Chapter 14
"Alas! This is Team Leader Ye. Our village primary school has a brick-and-wood structure. It was built in the 1970s, and it is now nearly 20 years old. The wooden boards have been stepped on by children for many years, and have been eaten away by insects. Now they are basically
It’s almost rotten, and I’m afraid something will happen if I don’t replace it.”
Zhang Jialin looked worried.
"You didn't go to Secretary Li of the village committee, the principal of your school district or the town leaders?" Ye Fan frowned.
"Find it! Principal Wang of the school district gave me a thousand yuan, and the former mayor Wu also gave me a thousand yuan. But it's a drop in the bucket! We have about a thousand students in Tianshui Bazi Primary School, and there are about 20 teaching classes. Basically
We have to change the 10 or so classrooms upstairs. I did some calculations at first, and it was at least tens of thousands."
Zhang Jialin said.
"Didn't the village committee give some?" Ye Fan was a little surprised why Principal Zhang Jialin didn't mention the village committee.
"Village committee...haha..." Zhang Jialin didn't know what to say with a wry smile on his face.
"The village committee has no money, Team Leader Ye, you may not know this when you first come here." At this time, cashier Ye Jinlian walked in and said casually.
"No money! Doesn't a big village with tens of thousands of people have any funds for activities?" Ye Fan asked with some confusion.
"Alas! Although there are tens of thousands of people in our village, we have no other income except two privately run tea factories. We usually rely on reports and go outside to get some here and there, all under the name of the old district.
The village is so big and has a lot of expenses. Just asking for some money is not enough... Alas! Now the village committee still owes me tens of thousands of yuan!"
Ye Jinlian sighed, "Even the pork and vermicelli noodles we had for lunch were all paid for by Bai Tiao first, and Wu Mazi, the butcher of the pigs, was not owed. In the morning, Secretary Li agreed to give us a few kilograms of pork on credit.
It’s hard to live without money! Let’s just say I am the cashier of the village committee! I haven’t seen any money in several years, and all I manage is white paper. There are a lot of people who come to collect debts, from Zhang Mazi’s, to the small shop next door..."
"Didn't you get some money this year?" Ye Fan asked.
"Who's going to do it? Secretary Li is almost 65 and can't even walk without breathing. The village chief has never been elected."
Ye Jinlian said.
"That's right. Let's go to the school first." Ye Fan said.
Tianshui Bazi Village Primary School is built on a small hill not far from the village committee. The air is good and the terrain is open. It is a two-story long building made of blue bricks, nearly 100 meters long.
The outside looks dilapidated. Except for the blue bricks, the windows are full of dark holes. Not to mention the glass that blocks the view, there are even no window frames. Some naughty students regard the windows as dogs.
It was so fun to jump out of the hole.
When I walked on the floor, there was a "click" sound, and the whole building seemed to be shaking. I walked into a classroom and found that the floor was completely deformed, with holes in it and holes in it, and the gap in the middle was so big that half a fist could fit in.
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The teacher upstairs can still see the head of the teacher downstairs through the gap during class. Ye Fan even thought as a joke that if a pair of teachers fell in love, they could use the big gap on the floor to communicate or communicate with each other through a partition.
A kiss on the lips or something like that.
The naughty students upstairs often secretly aim at the teachers downstairs and throw some messy things during class. Sometimes during class, a female teacher will accidentally drop a frog, earthworm or something from the head of her head.
The timid female teacher was so frightened that she burst into tears.
After returning to the village committee, the three-person team met and decided to discuss the situation of the primary school during the evening meeting to see if there is a solution.
Ye Ruomeng also came back during dinner, and Liu Chi just squeezed in next to Ruomeng.
"Teacher Ye, your village is backed by a mountain. I see a lot of trees everywhere. Why don't you mobilize the masses to cut down some trees and saw some boards to create a few classrooms?"
Ye Fan asked.
"Team Leader Ye, although there are many trees in our village, even if they are cut down, they have to be transported to Linquan Town to be sawed. The labor and freight costs thousands of dollars. And then we need to hire carpenters to move them back and replace them. Principal Zhang has calculated
, at least tens of thousands. The most important thing is that people in the village are arguing with each other. In the past, whenever the village director was mentioned, everyone would quarrel endlessly. For example, if the Wu family became the village chief, the Li family and the Ye family would stand up and oppose it.
In the end it all came to nothing.”
Ye Ruomeng is a high school graduate after all, and his analysis is very clear and logical.
"Teacher Ye, I heard that you have been admitted to the Normal College before, why don't you go to study?" Liu Chi asked, licking his face and finding nothing to say.
"Alas! It's me who has burdened the baby, wuwu..." Sitting at the dinner table, Ye Jinlian's body trembled. He suddenly thought of something sad and couldn't help but shed tears.
"Mom! What are you talking about? Is it easy for you to pull me away? I...I don't blame you." Ye Ruomeng hurried over and helped Ye Jinlian while speaking, and she seemed to be choking.
In the end, both mother and daughter were very sad. Li Chunshui glared hard at Liu Chi who had caused the trouble, while Liu Chi also looked embarrassed.
Ye Fan originally wanted to ask if this was someone's secret, but the last meal was very dull. After the meal, the three of them each took out a hundred yuan to pay the food fee for this month. But just now
At first, Ye Jinlian kept pushing her, but finally Ye Fan said that he wanted to stay for a long time.
Thinking about it, Ye Jinlian probably can't afford the subsidy, because she has no source of living, and she only gets 300 yuan a year as a cashier. And Ye Ruomeng, who works as a private teacher in an elementary school, only gets 80 yuan a month. Mother and daughter get only 80 yuan a month.
The total income was only a few hundred yuan. Fortunately, rural people also had fields for farming, otherwise they would have had to drink gruel for every meal. However, in the end, Ye Jinlian only received 60 yuan per person.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, the village committee was very busy.
There were originally two large ping-pong tables in the hall, which were put together to form the office desk of the Tianshui Bazi working group and a conference table. This table was very rough. It was actually just a few wooden boards put together. It was better than Zhang Mazi's.
The stained panels are not much better. It is said that they were originally several door panels pieced together.
Ye Fan is sitting in the middle, with the statue of the God of Wealth leaning against his back. This scene is very strange. Li Chunshui and Liu Chi, who are sitting aside, look at Ye Fan for a while, and then look at the smiling God of Wealth, feeling happy.
I felt very uncomfortable holding back the flowers.
Soon a dozen people arrived, all leaders of each natural village.
Ye Fan asked old secretary Li Jingdong to sit with him, but Secretary Li refused to sit down, and finally squeezed in next to Liu Chi.
Li Chunshui placed the melon seeds, peanuts and other refreshments he bought on the table, making it feel like a tea party.
"Comrades, we welcome the arrival of Team Leader Ye Fan, Cadre Liu Chi, and Cadre Li Chunshui of the Tianshui Bazi Village Working Group with warm applause."
As soon as Li Jingdong finished speaking, more than ten people burst into thunderous applause.
"Team leader Ye, Tianshui Bazi is divided into 10 groups. Let me introduce to you the 10 group leaders. This is Wu Tianling from the first group, Wu Beiquan from the second group... Li Xuanshi, Li Xuanbing... Ye Weiqiang, Ye Dazhu...
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Li Jingdong finished introducing them one by one.
"We are very welcome to take time out to have a meeting in the evening after busy farm work. It shows that everyone cares about our Tianshui Bazi. Tianshui Bazi is an old revolutionary area and has a glorious revolutionary tradition. I think it can make people in this village
It is everyone’s common wish to become rich..."
Ye Fan delivered a passionate speech, "This time the town party committee has assigned a task to our working group, which is to elect a good village chief who can lead everyone to get rich together."
Chapter completed!