67: Chapter 66: She is the Most Outstanding Kid 67: Chapter 66: She is the Most Outstanding Kid Wang Shui was startled by her sudden seriousness, and nodded in acknowledgnt: “Yes, such a big deal, I would never catch onto it without you.”
Lin Nianhe looked at her for a while, then silently returned to the inner room and opened the kang cabinet with her back to Wang Shui.
In a little while, she ca out with a handful of change.
“How much should it be?” Lin Nianhe asked.
Wang Shui saw her seriousness and refused: “Nianhe, really, there’s no need, I…”
“Sister Shui, even real brothers settle accounts clearly,” Lin Nianhe said earnestly, “Since it’s a partnership, don’t mix personal feelings into it, I set the price, I won’t lose out, you can’t be like this.”
The straightforwardness of Northeastern people ran deep in Wang Shui’s bones, she felt that she was making so much money because of Lin Nianhe, giving a bit more to round out the amount felt better face-wise, and she wouldn’t feel too guilty in her heart.
In her previous life, Lin Nianhe was not short of money, and had also been involved in such matters.
But the result was, gratitude for a bucket of rice could turn into animosity over a asure of rice, and in the end, it made everyone look bad.
Now, she would never mix money and emotions again.
It was better for everyone.
Wang Shui lowered her eyes to think for a mont, then nodded: “Alright, I’ll listen to you.”
Lin Nianhe gave her the change, and seemingly casually asked: “Is your brother coming again in ten days?”
“No,” Wang Shui shook her head, “This ti was an accident, they didn’t take enough goods last ti, so they made another trip, my brother said he would co once a month from now on.”
“That’s good,” Lin Nianhe nodded, “That’s pretty good.”
One house a month, she couldn’t be unsatisfied without courting disaster from heaven.
On the 43rd day in the countryside, Lin Nianhe achieved financial independence.
She stayed up all night reading two hundred transmigration novels, ensuring she was the most outstanding one.
To celebrate, Comrade Xiao Lin threw a big night feast for two consecutive nights.
Ultimately, because she ate too wildly and carelessly, she ended up with acute gastroenteritis, and lay on the kang for three days.
Perhaps being sick brought back mories of the last fever, after drinking white porridge for three days, Lin Nianhe decided to do sothing significant.
“Going to the town?” Wang Shui, with money in her pocket, was also eager to go, “I’ll go too!”
Lin Nianhe shook her head in refusal: “I have to find soone, it’s urgent.”
“Looking for your brother?”
“No.”
Lin Nianhe mysteriously shook her head, turned, and left, leaving Wang Shui clutching a pocketful of banknotes, feeling as uncomfortable as if a cat were scratching at her heart.
Lin Nianhe was rather lucky that day, she encountered an oxcart on her way.
She gave the old man a few pieces of fruit candy, hitched a ride, and reached the town.
“Girl, when will you be heading back?” the old man asked her cheerfully, “Do you need to wait for you?”
“No thank you, old man, I am going to visit a friend, you go on with your work,” Lin Nianhe smiled and waved her thanks, “Thank you much.”
“Hey, why the courtesy,” the old man laughed, the wrinkles on his face deepening.
Watching Lin Nianhe’s back, the old man couldn’t help but sigh: “If the educated youth in our group were as sensible as her, that would be great; those darn kids know nothing but making trouble…”
Lin Nianhe did not hear the old man’s muttering, her goal clear, she first went to the Cooperative Society and bought two bottles of peach can that cures all diseases, then walked towards the Textile Factory Family Courtyard.
Following the route she rembered, Lin Nianhe found the house of Principal Wu’s older sister, saw that the courtyard door was slightly ajar, and quietly sighed in relief, knocking on the door.
“Cough cough…
Who is it?”
Hearing that familiar cough, Lin Nianhe inwardly sighed.
“Principal Wu, it’s , Lin Nianhe.”
“The door is unlocked, co in…
cough cough cough…”
Principal Wu was probably sicker than before, unable even to get off the bed to open the door.
Lin Nianhe pushed the door open, turned around to close the courtyard gate, and followed the sound into the west room.
Principal Wu was originally lying down, but sat up when she heard the knocking.
“Nianhe, co in, help yourself to so water.”
Principal Wu truly wanted to do more but was physically unable.
She turned around to prop up her pillow and leaned on it.
Lin Nianhe put down the canned peaches, quickly walked over, and helped her.
“Principal Wu, how have you gotten worse again?”
Lin Nianhe frowned slightly as she helped cover her with the quilt.
Principal Wu shook her head, her complexion pale with a hint of green, her voice so weak it was heart-wrenching: “It’s nothing, just caught a bit of a cold recently.”
The weather had been quite nice lately, getting warr by the day.
A cold was unlikely.
It was probably the disillusionnt of her vision, unable to bear the blow, that had caused her to fall ill.
Lin Nianhe looked at her, sighed softly after a mont of silence, and said: “I ca to see you today because I have sothing to discuss.”
“What is it?” Principal Wu asked, looking at her, “Tell , though I might not be able to help.”
Her face bore a faint, self-deprecating smile amidst her frailty.
“Last ti you ntioned wanting to establish a primary school in the Birch Team, I thought about it after I went back, and it’s a very good idea,” Lin Nianhe paused, then added, “I want to donate.”
“Ah?
You want to donate?”
It was as if a shot of adrenaline had been administered, Principal Wu’s eyes suddenly brightened.
“How much…
how much can you donate?”
Lin Nianhe smiled slightly and said: “When I ca down to the countryside, both my father and my brother gave quite a bit of money.
I’ll keep so and donate five hundred.”
Wang Shui had recently been planning on building a house; her child Xiaoxiao was going to high school this year, and in another two years after graduating from high school, she would inevitably need to bring Xiaoxiao over sooner or later.
It might be better to move out early and avoid daily chaos.
So, she subtly inquired from Aunt Li about the cost of building a house — three rooms, around one hundred bucks.
As Lin Nianhe considered, with her donation of five hundred, it would be enough to build a small school in Ten Miles Team.
Upon hearing her words, Principal Wu was so excited that her hands trembled, and she couldn’t stop coughing for a while.
Her suggestion had been noticed by the leaders of the commune but wasn’t realized; she also had to listen to a bunch of poor-mouthing nonsense.
In short—didn’t the Birch Team have a school already?
Building another wouldn’t bring many students, focusing on developnt is still necessary!
Principal Wu fell sick as soon as she got ho.
She had all the passion but couldn’t warm anyone with it.
Lin Nianhe held Principal Wu’s trembling hand and said softly, “You must recover soon, otherwise, I won’t even have anyone to help with the donation.”
“Nianhe, you, you…”
Principal Wu’s lips trembled; she wanted to be a bit selfish and just agree, but after hesitating for a while, still asked: “Do your parents know about this?
It’s not a small amount of money.”
Asking this, Principal Wu felt much relieved.
She’d never done anything against her conscience in her lifeti; if she really accepted Lin Nianhe’s money carelessly, she would spend the rest of her life imrsed in guilt.
Children are important, but this was her affair; she couldn’t, for the sake of a group of kids, harm another child.
“They know.” Lin Nianhe smiled reassuringly, “Don’t worry, they are very supportive and also hope to contribute to the cause of education.”
Lin Nianhe had the capability to give out these five hundred yuan before.
But she didn’t, or rather, using that money felt sowhat unreal.
After all, it was given by Mr.
Lin and Aunt Lin to the real Lin Nianhe.
Now that she had earned her own money, whatever she did was justifiable.
As for her family…
Should she give Comrade Old Lin a call later?
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