On the second day, Li Yunshu and the others were picking vegetables when Gu Zhenyuan arrived with Huang Qiuyan.
Huang Qiuyan was wearing a blue floral shirt and black trousers. The trousers were too short, reaching her calves, and there were two patches on her knees.
He was pale and thin, with yellow hair tied into two braids.
She held the hem of her clothes tightly with both hands and stood beside Gu Zhenyuan with a nervous look on her face.
Li Yunshu put down the green onion in his hand, tilted his head to look at her and asked, "Is this Qiuyan?"
Huang Qiuyan pursed her lips and nodded. She was so nervous that she stuttered. "I, I am Huang Qiuyan. I, I can do anything."
Li Yunshu smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, we don't eat meat."
As soon as these words were spoken, Qin Rong and Chunbao both laughed.
Huang Qiuyan blushed and stammered, "I, I know. Captain Gu said, aunt, you are the kindest person in the world."
Gu Zhenyuan: “!”
You are so kind-hearted when you say that!
Not the kindest person in the world, this prefix is quite ambiguous.
Li Yunshu glanced at Gu Zhenyuan and didn't expect that he had such a high opinion of himself.
Qin Rong glanced at Gu Zhenyuan with an ambiguous look, thinking: This Captain Gu must have some feelings for Sister Li.
In my heart, Sister Li is the kindest person in the world.
"Can you make dumplings?" Li Yunshu looked at Huang Qiuyan and asked.
Huang Qiuyan nodded vigorously, "Yes, I learned it from my mother."
When she mentioned her mother Huang Qiuyan, a trace of sadness appeared on her face.
Li Yunshu knew the girl was thinking of her mother, so she said, "It's enough if you can make dumplings. Working here means three meals a day, and the salary is 15 yuan a month. You get four days off a month, and you take turns taking turns. If you have something to do that day, you can tell me in advance, and I can arrange for you to take the day off when you have something to do."
"Fifteen yuan a month?" Huang Qiuyan stared in shock.
I didn't expect that I could get such a high salary in a month just by working in a dumpling shop run by a self-employed business owner.
She went to the construction site to help move bricks, earning only two or three cents a day. It was considered good if she could earn five or six yuan a month, because the construction site was not open every day.
She could earn fifteen yuan a month, which was enough to support her younger brothers and sisters and send them to school.
Her brother went to kindergarten for half a year before his parents died, but he never went to school after their death.
Li Yunshu nodded and said, "You've done a good job, if you can keep doing this, your salary will increase in the future."
Salaries can still increase!
Huang Qiuyan nodded vigorously and said, "I will definitely work hard!"
Li Yunshu left Huang Qiuyan behind, and Gu Zhenyuan went to work with peace of mind.
Huang Qiuyan is very hardworking and always rushes to do any job.
Because it was her first day at work and Li Yunshu arranged for her to clean the table when she was busy.
She was very nimble, clearing the table quickly and wiping it very cleanly. She washed the dishes whenever she had free time and never made a mistake.
After lunch, Li Yunshu cooked dumplings for the staff.
After a busy day, Li Yunshu, Qin Rong and Gu Zhenyuan came to the table and started eating. Huang Qiuyan looked at the full plate of dumplings in front of her but did not pick up her chopsticks.
"Why don't you eat, kid?" Qin Rong looked at Huang Qiuyan and asked.
Huang Qiuyan swallowed dryly, "Can I take it home?"
Her younger brother and sister were still at home. Although she had cooked a pot of porridge when she went to work in the morning, she let her younger brother eat it with his sister after he had a fever.
But she felt sad when she thought about her younger brothers and sisters eating porridge at home while she was eating meat and egg dumplings.
"Why bring it home to eat?" Qin Rong asked.
Li Yunshu knew Huang Qiuyan's situation, so he said, "That's fine. You've already washed the dishes, and there's no work in the store now. You can go home and rest for two hours, and then come back to work at 4:30."
"I'll get you a lunch box." She said and went to the kitchen and took out an aluminum lunch box.
"Thank you, Aunt Li." Huang Qiuyan took the lunch box and put all the dumplings on the plate into the lunch box.
"Pick up some more cold dishes." Li Yunshu said.
"No thanks." Huang Qiuyan shook her head and closed the lunch box. "I'm going back first."
After saying that, she walked away with a smile.
Huang Qiuyan held the hot lunch box in her hands and could already imagine how happy her younger brothers and sisters would be when they saw her taking the dumplings home to eat.
After Huang Qiuyan left, Li Yunshu told Qin Rong and Qin Ye about her family situation.
Qin Rong couldn't help sighing after hearing this. This child was too miserable. The death of their parents must have left such shadows and pain in their hearts.
Qin Ye frowned and said, "Wine is really a harmful thing."
놛's family was also torn apart by alcohol.
Li Yunshu said, "It's not the alcohol that's harmful, but the alcoholism. We always hear about someone getting drunk and hitting on a girl, but why haven't we ever heard of someone getting drunk and hitting on their boss or their burly neighbor?"
"To put it bluntly, this kind of alcoholic who still likes girls when he's drunk is just using alcohol as an excuse to show off in front of girls, vent his violence, and bully those weaker than him."
"If a person becomes violent after drinking, it's not that the alcohol makes him violent, but that he himself is violent."
Qin Rong nodded and said, "That makes sense. Just like my dad, he also liked to drink a little when he was drunk, but when he got drunk he would just vomit and then lie down on the bed and fall asleep. He never cursed or smashed things when he was drunk."
Qin Ye held the chopsticks in his hand. He always thought that alcohol ruined his father and their family, and made his life so miserable since childhood.
But after listening to Aunt Li's words, I realized that it was never alcohol that ruined our family, but Dad.
Huang Qiuyan trotted all the way home. It took her only ten minutes to reach her home, which was a half-hour journey.
"Qiuyan, why are you back? What's wrong? The construction site doesn't want you anymore?" Gou's mother, who was sitting in the yard mending shoes, looked at Huang Qiuyan and asked.
Huang Qiuyan ignored her and walked home with her lunch box.
"Why are you still holding on, girl? It would be much better if you could take your brothers and sisters to the countryside and marry my brother from my mother's family. You can also let your brothers and sisters have a full meal. There is plenty of food in the countryside, so you will definitely not starve."
Huang Qiuyan couldn't help but say, "Your sister from your mother's side can be my father, and you still want me to marry her. Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"
Ever since her parents and grandmother died, this gossip girl had been keeping an eye on her, trying to convince her to marry her brother, a farmer in the countryside, with her younger siblings, under the pretext of finding a way out for the three siblings.
But her younger brother is already 38 years old, and he still can't find a partner because he blinded one eye and blew off half of his face when he was playing with firecrackers when he was a child.
Gou's mother: "Hey, how can you talk like that? I gave you to my brother for your and your siblings' sake, and asked my family to help raise your siblings. You, a dead girl, don't even appreciate it. I haven't even thought it was bad luck that your mom killed your dad and then committed suicide."
Huang Qiuyan gritted her teeth and said, "My mother and grandmother are watching from heaven. If she has bad intentions and wants to harm us three siblings, they will go find her."
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