Yuan Jiaoting wanted to sell the salvia that Grandma Yuan San had dug during her lifetime, but was scolded by the third grandpa. The third grandpa carefully dried the salvia that his wife had dug, and then packed it in sacks and hung them high. After getting up, Yuan Jiaoting no longer dared to think of selling the ginseng.
More than half a month later, Manager Zhao and Zhang Cheng from Anhe Health Products Factory came to Shen Chi's house to collect salvia.
Originally, according to Shen Chi's intention, these salvias would have to be planted for another two months, but Manager Zhao really couldn't wait any longer. The new product they were developing urgently needed this batch of salvias, and they almost didn't care about the heat.
Shen Chi had no choice but to ask his godmother Liu Cuihua to send several female workers to help pick ginseng.
After nearly three hours of busy work, bagging and weighing, the weight was more than a thousand kilograms less than last year, and it was almost four thousand kilograms.
After settling the account, Manager Zhao paid the remaining balance. Seeing that Shen Chi had added nearly ten thousand yuan to the account, the female workers who helped joked: "Xiao Chi, your kind of ginseng is much better than the sewing machine used by the aunts. "
"How can this small amount of money be compared with the aunts?" Shen Chi said modestly.
Hearing that Manager Zhao was collecting ginseng from Shen Chi's house, Yuan Jiaomin brought several Yuanjia villagers to greet him warmly, and dragged him and Zhang Cheng to the village committee, saying that he had business to discuss with them.
No need to guess, you know it must be for the ginseng grown by the villagers, and I hope you can sell it at a good price through Manager Zhao.
Shen Chi didn't have any grudges about this. It was a good thing that everyone could make money by selling ginseng so they wouldn't just focus on their family.
However, Shen Aizhi said to Shen Chi with some worry: "They called Manager Zhao to the village committee. They won't give us any eye drops, right?"
Shen Chi is not worried about this at all: "Auntie, don't worry, even if we use eye drops, our ginseng is of good quality, so why worry about not being able to sell it? If he wants it, let's go to Xinyuan, there is always someone who knows the goods."
Seeing that Shen Chi was full of confidence, Shen Aizhi stopped talking.
The good mood of selling ginseng diluted the melancholy of the past few days a lot, and Shen Chi also came out of his low mood.
Shen Chi, who was busy with the entrance examination, received another letter from the provincial newspaper today. His novel won the Mao Dun Literature Award. An invitation letter was sent with the letter, asking him to attend the award event next month. .
Shen Chi couldn't help but feel troubled when he took the invitation letter. He was just a shell of a nine-year-old child, and with exams coming soon, how could he have time to attend this event?
His father had not returned from the training and could not go. After thinking about it, Shen Chi brought this invitation letter to the school and found the principal. After explaining the situation to the principal, Principal Song said excitedly: "This is a good thing. You It is a great honor for our school that your novel has won an award. You don’t have to worry about attending the award ceremony, I will send someone to go on your behalf.”
Shen Chi thanked the principal, left the invitation letter and left the office. Principal Song looked at the invitation letter on his desk, thought for a moment and asked someone to call the physical education teacher, Teacher Xiang.
His "Looking Back at Qichuan" won the literary award, which was a confession to his alma mater. In the following days, apart from preparing for exams, Shen Chi picked up a paintbrush and recorded every tree and plant in the school with drawings, together with last year's drawings. , and soon accumulated a thick pile.
Shen Chi carefully collected and sealed the drawings. In an era before smartphones could take photos at any time, these drawings were the only testimony of his alma mater.
Teacher Xiang participated in Shen Chi’s award ceremony and brought back a bonus of 50,000 yuan for Shen Chi.
This bonus was higher than the royalties Shen Chi had previously received. After much thought, Shen Chi decided to use 30,000 yuan to build teachers' dormitories and improve the living conditions of teachers.
The reason why Shen Chi had this idea was because his original intention of writing this novel was to give his alma mater an honor and a memory. Now, although his novel has won awards, in the final analysis, it is still more about his personal aura. Now that he has Most of the royalties are used to improve the living environment of teachers, which makes this award even more meaningful.
Principal Song was very happy for Shen Chi's kindness. He had already applied to the city for funding to build teachers' dormitories, but the funds had not been approved. Now with Shen Chi's donation, the teachers The dormitories can then be built.
But 30,000 is not a small amount of money, especially now when workers' wages are only over 100.
So Principal Song asked Shen Chi to go back and call the parents. This matter must be discussed with the parents.
Shen Chi and Sun Tao told Gui Shuzhen about this when they came home from school in the afternoon.
Regarding Shen Chi's decision, although Gui Shuzhen felt sorry for the 30,000 yuan, it was her son's royalties after all. Anyway, it was still 20,000 yuan, so she didn't say anything more.
On the contrary, Mrs. Hu was very in favor of Shen Chi's decision and praised Shen Chi very well.
Since Shen Changlin hadn't returned yet, Gui Shuzhen took the initiative.
She agreed to the donation on behalf of Shen Chi. Principal Song was extremely happy and expressed his gratitude and respect to her repeatedly.
Gui Shuzhen was just a rural woman, but she was so praised by Principal Song that she almost donated the 20,000 yuan left by Shen Chi.
In order to express his gratitude to Shen Chi, Principal Song held a graduation ceremony for the graduating class in advance and gave Shen Chi, a student, a place on the podium for the first time in history.
At the meeting, Principal Song gave a brief summary of Shen Chi's achievements, and publicly praised Shen Chi's charity for donating money to build teachers' dormitories. Shen Chi's good deeds also won thunderous applause from teachers and students in the school.
The ceremony ended with Shen Chi's final speech. On the third day of the graduation ceremony, Shen Chi and the others finally ushered in the entrance examination.
The exam was held at the middle school in the town, because all graduating classes from primary schools in the town gathered at the middle school to take the exam. For this reason, Shen Fang and the others even had a day off.
An exam of this level was naturally not a problem for Shen Chi. The only thing he was worried about was Sun Tao. After the exam, he checked his answers with Sun Tao and found that he had done well in the exam, so he felt relieved for the time being.
It was a holiday after the exam, and he would go to school to get his transcripts in a few days. Shen Chi rarely relaxed, and Sun Tao no longer had to study, and he let himself go, playing or watching TV all day long.
The primary school graduation exam was taken in advance. At this time, the school had not officially started summer vacation, but the real holiday was only half a month away. Seeing that the time for planting late rice was approaching, Gui Shuzhen couldn't help but start nagging: "It's coming soon." It’s time to plant late rice, why hasn’t your dad come back yet?”
As a result, Shen Changlin came back the next day. After not seeing him for more than two months, Shen Changlin looked much fairer.
"You still know that when you come back, I thought you wouldn't care about the work at home just to get your driver's license." Gui Shuzhen complained unhappily when her husband came back.
"Didn't I just ask for leave when I saw it was time to plant rice? The exam is about to start in half a month, and I have to finish my work at home and rush back." Shen Changlin explained with a smile. This chapter has been completed!