Jinbao made an "OK" gesture and promised that if she felt it was too hard and tired and couldn't continue, she would never force herself and would tell her cousin as soon as possible.
Jingyang Hotel is very large. The first floor is the lobby, which is equipped with a general service desk, waiting area, lobby coffee bar, and business center. The second floor is a tea restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, and a banquet hall that can accommodate 500 people for dining at the same time.
The third floor is an entertainment city with a dance hall and karaoke room. Next to it is a place that provides beauty salons, saunas, foot baths, and traditional Chinese massage services.
The fourth floor is the office of the hotel's various department managers, and the dormitories where hotel employees temporarily rest and sleep are also on this floor.
The 5th to 12th floors are the guest room area of the hotel, which is the main area where Jin Bao and Li Fangying work.
Out of concern, Bai Xing did not arrange evening shifts for them, only morning and middle shifts.
Moreover, in order to allow them to return to the school dormitory, the middle shift is shortened by one hour. The morning shift is from 7 to 3 pm, and the middle shift is from 3 pm to 9 pm.
The morning shift mainly involves changing sheets and pillowcases, sweeping and mopping the floor, cleaning the bathroom, and changing towels and supplies.
The work of the middle shift is mainly to collect the used tableware from the dining cart and put it in the work room, and to deliver dinner, wine and drinks to the guests' rooms.
The floor foreman heard that Jin Bao was Bai Xing's cousin and was a dormitory classmate with Li Fangying. They came here through an entrusted relationship. Judging from their looks, they probably had never done any menial work. When he learned that the manager was going to transfer them to his own group, he was filled with displeasure at first.
I was willing, but I didn’t expect them to learn quickly and do well.
Jinbao is very good at organizing and storing, and keeps everything neatly.
She also worked very carefully, leaving no blind spots untouched. There was no dust on the table or windows.
The foreman wanted to find fault at first, but in the end he couldn't find anything. He nodded and said, "Not bad, he did a good job."
After working for a week, Jinbao felt that the decoration of the guest room was a bit too cold, and thought that putting some green plants might make people feel happier. So she made a suggestion to her cousin, who passed it on to her husband.
After her husband adopted the idea, he placed more potted plants in each room, including spider plants, rhododendrons...
The supervisor praised Bai Xing's husband on this matter, saying that many guests praised the lively decoration of the room. The green plants were not only pleasing to the eye, but also purified the air.
After Bai Xing's husband came home, he said happily: "Your cousin is really capable. When she graduates, we will find a way to get her to work in our hotel."
"You are thinking too much. Jinbao is now a graduate student, majoring in mathematics. He will enter a scientific research institute in the future. How can he come to our hotel? He is overqualified and underutilized."
When she mentioned her cousin's academic qualifications, Bai Xing looked proud. Although she didn't go to college, her cousin was a graduate student, and she felt happy just thinking about it.
A month later, the foreman handed the envelopes containing wages to Jinbao and Li Fangying, and at the same time affirmed their work performance, "Well done, keep up the good work."
Li Fangying took out the money in the envelope and saw a total of four ten-yuan RMB bills.
After get off work, she went to the front desk to exchange two five-dollar bills and returned one of the bills to Jinbao.
Jinbao almost forgot that she had lent five yuan to Li Fangying. Now she accepted the money and said, "Today is a good day to get a salary. We won't go back to school for dinner. I'll treat you to a meal nearby."
OK."
"I should treat you to dinner. If it weren't for Jinbao's help, how could I have found such a good part-time job?" At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the two of them walked out of the restaurant. Li Fangying said that she would treat Jinbao to dinner after going to the post office to transfer money.
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Jin Bao said "no", but seeing that Li Fangying insisted on treating him, he had to nod, "Okay, let's go eat wontons. Last time I and Yao Hua had wontons at a nearby restaurant. They were very delicious. The meat fillings were very big.
Delicious.”
"Okay!" Li Fangying nodded happily.
For her, wontons filled with large meat fillings are definitely considered delicious.
It was still early for dinner, so they went to the post office first. Jinbao asked, "Do you want to remit twenty yuan home again?"
"Yes, I don't know how my father's illness is going," Li Fangying said with some trepidation, "Jinbao, do you think I should send thirty yuan back? After all, my father is sick and is better than me.
need money."
"The school distributed the scholarship half a month ago, but you didn't keep any of the fifteen yuan. You sent it all back. This time the salary was forty. You paid me back five yuan just now, and now you only have thirty-five yuan left. If
If you send another thirty yuan home, wouldn't you only have five yuan left?"
Li Fangying bit her lip, "Now I can have lunch at the hotel when I work the morning shift, and I can have dinner at the hotel when I work the middle shift, which means I save one meal every day, and the food in the hotel is very good, and there is unlimited rice. I can eat it."
I'm very full, and I have five yuan left which is enough."
"Enough?" Jinbao asked back, "Think about what you ate before? Just a bowl of porridge in the morning and a steamed bun in the evening...Fangying, I have wanted to tell you for a long time, you can't completely ignore yourself for the sake of your family.
Ah, if your parents are good parents, that's fine, but their preference for sons over daughters is not good to you at all, so why do you have to be sucked by them all the time?"
"After all, they are my relatives. Without relatives, people are like duckweeds without roots."
Speaking of this, Li Fangying looked at Jinbao, "I envy you, Jinbao, you have parents and brothers who love you, but I won't hate my parents because I envy you. You may think it's strange to say that.
…
Rather than saying that they are sucking my blood, it is better to say that I want to be needed by them..."
Jinbao couldn't understand Li Fangying's thoughts.
She felt that if her parents treated her like Li Fangying's parents, she would definitely sever ties with them and never have any contact with them until death.
Finally, Li Fangying collected thirty yuan and went home, suddenly remembering her promise to treat Jin Bao to dinner.
"Jinbao, I'm sorry, I may not have the money to treat you to wontons. I just..."
"It doesn't matter, I'll treat you to wontons, and you can treat me when your salary is paid next month." Jin Bao said with a smile.
She smiled on her face, but she was actually very helpless in her heart. A few days later, she couldn't help but tell Yao Hua her thoughts. She felt that Li Fangying was so tamed by her parents that she couldn't resist.
"Growing up in such a family, she is probably used to being asked for. I can't help her even if I want to."
Yao Hua said: "There are many things that the parties concerned need to figure out by themselves, and it is useless for outsiders to say anything.
In those eccentric families, the children who lack love are more well-behaved and sensible, and want to be loved by their parents.
I guess Li Fangying thinks that by sending money home every month, her parents will take her seriously."
Jinbao sighed, "Hey!"
That night, there was a knock on the dormitory door, and the warden said: "Li Fangying, your mother is calling to see you."
Li Fangying hurried downstairs to answer the phone. When she came back, she looked ugly. Jinbao asked her what was wrong. She didn't want Jinbao to worry about it, so she shook her head and said, "It's okay."
The next day she found Bai Xing and asked her if she could arrange to work from seven in the morning to nine in the evening.
"The salary doesn't need to be doubled, 70...65 is fine, okay? My dad needs surgery for lung disease, and I really need to make money. Sister Bai Xing, please help me."
Bai Xing said helplessly: "Because you are Jin Bao's good friend, I only arranged the morning shift and the middle shift for you, but in fact, these two shifts are the most lacking of people.
If you want to earn more money, then you have to accept the evening shift, from 3 p.m. to 7 a.m., a total of 16 hours. It is impossible for ordinary people to insist on working this long..."
"I can do it," Li Fangying said hurriedly, "I can work for sixteen hours straight!"
By the time Jin Bao learned about this, Li Fangying had already made an agreement with Bai Xing, and she would work sixteen hours a day and get 70 yuan.
"You want to work the night shift?" Jin Bao asked Li Fangying in surprise, "Do you know what you have to do on the night shift?"
"I know, I have to go to the karaoke and dance hall on the third floor to help serve drinks..."
Jin Bao felt as though he hated iron, and said in an excited tone, "You know why you still do it? Why do you think no one wants to work the night shift? Those drunk men may take advantage of you, and you have nothing to say if you are wronged!"