"Now I work in a maternity and baby store, bathing children and selling things. After work, I knit some cross-stitch at home. I can make four to five hundred yuan a month, and I can pay the rent."
"On a good day, I can still earn seven to eight hundred yuan. Although I am a little tired, I feel at ease." Zhou Yanchun said with a smile.
But if you look carefully, you can feel the helplessness of compromise in life and the confusion about the unknown ahead in her eyes.
She didn't know when this kind of day would end.
I don’t have a high degree of education, and I don’t have much work experience. I worked in a textile factory before, and now I use my spare time after get off work to do some cross-stitch. This can be considered as applying what I learned.
Without connections, it was really difficult to make a living in Jicheng. She had no choice but to find an ordinary job that did not require academic qualifications and could be done.
Although they don't earn much, in the final analysis, there is no problem in supporting the two of them.
A woman is sometimes so tired that she really wants to compromise with reality, but she is unwilling to do so.
Now for Zhou Yanchun, the biggest hope is to train her daughter. There is a little hope in her heart that she can become a talented person and have a good career in the future.
Xia Zekai and Luo Xiyun looked at each other and did not ask this topic again.
"Mom, where is my schoolbag? Where did you put it for me? Let me do my homework first." Zhou Keyi didn't find her schoolbag in the room, so she came out and asked her mother.
Zhou Yanchun said: "I washed it for you and hung it on the balcony in my room. The books are also placed in my room. You don't even know how dirty they are. How can you still carry them out?"
"The corner is still broken, why don't you buy me a new one." Zhou Keyi curled his lips.
One sentence broke through the defense and left Zhou Yanchun speechless.
Zhou Keyi also realized that she had said the wrong thing. She hurriedly ran into her mother's bedroom: "Mom, I found the book. I'm going to do my homework first."
"Hey, this child is really having a hard time following me, but I don't feel at ease following her father." Zhou Yanchun said with a bit of hatred in her eyes, "Zekai, you don't know, it turns out that if that bastard is drunk,
, he not only beat me, but also beat Ayi, he is a lunatic and has a brain problem."
"Auntie, it's okay. It's all over now, why are you bringing that up?" Xia Zekai comforted her.
Luo Xiyun also came over, held Zhou Yanchun's hand, and said, "Auntie, why don't you go to Qicheng? We are all there, and it is much better than here."
"It's easy for us to arrange work, and it's easy for Key to go to school."
"Zekai has some connections with people in the Qicheng government. It's not easy to get key schools, but there will be no problem with better ones. Don't worry."
After Zhou Yanchun heard this, she smiled happily. She squinted at the couple and said, "No, no, no, I'm used to staying here. If you ask me to move again, I'm really not used to it."
"Your brother Zejiang has also been here twice. Now that he is on vacation, he should go back to his hometown of Xiazhuang."
"Auntie, he didn't go home. He and his girlfriend worked in my company during the summer vacation, and they were quite energetic."
It seemed that Zhou Yanchun didn't know that Xia Zejiang had found a girlfriend. She said, "I didn't even know that he had found a girlfriend. This naughty kid loves him for nothing. He kept such a big thing from me."
Xia Zekai laughed when he heard what she said: "He found it secretly. If he hadn't happened to see it when he went to the Taurus Zoo that time, he would have kept me in the dark."
"Yeah, then he really shouldn't." Zhou Yanchun tried hard to put some anger on his face, but he still couldn't get angry.
"Zekai, you said that Pocky was made by your company. Is your company very big now?" Zhou Yanchun asked him.
Xia Zekai nodded, but did not deny it. He said: "It's not bad. Anyway, we have two factories of our own. There are about 600 people in the factory. There are also several OEM factories to make children's toilet sanitary ware for me."
"Children's toilet sanitary ware?" Zhou Yanchun gestured with his hands at a distance of more than 20 centimeters and asked: "Is it a small hard plastic toilet of this size, the one for children of how old?"
"Yes, that's it. Auntie, you don't know yet. I was the first to make this thing. Other brands that followed imitated our company's products. Speaking of which, they even infringed the law.
That is to say, I didn’t pursue them, otherwise it would be difficult for everyone!”
When Zhou Yanchun heard this, he quickly asked: "Zekai, I never knew the name of your factory?"
"Jingtong Development Co., Ltd." Xia Zekai didn't hide it this time and said it out loud.
Zhou Yanchun was stunned when she heard the name. Then she said in surprise: "What we sell in our store is the Jingtong brand children's toilet. It turns out that you produced it!"
"Oh, what a coincidence, Auntie, that's ours." Xia Zekai was delighted. The more he talked about it, the more coincidental it became.
When Zhou Yanchun heard her nephew admit it, he couldn't help but admire: "Good boy, how much money have you earned?"
"Hehe, so be it. There is no problem in supporting the three of them." Xia Zekai smiled playfully.
There is also this side of me in front of my relatives.
Luo Xiyun rarely saw him like this and felt very surprised.
"Okay, that's great. The second sister's suffering has come to an end. It's time to enjoy the blessings." Zhou Yanchun sighed with emotion on her face. She was also happy for the second sister.
In her impression, the second sister really suffered and suffered.
When Xia Zekai heard what his aunt said, he got angry: "Aunt, don't mention it. Last time I asked my parents and grandpa to live with me, but they left after only half a month. I couldn't let go of the two acres at home.
Dear, tell me what I can do."
"I'm afraid she's not used to living there. My second sister is used to living in the countryside. If you ask her to live in the city, she won't feel comfortable anywhere." Zhou Yanchun hit the nail on the head.
Xia Zekai almost wanted to give his aunt a thumbs up.
"Auntie, you really don't want to go to Qicheng. That's my territory there. I can arrange all kinds of work easily. I'm not familiar with this place." Xia Zekai said.
Zhou Yanchun shook her head: "I haven't gotten to the point where I can't even eat, so you brat deserves a beating."
"Okay then, I won't mention this matter." Xia Zekai didn't mention the matter of asking his aunt to go to Qicheng to find a job.
Then he asked her: "Auntie, do you plan to change your job?"
"We have to look at the situation. I don't even have any savings now, so I don't dare to change jobs casually," Zhou Yanchun said.
If your pocket is cleaner than your face, you will become cowardly and unable to move your hands to do anything.
Xia Zekai felt really sad when he heard it, but he knew that even if he left money to his aunt, she wouldn't take it.
Moreover, leaving money is the greatest insult to his aunt. If his mother knew about it, she would not be able to beat him to death, but she would still talk about him all day long.
There is no air conditioning in the room. With the window open and the fan blowing, it still feels a bit hot. After staying there for a long time, I feel uncomfortable all over. After Xia Zekai stayed for a while, he felt that his body started to sweat again. How could my aunt stay there?
"Daughter-in-law, you guys chat first, I'll go out and have a cigarette." Xia Zekai said to his wife Luo Xiyun.
Luo Xiyun cursed in his heart: "In the past year, I have never seen you carrying a cigarette or smoking a woolen yarn."
Zhou Yanchun did not doubt his presence and said, "You can just smoke at home."
"No, no, I can't let you inhale second-hand smoke. I'll be back in a moment." Xia Zekai went out as he spoke.
The house is a bit hot, but there are fans and walls to block the harsh sunlight.
The direct sunlight from outside is like being roasted on a stove. It feels like the ground is hot even through your shoes.
After coming out of the community, Xia Zekai looked to the left and right. There were shops along the street on both sides, but the houses were also older.
He scanned around and found that there was a cold drink seller opposite. He went over and bought a bottle of ice-cold Coke. He drank it in one go and felt so refreshed from the inside out. Even the sun didn't feel hot anymore. It was so comfortable!
He carefully observed this place. Not far away was Keyuan Primary School. No wonder his aunt said that his cousin Keyi could go home by himself.
The elementary school is right at the doorstep.
Seeing that there was a stationery store opposite the elementary school, Xia Zekai thought about what his cousin had just said about the corner of his schoolbag being torn, so he walked over and bought the most expensive and beautiful one in the stationery store.
Thinking that he should also buy a set of other pens, rulers, erasers, and exercise books, he simply bought a lot of the same amount, which was enough for his little cousin to use for a long time, and saved his aunt the money to buy more.
It's not appropriate to give money. Just spend it to buy some necessary consumables.
There was a fruit shop nearby, so he went to buy two more watermelons, thinking that he would take them back and eat them.
But this doesn't help anything.
Xia Zekai was thinking in his mind: "The company has a lot of money in its account now, and there have been no big projects recently. Can we put the previous plan for the 'Jingtong Baby' offline direct store on the agenda?"
It just so happens that my aunt also sells children's toilets produced by them, so this matter is right.
As for the rest, it's just a matter of location. There is a primary school nearby, the Jicheng Science and Technology Museum not far away, and there are other communities nearby. It would be good to open a store nearby.
Even if children's toilets don't sell well, I'm sure Soluble Bean and Pocky will be very popular.
"Isn't it too obvious?" Xia Zekai muttered.
He despised himself and thought that it would be better to start the expansion of the 'Jingtong Baby' chain store from Qicheng and Jicheng. The two places complemented each other and relied on each other. It would be a good way to stabilize and expand outward.
There are too many lessons learned from the past. This matter must be taken slowly and cannot be rushed.
With an idea in mind, Xia Zekai immediately called Zhang San and told him his idea.
After Zhang San waited for his boss to finish his explanation and hung up the phone, he quickly went to Guo Ying to discuss the 'Jingtong Baby' chain.
Guo Ying’s final answer was ‘do it’.
The boss has said this, so what else do they think about?
Besides, the 'Jingtong Baby' chain of direct-operated stores was a plan they had mentioned a long time ago, but other projects in the company needed money at that time. The costs involved in this chain of directly-operated stores were too great, and the boss never agreed.
Now that the boss has taken the initiative to mention this matter, it's too late for them to be happy.
Xia Zekai made the suggestion and ignored the rest of the specific implementation. He returned to his aunt's house with the watermelon and schoolbags and stationery he bought. When he entered the door, he shouted: "Keyy, come and take a look."
"You can't guess that I'm extremely lucky today. I just picked up a schoolbag as soon as I went out. See if it fits. If it does, I'll keep it for myself and use it for myself. I won't give it to you."
"Zekai, you..." Zhou Yanchun choked for a long time and was speechless.
