According to the color of the rice, it can be clearly distinguished whether two-season rice or one-season rice is grown in the field.

Occasionally, some working villagers looked at their group.

You can also see children playing around.

If he hadn't come here to help students, Fang Nian would have thought that this place was just like Maoba, with an idyllic scenery.

Then he answered Lu Weiyu's question: "Same, I also grow rice and work in the fields most of the time. There is green smoke curling up and the air is fresh."

"There are also pockets of poverty because the villagers don't have many livelihood skills."

Lu Weiyu nodded: "I heard from my parents that my grandfather's generation lived in the countryside and the family was poor. Later our family moved to the city."

"This is my first time in the countryside. Are there really wild dogs and geese chasing people?"

Fang Nian thought to himself, in a few years, whether you have lived in the countryside or not, you will be able to see the scenery of the countryside through online videos.

You can also see teenagers being chased by big white geese.

He knows Lu Weiyu’s basic family situation.

In fact, it was my grandfather who moved out and lived in a small city since he was a child. If you take a bus from Fang Nian’s hometown to go south to Yangcheng or Pengcheng, you will almost certainly pass by Shaozhou.

If we want to force fate, Fang Nian's grandfather who passed away also went to Shaozhou to dig coal and work hard in the 1980s, but Fang Nian's grandfather returned to his hometown after making money.

"You should be able to see him later." Fang Nian smiled mysteriously.

At that time, everyone heard the dog barking.

Lu Weiyu also heard it and paused before continuing to walk forward.

I thought to myself that there are so many people, what is there to be afraid of...

...I don’t know if it was the village chief or the village party secretary, but several villagers came to greet him.

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

The leading middle-aged man said with a smile.

With a more local accent.

Rather, everyone can understand it.

"You're here so early, haven't you eaten yet?"

An employee of the branch smiled and replied: "I've eaten them all."

Then he briefly negotiated with the leading man.

The middle-aged and elderly man said: "Everyone, please help these volunteers from the city to carry things."

"..."

Wu Shufen and the volunteers continued to move things.

There were a lot of donated items coming on the bus.

The further we walked in, the narrower the road became, there were more houses, more people, and we also saw dogs.

But it's domesticated.

When a dog barks, it will be scolded by its owner.

This made Lu Weiyu feel at ease.

She is not afraid of dogs, but she is not afraid of pet dogs.

Fang Nian made a visual inspection while walking. In such a large village, a primary school with six grades plus kindergarten might have more than 300 students.

For example, when Fang Nian was in elementary school, there were only thirty students in each grade at first. Later, several elementary schools merged, and each grade had at least two classes, with one elementary school having seven to eight hundred students.

There are also exceptional cases where students have dropped out of school because of this.

Although this activity of "helping out-of-school children return to school" sounds grand, it is actually only targeted at this village.

Maybe it's one village, maybe it's multiple villages.

"Our school is just ahead."

The middle-aged man, let’s call him the village chief, said.

Following the direction of the village chief's finger, everyone saw the building in front of them.

I didn’t see the school gate, and it didn’t have a wall like the common elementary schools in the city. It was two stories high. It was neither new nor old, and it couldn’t be said to be dilapidated.

"This is the playground. Please put your things at the door of the classroom first," the village chief directed.

The ground of the playground is not hardened, there is only one basketball stand and two table tennis tables.

The village chief briefly explained: "We are merging primary schools. This school has better conditions, so we merged them together. Everything is missing. We are planning to build a few more classrooms next to it..."

"..."

In short, it was just as Fang Nian guessed.

Due to various reasons, such as not enough teachers and few students, several primary schools were merged, but the school buildings were not enough, resulting in a group of children being out of school.

The village chief was very thoughtful and thought of seeking help from relevant charitable organizations.

Charity chapters helped with this.

Although national regulations have exempted compulsory education from tuition and miscellaneous fees, the situation of out-of-schooling still exists...

Everyone looked at the scene in front of them, and then there were small exclamations from the crowd.

Lu Weiyu was also surprised: "Why is their blackboard still made of wood and hung on the wall?"

"Isn't it a single desk?"

"..."

After saying that, Lu Weiyu coughed twice in embarrassment and looked at Fang Nian.

"Ahem, Fang Nian, why aren't you curious at all?"

Fang Nian laughed: "Maybe I have seen too much and am not very curious."

"Every elementary school in my hometown is almost like this."

Lu Wei said: "..."
Chapter completed!