"Okay, then let's dig 30 meters. I'll ask Third Bro to buy red bricks and cement in the afternoon. You can find someone. If you want to have a hoop, then have a few more. I'll give you a hoop for your yard too."
Thirty meters should be enough for him to reach the deepest part of the water. Only then would the water be clean.
"This courtyard belongs to your third uncle."
"It's okay. Won't Third Uncle still use it in the future?" Li He understood what the old man meant. He didn't want his eldest grandson to suffer. He didn't care about all this. He still wanted to help the village dig another well. On the one hand, he wanted to do a good deed for the villagers. On the other hand, he didn't want to see the situation of people queuing up in front of his house to fetch water. Even the old well had to queue up now. Who wouldn't like clean water? Who wouldn't want it?
He first went to Liu Chuanji's place.
"Pan Guangcai, you motherf * cker," Liu Chuanqi scolded as he chased a big fat pig with a stick.
The lump on the doorstep of Liu Chuanqi's house was so dazzling that it was almost blinding. It was the masterpiece of that big fat pig.
Li He smiled. "His family's pigs aren't the only ones running around the village."
Liu Chuanqi said, "That's right. All they do is raise them, but they don't know how to manage them. If you have time, come to my place. "
Li He didn't follow Liu Chuanqi into the house. The two of them leaned against the wall and each lit a cigarette. "My house is also covered in pig feces and donkey urine. You guys should take care of it."
Liu Chuanqi rolled his eyes. "How? Your mother's livestock are the fiercest. Your front door was also ruined by your mother. Now that everyone was living their own lives, who would care about the brigade leaders? The only thing I can manage is family planning and the withdrawal of money. It's a thankless task that offends people. "
"I'll talk to her about it when I get back," Li He smiled embarrassedly. Wang Yulan's pigs were scattered around his house. This way, the pigsty wouldn't need to be cleaned frequently and the pigs wouldn't get sick as well. However, he didn't listen to Liu Chuanqi's words. It was true that Liu Chuanqi wasn't bad, but he didn't believe that Liu Chuanqi was clean. "Are you going to do something about it?"
Liu Chuanqi retorted, "How should I care? Why don't you teach me? Didn't you send someone to scold me? "
"Well, I'll be going then."
Liu Chuanqi pulled him back. "Speak. You must have something to tell me. Hurry up and finish."
"I'm thinking of digging a well at home, and one for the village as well. Does that count?"
"Really?" Seeing Li He's serious expression, Liu Chuanqi knew that he wasn't joking, so he said, "That's a good thing. You've returned to your hometown in glory, and the villagers will remember you."
"Forget it. Who knows, he might call me an idiot. I have money but no place to give it away. That's why I'll pay for it, but it'll still belong to your brigade in name, so no one can know about it. "
"You little brat." Liu Chuanqi thought about it and realized that it was true. If people knew that he, Li Erhe, had donated money, his family wouldn't have peace in the future. Besides, Wang Yulan was such a stingy old woman. If she found out that her son had donated a well to the village, it would be disastrous. He thought for a moment before continuing, "But Xitong will know. He's an accountant, so he can hide it from anyone but him."
"Alright, just the two of you will know. Our village's school building needs to be renovated. Including the well, I'll give you forty thousand dollars. Is that okay? "
"Forty thousand dollars?" Liu Chuanqi couldn't believe it. This wasn't a matter of digging a well for a few hundred dollars. A few hundred dollars was enough for Erhe's monthly salary in the city, but tens of thousands was a joke. "You can't be kidding me, right?"
Li He unzipped his jacket. "See for yourself. I've brought the money. What kind of joke am I playing with you?"
Liu Chuanqi saw that his pockets were filled with money and was a little shocked. He asked in shock, "You've really struck it rich."
"But I only have one request."
Liu Chuanqi said, "Speak. I knew it wouldn't be so simple."
"Take care of everyone's bamboo horses, cows, and sheep. Don't let them run around."
"That's it?" Liu Chuanqi couldn't believe his ears. He suspected that he had gone deaf.
"That's it."
"Even if you didn't have this request, I already wanted to take care of it."
"Take it." Li He wanted to pass the money to Liu Chuanqi.
"No, no, I'll go and call Xi Tongcai. We can't talk it out."
"Haha." Li He did it on purpose. If Liu Chuanqi really couldn't understand it and accepted it directly, he wouldn't need Liu Chuanqi's help in the future. Now that Liu Chuanqi was shameless, Li He wouldn't need to give him any face in the future.
Liu Chuanqi asked Li He to keep the money. It wouldn't be good if people saw it. He panicked and asked his youngest daughter, Liu Li, to call Xi Tongcai.
Liu Li greeted Li He and ran out to call Xi Tongcai with a smile.
"She's only two years younger than you," Liu Chuanqi said as he looked at his daughter's back.
"Oh, she's married, right?"
Liu Chuanqi said, "She's not studying well. After graduating from high school, she can't even compare to your Li Bing, let alone you. She's always been at home. She went on a few blind dates, but this one didn't go her way. That little one didn't go her way. It's hard. Her mother and I are worried. "
"Oh." Li He didn't dare to continue the conversation. As an unmarried old man, it wasn't appropriate for him to talk about an unmarried girl.
Xi Tongcai came very quickly. The few of them entered Liu Chuanqi's house, turned on the lights, and locked the door.
Li He piled the money on the table. "It should be enough to renovate the school."
"I'm really convinced by you," Xi Tongcai said from the bottom of his heart. How could he not be convinced? There were many people who had forty thousand yuan, but he, Erhe, was the only one who could donate forty thousand yuan!
"Then I'll leave it to you? I don't care, "Li He smiled and asked the two of them.
Liu Chuanqi said, "What's the point of leaving your name after doing a good deed?"
He didn't understand. He didn't know how much money he, Erhe, had made, to donate forty thousand yuan in one go.
"Yeah, who would do that?" Xi Tongcai didn't understand either. Who would be willing to donate their hard-earned money so easily?
"It's for my comfort. I passed by our elementary school yesterday. It's so broken that I can't even look at it. It doesn't block the wind in winter, and it doesn't block the rain in summer. It's a torture for the children to sit in there. Not to mention the distant ones, the windows should be closed, and the roof tiles should be changed. I've taken classes in there myself, so I know what it's like in winter. The wind comes in, the snow comes in, and my feet are numb from the cold. I want to stomp through the soles of my shoes, "Li He gave each of them a cigarette and lit it up. He said seriously," To be honest, I've made some money in the past two years, around fifty to sixty thousand yuan. "
"Didn't you take out more than half of it?" Liu Chuanqi didn't suspect that Li He was lying to him. Sixty thousand yuan was already beyond his imagination. "I don't think the school needs that much for some repairs. Why don't you take some back? It's not easy for you to earn money."
Xi Tongcai also said, "Yeah, we don't need that much."
"I'm still young, and I'll have a lot to earn in the future. Why do I care about what's in front of me? Just listen to my arrangements." Li He didn't ask for the accounts to be open in the future. As long as he did it, he didn't mind who got some benefits. It was too difficult to ask a cat not to eat fish. But then he thought of something, "If there's more money, we can give each of the teachers in the school two hundred yuan."
At this time, most of the teachers in the countryside were substitute teachers. Substitute teachers were those who were approved by the education department, but they didn't eat commodity food.
In fact, substitute teachers were privately-owned teachers. It was just that in 1985, the education department wanted to dismiss privately-owned teachers and forbid them from appearing again. However, the actual situation in the countryside was that there was a shortage of teachers, so these privately-owned teachers had to change their appearance and continue teaching.
Their salaries came from the village, but they often couldn't be paid out. They earned sixteen to seventeen yuan a month. In the countryside, it was more respectable than the average person. In Li He's heart, for teachers, no amount of respectability was too much.
The standards of these teachers varied, but they had made an indelible contribution to popularizing the nine-year education system in the thousands of villages in China.
There were two teachers in the village who were having a hard time. He had thought of giving the teachers in the village some money, but it would be embarrassing to just give them money. It was as if they couldn't eat and needed someone to pity them. Therefore, he still had to get the money from the village.
In the future, when he had money for charity, he would only invest it in education. Only by investing in education would there be a high yield and high return, which was the most significant to society.
"Don't worry, I'll give those teachers money. To be honest, I've also asked the commune for money to repair our school, but they said we don't have the money, "Liu Chuanqi sighed." Don't worry, I promise to spend the money properly. Whoever dares to give a cent is a son of a b * tch, and I'll chop off the fingers of those who play around. "
Xi Tongcai also said, "I'll put it on the tab, just take a look."
"Don't do anything unnecessary, I don't trust you guys. Can I put the money on the table?" Li He didn't care about the two of them leaving him a meal and just went home.
The first thing he did when he got home was to arrange for Lao San to buy red bricks.
Li Long asked, "Buy one at my door too. I'm not home every day, and Meizi will be tired from fetching water."
Li He said, "Then just buy more red bricks. It's not a big deal, why are you asking me for this kind of thing? Hurry up and go."
Li Long then went to call Da Zhuang. The two of them were used to working together. Jiao would never leave Meng, and Meng would never leave Jiao. They felt uneasy when one of them was missing.
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