"Okay." Tian Erhe turned around and said to Shang Jianyao jokingly, "Now you know how difficult it is to maintain order in such a settlement, right?"
Jiang Baimian didn't want to continue to stimulate Shang Jianyao, so he took over the conversation and asked instead:
"Mayor, when we came in just now, it didn't seem like there were so many children? Are they working with adults?"
Tian Erhe turned sideways and pointed to the three buildings in the shape of "Pin":
"They have classes over there, and the adults only come back to school."
"Class?" Jiang Baimian's eyebrows moved slightly, "You still maintain classroom-style education?"
This is a very rare thing outside of the great forces, in the many wilderness wanderer settlements on the gray soil, at least the settlements Jiang Baimian has been to before.
For people who find it difficult to survive, organizing classroom education is completely unnecessary, which is a waste of energy and resources—human resources are a very important part of resources, and unemployed teachers and children who do not help in the fields at home are luxuries for many settlements.
In those places, parents and elders can occasionally provide some teaching for their children in their daily lives to help them gain common sense and learn to farm, gather, cook, clean up, shoot, hunt, and take care of babies.
Tian Erhe smiled and said:
"Every time an outsider enters Shuiwei Town and finds out about this, he will be very surprised. Indeed, it is not easy to maintain the 'school' under our conditions, everyone has saved and saved, tightened their belts, so that this tradition has not been broken."
He subconsciously raised his head, looked at the dim and rainy evening sky, and said with half memory and half emotion:
"The first person to propose for children to receive formal education was an uncle named Shen Liuxin.
"He said: No matter how difficult it is, children still have to be literate, read, and learn the most basic knowledge. Only in this way can they and their descendants, the future townspeople of Shuiwei Town, remember who they are, where they come from, what group they belong to, and what kind of culture and history they have. Only by always remembering these can they persevere with expectation in a bad environment and in the 'darkness' where there is no hope.
"Although I agreed with Uncle Shen's proposal at that time, my thoughts were actually very simple: every time I moved back from the ruins of the city, I didn't recognize some of the words on the items and manuals, and even if I did, after they were connected, I often didn't know what they meant. This makes it impossible to use items effectively, how can this work?
"This kind of thinking is really simple, and in recent years, I have gradually understood Uncle Shen's words."
Speaking of this, Tian Erhe stood up and pointed to the three buildings in the shape of "pin":
"Do you know where this place used to be?"
Bai Chen, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong shook their heads at the same time.
"This is the school in Shuiwei Town before. There is a basketball court, there is a flag-raising platform, there is a teacher's dormitory, there is a student dormitory, there is a computer, books and laboratory building, and there is a teaching building......" Tian Erhe introduced one after another, his face reflected a little charcoal fire.
Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others listened and saw very attentively, even those buildings and venues could barely distinguish them in the dim evening.
Tian Erhe withdrew his hand, turned around, and repeated his original words:
"This used to be a school."
His expression was serious and serious.
Without waiting for Jiang Baimian and others to respond, he sat down again and laughed at himself:
"In this matter, many townspeople do not understand, they are not unwilling to maintain such a small school, but feel that this should only be provided to the original residents.
"They believed that the original townspeople, especially the core members of the town guard, should divide the land, and the later wilderness wanderers could only lease it and pay a certain share of the harvest.
"They also believe that later wanderers should not be allowed to join the town guard, and they should not be given relatively better weapons."
Speaking of this, Tian Erhe shook his head by himself:
"Heh, when I was alive, I could still rely on prestige to suppress it, no one dared to really oppose it, at most I complained privately, and when I died, I really don't know what Shuiwei Town would become.
"Don't say it, don't say it, eat, eat."
Regarding the internal affairs of Shuiwei Town, Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen were not good at expressing their opinions, so they could only maintain the attitude of guests, and ate the pot of braised beef with compressed biscuits, energy bars, and multigrain steamed buns sent by Tian Erhe.
Shang Jianyao was not in a hurry to join, and continued to pick up the beef in the bowl piece by piece and feed it to the little girl next to him.
The little girl was also very sensible, and after eating, she didn't ask for anything more, and bowed to Shang Jianyao seriously:
"Thank you, brother!"
After thanking her, she held the remaining miscellaneous items and bounced back to the area where many buildings were built in chaos—what was originally several basketball courts side by side.
"The movements are very standard." Shang Jianyao praised her behind her back.
"This is what the teacher specially taught." Tian Erhe was a little proud.
Shang Jianyao still didn't pick up the braised beef, and silently nibbled on the yellow multigrain steamed buns there.
Jiang Baimian did not persuade him, and while eating, he asked Tian Erhe about their various experiences after the destruction of the old world.
After all, Shuiwei Town has geographical advantages and is less tested by external outsiders, but Jiang Baimian and others still listened with relish, which made Tian Erhe more and more interested in talking, and even talked about how he and his wife developed feelings during a hunt.
When everyone was almost eaten, Shang Jianyao began to attack the remaining braised beef, dipping the multigrain steamed buns in his hand with the juice.
"I haven't been so happy for a long time." Tian Erhe touched his stomach and glanced at the leaves and ashes on the ground, "I have to go back to my room, there are still some things in the town waiting for me to make up my mind."
Jiang Baimian suddenly remembered something and quickly spoke:
"Mayor, I have another question."
"What?" Tian Erhe tightened his military green coat.
Jiang Baimian recalled:
"Have you ever seen such a person?
"Male, black hair, golden eyes, 1.8 meters tall, very handsome, should be more handsome than him."
She turned her head sideways and signaled that the reference object was Shang Jianyao, and continued:
"I like to wear a trench coat, gloves, my hair is neatly combed, and I like to wear boots."
Tian Erhe thought for a while:
"There are very few outsiders in Shuiwei Town, and I haven't been out of town for a long time, and I have no impression of the person you mentioned at all.
"Puppy, ask the people who have been out hunting recently to see if they have seen anyone like this, and then come back and tell the white girl about them."
"Good mayor." Seeing the opportunity to perform, the town guard member nicknamed "Gouzi" ran fast.
After watching Tian Erhe, who was wearing a military green coat and a fluffy hat, leave the wooden shed and enter the area where various buildings were built chaotically, Bai Chen looked around and confirmed the location of the members of the town guard.
She then sat down and said to herself:
"Why did the mayor tell us about the internal conflicts in Shuiwei Town?"
Jiang Baimian looked at the fire of the stove and smiled:
"Of course, I hope that the big forces that may exist behind us can accept Shuiwei Town.
"Otherwise, why do you think he invited us to be a guest?
"Even if he trusts you enough, there is no need to do this, you can express his care and kindness in other ways."
She looked sideways at Long Yuehong, who was a little confused, and Shang Jianyao, who didn't know what she was thinking, and continued:
"It can be seen that the internal contradictions in Shuiwei Town have worried Mayor Tian for a long time, worried that after his death, the situation in Shuiwei Town will slip into a bad place and eventually fall apart.
"In the midst of such worries, he met a familiar and trustworthy wilderness wanderer, and it was clear that this wilderness wanderer had taken refuge in a lot of forces and seemed to be doing well.
"If it were you, would you be a little excited, hoping to build a relationship so that Shuiwei Town can rely on the big force that is not too malicious to the wilderness wanderers in the future?
"With such shelter, with the coordination and planning from the big forces, this contradiction within Shuiwei Town is really nothing."
Long Yuehong finally understood:
"I see......
"Team leader, will the company accept them?"
This sentence was also what Bai Chen wanted to ask, otherwise she would not have deliberately talked to herself.
Feeling Bai Chen's gaze, Jiang Baimian once again set his sights on the furnace in front of him.
She smiled slightly and said:
"When I return to the company, I will report it according to the normal process, whether it will be accepted or not, it depends on the decision of the board of directors. In this regard, even the entire Ministry of Security and the Strategy Committee only have the right to make recommendations.
"But well, I will definitely hide the specific location of Shuiwei Town, only saying that I met their hunting team in the wilderness."
Bai Chen was obviously relieved and said in a low voice:
"That's good, that's good."
Long Yuehong was obviously puzzled:
"Why do you want to hide the specific location of Shuiwei Town?"
The target of the report is my own company.
Jiang Baimian glanced at him with a slight smile, did not answer, did not explain, just said:
"Look, Shang Jianyao didn't ask."
Shang Jianyao heard his name, so he looked at the team leader:
"Ah, what are you talking about?"
Jiang Baimian squeezed out a smile:
"Say you are good-looking."
"It's okay." Shang Jianyao was quite humble.
The scene suddenly quieted down, and it didn't take long for a member of the town guard nicknamed "Gouzi" to run back and lean next to Jiang Baimian:
"Someone has seen the person you described.
"He went to the north of Yuelu Station and was a very strange person: everyone in the hunting team thought he was very attractive at that time, and they couldn't help but want to please him and get close to him, but he was very indifferent, forcibly distanced himself, and disappeared into the wilderness."
"It's a bit strange......" After hearing this, Jiang Baimian seemed to think of something and whispered to himself.
She immediately raised her head and said with a bright smile:
"Thank you."
"No, no, no!" The town guard member nicknamed "Gouzi" responded excitedly.
Next, Jiang Baimian didn't ask any more questions, and the member of the town guard had to leave the wooden shed.
Shang Jianyao's eyes then looked outside, only to see that it was dark, the dark clouds were low, and the entire Shuiwei town was dark.
The sound of the fuel generator buzzed, and many rooms emitted light in the three buildings in the shape of "Pin", and on the walls of the town, light bulbs were lit one after another, helping the guards illuminate the outside.
Wow, the heavy rain that had been brewing for a long time finally started in the dark night.
PS: Today's two watches will be delivered, and I will ask for recommended votes on Monday~
(End of this chapter)