I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 717 The nursery also hired a deaf-mute girl.

Fang Qingye was also surprised to hear this news: so many disabled people had come!
It is said that the day of the job application was very lively. Dozens of disabled people stood in the courtyard behind the bank building, waiting for the recruiters to call their names and take them into the room for interviews. Some of the disabled people's family members also came with them, hoping to get the job.

He was told this news by Hu Lingling. Since Fang Qingye was often away from the bank, he relied on this girl to find out things that couldn't be found in the documents or heard in the reports.

Oh no, she's already a young married woman; Hu Lingling got married this October.

"Why are so many here? Is it because the county welfare factory is about to go bankrupt?" Fang Qingye asked.

"Yes, I heard from my colleagues in the human resources department that many of them are from the county welfare factory, and I heard they haven't been paid for two months," Hu Lingling replied.

“Oh, I see. Hu Lingling, bring me the table showing the completion status of each branch’s annual targets last year,” Fang Qingye said.

"Okay." Hu Lingling quickly found a stack of forms among a pile of documents and placed them in front of Fang Qingye.

Fang Qingye spent the entire afternoon looking at the summary tables of each branch—which were actually the annual performance reports of each branch for the past year, and the assessment of the leadership teams of each branch mainly relied on these.

Some branches performed well, such as the Pudong branch, which exceeded all annual targets. Others performed poorly, such as the Wuyang County branch, which failed to meet half of the 37 targets across 11 sub-categories in 4 major categories.

In particular, the three core indicators, namely "branch net profit/profit after provisions", "average daily balance and new deposits", and "average daily balance and new core deposits (savings deposits)", failed to meet their targets.

"Looks like we need to change the leadership team," Fang Qingye thought to herself.

Of course, it also needs to be discussed at a meeting of the bank president.

After looking at reports all afternoon, I felt dizzy and my head was spinning. After get off work, I drove straight to the nursery. Usually, Bai Ou takes care of the child in Shanghai, while Fang Qingye lives alone in Nanxin. He eats and lives with his grandparents.

My grandparents are in their late seventies and early eighties, but they are still in good health. My grandfather, Fang Guisheng, has fully retired and no longer holds any position at the Four Seasons Nursery and Flower Company, but he is still very active. He often directs the workers and sometimes does the technical work himself, such as cutting, grafting, and pruning.

He especially takes care of his greenhouse orchids.

Fang Qingye didn't interfere too much, but just told Fang Fei to be careful not to let her great-grandfather do heavy work.

In winter, it gets dark early in Nanxin. Fang Qingye left the bank at 5:30 and arrived at the nursery by car after dark. When she entered the living room of the small courtyard, she found her grandfather talking to a man and a woman.

The man looked to be in his forties, wearing a worn camouflage work uniform. His rough skin suggested he was an outdoor worker who was often exposed to the elements.

The girl was in her early twenties, with a ponytail and pretty features. The two looked like father and daughter.

Upon seeing Fang Qingye enter, the man quickly stood up, subconsciously rubbed his hands together, and respectfully greeted her, "President Fang."

The girl was quite clever and quickly stood up and called out as well, but her pronunciation was strange and stiff, as if it came from her throat.

Grandpa Fang Guisheng introduced, "Xiao Ye, this is Zheng Baohua. He used to be a worker at the county forest farm. When I was at the forest farm, he had only been working there for a few years and was still a young lad."

"Hello, Master Zheng."

Fang Qingye also greeted them.

"This is his daughter, Zheng Qian. She is deaf and mute."

"A deaf-mute?" Fang Qingye looked at the girl in surprise: "Don't you know how to speak?"

“I’ve been trained, so I can speak, but not anything too complicated.” The girl’s pronunciation was still strange: “Besides, I’ve also learned lip reading, so I can understand some simple words.”

That's it!

No wonder he can understand what he's saying; he actually "reads" it.

"Xiao Ye, Zheng Baohua brought his daughter here because he heard that your bank is recruiting disabled people. He's wondering if you can arrange a job for his daughter." Actually, when Fang Qingye heard that Zheng Qian was disabled, she already roughly knew why the father and daughter had come to see her.

Instead of answering directly, he asked, "Master Zheng, the bank was hiring a couple of days ago, didn't you take Zheng Qian with you to apply?"

“She went, but there were too many applicants, several people were competing for one position, and my daughter didn’t get the job.” Zheng Baohua said with a bitter smile on her face.

Fang Qingye then looked at Zheng Qian, deliberately slowing down her speech: "Have you ever had a job before?"

“I work at Nanxin Model Factory as a technician. The factory isn’t doing well right now and they can’t pay wages, so I’m thinking of changing jobs.” Zheng Qian spoke slowly and her pronunciation wasn’t very clear, but it was generally understandable.

"Technician? What exactly do you do?" Fang Qingye asked curiously.

"I design models. I design models according to the client's requirements and then have workers manufacture them."

"Drawings or computer?"

"I started by hand-drawing blueprints. Last year, the factory bought a computer, and I started learning to draw on the computer."

He's quite talented.

"You can type, right?" Fang Qingye asked again.

"I know how to use Wubi and Pinyin," Zheng Qian quickly replied.

“Well then, Mr. Zheng,” Fang Qingye looked at Zheng Baohua again, “the bank is already full, I can’t open that back door. How about Zheng Qian comes to work at the nursery? She’ll mainly do office work and printing and typing. The salary, based on the average employee’s salary here, is generally around 4000 yuan. She’ll have five social insurances but no housing fund. Would you like to come?”

"Yes, yes," Zheng Baohua quickly replied, then hurriedly explained to her daughter using both words and gestures.

Zheng Qian seemed a little hesitant, but finally nodded.

"That's good. You can start work at the beginning of next month. By the way, does the welfare factory pay for your social insurance and housing fund?" Fang Qingye thought of a question.

“I only paid into the pension fund and employee medical insurance,” Zheng Qian said.

"Alright, let's do it this way," Fang Qingye said.

After finishing the business, Zheng Baohua was about to leave with her daughter. Before leaving, Qian Guisheng asked him to take back the gifts he had brought, but the other party refused, so they had no choice but to give up.

Fang Qingye glanced at it and saw a pack of Su cigarettes and two bottles of "Tianzhilan".

After the guests left, the whole family sat down together to eat dinner: braised crucian carp, stir-fried eggs with chives, stir-fried baby spinach, and a pot of vegetable and tofu soup.

Grandpa, Grandma, and Fang Qingye ate heartily, and during the meal they talked about what happened between Zheng Baohua and his daughter earlier.

"Oh, that girl, she's so pretty and seems so clever, how come she's deaf and mute?" Grandma Jin Guilian sighed.

"According to Zhang Baohua, she wasn't born deaf and mute. When she was six years old, she had a high fever and went to see the village doctor. As a result, the doctor gave her an excessive amount of gentamicin. The fever subsided, but her daughter became deaf. Sigh."

"It's so pitiful."

"Yes, Zhang Baohua has had a lot of bad luck. After being discharged from the army, he was assigned to a forest farm, but the forest farm eventually went bankrupt, so he had to work as a laborer on a construction site. His daughter also became deaf and mute."

Fang Qingye listened quietly without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)