Chapter 2184: Chapter 1861: Zhou Tianyu Resigns
Aunt Zhang Hong felt uneasy after hearing Professor Song’s words.
Seventh Uncle listened and clicked his tongue, "What is all this talk about wealth and not returning home — our villages are all interconnected with family ties! Zhang Hong, why don’t you gather some elders and ask around, invite the elders of the family from whom you bought wine for a drink, have a chat..."
This type of person values face highly, but they are generally stubborn. Though they won’t admit it openly, they deeply care about how others (especially male relatives and elders) view them.
Unless the entire family is made up of scoundrels, you can casually mention at the dinner table, something like "Oh, sorry, work is heavy now, can’t drink easily, letting the kids down or something like that..."
Listen to the tone, the elder has eaten more salt than anyone, how could they not understand?
After thinking it over, he added, "There might be issues from the top causing troubles below. But don’t be afraid—your son, daughter-in-law, daughter, and son-in-law make a big group of people, get them all together at dinner to make it grand!"
Exactly.
This situation, once explained by Seventh Uncle in a few words, really doesn’t seem like a big deal anymore.
After all, this is the authentic rural way of handling things, while Professor Song represents the scholarly approach.
Zhang Hong instantly felt relieved, only sighed, "People, how did they become like this nowadays?"
"Why worry," Wu Lan lifted her chin, gesturing towards Wu Lei, "It takes all sorts to make a world, can you control that?"
Looking at the simple-hearted young man in front of her, whose handsome features showed even under the dim light, Zhang Hong also sighed:
"True enough."
Wu Lei was puzzled, "What does it have to do with me? I’m not selling wine."
"We know you’re not, just remember to dress neatly and be diligent in serving tea and water during the event."
Oh, if Wu Lan’s sister-in-law were here, who knows how anxious she would be.
Zhang Chen: ... Whatever, he just popped a freshly washed peanut into his mouth, it tasted good, better not speak.
It’s a shame, he heard something about ducks being miserable over the phone... Can ducks be more miserable than him?
He couldn’t even eat ducks.
...
Seventh Uncle was right in asking Song Tan to pick the vegetables early because as dusk fell, the rain started pouring down again.
Seeing there’s nothing else to do and Aunt Lianhua had already gone home, they shut the main gate, locked it, and added a few small fish to the bowl, thinking that the cats might find it hard to hunt tonight.
Everything was prepared, with the roast duck marinating in spices sitting in the kitchen, waiting for tomorrow, even the night seemed fragrant. In this white-noise rain, Wu Lan was joyfully choosing a TV show to watch until the phone rang.
Li Lanhua sent a message.
"Wu Lan, are you asleep? I want to come over and sit for a bit."
On such a dark night, surely something was up. Wu Han’s spirits lifted, he quickly tidied the living room and washed a couple of melons properly.
Then he scolded Song Tan: "Put the blankets away properly, don’t let guests laugh at us!"
Song Tan: ...
Who would laugh because there’s a small blanket on the sofa?
She perked up, "Aunt Li, coming over at night, is it a couple’s quarrel? Who knows, the tea leaves were trimmed, and it’s been raining, no tea leaves to fry. Zheng Baozhu is probably just lazing around at home all day. People are like this; the near scent is foul, and couples are no different, who knows how they argue, but coming over late at night, this kind of airing of dirty laundry surely means some serious anger. The mother-daughter duo perked up, eyes fixed intently at the door, wearing expressions of eager anticipation.
Li Lanhua soon arrived.
Braving the rain, he came under an umbrella, stepping in with a frown still on his face.
"Wu Lan—Tantan is here too, just right, I wanted to hear your thoughts. Tianyu quit his job!"
Whoa!
This is indeed big news.
"Why did he quit? Wasn’t he doing fine before? I heard he made over 10,000 a month."
Although 10,000 a month might seem trivial, in reality, 80% of people don’t earn such wages.
With careful management, this amount is worth planning with.
Of course, seeing Zhou Tianyu still being broke, you know he’s worse off than the Self-taught Sister or Gastric Bypass Brother picking vegetables on the mountain.
Though they hustle hard and have paid some price, they’ve secured their retirement funds.
But we wouldn’t mention this in front of Li Lanhua; Wu Lan just asked worryingly:
"Then what’s his plan for the future?"
Li Lanhua coming over late at night, surely isn’t to arrange a job for him at the farm?
That young lad does sales, and what they lack the least is people in sales.
He’s also quite ambitious yet incompetent, what could the farm possibly arrange for him?
He definitely won’t shovel manure at the Riverside Beach.
He can’t manage collecting fruits and vegetables on the mountain either.
If he were to try like Yun Duo, oh dear, Yun Duo is currently busy with the opportunity provided by Yang Zhengxi’s company, submitting various materials for the autumn exposition, rushing back and forth between city and countryside every day, she’s lost several pounds already.
Could Zhou Tianyu even handle that?
After all, if they used the organizer’s spot to cut in line, those who entered through legitimate channels started preparing as early as April-May.
How he resigned, Li Lanhua couldn’t explain clearly.
All she knew was Zhou Tianyu phoned about poor company performance in Q2-3, leading to some repositioning of staff...
He didn’t want to transfer, so he quit.
"That boy," Li Lanhua was almost dying of worry.
"Once you’re in the company, listen to the boss, right? We’ve always told him to be diligent at work, and when it’s slow, pour some water, sweep the floor, leave a good impression."
"Anyway, transfers happen, you go where you’re sent, get any opportunity and move back to the original role! You can’t be unemployed."
Even though Song Tan didn’t have many positive impressions of Zhou Tianyu, hearing this she couldn’t help but purse her cheeks, a bit speechless.
If pouring water and sweeping could lead to promotions, the CEO should be the cleaning aunt.
Then there’s the transferring.
Anyone experienced in the workplace knows.
It’s written as ’transfer,’ spoken as ’marginalization, optimization, pay cuts, voluntary resignation.’
But the matters in it are too complicated, she went straight to the point:
"Did Brother Tianyu say he’s coming back?"
Li Lanhua felt even more distressed.
"You say he quit, right when I registered him for the matchmaking event, just wanted him to come back and take a look. Oh dear, now there’s no more 10,000+ salary, can he still find a good match..."
"But he’s not willing to go! Sigh."
A perfect example of the Chinese curse!
Lost the job? No worries, first, find a match. As for how to support a family after finding someone... never mind, life will work itself out somehow.
Upon hearing this, Wu Lan hesitated for a long time: "So your visit tonight..."
What exactly are the intentions?
To let the kid rest peacefully at home for a few days, transition into finding another job, or planning to have him stay in Yunqiao Village?
Li Lanhua sighed deeply, "It’s because I don’t know, that I came to chat with you."
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