Xia Yanyang said that the village department had a guesthouse for the town cadres to work on site, so I lived there and the leaders could find me at any time.

Director Liu went to the guesthouse next to the village headquarters and looked at it, saying that it was just two rooms, so why should Xiaoyu go far? He could chat with Xiaoxia alone, and he could chat with him. How about it?

Everyone laughed.

Xu Shangli thought to joke, but he couldn't go too far. Perhaps he already had a boyfriend who was embarrassed to say it, so he asked:

"What does Xiaoxia think?"

Yu Yu quickly said, "I live in a nearby village and group, it's not far away anyway."

Xia Yanyang said lightly: "Listen to the leader's arrangements."

I don’t know if I listen to Xu Shangli’s arrangements or Yu Yu’s arrangements, but she always has leaders in her mouth.

Director Liu is really interested in this interesting pair - Yu Yuwen is a bookish and a cool girl like a glacier. She also adds highlights to the boring three months of research. I quickly say:

"Xiao Yu then stay there. It's really inconvenient to run around."

That night, according to Xu Shangli's request, they all had dinner at the villagers' house where they lived, while Xia Yanyang took Yu Yu to Lu Yaping's house for a meal.

According to what Lu Yaping said, tonight is the first meal, fish and meat must be included. In fact, Xia Yanyang quietly revealed that all villagers responsible for food and accommodation will have subsidies. Even so, there are only four small bowls of dishes:

Dried fish, salted wild vegetables, fried bitter melon with shredded pork, and fried green bean pods.

The staple food was pumpkin porridge, which also seeped into black beans, brown rice and other mixed grains. Lu Yaping and her daughter Lu Zhen, who was studying in middle school in the countryside, her husband didn't often go home when working at the water conservancy station. In addition, Director Liu, Yu Yu, and Xia Yanyang surrounded the table. Before long, the fried pork and bitter melon were fried, and then the fried green bean pods were eaten up, leaving only bitter, astringent and salty salted wild vegetables.

Lu Yaping felt a little embarrassed and said she wanted to go to the kitchen to cook a dish. Director Liu stopped her and said with a complicated expression:

"It's common to ask. I don't think there are so many dishes in normal times, right?"

"Often the night, you just need to eat salted wild vegetables."

Lu Zhen said quickly, and Lu Yaping knocked her daughter's head angrily.

"Where is noon?" Director Liu asked.

"My daughter is cooking one or two dishes at home. She usually has to work on farm work and eat something casually," said Lu Yaping. "There are not so many people in the mountains, so it is easy to pass."

Director Liu asked again: "How much does it cost to get from the town in a year as a woman director?"

"It depends on the assessment. It takes four or five thousand at a time, and only three thousand at a time. Then if there is a surplus in the village, it means that the score is divided. Anyway... to be honest, I can't live with this job, and I still have to work."

"What other farm work is there?"

"I contracted several acres of land to grow fruit trees, and I have connected them with the village's forestry farmers. I can fertilize, sprinkle pesticides, remove insects, and pick them up. However, weeding, soil cultivation, etc. must be done by myself. My husband rarely has a holiday, and he has to get up early and go to bed late when he is busy..."

Looking at Lu Yaping, who was only in his early forties but as old as fifty years old, with calluses on his hands and dark skin, Director Liu sighed heavily and said:

"Is it acceptable to be like you in the village?"

"The boss is incomparable to the big family, but it is much better than the poor households who are waiting for relief every day. At least it is not difficult to support their children to go to school," Lu Yaping touched his daughter's head and said, "Nine-year compulsory education, but many people drop out of school after graduating from elementary school. The family is poor and cannot raise free food, so they have to help with farm work. Alas..."

Yu Yu said: "If you refuse to invest in education, you will never change the appearance of poverty."

"I thought so when I first came to Miangu, but when hunger or reading was placed on the balance, it was clear at a glance which was more important!" Xia Yanyang said, "You can't expect the people in the mountains to keep their work worth a few dollars a day and let their children go to school with their schoolbags."

Yu Yu paused and said, "You are right. I grew up in the city and didn't know enough about the situation in the poor mountainous areas, so I took advantage of the rare opportunity to experience it myself."

Unexpectedly, Yu Yu dared to reflect on himself in public, Xia Yanyang glanced at him in surprise.

Director Liu said: "It's not just Xiaoyu, we are all! There is no bathroom at home, so it's unimaginable for urban people in today's era, right? But Shashu Village is a common phenomenon. It shows that a wealthy and good life limits our understanding of poverty and also affects the inherent factors of the introduction of relevant policies at the Kyoto level. Just imagine, can a group of people who have bathrooms from childhood to adulthood formulate policies to help people without bathrooms truly experience the hardship and poverty? This proves the necessity of on-site investigations and eating and living with the people."

After dinner - it was obvious that Director Liu and Yu Yu were not full, but they couldn't swallow the salted wild vegetables, and there was not much porridge in the pot. Neither of them had the nerve to serve another bowl.

Director Liu did a few stretching movements and suggested going to the village for a walk, Yu Yu happily agreed.

Xia Yanyang shook his head and said, "You two are still staying in the house. In summer, there are many poisonous mosquitoes in the southern mountains. If you are bitten, you will feel a high fever and unconscious. At the least, you will have to spend ten days and half a month..."

"Really?" Both of them were surprised.

Xia Yanyang pointed to her slender ankle and said, "I was bitten and sent to the county people's hospital for a week. In addition, there are only two main roads in the village with street lights, and the rest of the places are pitch black. If the leaders are not familiar with the road conditions, don't take risks."

"Okay, okay, all you need to rest early." Director Liu said disappointedly.

On the way back to the village guesthouse, Xia Yanyang said, "Are you not full? I have beef jerky in my bag."

It's strange that she didn't seem to have smiled since she first met her, but she was not stern, but cold and indifferent. Gu Bo's unhappy appearance was enough to let all men trying to get close to her.

This is how Bai Yu was sent away during the Spring Festival.

Yu Yu thanked him and said, "No need, I deliberately brought nothing to you when I came here this time, just want to truly experience the lives of ordinary people at the grassroots level. I don't want to foul."

"I'm just the first meal tonight. I'm going to be a good dinner in Shashu Village. It may get worse and worse in the future," Xia Yanyang thought for a while and added, "The county agreed to give subsidies, but the villagers are used to being frugal, and no matter how good they are, they won't be much better."

"I hope I can stick to it to the end. Alas, you can help supervise too." Yu Yu smiled, with a natural warmth in his smile.

"You are the leader, I am the service staff."

"No, like you, I just mentioned the deputy department last year, and I am considered a recruit in the system. I really want to work at the grassroots level, broaden my horizons, train and improve my ability to deal with practical difficulties, but unfortunately, I have never been able to do it..."

Yu Yu said in a daze that the girl around him had only known each other for a few hours.

Xia Yanyang asked curiously: "Why didn't it come true?"

"The staff of the Kyoto General Office do not participate in the work-on-time exercise. It is said that it is difficult to train mature hands after a long time. When they fly away in a blink of an eye, they have to be re-trained. When writing materials, they have to be dark and dark, and their black hair has turned into white hair. However, writing materials is like writing for two or three years, practicing internal skills, and writing for ten or eight years is exhausted. What's the use of going to the grassroots level? Which unit needs a leader who is good at writing reports?"

"...From the leader to express his wishes?"

"A word of 'work needs' will block you," Yu Yu said. "Originally, my dad could ask a friend for help - he planned this way when he first started working, but he had an accident later... Oh, no one helped me now, and this kind of thing cannot be achieved through his own efforts..."

Xia Yanyang subconsciously raised her eyebrows, shocked by the unreserved honesty of the "leader". With her experience, she clearly saw the trust in his clear eyes and the unique innocence that only exists on campus.

Originally, for some special reason, her heart was tightly closed. She would not say anything from anyone, nor would she have any ideological communication with anyone, but tonight seemed to be an exception. She unknowingly integrated into the chat atmosphere created by Yu Yu.

"Our generation who always want to make a career when they first left school must always be tragic in reality," Xia Yanyang sighed. "Based on my experience in Miangu and my initial understanding of you, even if I go to the grassroots level, I have to choose a relatively friendly place. Poor mountainous areas like Shangdang are really...really..."

Talk about it and came to the village guesthouse. Yu Yu wanted to chat for a while, and Xia Yanyang said in a brief manner:

"Let's rest early and have breakfast at 7 o'clock tomorrow."

After saying that, he quickly walked into the room. Before Yu Yu could speak, he heard a sound of locking inside.

He smiled slightly and did not think it was offensive. Instead, he felt a sense of intimacy in some sense - his mother Zhao Yaoyao was so cold and kept people away from each other. Interestingly, Yu Yu did not inherit his mother's temper, but was particularly humble and good at talking, and was easy to make friends.

It is not like Fang Sheng's outer circle and inner strength, but it is somewhat similar to the old man and Yu Yunfu and his son.

From childhood to adulthood, Yu Yu always stayed with his mother, and he said most of the time, she heard that the mother and son still maintained a warm and harmonious atmosphere.

Therefore, Yu Yu's first impression of Xia Yanyang is different from Bai Yu. He did not think she was arrogant, but felt that some people were naturally so difficult to change.

When I entered the house, I turned on my phone. There was a missed call. My girlfriend Gao Yuanyuan called in the afternoon. She was talking around Xia Yanyang in the car, but she didn't pay attention.

Yu Yu did not rush back, but lay on the bed and sighed.

If it was not expected, Gao Yuanyuan should have given himself an ultimatum; if he continued according to the established script, the conversation would end in disagreement.

Gao Yuanyuan is not the movie star Gao Yuanyuan decades ago, but she looks equally beautiful. She has become Yu Yu since she was a big shot.

His girlfriend is also his first love. This innocent romantic relationship has been in full ten years until she graduated from graduate school and started working in society!

Maybe he avoided repeating his father Fang Sheng's mistakes at heart, and Yu Yu was very dedicated in his relationship issues.

The year after graduation, unlike Bai Yu's hesitation when facing major life choices, Yu Yu directly looked for Fang Sheng and said that I wanted my girlfriend to stay in Kyoto and we would get married in two or three years.

Without saying a word, Fang Sheng used his relationship to recruit Gao Yuanyuan into the China Institute of International Studies under the Foreign Affairs Commission, under the name of "talent introduction", which is responsible for the role and influence of Latin America and the region in global affairs from the perspectives of political, economic, and social development, and cooperated with the External Liaison Office to organize bilateral activities with countries in Latin America.
Chapter completed!