Chapter 236 Funding
"Hello, little sister, we are here for tourism. Can we stop by your house to rest?"
The girl immediately shrank back when she heard what Zhang Wei said. Zhang Wei didn't want to go in like that either. When he was about to think of another way, he saw the girl coming out holding a somewhat blackened wooden stool.
"You sit down!"
She put down the stool and went back in immediately.
Zhang Wei looked at Paris, and it seemed that the girl only wanted her to sit.
This is a kind and vigilant girl, and Zhang Wei has a good impression of her.
Zhang Wei didn't go in and sat outside the door. Paris stood beside her and waited for her patiently.
Outside the door, you could still hear Old Lady Chen cursing non-stop, and the girl seemed to be busy cutting something, which looked a bit like sweet potatoes.
"What are you cutting?" Zhang Wei asked softly through the half-open door.
Pueraria root
"What roots?" Zhang Wei didn't hear clearly at first, as she spoke with the local accent.
"Kuzu root, for sale."
Zhang Wei immediately understood that the girl looked only about ten years old and wanted to make money on her own. Zhang Wei wanted to help her.
Before leaving, I thanked her: "Thank you for the stool. I'm leaving now."
When Zhang Wei walked away, she looked back and saw the girl peeking at her through the door. Zhang Wei smiled at her, and she shrank back again.
"I want to help her, Paris," Zhang Wei expressed her thoughts.
"Do you want to take her back?"
"Maybe not, but it should make her life better."
For a girl like her whose guardian cannot make decisions for her, Zhang Wei can only find the laundry aunt again.
"What? You want to see our village chief?" The aunt looked at Zhang Wei in surprise, and kept stealing glances at Paris beside her.
"This, this is not good. The village chief can't help them pay back the money."
It turned out that she still remembered what Zhang Wei had said before: Chen Jiumei owed her money. Zhang Wei then said:
"It's not because of this. I felt sorry for their family, as they have elderly and children. I wanted to help them and asked the village chief to be a witness."
"Oh, you are so kind!" The aunt still looked at her with suspicion.
Zhang Wei then said, "I came here specifically to play, and I just wanted to find someone. After all, it was the old man's last wish. I'm not short of money myself, and I came back from abroad. I won't lie to you. You can see my passport."
"I said he looks like a foreigner!" The aunt immediately shifted her attention and pointed at Paris.
"Let's go, I'll take our international friends to meet the village chief."
Paris immediately became the focus of the aunt's attention, and Zhang Wei followed her.
The village committee of a village was not far away, and when Zhang Wei and Paris went there, they were immediately surrounded by onlookers.
Zhang Wei could only repeat the reason she had just given, saying that a distant relative had passed away, and they came from abroad to visit him. They heard that he had a creditor, so they came to look for him while enjoying the scenery. They didn't expect that the girl in his family was so pitiful and sensible, and they wondered if they needed help.
After Zhang Wei finished speaking, she showed her passport to the village cadres. It was the first time for them to see a passport written entirely in English, so they could only pretend to understand it and pass it around.
A younger cadre said, "Well, his family is indeed in financial difficulty. Old Mrs. Chen is paralyzed, and Zhaodi hasn't been to school this year. The village subsidy is only enough to keep the two of them from starving, and the village has done its best."
"His family was involved in a murder lawsuit, and we fought for this subsidy, but the villagers disagreed."
Zhang Wei still had some impression of the person who was speaking. She had seen him in the village when she was a child. He was the gatekeeper Chen Xing.
"I want to sponsor this girl to go to school," said Zhang Wei.
"Well, there is no one to take care of Old Mrs. Chen!" Chen Xing said immediately.
"Doesn't the government have an obligation to take care of the widowed, the orphaned, and the lonely? They need to take care of underage children. Although I don't live in China, I know that the country is socialist."
Seeing him say this, Zhang Wei immediately spoke bluntly.
The young cadre immediately explained:
"That's not what he meant. He meant he was worried the child would be reluctant to leave his family."
Zhang Wei immediately said, "Then we can ask the girl to come and ask her. If she's willing to go, I believe the socialist government will take good care of this poor old man."
Although she hoped that no one would bother with a vicious old woman like Old Lady Chen, she still had to speak nicely. Although she was rich, she didn't want to spend a penny on Old Lady Chen.
Then Zhang Wei and the others waited at the village committee, and the aunt volunteered to call Chen Zhaodi.
Paris didn't quite understand, so Zhang Wei explained it to him in English.
"This foreigner is really full and has nothing to do!" The person who spoke was Chen Xing, the gatekeeper of the cliff village. Zhang Wei recognized him as soon as he entered the door.
However, the young cadre who made the decision gave him a sidelong glance. It was this cadre who did not look like a local and seemed quite upright that made Zhang Wei decide to sponsor Chen Zhaodi through the village.
When the young cadre saw the aunt bringing people over, he said:
"Zhaodi is here! A kind-hearted person wants to sponsor you to go to school. Do you want to go?"
Chen Zhaodi looked at Zhang Wei and immediately recognized her as the beautiful sister who had just visited her house to rest.
Although she was very surprised, she immediately said, "I'll go. I want to study!"
Zhang Wei laughed, but Chen Xing immediately said:
"Zhaodi, you are the only relative your grandma has. What will happen if you leave?"
"I, I will take care of her after school!" Chen Zhaodi's voice was small but her tone was firm.
"No," Zhang Wei interrupted.
After hearing Zhang Wei's words, Chen Zhaodi immediately went from anticipation to sadness. She had obviously misunderstood.
"I'll take her to City A to go to school. She might not be able to take care of her grandmother."
What Zhang Wei said next surprised everyone.
"This, this, going to City A? How much will it cost?" The aunt opened her mouth in surprise.
"I think I have a good relationship with this girl. Since I want to help her, I must do it to the best of my ability. This is my style."
"Why? Don't you villagers want her to live a better life?"
The young cadre said, "It's not that we don't trust you, it's just a little too sudden. City A is so far away, and we can't take care of it."
Zhang Wei knew they didn't quite believe her, so she said, "Don't worry about that. You don't have to worry that I'm a liar. I'll find someone you trust."
She then called Uncle Hou and told him that she wanted to sponsor a girl to study and asked him to help prove her identity.
When Deputy Director Hou heard that she was going to do a good deed, he contacted the town police station through several people, and two policemen arrived in less than half an hour.
They called Zhang Wei "Miss Wilson" and said she was a patriotic overseas Chinese. They asked the village to cooperate with their work and said that they could arrange for Old Mrs. Chen to go to a nursing home.
Now the village cadres had no choice but to cooperate, and finally they had to ask Uncle Hou to find a better private school in City A and transfer his student status there immediately.
Only then did Zhang Wei realize that Chen Zhaodi was actually twelve years old and was only in the fifth grade.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
