NOVEL NEXT Chapter 459: The Mountain Road
Er Piya lit two large mosquito coils and grabbed her phone, ready to start a livestream in the room.
Thinking it over, she couldn't show her face, so she just aimed the camera at her sister's fat chicken butt.
Well... it's just a large picture anyway.
Er Piya felt wronged, life in the mountains was too dull.
Despite being the Second Princess, she ended up here chopping wood and going up and down the mountains every day.
Fortunately, she still had her livestreams, but alas, others couldn't chat with her; she could only talk to the viewers on her own.
In no time, the popularity of the livestream skyrocketed, quickly reaching ten thousand+.
Er Piya took it outside to chase the old hen.
She had to bully those "cluck cluck cluck" back.
People in the livestream saw her environment and thought it wasn't right. Shouldn't the Second Princess be in a villa in Magic City?
Why was she experiencing rural life in a village?
Er Piya couldn't explain to others that she had suffered enough to keep this account.
Also, she simply wasn't a match for the village hens.
She was soon chased all over the place.
Chen An'an was different, she had already taken Jiang Yilan around to visit everywhere.
They also wanted to understand what life in the big mountains was really like.
Jiang Yilan's hometown is in Sichuan, a beautiful place with beautiful mountains, water, and spiritually rich people.
Their village had just over a hundred households, with more than twenty left-behind children.
The oldest were eleven or twelve, and the youngest were only three or four.
They had to go to distant places to study; she was the lucky one who even made it to Magic City for university.
She was the only one from the village who got into a big city institution.
At that time, the village was bustling, every household came to see her, bringing eggs, old hens.
Some even brought money, and the village head called for everyone to fund together.
To send her to university in Magic City.
This was also the main reason Jiang Yilan wanted to give back to her hometown.
She thought that these mountainous rural areas were merely backward and economically weak.
It was not until the little fat boy fell ill that Chen An'an truly experienced how backward the people in the mountains were.
The little fat boy got sick after falling into water while fishing in the field, and not changing his clothes in time.
He ended up severely ill.
His grandparents were a bit superstitious and feudal, just burning some talisman papers in a firepot at home.
They didn't even bring him to the hospital.
After three days passed and little fat boy wasn't recovering as he usually would from minor illnesses.
This time, it only got more severe.
In such a situation, his grandparents still didn't take him to the hospital but instead went to the village to invite a so-called spiritual practitioner, who was actually just an aimless drifter.
Yet his daily ramblings led many people to believe him as truthful.
After inviting this practitioner home, he claimed that the boy's condition was from "ghosts knocking on the door on the seventh day of the seventh month".
He was entangled by something unclean from the underworld.
In such cases, they needed to first pay respects to the ghosts.
After much fuss, the little fat boy was in excruciating pain, both vomiting and nauseous.
If this continued, his life could be in danger.
Chen An'an immediately called Jiang Yilan and asked her to inform the villagers to take the little fat boy to the hospital promptly.
To avoid a tragedy due to superstitious beliefs.
Jiang Yilan brought the village head over and used Chen Pingsheng's car to take the little fat boy to the hospital.
And at this time, his grandparents still blamed Jiang Yilan for intervening too much.
They feared offending the spirits and not having peace in the future.
Nevermind the future, if they couldn't get through this ordeal, there might not be a future at all.
Er Piya was also quite frightened; the little fat boy who was lively just a few days ago suddenly turned like this.
Had they taken him to the hospital earlier, he might have already recovered.
The village lagged not just economically, but also in feudal superstition
And those traditional ideas.
Chen An'an built a children's library here, and also set up a computer room exclusively for learning.
She hoped that the children left behind in this mountain area could get a glimpse of the outside world through these two places.
Time flies, and it's already late June.
The little fat boy bounced back to life after returning from the hospital, and as usual, he loved playing with Er Piya.
That's because Er Piya always had something new to tell him, sparking his curiosity.
The twenty-some children left behind in the village often came to play with them too.
Because Er Piya was very generous, occasionally treating them to good things brought in from outside.
From initial resistance to eventual acceptance, slowly they began to play together.
It took Er Piya half a month to reach this point.
Her older sister, Chen An'an, acted like a little adult, and seldom played with them.
She was more into going around visiting.
If some child's parents returned from working out of town, that child would be overjoyed for days.
Then they would watch their parents go away again on a distant train.
It seemed like a cycle that repeated itself every year, each departure reluctant.
Then waiting for their parents to return again.
Compared to them, Er Piya felt very lucky.
Because she didn't have to be separated from her parents, nor did she have to stay in such a small village.
During summer vacation, some parents would take their children to live in the city for a while.
Crammed into a tiny rented apartment, they would leave early and return late for their daily meals.
This is probably what growth looks like for left-behind children.
Waiting each day for their parents to return, and when they do, they can't stay for long before leaving again.
Jiang Yilan asked Chen Pingsheng if there was a way to keep these parents in the village?
Chen Pingsheng found it difficult to answer, as Tengnong Breeding was meant to address this issue.
With his capabilities, uplifting such a village from poverty would be a breeze.
But what after that?
Countless villages like this exist across the nation, he couldn't possibly count them all.
So his only advice to the villagers was instead of sticking to such a remote place,
It might be better to move out.
To prosper, build roads first, but roads in mountain areas are the hardest to build.
His suggestion was to set a small target; go to the county and buy over a hundred apartments directly for the hundred plus households.
Overall, moving there would be far more beneficial than developing such a backward mountain village.
That was his suggestion, perhaps not understandable by everyone, but it was the optimal solution.
Places like this had too few people, even the local authorities thought spending billions to build roads was not worth it,
Not to mention his perspective.
Jiang Yilan took this seriously and then discussed it with the village head.
The village head was shocked and soon most of the villagers were gathered.
Eventually, they all agreed to move out of this backward mountain village, whether it was for their children at home or for those who went out to work.
Moving to the more populous county town was the best option.
As for this little mountain village, they would just return during the New Year.
Previously there were no conditions to move, but now that there are, how could they not move?
The village head even came to thank Chen Pingsheng specifically, though all of this was really Chen An'an's idea.
She walked around gathering opinions, and the ultimate solution was collective relocation.
Leaving behind an area poor in education and health resources.
And with this, her family would also be returning to Magic City.
Chen Pingsheng no longer needed to handle the remaining matters.
He would not entrust his money to any external charity funds; it would be spent bit by bit on those who truly needed it.