Chapter 70

Su Xinghui could hear that Xia Zhu's voice was wrong. He turned to Xia Zhu's front, wanting to see her face, but Xia Zhu kept her head down. Under Su Xinghui's repeated requests, she raised her head to let Su Xinghui take a look, and then lowered her head again.

Su Xinghui said, "No, you must have cried. Who is bullying you?"

Xia Zhu was only a 19-year-old girl after all. Under Su Xinghui's questioning, she told the whole story.

Su Xinghui was so angry that he laughed. There really were such shameless people who splashed dirty water on others because they had no ability themselves. However, he had worked in the township for many years and had seen many such things, so he wasn't surprised.

Su Xinghui immediately walked toward the village committee. Xia Zhu called him from behind, but he didn't stop. Instead, he strode to the village committee. Xia Lan was registering some bamboo weaving handed in by the women there, so Su Xinghui told Xia Lan what Xia Zhu had said.

Xia Lan was a sharp-tongued person. How could she bear such a thing? She immediately slapped the table and asked Xia Zhu, who followed Su Xinghui, who was splashing dirty water on her.

Xia Zhu couldn't resist Xia Lan, so she said in a low voice, "It's Sister-in-law Qi."

There was only one woman surnamed Qi in the whole village. She was from Qishuping in this township, named Qi Lianxiang, and married Fang Youqing in this village. She was lazy and stupid, and also a famous gossip in the village.

As soon as Xia Lan heard this, she gritted her teeth and said, "It really is this Qi Lianxiang!"

Xia Lan immediately turned on the broadcast and said loudly on the broadcast, "All workers of the bamboo weaving factory, please come to the village committee immediately. Party Secretary Fang, Director Zhao, and Accountant Gao, please also come to the village committee. There is an urgent matter!"

Xia Lan said it three times in a row before turning off the broadcast. Seeing that the matter was about to become a big deal, Xia Zhu was so anxious that she had no way. She knew that Su Xinghui and Xia Lan were both doing it for her own good, but she really didn't want to make the matter a big deal.

Su Xinghui gently patted Xia Zhu's arm, telling her not to worry.

The workers of the bamboo weaving factory were all women who were weaving bamboo at home now. Hearing the broadcast, they thought the bamboo weaving factory was going to pay money again, so they put down their work one by one and came to the village committee happily, finding a place to sit down.

Soon, they were all there, but Xia Lan still had a straight face. Someone asked, "Sister Xia Lan, what's the matter? Tell us quickly so we can go home and work!"

Xia Lan said with a straight face, "Wait until the Party Secretary, Director, and Accountant all come."

Fang Youcai, Zhao Zhongfu, and Gao Daping soon arrived. Now that there were two enterprises in the village and they had to do the Eucommia protection forest project, their things were getting more and more, and they were all quite busy now.

Fang Youcai smiled and said, "Xia Lan, what's the urgent matter?"

Xia Lan said, "The Party Secretary is here. Good, everyone is here now, so I'll start talking. Accountant Gao, please take out the detailed table of the remuneration that all workers of the bamboo weaving factory should receive this time."

Gao Daping took out the table he calculated in a daze. Xia Lan said, "Accountant Gao, please trouble you to read the payable remuneration and actual remuneration of each person again."

Although Gao Daping didn't know Xia Lan's intention, he still read all the payable remuneration and actual remuneration numbers according to her words.

The payable remuneration and actual remuneration of most people were the same. Only one person was different, and that was, of course, Xia Zhu. Her payable remuneration was 637 yuan, but her actual remuneration was 437 yuan.

Most of the people present didn't know that Xia Zhu received 200 yuan less. After listening, they all looked at Xia Zhu in surprise. Regarding such things, many people didn't understand. Everyone only complained that there was too little money; how could there be anyone who complained that there was too much money?

Xia Zhu had been blushing all the time, as if she had committed some mistake. She was just such a character, and Su Xinghui felt pity for her.

Xia Lan opened her mouth with a straight face: "Everyone heard clearly, right? Xia Zhu received 200 yuan less this time. Why? Because she felt that 600 yuan was too much, she felt uneasy in her heart, and was willing to treat those 200 yuan as the accumulation of the factory. What is the accumulation of the factory? In fact, it is also the accumulation of the village. Every household in the village has shares in the factory, which means Xia Zhu shared her money with everyone."

"Why can Xia Zhu receive more than 600 yuan? This is because she created the most value. The rules and regulations we set at the beginning support distribution according to work, more pay for more work, not 'big pot rice', where doing more or less is the same. Although the bamboo weaving handed in by Xia Zhu this time was not the most, it was the most expensive. That bamboo weaving painting alone was worth 1,000 yuan, so her payable salary of more than 600 yuan is completely reasonable."

Hearing Xia Lan's words, some people's eyes looked at Qi Lianxiang. Qi Lianxiang's face became unnatural, and she shrank back quietly in the crowd.

Xia Lan continued: "The bamboo weaving painting woven by Xia Zhu, no one else in our village can weave it. But she didn't hide her technology and not teach it to everyone. On the contrary, she spent two hours every day teaching everyone to improve their bamboo weaving technology. If she used these two hours to weave bamboo, how much bamboo could she weave? I estimate that her monthly salary would exceed 1,000 yuan."

"Everyone say, should Xia Zhu take more than 400 yuan?"

Most people shouted: "Should!"

There were not many people who didn't know what was good for them. Most of them still remembered Xia Zhu's kindness in their hearts, especially after knowing that she received 200 yuan less, they were all moved in their hearts.

Xia Lan said: "Everyone might not understand why I asked everyone to come to the village committee today. The matter is like this: I heard that someone in the village said bad things about Xia Zhu, and it also involved me, Xia Lan. This person said that Xia Zhu can take more than 400 yuan entirely because she is my sister! So I am here today in front of everyone to see why Xia Zhu can take so much money, and also ask the village leaders to judge!"

Some people's eyes looked at Qi Lianxiang again. Qi Lianxiang's face turned red all of a sudden. She avoided other people's eyes in a panic, wishing she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

As soon as Fang Youcai heard that it was such a thing, he was angry all of a sudden: "Who said this? Stand out for me, see if I don't tear your mouth apart. Isn't it good to do more work and earn money when you have that time? Why gossip behind people's backs?"

Don't look at Fang Youcai always being gentle in front of Su Xinghui, like an honest elder, but he had been the village head and Party Secretary in the village for decades, and his prestige was very high. When he was really angry, it was still very scary.

Zhao Zhongfu also said: "It's not easy for the village to have a way to make money now. Seeing that everyone's life is about to get better, who is so blind to say such words that are not conducive to unity? Stand out for me!"

Gao Daping also shook his head and said: "The person who said such words is really not kind! If Xia Zhu is angered and she doesn't teach you to weave bamboo, see what you do!"

Qi Lianxiang was even more panicked. She shrank back secretly, wanting to hide in the crowd, as if others wouldn't know she said this. But who would have thought that the crowd on both sides of her separated with a 'whoosh', exposing her.

No one was stupid, and everyone wanted to weave more bamboo and earn more money. If Xia Zhu was really offended and she didn't teach everyone to weave bamboo, that would be a huge loss. The new patterns Xia Zhu taught them to weave had much higher prices, not to mention the bamboo weaving painting worth 1,000 yuan, which really made people jealous.

Fang Youcai saw the clue at a glance. He said sternly: "Youqing's wife, is it you who said the gossip?"

Qi Lianxiang's husband, Fang Youqing, was from the Fang family, a big surname in Yezhugou. Although Fang Youcai had already gone out of the five clothes, he still had to call Fang Youcai brother. Whether from public or private, it was very normal for Fang Youcai to teach her a lesson. He originally had a bad impression of this lazy and stupid Qi Lianxiang, and now he was even more furious.

Qi Lianxiang had nowhere to hide. She could only cry and say: "Brother Youcai, I was wrong!"

Fang Youcai said: "Why did you say such gossip? Now Xia Lan and Accountant Gao have already reported Xia Zhu's payable salary and actual salary. What else do you have to say? If you don't believe it, go and calculate it yourself, calculate how much money Xia Zhu should receive?"

Qi Lianxiang said: "I believe, I believe, I was wrong!"

Someone in the crowd shouted: "She not only said bad things about Xia Lan, she also said bad things about Township Director Su."