When Lin Er came to the family, Tian Jing stopped paying attention. She concentrated on the nursery.
Mother Li concentrated on making soup for her youngest son. No matter how late Li Zhengguo came back, there was always a bowl of hot soup and two women waiting for him.
Li Zhengguo drank soup and asked the two ladies accompanying him: "The job assessment will be held on the weekends of tomorrow and the next two days. Do you want me to pass or fail?"
Mother Li glared at her son: "If you want to lose face, get a zero on the test. If you want to lose face, get a passing grade. If you don't want to lose face, get a score of 80 or above."
Tian Jing glanced at her husband: "You proposed the job assessment, and you failed the exam. What you lose is not your face or ours, but the face of County Magistrate Ji."
"Haha." Li Zhengguo chuckled: "I just told a joke to relax. In fact, I am also nervous. I haven't taken an exam in decades. I suddenly took the exam and got exam syndrome."
"Who is the invigilator?" Tian Jing believes that for the sake of fairness and justice, her husband will definitely not invigilate his own exam.
"Hehe." Li Zhengguo chuckled: "County Magistrate Ji sent everyone from the general education section and the adult education section of the county education bureau to jointly invigilate the exam."
"It is also said that if the work efficiency is improved after the assessment, civil servants in other units will also undergo job assessment every year."
"I was pushed to the forefront by him again."
"That's right!" Tian Jing scolded him: "Are you the one who set off the three fires when a new official takes office?"
Li Zhengguo lowered his head to drink the soup: "I don't want to retire from illness like the previous one."
Tian Jing glanced at the top of her husband's head. With the plant essence she purified, how could he get sick?
There is only irreversible aging of human beings.
The next morning, as soon as Li Zhengguo went out, he was surrounded by a group of tourists.
"Mayor Li, I heard that you are taking the job assessment today. Are you nervous?"
"Yes, Mayor Li, you proposed the job assessment. Do you think you can pass it?"
Li Zhengguo waved his hand: "Your questions are not like tourists but like reporters."
"You are blocking my way. I will be fined zero points for being late. I really want to resign, but I don't want to quit with zero points. Please make way for me."
The tourists were stunned and hurriedly got out of the way. They turned around to look for the person who incited them to surround Mayor Li, but found that they could not find him.
Li Zhengguo waved to the tourists: "Thank you, everyone is here for tourism, so go and have fun seriously."
"Just listen to these gossips for fun. Don't get involved and become someone else's entertainment."
Facing Mayor Li's quick departure, the tourists couldn't help but laugh and cry.
Yes, they should go have fun.
…
In the evening, when Li Zhengguo came back, he said to the two ladies waiting for him: "I didn't embarrass you. I passed with 90 points."
Mother Li opened the lid of a soup bowl on the table: "This is a reward for you."
Li Zhengguo looked at the soup bowl. It was very ordinary crucian carp soup. Is this considered a reward?
He looked at the other soup bowl: "What's in that bowl?"
Mother Li glanced at her son and opened the lid of another soup bowl: "Plain water."
Li Zhengguo "..."
"Hahaha." Tian Jing laughed loudly: "My mother said that if you fail, she will give you boiled water to drink. If you don't drink, she will help you pour toppings to make you sober."
Li Zhengguo "..." Is that bowl of love meant to be thrown at him?
After the job assessment, Li Zhengguo has a more regular schedule. He goes to work on time every day and occasionally gets off work a little later.
I will never go home until eight or nine o'clock like before.
…
Winter has arrived again in the blink of an eye, and the tourist season in Kushanli has ended. The money allocated to each household has dropped by more than 20,000 yuan compared to last year.
The villagers don’t understand. Although business today is better than last year, why are the dividends still less?
The explanation given by the village committee is:
The former village head never distributed taxes equally to each household, saying that villagers had to pay personal income tax and deduct business tax, which was a big loss.
In the past, all business taxes were borne by the village committee.
The current village head believes that business tax is calculated based on the total amount of business income, so each household participating in dividends must bear this part of the tax.
Therefore, this year's dividend is a percentage after deducting business tax.
The dividend received by each household is the amount after deducting 20% of the personal income tax.
Each household is more than 20,000, so 68 households are more than 1 million. Including the taxes for the previous three years, the tax is at least 2 million.
It turns out that they enjoyed benefits that Mayor Li never mentioned.
The more grateful I am to Mayor Li, the more I hate Lin Wan.
When Lin Wan was finally able to go out and walk around, all she received was blank looks, including from her former very close playmates.
What Lin Wan felt was the loneliness of being the only one left in the world.
…
In December, Lin Hua'er gave birth to a baby boy. After Li Min took good care of her during the confinement period, she walked away and went home.
She was exhausted and left her eldest son to do his own work.
It’s already passed the Laba Festival, and she hasn’t prepared any New Year’s goods yet...
During the winter vacation, Li Weili called again and said she couldn't go home and they were going to the company for internship.
Mother Li sighed: "As soon as I let it go, I won't know how to fly home."
She just said that the family was not short of money, but her granddaughter wanted to win the company and was unwilling to let the company be dragged down. She could not dampen her granddaughter's enthusiasm.
She called her three grandchildren, but none of them said they had time to come back for the New Year.
Tian Jing couldn't see her mother-in-law's lonely look, so she called her eldest brother and sister-in-law to celebrate the New Year. Of course, Yuan Man's family was not left behind either.
When Li Min heard this, it just so happened that the various New Year's goods she had just purchased had not been processed yet, so she picked them to be processed in the courtyard.
Mother Li had something to do, was surrounded by her children, and had a great-grandson, so she felt better.
Coaxing the little Chen Jiqing, Ouyang Meihua envied Li Min for becoming a grandmother early. She wanted to hold her grandson, but she didn't know it was the Year of the Monkey or the Horse.
Li Min squinted at her grandson with disgust and said to her sister-in-law:
"You can tell me this again after you have taken care of your daughter-in-law's confinement period. Who doesn't see other people's babies growing up quickly?"
Mother Li threw the green garlic in her hand and said, "Why are you looking at my great-grandson from the corner of your eye?"
Li Min dodged the green garlic seedlings: "Mom, you also said that was your great-grandson. You felt sorry for him, so you beat me?"
Ouyang Meihua pushed Li Min: "What's wrong with you again?"
Li Min peeled the green garlic with dissatisfaction: "Not only does she look like his mother, but she also looks more like Fang Qiuhong than her mother. It makes me annoyed just to look at her."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Ouyang Meihua scolded her: "Whose food you eat looks like someone else's family. It will be different when he grows up. Don't hurt your child's heart by saying this in the future."
Li Min glanced at the little baby under the quilt again: "Can it really become different?"
"At least she won't look exactly like Fang Qiuhong." Ouyang Meihua said, looking down at the sleeping baby in her arms:
"Why can't I see that she looks like Fang Qiuhong? Her eyebrows and chin obviously look like Xiaofu's."
"Let me take another look." Li Min stretched out his head and took a look: "The eyebrows look like little Fuha."
Ouyang Meihua was also convinced: "You've been taking care of me for a month and you haven't noticed it yet?"
Li Min shook his head: "I have taken care of Hua'er this month, and Xiaofu has taken care of his son. I can help scrub him at most."
"Xiaofu always said that Ji Qing looks like a flower, but no matter how I look at it, I feel like Fang Qiuhong. Except when I'm scrubbing, I don't want to take another look at it."