After eating and drinking their fill, the two men went to the supply and marketing cooperative again, carrying ten lunch boxes filled with food. Qiu Min of course already knew what had happened, and Skinny Monkey was so scared that he started crying in front of her.
"Cheng Qiao, will you still do this in the future?"
"Of course I do. You'd be a jerk if you don't make money."
Qiu Min felt miserable. She would be willing to be a bastard, but her family had no money. Once she had a child, she would have to sell her job, and then she would have even less income.
"You can sell your job to Skinny Monkey, and you'll still have some income."
Cheng Qiao was puzzled by Qiu Min's train of thought. Qiu Min shook her head. She had been forced to agree that she would sell her job to her elder sister after she gave birth to the child, but she should not tell Cheng Qiao about this matter.
Following Cheng Qiao's instructions, Qiu Min took out malted milk, vanishing cream, clam oil, mung bean cakes, fruit candies and other food and daily necessities, spending nearly twenty yuan.
On the way back, Cheng Qiao felt something was wrong. She shook Li Huan's arm:
"Qiu Min seems to be worried."
"I heard from Shouhou that she had some unpleasantness with her family. We should not interfere."
"Hello, Li Huan, does our village also have quotas for Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University?"
"I don't know. We don't have time today. I'll go ask tomorrow. If there's time, I'll let you go."
"I won't go. My baby is going to be born this year, so it's not convenient for me to go."
"Then let Wang Xiangyang go. This guy is smart."
"Then the educated youth camp would have fallen out."
"Who cares? I'm the village chief and I have the final say. Otherwise, let them be the village chief."
Cheng Qiao nodded. Based on her experience in the previous life, the village chief was indeed very powerful and basically had the final say. If you didn't obey, he would have plenty of ways to make you suffer.
"Even if you have this indicator, don't tell us. We will observe secretly and give the indicator to whoever performs best."
"Performance, what performance?"
"Fool, you have set up a literacy class and a security team. I think you must have a third fire to start. When the time comes, you will give the quota to whoever performs the best."
"Yes, my wife is right. Let's do it this way. I will go to the commune tomorrow to ask. Why is such a parameter so mysterious?"
"Don't forget to bring something with you. If you see an aunt, give her an egg; if you see a girl, give her a candy; if you see a man, give him a cigarette."
"Oh, what a coincidence! Fortunately, you reminded me that the person in charge of the commune gave me five yuan for two packs of cigarettes. I had forgotten about it."
"You..."
Cheng Qiao had two packs of Peony cigarettes worth five dollars and eighty cents in his hand. Li Huan quickly reached into his pocket, but he only took out twenty cents. He gave all the money to Cheng Qiao.
"Coincidentally, I'll pay you back when I get my salary."
"You're giving me five dollars and eighty cents after you get paid?"
Li Huan's mind was extremely clear at the moment. He looked at Cheng Qiao and smiled, "How could that be possible? I will give my wife every cent of my salary with receipts. As for my pocket money, I will give her whatever she says."
Cheng Qiao nodded with satisfaction. It is said that men become bad when they have money, and women become rich when they become bad, so she must not let Li Huan have more than ten cents in his pocket.
The next day, Li Huan went there early and finally got inside information that there was a vacancy in their village, but the official notice would not be issued until after May. Li Huan suppressed the news.
Time flies. The security team has been patrolling every day for almost a month. Not to mention human traffickers, there is not even a single person from the neighboring village visiting.
"There are no human traffickers. Those educated youth are always suspicious. Don't trust their words in the future."
"Silly boy, isn't it good to join the security team? You can get work points every day and have biscuits to eat at night."
"Yeah, let's just stay like this, there are no human traffickers anyway."
Uncle Niu was anxious and yelled at the obviously slacking team members. The enemies were cunning and they liked to do bad things when the team members were least prepared, so they had to cheer up.
The security team members who were scolded all accepted it humbly, but as soon as Uncle Niu left, they started to act slyly. One of them wanted to pee, another wanted to drink water, and soon Damao was the only one left guarding the straw hut.
Da Mao looked at these people angrily. He actually wanted to leave, but his father had repeatedly told him that if he dared to cheat, he would not acknowledge him as his son.
At the same time, in the village committee office, Li Huan and Chen Weidang were supervising the exam. The literacy class was coming to an end, and Li Huan was going to fulfill the promise he had made.
Aunt Wang was the first in line. Cuihua pointed at the words written on the blackboard with a wooden stick, and Aunt Wang read them out accurately. She now knew more than two hundred words.
"Auntie Wang, you are great. Please take a pound of flour."
Aunt Wang's face was wrinkled with laughter. Now that she could read, maybe she could get a job that required work points in the future. Not only would that job be easy, but she would also be rewarded with eight work points every day.
On the men's side, Chen Weidang also held a wooden stick and pointed at the words written on the blackboard, but the ones who could recognize the words were all children. Perhaps the children had a strong ability to learn, and even the worst one could get a pound of sorghum flour.
Goudan, who won the first place, is six years old this year. He is the only grandson of Chen Dana in the village. Chen Dana’s son and daughter-in-law were both soldiers and died heroically. Fortunately, they left behind a grandson, which gave Chen Dana the spiritual support to survive.
Grandma Chen is too old to work in the fields, but thanks to the pension from her son and daughter-in-law, she can still support herself and her grandson.
Goudan was very sensible. He knew that if he could recognize 200 words, he would be given a pound of flour, so he studied hard to learn to read. His grandmother was old and had bad teeth, so the flour was for her to eat.
Li Huan took out seven White Rabbit candies from his pocket. This was what Lele promised the children: whoever won first place would get candy. Why seven candies? It is said that seven candies are equivalent to a cup of milk.
Goudan, with candy in his pocket and some white flour in his hand, ran home with the kid next door, Gousheng. But Goudan was too happy today and walked too fast, so the four-year-old Gousheng couldn't keep up with him at all.
"Brother Goudan, wait for me."
Gousheng accidentally fell and the sorghum noodles in his hand dropped to the ground. The little guy cried out of pain. He had worked so hard to recognize twenty-five words to get the sorghum noodles, he couldn't waste it like this.
Goudan looked back at Gousheng and wanted to go over to help, but he thought it would be better to take the things home first to make grandma happy, so he just asked Gousheng to wait there and he would be there soon.
Gousheng nodded and slowly put the sorghum flour on the ground back into the grain bag. However, not long after he had done that, a piece of candy was stuffed into his mouth.
Gousheng was delighted when he knew that Goudan had received seven White Rabbit candies. He immediately said incoherently, “Thank you, Brother Goudan.”
"Little friend, I have a lot of candy here, do you want some?"