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Chapter 136 Project Construction Acceleration Card! (First Update!)

By the flowerbed in front of the bank, Lin Man hid in the shade of a tree, holding a bottle of iced tea that had gone from being a fine wine to being as cold as horse urine. He drank it while keeping an eye on the people coming out of the bank.

Just then, his cell phone rang.

Seeing that it was Wang Ju calling, he quickly answered and asked impatiently, "Is it still not resolved? Should I come up?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Ju responded over the phone: "The people from the provincial branch of the bank invited us to dinner, wanting us to help them solve some loan problems. My uncle and I went there first. My uncle's suggestion is that you go back first."

As they were talking, several cars drove out of the underground parking garage next door, whizzed past Lin Man, and merged into the traffic in the blink of an eye.

Standing by the flowerbed, Lin Man stood up, mouth agape, staring blankly at the departing convoy.

No----

I haven't gotten on the bus yet!

You have to call me when it's time to eat!

What do you mean by not inviting me to dinner?

In those few stunned seconds, the departing convoy completely disappeared, leaving only a red light in the distance. And that red light lasted longer than life itself, a full 120 seconds!

I don't know how many people's half a lifetime it represents.

Lin Man turned his gaze away from the traffic lights, took out his phone, and started calling a ride-hailing service. The journey was quite long and mostly one-way, so there were few drivers accepting his order. While waiting for a driver to accept his order, he ordered himself a goose leg rice.

As the fragrant goose leg was stuffed into his mouth, Lin Man's resentment towards his father finally lessened a bit.

After finishing their meal, the ride-hailing car arrived. After giving his phone number and address, Lin Man climbed into the back seat of the car, closed his eyes, and started to sleep.

When I woke up again, we were almost at the village entrance.

Lin Man did not go straight home, but instead had the driver take the car directly to the elementary school gate, and at the same time called the elementary school principal, Liu Guoming.

A few minutes later, the car stopped in front of the elementary school. Under the yellowish streetlights, Liu Guoming stood there quietly, holding a stick in his hand. When he saw the car stop, he quickly ran over.

Liu Guoming didn't get too close, but stood two or three steps away, constantly rubbing his hands together and pacing in place.

After paying the fare, Lin Man turned to Liu Guoming, smiled, and handed him the documents: "Principal Liu, I have accomplished my mission."

"Haha!" Liu Guoming laughed twice, tucked the "stick" under his arm, picked up the file box with both hands, opened the clasp, and took out the file.

When he saw the signed comments and stamped seal on the attachment to the application form, he burst into laughter again: "What do you mean by 'favorable mission fulfilled'? It should be 'a resounding victory'!"

"I can still be a teacher here and see those lovely children, all thanks to Secretary Lin's help."

"This cannot be described as merely fulfilling our mission; it must be called a resounding victory!"

"We won a game!"

Liu Guoming was speaking loudly, and Lin Man was looking at him. Only then did Lin Man notice that what Liu Guoming was carrying under his arm was not a stick, but a scroll.

It looks quite new; it must have been made in the last couple of days.

After reading the document, Liu Guoming returned it to Lin Man. He noticed Lin Man's gaze lingering on the scroll. As Lin Man took the document, Liu Guoming gripped the scroll with both hands and asked with a smile, "Secretary Lin, would you like to guess what's inside?"

"Could it be antique calligraphy and paintings? I can't accept them, it would be a mistake!" Lin Man closed the file box and asked with feigned surprise. His question made Liu Guoming laugh out loud again: "Secretary Lin thinks too highly of me. Although I am a principal, I only make a few thousand yuan a month. I have to take care of my family and occasionally the school. I can't afford any antique calligraphy and paintings."

"These are calligraphy and painting books I bought on Pinduoduo, and I wrote them myself. Secretary Lin, would you like to take a look and give me your opinion?"

Lin Man tucked the file box under his arm and stretched out his hands: "Let me take a look!"

Liu Guoming casually handed the calligraphy and painting copybook to Lin Man, who took it and opened it.

The calligraphy copybook has two lines of poetry written in Song Dynasty regular script.

Wealth and honor must be earned through diligence and hard work; a man must read five cartloads of books.

Lin Man vaguely remembered that it was a poem by Du Fu, but he couldn't quite recall which one it was.

The handwriting is very good, a very neat Song typeface, which is pleasing to the eye at first glance.

However—the meaning of this poem is a bit too—too straightforward, too utilitarian.

Lin Man handed the calligraphy back to Liu Guoming, and said in a low voice, "Principal Liu, these two lines of poetry are fine for encouraging your own children to study, but it's not so good to hang them at the school."

"If others see this, people will say our school is too profit-driven, and that will cause gossip."

When these two sentences reached Liu Guoming's ears, he was not angry; on the contrary, he seemed very happy.

He then grinned and slapped his forehead, saying, "I forgot, look, I completely forgot! Schools are all about teaching and nurturing students, and shame is the most important thing."

"I won't hang this piece of calligraphy up. I'll write two more tomorrow, change a couple of sentences, and then hang them up."

"Okay! Principal Liu, give me the key, I'll go find the school's sign and put it back up." Lin Man nodded, reaching out to ask Liu Guoming for the key, and simultaneously opening the system panel to find the "Journey of Learning" task he had accepted a couple of days ago.

According to his understanding, this task should be marked as completed when the Education Bureau approves the documents.

But it wasn't completed, which means that to complete this task, we need to put up the sign for the primary school!

Only when the sign is erected can a primary school be considered officially established.

Now we're just one step away from completing this task; otherwise, I probably won't be able to sleep tonight.

Liu Guoming took out the key, opened the school gate, and led Lin Man into the school.

Upon entering the teaching building, Liu Guoming took out his key and opened the storage room on the first floor.

This time, he didn't let Lin Man follow him in. He went into the storage room himself, placed the item in the corner of the storage room, and covered it with a red cloth.

He took out the school sign, carried it out the door.

He stopped in front of Lin Man, lifted the red cloth off the sign, and touched the faded marks on it, asking, "This is the old sign. Isn't it a bit... a bit inappropriate for the new school to have this sign up now?"

"It's alright. The primary school we applied to is also called Hongxing Primary School, and it's under the jurisdiction of the higher education authorities. It's only right that we put up this sign!" Lin Man also reached out and stroked the black and white sign that was as tall as a person.

Hongxing Primary School, Hongxing Village, Linhai Town, Xinhui City

He still remembers when he first started school, the sign only said "Red Star Primary School" on a white background with a few words written in red.

Later, the sign was changed to white background with black lettering, and the words "Linhai Town" and "Hongxing Village" were added before "Hongxing Primary School".

Later, the words "Xinhui City" were added to the beginning.

A few days ago, after Wan Chen announced the school's closure and merger, this sign was taken down.

Now, this sign has to be put back up.

Lin Man and Liu Guoming carried the sign to the school gate, and together they bent over and hung it on the pillar to the right of the school gate.

After hanging the sign, Liu Guoming removed the red cloth covering it.

The moment the red cloth was removed, Lin Man finally heard the sound he longed to hear.

[Ding! The "Journey to Learning" mission is complete. The reward, a Project Construction Acceleration Card, has been sent to your system inventory. Please check your account!]

Upon hearing this sound, Lin Man eagerly opened the system warehouse, and at the very end of that pile of items lay a golden card.

With a thought, he selected the golden card, and the card's information appeared before Lin Man's eyes.

Project Construction Acceleration Card:

Application: Used to accelerate various construction projects, accelerating them by 100%. During the period of use, the microclimate within an 8-kilometer radius of the relevant construction project will become cloudy, and the temperature will be controlled at 26 degrees Celsius.

The project construction workers are energetic, focused, and have shown a significant improvement in their humaneness.

The failure rate of mechanical equipment has been significantly reduced.

The setting speed of concrete has been greatly improved.

Duration: Target project completed (but not yet accepted)!

Scope of acceleration: limited to the same project and within the same jurisdiction.

Side effect: Additional costs for personnel and equipment are required.

After reading the instructions for the acceleration card, Lin Man's expression became quite interesting. He took out his phone, clicked on the weather, and then clicked refresh.

His location changed from Guangzhou to Hongxing Village, but the temperature didn't change much, from around 32 degrees Celsius when he got on the bus in the afternoon to 28.4 degrees Celsius now.

It's 9 PM now!

It was still 28.4 degrees Celsius at 9 PM!

28.4 degrees!

After checking the current temperature, Lin Man clicked to open the nighttime temperature curve, which contained a weather forecast for tonight.

There will be no rain tonight, and the temperature will be at its lowest around 3 a.m.

The temperature at that time will drop as low as 26.7 degrees Celsius!

26.7 degrees Celsius!

If he had never been to the North and had never seen the outside world, he would say that a temperature like this on a summer night is already very good.

However, he had seen the outside world!

Summer nights aren't all sweltering hot; they can be cool too!

Now, the system has awarded a project construction acceleration card, which can control the temperature within an 8-kilometer radius to 26 degrees Celsius and also turn the surrounding microclimate into a cloudy day.

What is this?

This is Dad!

Even your own father would pale in comparison to this speed-up card.

Moreover, this is 26 degrees Celsius on the coast of Guangdong Province!

While all the people in Guangdong Province, especially those in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, were suffering from the sweltering heat, someone suddenly jumped out and told them that there was a sunny beach with a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius, just over 200 kilometers away from Guangzhou, a mere 3-hour drive away!

That place is truly paradise!

What I need to do is to lay out the project and start construction.

The only troublesome thing is that the project can't be built indefinitely, and this damn project construction acceleration card even has a special label, so the effect doesn't even last until the end of the acceptance process!

Lin Man strongly suspected that this system was created by some civil engineer, as it didn't give anyone a chance to exploit bugs.

But it doesn't matter. The system has already rewarded you once, so it will definitely give you more later. You just need to renew this thing before your membership expires, just like renewing a membership card.

He refused to believe that with his luck and the special nature of the project, he wouldn't be able to draw an acceleration card in a year or two!

As long as I get an accelerator card, I can keep the temperature up!

26 degrees Celsius!

Heaven, absolute heaven!

Even before the project starts, you can organize some small activities to pray for rain and cool down, and then edit the videos of these activities and post them online to generate buzz.

I really am a genius!

After praising himself in his heart, Lin Man closed the system panel. When he came back to his senses, he found Liu Guoming looking at him with a puzzled expression.

Lin Man quickly looked down at herself, then looked up again: "Is there something dirty on me?"

"—Hard to say!" Liu Guoming shook his head, then nodded: "After you hung up that sign, you suddenly froze there, and then just kept laughing—"

"It looks a bit like something dirty, but not quite."

"Isn't this something to be happy about?" Lin Man looked up and pointed his chin at the sign on the doorpost. "But as happy as I am, today is already August 11th."

"There are only ten days left before school starts. In the next few days, you need to log in to the compulsory education service platform to get the enrollment plan assigned by the education bureau."

"Then, enrollment and student registration will be carried out according to the enrollment plan, student records will be established, and finally, the school will start."

"By the way, there are a few students from the village who won't be recruited. As for the reasons for not recruiting them, I'll handle it."

"Also, because the teachers I recruited are quite capable, Director Wan of the Education Bureau arranged for several of his relatives' children to come over. You can coordinate that for them."

As he spoke, memories from the previous two days slowly flooded into Liu Guoming's mind, and he remembered the people who opposed the establishment of the primary school.

He remembered that Lin Man had said that the children from these families could go to school outside.

The most important thing for a real man is to keep his word.

If we said so at the time, then we definitely can't provoke them now.

However, the law stipulates that schools cannot refuse to enroll students within their designated school district without a valid reason during the compulsory education stage.

But rules are rigid, people are flexible.

People can always find a reason.

A sinister smile tugged at the corner of Liu Guoming's lips, and he nodded to Lin Man with a smile, "Understood!"

Having received Liu Guoming's reply, Lin Man turned around and walked home into the night.

As soon as he stepped into his house, he saw a group of people enjoying the cool air in the yard.

In the middle are my maternal grandmother, my mother, and my two uncles.

Next to these elders were several cousins, and closest to the courtyard gate was Lin Xiaoxi.

The girl was holding an ice cream in her left hand and a piece of watermelon rind in her right.

Seeing Lin Man, Lin Xiaoxi held up the watermelon rind, which had already been bitten open and had its white skin showing: "Brother, do you want to eat watermelon?"

"I—" Lin Man began to pull out his belt. Today, he was determined to teach this little bastard what it meant to be a king or queen.

Upon seeing the belt, Lin Xiaoxi threw the watermelon rind on the ground and rushed into her mother's arms, yelling, "Murder! Murder!"

"Mother, your cruel and tyrannical eldest son is trying to murder your eldest daughter for the sake of the family fortune!"

After speaking to her mother, Lin Xiaoxi quickly turned to her two uncles for help: "Uncles, if only you..."

"Help me rid myself of this wicked creature, and assist me in seizing the throne. When I ascend the throne, it will be the day my two uncles enjoy wealth and glory."

Hearing her call, the uncle next to her clamped the stool between his legs and silently moved back two steps. Then he saw the broom next to him, picked it up and handed it to Lin Man's mother.

The eldest uncle next to the youngest uncle reached out and held his niece's hands tightly: "Xiaoxi, let me tell you, when you hit someone with a belt, don't be tense, you have to relax."

"If the belt is loosened, the pressure won't be as high when you pull it up, and it won't hurt as much!"

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