Rich in the 70s: I Made a Rugged Veteran a Millionaire-Chapter 46: Model Unit

The director of the scrap station, Zhang Yang, was brimming with confidence, walking with a spring in his step.

With just two calls, the word about the availability of five job positions accidentally got out. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

In the director’s office, the director who made the calls was humbly refusing offers.

"This isn’t right, there’s no need for so many people to come."

"Oh dear, this is so embarrassing, alright then, I’ll reluctantly accept."

"Dinner? Impossible, our kitchen is out of order.... Bring your own? That’s too embarrassing."

"Hahaha! Alright, alright!"

The director hung up the phone and looked at Jiang Cheng with particularly kind eyes.

Such a good comrade!

Always praising him behind his back and even helping him out in times of need.

"Xiao Jiang, you’re almost done with your temporary job, right? I think you’re doing really well. Do you want to consider staying here?"

The director genuinely wanted her to stay, but Jiang Cheng really didn’t have the time.

But saying it like that would sound unpleasant.

"Director, I truly don’t know how to thank you enough, but I can’t cook, and I’m afraid my small arms and legs can’t handle sorting work."

The director, hearing this, realized it was indeed the case.

It wouldn’t be appropriate to have Du Yun do the sorting either.

Doing so would make it difficult for Xiao Jiang to carry out her work and wouldn’t be good for internal harmony.

For a moment, the director had no better solution.

"Director, I know you genuinely care about your subordinates, it’s just that I’m not fortunate enough to work under you, but rest assured, as long as I work at our scrap station, I’ll absolutely complete my work conscientiously!"

Jiang Cheng had laid the groundwork, and the director, looking pleased, agreed.

At the office door.

"Ms. Jiang Cheng, keep up the good work. In recognition of your excellent performance, I’ve decided to grant you full-time employee benefits this month."

"Thank you, Director! I will definitely work hard and not disappoint your high expectations!"

They both parted ways, quite satisfied.

Director: Still feels good getting praised by Comrade Xiao Jiang.

Jiang Cheng: Saying a few words and getting an extra ten bucks is totally worth it!

The day at the scrap station passed with cleaning and organizing.

After work, Jiang Cheng rode her bike to night school.

Principal Wang was waiting expectantly at the entrance of the night school for Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng made a sudden stop, deftly jumped off the bike, and stopped right in front of Principal Wang using the foot brake.

"Did it work?"

Principal Wang nodded.

"It did! The top leaders highly support this initiative."

Principal Wang thought with deep emotion, who doesn’t like an effort that builds goodwill and reputation?

Jiang Cheng nodded, first greeted Uncle Wang, handed over a handful of sunflower seeds, and then followed Principal Wang to the office.

After chatting for over ten minutes in the office, people outside repeatedly heard Principal Wang say: Why? Why so many? A pioneering unit?

A few teachers wondered: What’s going on?

After leaving the principal’s office, Jiang Cheng went to Teacher Lü’s office to continue studying.

At the end of the day, Teacher Lü handed Jiang Cheng ten thick books directly.

"Take them home to study on your own. This is your homework from me. If there’s anything you don’t understand, come and ask me. You don’t have to come for class at the usual time tomorrow."

Jiang Cheng put the homework in her backpack and temporarily left the books in the office to take them after class.

She playfully squatted down.

"Teacher, don’t miss me too much!"

"I don’t have the time to miss you!"

Teacher Lü was stubbornly denying it, and Jiang Cheng grinned, "I know, that’s why I come to see you every day, so you don’t have to miss me too much!"

Jiang Cheng stood up, said "see you tomorrow" in Russian, and cheerfully returned to the classroom.

Inside the office, Teacher Lü sighed as Jiang Cheng’s words eased her mood.

"What did I do in my past life to end up teaching these kids with runaway tongues?"

"If only there were more like Jiang Cheng."

Teacher Lü muttered to herself as she left the office, wearing a face that warned strangers to keep their distance, her footsteps echoing as she headed towards the first class of the evening.

Meanwhile, back in the second class of the evening, Jiang Cheng stood at the podium, knocked on the desk lightly, and silence fell.

"Classmates, have any children been stolen from around you? Friends deceived?"

"Classmates, traffickers are heinous!"

"Now here’s an opportunity for us to contribute to the fight against human trafficking!"

...

Jiang Cheng successfully convinced two-thirds of the people to sign up. The remaining one-third were genuinely too busy but expressed their eagerness to help.

The only one unmoved in the whole class was He Dan.

Jiang Cheng didn’t deliberately target He Dan, nor did any classmates.

Nobody mentioned He Dan’s self-reveal because they thought it would be rubbing salt in Jiang Cheng’s wound.

But He Dan didn’t think so. She felt everyone looked at her through tinted glasses and distanced herself from everyone!

With an attitude of ’you’re all ignorant, I’m not wrong,’ she drove away anyone who tried to talk to her.

Jiang Cheng wasn’t a selfless do-gooder, so she wasn’t going to remind her.

In the following days, Jiang Cheng utilized the time scheduled for classes with Teacher Lü to lead her signed-up classmates in rehearsing a play against human trafficking.

With the play close to ready, Jiang Cheng started working on publicity.

Without publicity, if no one showed up for the performance, all the effort would be wasted.

Moreover, in the book, the plot focused significantly on traffickers, with Lin Chengyuan successfully advancing his position.

After Lin Chengyuan advanced, he shouted the anti-trafficking slogan very loudly, but took no actual action.

Yet simply shouting slogans established a very positive, uplifting image for Lin Chengyuan.

Promotions came easily for him afterward.

He Dan also basked in Lin Chengyuan’s glow by organizing a few political and ideological classes at the night school and leading the efforts to console the families of victims.

He Dan was recognized as an exemplary individual thanks to her superficial image building.

This honor greatly facilitated her subsequent work.

While Jiang Cheng disliked Lin Chengyuan and He Dan, she genuinely did not want to see the tragedy of trafficking happen.

So, this time, she handled the publicity herself, and it wasn’t just about shouting slogans.

She wanted to see actual results.

Exemplary individual and exemplary unit, she already had her eyes on one.

During her downtime, Jiang Cheng made a trip to the paper factory.

She wanted to get some flyers made.

Paper Factory.

The paper factory director didn’t recognize Jiang Cheng at all and was shocked to see her enter the director’s office.

"How... did you get in here?"

The paper factory director was beginning to have trust issues with their factory’s management.

Jiang Cheng smiled politely, took out a piece of paper, and said, "I have a letter of introduction from the night school, I’m here to purchase some paper."

The paper factory director knew about the night school and their factory did indeed have dealings with the school.

"Oh... you need to go to the purchasing department head for that."

The paper factory director clearly wanted to send her off, but Jiang Cheng had thick skin and pretended not to notice.

"Director Xu, I’m not here today to purchase paper; I’m here to bring honor to our paper factory!"

Director Xu: "..."

Ha.

How stupid would he have to be to believe that?