"Did your farm also get hairtail?"
Qiao Changhai pointed at the lunch box and a bright smile appeared on his lips.
"I've only seen canned hairtail before, and I've never eaten it. I don't know what the difference is between hairtail and river fish. The food in the bearing factory cafeteria is good, and thanks to your mother, I've eaten it twice. Your mother has always been worried about you not having eaten it, and it just so happens that the cafeteria is making it again today."
Qiao Baozhu felt warm in her heart, as her adoptive parents had always loved her unconditionally. In front of the two elders, Qiao Baozhu never hides herself. So the hairtail in the lunch box smelled too fishy, and Qiao Baozhu did not hide her disgust.
"How can our farm compare to my mom's company? The bearing factory is a large state-owned enterprise, generating millions of dollars in revenue for the country every year. Our farm, haha, loses money every year."
Qiao Baozhu curled her lips and complained to the two elders in a low voice with a mysterious look on her face: "The farm cafeteria can't even afford to provide two-cup steamed buns now. Everyone eats four-cup noodles. The employees of the tofu shop, noodle shop, tailor shop, and pig farm are not paid. They produce and sell their own products to offset their wages."
The farm can’t pay wages?
Qiao Changhai and Bao Huihua looked at each other, shocked and worried.
Bao Huihua fell into the chair, staring at Qiao Baozhu blankly, her eyes full of confusion about Qiao Baozhu's future.
"Qingyanshan Farm is a state-owned farm. All farm workers are on the payroll and have stable jobs. It's normal that we can't pay our wages for the time being. The country is in a difficult situation right now. It will be fine after it passes. We will pay them later."
Qiao Changhai patted his wife's shoulder soothingly, his tone firm, not worried about his daughter at all.
Bao Huihua's face was full of worry and she gestured twice at Qiao Changhai.
Qiao Changhai smiled and looked at Qiao Baozhu: "Your mother asked you, the tofu shop can use tofu to pay wages, what should you do when you work in an office?"
Without waiting for Qiao Baozhu to answer, Bao Huihua gestured twice again.
Qiao Baozhu understood her adoptive mother's intention and smiled jokingly, "The formal employees of a state-owned factory speak differently. I get a subsidy of fifty yuan a month. You two old people are really rich now."
Bao Huihua pursed her lips and smiled shyly. The biggest gain for a housewife entering the workplace is confidence.
Her monthly salary is only 32 yuan now. It's not much, but it allows Bao Huihua to stand up straight and be a decent person.
Bao Huihua earns 32 yuan a month, and Qiao Changhai, a level 6 worker, earns more than 80 yuan a month. The old couple's monthly salary alone is more than 100 yuan.
The old couple were very frugal, and the biggest expenses at home were food and heating. Rice, flour, grain, oil, pork, vegetables, coal, and bamboo shoots are all prepared before winter.
The old couple spent less than five dollars a month and saved all their wages. With a bulging wallet, Bao Huihua is more willing to spend money on her daughter.
"I don't need you to subsidize me. We who work in offices must be paid normally. Besides..."
Qiao Baozhu paused, and whispered uncomfortably: “Shen Xiao’s salary is in my hands, and the two of us can save more than a hundred yuan a month.”
Bao Huihua let out a long sigh, patted her chest, and finally felt relieved.
When Qiao Changhai saw his daughter mention Shen Xiao, a smile appeared on his lips, and there was a tenderness in his eyes that he had never seen before. I know that the couple has a good relationship and is not affected by their long-distance separation.
"That's good."
Qiao Changhai shook his dark and honest big head and looked at his daughter with a smile: "Your mother and I both have jobs now, although we don't know how much pension we will get when we retire in the future. But it is much better than before. We won't need you and your son-in-law to support us in the future. As long as you two live a good life, it's better than anything else."
Qiao Baozhu raised her head and frowned, pretending to be angry: "If you say that again, I don't like it. My parents raised me when I was young, and I will take care of them when they are old. This is the natural thing. You have suffered so much for me for so many years and have been laughed at by the second wife for so many years. I want to show them that the children raised by Qiao Changhai and Bao Huihua are more filial than them."
Qiao Changhai loved hearing these the most and laughed so hard that his teeth were showing.
"Your mother and I don't care what they say. We adopted you not for your old age. We really like you. We don't want anything. We just want you to eat well, sleep well, be healthy, have a harmonious relationship with your spouse, and have two children."
Qiao Baozhu's heart was filled with ripples. The wishes of her adoptive parents seemed simple and ordinary, but they were the most precious.
It is already difficult to eat well, sleep well and stay healthy. In addition, the husband and wife must be harmonious and have both sons and daughters. This is a very happy family.
"Well, I have already met more than half of what you two elders asked for." Qiao Baozhu counted on her fingers, smiling, "I eat well, sleep well, and am in good health now. Shen Xiao and I have a good relationship. In two years, maybe we will have a son and a daughter."
Qiao Changhai and Bao Huihua smiled at each other, and saw relief, assurance and joy in each other's eyes.
There is no way, the marriage between Qiao Baozhu and Shen Xiao is really absurd and outrageous. The daughter's view on marriage was both pessimistic and twisted. She was not optimistic about Shen Xiao but still plunged into the marriage.
Fortunately, the couple has a good relationship and their family life is prosperous.
Bao Huihua took the lunch box to the kitchen to heat up the food, and Qiao Baozhu took the opportunity to talk to her adoptive father about the sewing machine in the east.
"I asked someone to buy four sewing machines and placed them in the east corner of our house."
There was no trace of surprise on Qiao Changhai's face. He discovered it as soon as he got home from get off work. The corridor was cleaned up and a few more sewing machines were added to the east room.
"Do you want to open a tailor shop? Just sell the clothes your mother made these two days?"
Qiao Baozhu never hid her idea of selling ready-made clothes from Qiao Changhai and Bao Huihua. The old couple never discouraged Qiao Baozhu's enthusiasm and always supported her to the best of their abilities.
"Are you planning to take a leave of absence and stay at home to sell clothes?"
Qiao Changhai stroked his beard, as if he had made a great decision: "It's okay to take a leave of absence without pay. Anyway, our family is not short of money now. My son-in-law is studying in the capital, and we don't know when he will be able to come back. We are also worried about you being alone on the farm."
Qiao Baozhu shook her head helplessly.
"Dad, I don't want to take a leave of absence. I want to hire someone to do it at home."
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