Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation-Chapter 162 - 149: From the Summit to the Valley_2

Discussing this topic, the life committee member Hu Jun stopped sending various animal pictures and jumped out to schedule a time with Meng Gui.

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Class leader Huang Zhongfei looked very happy at the harmonious scene, feeling that his advice was still useful, and Hu Jun had finally returned to normal.

Guo Kunnan replied, "Meng Gui, I wanted to hang out with you during the winter break, but you weren't in town; you went to Yuzhou instead!"

Looking at the message, Meng Gui couldn't help feeling a faint sense of superiority. His family was from a rural area, just like Guo Kunnan's.

But his parents were among the first to work in the Coastal Region. Efficient and pragmatic, they took out three hundred thousand two years ago, and with a little help from relatives, bought him a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in the urban area of Yuzhou City. Since then, he had become a resident of Yuzhou City.

After buying the apartment, his parents, having no other skills, still went out to work, and Meng Gui lived alone in the Yuzhou house, enjoying great freedom.

Plus, he often had plenty of pocket money. He frequently heard his parents say that once rural families bought a house and prepared a car for their children, the older generation considered their duty fulfilled.

For Meng Gui, life was blissful now, spent playing games and watching anime each day.

The only thing missing was a girlfriend. Although Meng Gui was young, he was mature when it came to relationships, a romantic high school student who longed for a lifelong partner.

Thus, Meng Gui wanted to find a sincere girl to go to college and get married after graduation.

Although Meng Gui contended with Cui Yu for Jiang Yanan, he greatly respected Guo Kunnan's character and did not harbor any resentment towards him for being close to Cui Yu.

"Brother Nan, I'll be back on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. I'll ride my electric bike and come to hang out with you. We can make a fire in the fields!" Making a fire in the dead of winter was a very cozy thing to do.

Wang Longlong: "Setting fires in the wild could land you in jail."

"Just shut up," Meng Gui replied.

Wang Longlong: "Brother Gui, I also want to go ice skating. Can you take me?"

He had previously asked Ma Shicheng, but Ma Shicheng had recently made the internet café his home and was unwilling to go.

Wang Longlong spent his days at home reading classics, writing his winter break diary for the class teacher Shan Qingrong, and expressing some of his class opinions to the teacher. After a while, he planned to take a break to refresh his mind, realizing that writing in seclusion wouldn't produce compelling articles that could convince the teacher.

"Sure, who else?" Meng Gui called out in the group, hoping to invite a couple of girls so he could show off his skating skills at the rink.

Although Meng Gui was smitten with Jiang Yanan, he wouldn't turn away other honest girls.

Chen Qian interrupted, "Don't you guys study during the winter break?"

Ma Shicheng suddenly jumped in, "Study what during the winter break? The break is for playing games!"

Yang Sheng: "Your dead-last grade looks so beautiful."

Angered by the exposed wound, Ma Shicheng swore Yang Sheng would be his lifelong enemy!

...

On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, in the afternoon.

Jiang Ning arrived at the Yuzhou Building, stepping into Shao Shuangshuang's office.

Shao Shuangshuang had already known that Jiang Ning would come. She invited him to sit on the couch.

"I've already donated to the Yuzhou Power Supply Bureau," she said.

Jiang Ning nodded. Previously, using Thunder and Lightning Body Training, he had inevitably consumed some electricity. Now, he had given the Yuzhou Power Supply Bureau a return nearly ten thousand times over.

Now, Jiang Ning conducted his Body Cultivation directly at the Changqing Liquid Group's plant, where electricity was plentiful.

"I've made arrangements for the donation you mentioned last time."

After a business grows, engaging in philanthropy becomes unavoidable, not only enhancing the reputation but also elevating social status, a sentiment Shao Shuangshuang also shared.

"The plan is to build twenty schools in the mountainous areas," as she handed Jiang Ning the proposal document.

Jiang Ning nodded. "Building schools is secondary; the main focus should be establishing a charity to ensure the teachers are well compensated."

Often, hope schools would be built in mountainous areas, but typically no teachers were willing to teach there, leading to their abandonment.

The pay for volunteer teachers was too low. Perhaps initially, many young teachers moved to the villages to teach, fueled by passion, but most needed to make a living.

The fervor wouldn't last long and would inevitably be thwarted by harsh realities. Jiang Ning preferred to believe that among them, many morally upright volunteer teachers existed who, even in the face of poor compensation, were willing to stay.

Still, Jiang Ning wished to enhance their salaries. Higher salaries would retain more teachers.

"Okay, I'll arrange that."

Shao Shuangshuang pushed another document over, "This is a form listing the materials intercepted by the Lin Zhongsheng Group."

Jiang Ning scanned the document, which meticulously recorded the prices of materials and the reasons they were intercepted, along with their most likely current locations.

"According to their investigation, some of these rarities were presented to the old man of the Lin Family, who is also the current helmsman of the Lin Zhongsheng Group," Shao Shuangshuang spoke evenly.

Maybe previously she would have thought of the Lin Zhongsheng Group as a colossal entity, but now, not so much.

The Lin Zhongsheng Group was involved in many industries: real estate, nationwide brand retail stores, manufacturing. However, their core technology was not outstanding, and their competitiveness lacked, hence only temporarily boasting domestically without striving for progress.

Unlike Changqing Liquid, which devastated major international beauty brands overseas, earning in US dollars and Euros, inevitably leading Shao Shuangshuang to not hold the Lin Zhongsheng Group in high regard.

Jiang Ning studied the list's item details, all necessary for crafting puppets. He then said: