Su Ye called a meeting with the teachers in the afternoon. Many teachers were involved in this project, and all members needed to be notified if a large sum of money was to be used.
She compared the account sheet and reported the income and expenditure of the first quarter, "The family also saw a profit for this quarter. There is about 4,000 yuan on the books. It's not a lot of money, but it's enough.
The work of providing financial aid to students has been taken over by the government. The support from the state has relieved us of a lot of pressure. This money is earned by the children, and I think it is necessary to extract a part of it and use it on them. "
When the guys heard the three words "not much money", the buzzing discussion stopped abruptly and there was a terrible silence in the air for a few seconds.
The guys looked at Su Ye in silence with strange expressions. When Teacher Su said that four thousand yuan was not a lot, didn't your conscience hurt
The teachers' poverty hurt deeply, and Teacher He almost spit out a mouthful of tea.
Su Ye's conscience certainly didn't hurt. In her eyes, such results were what she should have achieved. Otherwise, she was too low-key and the sales would definitely be much higher than this.
She proposed seriously: "I plan to use 3,000 yuan of the money to buy books and donate them to the school library free of charge to enrich students' extracurricular life and broaden their horizons."
The "consultants" who were temporarily recruited could not offer any opinions. When they heard that Su Ye wanted to buy books to build a library, they thought it was a good thing and were naturally happy to agree.
After buying the books, not only students can read them, but teachers can also read them.
Su Ye informed Zhou Yi to go to the bank to withdraw the money. His family was afraid that he might be robbed if he carried such a large amount of money. "Xiao Zhou, it's too conspicuous for you to go to the bank all the time. The streets are very chaotic now, with a lot of hooligans. Let us go with you."
"Oh oh oh, now even the students know that Teacher Zhou goes to the bank to deposit money every day."
Therefore, Zhou Yi, "accompanied" by several teachers, went to the bank to withdraw money in a mighty manner.
While waiting for the bank to count the money, everyone's burning eyes fell on the teller's nimble thumbs. The teller flipped through stacks of fresh and hot black tens, and grey ripples appeared at the corners.
The RMB was packed in a black leather bag with three hundred black ten notes inside. It was hard, and I could still feel the hot temperature of the banknotes through the layer of leather. It felt heavy in my hand.
In fact, it's not the money that's hot, but the heart.
What is heavy is not the money, but the hard work that teachers and students have put in for it.
When the principal of No. 1 Middle School learned about this, she was so moved that she asked someone to repaint the school library and hired a carpenter to make several rows of bookshelves.
Although No. 1 Middle School has a library, it is only an old classroom. Due to funding constraints, the library only has a few poetry magazines, Chairman's quotations, and newspapers. The spiritual food of students is very poor. Children from poor families have almost no way to borrow books. In school, they only have textbooks and portable textbooks.
After Su Ye took out the money, he drew up a list of books to buy. The books of the time were not expensive, generally a few cents a copy, and the more expensive ones three, four or five yuan. Three thousand yuan was enough to buy thousands of books.
Teacher He went to the publishing house to buy books. He took a bag of money with him in the morning and came back with several carts of books in the afternoon.
Su Ye stood at the entrance of the library, smilingly helping the comrades from the publishing house to unload the books, and the masters to count and check the numbers of books into the warehouse.
Teacher He was overwhelmed with admiration for Su Ye when he saw this. When recruiting teachers a few months ago, who would have thought that such a person could be recruited into No. 1 Middle School? Who would have thought that such a small business could accomplish such a great thing and buy a room full of books
After the library was completed, the first batch of students who entered the library to buy books washed their hands and happily looked for their favorite books on the bookshelves.
"These are the books our teacher Su suggested we buy! There's my favorite encyclopedia, and the Principles of Mechanics that I've been looking for for a long time."
"Can we all come to the library to buy books from now on?"
The teacher on duty nodded and smiled, "Sure, just keep quiet while reading."
In class meeting.
Su Ye smiled and announced a piece of good news to his graduating class: "Students, our school library has added a lot of books. These books were purchased with the money I earned from repairing radios and watches. You can come here to borrow your favorite books in the future."
The junior high school students were delighted and excited about the news, and at the same time, they felt a strong sense of pride in their hearts.
The books here were all earned by their own hands, and their sweat was condensed on each book. It was a pity that they were about to graduate and would not have as much time to read as the students in their age group.
Su Ye shook his head with regret, and said with a sigh: "It's a pity that students of this grade can still study books in the library for one or two years, but you will graduate in two months, and the new library will have nothing to do with you in the future.
Are you envious? Are you jealous? These are books you earned with your own hands... The students of No. 1 Middle School will thank you in the future for your selfless dedication."
My heart was pounding when I heard this. Why did I feel like hitting the teacher
She smiled and said, "You're right to be envious and jealous. Let's save up this energy and get into No. 1 Middle School together. If we get in, we can continue to use the library. You can be the masters of the library!"
Only then did the family laugh knowingly.
"Teacher Su is trying to trick me into going to high school. No, I'm so smart. I have to go to a technical secondary school!"
Having said that, many people have already planned to enter the high school of No. 1 Middle School. Not only is it difficult to get into technical secondary school, but also because... they want to go to college, they want to build airplanes, rockets, repair roads, and build bridges!
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Changyou cooking oil factory.
Yang Xue's father returned the watches to his co-workers. His dark face flushed red and his breathing became more and more heavy.
"You didn't buy these watches from me, did you? Go find whoever you bought them from. I have all the records here. I will only recognize them if I have the invoices."
After investigation, Yang Xue's father found out that these people's watches were bought from the street. The watches cost eight or nine yuan each and were said to be sold from factories and made by experienced watchmakers.
The stall was looked at by other people: cheap, made by a master, why spend a few more dollars to buy a watch made by a bunch of kids? They bought these cheap watches instead, but within a week, they found that the watches they bought had problems.
The workers who took the watches suddenly felt embarrassed, and some of them did not feel guilty after their faces were exposed, and instead made excuses.
"It's just a watch repair, Mr. Yang, didn't your daughter say she could help repair it for free? Just give it to us and repair it. It's nine dollars a watch, and it broke less than a month after I bought it. I also want to buy a watch for the school, but didn't I wait for it?"
"I trust you, so I didn't buy a new watch from the department store, but a second-hand one."
Yang Xue's father said angrily, "Who told you to take advantage of me? Yang Xue is preparing for the high school entrance exam now. I don't even let her do housework at home. I don't have time to help you fix the watch."
As far as he knew, the price of watches set by Teacher Su Ye had already pushed the profit margin to an extremely low level. Yang Xue once said that sometimes it took five or six broken watches to make one good one, and that was just a reward for the students' hard work. If they put so much effort into repairing watches, they would have earned more than that much money.
Only because students' time is not valuable can the price be kept so low. If a master craftsman makes a refurbished watch, the price will be more than ten yuan. The watch made by the master craftsman is only sold for eight or nine yuan, which is crazy!
“I’m going to say this today. Don’t put the blame on the kids. You should return the watches to whoever you bought them from,” said Yang Xue’s father.
Soon, Gao Xiaoyang, who was selling watches at a street stall, got into trouble.
Unfortunately, when people came to look for him, he had already heard the news and fled away. He went to live with his niece who worked in the county town.
He cracked some melon seeds and angrily told his niece about this incident, "Don't you think these people are crazy? They can return the things they bought?"
Gao Anna said, "I told you not to touch this matter a long time ago. Even Su Ye was reported for selling watches. How could you touch it? To put it more seriously, you are doing this kind of trading. When will you leave? My colleague said that his place can't accommodate two people."
Gao Xiaoyang said indignantly: "I am not just trying to clean up your mess. Without me, where would you get the 100 yuan to compensate them? Besides, I am just an errand boy, how much responsibility can I take? This watch was made by the boss. I have no skills and no money, how can I do this?"
He thought Gao Anna was about to kill her own family for justice, and said guiltily: "I'm telling you, if I arrest you for speculation, you will be the niece of a speculator, and you will not be eligible for awards and honors in the future!"
He took out two black tens from his bulging waist bag and threw them on the table, "You despise my dear uncle! I'm leaving, and you can keep the money for yourself."
Gao Xiaoyang took out a thick stack of black tens as big as bricks from his waist bag. When Gao Anna saw it, her eyes flashed. She didn't expect that doing this could make so much money
How much money did Su Ye earn by bringing up those kids
Gao Xiaoyang smiled and said, "You really look down on the work I do. If you want me to see the report sooner, I will—Hey, what nonsense am I talking to you about? I am leaving now."
He stayed in the countryside for a week or so, walking his birds and dogs, picking melons and vegetables, and touching the hands of several rural widows. Then he went into the city and handed over the last sum of money to the watchmaker's boss.
This boss used to be the deputy director of a glass and plastic factory. Gao Xiaoyang was in the transportation business and received a lot of broken watches. Yu Fuda had money and connections, so he could contact his former factory to provide glass and metal parts, and he could also find a master watch repairman.
The two hit it off and started doing this.
The boss's surname was Yu, and his name was Yu Fuda. He was plump, with thin eyebrows, thick lips, and a rare fat body. There weren't many fat people these days, and he was white and plump enough to wear a Zhongshan suit, looking like a wealthy man. Wherever he went, people called him boss.
Yu Fuda counted the money and put it in his pocket with satisfaction. When he heard Gao Xiaoyang say that many workers were looking for him, he said without hesitation: "It's okay, we can sell it in City C."
Gao Xiaoyang received a salary of 300 yuan and happily ran back to his hometown to find the widow.
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No. 1 Middle School, office.
After receiving the call, Teacher Lu hurriedly packed up his things and rushed out like a whirlwind.
He ran to the junior high school to find Su Ye and started to scold her: "Xiao Su, can you help me teach for a week? My father is in the hospital and I have to go back to take care of him. I know it's a bit difficult to ask..."
After hearing this, Su Ye said jokingly: "Just go with peace of mind, I'm here."
This is not at all unreasonable! This is clearly handing the treasury to Su Ye. Su Ye is so happy that he doesn't have to rack his brains to find an excuse to go to the high school department. This is just like someone handing him a pillow just as he dozed off.
When Su Ye said "I am here", Teacher Lu felt mixed emotions.
He was moved and held Su Ye's hand. The seven-foot-tall man almost shed tears. "Thank you, Xiao Su. I will deduct this month's salary from you when I come back!"