Chapter 351 Adding insult to injury
Zhang Min cried out "wow".
Wu Jianguo took a deep drag on his cigarette and said, "Let's go to the branch factory! At least we'll be in the same system and have the same experience. When I retire and Xiao Min takes over, I think her salary level will be able to transfer as well."
This time, Zhang A-mei did not argue with Wu Jianguo and nodded.
"I don't want to be a temporary worker! In the branch factory, I will work in the workshop and do the same job, but the salary is much lower. I don't want it, it's too hard!" Zhang Min cried very sadly.
"There's nothing we can do about it! You can't just be an unemployed vagrant! This is what you studied, and you can't go to another factory!" Zhang A'mei advised.
"It's because you changed my major! I could have studied accounting and now I could have entered another factory or found a job in a private factory! At least I don't have to be a textile worker!" Zhang Min yelled.
"You have a way out, but many people don't even have one! No matter what, you can always get a job in a cotton mill in the future!" Zhang A'mei thought that as long as she could wait until Wu Jianguo retired, everything would be fine.
"I'm not going into the workshop anyway!" Zhang Min stormed out.
Wu Jianguo looked at Zhang A-mei.
He no longer wanted to ask about the cabinet and the bed; he already knew the outcome.
Zhang A-mei said, "I have to go and register her first. They can't accept all the students. If you're late, she might miss out."
"Hmm." Wu Jianguo took a puff of his cigarette and said "hmm" softly.
Zhang Min came home very late. Zhang A'mei went to the alley entrance several times from home to look for him. She was so anxious that she went home and said to Wu Jianguo:
"Go find it! Don't let your mind wander!"
"No way..." Wu Jianguo panicked and stood up to go look for it.
At this time, Zhang Min came back.
It's not that he looks depressed, he even got a new perm.
"You..." Zhang A'mei looked at her daughter with some concern.
Zhang Min smiled and said to them, "Mom, I've decided. I'm going to work in a barber shop. I can earn more a month than a regular employee! I like it anyway!"
Zhang A-mei looked at her daughter in surprise and confirmed, "Barber shop!"
"Well, look at how you can perm your hair into several pieces!"
"That's not a serious job..." Wu Jianguo also interrupted.
"What's the big deal? As long as I can make money, that's all!" Zhang Min said nonchalantly.
"Pa!" Zhang A'mei slapped her daughter in the face. "Go work at the branch factory! If you dare go to the barber shop, don't come back! I won't recognize you as my daughter!"
Zhang Min covered her face, packed some things, and rushed out of the house again.
Song Ying was watering flowers in the yard when she heard Zhang A'mei cursing. After cursing Zhang Min, she cursed Wu Jianguo, and the cursing continued until late at night.
Zhang Min went out all night and didn't come back.
In the second half of the night, Zhang A-mei and Wu Jianguo looked everywhere for the person, but they couldn't find him.
Zhang Min didn't come back until the next day.
Zhang A-mei suddenly remembered the barber shop that Zhang Min mentioned, so she started looking for it one by one, and finally saw Zhang Min learning to do people's hair in "Xiaoli Hair Salon".
Zhang A'mei pulled Zhang Min out without saying a word.
"Mom! Let go! I'm at work! I'll live in the store from now on and won't go back for now..." Zhang Min shook off Zhang A'mei's hand.
"Come back with me. If you don't, I will die in front of you!" Zhang A'mei cried.
"Oh, Mom! You can only use this trick on my dad, it doesn't work on me!" Zhang Min frowned, then turned and went into the barber shop.
Zhang A'mei returned home in a daze.
Sure enough, Zhang Min did not come back that day.
Wu Jianguo said: "It seems that she is determined to work there."
Zhang A-mei cried, "What do you know? She's just lazy and doesn't want to endure hardship. She thinks working in a barber shop is easier, and only cares about the present. She doesn't realize that besides her salary, she has to rely on the factory for many other things!"
"That's true...but she has to listen to you!" Wu Jianguo was also helpless.
Zhang A'mei thought about it and started pretending to be sick the next day, asking Wu Jianguo to go to the barber shop to call Zhang Min back.
But Zhang Min knew her mother too well. She told Wu Jianguo that she didn't believe it and would go home to see them on her day off, and then went back to the store to get busy.
Wu Jianguo failed to complete the task and returned home.
Zhang Min's behavior completely angered Zhang A'mei. She rushed to the barber shop and smashed everything in the shop to pieces. She was then sent to the police station.
When Wu Jianguo arrived, Zhang Min was begging the store owner Chen Xiaoli.
Chen Xiaoli didn't intend to send Zhang A-mei to jail, she only asked for compensation for the loss at the original price.
Zhang Min knew the current situation of her family. She cried, "But, we really have no money now."
Chen Xiaoli was also helpless. She suppressed her anger and replied:
"Xiao Min, I only agreed to compensate you for your money because of you. You know, I bought all these things from Guangzhou. It was not easy. Some of them took a long time to order. It's not about the money!
Besides! How can I do business these days? I still have to pay the rent for the shop and the salaries of several employees. You know everything! If you don’t compensate me, then I have no choice, then…”
Wu Jianguo knew the seriousness of the consequences and rushed forward: "Boss Chen, we will compensate you, we will compensate you."
After calculating the compensation, the total amount of losses including hairdressing products, furniture, hair dryers, curling irons and other electrical appliances was three hundred yuan.
This is another huge sum of money for Wu Jianguo.
For the Wu family, the situation is getting worse and worse.
Wu Jianguo had no money, so he promised to raise the money and pay it back to Chen Xiaoli within a month. Chen Xiaoli knew that he was an employee of the cotton mill, so she agreed and asked him to write a note.
Wu Jianguo took the two of them home.
Along the way, every step he took was very heavy.
He didn't know where to get so much money.
He didn't know why his life had become like this.
Zhang Min cried "woooo".
Zhang A-mei said bitterly, "If you hadn't been disobedient and insisted on going to the barber shop, why would I have done this?"
Zhang Min didn't say anything, just cried.
Zhang A'mei continued, "This debt is owed to you, as well as the money spent on the cabinet and bed your father built. It's all because of you! You have to be responsible for getting it back! You have to honestly go to the branch factory to work and earn money to pay off the debt!"
Zhang Min still didn't say anything, just cried.
Zhang A'mei was cursing all day long.
Wu Jianguo neither said anything about Zhang A-mei nor Zhang Min, but just handled the matter silently.
These days, apart from working, he borrowed money everywhere and finally managed to collect 300 yuan to return to Chen Xiaoli.
No matter how ignorant Zhang Min was, she knew the situation, and she reluctantly went to the branch factory as a temporary worker.
Zhang A-mei found that Wu Jianguo hardly spoke to her and Zhang Min anymore.
He has been very taciturn ever since he was cheated by the Zhang family before the Chinese New Year. After this incident, he became even more silent. Except for sleeping, he would squat in the yard and smoke.
Originally, he still received a salary every month, and Zhang A'mei found a new job in a silk reeling factory, so he could make a living slowly.
However, what they did not expect was that the factory could not pay their wages and had to use cloth as payment.
Looking at the army green cloth on the table, Zhang A-mei was shocked.
Wu Jianguo, who had been silent for a long time, said in a hoarse voice:
"Go ask your brother for the money tomorrow. Don't ask for more, just give him the three hundred yuan on the IOU. If he doesn't give it to me, I'll go and ask for it myself."
"You!" Zhang A'mei was about to get angry when she saw Wu Jianguo's face was as dark as charcoal.
"It's a life-threatening matter." Wu Jianguo stared at her and spat out these four words.
On an early summer evening, Zhang A-mei shuddered.
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