Jiang Che came back, and Wei Xuan reminded him to go to Jiang's house and tell his parents.
During the days he was away, Jiang's mother came to see her twice, and she kept asking about what Jiang Che was doing in Yangcheng. Now that the matter was settled, the old lady could at least rest assured.
In fact, even if Wei Xuan didn't say it, Jiang Che had originally planned to go there. Buying a new car was a big deal, so he had to tell them about it and bring the gifts he bought for the children at home.
In the morning, Fang Jing came to pick up Yuanyuan for school, and it was Jiang Che who opened the door. She didn't go in when she sent Yuanyuan back yesterday, so she didn't know Jiang Che was back. Now she was surprised to see him: "When did you come back?"
"I came back yesterday afternoon. I didn't think of telling you." After saying that, he lowered his head to look at the little fat boy: "Uncle brought you a toy. I'll give it to you this evening."
"Thank you, uncle." The little fat boy responded with a smile. What child doesn't like toys? Even if he already has a lot of toys, he will be happy to hear that there are new ones.
"You are welcome."
When Fang Jing saw Jiang Che was at home, she knew that Yuanyuan didn't need her to see her off, so she said, "Since you're back, we'll leave first."
"Okay, we got up late this morning and haven't had a good meal yet. Thank you for your help during this time, Sister Fang."
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"It's no trouble at all. It's just a side job. I'm leaving now."
Seeing the two people walking away, Jiang Che closed the door and walked in to ask his daughter: "Did you eat well? The fat guy is gone."
Yuanyuan swallowed the last bite of egg and jumped off the chair: "Okay."
Jiang Che picked up his daughter's schoolbag, and before leaving, he opened the door of the master bedroom to see that his wife was still sleeping, and closed the door gently: "Let's go."
After sending the child to school, he went to the courtyard with today's orders.
In the courtyard, Hao Qing became excited when he saw the brand new truck when he got home from work last night. He even didn't sleep well the whole night and got up early to wait for Jiang Che to come.
This is a new car. I don’t know how Jiang Che got it. Compared with that old car, it is really beautiful. Just looking at it makes people jealous. I wonder how it feels to drive it?
Hao Qing was eager to try, but when Jiang Che arrived, he saw him staring at the truck, not knowing what he was thinking about.
But it was good to see him still here. He was afraid that if he hadn't informed his brother-in-law last night that he was back, his brother-in-law would go home to pick up orders as before and miss him again. Now it seems that he has guessed that he is back. Yes, who else would drive a car here besides him?
"Brother-in-law, what are you thinking about?"
Hao Qing came back to his senses, turned around and saw Jiang Che immediately taking two quick steps to pull him: "Hurry, let me drive two laps to feel it."
Jiang Che didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and threw the key to him: "Brother-in-law, don't worry about this for now. Here are the keys for you. You will have plenty of opportunities to drive the car in the future." He took out the order from his pocket and handed it to him: "Here, you can drive the new car to handle today's order." After buying the car, you have to show it to the customers and let them know!
After Jiang Che said this, Hao Qing was no longer anxious. Instead, he began to be curious about how he bought it. If he remembered correctly, he heard him muttering a few days ago that he wanted to expand the market but unfortunately he couldn't buy a usable car. How come he got it done by just going to Yangcheng.
Jiang Che didn't elaborate, just said that it was a friend who helped.
Hao Qingming understood, this is the benefit of having many friends, in a society where relationships are important, relationships are needed everywhere...
This topic was skipped as Jiang Che had a lot of things to do today. He came here to deliver the list and keys to Hao Qing and to take away the things left in the car.
Section 100
Now that the work is done, he is ready to leave.
"Brother-in-law, I just came back and I have to take care of things in the store, so you can take over here for two more days, is that okay?"
"No problem, go do your thing, I can handle this here by myself."
He said that he was really busy. All the orders were received by Wei Xuan. She only had one car at home, so she would look at the time when receiving the order. If there was an order that conflicted with her schedule, she would negotiate with the person, and if they could negotiate, she would accept it, otherwise she would just decline.
I would rather earn less than let them squeeze in time to catch up with the order. This is not only dangerous, but if they fail to complete the order, it will give the customer the impression that they are not punctual, which is not worth the loss. Wei Xuan would definitely not do such an unprofitable deal.
Of course, the situation is different now. The family has an extra car. As long as both drivers are working normally, orders that could not be accepted before can now be accepted.
Wei Xuan put down the microphone, wrote down another big order in the notebook, and smiled with satisfaction. It seems that business is getting better and better!
Before Jiang Che was away, she had to force herself to get up every morning to prepare breakfast for Yuanyuan. Now that Jiang Che was back, she slept in peacefully today. Unfortunately, she was woken up by the ringing of the phone in the living room...
Seeing the time, it was almost half past eight. Wei Xuan touched her stomach and decided to have breakfast first. She was already up anyway and could sleep at any time. The important thing was to fill her stomach to prevent the little ancestor in her stomach from starving.
The breakfast Jiang Che bought in the morning was quite rich, including soy milk, fried dough sticks and buns. It was just that it had been left out for too long and was not very hot anymore, but it was just right to eat on this day.
After eating, Wei Xuan leaned back in her chair and couldn't help but sigh, "It's still more comfortable for Jiang Che to be at home."
Unfortunately, the good days can only last for two more months. Once the baby in my belly is born, these good days will be gone forever.
Wei Xuan, who has raised a child, certainly knows how tiring it is to take care of a child!
By the way, before Jiang Che went to Yangcheng, he said that he would find an aunt to help take care of the child for her. She didn’t hear him mention this again last night. Could he have forgotten about it? No, she had to remind him later. This matter could not be delayed and had to be done quickly.
Of course Jiang Che would not forget this. In fact, at this moment he was thinking about when would be the best time to find this person.
If possible, of course he would like to ask his aunt to come home to help. On the one hand, before the child is born, the aunt can get familiar with their family, and they can also observe the aunt's character up close. Secondly, his wife's belly is getting bigger and bigger, and it is inevitable that it will be a bit inconvenient for her to do housework. He is busy outside every day and may not be able to help much with housework. It would be best to find someone to help his wife share the burden.
But the problem is that the place they live in now is so small, with only two rooms. Where would they arrange to accommodate an aunt if they bring her back?
He was worried because his aunt didn't live at home, fearing that she might not keep her mouth shut and accidentally leak the news of his wife's pregnancy. He didn't even trust the people in his wife's family, let alone an aunt he just met.
Thinking about something, Jiang Che rode his bike to the store. After putting the things in the grain store, Jiang Che went to the clothing store next door to find Jiang Sanjie, mainly to ask her about the situation of the three stores.
It was daytime now, and the clothing store was full of women. It was difficult for him as a man to squeeze in, so he could only call Jiang Sanjie to the door.
The two chatted for a few minutes and confirmed that there were no major problems. The goods from Yangcheng also arrived safely, so Jiang Che did not ask any more questions. As for those minor issues, they would have to be dealt with after his wife came back after giving birth.
Before Third Sister Jiang went in, Jiang Che said to her, "I'll go home tonight and take the things I bought for the children to my parents' place. You and your brother-in-law can see who has time to pick them up."
"Okay, I got it. I'll go in and get busy first." The summer clothes have arrived, and the store's business has been booming recently. She is really busy and has no time to chat with her little brother.
Jiang Che waved his hand to let her in, and then went to the next room to chat with Wang Xiaomei for a while.
After all, Wang Xiaomei was the wife of a good friend, and Jiang Che trusted her quite a bit. After chatting for a few minutes and finding no problems, he started to inspect the other four stores.
After all, he is the boss. If he himself doesn't care about the affairs of the store, then over time, how can his employees work wholeheartedly for you? It's good enough if he doesn't fool you.
So even though he couldn't come to the store every day in the past, he would try to take time out every three to five days to come and take a look around. Especially now that he has Feng Jianshe to help with the sports car business, he has more time. He decided to come and take a look around as much as possible in the future.
Because today he found several problems. Some stores have things arranged in a mess, with no place to step. It looks untidy and unsightly, and it is easy for customers to steal. If you say it is busy during peak hours, then it is understandable, but it is unreasonable for you to not tidy up when there is no one in the store.
There was another store when Jiang Che went, where he even saw employees sitting there knitting sweaters. When customers came, they didn't even know how to greet them. They worked very steadily, and would only stand up to pack things for the customers when they were called.
Jiang Che returned home with the account book and angrily told Wei Xuan everything he had seen. Wei Xuan touched her nose in embarrassment, as she seemed to have done the same thing in the supply and marketing cooperative before.
Jiang Che became even angrier: "Is this a supply and marketing cooperative? If they don't want to work anymore, I can fire them and replace them at any time." Anyway, with more and more educated youth returning to the city, it is still very easy to recruit people now. They don't cherish this job, there are many people who want it, and the salary he offers is not low. If someone wants to come to him for retirement, just forget it. It also depends on whether he, the boss, can tolerate it.
"Have you lost your temper today?"
"No." They were all women older than him. If he started to scold them, it would be hard to avoid it. "But I didn't treat them well either. I was sullen the whole time. If they had a little bit of insight, they would have known that I was not satisfied. If they continue like this, I will not show mercy."
Wei Xuan thought about it and said, "Why don't you talk to Xiaomei tomorrow and ask her to remind them indirectly." Some people are like this. If you don't say anything, they will pretend to be confused and pretend not to know. When you really do something, they will blame you for not telling them clearly.
It's not that Wei Xuan is soft-hearted and wants to help them, but she is pregnant and can't help now, and Jiang Che has so many things to do. Instead of recruiting new people for training, it would be better to give them another chance. If they change, everyone will be happy. If they still don't change, it won't be too late to deal with them after she gives birth and has free time.
Jiang Che thought Wei Xuan's idea was good, so he nodded in agreement.
After that, Jiang Che brought up the matter of inviting an aunt and asked Wei Xuan for her opinion.
"Now there are pros and cons for each, what do you think we should do?"
Wei Xuan thought he had forgotten about it, but she didn't expect that he had already planned it out in his mind. However, when talking about the problem of not having enough space in the house, Wei Xuan thought of renovating the courtyard house. If the courtyard house could be lived in, the current problem would not be a problem. With so many rooms, not to mention adding one more aunt, even two or three more would be enough to accommodate them.
Seeing her in a daze, Jiang Che called her twice: "What are you thinking about? You're lost in thought."
"Oh, I didn't think much about it. You just want your aunt to stay at home. That's easy. Just make an extra bed and move Yuanyuan to our room. Let your aunt live in the child's room."
"That's fine. I'll go get a bed this afternoon."
"Well," Wei Xuan asked him tentatively, "Why don't we fix up the courtyard house now? We can move in when the child is older."
Seeing his wife bring up this matter again, Jiang Che frowned and said, "But didn't we ask Master Lu last time? He said he couldn't do it alone and we had to find a professional. Where can we find a professional?"
Of course Jiang Che also wanted to meet his wife's requirements, but such talent was not easy to find.
Wei Xuan said proudly: "Now there is a way. There are many universities in Beijing. You can go to the university to find teachers of architecture. They should have research on these."
That's right, it's the teacher, not the student. Last time Fang Jing suggested Wei Xuan to find a student, but students are not as good as teachers. Wei Xuan had high hopes for the courtyard house, especially now that she has no shortage of money, she wants to renovate it even more.
Jiang Che patted his thigh when he heard this: "This is a good idea. I will go to the university and ask around when I have time tomorrow."
It was not possible in the afternoon, as he had to go to the carpenter to make a bed, and also go back to the previous factory to hire a aunt.
That’s right, the aunt he wanted to invite was the aunt of one of his former colleagues in the factory.
According to his colleague, his aunt had very bad luck. She was a good student, but unfortunately she just graduated from high school when the university was closed in 1966. What could she do? She could only blame herself for her bad luck.
If she couldn't continue her studies, she had to work, but it wasn't easy to find a job. She had four older brothers and sisters, and she didn't know when she would get a job. She wasted two years without a job, so she had to respond to the country's call and go to the countryside to become an educated youth. The place she was assigned to was very remote.
The people there were particularly tough, and it just so happened that his aunt was pretty. As soon as she arrived there, she was spotted by a powerful local man and raped by that man. Just when she was about to commit suicide, she found out that she was pregnant. In this situation, she had no choice but to marry the man who raped her.
Later, she was finally able to return to the city. She found evidence against that family and forced them to divorce her, then returned to the city with her two children.
Every day she earns a little money to support her two children in school by doing odd jobs like pasting paper boxes and doing laundry.
Why did Jiang Che want to invite this person? Sympathy was one reason, but the main reason was because his colleague said that although his aunt had bad luck all her life, to put it bluntly, all kinds of bad luck happened to her, but she did not complain about herself. On the contrary, she lived a very open-minded life. After returning to the city, apart from accepting the kind help of her brothers and sisters at the beginning, she supported her family entirely by her own efforts. No matter how hard it was, she endured it by herself and never asked others for help easily.
Jiang Che admires such self-reliant and resilient people, especially those who can stand up and face difficulties after experiencing hardships. At least their character is not bad.
So when he talked to his wife about inviting an aunt, the first person that came to his mind was the young aunt mentioned by this colleague.
I just don’t know if he has found a job now.
Jiang Che's colleague is called Liu Peng. He was working normally and looked confused when he was found.
Since Jiang Che no longer works in the factory, there is no way to go in and find him directly, so he can only ask someone to help him call Liu Peng out.
As soon as Liu Peng arrived at the gate, he saw that the person looking for him was Jiang Che, and he was surprised and said, "Jiang Che? Do you have something to talk to me about?" Since Jiang Che resigned, the two had not been in contact. He really couldn't imagine what Jiang Che wanted to talk to him about at this time.
Jiang Che smiled and pulled Liu Peng to a deserted place: "You remember what you told me about your aunt before, right?"
Liu Peng frowned, "Well, what's wrong?"
Seeing him looking at him warily, Jiang Che didn't care and continued, "It's like this. I have something going on at home and I want to ask an aunt to help me. I want to ask if your aunt has a job now. If not, would you like to come to my house and try? Don't worry, I will definitely not treat her badly."
"Really?" Liu Peng was pleasantly surprised. His aunt had a hard life, and it would be great if she could have a stable job. Although Jiang Che didn't say how much the salary was, it would definitely not be less given Jiang Che's family background.
"She doesn't have a job. I'm going to ask for leave now and go with you to find her."
"Hey, hey." Jiang Che hurriedly held him back: "Don't worry, just give me the address and I'll go there by myself."
Liu Peng thought about it and gave him the address.
Jiang Che got the address and went there without wasting a moment.
This was a large courtyard with many people living in it. Jiang Che could just ask anyone and find out which house he was looking for.
My colleague's aunt is Liu Ying, and she is 38 years old this year. But when Jiang Che opened the door and saw her for the first time, he was afraid that people would believe him if he said she was 45 years old.
Liu Ying was pasting paper boxes at home. Once this batch of goods was delivered, she would have saved enough money to buy a new pair of leather shoes for her little daughter, so she treated each paper box very seriously and tried to make them as quickly and well as possible.
There was a knock on the door. She thought it was a neighbor who came to chat with her, but when the door opened, a strange man stood there. She looked at him warily: "Who are you?" She was afraid that it was her ex-boyfriend who came to visit.
Seeing her like this, Jiang Che quickly introduced Liu Peng's name: "I am his former colleague. I am sorry to bother you, but I came here to see you for something serious."
Even though Jiang Che said this, Liu Ying had no intention of letting him in. She just looked much more relaxed and asked, "What do you want from me?"
Jiang Che didn't care and directly stated his purpose.
After hearing this, Liu Ying fell silent. Of course it would be good to have a stable job, but if she had to live in his house, who would take care of her two children?
Seeing that she was still hesitant, Jiang Che offered her conditions: "Two days off every month, 60 yuan salary, and it can be increased if you do well after the baby is born."
This salary was really not low. The money she earned from doing odd jobs every day could only barely fill the stomachs of her family of three. It was not often that she could get such a job as pasting paper boxes. Logically, she should have agreed to it immediately if she could have a stable income. But when she thought of her two children, she said, "Can you let me think about it?"
"Okay," Jiang Che didn't make it difficult for her. Even if she agreed now, she couldn't go to work right away until the bed at home was made.
Jiang Che gave her the address of the clothing store: "When you have made up your mind, just come find me here."
After Jiang Che left, Liu Ying closed the door and sat in the room in a daze. She no longer had the heart to touch the paper box that she had been happily pasting just now.
Jiang Che offered her very good conditions, but now was the critical moment for his son to prepare for college entrance exams, and his daughter would go to high school next year. If she was not with them at this time, how would the two children live?
While she was thinking about something, Liu Ying heard the noise when her two children came back from school and realized that she hadn't cooked dinner yet.
She quickly stood up and was about to go out: "You guys do your homework first, Mom will go cook now, it will be ready in a while."
Seeing that she was distracted, Liu Ying's son pulled her and pressed her shoulders and let her sit back down: "Mom, are you feeling unwell?"
"No, I was just lost in thought. Don't worry." After saying that, he went out.
The kitchen was a small shed built along the eaves of the corridor, two steps away from the door. Liu Yin took a few carrots and peppers from the house. This was the only dish for dinner, and the rice was also corn porridge with water.
After she had prepared the dishes in no time, she was about to enter the house when she heard her little girl say to her son, "Brother, it smells so good, someone is roasting meat again, right?"
"Don't think about it, just do your homework."
The short conversation almost made Liu Ying cry. Although life was hard these days, most families could still eat meat every now and then. Only her family had meat last time, which was sent by her eldest sister, and that was two months ago.
It’s not the child’s fault that he craves meat, it’s because she, as a mother, is incompetent.
Thinking of the 60 yuan a month salary Jiang Che mentioned, Liu Ying made up her mind and decided to go.
With this money, the children will be able to eat better and dress better, and they don’t have to envy other people’s families like they do now.
Jiang Che didn't know that Liu Ying would have so many struggles in her heart. After he left, he went directly to the old carpenter. Whether Liu Ying was willing to do it or not, the bed had to be made.
It was getting late when he finished his work, so he went to the school to pick up his daughter and they went back to the Jiang family together.
At this time, the Jiang family had already gotten off work and were at home. Sister-in-law Jiang met Jiang Che at the door. Seeing him carrying a lot of things, she greeted him warmly: "Jiang Che is back. Do you want to eat at home tonight? I'll cook some more dishes."
"No need, sister-in-law, I just came to talk to my parents and will be back soon."
Section 101
"Okay, then you go in, mom and dad are in the room."
Mrs. Jiang came out to buy salt. She was about to go to the kitchen to cook, but she rolled her eyes and followed Jiang Che to the living room. She wanted to hear what Jiang Che would say to his parents-in-law, otherwise when she asked her husband in the evening, he would not tell her anything.
Jiang Che just came to tell his parents that he was back safely, and then to bring over the toys he had bought.
"The bicycle belongs to my third sister. You can choose the others for the children."
Jiang's mother nodded: "I see. Tell me what you did when you stayed in Yangcheng for a few more days. Ask your third sister, she said she didn't know. Ask your wife, she also didn't say."
"I asked someone to find a connection to buy a car. My current car is too broken, so I can't afford it. Fortunately, my friend has connections and can buy me a new one. I waited for two days."
"It's not smuggling, is it?" Jiang's father was afraid that his son would do something wrong in his haste.
"Of course not. It's a legitimate product. We bought it at the customs through a transport team. We have the necessary paperwork."
Mrs. Jiang listened for a long time, and seeing that they didn't get to the point, she couldn't help but ask, "Little brother, did you really buy a new car? How much did it cost?"
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