porridge for two

At the end of the semester, "Dashan" continued to follow up the villages, schools and individuals he visited before, and gave corresponding help and feedback.

Finally, I plan to go to a nursing home on the outskirts of Qingzhou City, and visit several extremely poor households in the outskirts of the city who have no regular jobs and no land.

These suburban places are a bit like the junction of urban and rural areas, and the phenomenon of left-behind children is very serious.

After this event, Xie Xiuping and Su Zeyu were ready to unload the burden of the main person in charge of "Dashan", and became the elders of the society, and retreated behind the scenes.

I will participate in club activities, but I will let go of the organization and management.

The night before going to the suburbs of the city, Xie Xiuping had a dream.

"We were walking on the street, and an eight or nine-year-old child came from somewhere, insisting on dragging me to a certain place, saying he was looking for you, but you were right behind me at that time!

When I looked back for you, you were gone! "

"He pulled me, but I couldn't push it away, and saw that you were gone, so I followed him.

Walking through the streets and alleys, I came to a house, and I saw you, but at the same time I saw twenty or thirty children.

The older ones are eleven or twelve years old, and the younger ones can't walk yet. Many of them have disabilities or illnesses. They kept pulling me, asking us to help them.

I was really helpless at that time, seeing them helpless, I seemed to be even more helpless!

Looking at their eager eyes, I don't know what to do, I am so anxious!Then I woke up! "

After Xie Xiuping woke up, he lay on the bed and told Su Zeyu the dream he had just had, word by word, with the feeling of bewilderment in the dream.

"You still can't let go of the 'big mountain'! It's okay, we just retreated to the back, it's not that we don't do things, don't care.

You have to believe that we are all weeds growing in the mountains, with strong vitality and fighting power. We not only strengthen ourselves, but also help our companions become stronger together. "

Su Zeyu hugged him with one hand and pinched his arm with the other, and said in relief.

"Get up! They go to the nursing home on National Day, and they leave late! We will go to Heba Village on the outskirts of the city, and we will go back to Xianggua Village in the city.

Those who are going have been notified yesterday, so go early.In Heba Village, you have to go early to find people, but when you go late, many villagers go out to find something to do.

Although I greeted them in advance, I still hurried to understand the matter, so as not to delay them going out to do things.

As for the Xianggua Village, a village in the city, I went there later in the afternoon, and they didn't find anyone until they came back from work. "

Su Zeyu continued.

"Well! It's good to have the arrangements!" Xie Xiuping said and turned over.

……

Heba Village is located on the outskirts of Qingzhou City, between the city and the countryside.

With the expansion of the scope of urban planning, the township is a key township for industrial development. A few years ago, the land in the village was expropriated to build factories for industrial development, which restricted the villagers from developing traditional planting and breeding industries.

Small workers are also needed in the factory, but these high-tech things cannot do much for many villagers with little or no education.

Jobs that do not require education, such as cleaning and transporting, are in small demand after all, and there are still a large number of people who have no land to plant, and there is nothing to do in the factory, so they have to let young and middle-aged people go out to work, resulting in left-behind children and empty-nesters. The phenomenon is somewhat serious.

There is a river in Heba Village, and beside the river beach is a large factory building.

Because of the development of the industry, the traffic is very smooth, and the road condition is quite good. The wide cement road leads directly to the village.

In the village, several houses have built small western-style buildings, which are very grand and classy.

Beside the small western-style buildings, there are also large bungalows, broken walls, crooked wooden houses, and small houses with asbestos tiles on the roof.

There was a subsidy when the land was expropriated, and a sum of money was obtained, but what caused this gap?

We all know that we can’t do nothing but want money to make money, and eggs to make eggs. Some people go into business. Of course, some businesses do well, and some lose money;

Some people know that they are not suitable for business, so they simply build a house and rent it to outsiders who work in the factory, which can be regarded as an income. Those who have spare labor can go to other provinces to find work, which can also increase their income. ;

There are also some poor households with few lands, so they don’t get the subsidy, and they continue to be poor; or there are subsidies, but they have experienced changes, and they are now very poor.

In the village, a large part of the villagers are uneducated, and the old saying "a man with a shoulder pole can't read a word" refers to this group of people.

In their family, there are old and young, and they need to be taken care of everywhere. They can neither go out to work, nor can they enter the nearby factories to work. They have no skills, let alone how to do business.

In addition to family expenses and emergencies, the subsidized money is reserved for their children as study expenses, and their hopes are placed on their children.

I hope that the children can use knowledge to change their fate, instead of turning their mouths to the loess and their backs to the sky like themselves, just for one bite.

No, now they don't even have the qualification to face the loess.With little land left to cultivate, they had to find other means of survival.

Of course, this is an inevitable trend of urban development, and it is inevitable for them to seek a new way of life.

So they themselves, carrying a basket on their backs every day, shuttling through the streets and alleys, wherever coolies are needed, where construction is needed, there are their shadows.

On a sunny day, find a tree that can provide shade at the entrance of the shopping mall or near the overpass, put the back basket on the ground, sit on the back basket, and wait for the business to come.When the business comes, we will brave the scorching sun and do things well according to the requirements of the employer.

On rainy days, they will hide from the rain at the foot of bridges, under the eaves of buildings, and at the entrance of the underground passage of shopping malls. When the weather clears up, they will go to various places where coolies may be needed to carry coolies.

The same is true in winter, just stay in some leeward places.

Which small restaurant bought some vegetables, but I can’t carry them, please carry the basket;

When you go to the supermarket and buy too many things, you can't hold them, so you need to find a backpack;

Which store needs manpower to unload goods, find a back basket;

Which mover needs to move things upstairs and find a backpack;

Where decoration needs sand and cement materials to go upstairs, look for a backpack...

They are like a group of omnipotent people who earn some hard-earned money to subsidize their families while facilitating others.

Of course, not all people carrying baskets have the experience of Heba Village.

However, their desire to make a living and support their families is the same.

Among the homes Xie Xiuping and the others visited, there was one family with land owned by only one person.

His family's land happened not to be in the expropriated area, so they lived as they should.

There is little land, there is not enough food to eat, and there is no subsidy for land acquisition, so they should earn money to buy food, and they still live in their dilapidated wooden houses.

Their family has little land, so the young people in the family have been working outside in the early years. There is only an old woman and a little girl in the family.

After giving birth to her second child last year, the woman did not go out of the province but went to the city to carry a basket. First, she can take care of the family, and second, she can earn a sum of money for subsidies.

The old man is getting older and his health is getting worse, and the child is still too young, but for the family ration, everything is a last resort.

One family is a [-]-year-old boy. His mother suddenly suffered from mental illness in the early years. To control her illness, the family borrowed a lot of money to buy medicine. It was like a bottomless pit.

At that time, in order to raise money, his father sold the wooden house he lived in and bought some cheap materials to build a few simple houses.

As for the land subsidy money, after repaying the money borrowed before, there is not much left.

The boy gets up every day to help his mother cook together, watching her eat and take medicine before going to school, and cooking again after school, waiting for his father who is carrying a basket in the city to come back for dinner.

When Xie Xiuping and others arrived at his house, the boy was cooking. The stove he used was a waste briquette stove that his father picked up from the garbage dump in the city, and the firewood his father picked up somewhere on the way back. Some scrap wood from here.

Every time his father went to the city to carry a basket, when he came back, he would bring some things, either sofas, stools that others didn't want, or some old clothes, shoes and socks.

The outside of their house was full of piles, and every time his father met him, he still couldn't bear to part with it, and always felt that it would be a pity to lose it.

When the boy gave Xie Xiuping a stool to sit on, he also introduced that the wooden stool was nailed by his father with waste wood, the plastic stool was picked up by his father last Saturday, and the leather stool was picked up last month. back.

In the simple room, the boy's room and the wall by the fire are covered with various awards for the boy, such as final exams, calligraphy, and various competitions.

The boy told everyone that their lives looked bitter, but he felt very happy.

With the company of my parents and the needs of my parents, the only thing I worry about is my mother's illness, which may relapse at any time.

So he wants to be a doctor, a doctor of mental illness, not only to help his own mother, but also to help many mental patients to return to normal life.

After visiting their home, it's time to go back to the city. The boy's father and Xie Xiuping went to the city together.

His father said that if other people's children are ignorant, they all hope that their children will be sensible sooner; but his own child is too sensible, and he feels very sad.

The children of the poor start their own homes early. It is the factors of the elders, the environment, and poverty that force the children to bear responsibilities that they should not have to bear at their age. Therefore, they are precocious, sensible, and take responsibility early.

……

The reason why Cantaloupe Village is called Cantaloupe, at least not because the villagers here love to eat cantaloupe, or because there are a lot of cantaloupe grown here.

There is also a saying that in the middle of July, eggplants, small melons, oranges and the like that people use to add incense are also called cantaloupe.

Xianggua Village is an urban village in Qingzhou. It is estimated that in the early stage of urban planning, everyone will think that this place is a sweet pastry. Because it is located in the center of the city, it will develop no matter what.

But for some reason, the surrounding area has developed, and only this small village still guards the mountain.

Even so, the land here is still very expensive, and everyone rushes to buy it, build a house by themselves, and rent it to those who cannot afford to rent a community house from other places.

Xianggua Village is just behind the intersection of Qingda University and Agricultural University. The graduates of the two universities have no money, so many rent houses nearby. The price is cheap and it is convenient to go to work in the city.

There are many illegal buildings here, and the roads are old. There is no drainage system, or there is no road, because the gaps between the houses are roads and drainage systems.

In the rainy season, the water from all over the place flows into the road, like small ditches, where there is no road.

Some villagers in Xianggua Village sold their land for business;

Some sold part of the land and used the money to build a house on their own land, working as a renter;

Those who have neither money nor land continue to be backpacks, busy in the streets and alleys.

There are indeed a lot of backpacks here. Sometimes Xie Xiuping and Su Zeyu get up early to go for a run at Qingda University, and they will meet many backpacks and start going out.

Of course, these backpacks include villagers from Xianggua Village, some from the suburbs of Qingzhou City, and even some counties below Qingzhou City.

As time went by, the surrounding area became more and more developed, Xianggua Village became more and more disorganized, and became a village in the city, and a slum in the center of the city.

Whether it is the suburbs or the villages in the city, in recent years, the relevant departments have strengthened their management and improved in all aspects.

It's just a real change to the status quo, and there is a long way to go, and the change does not happen overnight.

Xie Xiuping and the others just went to see those who needed to be helped, and told them, just keep going, and tomorrow will be better!