After five years of teaching, although the salary is very low, Zhenhua cares about this profession very much. Standing on the podium, facing the familiar children in my hometown, watching them grow day by day, I felt a sense of accomplishment and intimacy in my heart.

Now that he was dismissed by a notice, Zhenhua was naturally lost.

What else can he do after being dismissed? This is also where Zhenhua is anxious. Teaching doesn't make money, but it's a profession after all. If you lose this profession, do you want to be like Song Jiacai, doing nothing all day long, wandering around?

Deng Weixuan comforted Zhenhua: "In fact, teaching in the countryside has no future, it is nothing more than mixing food and clothing." You see, I've been teaching for so many years, and I'm still so poor. If you go out to work and do business, you may earn more, and maybe you will become a boss and get rich. Zhenhua, you are cultured and steady, and you will definitely have a future in the future. ”

Zhenhua reacted and smiled reluctantly: "I understand the decision of the Township Education Committee, Teacher Deng, thank you for taking care of me in the past few years." I have been teaching for five years, and I have learned a lot of principles about how to behave in the world, and I am not at a loss. ”

Deng Weixuan smiled and nodded: "By the way, there is a one-time subsidy of two hundred yuan per year for the dismissal of substitute teachers this time." You have been teaching for five years, and the subsidy is 1,000 yuan, and when it is distributed, I will send it to you. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Deng. Zhenhua nodded.

"Alas, there are fewer and fewer students, and I don't know how long I can continue to teach at East Bay Elementary School. I discussed with Principal Tian and felt that our Dongwan Primary School might be revoked in the future and merged into Hedong Township Central Primary School. Deng Weixuan sighed, turned around and left.

Zhenhua is even more melancholy: If the Dongwan Primary School is cancelled, what will happen to the children in the village to go to school? How hard will it be for the students to step on this muddy road to go to school in the town on a rainy day? Especially the children in the lower grades, how can they walk?

When Zhao Chenghai heard that his son had been dismissed, he also sighed, feeling that the disaster was not a one-way street. Because of the guarantee for Qi Lei, the family was burdened with heavy debts, and Zhenhua was dismissed from the school, isn't this even worse?

How to go in the future of this family, and how to choose Zhenhua, this problem suddenly came and was placed in front of us.

Zhao Chenghai talked to his son and daughter-in-law and asked: "Zhenhua is no longer teaching, what are your plans in the future? I see that farming and raising pigs at home is not a long-term thing." Nowadays, young people are all working outside to earn money, Zhenhua is not yet 30 years old, do you want to learn a craft? People don't learn art when they reach 30, and it's still too late to learn a craft, and if they don't learn it, it will be too late in the future. ”

Yilan smiled bitterly: "What kind of craft do you learn? Carpenter bricklayer, is Zhenhua this piece of material?"

Carpenters and bricklayers are all hard laborers, who have been uprooted from their hometowns all the year round, and have certain safety risks, which is really not the life that Zhenhua wants.

Zhenhua's mother said: "He became Uncle Chengquan's black rice seller in Nanjing, and when the business was good, he could earn seventy or eighty a day, and Zhenhua could do it." ”

"Small business?" Zhenhua mused.

Zhao Chenghai also agreed with his wife's suggestion, and said: "I think this path is good, Zhenhua is young, and he is literate and hyphenated, is it better for him to become an uncle? ”

Zhenhua thought for a while and said, "Wait for me to think about it for a few days, even if I go out to make money, I am not in a hurry, I also promised Zhuang Xiaodie to help her sell the house in the city." ”

The whole family nodded together.

Everyone knew that Zhenhua was not happy, and they didn't dare to urge him to go out immediately.

Besides, the year has just begun, and there is time, so there is no hurry.

After the Lantern Festival, Zhenhua and Qi Gui went to the provincial capital with Zhuang Xiaodie's real estate certificate to contact the sale of the house.

is unfamiliar with life, and Zhenhua doesn't know how to sell a house.

The two walked around the street for a long time, found a real estate agent, and got into it.

After chatting with the agent for a long time, Zhenhua roughly figured out the procedure for selling a house.

I took the agent to see the house, and the agent offered: "Thirty-eight thousand!"

Qi Gui's eyes widened: "When this house was bought, it was forty-two thousand, plus six thousand yuan for decoration, and these furniture, how could it be worth only thirty-eight thousand?"

The intermediary spread his hands: "The real estate is sluggish, you look at the real estate in the Hainan Island Special Economic Zone, from 7,500 yuan per square meter, no one wants to fall 300 yuan per square meter, and the real estate developers have jumped off the building." Your house, when you bought it, you lost money, you were cheated, and it is not worth this money at all!"

Zhenhua was silent.

The agent said: "You should have seen the news, since last year, real estate has fallen all over the country, and Hainan Island has fallen the most." ”

Qi Gui muttered: "We are not Hainan Island here......"

TV news, Zhenhua and Qi Lei have seen it, and it is true that Hainan Island real estate collapsed and prices fell sharply. But who would have thought that the houses in the provincial capital of their hometown would also fall!

Zhenhua was steady after all, and smiled at the intermediary: "Okay, I'll go to another house and ask." ”

The intermediary panicked, grabbed Zhenhua, and began to brag again: "Brother, we are the largest intermediary company, if you ask elsewhere, people may give you 30,000!"

"I'm afraid that your store will bully customers, so I'll ask a few more. Zhenhua smiled and shook his hand away.

At the end of the day, Zhenhua took Qi Gui to several intermediaries.

The valuations of the intermediary companies are similar, with the highest estimate being 42,000.

Zhenhua discussed with Qi Gui and entrusted the house to the company with the highest appraisal and asked them to be responsible for contacting the buyer.

After coming back, Qi Gui made a phone call every day to inquire about the progress of the intermediary. Because there is no telephone in Dongwan Village, the agent cannot contact the seller, so the seller can only take the initiative to contact the agent.

Ten days later, the house finally got out of the house and was sold for 40,000 dollars.

Zhenhua meant to wait and see, Zhuang Xiaodie was anxious and said, "It's almost going to be sold, there's no time to waste." ”

After the house money was returned, it was immediately divided among the creditors.

Zhuang Xiaodie herself still has seven or eight thousand private money, which she also took out to pay off the debt.

The creditors got the money from Zhuang Xiaodie's sale of the house, and only then did they believe that Qi Lei was not transferring property, but was truly bankrupt. Everyone was moved by Zhuang Xiaodie's integrity, and they all said that the remaining balance should let Zhuang Xiaodie take her time and pay back a little every year.

Zhuang Xiaodie borrowed another 5,000 yuan from her mother's family, and together with Zhenhua, gave it to Director Shi.

Director Shi had been transferred back to the county seat at this time and served as the director of Chengguan Credit Cooperative.

Seeing Zhuang Xiaodie coming to repay the money, Director Shi's face softened slightly, and said: "The 30,000 yuan, I have already paid in advance, with interest, it is 35,000 yuan, and it will be Qi Lei's private account to me in the future." I'll take the five thousand first, and the thirty thousand. I don't want the interest in the future, but I want to pay the principal. If Qi Lei doesn't come back for the rest of his life, I will ask Zhenhua for money. ”

Zhenhua was grateful, bowed and said, "Director Shi, don't worry, Qi Lei will definitely pay it back." If Qi Lei can't afford it in his lifetime, I'll pay it back. ”

Zhuang Xiaodie also bowed and thanked: "Director Shi, don't worry, my family Qi Lei ran away, I didn't run." If I can't do it, I'll let my son Qi Shuai pay it back later. The father's debt is repaid by the son, as it should be. ”

Director Shi nodded: "I believe in you." ”

Bidding farewell to Director Shi, Zhenhua takes Fluttershy home in the car.

Sitting in the car, Fluttershy said, "My brother, I'm so sorry for you, I can't be friends with Director Shi." ”

Zhenhua comforts Fluttershy, "It's okay, friends are still friends, Director Shi is very generous." ”

Fluttershy sighed and asked, "Brother, now that Qi Lei is in debt and has caused you to run away, do you blame me?"

Zhenhua smiled bitterly: "What do I blame you for?"

Fluttershy bites her lip, "If I had listened to you and hadn't messed with Qi Lei, Qi Lei wouldn't have done this...... Qi Lei is running away now, and I am also at fault. ”

"You just need to understand that. Zhenhua sighed in his heart, and now he is still talking about this, there is a fart!?

In all fairness, Qi Lei is sorry for Zhuang Xiaodie. However, if it weren't for Zhuang Xiaodie's stubbornness and the fact that he didn't allow Qi Lei to enter the door for several years, Qi Lei probably wouldn't have fallen to this point.

It is difficult for Qing officials to decide family affairs, even if the master of Bao Hei Tan Bao in his hometown is reborn, it is estimated that he will not be able to invite Qi Lei and Zhuang Xiaodie to be right or wrong.

Zhuang Xiaodie looked at Zhenhua and said, "Brother me, no matter what happens in the future, I will listen to you." I can't read, in the end, I still have long hair and short knowledge, unlike you who can see clearly. ”

"Okay. Zhenhua nodded, and suddenly asked, "By the way, Fluttershy, if Qi Lei went home now, would you forgive him?"

Fluttershy smiled, "No matter what year he comes back, I'll forgive him if he's willing to remarry me." He doesn't want to remarry, so don't think about entering the door. ”

"Okay, when I contact Qi Lei in the future, I will ask him to remarry you, if he dares to be disobedient, I will definitely not spare him!" Zhenhua said.

The two chatted all the way in the car, as cordial as brother and sister.

When he returned home, Zhenhua found that Ge Shoudao, the current village party secretary, and He Naiping, the village owner, were sitting in front of their house together, chatting with their father.

Looking at Zhenhua, Ge Shoudao and He Naiping stood up together and said with a smile: "Say Cao Cao Cao arrived, Zhenhua, we are waiting for you." ”

Zhenhua nodded in greeting and asked, "The secretary and the village chief are looking for me, is there something wrong?"

Ge Shoudao smiled: "I know that you are not a teacher, the two village committees held a meeting to study it, and decided to hire you as a village cadre and temporarily act as the commander of the militia battalion, but I don't know if you can take a fancy to this sesame official." ”

Before Zhenhua could speak, his father rushed to say: "It's okay, anyway, Zhenhua doesn't teach anymore, and it's okay to be idle at home." ”