Chapter 1412: Chapter 1004: Full-time Mother’s Comeback 12 (Four Thousand)_3
Busy times always make time fly by quickly, and soon it’s mid-January 2023, entering the final exam phase, and the holiday is approaching.
Fortunately, her son’s winter vacation starts after hers, allowing her to focus on her studies.
After several months of hard work, her Douyin followers have exceeded 1.2 million. After the new year, she’ll start selling products; before the new year, she focused on selling calligraphy.
Over the past few months, income from calligraphy sales, live streams, traffic support, rewards, embroidery, company bonuses, and other sources has totaled four hundred thousand yuan.
The money previously used for financial planning has been withdrawn, and once the year-end bonus of ten thousand yuan (not based on profit for the first year since she only worked for a few months) is received, making up to fifty thousand yuan, she plans to invest in the stock market.
Qi Qi feels confident in her ability to earn money, so she’s willing to take the risk of gaining or losing fifty thousand yuan. Rather than keeping the money in the bank to earn interest, she’d rather invest in the stock market for a chance, in case she gets lucky.
This fifty thousand yuan being earmarked means her cash on hand will be zero. Luckily, the year-end is near, and many families tidy up and decorate their homes, needing framed calligraphy and paintings, so she plans to write more calligraphy pieces and embroider more to earn some pocket money.
On January 20th, after the school exams, holidays were announced. While other students scrambled for tickets on the app, she relaxed and returned to her small apartment with her son, who also had a holiday.
The company won’t go on holiday until December 25th, giving her a week before mother-and-son time begins.
During this week, it would be enough for her to send packages, receive payments, and roughly calculate an income of at least five thousand yuan.
Over the past few months, her family made several calls, but she rejected them all. They didn’t say much on WeChat, only asking her to answer the phone. Since there was nothing important, she was lazy to answer.
She didn’t mention sending them money, just waited for her five thousand yuan to be credited, and then she would send them the living expenses for next year in exchange for some peace.
With school holidays, she took Wen Han to the company to help out. As the year-end approaches, the company becomes busier. She must say, the girls she picked do a good job. They’re young and energetic, and since they arrived, the company finally looks like a company, unlike before when she’d walk in and smell heavy tobacco. Now, smoking is prohibited in the office. If they need a refreshment, they make tea or coffee, and if they want to smoke, they go to the corridor, as smoking is banned indoors for public area health consideration.
Wen Han turned four years old. Despite his young age, he is a little helper at the company, serving tea, water, cleaning, and doing it quite well.
He knows everyone’s name in the company, calling them big brothers and sisters, which makes them embarrassed. When it’s Li Xingchen’s turn, he calls him Uncle, making him feel very frustrated.
"Xiao Han, be good, don’t call me Uncle; if not little brother, how about big brother?"
"I don’t want to. You’re four years older than my mom. Not calling you Uncle is considering you aren’t married."
Li Xingchen was embarrassed, while Qi Qi laughed beside him, "I didn’t teach him that. It’s your fault for insisting on calling me Sister Qi initially. Now you can’t change it, right?"
"How can you say that? You’ve taken advantage of me for so long, and yet you’ve kept your cool. I admire you."
"You calling me sister means I look old. Since this face deserves the title sister, why can’t I keep my cool?"
Li Xingchen waved awkwardly, "Alright, alright, I was wrong. I have to state that I don’t think you’re old; you just have the air of being a sister."
Qi Qi smirked, "Enough with the nonsense. Are our duty schedules out for the holiday yet?"
Li Xingchen frowned, "I didn’t plan for you to come in. You’ve hardly had a holiday, why not take the kid out to have fun? I’m all alone, so it doesn’t matter where I am; I can do the duties myself."
"You aren’t going home? How about this, I’ll cover duty from the 30th to the 3rd, and you can do the rest. Actually, there’s not much happening in those days. I can just take a walk around the company. Although you don’t have a small family, you have a big one. Go home and see your parents. My child and I plan to go out after the 6th when everyone’s back to work, to avoid crowds."
Because people usually communicate via computers, so-called duty means checking for any documents needing transmission, cleaning, feeding fish. Since she insists, Li Xingchen agrees, and whether he goes home or not, it’s up to him.
Qi Qi is divorced and has a child, with a chance of going home for the holiday possibly even lower than his, so he doesn’t even bother to ask.
