"If I don't come back, do you expect Xiaoge, a grown man, to take care of your mother?"
"Come, eat it while it's hot. This is kidney and three fresh noodles, which is especially good for men."
"This is red dates and old hen soup. It can nourish the blood and nourish the skin. It is good for you."
Yu Kelan couldn't stand it anymore. She buried her blushing face on the table and said unwillingly, "Mom, if you keep talking nonsense, I will ignore you."
Xu Lanhua smiled and said, "I'm just here to deliver breakfast. I'll be leaving soon."
When I went downstairs, Yu Gensheng was smoking in the corridor.
Seeing Xu Lanhua coming down, he quickly put out his cigarette and asked, "What happened?"
Xu Lanhua was quite fashionable and made an OK gesture.
While Yu Gensheng breathed a sigh of relief, he still felt a little empty in his heart.
Finally, the day came when his little cotton-padded jacket became someone else's little cotton-padded jacket.
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“How does chicken soup taste?”
This question was not asked by Lin Ge.
But it was Yu Kelan who asked.
Yu Kelan didn't have much of an appetite, so this pot of chicken soup actually benefited Lin Ge.
“It’s delicious.”
Lin Ge smiled and nodded.
Yu Kelan smiled sweetly and wiped her husband's mouth.
Now that they have taken that step, they are no different from a newlywed couple.
Suddenly, Lin Ge, who was drinking chicken soup, raised his head and asked, "By the way, why haven't I seen Sister Yalin recently? Do you know what she is doing?"
Although Yu Kelan had just returned from her grandmother's house, she was in contact with Su Yalin. She smiled and said, "Teacher Su came back from her hometown, Xiangcheng, and went to the surrounding poor towns. I heard her say that she was doing some poverty alleviation work."
"Anyway, she has become a celebrity in Jiangbei City. Even our principal has asked her for charity funds. After all, we have poor students in our school."
"But Sister Yalin is very strict in managing the charity foundation. She does almost everything herself. It's not enough to just have good grades. You also have to be grateful before she will help you."
Lin Ge listened and nodded: "Is that so? Then she must have gotten quite tanned recently? After all, it's August now, it's so hot, and she goes to the countryside every day."
"When she comes back, I'll go check on her to see if she has a tan."
"Puchi..." Lin Ge's words were so funny that Yu Kelan couldn't help laughing.
But the wound was touched and he couldn't help frowning.
He rolled his eyes at Lin Ge and said, "Humph~ You're so annoying. You're trying to make people laugh again... Also, if Teacher Su knew that you said that about her, she would definitely reward you with chestnuts when she gets back."
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Wujiagou.
The poorest town in Jiangbei City.
No doubt about it.
It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and adjacent to water on one side, and the roads are blocked.
Cars cannot drive in, and if people want to go out, they can only take the ferry.
The only way for the people here to make a living is to dig bamboo shoots, pick mushrooms and medicinal herbs and sell them in exchange for some money and daily necessities.
The average annual income per person is less than 100 yuan.
It is said that there has not been a single college student in Wujiagou for a hundred years.
The reason is that this place is so poor that teachers are unwilling to come and teach.
Most of the children in the town have not received any education and are illiterate.
A small number of them only attended primary school and dropped out in junior high school to help with housework at home.
There is no high school in the town. If you want to go to high school, you have to go to Qingjiang County.
Because the road is too difficult and long, we spend seven or eight hours on the road every day.
In other words, if you don’t want to be late, you have to start at 3 am.
I finished my evening study at 9pm and when I got home, it was already 1am.
As for staying on campus, it was impossible because I had no money to pay for the accommodation fee.
So, if children here want to go to high school, they can only sleep two hours a day.
It was under such difficult conditions that Wujiagou produced its first college student in a hundred years.
And miraculously she was admitted to Huaqing University.
The sound of gongs and drums was so lively.
Even the city leaders came to present a banner and 200 yuan as a token of consolation.
But that’s all.
These two hundred yuan are barely enough for the fare to Kyoto.
There is no money available for tuition and living expenses.
The people in the town were very worried about this matter.
Especially the mayor.
The town finally has a college student, and he is about to leave.
At the critical moment, I was blocked by tuition and living expenses.
He went door to door to raise money.
But the situation is difficult for everyone.
Even many poor households cannot even get enough food to eat.