Upon learning that the food factory needed help from impoverished households in each brigade, the brigade leaders responded enthusiastically.
Captain Chen said to Lin Aiguo, who came to see him, "If only we could help them more. There is a family in our brigade, both old and young. If it weren't for the money distributed by the food factory, they would have died long ago."
There's also Captain Huang. I heard that it was because of Huang Xianfa's wife that Director Lin thought of the impoverished households.
He sighed, "It's really tough for Huang Xianfa. Without a strong laborer, life is too hard."
The brigade also wanted to help their family, but at most they would just give the child more work points.
There's really no other way.
Now that the food factory has offered to help them, Captain Huang is genuinely happy for Huang Xianfa.
The same applies to the other brigades.
Within two days, the lists of impoverished households from each brigade were submitted to Lin Yu.
Qingshan Commune has a total of six production brigades, of which 53 are impoverished households.
Most of them had lost their able-bodied members or had family members who were seriously ill.
Most of these families found jobs through these food factory recruitment drives.
There are still some left, as there is really no one in the family who is fully capable of working.
They usually rely on the support of the brigade to get by.
Lin Yu selected these individuals and decided to provide them with subsidies.
"Each household will receive 20 jin of grain, every month."
These impoverished households typically consist of only two or three family members, mostly elderly people and children. With this food, they should be able to have enough to eat.
The money allocated to the brigade can be saved and used for other purposes.
Don't underestimate the mere twenty jin of grain; it covers dozens of households and is distributed monthly.
This is also a significant expense for food factories.
But during this meeting, no one objected.
Even the usually frugal accountant, Li, had no objections.
When his son-in-law Zhang Bing asked him about it later, he said, "I'm usually stingy because I don't want our commune members to go hungry in the future. But those people are really starving. I'm too sorry for them to object."
Accountant Li shook his head: "You don't know what it's like to go hungry, but I do."
Because he had experienced hunger himself, he couldn't bear to see the elderly and children living in such hardship.
He had no objection whatsoever to Lin Yu's offer to help them.
For Zhang Bing, his father-in-law, who was known for being stingy, to say such things was like a tidal wave.
The country folk he once looked down on were not as petty as he thought.
They also have their own sense of justice.
The longer you spend with them, the more you can appreciate their charm.
Leaving aside the shock Zhang Bing experienced, the real surprise and delight came from the food factory when those impoverished households received the subsidies.
When the brigade leader knocked on their door, he told them that it was a subsidy from the food factory.
No need to pay it back, no need to do anything, just take good care of your health.
And it will be issued every month from now on.
These people couldn't believe it.
The household that Captain Chen of Dongshan Brigade mentioned, with its elderly and young members, is headed by Chen Dazhu, who is over sixty years old and looks very old.
His son and daughter-in-law died in an accident years ago, and now only he and his six-year-old grandson Chen Long remain in the family.
He had a job after the brigade built the mushroom houses.
They support their family by earning work points from working in the mushroom house.
However, he is old and has a young child to take care of at home, so he can only earn four work points a day.
When it came time to distribute the money, the brigade would give him an extra subsidy as appropriate.
That's how they, grandfather and grandson, stumbled and struggled to get to where they are today.
Upon receiving the twenty jin of grain, Chen Dafa rubbed his hands excitedly, saying, "Thank you so much! How can I possibly thank them? They are such kind people!"
These old men and others have received help from the community, but they all have their own families and can't offer much more assistance.
Such a generous gesture, distributing twenty catties of grain to them at once, and privately, the brigade leader even gave him a catty of milk candy, saying it was a private gift from Director Lin to families with children.
This left him completely at a loss.
Seeing the old man's awkward yet happy expression, Captain Chen said with a touch of sadness:
"It's alright. The food factory distributed supplies to all the families in need this time. Director Lin said that as long as you live your lives well, that's all that matters."
Captain Chen was already shocked when he learned about the subsidy from the food factory.
This means the food factory has to support the livelihoods of dozens of households.
He could never catch up with Director Lin's boldness.
She was also very generous; she even took out her own savings and gave milk candy to every household with children.
How much money would that cost?
Factory Director Lin was only receiving a salary; if she continued to be paid like this, she would be working for nothing for a whole month.
Now, in Captain Chen's mind, Lin Yu is a selfless and altruistic good person.
Lin Yu naturally wouldn't empty her pockets to buy milk candy; it's probably because the space supermarket's usage period is about to expire, and there are signs that it will be closing down soon.
Over the years, Lin Yu had used quite a few things, and in the last few days, she took out the candies and snacks from them and shared them with the children to sweeten their mouths, which could be considered a good deed.
Regardless of how much Captain Chen praised Lin Yu, Chen Dafa and his grandson Chen Long were very grateful to receive the candy and food.
After everyone left, Chen Dafa put a piece of candy in the child's mouth.
Xiao Long's eyes immediately lit up: "Grandpa, what is this?"
In his six years of life, he had never eaten anything like milk candy.
Chen Dafa felt a pang of sadness and said to him, "This is milk candy. It was given to Xiaolong by Factory Director Lin. Don't tell anyone when you go out. Just eat it secretly."
"Okay, Grandpa, it's delicious, you should have some too."
"Grandpa won't eat it. He's old and his teeth aren't good, so he can't eat this."
"........"
Having lived for so many years, the old man certainly understood the implication that Captain Chen was specifically emphasizing that the candy was bought privately by Factory Director Lin.
People are always envious of those who have it and envious of those who don't. If they knew that Director Lin was even spending money to give candy to the children...
It might escalate into a fight.
Having received such a benefit, Chen Dafa was extremely grateful and would keep his mouth shut so as not to cause trouble for the kind-hearted factory director, Lin.
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Having solved the livelihood problems of impoverished households, Lin Yu has not stopped.
She proposed to the heads of each brigade that all out-of-school children in each brigade should return to school.
There was no middle school in the brigade; they all needed to go to the commune.
Lin Yu was thinking of getting a certain percentage of the tuition and accommodation fees subsidized by the food factory.
Families facing financial difficulties regarding tuition fees can apply for scholarships.
The food factory pays half, and the other half is deducted from their family members' wages.
For example, families like Huang Xianfa and Cai Shuzhen have two children, so they only need to pay for the schooling of one child.
Chen Dafa's family doesn't need it. Chen Long is only six years old and doesn't need to spend much money to attend primary school in the brigade.
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