The root cause of the poverty and backwardness in Nanwan Village doesn't lie in external factors but in the minds of the people. Those who are poor and unwilling to seek change will only become poorer. The villagers of Nanwan Village seemed to have accepted poverty as their inescapable fate, a shackle mounted on their shoulders.
As the saying goes, it's easier to change rivers and mountains than to alter one's nature, and changing a person's deep-rooted way of thinking is truly difficult. Gu Xi had identified the fundamental cause of the backwardness and poverty in Nanwan Village, but she didn't have enough confidence that she could change the village's impoverished state.
It was nearing noon when Gu Xi finally left the village committee to meet with Jiang Xiaobai.
"Let's go, accompany me to town."
"What happened, you seem a bit down?" asked Jiang Xiaobai.
"Let's talk about it in the car," said Gu Xi.
