Chapter 184

People from the TV station had been waiting in front of the dock for a long time. Since the dock was located between Wucheng County and Wujiang City, not only reporters from the county TV station came, but also reporters from the city TV station.

This is really a very good publicity point. Those who can sit in the leadership position are not very smart. Naturally, they know that a middle school student who was admitted to Beijing University and won the gold medal in the International Olympiad a year ago did not forget her hometown. Today, a year later, she learned that her hometown was flooded, so she used her scholarships over the years to buy supplies and give back to her hometown...

They hadn't even met Jiang Ning yet, but they had already prepared their stories in their minds. Some even wrote their stories in advance to get the fastest time for the report. In order to make the stories more touching, they also imagined a lot of things, such as Jiang Ning's frugality and hard work in school, and every penny he saved...

But they saw Jiang Ning standing at the bow, wearing a raincoat, standing in the drizzle of wind and rain that had been falling for two months. Behind him was the huge, high pile covered with oilcloth, and behind him were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight similar boats, some large and some small. They were all rented boats by Jiang Ning and students from Peking University and Tsinghua University. They tried every possible way and mobilized their connections to mobilize them.

These supplies did not belong to Jiang Ning alone. They were also donated by students from Beijing University and kind-hearted people in the society. The group that came to Wujiang City was led by Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning also compiled all the specific things to pay attention to in disaster relief into a book and gave it to the volunteers from other teams. For safety reasons, she also prepared life jackets for everyone.

It is very dangerous for many volunteers to run to the disaster area with only passion and righteousness. Now every volunteer on the boat is wearing a life jacket.

The reporters and leaders who came to receive the relief supplies were stunned when they saw the huge fleet. They had never expected that there would be so many supplies.

He turned to look at Secretary Song and saw that Secretary Song had a smile on his face and was looking up at the fleet that was slowly approaching and was almost reaching the shore.

Looking closely at these fleets loaded with supplies, they are even more spectacular.

This, this, this...how much is this going to cost?

The boat stopped at the shore, and the volunteers on board got off the boat wearing life jackets and raincoats. Even in the midst of a flood, everything was simple, without any long and complicated ceremonies. Reporters and cameras also recorded this scene truthfully.

The two leaders were Jiang Ning from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School and Song Peifeng from Wucheng Senior High School.

Song Peifeng is the son of Secretary Wucheng. All the reporters from Wucheng TV station know this. After all, Song Peifeng was admitted to Tsinghua University in advance last year. They already knew this when they wanted to interview Song Peifeng. Even after a year, they still remember this handsome young man.

So the moment they saw Song Peifeng, these cadres who were shocked by the amount of relief supplies, looked at Secretary Song's face without any shock, and thought that Secretary Song had known about so many donated supplies a long time ago, and thought that these supplies were obtained by his son Song Peifeng.

But Secretary Song did not greet his son at the first moment. Instead, he held Jiang Ning's hand and said to Jiang Ning eagerly and excitedly: "I heard Peifeng talk about you a long time ago. On behalf of the Wucheng People's Government and the people of Wucheng, I would like to thank you for donating so many disaster relief supplies to our hometown."

I also went to shake hands with the students who were also volunteers from Kyoto University one by one and thanked them one by one.

These people didn't care that Secretary Song was the first to shake Jiang Ning's hand, because Jiang Ning was the initiator of this disaster relief. Jiang Ning alone took up half of the donated materials, and the rest were the materials they had obtained through running around and donations from the society. Although each of them contributed money and effort, their donations were just a drop in the bucket compared to Jiang Ning's donation.

The reporters and the officials who came to greet them only then realized that half of the supplies on these shiploads were produced by this 16 or 17-year-old girl who had been out of Wucheng for only a year. They were all shocked.

Especially the female reporter who had visited Jiang Ning’s hometown for an interview. She had seen what the houses in Jiang Ning’s hometown looked like.

Among the buildings, there was a dark gray, low old house. I had seen Jiang Ning's small and old gray house with earthen walls. During the day, only in the evening could a little sunlight shine in.

But despite coming from such a poor family, she donated so many supplies to her hometown in just one year. This was not just social donations, but half of them came from her personal donations.

After taking the handshake photo of the leaders and volunteers, the reporter also began to interview Jiang Ning. In the wind and rain, Jiang Ning did not say much. He only answered the questions asked by the reporters and encouraged the people of his hometown to unite and fight the disaster together!

After that, he immediately joined in the flood prevention and disaster relief work. The reporters wanted to interview more and make a special column on flood prevention and disaster relief, but where did Jiang Ning find the time?

Distributing relief supplies is not just a matter of dropping the supplies once you arrive at the destination. To prevent looting, all supplies on the ship were covered with waterproof canvas and tied tightly with coarse hemp ropes. The ship did not stay at the dock for too long, and unlike the relief workers in previous lives, they did not use large trucks to transport the supplies to the towns below. The supplies were left in the towns while the people left.

The volunteers all thought that the supplies had been delivered to the town, so what was the difference between that and personally delivering them to the victims?

There is a big difference.

In this still poor era, never overestimate people's greed and bottom line. Even if these supplies are not necessities for people in the town and county, it does not prevent them from grabbing free things.

It is raining heavily now, and it is not suitable to distribute supplies to the villages below. She has personally experienced the death of a local old captain who was electrocuted and fell into the water while installing electrical wires, so she knows very well how dangerous the river surface is at this time.

She brought these people here to provide disaster relief, not to let them die. She brought them here with great enthusiasm, and she must bring them back to the capital in one piece.

As a native of Wucheng, Jiang Ning also had to arrange accommodation for the volunteers who came with him.

But this is not difficult. There is a guesthouse in Wucheng. The college entrance examination is just over ten days away. Some parents who come to accompany their children to take the exam have already stayed in the guesthouse. However, most of these parents rent houses near the school. Even if they come to the guesthouse, they will only stay for one or two days at most.

Because Jiang Ning personally arranged their accommodation, the county government also arranged people to come over, and everyone in the guesthouse still remembered Jiang Ning. After all, when she was admitted to Peking University and won the IMO gold medal, Jiang Ning's interviews and the joint interview done by the county TV station could be seen on TV every day. Even now, Jiang Ning's name is still hanging on the gate building of the county No. 1 Middle School.

The people at the guesthouse were very friendly when they saw Jiang Ning. After hearing that they were volunteers from Beijing who came to support the disaster relief in their hometown, the guesthouse waived the volunteers' accommodation fees and provided them with hot water and meals.

Jiang Ning arranged all of this, and together with Song Peifeng, several volunteer team leaders, and Secretary Song, went to the county government to discuss specific matters regarding disaster relief.

Secretary Song's face was a little serious, and he looked more like Song Peifeng in his previous life. Perhaps he hadn't had a good night's sleep for several days, and there were dark circles under his eyes, making his face look more haggard.

He never expected that Jiang Ning would give him such a big surprise. Such a large amount of relief supplies could not only calm the people's emotions, but also greatly alleviate the county government's financial problems in this disaster relief.

Not only for Wucheng, the 200,000 life jackets she donated to the army also solved the army's immediate emergency. Although they had been taking precautions against floods, they did not expect the floods to be so severe. In order to fight the floods, the People's Liberation Army used their bodies to carry bags of sandbags to block the dikes, and used their weak bodies to fight against natural disasters.

Even though they had prepared life jackets, they were still not enough. There were still many soldiers who did not have life jackets. The life jackets prepared by Jiang Ning were truly like timely rain.

The Song family did not try to take credit for Jiang Ning's work. This did not make any difference to their family. On the contrary, because Jiang Ning handed the matter over to their family and used their family's channels to donate these life jackets to the army, the Song family had already gained political benefits from this matter. Of course, Jiang Ning benefited more.

There are tens of thousands of college students in Beijing, but only a few can directly get their names in the top circle of bigwigs in Beijing. Jiang Ning got his name among these bigwigs entirely by his own efforts.

Some people thought she was from a wealthy family. Seeing that she donated so many supplies, they asked, "Whose family are you from?"

Old Song already knew everything about Jiang Ning, so he said with emotion, "She is a farm girl from a remote mountain village in the south, a golden phoenix that flew out of the mountain nest. Last year, she won the gold medal in the International Olympiad with a perfect score and was admitted to Peking University in advance. At the beginning of this year, she invested all her money in the stock market, and withdrew the money at the end of last month to buy these supplies."

What kind of things, people and geniuses has the boss above not seen in his life? But when he heard what Elder Song said, he couldn't help but reveal a surprised expression: "You said she had no background, and during last year's financial crisis, she dared to invest money in the stock market, and then made money, and used the money she earned from the stock market to buy these supplies?"

Old Song also showed a meaningful expression on his face, nodded and said: "These kids nowadays are amazing."

He also said that Jiang Ning had talked to his leaders about the patent layout and the technological sanctions that the country might face in the future.

This matter has already been implemented, and the bigwigs above still thought that this was the idea of ​​Old Song and the Song family. Only after listening to what Old Song said did they realize that such a grand layout for the next 20 to 30 years or even longer was actually the idea of ​​a little girl of sixteen or seventeen years old.

Compared with such a long-term vision and pattern, the fact that she, a little girl from the countryside with no background, dared to invest money decisively in the Asian financial crisis that caused countless families to go bankrupt last year and this year, and was able to earn so much money from it and donate it to the victims, all seems insignificant in the face of her broad vision and pattern.

Some people even went back afterwards and told their subordinates to "find out more about this person."

To put it nicely, it is an understanding, but in fact it is an investigation. No one will believe it completely just because others say a few words. Many people still find it hard to imagine that this can be done by a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old. But there is no reason for the Song family to waste so many materials and the credit they have picked up to promote a person who has nothing to do with the Song family. The Song family is not without people.

Putting aside other things, isn’t the youngest son of the Song family still in a remote small county in the south? There are many outstanding people among the younger generation of the Song family.

Soon, more detailed information about Jiang Ning was placed on some people's desks.