Chapter 14 The first festival

Children are the future of a country, the hope of a family, and the continuation of a nation's blood.All over the world, nations that pay attention to development regard children's education as a major issue. Everyone knows that the prosperity of a nation must start with the education of children.However, some lawbreakers in our country are devoid of conscience and despise children's right to life for their own benefit, causing lifelong pain to countless families. On the morning of June 1, 2008, I set off from Chengdu and rushed to Dujiangyan at dawn. Participating in a memorial service for an elementary school can be regarded as a "holiday" activity.The car drove to the gate of Xinjian Primary School. Due to special circumstances ahead, the driver made an emergency stop.Through the car window, I found hundreds of parents and countless ordinary people gathered outside the school gate.The parents basically all wore white short-sleeved sweatshirts, with a line of bold characters printed on the front: Severely punish the corrupt elements of the tofu dregs project!

In Dujiangyan City, Xinjian Primary School is like the Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai. Its area is small, but it is desirable to stand in the bustling area and enjoy the tranquility in the busy city.Looking around, the campus looks a little thin, consisting of two rows of bungalows, a four-story teaching building and a small basketball court.On the right side of the teaching building is the gorgeous Dujiangyan Hotel, and on the left side is the well-known Dujiangyan Kindergarten.Despite the strong earthquake and numerous aftershocks, the two buildings still stand conspicuously.Before the earthquake, these two high-end "neighbors" and the teaching building were close together, forming the appearance of "siamese twins". It stood intact like its brethren, but collapsed with a crash.After people were shocked, they looked around at the buildings on both sides and naturally thought of the term "tofu dregs project".The sudden attack of the earthquake caused the four-story teaching building to collapse instantly, and all 580 teachers and students were crushed under the rubble.After the rescue, more than 200 children were disabled and 326 children died.Parents who lost their children felt as if the sky was falling, and they were extremely sad and angry. Many parents thought of committing suicide. Relatives and friends organized protection groups to comfort their despair and monitor their behavior. They wanted to die.From May 12th to May 31st, for twenty days and nights, many parents, accompanied by relatives and friends, went to the ruins to cry every day.From dawn to late night, from late night to dawn, a group of parents "vented" and left for a while, and another group came again. Hundreds of parents came here through the river of tears during that short and long period of time. .Some parents said that in 20 days they shed tears of their entire lives, they thought of many things, and they could not release the pain and sorrow in their hearts.Therefore, they chose "Six Day" Children's Day, in this festival that should belong to innocent and lively children, on this ruins full of tears and blood, on this day that people will remember for a lifetime, be sad for a lifetime, and be confused for a lifetime To express their anger and demands to those "bosses" who built shoddy projects and have no conscience, and to those officials who took kickbacks from "bosses" and ignored the general public.At the same time, they also came to express condolences and apology to the children. The strong guilt made the parents restless, and they could only use Children's Day to vent their sadness.Those parents who want to "ask for an explanation" should kneel down and be with the 326 children who should not have left but left for the last time. children's day.

Among the hundreds of parents, two are employees of Taixing Bank, and one of them is still unemployed. In modern terms, he is called a wandering wage earner.According to the investigation, among all the parents of the students in this school, none of them are officials, and none of them are rich.Local government officials may have a good starting point when they established the school (generally referring to cadres above the county level), to give up a golden area to the common people who raised them, to the disadvantaged groups at the bottom of society, and to let their children enjoy good education.However, the officials did not start well and end well, and their good wishes at the beginning did not achieve good results.

When parents come to this place that makes them sad for a lifetime, the only way to vent is to mourn, cry, and curse the injustice of the sky.The two employees of Taixing Bank are the most basic personnel in this so-called white-collar industry, and they also belong to the poorest class in this industry or the black-collar class in this monopoly industry.They have no money, no cars, and originally they still have a little furniture and the so-called four major modern household appliances such as TV sets and refrigerators.However, in just a few minutes, the earthquake buried all their belongings, and the financially struggling family lost all the property they had accumulated over the years.They have changed from decent people in nominal business attire to naked paupers.At first, the bank employees didn't want to go to this place that made them sad forever, and they didn't want to add salt to the wound.The leader explained to them that this commemorative event is not only to appease every family who lost a child, but also to punish those who have lost their conscience, and to warn real estate developers so that more families will not be killed. met a tragic fate.The words of the leader resonated with the bank employees who had lost their children. They felt that they owed too much to their children and wanted to make the last Children’s Day more grand for the children, so they actively responded to the leader’s suggestion and came to the school .In order to give the children a commemorative festival, the two families each made a photo frame for the children.However, who would have thought that the earthquake made them "clean themselves and leave the house" impoverished.The money they made for the children's portrait frames was actually advanced from the unit!