Chapter 96: Allocating Funds to Spend on Shanbai Village

At this moment, the television was broadcasting a news interview about Shanbai Coal Mine.

The scene on the television was the scene of Reporter Xiao Xia interviewing the children.

Lin Kaiguo looked at the little girl who was barefooted and couldn’t help but frown.

The girl stared straight at the camera with her big eyes. She was very lively. Her face was dirty and covered in mud, but one could clearly see the little girl’s exquisite facial features. She was holding a strawberry that had been rinsed by the rainwater in her hand and was about to put it into her mouth. Her clothes were also dirty and she was only wearing one shoe. The other one was gone.

“Although Ping Yang Town is considered a poor area, the country allocates so much money to those poor areas every year. What village are these children from? Why can’t they even wear clean clothes?”

Xu Xiulian said, “The country has allocated money, but that money has to be able to reach the hands of the commoners. The money is distributed by the officials and deducted layer by layer. How much money is left when it reaches the hands of the commoners?”

She came from the countryside and knew this best. The country said that they would allocate funds to the village every year, but in the end, there was not much money left for the commoners. It was not even enough for an entire family’s meal.

When Lin Kaiguo heard that, he slammed the table angrily. “These country’s vermin are corrupt. They only care about money and power. What’s the use of having them?”

When the boss was angry, the people who were eating at the table did not dare to eat anymore.

He got up and called his subordinate. “About that village on the television called Shanbai Village. The children in the village can’t even wear proper clothes. Isn’t that a poor area? Why don’t you allocate them money? Just say that I said so. Hurry up and get someone to settle it. Allocate money to Shanbai Village so that the villagers and children in the village can eat their fill and wear warm clothes! If I find out that anyone dares to embezzle these funds, get lost!”

Lin Kaiguo had a bad temper, but he was very responsible. His subordinates were the same as him. Naturally, no one dared to do anything behind his back this time, since he personally interfered in the matter.

However, when his subordinates heard that the old boss wanted to allocate funds to Shanbai Village, they were very speechless.

Shanbai Village might have been a poor area in the past, but now, because of this Shanbai Coal Mine, the lives of the people in the village were almost comparable to that of the people in the county town, let alone the problem of food and clothing. There was no need for the state to sponsor them.

However, he did not dare to question the old boss’ orders. He could only follow them.

…

More than three hours had passed since the collapse of the Shanbai Village coal mine.

The rescue team still had not arrived. If not for the people stopping him, the county head, Wang Zhongshan, would have personally gone down to rescue them.

There were more than twenty lives inside. If they were not rescued, he would really be in big trouble.

Although the people from Shanbai Village did not cause any trouble, the reporters from the news media outlets did not give up. They kept waiting here, waiting for the big news.

The more time had passed, the more they felt that the possibility of the people underground being alive was slim.

Sun Chengfu couldn’t wait any longer. “County Head, I’ll gather the men in the village and get them to go down with me to look for them. We can’t wait any longer for the rescue team to arrive!”

The county head hesitated for a moment before agreeing to his suggestion. “We really can’t wait any longer. We’ll go down and rescue them ourselves!”

When the reporters saw that all the men from the Shanbai Village had been called over, they surrounded them and pointed their microphones and cameras at them.