Chapter 121 Uninvited Guests
Shi Xiaoai personally handed the bonuses to the employees one by one.
The moment the red paper package was opened, almost everyone was stunned. Everyone looked at the stack of banknotes in their hands with an expression of disbelief.
Ten dollars!
A full ten dollars!
Because all this money is from the meals collected today, there naturally cannot be any ten-yuan bills.
Shi Xiaoai and Wang Xiaofeng had tried their best to select new, relatively large-denomination banknotes for each employee, but they still received a thick stack in their hands.
This stack of documents made all the employees feel a heavy and solid feeling.
It is said that the treatment in snack shops is good, and everyone knew this before coming here.
After they passed the initial test, Wang Xiaofeng specifically told them about their salary and benefits. During the internship period, each person's monthly salary was 20 yuan, overtime pay was calculated separately, and there were also bonuses.
To be honest, no one cares about overtime pay, bonuses, etc. They think it's just talk.
You have to know that in the entire Yuncheng, apart from the textile factory and the shipyard, I have never heard of any other unit giving out bonuses.
In these large companies with good benefits, bonuses are only given to regular employees and have nothing to do with temporary workers like them.
The internship during this period also made everyone understand one thing, that is, the working treatment here is indeed good, meals are provided every day, and there is meat in the meals, but it is also really hard work.
From the moment you start work, don't even think about slacking off for a minute.
After a day of work, not only were my legs and feet swollen from standing, but my throat was also so hoarse from the smoke and fire that I couldn't speak.
But - no matter how hard it is, it is not as hard as waiting at home in anxiety because you can't find a job!
So even though the work was very tiring, no one backed down.
Now it is finally officially open for business.
Everyone also heard Shi Xiaoai say in the front hall that bonuses would be given out in the evening.
The employees are indeed looking forward to it.
But no one expected that the bonus would be so much!
There are actually ten dollars!
This is almost half a month’s salary for them!
Holding the ten yuan, some people were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling, while others couldn't help but wipe away their tears, feeling lucky that they had passed the exam and been selected.
From that moment on, everyone made up their minds to work hard and do their best!
No matter what, you have to pass the regularization exam in a month. If you miss this job, you will never get another one!
Shi Xiaoai gave everyone bonuses, and Wang Xiaofeng came out and sang Red Face.
In fact, she didn't say anything, she just asked everyone not to spread the news about the bonus outside.
After all, this society has just emerged from a particularly depressing environment, and everyone is cautious in their bones.
So Wang Xiaofeng just nodded slightly, and everyone nodded in understanding.
That is, if there are benefits, just take them quietly. Why tell others about it?
What if someone does something bad again, or plots something?
The employees working in the store at this time are all residents living nearby.
They all knew more or less about the rivalry between Shi Daxi and the tea stall, and also knew what happened to that family in the end.
With such a comparison, no one wants anything to happen to the snack shop. This is now where everyone makes their living!
So Wang Xiaofeng didn't need to say much after that, as the employees started talking among themselves, and everyone was very serious.
Some people with bad tempers have even started to threaten, saying that anyone who tells others about the bonus will be in trouble!
The new batch of educated youth introduced by Director Xu quickly passed the interview and became the new force of the snack shop.
By this time, the store finally had enough employees.
During this period, Wang Xiaofeng also found two female comrades who graduated from junior high school from the first batch of employees. They were responsible, down-to-earth and knowledgeable and began to focus on training them so that they could take over the cashier jobs as soon as possible.
Shi Xiaoai finally had time to seriously prepare for the upcoming night school exam.
Cheng Lin's foundation was too poor, so needless to say he had to start from the very basics, so even when attending night school he could only choose the beginner class.
Fortunately, Xiao Ai was always supervising him, so the boy couldn't find a chance to slack off and not study even when he was most busy.
Human time is indeed like a sponge. As long as you make up your mind, you can always squeeze it out.
After several months of study, Cheng Lin had made considerable progress. At least he could answer the test papers set by Shi Xiaoai, which were almost as difficult as those in the third year of junior high school.
Wang Xiaofeng only had a high school education and had previously done well in school. Although she had fallen behind in recent years, it wasn't that difficult to pick up the pieces.
Although she had little time to prepare, and only started reviewing seriously after Shi Xiaoai suggested that she study finance, Wang Xiaofeng had an advantage, that is, she was a local and had many classmates and friends.
A considerable number of these people returned to the city earlier than her, and many of them attended night school before her.
So, she easily got the exam papers from previous night schools. Not only did she and Shi Xiaoai need them, she also got a few sets of papers from the beginner classes.
After the three of them did it all, they finally felt relieved.
Although except Shi Xiaoai, the other two did not get high scores, they were still able to pass, so there should be no problem for them to be admitted.
In addition to the three of them, the three younger ones in the family are also studying.
Mingrui and Mingxi are better off. At least they both go to kindergarten during the day, so even if they want to learn something, they only have a short time in the evening.
Because he is young and needs more sleep, Xiao Ai is not so strict with him when it comes to his studies.
Just complete the required listening, reading and literacy every day.
Of course, Mingxi also has to learn mathematical thinking and play some fun math games with her mother.
However, she was the only one who found these math games fun. Mingrui and Kaikai wanted to run away as soon as they saw them, and they wanted to run as far away as possible.
As for Kaikai, he has more free time after his nephews and nieces went to kindergarten.
Shi Xiaoai also issued a clear ban that no one was allowed to use Kaikai as a child laborer, so the child felt very lost for a while because it was really too boring.
Seeing that the child had nothing to do, Shi Xiaoai had no choice but to increase his homework.
Not only did she find all the third-grade textbooks and personally lead the little one to preview them, she also gritted her teeth and asked Master Liu to get her a few hundred yuan worth of foreign exchange coupons, and ran to the Friendship Store to buy the most fashionable four-speaker tape recorder!
The moment the tape recorder was brought home, the whole family was stunned.
Cheng Lin, in particular, roared with excitement and rushed over to hug the clumsy big square box, wishing he could kiss it hard!
This is a tape recorder! It has four speakers!
It's so fashionable and so rare!
Even though Cheng Lin came from Beijing, few families in Beijing would be willing to buy this thing for their children.
In other words, only when a child from a well-off family gets married will the parents grit their teeth and buy one as a betrothal gift.
Anyway, Cheng Lin knew that his biological father would never buy it for him.
Now that he saw that his sister-in-law had actually bought a tape recorder, even though he knew it was definitely not a gift for him, he could still use it after all since it was at home.
Just thinking about it made Cheng Lin so excited that he almost cried with joy!
He immediately said that he could write to his good brothers in Beijing and ask them to find a way to get the most popular music tapes.
He was so excited that he even fearlessly hinted to his sister-in-law that he could find the newest, best and rarest "song from the other side of the sea".
Unfortunately, his excitement did not last long. Within a few minutes, the tape recorder was ruthlessly snatched from his arms by his sister-in-law.
Then... he placed it on the desk of his silly brother, who was not even as tall as the desk.
Shi Xiaoai spent a lot of money to buy such a thing not to let Cheng Lin show off, and she was not interested in the "Songs from the Other Side of the Sea" that Cheng Lin loved so much.
She bought this to teach some children foreign languages.
Shi Xiaoai certainly understands the importance of learning a foreign language.
She also knows how convenient it would be for her children to master or be proficient in a foreign language in this era of extreme demand for talent.
During this period of time, when Xiao Ai was studying with the little ones, she could see that Mingxi was indeed very talented in mathematics.
But except Mingxi, the others don’t have any particularly big advantages.
If you don't have an advantage, you can only create one. With her around, there's no way the children in the family will lose at the starting line.
Shi Xiaoai thought about it for a few days and felt that for children, there was nothing more suitable for them than learning a foreign language.
Learning a language should start from childhood.
Of course, Shi Xiaoai also knows how difficult it is to get foreign language learning materials suitable for children nowadays.
She didn't bother at all and decided to write it herself.
Shi Xiaoai compiled some daily expressions into many short stories in the form of fairy tales, wrote these stories in a notebook, and read them aloud with her three children every day.
Not only did she read with the children, she also recorded her own voice on blank tapes and played them for them in all her free time so that the little ones could train their ears.
Shi Xiaoai had studied abroad in her previous life, and when she was in China, she attended international schools since kindergarten.
Her sense of language and pronunciation are the best, so there is no problem of leading the children astray.
Shi Xiaoai tried hard to recall the graded readers and various cartoons she had read as a child in her previous life, and carefully compiled a set of English teaching materials that were very suitable for the children at home and were unique at that time.
After that, I took the children to study strictly according to the plan.
So Kaikai's days became busy again, but this busyness was invisible to outsiders.
His sister-in-law made a schedule for his daily life and study, which was accurate to the minute.
It is clear what time I get up, what time I eat, what time I do homework, and what time I listen to English.
To go with this, his sister-in-law personally assigned him homework, which would be listed and placed on his desk every night. He couldn't pretend not to see it.
Kaikai is only seven years old this year and he is still a little kid.
It's impossible for the little one not to think about being lazy when he's alone at home.
But he happened to meet a sister-in-law who was particularly good at dealing with laziness. He didn't know how his sister-in-law guessed it, but whenever he showed any sign of laziness, his sister-in-law would find out when she was studying with him at night.
After a few times, Kaikai became obedient on his own without anyone watching him.
Speaking of this, Xiao Ai is actually also helpless.
Of course she knew that under the current circumstances, leaving Kaikai alone at home and forcing him to study was very unfair to the child, and the child had suffered a lot of injustice.
Fortunately, Kaikai has a good personality, is well-behaved and sensible, otherwise, who knows how he would make trouble with the adults!
But what could she do? She really couldn't take care of it.
It is not the start of the school year yet. When Cheng Yang was at home, they went to so many schools together, but they really couldn't find a suitable place for Kaikai to go to school immediately.
In this case, you can only keep a closer eye on the child and let him study more at home.
Let's not talk about things like combining work and rest at this moment. She would like to let Kaikai play more, and even hopes that the child can make some friends of the same age, but all this can only wait until the start of next semester.
Now, what if the child runs away or does something dangerous if we let him out?
She couldn't even handle that responsibility.
Shi Xiaoai didn't want such a young child to work in the store, nor did she dare to let him go out to play. All she could do was let the little guy stay at home and study obediently.
Fortunately, such days did not last too long. Xiao Ai and the other three all passed the night school exam and obtained admission qualifications. Not long after that, it was July, which was the time for summer vacation.
Cheng Yang and the others are on vacation.
When Shi Xiaoai heard the news that Cheng Yang was coming back, she didn't react at all, but the children in the family were all so happy that they were going crazy!
I don't know what they are so excited about?
Cheng Lin was not afraid of hard work. He took a few children and used the rare and limited rest time to clean the house thoroughly. He even climbed up to clean the glass on the high door.
The whole house can be described as bright and clean.
When Xiao Ai saw this, she even felt a little unhappy, thinking that this was a silent resistance from those little brats against her.
——Do you feel that you are being abused by being with her?
Do you think that once your father/brother comes back, someone will stand up for them?
She silently watched the little ones busying themselves, and rolled her eyes hard where they couldn't see.
But even so, she still greeted Village Chief Lao early and ordered the freshest seafood for their next voyage.
I always thought that Cheng Yang’s food at school must be bad, so I had to let him eat something delicious when he got home.
The whole family was looking forward to Cheng Yang's vacation as if they were looking forward to the stars and the moon.
But what no one expected was that before Cheng Yangpan came back, an uninvited guest came to the house.
When that person suddenly appeared at the door, Cheng Lin and Cheng Kai's expressions changed at the same time!
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