Su Ling put down his pen and observed the other villagers in the office calmly. They had different expressions and were whispering to each other, but no one stood up to speak a fair word.
Su Ling ignored Zhang Cuihua's pleading look. The village chief was not there today, and the village committee only had deputy director Li Yue'e and a clerk. He could not be partial to anyone before he understood the situation.
However, as the boss who pays the wages, Su Ling doesn't want to be taken advantage of for no reason. After all, no one's money comes from the wind.
Su Ling said to Li Yue'e in a gentle and polite manner: "Director Li, calm down. It's really hard for you to count the attendance rates of more than 200 villagers by yourself."
No one can resist a handsome man with soft words, and Li Yue'e is no exception. She said in a gentle tone: "The job of supervisor is thankless and easy to offend people. I didn't want to do it at first, but who made me the only cadre who graduated from high school in Shixi Village? Master Su Er trusted me and hired me with a high salary, so I naturally couldn't let him down. Little Su, you don't know that I get up early and go to bed late every day, going up and down the mountain, four or five times a day. Not only do I have to count everyone's working hours, but I also have to see if they do their work right or not. If I make a small mistake occasionally and get resented by others, I can only swallow my anger."
She poured out a bunch of complaints like pouring beans, and Su Ling listened patiently and nodded slowly: "Manual statistics are indeed cumbersome. I want to think of a way to introduce some high-tech products to make management more accurate, more convenient, and more systematic."
Li Yue'e hesitated: "High... high-tech products must cost a lot of money, right?"
Su Ling said: "Money is not a problem, as long as the things are useful."
Seeing that her problem could not be solved, Zhang Cuihua cried out in grievance: "Brother Su..."
Su Ling suppressed his goosebumps and said to her tactfully, "Don't worry, wait a minute. The office computer records everyone's attendance details. If anyone has any objections, check them all together."
Zhang Cuihua was surprised when she heard this and asked, "Really...really?"
She doesn't understand computers, but she is willing to wait a little longer as long as she can get her working hours back.
So she stood up and stood aside. Li Guo came up from behind and sat opposite Su Ling. He rubbed his rough black hands and said with a silly smile: "Hello Mr. Su, I am Li Guo."
Su Ling picked up the pen and ticked Zhang Cuihua's name, then ticked Li Guo's name. "There are objections to your and Zhang Cuihua's attendance. Wait aside for now."
Li Guo looked at Li Yue'e anxiously. Li Yue'e said to Su Ling, "Isn't Zhang Cuihua the only one who has objections? Li Guo's should be fine."
After saying this, he winked at Li Guo, who immediately responded, "Yes, yes, I have no objection, no objection."
Li Cuihua leaned against the corner and looked at Li Guo with contempt.
Everyone knows that Li Guo is Li Yue'e's younger brother. Every time when recording attendance, Li Yue'e always gives her younger brother extra time. Others are just angry but dare not say anything, and let Li Yue'e embezzle Mr. Su's money. Mr. Su is really a good person. He knows that Li Yue'e is protecting her brother, but he doesn't care. Now it's Mr. Su's turn. Li Yue'e takes advantage of the fact that he is new and doesn't understand the situation, and actually adds so many hours to Li Guo's work. It's clear that she is sure that Mr. Su has no evidence and cannot be held accountable.
Su Ling picked up the thermos cup on the table, took a sip slowly, and asked Zhang Cuihua: "Just now you said that Li Guo's working hours were mixed up with yours. Are you sure?"
Zhang Cuihua gritted her teeth, ignored Li Yue'e's threatening look, and said affirmatively: "Yes, his and my working hours were reversed."
Su Ling said to Li Guo, "Since Zhang Cuihua insists that there is a mistake in her and your working hours, I cannot pay you for the time being."
Li Yue'e frowned and raised her voice, "I recorded it manually every day and asked Xiaoye to input it into the computer the next day. How could there be mistakes?"
Xiao Ye was a clerk sitting in front of a computer. When she heard Li Yue'e mention her, she said softly, "Director Li gave me the statistical table. After entering it into the computer, I would check it three times to ensure that there would be no mistakes."
Su Ling twisted the lid of the thermos cup, stood up and asked Xiao Ye: "Which statistical software do you use?"
Xiaoye clicked the WPS Office icon on the computer desktop. "The Excel spreadsheet is here."
Su Ling understood, asked her to stand up, and sat in front of the computer himself. He held the mouse gracefully, found the detailed statistical table, and double-clicked it to open it.
"Xiao Su, what are you doing..." Li Yue'e approached with a puzzled look on her face.
"I see that Zhang Cuihua and Li Guo are both very anxious, so let's check the details first." Su Ling skillfully entered the WPS software and found that he was in the login state, with a slight smile on his face.
Originally, he wanted to save Li Yue'e's face and send the other villagers away first, leaving the remaining two to deal with it privately. But she was convinced that she was not wrong, so don't blame him for being rude.
He didn't completely believe Zhang Cuihua's words, but Li Guo's face was full of guilt, and he was not a fool, so how could he not see it?
Of course, if Li Yuet-e had selfish motives, then the details in the computer must have been tampered with, and the printed form is the best proof. However, she may have only a superficial knowledge of computers, especially WPS, which has cloud services and can find historical versions within a month.
"Check, check, check it out and let her take a look." Li Yue'e said confidently. Yesterday afternoon, she asked Xiaoye to modify the form in advance. The new data covered the old data, so no matter who came to check, there would be no problem.
Although Xiao Ye was a clerk in the village committee and often dealt with electronic documents, her computer skills were limited to this, so when she saw Su Ling skillfully find a month's historical records, her face turned pale.
Su Ling opened the files for today, yesterday, the day before yesterday, and the day before yesterday, and quickly searched for the records of Zhang Cuihua and Li Guo. After comparing the four tables one by one, he said, "Director Li, please come and take a look. In the records before the day before yesterday, Zhang Cuihua worked eight hours a day. At three o'clock yesterday afternoon, her working hours became six hours."
Li Yue'e opened her mouth in surprise: "How... how could this happen? What happened? Xiaoye, yesterday I asked you to calculate the total working hours for everyone. Did you make a mistake and mix up Zhang Cuihua and Li Guo's working hours? You are so careless! You get 800 yuan a month and you work for me like this?"
Xiao Ye's face turned pale, his fingers tugged at the corner of his clothes, he stood there with his head down, obediently allowing Li Yue'e to scold him.
"I'm... I'm sorry, Director Li, I... made an operation error and caused misunderstanding to everyone..." She choked.
Zhang Cuihua was vindicated and was very happy. She looked at Su Ling with admiration. When she heard Li Yue'e scolding Xiaoye, she curled her lips and said unceremoniously: "Didn't Director Li just swear that I would go home for lunch at noon? Why is he saying Xiaoye made a mistake now?"
The other villagers were whispering to each other. Li Yue'e was so embarrassed that she slammed the table and shouted, "I record more than 200 people every day. Isn't it normal to make mistakes occasionally? I was just looking at the last printed form and was misled by Xiaoye."
Xiao Ye, who was blamed, wiped her tears silently. Director Li's mention of her salary was a blatant threat. If she dared to expose this matter, she would lose her salary.
Su Ling saw everything, but didn't get involved. He printed out a new summary form, sat back in his seat, looked at his watch, and said, "It's almost noon. Let's settle the wages first so we can go back and have lunch."
Li Yue'e stole a glance at Su Ling and saw that he did not pursue the matter. The weight on her heart eased a little.
After receiving his wages, Su Ling left the village committee and headed home.
In the morning, there was more than 1.4 million yuan in the account from selling tea. After the salary was paid today, there was only more than 700,000 yuan left. After deducting some miscellaneous expenses, there are still more than 600,000 yuan left, which is twice as much as the same quarter last year.
With this calculation, tea growing seems to be quite profitable. However, if we take into account the losses in previous years, 600,000 is only enough to cover the costs. It will not be considered a real profit until this time next year.
The second grandfather rented a mountain to grow tea, provided jobs for Shixi Village, and led everyone out of poverty to become rich. It can be said that he did his best.
He was on good terms with the village chief and trusted the village committee, so he gave the important task of management and supervision to the village committee cadres. However, everyone has selfish desires, and it is definitely not the first time that Li Yue'e has enriched herself and fleeced others. He didn't know whether there had been disputes before, but he ran into it today and couldn't just sit back and watch.
Most of the villagers in Shixi Village are simple and kind, and they get along well with each other. They are not averse to Su Ling, an outsider. Only a small number of them are petty and like to take advantage of others for their own little piece of land.
Li Yuet-e was one of these few people, and Su Ling would be worried if she continued to supervise the work. He had to think of a foolproof plan to solve the problem.
Su Ling walked along the gravel path, passed a field, and stopped.
In front of him was his ten acres of land, seven acres of paddy fields and three acres of vegetable fields. The end of April was the best time to plant rice, but other families had already started planting rice, but his land was still bare, with nothing planted.
The second grandfather passed away in February and missed the sowing in March. Without seedlings, there was no way to plant rice. The village chief felt that it should not be wasted, so he consulted with other villagers and asked whoever had extra seedlings after planting to distribute them evenly and give them to Su Ling.
Su Ling certainly couldn't take it for free, so he was willing to spend money to buy it and also wanted to hire someone to plant the rice. At present, the farm work he could do was limited to the vegetable garden in the backyard, so planting rice, a difficult task, was not on his mind.
When Su Ling got home and just entered the yard, he heard a babyish "woof woof" sound.
When the little dog saw its owner, it jumped on the grass on its four short legs, wagged its tail, twisted its butt, and ran over happily.
“Woof woof, woof woof~”
"KING, are you taking good care of the house?" Su Ling squatted down, picked up the little guy who came over, and rubbed its head. "Have you gained weight? Why do you feel heavier again?"
"Woof——" The puppy stuck out its tongue and wanted to lick Su Ling's face, but Su Ling leaned back to prevent it from licking him.
"Woof!" The puppy was unhappy.
Su Ling touched its bulging belly, put it back on the ground, and tapped its head. "Did you eat something secretly, huh?"
"Woof!" The puppy indicated that he didn't understand, raised his front legs, and wanted to be hugged.
"Exercise more after eating, otherwise you might grow into a fat dog." Su Ling stroked its chin, stood up and walked into the house.
The little puppy had no choice but to move its four short legs and follow him.
Su Ling entered the restaurant and looked at the corner. Sure enough, the dog bowl there was clean and tidy. Before leaving in the morning, he fed King some dog food. Fearing that he would be late at noon, he put more dog food in the dog bowl before leaving. But King, the little greedy man, didn't let himself down at all and started eating at the appointed time.
Touching his hungry stomach, Su Ling prepared to make lunch.
The meat, fish and shrimp in the refrigerator were almost gone, and the vegetables were also sent by Aunt Liu three days ago, and they were a bit wilted after being left for a long time. He fried a plate of braised pork and a plate of green vegetables, and ate them with white rice.
The puppy smelled the fragrance, sat upright, raised its head, and hoped that Su Ling would give it a piece of meat.
Su Ling picked up the braised pork and maliciously stuffed it into his mouth in front of it.
"Well, you're too young to eat it."
"Woof!" The little puppy felt aggrieved and lay on the ground.
Su Ling touched its little butt gently with his feet. The puppy whimpered, and its attention was diverted. It curiously played with its owner's feet.
After dinner, Su Ling went to the backyard to water the vegetable garden.
Last week he found a packet of seeds in the kitchen cabinet, and planted them according to the instructions in the planting book, regardless of what kind of vegetable it was. He watered them every day, but after six days, they still hadn't sprouted.
Su Ling half-knelt down, trying to dig up the soil to take a look. Suddenly, a tiny sprout came into view. He was surprised and reached out to touch it carefully.
The vegetables he planted sprouted!
The author has something to say: Our baby Ling has finally started growing vegetables! Hahahaha~
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