Chapter 69: Willing to Be My Student?

The comrade who came to find Ningning was the accountant of their commune, a well-known figure in Hongyang Commune.

Such an important person came to her third daughter-in-law with gifts, making her face glow with pride.

Shen Chuning then noticed someone behind Lin Shulan.

“Ningning, this comrade is Accountant Peng from our commune.”

She initially couldn’t remember when she had met such an elderly man, until Lin Shulan introduced him, she remembered.

She quickly shook hands politely, “Comrade Peng, hello.”

Peng Kaiyuan was also very excited to see Shen Chuning, “Comrade Shen, hello. I’m disturbing you today to thank you.

I heard from the comrades in our commune that if it weren’t for you happening to be in the commune that day and saving my life, my old life would have been gone.”

Saying this, he handed a cloth bag of gifts to Shen Chuning.

The cloth bag was bulging, it was unclear what was inside, but several large red apples were visible on top.

The area around Hongyang Brigade didn’t produce apples, apples were special supplies, and ordinary people couldn’t buy them even if they had money.

Shen Chuning readily accepted the gift and quickly invited Peng Kaiyuan and Lin Shulan to sit inside.

After they entered the house, Shen Chuning noticed that her ledger was still open on the table, she quickly closed it and put away the pen and ledger.

Peng Kaiyuan’s eyes lit up, “Comrade Shen, you can write? You also know accounting?”

Before Shen Chuning could answer, Lin Shulan proudly said for her, “Of course she can. My daughter-in-law is the only girl in these ten miles who went to high school.”

Hearing this, Peng Kaiyuan’s eyes brightened even more, “Comrade Shen went to high school?”

Shen Chuning answered truthfully, “Yes, but I didn’t finish high school, I went to high school for one semester and then stopped.”

“Then you graduated from junior high?” Peng Kaiyuan said happily, “Enough, that’s enough education.”

“Comrade Shen, would you be willing to be my student?”

Shen Chuning couldn’t believe her ears.

Jobs these days were rare.

Not only in rural areas, but even in cities, many people were unemployed.

Those educated youths who went to the countryside weren’t they sent to the countryside to support rural construction because they didn’t have jobs in the city?

And now Accountant Peng was asking her to be his student, wasn’t this a job falling from the sky?

Moreover, this job was a coveted office job as a commune cadre.

In the hearts of rural people now, anyone working in the commune was a cadre, and the level of commune cadres was higher than that of brigade cadres.

She had been worried about how to get a legitimate income, this was like someone sending a pillow when she was sleepy.

She wanted to agree directly, but she still said seriously, “Old comrade, saving you that day was just a small matter, you really don’t need to give me a job to repay me.”

Peng Kaiyuan said that he would take her as his student, which actually meant that after teaching her, he would give her the job.

Peng Kaiyuan looked at Shen Chuning’s serious little face and liked her even more.

This girl, facing such a tempting job, still considered his old bones first.

A public accountant needed someone like this.

Such a person wouldn’t be blinded by the large amount of money in their hands and make mistakes.

He laughed, “Little Shen, don’t worry about this, I definitely won’t take you as my student just to repay you.

I’m getting old, and my body isn’t as good as before, the work of a commune accountant is particularly demanding, especially when the autumn harvest is over and public grain is collected, the workload is very large. My old bones can’t handle it!

I’ve been looking for a suitable person, but I haven’t found one.

It’s a coincidence that you saved me, and I think you’re suitable for this position.”

Although Shen Chuning really wanted this job, she was still worried that the old comrade was impulsive and gave her the job to repay her, and his family might blame her.

After all, jobs could be passed down from generation to generation, when parents couldn’t work, the job could be passed on to their children.

“Old comrade, do your family know and agree to give up your job?”

Hearing Shen Chuning’s question, Peng Kaiyuan’s smile had a moment of bitterness, then he recovered his cheerful demeanor and said, “Little comrade, rest assured. I’m alone, I can give this job to whomever I want, I don’t need anyone’s consent.”

“Old comrade, I’m sorry.”

Shen Chuning didn’t know the old man’s family situation, unexpectedly, this question touched the old man’s wound, she quickly stood up and bowed to apologize to Peng Kaiyuan.

Peng Kaiyuan waved his hand indifferently, “It’s okay, everyone in the commune knows about this, there’s nothing to ask.”

Before liberation, he fought against the enemy on the battlefield, and his wife and children died or disappeared in the war.

After liberation, the country arranged a new job for him, and some people advised him to remarry.

But he didn’t have the heart.

He had lived alone for so many years, and he felt pretty good.

But now he was old, afraid that one day he would fall asleep and never wake up, and he hadn’t found someone to take over his job, delaying the country’s affairs.

“So, little comrade, have you thought it over, do you want to be my student and take over my job?” Peng Kaiyuan asked Shen Chuning again with a smile.

Shen Chuning was very quick-witted and immediately stood up and bowed respectfully to the old comrade, “Teacher!”

Peng Kaiyuan looked at this well-behaved student and couldn’t stop smiling, “Good, good, good, Comrade Shen is good.”

Lin Shulan was also smiling happily.

She said her daughter-in-law was lucky.

After becoming a teacher’s student, she could eat state rations, which was unique in their brigade.

Shen Chuning kept Peng Kaiyuan for dinner, which was also a celebration for becoming a teacher’s student.

Lin Shulan was afraid that Shen Chuning didn’t have enough food, so she hurried home and brought Shen Chuning the leftover sausage and half a cured chicken.

Sun Fengjiao came out of the kitchen and saw Lin Shulan taking things to the next door, her mouth almost reached the sky.

Entering the house, she looked at Zhou Jiakang disdainfully, “Your mother’s heart is really slanted, she just took sausage and cured chicken to the third son’s family.”

Zhou Jiakang had just returned from work and was playing with Zhou Xiaolian when he heard his wife’s words, and casually agreed, “The family is divided, Mother and they can give their own things to whomever they want, don’t worry about it.”

Sun Fengjiao was even angrier when she heard her husband’s words, “Other people’s parents don’t favor the eldest son, but your parents are different, it’s as if you, the eldest son, were picked up.”