Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 4: Can’t Wait for the Factory to Close
The next day when Shen Qingqing went to school, she found that Shen Rongzhou's motorcycle was gone.

But Li Xunli and Shen Yangyang are still at home.

Shen Qingqing closed the door and walked towards school, thinking in her heart.

Her father probably went to talk to Uncle Shang about the truck driver recruitment.

She didn't expect to succeed in persuading Shen Rongzhou to change his career the first time.

As long as her father is influenced, she will definitely continue to "push the wind" on him in the future.

The question now is, what should her mother do after changing her career?
Shen Qingqing thought about this question for a whole day but still couldn't find an answer.

Unexpectedly, when she came home from school one day, her father showed her what "China Speed" was.

Shen Qingqing stared at her father with wide eyes: "Dad, what do you mean?"

"Didn't I accompany your Uncle Shang to that factory that's hiring drivers today? But you know your Uncle Shang, he's only a little over 500 meters tall and has always been timid, always following behind your dad. Then the boss took a liking to me and asked if I wanted to work with him. Your Uncle Shang persuaded me and agreed with the boss, paying a yuan deposit for me, which he'll return when I get my license."

Shen Qingqing didn't expect this to happen.

Thanks Uncle Shang!
I wish Uncle Shang’s business will prosper soon!

Shen Qingqing was setting off firecrackers in her heart, but she still didn't forget to ask hypocritically: "Dad, what do you think?"

"I..." Shen Rongzhou hesitated.

Li Xunli noticed his hesitation and told him about how the garment factory had fired several people today. "From what the boss said, it seems that after the salary is paid next month, everyone in the line next to my group will be fired."

Shen Rongzhou looked at her in surprise, "Then only the two of us are still working on it?"

Li Xunli sighed, "Who says it's not? The boss suddenly hired so many people. When I went to work this afternoon, many people were afraid that it would be our turn before the next line was finished."

"Luckily, the boss stepped in and said that the remaining two lines were in cooperation with large factories, so there was no need to worry about lack of work. He also said that starting from next month, we would all be given a salary increase, which made everyone feel at ease."

Shen Rongzhou was even more surprised. Thinking about the truck driver, he gritted his teeth and said, "Since we want to increase our salary, I won't apply for the driver position!"

"I heard that there's no salary for the first month of the exam, which means you won't get paid until the second month. This means you'll be working for nothing for the first two months."

After hearing this, Li Xunli's face was also full of disapproval: "How can you let people work without getting paid? If you finish the first two months of work, and then the third person says you are fired, then wouldn't it be a waste of work?"

Shen Rongzhou gave a bitter smile: "Who said it wasn't? Lao Shang was also a little worried when he heard that he had worked for nothing for the past two months, but he had no choice but to take a gamble."

Shen Qingqing listened to her father and mother talking to each other, and was caught off guard by a shocking reversal!

No, even if they both didn’t know, how could she, who was reborn, not know?

The boss of this garment factory said he would raise wages, but he only raised it for two months!

From the third month onwards, it started to drop again!

The question is, the factory that receives the goods says that their quality is not good, so they lowered the unit purchase price, so they have to cut their wages as well!
This made the people in the factory really think that they were not doing their job well enough, and they started to compete with themselves, working later and later. Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli had no choice but to follow suit.

As a result, their wages did not increase, and their health was in a precarious state during that period.

What’s even more serious is that when this garment factory went bankrupt, it owed employees four or five months’ wages, and there was not even any severance pay!
Shen Qingqing thought about the hardships her family had gone through during that time, which had led her parents to consider starting their own business, and alarm bells started ringing in her mind.

No! She absolutely cannot let her father miss out on this truck driver job!
Shen Qingqing was brainstorming frantically. "But Mom and Dad, isn't this batch of goods you're working on going to be finished next year? Wasn't Uncle Shang laid off just because he finished that batch of goods?"

"What factory would fire workers right after they finish making goods? That's definitely not making money!"

"Our math teacher explained today when he was explaining a word problem about calculating the number of workers that only bosses who make money will hire people to help them make more money, so that workers won't lose their jobs."

“Only bosses who are losing money would think about how to fire some people so that they don’t waste their money!”

Shen Qingqing couldn't think of any reason, so she could only make up a math teacher. Anyway, her parents wouldn't go to the school to verify it.

Hearing Shen Qingqing say this, Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli looked at her with a little surprise, then turned their heads to look at each other.

But they didn't want the child to get involved in these things. Li Xunli said to Shen Qingqing, "You're just a little kid, what do you know?"

Shen Qingqing immediately feigned anger and slammed her chopsticks on the table: "How can I not understand? I was even praised by my math teacher today!"

"And isn't what you just said the same as what our math teacher said?"

"Your boss had to pay compensation, so Uncle Shang was fired. He must have lost a lot of money. Otherwise, why would so many workers on the production line next to Mom be fired as well?"

Li Xunli immediately became furious. "How dare you slam the table! Who taught you that?"

Seeing that Shen Qingqing was about to be beaten, Shen Rongzhou immediately stood up and stopped his wife: "Hey, hey, hey, calm down, wife!"

Shen Qingqing also quickly and cleverly shouted, "I'm sorry, Mom! I was wrong! I won't do it again!"

Li Xunli was pushed back into the chair by Shen Rongzhou with her anger still on her face.

Shen Rongzhou glanced at Shen Qingqing, who was eating obediently, and said to Li Xunli after a pause, "Actually, what Qingqing said makes sense."

"Tsk, what did Qingqing say? That was what her teacher said. What could a child like her understand?" Li Xunli was not a really brainless adult.

Shen Qingqing seized the opportunity and chirped again, "If you really want to make money, then why don't you merge the workers into your production line to make money together? If you have money, you can raise your wages. If you don't have money, can you also pay them wages?"

People are biased. After hearing what Shen Qingqing said, Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli also thought of the Shang Tonggui family, who were on good terms with their own family.

The image of Shang Tonggui crying and sobbing as he left the factory yesterday morning seems to still be in my mind.

"If you ask me, the driver from Chen Man's uncle's family is definitely better! Chen Man's family has such a big supermarket! Yongchanglong Supermarket, doesn't Mom shop there every day? How could he possibly cheat?"

"If it was a scam, wouldn't her supermarket be smashed up by those who got scammed? After all, the boss is her uncle!"

Shen Qingqing struck while the iron was hot again, "If Dad learns to drive and earns enough money to buy a car, then we won't have to squeeze on a motorcycle when we go to my uncle's house. The wind hurt my face when I went home last night!"

Shen Qingqing kept saying that it was impossible for her to lie and that the wind hurt her face, which kept hitting the couple's defenses.

"Besides, Uncle Shang also paid a 500 yuan deposit for Dad. Uncle Shang's family is not well off to begin with. If Dad doesn't go and they don't refund the 500 yuan deposit, wouldn't that be a waste of money?"

"Maybe if I leave now, I can get severance pay like Uncle Shang! If the factory closes down, I won't even have any money—"

"Okay, it's adult matters, kids, why are you talking so much? Hurry up and eat yours!" Shen Rongzhou said something to Shen Qingqing indifferently and without loud voice. Then he sighed and asked Li Xunli tentatively: "Wife, can our family last two months?"

　See you tomorrow night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)