When Yu Dong and others set off for Rongcheng, Mo Yan had already gained several pounds.
I am not very tall, but a few pounds of weight gain is very noticeable.
He had been fat for a while, lost some weight in the middle, and now he has gained weight again.
There were a lot of people going to Chengdu this time, including Ruan Xiaohu, Qu Aiguo, Wang Hailin, Lu Xi, Qin Yi and several other students. Together with Mo Yan, Yu Hua, and Bi Feiyu, they occupied two sleeper compartments.
The students were in a cubicle, and Yu Dong and the teachers were in a cubicle.
Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu consciously slept in the middle and upper bunks, leaving the lower bunk for the other four to play cards.
There were a lot of people traveling with us this time, so Yu Dong, a "bad guy", naturally became less popular. Yu Hua and the other three took Hu Changqing and formed a table of eggs.
Yu Dong looked at the edge of the shop for a while and found it boring, so he found a book from his backpack and grabbed a bag of melon seeds, intending to read with the melon seeds for a while.
After he grabbed a melon seed and finished eating it, Cheng Yanqiu knocked on the edge of the upper bunk, then reached down.
Yu Dong smiled and grabbed a handful of melon seeds and put them in Cheng Yanqiu's hand, and then Cheng Yanqiu retracted his hand.
The couple were eating melon seeds on the middle and upper bunks, and soon they were noticed by Yu Hua and others. They immediately transformed into bandits and got up and snatched away all the melon seeds from Yu Dong.
Fortunately, Yu Dong was well prepared. After one bag of melon seeds was robbed, he took out another bag from his schoolbag.
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About an hour later, Mo Yan couldn't hold on any longer. He stood up and pulled Wang Hailin over from the nearby compartment. "Let Hailin hold on to me for a while, and I'll go smoke a cigarette."
Yu Hua said from behind: "Hurry up, come back and replace me when you're done."
Mo Yan nodded and walked out.
It's just that he didn't come back after half an hour. Yu Hua said impatiently: "Why is this guy gone? Why hasn't he come back for so long? Let's take a break. I'll go find him."
Hearing what he said, Bi Feiyu put down his cards and said, "Just in time, let's go there together."
As soon as they left, Hu Changqing and Wang Hailin, two non-smokers, sat down and stared at each other, waiting for the others to come back.
Another ten minutes passed, but Mo Yan still hadn't come back, and Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu, who were looking for him, hadn't come back either.
Hu Changqing muttered: "What's going on with these three people? Is it possible that they can still get lost on the train?"
"Isn't that possible?" Wang Hailin said with a smile, "Did you hold it back so much that you finally managed to go smoke and didn't want to come back?"
"So addicted?" Hu Changqing shook his head, "Don't worry if something happens, just wait here and I'll go look for it."
After saying that, Hu Changqing stood up and walked out.
About five minutes later, Hu Changqing brought back Mo Yan and the other three, and there was one more person.
He is a young man, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses with very thick lenses. It seems that he is quite short-sighted.
When they arrived at the cubicle, Hu Changqing was still muttering, "You two are really just chatting, and you don't know how to come back and tell me. I've been out for so long. I thought something happened to you. Since you had a good chat, invite someone over to sit down."
Just sit down."
Yu Hua laughed: "How can I think so carefully?"
After saying that, he said to Yu Dong who was reading a book in the middle berth: "Hey, Yu, I met a very nice young man outside Mr. Yu."
Yu Dong stretched his head down to take a look, and smiled at the young man, "Hello."
"Hello, hello, excuse me."
The young man is thin and small, with dark skin and bright eyes. He speaks with a southwest accent.
Yu Dong smiled and waved his hand, "It's been a long journey, and it's fate that we met. But you are so brave. These few people don't look like good people at first glance, so you dare to come with them."
"..."
Bi Feiyu curled his lips and said, "Don't listen to him, this guy likes to joke. Xiao He, please sit down."
When Xiao He sat down, Bi Feiyu stretched out his hand towards Yu Dong again and said, "Come and get the melon seeds."
Yu Dong glanced at him and stuffed the plastic bag of melon seeds directly into his hand, "The landlord doesn't have much leftover food, so save some food."
After taking the bag of melon seeds, Bi Feiyu spread some for the others, and then excitedly said to the young man: "Xiao He, tell us more about the situation in the mountain. You said that little pumpkin is going to drop out of school.
You and the principal went to his house to find him, and what happened next? What did his family say? Did Little Pumpkin finally come back to school?"
"Why did Little Pumpkin drop out of school because the family has no money? The tuition is not expensive, and they are too young and it is unrealistic to go out to work," Yu Hua said.
Xiao He held the melon seeds in both hands and was a little flattered by the enthusiasm of Yu Hua and others.
Speaking of Little Pumpkin, he sighed again, "Little Pumpkin's father broke his leg while working at the construction site, and he owed a lot of debt to look after the leg. Although Little Pumpkin is only ten years old, he can only go out to work.
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"Did you go in the end? Were you not persuaded to come back?" Bi Feiyu asked.
Xiao He bit his lip and shook his head, "No, it's not easy to persuade."
Hearing this result, Yu Hua and the others also sighed. Of course they wanted to hear a beautiful story from Xiao He, but the reality was so cruel.
They also understood what Xiao He meant when he said "it's not easy to persuade".
Little Pumpkin's mother passed away a long time ago, leaving only the father and son to depend on each other. Now that something like this happened to his father and he is unable to work. If Little Pumpkin continues to go to school, there is no way he can survive.
Unless Xiao He and the others can solve the dilemma at Little Pumpkin’s family, it’s hard to say whether it’s good or bad to persuade people to continue studying.
Everyone knows that knowledge is important and learning is important, but nothing is more important than living.
Yu Dong listened for a while and probably understood that Xiao He's full name was He Qiushui. He was from Rongcheng. He was originally a student of Jiangcheng Food Industry College. After graduation, he stayed in Jiangcheng to teach in rural areas.
The rural school he attended originally had only seventeen students left. After Little Pumpkin left, there were only sixteen students left.
"What's the name of the village you're in?" Yu Dong suddenly raised his head and asked.
He Qiushui replied: "It's called Liwei Village."
"Muzili, soil in Wei?" Yu Dong asked again.
"Yes."
Yu Dong stopped talking after asking, and He Qiushui continued, "After this holiday, I don't know how many students will come back when school starts. Alas, of course I hope there can be more than one, but..."
But what, he didn't say, but everyone else understood.
But the reality is such that it is difficult for humans to violate it.
Yu Hua sighed and suddenly looked at Yu Dong again, "Yu Yuanwai, can you tell me if the scholarship for the previous essay can be..."
Yu Dong knew what Yu Hua meant. He shook his head, "That matter has been decided and cannot be changed without authorization."
Yu Hua seemed to have expected this answer and nodded, "I understand."
At the same time, he also knew that Little Pumpkin's situation was not unique. There must be many children across the country who were in the same situation as Little Pumpkin. Even if they wanted to help, they couldn't help at all.
But after hearing such a story with my own ears, my feelings are always deeper.
At this time, Yu Dong said again, "The scholarship for essays cannot be moved, but there are other ways. I will mention it to Shenzong later."
Before Yu Hua could reply, He Qiushui raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Deep sky? Is it that deep sky?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Which deep space are you talking about?"
"Is it the deep space company that has built several schools and provided scholarships? They seem to be Yu Dong's cooperative company."
"You actually know about Deep Space Company?"
Yu Dong was a little surprised. He had always thought that Deep Space Company was only famous in the film and television industry. Although Deep Space has signed many well-known writers, ordinary readers will not pay attention to the name of the author's agency when reading a book, or even pay attention to the name of the author's agency.
I don’t know if the writer has an agency.
He Qiushui probably didn't know very specifically, otherwise he wouldn't have said that Deep Space Company was Yu Dong's cooperative company, not a brokerage company.
Seeing Yu Dong's surprise, He Qiushui pushed up his glasses and said with a smile: "I saw in the news that their company was donating to schools, so I paid more attention, and later I found out that they were still Yu Dong's cooperative company. There seemed to be many others.
Writers all cooperate with this company, it should be a big company, what is your relationship with Deep Space Company?"
"We work in Jinling, have been to deep space, and know that they are doing charity."
"Oh, that's how it is."
"Well, Deep Space Corporation will collect opinions from the society to adjust their charity plans, so you can give them feedback if you encounter this situation."
"Then I'll try to give them feedback later."
"sure."
Yu Dong nodded. In fact, what He Qiushui just said reminded him of the movie "No One Left Behind" by Zhang Yimou, which also talked about education in backward areas.
In the film, there is also a student who dropped out of school and went to work in the city. Then the substitute teacher went to the city to find the student with the belief that "no one should be left behind".
However, the difference is that the ending of the film is full of romanticism. The title of the film cannot be missing, not even a single one is missing.
The reality is not as beautiful as in the movie.
The romanticism in the film has been criticized by some people. They believe that a director can give the ending of his film a romanticism, but cannot give the same romanticism to the harsh social reality.
To Yu Dong, such criticism is like farting.
Since works of art can expose the darkness of society, they should naturally also be able to express beautiful hopes.
Some people always equate expressing good hopes with singing praises.
Yu Dong remembered that "No One Should Be Less" was adapted from Shi Qiangsheng's novel "There is a Sun in the Sky". It should have been published in the past two years. Before the movie came out, this novel attracted a lot of attention, so
Dong also read this novel on "Flying Sky".
Shi Qiangsheng is not good at writing novels. "There is a Sun in the Sky" is actually relatively average, but it has real feelings and the subject matter is easy to attract attention.
I don’t know if this novel has been written yet. I’ll have to keep an eye on it later. Maybe Deep Space Company will have the opportunity to get involved.
This kind of movie doesn't care about the box office. If you can participate in it, it will be very helpful to the future of Deep Space Company.
He Qiushui didn't know that the people in front of him were the well-known writers he mentioned. He only thought that these brothers had quite good temperaments and their words were interesting. The most important thing was that they all cared about rural education issues.
He bought the ticket late and did not buy a ticket. Mo Yan went to smoke next to the toilet before and happened to bump into him, and they chatted by chance.
Knowing that he didn't have a seat, Mo Yan and the others pulled him to sit on the bed and chat, without revealing their identities in the process.
He Qiushui is also quite interesting. After chatting with Mo Yan and the others, he didn't even ask them their names. He only knew that the students called Yu Dong and the others teacher, so he followed the call of Teacher Yu and Teacher Yu.
After getting off the car, Mo Yan was still asking He Qiushui, "Xiao He, where do you live? Maybe we can drop by."
He Qiushui scratched his head and asked, "Where is the event you are going to attend? I'm not in the city center, so I have to transfer a while."
As he was talking, Mo Yan looked up and saw a large group of people gathered outside the corridor, which was very lively.
Looking up again, I saw a banner hanging above the crowd, writing: Warmly welcome Yu Dong, Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Bi Feiyu, Fu Shui and other teachers...
Mo Yan had no intention of reading the words at the end. He suddenly turned his head to look at Yu Dong and asked, "What's going on?"
Yu Dong shrugged, "I don't know either."
He only knew that "Science Fiction World" was going to send someone to pick them up, but he didn't expect it to be so grand. It wasn't like this in previous years.
He Qiushui also saw the banner and was still wondering: "Are Yu Dong and the others coming to Chengdu too? What kind of award is this Galaxy Award?"
Bi Feiyu said in surprise: "You are from Chengdu, but you don't know about the Galaxy Award?"
He Qiushui looked confused, "I am from Chengdu, do I have to know about the Galaxy Award? What is the origin of the Galaxy Award?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "You don't usually pay much attention to science fiction, right?" Wang Hailin said from the side.
He Qiushui nodded and said: "Well, I have basically never paid attention to science fiction. In fact, I rarely read novels. I am a science student and I read more reference books. Is this Galaxy Award related to science fiction?"
"Yes, it is the highest award for science fiction in China. Wasn't Yu Dong famous for writing science fiction back then?"
"Didn't Yu Dong first become famous because of "Resident Evil"? Oh... speaking of it, "Resident Evil" is indeed science fiction. Hey, isn't it? Mo Yan, Yu Hua and the others have also written science fiction?"
Wang Hailin laughed and said: "No one stipulates that if you are not a science fiction novelist, you cannot participate in the Galaxy Award ceremony."
"Oh, that's right." He Qiushui looked up at the banner again and said regretfully: "It's a pity that I'm in a hurry to go back, otherwise I would have stayed here and waited for a while. I haven't seen what these writers look like."
Before He Qiushui finished speaking, someone in the crowd shouted: "Yu Dong, Yu Dong!"
Hearing someone calling Yu Dong in his direction, He Qiushui's first reaction was to look behind him, and then muttered: "No one here looks alike."
Mo Yan couldn't help but laugh, "You've never seen them, how can you tell that no one looks alike?"
"I don't know, just feel it." He Qiushui shook his head, "I think writers should exude a unique temperament, especially these relatively famous writers."
"Ahem." Mo Yan cleared his throat, and his chest puffed up unconsciously.
While they were talking, they had already approached the iron fence, and Yu Dong waved to the people around him.
Seeing Yu Dong waving, the crowd suddenly exploded. Some people even reached out to Yu Dong through the iron fence: "Teacher Yu Dong, welcome to Rongcheng, Rongcheng welcomes you!"
Chapter completed!