Manhua laughed along: "Yes, a reward. I remember the team had some extra cloth coupons before. Oh, right, and some grain coupons and oil coupons from the county. Our village cadres rarely go to the city on business trips, so they'll just expire if left unused."
The old Party Secretary nodded: "I'll discuss these rewards with the other cadres in the team!"
Upon hearing this, Ning Yuan's eyes lit up with joy: "Thank you, old Party Secretary, thank you, Sister Manhua."
When she heard the old Party Secretary and Manhua change their address from Ning Zhiqing to Xiao Ning, she knew that they truly regarded her as a villager and a friend.
Although villagers don't use grain coupons or oil coupons, they do need cloth coupons, especially since the grain available to each household in the village is barely enough to fill their stomachs.
Those county-issued grain coupons and oil coupons were essentially subsidies from the village for her food rations.
She's desperately short of tickets right now!
Ning Yuan was overjoyed.
...
The news spread and the whole village was in an uproar.
Ning Yuan also received 22 jin of grain coupons, 12 feet of cloth coupons, 5 jin of oil coupons, and even 1 jin of snack coupons. She was overjoyed.
With these, it will be much more convenient to go into town to buy things.
She carefully put away the tickets and led the way up the mountain.
Hua Zi found his brother Hei Zi, and together with a group of young and strong laborers from the village, they followed Ning Yuan up the mountain and carried the wild boars down one by one.
Seeing the wild boars covered in fatal wounds, they were all astonished, but they didn't bother to investigate why the old, dilapidated traps were so deadly.
A group of people worked enthusiastically to skin and gut the wild boar, taking out all the offal, washing it clean, and dividing it up so that every household in the village could have meat.
Since most people don't have much money to eat, many villagers expressed their gratitude to Ning Yuan.
The group of educated youth at the settlement also received a few kilograms, and many of them looked embarrassed when they saw Ning Yuan.
After all, they had just kicked the people out of the educated youth team, and now they were taking their flesh.
However, Ning Yuan didn't care, since she didn't plan to continue associating with those people from the educated youth team anyway.
Watching Ning Yuan chatting and laughing with the villagers, Huang Xuehong's chubby, dark face showed great dissatisfaction: "She's just lucky, what's she showing off for!"
Tang Zhenzhen snorted inwardly. Yes, what kind of luck did Ning Yuan have? She actually managed to pick up four wild boars with that bad guy. It's a real pity that they weren't killed by the wild boars.
Huang Xuehong said enviously, "And everything is collective, the village team even wants to reward her with grain coupons, cloth coupons, and oil coupons!"
Upon hearing this, Tang Zhenzhen felt a surge of anger. Turning her head, she suddenly noticed a gaunt woman with a fleshy collar standing to the side.
An idea came to her mind. She suddenly sneered, turned around and approached the thin woman who had just received the meat: "Aunt Wang, I have something to tell you."
After listening to what she said in a low voice, Aunt Wang's thin face fell, and she slapped her thigh: "You're right!"
Then, she immediately went to Manhua, who was registering the villagers who had received their meat, grabbed her, and asked at the top of her lungs—
"I heard that many of you educated youth from Ning County didn't have cloth ration coupons, and you even wanted to give her the grain and oil coupons that the team had previously distributed from the county?"
Manhua looked at Aunt Wang and frowned: "This is a reward for Ning, the educated youth. The team agreed to it. Without Xiao Ning, would you be able to eat wild boar meat today?"
Aunt Wang, hands on her hips, sneered sarcastically, "What do you mean we can't get meat without her? I've heard that this wild boar fell into the trap on its own. Most of the traps on that mountain were made by my father. If you're going to give anything, give me the ticket!"
Ning Yuan was stunned as she listened. She had seen shameless people before, but she had never seen anyone as shameless as this.
What?! This was actually attributed to Aunt Wang?!
Not only was she stunned, but the villagers who lined up to receive meat were also dumbfounded. This is possible?
The old Party Secretary frowned: "Your father was indeed the village's old hunter, but he's been dead for so many years, and those traps are old and dilapidated..."
“No matter how old or dilapidated they are, those traps were made by my father!” Aunt Wang, who was known as a shrew in the village, interrupted the old Party Secretary directly.
She pointed her finger at Ning Yuan's nose without any politeness: "If it weren't for my father's trap, you would have died in the mountains and no one would have collected your body. I am your savior. I'm already being lenient by not making you kowtow. Give me the ticket!"
Aunt Wang is a woman who takes advantage of every passing goose—if half a branch of a fruit tree in her neighbor's yard grows into her yard, she will claim that she deserves a share of the fruit, and if she doesn't get it, she will cut down the tree.
Ning Yuan glanced expressionlessly at Tang Zhenzhen, who was gloating, and knew that it was Tang Zhenzhen who was behind it.
She looked coldly at Aunt Wang and said, "Fine, I can give it to you."
Aunt Wang's triangular eyes lit up immediately: "This is more like it..."
“But you must also go up the mountain tonight and lure the other wild boars into the traps your father left behind, and then I will give you the ticket.” Ning Yuan interrupted her without any politeness.
Aunt Wang jumped up immediately upon hearing this: "Why! Are you crazy? It's so dangerous, why would I do it!"
“You know it’s dangerous, huh? My husband and I risked our lives to lure the wild boar into the trap, so you have to do the same.” Ning Yuan sneered bluntly.
As soon as she finished speaking, the other villagers who disapproved of her all chimed in—
"That's right, that trap has been there for so many years, and we've never seen it go and catch a wild boar on its own!"
"They risked their lives to lure the wild boar into the trap and then kill it. Your Aunt Wang should do the same to make up for their contribution!"
"that is!"
Aunt Wang was speechless for a moment, and she didn't know how to refute it.
She plopped down on the ground, slapped her thigh, and started wailing, "I can't argue with you! Just because you're an educated youth doesn't mean you can bully people!!"
"I don't care, if the wild boar dies in my dad's trap, the reward is mine. You're not leaving today unless you hand over the ticket!!"
Ning Yuan turned away in disgust.
But when Aunt Wang saw this, she suddenly pounced on her, grabbed her leg, and shouted, "Give me my ticket, you're not leaving!"
Hearing that there were dozens of kilograms of grain coupons and rare cloth coupons, she was determined not to let Ning Yuan go!
Ning Yuan looked at Aunt Wang, who was clinging to her legs and even trying to pull down her pants, with a gloomy and ugly expression.
She couldn't help but want to kick him.
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