Chapter 1472 School
"Probably so." Xiao Fei didn't argue with her either.
"Since you got separated from your classmates, you probably haven't eaten yet, why don't you stay and have lunch with us." Ma Wenlu said enthusiastically.
"Okay." Xiao Fei happily agreed.
Following Ma Wenlu into the school again, the children had already dispersed and were playing on the crude playground. A dilapidated school with a big room as a classroom. The other two rooms, one is her kitchen and the other is her bedroom, which doubles as an office. It seems that she should eat and live here, and the conditions are very simple.
The kitchen utensils in the kitchen are the kind used by rural people, very old, but very clean. A big pot with a stove below it, also burning firewood. There is a lot of rice in a bucket, and there are many rice bowls beside it. The children didn't come home at noon, so they stayed to eat with her, and Ma Wenlu had to work part-time as a nanny.
Seeing the teacher enter the kitchen, several children followed him in. It seems that they are divided into groups, and one group assists the teacher in cooking every day.
Ma Wenlu and several older girls were in charge of lighting the fire, and it didn't take long for the fire to rise. They are very proficient in making fire, unlike the last time Xiao Fei was on an isolated island, Zhao Wanru and a few others spent most of the day digging wood to make fire. Of course, they have matches here. And Xiao Fei was not idle, and washed rice and vegetables with a few boys, and then poured the washed rice into the pot.
"You're a kid from the city, how can you be so proficient at picking vegetables and cooking?" Seeing Xiao Fei's technique, Ma Wenlu couldn't help asking.
"My grandma is from the country, she went to the country to study before." Xiao Fei said.
"I see." Ma Wenlu said.
"It seems that you are also from the city, why did you think of going to the countryside to teach?" Xiao Fei changed the subject and asked tentatively. She is not only from the city, but also Ma Tengyun's daughter, of course Xiao Fei will not expose her identity, "Life in the countryside is very hard, don't you think you are used to it?"
"It's hard work, but I think it's very fresh and interesting." Ma Wenlu said with a smile, "In the city, we use induction cookers and gas stoves, but here we use earthen stoves and firewood. It fits the slash-and-burn farming of primitive society. It’s a habit. Cooking over a fire gives me the feeling that we’re on a picnic.”
"Yeah, um." Xiao Fei nodded, deeply sympathetic, "Children in the city only have the opportunity to cook like this when they go on an outing."
"Moreover, the rice made in this way is much more delicious than the rice made by electric appliances in the city." Ma Wenlu said, "The ingredients we use are all natural, rice and vegetables, none of which have been polluted. It is almost impossible for city people to buy natural ingredients. Speaking of this, I feel a little pity for those city people, they have no chance to eat these good things. They are healthy and full."
"That's right. The vegetables that people in the city eat are almost all grown in greenhouses, and the meat they eat is chickens and ducks raised on feed, or some genetically modified fruits. None of them are healthy diets." Xiao Fei said, "Even if they deliberately Even if you go to buy in the countryside, you can’t buy real products. Because the farmer uncle will also keep the good things for himself.”
"It seems that you and I have the same point of view." A smile appeared on Ma Wenlu's face. Immediately, he felt that Xiao Fei, a 'child from the city', did not look like a city person at all, but had a sense of confidant with her.
It didn't take long before a green smoke came out from the lid of the pot, which was mixed with the aroma of rice, which seemed to have the fragrance of soil, and the elegant fragrance of vegetables. The food cooked by the people in the city can't smell this kind of fragrance at all. The food cooked by city people is entirely to fill their stomachs, and the food in the country can be regarded as gourmet food.
As the scent spread, the children playing outside stopped playing one by one. He stared at the cauldron helplessly, as if his mouth was about to drool.
At this time, Ma Wenlu brought out another basin from the bottom of the water tank. Xiao Fei saw that there were dozens of crucian carp, big and small, in the basin.
"These crucian carp were found by a few naughty boys who secretly went to the fields to find them while they were taking a nap." Seeing Xiao Fei's confusion, Ma Wenlu explained to him, "I happened to use these fish to give them a tooth offering. They can all get one. The farmland here is basically free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and there are a lot of wild fish in it. Every time they go out, they can return with a full load. Sigh! These children basically can’t eat meat at home.”
"Your life is actually so difficult?" Xiao Fei asked strangely.
"That's right." Ma Wenlu sighed, "My salary is not high. Apart from buying daily necessities for myself, most of the rest is used to buy books for my classmates or supplement nutrition."
She is the daughter of Ma Tengyun, and she leads a group of students to live a poor life in the mountains? Xiao Fei couldn't figure this out. If you don't know her identity, you will feel that this situation is normal, but Xiao Fei knows her identity. So he asked: "Haven't you ever thought about seeking some support from your family?"
Ma Wenlu turned her head and looked at Xiao Fei suspiciously, as if trying to see through his mind. After thinking for a while, he felt that it was impossible for him to know his true identity, so he said: "I am relatively independent and don't like to be supported by others. I just want to help them with my own ability."
"And no matter how rich others are, it is impossible to make all the impoverished mountainous areas in China rich. If I bring a lot of money to the mountainous areas to support education, it will completely lose the meaning of supporting education. Bringing money to feed and clothe a few people, Then they slap their ass and leave, that’s not called teaching support, it can only be called charity. This kind of charity is all superficial work of some entrepreneurs.”
"What you said is very reasonable." Xiao Fei said: "It is not a skill to keep a few people from being poor, but it is a real skill to make everyone have food. If you light a fire in one place and extinguish it shortly after, then It’s not really a great good. But you want to make a little spark, and use your actions to influence more fire.”
"You praise me too much." Ma Wenlu said, "Actually, I don't have too many thoughts, I just think this way of life is very meaningful and in line with my values."
After she graduated, she could have joined Ma Tengyun's company as a senior white-collar worker. You can even do nothing, and live a rich life, eat well every day, wear famous brands, and use high-end cosmetics to hang out in the upper class. However, she chose to go to the mountains alone to live this kind of hard life.
Whether it's a white-collar worker, doing nothing to enjoy the glory and wealth, or supporting education, it's all life.
Which kind of life is more meaningful?