Reborn in 95, I unearthed a gold mine after the family split up.

Li Qingshan's eyes and brows were full of smiles: "Brother Zhang Dong, on behalf of all the villagers of Black Tiger Village, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you. You only need to provide the money and materials, while we in Black Tiger Village provide the manpower and everything else. We would be too ashamed to ask you to provide everything."

Zhang Dong's original plan was to recruit a construction team from a nearby village, but Li Qingshan stopped him, saying that he needed to figure out how to provide the labor and manpower...

At the village meeting.

When village chief Li Qingshan conveyed Zhang Dong's decision to the villagers, the villagers of Black Tiger Village were initially stunned. After recovering from their shock, they couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions.

"Wow, that's a really big investment. How much money would that take to invest in a school?"

"Wow, I never expected that Zhang Dong, the mine owner, would be such a conscientious boss."

"This was not within the scope of their promise at all, but seeing the difficulties the children in the village faced in going to school, they resolutely decided to take out money to build a school for the village. It's truly admirable."

Among the crowd, Zhang Laizi and his wife were also filled with emotion.

This reminded them of their previous attempt to extort money from Zhang Dong.

Comparing their previous actions with Zhang Dong's, Zhang Laizi and his wife were not only convinced of their superiority but also filled with shame.

Li Guirong sighed and said, "Look at Zhang Dong, and then look back at what we did before. We were worse than pigs and dogs."

Zhang Laizi's face turned red and his neck thickened: "Cough cough, who can disagree? After Zhang Dong came to our village, he not only developed the mines, but also built a large-scale breeding farm, which provided jobs for us old, weak, sick and disabled people, and gave us people with income. Now he is even spending his own money to build a school for the village."

"At the time, all I wanted to do was kick them out and extort money from them. How could I have been such a beast..."

Their conversation had already attracted the attention of the people around them.

A middle-aged man laughed loudly and said, "Haha, Zhang Laizi, you still remember how you were a beast before? In fact, you are an especially beastly one."

Zhang Laizi's face became even more embarrassed: "Damn it, shut up, kid. I only admire Zhang Dong, not you. What right do you have to call me an animal?"

"If you keep saying that, believe me, I'll try to blackmail you..."

As he said this, Zhang Laizi himself laughed.

"Hey, hey, please don't—"

The middle-aged man pretended to be frightened, but couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Zhang Laizi seems to have become a completely different person ever since he met Zhang Dong.

After that, he never extorted any more villagers, which is why the middle-aged man dared to play such a joke on him...

"All of this is because of Zhang Dong. Now, he is going to fund the construction of a school for the village."

The middle-aged man's eyes were filled with admiration...

But then someone said in a sarcastic tone, "We're being made to do all this work to build the village school, shouldn't we at least get paid?"

Hearing that someone was asking for wages, Li Qingshan, who was standing nearby, was also taken aback.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the person who uttered these words was Li Daming from the village.

Upon seeing it was him, Li Qingshan snorted coldly: "Damn it, Li Daming, you're really something. No one else is asking for wages, but your two grandsons are already of school age. Once the school in our village is built, they can attend school nearby. And yet you still want wages?"

Li Daming is usually not very talkative; he's the kind of person who's all bark and no bite.

Li Qingshan never expected that it was this Li Daming who wanted to ask for wages.

But even after Li Qingshan said that, Li Daming still insisted.

“No matter what, we did the work and put in the effort. It’s not fair not to pay us. Zhang Dong should be the one to collect the money.”

Upon hearing that Li Daming still wanted Zhang Dong to take his wages, Li Qingshan's face darkened.

"Li Daming, shut up! Zhang Dong has already spent so much money on building materials and timber. Does he owe you anything or not?"

"To put it bluntly, they did all this for the sake of our villagers and for the children in our village to go to school."

"I didn't expect that you would still want wages when you have two children about to start school."

"If you want your wages, you can have them, but I won't let Zhang Dong take them; I'll pay you myself."

"How about it if your children, especially your two grandsons, don't go to school in the village?"

"I, I..." Li Daming stammered, unable to utter a word.

Zhang Dong frowned upon seeing this scene.

He had initially planned to hire a construction team from a nearby village, but the village chief blocked him from doing so.

Li Qingshan's reason at the time was that he had already done enough, and if he were to pay wages again, he, as the village chief, would feel ashamed.

But now Zhang Dong also realized that if the villagers were to contribute their labor to build the school, some would definitely contribute more and some less.

Moreover, under such circumstances, some people might try to shirk their responsibilities and avoid putting in the work.

If this problem is not resolved properly, more trouble will arise later.

Zhang Dong told the old village chief about his idea, and Li Qingshan agreed.

But even at this moment, he still holds onto this principle.

“No matter what, Zhang Dong, I will not let you pay this wage. If that happens, I will feel too ashamed. As the village chief, I haven’t done anything for the village school.”

"But what you just said does make some sense. However, I've already come up with a solution."

"What? You already have a solution?" Zhang Dong asked the old village chief.

Li Qingshan nodded: "That's right. You give our village 1 million yuan every year, right? I want to take out 100,000 or 200,000 yuan from that as wages, so that there won't be situations where some villagers don't put in the work or don't work at all."

Seeing that the old village chief had come up with this idea, Zhang Dong nodded.

"That's good too. Anyway, we absolutely cannot let anyone who puts in the effort be treated unfairly."

What Li Daming said earlier wasn't wrong. Nobody wants to put in effort for nothing. Even when doing good deeds for the village, there will inevitably be situations where some people put in more effort than others...

The old village chief's idea is quite good, and Zhang Dong also agrees with it.

The old village chief was also very happy after the problem was solved.

“Oh Zhang Dong, when I first saw Li Daming stand up, I even tried to blackmail him into not letting his grandson go to school in the village.”

"But your reminder made me realize that what I was doing was indeed wrong."

“Since it’s a matter of public interest, let’s just do it with our own good intentions. It’s normal for the villagers to have such thoughts. Anyway, we can’t let you take this payment.”