Fang Qingshan said calmly:
"Yes, all of you educated youth who donated money did so. Our team is building a school, and the funds allocated by the higher authorities are a bit tight. Everyone has spontaneously donated money for the construction of the school, and I am very grateful.
So I refused the teacher arrangement from above and directly recruited from you young intellectuals."
Although I refused first and the superiors arranged it later, the meaning is the same.
Yang Xiujuan and the others were dumbfounded.
"But you have accepted our gifts...how can you not do anything about it?" Yang Xiujuan was anxious.
In order to outdo Gu Zhiqing, she paid a full sixty yuan, including a bag of brown sugar!
Before the captain could say anything, his wife Chen Juxiang started yelling.
"Don't talk nonsense. When has the captain ever accepted any gifts from you? Those were all donated by you. The captain gave them to Accountant Wang to record the accounts that day and used them to build the school."
"But... I prepared two..."
"Aren't the two portions the same? The captain never accepts gifts, so don't wrongly accuse a good person!" Chen Juxiang continued.
Xu Lan stamped her feet anxiously.
Chen Juxiang looked at the people in front of her and knew what these children were thinking.
It would be painful for anyone to waste so much money.
However, the head of the family had his own plans, so she said nothing.
"Okay, it's getting dark, you guys should hurry back home! Read more books and review what you learned in school. It will be more helpful than anything else."
Chen Juxiang started to drive people away.
The few of them had no choice but to leave the captain's house in disappointment.
"Wu Zhiqing, are you willing to accept this?" Yang Xiujuan said with a gloomy face.
Apart from herself, Wu Lan gave the most money among them.
They were almost driven crazy by the heavy farm work. During the spring plowing season, if it weren't for this teacher's work, how could they have gotten through the entire plowing season?
Their minds are now filled with shattered hopes and they are deeply devastated.
"How about we go back to Tang and read?" Meng Yuling looked at Yang Xiujuan's face and felt a little uneasy.
Reading?
She is just a person who just wants to spend her time at school. What's the point of reading for her?
Yang Xiujuan hated Captain Fang to death. Since you can't do anything for others, why do you accept gifts?
Since you won't do the job, the money must be returned.
"I won't accept this!" Yang Xiujuan said fiercely.
Xu Li rolled her eyes at the dark scene ahead.
"What else can you do if you're unwilling? If you admit it, the captain might assign us some easier tasks. If you make a fuss, he'll have plenty of ways to deal with you."
What she didn't say was that she had observed these things and people in the team during this period.
Captain Fang was an honest and fair captain, the atmosphere in the team was also good, and there was no discrimination against the educated youth.
Yang Xiujuan's heart sank, and she immediately regained some of her rationality, but she still felt a pang of pain. That was a full sixty yuan!
Meng Yuling and Wu Lan followed Xu Li in silence. No one knew what they were thinking, but they all felt a little regretful.
In fact, Fang Qingshan had no intention of accepting gifts from the newly arrived educated youth.
But he thought that these newcomers would not be able to adapt to the heavy farm work, so he wanted to hang some radishes for them in front. It was also spring plowing season and there was a lot of work to do, so he didn't want these new educated youth to cause any trouble and delay the spring plowing.
Furthermore, there were some problems with the allocation of funds from above, which required a delay, and the team was forced to pay off the previous batch of material payments. Fang Qingshan simply used the money to fill the hole.
This money was only borrowed temporarily. Once all the funds for building the school were allocated from above, he would return part of the money to the educated youth and keep part of it to maintain the school's expenses.
His wife was right. He had just come to the commune and was planning to send a teacher down when the time came, but was stopped by Fang Qingshan.
There are so many educated youth in their Seventh Company, who among them is not one?
Why bother getting a few more people to divide the spoils among everyone?
Based on this point alone, Fang Qingshan felt no guilt in taking the money, not to mention that the money was not his.
But he didn't expect that the new guys would come up with so many.
"Boss, do you think they can just let this go?" Chen Juxiang felt a little guilty.
She is just like that, timid and can't do anything that goes against her conscience.
"What else? Let's talk to the team leaders tomorrow and arrange some lighter work for those female educated youth."
These educated youth can come up with so much money. It is obvious that they are the kind of people who don’t rely on that few cents to make a living, and earning a few cents less will not affect them at all.
Maybe they even want it that way!
The next day, the work of the female educated youth was indeed much easier, not only the new educated youth, but also the old educated youth.
Yi Xiaoqiu and the others were flattered. They had been here for so long, and the upright captain had always treated them, the educated youth, indifferently.
Today, a few new workers were asked to cut grass, and these female educated youth were pulling weeds in the fields along with the ten-year-old children.
You know, the last time weeding, Yi Xiaoqiu followed those aunties and weeded with hoes!
Yang Xiujuan, Wu Lan and others felt better now, but it was not enough, as they had already taken out dozens of dollars!
How could I be so satisfied?
After all, no matter how easy the work is, you still need time to do it, right?
Yang Xiujuan thought about it all night and finally came up with a way to vent her anger.
She didn't tell Meng Yuling and Xu Li that the two of them didn't contribute much, only a dozen yuan including the money and the things.
She found Wu Lan, who gave only ten yuan less than her, and the two of them discussed it secretly.
Yi Xiaoqiu had been working in the fields for the whole morning. As soon as he came out of the fields, he saw Lan Zhiqing holding Xu Zhiqing who was rushing down the side slope on the dirt road.
Because of inertia, Lan Zhiqing originally intended to catch the person, but was knocked down by Xu Li. The two rolled on the ground and were seen by Yi Xiaoqiu who had just come out of the ground.
Wow! They're hugging each other? Xu Zhiqing is still shy. Something's going on!
Yi Xiaoqiu seemed to see the green grassland above Song Ying's head.
She didn't come out, so she quickly lay down on the ground, intending to take a good look to see if the two were having an affair.
Quickly, Lan Zhiqing helped Xu Li up with a red face.
"Xu Qizhi, be careful. Luckily you bumped into me. If you had bumped into an elderly person, their waist would have been broken."
The reason why Lan Zhiqing blushed was not because he had any feelings for her, but because he was just shy. After all, he was holding someone else's daughter.
That’s right, people nowadays are so innocent, regardless of gender.
Looking at Xu Li's shy look, Yi Xiaoqiu could somewhat understand what she was thinking.
"Lan Zhiqing, if you hadn't caught me down there, I would have broken my leg today. How can I thank you?"
Xu Li's face was as red as an apple, and she looked at Lan Xuting with watery eyes, her face full of shyness.
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