Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled

That's way too exaggerated.

It was so much money all at once that I was overwhelmed.

"This… this… this…"

"Mr. Shen, my family will definitely pay the money, but there are a few conditions."

"You say…"

An older teacher nearby reacted quickly, and Chen Pingsheng said directly, "First, the ten million for the new school must not go through any public accounts; second, I personally designate the construction team; third, the two million annual scholarship must be approved by me and my wife, and if it doesn't match the original intent of our donation, we have the right to stop it immediately."

If the ten million donation went through official accounts, first to the village, then to the town, and finally reported to the county.

In the end, the ten million that was handed down could possibly be missing a zero.

Nothing would get done.

As for the scholarship, whether the village chief's kids and relatives needed taking care of.

Whether the relatives on the principal's side needed a few spots.

All kinds of social proprieties.

When everything was about these, he felt that some things must never be tainted with social proprieties.

Otherwise, what was the point of fairness?

The money he spent wasn't to reward those principals' children.

It had to genuinely be given to students with good academic results and teachers with outstanding teaching quality.

Chen An'an had already gone to explode cow dung.

But that didn't prevent him from liking those students with good grades.

Shen Qing nodded, saying that the specifics needed to be discussed and negotiated within the school and also reported to the village and the town.

The procedures still needed to be followed.

...

The cold wind was biting, with the Chinese New Year's Eve fast approaching.

Principal Hu, who was over sixty, paced back and forth in his own home.

Actually, it was he who had summoned Shen Qing and the others to the student's home.

If anyone wished the village school wouldn't close the most, it was certainly him.

He had devoted his whole life to it; it was no longer just a school, but the lifeblood of his entire lifespan.

All the young and middle-aged people in the village, who wasn't from this school?

The reason he asked Shen Qing to lead people to Chen Pingsheng was also to try their luck. Considering the grandeur displayed by his family, it wasn't impossible for them to arrive by helicopter next year.

Of course, it was just about trying their luck, after all, not everyone remembers to give back to their hometown after earning money.

Let alone spend a large amount of money to rebuild the school.

Ding… The phone rang.

An older model Nokia had been used for many years.

Shen Qing and the others had returned, and Principal Hu specially went outside to receive them.

"How did it go?"

"Surprise, a big surprise."

"What surprise? Spit it out, will you."

"Principal, let us come in for some tea first!"

Shen Qing was in a good mood, laughed and said a word before following into Principal Hu's house.

It wasn't much of a place, just a flat-topped house.

Wangcai Village primary school had seen years where they could hardly attract any students; there wasn't any profit to be made.

It was already good that they could maintain it a bit.

"Principal, we went to see Chen Pingsheng today, and he still recognizes our old faces."

It was quite gratifying; the students had become so successful, yet their elementary school teachers' visits were still met with the greatest respect.

How could they not be gratified?

"Then what?"

"Then he didn't agree to repair the school."

"What?"

Principal Hu bristled, "It turns out you are joking with me!"

"It's really not a joke; he just didn't agree to repair the school, he didn't say he wouldn't rebuild it."

"What?"

Principal Hu was astounded, "He's going to rebuild?"

"Exactly, not only does he want to rebuild, but he will also allocate two million for our school's scholarship each year, rewarding whoever has good grades or shows great progress."

Two million?

Principal Hu was shocked. It might seem like not much money, but consider that their entire primary school didn't even have two hundred students anymore.

If it was divided evenly among them, that was ten thousand per person.

If only those with good grades or significant improvement were rewarded.

There would definitely be tens of thousands per student each year.

That almost equaled the total annual income from farming for a couple.

"Are you sure you heard it right, that he really is willing to donate so much?"

"Certainly, he said that was his alma mater from childhood, and we were all his enlightenment teachers, and donating ten million was his contribution to the hometown."

"Good, oh so good. Our primary school has finally produced an impressive figure, and it's key that he's willing to give back to his hometown."

Principal Hu exclaimed several times.

"Principal, don't be too happy too soon; he has his conditions."

"What conditions?"

"The ten million for the school won't be deposited into the village's public account, how the school is built is up to him to decide, and the construction team will also be chosen by him, not through the village or town."

"Oh, that's a good thing."

Principal Hu had thought it might be something else, but it turned out to be such great news.

"If he himself is in charge of building it, we're obviously more at ease. Just look at the roads built in the village, they're just finished this year, and by next year, they already start patching and repairing, the year after that almost want to tear them down and rebuild."

"Hmph, if it weren't for that, would the village chief's sons be able to buy houses and drive Audis in the big cities?"

Speaking of this, Shen Qing was incredibly angry.

If the school needed to apply for funds for anything, the village had all sorts of excuses.

But whenever the village had some public project that needed money, the village chief ran more eagerly than a dog.

Once the project was in place, all the construction jobs went to his relatives.

After the project was finished, they still found ways to drain it for years.

The family appeared low-key, but they were already wealthy beyond belief outside.

They had two children at home; the older one worked in Guangzhou earning four or five thousand, and had long since bought a house and got a car.

The younger was nearly the same.

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