Chapter 189

Jiang Xi 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 Shahe River. His uncle and his friends 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 Xixi be bullied!"

His uncle's son Yao Jiefang hurried to call his brother, and his sister-in-law shouted, "My mother's family is from the Qianshui Brigade. I'll go with you!"

Others shouted, "My mother's family is also from the Qianshui Brigade. When you get there, just call Shuigen. He's my brother!"

It's easier to get things done with acquaintances, so Jiang Xi did just that. Distributing relief supplies along the Shahe River, Wucheng Shuibu and neighboring cities soon knew that the Golden Phoenix that flew out of Wucheng Shuibu had returned to provide relief to the victims.

When Jiang Guotai heard the news in the neighboring city, he was full of emotion. He also spent 100,000 yuan to buy a lot of supplies. Like Jiang Xiao, he put his company's name on the packaging, hung a banner on the boat, and went to distribute relief supplies with Jiang Xiao.

The volunteers from Beijing who came with Jiang Xi couldn't speak the language after they arrived. They 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 didn't need to do anything. There were banners on the boat to let the disaster victims know which people and organizations donated the disaster relief food and supplies.

The people of Jiangjia Village never knew what humility was. Doing good deeds silently without leaving a name? That doesn't exist at all. They wanted to shout it out to everyone in the world. Otherwise, how would these people know that the supplies were donated by Jiang Xi, and that the supplies were donated by the people of Jiangjia Village in Linhe Brigade? If they didn't say it, how could they expand the influence of their Linhe Brigade and even Jiangjia Village?

Jiang Xi herself had no intention of doing good deeds without leaving a name. Why not leave a name when doing good deeds?

People from Jiangjia Village went out to promote Jiangjia Village, Linhe Brigade, Shuibu Town. People from Xujia Village promoted Linhe Brigade: "It was donated by people from our Linhe Brigade. Jiang Xi, do you know? She is from our Linhe Brigade, the one who was admitted to Peking University!"

People from Jiangjia Village quickly added: "Most of these supplies were donated by Jiang Xi from our village to her hometown. I hope we can unite as one and help each other through the flood!"

So more and more people knew that Jiang Xi, who was admitted to university only last year, came back with seven or eight large cargo ships of supplies. Her name can be said to be spread all over every corner of the disaster-stricken areas in neighboring cities and Wujiang City.

Because of the proper organization, the supplies were distributed to every person who was truly affected by the disaster, and there was no snatching. In addition, since she was a local girl, no one asked why she didn't donate a few thousand or eighty thousand. Because everyone who has watched Jiang Qing's interview video knows that this girl's family is very poor. Every family around her has a small building, but her family is a small shabby house. Didn't you hear those people say that the girl donated all her scholarships to buy supplies.

Many people were also secretly shocked. How much scholarship money would it take to buy so many supplies? In the past, I only thought that studying cost money, but I didn't know that studying can make so much money.

The family that originally thought of letting the girls go out to work when they were 14 or 15 years old or finished junior high school, for a while, quietly retracted this idea.

Anyway, now there is a nine-year compulsory education, and it doesn't cost too much to go to elementary school and junior high school. It will only take three years to get into high school. If they can get into college, at most they will have to work a little harder, and they can earn some money by working part-time and they can also support them a little. When they graduate from college, it will be amazing!

It is already June, and September is the start date of the new school year.

It was also from this year that the number of girls in Wujiang City and the mountainous areas of neighboring cities who went to school hit a new high. After that, the number of girls who went to high school and took the college entrance examination has never dropped. It was like a habitual thinking, a trend, that every family let girls go to school and encouraged them to go to college. If your family does not do this, and your children are not allowed to go to college after they are admitted, they will be pointed at by the villagers, who think that their family is not progressive and favors boys over girls. Families

who let their girls go to school and take the college entrance examination are proud of not favoring boys over girls and having progressive ideas.

After finishing the disaster relief work here, Jiang Xi did not stay for long. He took the volunteers who were tired for many days to rest in the guesthouse for a day, and then followed them to the next place.

Mayor Jiang called Jiang Wu and asked her if she wanted to go back home.

Since they knew that many of the materials were donated by Jiang Wu personally, and the young people in the village who helped to supervise and distribute the disaster relief materials returned to the village and boasted about it, the villagers were surprised that Jiang Wu had earned so much money after only one year of college. It was like listening to a foreign language.

Many people don't believe it, but the supplies on the boats are real things. Every household in their village and their brigade has received relief supplies. The bags of rice and supplies are all written with names, including who donated, which organization, company, and social person, and where each sum of money is used. For small donations, the name of the group is written on the packaging bag outside the donated supplies. For large donations, if the company name needs to be written, a banner is hung on the boat, and the company name is written on the packaging bag.

In this way, the good deeds are not only recorded, but the names will not appear on the school bags and stationery inside, protecting the children's self-esteem.

However, Jiang Wu knows that for people who are struggling to make ends meet due to material poverty, no matter whether the donated items are marked with the name of the donating company, the recipients are happy to use them. 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 schoolbags she robbed, and she never minded the name of the donating company printed on the schoolbags.

The name of the donating company showed that she had the ability to rob these materials. Moreover, everyone around her carried such schoolbags and wore such clothes. Very few people would feel that their self-esteem was damaged. Instead, they would cherish such rare good clothes and new clothes.

All the clothes Jiang Wu donated were ordered from Uncle Wang Yong's clothing factory.

Wang Yong's uncle knew a lot of such clothing factories there. Some clothing factories had a lot of leftover goods and inventory, and the prices were very cheap. Even if there were discolored defective products, they were all complete new clothes, new school bags, and new shoes. They also knew about the flood in the Yangtze River Basin this year. Knowing that Jiang Xi wanted to donate supplies, they not only gave Jiang Xi a large number of leftover stocks at a very low price, but also spontaneously donated a lot of clothes, shoes, and

school bags. Jiang Xi asked them to write the names of their companies and factories on the packaging bags and leave the factory's phone number. In this way, if the children in the village have no way out and want to go out to work, these factories in Shenzhen are also a way out, which is better than going out blindly and ignorantly with others and being cheated.

Uncle Wang Yong discussed with the factory owners and they were very happy about this way of promoting their enterprises and factories. They donated a large number of clothes, shoes and bags, but for the source factories like them, the actual contribution was not much.

Jiang Qi did not care whether the donated materials were accumulated inventory or leftover goods. The only thing was that the quality of the clothes must be qualified. Otherwise, these companies that donated the clothes were originally doing good things, but once there was a quality problem, they would be black factories and black companies.

Jiang Wu explained all this to Uncle Wang Yong, and Uncle Wang Yong naturally explained it to the factories.

They also have a business chamber of commerce, and their power is much greater than what Jiang Wu can mobilize alone.

Wang Yong wanted to come and join their volunteers, but he still had to go to work. Not everyone is like Jiang Wu and Song Peifeng. Although they went to college, they were auditors and would not officially enroll until September this year. They had free time and could spend a lot of time on the front line of the disaster area.

Jiang Xi didn't want to go back, even though she was now rich and well-off, she still smiled and shook her head and said, "Uncle, I won't go back. There are still many disaster-stricken places waiting for me to go!"

Town Chief Jiang never imagined that this little girl who he had watched being born like his daughter, a small and ordinary girl, would now have a heart full of love. She was not focused on her own small family, but on the whole society.

He said, "Don't worry about your parents. I will tell them."

The flood directly submerged the first layer of the waterproof layer of Jiang Xi's house. Now the water level is almost up to the second layer. The brigade headquarters has also been flooded to the door of the house. There is a large bluestone threshold at the door. The water can't get in, but you have to wade in and out. In some places, the water level is deep and the road is waist-high. The villagers dare not let their children go to the water to catch fish. They just made a lot of bamboo rafts and used them as transportation, or cast nets to catch fish.

Jiang Xi thanked Jiang Town Mayor and left.

In early June, Jiang Xi took out the remaining money from his 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 from being enthusiastic about the college entrance examination, and the college entrance examinations were still in full swing in various places. Because Jiang Liu returned to Wujiang City and Wucheng for disaster relief, many fleets in Wucheng were mobilized. Now Jiang Liu has left Wucheng, but these organized fleets have not been disbanded, but rented 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 high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination.

I don't know if it was because Jiang Xi's return to his hometown to help with the disaster relief that the people of Wujiang City were so enthusiastic about fighting the flood and disaster relief. Many boat owners said that they would not charge rent to pick up their children for the college entrance examination. What rent is required? They would pick up and drop off their children for free!

He Xiaofang's family was also one of the people affected by the disaster. What they received was the supplies donated by Jiang Xi personally. In the school of No. 1 Middle School, many families of 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 didn't 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 and stood in the small awning built on the dam, looking at the extra 200 kilograms of rice and a new set of clothes for each person in the house, as well as a brand new red and white sportswear in her size. He Xiaofang couldn't help laughing and burst into tears.