At the end of the month, Yu Qiuying gave Zhou Cailian five hundred yuan.
Zhou Cailian refused, saying, "Mom, you don't need to give me money. I don't want money. You can keep it."
She is very content with her life now. Her mother provides for all her needs, and buys her whatever she needs. She has no use for the money.
Yu Qiuying stuffed the money into her hand, saying, "Just take it. I'll go with you to open a savings account tomorrow. I'll give you a salary every month from now on. You can save this money yourself."
"I really don't want it..." Zhou Cailian tried to stuff the money back to Yu Qiuying.
Yu Qiuying glared at her reproachfully, "Alright, are you stupid? I'm giving you money and you don't want it."
"I..." Zhou Cailian wanted to say something more.
Yu Qiuying interrupted her, "Take it. One thing at a time. You help out at the shop, so I'll definitely give you your salary. Save this money yourself. If you get married in the future, having money will give you confidence, and you won't have to ask a man for money. If you don't get married, buy your own house. Mom will get old and can't be with you forever. You'll have to live your own life eventually."
Zhou Cailian's face flushed. "I...I won't get married..."
She really had no intention of remarrying, especially after coming to Dongguan Province. Nobody here knew her, nobody knew she was divorced, and nobody would ask her why she hadn't found a man to live with.
She felt very relaxed and at ease.
"Whether you get married in the future or not, you can keep this money. Alright, go back to your room and go to sleep." Yu Qiuying wouldn't interfere with whether Zhou Cailian would get married in the future. Regardless of whether she got married or not, she only hoped that she could become confident and independent, and not be like in her previous life, without a sense of self, only knowing how to revolve around men and families.
Only economically independent, self-confident, and self-loving people are not afraid of making mistakes. It doesn't matter if a woman marries the wrong person, as long as she has money and confidence, she will have the courage to face anything.
The next morning around 10 a.m., Yu Qiuying accompanied Zhou Cailian to open a savings account, and Zhou Cailian deposited the money into it.
As April began, the weather got hotter day by day.
Around nine o'clock that morning, Zhou Cailian was mopping the floor when a four or five-year-old boy came into the shop crying.
"Waaah... Auntie, my dad is missing! Please take me to find my dad! I want my dad! Waaah..."
The boy spoke in the local dialect, and Zhou Cailian only understood the word "father".
She hurriedly called Yu Qiuying out.
Yu Qiuying spoke with the little boy in the local dialect and learned that he had come out with his father. He had been playing with ants in the cultural park ahead and then lost sight of his father.
After listening to Yu Qiuying's translation, Zhou Cailian frowned.
She looked at the boy with his tear-streaked face and remembered how she had almost been scammed the day she arrived in Dongguan Province. She couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
She thought for a moment and said, "Mom, let's take him to the police station and ask the police to help him find his family."
Regardless, it's always better to be cautious; taking the child to the police station is never a bad idea.
Yu Qiuying had the same idea. "Go to the phone booth up ahead and call the police to ask them to come over."
Anyway, they would never send the child to the police station. Who knows if the child was really separated from his family or was being used by bad people? It would be safer to have the police come and take the little boy away.
So Zhou Cailian went to the phone booth to make a call. As soon as she returned to the shop after making the call, she saw a young man holding a little boy and gently coaxing him.
The little boy was heartbroken and hugged the man's neck, crying loudly.
Zhou Cailian asked in confusion, "Mom, what's going on..."
Yu Qiuying explained to her, "He said he was the child's father, and it seems like he really is."
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