Around 7 p.m., Yu Qiuying went to the convenience store at the entrance of the hall and made a phone call to the Qiu family.
But Huang Xiaomei knew that phone calls were expensive, so she didn't chat with her for long. After learning that they had settled in, she told her to take good care of herself while she was away, and then hung up the phone in a hurry.
Over the next two days, Yu Qiuying took Zhou Jiadong to the industrial zone to look for factories. Dongguan Province was in the early stages of economic take-off after the reform and opening up. The manufacturing industry was developing rapidly, and a large number of port city bosses and foreign investors poured in. Various factories sprang up like mushrooms after rain. Therefore, the demand for labor in Dongguan Province was extremely high, and factories were generally short of workers. People from other places could usually find jobs easily here.
After searching for two days, Zhou Jiadong finally got a job at a shoe factory.
Room and board are provided. The salary is 350 yuan per month. After a three-month probation period, the salary will be 400 yuan. There are two days off per month.
The dormitory conditions were very basic, with eight people sharing a room.
However, these things are none of Yu Qiuying's business. Zhou Jiadong is already twenty-two years old. If such a grown man doesn't have this much adaptability, then he shouldn't be living.
Yu Qiuying gave him twenty yuan, sent him to the factory, and then left him alone.
Then, they found Zhou Jiahong a job as a waiter and dishwasher in the industrial area. It was a newly opened restaurant with good business. The owners, a couple from out of town, paid Zhou Jiahong 150 yuan a month, including room and board. But Zhou Jiahong didn't really want to do it, thinking the salary was too low.
However, he eventually succumbed to Yu Qiuying's pressure and obediently went to work.
After finding jobs for the two of them, Yu Qiuying and Zhou Cailian went to look for a shop.
However, finding a shop was not so easy. It wasn't that there weren't any, but either the rent was too expensive, the location was bad, or the shop was too big. The two of them searched for several days without finding a satisfactory shop.
Zhou Cailian was a little discouraged. "Mom, how about we set up a stall instead?"
"Setting up a stall is inconvenient, and our place is a bit far from here, it's too much trouble. Let's look for another one." Yu Qiuying had set up a breakfast stall in her previous life, and it was really inconvenient to set up the stall every day, especially on windy and rainy days, when it was impossible to set up the stall at all.
She decided to keep looking. If she couldn't find a suitable shop in the end, she would rent the large shop she had her eye on yesterday morning. The shop was in a great location, right at a three-way intersection, with a hospital on one side and a school on the other. There was also a bus station nearby, so there was a lot of foot traffic.
Yu Qiuying was actually quite satisfied with the shop, but it was too big. It wouldn't be worthwhile for her to just run a breakfast shop.
Yu Qiuying knew that Cailian was tired from walking these past few days, so she said, "I'll go find it myself tomorrow. You can rest for a couple of days."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Cailian quickly shook her head, "I don't need to rest, I'll go with you."
Although she was quite tired from walking these past few days, she couldn't stay idle at all. Since arriving here, she had been idle every day, which she found quite unsettling. She always felt uneasy if she didn't do something.
Seeing that she insisted on going, Yu Qiuying didn't try to persuade her any further.
So the two of them went out again after breakfast the next day.
For the past few days, the two of them had been searching around the center of the new neighborhood. Today, Yu Qiuying and Zhou Cailian went a little further away and unexpectedly found a taxi. This place is close to a middle school, next to a cultural park, and not far from a large hotel.
Although the foot traffic isn't as high as in the city center, it's still quite good.
Yu Qiuying found a phone booth and dialed the number left by the landlord on the shop door. A man answered the phone and told her to wait ten minutes, as he would be right there.
Ten minutes later, the other party arrived right on time. It was a man in his fifties wearing an old military cap.
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