"Let me tell you the truth, she can come, but her internship will be six months. I don't want her to give me a bunch of troublesome kids after she becomes a full-time employee," Minister Yang said seriously, his face darkening.
“Old Yang.” Minister Liu said helplessly, patting Minister Yang on the shoulder. “This is on my mind. If she does anything wrong, you can scold her all you want, really.”
"I don't believe you for a second. Your tigress will make a scene soon." Minister Yang was not going to believe Minister Liu's nonsense. At home, he had no say; his wife was the one in charge.
"Sigh..." Minister Liu was also helpless. What was wrong with him back then? He never expected to marry such a shrew.
"Alright, you handle her yourself! Anyway, if she doesn't do her job well, don't blame me." Minister Yang glanced at Minister Liu. He had already conveyed his message: if someone doesn't work properly, don't blame him for scolding them; he's not one to back down.
"Alright, alright." Minister Liu breathed a sigh of relief, at least he had solved his sister-in-law's job problem.
Xia Lan had already completed her onboarding process and walked out of the office, following Minister Yang to the candy counter.
"For now, you should familiarize yourself with the business at this counter. Remember the prices of all the candies, and don't make any mistakes," Minister Yang said earnestly to Xia Lan.
Xia Lan looked at the dazzling array of candies in front of her and nodded.
Minister Yang placed Xia Lan at the candy counter as a test, wanting to see if she could withstand the work pressure.
It's important to know that there are many types of sugar, and they vary in price, requiring a lot of calculation speed, which is already challenging for sales staff.
In addition, since it was Xia Lan's first day at work, Minister Yang could already anticipate the setbacks she might encounter, and he was waiting for her to come to him for advice or ask him to change her counter.
Xia Lan was arranging the candies on her counter. Compared to her previous life, the variety of candies was much more limited now.
The famous White Rabbit milk candy was prominently displayed, followed by various fruit hard candies, shrimp crackers, peanut milk candies, lollipops, orange gummies, and coin-shaped chocolates...
Behind them, on a locked counter, were some expensive chocolates; the price of a large bar of Cheesecake could be as much as a piece of clothing.
Among them, the Sprout brand chocolate beans were quite novel to Xia Lan, somewhat resembling the M&M's chocolate beans from her previous life.
The cheapest sugar is pagoda-shaped sugar.
"Hey, are you new here?" Just as Xia Lan was looking through all the candies, the sales clerk next door slowly came over and asked Xia Lan.
As the saleswoman looked Xia Lan up and down, her smile became much more genuine when she saw Xia Lan's delicate and fair face.
Xia Lan looked in the direction of the sound and saw a woman smiling at her.
"Hello, my name is Xia Lan," Xia Lan replied with a smile.
"My name is Xu Li. Hey... do you know how this position of yours became vacant?" Xu Li looked at Xia Lan and asked probingly.
Xia Lan shook her head.
"So, who did you get this job through?" Xu Li glanced at Xia Lan and asked. "You've only been fired for two days, and you're already back at work..."
“I was recruited by Minister Yang,” Xia Lan replied.
Xu Li was stunned and opened her mouth wide after hearing Xia Lan's words. "You were recruited by Minister Yang, so why did you come to the candy counter? That counter is the most tiring."
Xu Li looked at Xia Lan with confusion. If she was really someone recruited by Minister Yang, shouldn't she be working at the watch counter?
That's the easiest one.
After all, not many people can afford a watch.
However, Xia Lan came to the busiest counter. Every day, many people would come to buy candy, even if it was just a few cents or dimes, but this counter was never idle.
There's no time to even sit down, it's so annoying.
"I think it's alright!" Xia Lan counted all the candies, remembered their prices, and wrote them down on a piece of paper.
Xu Li looked at Xia Lan suspiciously, thinking that Xia Lan either bought her position or was not favored by Minister Yang.
Basically, they're just not favored.
Having figured this out, Xu Li stopped paying attention to Xia Lan and returned to her counter.
Because of Hu Meili and her friends being fired for knitting and stealing, no one dares to bring out their sweaters to knit anymore. They can only sit at the counter, bored and lost in thought, or chat with someone.
After spending an hour memorizing all the goods, Xia Lan rearranged their placement.
Most of the candy packaging was a single color. Xia Lan liked red, orange, yellow, green and purple, so she picked them out one by one and distinguished the colors. Before long, the candy counter became a rainbow world.
"Wow~ It's so pretty! Grandma, I want some fruit candy." An old lady led her precious grandson into a department store. As soon as the little boy entered, he saw the candies arranged in a rainbow and immediately broke free from his grandmother's hand and ran to the counter.
"Oh dear, Grandma will buy it for you, my dear grandson, slow down!" The grandmother was so frightened by her beloved grandson running away that she chased after him.
"Grandma, I want them all! Buy them all for me!" The little boy pointed to the row of rainbow hard candies and immediately demanded to buy them all.
"My dear grandson, didn't we agree to buy only one kind? If you buy them all, Grandma doesn't have many coupons!" The grandmother was in a dilemma; she only had a few ounces of sugar coupons and couldn't buy so much sugar.
"I don't care, I want them all!!!" As soon as the little boy heard that his grandma was unwilling to buy them, he sat down on the ground without saying a word and was about to start a tantrum.
"Little boy, do you want these seven colored candies?" Xia Lan quickly interrupted the little boy, who was about to start wailing, and asked him with a smile.
The little boy was stunned. It wasn't his grandmother's voice. He looked up at Xia Lan, who smiled at him.
"Yes, I want them all." The little boy blushed and said shyly when he saw Xia Lan smile at him.
He can act recklessly with his doting grandmother, but he is noticeably more shy around other adults outside.
A typical bully at home.
"Could you give me some of everything? I only have these tickets..." the mother-in-law said to Xia Lan, feeling embarrassed.
In the eyes of people in the county town, if a salesperson says they won't sell, they probably won't, and it's normal for them to even curse at them.
Xia Lan checked her ticket and realized the weight should be sufficient. She took two of each color, weighed them, and they were just right.
"That's just enough!" Xia Lan said with a smile. Her mother-in-law was delighted and quickly paid Xia Lan the tickets and money.
Xia Lan turned to the little boy and said, "Little friend, your grandma is so good to you. She bought you every color. You must be good to your grandma in the future!"
"Mmm." The little boy took the candy from Xia Lan's hand, his eyes shining brightly.
Hearing Xia Lan's words, he turned around and hugged his grandmother, saying sweetly, "Grandma, you're the best. Xiao Bao loves Grandma the most. In the future, Xiao Bao will make a lot of money to be filial to Grandma."
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