"You dare!"
“What wouldn’t I dare to do? Second brother, let me tell you, I’ve had enough, enough already. Have you ever treated me like a human being all these years? Just because you saved me, you keep talking about it every day.”
It's like a curse. I have to listen to everything you say. You give this to your family, you give that to your family. I'll never do it again."
Li Pin was dumbfounded. How could that be? Only if his younger brother became the village chief could their family get some benefits in the production team. If he didn't take the position, how would their family survive?
"No, I disagree."
"It's not up to you."
The village chief turned to leave, but as he lifted his foot, he looked back at Li Qingzhu and said, "Li Qingzhu, you're trying to cheat the production team out of work points by not working properly. I'll tell the commune director about this tomorrow. You can forget about getting those work points."
"What? You can't leave."
The village chief left after speaking. Li Pin chased after him for a couple of steps, but his legs were not as nimble as the village chief's. He couldn't catch up after a couple of steps, so he turned back.
Ding Lingzi continued, "The village chief really went to the commune the next day and canceled the work points of Li Qingzhu and the others. He also said he would no longer be the village chief. In the past two days, people from the commune have come to the village several times to verify what the village chief had done."
Lin Cuicui stopped working. "So what happened in the end?"
Sister Miao didn't mind. "Third Uncle has been working hard for the production team all these years. Although he has given Second Uncle's family a lot of convenience, it all came from their own pockets and didn't affect us at all. So the villagers shouldn't say anything bad about it."
Ding Lingzi chimed in, "That's right. Logically speaking, the brigade leader should be able to earn ten work points every day, but our village chief has been stuck with only eight work points year after year without fail."
"Ah!" Seeing Lin Cuicui's confusion, Ding Lingzi continued to explain.
"Li Pin has difficulty walking and can't do heavy work in the production team. The village chief assigned him to bookkeeping, but he only goes to school a few days a year and can't remember anything."
The village chief taught him for two months, but he still hadn't learned anything. When the village chief refused to give him the job anymore, he still wouldn't do it. He insisted that if he hadn't injured his leg back then, he would still be quite sharp.
The village chief, having no other option, assigned someone to keep the books, but this job wasn't paid much; it only paid seven work points a day, and only those willing to do it could do it. Someone was happy to do it, and the village chief gave Li Pin one work point, plus two more work points for each day, so Li Pin could get three work points a day even if he did nothing.
In addition to the simple tasks he does, he can earn about six or seven work points a day.
Lin Cuicui clicked her tongue. In the production team in her hometown, women who did ordinary work could only earn six or seven work points a day.
Ding Lingzi continued, "That's not all. Old Zhou's wife also took one work point from the village chief's wife every day. Later, when the village chief's eldest son got married, even the eldest son's wife's work points had to be taken from her every day."
Every time grain was distributed, the village chief's family would also give them some extra.
Lin Cuicui didn't know what to say.
Is the village chief just going to keep putting up with this?
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