Chapter 102: Hiring a Mother
Liu Lan answered honestly, "To store some goods."
"What goods?" The landlord has the right to ask clearly.
"Cat food."
"So you and Boss Yu are in the same line of work, both in the pet industry. That's easy, that's easy," Boss Wang was very happy. He was afraid of meeting some shady people when renting out a house.
So he happily signed the contract with Liu Lan and generously waived the deposit, but required Liu Lan to pay three months' rent first.
Liu Man hadn't withdrawn the money in her live shopping cart yet, so she made a request, "Boss Wang, can I transfer 30,000 yuan to you first, and give you the rest two days later?"
Boss Wang looked at Yu Zhan standing aside and said with a smile, "Okay, okay, Miss Liu is Boss Yu's friend, I believe you won't do anything rash. Tomorrow morning I will ask my employees to move all the tables and chairs on this floor away so as not to affect your delivery of goods. If you have any other requests, you can always contact me."
"Can we keep a table and four chairs?" Liu Lan thought they might be needed.
"That's no problem. If you feel like you're short of tables and chairs in the future, you can always come to me for more."
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Liu Lan finally succeeded in renting a warehouse, but in just one afternoon, she had spent all her remaining savings. All the money she earned from selling cat food in the past few days was also spent.
The more urgent problem facing Liu Lan now is that she has no one.
Liu Man planned to skip classes the next day to go to the job market. Yu Zhan had thought of all the questions she could think of. Yu Zhan said,
"Don't worry, just focus on your studies. I'll take care of the search."
The next night, Yu Zhan called Liu Lan and told her that he had found two people willing to do the job.
Both of them were uncles in their fifties. One was introduced by the young nurse. He was her distant relative and happened to come to the capital from his hometown to find a job after the Spring Festival. The other was introduced by Boss Wang. This person was an employee in his store. Boss Wang's store had reduced in size and did not need so many people, so he introduced him to Yu Zhan.
These days, Zhang Pei, like Liu Lan, goes out early and comes back late every day. She is also looking for a job outside.
Zhang Pei has a college degree. Before becoming a full-time housewife, she worked as an accountant. However, she had not worked for 20 years and had long forgotten her accounting skills. She was also very old and had difficulty finding a job.
Today she met a particularly cool HR.
"At your age, you don't have any skills, so why bother coming here to compete with the young people? I suggest you find a job washing dishes and sweeping the floor in a restaurant outside. Otherwise, even if you join our company, you can only clean the toilets."
Is this well-intentioned advice or malicious humiliation?
Zhang Pei was no longer able to distinguish. She was exhausted. She had been away from the workplace for too long, and the outside world felt strange and scary to her.
Is it really true that she can only find jobs like cleaner and dishwasher?
When Liu Lan returned home in the evening, she saw Zhang Pei sitting silently on the sofa, staring straight ahead with numb eyes. Liu Lan walked closer and found that her eyes were red.
She was anxious, "Mom, what's wrong?"
Zhang Pei was awakened by her cry, as if he had just discovered her, "When did you come back? Why was there no sound at all?"
Liu Lan saw tears in Zhang Pei's eyes. She wiped away the tears with the back of her hand and asked softly, "Mom, what happened?"
This sensible and gentle gesture finally made Zhang Pei collapse, her tears pouring down, "I am useless, I have no skills, I can't find a job, I can't make a penny, and my family still has millions of debts to pay off. What should I do? I am a useless person who is of no use to society."
"Who says you are useless? Who says you are a useless person? You are my mother. You carried me for ten months and raised me. You taught me to talk and held my hand while I was learning to walk. My father was busy with work and I was studying at school. You picked me up and dropped me off every day regardless of the weather. You saved money to support me to learn piano. You provided me with the best environment to grow up in. You are the best mother and the person who loves me the most in this world."
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