Chapter 214 A Special Gift
Chapter 214 A Special Gift
No one will deny Shen Zhenkun's contribution to Lijiaping Village.
He became a big boss in Qing City, opened a large supermarket, provided jobs for the villagers, and allowed them to settle down in the city and live a city life.
In Lijiaping Village, Shen Zhenkun is considered the most successful local gentry.
But this cannot erase the hurt he caused to Su Jin.
Shen Zhenkun betrayed and plotted against Su Jin. He is an emotional cheater.
Shen He acknowledged Shen Zhenkun's contribution, but she also had to expose his hypocrisy because her grandmother was also a living person, so why should she become a victim of Shen Zhenkun's career?
That doesn't make sense.
After the clarification meeting, the young people of the Shen family came forward one after another, smiling and reminiscing with Shen He.
When facing Song Jingcheng, everyone's faces were full of smiles.
Song Jingcheng is the man standing at the top of the pyramid of Qing City's business community, and the possibility of these young people wanting to meet him is zero.
This time when I returned to the village, I had the honor of meeting the head of the Song Group. It was like winning the lottery. Everyone wanted to come and make themselves known to him.
Shen He knew what these people were thinking. She had no intention of using Song Jingcheng's identity to show off, so she said to Ma Kai, "Uncle Ma, you go back with Jingcheng first."
Song Jingcheng followed Shen He's arrangement and went back with Ma Kai first.
Shen He stayed in the Shen family ancestral hall and continued to deal with the Shen family members.
Shen He looked at Shen Binghan and other old guys, with a fake smile on her face, and said with a smile: "Grandpas are old, and it's hard to travel back and forth. Since you are back to your hometown, why not stay for a few more days before returning to the city."
"Thank you for the trip. We have prepared dinner. Let's sit down and have a meal together later and reminisce about the past."
Hearing this, the group of old guys remained silent.
They had just been scolded by Shen He, and now they were unwilling to accept the dates that Shen He handed over.
Shen He looked at the villagers outside the ancestral hall again. She raised her voice and announced a piece of good news: "Dear fellow villagers, my husband Song Jingcheng and I have decided to build a loving primary school in the village!"
"In our town, all children from low-income families and orphans can study in our Love Primary School for free. If they have excellent grades, they can apply for financial aid from the charity education fund established by my husband and I when they go to junior high school, high school, or college..."
"If there are children who meet the requirements, they only need to prepare application materials and submit them to our village committee for review, and then they can go to school for free! Of course, children from ordinary families can also come to school, but they need to pay basic tuition."
"We also have to thank our village chief Song and the village leaders for their hard work..."
Upon hearing this, there was an uproar among the villagers, while the leaders of the village committee office were overjoyed.
A charitable primary school can help children from so many families to go to school successfully!
Shen He also said just now that children with excellent academic performance can continue to apply for scholarships for their subsequent studies.
This can bring hope to so many poor families!
"Shen Miaomiao!"
An old man raised his hand and asked in a trembling voice, "Can all eligible children in our town go to school for free?"
"My daughter married to Ziguang Village, which is 20 kilometers away and also belongs to our town. My son-in-law died two years ago. Can her children also come to our village to study?"
Nodding heavily, Shen He said loudly: "Of course! As long as the children are from our town and meet the special conditions, they can come to study for free!"
There is one town and more than ten villages, so there are quite a few children who meet the requirements.
Hearing this, some elderly people couldn't help but wipe away their tears.
"Doctor Su's granddaughter is really beautiful and kind."
"Yes, she is really helping us. All the children in our town can go to school, which is a great thing."
Shen He won the admiration of the whole village with his own efforts.
In just two hours, the news that Lijiaping Village was going to build a charity primary school spread to the town.
While people in the Shen Family Ancestral Hall were still having dinner, the town mayor Zhou Anxiong drove to Lijiaping Village in person and found Shen He to ask whether the matter was true or not.
Shen He was well prepared. She handed a complete plan to Mayor Zhou and said, "Mayor Zhou, I grew up in this village. I know the situation in our town."
"We are in a mountainous area in Yucheng, and farming is not well developed. It is difficult for the villagers to support their families by farming alone. I have checked the data and found that among the more than 30,000 households in our town, nearly 80% of the villagers choose to work outside the town."
"Their children either stay at home with their elderly grandparents, or travel around with their parents. They have to change schools several times just to attend primary school."
"In the final analysis, it's because the educational resources in our town can't keep up."
"The primary school in the town is relatively good, but the situation of the children in the village is too bad. After much deliberation, we decided to build a charity school in the village and equip it with three school buses to pick up and drop off the children every day..."
"The detailed plan is written in the document. Please review it, Mayor Zhou."
Mayor Zhou took the document and read it quickly. He was so excited that he was incoherent.
"If there really is such a school, then the children from more than a dozen villages in our town can go home and go to school happily, and their parents can work outside with peace of mind."
"Ms. Shen, on behalf of our town, I would like to thank you and Mr. Song for your charitable act!" Mayor Zhou shook Shen He's hand tightly.
Shen He looked at Mayor Zhou and smiled. She said, "Mayor Zhou's father was also my junior high school teacher."
"When Mayor Zhou returns, remember to praise me in front of Teacher Zhou and let him brag about me as his student."
Mayor Zhou narrowed his eyes and smiled. "Why do you need to praise me? When my father heard that you were admitted to University A, he was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. The students he taught later all knew that he had a proud student who was admitted to University A."
Shen He also laughed when he heard this.
After seeing off Mayor Zhou and the villagers, Shen He took Su Jin's hand and walked along the cement road back to their home.
Su Jin held Shen He's hand and said, "You didn't tell me about building a Love Primary School."
Su Jin was also surprised when Shen He announced the good news earlier.
Shen He said: "Actually, this matter was proposed by Song Jingcheng. The plan I gave to Mayor Zhou was also written by Song Jingcheng."
Su Jin was surprised after hearing this, "He brought this up?"
"Yeah." Shen He was also a little surprised when Song Jingcheng handed the document to him this morning.
She told Su Jin: "Grandma, you don't know that he has built more than ten special charity schools in the northwest region to teach those special children. His favorite cartoon cup was a gift given to him by the children in the special schools."
Su Jin couldn't stop smiling when he heard this, "I said this guy is reliable."
Shen He smiled teasingly, "That's not what you said at the beginning. When you first met him, you were guarding against him like a thief."
Su Jin blushed and said with a straight face, "You can't judge a person by his appearance. With Mu Tingyun's example, how can I be so confident?"
Besides, Song Jingcheng is Mu Tingyun’s uncle.
Birds of a feather flock together. Su Jin was afraid that Song Jingcheng had other intentions, so he was wary and tested him in various ways.
Su Jin was filled with emotion, and said earnestly: "When I was young, I believed the matchmaker's words, thinking that Shen Zhenkun must be a capable young man because he was admitted to university despite his poor family background. I didn't know that he was capable and talented, but his ambition was also higher than the sky."
"Grandma didn't know how to judge people, and she suffered a great crime. You were tricked by Mu Tingyun again. This shows that both of us, the grandfather and grandson, have a bad eye for men. How can we not be more cautious?"
Once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. It is no wonder that Su Jin does not trust Song Jingcheng.
If it were Shen He, he would not dare to believe Song Jingcheng easily.
"By the way, Song Jingcheng also said that this school was his wedding gift to me. I don't know who told him that I had poor study conditions when I was young, and he said that he wanted to make up for my regrets when I was a child."
Shen He's words sounded like complaints, but his face was filled with a happy smile.
Su Jin looked at her with a smile and sighed, "Jingcheng is indeed a good kid. To be honest, I feel at ease knowing that you are with him."
"I feel relieved." Shen He said, "What I am most worried about now is his Gu."
Su Jin's expression became serious. She said, "The person who cast the curse could only be someone he knew and had a good relationship with."
"For a Gu to be successful, it also requires physical or food contact."
"I think so too." Shen He even doubted Chu Zhi. After all, the old lady was a pervert with a strong desire for control.
She could not escape suspicion.
When the grandparents returned home, they found that Song Jingcheng and his friends had just returned from fishing in the mountains.
The mountain stream here is flowing with spring water, and there lives a kind of small fish the length of a palm in the stream. They caught two kilograms of fish in total and plan to make fish soup tonight.
Su Jin looked at the fish in the basin and said, "This kind of fish is best fried. One bite at a time, crispy and sweet. It tastes much better than making soup."
Su Jin rolled up her sleeves and said, "I'll be in charge of the kitchen, Xiao Ma, you take care of the fish and shrimp."
"Okay."
Su Jin used a large porcelain bowl, coated the fish and shrimp with starch, sprinkled them with her special seasoning powder, and threw them into a pan of vegetable oil to fry.
Even from a distance, Song Jingcheng could smell the tempting aroma of fish.
After a while, Shen He brought a plate of fried fish and sat on a bench in the yard with Song Jingcheng, eating while enjoying the night view.
There is little light pollution and exhaust gas pollution in the mountains. The visibility is particularly high at night and you can see the stars in the sky just by looking up.
You can even see the torn galaxy of the universe.
Song Jingcheng couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder grandma always misses her rural life. Living in her hometown is indeed comfortable. The environment here is even better than that in Dongye Wetland Park."
Dongye Wetland Park is an artificial wetland reserve and is indeed a livable place in Qingshi.
But how can that be compared with natural mountain areas?
Song Jingcheng liked this place more and more. He said, "Why don't we renovate the third floor and build two offices. Then we can come back and live here permanently."
Shen He nodded, "As you wish."
After eating the fish, Song Jingcheng took the plate to the kitchen.
He didn't bring his nanny Aunt Qin with him this time, so he had to wash the dishes himself.
Noticing that Shen He had been leaning against the dining table, staring at him with a smile, Song Jingcheng always felt that her smile had some ill intentions.
Song Jingcheng raised his eyebrows, "What are you laughing at?"
Shen He said: "It's almost ten o'clock, do you still want to see me in school uniform?"
Song Jingcheng quickened his movements and said, "Wait, I'll come up after I finish wiping the dishes."
The two of them sneaked back to the room, and Shen He locked the door behind them for fear that someone would suddenly knock on the door.
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