirmation, but it is useless.

"Our situation is special, because we have connections with national charities, but we have no way to determine which ones will be withdrawn, so we can only choose the ones that are clearly not withdrawn, and at the same time have this demand. schools, ensuring that every penny we spend goes to where it’s needed.”

"For example, the school we are seeing now, there are several villages around, and there is only one school here. For the past few decades, they have all studied here. We also have a preliminary understanding with the county, and they guarantee that there will never be a school here. It has been withdrawn, and more importantly, the enrollment rate and enrollment rate of children here have reached 100%, and almost no dropouts."

Yang Yang nodded again and again. He felt that Shen Jun's ideas were relatively mature, and almost all the issues that could be considered were taken into account.

"Actually, we originally had a plan, which was to train the teachers of the aided schools, such as going to schools in Beijing to study, or inviting well-known domestic teachers to come to the school to improve the level of teachers, and also to be able to improve the quality of teaching.”

"That's good." Yang Yang and Su Ye nodded in unison.

Shen Jun shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Without funds, our fundraising channels are still relatively limited, and we also lack resources in all aspects, so there is no way to implement many ideas, and we can only do it step by step."

Yang Yang understood.

Manpower is always limited, and there will always be times when you have more than your heart and are not enough, but the most important thing is to do your best and have a clear conscience.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt as if he had understood something.

Isn't Shen Jun's situation very similar to what he is facing now?

Isn't Yang Yang facing such a dilemma?

He wanted to help Liverpool, he wanted to perform better, but the results never improved.

He was very anxious before, but the more anxious he is, the worse he is, and he is still under heavy pressure and burden.

But now that I think about it, it is indeed as Shen Jun said, manpower is limited, we can only take it slowly, do our best, have a clear conscience, maintain a normal heart, let nature take its course, and maybe we will be able to find ourselves better. status.

When he looked at Su Ye again, he suddenly felt that he seemed to have discovered another side of Su Ye.

He didn't know about Su Ye's pledge to donate to the school before, and she never said it.