In the evening, after Xia Zekai had dinner, he went out and bought a microwave oven for more than 500 yuan.
This is equivalent to just finding someone, and before starting to work, he has already spent a month's salary.
Luo Xiyun despised him: "You have a lot of tricks!"
Xia Zekai then said, "You don't know whether I'm coquettish or not!"
He was beaten again in the evening, with punches to the flesh and slaps.
At the same time, in the Ginkgo Community in the south of Dongcheng District of Qicheng, this is an LC area, and the buildings all belong to the tube towers from the 1990s.
Made of red bricks and cement, with white plaster inside, each building has one unit, with a total of three households on the left, right and middle.
Li Mumu lives in the east door on the third floor of Building 4, which is more than 60 square meters in total, and the living room has a corner.
After he came back from the 'Jingtong Baking' shop, he said to his wife Huang Shuangshuang with a happy face: "Shuangshuang, I found a job, and I went to work for a long time today."
Huang Shuangshuang was very happy and asked him: "Isn't that right? I finally went to work. By the way, how much is the salary? Our family can wait for your salary to eat."
"This..." Li Mumu paused for a moment, then continued: "The boss said that the internship salary is 1,000. After the internship period becomes a full-time job, the salary will be increased based on performance."
"Shuangshuang, don't worry, I will definitely perform well and strive for more salary after becoming a regular employee." This is what Li Mumu said.
He is older, but he is not stupid. On the contrary, his mind is actually quite vivid when it comes to some things, such as this 'white lie'.
But he also has a stubborn streak, the kind that even three cows can't pull back.
He wasn't sure whether Xia Zekai would give him a salary increase in the future, or whether it would be a salary increase once a year, but he might as well coax his wife first, and then he would be more motivated to make money if his family was stable.
Otherwise, if we quarrel every day, how can we think about going to work and making money?
Huang Shuangshuang was indeed a little disappointed, but when she heard that she would receive a salary increase after becoming a full-time employee, she laughed again: "Okay, the internship salary is a bit less, but if you become a full-time employee, the increase will be much more!"
This is a typical 'self-soothing therapy'.
Li Mumu felt that he had to give his wife a stronger dose of medicine. He said with some excitement: "Shuangshuang, we don't suppress wages here, and wages will be paid on the 2nd of next month at the latest."
"ah……"
Seeing his wife's surprised look, Li Mumu felt very proud and proud.
Early the next morning, just after five o'clock, Li Mumu got up. He washed up in less than five minutes, found a clean plastic bag and put it in the kitchen with two large steamed buns, and two more that his wife had specially packed.
Big buns with cabbage and vermicelli, and left wearing thick clothes.
The weather at the end of March was a bit more spring-like, and the temperature was gradually getting warmer, but it was still quite cold after five o'clock in the morning.
Fortunately, there was a windshield on the electric car, and he hunkered down all the way to Lin Ao Community. It was only around 5:40, and he opened the door with the key Xia Zekai gave him yesterday and went in.
Looking at the milk powder on the shelf against the wall, he was dumbfounded. He didn't know how to make the ingredients.
He wanted to call his boss Xia Zekai to ask, but considering that the boss might not be up yet and fearing that the call would affect his rest, he ultimately did not make the call.
While waiting quietly, he thought about heating up the steamed buns and steamed buns in the microwave first, and then had breakfast.
But after searching around, there was not even a trace of a ghost, let alone a microwave oven.
"This... boss lied to me?" An idea popped into Li Mumu's head for no apparent reason, and he felt faintly frustrated.
If he was deceived even about this little thing, then the boss still had a few truths in his mouth, and there was no need to think about the rest?
For a moment, Li Mumu was in a daze, and the joy of finding a job was gone.
With this complicated mood, Li Mumu waited until around 7:50 in the morning, when Xia Zekai came over, panting from exhaustion, holding a large cardboard box.
When he saw Li Mumu, he shouted: "Old Li, come here and help me. I didn't feel it last night. I took it all the way. This microwave oven is too heavy."
"Micro-wave oven?"
These three words woke up Li Mumu, who was in a trance. He quickly stood up and took it from Xia Zekai's hand, placing it carefully on the ground.
When he saw Xia Zekai slipping out a brand-new microwave oven with a plastic bag in it from the carton, a 39-year-old middle-aged man suddenly felt a feeling of "a scholar who knows his friend will die" in his heart.
He asked with a trembling voice: "Boss, is this new?"
Xia Zekai nodded and said: "Yes, I just bought it last night. Lao Li, don't think too much about it. I used to be the only one who could find a small shop and eat a few bites and then go down. Now the store will be very different."
It’s just the two of us, I think if I bring my own food, I can save a lot of money just on eating.”
He patted the microwave oven next to him: "This thing must be indispensable. You have to work hard to make money, so you have to let yourself have a hot meal!"
"Boss, you are a good person. Really, you will be rewarded!" Li Mumu said.
After truly experiencing all kinds of hardships in life, he suddenly understood Xia Zekai's respect for him from the beginning to the end.
At this moment, Li Mumu thought to himself, as long as the boss doesn't kick me out in the future, I will keep working.
"Boss, thank you!" Li Mumu said.
Xia Zekai waved his hand: "Are you being pretentious? You haven't eaten yet. Please try this microwave oven to see if it works."
"Let me tell you, Lao Li, take a good look at it. If there is something wrong, I will smash this microwave oven at the door of his store." Xia Zekai said.
…
There was no problem with the microwave and the rice was heated very quickly. Xia Zekai said that he was in a hurry to go out in the morning and before he had time to eat, he even grabbed one of Li Mumu's large steamed buns with vegetarian fillings to eat.
After eating, he kept praising his wife's cooking skills.
In the following time, the two of them got into a busy state. Xia Zekai taught him carefully how to mix the ingredients, how many grams of each ingredient, and he wanted to be precise.
At noon, Xia Zekai went to Hongyuan Mutton Soup Restaurant in advance to get two large portions of mutton soup, and also bought 6 vegetables and meat to grill.
When he returned to the store and handed one of the portions to Li Mumu, he looked at Li Mumu's dazed eyes and said with a smile: "I ate your lunch this morning, so I will definitely have to pay you back, but don't think too much about it.
There will be no such treatment tomorrow, I will bring my own food starting from tomorrow."
Li Mumu nodded, saying there were some things he didn't need to say.
In the afternoon, Xia Zekai continued to train Li Mumu.
"Lao Li, let me tell you, the most important thing about our Rongdou is the proportion of ingredients. If the proportion is wrong, the taste will not be the same. There are only these few ingredients, and you have to memorize them."
"Lao Li, later you can try it yourself with a bucket of milk powder mix. I can't give you ten or eight days to get familiar with it. You must learn it today."
"Lao Li, you are very skilled in this framing technique, but the pattern you made is wrong. Don't be so stiff in your hands, and relax the muscles in your wrists and fingers."
"Lao Li, why are you so stupid? You are my eldest disciple. I will expect you to lead other new employees in the future. If I try to do it all over again, it will make a mess."
"Hey, I got it right this time, Lao Li, try it and see if it tastes better than the one just now."
