Chapter 682: Funding the Reconstruction of the Village Primary School (asking for monthly tickets)

Xuanyuemei and Xiaoxuxu were waiting on the shore, staring at Gao Mingcheng without blinking, expecting him to catch a big fish.

Suddenly, Gao Mingcheng's hands moved quickly. When his hands left the water, a palm-sized crucian carp was seen in his palms.

Gao Mingcheng was not very satisfied with this and wanted to release it, but he still asked Duomei: "Duomei, do you want this little fish?"

Xuanyue looked at the crucian carp in Gao Mingcheng's hand. Although it was not big, it was not too small either. So she said, "Okay, if we can have a few crucian carps this big, we can make a crucian carp soup."

Gao Mingcheng thought that crucian carp soup was indeed nutritious and suitable for pregnant women, so he threw the crucian carp in his hand to the shore.

The crucian carp landed on the grass on the shore, flapping its body as if trying to jump back into the water.

Gao Mingcheng continued to bend down and catch fish, because many people said that small fish would also be fine, so as long as he felt there was a fish, he would catch it.

Before, if he thought the fish was too small, he would not catch it at all.

It took Gao Mingcheng more than ten minutes to finally catch a silver carp. The silver carp was as long as his arm and weighed an estimated five or six kilograms.

The big fish was ferocious. After being caught, it swung its tail vigorously. Its strength was so great that it could easily take the opportunity to break free. Unfortunately, it met Gao Mingcheng. Gao Mingcheng had strong hands and held the body of the silver carp tightly, leaving it no chance to break free.

After catching this big fish, Gao Mingcheng was finally satisfied. He laughed, held up the fish in his hand and showed off to Xuanmei and Xiao Xuxu on the shore.

“I’m awesome, right?”

Many beauties smiled and nodded, saying in agreement: "Great!"

Little Xuxu was also very considerate. His little face was tanned red by the sun, but he did not hide away. He stood on the shore and watched his father catch fish. Now he clapped and praised: "Dad is so awesome! What a big fish!"

In addition to the big fish in Gao Mingcheng's hand, there were several smaller fish on the shore, including three crucian carps as big as palms and a black carp.

The meat of the black carp is tender, but it has many bones and will eat small fish, so since Gao Mingcheng caught it, he had no intention of releasing it.

If it's a bass, he will release it!

Because sea bass has few bones, you can give it to Xuxu after you raise it, so you don’t have to pick out the bones for the child and get tired of it.

Gao Mingcheng laughed and walked to the shore with the silver carp in his hand.

He was wet and his feet were covered in mud, looking quite disheveled.

Xuanyuemei said quickly: "It's getting late, go back and take a shower and change clothes!"

Gao Mingcheng nodded and put the fish into the bamboo basket. The water on the fish instantly wet part of the lotus pods.

But it doesn’t matter, we will peel the lotus pods and dry the lotus seeds later.

After cleaning the fish, Gao Mingcheng returned to the water, bent down to wash the mud off his feet, and then put on his shoes.

He held the bamboo basket, and Xuanyuemei gave him the clothes she had taken off earlier.

When he got home, Gao Mingcheng first took out a basin to fetch water to keep the fish, then he fetched a bucket of water from the well and rinsed it directly over his body to wash away the dirt, then he dried himself and changed into clean clothes.

By the time he finished packing, it was already 11:40.

"Mingcheng, are you ready?" Manyu Mei urged outside the house. When she saw Gao Mingcheng coming out in new clothes, she hurriedly said, "We should go over there!"

Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry. He said, "No hurry. We'll drive over there later!"

It takes a while to walk there, but it’s quick if you drive!

The wife is pregnant and the child is young. It would be stupid not to drive the car!

Xuanyue felt a little sorry for the gas money, but she couldn't resist Gao Mingcheng, so she carried Xiao Xuxu into the car.

Sure enough, having a car means speed. In the time it took to step on the accelerator, the car stopped steadily under the willow tree at the mouth of the pond in the old village.

It was lunchtime and the villagers who had been working in the fields were carrying their hoes back to the village. Smoke was rising from every household.

Gao Yuanjian was the eldest son of Gaojia Village. When he held a house banquet, almost everyone in the village would go to the banquet, but each family would only send one representative instead of the whole family going to the banquet.

After getting off the car, Gao Mingcheng held Xiao Xuxu and took his wife over, and saw that there were many people standing inside and outside the new house.

There are tables and chairs in the main room, kitchen, and yard. Those who arrived early have already sat down on the chairs and are talking to people they know.

Gao Mingcheng saw his brothers at a glance. Gao Mingwan and Wang Xiuxiu had also returned. Gao Mingwan was passing out cigarettes to people while bragging to them. In the whole yard, his voice was the loudest and attracted the most people.

His wife Wang Xiuxiu was sitting with Zhang Jinling holding the child, but soon Zhang Jinling was called away and told to help with setting the table and serving the food.

Wang Xiuxiu has to take care of the children, so she doesn't need to go to help.

Gao Mingcheng glanced at Manyimei and said, "You sit with Xiuxiu, I'll go talk to the people and help out."

Xuanyuemei nodded. She was pregnant now and Xiaoxuxu was not very old either, so she might as well be lazy. So Xuanyuemei took Xiaoxuxu's hand and sat next to Wang Xiuxiu.

But she still looked at Gao Mingcheng, only to see that he had been surrounded by a group of people. Those people smiled warmly and said, "Mingcheng, we've been waiting for you! Come on, come on, sit over here, we have something to tell you."

Gao Mingcheng didn't understand, but he still sat down and waited for these people to speak.

After a while, Gao Mingcheng understood that the people from the village committee and the brigade wanted to rebuild the village primary school.

To be honest, the current village primary schools are indeed very dilapidated. It can be said that when it rains heavily outside, it drizzles inside. The houses are shabby, the tables and chairs are shabby, and even the teachers' teaching qualifications are very average.

Gao Mingcheng remembered that in his previous life, the village primary school was rebuilt in 1993.

This year is the 90th anniversary, but the village committee has already had this idea and is now lobbying the villagers to pay for the reconstruction.

The village party secretary looked at Gao Mingcheng and said seriously, "I have reported this to the township government. They said they can only allocate a small amount of money to us. For the rest, we have to raise the money ourselves. Mingcheng, we have told most people in the village about rebuilding the village primary school, but you also know that many people are still not well off."

"But Shouwang said he's willing to pay some money!"

"Just now your brother Ming Wan also said that he was willing to contribute some money. Although it's not much, it's a token of his good intention."

After a few words, Gao Mingcheng understood why these people came.

To be honest, he had never thought of the village primary school before, because in his previous life, his two sons stayed in the village for several years and did go to school in the village primary school, but when they were studying, the village primary school had been rebuilt.

In this life, Gao Mingcheng has settled in the county town, and his two sons will definitely study in the county town instead of returning to the village primary school.

Therefore, he somewhat neglected the village primary school.

However, since the village party secretary and others had come to him, Gao Mingcheng had no intention of refusing.

The ancients said: If you are poor, you should take care of yourself; if you are rich, you should help the world.

For Gao Mingcheng, investing in rebuilding the village primary school still has certain significance.

Although his son will not go to the village primary school in the future, the children of Gaojia Village will still go to school in the village primary school. The children of Xuanmei’s two older sisters will also go to school in the future.

If the village primary school can be rebuilt, the children will have a better learning environment.

(End of this chapter)