Only Qiao Qiao spoke innocently: "Brother Yu, did you give gifts that day to increase your salary?"
Zhou Tianyu laughed: "We look at performance, and my performance is quite stable. It's not that easy to increase salary. At most, it's just a gift. In the future, fewer new people will be assigned, which will save the team more trouble and make it easier to get money."
"
"Then..." Qiao Qiao silently calculated: "That means giving gifts without a salary increase. If you don't give gifts, there will be no salary increase - then why do you have to give them? Isn't it okay not to give them?"
That's not what he said. Zhou Tianyu opened his mouth to refute, but after thinking about it again and again, he didn't know what to say. Facing Qiao Qiao's probing eyes, he racked his brains to come up with a metaphor:
"It's like this. Adults' social interactions are very complicated. For example, I went home for annual leave this time, which lasted five days. I gave gifts, and the leave was approved as soon as I submitted it. If I didn't give gifts, there might be various excuses for denying the leave, such as
He said he was busy, training recently and so on."
"Then I can only ask for personal leave. One day of personal leave will be deducted 200, and five days will be 1,000. Do you think it's a big loss?"
"Yes, it's a big loss." Qiao Qiao looked at him distressedly, as if to say, "You are a fool."
Zhou Tianyu was stunned for a moment, thinking he had seen it wrong, when he saw Qiao Qiao starting to break her fingers:
"Uncle Mao Zhu took a total of five kilograms of tea. Brother Tianyu, how many kilograms will you give away?"
"Three kilograms." Zhou Tianyu explained: "Later I asked for more, but my dad didn't agree."
"Oh, three kilograms." Qiao Qiao began to calculate: "Three kilograms of tea costs 30,000 yuan. Brother, you can ask for...150 days of leave!"
"Brother Tianyu, you have suffered a big loss!"
Zhou Tianyu:......
He was happy: "Who told you that tea leaves cost ten thousand? I know it's your tea, but you don't have to cooperate with my dad like this, right?"
Qiao Qiao wondered: "Our tea has always been at this price. We also have an online store, selling it for two hundred catties!"
It's just that the money is nowhere to be seen, a little is scattered here and there, so that money comes and goes, and we are still extremely poor to this day.
…
Mao Zhu's wife is collecting fish at home.
Her son sent a message before saying that he was getting on the bus, so she killed the grass carp - she felt heartbroken when she killed it. Such a big grass carp was very energetic!
Originally, for three people in her family to eat, two or three kilograms of fish with something else would be enough. But when she was making preparations, she remembered that the fish cost 40 a kilogram. How delicious was it?
And their Zhou Maozhu, who never eats like this today! He managed to hold on at noon and spent half a day wandering around the house with the fan on.
So I simply cut the fish in half!
She doesn't know how to make high-end food, grass carp, isn't it just home-cooked?
Cut half a grass carp into pieces, wash and soak them in salt water for a while, then clean them up, then mix them with salt and cornstarch, wait for the oil pan to heat up, and fry them directly.
That aroma...
Not to mention anything else, there was fluttering movement on the gusset above the head, it must have been a wild cat smelling it again!
Mao Zhu's wife herself also sniffed, and couldn't help it. She picked up a little bit of the freshly fried fish... Oh my god!
No wonder it costs 40 per pound!
As long as she has tasted it, she has to buy it this time... buy... buy two kilograms!
After all, it’s really too expensive!
Thinking of this, she resisted eating. She quickly cut onions, onions, ginger, garlic and some chili peppers and sauteed them in oil until fragrant. After frying them all, she poured them into a casserole, put the fish pieces, added water and a little charcoal.
Slowly simmer…
Zhou Maozhu, who had just eaten at noon and had a round belly, strolled in: "This fish is so delicious..."
Seeing his eyes moving on the chopstick cage, his wife glared at him: "It's not cooked properly!"
"Besides, didn't you have lunch?"
Zhou Maozhu did not dare to stretch out his hand in the end: "The crucian carp we had for lunch was so fresh and tender! There are just too many small thorns. If we weren't afraid of the thorns getting stuck, we would have eaten very quickly!"
…
I waited and waited, and finally, it got dark.
The watermelon in the pool is already cool to the touch, the fish stew is fragrant, and the cat is walking around on the roof, meowing anxiously...
Finally a taxi stopped at the door!
Zhou Maozhu greeted him happily, not knowing whether he was welcoming his son or his stewed fish.
However, he saw Zhou Tianyu coming down with his head downcast and his face gloomy. His heart skipped a beat, and he didn't even have time to ask why the car was still driving ahead——
"What's wrong?" he asked nervously.
"Nothing." Zhou Tianyu twitched his lips, feeling that he was the most wronged person in history.
I remember when he gave the tea as a gift, he really thought it was a local specialty from his hometown, and he was very impressed with it, so he politely told people about the local specialties from home, giving him face and giving him a taste.
The next day the manager patted him on the shoulder with a kind face and said good tea, good tea... He also thought to himself, no wonder he can be a manager, what an emotional intelligence! He only had a little tea, and he praised it like this, which made him
I'm so embarrassed.
After get off work, I even bought a copy of "Speaking Skills with High Emotional Intelligence" as if on a steroid, and I read it very hard.
Now think about it...bullshit high emotional intelligence!
He is the only one who is a fool!
Thinking of this, Zhou Tianyu's expression became even more bitter.
How can you believe that this person named Zhou Maozhu is okay?
For a moment, the smell of fish could no longer be smelled, and he just sighed: "Tianyu, just tell me if you have anything to do. Your dad and I also make a lot of money a month now. If you really resign, stay home for a while."
Two months is nothing.”
It won't work any longer.
If the child stays around for a long time and people find it annoying, it is better to go out.
"No." Zhou Tianyu looked at his father's serious expression and could only twitch the corner of his mouth with difficulty:
"I just didn't expect that tea costs 10,000 yuan per catty..."
“What’s unexpected about this!”
Zhou Maozhu thought he was prevarication: "Didn't I tell you that it costs 10,000 yuan per catty? How can I still lie about this? You said, I am too embarrassed to accept such expensive tea if someone wants to give it to me.
It’s not like he didn’t pay for the tea leaves…”
"Hey, what do you mean?" He muttered, then looked at his son warily: "I'm telling you! We can't afford such a big gift. You said that if you find a job and join the company, we have a way, then
I won’t be picky about giving gifts to your dad.”
"But if you work for someone and you give me this, aren't you being taken advantage of?"
No!
Zhou Tianyu thought to himself: I am the one who was taken advantage of!
While they were talking, the two of them walked into the courtyard.
In the yard, a large civet cat with colorful arms was circling anxiously at the door of the kitchen, with fierce eyes and a soft meow.
Zhou Tianyu was stunned for a moment, then smelled the tangy aroma:
"What is this stew? Why is it so fragrant?"
"Ouch, ouch!" Zhou Maozhu said anxiously: This fish has been stewed for a long time, but don't let it get rotten after a while!
"Hurry up, why don't you wash your hands? I haven't eaten yet just because I'm waiting for you."
But it's not even seven o'clock now. Is seven o'clock on a summer night very late?
Thoughts flashed through Zhou Tianyu's mind, and another scent of fragrance came. He couldn't care about anything else and rushed to wash his hands.