Hua Xiangyun suppressed a laugh. Captain Ren was really perceptive. "The things passed down from our ancestors cannot be completely believed, nor can they be completely disregarded. I'll ask around for you when we get back."
Captain Ren breathed a sigh of relief. "Then I'll have to trouble Comrade Hua. If it would be even better if Comrade Wu could come over as well."
We can't openly invite people over. It's not like Hua Xiangyun is here; people are coming to visit relatives, and we can't let them talk about it.
"Don't worry, you'll definitely be busy with farm work, so I'll take good care of your elders." We can't let them come for nothing; we should show them some appreciation.
This kind of expense can't be recorded in the village's accounts, so he has to pay for it himself.
The township is about to elect a director, and after so many years of hard work, he hopes to move up the ranks.
The village has been running smoothly under his management for so many years, so we mustn't let these issues hold us back at this crucial juncture.
Hua Xiangyun: "I can't guarantee that to you, since I'm only staying there temporarily. I'll help you find out."
"This is already very good, thank you for your trouble." Captain Ren felt that dealing with smart people was easy; he hadn't missed any leverage and had still managed to achieve his goal.
Hua Xiangyun returned to her group, and Wu Yanxin and the others didn't ask any questions. They went to the scorekeeper together to get their tasks and began their day's work.
Although they were confident they could pass the exam this time, they wanted to earn more work points so they would have more confidence when they went to school.
They don't know yet that there will be subsidies for schooling in the future; they are just thinking about how to ease the burden on their families, so they try to do as much as possible.
"By the way, didn't Zhou Xiaolan say she was going to take an exam? Why didn't I see them in the exam hall this time?" Xiao Shaoyao carried a hoe; their task today was to weed the orchard on the mountain.
We always need to find something to talk about on the street, and that's how the conversation turned to Zhou Xiaolan.
“We didn’t see her either. Is she in another exam room?” Wu Yanxin turned to look at the others. Although they had all registered together, they were quite far apart.
Seeing everyone shake their heads, Xiao Shaoyao didn't care. Instead, she said, "The exams are over, and she still hasn't returned the materials she borrowed from me."
"They borrowed from you too?" Lu Haibo turned around in surprise. "He Ping'an also borrowed from me. Aren't they a couple?"
Wu Yanxin said, "...Zhou Xiaolan also borrowed it from me."
“I lent some to He Ping’an as well,” Li An said, pursing his lips.
Wang Yayun and the others looked at the four of them curiously. "Do the two of them really need so much? Besides, they're all in the same school. They should have what you have too, right?"
Xiao Shaoyao, "She cried to me, saying that her family had sold all her books and materials, and that she and her husband wanted to take the college entrance examination, but they had nothing, so they came to me for help."
Thinking of our friendship, and considering I had already reviewed those materials, I lent them to her. We agreed she would return them after the exam, but I don't know if she forgot or what.
"That's our reason too..." the group said in unison, no longer continuing up the mountain, feeling they had been tricked.
Wu Yanxin looked at Hua Xiangyun, who shook her head and said, "She also came to me, but as you all know, I've never gotten along with her. Besides, several members of my family are taking the exam at the same time, and we all need the money ourselves, so how could I lend it out?"
"Yes, your whole family can share one set of documents, so why do they need to borrow four sets?"
Wu Yanxin suddenly put the hoe on the ground and exclaimed, "I remember when I was studying at home, she even borrowed it from other people in our yard."
At the time, I thought she was trying to borrow bits and pieces from here and there to complete the whole set of materials, but now it just doesn't seem right.
It seems Zhou Xiaolan is borrowing study materials every day. Do they have time to review? Or have they actually absorbed all the material?
Hua Xiangyun had a guess in her mind. It seemed that he had seen them in the black market. If he had tasted the benefits, he would not have stopped. "Didn't she say when she would pay it back?"
"I said I'd wait until after the exams..." Right, there's no fixed time after the exams are over. It could be the first day after the exams, or it could be many days later.
Not wanting to assume the worst, they said, "We just finished our exams, they might not be fully recovered yet. Maybe they'll come to return it in a couple of days."
Little did they know that the two people they were so eager to return the documents to were now hiding at home counting their money.
Zhou Xiaolan held a bundle of small bills in her hand, her face full of excitement. "It's a pity that the preparation time for the college entrance examination is too short, otherwise we could have earned more."
Look, this is almost your annual salary, and there's still more. Now you can't say I'm freeloading.
He Ping'an smiled broadly, "I just blurted it out, you still hold a grudge?"
Don't worry, with you as my capable wife, we'll be able to save up our savings very quickly.
"It's just that houses are hard to buy in the county town now, otherwise we could buy two rooms with this money."
Zhou Xiaolan gathered all the money together and put it in a bag. He Ping'an's eyes flashed with displeasure, but he didn't say anything in the end.
"I'll open a savings account later and deposit the money. We'll save up more money in the future so we won't have to struggle financially." Zhou Xiaolan explained where she was going to put the money. "I heard that all the factories are talking about building welfare housing. You haven't been officially hired yet, can you get a quota?"
He Ping'an's good mood was ruined. They were all employees, yet they were divided into different classes. "How is that possible? Even the regular employees don't get their pay equally."
“Then your parents and older brother should be eligible. You said they have a house. If it really doesn’t work out, they can give us their quota.” Zhou Xiaolan had been thinking about this issue these days, hoping to get a house without having to pay anything.
"Impossible, my family would never agree to that." He Ping'an immediately rejected the idea. "I heard that the old courtyard might be taken back now, how could they possibly give me the quota?"
"Oh, right, why don't you use this money to get me a permanent job? Once our incomes improve, maybe we can even get subsidized housing."
Zhou Xiaolan clutched the money in her hand. "Giving you a permanent position is no problem, but are we going to keep living in this tiny house forever?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Look at us, we've only been away from home for a few months and we've already saved up so much. If we work a little harder, won't we be able to save up just as much again in no time?"
Temporary workers are hard to get promoted to permanent positions, and I need to curry favor with people; otherwise, who would give us face?
There are quotas for promotion every year, but for those of them without connections, it's a long road ahead.
Some were lucky enough to benefit from increased hiring, while others were unlucky enough to face factory layoffs. Temporary workers were the first to be cut.
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