Chapter 975
When Ren Hongxia heard that she was leaving, she stopped her work to see her off and asked someone to pack a bag of chili peppers for her.
Lin Lan, “… Secretary Head, you are too polite. An amount that was sufficient for eating was already plenty.” Lin Lan had picked a small pile of peppers on her own, after all.
Ren Hongxia didn’t care, “How can that little bit be enough? Of course I have to provide more.” She asked Liu Chuncai to carry them on his back, “Captain Lin, you have only been in our team for two days, so do come again soon.”
Currently, all the surrounding brigades were proud to have Lin Lan and her team come over for promotions to the point where they were competing with each other.
After Lin Lan and others left…
Several educated youths gathered together and muttered, “Where does she get her confidence from? She hasn’t even been to school and she still has the nerve to instruct us?”
“That’s right! Look at the slogans she wrote and the simplified characters? I’m afraid she can’t write proper characters(3).”
(T/N: I believe that Simplified Mandarin characters were starting to popularise, but the system still widely used Traditional Mandarin characters, which are known to be more difficult to write and read. I can attest to that :’D )
“Isn’t it because her husband is the Director? If she didn’t get in through the back door(4), would she be able to organise the propaganda performances?”
(T/N: Back door means connections, nepotism, political exchange. Anything that can get your foot in the door of an opportunity that without a certain person or power you wouldn’t have been able to)
“I heard from people in their village that she is lazy and greedy— how domineering.”