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公元733年，唐玄宗置黔中道，彭水为黔中道、黔州、彭水县三级治所驻地，曾为今渝、黔、湘、鄂、桂结合部的政治、经济、文化中心。

时过境迁，2015年，彭水被列为新一轮国家扶贫开发重点县，也是全市贫困面最广、贫困人口最多、贫困程度最深的4个县之一。目前为止，40个贫困村已实现整村脱贫，46479名贫困人口实现了“两不愁三保障”。

和重庆不少区县类似，彭水依山靠水。此行至彭水，山的烙印竟格外动人。

孟郊诗云：“旧说天下山，半在黔中青。”初到彭水，眼光仍无法从连绵舒缓的山峦线上移开——沉浸在一眼望不到头的清朗之中。更让人动容的，是人们为了奔生活使出的那股劲儿，总是显露在他们恬淡的笑中，见过就不会忘。

Pengshui County, although a political, economic and cultural center in the Xuanzong Period of Tang Dynasty(called Qian that time), is now one of the four poorest counties in Chongqing, and has been listed as one of the major counties to carry out state poverty alleviation.

Up to now, forty villages have already shaken off poverty, while 46479 poverty-stricken people have solved their problems of not having enough to eat and wear, with their housing, basic education and health care ensured.

Like quite a few counties in Chongqing, Pengshui is located in a place with streams and mountains nearby.On the trip to Pengshui, impressed by the intriguing mountains there, I recalled a line from Meng Jiao, a famous poet of Tang Dynasty, “It is long been said, of allthe beautiful mountains, half are in Qian.”

Immediately after I arrived there, my eyes were caught by the gentle mountain range, and all in my vision were so clear and pleasant. But what touched me even more was people’s enthusiasm in pursuing better livelihood, noticeable in their pure and unforgettable smiles.

轻装上阵扩大生产Burdens Lifted, Farmland Expanded

5月的一天下午，日正当头，彭水润溪乡白果镇左家院。见到烟农秦治明时，他刚从地里回来，安排完栽种工作，站在自家阳台上。他身上的坎肩很别致，是一件裁掉了两袖的灰色旧西服。老秦的两个孩子还在念书，妻子没工作。他从温州打工回来，一心扑在烟草地上，想着再扩大点种植面积。

种植烟草需要耗费大量人力物力，扩大规模就等于增加成本。手头没有闲钱，需要贷款。以往在信用社贷款需要抵押物，审批程序复杂。“去年，我第一个享受了农行给烟农发放的‘快农贷’，一点都不麻烦，用了个身份证就贷了款。本来给我5万的额度，我只借了3万。”说起这种新型的贷款方式，老秦很是满意，利息也比以往省了近一半，基本上没有压力。这笔贷款让他更有底气，他乐观估计，今年收入可达十二三万元，能比往年翻上一番。

在他的脸上，笑是因为心里有杆秤，沉稳而大气。

On a May afternoon when the sun was blazing, I met tobacco grower Qin Zhiming who had just come back from the planting work in his farmland and stood on the balcony. He was wearing a frayed, gray suit with its sleeves cut off. I heard from him that his two kids were still at their school years and his wife had been unemployed. On returning from Wenzhou where he worked, he devoted himself to the tobacco field, in a wish to expand the area.

It entails great efforts and resources to plant tobacco, besides, broader area means more cost. With no extra money, he had to get a loan. In the past, the procedures for loan approval at credit cooperatives were complicated, and one had to submit collateral.But it became simpler after the new loan pattern came into effect. Qin was one who benefited from it. Talking about it, he said in content, “Last year I was the first one who got the loan offered to tobacco farmers by agricultural bank. It was not at all complicated, and I got it with only an ID Card. The bank gave me a loan limit of 50,000 yuan but I only borrowed 30,000. And the interest had been almost halved, relieving us of the pressure in paying it off.”The loan made him more confident. As he estimated,the income this year will double compared with that of last year, reaching 12 thousand yuan or so.

Thinking of this, his face broke into a wide grin,composedly and optimistically.

贫困户们用精准扶贫贷入股合办的果园

借来了钱好好干Better Life with the Help of Loan

润溪乡樱桃村一组的晏幺毛，40岁。2013年打工时受伤，他的五口之家因伤病致贫，一家人一个月收入只有2000多元，只有种些玉米、白菜为生。

“现在我在搞蔬菜基地了。”晏幺毛个头不高，中气十足。他和妻子站在自家菜地里，妻子一直笑得合不拢嘴，老想抢话说。

“乡里派来的帮扶人帮了很大的忙。”今年，晏幺毛成了彭水县的建卡贫困户，通过“精准扶贫贷”贷款5万元，和妻子一起开始务农，打算种100多亩蔬菜，已经种上了60亩包包菜，还养了30几箱蜜蜂。“我的包包菜很原生态，我还打算在摩围山那边再种些……”他手指向不远处碧空下的青山，很爷们儿地说着，希望和信心从话里溢了出来。

帮扶人李增彬说，晏幺毛一开始没打算种那么多地，“后来我们给他算了账，也给他鼓了把劲。现在，他每天吃完晚饭也不闲着，总要到菜地里去多看几眼。”晏幺毛心里有数，只要拿出庄稼人的样子，全年多季种植的上百吨蔬菜以及自家的蜜蜂采集的蜂蜜，年收入10万元应该不成问题。

阿依河社区的刘合平一家和晏幺毛境况相似，有了“精准扶贫贷”，刘合平终于买到了仔猪，加上他多年精心照料的种猪，向往已久的养猪致富路总算有了眉目。

在他们的脸上，笑是因为加了一把外力，再洒点汗水，日子就不会苦。

养猪的刘合平

Yan Yaomao is a forty-year-old man in Yingtao Village,Runxi Town. He got wounded from work in 2013. After that, his family of five members became worse off, earning about only 2000 yuan by planting corns and cabbage.

“Now I’m busy with vegetable base,” Yan said in resonant voice. His wife, standing in the farmland with Yan, kept smiling from ear to ear and cut in now and then when we talked.

As she said, assistant sent by the town govern-ment was a great help to them. This year, Yan’s family has been listed as a poverty-stricken family,and offered a loan of 50,000 yuan under the policy of targeted poverty-alleviation. Then they started to work on their land, where they planned to cultivate vegetables of more than a hundred acres and have already planted 60 acres of cabbage. Besides, they are also feeding bees of 30 boxes or so. “My vegetables are all planted without harmful chemicals. I plan to cultivate more there on the mountain,” he said with a masculine tone, pointing at the beautiful mountain not far away, with hope and confidence.

Li Zengbin the assistant told me that Yan had not intended to work on so much farmland until we did accounts for him and gave him encouragement. Now,every day when he finishes his supper he will go to see his farmland. Yan knows well that as long as he works hard, the vegetables and honey will bring them at least 100,000 yuan a year.

Like Yan’s family, Liu Heping of the Ayihe Community finally bought piglets with the help of the policy of targeted poverty-alleviation loan. Together with the pigs he took precious good care of for years, his pursuit of growing rich through feeding pigs finally got on the right track.

They smiled, because they knew, with the help of government, their lives can only become better,as long as they keep working hard.

一定要实现的梦Dreams That Must Be realized

傍晚时分，来到坐落在海拔约800米之上的彭水第二中学。这是一所全日制寄宿学校，占地面积超过10万平方米。夕阳染红了天幕，宽阔崭新的操场尽头，又是那片醉人的山景，上百号学生或在跳操，或在打球。学校的前身保家中学，原址只有1.8万平方米，生均活动面积仅1.7平方米。

校舍更大更漂亮了，师生们的体验和生活也起了变化。有更多优秀的老师愿意来这里教书，学历最高的是北大的研究生。学生们的学费、住宿费全免，每个贫困生每学期还能获得625元的生活补助。仅2016年，就有1058名学生受益。

初三（2）班的杨七星将这笔钱交给母亲支配，“能给家里减轻一些负担。”她是校广播台的播音员，落落大方，有着主持人标准的笑容，也保持着一份年少的活泼。她的母亲在家务农，为了还债，父亲在县城打工，哥哥被迫大学辍学，如今在保家镇污水厂求了份职。

“我要努力考上彭水中学，妈妈答应我那时会放下一切去她完全陌生的县城找工作，守着我念书。”在杨七星眼里，这个近在咫尺的未来意味着压力与幸福，她想要得到。虽然成绩还需要冲刺，但环顾眼前明亮的校舍、宽敞的教室和优秀的老师，她说她要做的就是“挑灯夜读”了。更远一点的未来是做主持人，“工作地嘛，不要离家太远了，要在父母身边，才安心。”

坐在她旁边的小姐妹何埸（音yì）也接受了学校的资助，她没有了妈妈，爸爸在福建打工，姐姐初中毕业就去温州打工了，“我要好生学习，好好念护士学校，当护士。”说这些话的时候，她笑眯眯地看着前方，脸蛋儿红扑扑的。

在她们的脸上，笑是对生活的感恩，和理想生活的憧憬。

At dusk, I came to the elevation of about 800 meters, where situated the Second Middle School of Pengshui. It is a full-time boarding school, covering an area of more than 100,000 square meters. The sky was reddened by the setting sun. On the new,vast playground, hundreds of students were taking exercises or playing ball games. And at the end of the ground, again, I saw the intoxicating mountain view. The school was previously named Baojia Middle School. Before expanded, it covered an area of only 18,000 square meters, each student having an area of 1.7 square meters to move around.

But now, experience and lives for teachers and students have changed a lot. More excellent teachers become willing to come here, including a graduate student from Peking University. Tuition and boarding fee were removed, and each poverty-stricken student can get allowances of 625 yuan every semester.1058 students benefited from this only in 2016.

Ninth-grade students Yang Qixing is one of them. She gave this sum of money to her mother as a way to lift the financial burden on her family. She is a broadcaster of the broadcasting station of the school.She has the smile just like a professional presenter,and full of vitality. In order to pay their debt, her mother works on the farmland, his father works in the town, and her elder brother dropped out of university and got employed at a sewage plant in Baojia Town.

“I will try my best to enter into the Pengshui Middle School, because my mom promised to look for a job in the town to stay with me while I’m studying there,” she told me with expectation. The near future means both pressure and happiness for her. Although she has an all-out effort to make in improving her school performance, she is quite confident in realizing it, especially when the school had been renewed and teachers are all excellent. As for her further dream—a presenter, she wants to work in somewhere not far from her parents.

The girl sitting next to Yang was He Yi, who also received allowances. Her mother had passed away, her father works in Fu Jian Province, and her elder sister went to Wenzhou to work after junior high school. “I will study hard and become a nurse in the future,” said she, looking ahead with smile,and her cheeks getting ruddy.

They smiled, because they are grateful for life,and wishful in expecting their future.

Runing into Smiling Faces in Villages

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