Chapter 128 127. New Employee Arrives

When Lao Jiang pushed the door open, the whispering in the office stopped immediately.

The three pairs of parents stared at Lao Jiang.

Lao Jiang knew he couldn't keep the secret at this point, so he said directly, "The base said they don't want to prosecute, but they have a few conditions."

"You say, you say, we will agree to any condition you give us, even if we have to sell everything we have to pay the money back." One of the three pairs of parents replied hastily, as if they were afraid that if they were slow to agree, the other party would change their mind.

Lao Jiang knocked on the table and said seriously, "It's not about money. Listen to me. First, each of you kids should write a self-criticism of at least 3,000 words, and you must deeply realize that you have made a mistake."

"Oh, oh, okay, okay." What kind of condition is this? Isn't this what should be done? Several pairs of parents agreed without any discussion.

Still interrupted.

This time, Lao Jiang did not knock on the table again, but responded, "Okay, I'll call them over later, right here, you guys watch them write, and hand them in to me when you're done."

These parents are already overwhelmed with worry. They won’t listen to anything you say, so you might as well not bother.

"Okay, okay." This means they are allowed to meet, and they feel relieved at once.

"Second, they will keep the evidence and let you work at their base for half a year. If you perform well during this half year, this matter will be over. If you don't perform well, then there is nothing we can do."

"Ah!" The mother who had just let go of her worries was lifted up again. She was so anxious that she asked, "Do you still need to work? Do you have to work really hard? My baby is still young. Can you take care of him for the next six months?"

As soon as she said that, the others also reacted and started asking questions one after another.

Because I worked for half a year and it felt like I was going to a labor camp.

Lao Jiang didn't knock, but slammed the table instead, raising his voice and shouting, "What are you thinking about? What are you thinking about? This is a serious place, let them go to work."

"The base is short of manpower right now. Since we feel sorry for your kids, we have arranged a job for them. It's farm work, and you'll get a salary of 2,000 yuan a month, including food and accommodation."

"Farm work is good. My child can do farm work. Good, good." Several pairs of parents were smiling happily, and they were not even afraid of Lao Jiang's temper.

This is a great thing. Several kids stay at home all day, not studying, and not finding a job, which makes their parents very worried.

Now there are companies willing to hire them, pay them wages, and provide them with food and accommodation. This is a good thing that you would never find even with a lantern.

Forget about paying wages, it’s okay even if you don’t pay.

"That's right, that's right. Can we still see the baby?" It was the mother who had been crying just now who asked. It seemed that she doted on her child very much.

"Why not? You can see him when you go home on your day off."

"There's still a day off! Oh my God!" The mother cried again, crying with a smile, probably tears of joy.

The other parents were also crying, laughing, and sighing. The day had been a roller coaster of ups and downs, from great sorrow to great joy. How could anyone remain calm?

Anyway, just be happy.

Chiang Kai-shek looked at this and felt a little jealous, happy, and also a little weird.

"Well, that's what happened. I'll go get the person here and you guys can watch him write a letter of apology."

"The kids haven't eaten all night. Who of you can go buy some food? Let's eat in this room. There's hot water in the thermos over there."

After giving a few instructions, Lao Jiang went out and brought in a few children, leaving behind a few pens and some papers.

Out again.

After closing the door, I could hear crying, shouting, scolding, and spanking with shoe soles.

Oh, I can't bear to hear this.

More than two hours later, the three children, with swollen eyes, handed their self-criticisms to Chiang Kai-shek in an orderly manner.

Lao Jiang took a quick look at it and was shocked by the typos, the poor handwriting, and the messy grammar. It was unbearable to read.

Forget it. The purpose of writing a self-criticism is to make them recognize their mistakes, and to let the families meet and discuss things.

A kid who dropped out of school after junior high school can churn out three thousand words... that's fine.

"Okay, follow me."

The three children followed obediently.

"Call your family members."

The three children quickly ran back to call for help.

"Silly."
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Lao Jiang led a group of people to the door and pointed at Qiang Wa who was waiting outside, "Follow him."

"Hey, Zhiqiang, why are you here?" They are all from the same village, and the parents of the three families all know Qiangwa. When they saw him and followed him, they were a little confused.

"I know you recognize him, so you can rest assured by asking him to take you there." Lao Jiang explained, "If Luo Zhiqiang didn't know someone at their base, they wouldn't have let him go so quickly."

And this thing?

Several parents gathered around Qiangwa to express their gratitude, which made the tool Qiangwa completely confused.

"Okay, okay, don't stay here, take the kids over to have a look first." Lao Jiang said, and Qiangwa drove away with the three children.

The three pairs of parents looked back every few steps and went back with anxiety and uneasiness.

Lao Jiang let out a long sigh, "What a hassle."

Before he could finish his breath, Xiao Li and other people from the police station gathered around him.

"Captain Jiang, is it your friend who is here today?"

"Does his real food really cost more than ten yuan?"

"Is that really the base of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences?"

"It's the magic pill that we grow, Captain Jiang, can you get some for us to try? We can pool our money together."

"Captain Jiang..."

"Captain Jiang..."

The quarrel gave Lao Jiang a headache, "Don't you have anything to do? Why are you all gossiping?"

"It's half true and half false. That's my classmate, and he really has an appointment at the Imperial Capital Agricultural Science Academy." Lao Jiang took out his cell phone and flipped through a photo. "Look, it's written here. You haven't seen this stuff before."

That was the circle of friends that Luo Yihang's father posted. When taking soil samples, the box with the words "Academy of Agricultural Sciences" took the center position.

"Also, his vegetables are sold for 15 yuan per pound. If you want to try them, you can't get them now because the production is too small. They are given to the children in the third middle school in the city, the key middle school, who are now in their third year of high school. The college entrance examination will be in a few days. How can we ask for food for the children at this time? We can't do that."

"Wait, after the college entrance examination, I will ask you." Lao Jiang boasted beautifully and sent away the gossiping people from the police station.

He stretched, opened the car door and got in.

Alas, I still have to go to work.
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Let’s talk about Luo Yihang.

Luo Yihang left early and had to go back to pack up and talk to his parents.

"Dad, Mom, I hired a few people."

"Why do you want to hire anyone? It's not like our family members can't do the work. There's no need for so much work." As soon as the question was raised, Luo's father's first reaction was that it was unnecessary.

Luo Yihang counted on his fingers: "Now in our house, there is a vegetable field at the door, a bean field, my grandfather's field, my grandmother's vegetable garden, twenty acres of peppers on the terrace, sixteen acres of vegetable fields, two rows of millet, a shrimp pond, a ginkgo forest, and Poria cocos and Panax notoginseng on the mountain."

"With so many things, we have to rely on the three of us, not two. My mom has to take care of the mushroom house. How can we handle it with just the two of us?"

You wouldn't know until you counted it. Once you counted it, you would be shocked. Luo Yihang has done so many things in the two months since he came back.

Father Luo still hasn't come to his senses. Even though he counted so many things, he just felt that with just a little work at home, there was no need to hire anyone from outside, and it wasn't the busy farming season yet.

"Let's do it first. When we get busy, we can just find a few brothers in the village to help us."

"How many people in our village can work?" Luo Yihang asked back, and then continued to calculate, "Now the fields are full of seedlings. When they grow up in a few days, we need to put up racks for cucumbers and tomatoes, and fertilize and thin out the leafy vegetables. Some vegetables below are almost gone, so we need to use the newly grown leeks on the platform to top them up. We have to go to two places to pick vegetables in the future. The peppers also need to be cultivated. If there are two of us, it will take a long time to cultivate the soil for 20 acres of peppers. We have to harvest later, and catch shrimps and sell them in summer. Hire people early so that we can find them when the time comes."

This is true. There will be more and more farm work, but there is no one in the village, and Luo Yihang has long planned to hire someone.

Besides, "They are Qiangwa's relatives. They have three little kids and asked me to help take care of them so that they don't have to stay at home all the time and become useless."

Well, with this relationship, the old lady Zhang Guiqin made the decision, "Hiring, we have to give Qiangwa face, and besides, our family is really too busy, so what's the harm in having a few more mouths to feed."

Luo Yihang gave a thumbs up in his heart. Qiangwa was very respectable and he had chosen a good tool.

Before we even mentioned the issue of providing food and accommodation, Zhang Guiqin had already spoken.

Parents get it done.

All that was left was to deal with the three kids.

The child is easy to deal with. After being frightened, he will definitely be well behaved if you tempt him with food from home.

What’s the harm in not being able to work? Don’t be afraid of having some bad habits. They can all be corrected with education.

As for education, let’s start with lunch.

At noon, Luo Yihang went to the kitchen and stewed a pack of chicken wings bought from the supermarket; he also cooked some braised pork and a fish.

This fish is very interesting.

It was caught by Luo's dad. Yesterday was fishing day and the fisherman finally did not come back empty-handed. He was so happy and excited. He held the poor fish and took many photos from various angles. He even posted a nine-square grid on his Moments.

In addition, he did not follow the rules. He let the cheap crested ibis take several bites of the fish without feeding it, and he just brought it back.

Anyway, Luo Yihang cooked only meat dishes. Zhang Guiqin frowned after entering the kitchen and looked around, "Why did you cook so much meat? My family doesn't like it. We have guests at noon. What will you do with all this meat?"

This sentence sounds like it has some logical problems.

But in Lao Luo's house, it's right.

Luo Yihang immediately admitted his mistake, "Qiangwa will be here soon, he eats a lot, and I still have a few things to cook. Mom, help me pick the celery, peel the tomatoes, wash and cut the Chinese cabbage into shreds, and I'll make some soup."

I have to find something for the mother to do that is not tiring and can kill time, otherwise she will be unhappy.

Finally, there were stewed chicken wings, braised pork, braised fish, stir-fried pork with celery and dried tofu, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried pork slices with oyster mushrooms, and Chinese cabbage meatball soup.

There are six dishes, three meat dishes and three vegetable dishes, plus a soup.

It's enough for seven people.

The dishes have just been prepared.

Qiangwa and the others have arrived.

Three children came in a line, called their names politely, and sat down politely.

Zhang Guiqin fell in love with him at first sight.

Three 17 or 18-year-old boys, so polite, not moving around, not making trouble, they must have been well educated, right...

"Why are all their hair this color?" Zhang Guiqin whispered to Luo Yihang.

"You don't understand the fashion of young people nowadays."

"What don't I understand?" Zhang Guiqin still insisted.

Then he immediately greeted the children with a smile and said, "Look how skinny these kids are. Come here and eat quickly. Eat more, just like you would at home."

When they heard the same thing happening at home, the three children shuddered.

They don't study or find a job, just stay at home all day, and their status in the family has always been not very good.

He queued up to wash his hands, then came back and sat down at the table properly, with his hands on his knees and his eyes looking straight ahead, just like an elementary school student.

Red Hair was a little more capable and took the initiative to serve the rice.

Zhang Guiqin looked very satisfied.

Qiang Wa, who brought them here, kept looking at the three of them, puzzled.

The rice was served, and by the time Luo's father and mother started to eat, Qiangwa had already filled his bowl and was chewing it.

Only then did the three of them dare to pick up their chopsticks.

They didn't dare to pick up the meat, one reached for the celery and the other two reached for the mushrooms.

As a result, the chopsticks were just extended.

Clap, clap, clap. Luo Yihang hit the tip of everyone's chopsticks with his chopsticks, preventing them from picking up food.

The three children were so aggrieved that they were about to cry.

Zhang Guiqin glared at Luo Yihang, who shook his head and told her to forget about it.

Then I picked up a chicken wing and put it in a bowl for each of them.

This time I was so moved that I almost cried.

(End of this chapter)