Rebirth 1983: Starting from taking back the family property.

Chapter 568 Charity
Lu Jiaxin did not bring much money back home, and asked Zhang Sining to pay for the promised donation. She gave the 100,000 yuan for building the ancestral hall directly to her seventh uncle and then Uncle Lu supervised it; and for the 2 million yuan for road construction, she first transferred 1 million yuan, and the remaining 1 million yuan would be paid depending on the progress of the road construction. At the same time, she attached a condition that the road to Lujia New Village would also be built.

These two issues are easy to solve, but building a school is a bit of a problem. Zhang Sining called Lu Jiaxin and said, "Boss, I found out that Feng County is a high-risk earthquake zone. It will take a long time to build a three-story classroom building according to your requirements. It's already mid-July. At this rate, the junior high school students won't be able to move into the new classrooms before school starts."

According to Lu Jiaxin's request, the village primary school next to Lujia Village was built together with the town's middle school. The primary school had less construction work, so it was no problem to build classrooms in one and a half months; but the middle school had to build classrooms and dormitories (many children lived far away and needed to live in dormitories), which might not be completed before the start of school.

Lu Jiaxin really hadn't considered the issue of earthquakes. She thought for a moment and said, "The primary school won't have to build a high-rise building, just a one-story one. There are a lot of open spaces around the village primary school that can be used just fine. The middle school will have to build a three-story classroom and teaching building. This cannot be changed. If there is a problem, go to the government and let them find a solution."

Then, Zhang Sining talked about the matter of supporting poor students. Lu Jiaxin asked her to examine the two people recommended by Uncle Lu, and if there was no problem, let Uncle Lu hand over the matter to them. As for Uncle Lu, he would supervise the two people he recommended.

Zhang Sining said, "I have investigated these two people. They are both very honest people with good reputations. However, one of them is called Ding Jiang. His wife is in poor health and has to take medicine all year round. Would it be a bad idea to let him take charge of the financial aid for poor students?"

Lu Jiaxin knew what she meant: "It's okay, my uncle is still in charge of the money, and he will just hire two people to help him. We will also send people to visit the poor students we sponsor in the future."

It is impossible to visit all poor students at home and select them. This rule can deter those with bad intentions. Everyone has greed, but some people can restrain it while others will magnify it.

Seeing that she had considered it so carefully, Zhang Sining stopped talking.

After hearing what Lu Jiaxin said, the construction of the village primary school started in two days. Uncle Lu even went to see it specially, and he felt very upset when he came back.

Uncle Lu Er found Uncle Lu Da and said, "Brother, what do you think this girl is thinking? She paid for the school and the road, but we elders don't get any benefit at all."

Lu Jiayao agreed with this very much. His small family and the second branch did not get any benefit at all.

Uncle Lu took a puff of his cigarette, exhaled a circle of smoke and asked, "How do you want to take advantage of Jiaxin and give you a hundred thousand or eighty thousand?"

Uncle Lu said shamelessly: "It costs two million to build a road, so giving me 100,000 or 80,000 is not much! And Jiazong and Jiayao are working so hard, they can't even make 20,000 yuan a year."

Uncle Lu started to scold him when he heard this: "Who do you think you are? You want Jiaxin to give you hundreds of thousands to spend. If you use this money to support those children's education, they will say good things about you. If you use this money to build roads, you will be praised by people in the surrounding area. But when I give it to you, not only are you ungrateful, you even think Jiaxin doesn't give you enough."

Because he was so angry, his saliva sprayed all over Uncle Lu's face.

Normally, if Uncle Lu got angry, Uncle Lu would back off, but today he was unwilling to give in: "Brother, it is obviously Lu Jiaxin who is turning her elbow outward. She would rather give money to those irrelevant people than help her elders and brothers. Why are you still scolding me?"

Uncle Lu didn't say anything and just hit him with the sole of his shoe. Uncle Lu Er saw that things were not going well and ran out quickly, but he ran too fast and fell outside the door and then fainted.

Although he was annoyed at his erratic behavior, Uncle Lu was still very worried when he saw him faint, and immediately asked someone to send him to the hospital.

Uncle Lu woke up halfway through the journey, but he didn't get up because he had been hurting in his arm. When he arrived at the hospital, he knew that Uncle Lu had paid the money, so he asked the doctor to give him a full-body examination. Unexpectedly, the doctor found out something wrong.

The doctor said he had a stomach problem, but the county hospital couldn't find out what the specific condition was, so he suggested that he go to the provincial hospital for a checkup. Hearing this, Uncle Lu took him to the provincial hospital for a checkup without saying a word.

When Jiaxin got home from get off work that day, the housekeeper said to her, "Boss, I just received a call from someone claiming to be your second aunt. She said your second uncle has stomach cancer."

Lu Jiaxin's heart trembled. Gastric cancer? She had gastric cancer in her previous life, and when she found it, it was already in the late stage and there was no cure. She thought she should go for a full body check-up on Sunday to have peace of mind.

Seeing that she didn't say anything and didn't dare to call her, the housekeeper just stood there waiting for her.

Lu Jiaxin came back to her senses and said, "Except for the calls from my uncle, my elder brother, and Shanzi and his wife, all other calls were hung up directly."

This meant that even if the housekeeper answered the phone, he didn't have to relay the content of the call to her. She had lost patience with the Lu family and didn't want to bother with their affairs anymore.

The next day, the second aunt called again, and the housekeeper said politely: "If your husband is sick, go get treatment. My boss is not a doctor, so it's useless for you to find her."

Aunt Lu knew that Lu Jiaxin was not a doctor, but she was rich. She hung up the phone before she could say anything. She had no choice but to go back to the hospital with red eyes.

The rich daughter-in-law knew something was wrong when she saw her expression. But this was also within her expectations. She had planned to take her cousin's house, but she didn't get any benefit from it. Now her father-in-law is sick and wants Jiaxin to pay for it. How could it be possible? But she pretended to know nothing.

Aunt Lu Er said to the wealthy daughter-in-law, "The doctor said your father-in-law must undergo surgery, otherwise the disease will spread and he will die soon. Give me some money, and I'll pay for it."

The wealthy daughter-in-law took out eighty yuan and said, "This is all our family's savings."

Aunt Lu Er was furious and scolded Jiacai's wife. She said that her father-in-law had asked for money for medical treatment and refused to give it. She had no conscience. However, she didn't expect that she scolded Jiacai's wife so much that she left with a gloomy face when she heard it.

When Uncle Lu returned to the ward, he saw his second aunt and couldn't help asking, "Where is the daughter-in-law?"

"I asked her to take out money to treat the head of the family, but she only took out 80 yuan, saying that this was all their property. They could earn more than 100 yuan a month from outside, and they had saved at least 3,000 or 4,000 yuan in the past three years. She only gave 80 yuan, which was like giving alms to a beggar!

Uncle Lu said, "We can't let the family pay for all the medical expenses. He still has four children to raise! Let him and Jiajie raise the medical expenses together. If it's not enough, we can borrow some from Jiayao and the others."

"He's not even in the city, how can we ask him for medical expenses?" said the second aunt. She didn't dare to say that she had called Jiaxin, for fear of being scolded.

Uncle Lu thought it was not a difficult matter: "This disease still needs to be treated at the Sijiucheng Hospital. I just called Jiaguang and asked him to find someone to arrange a hospital. Once someone is found, you can go to Sijiucheng."

(End of this chapter)