Ling Shuang, dragging an artificial leg, led his family to start a business at the age of over 60 and achieved initial success. He specially took out a sum of money to donate a road to his hometown. The road is not long, only ten kilometers, and it is the section from their village to the main road in town.

Building bridges, roads and donating money to support education are all good deeds. With this road, the hawthorns, pears, walnuts and other fruits in their village can be transported out in time and sold at a good price, which can improve the living standards of the villagers to some extent.

She asked her second son Xu Xiaomin to go back to his hometown to handle this matter.

After several years of experience, Xu Xiaomin is no longer the tongue-tied and honest person he used to be. He is full of energy and stands straight. He is not at all nervous when communicating with the county leaders who are in charge of people's livelihood and civil affairs.

But things didn't go so smoothly.

The widening of the road will inevitably occupy some farmland, and some decades-old trees will also have to be cut down. These are matters that need to be coordinated by township and village cadres.

There was a Director Wang in the township, who was in charge of the township's civil affairs. The road being built belonged to their township, but they didn't have to pay for it. The village had even found a construction team for the actual work. Normally, he just needed to cooperate, but Director Wang wasn't happy. He flicked the document he had just received from the county in his hand:

"This person named Xu Xiaomin donated 500,000 yuan? Has the money been deposited into our township's account?" Director Wang sat on the chair in his office, looking down at his subordinate standing beside him.

"The money is donated directly to the county, and the county civil affairs department will settle the bill directly with the construction team." The assistant glanced at Director Wang's face and quickly replied.

Director Wang tapped his fingers on the table for a moment, then asked, "Have you decided on the company the construction team will use?"

"It's settled. I heard it's a makeshift troupe organized by the people from Xu Xiaomin's village. They've also built quite a few houses in our area in recent years."

Director Wang frowned: "Are their qualifications and procedures complete?"

The assistant understood immediately: "I'll ask them to stop working right away."

Director Wang smiled and took a sip from the teacup on the table. "Yes, we're all focusing on safety production now. If you don't have complete qualifications and the documents are not correct, you definitely can't start work."

The village secretary received a notice saying that the construction team they had hired did not have the qualifications to build bridges and roads, and was told to stop work immediately and go through the formalities first. The secretary was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead.

Building the road is secondary. The key is that the Xu family also funded the construction of a six-year primary school in the village. The school's construction project was also contracted to the village construction team. The contractor of the construction team is Wan Saner, who is the secretary's nephew. The secretary hasn't even warmed up the 30,000 yuan given by his nephew in his pocket, and the township has stopped the construction?

It doesn't matter if he returns the money in his pocket, but the primary school cannot be delayed. He should start work quickly while the weather has just thawed, so that it can be put into use when school starts on September 1st.

Time is very tight. We can only apply for teachers from the Education Bureau after the school is built, and we are eligible to enroll students only after the teachers are approved. If we delay at any step, we will miss the chance to catch up later.

Wan Saner was called back from the poker table by his uncle. He had just received two big jobs, one for road construction and the other for school building. He had no worries about business for the first half of this year. He was just planning to celebrate with his brothers, but his uncle told him that the construction site had been ordered to stop working?

"What's going on, uncle? Didn't Ermin already inform the county? Who ordered the work to be stopped?"

"It was Director Wang from the township. He said that safety is being strictly enforced now and that all the necessary procedures must be completed."

"We have all the necessary paperwork! Uncle, you don't know that because of the two big jobs you helped me with, I specially registered a construction company and hired two college students to get all the paperwork done. This isn't a one-time deal, so we definitely can't break the law.

Wan Saner had a slightly proud look on his face. Although he didn't have much education, he had a wife who was a law student and was now teaching politics at the county's No. 1 Middle School. As a family member of a teacher, how could his awareness be bad?

The branch secretary rubbed his shiny forehead and pondered, "All the paperwork is complete, and we've made arrangements with the county, but we're stuck at the township level. That means we haven't burned the incense yet. So, what's going on with Director Wang from the township?"

Wan San'er was also wondering: "Director Wang from the village? I used to build houses for the villagers here in the surrounding area, and I never had any dealings with the village officials, so we didn't have any conflicts!"

The village party secretary took out a tattered notebook from the drawer, put on his lame reading glasses, found the number Xu Xiaomin had left, and dialed:

"Hey, hey, I'm looking for Xu Xiaomin... Ah, ah, you are Ermin, and I am your uncle Wan, that's what's going on..."

Wan Saner watched eagerly as his uncle recounted what had happened. His uncle was slightly hard of hearing, so he held the receiver tightly to his ear, not missing a single word. Only after the Party Secretary hung up did he ask, "What did Ermin say?"

The secretary knocked on the empty pipe. Wan San'er immediately took out the pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a cigarette, and then handed the whole pack to him, saying, "Uncle, the pipe is so choking. Have mine."

The branch secretary took the pack of cigarettes with satisfaction, slid it into the drawer, and then said slowly, "Ermin said he's going to contact the county leaders and asked us to wait for news."

"Okay!" Wan Saner grinned. Although he was not well educated, he had a good uncle. His wife Xiaofang was admitted to university, but her mother-in-law would not let her go to college and insisted that Xiaofang marry the disabled son of his brother-in-law's leader. His wife was smart and ran to the Women's Federation to complain. At that time, several cars of people came, including reporters from TV stations.

After being educated, his mother-in-law finally understood the importance of freedom of marriage and decided not to force her daughter to get married. However, she still refused to let Xiaofang go to college. Her ID card, household registration booklet, and admission notice were all hidden by her.

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