Chapter 117 How can a person know how to be grateful and contented
Chapter 117 People, you should know how to be grateful and contented
In the small courtyard under the thick night, there are no lights, only the faint moonlight flows.
The old village chief stood in the middle of the yard and looked around at the villagers.
As I get older, my eyesight is not as good as before, and I can only see blurry images in dim light.
Even so, he can recognize people at a glance.
These are old friends who have been together in Taoxi Village for decades. They are brothers.
"Okay! They are all family members, so I won't say too many polite words! Jianhe, come and help me register, who helped me how much, and write down the amount of money clearly. After memorizing it, give me the list. I will
Pay it back one by one!”
Chen Jianhe nodded in agreement without saying anything.
Soon someone brought pen and paper.
The main room was not spacious enough and there were many people, so Chen Jianhe sat in the courtyard with a flashlight and started to register.
"Li Laogen's family, one thousand yuan." Luo Yuqiong stood aside with her grandson Huazi and spoke first.
Seeing her husband taking matters into her own hands, she expressed her support in this way without saying a word of objection.
After her, the villagers signed up one by one.
A page was quickly written down in the small notebook.
Qiqi was still standing by the door of the main room, her figure was small, her head tilted slightly, half of her face was reflected in the light of the main room, and the baby smiled lightly.
Zhang Xifeng was behind her, her old hands gently stroking the baby's head, with the same smile on her face.
"Mother-in-law, my mother gave me pocket money. I have saved two yuan. Can I give it to my uncle?" She raised her head and asked softly.
Zhang Xifeng smiled and said, "Of course you can. My mother-in-law will give you a lump sum. Let's put together a hundred yuan and go to your second uncle's place to register."
"Okay, mother-in-law, please wait for me, I'll go get the money!" Qiqi's little face broke into a bright smile, and she ran back to her and her mother's room, dug around in her little pillow, and took out a small stack of
Get flat banknotes.
It's all a dime or two.
These are the rewards that her mother usually gives her. She only picks the one with the smallest denomination every time and saves it.
Zhang Xifeng also took out her savings from the room, took Qiqi to the yard, put the money together and handed it to Chen Jianhe, "Qiqi and I will put together a hundred yuan."
Hearing her voice, Chen Jianhe was stunned for a moment, and even the old village chief and others looked over, "Aunt Zhang, your total income this year is only more than two hundred, you -"
Zhang Xifeng is an old woman with no labor force at home, so she earns a living by growing two acres of sweet potatoes every year. Everyone in the village knows this.
This year, almost every household in the village made an income of one or two thousand from selling watermelons and sweet potatoes. Only Zhang Xifeng received more than two hundred.
In addition, she took Qiqi to town to spend the money, so I'm afraid there won't be much left over the two hundred yuan.
Everyone has mixed feelings in their hearts.
Zhang Xifeng smiled and said, "Old village chief, you can't leave me behind in the affairs of the village. Although this money is not much, it is still part of my heart. Besides, I do what I can and I know how much I can give. This hundred yuan
There are still two pieces of pocket money from Qiqi inside."
The originally dull atmosphere was amused by her words, and everyone was happy.
Qiqi was so embarrassed by the laughter that her little head was buried in the old woman's lap like a thorn, and she didn't lift it up for a long time.
"Okay, I'll mark it down! Zhang Xifeng, ninety-eight yuan! Seventy-seven, two yuan!" Chen Jianhe's voice was deep and clear, and every word he spoke was accurate.
Qiqi, "..." This would really make her face stick to her mother-in-law's legs.
So ashamed!
The laughter in the yard became louder and louder.
When it falls on people's ears, they feel warm all over.
Lao Litou, Goudan Nai and Goudan, a family of three, had already walked out and were standing behind the crowd without coming forward.
Amid the sounds of counting and the bursts of laughter, the gloom and helplessness of the elderly and children gradually dissipated.
Tears continued to flow out, and the old couple frequently raised their hands to wipe them away, but smiles overflowed on their faces.
Goudan bit his lip tightly, looking at the familiar faces in the yard, and secretly remembered all their smiles and kindness at the moment.
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More than sixty households in Taoxi Village were finally registered in Chen Jianhe's little book, and no family was left behind.
Chen Jianhe finally tallied up the amount, and found that the money collected by everyone was slightly more than 30,000.
The mountain that almost crushed Goudan's family was moved away by the people of Taoxi Village in more than an hour.
It was getting late, the matter was settled, the villagers dispersed, and they had to go to the credit union in the town to withdraw their money tomorrow morning.
In the end, only the old village chief and Chen Jianhe were left in the yard, still discussing the matter of going to Zhan City.
Qiqi hadn't slept yet, so she and her mother-in-law tidied up the scattered stools in the main room, swept the floor, and then sat under the eaves of the front porch, holding her chin in her hands, listening attentively to what the two adults were talking about.
Little Danman feels a bit complicated about his love for babies.
It folded its arms and floated beside the baby's face, raising its eyebrows slightly, "Baby, do you understand?"
"Of course I understand." Wa'er's eyes were crooked, looking at the old village chief and Chen Jianhe, full of dependence and admiration for their elders.
"I knew that the village chief's grandpa and his second uncle would definitely find a way." These words, the baby sighed excitedly, which happened to fall in the ears of the man on the bamboo chair.
Fu Yanchi hasn't left yet.
He watched the scene that happened in the yard from beginning to end.
Hearing Wa'er's happy exclamation, when he looked at the two people over there who were still discussing the matter carefully, he chuckled silently.
He began to understand why Qiqi wanted to go to the old village chief and Chen Jianhe, because their sense of responsibility and responsibility for Taoxi Village was indeed worthy of Qiqi's reliance.
It seems that he should get to know this remote and poor village again.
"Old village chief, don't the people in your village live well? I just heard that the people in the village earn one or two thousand all year round, all of which are hard-earned money dug out of the fields." Fu Yanchi spoke in a gentle and serious tone.
, it can attract people's attention without making people feel disgusted. "With that money, I'm afraid every household will become more constrained in the following days. In this case, why don't you ask Boss Song Yueliang to borrow money?"
?As far as I know, in the previous urban-rural cooperation support plan of Yang County, Boss Song donated 500,000 yuan in one breath."
A big boss who can give away 500,000 yuan is not a problem at all if he asks her to borrow 30,000 yuan.
In addition, Taoxi Village is kind to Qiqi, so Song Yueliang will not refuse Taoxi Village's request.
Fu Yanchi privately believes that everyone in Taoxi Village understands this truth.
What puzzled him was that none of the villagers in Taoxi Village mentioned Song Yueliang that night.
"Young man, are you a guest of Qiqi's family?" The old village chief smiled and took out the cigarette pole out of habit and put it back again.
He said, "But what you just said doesn't make sense."
"Boss Song is Boss Song. This is a matter for our Taoxi Village, and we should resolve it ourselves."
"We can't just ask Boss Song to borrow money just because she has money."
"She doesn't owe us anything. On the contrary, she has given us a huge favor. If it weren't for Boss Song, we Taoxi Village people would probably not be able to straighten our waists for the rest of our lives, and we wouldn't be able to pay this sum of money today.
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"People, you must know how to be grateful and content."