Jiang Hongli has 30 catties of food every month, her parents and brother and sister-in-law have no jobs, and each of them can receive 21 catties per month according to the regulations of Gupeng City, and the eldest nephew of the 12-year-old can receive 17 catties among the five nephews and nieces, the nine- and eight-year-old nieces each receive 14 catties per month, and the seven-year-old one receives 12 catties, totaling 171 catties.

Every month, the Jiang family would first take the grain stamps issued by the street, bring the grain book and household registration book to buy the grain, and then divide it into 30 or 30 equal portions, and the rations for nine people were less than six catties a day.

Jiang Hongli is the only one in the Jiang family who has a salary to work, which is the salary of a tenth-level waiter, plus various allowances and subsidies for a total of about 30 yuan, and it costs more than 20 yuan to buy grain, briquettes, non-staple food, and daily necessities every month, and the remaining few yuan is not enough to support the family, and she has been living a life of stretched.

Before Sister Wang finished speaking, Ou Mingxiang opened her mouth and questioned: "No! Comrade Jiang was hired with me, and we entered the unit at the same time, and we only worked for a few months.

A trace of panic flashed in Jiang Hongli's eyes.

Qi Shufang noticed it, and immediately became suspicious.

"I used to be able to live, but now I have a salary, but I can't live? Could it be that I deliberately used the sympathy of all of us to get a fundraiser?" He Shengnan's background determined that she thought more comprehensively than others.

Yun Bai was struggling to support the whole family by himself, and today he heard that Jiang Hongli's fate was exactly the same as herself, and she also burdened the livelihood of the whole family, so she immediately felt the same way, and decided to squeeze out two taels of food stamps from between her teeth and donate them to him, but when she heard the words of Ou Mingxiang and He Shengnan, she immediately took back her sympathy.

Jiang Hongli panicked, and hurriedly shook her head and denied: "No, no, I don't have this kind of thought!"

She only saw that a colleague had a life that could not be sustained, and received money and food donated by everyone, and then her life was very nourishing, so she asked the unit for support to reduce her burden.

She noticed that everyone donated a total of more than 100 catties of food stamps and more than 20 yuan.

No wonder everyone in order to enter the unit and factory, almost broke their heads, try their best to go through the back door, who has a formal worker, the brilliance on his face is brighter than the sun, because he encounters difficulties that he can't solve, workers will enthusiastically help, without their own effort, do not have to worry about starving to death because they can't eat one day.

These thoughts must not be spoken, Jiang Hongli was so smart that she avoided doubts, looked at Sister Wang with pleading eyes, asked her for help, and said intermittently: "My family has eight generations of poor peasants, I have not had a good life, I have been bitter since I was a child, I wash clothes, cook and clean every day, I have never eaten a full meal, the first new clothes I wear is a railway uniform, I am reluctant to take it off, I have been wearing my brother's old clothes before, and a piece of clothing has been sewn and mended year after year. I'm now feeding nine people by myself, the elderly and children can't work, I have to spend money everywhere, and the school still owes tuition, I'm so tired, I can't hold on......"

She said a long story, but she still didn't say a word about the specific reason for asking for support, and the words were vague and vague, full of shadows, and she told her hard and hard how hard her life was, how difficult it was.

Xu Hong sniffed and took the lead in taking out two or three food stamps and a few gross stamps from his pocket, "Your family's life is so difficult? How can your parents put all the burden on you? Don't be too little for these two catties of food stamps and one dollar, let's get through the difficulties in front of you first!"

Jiang Hongli took it in her hand with lightning speed, and choked up: "Thank you, thank you." ”

Seeing this, some people followed suit and gave generously.

"Thank you...... Thank you......" Jiang Hongli excitedly put the banknotes and food stamps into her pocket.

"He Shengnan, Qi Shufang, Ou Mingxiang, don't you make some efforts? Your living conditions are much better than theirs. Jin Yufeng and Yunbai's family conditions are poor, Xu Hong directly skipped them, turned her head to stare at He Qiou's three golden flowers, who have always been outstanding among her colleagues, and disagreed with their attitude of staying out of the matter.

Qi Shufang sat cross-legged on the top bunk, He Shengnan was lying on the edge of the bed, Ou Mingxiang was originally sitting on the bottom bunk, but later stood up because of the sudden entry of Sister Wang to show respect. The three of them were three of the seven people in the carriage who lived in particularly good conditions, and their indifference was highlighted by the enthusiastic donations.

Ou Mingxiang is the youngest, only nineteen years old, she knows that she is not deeply involved in the world, and she has always looked forward to Qi Shufang and He Shengnan.

He Shengnan is two years older than her, but he has never experienced this kind of scene, and he is a little at a loss.

"I think it......" Qi Shufang cleared her throat and paused deliberately, "I don't think it's our fault that the living conditions are good, and it's not an excuse to force us to donate." Donating is a personal will, what is compulsion?"

"Even if we want to donate, we donate, if we don't want to donate, we don't donate, what's the matter with forcing us to donate?" He Shengnan said.

"It's not that we don't want to donate, but we feel that we should look into it. Conductor, if more than a dozen or twenty people come to the unit every month to ask for support, whether the colleagues who only have 30 catties of rations every month donate or not? If they don't donate, they will be said to be inhumane. If you donate, donate a little food at a time, what do you eat and drink after a dozen or twenty times? How do colleagues who have family burdens live? Because they have a swollen face and become fat, they are hungry for themselves and their families? In the case of Comrade Jiang, I selected a few colleagues to visit her home, inquired about the neighbors, and then asked the street if there was a shortage of their supply, and if they really couldn't get by, I thought, as colleagues, everyone should help without hesitation! Qi Shufang glared at He Shengnan, and quickly intercepted her topic, as the daughter of the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, she was not afraid of influencing Deputy Secretary He?

"Yes!" replied many colleagues who were reluctant to donate.

There are emotional colleagues, and at the same time, there are also very calm people, who coldly watch the stunned young people pay for food stamps.

Qi Shufang jumped down from the sleeper, ignoring everyone's exclamations about her movements, and pulled Yun Bai to everyone, "Yun Bai's family has one more population than Comrade Jiang's family, and they also rely on Yun Bai to afford to live, I know that many colleagues here know it, but Yun Bai never complained of bitterness or tiredness, just to not cause trouble to everyone." ”

Yun Bai said embarrassedly: "Although I am very tired alone, there is food every month, and the nephews who are going to school are no less than adults." Moreover, my parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, and nephews who are on vacation will go to the nearby factories to find chores for screwing and pasting cartons, and sometimes they will go to the countryside to collect rags, and they can earn a few cents a day. Many of my colleagues don't have a good life, so how can I add a burden to everyone. ”

"This is a good comrade who is strong and brave, this is a good comrade who is considerate of his colleagues!" He Shengnan waved his two hands, his face was flushed, and his eyes flashed with admiration, "Conductor, I think if you want to raise donations, you should first donate to Comrade Yunbai, she is the staff of our train." ”

Jiang Hongli is not.

It is estimated that it was because the above felt that Jiang Hongli's request for support was difficult to solve, so it was handed over to Sister Wang.

Deputy Secretary He had done this kind of thing before, throwing the problem to his subordinates.

Help a person who asks for support, and then come to the second one, if you don't help, you can't do it, if you don't help, you don't care about the life and death of the people, I'm sorry to serve the people. If you are really in trouble, you can help, but you are afraid that you will come to ask for support before you reach that point, and these people simply want to take advantage.

He Shengnan secretly admired Qi Shufang, what she said was what her father said to the people below, "Conductor, I think what Shufang said is very reasonable, let's investigate it first, and then decide whether to donate or not." In this way, everyone helps colleagues in need and does not feel that their kindness has been trampled on. ”

This kind of thing should not be under the responsibility of the train conductor, and the railway bureau has a corresponding department.

Jiang Hongli is not her subordinate, and Sister Wang doesn't want to care, even if it is handed over to her from above, she has to take over, and she scolded the conductor of Jiang Hongli's train hundreds of times.

Now that the problem was solved by Qi Shufang and He Shengnan, Sister Wang breathed a sigh of relief, with a little smile in her eyes.

"If Comrade Jiang's family encounters hardship, Qi Shufang and He Shengnan, will you donate?" Catching a glimpse of the displeasure flashing in Jiang Hongli's eyes, Sister Wang asked.

He Shengnan raised his hand and said, "Donate! I will definitely donate!"

"I donate, I don't give the least. Qi Shufang added, and said in her heart: "I will shoot more than everyone's number, not more than others, and no less than others." If it weren't for the grain distributed by the production team and the grain collected in the mountains, thirty catties of grain a month would not be enough for her to eat alone.

Sister Wang pushed the boat down the river, and handed over the investigation of Jiang Hongli's family situation to Jiang Hongli's train conductor Bai Jingying, on the grounds that the train she was responsible for was about to depart.

The money and food that had been donated, Sister Wang had no way to get it back, because she was taken away by Jiang Hongli.

However, Sister Wang praised the donors, saying that they are anxious for justice and righteousness, and have the spirit of Lei Feng, and the topic changed, "In the future, there will be colleagues who are really in difficulty and need help, I hope you will be as active as today." I'm also at fault, I didn't investigate to organize everyone to donate, next time I won't, the next time I encounter this kind of thing, I must investigate it in advance, and don't let others take advantage of everyone's kindness. ”

She bowed deeply to everyone, had a good attitude of admitting her mistakes, and acted decisively, and the dissatisfaction in the hearts of several donors suddenly disappeared without a trace, and she continued to use the reasons why Jiang Hongli's family was very difficult to convince herself.

There was harmony in the carriage.

After looking at the time, Sister Wang arranged for the flight attendants to prepare to welcome the passengers on the bus, Li Hanwei and Qi Shufang were in charge of restaurant affairs, and took the opportunity to bite Qi Shufang's ears: "I think, they will definitely regret it." ”

"Why do you say that?"

Li Hanwei smiled: "Because they donated, and we didn't." Everyone donates, even if they are deceived, they will feel that everyone has been deceived the same, and they feel comfortable, now we and many colleagues have not donated, if it is found out that Jiang Hongli's family situation is not to the point where they must ask for support, can they not be angry when they are deceived? Who doesn't treat rations as treasures?

"Jiang Hongli's family difficulties should be true, this can't be hidden, but it has not reached the point of extreme difficulty, only she understands it, if we want to know, we have to wait for the results of the investigation. ”

Qi Shufang insisted on finding out the truth and then deciding whether to donate or not, not wanting her kindness to be wasted.

Tailor Zhang borrowed food stamps instead of asking for food stamps, Qi Shufang knew that his family was indeed in difficulty, and was willing to lend a helping hand, like Jiang Hongli, who asked for support when she opened her mouth, she was not sure, so she would not donate.

Her persistence turned out to be very meaningful.

Although Jiang Hongli's behavior does not belong to the fraudulent donation mentioned by later generations, the family conditions are indeed poor as she said, but their family is almost the same as ordinary people's lives, no one is sick, no one is injured, and the monthly supply of food is only enough to tighten their belts to make ends meet, that is to say, the Jiang family has not fallen into a situation of unsustainability.

The people who took the lead in Xu Hong's donation felt that they had been deceived, and they couldn't wait to go to Jiang Hongli to get the money and food they donated back.

In fact, most of the workers' families do not have enough to eat and do not die of hunger, and their wages are indeed enough to spend, but the supply of grain every month is sufficient, and the streets will not issue one or two more food stamps, and every household is calculating to eat, for fear that if they eat one or two more today, they will starve at the end of the month, and they will not invite guests, and they will also not go to other people's homes to be guests.

The Jiang family is poorer than them, but the food supply is the same!

However, the donated money and food were like water spilled, they donated voluntarily and were not forced in any way, Jiang Hongli saw them and thanked them cheekily, but several colleagues who went to ask for money and food were embarrassed to open their mouths.

This kind of thing is unavoidable, fortunately Qi Shufang's proposal is very useful, Sister Wang directly explained to her staff that she will follow this formulation in the future, and must find out the situation of the helper clearly, and then organize everyone to donate, and will also pay attention to some colleagues whose family conditions are extremely difficult, so that they cannot solve family problems affect their work.

Yunbai was the first beneficiary.

One night in early November, the adults in the courtyard of their house were asleep, and the seven or eight-year-old children, who had gotten up as usual, accidentally knocked over the kerosene lamp and fell on the ground in the corner, and the flames flew upward.

The futon was already prone to fire, and the child was half frightened to death, and he was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses and cried to wake up his family, but he had missed the best time to put out the fire. The house is a brick and wood structure, and it is the dry season of late autumn recently, which soon affects the Yun family next door. They were two families living in three west wings, the middle of which was separated by thin wooden planks and divided into two.

Although the old man of the Yun family felt light at night, woke up in time to call his family, and rescued his belongings in time, the grain stored by the wooden plank was still burned a lot, and it was the food that he had just received this month, but fortunately, the clothes, bedding and money were not damaged, and the people were not injured.

Most of the month's rations are missing, how will the next few days be lived? The Yun family wants to cry without tears.

The child's mistake, and the other party's family suffered heavy losses, and there was no way to claim compensation.

Qi Shufang lived not far away, and soon heard about the fire, learned that the Yun family was affected, and went to the door to comfort her on the same day, and then told Sister Sù Wang, after the investigation was clear, it was confirmed that the Yun family would be interrupted this month, and immediately organized colleagues to donate money and food stamps, you one cent, I one cent, you two taels, I two taels, a total of 14 yuan and seven cents and more than 80 catties of food stamps.

Yunbai's popularity on this train is good, and his family has indeed encountered difficulties, not as vague as Jiang Hongli, and all colleagues who are loose in their hands are enthusiastic to donate.

Yun Bai was grateful, only accepted the food stamps, and returned the money, saying that his family still had more than a dozen yuan, enough to buy food.