Rebirth of the 90s: Dear Cub
Chapter 117: Friends, you should know how to be grateful and satisfied
In the small courtyard under the darkness of the night, there were no lights, only dim moonlight flowing.
The old village chief stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking around at the surrounding villagers.
As I got older, my eyes were not as good as they used to be, and I could only see blurry images in dim light.
Even so, he could recognize people at a glance.
They were old people who had lived in Taoxi Village for decades, and they were siblings.
"okay! They're all from my own family, so don't talk too much about polite words! Jianhe, come and help me register. Who has helped how much, and remember clearly the amount of money. Once you remember, give me the list. In the future, I will be Family for family!"
Chen Jianhe nodded without saying a word.
Soon someone brought a pen and paper.
The main hall was not spacious enough, and there were too many people, so Chen Jianhe directly turned on the flashlight, sat down in the courtyard and started signing up.
“Home Li Laogen, a thousand yuan.” Luo Yuqiong stood beside his grandson Huazi, and spoke first.
Seeing her husband take action again, she did not utter a word of objection, expressing her support this way.
After him, the villagers signed up one by one.
The book filled the page quickly.
Qiqi was still standing near the door of the main hall, her figure was small ball-shaped, her head was slightly tilted, half of her profile was reflected by the light of the main hall, Wa'er smiled faintly.
Zhang Xifeng was behind him, gently caressing the baby's head with his old hands, with the same smile on his face.
“Mother-in-law, my mother gave me an allowance. I saved two yuan. Can I give it to uncle?” He lifted his head and asked gently.
Zhang Xifeng smiled and said, "Of course, mother-in-law will make up for everything for you. Let's make a hundred yuan and go to your second uncle to sign up."
“Alright mother-in-law, wait for me, I'll take the money!” Qiqi's face smiled brightly, and she ran back to the room she and her mother, dug up and dug out her little pillow, and took out a small pile of money. Flat banknotes.
It's all a dime and two cents.
This was a gift his mother used to give him. He simply picked the one with the smallest denomination at all times and kept it.
Zhang Xifeng also took out his savings from the room, brought Qiqi into the courtyard, collected the money and handed it to Chen Jianhe, "Qiqi and I will collect a hundred yuan."
Hearing his voice, Chen Jianhe was stunned for a moment, and even the old village chief and the others turned their heads, "Aunt Zhang, you only got a total of two hundred this year, you—"
Zhang Xifeng, a widowed old woman, had no manpower in her family. Everyone in the village knew that he could plant two acres of sweet potatoes each year to make a living.
This year, almost every household in the village sold watermelon and yam with an income of one or two thousand. Only Zhang Xifeng got over two hundred.
Including the money he brought Qiqi to spend to the city, there might not be much left of those two hundred yuan.
Big men have mixed feelings.
Zhang Xifeng smiled and said, "Old village chief, you cannot leave me alone for the affairs of the village. Although this money is not much, it is also part of my heart. Besides, I do what I can, and I know how much I can give. It's a hundred yuan. There are still two Qiqi allowances."
At first there was a dull atmosphere, but everyone was amused by his words.
Qiqi was embarrassed by the laughter, her little head was buried in the lap of the old woman like a slap in the face, and she did not lift it for a long time.
"Okay, I'll write it down! Zhang Xifeng, ninety-eight yuan! Seventy-seven, two yuan!" Chen Jianhe's voice was thick and straight, and every word was true.
Qiqi, "..." It'll really stick her little face into her mother-in-law's lap.
How embarrassing!
The laughter in the courtyard grew louder.
Litou Goudanui and old Goudan, a family of three had come out, stood behind the crowd and did not step forward.
Amidst the counting and recording sounds and bursts of laughter, the grim helplessness of the parents and children gradually disappeared.
Tears were still flowing nonstop, the old couple often raised their hands to wipe them, yet there was a smile on their faces.
Goudan bit his lips tightly, stared at the familiar faces in the courtyard, and silently recalled their current smiles and kindness.
…
More than 60 households in Taoxi Village were finally listed in Chen Jianhe's little book, and no families were left behind.
Chen Jianhe finally calculated the amount, and the money gathered by those large people was a little over 30,000.
The mountain that almost oppressed the Goudan family was moved by the Taoxi Village community with a joint effort for more than an hour.
The day is getting late, the problem has been solved, and the villagers are dispersed, and they have to go to the credit cooperatives in the city to withdraw the money tomorrow morning.
In the end, only the old village chief and Chen Jianhe were left in the courtyard, still discussing about going to Zhan City.
Qiqi had not slept, so she and her mother-in-law cleaned the benches scattered in the main room, swept the floor, then sat under the roof of the front porch of the house while leaning her chin on her hands. , listening attentively the two adults spoke.
The little egg man feels a bit complicated about his love for babies.
He floated on the side of the baby's face with his arms folded, his eyebrows slightly raised, "honey, do you understand?"
“Of course I can understand it.” Wa'er's eyes were downcast, looking into the eyes of the old village chief and Chen Jianhe, full of dependency and admiration for the elders.
“I know that the village chief's grandfather and second uncle must have the solution.” With that sentence, the baby sighed in excitement, and happened to fall into the ears of the man sitting on the bamboo chair.
Fu Yanchi hasn't left yet.
He looked at the scene in the courtyard from beginning to end.
Hearing Wa'er's exclamation, he silently chuckled as he looked towards the two people who were still discussing carefully.
He began to understand why Qiqi came to the old village chief and Chen Jianhe, because their sense of responsibility and commitment towards Taoxi Village was indeed worthy of Qiqi's reliance.
For this remote and poor village, he seemed to need to get to know her again.
“The head of the old village, the people in your village are not living well, right? I have just heard that people in the village earn one or two thousand a year, and it is all hard-earned money dug out of the ground.” Fu Yanchi said, his tone soft and solemn. At the same time, it can attract people's attention without making people feel disgusted, "If the money is taken, I fear every household will suffer even more in the future. In that case, why don't you ask Song Yueliang Song Boss to borrow money?" ? As far as I know, Boss Song donated 500,000 yuan to the urban-rural cooperation support plan in Yang County."
A big boss who could give 500,000 yuan, asking him to borrow 30,000 yuan was not a problem at all.
Adding that Taoxi Village was good towards Qiqi, Song Yueliang would not reject the request of Taoxi Village.
This truth, Fu Yanchi thought personally, everyone in Taoxi Village understood it in their hearts.
What puzzled him was that none of the villagers in Taoxi Village mentioned Song Yueliang that night.
“Young people, are you a guest of the Qiqi family?” The old village chief smiled, usually took out his cigarette, and put it back on.
He said, "But what you said just now doesn't make sense."
"Boss Song is Boss Song. This is the problem of our Taoxi Village, and we have to solve it ourselves."
“We can't just ask Boss Song for a loan just because he has money.”
“He owes us nothing, on the contrary, he has given us great kindness. If not for Boss Song, we, the residents of Taoxi Village, would probably never have been able to straighten our backs for the rest of our lives, and the big guys won't be able to make that kind of money today."
“Buddy, you should know how to be grateful and feel satisfied.”