Rebirth in the 60s: A Path to Counterattack-Chapter 117. Refusal, Recommendation

Gasping for breath as he headed home, afraid that Lin Yuanzhi, that kid, was like a night owl entering the house — never comes without cause.

As a result, just as I was ready for a fight, you come and tell me that you’ve been observing my character and abilities and want me to help you build the leadership team for Liu’s village?

Lianshan was dumbfounded for a while. After finally digesting Lin Yuanzhi’s friendly yet slightly eerie proposal, he frowned and asked, "Did the brigade leader just have a drink before coming over? With my level of education, barely graduating elementary school properly, what makes you think I can manage the Liu family’s village production brigade’s accounts for a couple of hundred households and over a thousand people? Thanks for the offer, but I don’t have the skills for that kind of responsibility.

It’s not that I don’t want to work wholeheartedly for our socialist construction, but I really don’t have the knack for tallying beads on an abacus and doing the bookkeeping.

So, you should find someone else more capable!"

Lin Yuanzhi was wide-eyed, never expecting that such a humble gesture would end up with such a slap in the face.

Damn it, isn’t being a brigade cadre what everyone desires, inviting and giving gifts to climb up, digging for connections?

He came willingly and yet Lianshan still had such an indifferent attitude!?

After persuading him with earnest words for quite a while without seeing any signs of him being moved, Lin Yuanzhi had no choice but to ask Lianshan who he thought would be suitable for the accountant’s position in the village.

Lianshan frowned and thought for a while, eventually suggesting both his elder brother-in-law and brother-in-law Ning Jianshe.

Elder brother-in-law Liu Shouren is a high school graduate, with a high level of education, steady with no personal bias. He should be quite convincing as an accountant.

Brother-in-law Ning Jianshe, although slightly less educated than the elder brother-in-law, is good at using an abacus, and accounting shouldn’t be a problem for him. After all, aren’t these essential skills for a village accountant?

Of course, he was just giving his opinion, and the exact decision still needed discussion among the brigade leader and several team leaders, followed by a vote by all member representatives. The one with high votes and good standing would be elected.

Lin Yuanzhi, of course, was not satisfied with this.

However, thinking about Jiang Limin and his wife who turned the labor-reformed five categories into injustice and accounted a good village accountant as a negative element, his grievances immediately dissipated.

The fierce couple identified as benefactors and close friends the ones to be looked after, even if he didn’t want to accept it, he had to shut up and endure it!

If not, what if the Jiang family couple had someone turn him into a negative element with just a few dozen pounds of wheat?

Thinking about the current miserable state of Accountant Sun, Lin Yuanzhi couldn’t help but shiver. Losing his family, falling from cadre to sinner, it’s worse than death just thinking about it.

He doesn’t want and can’t let himself fall into that position!

So before he figured out a way to completely take down Lianshan so that even the Jiang family couldn’t turn the tables, he had to respect someone who was not appreciative of favors.

Who knows what kind of difficult maneuvers Lin Yuanzhi went through, but a few days later Liu Shouren officially took office as the new accountant for Liu’s village production brigade.

Hearing the news, Shuzhen covered her mouth and laughed: "Oh my, now that big brother became the new accountant, I’m also the accountant’s little sister!"

"So eager to be an official’s family member, why didn’t you help your brother when that Lin came looking? Being the accountant’s wife managing all the big and small accounts in the village, many people would want to cozy up to you!" Liu Shouyi laughed heartily and asked his sister with a bit of doubt.

"Hehe, it’s because I didn’t have time! Lianshan wants to raise earthworms, grow vegetables, raise chickens, grow mushrooms, and also accompany me in prenatal education for our kids and study middle school culture classes. Busy all day long, where’s the time to take on such a troublesome accountant job!" Shuzhen counted her husband’s busy schedule on her fingers. Before achieving anything, even her biological brother had no intention of telling them that Lianshan was fully preparing to study junior and senior high cultural courses for next year’s Worker Peasant Soldier University entrance.

The distressed accountant, Liu Shouren, remained silent, as his pregnant sister couldn’t be blamed for being so carefree and laughing to the point of showing her back teeth, but he could certainly throw two punches at his carefree brother-in-law.

After beating up his brother-in-law, who felt refreshed, turned to compliment his wife in various ways, praising and encouraging Lianshan with a pat on the shoulder, Lianshan’s sadness flowed like a river against the current.

Now that students across the country were on strike from normal classes, why, as an old farmer, did he still have to ’learn by oneself’?

He had to memorize language, memorize politics, and memorize geography too.

Fortunately, math didn’t require memorization, but that never-filling water pool, trains traveling in opposite directions, was even deadlier than memorizing!

Lianshan should be thankful that Sino-Soviet relations had worsened and Sino-U.S. relations hadn’t been established, otherwise, his curriculum might have included two more things called foreign languages.

No matter how unwilling in his heart, when his smiling wife held the book and said she wanted to study and improve together with him, Lianshan couldn’t resist at all. Ever since their son first showed fetal movement and his wife picked up ’The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars’ for prenatal education, he had been opposed. Until now, when his son was about eight months old and ready to meet him, he still hadn’t successfully stopped his wife from inculcating their child about filial piety, gratitude, and appreciation.

Because every time he subtly expressed not wanting a blindly filial son, his gentle wife would give him a cold, sharp stare and say blandly: What’s wrong with being blindly filial? At least he’s obedient, respectful to parents, regards respecting and being filial to parents as the first principle. Can withstand temptation without being lured away to become an ungrateful child, and definitely won’t forget his parents after getting a wife!

Seeing his wife, hiding her hurt yet pretending to be strong, tugged at Lianshan’s heartstrings.

All principles and ideas quickly flushed down the drain.

It’s just studying, isn’t it?

How big of a deal is that!

It’s just talking, can’t be more tiring than plowing fields and leveling land!

His wife prefers obedient, respectful children who won’t be easily tempted to recognize thieves as mothers. So, they’ll do prenatal education together, she teaches ’The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars’ while he recites ’Eight Honors and Eight Shames’, the ’Little Red Book’.

Things that have survived hundreds of years certainly have merit worth learning and spreading. The teachings of the great leader wouldn’t be wrong either.

The child carrying his wife’s bloodline must naturally be incredibly smart, knowing from a young age to distinguish the essence from the dross.

Without becoming a blindly filial bookworm, only grasping the good qualities of filial piety, obedience, and benevolence, etc.

As busy as the days are filled with early work, and evenings with study, time quietly flew by.

When Lian Hai excitedly invited them out to watch the pig slaughter at the production team and get their share of pork, it suddenly dawned on the couple: Oh, it’s the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, and New Year’s is almost here!

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