Ah this.
Zhang Yanping and Xin Jun were both silent.
Only Qiao Qiao spoke innocently: "Brother Tianyu, did you give me a gift to get a raise?"
Zhou Tianyu laughed: "We look at performance, and my performance is relatively stable. It's not that easy to get a salary increase. At most, it's a gift. In the future, assign fewer new people, save some trouble in the team, and make it easier to get paid."
"Then..." Qiao Qiao calculated silently: "That means giving gifts, no salary increase. Not giving gifts, no salary increase - then why do we have to give gifts? Can't we just not give gifts?"
That's not what I meant. Zhou Tianyu opened his mouth to refute, but after thinking about it, he didn't know what to say. Facing Qiao Qiao's inquiring eyes, he racked his brains to come up with a metaphor:
"It's like this. Adults' social interactions are very complicated. For example, I'm going home for five days on my annual leave this time. If I give gifts, my leave will be approved. If I don't give gifts, they may give me all kinds of excuses to not give me leave, such as being busy or having training recently."
"Then I can only take personal leave. I will be deducted 200 yuan for one day of personal leave, so 1,000 yuan for five days. Don't you think this is a big loss?"
"Yeah, it's a big loss." Qiao Qiao looked at him with heartache, as if saying "You are a fool."
Zhou Tianyu was stunned for a moment, thinking he had seen it wrong, when he saw Qiao Qiao start to count with his fingers:
"Uncle Mao Zhu took five kilograms of tea in total. How many kilograms did you give away, brother Tianyu?"
"Three pounds." Zhou Tianyu explained: "Later I asked for more, but my dad didn't agree."
"Oh, three pounds." Qiao Qiao began to calculate: "Three pounds of tea costs 30,000 yuan, brother, you can take... 150 days off!"
"Brother Tianyu, you're at a big loss!"
Zhou Tianyu: …
He laughed: "Who told you that tea leaves cost 10,000? I know it's your tea leaves, but you don't have to cooperate with my dad like this, right?"
Qiao Qiao was puzzled: "Our tea has always been priced this way. We also have an online store, where we sell 200 kilograms!"
It’s just that the money is nowhere to be seen. It is scattered here and there, so that money comes and goes, and we are still extremely poor.
…
Mao Zhu's wife was cleaning fish at home.
Her son had sent a message saying he had gotten on the bus, so she killed the grass carp. She felt heartbroken when she did so, as such a big grass carp must have been very strong!
Originally, for her family of three, two or three catties of fish and some other food would be enough. But just before she was about to prepare, she remembered that this fish cost 40 yuan per catty, how delicious would it be
And their Zhou Maozhu, no matter how much he usually eats, he never eats as much as he did today! He managed to hold on in the middle of the day and stayed in the house with the fan on for half a day.
So I just cut the fish in half!
She doesn’t know how to cook any high-end dishes. Grass carp is just a home-cooked dish, right
Cut half a grass carp into pieces, wash and soak it in salt water for a while, then clean it, mix it with salt and cornstarch, heat up the oil pan, and fry it directly.
That scent...
Apart from anything else, the gusset plate above my head was making fluttering noises. It must be a wild cat smelling something!
Mao Zhu's wife also sniffed and couldn't help but took a little bit of the freshly fried fish... Oh my God!
No wonder it costs 40 yuan per pound!
She had tasted it before, so she had to buy it this time... buy... buy two kilograms!
After all, it’s really too expensive!
Thinking of this, she resisted the urge to eat, and quickly cut onions, green onions, ginger, garlic, and some chili peppers and sautéed them in a pan until fragrant. After everything was done, she poured them into the casserole, put the fish pieces in, added water, and slowly stewed them with a little charcoal...
Zhou Maozhu, who had just eaten lunch and was full of food, came in and said, "This fish is so delicious..."
Seeing his eyes wandering around the steamer, his wife glared at him and said, "It's not cooked well!"
"Besides, didn't you have lunch?"
Zhou Maozhu didn't dare to reach out his hand. "What we had for lunch was crucian carp, it was fresh and tender! But it had too many small bones. If we weren't afraid of getting stuck, we would have eaten it very quickly!"
…
After waiting and waiting, finally, it was dark.
The watermelon in the pool was already cool to the touch, the fish stew smelled delicious, and the cat on the roof was walking around, 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, Zhou Tianyu looked dejected and pale. He was shocked and didn't even have time to ask why the car was still driving forward.
"What's wrong?" he asked nervously.
"Nothing." Zhou Tianyu curled the corners of his mouth, feeling that he was the biggest victim in history.
When he first sent me the tea, I really thought it was a specialty from my hometown. Three or five hundred yuan would be the maximum. So I politely told him that it was a local specialty from home and asked him to give me some face and try it.
The next day, the manager patted him on the shoulder with a friendly look and said that the tea was good, good tea... He thought to himself, no wonder he could be a manager, what a high EQ! It was just a little tea, but he praised it so much, which made him feel embarrassed.
After get off work, I bought a book called "High Emotional Intelligence Speaking Skills" and studied it very hard.
Now think about it... what a bullshit high EQ!
He is the only fool!
Thinking of this, Zhou Tianyu's expression became even more bitter.
How can we believe that Zhou Maozhu is fine
For a moment, he could no longer smell the fish fragrance. He just sighed: "Tianyu, if you have anything to say, just tell me. Your dad makes a lot of money every month now. If you really quit your job, it won't be a big deal to stay at home for a month or two."
It won’t work any longer.
If children stay around for too long, people and dogs will get tired of them, so it’s better for them to go out.
"No." Zhou Tianyu looked at his father's serious expression and could only pull the corners of his mouth with difficulty:
"I just didn't expect that tea would cost 10,000 yuan per pound..."
"What's so unexpected about this!"
Zhou Maozhu thought he was trying to evade him: "Didn't I tell you that it was 10,000 yuan per kilogram? How could I lie about this? You see, I would be embarrassed to accept such expensive tea if someone gave it to me. It's not like he didn't pay for the tea..."
"Hey, what do you mean?" He muttered, and then looked at his son warily: "I'm telling you! We can't afford such a big gift. If you say you can find a job in the company, I have a way, then your dad won't be stingy with gifts."
"But you're working for someone else and you're still giving them this. Aren't you being taken advantage of?"
Of course!
Zhou Tianyu thought to himself: I am the one who was taken advantage of!
As they were talking, the two of them had already walked into the yard.
In the yard, a large raccoon with spotted arms was circling anxiously at the kitchen door. Its eyes were ferocious, but its meow was so soft.
Zhou Tianyu was stunned, and then he smelled a fragrant aroma:
"What's this stew? Why does it smell so good?"
"Ouch, ouch!" Zhou Maozhu was anxious: This fish has been stewed for a long time, don't let it get stewed to pieces later!
"Hurry up, why don't you wash your hands? I haven't even eaten yet because I was waiting for you."
But it’s not even seven o’clock yet. Is seven o’clock in the summer evening very late
A thought flashed through Zhou Tianyu's mind, and another fragrance wafted over. He could no longer care about anything else and rushed to wash his hands.