Chapter 206 The Secret in My Heart (III)

After the ceremony, it was already noon.

The parents of students who came here all invited everyone from the foundation to visit their homes. The leaders of the county and township governments also strongly invited them to drive to the county hotel for dinner. Li Siming rejected these hospitality people because Chen Cheng had prepared a lot and prepared ingredients in advance for the 208 foundation staff and 30 educated youth members and borrowed the kitchen of this primary school. Enthusiastic parents took the initiative to cook for them.

Li Siming and others have won the respect of everyone here. What is it that they can cook for these people with a heart of gold?

Taking advantage of the opportunity to cook, Li Siming had time to contact the 30 educated youth friends. As members, they are generally enthusiastic donors and supervisors of the foundation. Most of these people are from the same agricultural group as Li Siming. Many of them have not met Li Siming for a long time, such as Zhong Aiguo, Wan Ming, Ye Yaojian and the guy named after the death of prison. The last time they met, they were all young people, and now they are middle-aged. Li Siming is the youngest, but he is almost 38 years old. When they gathered together again, they sighed. The passage of time has caused gradual changes in each face. Everyone has different occupations and social status, but there is no difference here. A common ambition makes them come together.

Among these people, Li Siming is always a legendary figure like a god. In addition to envying his huge wealth and remarkable success, his educated youth regards him as a friend who can always be trusted. At the same time, they are also proud to have someone like Li Siming as a friend.

"Amin, if it weren't for you, I might not have been able to get into college!" said Seizure with a smile, "It's just that over the years, you have been elusive. To understand your current situation, you can only know from the front page of Science and Technology Daily or Economic Daily."

"But I can't forget you. Aren't you the guy who just released from prison?" Li Siming joked. He was talking about the very interesting name "after prison".

"If you want to go to prison, I really want to experience it. I heard that prison tourism is now emerging abroad. If I have the chance, I want to see if the prisons in other countries are much more interesting than China?" said Zheng Man.

"After the sentence, you are advocating foreign countries. Didn't Ah Ming squat back then? You can ask him to talk about his experience!" said Zhong Aiguo.

"Yes, yes, I also saw a reporter interviewing a guy nicknamed "Scarface" in the newspaper. Is the news report written in the newspaper true?" Wan Ming asked.

Li Siming always has little affection for reporters. Li Siming refused all interviews that had nothing to do with the company's business operations. The central media reporters who came to Li Siming with notes criticized by senior leaders were also disappointed. Therefore, the reporters tried their best to turn their goals to those who had contact with Li Siming. "Scarface" Liangshan was also fortunate to be interviewed by reporters once, because in Li Siming's past, he was probably the one with the most say besides Li Siming himself.

Liangshan is now old and cannot do too heavy work. He has been transferred by Li Siming to MSI Technology Building as a cleaner, and earning a much higher salary than ordinary employees, so he enjoys his old age here. He feels very lucky because he met a person who values ​​friendship. If it weren't for this, his life now might be very bleak, or he had long been swallowed up by a difficult life, and even his bones are gone. Therefore, he respects Li Siming from the bottom of his heart and will never allow anyone to say bad things about Li Siming. When the reporter interviewed him, he used countless praises to Li Siming, so that the reporter had to simplify the details.

"What he said is basically the truth, but I am not as good as he said." Li Siming said with a smile. He recalled the past slightly, "To be honest, those days were not bad!"

"Aming, when are you going to go back to Heilongjiang to see it? If you don't go back, you may regret it. The old company is getting older and older!" said Wan Ming.

"It's almost time, I will definitely go back. At that time, we will gather all the people we can contact and fight back together to take a look." Li Siming promised.

"That's great. I will definitely participate at that time. Not only that, I will also take my daughter with me and let her see where his father worked hard in the past!" Zheng Man said happily, and then sighed, "Although the children here are very poor, they are really ambitious. My daughter is not half as good as them! It's far from us back then."

His words evoked memories of Li Siming and others, and everyone was speechless for a moment.

With more people and strong strength, the food is ready soon, and the aroma of the food has greatly boosted everyone's appetite. The local township government leaders did not want to slow down the group of people who came to this remote countryside to do good deeds and sent people to deliver a few boxes of beer.

"Stop talking nonsense. When everyone starts working, I'm already hungry!" Li Siming said loudly.

"Okay!" Everyone laughed. Everyone started to do it together. The dishes were purchased from the local area. The chef was also a local. Of course, it also had a local flavor. This meal didn't cost much, but it made everyone eat very happily. Someone joked: For this flavor, should we go to the countryside often in the future?

The young classmate named Chen Dong was kept by Li Siming before school at noon, along with several other students with very difficult families. Li Siming knew that he usually took turns to eat in the village. Although he was not picky, the villagers had nothing to eat. After all, the farmers here were generally not wealthy, and the compassionate villagers had already made Chen Dong feel very satisfied.

"You must like to eat this pork belly, right?" Li Siming picked a bunch of half-slim and half-fat pork slices from the vegetable bowl.

"Thank you!" Chen Dong suppressed the desire to swallow and ate the meat slowly. Uncle Li surprised him. He could know what he thought and what he liked to eat.

"This meat is quite delicious. If you add a little more chili, it would be even better, right?" Li Siming commented while eating. Chen Dongxiao was completely shocked.

The staff of the foundation also knew about Chen Dongxiao's situation and came to pick him up food. While Chen Dong was eating delicious food, his tears couldn't stop flowing down. The tears even mixed with the white rice and ate it into his mouth, but it was the sweetest rice in the world.

"Chen Dong, we are leaving in the afternoon. Remember, you are not alone. There are many people who care about you, love you, help you. You must be strong!" Li Siming gently patted his shoulder.

"Yes, Uncle Li, I must be strong." Chen Dong had a firm expression on his face.

"Okay, I believe in your determination. Now let's have a meal, let's compare, who will finish the meal first?" Li Siming said with a smile.

Regardless of whether Chen Dong agreed or not, Li Siming picked up the dishes and quickly ate the rice into his mouth. Chen Dong had no choice but to follow.

"You are such a big and big child!" Chen Cheng laughed.

After lunch, when the students were in school in the afternoon, some people from the foundation were assigned to various classes to teach the students a symbolic lesson. Then everyone got on the car and left with the eyes of all teachers and students. Li Siming and others also had to go to a new middle school in the local area to participate in the event.

Li Siming stood at the door of the car, waved at the teachers and students, and looked at the primary school that left him many beautiful memories today. His eyes searched the crowd, but he could not see Chen Dong. Li Siming sighed all his life, turned around and drove towards the new middle school.

"Mr. Li, look, isn't that child running on the hill?" someone exclaimed.

Li Siming looked out through the car window. On the high hill ahead, towards the road, the side of the road was covered with waist-length grass that grew last autumn, which had not been truly replaced by the tender grass growing from the ground in this spring. On the graceful gentle slope, a small figure, like a strong sika deer, full of vitality and infinite expectation for life, running towards the highest point. The highest point of the destination seemed to symbolize the peak of life, making him so persistent and unregretful. The bright red scarf shone in the spring breeze, and it could be seen clearly from afar, as if it appeared in front of him. The road slowly moved in a valley, and the hill seemed extremely tall. The sun in the afternoon just climbed up to his head, making this small figure as tall as Kuafu chasing the sun, making people worship.

Someone took out the camera and took a look at this moving picture. More people felt the great significance of their work, which further motivated the foundation staff to work hard.

The car drove to the bottom of the hill, and the small figure finally reached the peak. Li Siming opened the window and stretched out half of his body out of the window.

The small figure stood on the high hill, desperately waving the red scarf that was untied from his neck.

"Uncle...Auntie...I...I'll definitely...be strong!" Chen Dong shouted loudly from a high place. The crisp sound wandered back and forth between the mountains and forests, and it took a while to disappear.

"We... believe!" Li Siming replied loudly at the small figure. The response also wandered back and forth between the mountains and forests, reaching the deepest part of the dense forest. It finally disappeared without any trace.

The car continued to move forward, and the small figure became smaller and smaller, and finally the high hill seemed a little smaller. Li Siming fulfilled his wish for many years today. He saw that although this child was poor, he was as strong as he imagined. He was very pleased and proud. Therefore, he should be happy.

"Amin, I have a problem." Chen Dahui asked softly beside him.

"What's the problem?" Li Siming asked.

"I find you are very familiar with the dialect here. As far as I know, you have never been here. And I heard that when you were in Hollywood a few years ago, you used the dialect here to give a speech." Chen Cheng looked full of doubts.

Li Siming was happy. He suddenly remembered that American TV stations were in a hurry to "translate" their "Chinese".

"I understand foreign languages ​​from four countries. I am from Beijing. Of course, this Beijing dialect is no longer a problem. There is no need to say Northeastern dialect, Cantonese dialect, and I also know a little Shanghai dialect. If I add another Chinese dialect, won't it work?" Li Siming asked back.

"But the dialect here is not that common." Chen Cheng said.

"That's what makes me stand out! The ancients said: I can die in the morning when I hear the truth!" Li Siming laughed.

"Then I don't know much. I have traveled all over the years for the foundation. I can't tell you what dialect there are?" Chen Cheng said, "That's why I can be considered a person who has achieved the Tao!"

The two of them joked all the way, and soon arrived at the newly built middle school. This is a complete middle school with junior high school and high school. The newly built seven-story teaching building is very grand and has a special laboratory building. There are many advanced and expensive teaching instruments, and it has become the first local school to add computer subjects - this is a project jointly funded by MSI and Lenovo. MSI provides free 486 microprocessors, and Lenovo is responsible for the whole machine manufacturing, and only charges the foundation for the cost-price.

The foundation spent 20 million yuan to build this middle school, which was a big deal in a poor agricultural county with sparse fiscal revenue, and was naturally welcomed and respected by the school. The principal also complained that Li Siming and others did not come to this middle school first in the morning.

Li Siming is selfish because this middle school is also his alma mater and the teaching quality has always been among the best in the local area. Of course, he also hopes that Chen Dong can have a better learning environment than Li Siming himself in the future.

He has had many beautiful memories of youth here. The clear river outside the school is still flowing gurgling, and the river water flowing from the mountains in summer is extremely cool. The huge sycamore tree at the school gate is not so thick at this time, and the days of youth are gone forever. Li Siming can only revisit the old place to find the past days little by little. Here, Li Siming feels that his heart is old.

After visiting the school building, condolences to teachers and students, checking the learning status of some of the students who were sponsored, and spending an hour discussing the future development of the school with all the teachers, and raising their own ardent hopes, Li Siming and others left. The school was originally preparing to hold a grand welcome ceremony, but Li Siming refused. The school had officially started, and Li Siming did not want to delay teaching work. However, Li Siming's voice, appearance, smile and appearance remained forever in the eyes of teachers and students.

The group returned to Hefei, Anhui Province, and rested overnight. The next day, all the foundation staff held a university. The meeting was attended by educated youth members from all over the country, including Qian Dahai, the boss of Beijing who is now a busy man. He is also one of the founders of the foundation and is very enthusiastic about the foundation's work. This is the first time that Li Siming met some people. Xiaodao also came from Shenzhen. He came to attend the meeting and get some lessons from Chen Cheng.

The meeting was held very enthusiastically, and everyone made suggestions, summarized the experiences and lessons learned over the past few years, made high evaluations of the current work, and also put forward hopes for future work. This meeting also attracted local media to follow and interview. It was through this meeting that the outside world knew that Li Siming had been doing many charity activities for a long time.

Some people always say more than they do. What is more hateful is that those who look like saints or gentlemen on the surface, but do things that violate the law and discipline behind their backs. Li Siming is different. He is usually very low-key, and doing good things are always much more valuable than saying good things.

"Since the birth of the Education Youth Foundation in the summer of 1983, more than ten years of work have been fruitful, and it is also a process of continuous learning and improvement. It is not enough to have a kind heart in charity. We have been constantly exploring for almost eleven years and finally established a private charity organization with relatively sound systems and procedures, which has also helped more than 1,000 educated youth friends and their families. Many of them have donated money to us in turn. This touched us and made me feel that charity has great potential.

Now we have already walked out of the scope of educated youth, looking at all regions and classes across the country, and helping more people. The 'Three Hundred Plan' is a very good plan. It is scattered in schools across the country. Not only are there dedicated people responsible, but we have basically done nothing wrong. This is an amazing achievement, thanks to the efforts and meticulous and professional work of President Chen and the vast number of staff. I salute you!" Li Siyou said with deep emotion. He stood up and bowed deeply to everyone.

The applause was thunderous. People were not applauding Li Siming's bow, but applauding themselves. The staff of the foundation came from all over the country. They had been engaged in different professions before and came together for a common dream. Within this foundation, President Chen strives to create a united, relaxed, lively and responsible working atmosphere, which makes everyone feel that working in this foundation is a kind of enjoyment, absorbing nutrition, gaining strength, and putting this power into work.

Everyone is growing, just like the elementary school students who have received their help. This will be a rare experience in their life.
Chapter completed!