When I returned to the room, I saw Hua Wen and Xie Yamin sitting on the bed with unkempt hair.

"Silly Er, where is the toilet? We need to go to the toilet." Hua Wen asked me.

"I asked in the afternoon that there are no toilets in the village committee yard. People go out of the gate to the fields next to them during the day and night. You go to the door and tell the guard, and he will open the door for you." I said.

When I came back just now, I smoked a cigarette with the guard, and then I asked, and found out that the flood control people were still on the embankment. Some people went home to get bedding, and everyone took turns sleeping on the donkey cart.

"Ah, it's so dark outside, why are the conditions in this village so bad?" Xie Yamin said.

Hua Wen didn't hesitate, she picked up the flashlight and was about to go out.

"Yeah, it doesn't matter if the man comes, it's open to the sky. I never understand what to do with the women who work here. It would be really inconvenient for a girl to work in the countryside. There is no shelter during the day, and she can go everywhere at night.

It’s all dark.” I said with some emotion.

"Stop talking nonsense, you go with the two of us. I'm a little scared because of what you said." Hua Wen said.

"You can just go outside to the vegetable field. It's dark anyway." I suggested to them.

"Is that different from outside the door? Hurry up and lead the way, I'm suffocating myself to death." Hua Wen said proudly, probably a little anxious.

I led the two beauties out of the gate and into the field on the right, where a field of corn was planted. I turned around and turned off the light, trying to reassure them, but Xie Yamin trembled in protest: "No,

Don’t turn off the flashlight.”

"Second fool, just stand here and wait for a while. You can't leave. Turn your back, but you still have to shine the flashlight for me. You must not look back." Hua Wen said.

On the way back to the room, two beauties held my arms tightly, one on the left and the other on the right. They didn't even look at me until they entered the room, and they happily squeezed into the sleeping bag.

Maybe it was because I had been working for most of the day, or maybe it was because I added another quilt. I slept until dawn the next day before waking up naturally. Hua Wen’s bed was already empty, and the sun was shining through the floating dust.

On the brick floor, the sleeping bag was not in the room. I sat awake for a few minutes before getting up and going out.

When I was washing my face in the yard, I noticed that Hua Wen's Prado was not in the yard. They drove out at some point.

I guessed that she and Xie Yamin went to the Yarkand River, so I ran to the river. It was very comfortable to run in the countryside in the morning and the air was fresh. From a distance, I saw the lively scene by the river and Hua Wen's

Cars and donkey carts crowded together.

Since it was a glacier dam-break type flood, the flood had already receded by this time, and most of the bottom of the river channel was exposed in the river. The winding river in the distance still looked turbid.

People were reinforcing the area that proved to be weak yesterday, while Hua Wen was chatting with a farmer. When she saw me, she waved and called me over.

"Second fool, this uncle used to drive a forklift. He just said that if we have an excavator and a loading truck, the workload can be completed quickly." Hua Wen said to me when she saw me.

"I think so. All the work can be done in just one afternoon. The river here is wide, so we just need to strengthen the dam. I don't know if we should dig the river. Anyway, they don't dig the river now. In the village

Why didn't you use machinery before?" I asked Hua Wen.

"In the past, the entire oasis needed flood control, as did the mountains. It involved several counties and hundreds of thousands of kilometers of rivers. Therefore, people and materials were scattered widely, and many places could only rely on the strength of the masses. Now, although the conditions are better,

, but villagers are still needed to do these tasks. If problems are found or support is needed, they will go to the top. The leader of this village is from the autonomous region. Do you think he doesn’t know much about flood control? Do you want me to give feedback?

What are the opinions of the villagers?" Hua Wen asked me.

"I think it's better not to cause trouble for the leader. What we two outsiders can think of, others should have thought of it long ago. There may be other reasons." I said.

"No, I want to find a chance to talk." Hua Wen said.

I found half a naan in the car and took two bites. I asked Hua Wen if she had eaten anything. Hua Wen said she had never eaten, so I drove to the naan shop in the Little Bazaar to buy naan. The naan maker was a teenager.

A young man gave me two naan bread for free.

"I know you guys. I heard from my brother that you are here to help us. You also gave our village supplies, so I'll treat you to the naan." The boy who made the naan said, I didn't want to take advantage of this, and he was determined not to accept the money.

I saw a glass cup he was drinking from, so I went to a nearby store to check it out and bought two dusty plastic drinking cups for him.

When I returned to the river, I saw Xie Yamin filming the villagers working, so I gave her a naan.

"Let's eat something first. There is only naan here in the morning. Do you need my help?" I said.

Xie Yamin, who had already changed her clothes, looked very experienced in using a black card to shoot, and she seemed to have been professionally trained. I actually wondered when and where she changed her clothes, and whether I had slept too hard and missed it.

What?

"Brother, no need for now, I will give a live report later, just hold the camera for me." Xie Yamin said.

By the time they finished eating half of the naan and drank half of the bottle of water, I had already run five kilometers back and forth along the path along the river. I hadn't run for a long time, and I suddenly felt that I should start running again.

"Hua Wen, have you talked to the secretary about getting an experimental field?" I asked Hua Wen.

"After chatting, the secretary said that we are welcome to come, but there are conditions, that is, we must specify what we want to do, what to do, how to do it, how to cooperate with the farmers, how to cooperate with the village, and the economic benefits and benefits it can bring

The goals we want to achieve, including how much we plan to invest, must be written clearly," Hua Wen said.

"Then what do you think? I guess you haven't made a decision yet. It may not be appropriate to experiment with farmers here. The main reason is that it is too far away from Kashgar. We have always had difficulties here. People don't live here.

You can’t follow up all the time.” I said.

"Yes, at least the living conditions are terrible. Just now a cadre came over and asked us when we were going back. He said he wanted to take a ride to the county to take a shower. He said he hadn't taken a shower in two months."

Hua Wen said.

"Then don't worry, maybe we can find a more suitable place. The wheat has been harvested now, and even if we find the land, it's a bit late. We might as well find something with better quality, such as an insulated greenhouse." I said.

At this time, we happened to walk to the secretary who was directing several young people to drive wooden piles. Hua Wen asked the secretary: "Secretary Ma, why don't you use mechanized construction? Isn't that faster and better? Let me see what others have done.

The piles can be driven in with just one press of the excavator at the construction site."

"Teacher Tong, we also think that it would be more efficient. First of all, there is the issue of equipment. There are no large construction sites or mines nearby, and there are very few excavators. Even if there are, they all cost money to rent. The water conservancy department has its own equipment.

They are all used in other important places. A little manpower is enough for us here. You can also see that this section of our river is not the focus of flood control. Just make sure that the dam is in good condition. If the water can overflow such a wide river,

The size of this dam is unimaginable. In addition, we don’t have people who understand water conservancy technology. Although mechanical construction is efficient, how it is done is the key. What we rely on now is experience and manpower." The secretary said.

After listening to this, Hua Wen fell into deep thought. I felt even more that it was really not easy for these people at the grassroots level. Just sleeping on a donkey cart at night was hard enough. Fortunately, the river here was in good condition and there was not much danger.

"Secretary, I don't mean anything else. I'm just curious. I want to know how many villagers have attended school?" Hua Wen asked tentatively.

"It doesn't matter, you can just ask whatever you want to know. I was mentally prepared before I came, but after really understanding the situation, I also felt the pressure. These farmers do have a relatively low level of education. Basically, the young ones have gone to school, and the older ones are quite difficult.

We have specific statistics, but I need to check the data. The elderly are almost all illiterate, and most young and middle-aged people can read, read newspapers, and do calculations, but their level is not much better than that of today's primary school students," the secretary said.

"Of course this is a fact, there is nothing to hide, and the situation is getting better now. In the past few years, we did not pay enough attention to education, and it is not too late to do it now. We do not make mandatory requirements for people over 40 or 50 years old.

We require young people to be literate. Children don’t have to worry, now 100% of children can graduate from high school, which is already a great achievement." The secretary continued.

I think Hua Wen has been a teacher, so she should be aware of these situations. I did not interrupt. Hua Wen may have other purposes for asking these questions.

Sure enough, Hua Wen started to ask again: "Did these farmers participate in training later?"

"Yes! Especially in the past few years, there are a lot of trainings every year, at all levels. Take our village as an example, we have been running Mandarin training classes and literacy training classes. The trainings at the county and township levels are all

The free training subsidized by the state has been mainly aimed at labor transfer and employment in the past two years. There is also a lot of training in planting, animal husbandry, and forestry and fruit industries. They are still too comfortable, and there are still many people who do not study hard.

However, training is still effective for most people, but the effect varies from person to person," the secretary said.

The sun was shining high in the fields. We declined the secretary's invitation to stay another night and set off with two cadres who were going to take a bath in the county.

"We agreed that I will buy a sheep tonight, and we will slaughter the sheep and eat finger meat and barbecue. Don't run so fast. I finally met people from big cities. Come and talk with me." The secretary heard that we were going to

Go, he told us helplessly.
Chapter completed!