Chapter 283 It's Not Easy To Do Good (Subscribe)
Coming out of the compound of the County Education Commission, Lu Zhenlin carried his bag into the van and said to Hong Xing who was driving, "Go to the compound of the dormitory in Chengguan Village."
Red Star started the car, and the car drove north, turned into the road between the building materials market and the farmer's market, and passed by the shop with Lu's Malatang hot pot with white letters on a red background.
Lu Zhenlin turned his head and took a look. There was a parking area in front of the door, where four or five cars and more than ten motorcycles were parked.
"Stop." Lu Zhenlin called to stop Hongxing: "Go to Dongzi's store."
Red Star turned around and stopped in front of the hot pot restaurant.
Lu Zhenlin took out his mobile phone, called Lao Liang, the one-yuan consultant of the food company, and asked Lao Liang to come out and eat hot pot together.
This place is on the edge of Chengguan Village, and Lao Liang can walk here in five or six minutes.
Dude, Lv Zhenlin went into the store to ask for a seat, and Li Fang, who was in charge of the store, greeted him immediately.
Li Fang is from Lujia Village. She used to work in the county guest house for two years. Due to the fact that the establishment has not been solved and the temporary workers earn too little money, she resigned this year and came to Lu Dong's side.
With relevant experience and certain ability, I officially became the manager of this store last month.
"Third Grandfather." Li Fang naturally knew Lu Zhenlin.
"Xiaofang." Lu Zhenlin said with a smile, "Find me a quiet table, and you are busy with your work."
Li Fang took him to a partition and asked him a few questions. Seeing that Lu Zhenlin had nothing else to do, he was busy with his own work.
Lu Zhenlin looked around, there were quite a few customers in the hot pot restaurant, and before half past eleven, one-third of the tables in the hall were occupied.
Dongzi's business is doing well, and I heard that the hot pot restaurant in the university town is also open for business.
Lu Zhenlin's thoughts quickly returned to the things he was going to do today, and his thick sword eyebrows came together slightly.
The town education committee I went to yesterday, and the county education committee I went to today, are generally so-so.
The town does not have the power to demolish and rebuild, and requires the approval of the county education committee.
Today at the county education committee, Lu Zhenlin met with the two leaders in succession. The response was flat, and the explanations they gave were very consistent. Let's discuss it after a meeting.
This is a village cadre, how can you not hear the meaning of this kind of words?
It's not that I object, but it's really hard to say how long the discussion will take.
In the past, Lujia Village applied for appropriation from the higher authorities to rebuild the primary school every year, and the upper management also held a meeting to discuss and make a decision.
This discussion took too long. Lu Zhenlin remembered that when Lu Dong was in elementary school, Lujia Village Elementary School was included in the scope of dilapidated houses, and it turned out that this was still a dilapidated house.
The only change is that the grass roofs of the classrooms were replaced with red tiles, which were repaired with funds raised by the village.
There are difficulties up and down these years. Lu Zhenlin both understands and understands that the rural areas are difficult, and there are many laid-off jobs in the cities and towns.
Therefore, this time, there is no plan to ask the superiors to allocate funds, and Lujia Village will bear it all.
Fortunately, difficulties were anticipated, and the application was filed in advance, and it was only before the start of construction next year that it was troublesome.
Lujia Village Primary School occupies the collective land of the village, but the village can make repairs, and cannot push it to rebuild without authorization.
The Board of Education must pass this hurdle.
After waiting for a while, Hong Xing led Lao Liang over. The two had been buddies for many years, and they didn't have so much politeness. They chatted while eating hot pot after ordering a meal.
Lao Liang drank a glass of wine with Lu Zhenlin and said, "I don't know what the regulations are in other places, but as far as our Qingzhao is concerned, if you rebuild the school, you can't get around the hurdle of the Education Committee." The village acted arbitrarily and specifically reminded: "Old Lu, don't make decisions on your own."
Lu Zhenlin smiled: "I'm not old enough yet."
Lao Liang said again: "No matter what you do, you must always do it within the rules."
He took a piece of meat with chopsticks, dipped it in the sauce and ate it, and praised: "Lv Dong's hot pot tastes much better than the old fat sheep hot pot."
Lu Zhenlin clinked glasses with him: "Old Liang, I'm not as good as you when it comes to public affairs, but you can give me an idea."
Old Liang Zila took a sip of wine: "Didn't you talk about a meeting to discuss? Let me put it this way, it will pass sooner or later, just wait."
"I know I will pass sooner or later." Lu Zhenlin twitched his bushy eyebrows slightly, and his mood was not as calm as the surface: "I can wait, but the more than 100 children in the village can't wait! Rain leaks in summer, and wind blows in winter. Some classroom walls , are reinforced with iron wire..."
Lao Liang shook his head: "I retired from Ningxiu Town. How can I know the situation of the rural primary school in the town? Lujia Village Primary School is not good, but it's not the worst either. Old Lu, give me a year Why did you fail to pass the report twice, for many years in a row?"
Lu Zhenlin said, "No money."
"Yes, no money." Old Liang said slowly, "Let's not talk about building a new school. How many teachers can get full salary these years? There is a shortage of money for education, and some poor towns can't even pay the salaries of private teachers. .”
Lu Zhenlin said, "I didn't want the Education Committee to pay for it..."
Lao Liang has been a grassroots cadre for decades, and he can see many things more clearly than Lu Zhenlin, a village official who only pretends to be Lu's village: "You paid for the money, and you built the school. What does it have to do with the leaders of the Education Committee?"
Having said this, Lu Zhenlin immediately understood that it was actually the same problem that accountant Li had mentioned during the village meeting that day.
Lao Liang said: "You tear down and rebuild by yourself, it seems to relieve the pressure on the education department, but in reality? If it really spreads, the leaders will be honored?"
Lu Zhenlin nodded lightly: "Do you want to make the reconstruction of the primary school in Lujia Village a thing that can add luster to the education department?"
Lao Liang didn't say any more, he picked up the wine and drank with the old man.
Lu Zhenlin didn't ask any more questions, as for some official matters, Lao Liang would give him a point or two, and he would naturally be able to figure it out.
After eating, Hong Xing went to pay the bill, but Li Fang said that he would not accept anything. Hong Xing was not stupid, knowing that Li Fang would not accept it, he had to pay the bill with his own salary and brought Lu Zhenlin out.
After going out, he sent Lao Liang home first, and Hong Xing drove the van back to the village.
He has long since quit pulling goods in the market, and now he is also a full-time employee in the factory, and his main job is as a driver.
The start-up of the food company is at a time of rapid development, including Lu Zhenlin, Accountant Li and Hu Chunlan, basically all of them are multi-functional.
After listening to Lao Liang's words, Hong Xing couldn't help but ask in the car, "Grandpa Third, aren't we doing a good deed by building a school? This is not okay? Why do I feel that when we build a school for our children, we still have to go to school?" Rushing to ask someone?"
Lu Zhenlin said: "This society has its own set of operating rules, and you have to pay attention to methods and methods in everything you do."
Back in the village, Lu Zhenlin began to prepare materials, prepare words, and find a suitable opportunity for the leaders of the education committee to come to Lujia Village for inspection.
To put it simply, it is Lujia Village's contribution to rebuild the elementary school, and it must be the leader's achievement.
What Lu Zhenlin wants is that the younger generations can have a good learning environment, the classrooms will no longer leak in the summer and the winter will be ventilated, and other false names don't matter.
As long as the children have a good future, the older generation like me should do something.
After staying in the office of the village committee for a while, Lu Zhenlin went to the processing factory in the north, walked to the northernmost end of the market street, followed the stone ladder of the small dam to the embankment, and walked all the way to the northwest.
The water of the Qingzhao River is already very small, with yellow foam and an unpleasant smell.
This is the typical sign that the rainy season is over.
Fortunately, this year, there was no flood, and another rainy season passed safely.
Lu Zhenlin stepped on the embankment under his feet, looked at the dilapidated embankment in Majia Village opposite, and sighed softly.
Judging from this year's water conditions, don't expect to be able to transform the Qingzhao River next year.
Will this dilapidated embankment really survive until the next major flood?
The problems have to be solved one by one. The river embankment has just been repaired this year. Not to mention that it can withstand the flood like last year, but it is stronger than other villages upstream.
Walking near the Triangle Dam, Lu Zhenlin saw that Lu Dong was circling around a sour jujube tree, holding a box in one hand and chopsticks improvised from a pair of broken wooden sticks in the other.
"Dongzi!" Lu Zhenlin asked, "Didn't you go to work today?"
Lu Dong carefully put the itchy spicy pepper he caught into the box to prevent the worm hair from falling and flying, and said with a smile: "The hot pot restaurant in my university town opened this morning, and a group of friends went to congratulate it. You're lazy, come back and rest early."
Lu Zhenlin walked up to him, and looked at the open box in a blink of an eye: "How is the business in the new store?"
Lu Dong told the truth: "On the first day of opening, there are various discounts, and there are quite a lot of people. It may not be good or bad in the future."
Lu Zhenlin patted him lightly on the shoulder: "I just went to the university town a while ago. In the buildings near your hot pot restaurant, there are many companies working. There are thousands of people in the north and east communities. , and nearby students, the business is not bad."
With the third grandfather, Lu Dong didn't need to say anything out of the ordinary: "In the past two years, the reform of the public sector, the bankruptcy of the bankrupt, and the layoff of the laid-off, most of us here want to do jobs with establishments and are willing to be self-employed. There are only a few, no matter what they do, the competition is not too big, and there is a good opportunity for development.”
Lu Zhenlin thought about it carefully, and it was true: "We have to seize this opportunity."
Lu Dong replied.
The development of several of his stores is also related to the relatively small competition. If you start a business five or six years later, it will be more difficult to get out of thousands of troops, and the difficulty will increase by ten times.
Lu Zhenlin was about to go to the factory in the north, and asked, "Why are you catching these again? Don't use bugs on people indiscriminately."
"It's not for human use, so I'll keep it and put it somewhere else." Lu Dong was worried: "I'm afraid that Uncle Qi will eat the chili peppers to extinction next spring."
Lu Zhenlin shook his head, he didn't bother with these uncles and nephews, if Dongzi hadn't been sensible last year, and brought Lao Qi to do serious things, these uncles and nephews wouldn't be able to harm Zhuangli.
Especially Lao Qi, although he pretends to be Lu Family Village in his heart, he gets messed up from time to time, and he can manage it for a while, but he can't manage it for the rest of his life.
In the future, I have to rely on Dongzi to watch more.
Lu Zhenlin sighed, for a person like Lao Qi, if he manages well, he is a talent, but if he goes wrong, he is a disaster.
Watching Lu Zhenlin go away, Lu Dong continued to pinch the peppers and made a big circle along the embankment. In total, he caught less than twenty, probably enough for this winter.
It happened that Nail, Mingming and the others ran to the embankment after school, and Lu Dong went to buy packets of melon seeds and peanuts, and asked a group of children to catch scorpions on the embankment in exchange.
No one dares to arrest the children in the future.
Children in rural areas these days are still free-range, and catching scorpions is nothing to worry about.
When Nail and the others caught the scorpion, Lu Dong thought, can the itch spicy pot be used in hot pot?