Chapter 78 Chapter 78 Hiring child labor is illegal!
There was still a lot of chaos at the old house because of Ning Shaoxian's debt, but Ning Shichun was already prepared to go back to class.
Huang Xiuhua thought that Ning Shaoming was willing to let Ning Shichun work in his store and paid Ning Shichun a salary, which meant that he was soft-hearted. He might be too proud to say it, so he made others guess in a roundabout way.
She took the initiative to come to Ning Shaoming's house and asked, "Can't you help your brother for Xiaochun's sake?"
Ning Shaoming laughed out of anger. He was annoyed by being constantly bullied like this.
Ning Shaoming simply threatened: "If you keep telling me these nonsense, Xiaochun won't come anymore. Take him back to help your sister-in-law farm."
After repeatedly failing to gain any benefits from Ning Shaoming, Huang Xiuhua finally realized that she had no control over the third brother's thoughts and actions. She had no choice but to give up and turn to find the second brother.
Ning Shichun hadn't even started working yet when he heard that his grandmother had used his matter to go to his uncle again. He was so scared that he ran to his grandmother and cried loudly, wishing he could kneel down in front of her.
"I finally got a job, and my third uncle also promised to teach me the craft when he has time. Please, grandma, please don't mess with my third uncle anymore, okay?"
Huang Xiuhua was furious: "What kind of bullshit are you talking about? I'm his biological mother, can't I just talk to him for a few minutes?"
Ning Shichun didn't believe that she would go to talk to his uncle for no reason: "I know you are worried about the debt my father owes, but my father's creditors haven't come yet, can't our whole family work together to earn money and slowly save money to pay them back?"
"How much does your third uncle give you a month?" Huang Xiuhua took the opportunity to ask.
If they were given more, the old couple wouldn't have to take out so much to fill the hole.
"Three hundred dollars a month."
"Only three hundred? You are his nephew! What can three hundred a month do for you? Even if you don't eat, drink, or buy anything else for a year and save all your salary, you will only have three thousand six."
Ning Shichun felt that his grandmother was getting too arrogant. She now even looked down upon three hundred yuan.
But how many people in this town can’t even get two hundred dollars in cash a month?
Wasn’t their family this poor before?
My family isn't wealthy now, it's just that life is a little better than before. How come you even look down on three hundred?
"My third uncle also provides me with three meals a day. Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia are growing up, so my third uncle's family also needs to buy food from time to time. His family's food is not bad, and there is meat almost every meal.
Don’t you know how apprentices are treated in this town?
If word gets out about the treatment my third uncle gives me, I won't do it. But there are many people who are willing to do it. If you go and make trouble with him again, and then my third uncle and aunt get angry and really don't let me go, when will I be able to pay off my father's debt? ”
Huang Xiuhua spoke up. She also knew that what Ning Shichun said made sense.
But at the same time, I also felt that the eldest grandson was such an honest child, but after hanging out with the third brother for so long, he was infected with some of his asshole qualities, and what he said was really unpleasant to hear.
Wang Haiyan originally wanted to ask Ning Shaoming and his wife for help, but she also heard what Ning Shichun said to Huang Xiuhua.
She suddenly didn't dare to do anything rash anymore, for fear that even the 3,600 yuan a year would be wasted.
After all, what her son said did make sense. With the treatment given by the third brother, even if her son didn't go, there were many people who were willing to go.
As far as she knew, the family of the third brother's wife was so large and had so many people. There were many young people in her family, whether near or far, cousins, who had no jobs and did not want to go out to work. What if they really annoyed the third brother and his wife?
What if the third son’s wife goes back to her parents’ home to recruit someone and replaces her own son?
The matter of the old house did not reach Zhao Ruyue's ears.
So she didn't know that Ning Shichun hadn't started working yet, let alone become independent, but her method had already produced results so quickly and started to protect her family from the troubles coming from the old house.
Ning Shichun assured his family that he was willing to take on one-third of his father's debt, which was five thousand yuan. In exchange, he gained peace and quiet afterwards and was finally able to go back to work smoothly and without any future troubles.
But this time it was finally Ning Shaode's turn to be annoyed.
Some parents always like to equalize wealth among their children. If one of their children is not doing well, they take it for granted that the other children should help the poor one.
It is true that they favor Ning Shaode, and it is also true that they don't like Ning Shaoxian very much.
But when something happened to Ning Shaoxian, they felt that as parents, they had to help find a solution.
But Huang Xiuhua and Ning Da are old, and the only solutions they can think of are to ask other children for help or borrow money from relatives.
Ning Shaoming was willing to pay Ning Shaoxian's son a salary. Although it was not direct money, it was still a help. Moreover, his attitude was tough, so they stopped looking for him.
The only ones who hadn't helped were the second son Ning Shaode and his daughter Ning Meiting.
Even though the second son has always been favored by them, they feel that favoring him does not conflict with helping the eldest son, and as a brother, the second son should also help his eldest brother.
As for my daughter, she will have to ask her parents for support in the future, and she should at least do her part when her parents have problems.
The old couple discussed for a while and decided to act separately.
Huang Xiuhua felt that the second son was closest to her, he was the most considerate and listened to her the most, so she decided to go find the second son herself and let Ningda go find her daughter.
Ning Shaoming came back from buying groceries in the morning and passed by the town's bus station. He saw his mother sitting by the window of a car driving out.
After returning, he asked Ning Shichun and learned that the old lady was planning to go to the county town to find Ning Shaode to help Ning Shaoxian, and he couldn't help laughing.
He really wanted to go to the scene and see the scene where the second brother was asked for money by the old lady and couldn't pretend in front of the old lady. It must be very interesting.
Ning Shichun looked at him in confusion: "Uncle San, what are you laughing at?"
"Nothing, just chop the green onions. I'll make the steamed buns later. Come and have a look. Today is not a market day. After you finish making breakfast in the morning, I'll let you try."
"Okay!" Ning Shichun responded happily and finished the last two bites of breakfast.
Being able to eat a bowl of mutton rice noodles for breakfast early in the morning was something Ning Shichun would never have dared to imagine a year ago.
In the past, rice noodles could only be found on the street occasionally at market time. Now, he can not only eat boiled rice noodles, but also fried rice noodles if he wants.
My sense of happiness is rising rapidly, and I have endless energy to work.
He also likes hot dog buns and plans to have that for lunch.
But even though it was such a delicious thing, his uncle still said that it was not a real hot dog bun. I really don’t know how delicious a real hot dog bun would taste!
Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia also got up early to help in the store, doing some simple work within their ability.
After moving, their home was closer to school and they didn't have to go so early in the morning.
After finishing their breakfast, they moved their small stools and sat at the door to pick vegetables.
Some people passing by the door would greet the guests and ask if they wanted to come in for food.
The two children picked a basket of vegetables and were about to move them to the pool in the yard for the adults to wash.
When I looked up, I saw a person standing in front of me, hesitating and not daring to come forward.
Ning Shixia greeted her warmly: "Sister Silian, do you want to come in and eat? The food in my house is delicious!"
Zhao Silian put her hand in her pocket and squeezed the fifty cents inside.
Her father asked her to buy rice noodles, but he hadn't been out for a long time or something, so he didn't even know that the price of rice noodles had risen to 60 cents a bowl, and he only gave her 50 cents.
Zhao Silian suppressed her inner shame and walked to Ning Shixia and Ning Shiqiu.
After looking around and making sure that there was no one around except the two of them, he spoke carefully: "Xiao Xia, I only have fifty cents. Can you help me ask your father to sell me a bowl of boiled rice noodles for fifty cents? Can I put less rice noodles or meat in my bowl?"
Ning Shixia and his brother looked at each other. It was the first time they had encountered such a request.
Ning Shiqiu saw Zhao Silian blushing with shame, like a prawn about to be cooked, and thought of her family's misfortune, and couldn't bear to refuse: "Xiao Xia is too young, my parents won't let her into the kitchen, I'll go ask for you."
Zhao Silian nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, thank you!"
Ning Shiqiu ran in and ran out again after a while.
Meeting Zhao Silian's expectant gaze, he shook his head. Zhao Silian almost burst into tears. She was worried that she would be beaten when she returned home if she didn't do what her father asked her to do.
Ning Shiqiu saw that she was about to cry, and he didn't care about balancing his breath. He panted slightly and said, "My mother said that we can't set a precedent of putting less ingredients and charging less money, but you are her niece, so I can make a break for you. Today I will only charge you 50 cents for a bowl of boiled rice noodles, but this won't happen again. If you don't bring enough money in the future and still want to buy rice noodles, you will have to help my family with work."
Zhao Silian's eyes lit up when she heard this. She was not afraid of working, she was only afraid that this time she would successfully bring back a bowl of rice noodles as large as enough, and her father would continue to let her buy it for only fifty cents in the future.
If she couldn't buy it, he would definitely get angry and beat her. If the rice noodles she brought back were not as much as before, he would also get angry and beat her.
Zhao Silian didn't want to be beaten or scolded, nor did she want to always rely on other people's pity to take advantage of them.
It’s great to be able to work to offset a dime!
"I'm very efficient at work and can help now!" She looked around and saw a basket of vegetables that Ning Shixia and Ning Shiqiu had not yet carried in.
He simply grabbed the basket with both hands and lifted it up, then quickly helped to move the basket of vegetables in.
Ning Shixia followed behind Zhao Silian all the way and looked at her enviously: "Sister Silian, you are so strong!"
Zhao Silian hadn't been praised for a long time. She smiled a little embarrassedly and said modestly, "No, no, I've been working since I was a child. I'm just used to it."
She washed the basket of vegetables.
After washing the vegetables, I saw a pile of dishes by the pool that had been used by guests but had not been washed yet, so I washed all of them.
"You are really capable!" Ning Shixia praised generously, "Why don't you come to my house to work in the future? My brother is rich, so let him hire you. My dad also hired my eldest cousin to work for him. They hire adults to work, and we hire children to work."
She also heard about Zhao Silian's family situation. She knew that Zhao Silian had no mother and her father was not a good father, so she wanted to help her.
She just didn’t know how to help, and today she finally thought of a solution that she thought was very good.
Ning Shiqiu couldn't help but knock her on the forehead when he heard what his sister said: "You are really good at arranging things. Why do I have to pay for hiring people instead of you?"
Ning Shixia covered her forehead and said, "I want to save money to buy something recently. You don't want to buy anything now. Can you wait until I buy that thing and the remaining pocket money is no longer needed? Then you can use my money to hire me, okay?"
Zhao Ruyue came in to see what they were doing, and laughed when she heard her daughter's words: "No."
The three children asked in unison: "Why?"
Zhao Ruyue: "It is illegal to employ child labor!"
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