Chapter 458: Primary school is completed and leaving Jinyuan

The children in the village have just returned from the lake. Children who have been playing in the lake since they were young naturally know how to catch palm-sized fish in the lake.

This kind of fish tastes quite good. Freshwater fish itself is very nutritious, and it is a good choice whether it is made into dried fish or used to make soup.

These children are not very old, the oldest is twelve or thirteen years old, and the youngest is seven or eight years old.

As for the children aged fifteen or sixteen, they basically go to the fields to help out.

Now is the time when there is a shortage of resources, and all the available hands are being used.

And in many villages in Tongcun Village and Longguo, children as young as fifteen or sixteen can actually take on the responsibility of supporting their families.

As soon as Li Yi and others walked into the village, they saw a group of half-year-old children carrying small buckets in their hands. Each bucket contained three or five small fish as big as a palm. Li Yi was a little strange at the time. These Did the children go play in the water?

Village chief Liang Zhuang saw Li Yi's doubts and said with a smile: "Didn't Boss Li bring us some meat some time ago? But every household is reluctant to eat it, so they keep it or make it into dried meat. Or put it in the cellar and use it every time you cook to give the children some oil and water. "

"Before this, the children ate fish from the lake behind the village. They grew up eating fish. The lake at the back was not too small. If there were fry, the children would not catch them. They only went to the lake to catch some after ten days and a half. Fish to eat!”

Li Yi nodded when he heard this. This palm-sized fish is probably the most delicious thing the children have eaten since childhood, right?

But it just happened that in the eyes of the children in the city, no one was willing to take a look at such a dish.

Li Yi secretly sighed, there was nothing that could be done about it. After all, the living environment was different. Children in the city probably never knew in their lifetime that many of the things that they threw away casually were those of many people living in the mountains. People of the same age, this is a good thing that you will never see in this life, right?

"These children are at the age when they should go to school. Village chief, do you have any opinion?"

Liang Zhuang sighed slowly and said:

"These children are quite sensible, and they probably listen to their families. I am more supportive of setting up a school in the village, but first you have to work with all the children's families!"

"But there were many parents like me who had gone to school. They should be easy to talk to, but as for whether they can agree to let all the children come to class, that's a matter of two opinions."

At this time, Li Yi discovered an interesting phenomenon. These half-grown children were all headed by a child who looked twelve or thirteen years old. It seems that this child is the leader of this group of children?

The number of fish in the hands of these children was very balanced. Li Yi stepped forward to observe it. Basically, all the children had five fish in their hands. The youngest child was only seven years old. How could he catch twelve or three? How about as many fish as a year-old child?

The child Li Yi stopped looked to be seven or eight years old, but the child knew that the man in front of him was the benefactor who saved their entire village, so he was not afraid. He just looked at Li Yi with two eyes and said nothing.

Li Yi smiled and asked: "Did you catch all these fish?"

The child shook his head and said: "Brother Dalin caught these. Every time he catches a fish, he will share it equally with us! Brother Dalin is amazing! He can catch more than a dozen fish every time!"

Li Yi suddenly realized after hearing this. It seems that this Brother Dalin should be the young man who took the lead just now, right?

I didn’t expect that at the age of twelve or thirteen, I would be so mature and know how to take care of others.

The village chief waved his hand and asked the child to go home. Then he sighed and said to Li Yi:

"This kid, Dalin, is the most sensible in our entire village. His parents are gone, so he survived on his own when he was eight years old. People in the village often came to help, and they helped this kid patch up the leak. The roof and walls are used to bring water and food to this child. The child just now is called Xiao Hai. Xiao Hai’s mother is also alone, but she lives next to Dalin’s house. "

"Every time I made a meal, I would bring Dalin over to eat together. It was not easy for one person to raise two children! Later, Xiaohai was born and Dalin grew up. He often cooked for Xiaohai's mother, and he was sensible. People feel sad!”

Li Yi also sighed slowly. Rich people are never short of money these days. Only they know how miserable the poor people are. Few rich people want to see how the poor live. That's why In Chen Ruqing's eyes, this is why a young man like Li Yi who is rich and cares about the poor is so valuable.

"Village chief, let all the children, aged seven and above, come to the school in the village after dinner. You have to introduce the new teacher to them, right?"

Village Chief Liang nodded, turned around and asked people to notify all the households in the village. This would take some time. After all, there were more than a thousand households, and it was so easy to notify them all.

"Come to my house for a meal first, but the food may be a bit too simple. Please forgive me..."

Li Yi smiled and waved his hand. Compared with those tourist attractions in later generations, what is in front of him is the real farmhouse!

The village chief kept mumbling along the way, if Li Yi and the others could inform them before they came, why wouldn't they kill a chicken to make a pot of chicken soup?

But Li Yi didn't mean that. What to eat doesn't matter. As for Chen Ruqing, he had the same opinion as Li Yi. He just came to help, not to eat for free. How precious is a chicken to Tongxiang Village now? It's hard to describe.

Now the road has not been repaired yet, and it is a very laborious thing for people to come here, let alone transport chickens.

The home of Village Chief Liang is very simple. There are several strings of dried meat, dried fish, and peppers hanging on the wall. When the village chief's wife learned that Li Yi was coming, she immediately picked a string of dried meat to cook. The village chief did not mean to enrich himself. The meat brought by Li Yi, the village chief himself took the least. Such behavior is not faulty at all.

This lunch is probably thanks to Li Yi and others. The village chief's family took out precious rice and made a pot of steaming rice. In fact, they originally ate simple staple foods such as steamed buns, with some sweet potatoes at most.

Li Yi knew how difficult it was for Tongxiang Village. Li Zixi and Zhang Yi, who had been to Tongxiang Village before, also knew it, so they had no complaints at all.

The reason they came here was to tell the children in the village that they could finally have books to read.