Chapter 189
Jiang Ning did not stay in the next brigade for long. After distributing the supplies, he led the fleet to the next brigade along the disaster-stricken area of Shahe River. My uncle and his men immediately shouted, "I know that brigade. I'm familiar with it. I'll take you there!" They called his two sons, "Jiefang, go and call your brother to help you. Don't let Ningning get bullied!"
Yao Jiefang, the son of my uncle, hurried to call his brother, and his sister-in-law shouted, "My mother's family is in Qianshui Brigade. I'll go with you!"
Someone else shouted, "My mother's family is also from the Qianshui Brigade. When you get there, just shout Shuigen, he's my brother!"
It is easier to get things done when you have acquaintances. Jiang Ning did just that, distributing relief supplies one place at a time along the Shahe River. Soon, everyone from Wucheng Shuibu to the neighboring city knew about it. The golden phoenix that had flown out of Wucheng Shuibu Town had flown back to provide relief to the victims.
When they arrived at the neighboring city, Jiang Guotai sighed again after hearing the news. He also spent 100,000 yuan to buy a lot of supplies. Like Jiang Ning, he put his company's name on the outer packaging, hung a banner on the boat, and went with Jiang Ning to distribute relief supplies.
The Beijing volunteers who came with Jiang Ning could not speak the language after arriving at the local area, and had to rely on the young men sent by Jiangjia Village, the county government, the public security bureau and other people to translate. Fortunately, they did not need to do anything. Banners were hung on the boat to let the victims know which people and organizations donated the relief food and supplies.
The people in Jiangjia Village have never known what humility is. They do good deeds silently without leaving a name? That doesn't exist at all. They wanted to make it known to everyone in the world. Otherwise, how would these people know that the supplies were donated by Jiang Ning, and that they were donated by the people from Jiangjia Village in their Linhe Brigade? If they don't say it out loud, how can they expand the influence of their Linhe Brigade and even Jiangjia Village?
Jiang Ning himself has no idea of doing good deeds without leaving a name. If he does good deeds, why not leave a name?
People from Jiangjia Village spread the word about Jiangjia Village in Linhe Brigade of Shuibu Town. People from Xujia Village spread the word about Linhe Brigade: "It was donated by people from our Linhe Brigade. Jiang Ning, do you know? She is from our Linhe Brigade, the one who was admitted to Beijing University!"
The people of Jiangjia Village quickly added: "Most of these supplies were donated by Jiang Ning from our village to our hometown. I hope we can unite as one and help overcome the flood!"
So more and more people knew that Jiang Ning, who had just been admitted to university last year, had returned with seven or eight large cargo ships full of supplies. Her name could be said to be spread throughout every corner of the disaster-stricken areas in neighboring cities and Wujiang City.
Because of proper organization, the supplies were distributed to every person who was truly affected by the disaster, without any looting. In addition, since she was a local girl, no one asked why she didn't donate a few thousand yuan. Because everyone who has watched Jiang Ning's interview video knows that this girl's family is very poor. Every household around her has a small building, but hers is the only one that lives in a shabby house. Didn't you hear what those people said? The little girl donated all her scholarship money to buy supplies.
Many people were secretly shocked as well, wondering how much scholarship money would be needed to buy so many supplies. I used to think that studying cost money, but I didn’t know that studying can actually make money.
Families who had originally thought of sending their girls out to work when they were fourteen or fifteen years old or finished junior high school, silently withdrew this idea for a moment.
Anyway, we have nine years of compulsory education now, and it doesn't cost too much to go to elementary and junior high school. It only takes three years to get into high school. If they can get into college, the worst that can happen is that they will have to work a little harder. They can earn some money while working and they can also support them a little. Once they graduate from college, that will be amazing!
It is already June, and the new school year will start in September.
It was also from this year that the number of girls studying in Wujiang City and the mountainous areas of neighboring cities reached a new high. After that, the number of girls going to high school and taking the college entrance examination has never dropped every year. It is as if a kind of inertial thinking and a trend have been formed. Every household sends girls to school and encourages them to take the college entrance examination. If your family does not do this and your child is not allowed to study after being admitted, the villagers will point fingers at you and think that your family is not progressive and favors boys over girls.
Families who send their daughters to school and help them go to college are very proud and proud to say that they do not favor boys over girls and that they have progressive ideas.
After finishing the disaster relief work here, Jiang Ning did not stay long. He took the volunteers, who had been exhausted for several days, to rest for a day in the guesthouse before heading to the next place.
Mayor Jiang called Jiang Ning and asked her if she wanted to go back to her hometown.
Ever since they learned that many of those supplies were donated by Jiang Ning personally, and the young people in the village who supervised and distributed the relief supplies returned to the village and boasted about them eloquently, the villagers were shocked to find that Jiang Ning had only been in college for one year and yet he had earned so much money. It was like hearing nonsense.
Many people don't believe it, but the supplies on the shiploads are all real stuff. Every household in their village and their brigade that was affected by the disaster has received relief supplies. Names are printed on the bags of rice and supplies, showing who donated the materials, which organization or company donated them, which social figures donated them, and the purpose of each sum of money and where it was used. For small donations, the name of the group is written on the packaging bag outside the donated materials. For large donations, the name of the company needs to be written on the bag, and banners are hung on the boat with the company name written on the packaging bag.
This way, you can leave your name behind for your good deed, but your name won't appear on the school bags or stationery, thus protecting the children's self-esteem.
However, as far as Jiang Ning knows, for people who are struggling to make ends meet due to material poverty, the recipients are very happy to use the donated items, regardless of whether the name of the donating company is printed on the donated items or not. For example, her roommate who rented a house near No. 1 Middle School in her previous life was very happy and proud to use the schoolbag she had snatched, and she never minded the name of the donating company printed on the schoolbag.
The presence of the name of the donating company shows that she has the ability to grab these supplies. Besides, everyone around her carries such backpacks and wears such clothes. Very few people would feel that their self-esteem is damaged because of this. Instead, they would cherish having such rare and good new clothes.
All the clothes donated by Jiang Ning were ordered from Uncle Wang Yong’s clothing factory.
Wang Yong's uncle knew a lot of such clothing factories there. Some of them had a lot of leftover goods and inventories piled up, and the prices were very cheap. Even if there were discolored or defective products, they were all complete new clothes, new school bags, and new shoes. They also knew about the floods in the Yangtze River Basin this year, and knew that Jiang Ning wanted to donate supplies. Not only did they give Jiang Ning a large amount of leftover inventory at extremely low prices, they also spontaneously donated a lot of clothes, shoes, and school bags.
Jiang Ning asked them to write the name of their company and factory on the packaging bags and leave the factory's phone number. This way, if the children in the village have no future and want to go out to work, these factories in Shenzhen can be a way out. It is better than going out with others blindly and getting cheated.
Uncle Wang Yong discussed with the bosses of those factories, and of course they were very happy about this way of promoting their companies and factories. They saw a large number of clothing, shoes and bags donated, but for source factories like theirs, the actual contribution was not much.
Jiang Ning doesn't care whether the donated materials are accumulated inventory or leftover goods. The only thing is that the quality of the clothes must be up to standard. Otherwise, the donating companies, which were originally doing good things, will become black factories and black companies once quality problems arise.
Jiang Ning explained all this clearly to Uncle Wang Yong, and Uncle Wang Yong naturally told the factories and manufacturers everything as well.
They also have a business chamber of commerce, and their resources and resources are much greater than what Jiang Ning can mobilize on his own.
Wang Yong wanted to come and join their volunteers in person, but he still had to go to work. Not everyone was like Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng. Although they were in college, they were auditors and would not officially enroll until September this year. They had free time and could spend plenty of time going to the front line of the disaster area.
Jiang Ning didn't want to go back. Even though she was now a wealthy woman, she still smiled and shook her head and said, "Fourth Uncle, I won't go back. There are still many disaster-stricken places waiting for me to go!"
Mayor Jiang had never imagined that this little girl, who was as small and ordinary as his daughter when she was born, would now have a heart full of love. She was not just focused on her small family, but on the whole society.
He said, "Don't worry about your parents. I will talk to them."
The flood directly submerged the first layer of Jiang Ning's waterproof layer. Now the water level is almost reaching the second layer. The brigade headquarters has also been flooded to the doorstep of the house. There is a large bluestone threshold blocking the door, so the water can't get in, but people have to wade in and out. In some places, the water level is deep and the road is waist-deep. The villagers didn't dare to let their children go to the water to catch fish, so they just made a lot of bamboo rafts and used them as a means of transportation, or used nets to catch fish.
Jiang Ning thanked Mayor Jiang and left.
In early June, Jiang Ning took the time to withdraw the remaining money from the stock market and invested it all in an electronics company. After that, he no longer cared about the electronics company and devoted all his energy to disaster relief.
In July, the college entrance examination season, the flood did not stop students' enthusiasm for the college entrance examination, and college entrance examinations were still in full swing in various places. Because Jiang Ning returned to Wujiang City and Wucheng for disaster relief, many fleets in Wucheng were mobilized. Now Jiang Ning has left Wucheng, but these organized fleets have not been disbanded, but rented out by the county/government, and one fleet after another went down to the towns and villages to pick up students who were going to take the middle school entrance examination and the college entrance examination.
I don't know if it was because of Jiang Ning's return to his hometown for disaster relief that the people of Wujiang City were extremely enthusiastic about flood control and disaster relief. Many boat owners said that they didn't want any rent, they would just pick up and drop off their children for the college entrance examination. What's the point of rent? They would do it for free!
He Xiaofang's family is also one of the people affected by the disaster. What they received were the supplies donated by Jiang Ning personally. In No. 1 Middle School, many students from the disaster-stricken areas received the donated supplies. They were originally in school, making the final sprint for the college entrance examination, and they did not know about this. Because of the flood, they did not go home during the holiday before the college entrance examination and all stayed in the school dormitory.
It was not until after the college entrance examination that He Xiaofang returned to her half-flooded home. Standing in the small awning built on the high dam, she looked at the extra two hundred kilograms of rice in the house, a new set of clothes for each person, and a brand new red and white sportswear in her size. He Xiaofang couldn't help but smile and burst into tears.
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