"Oh, these are the comrades who came to help these past two days. We just finished packing them up, and they haven't had time to go back yet, haha."
The commune secretary answered without batting an eye.
Manager Gao guessed that it wasn't that they didn't have time to go back, but that they didn't want to.
This explains why they were able to pack so much pickled vegetable in just two days.
After exchanging pleasantries, Manager Gao wanted to inspect the goods first: "Secretary, we're a bit pressed for time here, I wonder if we could inspect the goods first?"
"Then we asked our colleagues at the department store to load the goods onto the truck first."
"Of course, business comes first. Um, Village Chief Huang, please take Manager Gao to inspect the goods."
The commune secretary smiled and told Village Chief Huang to get moving.
After confirming that the quantity was more than expected and that the pickled vegetables inside were indeed pickled by the Huangjia Village pickling workshop, Manager Gao prepared to have Zhu Min and Village Chief Huang settle the payment.
Seeing this, Huang Jianmin immediately sidled up to Manager Gao and said hesitantly, "Manager Gao, could I please distribute the payment to them?"
"Brother Zhu will handle the settlement; he just wants me to pay them, is that alright?"
Manager Gao glanced at him, knowing he wanted to show off in front of the villagers, so he let him be: "Okay, go ahead."
After obtaining Manager Gao's consent, Huang Jianmin took the money that Zhu Min had prepared in advance and went to settle the payment with Village Chief Huang and the others.
Huang Jianmin opened the box, which was filled with large amounts of money.
When Village Chief Huang saw Huang Jianmin counting his money in a serious manner, he felt a little emotional: We are all from the same village and eat the same kind of rice, so how come Tiezhu's child is so successful?
After counting the money in front of Village Chief Huang and the others, Huang Jianmin calmly said, "Village Chief, it's 835 yuan in total. Please check if it's correct."
After saying that, Huang Jianmin silently praised himself in his heart: You are the best!
When Huang Jianmin was counting the money, he was particularly afraid that he would burst out laughing.
Although he knew the money wasn't his, the joy of counting it was real. Even if it was just a fleeting moment of pleasure, Huang Jianmin felt happy.
Although Huang Jianmin was the one who had just counted the money, out of caution, Village Chief Huang still had Song Mincheng count it again.
"You counted correctly, the total is 835 yuan."
After confirming the amount was correct, Zhu Min took out a roll of ten-yuan bills from his person, handed it to Village Chief Huang, and said, "Village Chief, please accept this as well."
"This is a subsidy that Manager Gao specifically applied for from the leadership for Huangjia Village, because the time was too short and the required quantity of goods was too large. This is an additional subsidy for you."
"The amount is not much, I hope you won't mind, Village Chief Huang."
Village Chief Huang looked at the large sum of money Zhu Min handed him, unsure whether he should accept it or not.
Let's not accept it; there are already several tens of yuan here.
Let's accept it. The leaders of the commune are still here. If we accept it, I wonder if it will make them think that Huangjia Village has been charging extra money all along?
"This...this isn't a good idea, is it? We'd better not take it. After all, you've already helped us a lot by buying so much of our pickled vegetables."
After much deliberation, Village Chief Huang decided to reluctantly refuse the money, as he didn't want to leave a bad impression on the commune leaders.
Zhu Min hadn't expected Village Chief Huang to refuse, and now he looked at Manager Gao somewhat at a loss, unsure of what to do next.
Manager Gao also heard what Village Chief Huang said, and he guessed that Village Chief Huang might not dare to accept the money because the leaders of the commune were all there.
He hadn't expected that the commune secretary would be waiting for him there, so he didn't specifically ask Zhu Min to give the people from Huangjia Village any more gifts in private.
Manager Gao smiled at the commune secretary: "Secretary, this hundred yuan was applied for by the department store and the city leaders."
"The leaders also felt that it was very difficult to ask Huangjia Village to prepare more than 5,000 bottles of pickled vegetables within three days, so they made an exception and rewarded them."
“Village Chief Huang is an upright and honest man, and he dares not accept the bribe. Could you please help persuade him? Otherwise, we won’t be able to explain this to our superiors.”
The commune secretary chimed in, "Indeed, Village Chief Huang is a truly selfless person, but these are bonuses given by the leaders, so they are naturally different."
The commune secretary walked over to Village Chief Huang, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Village Chief Huang, since this is a token of the leaders' goodwill, please accept it."
"Besides, this isn't just for you, it's for the whole Huangjia Village, so please accept it."
Village Chief Huang nodded, and said somewhat reservedly, "Alright, then I'll shamelessly accept it."
Two days ago, when I didn't know he was the commune secretary, Village Chief Huang spoke to him for so long without him getting nervous.
But ever since he learned that he was the commune secretary, Village Chief Huang started to tremble whenever he spoke to him.
After receiving the money, Village Chief Huang saw Huang Qinqin waving at him.
Village Chief Huang waited for the right moment, then quietly walked up to Huang Qinqin and whispered, "Qinqin, is there something you need?"
Huang Qinqin nodded slightly and said softly, "Village chief, while the comrades who came to help are still here these past two days, please announce that you plan to use this bonus to treat everyone to a meal."
"Your bonus is getting a bit too hot to handle right now. Why don't you use the money to host a feast to thank everyone for their help these past two days?"
"Let them know that the money has been spent and that they have benefited from it, and they won't make a fuss about the money anymore."
After hearing this, Village Chief Huang's head was buzzing. He was just accepting a bonus; it couldn't be that exaggerated, could it?
Instead of immediately agreeing, Village Chief Huang asked, puzzled, "But this bonus is only one hundred yuan. Are you really going to spend it on treating others?"
"They all just saw it; the pickled vegetables from the pickle workshop sold for 835 yuan. Doesn't that put our Huangjia Village in a very dangerous situation?"
Huang Qinqin shook her head, glanced around and saw that the others hadn't noticed them yet, before she began to explain to Village Chief Huang.
"It's different because although they all know that pickled vegetables can be sold for money, they don't know how much profit they can make."
“In other people’s minds, pickled vegetables have costs, and those costs may not be low, so they don’t think much about the money that pickled vegetable workshops make from selling pickled vegetables.”
"But the extra hundred yuan bonus is different."
"First of all, this extra bonus is essentially free; it's like Huangjia Village made a hundred yuan right in front of them."
"Secondly, as Manager Gao just mentioned, this bonus is an extra reward because this order was placed under very tight deadlines and involved a lot of hard work."
"Shouldn't the people who came to help over the past two days also receive a share of this bonus?"
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