Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Early the next morning, the two daughters-in-law of the Yan family rushed to Dongjun Hotel to report for duty, fearing that they would lose the jobs that Yan Fugui had found for them with great difficulty.

Because these two people were arranged by the boss Wang Dong himself, he didn't make things difficult for them after he verified their identities and started to process their entry procedures.

But the look he gave the two of them was filled with envy from beginning to end.

"Chen Hong, Zhang Xin...you two are so lucky." The employee who was helping them with the entry procedures sighed while busying himself.

"Yesterday I heard that after the hotel fired three employees, many employees in the hotel set their sights on these three positions. Several leaders also set their sights on these three waiter positions and wanted to introduce their family members to work in the hotel."

"In the end, it was occupied by you two."

"Luckily you two were introduced by the boss, otherwise it would be difficult to get the job."

"I heard that our manager also had his eyes on a waiter position and wanted to introduce his cousin to the position. Now it seems there is no hope."

The eldest daughter-in-law Chen Hong decisively took out a pack of cigarettes that her husband had prepared in advance from her pocket and handed it to the other party, smiling and asking: "Comrade..."

"Isn't it just a waiter's position?"

"Why are so many people watching?"

"Is it possible that being a waiter in a restaurant is more popular than being a regular worker in a state-owned factory?"

The employee who was helping them with the onboarding process knew as soon as they heard what happened that these two people were still unaware of the real situation in the hotel.

For the sake of a pack of cigarettes, I decided to give them some pointers and replied with a smile: "Formal workers in state-owned factories..."

"You underestimate our hotel."

"As far as income is concerned, even if you offer a low-level technical worker position in a state-owned factory to the waiters in our hotel, they will not be willing to trade with you..."

"Do you know how much the more than 100 front desk waiters received in wages yesterday?"

The second daughter-in-law of the Yan family immediately responded: "I know this..."

"The hotel pays the waiters 35 yuan a month. Now is the internship period, and everyone is paid 30 yuan a month."

“It’s higher than the salary of regular workers in a steel mill.”

The employee in charge of personnel shook his head and replied: "It seems that you are not very well-informed."

"Thirty dollars is just the basic salary for a waiter."

"Besides that, they also have dividends and bonuses..."

"As far as I know, last night, among all the waiters, there was a waiter named Li Jiale who directly received a salary of more than 80 yuan, which is almost catching up with the salary of our deputy manager."

"This is just the bonus and dividends from half a month of operating the restaurant."

"Starting from this month, the restaurant will be operating for the entire month. I estimate that their income can increase by 10 or 20 yuan."

"Maybe after working for a month, my income will exceed 100 yuan."

"Take the steel mill for example. Among the more than 10,000 workers and cadres, the number of people whose monthly income exceeds 100 yuan is estimated to be no more than 200."

"But as a waiter in our restaurant, as long as you work hard and don't cheat, you can earn hundreds of yuan a month. Those who earn less can also earn 60 or 70 yuan."

“With so much money every month, do you think they would still be willing to work as regular workers in a steel mill and live a low-level skilled life?”

Although Chen Hong had guessed that the hotel had promised everyone a lot of bonuses and dividends, she didn't expect them to be so much, higher than the basic salary.

An expression of shock immediately appeared on his face, followed by surprise.

After leaving the personnel office, he said to his second daughter-in-law Zhang Xin: "Sister-in-law..."

"Dad must not have asked about the hotel's income, so he didn't know that we could get such high dividends and bonuses as waiters in the hotel."

"I suggest that we keep this a secret and don't let our parents know about it. Otherwise, no matter how much money we have, he will take it away."

"Once we have saved enough money, we can buy a house and live separately from our parents. Then we won't have to pay so much money to our family."

"Even if our parents knew our real income, as long as the family property is divided, they won't expect us to pay more."

The second daughter-in-law nodded immediately and replied with a look of surprise: "Don't worry, sister-in-law..."

"Dad is so calculating. If he knew that the two of us could earn 70 or 80 yuan in the restaurant, he would definitely find ways to cheat us and make us pay more money to the family."

"I promise not to tell anyone about this except my husband."

"We have saved a lot of money. If we can really earn 70 or 80 yuan a month working in the restaurant, or even more, we can buy a house outside in three months at most."

"When the time comes, we can live separately, so we won't have to worry about our parents' schemes."

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At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Dong rushed home from the restaurant with a large bag of food.

The restaurant, which had just been open for half a month, had a great start. Wang Dong promised to cook a big meal at home tonight to celebrate with his family.

For this dinner, when Zhumen went shopping for ingredients in the morning, he bought an old hen, an old duck, three pounds of mutton, three pounds of beef, three pounds of pork belly, and a large bag of various vegetables.

The bike racks are almost full.

Of course, in order to avoid setting a bad precedent for the restaurant and making everyone think that the boss was enriching himself, all the money for buying meat and vegetables was settled privately by Wang Dong with the purchasing department, trying not to take advantage of the restaurant in the slightest.

The old hen is an authentic local chicken purchased by the purchasing department in the countryside. If you buy it 20 or 30 years later, you may not be able to buy it even if you spend money.

Wang Dong decided to use it to make an old hen soup for his family.

For this purpose, I went to the pharmacy and bought Chinese medicinal herbs such as Codonopsis pilosula.

Lao Ya decided to make beer duck which can be eaten everywhere in the future.

Add a cumin lamb, a stir-fried beef, a braised fish, a stir-fried pork, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a side dish, and you have eight dishes and a soup.

When I got home, I started to stew chicken soup and make beer duck.

Whether it is a local chicken or a local duck, they are all old goods and need to be stewed for at least an hour before they can be eaten.

Just as Wang Dong was cutting beef and mutton in the kitchen, a person who usually rarely said hello and was very unexpected suddenly appeared at his door.

"Uncle, is Dongzi at home?" Father-in-law Chen Dehui looked at Yi Zhonghai, who looked much older than a few years ago, with confusion. He wondered what he wanted to see Wang Dong about.

Almost everyone in the Siheyuan knew that their son-in-law and Yi Zhonghai did not get along, and that their family had a grudge against the Jia family and the Yi family in the central courtyard, so they basically did not interact with each other.

Even if they are neighbors in the same yard, if there is a wedding at home, they will not invite each other, giving people the feeling that they will never interact with each other.

As a result, the old guy Yi Zhonghai came to the door on his own initiative.

The father-in-law's first reaction was that Yi Zhonghai, the old man, was still wicked and wanted to stir up trouble again. (End of this chapter)