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Ergu Azuo, 18 years old, a native of Xide County, Liangshan Prefecture, is a junior high school student.
She is worried about her studies, worried about not being able to get into a good high school; she has a lot of hobbies, copying favorite anime, learning guitar with online videos; she started working before the age of 15, earning tuition and living expenses, and saving pocket money for her brothers; she will shop online, and there are courier outlets in townships and counties from time to time, waiting for the delivery of couriers; she must pay attention to the time of spring planting and autumn harvest, ploughing and sowing seeds in time...
Going to school, working, farming... This is the world of Ergu Azuo, and the world of many Yi girls in Liangshan Prefecture.
Working as a businessman, studying for politics, and having a good youth, they are getting easier and easier to get out of the mountains and passes. Discard the hoe basket, coarse cloth needle and thread, they can rely on their minds, live, live well.
But the transition between the city and the countryside, between the school and the field, the switch between holding the pen and swinging the hoe, the backpack and the potato, still fill their world.
Or rather, they are in control.
Work
The moment Ergu Azaku stepped into the house, his mother, Ogyuwush Momo, got up from the couch with a keychain. As soon as the bag was thrown, the mother and daughter (son) rushed out.
When Ah Zuo and the fourth brother Ergu Ago returned home, Jigu Wuzhimo waited for a long time. As it went, they should have been in the field before 8 o'clock, and today it was 2 hours late.
In September 2020, Azuo and A ge, who were studying at Lianghekou Middle School (Junior High School), moved to the county seat with the school as a whole and merged into The Shangrong Middle School (Junior High School) of Xide County. The siblings boarded at the new school and went home every 10 days.
"Departures are allowed from 6:40 a.m., and students are about to leave at this time." The earlier you go, the more time you have to go home and work, which is like a tacit understanding between children and parents.
At the same time as the school completed the integration, Xide County's off-site poverty alleviation and two river mouth resettlement point Huojue Mo Bayi community was completed, and Erguazuo's family of 7 moved to the community from the mountain pass behind, and the lottery was divided into 10 buildings and 201 rooms, four bedrooms, two halls, one kitchen and two bathrooms.
The fields are in the mountains, the old houses are left there, and even the living and eating can be there.
According to the foot strength of Ah Zuo and his family, it must be within 30 minutes to return to the old house from the resettlement site. Walk through the winding and winding fields, follow a section of railway tracks, and then climb up the cement road passed by the village, passing through the last section of mountain forest, home on the mountainside.
Whitewashed mud walls, covered with earth-green tiles, with houses on three sides and walls on one side, enclosing the courtyard dam in the middle. The houses on the left and right sides, with pigs on one side and agricultural tools and crops on the other, are left in the middle for the family to cook, sleep, and also place grain. "So small, so black," Ah Zuo described the old house.
Compared with the new houses in the resettlement sites, there are "obvious improvements, big changes." Suddenly there was a house that big. The change can be regarded as the "struggle" of the three daughters of the family. Father Ergu Wuya and mother initially only wanted to repair the old house, the eldest daughter Ajimo, who worked in Xichang, the second daughter Ergu Aji, who was studying at university in Chengdu, and the third daughter, Ergu Azuo, worked together to persuade their parents to relocate, and they experienced the beauty of a few clean windows.
The three daughters succeeded, and after paying 10,000 yuan out of their own pockets, the Ergu family moved to the resettlement community with the help of the housing policy of the poor households in Lika.
However, there are still people who return to their hometown every day. As we approached the house, the puppies pounced, the chickens swam behind the houses in front of the houses, the taps diverted from the mountains, and the pots and pans to be washed. Barking dogs, sweeping, feeding pigs, washing dishes, Ah Zuo can't be idle.
Divide the fertilizer, load the potatoes, take the hoe, go up the mountain, the family has its own tacit understanding: the fourth brother Ah Ge filled the potatoes with the basket, and worked with his mother to carry Ah Zuo's back, Ah Ge then carried the hoe, the mother put on the fertilizer, and went up to the mountain in turn, and the little brother Ergu A niu jumped, occasionally fell at the end, and occasionally bounced to the front.
The division of labor and cooperation between the sisters in the agricultural work is a tacit understanding that does not need to be explicitly stated.
About 150 pounds of potatoes, on Ah Zuo's back, she would choose the familiar field to cushion the back basket to rest her feet. A group of four people, in addition to the 10-year-old Ah Niu, the mother, Ah Zuo, and the 15-year-old Ah Ge, can carry a full back of potatoes, but the one who does the most is Ah Zuo. "I'm the tallest," she thinks, even compared among the five sisters, that's the standard for doing more heavy work.
Ah Ge is less than 155 cm tall, weighing only more than 80 pounds, but carrying more than a hundred pounds of potatoes can not be included in the most difficult farm work. Not long ago, the second sister Aji, who was at home during the winter vacation, was trapped in the middle of the mountain by a basket full of potatoes, and he stepped forward to take over and drive home.
Carrying more than a hundred pounds of potatoes on his back, Ah Zuo would take a short rest on the way up the mountain.
"Cultivating the land is the most tiring," Argoo felt, and it was a grinding thing to operate the tractor that operated the cultivated land back and forth. This is a skill he and Ah Niu have recently learned together, and in general, only men should do the work in a family.
How do the potatoes on the back continue to grow from 30 pounds to 50 pounds to 80 pounds, and then more than 100 pounds; how long does the tiller start to be skilled; when do you learn to dig pits with hoes, hook soil, and build high... No child remembers the timeline clearly, just like when he started working in the fields.
"As soon as I can remember, I started doing it."
Academic
"In elementary school, do a little more, and do less in junior high school." In Achi's childhood memory, most parents of the same age are more willing to let their children help with farm work, or go out to work, and the "long-term investment" of studying and studying is usually not valued.
However, in the Ergu family, because of the encouragement of his father Ergu Wuyao, reading has always been the most important. "My dad attaches great importance to academic performance, always saying that he will not let us manage the farm work and concentrate on getting his studies done." This Yi man, who had read junior high school, knew Chinese and valued the long-term significance of education.
Mother Jiguwuzhimo is also supportive of her children's learning, and she wishes that the children "will not be like me, a fool who does not know anything, has not read books, and cannot even speak Chinese."
Xie Kun, a member of the Comprehensive Poverty Alleviation Team of Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the vice principal of Tianqiao School in Peng'an County, Nanchong City, and the deputy principal of Xiangrong Middle School, was once the vice principal of Hongmo Middle School (Junior High School). When he first arrived in Xide County, he visited his home. "A parent of a student asked me in person if he could come to school only three days a week and spend the rest of his time helping out at home."
Ji Liwei, deputy director of the Xide County Education and Science and Technology Intellectual Property Bureau, said that until the clarion call for poverty alleviation was fully blown in Liangshan Prefecture and the task of Xide County's control of dropping out of school, it was possible to talk about a good situation.
Taking the initiative to share the farm work is the sympathy of the Ergu sisters for their parents, just as some of them choose to give up their studies.
In the early years of the Ergu family, the economic resources were the mother's needle and thread sewing Yi costumes in exchange for a meager wage, and the father's scattered part-time income. Twenty years ago, achieving three meals a day was still the family's most worried thing.
The female work of Yi embroidery is the main source of income for the mother to provide education for her five children.
When the eldest daughter, Archimo, and the second daughter, Erguach, entered junior high school at the same time, the most difficult choice came head-on. That was nine years ago, when 15-year-old Achimo and 13-year-old Achi graduated from elementary school. In the local area, it is common for brothers and sisters with an age difference of three or four years to be in the same class, "big is small", or "small is big", together to study, can cope with the long distance to school, school, or provide mutual care for the children's boarding school. The eldest daughter and the second daughter of the Ergu family are 2 years apart, and the third daughter and the fourth son, who are 3 years old, go to school at the same time.
When Agimo and Erguachi graduated from primary school, they should have been happy that the two children had excellent grades and could be admitted to the private middle school in Xichang City. But the reality is that the family can't do anything about maintaining private secondary school tuition for two children.
Ajimo, who had better grades, decided not to study, she wanted to learn from her fellow villagers and go out to work, "At that time, I was going out to work, and I just thought that I could go out quickly to earn money." With the hope of the two sisters, Erguach was admitted to a private secondary school, and the money earned by Achimo outside the house provided his sister with education.
"The pressure is very great, but it is also a driving force, only to get into a better high school, to enter the university, to live up to the sister, not to live up to the family." In 2018, Erguachi was admitted to Chengdu University to study business administration.
Ah Zuo was also under pressure, "In the past, when I was studying, my parents forced you to learn, but now I want to work hard myself." "The shift began a year ago when father Erguwu was diagnosed with advanced cancer." When my dad was sick, he told me... Let me..., that is..." She restrained herself several times, but she still couldn't say anything.
On February 5, 2021, his father Ergu wu died of illness.
Before Ergu Wuyu was born, she valued the ranking of her children in the class, and before the two rivers estuary middle school was merged into the county town, Ah Zuo could always maintain the top five in the class, but when she arrived at Shangrong Middle School, she found that "there are too many people, and the opponent is too strong."
It is indeed "many" - the merger of four schools in Mishi Middle School, Lianghekou Middle School, Nibo Middle School and Mianshan Middle School, as well as the diversion of some students of Hongmo Middle School, the newly established Xiangrong Middle School, currently has more than 5,700 students.
That's a number with a story. Ji Liwei introduced that in recent years, taking the opportunity of the balanced development of compulsory education proposed by the state and combined with the implementation of various policies for poverty alleviation, the Xide County Party Committee and the county government have carried out a rational allocation of educational resources and implemented a variety of projects for education promotion, including the construction of Xiangrong Middle School. "In the early statistics, considering the student source situation of the school to be merged, and combining the needs of spontaneous relocation, dropout control and other needs, the number of students who have to be calculated is more than 2,000." Ji Liwei said that following the principle that planning should be ahead of the curve, "we even boldly proposed that it be planned and built according to the full boarding junior high school that can accommodate 3500 students." ”
However, on the first day of enrollment at ShangRong Middle School last fall, the number of students had reached 5,700. "The return of students from Xichang City and other places, as well as the good results of dropping out of school at the junior high school stage, are the main reasons why the number of students has far exceeded expectations."
future
Obviously, reading has become an important matter in Hilde.
After staying for nearly three years, Xie Kun experienced the change in the emphasis on education in local people. The parent who had personally "asked for leave" for his child, when the child was promoted to the third grade of junior high school, asked Xie Kun again, "Teacher Xie, in the future, his vacation, do not approve for a day, let him concentrate on reading." ”
Why is reading important? Achi felt that the close relationship between the horizon and the thinking. "Reading outside, let me not only learn knowledge, or get a degree, but also change my thinking." For example, examine what is the traditional culture that needs to be inherited, and what is the feudal dross that should be discarded. "She is grateful for her academic experience and for keeping herself confident about the future." Whether or not you are admitted to graduate school, returning to Liangshan should be the ultimate goal. "I came from there, understand the culture and customs there, and should play a role in rural revitalization." ”
What is reading for? "Live the life you want," Azuo's answer, a demonstration from relatives and fellow villagers. Two of the three children of the Uncle's family passed the examination to go out, and now one is a civil servant and one is a teacher; the two children of the village branch secretary have all gone to study abroad; distant cousins, who have studied through study, have now become professors at the university, "their lifestyle and environment are worthy of envy."
"I want to learn when I see others learning well and doing well; if I do well, others can learn when they see it, which is very meaningful." Ah Zuo interprets "influence" in his own way.
As for what "wanted life", Ah Zuo's considerations are mostly related to "money", such as "you can buy everything you need, don't worry about money" "If you have the ability, you can take my mother and them to travel outside."
This is like the understanding of "when you are in charge of the house, you know chai migui".
Regardless of the fact that Achimo, who went out to work after elementary school, has long been able to support himself. Ah Ji and Ah Zuo are the same as "early masters". Since high school, Ah Ji has accumulated his tuition and living expenses by earning scholarships and working in winter and summer vacations. At the university, through student loans, education guarantees for poor households, scholarships, and various part-time jobs, Achi is not only self-sufficient, but also subsidizes the family.
About the same age as Ah Ji when he started earning money, Ah Zuo first went out to work, after graduating from elementary school. In a city along the coast, she was the only one from Xide County, "I don't know anyone, I don't have a mobile phone, and I don't have anything but a few books to accompany me." She thought about the people at home, about the food and drink at home, but she survived.
Later, during the winter and summer vacations, Ah Zuo was able to spell back his tuition and living expenses. Later, she can also exchange the award for a reward, "One or two awards can get thousands of dollars, I have got three or four." ”
Whether it is part-time work or study, it inevitably points to the outside world.
But Archie said that reading is not about escaping, but about returning better. "It's like participating in the farm work at home, I can't say it, because we come out to work, study, and get in touch with the outside world, and we hate the heavy work at home."
She regards farm work as a compulsory subject. "Junior high school began to be far away from home, and I had to work to earn money, and I had less time to go home, but I would definitely go back to help." After being assigned to the new house in the resettlement site, Ah Ji and Ah Zuo purchased wallpaper and floor paper from the Internet and "decorated" the new home by themselves; just this past winter vacation, Ah Ji also carried potatoes in his hometown, and he and Ah Ji Mo picked up their mother's needle and thread to get Yi embroidery.
In Achi's view, compared with labor, it is more possible for the human body to learn the beauty, "is a happy thing", and to maintain labor, can perceive the attitude of positive life. This is the root of the sisters' understanding of motherhood.
After the death of his father, considering that her mother was only at home with her younger brother, the three daughters proposed that Gigu Wuzhimo give up the crops completely. The monthly minimum guarantee, the home Yi embroidery work that participates in the order-based production, can provide the mother with a monthly income of 3,000 to 4,000, and the children of the 4 school-age stages are all included in the education guarantee, and the mother should no longer have life worries. But Giguwuzhimo insisted that "if you can move, you should move." ”
Everyone has their own plan.
Ah Ge is not willing to continue to spend on cultural learning that he is not good at, he wants to go to technical school, "earn money, open a car repair shop"; Ajimo's entrepreneurial dream has taken the first step, she has opened a shop with friends in Xichang; Ah Ji is preparing for graduate school, the future is very clear, "In the end, I want to go back, I hope that rural revitalization is an opportunity." Ah Zuo's most urgent thing is to "get the grades up and get into a good high school."
Cover news reporter Li Yuanli Liu Xuqiang
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