daily quirks

Chapter 12

Most of the schools now provide subsidies to some students whose family conditions are not very good. The application conditions for these subsidies are relatively simple. For example, certificates from the village and low guarantees can be used as proof of poverty.The amount of subsidy that can be obtained is about 3000 yuan a year, which is almost enough to cover the tuition fees of some schools in this group of universities for a year.Even if the student is unlucky and gets admitted to another school, it can also reduce the pressure on the family a little, so that they will not go to school like they used to.Because this is a kind of subsidy, there are not many places in a class, and it is easier to apply. It aims to help poor students go to school, and not everyone has it.However, with the development of society, there should be fewer and fewer poor students, but these years have increased more and more. Therefore, many schools have increasingly strict examinations for poor students.For example, some schools require the class to examine the applicant’s daily life in private, and some schools require the applicant to submit the origin of their valuables, etc. Some students joked that applying for a poor student subsidy is more detailed than checking the household registration.

But when you really encounter this kind of thing in your life, you will find that, in fact, these practices of the school are completely unavoidable.

My friend, Xiaoxia, is a poor student.There are three children in Xiaoxia's family. The feudal thinking of her parents felt that having one more child would increase the labor force, so they gave birth to three of them.Xiaoxia's elder sister is the eldest. When Xiaoxia's elder sister was born, Xiaoxia's father's face drooped suddenly, and he blamed Xiaoxia's mother for giving birth to a loser. When it was time to choose a name, he looked at the pregnant woman in the next bed The name is Lili, so I named Xiaoxia's sister Xiaoli.When Xiaoli was born, her family was not very poor. Her father and mother were born in a village rich in grapes, and her parents made a living by buying grapes. Although they were not rich, they were not cut short.In order to carry on the family line and to have an extra labor force, Xiaoxia's father and mother gave birth to Xiaoxia's elder brother Xiaozhi.According to Xiaoxia's mother, it was not until she gave birth to Xiaozhi that her position in the family gradually stabilized, and her father had a smile on his face, and named the child Xiaozhi. I hope this child will be smarter, and in the future Help the family more.

After Xiaozhi was born, the hospital originally wanted to sterilize Xiaoxia's mother, but Xiaoxia's father refused. Xiaoxia's father hoped to give birth to a boy, so that there would be more males, more people could work, and the family would be richer. So Xiaoxia was secretly born again.Xiaoxia's father is still talking about it. When she gave birth to Xiaoxia, she paid 3000 yuan for superbirth, but she gave birth to such a money-losing baby.

Before Xiaoxia was three years old, the family's situation was good. Her father also made some money buying grapes, and built a two-story brick building for the family.When Xiaoxia was five years old, the misfortune began.Xiaoxia's father began to suffer from backaches frequently. At first, everyone thought it was just lifting heavy things and didn't take it seriously. As a result, the pain became more and more serious, and Xiaoxia's father's back became more and more curved. When I came over, I thought it was a 70-year-old hunchback.Everyone felt that there was a problem, and they went to the hospital to see ankylosing spondylitis.

The family panicked all of a sudden. At that time, Xiaoxia was only seven years old and had just entered the first grade.Xiaoxia's eldest sister is only 18 years old and is just about to go to college.Xiaoxia's older brother Xiaozhi is also only 16 years old and has just started high school.At that time, there was no cure for ankylosing spondylitis, and it was only maintained by taking medicine and injections.

Because of ankylosing spondylitis, the work of parents buying grapes can only be placed on the mother. The mother is weak and cannot collect so much, so the income begins to decrease. Coupled with Xiaoxia’s father’s medicine money, the family is really on the verge of dying. I can't open the pot anymore.At this time, the secretary of the village party committee came to Xiaoxia's family to provide a minimum guarantee, and also issued poverty certificates for Xiaoxia's three brothers and sisters, so that the three Xiaoxia brothers and sisters could receive a subsidy at school, and tuition fees could be reduced.The three Xiaoxia brothers and sisters will not lose the opportunity to go to school.

So far, it is all a story of a poor family, but the darkness of this story begins when Xiaoxia goes to college.

Xiaoxia didn't do very well in the college entrance examination. Although she got into the undergraduate course, she didn't pass much. Unless she took the more expensive undergraduate course, she could only go to a junior college.At this time, Xiaoxia's father was lucky, and came across an imported drug that could treat ankylosing spondylitis. The treatment cost 3000 yuan once a month, and her brothers and sisters could afford it by saving money every month.Looking at the situation at home, Xiaoxia couldn't bear to go to those expensive undergraduate courses, so she could only apply for the best junior college in the province, where she studied accounting, which has been a good job for many years.Xiaoxia had just started college and was ready to apply for subsidies, so on the day of the report, Xiaoxia took the green channel for poor students and was ready to apply for poverty subsidies.As a result, Xiaoxia was told that because there were many students who requested to apply for the subsidy this year, there were not enough places for the subsidy, and whether the specific subsidy could be applied for would not be known until the final results came out.At that time, Xiaoxia thought to herself, she had a clear conscience, her family was really poor, and she just waited for the result.

Then Xiaoxia started her college life.When the subsidy list came out and she was about to start the internal review, Xiaoxia was stunned.The list shows that eighteen students in my class have applied for the subsidy, and even six students have applied for the subsidy for extremely poor students.Xiaoxia finds it strange that the students in her class can’t see poverty at all, especially those on the list of extremely poor students. Some Xiaoxia also saw that they bought a new iPhone just this month, and some He even eats meat dishes that he dare not order, so can he apply for special poverty?For this reason, Xiaoxia specially found a counselor, and the counselor told Xiaoxia that these lists are the first drafts designated based on the materials submitted by the students. After the internal review, the class will select five extremely poor students and five impoverished students. .When Xiaoxia heard this, she felt relieved, maybe these people would not pass the audit.

Then during the audit, Xiaoxia found something was wrong.For example, student A, who applied for the extremely poor student, secretly put the mobile phone he just bought recently with his good friend classmate C during the review, and then it was written on the source of valuable property that he did not have a mobile phone.Another example is student W who applied for a poor student. Before the review, he ate beef and chicken drumsticks every meal. During the few days of the review, he only ordered the cheapest vegetarian dish in the cafeteria every meal, and then ate a little rice.What is even more exaggerated is that classmate Z who applied for extremely poor students directly wrote a leave note, saying that his family was about to harvest, and he was the only labor force in the family, so he had to ask for leave to go home to harvest rice...

All kinds of unimaginable methods simply refreshed Xiaoxia's lower limit.Xiaoxia originally thought that applying for a subsidy itself was a shameful thing. If she could, she would rather go out to work than apply for a subsidy. Why do these people pretend to be poor and apply for it?

When the results came out, Xiaoxia was even more surprised. She and the other seven students were not selected, and those who were not selected were really frugal in daily life.For example, student G, when the freshmen registered, he insisted on taking the slowest train with him from his hometown in the north for a week, and came here to go to school. In order to save travel expenses, he even changed several times. Just take the bus to save some money.Like classmate Y, he went to the cafeteria early every morning to buy three steamed buns, which he could eat all day long with the mustard mustard discounted in the supermarket, and served with some boiled water when he was thirsty.Xiaoxia looked at the classmates who were not selected like herself, all of them were poorer than those who were selected, but they couldn't pretend, pretended they didn't understand, or in other words, they didn't need to be poor when it came to poverty. Pack.So those who are really poor are replaced by those who pretend to be poor. Those who pretend to be poor wait until the review is over, holding a new mobile phone, a new computer, eating big fish and meat, and receiving subsidies for poor students. These really poor families can only let their parents continue to borrow money with a shy face to maintain their studies.

For this reason, Xiaoxia also reported it to the counselor, but what the counselor said left a deep impression on Xiaoxia.

"This kind of subsidy was originally intended to help poor children go to school, so that the country would not lose talents due to family poverty, and too many people took advantage of this for profit, so the school had no choice but to set up these review systems. Unexpectedly, these people Taking advantage of this system, acting in a full-fledged way, deceiving the superior and the inferior, and openly holding things that do not belong to them, the school has nothing to do. The most terrifying thing in this society is the human heart."

The counselors also want to help these poor students, but the school leaders have no time to take care of these. They only care that they really send out the money. How can they have time to control whether the money is really sent to useful people?Just like in some places now, those who donate clothes and belongings from the outside world are not the most needy families in the village, but often those families who are not so difficult and have a certain background.In fact, these families are not short of these things and this little money at all. They just think that the free money should not be stupid, occupying this quota one by one, and the poor can’t help it. getting richer.

Xiaoxia looked at the school, looked at the classmates around her, and reluctantly walked to the Internet cafe outside the school, and posted part-time resumes online. Xiaoxia knew that her home could no longer provide her with more money.

Three years later, I ran into Xiaoxia at the entrance of a hospital. Seeing Xiaoxia holding an X-ray, I thought it was Xiaoxia's father who came for a review. Unexpectedly, it was Xiaoxia herself.Xiaoxia suffered from a herniated lumbar disc at the age of 23 due to years of part-time jobs and internships. It takes nearly half an hour to get up every morning. The unit she works is on the fourth floor. The most difficult thing for Xiaoxia every day is climbing the stairs. when.Every time she climbed the stairs, it took Xiaoxia more than half an hour to climb the stairs that others climbed in 5 minutes. In order to go to work on time, Xiaoxia had to get up at 05:30 every day, then go out at 06:30, take an hour's bus, and then climb for half an hour. It took more than an hour of stairs to start work at 08:30.

Looking at Xiaoxia, I seem to have foreseen her future situation. In this provincial capital city, how many poor students are like Xiaoxia, who cannot get subsidies in college and have to go out to work to support themselves. What about the ones who have caused some irreversible damage to their bodies by working overtime?If, as everyone said, a university is a small society, then, in a university that still has a smell of books, can it be less realistic and dark, and more warm?Let these children who have expectations and yearning for the city be able to have a guaranteed life when they leave their hometowns, so that they will not suffer from the inferiority complex of their poor family and endure the exhaustion of long-term part-time jobs at the same time?
(End of this chapter)