Become a burden in a period novel

Dong Shaofang borrowed the junior high school textbooks. In order to borrow this set of textbooks, she gave a few cents to the girl's mother.

At first when she went to borrow the textbooks, the girl's mother was not very happy, but later when she saw that she had paid the money, she smiled.

Dong Shaofang curled her lips in disdain, looking down on such people. However, she also knew that her situation could not be discovered by others, so she lowered her head and covered the expression on her face.

After she returned to the educated youth camp with the textbooks, several female educated youth who lived with her asked her curiously why she brought back these textbooks.

"I was just a little bored and wanted to find some books to read, but there were no books in the team, so I had to borrow textbooks." Dong Shaofang flipped through the books casually, "They are all Chinese books, with more words, enough for me to read for a while."

When Dong Shaofang was in school, she was good at Chinese but not so good at math. This time when teachers were recruited, she was eyeing the position of Chinese teacher, so she only borrowed Chinese textbooks.

After she explained it this way, the other female educated youth had no doubts. After all, the college entrance examination had been suspended for so many years, and Dong Shaofang was only a high school graduate. What else could she do with the junior high school textbooks other than passing the time?

"Yeah, it's too boring here. Since you've borrowed the book, I'll borrow one from you when I'm bored later." said a female educated youth.

Dong Shaofang was shocked, fearing that this female educated youth had seen through her lie, but she tried hard to cover up her abnormality, "Okay, then just tell me directly and I'll give it to you."

Ever since Xie Chengxuan moved out of the educated youth center, no one there dared to touch other people's things at will, especially the male educated youth.

Originally, they were all carefree and didn't care about these things at all, but because they rummaged through Xie Chengxuan's things, he moved out of the educated youth site directly. Everyone realized that not everyone would accept them touching their things at will.

This is actually a good thing, as it avoids having to reject those who make excessive demands. The female educated youth actually don't want their roommates to touch their things, but they all live in the same room.

They were too embarrassed to say, "Don't touch my things," so all they could do was endure it silently.

Now that Xie Chengxuan had started making a scene, it actually made everyone restrain themselves. At least they would ask before using someone else's things. This was a good thing.

Seeing that no one took the textbook seriously and no one doubted anything, Dong Shaofang breathed a sigh of relief.

Then I started chatting with my roommates about other topics.

After the team leader and Xie Chengxuan came back, he called a meeting with the team secretary, accountant and several team leaders.

After everyone gathered together, they looked at each other and seemed to understand something.

The team leader has been going to the commune recently, and they all know why. Now that they have been gathered together, they should have reached a conclusion.

When everyone arrived, the captain sat down and then asked Xie Chengxuan to come and sit down as well.

Everyone looked at Xie Chengxuan attending a meeting with them, and no one showed any surprise. After all, this was not the first time.

"I have good news to tell you all. The commune has agreed to locate the new primary school in our brigade." There are many people in Qianshan Brigade, and it is far away from the commune. The children have to go to the nearby brigade to go to school.

Because the distance is long, children start school late. Many children only go to primary school, and some do not even finish primary school before returning to work.

Many of the children who were in junior high school were already 17 or 18 years old, so when Qin Wangshu, a 15 or 16-year-old educated youth who had already finished high school, came over, everyone was surprised.

"Finally you agreed! It's not easy, it's not easy! Uncle, you are this!" The team leader of team one gave a thumbs up to the captain.

"It's really not easy, so now we have to discuss how to build the school?" The secretary also smiled, but he also knew the captain's concerns.

"That's right, I called you here to discuss how to build this school and when to start construction!" The captain threw the question to the people in the meeting to see if they could come up with any good ideas.

The brigade accountant began to calculate how much money was left in the account, while several team leaders didn't know what to say.

Building a school is just building it. Now that it has been decided, it must be built as soon as possible so that the children in the team can come back to school as soon as possible.

"Let's talk about the classrooms first. There are five grades in elementary school. I counted the school-age children in the team and found that there are about twenty people in each grade, not counting other children. So I'm afraid we need at least three classrooms for the five grades."

He took over the captain's words. He had done his homework in advance, so he spoke very easily now.

He helped the captain to discuss the matter, but he was not prepared to take all the blame on himself.

“Aren’t three classrooms too few?” a team leader asked. If there were three classrooms, wouldn’t two grades have to attend classes together?

"It's enough. We can build more when there are more children in the future. The team doesn't have that much money, so it's good enough if we can build three." The accountant said hurriedly, fearing that if he delayed any longer, the classrooms would become five.

"There are other things, such as textbooks, desks and chairs, blackboards, and chalk. These are all expenses, so we have to think clearly in advance about how much tuition the school should charge." Xie Chengxuan continued.

He is a bad guy, so he has to say the unpleasant things first.

"Xie Zhiqing, you haven't mentioned the teachers' salaries yet!" the secretary reminded.

"The teachers' salaries are easy to talk about. There are many middle school and high school students in the brigade, and we can use them. We can just find a principal to take charge. As for the salaries, we can just give them work points."

The accountant was relieved to hear that he didn't have to pay the teachers' salaries.

Others began to think about whether they had relatives who could be teachers. Although they would only be paid work points, being a teacher would definitely be much easier than doing farm work.

People are selfish, so they will naturally consider their own families first when it comes to such good things.

"Let's talk about the teachers later. Let's talk about building the school first." The captain interrupted everyone's thoughts and shifted the topic to the beginning.

"The most difficult part of building a school is just the houses. Our team has a lot of young and strong people, and we are united. It's just a few houses, which is not difficult." The team leader of the second team did not think that building a school was a difficult task. It was just a few houses. All they needed to do was find more people to make mud bricks.

"Uncle, you don't want to build a brick house, do you?" Seeing the captain in such a dilemma, he suddenly had an idea.

Building a mud brick house is easy, it only requires some more manpower and time. As for the beams, you can just go to the mountains and cut down a few trees, which doesn’t cost much money.

In this case, the captain could make the decision alone. Now it would definitely not be that simple to gather them together to discuss it.

The second captain's words also stunned the two small captains next to him. Their brains were not as quick as the second captain's, but the second captain had already spoken, and the captain did not refute, so it seemed that his guess was correct.