“Comrade Jiang Tiecheng, you’re lying. Look me in the eyes. You’ve been avoiding me every day lately.”

Chen Ruixue was very angry. She had initially thought Jiang Tiecheng was a good person.

It's inevitable that a young girl in the throes of first love would have special feelings for Jiang Tiecheng.

But to her surprise, Jiang Tiecheng had recently been intentionally or unintentionally keeping his distance from her, deliberately avoiding her during lunch.

When going to work in the morning, he deliberately didn't ride in the same carriage as me.

Even a fool could see that Jiang Tiecheng was deliberately avoiding him.

Chen Ruixue felt extremely wronged.

"Captain Huang, what's wrong with you?"

Jiang Tiecheng saw that Captain Huang in front of him was swaying and about to fall, so he rushed over.

I breathed a sigh of relief and avoided the topic.

Young girls' emotions are easily seen on their faces, but he wasn't a young man, and he didn't want to get involved in this kind of trouble.

He helped Huang Youqing lie down on the carriage. Huang Youqing's face was pale, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, and his eyes were closed.

The drivers of the other two carriages arrived, and by this time most of the others had left.

"Captain, he must have fainted from hunger!"

"I pinched his philtrum."

After someone pinched his philtrum for a while, Huang Youqing finally breathed a sigh of relief and opened his eyes.

Seeing that the people around him were a little confused, he suddenly realized that he had just fainted.

Then he waved his hand.

"Alright, you all go about your business. I'm going to lie here and rest for a while. I can keep an eye on the carriage."

Only then did the others leave.

Jiang Tiecheng hesitated for a moment. Seeing that the team leader could faint from hunger, he could imagine that the people in the brigade were also having a hard time.

After hesitating for a moment, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and stuffed it into the captain's hand.

He turned and strode towards the cooperative.

Huang Youqing clutched the handkerchief in his hand, wanting to call for help, but his body felt limp and he had no strength at all.

I opened the handkerchief and saw three pieces of golden-brown toasted bread.

His eyes reddened slightly; he knew perfectly well that this was the food Jiang Tiecheng had saved up from the construction site.

Take out the smallest piece of steamed bun and put it in your mouth. Although it's dry and hard, you can still chew it.

Saliva immediately began to flow profusely.

After finishing one piece of bread, he carefully wrapped the remaining two pieces in his headscarf and tucked them into his pocket.

My grandson has been so hungry these past two days that he can't even get out of bed.

If their family is in this situation, imagine the situation of everyone else in the village.

It was all caused by the famine during that year of disaster; everyone was starving and emaciated.

However, during this famine year, the county's relief grain was never allocated to their brigade.

Jiang Tiecheng saw that the cooperative was packed with people. There were so many people coming to the market to buy things that he couldn't squeeze in at all.

He had no choice but to lean against the wall and wait until most of the people had come out before going in himself. Unexpectedly, someone tapped him on the shoulder.

She looked up and met Xu Fengtian's gaze, which was both surprised and delighted.

"Xiao Jiang, what are you doing here? Are you going to buy something?"

Come on, come on, let's go to the office.

I've been meaning to come see you for a while, but I just haven't had the time.

Without saying a word, he pulled Jiang Tiecheng and turned into the courtyard behind the cooperative. The entire front of the cooperative was lined with shops selling things.

The backyard houses the cooperative's offices, warehouses, and other facilities.

Once inside the office, Jiang Tiecheng was forced into a chair.

Xu Fengtian washed his teacup, took out his best tea leaves, brewed them, and served them to him.

Jiang Tiecheng saved his daughter; he was their family's benefactor.

Jiang Tiecheng understood immediately from Xu Fengtian's actions that the person had been rescued.

"Section Chief Xu, is he alright?"

"It's alright. It's all thanks to my wife arriving in time. The doctor said that if it had been ten minutes later, my daughter would have suffered a massive hemorrhage and died."

"My daughter was discharged from the hospital today and will be home tonight."

"Xiao Jiang, you've come at the perfect time. You absolutely must come to my house for dinner tonight. Stay at my place tonight, and I'll take you home first thing tomorrow morning."

Xu Fengtian had been planning to make time to go to their Red Flag Brigade to find Jiang Tiecheng the next day, as Jiang had saved their family's life.

Because of this incident, he had absolute faith in Jiang Tiecheng's superb skills.

This is a capable person.

"Section Chief Xu, there's no need to go out for dinner tonight. We have to work tomorrow."

"That won't do!"

Jiang Tiecheng absolutely refused to come to his house for dinner. Xu Fengtian hesitated for a moment, thinking that he should help such a wise man solve the problems of the other family members.

Of course, we can't afford to offend them.

But Jiang Tiecheng absolutely refused to accept his thanks. What should he do?

Jiang Tiecheng did it on purpose, of course.

Old Zhang was just treating me to a meal, but given Old Zhang's circumstances, a meal was enough to repay him. One shouldn't be too greedy.

But Xu Fengtian was clearly different.

Xu Fengtian is the section chief of the county's supply and marketing cooperative. Just think about it, a section chief is in charge of such important materials.

These days, being a sales clerk in a supply and marketing cooperative is something that everyone in the village is interested in, let alone becoming a section chief in the cooperative.

"Section Chief Xu, why don't you go ahead with your work, I'll go buy something."

Upon hearing this, Xu Fengtian

"Oh dear, do we need to go to the front to buy things?"

Isn't that what I'm here for? What do you want?

I'll have someone prepare it for you; we don't need to queue up.

Xu Fengtian thought to himself that this was simply a favor he could do for someone else.

Just then, a woman walked in.

"Section Chief Xu, I heard that our supply and marketing cooperative has a batch of garment processing orders this month."

How about we give it to our village?

In our village, everyone is struggling to make ends meet. If we could take on some of these orders, at least we could supplement our income.

"We've known each other for a long time, so rest assured, we'll make sure you get your share, just like we always do."

Jiang Tiecheng was sitting right behind the honeycomb briquette stove, so the chimney was blocking his view.

Clearly, this female cadre from the village hadn't seen Jiang Tiecheng, otherwise she wouldn't have spoken so casually in front of outsiders.

Xu Fengtian looked embarrassed upon hearing this and quickly glanced at Jiang Tiecheng, worried that Jiang would find out what kind of person he was.

Wouldn't that make Xiao Jiang have a problem with me?

He immediately put on a stern face and said.

"Comrade Zhang Hongmei, what does it have to do with me if the county leaders decide on the order?"

"Alright, alright, you should leave now. Can't you see I still have guests here?"

Zhang Hongmei was startled. She peeked out and saw Jiang Tiecheng behind the chimney. Her face turned pale instantly.

This could offend someone terribly.

He hurriedly apologized repeatedly.

"Section Chief Xu, I'm just talking nonsense, please don't take it seriously."

He turned and left in a hurry, almost slapping himself across the face as he went.

This is not a case of botching things up; if outsiders heard this, they might think that Section Chief Xu was asking them for bribes or kickbacks.