Last time, I said that Mr. and Miss dined in the restaurant with the guests, and it was a beautiful and peaceful atmosphere. Especially sir, there is a big one, life must be happy, do not make the golden bottle empty to the moon grandeur. Every hearty laugh of his ears is like thunder, and he has reached the pinnacle of his life in the staggered cups.
However, the male guest was extremely low-key, and suddenly looked a bit of the dignity of a dignitary. Sitting in the middle of the precarious room, there are occasionally a few echoing words, which sound light and breezy, just right without traces, and listen decently.
It's just a pity that he isn't. At noon I could hear the contemptuous tone of the young lady, who was by no means an official, but only one of the many smugglers around him. He didn't talk much, and he listened to him all the time. I thought about it for a long time, and it would be more appropriate to describe him with the words pious and humble. He and Mr. sat together, and from the outside, people who were not familiar with them thought they were power dealers. Who would have thought that this pot-bellied, dignified-looking guest would be an impostor.
The gentleman specially asked the lady to send me a red envelope, which was counted as overtime pay for me. For this windfall, in fact, I have long been unfazed in my heart, because this is not the first time. I'm looking forward to it in my heart, and I'm confident. Don't laugh at me for seeing money, who can not like such an employer?
Before coming here, I had been an aunt for more than four years. In addition to getting the salary she deserves, she has never received additional rewards from her employer, which is the duty of being an aunt, you can love money, but you shouldn't be greedy.
I didn't think about being greedy. But there were also times when I felt uneasy.
Not to mention anything else, my working time at Miss Xiamen's house is not short, and I have been working for almost two years, and I stayed at her house for the New Year at their request for the two Chinese New Years, and did not go home. Fujian locals, with a strong family concept, like to get together during the New Year's holidays, and the local aunt wants to go home for the New Year. It's a good thing now, everyone in the world has gone home for the New Year to enjoy the joy of family, but I have become a free coolie. All the relatives and the people who dragged their families came over to eat. There are cheap people can not be made, old and young, several generations, nearly 20 people, gathered together, inside and outside I am alone, from the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, until the second day of the new year, I am so tired that I am almost shedding a layer of skin. Co-authors are resting for the New Year, and I used to serve a family of three for the New Year, but now it has intensified and turned several times.
I thought to myself, if you are tired, you should be tired! For the Chinese New Year, I cook so many people's meals by myself, there should be no shortage of red envelopes for the New Year, right?
The result?
As a result, people gave me a thousand red envelopes on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Obviously too little, I'm definitely not happy. If others are content and happy, I can't stop it, and I can't look down on this thousand dollars. They really don't take me seriously.
Why? A few years ago, I also asked my sister to go to our local area to buy the best sausages, which are so popular that they must be booked in advance, and they can't usually buy them at all, so I kindly sent them from my hometown to give them a free tasting. In that year, the shipping cost of twenty catties of sausages ➕ also cost me 800 yuan. The baby had a birthday in May, and I also gave a red envelope of 600 yuan. Don't say I'm greedy for money, don't the rich even know the etiquette of courtesy? If you don't look down on my babysitter, then don't take my money. When the whole family says that the sausages are delicious, they fool me with a thousand dollars, are they treacherous, or am I too careful?
I didn't say anything, but I was a little unhappy in my heart, and I accepted it silently, but I proposed to add 500 yuan to my monthly salary after next year. Who would have thought that before the end of the New Year, people booked me a plane ticket overnight on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and directly dismissed me and asked me to go back to Shanghai. Is it an individual who can do this? For the Chinese New Year, why don't you book me a ticket back to my hometown, can it be justified? This is the human heart, the beast heart of the rich.
The morning I left, she hadn't gotten out of bed yet. I didn't say goodbye to her. It was quite cold in Xiamen that year, and it rained again. I was alone with my suitcase and hitched a ride on the taxi. I'm not afraid of everyone's jokes, I'm reluctant to take a taxi, the airport is so far away, it costs seventy or eighty yuan to drive over. When I left, she settled my salary, accurate to the decimal point, no more, no less. Actually, I was so stupid at the time, I didn't understand anything, and she did give me less salary. I was supposed to take seven days of paid leave after working for one year, but she didn't give me my salary until the second day of the new year. When I think about it later, it's already been a long time coming, so what's the use? I didn't talk about it again. At that time, I was embarrassed to ask her for a taxi. Let's get together and disperse, walk decently, don't tear your face because of this piece of eight cents, I can't afford to lose that person. Scatter and disperse!
I walked out of the dark garage and felt like it was dawning, and I felt like I had seen the day. When I got on the taxi, I cried, but I didn't have a single tear. Only I know that tears have long been flooding in my heart, and in the silent valley, rushing happily. It's leaving, it's also liberation.
The heart was empty, as if it had been disemboweled, and it was cruelly thrown far away, and no one wanted to look at it more. Everyone dislikes it, it's bloody and smelly. What do you want to do? Only with money can there be life, and those who talk from the heart deserve to be fooled. As I cut through my skin, I felt the cold touch of the knife and the sound of hissing across my skin. I didn't have to clench my teeth to endure such severe pain.
I'm my own morphine.
Grievances, sadness, and anger are not enough to express my feelings. That's when I felt like my worldview was collapsing.
The world is not worth it.
I couldn't figure out why what seemed to be such a friendly relationship on weekdays became worthless in the face of money. Not even dung.
Thinking about it like this, I was relieved and decided not to dwell on this matter anymore, no longer deal with the world with feelings, and laugh it off.
I returned to Shanghai alone. The whole of Shanghai is like an empty city, and it feels even more deserted. Almost all the out-of-towners have gone home for the New Year, and even taxis have disappeared from the streets. I was like an abandoned child who didn't know where to go. Only came to the company, and the company was empty, only a teacher on duty. I left the box in the company, and I was busy looking for a bus to go home, and it was too late to go to the station, and there were few trains during the Chinese New Year, and the high-speed rail in my hometown had not yet opened at that time. I had to run to the side of the road to stop the car.
I stood anxiously under the overpass, feeling like I was about to freeze. I didn't bring a thick down jacket to Xiamen to the past, only wore a coat, not at all to protect against the cold, it was really too cold, the sky was getting dark, there were very few vehicles coming and going, and I didn't see a car driving over for half a day, I was panicked, and I kept thinking about where to spend the night if there was no car? I'm afraid I'll sleep on the streets tonight. More importantly, I want to get home and see my kids right away.
It's really the endless road, and a small car actually stopped and asked me, is Yancheng going? At that moment, I felt like I was also being favored by God. I got into the car and secretly wiped away the tears that couldn't help but slide, I was afraid that the owner would dislike me, what to cry for the New Year? I don't want others to see my weakness.
In the middle, there was only a month apart, and I went home for the New Year, and I returned to Shanghai on the sixth day of the new year. I went to the company to train a babysitter, although I never took on a job with a baby. In the end, I should still thank the young lady in Xiamen, if it were not for her ruthless dismissal, maybe I would have been in her house with a monthly salary of 6,005, who would have thought that after I left her family, I would suddenly find a job with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan. In other words, I didn't know I deserved a higher salary if I hadn't left her house.
It perfectly interprets the sentence, the tree dies, and the person lives.
I realized that in the same position, more money is the embodiment of value.
Since then, I have become more and more frustrated, and I have never worried about being fired by my employer, and of course, I often fire my employer. Every time I left, I still pushed my suitcase alone, but instead of walking all the time, I went to the bus, but took a taxi in style, and told myself that you deserve better. It is a blessing in life to be able to grow through every experience.
Since it's not suitable, isn't it good to break up and go their separate ways? Why force yourself to endure every day. Pointless. The identity of the nanny has been humbled to the dust, and I must no longer despise myself.
You see, the earth is round. Cloudy and sunny, everything has a cycle. I never thought there would be extra red envelopes. There are always employers who emphasize that live-in nannies are on call 24 hours a day, and it is best for aunts not to think about it, and to pay you on time every month, even if you meet a good employer. I believe that every aunt thinks the same way, conscientiously does her job well, and is a happy person with a clear conscience.
Who would have thought that one day I would be treated like this, and who wouldn't be greedy for money? My current employer gives out red envelopes of different sizes every month. Of course, it was also because she thought that I was paid for my work in addition to my working hours. It's not for nothing, how can there be such a good thing in the world.
In the world, everything has already been secretly priced. Everyone obtains it according to their ability, there is no free lunch in the world, there will be no pie in the sky, and the big cake is only reserved for the predators, not your turn.
I often think that this family, if my sister can be less rude and willful, it is really perfect. Look, how greedy I am, it's also human nature. The story of the fisherman and the old woman is vividly embodied in everyone, and the desire is difficult to fill. I'd rather stay here. Thinking about it again, my sister is still young, and she will become a big girl in a few years, and she will become more and more sensible. It's definitely getting better every day.
That night, the four of them kept drinking and chatting until it was almost eight o'clock, and the kitchen was all washed, and I saw that Mr. finally got up, and my heart was full of joy, it was so early that it was over!
The gentleman was already significantly drunk, and he could hear the speed of his speech.
To be continued...