Ye Zuyang looked at Jiang Lin in disbelief: "Nephew, did I hear correctly?! Are you willing to lend me money?"

Jiang Lin nodded.

Ye Zuyang really wanted to kneel down to Jiang Lin. He had begged everyone in the village for help in the past two days and was only able to borrow about 20 yuan. Jiang Lin was just taking a chance.

"Don't even mention writing an IOU. You can even ask your uncle to kneel down for you."

"No need, I'll get you the money."

When Jiang Lin took out the money, he also took out paper and pen and put them on the table.

Ye Zuyang said uncomfortably: "Your uncle can't write, so you write it."

Jiang Lin did not refuse. He quickly wrote the IOU and asked Ye Zuyang to sign it.

Ye Zuyang couldn't read, but he could still write his own name. He wrote his name crookedly, stroke by stroke.

Jiang Lin: "Uncle, aren't you afraid that the amount written on my IOU is wrong?"

Ye Zuyang uttered a dry "Uncle believes you."

Ye Yunshu came back and saw Ye Zuyang was about to leave. She asked, "Brother, aren't you staying for dinner?"

"Oh, no, I don't want to eat anymore. I have kids at home."

Having said that, Ye Zuyang left in a hurry as if someone was chasing him.

Ye Yunshu glanced at Jiang Lin: "Did you lend him money?"

Jiang Lin said yes, thought for a moment, and then explained: "Although I don't like that woman, it was my uncle who borrowed the money."

And no matter what, she is Ye Yunshu's mother.

It would be fine if he hadn't come to me, but if Ye Yunshu knew about it, even though she might not want to do anything on the surface, it would be impossible for her to say that she had no thoughts in her heart.

Jiang Lin couldn't let Ye Yunshu be embarrassed.

Ye Yunshu didn't say anything. While breaking the cabbage leaves, she suddenly said to Jiang Lin, "Don't tell Yuhe about this."

Jiang Lin didn't care much: "It doesn't matter if she knows, Yuhe is a good person."

Jiang Lin didn't really care about the twenty yuan, but he still told Su Yuhe about it, after all, he was lending the money.

Su Yuhe and Jiang Lin thought the same thing. If Feng Banqin himself came to borrow the money, it would be impossible for him to lend it, but since it was Ye Zuyang, he would lend it to him.

Jiang Lin mentioned the commune's plans to build a canal. "There's a meeting today, and you happened to be out. The team leader and the village party secretary are both mobilizing people. Participating in the construction will earn you five more work points and ten cents than working in the fields. While we don't need that much, it's also for the benefit of future generations, so I'm planning to sign up."

Su Yuhe nodded: "I'll go too, just to build the canal."

Jiang Lin kissed Su Yuhe and reached out to pinch her face: "If you want to go, go ahead. You women should help build the canal, and the men should go up the mountain and carry stones down."

Su Yuhe paused and said, "This is too hard."

"It's okay, your man is very strong." Jiang Lin said as he reached out to undress Su Yuhe, turned over and pressed on her, showing Su Yuhe with his own body how strong he was!

The room is full of spring scene, which makes me toss and turn for half the night.

Jiang Lin always washed Su Yuhe clean and refreshed her before going to bed.

The next morning, Jiang Jianguo and Jiang Dali, along with several members of the cooperative, took a ox cart to the county town to pick up people.

If the commune wants to build a canal, it must report it. This is something that will benefit future generations, so several engineers were sent down.

Jiang Jianguo thought about it and asked Jiang Lin to go together.

It's nothing else, it's just that when Jiang Lin goes to that station, he looks like a capable person, so the engineers won't think that everyone in Dajiang Village is a country bumpkin.

Jiang Lin had no objection, so he just went if he was asked to.

There were five engineers in the team. A man in his forties or fifties should be the leader, and the other four young men called him teacher with a very respectful attitude.

Jiang Jianguo, with his experienced eyes, greeted the teacher enthusiastically: "Hey, you are the engineers sent by the leaders to help repair the canal, right?

I'm Jiang Jianguo, the Party Secretary of Dajiang Village, and this is Jiang Dali, one of the production team leaders in the commune. It's truly wonderful that the higher-ups have let you lead us in building the canal. Sorry to bother you with the canal construction this time."

The other party was probably a scholar with great achievements. His expression was calm and he ignored Jiang Jianguo's compliments.

One could even see a hint of annoyance between his brows, but the words he spoke were not respectful enough for the servants:

"Hello, Secretary. I'm Gu Nanshan, the leader of this engineering team. These are my students: Xiao Li, Xiao Mo, Xiao Wang, and Xiao Qiu."

Jiang Jianguo smiled dryly. Gu Nanshan could call them "Xiao X," but he couldn't. He was very self-aware and greeted them one by one: "Engineer Gu, Engineer Li...you're both capable. By the way, let's go to the state-owned restaurant for a meal first. You must be exhausted after traveling all the way from the city."

Gu Nanshan glanced at a few students, then turned to look at Jiang Jianguo: "No need, just go to the village, there is a big pot of rice to save the people and eat it."

Today's big pot meals are different from those in previous years, because many families cook their own meals.

However, the communes still had big pot meals, which were mainly used for entertaining or group activities.

When Jiang Jianguo heard that the person was an engineer from the provincial government, he was ready to treat him to a meal at a state-owned restaurant, as he couldn't be too shabby.

Unexpectedly, the other party asked to go to the village to eat a big pot meal.

Fortunately, the commune’s canteen has been renovated recently in preparation for the construction of a canal. The purpose is that when the canal is built, lunch can be provided to the members participating in the construction, saving time on commuting home.

The cafeteria came in handy ahead of time.

Jiang Jianguo stuffed Jiang Lin with money for two kilograms of meat and said, "Go buy some meat. I'll take the people back to the commune first."

Jiang Lin nodded, turned around and left, then found a nearby meat station and bought two and a half kilograms of lean and fat pork, hung it on the handlebars of his bike and went back.

Jiang Jianguo went back and asked someone to pick a lot of vegetables and cowpeas from his home, and called two women to come and help with the cooking.

Jiang Lin brought the meat back, and Jiang Dali couldn't help but say, "Why did you buy so much lean meat? How can it be good without some oil?"

Jiang Lin rarely explained, "People who work in the fields need fat meat, but people from the city don't need a piece of fat meat."

Jiang Dali slapped his head and said, "Oh, my brain. Okay, give it to your aunt and the others to make. It's in the cafeteria at the back."

Jiang Jianguo prepared two rooms for Gu Nanshan and others.

Li Yunheng was the first to speak up: "Let the teacher live in a room by himself. I saw a room with a big kang that can sleep five or six people."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the other three echoed him, and it seemed that none of them dared to sleep in the same room with their teacher.

Seeing this, Jiang Jianguo looked at Gu Nanshan and said, "Engineer Gu, look..."

Gu Nanshan remained noncommittal: "Alright."

Since that was the case, Jiang Jianguo didn't dwell too much on the housing issue and instead changed the subject to ask them if they were tired from the journey.

Seeing that Gu Nanshan didn't answer, Li Yunheng took the initiative to speak: "It's not bad. It only takes more than two hours to get to Jinmu County by car. It's not as far as we used to take the train to other places."