Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 167 On the Importance of Receipts
After taking the certificate and opening it, Tao Qiuyi nodded with satisfaction. Well, it was done.

After the certificate was ready, Tao Qiuyi looked up at Wei Jingyuan and held out his hand, "Where's the receipt? Bring it to me too."

Receipt. Wei Jingyuan looked at Tao Qiuyi blankly, "What receipt?"

Seeing his bewildered look, Tao Qiuyi sighed and turned to look at the team leader and the old branch secretary. "Team leader, old branch secretary, we paid 20 yuan to buy the land. Doesn't the team have to issue a receipt?"

"There's no need for a separate receipt. It's clearly written on the certificate," the captain replied.

"That's right." The old branch secretary echoed.

They didn't issue a receipt after receiving the money, as long as it was clearly stated on the certificate. Is this how they do things? Tao Qiuyi was stunned by this statement.

Sensing something was wrong, Wei Jingyuan held her arm and asked softly, "What's the problem?"

"The problem can be big or small." Tao Qiuyi glanced at Wei Jingyuan and handed him the certificate in his hand. "Here, take a closer look at where the problem lies."

As she raised her hand to take the certificate, Wei Jingyuan noticed a speck of dark red on the cuff of her cotton-padded jacket, and his eyes trembled. He suddenly grabbed her wrist and looked at her face, a look of astonishment on her fair and radiant face.

"You..." Before he could finish his words, Wei Jingyuan remembered that the team leader and the old branch secretary were still there, so he decisively held back what he wanted to say.

Tao Qiuyi blinked, struggled against his grasping wrist, frowned, and asked, "I asked you to see the proof, why are you holding my hand?"

"It's okay." Letting go of her wrist, Wei Jingyuan lowered his head and looked at the proof carefully.

He didn't look like he was alright just now? Tao Qiuyi frowned as he thought back.

When Wei Jingyuan had held her hand before, begging her not to blame the captain, he had been holding her left hand. She had also been holding the certificate with her left hand when he handed it to her.

It was his right hand that he had just grabbed. Tao Qiuyi raised his right hand to check. Seeing the dark red spots on the sleeve of his cotton coat, he understood.

This man is so sharp!
There were not many words on the certificate. Wei Jingyuan read it over and over again twice but couldn't find any problems.

The team leader and the old branch secretary also came over, took the certificate from Wei Jingyuan and looked at it again and again. They also couldn't see what was wrong, and the three of them looked at Tao Qiuyi at the same time.

The old Party Secretary said, "Girl Tao, this proves there's nothing wrong! We've always written it this way and there's never been a mistake or omission."

"That's because you haven't met someone who is serious about it. Once you meet someone who is serious about it, the problem will become apparent." Tao Qiuyi didn't expect them to be able to see where the problem lies.

Reaching out to take the certificate from the old branch secretary, Tao Qiuyi raised it and said, "It's clearly written on the certificate that we paid 20 yuan to buy the land and build the yard."

"What about the twenty dollars? Did we really pay for it?"

The captain and Wei Jingyuan looked at Tao Qiuyi, neither of them understood what she meant by asking this.
The old Party Secretary didn't understand either. He turned around and walked to his desk. He took out the twenty yuan Tao Qiuyi had given him from the drawer and placed it on the table. "Here are the twenty yuan."

"Are you sure this twenty yuan is what we gave to the old Party Secretary?" Without waiting for the three to answer, Tao Qiuyi threw out another question, "Are you sure this isn't the old Party Secretary's own money?"

"These twenty yuan were clearly given to me by you. Why don't you acknowledge it, girl?" The old branch secretary looked at Tao Qiuyi as if she were a fool.

"Old Party Secretary, it's not that I deny it, but there is no evidence to prove that I gave you the twenty yuan." Tao Qiuyi walked over, picked up the twenty yuan on the table, folded it in half and put it in his pocket.

"Similarly, if I take back this twenty yuan and say I gave it to the old Party Secretary, you have no evidence to prove that I didn't give you the twenty yuan."

People at that time were simple-minded and had not yet experienced fraud, false accusations, or the dissolution of reasonableness. They did not understand the importance of receipts, so she made them understand. The team leader and the old branch secretary were stunned by her actions.

Wei Jingyuan lowered his eyes in thought.

Taking out another twenty yuan and placing it on the table, Tao Qiuyi said, "Old Party Secretary, why would I give you twenty yuan when I have no connection with you? Is this a bribe?"

The word "bribery" startled the team leader and the old branch secretary, especially the old branch secretary, who almost jumped up and down, "Hey, girl, what are you doing..."

"I understand." Wei Jingyuan said suddenly.

"What do you understand now? You want to scare me, an old man!" The old branch secretary glared at Wei Jingyuan.

Wei Jingyuan ignored the old branch secretary's glare. He looked at Tao Qiuyi and said, "You mean, the brigade didn't issue a receipt stating what the twenty yuan was used for..."

After a pause, Wei Jingyuan continued, "Then these twenty yuan can be used for anything, including bribery."

"That's right." Seeing that he really understood, Tao Qiuyi felt that his demonstration was not in vain. "As expected of a former soldier, your ideological awareness is higher than that of ordinary people. You get it right away."

After hearing Wei Jingyuan's words, the general team leader and the old branch secretary fell into deep thought at the same time.

They thought a lot, but still couldn't figure it out.

After a while, the team leader said, "I can testify that this twenty yuan is the money you used to buy the land and build the yard."

Tao Qiuyi and Wei Jingyuan exchanged a glance, and Wei Jingyuan said, "Captain, you're my fourth uncle, so of course you'll speak up for me. What would you do if someone asked you to produce evidence?"

Evidence, he saw it with his own eyes, where is the evidence? The captain was stunned and seemed to understand something.

At this point, the old branch secretary also came to his senses, "I came here to collect the twenty yuan because I didn't want the team leader to be accused of favoritism because he is Jing Yuan's fourth uncle."

"I didn't expect it. I thought it was too simple."

"Old Party Secretary, your actions are well-intentioned, but they can't withstand the distorted thinking of others." Tao Qiuyi smiled and said, "I still say the same thing, you haven't met anyone who is truly serious."

"What would a truly serious person do?" The old branch secretary was curious about what a truly serious person would do.

Wei Jingyuan and the team leader also looked at Tao Qiuyi, waiting for her answer.

Tao Qiuyi said, "Everyone dislikes the land in front of the bamboo forest because it can't grow crops. Once our yard is built, some people may even laugh at us in secret."

"Wei Jingyuan is really stupid. If he wanted to build a yard, he should have built it right next to the village. But he built it in front of a large bamboo forest, behind it is another large bamboo forest, and behind that is a mountain."

"It's unsafe no matter how you look at it."

After saying that, Tao Qiuyi raised his eyebrows and asked the three people, "Am I right? Are there such people in our village?"

Wei Jingyuan didn't respond. The team leader and the old branch secretary looked at each other and nodded in unison.

Tao Qiuyi continued, "When Wei Jingyuan's life gets better, everyone will subconsciously think that this might be a good place for feng shui. Then they'll feel all sorts of injustice. The land belongs to the brigade, so why should Wei Jingyuan be able to build a courtyard there?"

"Human nature is selfish. When you see others doing well, you will be jealous. You can live a good life, but you can't live better than me."