Medical road ahead

"Doctor Joe, are you okay?"

Seeing Qiao Tan covering his mouth and retching, Uncle Bai hurriedly told Liu Yaxiu to stop.

"Yaoyao, why didn't you tell me about your motion sickness? I'm going to prepare some motion sickness medicine. The three of us are people who are used to walking on mountain roads, so we didn't think about preparing motion sickness medicine."

After stopping the commercial vehicle by the side of the mountain, Liu Yaxiu got out of the car and went to the back seat, and together with Uncle Bai, helped Qiao Tan down.

"vomit!"

As soon as his feet touched the ground, Qiao Tan rushed to the side of the road, leaning on an old tree with a crooked neck, and vomited in a daze.

"Quick! Get water."

Uncle Bai hurriedly ordered Mao Rui to prepare water, while he walked behind Qiao Tan and patted her on the back, "Look at this girl's face, it's almost as good as when I was sick."

After saying that, he turned his head and suggested to Liu Yaxiu: "Director Liu, why don't you take a rest first?"

"Alright."

Liu Yaxiu glanced at Qiao Tan, then looked up at the sky, "However, we can't stay for too long, one is that the sky is getting dark, and the other is that the road is narrow, if other vehicles pass by here, it may cause congestion."

"I'm fine, let's continue on our way and try to arrive before dark."

After spit out both breakfast and lunch, Qiao Tan felt a little comfortable, and after drinking the mineral water Mao Rui handed over, he completely recovered.

She took a deep breath of the cool mountain air, and suddenly felt refreshing.

"It turns out that this is Daliang Mountain! It really is a deep valley with thousands of walls hanging down."

After being relieved, Qiao Tan wiped his face, walked carefully to the side of the road next to the cliff, looked down, and felt deeply moved.

"feel better now?"

Liu Yaxiu came and hugged her, fearing that a gust of wind would blow her down.

"Okay, let's go."

Qiao Tan nodded with a smile, and inhaled the cool breath from the edge of the cliff again. He suddenly felt comfortable physically and mentally, and the discomfort caused by the exhaustion of the boat and car dissipated, and he became energetic.

"go!"

Seeing that Qiao Tan was unhindered, everyone continued on their way and enjoyed the scenery along the way.

Evening is approaching, and the sunset is all over the mountains, as if covering the mountains with a layer of gold thread.The looming starlight followed, mixed in the clouds, like naughty eyes, blinking non-stop.

Surrounded by clouds and mists, the mountains and mountains are green and hazy, half-lit and half-obscured and mysterious, which makes Qiao Tan feel like a dream, as if walking in a heavenly palace and stepping on a cloud mountain.

The landforms of Daliang Mountain are complex and diverse, including plains, basins, hills, mountains, plateaus, waters, etc. On this winding mountain road, Qiao Tan was fortunate to enjoy the magnificent scenery of mountains and valleys, dense forests and waterfalls, as well as hear the singing of birds and insects. beautiful tone.

Qiao Tan smiled, looked away, turned to Uncle Bai and said, "Grandpa Bai, I don't think this Daliang Mountain is desolate! You see, the water, trees and rocks in this mountain are resources that can be developed and utilized."

"It is true that our Daliang Mountain is not barren, but not being barren does not mean wealth. If we want to trace the root of poverty in our Daliang Mountain, we have to start with slavery in the past." Uncle Bai said with a frown.

"Slavery?"

Qiao Tan tilted his head and listened carefully to Uncle Bai's story about Daliang Mountain's past.

"Our Daliang Mountain is the last area where slavery was eliminated in our country. As early as the 20s, it was still in the social stage where slavery, serfdom and feudalism coexisted. Not only that, the traditional culture here also maintains the ethnic and social characteristics of the region. , a special pattern of economic development that is far from other places."

"In 1956, the Democratic Reform Movement was carried out in Daliangshan, which became an epoch-making social change in the history of this place. The change of the system made everyone equal, and everyone could finally stand up and be the master. However, the abolition of slavery does not represent economic and social progress. Development can also happen overnight."

"In addition, natural disasters frequently occur here, which makes construction difficult in all aspects. If the construction is not in place, it will cause traffic congestion and make it difficult to improve the local poor living environment. Moreover, the basic conditions for agricultural production in most mountainous areas are weak, and it is difficult to grow food. It’s not easy, let alone developing the economy.”

"In addition, education is also a big problem." Mao Rui added.

"Yes."

Uncle Bai nodded, and continued: "The quality of the labor force determines the quality of labor, but the enrollment rate of school-age children in Daliang Mountain is very low, and the education time is short, and the number of illiterate and semi-literate people is decreasing slowly, which leads to anti-poverty. Their intellectual support is weak, and they cannot help the government lead the villagers out of poverty."

"In addition, many people here not only have low level of knowledge and single labor skills, but also language communication skills and ethnic customs have become important reasons for them to go to work in other provinces." Mao Rui added.

Hearing this, Qiao Tan frowned and recalled: "I seem to have seen a report a few years ago, which told the story of child laborers in Daliangshan who went to dig coal in small coal mines. I chose to drop out of school and go out to work in the first and second grades of elementary school, and I got the permission of my parents."

"That happened around 2015. After the report made a national sensation, Shenzhen, Dongguan and other places have repeatedly repatriated Daliangshan child laborers back to their hometowns, but they still can't stop them from going out to work again." Mao Rui nodded solemnly.

"It seems that the saying 'to get rich first build roads' is wrong. Only by improving education can we get rid of poverty." Qiao Tan lamented.

"Dr. Qiao is right. In addition to what Xiao Mao said before, 'hard work is not hard work', others also said that we are feudal fools who 'drink on wine, wear on silver, and use on gods', criticizing us will only resign ourselves to fate. , muddle along, emphasize agriculture and suppress business, despise life and death, etc. In short, it is material poverty and cultural poverty. Therefore, education issues have gradually been paid attention to. Unless children live in remote mountains, once they reach school age, the government and schools will Knocking on doors from door to door, persuading parents to let their children study," said Uncle Bai.

"In addition to education issues, medical care and health cannot be ignored. If children are generally stunted, how can there be such a saying in the motherland?"

Liu Yaxiu, who had been driving seriously, also joined the discussion, but she still kept her eyes on the front, and drove cautiously and steadily, trying to minimize the vibration of the car body to prevent Qiao Tan from getting motion sickness again.

"That's right! My son is stunted, and he's almost in junior high school. He's only 1.3 meters tall, and he's too thin. This time, I need to ask Director Liu and Dr. Qiao to help him find out if it's malnutrition caused by malnutrition. " Mao Rui nodded quickly and said.

"Brother Mao, is your son in junior high school?"

Hearing this, Qiao Tan frightened and beat the monsters, surprised that Mao Rui seemed to be in his early thirties, how could his son be so old.

"Hehe. I made Dr. Qiao laugh. People in our area get married and have children early. This is also caused by inadequate education. If everyone is busy studying and taking college entrance exams, who has time to get married and have children!" Mao Rui sneered road.

"That's right! The development of a place can be seen from the age of marriage and childbearing." Uncle Bai nodded in agreement.

Be nice!

Qiao Tan stuck out his tongue secretly, and then took out his mobile phone to tell Hutu what he had seen on the road, but he found that Qin Xiao had sent a WeChat message two hours ago, "Doctor Qiao, is the road going well? Are you motion sick?"

"No."

Without even thinking about it, Qiao Tan replied immediately.

"Dr. Joe is great!"

Qin Xiao also came back very quickly, I don't know if he happened to be looking at his phone, or he was waiting for Qiao Tan's news.

"puff!"

Seeing Qin Xiao's contrasting tone and the matching expression of Peppa Pig, Qiao Tan covered his mouth and laughed secretly.

It turns out that Director Qin is also so cute sometimes!
There are more and more stars in the sky, shining on the mountain road ahead, and also illuminating Qiao Tan's secretly delighted heart.