Xu Lizhen gave birth to the baby at just the right time, and she just happened to return her job to Wang Danna.
It’s just a pity that I don’t have that much money left.
Her nephew also came back from the county town and transferred to the county primary school.
As September approached, Qian Shulan made a suggestion at a meeting.
"I think our education is very important. Why not make school free? All tuition fees will be covered by our production team."
In this era, people value boys more than girls. Qian Shulan wanted to make a small change so that more girls could have the opportunity to go to school. Only if it was free would the members be willing to send girls to school.
"Our chicken farm is large, and each family can get a few hundred yuan. We have improved our food and daily necessities to some extent, but the children's education is also the top priority. The most important thing is to hand the children over to the teachers, and we can work without worry, don't you think?"
The last sentence really hits the spot. When working, we worry that the children at home are left unattended and run around and cause trouble.
So when voting, 70% of people agreed to this decision. Wang Lide was very happy. He had been calling on everyone to pay attention to education, but the cost of education was really high. A semester of primary school costs three or four yuan, plus the cost of books, paper and pens. Many families are reluctant to spend money.
Unexpectedly, this difficult problem was solved by Qian Shulan.
Wang Lide immediately said, "Everyone come and sign up with me. Then we will select a few teachers based on the number of people."
So parents went to Wang Lide to sign up.
Qian Shulan also signed up for Xiao Min.
She calculated carefully that if Xiao Min started school this year, she could take the college entrance examination in 1977. In this way, Xiao Min would not forget the knowledge and would have a great chance of being admitted to the university and becoming one of the first batch of college students.
She seemed to remember that the college students of that year were all very outstanding, and many of them became leaders in their respective fields.
Her plan for Xiao Min was never to marry her off to a rich man, but to train Xiao Min to be a talented person so that she can live a wonderful life without relying on a man.
Xiao Min is very curious about going to school.
Every time the twins went to school, she looked at them with envy.
Xiao Min raised her hand and said excitedly, "Grandma, I will study hard."
Qian Shulan looked hopeful, "Great! If you can get into college, grandma will wake up with a smile in her dreams."
"Then go to college." She tilted her head and asked, "What does college mean?"
Qian Shulan explained to her, "University is a school where only the best students can go to."
“Then how can I get into college?”
"You have to go to elementary school first, then junior high school, then high school, and finally college. Your grades have to be very good all the time."
Although the first college entrance examination paper was easy, it was still quite difficult to be admitted to Kyoto University.
Xiao Min was immediately delighted when she thought about making her grandmother happy. "I must go to college."
Qian Shulan touched her little head and said, "Okay!"
After counting the number of applicants, Wang Lide discovered that there were more than 200 people who had signed up for school, including many girls.
With the idea that it was free and worth taking advantage of, many families also signed up their daughters.
The tuition is free and you can use old books. As for paper and pens, they are relatively cheap and still affordable.
So this time we have to select five more teachers.
Both of Liu Yueqin's grandsons became teachers.
Both of them went to high school, but because the school was closed, they returned home. They didn't get a high school diploma, but they both had a junior high school diploma, which was considered a high level of education in the production team.
It’s a pity that Zhuzi didn’t become a teacher, mainly because his classes were suspended in the first grade of junior high school and he only had a primary school diploma, which made him unqualified.
The five teachers selected this time are all young men. The youngest is sixteen years old and the oldest is nineteen years old. The lowest educational level is junior high school student.
After school started in September, the tail that had always been following her disappeared, and Qian Shulan was very uncomfortable with it.
Sometimes when Qian Shulan was tired of counting the accounts, she would look back. When she didn’t see anyone, she suddenly remembered that Xiaomin had gone to school.
But after a few days, Qian Shulan could no longer take care of him.
Because of the chicken plague that broke out in Sunjia Village, the newly hatched chicks this year have grown up and started laying eggs.
But who would have thought that such a thing would happen.
Therefore, the militia that was originally only stationed on the main roads also began to deploy to the small roads.
People in Wangjia Village are not allowed to go out unless it is necessary for work, and outsiders are not allowed to come in.
A few days later, chicken plague broke out in all the nearby production teams except Jiacun.
In one production team, the situation was the worst: all the newly raised chickens died this year.
Chickens that died of fowl plague cannot be eaten, so everyone had to burn them with great reluctance.
Later, it was discovered that none of the old chickens were infected, and it was also learned that the chickens in Wangjia Village and Linjia Village were fine. Everyone then realized that they really had a secret.
The team leaders of several production teams were so scared that their intestines were about to turn green.
After the infected chickens were dealt with, the militiamen on the trail withdrew, and several production team leaders came to Wangjia Village and asked Wangjia Village to help them hatch chicks in the second half of the year.
The lowest price was 10,000, and the highest was 30,000. If it weren't for the lack of fertilizer, they would have wanted more.
However, Qian Shulan also requested that their fertilizer this year be lent to their production team.
They all agreed since they would return the earthworms after raising them, and it wouldn't delay fertilizing the fields at all.
Soon it was the end of the year, and something incredible happened in Wangjia Village.
Qian Shulan has handed over all the accounts of the chicken farm to Sun Daqin.
Qian Shulan also calculated it over and over again, and only handed it in after confirming that it was correct.
But when it came time to distribute dividends at the end of the year, each person received only thirty-five yuan and eighty cents more than last year.
We clearly raised twice as many chickens this year as we did last year. How could it be that there were only this many more
Although the population of Wangjia Village has increased this year, the number has not increased much. At most, there are only fifty people. How could it be just that few
So Qian Shulan found Wang Shouquan and said, "I suspect someone has embezzled money."
Wang Shouquan didn't know much about accounting, but he didn't believe that someone could really do such a thing, "No way?"
Qian Shulan did the math with him, "The new chickens we raised this year started laying eggs in September, and they have been laying eggs all the time except for the two coldest months. Let's not count the old chickens, just the new ones. 40,000 chickens can lay 30,000 eggs a day. It's about three months, 90 days, a total of 81,000 yuan. There are less than 1,300 people in our production team, and the average share is 62 yuan. Even if we have to pay 30% tax to the commune, it's 43.60 yuan. How could it be only 35.80 yuan more?"
Wang Shouquan saw that she was making sense and immediately became cautious. "Okay, let's hold a meeting and vote."
Although everyone has the right to look at the account books, it does not mean that everyone can understand them. Moreover, it is difficult for one person to calculate so many books in a short period of time, so they can only vote and everyone can check them together.
Wang Shouquan immediately convened a meeting. This time it was a meeting for every family, and it was held in the cafeteria.
Less than three hundred people came for the meeting, making the cafeteria seem less crowded.
Wang Shouquan stood in the middle, and the others brought benches to form a circle.
"Although our production team's work points have been calculated this time, I found some problems when I was doing the accounting. I will discuss this with you all here, and then you can decide whether to check the accounts or not."
So he repeated to everyone the accounts that Qian Shulan had settled with him.
So everyone stared at Wang Ligui. The accountant in this team was Wang Ligui's daughter-in-law. According to Wang Shouquan, she must have embezzled money. And she embezzled more than 10,000 yuan, which was a huge amount of corruption.
Everyone started discussing among themselves, but Wang Ligui looked towards Wang Shouquan with a complicated look in his eyes.
When Wang Shouquan knew that he agreed to hold this meeting, he knew that he was going to fight with Wang Ligui. He sighed, "Uncle Ligui, it's my duty. Don't blame me."
Wang Ligui closed his eyes, clenched his fists tightly, and cursed Gong Suzhen to death in his heart.
If she really embezzled the team's money, then what place would their family have in the Wangjia Village Production Team
Wang Shouquan didn't care about his thoughts. If you dare to do it, don't be afraid of being exposed. He gestured to everyone, signaling everyone to be quiet, "Let's vote first on whether to re-check the accounts."
Almost everyone raised their hand. Even those who didn't want to bother raised their hands after being persuaded by others that "it won't lose anything if we settle the bills anyway."
Finally, Wang Ligui was the only one left. He suddenly stood up from his stool and shouted, "I agree too!"
He had tears in his eyes, grieving for his little son and his grandson.
Finally, it was passed unanimously and the accounts were immediately settled.
So all the teachers, as well as Qian Shulan and Sun Daqin, were called over to check the accounts.
Recalculating the accounts is not an easy task. For example, Qian Shulan's chicken farm has only 300 people, but it needs six or seven sets of accounts.
Not to mention the production team of 1,300 people. There were more than 100 notebooks for recording work points alone, as well as various incomes, expenses, and so on.
More than a dozen people worked for five days and finally figured out the account on the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month.
The result was exactly as Qian Shulan had expected. Gong Suzhen had embezzled money. The amount was almost the same as she had predicted. After all, the only place in the production team that had money was the chicken farm.
But Gong Suzhen was a little strangely greedy. She recorded all of her family's work points in excess.
For example, her mother-in-law did not work, but she recorded points for her. Her second sister-in-law only earned six work points, but she recorded it as ten.
According to her notebook, their family should have the most work points. So she did this and dragged Wang Ligui's family into the water.
Even though Qi Dahua kept explaining to others that they did not ask Gong Suzhen to help with the false accounting, no one believed it. Some even speculated that it was Qi Dahua who instructed them to do so.
When Wang Ligui asked his youngest son to divorce Gong Suzhen, Gong Suzhen directly dragged everyone into it, saying that the whole family forced her to do it.
Sun Daqin even imitated it for Qian Shulan to hear, slapping her thigh and pouting in disdain, "I think she is a fool. She still has a son. What good will it do her to drag her whole family into this? Will her son be left with no one to take care of him?"
Qian Shulan thought for a long time before saying, "Maybe she wants to fight to the death."
No matter how Gong Suzhen struggled, her fate was already set.
Wang Shouquan reported the matter to his superiors. Well! President Zhou was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
The last time Chen Xuanxuan happened, President Zhou had lost enough face. One of the only two lifestyle problems in the county happened in their commune. His face turned green.
This time, another extremely corrupt official came. His hand was shaking as he pointed at Wang Shouquan's nose. "Are you guys dreaming? More than 10,000 yuan! There is no one in the country who is so greedy. Ask other production teams if they have so much money in their accounts. I think your production team simply has too much money to burn."
Wang Shouquan smiled shyly, "That just shows that we are rich, otherwise how can we keep the throne of the first production team?"
Qian Minghua also echoed, "That's right. We are at least the number one production team in the county. That's enough face."
When they mentioned this, President Zhou's face brightened up. Indeed, their work points this time were 4.53 yuan, 1.1 yuan more than last year. They were definitely number one.
"I won't say anything to you about this, but you need to strengthen supervision. How can such a large production team have only one accountant? You should appoint two more and supervise each other. If something like this happens again next time, you can expect to become famous across the country." After saying that, he waved his hand and asked the two to leave.
When they got out of the room, they both breathed a sigh of relief.
Gong Suzhen was soon treated as a typical criminal and was dragged to various production teams for criticism and struggle, and even to the county seat for criticism and struggle.
Qian Shulan also heard the news about Gong Suzhen from Sun Daqin.
Sun Daqin did not mind the trouble. Not only did she go to watch the criticism and struggle meetings in their village, she even ran to the next production team with Fengchan in her arms to watch.
After she came back, she learned from Qian Shulan, "Mom, you didn't see what Gong Suzhen has become now. She looks ten years older and her face is numb. People have poured cold water on her face and body. I saw she was shivering with cold. I don't know if she can survive this autumn. I heard that she will be shot in the spring."
Li Guocheng was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzling a few hundred dollars. She earned dozens of times more, so she should be sentenced to death!
Qian Shulan sighed and ran into Qi Dahahua head-on. She lowered her head and avoided him from a distance.
Although the people above did not accept Gong Suzhen's argument, and Wang Ligui's family was not criticized, they were not unaffected. At least Wang Ligui himself had to write ideological reports every day, because the whole family could read and understand the account book. Others were illiterate, so they had no idea what the numbers in the account book meant. Although the children could read, they were not so brave.
Therefore, the only one, Wang Ligui, was a very suspicious accomplice. But because he had no previous experience of corruption, Wang Shouquan still protected him. The higher-ups only asked him to write ideological reports regularly. But even so, his family had lost enough face in Wangjia Village.
"Boom boom boom"
Wang Shouquan stood at the entrance of the village, banging a gong vigorously, shouting, "We are electing an accountant! Everyone, hurry up and gather at the threshing ground!"
So all the adults and children came out to watch.
Although it is snowy now, there is not much entertainment these days. In addition, everyone is still very interested in choosing an accountant, which is related to their own interests.
Wang Shouquan stood on the stage, breathing out hot air, rubbing his hands, and shouting, "In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, we have to elect three accountants this time. Please vote."
There are not many people who can be accountants.
Firstly, those who could read had previously been teachers.
Secondly, it is because keeping accounts is not an easy task. Many things are simply not recorded.
"I choose Aunt Qian. She used to be the accountant at the chicken farm. She has never had any problems with the accounts."
"I choose Deng Zhiqing. He is Aunt Qian's son, can read, and is a man of absolute trustworthiness."
Deng Xingming stood in the audience, looking at everyone in surprise. Although he was also called to the meeting, he thought he was just a listener. But who would have thought that he would be selected.
Although the reason was a bit strange, because he was Qian Shulan's son, at least everyone recognized him. He clenched his hands excitedly and looked at Qian Shulan, "Mom, do you think I can be selected?"
Qian Shulan tilted her head and asked, "You want to be an accountant?"
"I think!" There is no technical requirement in sweeping chicken manure every day. Being an accountant will earn you more work points, and you can also walk around.
Qian Shulan smiled and said, "Then you can be selected!"
Deng Xingming was stunned for a moment. He didn't know where his mother got the confidence from.
So in the end, four candidates emerged: Qian Shulan, Wang Zhengfei, Qian Yuetao and Deng Xingming.
Wang Zhengfei is Wang Shouquan's son, and he is already 17 years old this year. However, he only went to the second half of the second year of junior high school, and his studies were not very good. He was chosen purely because he is Wang Shouquan's son, and his character is absolutely fine.
The same is true for Qian Yuetao, who is already 18 years old this year. His situation is very similar to Wang Zhengfei's. He doesn't study very hard, but at least he graduated. He has one more layer of security than Wang Zhengfei.
Finally, these four people competed.
Qian Shulan walked up to the stage and said, "Let me start by saying this. I know you all trust me, but you can't make me work myself to death. I finally taught Daqin how to keep accounts, and now you want me to take over the production team. I was born to work hard."
Everyone burst into laughter.
Qian Shulan said sincerely, "I want to give my place to Comrade Deng Xingming. He is my son. Although we have been separated for more than 20 years, his character is still trustworthy. He is a little silly, and I want him to gain more experience. Don't worry, with me supervising him, he will definitely not commit corruption. Please give him a chance."
Everyone turned to look at Deng Xingming. His face was blushing and tears were sparkling in his eyes.
"Aunt is right, he is really stupid. His wife is having an affair with someone else and they have a child, but he doesn't even know about it."
"It would be strange if such a fool could commit corruption."
In the final vote, Qian Shulan still ranked first in the number of votes, followed by Deng Xingming and Qian Yuetao.
Qian Shulan stood on the stage, a little puzzled, "Didn't I make it clear just now? I wanted to give my chance to Comrade Deng Xingming."
Someone shouted, "Auntie, you have to supervise them. Those three guys haven't even grown all their hair yet. They can't be trusted to do things as well as you can."
"Yes! Yes! There must be an adult watching them, otherwise we can't rest assured that they are holding so much money."
Qian Shulan looked at Deng Xingming with resentment. Is it because his hair hasn't grown out yet? He is already 26 years old.
But everyone did not trust Deng Xingming very much. After all, he was not born and raised in Wangjia Village. Who knew when he would return to the city? This kind of thing had happened before.
So in the end, everyone insisted that Qian Shulan be the leader. Qian Shulan had no choice but to accept the position. But she felt a little sorry for Wang Shouquan.
Wang Shouquan didn't mind at all. "My kid has never passed math. It's embarrassing enough to let him be an accountant. Third Aunt, you don't have to refuse. Just be an accountant!"
The author has something to say: It's Sunday again, the next chapter will be at 20:00, muah