Chapter 391 Old Classmate
After changing clothes, Lin Xiaoxia went to the store.
The front desk arranged Dong Mingliang in the office, and Lin Xiaoxia went upstairs directly.
When I entered the office, I was really surprised, because when he was in middle school, Dong Mingliang was not tall and quite immature. Now he looks very different from before. Boys and girls are really different. Girls are basically the same height as they were in middle school, while boys can still be tall at the age of 23.
Dong Mingliang was also stunned when he saw Lin Xiaoxia, and asked in confusion: "Are you Lin Xiaoxia?"
Lin Xiaoxia smiled and said, "Old classmate, don't you recognize me?"
Dong Mingliang also laughed: "You have changed so much. I thought you were capable now and could change, but this change is so big that I can't recognize you."
"You've changed a lot. It's been three years since we last met, right?"
"It's been more than three years. You dropped out of middle school, so we haven't seen each other since."
"How are you doing?"
"I'm not very good at telling the truth, so I shamelessly came to ask my old classmate for help."
Lin Xiaoxia said to Dong Mingliang, "Don't stand there. Let's sit down and talk. I'll do my best to help if I can."
Dong Mingliang sat down and looked at Lin Xiaoxia: "You are really different from before. You used to be very quiet."
Lin Xiaoxia smiled and said, "You know the situation in our family before. I was severely abused since I was a child. Now that I've left that home, everything feels better."
"I've heard about your family's story. I never thought your life would be so difficult. But luckily, you found your biological parents."
"Yes, luckily I found it. By the way, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it first, and then we can have lunch together and catch up."
"I won't be polite with you. Since we're here, it would be fake to be polite. Well, I want to ask you for help in finding a job."
After he finished speaking, he paused and sighed: "I'm not afraid of you laughing at me when I tell you this, but my family's affairs are also quite troublesome. My grandma is not my biological son, she is my grandpa's second wife. The two elders are now living with my uncle, who is my grandma's biological son. So my grandma asks my family for pension money every day to subsidize my uncle's family. She makes a fuss if we don't give it to her. My mother died of complications when she gave birth to my sister. My father is not a man who can manage things. He just farms the land at home. The grain he sells in a year is not enough for my grandma to rob. So I want to go out and earn some money and save some secretly. My sister is only in elementary school. I can at least support her to go to junior high school, right? I don't have any technical skills, but I can endure hardships, so I wanted to ask if you can recruit people?"
Lin Xiaoxia listened to Dong Mingliang's words and felt emotional. Every family has its own problems.
However, Dong Mingliang is a really responsible person. Anyway, he needs people here, so he can focus on training such trustworthy people, and they may be of great use to the bathing center in the future.
So she thought for a while and said, "Let me think about how to arrange it for you."
Dong Mingliang listened to Lin Xiaoxia's words and thought that this matter would cause trouble for Lin Xiaoxia, so he quickly said: "If it's difficult, don't force it. My cousin works in the construction team. I will go to him and ask if he is hiring."
Lin Xiaoxia looked at Dong Mingliang and smiled. "Do you think your old classmates are so unrefined? How could you not help with such a small matter? What are you thinking? I want you to learn some skills and see where you can learn something so that you can get a promotion and a raise in the future."
Dong Mingliang understood what Lin Xiaoxia said. He was surprised at first, then smiled. "It's my fault. I have a narrow vision. Lin Xiaoxia, I really don't know how to thank you. What can I say?"
"Then don't say anything. You helped me a lot when we were in school. Your help to me at that time was just a timely help."
"Your help to me is just as important now. Otherwise, I would be really lost. I don't really want to go to the construction site. It's not that I'm afraid of being tired or suffering. I'm afraid it's dangerous. Well, I'm not afraid of danger myself. I'm just afraid that if something happens and I get hurt, our family will be finished. That's why I wanted to come and find you. I was embarrassed to ask someone from your store to call you, so I wanted to wait at the door of the store. But then I thought, since I'm here now, I might as well call you directly. Otherwise, it would seem even more hypocritical."
"Just call. Otherwise, waiting here every day, wasting time and money on transportation, what's the point? Given our relationship, you should just come to me directly if you have any problems. You've graduated from junior high school, so math and writing are no problem. I want you to study logistics management. I have a bath center that's opening next fall, and every department will need someone to manage it. This is a good opportunity."
"But I don't have much experience. I'm already a backdoor employee. If they give me so many preferential treatment, the other employees will probably have second thoughts. Otherwise, I'll just be a waiter."
"You think too much about me. Don't worry, it's okay. I have an arrangement. You are not a formal employee here at the barbecue restaurant. You will not receive the benefits here for now, but will be considered an intern. You can go over to the bathhouse when it opens. It won't have much to do with this place. Oh, I forgot. Xiao'e, Fang Lan'e is also here. She is very powerful now. She is the manager of a store. If you don't mind learning from a female classmate, why don't you go to Xiao'e's place? We all know each other, and you can be more casual."
"I have no objection. I also heard that Fang Lan'e is with you. It's not easy for her either. Xu Chengqiang and my grandmother are from the same village. They all know about their family affairs. It's so unfair. It's good that Fang Lan'e got divorced."
"That's right. I feel relieved now that I'm away from her. It's great. If you think it's okay, then you can learn from her for a while and put some effort into logistics management."
"Okay, I'll listen to you. I won't say much more about thank you. Thank you anyway." After all this talk, he still thanked her. After saying this, Dong Mingliang even smiled.
Lin Xiaoxia also smiled and said, "If you're not in a hurry, let's have lunch together and catch up."
Dong Mingliang smiled and said, "Then I won't be polite."
Lin Xiaoxia stood up, walked to the phone, called Fang Lan'e, and then called Lu Jingshen, saying that a classmate was coming and asked him to come over for lunch together, since they were from the same village anyway.
After finishing the call, Lin Xiaoxia said to Dong Mingliang, "Let's go to Xiao'e first and let you see how our old classmate has changed."
Dong Mingliang also stood up: "Then I really won't be polite to you."
"Let's go." Lin Xiaoxia took Dong Mingliang out.
When going down the stairs, Lin Xiaoxia noticed that Dong Mingliang had a handkerchief tied around his arm with blood seeping out of it.
They had a medicine box, so they said to Dong Mingliang, "Is your arm injured? I have iodine and gauze. Let me bandage it for you before you go."
Dong Mingliang turned his arm over and took a look. "It's okay, just a little scratch. On the way here, I saw a girl's bag being snatched, so I helped to get it back. I fought with the snatcher for a few times and got hurt a little, but it's okay."
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