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Chapter 116 The Neighboring Village: 666, another scam! (Second update!)

The call connected, and the sound of the whistling sea breeze came through the receiver. Before he could even speak, Lin Man knew that his father was probably on a fish raft.

The next second, Lin Yaobei's voice came through the phone: "What are you doing? Busy at the fish raft!"

"I need you to accompany Wang Ju to the district to get a business license for the educational institution."

"An educational institution? Why would you do that?" Lin Yaobei was bewildered. He couldn't understand why his son was doing things so haphazardly. He hadn't even finished setting up his company yet, and now he wanted to start an educational institution.

Moreover—given the feng shui of the Lin family's house, wouldn't setting up an educational institution be misleading and detrimental to the children?

Left with no other choice, Lin Man could only relay the Education Bureau's decision to his father in detail. After relaying the message, Lin Yaobei kept sighing.

After a long pause, she responded softly, "I'll go back now."

Just as he finished the call and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Wang Ju waved to him and then pointed to the screen: "Look here, this is the reply from the Municipal Education Bureau regarding the list of application materials and approval time for private schools."

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"It mentions the minimum number of students required for applying to private schools; for primary schools, it's fifty. I don't think your village has that many students!"

These words struck Lin Man like a bolt from the blue, leaving him frozen in place.

He rushed to the computer and read through the reply letter on the screen. Then, based on the content of the reply letter, he found the relevant management regulations on the official website of the Provincial Department of Education.

To apply to establish a private primary school, regardless of grade level, a minimum of fifty students is required.

The official response was that this was to ensure investment in education resources while reducing waste of various administrative resources.

Once Lin Man understood this, he was completely distraught.

In recent years, the number of births in Hongxing Village has dropped, unlike in earlier years when children were born every year.

Under this premise, there is a gap in the number of primary school students in Hongxing Village: there are students in the first grade, but none in the second grade, there may be some in the third grade, but there is no one in the fourth grade.

The students from all six grades came together, totaling only about thirty people.

If we include kindergartens, the number might exceed 50.

However, the publicly available documents have patched this vulnerability.

Kindergarten children don't count.

What does it mean to die before achieving one's goal? This is what it means to die before achieving one's goal.

The plan was already scrapped before anything was even done.

After circling around twice, Lin Man took out his phone to check the time and said to Wang Ju, "After my dad comes back, you go to the district with him first. I'll go to the next village now and see how many students they have."

"I will try my best to persuade them to let the students from their village continue to study here."

"Maintain student numbers!"

Before the words had even faded, Lin Man had already hurriedly left the house, hopped on his electric scooter, and headed east along the national highway towards the village.

The new national standard electric scooter doesn't resemble a donkey at all; it feels more like a snail.

After running for about 40 minutes, Lin Man finally arrived at the Tang'ao Village Committee in the east before getting off work.

The staff at the service window in Tang'ao Village were chatting and laughing as they prepared to leave work. Upon seeing Lin Man, the staff member closest to him couldn't help but sigh and turn to him: "What kind of service do you need?"

Lin Man walked over and said, "I'd like to find the village head and the village secretary of Tang'ao Village."

Upon hearing that it wasn't for business transactions, the person at the service window smiled again and pointed to the door at the far left of the service window: "See that door? Go through that door, and at the very end of the corridor, the village secretary's office is on the left, and the village head's office is on the right."

"Thank you!" After saying thank you, Lin Man looked around and found the staff information board of Tang'ao Village Committee.

After figuring out the surname of the village secretary of Tang'ao Village, I walked toward the gate.

He walked to the end of the corridor, rehearsed his lines for a few seconds in front of the village secretary's office, and then gently knocked on the door.

A voice inviting him to come in came from inside the door. He pushed the door open and went in. At that moment, Luo Chuan, who was behind the desk, also looked up.

The other person's gaze first fell on Lin Man's face, and then on the Party emblem on his chest.

He squinted for a moment before speaking, "Is there something you need?"

"I am Lin Man, the Party Secretary of Hongxing Village," Lin Man said directly, revealing his identity.

The next second, Luo Chuan, who had been intently observing him, immediately lowered his head, picked up a pen with his right hand to write on the white paper, and grabbed his phone with his left hand, pretending to make a phone call.

A few seconds later, the other person waved their right hand again: "Um—I'm a little busy right now, why don't you wait at the door for a bit?"

Lin Man didn't wait at the door, but walked directly to Luo Chuan, placed his hand on Luo Chuan's desk, and stated his purpose directly: "Hongxing Village Primary School is going to be closed down. I'm here to tell Secretary Luo that our Hongxing Village is preparing to set up a primary school."

"According to the requirements of the Provincial Department of Education, a primary school needs at least fifty students. Our village does not have that many students, so we would like to borrow a few students from Tang'ao Village."

Do you know what I mean?

Interrupted from his pretense, Luo Chuan simply gave up. He put down his pen, leaned back in his chair, and lazily looked at Lin Man: "Is this your new excuse?"

"What new reason?" Lin Man squinted, responding with great incomprehension. Luo Chuan, who was sitting across from him, chuckled and then lowered his head to rummage through the drawer on the left side of his desk.

He looked up again, threw the document he'd taken from the drawer onto the table, and pointed at it repeatedly with his right index finger: "Look at this!"

"That Lin Yaozu from your village was involved in illegal fundraising. About forty families in our village were scammed, all of them were old men and women."

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"Since last month, these old men and women have been bothering me every day."

"Things have been quiet for the past couple of days, and then you come back here wanting to start a primary school."

"Your Hongxing Village is really interesting. It's precisely because we live in a society governed by the rule of law that we must uphold the rule of law."

"If this were a few years ago, you'd see if I didn't take you down—"

Luo Chuan became more and more excited as he spoke. Towards the end, he abruptly stood up from his chair, walked around the desk, and stood in front of Lin Man. "You should be grateful that this is a good time—"

Hearing his loud curses, Lin Man wanted to kill Lin Yaozu even more.

He raised his hand to shield himself from Luo Chuan's flying spittle: "You've misunderstood!"

"Misunderstanding?" Luo Chuan asked sharply, then turned around as if he had heard something very funny, walked to the window, pushed it open, and took a deep breath of the hot air outside.

He inhaled deeply, then turned around, pointing at Lin Man: "Misunderstanding?"

"Tell me what day it is today? And tell me when kindergartens and primary schools here start school?"

Before Lin Man could respond, Luo Chuan shouted the time in an even louder voice: "September 1st!"

"Applying to establish a primary school, going through the entire process, takes at least two months, to say the least."

"It's been two months since National Day, and the opportunity is already lost, and you come here to tell me that you're going to start a primary school."

"If you're not here to scam money, what are you here for?"

Not hearing Lin Man's response, Luo Chuan roared again, "Speak!"

Noticing that this man had a rather volatile temper, Lin Man couldn't help but sigh. He walked to a chair and sat down: "About an hour ago, I saw off Director Wan of the Education Bureau, who was inspecting Hongxing Village."

"I brought up this idea while he was still there."

"The teaching building will continue to be the same as the one used by Hongxing Primary School. When the school is dissolved, the Education Bureau will transfer ownership of that building to the Hongxing Village Committee."

"At that time, the Hongxing Village Committee will offer this building for lease to the educational institution we have established."

"Educational institutions can take the lease agreement and the remaining documents to the education bureau for approval."

"According to regulations, the Education Bureau will complete the review within fifteen days."

"But if we handle this as a special case, the entire process, from submitting the documents to approval, will only take a few hours."

"The focus now is on the students; we need fifty students."

"Furthermore, the funding for establishing the school will be provided by my side; you don't need to contribute any money. Do you understand?"

"Heh!" Luo Chuan just sneered at Lin Man's explanation. The people of Hongxing Village were not trustworthy, and not a single word they said could be believed.

The farts from the people of Hongxing Village are like bombs!

Just as the two were at an impasse, the office door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties appeared in the doorway.

Upon seeing the two people in the room, a hint of surprise flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes: "Secretary Luo, do you have guests here?"

Upon hearing the other person's words, Luo Chuan shook his head repeatedly: "I'm not a guest, Lao He, is there something you need?"

"Oh! Right, I almost forgot!" He Ming, standing at the door, slapped his forehead, then turned around and called out to the people behind him, "Come here!"

As the voices spoke, two women, one old and one young, appeared behind He Ming. The one in front was an old lady who looked to be in her seventies or eighties, and behind her was a timid little girl wearing a blue school uniform, about 1.4 meters tall.

After the two approached, He Ming spoke again: "Didn't we announce this morning that the school in the neighboring Hongxing Village was going to be closed?"

"The girl called her mother to ask if she could go to school where her mother lived. Her mother lived in the Chengdong District and asked the local street office."

"The local street office needs us to provide a statement explaining the household registration transfer."

Having figured out the girl's purpose from He Ming, Luo Chuan abandoned his tirade against Lin Man and turned to berate the street office across the street: "What's this 'household registration transfer certificate'? Are those guys out of their minds?"

"For a minor to move in with either of their divorced parents, all that's needed is for the parent to bring the child, their ID card, the divorce certificate, and the divorce agreement, right?"

"If all else fails, we can just do a paternity test. What's with all that 'barbecue pork' stuff about the household registration transfer document?"

"What can we prove?"

Hearing his irritable remarks, the little girl standing by the door took two steps back and retreated behind the old lady. The old lady, who had been waiting at the door, quickly explained after hearing Luo Chuan's words: "That's exactly what the child's mother said. The neighborhood office said that there are limited places there, and you have to be a direct relative to enroll. They also said that you have to have this document."

"There's nothing we can do about it."

Luo Chuan, his temper flaring, shouted, "Give me her phone number!"

Upon hearing this, the old lady hurriedly pulled out her phone and was about to hand it over when Lin Man interrupted, "Making a call won't help. They need this explanation because it means people are running around, wasting time, and missing the registration deadline."

"If you miss the registration deadline, you'll have to study elsewhere."

Lin Man's sudden interruption annoyed Luo Chuan. He turned around and glared at him, "Bullshit! There's a shortage of students everywhere right now. How could there be a place that dislikes its students?"

"Yes!" Lin Man continued the conversation, and he simply walked over to the sofa and sat down: "Those schools in the East District are in good locations, and they don't have enough enrollment quotas every year. This girl's mother must be renting a place and working there."

"People who rent apartments for work are generally classified as having a third category of children during the school admissions process."

"That is, the last batch. It will only be their turn after those with household registration and housing, and those with housing but no household registration, have been recruited."

"So it's not entirely incomprehensible that they might issue a document to make things difficult for you."

Luo Chuan suddenly realized, then turned to the old woman and asked, "Does the child's mother rent a place to work in the eastern part of the city?"

"Yes." The old lady nodded in response to Luo Chuan's question.

Upon receiving this answer, Luo Chuan chuckled silently, turned around, returned to his desk, and began typing on the keyboard to edit the document.

Seeing that he was busy, Lin Man began to tempt him again: "Actually, all you need to do is help me write an application to the Municipal Education Bureau so that the Municipal Education Bureau can hand over the teaching building to the Hongxing Village Committee ahead of schedule."

"I can sign the lease agreement in advance and prepare in advance, which will shorten the subsequent procedures."

"As for the students, they can study wherever they want."

"It will not be disturbed."

"Do you understand?"

Luo Chuan was too angry to hear these words, but He Ming, who was standing nearby, did: "Red Star Village? You're from Red Star Village? What are you doing here?"

Lin Man pointed at Luo Chuan: "Find your village secretary and ask him to help us write an application letter, requesting permission for Hongxing Village to use the classrooms of the closed school to establish its own primary school and kindergarten."

"Doing this will save villagers from having to travel back and forth, and allow them to spend more time with their families."

"But your Party Secretary thought I was here to scam money, so he kept yelling at me."

"Luo!" He Ming slapped his thigh and quickly went to Lin Man's side, pressing Lin Man back into the chair: "Look at this—"

"Look how embarrassed this is!"

"I'll write this application. If my name isn't enough, then we'll find a few more people to write several more applications."

As he spoke, He Ming picked up an A4 sheet of paper from Luo Chuan's desk, grabbed a pen, bent over, and began writing his application letter, using the low coffee table as a base.

After finishing the letter, he handed it to Lin Man: "Take a look. If it's acceptable, I'll use this format!"