When Xie Feibai contacted Cheng Ran recently, he seemed to be worried. Cheng Ran felt that he had made some progress and started to hide something in his heart. It seemed that being a major shareholder of Yanhua Nanzhou Real Estate and rotating in the company had a good effect. When asked what position he was in, Xie Feibai shook his head and said that it was not something that happened in the company, but just some things he encountered in his daily life and he couldn't get over it.
Seeing Cheng Ran's surprise, Xie Feibai hesitated and said, "There are some things I don't know how to say. You know the subsidies for poor students, right? The school has quotas, but our counselor randomly assigns people, and everyone listens to him. Each person gets 1,600 yuan per semester, and he can give everyone half... Originally, I didn't want to get involved in such trivial matters, but I couldn't help seeing it..."
When he said this, Xie Feibai had just bought two bottles of Coke from the canteen of USTC. He handed one to Cheng Ran, opened the pull ring, and sat down on a nearby embankment. "There's a guy in our dormitory. He comes from a poor family. You can tell that he can't eat meat for a few meals a week. Once I saw him coming to the cafeteria to get food at the last minute. I didn't understand it, but later I noticed that he was almost always the last to go to the cafeteria, and the chef would scoop the remaining dishes onto his plate.
Once in the study room, I saw him taking out a lot of receipts. He must be keeping accounts. They were all meals costing a few cents. He wrote them down to control his expenses... I once heard him say that his family is from the countryside, his father is disabled due to a work-related injury, and he has a younger sister. It was not easy for him to get into college, and the family has no money. His sister is in middle school...
It was he who begged his family to continue his sister's education, so the money he saved as a brother could be used to support his sister's continued education... so he saved as much as he could.
But that's the case. He didn't fill out forms to apply for poverty subsidies or go through the hassle of obtaining materials or other procedures, because his father said that although his family was poor, they couldn't let others look down on them. There were five roommates in our dormitory, and they would often ask him to help with things they didn't want to eat or things they bought outside. They would ask him to help with bread, braised dishes, beef jerky... Sometimes he would feel bad and buy some cookies to treat everyone, and no matter whether they liked it or not, they would give him a thumbs up and say he would buy it. Everyone was very happy, and he was very happy too."
“I think some people really have it very hard… However, it is precisely because of this that they don’t get the help they deserve. Our counselor is really fucked up…”
Cheng Ran said, "There are many things... But this is unlike you. Xie Feibai, who is always rushing forward, is actually shackled by reality..."
"I shouldn't be like this..." Xie Feibai said, "At that time, I thought of many ways to confront the counselor... But in the end, I didn't do it. I didn't have the courage..."
Cheng Ran looked at Xie Feibai and found it hard to imagine that he would say something like "no courage".
In our understanding, shouldn't Xie Feibai be angry about the injustice in the world and live his life as he pleases
It turns out that Xie Feibai will also grow up, grow up to understand the ways of the world, and face many gray barriers and curtains in reality that cannot be pierced by courage.
Perhaps this is the sadness of human beings. The fearless young knight will also start to consider the rules of the world, the pros and cons, and compromise with the mixed world of good and bad people. He will go from not being able to tolerate any impurities to beginning to admit that there are no fish in too clear water.
"If you don't expose him directly, there are many ways to do it, such as reporting him behind his back... But I suddenly realized that this kind of thing should be very common in the school. The visible ones are here, but what about the invisible ones? So I know that this is not something that can be solved by just scanning what you see in front of you... Sometimes I suddenly feel like this, and feel that some mechanisms in this world are imperfect, and some things are very heavy. I feel very bad when I have this thought..."
Cheng Ran said, "Then go and solve it."
Xie Feibai looked up.
"To promote the solution to this problem, I asked Tianxing Society to develop a software, but we need to discuss it with the school department. I think this is a good idea, and HKUST can also do it. The cafeteria can record the big data of each student's meal card, and finally screen out poor students based on certain statistics. Then the school's subsidies can be directly and silently put into the poor students' meal cards, and there will be no need for manual reporting."
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This matter was quickly promoted. Once the idea was put into practice, Tianxing Society quickly started to work. The system was launched in a very short time. The system was at USTC, and with Cheng Ran's connection with USTC, it was of course easy to push it online.
However, the Political Science and Law University where Xie Feibai was studying was not that simple. But Xie Feibai also had a sister, Wang Yulan, who lived in Nanzhou. Wang Yulan came to the school in the name of "Economic Herald", a media with great influence in Nanzhou. Since this could both promote the school and set an example for educating people, the school turned "consideration" into a green light and passed it all the way.
Then one day in June, a student suddenly received a CQ Feixun message from the system during their ordinary and mundane student days.
"Hello, student XX! I am from the Student Financial Aid Management Center. The school will provide you with invisible financial aid in the near future based on your consumption data on the One Card and your overall performance in school. The amount will be directly deposited into your One Card to subsidize your living needs. Please use it wisely. I wish you a happy study and life."
It is hard to believe that someone would feel such emotions, suddenly have red eyes, or shed tears after receiving a message signal from a machine.
Some students don't have pagers or cell phones, and even don't have CQ numbers in their student information. But it doesn't matter, the receipt will show the balance in brackets with "subsidy," and when students ask the administration about the excess balance, they will get the same answer.
After all, this matter is confusing, and Wang Yulan's media reports explained this matter just right. The reports about the introduction of this system by Xie Feibai, a student at the School of Political Science and Law, became known to everyone at once. The School of Political Science and Law received unanimous praise from the outside world, and Xie Feibai also received an accommodation after skipping classes and failing courses at school.
At the end of Wang Yulan's report, she wrote a heartwarming sentence: "Using big data to support poor students is a major innovation in colleges and universities using high technology to provide better services. It finally makes people feel that our colleges and universities are not out of touch with this era that encourages innovation.
Children, don't worry, there are always people who silently protect your soft hearts. "
What this brought was that Xie Feibai became famous in the school.
There was a debate competition at the China University of Political Science and Law, and Cheng Ran was invited to participate. The theme was "Will technological development destroy humanity?" Xie Feibai, who had always been aloof and outside the mainstream, was actually the fourth debater on the opposing side.
As far as Cheng Ran knew, Xie Feibai's eloquence was limited to occupying the moral high ground before a fight, and he had never received any training from the debate team, but he actually stood in the most important position.
However, the affirmative side was already frowning when they saw this lineup.
But the affirmative side is still struggling at a very high level. For example, after stripping away the debate quagmire of the evil human beings using technological warfare, it also used nuclear power plant accidents in human history to shout out such eloquent words as "Science and technology development, please stop its rapid pace, wait for your people, wait for your soul, wait for your morality, wait for your conscience..."
At that time, most of the students at the School of Political Science and Law, where liberal arts students were in the majority, were pessimistic about the coldness of science and technology. In addition, many science fiction novels had profound conceptions of the end of mankind.
However, when Xie Feibai made his fourth debate, he did not make any closing remarks, nor did he bring up the human republic angle. Instead, in front of department leaders and counselors, he directly raised the issue of hardship allowances being withheld and given to students who counselors believed had good grades and were obedient, and proposed the reason for creating the system. In Xie Feibai's last sentence, "I will not explore whether cold technology is good or bad for the future of mankind, or whether we should oppose technological progress. I will tell you from my own experience that science and technology can also have warmth and be more humane!"
There was thunderous applause.
Facing the gloomy faces of the department leaders and individual counselors, there was no need to declare victory for the opposing side. At that moment, Xie Feibai, who slammed the table and shocked the whole room, was the man who was always flying high that Cheng Ran knew.