si-mexico Chapter 913: Intoxicated
Chapter 913: Intoxicated
"That's impossible!" Wei Gang was unwilling to just follow the words of Village Chief Jia. "I see many people in the neighboring village are tending peanuts in their peanut fields. They are working so hard, how can they not grow peanuts well?"
"In this world, hard work doesn't always lead to rewards," said Village Chief Jia, in a sermon-like tone. "I believe the journalists should know this better than us!"
Song Wen and Wei Gang didn't understand why Village Chief Jia said that, but they didn't show any confusion and just laughed it off with the Village Chief, "You're right! You're right!"
"That's why our village doesn't grow peanuts as aggressively as theirs." The village chief was very proud.
"Then may I ask, is it that no one is buying the peanuts in your village?" Song Wen looked at Village Chief Jia with a puzzled look on his face, "Why are there people buying peanuts in other villages, but no one is buying peanuts in your village? This doesn't make sense!"
"How come no one wants to buy it?" Village Chief Jia was very stubborn. Seeing Song Wen's words revealing that Jiazhuang was not as good as other villages, he immediately interrupted, "We have also signed a purchase contract with someone in our village!"
"Ah? You signed it?" Song Wen pretended to be surprised. "But since we walked all the way from the village entrance, I didn't see how many peanuts you planted. When they come to buy, the quantity you have is too small. Will they refuse to buy it?"
"Don't worry, someone will buy it," said Jia, the village chief. "We are not stupid. Since we have signed the purchase contract, if we only plant this little bit, wouldn't it be obvious that we are fooling people?"
"Village chief, could you please explain it in more detail?" Song Wen asked humbly.
Song Wen's humble attitude pleased Village Chief Jia. "We plant peanuts in every corner of our village, just to harvest more. In addition, the bulk of our peanuts are planted in a field far away from our village."
"That piece of land is large, there are few houses around, and there are no poultry to cause trouble. There will be a lot of peanuts growing there, so it will not affect the purchase."
"Village chief, you are really wise!" Song Wen gave the village chief a thumbs up after hearing this. "Why didn't the neighboring villages think of such an approach as yours?"
After hearing Song Wen's flattery, Village Chief Jia's original judgment that the two of them were estranged was overturned. He picked up the label of "honest and simple" and firmly attached it to them.
"They don't know how to adapt, they just keep doing it, how can that work?" Village Chief Jia shook his head with a look of regret.
"It seems that there is still a big gap between people," Wei Gang nodded in agreement, "Your village is honored to have such a wise village chief like you!"
"Okay, okay. It's all because of the villagers' trust. Otherwise, I would be unable to fight alone!" Village Chief Jia was very humble and praised the villagers.
After hearing what Village Chief Jia said, the villagers behind him expressed their willingness to follow him.
Some even shouted, "The train runs fast because of the locomotive!"
Village Chief Jia was very pleased to hear this. "Hey, don't praise me like that. I'm the village chief and I have to serve the people. This is what I should do."
Upon hearing this, Song Wen complimented the village chief a few words, then he exclaimed and looked embarrassed.
Village Chief Jia was just immersed in the villagers' praise, but then he was distracted by Song Wen's scream, "Reporter, what happened? Why are you so surprised?"
"I just saw some children from your village passing by, and it reminded me of something I heard when I was in the county town," Song Wen pointed at the children not far away, "It said that the children from your village and several neighboring villages were sponsored to go to school. Is that true?"
"It's true!" The village chief's eyes darkened when he heard Song Wen's words. "We are so grateful to the kind people from Beijing! If it weren't for them, how could the children in our village have the blessing to go to school and learn knowledge!"
"From the capital?" Song Wen was very gossipy. "How do you know that the sponsor is from the capital? We have been asking around in the county for a long time, but we can't find out anything!"
"We discovered it by accident." When Village Chief Jia heard Song Wen's words, he immediately felt that he was superior to others.
They can easily find out information that reporters have tried their best to find out but have failed.
What does this mean?
This shows that they are better than reporters!
"Tell me quickly!" Wei Gang urged anxiously.
"The sponsor once said that he was going to Beijing to do something," Village Chief Jia thought about the source of the information. In order to show off, he did not hide it. "I kept it in mind. One time, I saw a train ticket dropped from their information. I picked it up and found that it was indeed to Beijing. So I knew they came from Beijing."
The train ticket that was sandwiched between the documents fell off?!
Song Wen complained in his heart, maybe you took it away when no one was paying attention and wanted to see what was going on!
"Oh, that's really a case of luck coming to you without any effort!" Song Wen was very envious, "If we had this kind of luck, wouldn't we have been able to move up a step earlier?"
"Alas, it's fate, don't blame yourself!" Wei Gang persuaded Song Wen to think more positively, "We are not bad either, we can write some good news later, I believe we can also be promoted."
After saying this, Wei Gang just realized what he had said in front of everyone and quickly lowered his head.
When Village Chief Jia heard this, he became even more convinced that the two people in front of him were fools!
So he gradually lowered his guard, "Luck comes and goes, so don't worry about it. Maybe you will be lucky when you come to us, but it's not certain!"
"Thank you for your good words!" Wei Gang raised his head gratefully and thanked Village Chief Jia.
"By the way, village chief, I wonder how many children in your village have received sponsored services?" Song Wen asked curiously.
"This is a long story." Village Chief Jia clenched his fist and placed it under his lips and coughed.
Seeing this, Song Wen quickly took out a cigarette from his pocket and gave it to him, "Village Chief Jia, have one, and then we'll talk slowly."
When Village Chief Jia saw the cigarette, he immediately smiled with satisfaction, took the cigarette and put it in his lips, pretending to take out a matchbox from his pocket to light it.
Wei Gang was very clever and struck a match directly, "Village Chief, I have a fire!"
Village Chief Jia lit the torch Wei Gang handed over, and then a puff of smoke came out of his nose, looking very intoxicated. "Let me tell you this, in other villages, the number of children who can be sponsored is only about 50% of the children in the village. In our village, except for those who are not old enough to go to school, all other children are sponsored!"