Lu Wanqing's smile encouraged Lin Chunhua, and she suggested that Huaihua help out at the shop.
“It would be difficult for her to find a job on her own, and she would be easily scammed. It would be better for her to help me in the store.”
Lu Wanqing remained silent for a while, without answering immediately.
Just then, the sound of Lin Xiaocui opening the door came from outside; she had returned.
Lu Wanqing quickly called her in as well.
"Now that everyone's here, let's discuss how to arrange the locust flowers," Lu Wanqing said casually as she sat down on the edge of the bed.
Lin Ye was sitting on the edge of the bed reading a book, but he was listening to what they were going to come up with.
Lin Chunhua was grateful. In the past, the matters that needed to be discussed were all important, but this time she was taking it so seriously, which was because of Lin Chunhua!
Lin Xiaocui, with her hands behind her back, glanced between the two women and then said with a grin:
"Sister Chunhua, don't blame me for not helping you. It's hard for your sister not to go astray living in that kind of environment. Although my restaurant is short-staffed, what it lacks is someone as down-to-earth and hardworking as Chuntao."
Of course, Chun Tao also comes from the countryside, but she is a diligent student with excellent grades in high school, and she's also very efficient at work. Last time, when I asked her to help out at the bank manager's house for a few days, she didn't say a word more than necessary.
In short, if Huaihua wants to work as a waitress at my place, I'll have to do some more research.
She rattled off a whole bunch of things, and her meaning was quite clear: she wasn't really welcoming of Huaihua working as a waitress in her shop.
Lin Chunhua gave a wry smile, indicating her understanding:
"Actually, I don't want her to go to my place either. I manage the accounts and handle so much money every day. If she gets any crooked ideas, I won't be able to guard against it."
After listening to what they had to say, Lu Wanqing shared her own thoughts.
"Now that Huaihua is here, it's not right for you, as her older sister, to ignore her. But keeping her around isn't ideal either. If she finds out that you two have some things, she might develop bad intentions."
Why don't we let her come to my place and work as a regular garment worker, working hard every day? She can stay in the factory dormitory instead of the guesthouses outside.
In our factory, all employees who aren't assigned housing have single dormitories. Plus, they get a monthly salary of over forty yuan, which is enough to live on.
Hearing that Lu Wanqing had made clear arrangements for Huaihua, Lin Chunhua breathed a sigh of relief.
From now on, she and Huaihua will treat each other as relatives, meeting occasionally, and neither of them will owe the other anything.
However, the debt of gratitude she owed to Lu Wanqing was one she could never repay.
The only way to repay this is to work harder and make the clothing store successful.
The next day, the hectic and busy life began again.
After Elaine Chao and Han Dongsheng got married, the two went on a trip to another city and would not return for about a week.
Lin Chunhua is responsible for picking up and dropping off the three children in the morning; she can stay at the shop a little later if she wants to, but Lu Wanqing is in charge in the evening.
Lin Ye's work schedule is unpredictable. Sometimes, if the port city needs a design drawing, he has to work overtime until midnight to get it done.
Lin Chunhua packed up a pile of old clothes and a few new outfits, put them in a bag, and planned to give them to Huaihua after delivering the three treasures.
It was almost nine o'clock when she arrived at the guesthouse.
She transferred the things from her two hands to one and knocked on the door, only to hear a lazy voice from inside:
"Who is it? Knocking on the door so early in the morning."
“Me!” Lin Chunhua replied irritably.
Luckily, I didn't agree to let her into the store, otherwise I would have been too lazy to care about her and would have had to pay her!
After Huaihua opened the door, Lin Chunhua squeezed into the room and began to berate her:
"What time is it? Get up! Nobody here is lazy. If you're lazy, you can forget about eating!"
The locust flower smiled indifferently:
"I just haven't slept well for two days, so I'm catching up on some sleep. I definitely won't do this again."
Oh dear, did you bring any food? I'm starving.
As she spoke, she rummaged through the clothes that Lin Chunhua had brought over.
These clothes were so much better in style and material than the clothes in the countryside. She was overjoyed and quickly picked out a set to wear.
I have to say, the girl who looked plain yesterday with two braids suddenly became stylish as soon as she let her hair down and put on brightly colored clothes.
"How do I look? I don't look bad in this!" Huaihua asked with a smile as she straightened her clothes.
Lin Chunhua said truthfully, "Not bad. Clean your fingernails properly, make sure there's no dirt under your nails, and style your hair nicely. You'll look like a city girl."
"Really?" Huaihua was so happy she almost jumped for joy.
When she was in the countryside, she had to cut pig feed, wash clothes, and cook every day. She was so envious of city girls.
Occasionally, she would see news on the TVs of wealthy people, and seeing how beautifully dressed they were and how fluent they spoke Mandarin, she would try to imitate them.
Otherwise, her Mandarin wouldn't be this good yet!
She felt like she was now living the kind of life she saw on TV.
Even a simple guesthouse made her feel that the city was better than the countryside.
Lin Chunhua had Huaihua tie her hair into a ponytail, packed everything up, and went to the front desk to get a refund for the room.
She was supposed to get a refund of 2.5 yuan, but the receptionist only refunded her 2 yuan. Huaihua was very unhappy, wondering why they deducted 50 cents.
Lin Chunhua didn't want to delay any longer over such a small matter, so she pulled her out quickly.
Because she didn't have a bicycle to take Sanbao to school in the morning, she had to take Huaihua by bus.
While on the bus, she taught Huaihua how to buy tickets and how to read the route.
Huaihua learned with great interest, occasionally making a few complaints about how many rules there were in the city.
Little did she know that back in the village, the land was only the size of a palm, but here it was different. The distance between different work units ranged from a few miles to more than ten kilometers.
This is still in the city center; if you want to go to the suburbs, it's even further away.
Half an hour later, they got off the bus and walked for another ten minutes before arriving at Wenwan Garment Factory.
Lin Chunhua had come to the garment factory to familiarize herself with the place. The gatekeeper, knowing she was Director Lu's sister-in-law, opened the gate very warmly.
"Director Lu is a good person. In the past, our gatekeepers were cold in winter and hot in summer. She specially asked the purchasing department to buy us fans. This summer, I don't have to worry about it anymore," the old gatekeeper said to himself.
He usually doesn't talk to anyone, only the radio keeps him company, and he tells everyone how great the current factory director is.
Originally, most of the factory workers earned around thirty yuan a month, but after she took over, she immediately raised it to over forty yuan.
The security guard also got a raise, how could he not be happy?
As soon as they went inside, the old man quickly called Huo Xiao to inform him who had come to see Director Lu.
As soon as Lin Chunhua led Huaihua to the bottom of the three-story office building, Huo Xiao greeted them with a smile and took the things from her hands.
Huaihua secretly marveled at how much power Lu Wanqing wielded.
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