Chapter 625: The smell of earth
Lin Qingqing was really not joking with him.
I heard that the state-owned department stores are going to be contracted out to individuals, and the first target will be those with poor performance.
The department store managed by Wang Gobi used to be profitable, but ever since she opened a clothing store downstairs, the business has been getting worse day by day, and it is now barely surviving.
The government is not stupid. If you don't hand over the profits, it will not subsidize employees' wages for nothing.
Nothing remains constant forever, even a stable job can be broken.
Lin Qingqing had heard in college that state-owned enterprises would gradually move towards private contracting.
Wangebi also heard the news, so he wanted to take back the three stores to save the building's finances.
He didn't expect Lin Qingqing to have such a big appetite and actually wanted to contract the building. This was definitely the most horrifying story he had ever heard in his life.
After scaring Wan Gobi away, Lin Qingqing returned to the store and said that they would have lunch together at noon. In the afternoon, she and Zhou Zhuo went back to school.
Of course Xue Guixiang agreed. The children had finally come back, but she had been busy with her brother-in-law's wedding these past two days and hadn't had a good time with them.
In the blink of an eye they were leaving again.
Qiao Jingzhen insisted on going home early to cook and make some dishes that Lin Qingqing liked.
Lin Qingqing said, "Grandma Qiao, please stop being busy. Let's eat outside together at noon."
Qiao Jingzhen had no choice but to give up.
Lin Qingqing also told Chen Shuang not to eat cold steamed buns at noon and asked Xue Guixiang to bring some back for her.
Chen Shuang was so moved. She had been in the store for so long, and Lin Qingqing had never treated her as an outsider. She was not like other bosses who would scold her at every turn. Here, she had dignity and decency. What reason did she have not to work hard?
Lin Qingqing asked Zhou Zhuo to take her to the Red Star Hotel first, and asked her mother-in-law and Qiao Jingzhen to go to the hotel to find her later, and then asked Zhou Zhuo to go home and pick up Xue Guiqin.
Although Lin Qingqing had a bad impression of Xue Guiqin, she was Zhou Zhuo's aunt after all. As she was an elder, Lin Qingqing could take the initiative to show goodwill.
If Xue Guiqin doesn't know what's good for her, then Lin Qingqing won't be polite either.
Xue Guiqin was still lying in bed, sulking about the wasted clothes, when she heard the sound of a car outside.
After a while, Zhou Zhuo came in and said he wanted to pick her up to have dinner together.
Xue Guiqin thought to herself, what a thing! My eldest sister's family is! They have a lot of money but they spend it without knowing how high the sky is. They buy cars and eat in restaurants. When the car is finished, I hope they won't ask her for help.
But if you don't eat the free meal, you'd be a fool.
She smoothed her hair and went to the restaurant with Zhou Zhuo.
Zhou Zhuo was a man of few words, and Xue Guiqin was even less interested in talking to him, so the two of them remained silent all the way.
Xue Guiqin looked down on Zhou Zhuo from the bottom of her heart. She felt that even if a native-born child got into university, what good would it do? Wouldn't he still be covered in the smell of dirt?!
Her two children are much better than Zhou Zhuo, and they may be able to study abroad in the future.
So he didn't take Zhou Zhuo seriously at all.
Zhou Zhuo had had enough. He could tell from the woman's eyes that she was full of arrogance. If his wife hadn't asked him to pick her up, he wouldn't care about her being his aunt or not. He would have starved to death.
But his wife was sensible. He knew that she did this to save face for him and his mother.
When Zhou Zhuo went to pick up Xue Guiqin, Lin Qingqing had already ordered the dishes.
There were many people here today, so she ordered the restaurant's signature dishes and waited for people to arrive and be served.
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