Chapter 120: A Gift Before Graduation
Yuan Jiaoting wanted to sell the salvia that Yuan San's grandmother dug up before her death, but was scolded by the third grandfather for being a bloody dog, and the third grandfather carefully dried the salvia dug by his wife, and then hung it high in a sack, Yuan Jiaoting no longer dared to move the idea of selling this ginseng.
After another half a month, Manager Zhao and Zhang Cheng of Anhe Health Products Factory came to Shen Chi's house to collect salvia.
Originally, Shen Chi meant that these salvia would have to be planted for another two months, but Manager Zhao couldn't wait, and the new products they developed urgently needed this batch of salvia, and they almost couldn't take care of the heat.
Shen Chi had to ask his godmother Liu Cuihua to send a few female workers to help pick ginseng.
After nearly three hours of busy work, the weight was more than 1,000 catties less than last year, which was worth 4,000 catties.
After calculating the accounts, Manager Zhao paid off the remaining balance payment, and seeing that Shen Chi had nearly 10,000 yuan in the account, the female workers who helped quipped: "Xiao Chi, your kind of participation is much stronger than the aunts' stepping on the blade." ”
"How can this little money be compared to the aunts." Shen Chi was modest.
Hearing that Manager Zhao was collecting ginseng at Shen Chi's house, Yuan Jiaomin brought several people from Yuanjia Village to greet him warmly, and pulled him and Zhang Cheng to the village committee, saying that they had business to talk to them.
You don't have to guess that you know that it must be for the ginseng grown by the people in the village, and I hope that it can be sold at a good price through Manager Zhao.
In this regard, Shen Chi has nothing to worry about, everyone can make money by selling ginseng, and they will not only focus on their family, which is also a good thing.
However, Shen Aizhi said to Shen Chi with some worry: "They called Manager Zhao to the village committee, they won't give us any eye medicine, right?" ”
Shen Chi was not worried about this at all: "Auntie, don't worry, even if the eye medicine is on the eye, the quality of our ginseng is good, why worry about not being able to sell it?" If he doesn't want us, he will look for Xinyuan, there is always someone who knows the goods. ”
Seeing that Shen Chi was full of confidence, Shen Aizhi didn't say anything more.
The good mood of selling ginseng diluted the sorrow of the past few days a lot, and Shen Chi also walked out of his depressed mood.
Shen Chi, who was busy with the entrance exam, received a letter from the provincial newspaper on this day, his novel won the Mao Dun Literature Award, and sent an invitation letter with the letter, asking him to attend the award ceremony next month.
Shen Chi couldn't help but feel embarrassed when he took the invitation, he was a shell of a nine-year-old child, and the exam was imminent, how could he have time to attend this event?
My father hasn't returned from the training yet, and he can't go, so after thinking about it, Shen Chi brought this invitation to the school, found the principal, and explained the situation to the principal, Principal Song said excitedly: "This is a good thing, your novel has won an award, which is a great honor for our school, you don't have to worry about attending the award ceremony, I will send someone to go for you." ”
Shen Chi thanked the principal, left the invitation and left the office. Principal Song looked at the invitation letter on his desk, and thought for a moment that he asked people to call Teacher Xiang, the physical education teacher, over.
In the following days, in addition to preparing for the exam, Shen Chi picked up a paintbrush and recorded the school's grass and trees with sketches, together with what he drew last year, and soon accumulated a thick stack.
Shen Chi carefully collected and sealed the sketches, which were the only witnesses of his alma mater in the era when there were no smartphones to take pictures at any time.
Mr. Xiang participated in his award ceremony for Shen Chi and brought back a bonus of 50,000 yuan to Shen Chi.
This bonus was higher than the manuscript fee that Shen Chi had received before, Shen Chi thought about it again and again, so he decided to spend 30,000 yuan to build the teacher's dormitory and improve the living conditions of the teachers.
The reason why Shen Chi has this idea is because he originally wrote this novel, that is, he wanted to give his alma mater a glory, a thought, and now although his novel has won the award, but in the final analysis, it is still a personal halo, since there is a manuscript fee, most of this manuscript fee will be used to improve the living environment of the teachers, which makes this award more meaningful.
Principal Song was very happy about Shen Chi's kindness, he had already applied to the city for a grant to build the teacher's dormitory, but the money has not been approved, and now with Shen Chi's donation, the teacher's dormitory can be built.
It's just that 30,000 is not a small amount, especially now when the wages of workers are only more than 100.
So Principal Song asked Shen Chi to go back and call the parents, and this matter must be discussed with the parents.
Shen Chi and Sun Tao told Gui Shuzhen about this when they came home from school in the afternoon.
Although Gui Shuzhen felt sorry for Shen Chi's decision, it was her son's manuscript fee after all, and she still fell 20,000 yuan anyway, so she didn't say anything more.
On the contrary, Hu Shi was very much in favor of Shen Chi's decision and praised Shen Chi well.
Since Shen Changlin hadn't returned yet, this matter was brought forward by Gui Shuzhen.
She agreed to the donation on behalf of Shen Chi, and President Song was extremely happy and repeatedly expressed his gratitude and respect to her.
Gui Shuzhen is just a rural woman, and she was praised by Principal Song so much that she almost donated the 20,000 yuan left by Shen Chi.
In order to express his gratitude to Shen Chi, President Song held a graduation ceremony for the graduating class in advance, and for the first time in history, arranged a place for Shen Chi as a student on the podium.
At the meeting, President Song made a brief summary of Shen Chi's achievements, and praised Shen Chi's good deeds of donating money to build teachers' dormitories, and Shen Chi's good deeds also won thunderous applause from all teachers and students in the school.
The ceremony ended with Shen Chi's final speech, and on the third day of the graduation ceremony, Shen Chi and they finally ushered in the entrance exam.
The exam was held in the town's middle school, because the graduating classes of all the primary schools in the town were concentrated in the town's middle school, so Shen Fang and they also deliberately took a day off.
This level of exam is naturally not a problem for Shen Chi, the only thing he is worried about is Sun Tao, after the exam, he checked the answer with Sun Tao, and found that he did well in the exam, so he temporarily put his mind at ease.
After the exam, it is a holiday, and after a few days to go to the school to get the transcript, Shen Chi is rare to relax, Sun Tao does not have to study anymore, but also let himself go, and he is either playing or watching TV all day long.
Graduating from primary school is an early exam, at this time the school has not officially had a summer vacation, but it is only half a month away from the real holiday, seeing that the time to plant late rice is approaching, Gui Shuzhen can't help but start nagging: "This is about to be planted late rice, why hasn't your father come back." ”
As a result, the next day, Shen Changlin came back, and after not seeing him for more than two months, Shen Changlin was a lot whiter.
"You still know that when I came back, I thought that I would take a driver's license and my family would not care about it." Seeing her husband coming back, Gui Shuzhen complained that she was not good-looking.
"Didn't I come back on leave when I saw that I was going to plant rice? The exam is still half a month away, and I have to hurry back to finish my work at home. Shen Changlin explained with a smile.