It was only around ten o 'clock, but the streets were already quiet.
The little girl was sleeping soundly on Chen Xi's shoulder. She didn't know that her dearest grandma and dad were now discussing throwing her to the countryside to experience life.
The city was developing faster and faster.
From the 1990s to the millennium, from pagers to mobile phones, and then to Nokia and Motorola.
Ten years after ten years, Nokia went bankrupt, and Motorola was half-dead.
From the envied Crown and Santala, to the streets full of Land Rovers and Cayenne.
Hua Xia went through waves of rapid development. Even credit cards weren't popularized yet, and it directly entered the mobile payment era.
Primary school students used their mobile phones to buy crepes, and aunties used QR codes to collect money.
The mainland people couldn't afford tea eggs, and it once became a big joke on the Internet. Now, no one mentioned it.
Wanwan would be recovered sooner or later.
In another ten years, who would dare to mention independence in Hong Kong and Tibet?
Hua Xia's development speed made the western countries stunned. It also made them realize that the lion from the East had finally woken up.
However.
Although the economic development speed was fast, some things obviously didn't follow the pace of economic development. Instead, they became slightly worse than before.
In the past, everyone called farmers uncle.
Later on, people began to call the farmers brothers.
Later, the word farmer seemed to become a curse word.
Now, the so-called city people, who didn't have ancestors who were farmers?
To use a word from the Spring Festival Gala to describe it, that was — manic.
People nowadays were too manic.
A program like Transfiguration shouldn't have appeared.
For the children in the city, this program undoubtedly gave them a good education opportunity. It let them see the hardships of ordinary people, so that they learned to respect and cherish their current life.
However, for the children and parents in the countryside, this program brought them endless harm and doubts about themselves and society.
The kind and simple rural children, after seeing the bright lights of the big city, would they ask one question: Why?
Why did the second-generation rich not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of their lives?
Why did the second-generation poor not be able to walk out of the mountains for the rest of their lives?
Education was never a matter of instant results. It was a long and drawn-out battle.
From the moment Chen Xi returned to Niannian's side, he was already prepared for this battle.
He wanted to teach Niannian a lesson.
What is a human?
The Nature of Heaven and Earth was the most precious.
This rune was in the shape of an elephant's arm and shin. Mortals all follow the example of humans.
Man means an upright animal that knows how to bow and humbly.
As the saying goes, it takes ten years for a tree to grow, but a hundred years for a man to grow.
There was no perfect person in this world. Chen Xi only wanted to do his best to train his daughter into a person that he approved of in his heart.
…
Early the next morning, the whole family set off amidst the little fellow's cheers.
In the little guy's understanding, rural areas were no different from tourist attractions.
Therefore, when she heard that Chen Xi was going to take her to Aunt Zhang's hometown, the little girl was very excited.
Chen Xi rented a commercial car, and then the family of seven went straight to Rain City.
Aunt Zhang's hometown was in Xingxian County under the jurisdiction of Rain City. They first took the highway to Xingxian County, then took the 108 National Highway to the countryside, and after more than ten kilometers of winding mountain roads, they finally arrived at the production team in Aunt Zhang's hometown.
Of course, the name of the production team had been abolished, and now it was called the Villager Group.
The little guy had always been in first-tier cities like Shangjing and Zhonghai, and all she saw were reinforced concrete jungles.
Suddenly coming to such a picturesque place really gave her a very novel experience.
Many people didn't know that there were actually three Silk Roads. In addition to the mainland passage from Chang 'an to Rome opened by Zhang Qian in the Han Dynasty, the other was the Southwest Silk Road.
The predecessor of the Southwest Silk Road was the Tea Horse Ancient Road. It went from Sichuan to Dianzhou, through Myanmar to India, and finally to Iran.
The 108 National Highway started from Shangjing and ended at Dianzhou's Spring City. It was 3356 kilometers long.
After this highway entered Sichuan, it basically followed the route of the Tea Horse Ancient Road.
The car zigzagged along the highway. Because it was a winding mountain road, the speed was very slow.
On one side of the road was a cliff, and on the other side was a cliff. Below the cliff was a surging river.
When had the little guy ever seen such a spectacular scene?
Therefore, she was very excited to lie on the car window, looking at the river under the cliff and constantly exclaiming.
Most of the rural areas in the north were concentrated, while the rural areas in the south liked to live separately. Therefore, along the road, from time to time, she would see a few lonely small courtyards standing on the edge of the cliff.
When the Beijing-Kunming Expressway was not built, the 108 National Highway was the only way to go from Sichuan to Dianzhou. Therefore, many villagers opened restaurants and small stores along the road to earn some extra money from long-distance outsiders to subsidize their families.
However, with the completion of the Beijing-Kunming Expressway, the 108 National Highway went into decline.
After all, with the expressway, who would still be circling and bumping on the old road?
This also led to the economic development of this route almost stagnating, and even regressing.
Most of the small houses seen along the road were built more than ten years ago.
In recent years, the real estate speculation was so fierce that the people were also greatly affected. Now, anyone who had a little money would go to the county to buy a house and move the family into the county, instead of choosing to build their own house and continue to stay in this place.
This was also the result of the development of the times.
Aunt Zhang's hometown was more poor and backward than Chen Xi imagined …
This place was called Tongjiagou. It was a small village that was five kilometers away from the nearest town.
There were a few two-story bungalows scattered on both sides of the road. The first floor of the bungalow was a restaurant, but now the door was closed. Even the signboard with the words "Dining and Accommodation" had become tattered and uncared for.
Other than these few houses, most of the other houses were bungalows. Some were even black wooden houses. At first glance, it was obvious that they were old buildings from the 50s and 60s.
There was no school in the village. If the children wanted to go to school, they had to spend a yuan every morning to take a van to the town's middle school.
However, who did not have a few rich and powerful relatives now?
When the children reached the age of middle school, the villagers would send the children to the county or the relatives' house in the town. Therefore, there were basically no children in their teens in this place. Instead, there were many children about the same age as Niannian.
The children were in groups of three to five. As soon as they saw the GL8 from Chengdu, they swarmed over.
After Qin Ruoying took the little girl out of the car, several children immediately surrounded her and chattered in a dialect that she did not understand at all.
This scene was completely out of the little girl's expectations and immediately made her a little scared.
The little girl timidly hid most of her body behind Qin Ruoying, only revealing half of her head to look at the peers in front of her.
She was afraid of others, but the children in front of her were not afraid of her. Instead, they smiled and made faces at her.
Aunt Zhang noticed the little girl's strange behavior and laughed like she was chasing ducks. She waved to the children and said, "Go, go, go, go play somewhere else."
These children seemed to know Auntie Zhang, so after chattering for a while, they ran away like a swarm of bees.
Once the children had run far away, the little one cowered and crawled out from behind Qin Ruoying.
She looked at the bungalows around her and then looked at the shabby bungalow not far away.
This small village was built on the national highway. On one side was a mountain, and on the other was a river valley.
Because there were few cars passing by now, the village was particularly quiet.
The little girl looked at this strange place blankly and suddenly felt a sense of oppression in her heart.
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