(sorry, there has been no internet, there has been internet just now)

After leaving outside, Yang Fan dialed the number of "Lao Zou" using Lin Nuolan's cell phone.

What surprised him was that after a while, no one answered the phone. He could only check the location of the number and found that it was not from Hua'an City, but from a small place in another province.

If it is a liar, it should be threatening people nearby. Could it be that she is from her hometown? She owes people debts in her hometown? She pays off the debts of her father and son?

This possibility has made Yang Fan more calm and ready to talk to this old Zou.

Half an hour later, he had not returned the call, and he called again.

No one answered this time, but after a while, when he was about to hang up, the phone was answered.

"Is it Nuolan? I didn't bring my phone with me." The other party was a little breathing, probably because he heard the ringtone of the phone coming to answer the answer.

Yang Fan was silent for a moment. This was the voice of a man with a strong local accent. He probably should be at least forty years old. For some reason, just from the sound, he thought that this should be an honest person. And judging from his name "Nuolan", he should be very familiar with Lin Nuolan.

This made him ask without a stance. He was just a friend who had only seen Lin Nuolan for half a month.

"Mr. Zou, right? I am Nuolan's friend. I received a message from you last night. Can I... ask what the situation is?" Yang Fan tried his best to speak in a tactful manner, "Don't worry, I don't have any opinions. I just want to shoulder the responsibility with her!"

Now it was Lao Zou's turn to remain silent. After a moment, he said more politely than Yang Fan: "You must be Nuolan's boyfriend, right? Nuolan is a good girl. In fact, we have dragged her down. I'm sorry!"

Yang Fan was a little puzzled: "Can you tell me about the situation?"

"Okay!" Lao Zou agreed very simply: "It seems you don't know at all. Nuolan didn't tell you at all. If you hadn't seen the information this time, she would have hidden it from you. So I should say this... do you know Nuolan is an orphan?"

Yang Fan was stunned and hurriedly said, "I see Nuolancun's number called you Lao Zou. I won't be polite to you. I'll call you Lao Zou. Lao Zou, can you tell me in detail? If you have time?"

Old Zou hesitated for a moment: "Then I will tell you something!"

From Lao Zou's story, Yang Fan learned about Lin Nuolan from the side. The place where she grew up was a backward and poor mountainous area. Although this kind of place was gradually decreasing, there were still many, and her family was one of the poorest in the area.

Nuolan's father was one of the first people to go out of the mountains to work in the city. He met her mother in the city. The two of them had her together. Then they followed her back and found that it was such a remote and backward place. Her mother stayed for one night and couldn't stand the backwardness and left the next day.

Nuolan's father had to take Nuolan back to the city when he was infancy, but later he didn't know what happened. Her father returned to his hometown in great disappointment, handed over the child to his parents, and left himself. Then there was no news. Later, there were other people in the village who came back from work, and several versions of the story were rumored.

Some said that her mother disliked her father and ran away with a boss. Her father went to search for him after he sent him back to Nuolan, but he didn't know where he went; some said that her mother married a rich man and gave birth to a son. Her father could not stand the excitement and tried his best to find the man, and was finally arrested and went to jail; some said that her father could not stand the blow and committed suicide...

Perhaps all the stories were arranged based on her mother's dislike of her poor hometown in the mountain village and her father's no news, but one thing is true: until Nuolan grew up, they had no news!

Nuolan was taken with her elderly grandparents. She used to work and remit money by relying on her son to work, but later her son had no news. They were older and had little income in poor and backward mountainous areas, and gradually became more and more miserable. When Nuolan was six years old, her grandfather passed away, leaving her and her grandmother to depend on each other.

Her grandmother is also in very poor health, she is as thin as a bone, but she still insists on living! The old man dares not be sick or dies! It will be even worse when he is sick, and Nuolan will have no support at all if he dies! And no matter how poor she lives, she insists on letting Nuolan go to school!

At that time, the local area thought that girls didn’t have to go to much school, just recognize a little word. But my grandmother firmly believed that only by letting Nuolan go to school could she change the fate of poverty that she had been trapped in her life. In the future, she would have the chance to find her son in a big city...

Although Nuolan did not grow up with a hundred families, he had basically been taken care of by many villagers. Anyone who came to kill chickens or pigs during the New Year would give them a bowl. Some leftovers of fish and meat for weddings would also give them some. As for new clothes, milk, bread, toys and other things that ordinary families would not lack, Xiao Nuolan had never had before!

You can eat a little worse, wear a little older, and play less. These can be overcome by gritting your teeth and getting overwhelmed. The most difficult thing is the problem of going to school!

At that time, compulsory education had not yet been fully exempted in rural areas. When I was in elementary school, Grandma Nuolan could still rely on the money her father had saved for the New Year. After her father met her mother, she had a lot of money and had no money to go home. After having Nuolan, it was even more so. The savings were given when she first went out to work.

Later, I couldn't afford to go to junior high school, and my grandmother could only save some eggs to pay back the money. At that time, Xiao Nuolan had no place to do odd jobs if she wanted to work part-time and study. All she could do was plant food and vegetables for two people to eat.

Lao Zou was the principal of the primary school at that time. The primary school was not big, and the children from the nearby mountain villages went to school. The conditions were too poor and there were not many teachers. The principal sometimes had to serve as a few courses and a few years old. However, Nuolan's academic performance and Nuolan's grandmother's insistence asked Lao Zou to take the lead in making money for her, giving her a poverty certificate, and reducing the tuition fees for middle schools. At that time, a key middle school with excellent grades was unwilling to make an exception, and in the end he went to a less-than-school middle school who was willing to reduce tuition fees.

This is how I survived those years. When Nuolan was admitted to university with excellent grades, the whole village was proud, and Lao Zou and others were also very proud. But the expensive tuition was another heavy problem! And grandma finally couldn't hold on anymore, and the old man who had exhausted the oil lamp closed his eyes in relief.

It was still Lao Zou, and each household went to ask for some donations for Nuolan. The local area was not rich, and the same village group was better, so the other village groups said a few good words sympathetically. The villagers who helped handle grandma's funeral also gave 10 yuan or 20 yuan to donate, but in the end it was less than 1,000 yuan, which was far from enough tuition. Fortunately, the middle school also earned their face because they were admitted to a good university, and gave them a scholarship, which made enough tuition for the first semester.

Later, after college, Nuolan applied for a student loan and received a scholarship. Her daily living expenses were maintained by tutoring, handing out flyers and other work-study work. Every winter and summer vacation, she did not go home. One was to require travel expenses, and there was no one when she went home. The other was to seize the time to work and earn money.

In those years, other classmates were dating, catching up with fashion, and watching celebrity concerts, but she spent it hard. After being a little more active, Nuolan went home for the New Year and returned all the money donated by the villagers. She remembered all the money she donated!

She also had to pay back the money to help Principal Zou, who helped her a lot, but Lao Zou didn't want it. He said that when she got her job in the future, she would give back to the children here if she had better conditions.

After Nuolan graduated and paid back the student loan from her job, she began to subsidize the village primary school. Although the tuition was reduced, there were fees such as test papers and textbooks, and the conditions were too poor to keep the teachers. With Nuolan's insistence, she divided her monthly income and subsidized the school for the old principal, whom she trusted and respected, including students' expenses, subsidized teachers' salaries, purchased books and tools, and improved the school environment.

Books and the like are one-time, and the student fees are twice a year. Improvement of school conditions can be gradually improved. Only what subsidizes teachers is necessary. As Nuolan's work income gradually increases, she has now added a new project: to increase free lunch for all teachers and students! She doesn't want to have children who go to school like she did not eat enough and had insufficient nutrition...
Chapter completed!