amaotonovel Chapter 123 Internal Retreat
Chapter 123 Internal Retreat
Darong's question brought her mother back to her senses. She looked at Xiao Ling again and calmed herself down.
"How much money have you deposited? See if your family can give you some money to get by first." Darong's mother looked at Xiao Ling, observing the changes in her expression.
"More than a thousand dollars." Xiao Ling stopped crying and looked up to answer after hearing what Darong's mother said.
Although one thousand yuan was not a small amount at that time, counters that could do business in the early 90s would often not stop supplying money because of this small amount of cash flow, so Darong's mother also realized that Xiao Ling had other intentions.
"We still have this money at home. You can use it for emergency first. You have to pay it back when you can make ends meet. This is the money I saved for your brother's wedding. I can't give it all to you."
After Darong's mother finished speaking, she waited to see how Xiao Ling would respond.
"Thank you, Mom. I will definitely... But Mom, this is only a temporary solution. Look, my sister and her husband both have stable jobs, and they can have a good harvest regardless of drought or flood. But my fourth brother and I have to worry about our next meal if there is any trouble..."
After hesitating for a long time, Xiao Ling finally proposed to Darong's mother that she wanted to replace Darong's mother and work in the factory.
Darong just sat on the edge of the bed sewing the clothes in her hands, and sighed in her heart when she saw Xiao Ling's poor acting skills.
Xiao Ling looked at Darong's mother with anticipation, wishing she could get a positive answer right away.
"It's such a big deal, let me think about it, you can use the money to do business with Sibei first."
Darong's mother took out a thousand yuan from the cabinet in the inner room and gave it to Xiao Ling, then sent her away.
"Did you mention to her in front of her that you wanted to step down and let Xiaoying replace you?" Darong asked after Xiao Ling left.
Darong's mother pursed her lips and said nothing. After all, it was impossible for Xiao Ling to change her personality.
Ever since Xiao Ling learned that Darong's mother wanted to step down and let Xiaoying take over, she has been thinking every day about how she can seize this opportunity.
After graduating from junior high school, she nominally worked on the farm at home, but in reality she was just an idle young person. Every day, apart from hanging out with her four relatives, she was either a farmer or a farmer at home. She had no legitimate source of income at all.
Although the money earned by Sibei'er from business is much more than those working people, Xiao Ling is just like that. If any good thing doesn't happen to her, she will feel at a loss.
It was not easy to catch the reason why the payment for goods of four generations was withheld, so he immediately came to Darong's mother to complain and ask for a job.
"Actually, what she said makes sense. You all have stable jobs, but they just depend on the market to get paid..."
Sometimes old people are biased without realizing it. Darong's mother is used to being biased towards Sibei'er, so when Xiaoling cried, she was the first one who felt sorry for Sibei'er's situation.
"Mom! What about Xiaoying? She's grown up now. How can she find a good partner without a job?"
Darong was a little unhappy. She had always known that her mother was partial, but she never expected that she would be partial to such an extent that she would even listen to Xiao Ling.
After being rebuked by Darong, Darong's mother stopped talking. Both mother and daughter were busy with their own work, each with their own thoughts.
When Darong's father came back in the evening, he also looked sad, as if he hadn't smiled for the past two days.
"What's wrong with you? You always look gloomy and worried lately." After Xiaoying fell asleep at night, Darong's mother sat down in the outer room.
"You haven't looked up all night either! What's wrong with you?" Darong's father asked instead of answering after exhaling a puff of smoke.
"Hi, Xiao Ling came today and said that Sibei had someone withhold the money for the goods again. I gave her some money. These two people are not the kind of people who can be worried about."
After Darong's mother finished speaking, she sighed, poured a glass of water from the table for Darong's father, and took the half-smoked cigarette from his hand and put it out.
"He has a bad trachea and he always smokes! Xiao Ling even wants to replace me to work in the factory... Humph, even Darong can see through her petty intentions. But speaking of it, the third brother is now working as a long-distance driver in Nanyun, which is considered stable, and Darong and his wife are both regular employees. It is indeed them..."
"They are the only two who earn the most, yet they keep crying poor at home all day long. Don't you think about what will happen to Ying'er after she graduates and doesn't have a job?"
Before Darong's mother could finish her words, she was interrupted by Darong's father. In fact, Darong's father was also worried about something at the moment, so he was in no mood to listen to Darong's mother's nagging.
"You don't say a word. Doesn't he have to put all his money into the goods? If something goes wrong one day, will he and his wife be left with nothing?"
"You! Don't worry about whether the three of them drink the northwest wind or not. The two of us are going to drink this northwest wind!"
Perhaps because he was in a bad mood, Darong's father had no intention of settling the matter peacefully today. He impatiently responded to Darong's mother one sentence after another.
"What's the matter?" After hearing what Darong's father said, Darong's mother was finally able to calm down and listen carefully to what Darong's father said.
"The team came to me because of the house occupation. It's easy to deal with the four generations getting married this time, but when we asked for the house for Darong, we gave it as a gift... Jinfu, that old bastard, found the reason and insisted on an explanation from the team. We can't let the person who did the work suffer the consequences, so I have to take the blame myself."
"What should we do then?" When Darong's mother heard Darong's father say this, she also frowned.
"The team wants me to retire internally." After taking a sip of water, Darong's father sighed helplessly.
Darong's father is only in his early forties now. Although the children in the family are grown up, the third child is still unmarried and Xiaoying is still unemployed. If Darong's father retires, the pillar of the family will fall.
"But don't worry too much. I've thought about it. There are developments everywhere. I've been building houses all my life, so I can find a job as a bricklayer."
Seeing that Darong's mother looked serious, Darong's father pretended to be relaxed and comforted her.
Darong's mother didn't respond. After making the bedding, she turned off the lights and went to rest.
Although Darong's father only talked about Darong's house, Darong's mother knew very well that Darong's father had helped grandma's family build a house and had caused a lot of envy in the past few years because of the materials he had taken.
In addition, Darong's father was not a smooth person. When Darong got married, he returned the gift money from Lao Ge from the building materials factory, making his position clear, which also hindered the connection of interests among many people.
Now that they have seized this opportunity, of course some people will try every means to drive him out of office.
"Dad of Darong, since we can lead a public team to work, we can also lead our own team to work. I have thought about it. We still have some savings at home. You can use them to recruit a construction team and we can work on our own!"
When it was just dawn, Darong's mother woke up Darong's father who was sleeping soundly beside her. She had been thinking all night that since others could work on their own, her man could do it too.