"Well... Lingli, if I tell you that I have a friend who is planning to find someone to 'persuade' your parents, you won't be angry with me, right?"

advise?

How to persuade?

Chen Lingli's mind went blank for a moment, and suddenly she stared at Jiang Tian with wide eyes.

This "persuasion" should not be the "persuasion" she was thinking of, right?

Jiang Tian nodded and said in a heavy tone:

Classmate Chen Lingli, you may have really misunderstood me.

He Tiantian, sitting in the classroom, is indeed a warm, kind and helpful student.

But after leaving school, she has several businesses in her hands and is a capitalist who is not easy to mess with~

"But don't worry, I'm just trying to scare them."

"And think about it, if I don't find someone to scare them, and they really come to our store to cause trouble like you said, and it causes a big disaster, and they are arrested and sentenced by the police station, what will you three do? Right?"

Chen Lingli was confused and nodded subconsciously.

After ordering, I realized, holy shit! Those are her parents, their biological children!

She actually thought that there was nothing wrong with Jiang Tian hiring someone to scare her parents.

"Do I really hate my parents subconsciously?"

Poor classmate Chen Lingli, for the first time in her life, began to doubt her family ties.

Family affection? Maybe.

But maybe not much...

Chen Lingli came just in time! After obtaining her consent, Jiang Tian unceremoniously entrusted Han Jisong to find a few brothers to go to Chentang Village to popularize the concept of law-abiding business to Chen Qiang and his wife.

As a law-abiding citizen of the new society, she would not be stupid enough to label herself as a "criminal gang" just because of a truckload of rotten vegetable leaves.

She is just a poor victim who was cheated in business. What's wrong with finding a few people to talk reason with the other party?

When seeing Chen Lingli, Jiang Tian remembered something else.

She took the payment that she had intended to pay to Chen Qiang and his wife today from the cashier, deducted the deposit paid by his wife and the thirty yuan shipping fee, and gave the remaining several dozen yuan to Chen Lingli.

"It suddenly rained heavily yesterday, and the prices in the vegetable market have gone up today. I calculated that after deducting the deposit and shipping costs, I should give your family an additional 57 yuan. I will not give this money to your parents, and you can hide it secretly."

Chen Lingli was so frightened that she almost jumped up, and she refused frantically, as if what Jiang Tian gave her was not money but red-hot charcoal.

"No, no, no, I can't take this money. Tiantian, please don't blame my parents. I am already very grateful. Don't I know what the vegetables in my vegetable garden look like?"

"You really don't know this!" Jiang Tian interrupted her and took her to the backyard to see the vegetables her parents sent over.

To be honest, Chen Qiang and Liu Mei are not really evil people.

It's just that some people are born to be greedy for small gains. As the country people say, if there is a cow passing by the door, they will beat out the cow's dung, steal it home, dry it and use it as firewood.

If Chen Lingli hadn't asked Tang Xiaomi to come to the store to tip off today, Hao Xue would have had to spend a lot of effort to discover the trick in that truckload of vegetables.

It turned out that most of the vegetables exposed outside the cart of vegetables sent by Chen Qiang and Liu Mei were fresh and delicious, while the stale old vegetable stems were hidden inside.

As for spinach and coriander that are about to bloom, they are not completely unusable.

Although the spinach is a little old, its leaves are large and juicy. After being crushed and squeezed into spinach juice, it can be used to make spinach noodles.

Because the leaves are fat and big, they are more suitable for making spinach noodles than fresh tender spinach.

There are also those old corianders, which can be blanched and dried to make dried coriander crumbs. When coriander is not on the market, it can be used as seasoning for dishes in the store. It is cheap and durable.

"Come to think of it, I have to thank your parents for reminding me, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of it. I should hurry up and dry more cilantro and stockpile it now, as the market is almost over."

Jiang Tian stuffed the 57 yuan into Chen Lingli's schoolbag, patted the bag and comforted her.

"Don't worry, I'm not sympathizing with you. Most of the dishes your parents sent this time are indeed usable."

"If they were all fresh vegetables, a tractor full of them would sell for at least three hundred dollars."

"They are so clever and are trying to do something stupid for me. Don't you think this is unnecessary?"

Chen Lingli was also speechless for a while.

She was almost crying because of her parents' stupidity.

Tell me, if you had listened to me at the beginning and followed the store's requirements and delivered usable fresh vegetables.

There is no need to resort to any tricks, just make the money honestly, and maybe you can even attract "Sister Fang Fast Food" as a long-term big customer.

What a good opportunity! But it was ruined by her parents themselves!

Chen Lingli finally accepted the money, not because she was greedy, but because -

"I'll give this money to my sister. She's going to take the high school entrance exam soon, and my parents don't give her any living expenses. With this money, my sister won't have to work odd jobs to earn living expenses this semester."

Jiang Tian was stunned for a moment and grabbed Chen Lingli.

"No, Lingli, is there any classmate like you?"

"It seems that you not only don't understand my bad points, but also my good points, don't you?"

Chen Lingli was stunned.

Jiang Tian scolded her bitterly:

"You know that our Fangjie Fast Food has a program to help rural girls get educated, right?"

"I know, but my sister is already fifteen this year..."

"As long as you are underage, you are considered a girl in my eyes!"

Jiang Tian asked someone to give her two financial aid application forms on the spot.

"Why are there two?"

"One is for your sister, and the other is for you."

Seeing Chen Lingli's shocked expression, Jiang Tian patted her thin shoulders:

"Sister, I think you have such an upright character, you are perfect for being a journalist."

"Study hard! When you become a reporter in the future, you must write more positive reports about our Fangjie Fast Food. Remember?"

Chen Lingli: “…”

Fangjie Fast Food's poverty-stricken girls' education aid program has sponsored no less than one hundred out-of-school girls so far this year.

However, they have a strict rule that the person filling out the application form for the scholarship must be the girl herself, and she must also be present in person to receive the scholarship.

They will also make regular random visits, and if they find that the money has been misappropriated by the girl's family, they will not only stop the funding immediately, but also recover the bursary.

A similar thing happened before. A poor girl received a scholarship from them, and as soon as she got home, her parents took the money and bought a bicycle for her brother who had dropped out of school.

In their opinion, no matter how good a girl's academic performance is, she will belong to someone else in the future. It is better to use the money to buy some valuable items for the family, which will then become their own family's property.

Since then, Jiang Tian asked someone to change the rules and split the scholarship into three parts.

One part will be used as tuition and miscellaneous fees. After the girl successfully applies for the financial aid program, this money will be given directly to the school every year as the girl’s tuition and miscellaneous fees for that academic year.

One set of school supplies is directly purchased, including school bags, notebooks, pencil cases, pens and ink, and distributed to students.

There is also living expenses, which cannot be supervised and can only be given directly to students. Whether these girls can keep the money and actually use it for themselves depends on their own abilities.

This is also another test for them from Jiang Tian.

If she cannot even keep this little bit of money, or if she is soft-hearted and uses the living expenses given to her by the student aid program to supplement the family expenses, such a girl will probably continue to be sucked dry by her original family even if she leaves the village through studying in the future.

Jiang Tian has always believed that God helps those who help themselves.

If a person doesn't know how to save herself, even if there are a hundred hands holding her, they will not be able to stop someone who wants to wallow in the mud.

"Chen Lingli, I will convince my mother to help you and your sister."

"But I'm going to make it clear to you. If you and your sister can't keep the money and give it to your family like you did when you sold the yellow croaker, then according to the regulations, you will be disqualified from the scholarship."

When Chen Lingli heard the word "yellow bone fish", her eyes turned red and she suddenly thought of that summer when she and her elder sister were covered with mosquito bites. They saved more than a hundred yuan with great effort, but in the end they were cheated out of it by their parents.

After that, she and her older sister realized that their parents had never thought about sending them to school.

"Tiantian, don't worry, I will cherish this opportunity. I have a way to keep the money!" Chen Lingli wiped her tears and looked at Jiang Tian with a firm gaze.