Chapter 215 Spring Seedlings Girls' Education Aid Program
Otherwise, why do we say “contrast creates beauty”?
The leader's motorcade drove along Provincial Highway 336. Most of the buildings they saw on the road were straw huts and dilapidated brick houses of various strange shapes.
As soon as the car arrived in Shuangfeng Town, we saw a building with a pointed roof and red tiles from afar. It was so beautiful that it looked like a foreign building that you could only see in movies.
This is the "live advertisement" specially designed by Jiang Tian for the new store.
Before building the house, Jiang Tian visited some factories of that era and found that most of them were gray bungalows. Their main feature was “saving money and being durable”, and they did not have any requirements for the aesthetics of the building’s exterior.
Are the surrounding factories all dusty?
Then she must build a building that is colorful and can be seen at a glance.
So, Jiang Tian spent some extra money and specially found a brick and tile factory to customize a batch of red tiles.
The new store, which was originally planned to be a bungalow, was built into a one-and-a-half-story building with a pointed roof.
The lobby is four meters high and has a spire on top. The attic can also be used as a warehouse for the fast food restaurant, where grain, oil, rice, noodles, etc. are stored, and it is not prone to moisture.
After its completion, the building with white walls, red tiles and a pointed roof really attracted the attention of passers-by.
Almost everyone who passes by, seeing this unique building, can't help but stop and take a closer look.
It’s a pity that there were no mobile phones in this era.
In a few decades, Jiang Tian believes that their new store will become the most popular "Internet celebrity check-in spot" in the entire Shuangfeng Town. What a pity!
But it doesn’t matter. Although you can’t take photos or check in with your mobile phone, passers-by have spread the word by word of mouth, and now everyone in the town knows where to find their new store.
"Fang Jie Fast Food? This place is easy to find. Just walk east along the provincial road and you will see a red pointed-roof house in the distance. That's their house."
This building with red roof and white walls has a strong visual impact.
Almost at first sight, the county leaders’ favorability rating was immediately maxed out.
When they entered the store, they saw the store manager, chefs and waiters, all of whom were wearing specially tailored work clothes. The decoration and furnishings in the lobby were also very different from the state-owned restaurants they often visited, and the leaders' expressions became cautious.
Yao Huifen swallowed, secretly wiped the sweat from her palms on her work clothes, walked in front of the county leaders with a smile on her face, and took a group of county bigwigs to visit the new store.
A year ago, if someone had told her that she would become the manager of a big restaurant, earn several hundred yuan a month, and even the county leaders would have to listen to her quietly, Yao Huifen would have been furious.
Is this person possessed by evil spirits? What nonsense is he talking about?
But now, even the village chief, whom she used to only dare to look up to in the crowd, can only follow the county leaders from a distance and cannot even get a seat in the front row.
But she walked in front of everyone, talking freely, as if she had become a leader...
Yao Huifen felt like she was walking on clouds throughout the whole process.
The county leaders visited the new store for a while and then went to the head office where Hu Qiongfang was in charge.
Han Sishu hadn't been to Fangjie Restaurant for half a month, and he didn't expect that it had changed a lot.
The walls had probably been repainted. On the snow-white walls hung a dozen white cardboards with calligraphy written on them.
There are store rules and regulations, as well as initiatives on civilized dining, food conservation and the like.
Even the price list hanging behind the cash register was rewritten.
"Huh? This is quite interesting, Boss Hu, did you come up with this on your own?"
The leading county chief pointed to the two eye-catching red words on the price list.
All I saw were the words “Spring Seed Girls’ Education Aid Program” written in large letters on it.
There is also a line of small words below, which reads: Thank you for your love! For every one yuan you spend in our store, we will take out five cents of profit and invest it in the "Spring Sprout Girls Education Aid Program" to help more outstanding rural girls who have dropped out of school!
Hu Qiongfang hurriedly pulled Jiang Tian out.
"I didn't come up with this idea, my daughter did it."
The county magistrate smiled and waved at Jiang Tian, asking her to introduce the "Spring Seedling Scholarship Program" to him.
Seeing that this was a rare opportunity, Jiang Tian explained how she had previously gone to the town middle school to recruit "minor apprentices".
"Uncle County Magistrate, there are indeed many girls in rural areas whose academic performance is obviously no worse than that of boys, but just because they are girls, their families say that they will be spilled water sooner or later and are unwilling to spend money to send them to school."
"But think about it, no matter whether it's in the countryside or in the city, who takes care of the children more, the father or the mother? Uncle County Magistrate, they say on TV that children are the future of the country, but I want to say that a cultured and knowledgeable mother is the real future of our country!"
"Think about it, between a mother who graduated from elementary school and a mother who graduated from high school, who can give their children a better family education?"
"My mother and I are just ordinary self-employed people. We can't do anything big to benefit the country or the people. We can only take some money from the profits of the restaurant to support those girls who have excellent grades but whose families can't afford to send them to school."
"In fact, we didn't think too much about this plan. We just thought that it would be a shame for these girls not to go to school since their grades are so good."
"We support them. If they can get into college and serve the motherland, it can be regarded as our indirect contribution to the construction of the motherland."
"Even if they don't get into college, or get married, a mother who graduated from high school might be able to raise several college students in the future. That can be considered as training talents for the country."
"Hahaha~ You little girl! You are still in school, and you are worrying about whether others can get into university?" The county magistrate laughed mercilessly.
Jiang Tian touched his nose and said awkwardly, "Isn't it that I'm just not smart, my grades are too bad, and I can't study?"
"But my brother is a great student. Now I open a shop to earn money to support my brother's college entrance examination. After he graduates, he will serve the motherland. It can be regarded as my contribution to the construction of our country, right?"
"That's right! There are top talents in every profession! That's why we encourage self-employed people to participate in social and economic development. Only when the people are financially prosperous will more families have money to send their children to school."
As expected of a county leader, his speaking level is really high!
The county magistrate's words brought the topic back to the development plan of Fangjie Hotel.
The main reason why the leaders came here this time was to hear Jiang Tian’s ideas about the “restaurant chain brand”.
Jiang Tian's eyes lit up.
Is this another chance to ask the leader for help in approving land?
She is so skilled at this job!