Sun Bo looked at Lin Nianhe, with only one thought in his mind——
Well, fortunately, she was innocent and just used him as a gun.
Uh-huh?
Sun Bozai went through the whole thing carefully from beginning to end. There were problems, but they were not major.
He pointed at Lin Nianhe and said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "No wonder you and Su Yuncheng can play together. You two are really, really..."
What a calculating person!
Lin Nianhe blinked his eyes innocently, with a look of fear on his face: "Uncle Sun, I was wrong, I'm sorry! Why don't I go and tell Director Tian later that it's better not to do anything about the branch factory? The difficulty of transportation will not last a day." It’s been two days, just continue to overcome it as before..."
"It's just so that the villagers can't do odd jobs. You may not know that it only costs four yuan to paste 10,000 matchboxes. These four yuan are nothing to you, but to the farmer comrades...Uncle Sun, I'm here. I specifically looked at the account books of our brigade before. There are more than 300 people in our production team, but there are only 486 yuan and 32 cents in the public account."
"The village primary school in our brigade is responsible for the primary education of three production teams, but there are only ninety-eight in total... Oh no, there are one hundred students now. Three brigade, one hundred students...Uncle Sun, it's not like they don't want to It’s really unaffordable to send your children to school.”
"We have calculated before that if we need to deliver matchboxes to the provincial capital, we can only earn up to 1.8 yuan from pasting 10,000 matchboxes... But I guess there are still many villagers who are willing to do it, because this is what a child earns for a year. Tuition and book fees.”
Lin Nianhe originally wanted to make a retreat in order to make progress, but as she spoke, her own brows furrowed first.
Sun Bo also fell silent. He frowned and reached for the water glass.
When I took off the lid of the cup and took a look, there were two tea leaves floating on it.
The tea made from two tea leaves should not have any taste, but Sun Bo felt that the tea was bitter and hot.
The gentle water turned into a steel knife, which burned his throat and made his face feel hot.
Lin Nianhe lowered his eyes and said in a lower voice: "Our principal's sister is a worker in a textile factory. Before school started, she helped get four big baskets of rags. What do you think they are used for? Ha... the children don't have school bags. , the principal took a few of our teachers and used rags to sew schoolbags for them."
"Our brigade is 89 miles away from Jiuli brigade. These children have to walk more than ten miles of mountain roads to go to and from school every day. The youngest among them is only six years old... They are different from the children in the city. They don't have buses or bicycles. , they can’t even sit on a bullock cart or tractor, they only rely on their own legs.”
"Uncle Sun, whether you believe it or not, I have no intention of using your name to coerce the match factory into doing things. I just hope that they can seriously analyze and evaluate the matter of opening a branch factory - not only our production team needs this opportunity. , other production teams also need it."
She didn't add any flair or any negotiating skills.
She just laid out the current predicament in front of Sun Bo in a straightforward manner and without any concealment.
After Lin Nianhe finished speaking, he looked at Sun Bo quietly, waiting for his decision.
Sun Bo was not responsible for grassroots affairs. Although he had heard about these, he did not understand the details.
Although Lin Nianhe didn't say anything very specific, he could guess some of the truth.
Sun Bo quickly made a choice——
"Nian He, don't apologize. You did the right thing. In this case, there is nothing I can do to help. You can go back and drive my car back this time to take the children to and from school."
Lin Nianhe: "..."
This is not the case.
Sun Bo felt that a car to pick up and drop off his children was much more important than picking up and dropping off him.
Although he can't get a car for every child in every place, he can help each one.
Lin Nianhe really didn't come here for the car. That rare jeep was not as useful to the commune as a tractor.
She forcefully rejected Sun Bo's donation on the grounds that "no one could drive it" and "can't afford the gas consumption".
Lin Nianhe said: "Uncle Sun, I know you care about the children. Don't worry. Our captain has said that if this thing can be done, we will raise two more cows next year and send the children in oxcarts."
Sun Bo was relieved.
He said to Lin Nianhe: "Nianhe, don't worry, my uncle will take care of this for you. I will call the match factory later to ask about their progress!"
Lin Nianhe refused, but Sun Bo had to get involved.
Not only did he make a warm and friendly phone call to Tian Qingyuan that made his heart pound, he also smashed the doors in every office and gathered people in the corridor...
Finally, he took a pile of change and handed it to Lin Nianhe:
"Nianhe, I didn't count how much these are, they are all donated by comrades. You take them back and buy schoolbags, books and pens for the children."
In this pile of money, the largest denomination is five yuan, and the smaller ones are 10 cents.
Everyone emptied their pockets.
Lin Nianhe couldn't estimate how much the money was, but she could feel the weight of it.
In these days, no one is particularly wealthy.
Sun Bo could only drink "tea" with two tea leaves, let alone others?
"Comrade Xiaolin, accept it and say hello to the villagers for us."
"If you have any difficulties in the future, just tell me that the military and civilians are in harmony with each other!"
"That's right, put it away quickly..."
Lin Nianhe's eyes were a little hot.
She took a deep breath, solemnly took the money from Sun Bo's hand, and then bowed to the expectant comrades.
"I would like to thank you all on behalf of the villagers and children. Don't worry, every money here will be spent on the children and will never be used for other purposes."
…
When Lin Nianhe returned to the guest house, Wang Shumei and Wen Lan also happened to return.
The two of them had nothing to do in the morning and went to the supply and marketing cooperative.
In addition to doing errands this time, they also shoulder the important task of helping everyone buy things. Wang Shumei and Wen Lan were really tired from using up a lot of food.
Wang Shumei saw Lin Nianhe counting a handful of change and joked casually: "Didn't you go to the military area? Why does it look like you just came back from a robbery?"
"This is fundamentally different from robbery," Lin Nianhe said. "These are the money donated by comrades in the military region to buy schoolbags, paper and pens for the children."
Wang Shumei quickly slapped her mouth with an annoyed expression.
Wen Lan rubbed her sore arm and asked in confusion: "Why don't you donate money? What did you tell others?"
"I didn't say anything. I just heard that the villagers were living in difficulty and took the initiative to donate." Lin Nianhe finished counting the money and wrote down the number in a small book: 298.67 yuan.
Wen Lan looked at it and was shocked: "So many!"
A lot indeed. Because Sun Bo was looking for cadres, some of them even went home to get money.
Wang Shumei asked her: "What are you going to buy for the children?"
With so much money, even if every student buys a schoolbag, there will still be more than half left.
Lin Nianhe tied the money with a note and said, "Of course I will buy what they need most...Sister Lan, take a break and we will go out again after receiving a call from Director Tian."
Wen Lan: "..."
She would rather work in the fields than go shopping!
(End of chapter)
