"Ouch!"

Hearing the moaning sound, Zhao Xiaohe hurriedly stopped the electric car to check.

"Village chief, your electric car is too slippery, right?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You didn't knock it, did you?" Zhao Xiaohe apologized while helping him.

"It's good to wear a lot of clothes. Zhao Jianguo pushed him away with a smile.

"What are you doing here this big night?"

"I ......" Zhao Jianguo suddenly stammered, "I want to ......"

"What's wrong, what's going on?" Sensing that something was wrong with him, Zhao Xiaohe hurriedly asked.

Zhao Jianguo glanced at the village committee, paused again, and then pointed to the small fitness square not far away, and whispered: "Village chief, can we go over there and talk?"

"Okay. Zhao Xiaohe didn't ask the reason, moved the electric car to the side, and then followed Zhao Jianguo to the small square.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" he said again.

Although he usually doesn't have much to do with Zhao Jianguo, because of Li Hongying's relationship, the distance between him and Zhao Jianguo has been invisibly shortened.

Zhao Jianguo lowered his head for a while, then slowly took out a stack of money from his pocket and handed it to Zhao Xiaohe, and said hesitantly: "Village chief, I want to donate this money, but can you not register my name?"

"Private money?" Zhao Xiaohe asked with a smile, and then continued, "If you want to donate, Hongying shouldn't say anything, she just told me that she also wants to donate, or you and the two of you donate together, right? ”

"No, no, no!" Zhao Jianguo waved his hand again and again, "We can't donate together! This money, this money can't let her know!"

It's just that he was afraid that Li Hongying would know about his private money, and he would not be able to hide his private money in the future, but Zhao Xiaohe expressed his understanding, and probably looked at the money, and saw that there were four or five hundred yuan, so he questioned again: "Donate so much money, are you sure you don't leave your name?"

Zhao Jianguo nodded, sat down on the stone bench on the side, and sighed deeply before speaking: "Actually, this money is not mine." ”

"Picked up?"

"It's not. The money ...... Xiaohe, can you keep this secret for me?" Zhao Jianguo raised his head, his eyes exposed outside the mask showed a bit of a begging look, and when he saw Zhao Xiaohe nodding seriously, he lowered his eyes, as if he had mustered up the courage to speak, "This money is actually the vegetable money that I deducted from the villagers." ”

"Withhold the villagers' vegetable money?!" Zhao Xiaohe didn't understand the meaning of his words.

"I won't tell you anything, I took the initiative to report to the procurement team for selfishness," Zhao Jianguo looked away, not daring to look at Zhao Xiaohe, "I want to make some small profits from it and save it for private money." It's just that I didn't expect the village to make the price of vegetables so open and transparent, and Longhao is in the bazaar, so I don't know where to start. But then I thought that everyone stays at home every day, and they will definitely want to eat hot pot barbecue and other heavy food in the future, and these condiments in the country stalls generally do not stock up too much, and their selling prices are cheaper than the shopping malls on the side of the bazaar, so I secretly bought the hot pot base, barbecue materials, cumin powder and other condiments on the three stalls in the bazaar, and deposited them at my aunt's house where I live on the edge of the bazaar. Then deliberately found an opportunity to encourage everyone to cook hot pot and barbecue at home.

"Then I sold it to everyone at the same price as the supermarket - the supermarket also increased the price, and I followed suit. In half a month, I also saved more than 400 yuan. Originally, I was quite happy that I had business acumen, but now I see that everyone is really sincere and sincere to contribute to the anti-epidemic work in the village, many villagers are willing to donate their hard-earned radishes, Huazi plans to donate 200 chickens at a loss this year, and those young cubs in the village are doing their best to donate, which makes me feel ashamed. ”

The more Zhao Jianguo said, the lower his head became, "If you let Hongying know that I play such a little trick, you will curse me to death." To be honest, my truck business is quite good, and I can earn more than 200,000 yuan in a year. However, because I bought a house last year, the family's economy became tense all of a sudden, and Hongying managed the money very tightly, so I used these crooked thoughts to make money. On the day of the village closure, I was going to take the risk of crossing the Houtian from Beiqiao to Qinglan to sell turnips, just because everyone offered to give me double the fare, and now that I think about it, I really want money. ”

Zhao Xiaohe held the handful of money in his hand and looked at Zhao Jianguo sullenly. Before, he and Zhao Jiacheng had always suspected that Zhao Jiajie's motives for applying to join the procurement team were not pure, so they kept paying attention to Zhao Jiajie, but they didn't expect that in the end, Zhao Jiajie's side was nothing, but they were more relieved that Zhao Jianguo had a problem.

"Xiaohe, do you look down on me in your heart?"

"Huh? Zhao Xiaohe concealed the fluctuations in his heart and comforted him, "Who doesn't have a miss time?"

"Whether you look up to me or not, if you tell me about it, I feel a lot better. Zhao Jianguo walked away a few steps, took off his mask, took out a cigarette and took two puffs on it, and sighed deeply, "When I joined the procurement team, the old secretary knew that I was going to take everyone to risk passing through Houtian in order to increase the fare, and he specially talked to me and reminded me to broaden my horizons. ”

Hearing him say this, Zhao Xiaohe immediately remembered the last time they went to the wholesale market to sell vegetables and came back, and after the old secretary chatted with him for a while, he came back with a red face.

"The money has been donated, so it's over. Thinking of the situation where he was wandering under the courtyard wall of the village committee, knowing that he must have suffered a lot in his heart in the past few days, Zhao Xiaohe grabbed the money in his hand and sympathized with him.

"Being a man is still bright and comfortable, there are ghosts in my heart, and I can't sleep peacefully. I've learned my lesson, too. Zhao Jianguo threw the cigarette butt into the trash, and then looked at Zhao Xiaohe with a sincere face, "Village chief, my conscience has been condemned, please give me a chance this time, turn the page, and help me donate the money anonymously, as if nothing happened." I promise that in the future, I will do my duty and do my best to serve the parents and villagers of Zhaojiazhou. ”

Zhao Xiaohe nodded in understanding and asked him to go back and rest in peace.

"By the way, I have been putting this money myself for a long time, not recently circulating in the market, there should be no virus, if you are not at ease, go back and disinfect it. Zhao Jianguo said, said "thank you" seriously, then put on a mask and walked to Zhao Wenming's pig farm.

Looking at Zhao Jianguo who disappeared into the night, and then looking at the handful of money in his hand, Zhao Xiaohe felt a lot in his heart.

Considering that there might be donations in the future, Zhao Xiaohe didn't immediately send the money to Li Hongying, but just left her a message on WeChat saying that an unnamed villager had donated a sum of money. After sending the message, he received a call from Zhao Jiacheng, asking him where he was and why he hadn't come over yet, so he hurriedly walked into the village committee.

"Somebody signed up for the commando. As soon as he entered the office, Zhao Jiacheng showed him the list.

It turned out that Zhao Sanfu had already called Zhao Jiacheng to talk about recruiting commandos, and Zhao Jiacheng immediately made an announcement in the group, and Aite immediately signed up.

"Pick a young man who is stronger. ”

"Hmm. When Zhao Jiacheng spoke, someone in WeChat signed up again.

Zhao Xiaohe glanced at the list, pointed to Zhang Yifan's name and asked Zhao Jiacheng who this was.

"The son-in-law of the Huaxiang family. Huaxiang's daughter and son-in-law are very capable, Biru Zhao Lei and they have an official account, and his wife has helped a lot, and they are also very active in the anti-epidemic work in the village. ”

Zhao Xiaohe knew that Huaxiang's family had been released from isolation, and he was not surprised for a while. I also saw the names of Zhao Qinggang, Zhao Qingyong, Zhao Huazi, Zhao Zhenxing, and Zhao Wenfeng on the list of volunteers, and I felt very relieved.

"Eh, Xiaohe, I can't see that your Lanlan still has a little ink, it's very good at writing!"

"Lan Lan?" Zhao Jiacheng's words made Zhao Xiaohe surprised at first, and immediately thought that La Zilan had mentioned this before, and then asked with a smile, "She really submitted it?"

"Why didn't you submit the manuscript? The public account has been published tonight. You can go and see it, I think it's very well written, and it has the style of a great writer. ”

"Really?" Zhao Xiaohe was not interested in words, so he didn't continue the topic, and after finalizing a list of commandos with Zhao Jiacheng, he was going to add some more people later according to the actual situation.

After saying goodbye to Zhao Jiacheng, Zhao Xiaohe rode an electric car around the village again, and met Zhao Lei and Zhao Wenfeng on patrol on the road and chatted a few words, and then went to the Nanqiao card point to see, and then went home when it was almost twelve o'clock, the family went to bed early, he cleaned up, and went back to the firewood room to sleep.

Early in the morning of the third day, Zhao Sanfu received instructions from above, first send 300,000 catties of radishes to Hubei and ask him to prepare. He immediately informed Zhao Xiaohe and Zhao Jiacheng to contact the commandos to arrange work.

In order not to cause the phenomenon of gathering together due to pulling turnips, although there were many villagers who signed up for the commando, in the end, only some people were determined as appropriate. Zhao Xiaohe and Zhao Jiacheng had already arranged it, summoned the assault team, and methodically went to the field to pull radishes, pick leaves, pack bags, and finally transport them to the car. Because the workload of 300,000 radishes is not small, the commandos were busy until the second half of the night.

After sending the last truck away and watching the commandos walk home one by one, Zhao Xiaohe, Zhao Sanfu and others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lagen's family is 180,000 catties, Zhengrong's family is 3,000 catties, Heping's family is 6,000 catties, Huiwen's family is 10,000 catties, Fang Rong's family is 5,000 catties, and the Ping's family is 3,000 catties......" Zhao Jiacheng reported the number to Zhao Wenming and Li Hongying on the side, because they were in charge of money and accounts.

"Strive to send the radish money to the vegetable farmers before noon tomorrow. Zhao Sanfu advised.

"No problem. Zhao Wenming made an OK gesture, and then said with a smile, "I only send 300,000 catties at a time, and I have to send it several times." ”

"At today's rate, we raised enough money to buy these turnips, right?" Zhao Xiaohe asked.

"No problem. Our people in Zhaojiazhou are unity. I heard that other villages have also called on villagers to donate money and materials to the epidemic area, but no village has such an active and hard-working village as ours!" Zhao Wenming gave a smug thumbs up.

"Other villages don't have as many people as our village, and they are not as rich as our village, right?" Zhao Jiacheng asked with a smile.

"Eh!" Zhao Wenming disagreed with him, "It's another thing to have a lot of people who are rich, the key is that people's hearts are not aligned, and people's hearts are not good!

"Don't get scared, it's not early, let's go back and rest. Maybe there's a new mission tomorrow. Zhao Sanfu was obviously in a good mood, and smiled and motioned for everyone to disperse.

When Zhao Xiaohe returned home, the family went to bed early, returned to the firewood room after washing, stretched his waist beautifully on the bed, and fell asleep in the blink of an eye - it was the second half of the night, and he was really sleepy and tired.

He slept very soundly this night, and when he woke up naturally, it was already sunrise outside.

"What's the matter! The alarm clock didn't go off!" he looked at his watch depressedly, got up, and got dressed and walked out of the firewood room.

"Xiaohe, are you up, come on, come quickly, there is great news!" As soon as he got out of the firewood house, Chen Lanlan, who was basking in the sun in the yard, hurriedly beckoned him over.