Zhou Jiahong was busy when he saw Yu Qiuying and Zhou Cailian coming over. He dropped the vegetables he was holding and ran over.
"Mom, eldest sister, you've finally arrived!" Zhou Jiahong's voice was filled with grievance, and he almost burst into tears.
"Fifth brother, how come you've lost so much weight?" Zhou Cailian frowned as she looked at her younger brother, who had lost a lot of weight.
Yu Qiuying frowned as well. Just then, the proprietress came out from inside and saw Yu Qiuying and Zhou Cailian coming over. She quickly greeted them with a smile.
The proprietress was about the same age as Yu Qiuying. She was not tall, had a slightly plump figure, spoke in a loud voice, and looked quite kind.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Yu Qiuying got straight to the point: "Boss lady, you haven't paid my son's salary, have you?"
"No, you told us before that his salary was for you, how could we dare to give it to him privately? We're afraid that if this kid has money, he'll be led astray."
"But there's something I have to tell you. Your son has such a bad temper. Last month, he got into two conflicts with customers. When we said a few words to him, he got angry and gave us the cold shoulder. Also, he's always lazy when he's working. We always have to call him to wash vegetables or sweep the floor, and he just dawdles and doesn't do anything. So for the first half of last month, I could only give him fifty yuan."
As soon as the landlady finished speaking, Zhou Jiahong exploded, "Fifty?! I worked hard for more than half a month, and you only give me fifty?! You promised me 150 a month, five yuan a day. I worked eighteen days last month, you have to give me ninety yuan!"
He was already full of grievances and anger, and didn't want to work there anymore. The boss was even deducting so much of his wages. Zhou Jiahong felt like smashing up her shop.
Yu Qiuying's smile vanished. "Boss lady, the 150 yuan a month you're paying my son is already very little. If you think he's not doing well, you can fire him. Since you haven't fired him and have kept him working in your shop until now, you can't deduct his salary like this. You have to pay him the normal monthly wage you agreed on back then."
Zhou Cailian also said unhappily, "Boss lady, aren't you bullying an honest person? If you really thought my brother wasn't doing a good job, why didn't you fire him sooner? Now you're just deducting his wages like that, how can you do this?"
When the proprietress heard Yu Qiuying and Zhou Cailian say such things about her, her face immediately turned cold.
"How am I bullying an honest person? Please be reasonable. He wasn't doing a good job to begin with. If he were doing a good job, would I deduct his salary?"
"Honestly, I took him in to work in my shop out of kindness. I knew he couldn't get into a factory or find a job without an ID card. I was already being generous by paying him 150 yuan a month. How dare you say I didn't pay him enough? If I hadn't taken him in, he wouldn't have been able to find a job and wouldn't have earned a single penny!"
"No good deed goes unpunished!"
Enraged, Zhou Jiahong kicked over a bucket of water. "Kindness my foot! You heartless scoundrel! I told you long ago I didn't want to work here anymore, but you said you wouldn't pay me if I left! You exploit me every day! You wish I could never rest, you wake me up at eight every morning, and you always find something for me to do. You're clearly treating me like an old ox!"
Even though work doesn't start until 10 a.m., she comes to bother him at 8 a.m., making him get up and do work, and even if there's no work, she'll find something for him to do.
He was wiping the table when she said he hadn't wiped it clean enough because there was oil on it, and asked him to wipe it again.
He was mopping the floor, and she said he hadn't mopped it clean enough, so she told him to mop it a few more times.
He was washing the dishes and plates slowly, afraid of breaking them, so she accused him of being lazy and told him not to wash them so thoroughly, saying that a quick wash would be enough.
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