Huang Xiaoqiang stared intently at Old Lady Wu, "Mom, what's wrong? Why did you suddenly freeze?"
Are you nervous?
Huang Xiaoqiang turned to look at Huang Xiaoguo and retorted, "How could that be?"
Their mother could take on ten thugs single-handedly in Changping and beat them to a pulp, so why would she get nervous about teaching them to read?
When I was a workshop foreman in the factory, all the women I dealt with were sharp-tongued and picky. I was never afraid of any of them.
Huang Xiaoqiang was worried that Wu was not feeling well but was forcing herself to stay still, which was why she remained there.
Just as he was about to get up, Old Lady Wu suddenly regained her mobility, and Huang Xiaoqiang was pulled down to sit by Huang Xiaoguo.
"You're worrying for nothing. What kind of person is Mom? Would she be scared by something like this?"
The two brothers were whispering to each other offstage while Grandma Wu was already onstage sprinkling chalk dust.
The villagers below the stage were completely captivated.
'Wow!'
'Hmm!'
Even the village party secretary listened with great interest, realizing that's how the character came about.
Oh wow, there's another layer of meaning to that.
Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and before they could react, Old Lady Wu had already bowed and stepped down from the stage.
The village party secretary already had someone in mind. He cleared his throat and said, "Alright, today's pre-lesson is over. We'll check the results tomorrow. Anyone who can remember three words can be appointed as a teacher in the literacy class!"
"Let's go."
At the village secretary's command, the villagers each picked up their stools and left in groups.
The Huang brothers and their two daughters-in-law waited anxiously below the stage for Old Lady Wu to come down.
"Mom, you explained it so well."
"Yes, those five words are still echoing in my mind."
She spoke in a mystical tone, glancing at Huang Xiaofu who was acting like a shaman. Seeing that he was about to open his mouth again, Old Lady Wu grabbed him and said, "Alright, stop talking. It's getting late. Go back to sleep."
Huang Xiaofu blinked, indicating that he understood, and only then did Grandma Wu let go of his hand.
After two days of competition, the result was obvious.
By the second day, only Gu Qing and Old Lady Wu were able to teach everyone to remember the three words.
Of all the five characters taught, I still remember the ones taught by Grandma Wu.
"Congratulations to Comrade Wu Mingxia! Let's give him a warm round of applause as he becomes our literacy class teacher."
Grandma Wu smiled and nodded, as thunderous applause filled the air.
"You'll be taking office tomorrow. Everyone will attend a one-hour literacy class after work every day. You decide what to teach and how to teach it."
The village party secretary had complete confidence in Grandma Wu.
Grandma Wu nodded in understanding and was about to say that she wanted to leave to check on the pigsty when the village secretary preemptively said, "Don't worry, I will assign one or two people to help you take care of the pigsty. I won't let anything happen to our village's precious pigs. Teaching everyone to read is important, but the pigs are important too."
The village secretary nodded, and Wang Huijun and Li Jin'e walked over to Wu's side with smiles. "These are your two helpers. You are all familiar with each other, so you will get along well quickly."
Li Jin'e was so happy her eyes almost flew off, and she held onto Wang Huijun's hand tightly, refusing to let go.
Good heavens, finally she doesn't have to deal with the land anymore. Although she's gotten used to it, her back is about to give out if she continues to get used to it any longer.
Now, Grandma Wu has taken over the pig farming business. Cleaning the pigsty now involves cutting pig feed and tidying up the pigsty, and that's it. She spends most of the day resting there.
Unlike fieldwork, where you're stuck in the ground from morning till night with no free time, people are immediately dissatisfied.
"Village Party Secretary, this arrangement of yours is probably not a good idea..."
"Yeah, it's true, how come her whole family gets all the good things? She's the teacher at the literacy class, and she even hired two helpers to clean the pigsty, both of whom are her daughters-in-law..."
"yes......"
One sarcastic or eerie voice after another rang out from the crowd.
The village secretary glanced over, and the sound disappeared again.
When someone objected to her husband's decision, Gou Cuifen immediately stood with her hands on her hips in front of the village secretary, saying, "What? Why aren't you saying anything now? You think I won't recognize who it is just because you're keeping quiet?"
"Damn it, what's going on in this village that I don't know? Whose voice do I recognize? And you're still pretending to be a coward and hiding your true colors here."
Gou Cuifen glanced at the crowd and sneered, "What do you mean by saying that Wu Mingxia's family got all the benefits? Doesn't her son work in the fields? You speak without thinking, spewing nonsense the moment you open your mouth."
"She even took over the literacy class teacher's spot? Have you been blind these past two nights?"
"What do you not know?"
After a passionate outpouring of words, Gou Cuifen watched as Wang Huijun and Li Jin'e stood beside Old Lady Wu, their eyes wide with disbelief. They were truly role models for us all.
A moment of silence fell over the crowd, then someone casually uttered in a high-pitched voice, "Even the family members of demons and monsters can become teachers. There really are people in my Shanyao Village who can control everything. We ordinary people have no way to survive."
The village party secretary's face immediately turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
"alright!"
A sharp shout startled those around him, causing their expressions to change and their hearts to tremble slightly.
They had never seen the village secretary so angry; his face was dark and his eyes swept over everyone present.
“I don’t care who said it. Since you think there’s no way to make a living in Shanyao Village, fine! Whoever wants to leave, I’ll transfer your household registration. Whichever village you want to go to, I’ll talk to the village chief and make sure you’re satisfied.”
The crowd fell silent; not a sound could be heard.
When Grandma Wu saw that things had escalated to this point, and that the village party secretary's conduct had been implicated, she was shocked.
They rejected the teacher from the literacy class and recommended Gu Qing instead.
The village party secretary and Gou Cuifen were angry but helpless, and had no choice but to do this.
The village party secretary was so angry when he got home that his nostrils were practically steaming.
He had no idea that there were people in his mountain village who were so dissatisfied with him...
Since he was elected as the village party secretary, he has been working diligently and wholeheartedly for the benefit of the villagers, and has never given up.
Because of this, Gou Cuifen lost several pregnancies when she was young. Finally, when Shanyao Village became stable and things gradually improved, they had a son, Tie Niu, in their old age.
I never expected that someone would suspect him of having ulterior motives today.
Upon seeing Gou Cuifen enter, the village secretary breathed a sigh of relief. "Do you know who it is?"
Gou Cuifen shook her head, "I don't know, don't you know? I was just bluffing them."
“Sigh, isn’t our village always been very nice? Everyone gets along well. Even if there’s a big fight today, we make up with smiles tomorrow. How could there be such resentment?”
The village party secretary sighed. Yes, resentment.
Thinking back carefully to the person who was speaking in the crowd today, the voice came from the very back and sounded like a male voice speaking in a high-pitched voice.
Who could it be?
The village secretary's house was shrouded in gloom, and the atmosphere at Old Lady Wu's house was equally unsettling.
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