Li Xunli held Shen Yangyang's head with satisfaction and turned it around. After admiring her own skills, she sat down next to her and started tearing fried dough sticks and soaking soy milk: "There's nothing I can do about it. Kindergartens don't open that early, and the factory isn't as strict as it used to be."
"Why don't you learn to ride a motorcycle sooner? That would save you some time." Shen Qingqing slurped down a piece of softened fried dough stick in two gulps, her eyes squinting as she ate.
“Where would I find the time to learn? I have to work during the day, fire porcelain at night, and when I get home I have to do laundry and clean the house for you. Do you want to chop your mother into pieces?” Li Xunli finished a bowl of soy milk and fried dough sticks in a few bites. “If I really want to learn, I’ll have to wait until next year. Once I finish these two porcelain orders, I’ll have some free time.”
Shen Qingqing took another vegetarian bun and ate it. "What if after these two orders of porcelain are completed, someone else asks you to make custom porcelain? Wouldn't that just keep dragging on like this?"
"How could there be such a good thing? These two porcelain orders only came to your mother because they really couldn't find anyone else who could make them. There are plenty of people in the whole Chaozhou who can make porcelain. Who do you think I am?" Li Xunli was amused by Shen Qingqing's assumption.
"I said 'what if,' can't we even make assumptions? What if someone really keeps making you make porcelain?" Shen Qingqing pouted, unconvinced.
Li Xunli smiled and shook her head, then continued her hypothetical statement: "If it were all this profitable, I would listen to you and quit my job at the factory to focus on making porcelain at home, okay?"
Shen Qingqing stuffed the last bite of the bun into her mouth: "That's great! I'm going to school now!"
Today is Tuesday, the day the math teacher said there would be a test last week.
As soon as Shen Qingqing entered the classroom, the math teacher caught her and arranged all the desks and chairs in the classroom so that there was one desk for each person.
Unlike the Chinese teacher who, for convenience, simply separated two students sitting at adjacent desks, the math teacher had everyone sit according to their assigned seat number.
Shen Qingqing is number 7, in the second row, while Chen Man is number 19, a bit far from Shen Qingqing.
When Chen Man entered the classroom with her schoolbag on her back and was told about this, the corners of her upturned mouth drooped down, and she looked visibly wilted.
However, the results of this exam were well worth the week she spent with Shen Qingqing.
Shen Qingqing still got 100 points, while Chen Man only missed one five-point word problem and got 95 points.
When Chen Man brought the test paper home to share the good news, Chen Yanfeng couldn't believe it.
After all, Chen Man often makes some silly mistakes when doing her math homework at home.
Chen Yanfeng took his daughter's test paper and looked at it. He found that the mistakes she always made in her previous homework were not on this test paper.
Chen Man received unanimous praise from the entire Chen family. The little girl proudly raised her head: "Qingqing said that everything she taught me on this test paper was correct. I am very smart!"
Chen Yanfeng thought to himself, "I really made the right friend. I'll have to thank Shen Qingqing properly another day."
Time flew by day after day, and Shen Rongzhou finally found a rhythm that suited him. He followed two trips a day and could go home for dinner around eight or nine o'clock in the evening.
Although he was visibly darker and thinner, he was in great spirits.
On Sunday afternoon, Shen Qingqing was awakened from her nap by the deliveryman's knocking. "Is anyone home? Is this where Shen Rongzhou lives?"
She spoke to the deliveryman through the security door: "Hello, this is Shen Rongzhou's home."
"You have a package. Come on, sign here in this blank space." The deliveryman slipped an EMS-marked package and a pen under the security door.
Shen Qingqing picked it up and looked at the sender's address. Her eyes lit up – it was her father's driver's license!
After signing for the package, Shen Qingqing called her father to tell him the good news.
"Okay, okay, you keep this for Dad. Dad can come home early tonight and bring you a roast chicken!" Shen Rongzhou was very happy.
Shen Qingqing cheered loudly on the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Shen Yangyang ran out of her room to ask what was wrong.
After Shen Qingqing told her, the two sisters cheered together in the living room.
Just as they were happily waiting for the roast chicken to return, Shen Rongzhou returned with the roast chicken and Li Xunli, whose face was full of anger.
Shen Qingqing and Shen Yangyang, who was standing close to her, looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Shen Qingqing asked cautiously as she led Shen Yangyang to sit down next to her mother.
Li Xunli turned her face away and did not speak.
Shen Qingqing understood that her mother didn't want to talk about it, so she turned to look at her father.
Shen Rongzhou took the roast chicken into the kitchen to prepare to cut it up.
Shen Qingqing slipped over and whispered to her father, "Dad, did you make Mom angry?"
As Shen Rongzhou sliced the roasted chicken, he glanced at her and said, "This has nothing to do with your father. It's your mother who's being mistreated at the factory."
"Huh? What upset you?" Shen Qingqing asked in an even softer voice.
While cutting the roast chicken, Shen Rongzhou briefly said a few words to Shen Qingqing.
Because all the goods on the adjacent production line have been completed and loaded onto trucks, and the final payments have all been settled, they are officially being merged into Li Xunli's production line today.
Then, someone on the next production line, who was a relative of the owner, got into a conflict with Li Xunli over the fabric.
Li Xunli always makes it a habit to cut out the fabric she needs for the next day before leaving get off work and place it next to her sewing machine station so that she can start working on it the next day.
As a result, when she was about to leave work this afternoon, she discovered that the batch of fabric she had sorted out had been taken away by the employer's relative.
When Li Xunli went to ask for the fabric back, the other party not only denied it, but also said that the fabric was stored in the factory and anyone could use it, and that her name, Li Xunli, was not on it.
Then the employer found out about it. Unexpectedly, the employer proved that Li Xunli had handled the fabric, and even scolded his relatives.
Li Xunli thought the matter was over, but it turned out that the boss was waiting for her. After seeing the fabric that Li Xunli had handled, he turned hostile and said that when the goods were delivered last time, the receiving party had brought several defective clothes to take the opportunity to lower the price. He wanted to find out who it was, but he didn't expect it to be Li Xunli.
Li Xunli's salary was docked for half a month on the spot. Several female colleagues who helped Li Xunli with the fabric couldn't help but stand up for her, but they were also docked their pay.
We had already been docked a day's wages without any reason before, and people were already dissatisfied at that time.
Unexpectedly, things have gone even further. Li Xunli was disgusted and resigned on the spot, taking less than 400 yuan in wages with her.
Two of her female colleagues who spoke up for her also resigned and left with her.
Shen Qingqing never expected that her mother would resign under such circumstances.
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