guayuan's wife worked in the fields. they ate mostly cabbage and rice.uses in the village are made of wood. openiresre t onlsour of heat. winters are cold and long. >> we don't have any money and hardly any income. we are always scared a fire might break out. and the wood is rotting. i have lived in this house for ten years, and back there it is all rotten already. the climate is bad, and the roads are, too. my two sons could not even find a wife around here. it is just too hard. >> guayuan's sons moved far away, to find work as migrant workers and a wife. luckily, they found both. ten-year-old anhui, a grandchild lives with her grandparents. she only sees her parents once a year. life in the village was hard for the long family. children from the mountain villages go to a boarding school down in the valley. but in poor areas, the teaching is also poor. children in remote country areas receive an inferior education than their contemporaries in the cities. the children there go home for the weekend. it is a three-hour walk to the long family's village. an