Chapter 181 The nanny and the accountant Xu Hui who came into the room later also heard it...
Xu Hui, who entered the room shortly after, also heard the conversation between the mother and daughter and began to persuade Dong Taohua, "Taohua, I think He Ye is right. You're still young and can definitely start a new career."
If Dong Taohua is the kind of person who enjoys family life and doesn't like to go out to work, then it's fine for her to stay at home. After all, he has a job and his daughter is doing very well now and can support their family.
But Dong Taohua is obviously not such a person. Making someone who loves work stay at home around the stove every day is obviously killing her happiness and enthusiasm.
Seeing her husband and daughter support her, Dong Taohua was even more moved. However, she still had a concern: Xu Heye was about to take the college entrance exam. Her daughter's future was important, so she decided, "I'd rather wait until Heye finished the exam before going out to work."
"It'll only be half a year, not a long time. It just so happens that I know all about accounting—I know nothing about it. I can use these few months to enroll in night school, learn the knowledge, and take care of He Ye's meals at the same time."
"But wouldn't that be too tiring?" Xu Heye thought about it and decided it was fine. Accounting wasn't easy to learn, and studying it while taking care of the family wasn't easy.
"Or we can hire a nanny." Hiring a nanny would free Dong Taohua from the vortex of housework.
Dong Taohua thought about it and refused: "No, it's not worth hiring a nanny for ordinary families like us."
"Mom, you can't think like that," Xu Heye advised. "What's wrong with ordinary families? Can't ordinary families use a nanny? If you hire a nanny, someone will take care of all the housework, and you can be responsible for more meaningful things. Isn't that great?"
Upon hearing this, Pang Qiao immediately said, "In that case, we should also hire a nanny."
In the past two years, her father has been working overtime at the company and has been unable to take care of the family. Her mother, on the other hand, has experienced a second spring in her career and is busy making money every day, so she has been unable to take care of the family.
She and Pang Wei ate in the school cafeteria when they went to school. During the holidays, they either ate noodles boiled in plain water, went to a small restaurant outside, or went to her aunt's house for meals. In short, they had never eaten a proper home-cooked meal.
She is already eighteen years old, so it doesn't matter if she eats a few meals in the cafeteria. Pang Wei is still young, so he should have someone cook for him at home and eat healthy and nutritious meals.
Xu Heye thought of her uncle Dong Fuyun again: "Should my uncle's family also look for a nanny?"
"He's so busy that he's never home when he's busy. My aunt-in-law takes care of everything at home by herself. She has to take care of the children and go to work at the same time. It will definitely be easier if there's someone to share the burden with."
Dong Taohua said, "Your uncle's family probably doesn't need to find anyone. Your aunt's parents are helping them." Dong Taohua and Dong Xinghua had no objection to Wang Jia asking his elders to help take care of the children. Her mother died young, and Wang Jia didn't have a mother-in-law to help, so it was only natural to ask his own mother to help.
"But let's ask them. If they also need a nanny, we can look for one together." Wang Jia didn't want to think that since the two aunts were going in and out together, they would exclude their family.
Dong Taohua was a decisive person. After making the decision, she immediately went to the study to call Dong Xinghua and Dong Fuyun.
After the Chinese New Year of 1991, Dong Taohua contacted the mobile company and had a landline installed in her study. Dong Xinghua and Dong Fuyun bought new houses, and after renovating them, they both installed telephones, making it very convenient for the families to communicate.
As expected, Dong Xinghua agreed to hire a nanny, but Wang Jia, Dong Fuyun's wife, refused. With her biological parents helping her and no in-laws to interfere, she didn't want to have an outsider come back to interfere with her life.
Dong Taohua didn't force it. She was just asking casually. If Wang Jia wanted to invite someone, she would find someone for him. If Wang Jia didn't want to invite someone, she would save him the trouble.
After talking about hiring a nanny, Dong Taohua brought up what Dong Hongfu and his wife had come to ask for today: "By the way, Xinghua, you know a lot of people. Do you know which factories are hiring recently? If it's convenient, please help me find a job for your eldest brother and his wife."
Dong Xinghua was a little surprised, but not surprised. Her elder sister might appear cold, but she was actually soft-hearted. Furthermore, Dong Hongfu and Dai Ying had been through a truly difficult two years, and it was only natural for Dong Taohua to soften her heart when they came to her for help.
Dong Xinghua thought for a moment and said, "Yes, there is, but it's a privately owned garment factory. Not only do they have no security, but the work is also very hard. They're paid by the piece, and often have to work overtime, but there's no overtime pay."
The treatment is incomparable to that of state-owned factories, or even to those of their southern garment factories.
While their factory also pays by the piece, they offer overtime pay when they're rushing to meet deadlines. They also offer full attendance bonuses, outstanding employee awards, cooling herbal tea in the summer, and warming ginger tea in the winter. With good pay and proper compensation, their employee loyalty rivals that of state-owned factories.
"A private factory is fine," Dong Taohua said. "I won't intervene in this matter. Just contact them directly when you find a job. But let me be frank: before you go, you must tell them that it's just a job to make ends meet. You have to work hard to earn the money. If you still think you can get paid just by living a lazy life, then don't go. You won't last long."
"Okay." Dong Xinghua nodded, "I'll explain everything to them both."
"By the way, you should also give the factory a subtle reminder not to let them do responsible work like warehouse management, so as to avoid losses caused by their inability to handle the responsibilities."
I'm just asking for a favor, not trying to harm them. It's not worth offending Dong Hongfu's family for their sake.
"I understand." Dong Xinghua was no longer the textile factory worker who'd been so absorbed in her work. Over the past two or three years, she'd been managing production and going out to buy things, meeting more people and encountering more things than she had in the previous decades.
There are actually people like this in their factory.
Some bosses don't want to treat their relatives as bosses in their own companies, fearing that it will affect the company's development, so they find ways to insert them into their friends' companies as mascots.
We don't expect them to do anything, just stay quiet and go to get off work on time, and we'll pay them.
The girl working in their factory is the sister-in-law of the boss of one of the raw material suppliers. She is quite serious about her work, but she is lazy and likes to work for three days and rest for two days. The reason why she has not been fired is simply because a large part of her salary is transferred by her brother-in-law.
Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to support herself with the little work she did.
However, her relationship with her eldest brother's family was not good, so she couldn't afford to support them like the supplier they were working with. Once she joined the factory, she would be an ordinary employee, earning money to support the family. If she couldn't do that, there was nothing she could do.
"Then leave the matter of finding a nanny to me." Dong Taohua said.
Dong Xinghua was busy and probably didn't have time to carefully select a nanny. If she didn't find the right one, it would still be a hassle, even worse than if she had no nanny at all.
Dong Taohua used to work at the Women's Federation, and she'd seen plenty of this sort of thing. There were those who stole the mistress's clothes, shoes, and socks, those who got involved with the man, and those who stole the family's property... In short, she encountered all sorts of bizarre people. There were also good nannies, but employers were reluctant to let them go, hoping they'd keep them in the house to serve three generations.
She has time and knows how to judge people, so she can take her time to choose.
"Sister, I'm sorry to bother you with this." Dong Xinghua had long wanted to find a nanny, but she simply didn't have the time. With two children, one in high school and the other still in elementary school, she worried that if she found someone bad, she'd be even more worried. This delay meant the children had to eat in the cafeteria for two years.
In 1993, there were only three days of annual leave, and people in state-owned enterprises and public institutions had to go back to work on the third day of the Lunar New Year.
However, private factories started work late, and many shops were closed. It was not until the seventh and eighth days of the Lunar New Year that shops began to open, and more and more migrant workers returned to the city.
The couple ran around the Hucheng job market for several days but couldn't find a suitable nanny.
We also found a few people to come back for a trial job, but they all had their own problems.
Some people don't know how to cook and are reluctant to use oil and salt when cooking. Dong Taohua said that people are still unhappy and ask, "Who doesn't cook like this?"
Adding so much oil and salt is something only a spendthrift woman would do.
Others went to the other extreme, using too much oil and salt, with half the dish being oily, and you'd get sick of it after just two bites. Dong Taohua said something, and the other person nodded in agreement, only to then turn around and bring out another plate of black food.
Some people can cook, but their hygiene is not up to par. When tasting dishes, they like to scoop out soup with a spoon and pour the soup directly back into the pot after tasting, which makes people feel sick.
Even Dong Taohua herself found it hard to accept, let alone Xu Heye. They paid a nanny to take care of their daily life, not to pay someone to eat their saliva.
After several days of unsuccessful attempts, Dong Taohua couldn't help but feel discouraged. Why is it so difficult to find a nanny that suits her?
Finally, He Zhijun knew that their family was looking for a nanny and recommended two people.
The two of them used to be nannies. They are good at cooking and also know some of the taboos of being a nanny.
Of course, they are local people from Hucheng, and they used to serve local employers in Hucheng. The meals they cook are all sweet, which is very suitable for the taste of Dong Xinghua's family, but a little incompatible with Dong Taohua's family.
Fortunately, the nanny was a quick learner, and after Dong Taohua emphasized her family's tastes, she made some adjustments. Besides Hucheng's local dishes, she also bought a cookbook and learned to make special dishes from Gan Province.
At first, her skills were naturally not as good as Dong Taohua's, but she had a learning attitude, so Dong Taohua felt that she shouldn't be too harsh on her. Gradually, the nanny's skills improved.
Dong Taohua was delighted. With a nanny, she had someone to take care of her meals and clean the house. Freed from the chores, she immediately enrolled in night school to learn accounting.
After studying for a month, Dong Taohua felt that her progress was a bit slow, so she found a teacher to provide one-on-one tutoring during the day.
With such seriousness, when Xu Heye was taking the college entrance examination, Dong Taohua had already passed the accounting qualification certificate and the junior accountant certificate. If it were not for the work experience required to apply for the intermediate accountant certificate, Xu Heye felt that her mother might have obtained all the accounting certificates in one go.
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