Enjoy the beautiful scenery and relax.
(A joyful daily life of beachcombing and fishing, focusing on a slow-paced and immersive beachcombing experience. There are no disgusting or mind-numbing extremes, so you can watch with peace of mind.)
[Dear handsome men and beautiful women, please read (???)]
October 25, 2021.
As soon as Chen Zhiyao returned to the company, she was called into a small conference room by HR manager Li.
Manager Li said a lot of irrelevant things, but in short, she was fired.
"You've been with the company for exactly 3 years, so the severance pay is 4 months' salary, which is the total. The severance pay will be paid together with this month's salary."
Chen Zhiyao joined this company during her senior year internship. Although she has only graduated for two years, she has already been with the company for three years.
I'm a little sad that I was suddenly laid off.
However, when I thought about the 28,000 yuan in compensation, I felt it wasn't a bad deal, and I was even a little happy.
Chen Zhiyao has a carefree and easygoing personality and is very thick-skinned. At this moment, all she could think about was the 28,000 yuan compensation.
Seeing that she was calm and composed, Manager Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled in a good mood.
"Today is the 25th. You should hand over your responsibilities to your colleagues in the next few days, and you won't need to come over next month."
Chen Zhiyao smiled slightly. "Okay, the company has treated me well these past few years. Let's part ways amicably."
As long as the money is there, everything is negotiable.
After leaving the small conference room, Chen Zhiyao was actually in a pretty good mood.
Ever since she joined this lousy company, working from 9 am to 8 pm every day and often having to work overtime on weekends, she has actually wanted to quit a long time ago.
Calculating the time, there are still about three months until the Chinese New Year. She plans to go home to rest for a while and take the driving test.
As for finding a job, we'll talk about that next year!
Back in her seat, Chen Zhiyao ignored the handover and eagerly picked up her phone to check her bank account.
When she first joined the company, her monthly salary was only 4,500 yuan. After a three-month probation period, it increased to 5,500 yuan.
Although her salary wasn't much, she didn't like buying luxury goods, and it was enough for her to rent a place and eat, with a little bit left over.
She worked for more than two years before being promoted at the beginning of this year, and her salary increased from 5,500 to 7,000 yuan a month.
However, after working for three years, she had very little money saved, only a little over 50,000 yuan in total.
Moreover, more than 10,000 of the 50,000 yuan was money she had saved from beachcombing since she was a child.
Chen Zhiyao sighed silently to herself. There are so many rich people in the world, why can't there be one more like her?
Life is tough, she could only sigh.
"Oh, right, there's also the compensation and next month's salary."
Thinking of this, Chen Zhiyao immediately perked up and quickly picked up the calculator on the table to start calculating.
With the compensation of 28,000 yuan, plus her salary of 7,000 yuan this month, she will receive a total of 35,000 yuan when she gets her salary next month.
With her savings, she had a total of 88,000 yuan.
Looking at the amount on the calculator, the money-grubbing Chen Zhiyao immediately beamed with joy:
"Eighty-eight thousand, not bad, not bad, that number is quite auspicious."
Although her savings weren't much, they were more than enough to keep her at home for a few months.
Then Chen Zhiyao picked up her phone again and made plans to have a nice dinner with her friends that evening to celebrate her escape from her misery.
Before she knew it, it was the last day of October. After having a farewell dinner with her close colleagues, Chen Zhiyao began packing her bags to go home.
The next day, she got up very early, humming a cheerful tune, and happily dragged her suitcase toward the high-speed rail station.
"Time to go home!"
"Attention passengers, we have arrived at South Station. Please take your luggage and get off at this station."
Stepping out of the high-speed rail station and looking at everything familiar around her, Chen Zhiyao's face was full of smiles.
Her bright and elegant face seemed to glow in the sunlight, attracting admiring glances from many passersby.
Chen Zhiyao
"Tangtang, here, here."
Chen Zhiyao looked to her left following the sound, and a tall, middle-aged man waved vigorously at her, his shrewd eyes narrowing with delight.
It was her father, Chen Weiqiang, who came to pick her up. Tangtang is her nickname. She loved eating candy when she was little, and her family and friends liked to call her Tangtang.
Chen Weiqiang happily took the suitcase from his daughter, and the father and daughter went to a minivan that was about 80% new.
"You're on annual leave, right? How many days can you stay this time?" Chen Weiqiang was unaware that his daughter had already resigned.
Being fired from her job sounded a bit embarrassing, so she tactfully changed her approach:
"Our crappy company went bankrupt, and now I'm unemployed. Dad, can you help me out?"
Little did she know, her father had quite a bit of money in his secret stash.
After putting his suitcase away, Chen Weiqiang's dark face still beamed with a bright smile: "It's okay, Dad will take care of you."
Soon, Chen Zhiyao received a WeChat transfer message for a full 2,000 yuan.
Chen Weiqiang winked at her with a slightly greasy expression, "Here's some pocket money for you, don't tell your mom, okay?"
"Dad, you're so good to me."
Chen Zhiyao stepped forward and affectionately took Chen Weiqiang's arm, smiling and acting coquettishly with her father.
As for his secret stash of money, Chen Zhiyao said that her mother already knew about it, so it didn't matter whether she said anything or not.
However, she only wants to take a break for a while and doesn't plan to stay at home and live off her parents forever. She will still look for a job later, as she hasn't returned the apartment she rented in Guangzhou yet.
The father and daughter chatted and laughed all the way back to the village.
Baisha Village is a beautiful fishing village nestled between mountains and the sea.
(Friendly reminder: All place names in this article are arbitrary. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.)
The front part of the village is at the foot of the mountain, while the back connects to a large beach, which is relatively rich in resources.
With its mountains and sea, and beautiful scenery, Baisha Village has always been considered by Chen Zhiyao to be a good place to retire.
Upon entering the village, the first thing you see is a Cainiao Post Station that also serves as a convenience store, which is run by Chen Zhiyao's family.
At this moment, a middle-aged woman with short hair was leisurely playing on her phone at the cashier, and upon closer inspection, she bore a resemblance to Chen Zhiyao.
The car stopped in front of the convenience store, and Chen Zhiyao eagerly rolled down the window, cheerfully shouting:
"Mom, your little darling is back!"
The little girl's smile was bright and clear as she waved happily at her.
When Yan Shuting saw her daughter return, her face lit up with joy. She quickly grabbed her phone, locked the door of the convenience store, and ran over.
"You're finally back! You look even thinner."
"I'm not thinner at all, I've actually gained two pounds." Chen Zhiyao quickly opened the car door, looking speechless.
My mom's filter is just too thick; every time she comes back, she feels sorry for me and says I've lost weight.
Honestly, ever since she started working, she's been working overtime and eating takeout every day, and now she's developing a double chin and a little belly.
Fortunately, she has a good foundation, with a curvy figure, and can be considered a bright and elegant young beauty.
"It's not a holiday now, why are you back? Are you on annual leave?"
They're a perfect couple; they think alike.
"Our company went bankrupt, and now I'm unemployed." Chen Zhiyao calmly repeated what she had just said.
Yan Shuting laughed when she heard this and said generously, "It's okay, you can help me watch the shop at home, and Mom will pay you a salary."
"I'll think about it."
"You silly girl, you're just giving me the runaround again." Yan Shuting pinched her daughter's delicate little face with displeasure.
Chen Zhiyao affectionately linked arms with Yan Shuting, and the mother and daughter chatted excitedly about recent events in their home.
Chen Weiqiang, ignored by everyone, couldn't help but sigh: his status was getting lower and lower, only slightly better than Ah Huang at home.
A short while later, the car stopped in front of a two-story building on the far left of the first row.
The Chen family's convenience store is located next to the Cainiao Post Station.
Upon entering the Chen family home, there is a small courtyard of about 40 square meters, where mango, lychee, and longan trees, which are Chen Zhiyao's favorite fruits, are planted.
Yan Shuting runs a small shop and a courier station in the village, while Chen Weiqiang runs a small fishing tackle shop in the county. The Chen family is doing quite well.
Currently, the Chen family is in a middle position in the village, neither rich nor poor.
Just as the three of them arrived home, Chen Zhiyao's grandparents came back, each carrying half a bucket of seafood.
Immediately afterwards, a big, round yellow dog ran over excitedly, jumping and wagging its tail at her.
Chen Zhiyao smiled broadly and ruffled the big yellow dog's fluffy head, then looked at the two kind old people:
"Grandpa and Grandma, are you back from going to the beach?"
"Knowing you were coming back today, your grandpa and I have been going to the beach a lot these past two days and brought back a lot of your favorite seafood," Grandma Chen said, looking at her granddaughter with loving eyes.
Grandpa Chen proudly picked up the grouper from the bucket, beaming as he showed it off:
"I just caught a pearl grouper weighing over two pounds on the rocky beach. It'll be perfect for steaming tonight."
Pearl grouper
The bucket in Grandma Chen's hand contained several small blue crabs weighing four or five ounces each, and at the bottom were several pounds of clams.
Freshly dug clams often have sand inside their bellies, so it's best to let them sit for a couple of days before eating them.
However, the elderly couple had come prepared; they had some clams in the kitchen that had already purged the sand, and they were just waiting for their granddaughter to come back.
(This is a mental storage space. When reading novels, just enjoy the fun; don't take the details too seriously (?????).)
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