Chapter 68 What happened to the village chief's face?
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The children at home heard their mother's voice and ran out to watch the fun. Soon the car stopped in front of the Tang family's courtyard.
The people who got out of the car were indeed Chang Yin and Wang Ming. Tang Shengkai stepped forward and saluted.
Chang Yin returned the salute formally, then asked, "Are you ready?"
Tang Shengkai was truly puzzled. Was he really here to pick him up? When did he become so arrogant? Chang Yin ignored the puzzled expression on Tang Shengkai's face and remained serious.
"Tang Shengkai, 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 7th Division, Nandao Corps, return to the team!"
"yes!"
After saying this, Tang Shengkai was about to get in the car. Lin Cuicui hurriedly turned around and went home to take out Tang Shengkai's bag and handed it to him.
Before getting into the car, Chang Yin glanced at Tang Yue again, nodded, and drove away.
Tang Yue frowned, something was wrong. Why would her father, a little soldier, come all the way to pick her up?
I couldn't figure it out, but it was a good thing that Dad didn't have to walk anymore. Tang Yue turned around and went home.
What they didn't know was that after leaving Daobei Village, Tang Shengkai began his training for new recruits.
When the village chief hurried over, Tang Shengkai had already left for a while.
"What's going on? I heard a military vehicle is coming?"
"It's the village chief. I'm here to pick up my husband. What can I do for you?"
"Oh, no. You guys are almost done cleaning up here, so you can officially start work tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll go to work tomorrow."
The task of borrowing vegetables was given to Old Li, and Tang Bei went with his grandfather.
After work in the afternoon, Sister Miao and Sister Ding came over, each carrying a basket.
Several women were chatting while washing and picking vegetables.
"Cui Cui, you should go to work tomorrow, right?" Ding Lingzi asked.
"Um."
"Then you can come with me tomorrow. There isn't much grass left in the fields these past two days. I think it'll be time to harvest it in a few days after we finish pulling out this wave."
Lin Cuicui smiled and said yes while washing the vegetables.
Sister Miao came in carrying firewood. "I heard that people came to the educated youth camp and the cowshed today. Did you see them, Cuicui?"
"Ah? No."
Lin Cuicui was quite surprised. They were so busy every day that they really didn't pay attention to the affairs of the village.
"I just went home to get some firewood and heard Aunt Juhua say that four educated youth had arrived, and two of them were living in the cowshed."
"oh."
Lin Cuicui didn't care. Ding Lingzi knew that Sister Miao wouldn't say this for no reason. "What's wrong, Sister-in-law? What's the difference between those people?"
Sister Miao's eyes sparkled. "I heard there was a very arrogant educated youth who came to the educated youth's yard and was picky. He even used his status to bully others and directly switched places with the old educated youth."
"Ah, there's such a thing? What kind of identity does that mean? Besides, how dare he bring up the issue of identity now?"
"Who knows? Anyway, I heard that there was someone helping him. The two of them directly picked the best position in the educated youth's yard."
"Tsk tsk, that's really amazing."
Lin Cuicui washed another dish. "Will those old educated youth agree? Why don't they go to the village chief?"
Ding Lingzi and Sister Miao exchanged a glance, and Sister Miao lowered her voice and asked, "Have you seen the village chief these past two days?"
Lin Cuicui didn't know what it meant and nodded blankly.
"Yeah, he came here today."
"What? Really? Then what do you think of the village chief's face?"
Ding Lingzi was extremely curious.
Lin Cuicui didn't understand what Ding Lingzi was so excited about, but she still thought about it carefully.
"It seems one of the faces is a little purple? But the village chief's face is not white, so I didn't pay much attention to it."
Ding Lingzi looked at Sister Miao and said, "Look, what I said is true."
Sister Miao sighed, and Lin Cuicui was puzzled. "What's wrong with the village chief?"
This matter was no secret in the village, so Mrs. Miao told it directly.
"That night, Li Qingzhu carried his mother home. Li Pin was cooking at home. When he saw the old woman being carried back, he was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground. He had to rely on the people who had passed by to support him."
"What's going on?"
Li Pin looked at his son anxiously, "Didn't your mother go to look for you? Why did you come back lying down?"
Seeing that the old woman had her eyes open, Li Pincai asked this question.
Li Qingzhu was still angry and told the story of what happened in Tang Shengkai's courtyard again, adding fuel to the fire. Li Pin was furious after hearing it.
"Why doesn't your Third Uncle hope for something better for our family? Humph, he doesn't even care about his nephew and sister-in-law. I'll teach him a lesson."
As he spoke, he tiptoed out of the house with a slightly lame foot.
Li Qingzhu had no intention of stopping him. The villagers who followed him wanted to stop him, but Li Pin waved them away with a wave of his hand.
When he arrived at the door, the village chief was rushing over in a hurry. Before the village chief could say anything, Li Pin slapped the village chief in the face.
The village chief was knocked off balance by the blow.
"Second brother, what are you doing?"
"What are you doing? Are you still a human being? Ah? Li Da. You even bully your own nephew and sister-in-law. Are you still a human being?
If I had known this would happen, I would never have rescued you from the mountain. I would have let you be mauled to death by the wild boar."
The village chief felt helpless. How could he have such an unreasonable brother? When would this family end?
The village chief was also angry. "I really wish you hadn't helped me back then. Otherwise, I wouldn't have felt so guilty towards you all these years. You guys sucked me like a blood sucker all day long."
Li Pin was in disbelief when he heard this. He stared at the village chief and said, "Li Da, what did you say? Say it again!"
The village chief had no intention of compromising this time.
"It's the same even if I say it a hundred times. I'm telling you, I'm not going to be the village chief anymore. From now on, whatever happens to your family's love life will be fine, I won't care anymore."
"You dare!"
"What am I afraid of? Second brother, let me tell you, enough is enough. Have you ever treated me as a human being all these years? Just because you saved me, I keep thinking about you every day.
It's like a curse. I have to obey you. Give your family this, give your family that. I will never do that again."
Li Pin was a little dumbfounded. How could that be possible? Only if his younger brother became the village chief could their family gain some benefits in the production team. If he didn't become the village chief, how would their family survive in the future?
"No, I don't agree."
"It's not up to you."
The village chief turned and walked away, looking back at Li Qingzhu as he lifted his foot. "Li Qingzhu, you're not working hard and are trying to cheat the production team of work points. I'll report this to the commune director tomorrow. Don't even think about taking these work points."
"What? You can't leave."
The village chief left after he finished speaking. Li Pin gave chase, but he wasn't as agile as the village chief. After two steps, he couldn't catch up and turned back.
Ding Lingzi continued, "The village chief actually went to the commune the next day and cancelled the work points of Li Qingzhu and the others. He also said he would no longer be the village chief. People from the commune have come to the village several times in the past two days to verify what the village chief had done."
Lin Cuicui stopped working and asked, "So what happened in the end?"
Sister Miao didn't care. "Third Uncle has been working hard for the production team all these years. Although he has provided a lot of conveniences to Second Uncle's family, those are all taken out of their own pockets, not ours. So the villagers shouldn't say anything bad about it."
Ding Lingzi continued, "That's right. Normally, the team leader should earn ten work points every day, but our village chief always gets eight work points year-round."
"Ah!" Seeing that Lin Cuicui was puzzled, Ding Lingzi continued to explain.
"Li Pin had difficulty walking and couldn't do heavy work in the production team. The village chief assigned him the job of keeping accounts, but he went to school so infrequently that he couldn't remember anything.
The village chief taught him for two months, but he still hadn't learned anything. He even refused to do the job when the village chief stopped him. He insisted that if he hadn't injured his leg that year, his brain would have been fine.
The village chief had no other choice but to assign someone else to keep the accounts. However, this job was not as hard as the regular work, and only paid seven work points a day, so only those willing to do it could do it. Someone agreed, and the village chief gave Li Pin one work point, in addition to his daily two work points. Even if Li Pin did nothing all day, he would still get three work points.
If he also does some simple work every day, he can earn a total of six or seven work points a day."
Lin Cuicui gritted her teeth. In the production team of their hometown, women doing ordinary work only earned six or seven work points a day.
Ding Lingzi continued, "That's not all. Old Zhou also took some of the work points from the village head's wife every day. Later, when the village head's eldest son got married, she also took some of the eldest son's wife's work points and took some of her own work points every day.
Every time food is distributed, the village chief’s family has to give them some extra.”
Lin Cuicui didn't know what to say.
The village chief has been enduring this?
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