61, rare guest 1
The next day, Wang Bo's rice noodle shop came three times to surprise him, but it was an expected "rare customer".
The first wave is the second uncle Zeng Fanyou and the second aunt Xie Mingfang. When the two of them came, it was about half past eight in the morning, which was considered the peak season for rice noodle shops. Wang Bo's family didn't have much time to accompany the two of them, and it wasn't until 90 o'clock in the morning that the business in the store eased up, and Wang Bo had the leisure to come over to entertain his uncle and aunt.
"Second uncle, second aunt, you are too polite. It's okay to play empty-handed, and carry such a big back of vegetables. Wang Bo looked at the basket of eggplant, cowpea, cucumber and pepper in front of him, and his heart was both happy and worried, because yesterday his uncle had sent a large basket of almost identical vegetables. There are two big baskets of vegetables, and even these few people in the store don't know that they are going to eat until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month.
"Hey, it's all grown in the ground, and it's not worth two dollars. I know that you probably won't have time to grow vegetables now, so I'll carry some for you. We were busy the other day and didn't have time to go into town. Zeng Fanyou said.
"Then thank you, uncle. Mom, take this basket of vegetables to the kitchen and put it away, and free up the back basket for my uncle. Sister Ping, quickly call my dad to take two bowls of fat intestine rice noodles, two three taels, red soup, and dig more. Wang Bo began to instruct his mother and Guan Ping.
"Okay. Guan Ping smiled and nodded, while Zeng Fanyu picked up his back and entered the back kitchen.
"What are the rice noodles to be had! Bo'er, tell you don't take the risk, I had dinner with your aunt. Zeng Fanyou began to be polite.
"That's it, we had breakfast, don't take it. Xie Mingfang also politely agreed, then pointed to Guan Ping's back with his finger, and asked in a low voice, "Bo'er, which one is this?
"Oh, he's Guan Ping, a relative of my homeroom teacher. On the day of the opening, the head teacher ate rice noodles at my house, and when she saw that my family's business was good, she directly introduced her relatives, but it was not easy to push. Wang Bo's lies also came out of his mouth. Early this morning, his aunt Zhong Xiaomin told him about the fact that several uncles came to visit her last night, and Wang Bo foresaw that there might be such a day.
"Oh, it turned out to be your homeroom teacher......'s introduction? It's really hard to push. He's your homeroom teacher after all. The second uncle didn't have much thought, and directly believed Wang Bo's words.
"That's three! I'm going to mix under him for two years, offend him, and have good fruits to eat in the class in the future?" Wang Bo spread his hands and made a helpless gesture.
But Xie Mingfang is obviously not as pedantic as her husband, and she obviously saw the boom in business just now.
"But Bo'er, your business is really good! There were so many people queuing up outside just now, I see that your family is very busy...... I think you should hire one or two more people so that your family can be more relaxed. ”
"Hehe, what's the matter, second aunt, do you want to help me? If you want to come, I welcome you with both hands and feet!" Wang Bo laughed and teased.
Zhong Xiaomin put aside the conversation between their brothers and concubines last night this morning, Wang Bo expected that sooner or later there would be such a day, and then all morning, while he was busy collecting money and settling accounts, he was thinking about how to deal with it.
First of all, one thing is certain, Wang Bo simply cannot completely refuse the "reasonable" demands made by his uncles. For example, when he asked to come to work, after he agreed to his aunt, he had already opened an opening. It is impossible for him to reject other uncles and aunts on the premise of agreeing to the little aunt, and he cannot engage in double standards among his parents' siblings, at least not on the surface.
Since he can't refuse, he can only agree, and the current situation is that with the expansion of the store, he does need manpower, rather than looking for some inexplicable and indistinguishable outsiders, it is better to let his relatives in, which can be regarded as fertile water does not flow into the field of outsiders. Although several other uncles, especially aunts, are not like uncles and aunts, they are not as careless about themselves as their uncles and mothers, and they all have some careful thinking and love to take care of some small gains and losses; no one is perfect, and no one cares, and who is not selfish? How can he ask others to "benefit others without self-interest" when he himself counts the gains and losses, pros and cons, all day long? After all, those who treat him as their own children like the uncle's family and his mother are regarded as outliers in the current society!
However, even if he agreed to allow his relatives to come in to help him, Wang Bo didn't want to agree too easily. There is a saying in the Quartet that "there is no good goods delivered to the door", if something is too easy to get, he will take it for granted, and he will not cherish it, let alone be grateful.
Out of the psychology of repaying the gratitude, Wang Bo will give the opportunity, but it will not be a simple give, and it is always necessary to let the relatives understand the "preciousness" of this opportunity.
"Well, I'd like to, but I'm going to cook for your uncle and Lianlian? I'm here, who will cook for them?" Xie Mingfang had a yearning and regretful expression on his face, and then said, "But, Bo'er, I can recommend someone to you." ”
"Which one?" Wang Bo was a little curious.
"My niece, Xie Ying, do you remember? When you were a child, my Na Ha'er was still playing with your second uncle, and he took you to Xie Ying's house to play, do you still have any impression?" Xie Mingfang said.
When the second aunt said this, Wang Bo remembered something. When he was a few years old, he was about three or four years old, and his second uncle went to deliver preserved eggs and zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival to his mother-in-law's house, and took him with him casually. Wang Bo has no impression of those people in Xie Mingfang's mother's family now, but he has a little memory of Xie Ying. Because at that time, only Xie Ying was a child, a few years older than him, and he also took him to the river to catch crabs. Xie Ying's face seemed to have a faint patch, the birthmark brought from the mother's womb, Wang Bo had always been very curious at that time, and felt that the other party was different from himself.
"Sister Xie Ying, why don't you have an impression! I remember when I was a child, she even took me to catch crabs. Does she have a birthmark on her face?" Wang Bo made an excited look, he didn't have much impression of Xie Ying, he couldn't figure out whether he was beautiful or ugly, but of course he couldn't say that.
"Bo'er's memory is good, no wonder he was admitted to the fourth lieutenant colonel!" Xie Mingfang praised Wang Bo with a smile, "It's you Sister Xie Ying." After graduating from junior high school, she never found a stable job. Your mother and mother have always wanted to send her to learn how to barge, but this woman has been studying for a while, and she doesn't want to learn anymore, saying that she is not the material for that line of food. No, I've been idle at home. But don't worry, Bo'er, your sister Xie Ying is very diligent. Her hands and feet are neat, and she has to help her do everything in the house, even if she plants seedlings and threshes grain, there is no problem. ”
This Wang Bo didn't doubt it. Which of the rural dolls of his age and older than him did not help his parents with housework? He himself began to help his parents cut wheat, threshk wheat, plant seedlings and threw grain when he was in junior high school. It was only when he reached high school that his homework began to be tense and he couldn't finish his homework all day long, so Wang Jichang didn't let him go to the ground. Wang Bo's generation is completely incomparable with the kind of "good children of the new era" who are in the fourth or fifth grade of primary school and have to be picked up by their parents every day. According to the all-round "care" of the city people in later generations for their children, he was often "glad" that he was managed by his parents to herd sheep, went swimming alone in the big river and was not drowned by the river, played with fire and was not burned to death, played with electricity and was not electrocuted, and how big a "lucky" he was to ride a bicycle all over the street and not be hit by a car since he was seven years old!
"I absolutely believe this, second aunt. It's not impossible to ask Sister Xie Ying to come over to help, but there are two problems here:
"The first is that although my salary here is relatively high and other benefits are good, the management is quite strict, and the working hours are long and tiring. If you violate the store rules I set, you will have to deduct the money at that time. You can ask my aunt about this. The first day she laughed her face badly, and the next day she was still numb. If Xie Ying wants to come, you have to make this clear to her.
"The second is that after recruiting people this time, I'm afraid the store won't recruit people for a long time in the future. Second aunt, you have given this opportunity to your niece now, if you want to come in the future, I am afraid you may not have a place. I'm going to make this clear to you. So whether it's you coming over or letting your niece come over, you should think about it when you go back, and don't make a decision in a hurry. ”
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