Since he was no longer a teaching assistant, Jinbao moved back to the girls' dormitory in mid-June.
Li Fangying greeted her happily and helped her make the bed. Wang Qianqian was slightly surprised for a while and said "Welcome back", while Xu Jiarui snorted at Jinbao and turned over on the bed, pretending not to see her.
Li Fangying whispered: "She has been like this since Professor Hao resigned..."
Jin Bao smiled and said nothing more.
Two weeks later, summer vacation is here.
Wang Qianqian and Xu Jiarui are locals in Jinghai City, so they naturally go back to live in their own homes.
When Li Fangying learned that her work-study canteen did not need help during the summer vacation, she began to frown and worry about living expenses.
"What's wrong?" The last exam was over. Seeing that Wang Qianqian and Xu Jiarui had left, and Li Fangying was sitting alone on the chair looking depressed, Jin Bao walked up and asked, "Is it because you didn't pass the exam?"
"No," Li Fangying shook her head, "I..."
After hesitating for a while, she asked: "Jinbao, do you know where I can get a summer job? I don't have any money anymore. The cafeteria doesn't need my help starting from the summer vacation. I won't have enough living expenses for the next two months. I don't know what to do."
"
Jinbao knew Li Fangying's family conditions. She had two younger sisters and one younger brother.
Before going to college, she worked in a textile factory, and all the money she earned had to be taken home to her parents to raise her younger brother. She didn't have a penny of her own. Later, when she was admitted to college, her parents refused to let her go, and even threatened her with death.
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If the teacher from the admissions office of Jinghua University had not personally found her home and told her that she would receive a scholarship of 15 yuan per month and could earn money through work-study at school, and did some ideological work to her parents, her parents would never have let her come.
Studying in Jinghai City.
Work-study in the cafeteria is the hardest and most tiring job. After class, Li Fangying had to run to the cafeteria to change clothes and start helping with food.
Basically, one station lasts for two hours. After preparing the meals, she sometimes has to help clean the dish basin or sweep and mop the floor. Then she rushes to have a meal before going to class in the afternoon. She works seven days a week and never gets a good rest.
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Since this job is relatively hard, the salary is also the highest.
"Most other jobs in the school cost ten or twelve yuan. In the cafeteria, fifteen yuan also includes two meals."
Speaking of this, Li Fangying sighed, "I saved some money last summer, but this summer I don't have any money. My mother called me before and said that my father was sick. I have to remit all the money."
Go home."
Jinbao frowned, "Don't you send money to your house every month?"
"Yeah, I used to remit 20 yuan to them every month and keep 10 yuan for myself to buy daily necessities. If I save hard, I can save about four or five yuan. Last month, my mother said that my father was sick and needed money urgently.
, I sent back all the fifty yuan I had saved for more than a year, and now I only have less than one yuan left..."
Jin Bao was shocked when he heard this, "Do your parents think you are a cash cow?"
She knew that Li Fangying was very frugal, but she didn't expect that she only spent five or six yuan a month...
"You can use this money first, and then you can pay it back to me when the cafeteria opens." Jinbao took out twenty yuan and gave it to Li Fangying.
She is not short of money at all now. Ever since her fourth brother and fifth brother went to Hong Kong to sell chickens, the family's savings have been rising steadily, let alone 10,000 yuan. If they expand the scale of breeding and continue to sell chickens for a year, it will be 100,000 yuan.
It can also be earned.
Jinbao now receives two hundred yuan as living expenses every month.
She wrote to her father several times and said that she did not need so much money in school, but her father wrote back and said: "If you don't use it, just save it. I still think two hundred a month is too little. If your mother hadn't said
It’s not safe for a girl to have too much money on her, so I will definitely send you more money.”
Apart from Yao Hua, Jin Bao had not told anyone else about these matters in his family.
Li Fangying didn't know Jinbao's family situation. She only knew that her family was in rural Guangdong and should be even poorer than her own. She thought that 80% of the money was saved by Jinbao's previous job as a teaching assistant.
"I can't ask for this money, Jinbao, I just want to find out where I can work..."
Li Fangying said as she put the money back to Jinbao, "I know you mean well, Jinbao, thank you very much."
Jinbao took back the twenty yuan and gave her a five-dollar note instead, "You have no money now and you won't have food for tomorrow. If you don't want the twenty yuan, then you can take the five yuan first and I'll find a way."
I’ll help you find out where I can work, and you’ll pay me back after you make money.”
"Thank you..." Li Fangying's eyes turned red and she said movedly, "I will pay you back as soon as I earn the money."
On the weekend of the next day, Yao Hua didn't have to go to work and went to school early in the morning to look for Jinbao.
"Jinbao, do you want to stay with my parents during the summer vacation? They miss you very much..."
When asking this question, Yao Hua stared at Jin Bao, not wanting to miss any subtle expression on her face.
Since that day when Jin Bao came to the research institute and choked with tears and told him that her master was resigning, Jin Bao never mentioned her master again.
She returned to her usual appearance, laughing, making trouble and acting coquettishly, as if she had accepted the news of her master's resignation, but Yao Hua knew that she must be sad somewhere in her heart, but Jinbao was used to hiding negative emotions and not letting others do it for her.
Worry.
"I also want to live with Aunt Yang, but if I leave, Fangying will be the only one left in the dormitory," Jinbao said about her roommate, "She is my only friend since I went to college.
, I want to help her."
After saying these words, she looked at Yao Hua and asked, "Yao Hua, do you want a summer job in your research institute?"
Yao Hua shook his head, "The research institute is looking for interns, but we don't want summer jobs."
"What about factories? Will they recruit summer workers for jobs that don't require much technical content?" Jinbao asked.
"Factories will definitely not want summer workers. After the cancellation of trips to the mountains and countryside last year, a lot of educated youth who returned to the city had no jobs and found it difficult to find employment. Locals who want to enter state-owned factories need to be replaced by relatives and friends, let alone those who have not yet been able to get in.
Graduated foreign students."
Having said this, Yao Hua thought for a while, "Maybe the restaurant will hire temporary workers as waiters."
Jinbao thought that his cousin's husband was the hotel manager, "Then I'll go find my cousin and ask."
Jingyang Hotel was renamed into Jingyang Hotel, becoming one of the first few foreign-related hotels in the country.
The so-called foreign-related hotels are Sino-foreign joint venture hotels that are open to the outside world and utilize foreign capital. They are mainly provided for foreigners who come to travel and conduct business negotiations. Because of the external funds, the quality is much higher than domestic hotels.
Bai Xing's husband used to be the general manager of the hotel. Since the entry of foreign capital, he was demoted to the guest room manager. The general manager was held by a foreigner.
Bai Xing is the foreman of the service center. Her main job is to arrange the work of employees, manage their work shifts, discover and correct problems in the service in a timely manner, and provide regular training to employees. This is a very important position.
When Jinbao found her cousin, she passed the gorgeous and spacious lobby and was led to the elevator.
When I walked to the service center office, the waiter knocked on the door and said, "Sister Bai, someone is looking for you and says she is your cousin."