Tang Quantong handed her three job placement certificates. "One is the transport team position you requested, another is for the machinery factory, and the third is for the food processing plant."
He then handed Xu Qinghuan a stack of ten-yuan bills. "Here is two hundred yuan. I know it doesn't compare to the value of a job, but times are difficult everywhere—you've seen for yourself. This is all I could manage."
The two hundred yuan was awarded under the name of the commune. The county leadership was actually quite displeased that Xu Qinghuan had demanded compensation, and so much of it, at that. It wasn't that they couldn't afford it, but rather that it went against the spirit of serving the people. It was seen as a lack of ideological progress. Tang Quantong had taken the brunt of the criticism for this, though he chose not to mention that to her.
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