Chapter 288: Be a Good Person to the End



"It's nothing, you two can go about your business." Chen Xiaoying said to her eldest daughter Li Hongyan and eldest son-in-law Zhao Faliang.

The two looked at each other, and Li Hongyan said, "Mom, it's only the first day. I'm afraid they won't be able to do it, so I'll help and teach them."

"I don't need you to teach me. There are so many people here. Xueyan is right here. Can't I teach her?" Chen Xiaoying glared at her. If she really stayed, she would come a second time after staying once. With the two children here, she could stay for a day or two. Could she be driven away in the future?

Zhao Xueyan came out from the kitchen after hearing the noise and greeted them with a dry smile: "Big sister, brother, you're here."

When Li Hongyan saw her third brother's wife, Zhao Xueyan, her expression suddenly turned grim.

"Okay then." She had no choice but to leave, and before leaving she told Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle, "You two should work hard and save your grandma from worrying about you. If you don't work hard, I'll deal with you later."

"Mom, I got it." The two agreed.

After Li Hongyan and her husband left, Chen Xiaoying breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle, "You two have seen it too. Grandma is doing the dishes and making dumplings here. You two boys may not be used to it. Xiaoyu opened a hot pot restaurant over there. She is short of manpower and has a lot of young people. Grandma wants you to go over there."

"Okay, anywhere is fine." Zhao Pengbo said casually.

Zhao Pengle also nodded.

Seeing that it was ten o'clock, Li Yutong said, "Then I'll take you there. As for the salary, it's written on the recruitment notice posted at the door of my store. How much will you get when you first go there, and how much will you get after you pass the probation period. I want to help you two earn some tuition fees, so I'll give you two regular wages directly. How about that?"

"Okay, just do as you say." said Zhao Pengbo.

Zhao Pengle listened to his second brother.

Li Yutong asked Chen Xiaoying: "Grandma, my hot pot restaurant closes at around 10 o'clock. Where should I let them stay at night? Should I let them stay in the staff dormitory with my employees, or let them stay here?"

Chen Xiaoying thought for a moment and said, "You have a lot of employees, so don't live together. The young men are full of youth and energy, so what can we do if they bully others? But if I live here, I will be busy at five in the morning, and I will definitely be unable to sleep because of the noise. Your hot pot restaurant doesn't open until half past nine."

She thought about it, trying to figure out what to do.

Li Yutong looked at Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle and said, "Grandma, don't worry about it. I'll take them to see it."

They can live wherever they like.

"Okay." Zhao Pengbo said.

Li Yutong took them to the second floor to see the lounge. After buying the store and the second floor, her grandmother cleaned up the upstairs.

All kinds of unnecessary items were sold if they could be sold, given away if they couldn’t be sold, and thrown away if they couldn’t be given away, and the original three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment was tidied up.

Now one room is used as an office, where accounts and salaries are usually settled. The remaining two are bedrooms, one of which is already occupied by several female employees, and one is still empty.

After opening the door, I saw a long table with two drawers against the wall in the room of more than ten square meters, two chairs, a bunk bed on the left, and a wooden single bed on the right.

There is a window, but there is no private bathroom. You have to go out to the living room, which means you have to share it with everyone in the store.

Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle were not particular. When they lived in the dormitory at school, the bathroom was at the end of the public corridor for about 80 to 90 people on each floor. When washing their faces, they would squeeze into a row.

"I think this place is okay," said Zhao Pengle.

Zhao Pengbo said, "They started quarreling at five in the morning. Why don't we check that side as well?"

He looked at Li Yutong.

Li Yutong said directly: "To be honest, I think it's more convenient for you two to live here. Just imagine what your dormitory smells like in the summer. It's even more terrible than this."

"There are only four guys living in one room over there. That's it. I heard it's terrible. I try not to see it."

The female employee received special treatment and lived in a second-hand house that she bought. It had old-fashioned decoration and was filled with yellow wooden boards and old-fashioned wooden sofas. Because the female employee liked cleanliness very much, she kept her room quite clean.

Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle obviously remembered what their dormitory smelled like.

Boys, they exercise a lot, and it’s hot in the summer. There’s a fan on the ceiling of the dormitory, and it blows out hot air, which stinks in shoes and socks, and sweaty clothes…

"Then let's go here." Zhao Pengbo said immediately. In fact, the smell was not the most important thing. The main reason was that he didn't want to live with unfamiliar people. If something was lost, he wouldn't be able to explain it.

When his elders are not around, Zhao Pengbo is obviously much more lively.

"Okay, you two didn't bring any mats or mattresses, right? Here, I'll give you an advance on your wages. Can you two go out and buy them by yourselves, or should I take you there?" Li Yutong saw that each of the two people had a cloth bag, and guessed that it contained only spare clothes and nothing else.

"Let's go by ourselves." Zhao Pengbo didn't want Li Yutong to follow him.

When they were young and could play together occasionally, Zhao Pengbo didn't like to take her with him. He couldn't run fast and was prone to crying.

"Okay, one hundred yuan each." Li Yutong directly gave each person one hundred yuan.

"It's ready. I'll treat you to hotpot at noon," she said.

Since you have agreed to help, then just be a good person and do it to the end.

They both took it, and when they went downstairs, Chen Xiaoying asked, "Would you like to take a look over there?"

Zhao Pengbo said, "No, Xiaoyu said the environment there is not as good as here, so we'll just stay here."

Chen Xiaoying nodded: "That's what I was thinking."

She had been there once. When she pushed the door open, not to mention the smell, there were quilts piled up haphazardly that were obviously never folded, and shoes thrown all over the floor. It would take her a long time to find them when she wanted to wear them. It wasn't really dirty, but it smelled bad.

"Do you have money?" she asked, preparing to give it to him.

Li Yutong went to the next room and got two bottles of Coke: "Grandma, I've given them the money in advance, so you don't have to worry about it."

As he spoke, he gave each person a bottle of cool Coke.

Both of them answered.

After the two men left, Chen Xiaoying sighed, "I hope they will be sensible when they arrive."

Li Yutong knew that what her grandmother meant was that she hoped Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle could understand why she, as their grandmother, would help them instead of helping their mother Li Hongyan.

Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle were very happy. When they came, they were afraid that their grandmother would scold them, but their mother Li Hongyan did tell them when she came.

"Your grandma is no longer the same as she used to be. She's become a big boss now and doesn't even care about me, her daughter. When you two go there, just work hard. If I say anything to you, just listen and don't talk back. Just work and get paid."

When I was at home, I heard their mother complain that although grandma was rich, she was stingy. No matter why, if you wanted to borrow some money from her, she would not lend you a penny.

She refuses to lend it, and she doesn't even allow you uncles to lend it. She's getting more and more confused as she gets older. I don't know what she's thinking all day long. It makes me mad to death.

Their eldest brother Zhao Pengfei also said that he wanted to borrow some money to learn skills and buy a car, but his grandmother was like a miser and would not give a penny. People become hard-hearted when they have money.

They also thought that because grandma was rich, she looked down on them because they were poor.

Unexpectedly, that was not the case. Grandma still treated them the same as before.


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