Chapter 400: Looking for a Good Person

When she first came to Beijing, Xia Juanjuan also mentioned this matter to Lin Yuru.

However, Lin Yuru disagreed, saying that she could handle it.

Xia Juanjuan thought that she and her six children could also help with cooking and washing clothes.

She secretly took the clothes to the washroom and only left a small amount to avoid Lin Yuru's suspicion.

In addition, he was also afraid that if someone really came to help, Lin Yuru would be at a loss like Xia Shuangshan, so he did not insist.

But things are different now.

After Li Zhan came back, Shen Wanxue and Rong Zhenbang also moved in, and later Yang Qiushi would also come, so the family had really grown a lot more people.

Even Shen Wanxue, Rong Zhenbang and Yang Qiushi would not just sit there and eat without helping. Cooking alone would be tiring enough.

Another point is that her business will officially begin after the conference this winter.

She owns a food store in Jing City, and she plans to buy a clothing store later. She also owns a hotel in Mo County, and she also wants to visit Guangzhou Port City and the clam breeding base in Zhejiang Province.

She still has classes to go to, and with all this going on, she probably won't have the time to help.

The six kids will have increasingly heavy academic workload and it will be impossible for them to always help out.

Moreover, Lin Yuru and Xia Shuangshan were both older, and she was thinking of letting them look after the storefront, which would serve as a means of making a living, so that they wouldn't feel needed and at a loss as to what to do.

After comprehensive consideration, it would be better to find a more suitable person to come and help.

After hearing this, Li Zhan nodded and said, "It is indeed time to find someone to help. But where can we find someone?"

Xia Juanjuan had already thought it through and said, "I'll introduce myself to you and see if it works for you."

Li Zhan heard this and said with a smile: "Have you thought about it all? Okay, tell me about it."

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Aren't the children of our eldest sister quite old? I heard that the eldest daughter is already married, and the second daughter is 17 years old this year, and she hasn't found her husband yet. I have met her once, and she is not bad. Otherwise, let her come to our house to help, and we will give her 30 yuan a month, what do you think?"

Li Zhan's eldest sister is Li Zhaodi.

It was Li Zhaodi who helped a lot in revealing Li Zhan's background. After that, her relationship with the Li family was restored.

In recent years, although they did not visit relatives in person every year, they still gave gifts to relatives and gave New Year's money to her children every year.

Xia Juanjuan would help them from time to time.

However, she did not go too far in helping in emergencies or in poverty.

At first, he gave Li Zhaodi twenty yuan to allow her to send her children to school.

However, no one knew what Li Zhaodi was thinking, and he didn't give it in the end, and Xia Juanjuan never gave anything to her again afterwards.

During the New Year holidays, the New Year's money given to children is a little more generous, about two or three yuan per person.

Xia Juanjuan had been to Li Zhaodi's house once with Zhou Qiuhe and met their second daughter, Chunyan. She was not pretty, but very capable and a little shy, but not dull either. She was very efficient in doing things.

When she and Zhou Qiuhe were visiting, Chunyan helped pour water, took care of her younger brothers and sisters, washed vegetables, lit the fire and cooked. She was never idle.

But their third daughter is a bit lazy and always procrastinates in doing anything.

Xia Juanjuan has a very good impression of this second daughter.

"There is one thing. After all, she is your niece and should call you uncle. If you feel uncomfortable with her coming to us for help, then just pretend I never said it. I will look for someone else who has nothing to do with her."

Li Zhan looked at her and said with a smile, "I haven't said a word yet, and you've already said all these bad words."

Xia Juanjuan blinked and smiled, "So do you agree or not?"

Li Zhan smiled and said, "You have met her. If you think she is good, you can let her come. Although there are more people in our family, it is still easier than doing farm work in the village."

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "If you agree, I'll ask my third sister-in-law to help pass on the message."

Li Zhan nodded and said, "Okay. You do it."

Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan discussed it and announced the matter the next day.

Lin Yuru wanted to object and insisted that she could still do it, but was refuted by Xia Juanjuan.

"Mom, don't worry. When our halal shop is open, you and my dad will go to look after the shop. How can you take care of the housework? Besides, we have already greeted the eldest sister. The eldest sister is very happy. If you ask me to go back to her now, how embarrassing it would be."

After hearing this, Lin Yuru had no choice but to give up.

Xia Juanjuan sent a telegram to Zhou Qiuhe, asking her to help inquire. However, she did not let Zhou Qiuhe reveal too much about the monthly salary, and just said it was 20 yuan a month.

Just like this, Li Zhaodi and her husband were also overjoyed when they heard it.

Twenty yuan a month for city workers may not be much, it is probably the salary of a junior worker.

But for rural people, these twenty yuan may take half a year or even a year of hard work to earn!

In addition to the telegram, Xia Juanjuan also sent over the travel expenses, which was enough to buy a hard sleeper.

However, the journey from Li Zhaodi's county to Beijing City is only four or five hours, and Li Zhaodi only bought a hard seat ticket.

With half of the money she saved, she bought two pounds of meat and made meat-stuffed pancakes for the whole family. She saved the remaining few dollars.

He also told his second daughter to send home 15 yuan when she earned money, so that she could save it to support her younger siblings and to help her eldest brother find a wife!

Although Li Zhaodi was a good person, in those days, especially in the countryside, people still valued sons more than daughters.

It is also very common to let daughters earn money for their sons to marry.

Li Zhaodi was not well educated, and although she was half-sold by her family, the best she could do was to give dowry to her son when he got married instead of marrying off his daughter.

My fourth brother gets 20 yuan a month, which includes food and lodging. He lets me send 15 yuan back home, which leaves me 5 yuan for pocket money. This is actually much fairer than most other parents.

After sending the person to the village entrance, Li Zhaodi felt a little sad when he saw his daughter leaving. He took a pancake and stuffed it into Chunyan's hand, saying, "Yan'er, when you go there, you must listen to your fourth uncle and aunt, and don't argue. Do you hear me? If you don't adapt, you can come back home. Do you hear me?"

Chunyan was a sensible girl. She wore an old green military jacket, a pair of coarse cloth trousers, two small braids, and her cheeks were rosy.

She also wiped her tears and said, "Mom, don't worry. When I get there, I will listen to my fourth uncle and aunt. I will work hard and send money back home to support my younger brothers and sisters."