Chapter 107 helps Lin family people
More than a month later, two news came on the same day, one good news and one bad news.
The bad news was that Li Ting had been sentenced to eight years. Li Jianguo, the foster father, had been helping Li Tao out by asking for help. Zhu Qiang and Deng Wenfang, the biological parents, had not even shown their faces. They all wanted her to stay in prison for the rest of her life.
In the end, Li Ting met Li Jianguo and Li Tao father and son, not knowing what they said. After coming out of prison, Li Tao let go of his fatigue and gloom and returned to school with a proper attitude and studied hard.
The good news was that Editor zhou from the Oriental weekly sent her a letter informing her that her third fantasy novel had negotiated a contract price with jiayu international, which was 20 % higher than the previous offer. She was invited to take the time to sign the agreement as soon as possible, in case the film and television company quickly prepared for the early filming work. During the second month's holiday, Li Haitang went to Hushi and signed a contract with the representative of jiayu international, completing a major event.
At the end of april, good news came from Ji Dongming that the first production line of the capital Cam beverage company had been established. After some preliminary market research, he decided to use the local resources to produce and package a series of major beverage brands, such as orange juice, violet grape juice, honey grapefruit tea, jasmine sweet tea, wind dew kumquat tea, and shirley lung tea. The three of them supported his decision without any objections and expressed their support to let him go.
After the Cam drinks were confirmed, the school had a nervous monthly exam. Of course, this tension was for others, not Li Haitang.
After the final exam, Li Haitang greeted Lin Peipei and others, hurried back to the dormitory with Xia Lin, packed some clothes, and immediately went to the provincial city to deal with the wholesale market. Fortunately, Xia Lin's family sent a car to pick her up early in the morning, so Li Haitang naturally got lucky.
Xia Lin's luggage wholesale department hired employees to take care of it, and Li Haitang's Sugar wholesale division simply transferred Li Jianguo and Sister liu Uncle liu to the provincial capital, while tan city's stores were transferred to Lin Peipei at a friendly price, and it was Uncle liu himself, not lin peipei's family.
Speaking of which, the matter with lin peipei's family did not end because their family had given up all their property and house. Her grandmother and aunt were making a fuss in the tube-shaped building every day, causing complaints from the neighbors. Later, some of the workers in the factory who couldn't stand the Lin family making money and envious eyes deliberately added fuel to the unrest in the factory caused by the family affairs of the Lin family, causing their parents, who had always been serious about their jobs, to have to leave the state-owned factory which had been working for nearly 20 years under the pressure of the above.
The Lin family couple went to school on the day of the formalities and asked the Lin Peipei siblings to take time off to return home together. At the same time, they also called all their relatives. For the first time, the normally gentle couple denounced the old mother and aunt of the Lin family in public. In front of everyone, the couple gave the money they had been dismissed from the factory to Mrs. Lin without leaving any money.
Lin uncle had already turned from dissatisfaction to hatred towards his mother and sister's actions. He said in public, "In the future, after a hundred years of my mother, the five of us will not go back to our hometown again. This is the end of our relationship with the second sister, and we will never talk to each other again." His words were enough to show that he had endured to the extreme.
None of the relatives from the Lin family expected this to happen. Although they all wanted to get some money shamelessly, they didn't want to get rid of their jobs. Now that the old lady and auntie had lost their jobs, and lin haowen couldn't continue to study at the children's school in the state-owned factory from the beginning of the semester, it was no wonder that the usually kind couple were so angry that they wished they could tear them apart.
After all this, the Lin family couple no longer had any contact with their hometown, and they had no face to persuade them. They stammered and swallowed their words.
Mrs. Lin was not happy at all with the money that her son and daughter-in-law had thrown at her. No matter how stupid she was, she realized that they had gone too far and apologized with a sad face. However, the Lin family ignored them and was scolded by grandpa and grandma Lin Peipei.
Lin Haowen was like her mother, kind and gentle. Thinking that she would never be able to study in school again, the teenager sobbed and cried, which made Lin Peipei and her mother feel sad.
With such a big incident happening at home, the Lin family couple had been hiding the fact that they were studying at the Tam city 1 middle school, worried that it would affect their studies. It was not until today that lin peipei and lin Hao Ran knew about it.
Lin Peipei's personality was very fiery, and she didn't follow her parents. When she saw her little brother crying like this, the anger in her heart ran up one after another. She picked up the broom at home and chased after the most annoying aunt for a while. She screamed and screamed, but no one stopped her.
After the Lin family people were driven away, the parents of the Lin family entrusted someone to sell the house in the tube-shaped building, which was the only property left by the two of them after working for twenty years. Although Lin family's parents were gentle and honest, they were not stupid. Part of the reason why they lost their jobs together was that old lady and aunt of the Lin family had caused them to lose their jobs, and part of the reason was that the tube-shaped building had been moved by the neighbors who had been getting along well with each other for more than ten years. It would only be awkward if they lived here and met each other. They simply sold the house.
No house, no job, no money, Lin family parents temporarily rented a house to live in, but had to find a job again.
Li Haitang, who was informed of the situation, saw Lin Peipei's worried look and naturally proposed to transfer the Sugar wholesale division to her at this time. Lin uncle often took the time to help out in the shops during the winter and summer holidays of the past two years. He knew the process of running and delivering goods, and mother lin was very efficient and sincere. She believed that the shops would not go downhill in their hands.
Lin Peipei didn't have that much money to buy this store, but li haitang said she owed it first and gave her two years to make money to pay the bill. She knew that Li Haitang was helping her in disguise. She was so moved that she almost cried.
The parents of the Lin family and the Lin Haoran brothers were both so moved that their eyes were red. The reason why their family had nothing was that they were related relatives. When they were in the most dire straits and poverty, they were helped by an outsider who had nothing to do with them. Besides saying "Thank you," they really didn't know what to say to express their gratitude.
Uncle liu and Sister liu were surprised that Li Haitang had transferred the shop to Lin Peipei, but they didn't ask much. The two of them were overjoyed to go to work in the new big wholesale department in the provincial capital. Li Haitang gave them a higher salary, and the work in the provincial capital shops was not so hard. They didn't need to ride bicycles to deliver goods every day. They just needed to go back and forth between the shops, warehouses and transportation companies.
When the provincial wholesale department started renovating in mid-april, the shops in tan city were given full authority to the Lin family couple. Li Jianguo took Uncle liu and Sister liu to the provincial capital and began to buy materials in advance according to the drawings provided by Li Haitang for the workers to decorate, so Li Haitang's trip was to check the progress in the past month.
It was an hour's drive to the provincial capital, and Li Haitang arrived at exactly six in the afternoon. The workers in the shop had just finished their work. Li Jianguo and Uncle liu were packing up the various materials that were placed casually.
"Dad, Uncle liu, I'm here." Li Haitang shouted cheerfully as he trotted all the way.
Li Jianguo put down the saw in his hand and wiped the sweat off his face with a handkerchief hanging around his neck. He smiled and said, "Haitang, why did you come here today? I thought you weren't coming until tomorrow morning?"
"My classmate had a lift at home, so I shamelessly came along." Li Haitang smiled and handed them the two bottles of soda that he had just brought along on the way. "Here, have a soda first. Take it easy."
"Ah, okay." Uncle liu wiped his sweat and took the soda from her hand. He smiled and said, "It's only may and the weather is getting hotter. It must be hotter this summer than last year."
"That's right. There isn't much rain this year. It's very dry in my hometown. The rice in the field needs to be often pumped and irrigated. There isn't much water in the river. If it doesn't rain, the rice production will decrease this year." Li Jianguo took half a bottle of soda and sat down beside them with a small stool to chat with them.
"Dad, did you call back and ask?"
Li Jianguo nodded. "Last night, he called Yuanhua. He said on the phone that most of the men in the village went to the cement factory to work, and the fields had to be disturbed by the women at home. You know we have a pumping machine room in our village. Pumping is not a problem. They just need to make time to fix the channel. But now the water level in the river is very low, and the water can't even be pumped up. That's the worry."
There is a river in front of Lee ka tsuen, called jingshui river, which is a tributary of great Xiangjiang. The river is not wide, which is only two or three hundred meters. When the river bed dried up in the summer, the children of Lee ka tsuen often went to the river to swim to sunset village on the opposite bank to play. Li Haitang could not swim, but only watched the boys play in the distance. She remembered one year when she was a child, when the jingshui river had become a small stream, the adults had to carry buckets to the river every day to bring water back to drench the vegetable fields.
She pondered for a moment and made a suggestion, "Dad, why don't Yuanhua Uncle go to town with the captains of the neighboring villages to reflect on this situation and ask the government to raise some money for the villages to build a small dam in the jingshui river? The dam can intercept most of the water flow so that it won't happen again."
Li Jianguo's eyes lit up, then dimmed. "You did have a great idea, but I'm afraid it won't be easy. The families in the nearby villages were not very rich. Once the dam was built, every family would probably pay a lot of money and it would be difficult to raise it together. Ten years ago, when the computer room was built and the channel was repaired, the money was very little, and every family only sent labor. At that time, there was an uproar, and I still remember it vividly."
"It's normal for this to happen. The government and the village captains have to meet to mobilize. The benefits of the computer room and the channel were all in their eyes. The benefits of the dam could be guessed without thinking. They would not be so repulsed anymore. They would be willing to pay even if the flesh hurt. Besides, the policy ten years ago was completely different from the current one. At that time, everyone earned their work points every day, and they really didn't have much money in their hands. Now it's completely different. Every household has some spare money, and they don't care about the twenty or thirty yuan." Li Haitang actually understood what they were doing. It was not easy to earn money in the countryside. It was only a few tens of dollars a month. It was difficult to support the family. Who was willing to spend the spare money that they had saved so hard to repair this kind of public facilities?
"Okay, I'll call Yuanhua later." Although Li Jianguo was working outside now, he had arranged all the family contacts and called every other day to ask about them.
Li Haitang put the soda bottle on the ground and smiled, "Dad, tell Yuanhua Uncle that if they have confirmed this with the government, I'll pay a thousand yuan. At least my account is still in Lee ka tsuen. If you count it as part of Lee ka tsuen, you can do my part."
Li Jianguo said with a bright smile, "Well, with your qualifications of a thousand yuan, he will probably work hard to get this done."
He was telling the truth. Building a small dam should cost around 20,000 yuan. The government funded part of the project and distributed it to three nearby villages, each of which would cost about 45,000 yuan. She paid a thousand for herself, and the average of the hundreds of families in the village was about ten yuan each. Naturally, they would agree.
After resting for a while, Li Jianguo and Uncle liu finished the rest of the work and took Li Haitang to the three-bedroom, two-room house they rented.