Chapter 75 Chapter 75 Salted Peanuts are simple and rustic but tasty...
A few days later, when Su Dejun brought lunch to Su Tianli at noon, he told her that Aunt Cao wanted to see her about something.
Su Tianli didn't know what Aunt Cao was up to.
But in the afternoon, while the clinic was still relatively free, she rode her bicycle back to the chemical plant's family compound.
What surprised Su Tianli was that
As soon as she pushed her bicycle through the big iron gate, she saw He Wanqian sitting in the message room.
This is rare.
Now is working time,
What is He Wanqian doing sitting in the message room instead of going to work in the finance department?
Finding it strange, Su Tianli stood still and stared at He Wanqian for a while.
He Wanqian, who was sitting in the communication room, saw it belatedly...
Then, she and Su Tianli met eyes.
Wan-qian Ho: …
She gave Su Tianli a fierce look, and even seemed to be angry and embarrassed. She turned around angrily and walked into the information room in the communication room.
Su Tianli: ???
You know, mothers-in-law, aunts, aunts, and sisters-in-law who like to chat and gossip usually like to gather in the message room.
First of all, there is no sun here.
Secondly, you can use the electric fan here.
Third, there are people coming and going here, so it is easier to call people and change the topic.
But, even if everyone likes to stay here and join in the fun, most of them have a strong sense of boundaries.
The data room, located inside the communication room, is an important work area.
Most of the onlookers are quite outgoing, but they also have a strong sense of boundaries and generally will not take the initiative to step into the data room.
So, what is He Wanqian's behavior...
It's worth thinking about.
Su Tianli stared at He Wanqian for a while, then pushed her bicycle away.
She doesn't care!
After asking Aunt Cao, I found out whether He Wanqian was just sitting here idle or had been transferred to the message room.
After Su Tianli found Aunt Cao, she handed her a bag of salted peanuts and said, "Aunt Cao, please have some peanuts!"
Aunt Cao was very happy when she saw Su Tianli, "Lizhi, you are here, why did you bring delicious food with you... Come, come, sit down and chat with auntie."
The two of them were eating salted peanuts while chatting.
Aunt Cao told Su Tianli some bad news: "Your mother called me a lot these days. At first, she asked me to find your father to answer the phone. I went, and then your father scolded me! Your father is obviously a coward, why is he so fierce?"
"But, as long as I don't tell your dad about your mom, he will still be the good guy he used to be..."
"I had no choice, so I told your mom the truth, but she kept saying it was impossible... She kept crying and making a fuss, asking me to help her find your dad! It annoyed me to death!"
"Later, when your mother called me again and asked me to go find your father, I hung up the phone!"
As she spoke, Aunt Cao peeled a few more salted peanuts, stuffed them into her mouth and ate them, then continued:
"Your mother called me again, but this time she didn't ask for your father, but for your eldest sister! She asked me to ask your eldest sister at the Municipal People's Hospital if she could answer the phone... I said your son is no longer in Guangzhou! He has become a volunteer and has gone to Tibet and Xinjiang to help with construction."
"Your mother is crazy again and asks me what's going on."
"I said I don't know the details, I only know that your son did go to the Municipal People's Hospital... but he went to Tibet and Xinjiang a few days later! As for the specific address, how can I, an outsider, know it!"
"I heard that your mother fainted on the spot..."
"Later, your mother called me many times. At first, she was frantically looking for your father, the director of the Municipal People's Hospital, and you... Later, she said she wanted to return to Guangzhou."
"I asked her, are you going back alone?"
"She said no. If she goes back alone, the Tang family won't allow it."
“I asked her again, did you bring the old man with you?”
"She said yes."
"I asked her again, 'You are no longer employed by the factory, you have no place to live in Guangzhou, you don't get paid, and you want to bring your husband with you... How are you going to get food and accommodation?'"
"Your mother said that Lao Su couldn't be so heartless!"
At this point, Aunt Cao said to Su Tianli, "Lizhi, I don't dare to say the word 'Tian Xiu' in front of your father. He will curse me if I mention it... I don't know the phone number of your unit now, so I can only ask your father to tell you to come and see me..."
"I just want to tell you everything in detail, so that when the time comes...if your mom really brings the old man, you, your dad, and your brother won't be mentally prepared at all!"
Su Tianli thanked Aunt Cao solemnly.
Aunt Cao asked her worriedly, "Lizhi, what if your mother really comes?"
Su Tianli smiled, "She came so she came. What does it have to do with me, my father, or my brother?"
"If my dad is willing to take her in, then he is willing to be a cuckold, and I have no objection to that."
"My younger brother is underage. Firstly, he can't possibly give money to my mom. Secondly, my younger brother still has his biological father to take care of. It's impossible for him to serve his stepfather!"
"It's even more impossible for me... First of all, I have to go to work, how can I have time to serve my mother and the old man? Secondly, I am already an adult woman, and I am asked to serve my stepfather? This is inappropriate, right? Thirdly, my monthly salary is only about 20 yuan now. I can't even feed myself, so how can I take care of her? Fourthly, my eldest sister is the biological daughter of my mother and the old man. My eldest sister has a salary and income now, so it is my eldest sister's responsibility to support them..."
Aunt Cao nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, that's right!"
Then, Aunt Cao lowered her voice and asked Su Tianli, "Lizhi, are you making money by setting up a stall at the night market?"
During the National Day, the district government held a farmers' fair in Dadadi. Everyone went to have a look and of course they saw Su Tianli selling snacks at a stall there.
Su Tianli said openly, "Aunt Cao, that business was started when I first returned to the city and was kicked out by my mother and eldest sister. I really had nowhere to go, so I started this business with a few educated youth who returned to the city."
"I can only say that you can make money! But we have a lot of partners, and if we share it... it's about the same as the salary of the company's employees."
Aunt Cao quickly stretched out her palm, showed it, and asked, "Is there such a number?"
Su Tianli said: "If you work without a break for a whole month, from morning till night without stopping, you can get about this amount..."
Aunt Cao sighed, "That's pretty hard work! It's better to stay in the factory. You can fool around all day, and you can goof around and chat all day... and you can get a guaranteed income!"
"Besides, Dadada is quite far away... and the weather is so hot now. If you go to set up a stall, it will be a big hassle to transport the goods! So, it's really not easy to make money!"
"That's right!" Su Tianli lied a little, "Plus, now that I'm working, I can do less work for them, so I get less money. After all, they do more work and are more tired."
Aunt Cao said, "Yes, yes, yes! It would be more appropriate to find a class to attend."
After a pause, Aunt Cao said embarrassedly: "The main reason is that my eldest son has been back for a while... I can't find anything to do for a while. If it's convenient for you..."
"That's convenient!" Su Tianli agreed immediately, "Aunt Cao, let uncle accompany big sister tonight and let her get used to it for a few days. I let uncle accompany her because I'm afraid it's too late at night and it's not safe for big sister to walk alone at night."
Aunt Cao asked again, "Are you going today?"
"I'm going, Aunt Cao. You can just ask uncle and elder sister to find me." Su Tianli said.
She must help Aunt Cao.
What if Tian Xiuzhen wants to bring the old man back to Guangzhou?
Then Aunt Cao can help her ward off a lot of evil.
Aunt Cao was overjoyed, "Litchi, I knew you were the best."
Su Tianli smiled and asked about He Wanqian's situation, "...Why did I see her staying in the message room?"
Sure enough, there is nothing in this factory that Aunt Cao doesn’t know!
She immediately pulled Su Tianli aside and started talking, "That He Wanqian...I think she must have done something serious!"
Su Tianli opened her eyes wide.
Aunt Cao told Su Tianli:
Wasn’t He Wanqian taken away by the police for investigation some time ago?
(But He Wanqian covered it tightly, and Aunt Cao didn’t know what happened.)
Then--
Yao Xingang suddenly felt as if he was facing a great enemy, and that very night he led all the people in the finance office to work overtime to check the accounts. It was said that no one left the finance office for two days and two nights!
Then, Director Zhang suddenly got angry.
As soon as He Wanqian came back, she was transferred from the finance department to work in the communication room.
Aunt Cao lowered her voice and said, "Everyone is guessing that He Wanqian must have done something to the account... Director Zhang didn't do anything to He Wanqian because of her mother's face... Otherwise, hehe..."
Su Tianli thought for a moment and asked again, "Is He Wanqian's mother so powerful?"
When talking about Xu Jiaxi, Aunt Cao waved her hand, as if she didn't want to talk more.
Su Tianli looked at her watch and felt that it was about time, so she said goodbye to Aunt Cao and left.
only--
She had just reached the gate.
Then she heard someone calling her, "Lychee!"
Su Tianli turned around and saw—Cheng Yu?
She was surprised, "Why are you here?"
Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Didn't you say that if you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger?"
Su Tianli understood immediately—he came here today to discuss cooperation with Director Zhang!
"Have you finished your work? Or did you just arrive?" she asked again.
Cheng Yu: "It's done."
Su Tianli thought for a moment and said, "Then you can come back with me! I will be off work in an hour, and we can go back together, and you can save the bus fare."
Cheng Yu smiled and said "OK".
Bicycles were not allowed in the family compound, so the two of them pushed their bicycles, talking and laughing as they walked outside.
He Wanqian hid in the message room, watching the couple walking away through the window, and the annoyance in her heart became more and more intense.
At this time, Aunt Cao also came over excitedly.
Several women who were sitting at the entrance of the reception hall called her over, "Aunt Cao...what are you busy with?"
Aunt Cao said happily, "I have to go back to find my boss!"
The onlookers immediately became alert, "What's going on? Where did your boss assign his job?"
"No!" Aunt Cao said, "I feel bad seeing her stay at home doing nothing all day long! I just found her a temporary job, and we'll see if she can get used to it!"
"Where are these temporary workers from? How is the work situation? Is it far away? How much do they earn per month?" the onlookers asked again.
Aunt Cao added, "It's just working for Lizhi! As for the wages, we don't know how much it will be yet. I'll let the eldest brother work for Lizhi for a day to see how it goes. If Lizhi's wages are too low, forget it..."
That being said, Aunt Cao knew the situation in her mind - if the wages were really high, Lizhi wouldn't have gone to the health center to work as a temporary worker for 28 yuan a month, right?
So Aunt Cao actually wanted to tell Su Tianli to let her eldest son do odd jobs that were paid by the day.
But no matter what, she has to let her eldest daughter go to the night market to work for a day to try. If she is too tired, the journey is too long, and it is too late, then it won’t work.
When talking about Su Tianli, the onlookers immediately became excited!
"Aunt Cao! Did you go to Dadadi during the National Day holiday? Lizhi rented a big stall at the farmers' fair! Oh, she must be making a lot of money!"
"Yes, Aunt Cao, a distant relative of a friend of mine also set up a small stall selling fried noodles there. It was only one-fourth the size of the lychee stall... and he made more than a thousand yuan in five days! A stall as big as the lychee stall must have made at least ten thousand in five days, right?"
"Yes, Aunt Cao, you have a good relationship with Lizhi, why don't you find out how much money she makes..."
"Oh my, young people nowadays are really amazing! The waves behind push the waves ahead, and the waves ahead die on the beach!"
Then Aunt Cao must be on Su Tianli's side.
Although she didn't know and was too embarrassed to ask directly how much Su Tianli earned in those days,
But she couldn't possibly exaggerate Su Tianli's income!
In order to prevent everyone from thinking about working for Su Tianli...
Wouldn't that make him a competitor to the boss of her family?
So Aunt Cao said, "Hey! You can see that the stall is big, but Lizhi is not the only one in charge! There are so many people to share the money! How much can you get!"
The crowd also said:
"Then I'm sure you'll get a lot! I've been to the lychee shop, they have a wide variety of food, the taste is good, and the prices are reasonable."
"I don't think lychees make much money, do they? The snacks at her stall are really not expensive, much cheaper than other stalls in the night market!"
"I feel the same way... the cheaper ones aren't as delicious, and the more expensive ones have bigger portions!"
"Anyway, I think that Lizhi must have earned no less than 4,000 yuan!"
"Wow... 4,000 bucks! It would take us 10 years to earn that!"
"With the current national policy... why are street vendors allowed again? In the past, this was considered speculation and profiteering, and the offender would be punished with a slam bang!"
"Ah, I just don't have the ability. First, I don't have the capital, second, the food I cook is not tasty, and third, I'm lazy... Otherwise, I would also like to set up a stall!"
"I'm different from you! I don't want to go at all. It's too hard to go in the wind and rain."
…
He Wanqian sat in the reception room and listened to everyone's gossip.
She lowered her head and said nothing, her hands clenched into fists.
How funny!
She has been preparing for the upcoming reform and opening up in 1979!
So she had worked in the factory's finance department for five years, and she had managed to make a lot of money...
She originally wanted to wait until after the reform and opening up, then take out the money and give it to Fu Yan as capital so that he could start his business.
Unexpectedly——
That day, Public Security Li came to her workplace to look for her...
The commotion was so loud that she was scared!
She thought the police had discovered that she had embezzled more than 10,000 yuan from her unit over the years!
Later I found out that he was asking about the incident in which she and Cheng Yu were swapped.
Later, when she was released, she learned that the Chief Financial Officer Yao Xingang also thought that she was taken away because of a duty-related crime, so he led all the colleagues in the Finance Department to conduct a thorough accounting!
Such a set of accounts,
Basically, all the old accounts of the chemical plant have been checked clearly.
The money that He Wanqian had taken from the company over the years was listed in full - she also realized that in addition to the more than 10,000 yuan she had in her hands, she had actually spent another 3,000 to 4,000 yuan!
He Wanqian felt shy and embarrassed.
She immediately returned all the money she had.
But there is still a gap of three or four thousand yuan!
Director Zhang talked to her and first transferred her out of the Finance Department. He also ordered her to pay all the outstanding debts within three months, that is, before the New Year, otherwise he would go to Xu Jiaxi to talk about this.
If Xu Jiaxi doesn't care about this matter, then He Wanqian will have to go to jail.
These days, He Wanqian is extremely anxious.
But she was helpless.
Firstly, He Jingdong was in hospital, and she didn't dare tell him about this, for fear that he would be angry with her.
Secondly, she was really desperate - she had originally thought of borrowing from Wang Aiqin, but as soon as Wang Aiqin saw her, she demanded that she return the 600 yuan that Su Tianli had stolen from her...
At this time, He Wanqian heard the onlookers talking about setting up a stall in Dadadi to make money...
She slapped her forehead and thought: Yes! Why didn't she think of this!
So she started thinking again: What kind of business can I do in the night market that would be easy and profitable?
After much thought, He Wanqian felt that she should personally make a batch of jewelry to sell.
After all, she is someone who has experienced a past life, and her aesthetic sense is far superior to those of today's unsophisticated people!
He Wanqian made up her mind.
She suddenly felt relieved, thinking that she was a reborn person, how could she be inferior to Su Tianli, an original native?
With her intelligence, she would definitely earn more than Su Tianli - after all, the food that Su Tianli sells is really delicious, with plenty of ingredients, and the price is cheap! But this means that Su Tianli can't make much money...
He Wanqian made up her mind to go to Dadadi Night Market to purchase goods tonight!
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