Chapter 495: Employment
Xia Zhizhi gave them the address of the villa, looked at their clothes, and said, "I provide food and accommodation here. I have blankets, towels, and daily necessities. I will arrange work clothes for you. You can go back and pack up. Don't bring anything that is not particularly important."
They both nodded obediently.
After hanging around at the construction site for quite some time, Xia Zhizhi decided to leave and took Chen Xuexing with her to go through the employment registration procedures.
Just as they were about to leave, a little girl came over. Compared to the quiet and introverted Bai Yunyun and the others.
The little girl smiled before she spoke, looking lively and cheerful.
She looked at Chen Xuexing and asked with a smile, "Mr. Chen, I'm here again."
This girl would go to the construction site whenever she had time, for fear that the work would be secretly completed without her knowing. As she came here many times and as she was an outgoing person, she became familiar with many people at the construction site.
Chen Xuexing knew what she was doing and gestured to Xia Zhizhi: "This is our boss, his last name is Xia."
The girl's eyes lit up, she took two quick steps, then controlled herself to slow down, and when she came to Xia Zhizhi, she greeted her respectfully, "Hello, Boss Xia, my name is Niu Ying, I'm eighteen years old, I'm nimble, hardworking, and can do anything, are you still hiring workers?"
Xia Zhizhi looked the girl up and down. Judging from her clothes, she probably came from the mainland not long ago, but she spoke fluently.
Xia Zhizhi asked: "What would you order?"
Niu Ying thought for a moment and said, "I can read and write, I know some Russian and a little simple English, I have worked several odd jobs and have some simple work experience!"
Hearing that she could speak English, Xia Zhizhi was a little surprised and for a moment she suspected that she had made a mistake: "You are not from the mainland?"
Niu Ying admitted generously: "I came from the mainland and have been here for more than two months. My grandfather was a university professor before, and I learned a little foreign language from him when I was a child. There are not many places to practice English there, so I just recognize it, but I don’t speak it very well. After coming here, I practiced a bit and made some progress."
Xia Zhizhi crossed her arms, stroked her chin, and asked Niu Ying a few questions in English.
To be honest, her accent was quite heavy, but the girl was confident and didn't hesitate to speak just because she didn't speak well enough.
There is no special trick to learning a language. Except for a few people who are naturally gifted, most people just need to speak more and practice more. You will naturally learn it if you speak more. As long as you can break through the gap in your heart and talk to others more, you will eventually learn it.
Xia Zhizhi was quite satisfied with this girl and was willing to give her a chance. She said, "I need an assistant, but you are not qualified yet. You can learn from Chen Xuexing first and be his assistant first."
Niu Ying's eyes lit up, and he quickly agreed: "Okay, boss, don't worry, I will work hard and study hard!"
The family atmosphere that Niu Ying grew up in made her not have any big ideas about working in a factory to screw screws.
Working as a temporary worker is also a last resort, after all, people have to make a living.
She is a young girl with ambition, but she came from the mainland, has no education and no background. Even if she is brave enough to try, there is no way she will be hired for a better job.
She was not discouraged. She thought that if she cast a wide net, she might come across an opportunity.
God rewards hard work, this is true, and here comes the opportunity.
Xia Zhizhi asked her to come back tomorrow, after all, Chen Xuexing had not started working yet.
After arranging the onboarding process for Chen Xuexing, Xia Zhizhi chatted with Lin Shangshan for a while.
The Legal Department is different from other departments. It is not busy every day, but Xia Zhizhi has no moral sense. She does multiple things at the same time and asks Lin Shangshan to keep an eye on whether there are any factories for sale in the market.
After she put forward her requirements for the factory, she let Lin Shangshan screen the rest. If there was a suitable one, they would negotiate and get it if the price was right.
Setting up a factory was a spur of the moment idea, but since she had done it, Xia Zhizhi naturally did not want to fall behind others and was determined to become the top in the industry.
When I came out of the law firm, it was dark.
When you are busy, time always passes especially quickly. You always feel like you have done nothing and the whole day has passed. Xia Zhizhi looked at the neon lights on the street, took Lin Shangshan out for dinner, and then let him go back to work overtime.
She was planning to drive home, but when she passed the nightclub, she stepped on the brakes.
Haven't been here for a while.
She wanted to make some money to spend, but there was no other way. She had to pay her employees in the near future, and sometimes money was just too much to spend. She couldn't be so stingy as to withhold wages, could she?
Go up to the third floor of the club.
There are a lot of people here today and it's quite lively. At the main table in the middle, someone is playing Pai Gow.
Xia Zhizhi took a look over and quickly figured out something.
This is a table setup to cheat people.
The dealer teamed up with several other players to trick the player in the second position from the right.
She couldn't say she knew this man, but she knew that his family was in the textile industry and had a fairly large business.
He lost a lot at first, but when he wanted to give up, he won a big one. Not only did he make back all his losses, but he also won a lot more.
He was kept hanging in this way, winning and losing.
Xia Zhizhi saw that it was profitable to get involved in their business, so she joined the poker table with a few other players. She won hundreds of thousands of dollars and then stopped.
When she stopped, the person who had been cheated was already writing an IOU.
If that guy stops after losing this little, it won't be a big problem for his family.
But according to Xia Zhizhi's understanding of him, his father is the one in charge of his family, and he can only spend some pocket money at most. He has limited assets and probably doesn't have much to lose, which is actually a good thing.
After returning home, Ah Ju and Zhu Qingle had already prepared dinner.
Xia Zhizhi once said that she wanted to find some helpers for the house, but she was too busy these days to look for them, so Ah Ju basically cooked for the family.
Seeing his boss taking action, Zhu Qingle rolled up his sleeves and joined in to help.
Seeing Xia Zhizhi coming back, Ah Ju went to heat up the two dishes that needed heating.
Xia Zhizhi threw the car keys to Zhu Qingle: "Go and take out the box in my back seat and put it in the study upstairs."
After Zhu Qingle delivered the boxes, Xia Zhizhi was ready to eat.
After dinner, Xia Zhizhi gave him some instructions, asking him to stay at home tomorrow to make arrangements for the two young girls who were about to start work.
The two little girls arrived quite early.
Auntie has been here longer than them and knows what the living conditions in Clear Water Bay are like.
So she didn't let the little girl pack anything, and only asked the two of them to pick up some barely decent clothes to change into and go into battle lightly.
After all, although the boss said that work clothes would be arranged upon request, we don't know when they will be available. It is normal for them to be delayed for a few days. At least we need a set of clothes to change into.
When the little girl arrived, Xia Zhizhi hadn't gotten up yet.
Zhu Qingle arranged rooms for them and introduced each area.
The two of them looked around curiously and listened attentively.
From what the two girls had seen, the decoration and furnishing of this villa could be described as extremely luxurious.
The two of them looked at each other secretly, and secretly sighed in their hearts that it turned out that rich people lived in places like this.