met free Chapter 11: I was still too naive.
Chapter 11: I was still too naive.
In her previous life, when she first arrived in the city, she couldn't find a job, so she first helped out at a restaurant with the lowest hiring requirements. After working there for two months, she went to work behind the counter. Later, she heard that someone in the west of the city had opened a beauty salon and was recruiting apprentices. Once they learned how to do it, they could open their own shop.
The couple thought that doing odd jobs was not a long-term solution and that it would be better to open their own shop, so she went to learn beauty techniques.
Not long after she started learning, Qin Yanlin found a way to open an appliance store, so she gave up opening a beauty salon and started selling appliances with Qin Yanlin, which they did for many years.
Although she didn't open a beauty salon, she met some people while studying, and she could do her own beauty treatments at home. Her neighbors would ask her how her skin was so good, and she would tell them how to take care of it, which led to her meeting even more people.
With more acquaintances, not only is business easier, but you can also hear a lot of gossip.
Yuan Qiwen is the protagonist in this gossip.
Yuan Qiwen is indeed a staff member of the Education Bureau, and not only that, he is also the brother-in-law of Xu Guangyao, the director of the Education Bureau. This is his official identity.
There were also pimps secretly working for Xu Guangyao, who would find teachers who wanted to be transferred or parents of students who needed to transfer schools for him, implying that they should pay money to buy quotas or do favors.
Later, as the business developed well, a price standard was even established within the industry.
For elementary school transfers, the cost is 3,000 to 5,000 for No. 1 elementary school and 2,000 to 3,000 for No. 2 elementary school.
Transferring from junior high school to a top-tier high school costs around 8,000 yuan, while transferring to a regular high school costs around 5,000 yuan.
There's a simple way to describe teacher transfers: 5,000 for exploration, 10,000 for the basics, and 20,000 for the job.
"Five thousand to scout the way" means that without five thousand, you can forget about it; your gift won't be appreciated, and nothing will get done. "Take five thousand, and I'll show you the situation."
However, judging from the situation, only a few of these projects are successfully completed, while the majority are simply wasted.
The basic requirement is that someone notices your involvement, and if they happen to have quotas available, they can give them to you.
Another meaning is that if a higher price appears in the market, then the indicator belongs to someone else.
"20,000 yuan is all it takes" means that if you pay 20,000 yuan, your matter can be handled regardless of whether there are any quotas or not. Even if there are no quotas, we will still get you one.
Making money was one thing, but the real reason for the incident was lust.
Both of them were lecherous. When they encountered a beautiful young female teacher who couldn't afford to pay, they could sleep with her a few times and get a quota. In today's terms, that would be called a power-for-sex transaction.
Those two old guys were making a fortune during that period, riding high on their success.
There are only a few schools in the city, so how many students can transfer in? Even if you squeeze in students, you can only fit eighty or ninety students into one classroom.
And teachers are even less suitable. You can't assign double the number of teachers to a class, can you? Are you suggesting that teachers of a subject teach on alternate days?
As a result, more and more people paid money but still couldn't get things done.
Later on, even with high prices offered, things still weren't done. They changed "getting it done" to "possibly getting it done," implying that it might not be possible.
Around May 1994, a young female teacher was slept with by two men, but there was no news of her being transferred.
You might as well just swallow this bitter pill, but what can a girl who teaches in a rural village do against two leaders of the municipal education bureau?
Unexpectedly, Yuan Qiwen's wife found the girl, pinned her down in the street and tore her clothes off, still not satisfied.
He beat her severely again, calling her a vixen and accusing her of seducing his husband.
Many people watched the spectacle that day. The girl had already been deceived and bullied, and before she could even get what she wanted, she was severely humiliated. Not only was she ashamed to teach, but she couldn't even be a decent human being anymore.
So she decided to give up and went to the police station to report the two men for raping her, and to report Yuan Qiwen's wife for intentional assault. She also wrote a letter of complaint to the city, telling them everything she knew.
Then Xu Guangyao was investigated, and the investigation revealed serious problems.
Yuan Qiwen was subsequently arrested as well.
A considerable amount of property was seized from the two men's homes, but it was impossible to return it to those who had given them gifts.
Those who gave gifts didn't dare to stand up. That was bribery, which was illegal. Who dared to say a word?
I don't know what happened to that girl afterward, but it's true that Xu Guangyao and Yuan Qiwen broke up.
It's 93 now, and there are still more than half a year before Yuan Qiwen's incident. It's possible to contact him. But what if he takes the money and doesn't do anything? Deng Xiuzhen felt it wasn't a safe bet.
But if we don't turn to Yuan Qiwen, who else can we turn to?
In their previous life, Qin Yanlin and his wife found someone to transfer their child to a school about a year after they moved to the city. They found someone they met after moving to the city, and at that time they had also bought a house and obtained a business license, so they met the requirements for transferring schools.
Neither of them has gone to the city, and they don't know anyone. How can they find anyone, and where can they look for them?
Without introductions, there's nowhere to give gifts, and transferring the child to another school is a pipe dream.
And how could he tell Qin Yanlin? Qin Xiuwen was a kind and helpful person. He was helping him so much because he only knew Yuan Qiwen's identity and that he could get things done, but he didn't know about the dirty things he did behind the scenes.
Even her cousin Qin Xiuwen didn't know, so how could she, a country woman who rarely even goes to the city, know? Who would believe her if she told others?
These things were getting more and more complicated to think about, and just as her head was starting to ache, Deng Xiuzhen recalled another incident.
That woman also said: "These people don't have a second thought. If it were me, I'd write down every time and place I met them, what we said, how much money I gave them, even what we ate. If they don't do things for me, I'll show them all. If they still don't do it, I'll sue them..."
Deng Xiuzhen thought it was a good idea.
But this can't be told to Qin Yanlin. He's an honest person; he'll only be grateful when others help him and won't suspect anything.
It seems I can only rely on myself, so I must go along.
Having made up her mind, Deng Xiuzhen quickly went to discuss it with Qin Yanlin, only saying that she hadn't been to the city for a long time and wanted to go and see it.
Qin Yanlin didn't think much of it and readily agreed. It was just an extra fare, after all. It was rare for his wife to change her ways and start caring about the family, to start talking to him so nicely. He'd let her be happy and keep her in this good mood.
Deng Xiuzhen quickly found a small notebook at home and carefully wrote down what time Yuan Qiwen arrived that day, who he was with, what he ate and drank, what he said, what time he left, what he said to Qin Yanlin, and who he left with. She recorded everything in detail.
I looked at it carefully twice, and it seemed like I hadn't missed anything. Then I put the notebook and pen into a bag.
The next day, the two went to Qin Xiuwen's house early in the morning to wait for Yuan Qiwen to come out. The group ate breakfast together on the street and then took a bus into the city.
The bus swayed like a cradle, and Deng Xiuzhen actually fell asleep from the swaying. In her drowsy state, she heard people arguing.
"Give me back my money!"
"When did I take your money? If I want to borrow money, show me the IOU."
"You...you didn't borrow it, so where's the IOU?"
"I didn't borrow any money, so why would I owe you any?"
"You said you wanted to find someone to help me and asked me for a kickback. I gave you 5000 yuan, have you forgotten?"
"When did you give me the money? You're lying!"
"I'm not lying, I keep records here."
"You keep track of the accounts? You keep track of them yourself? Then I'll go home and write it down, saying you took 10,000 yuan from me, and you'll have to pay me back 10,000 yuan?"
Deng Xiuzhen woke up with a start, opened her eyes and found herself still in the car, and there was no one arguing in the car at all.
She realized she was dreaming, and it really was true that what you think about during the day, you dream about at night. What you have on your mind is what you dream about.
"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?" Qin Yanlin asked with concern.
"It's nothing, it's nothing," Deng Xiuzhen replied hastily, recalling the scene in her dream, her mind racing with all sorts of thoughts.
Yes, you kept the accounts yourself, but the other party didn't sign them and there were no witnesses. How can you prove that someone else received your money?
Deng Xiuzhen felt that she was still too naive, and had thought of things so simply.
Keeping accurate records is useful with honest people. But it's completely useless against cunning, treacherous, or even malicious individuals.