Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Seeing that his wife and father were getting increasingly unreasonable, and that they were about to kick him out and return the thousand yuan on the table, Guo Lin quickly tried to explain.

"Father...wife..."

“You’ve misunderstood… This thousand yuan wasn’t obtained illegally; it was all earned through legitimate means.”

"Do you remember that young man who came looking for me earlier?"

"He's not a worker at a farm, he's a big boss..."

"You should all have heard of the Dongjun Hotel, which isn't far from our house..."

"I heard you can earn ten or twenty thousand yuan a month, and there are several Dongjun Restaurants in Beijing. That young man was the owner of a Dongjun Restaurant..."

The father still couldn't believe his son could get a thousand yuan so easily through normal channels, and immediately interjected, "Don't tell me this thousand yuan was given to you by someone else..."

"He's such a big boss, and he doesn't need anything from you, so why would he give you so much money?"

Seeing that the worried expressions on everyone's faces had not eased after his explanation, Guo Lin had no choice but to speak again.

"You all know what kind of situation I have at the Fifth Breeding Farm..."

"Even if they really wanted to do something at the farm, or needed help with anything, they wouldn't come to me, the deputy factory director in name only..."

"The reason they gave me a thousand yuan is because they liked me as a person..."

"They want to poach me from the fifth breeding farm and make me work for them..."

"Boss Wang plans to open a large-scale breeding farm outside Beijing to supply Dongjun Restaurant with various kinds of pork, mutton, chicken, duck, and even beef..."

"But he didn't have anyone who knew how to raise livestock, so he set his sights on me and wanted to hire me as the manager of his livestock farm..."

"Not only do they pay me a salary, but they also give me a 1% share of the farm as dividends. My total income after a year of hard work will not be less than 10,000 yuan."

“I work myself to the bone at the Fifth Farm, but my annual income is only a little over a thousand yuan. I also have to suffer from the exclusion and targeting of the farm leaders.”

"When I arrived at the breeding farm under Dongjun Hotel, not only did no one ostracize me, but my income was also eight or nine times higher than at the Fifth Breeding Farm. I certainly wouldn't let such a good opportunity slip by..."

"This thousand yuan was my advance payment of wages. They also agreed to let me poach some technicians and veteran employees from the Fifth Breeding Farm to work at Dongjun Breeding Farm, with wages at least double what I earned at the Fifth Breeding Farm..."

"in addition……"

"Knowing that my family is having financial difficulties, Mr. Wang agreed to let me withdraw my salary for the next year in advance..."

"Honey, you should go look at houses tomorrow, and you should look at bigger ones."

"Once I start working at the farm, our family will never be short of money again..."

"If we're going to buy, let's do it all at once, buy a big house so that our son and daughter each have their own room..."

"Once it's settled, I'll go to the boss to collect my salary..."

"I need to go back to the Fifth Breeding Farm to process my resignation these next couple of days, so I don't have time to go looking for a house with you. I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you..."

"correct……"

"After Mr. Wang heard that you only had a high school diploma, he even invited you to work at Dongjun Hotel..."

"You can become a supervisor after three months of internship..."

"Your total monthly income will be no less than two hundred yuan. I've already agreed on your behalf." "Once your son and daughter start school, you'll start working at Dongjun Hotel..."

"I'm going to work at Dongjun Breeding Farm..."

His wife was almost stunned by the good news Guo Lin announced. Her eyes widened, and it took her a while to recover from the shock.

She had been worried about the house problem lately, wanting to buy a bigger house for her family, but even a skilled cook can't cook without rice.

With insufficient savings, the wife had to temporarily abandon her desire to move to a new house.

Unexpectedly, her husband solved the problem in the blink of an eye.

With an annual income of over ten thousand yuan, that averages out to over a thousand yuan per month. If you put all of that into ten-yuan bills, it would be a thick wad of cash. Even if the family eats meat every day, it would be good if they could spend two hundred yuan a month. They could save the remaining seven or eight hundred yuan. That would amount to seven or eight thousand yuan a year, and in ten years, the family's savings would exceed seventy or eighty thousand yuan...

Faced with such a pleasant surprise, it would be difficult for his wife not to be happy.

If her husband hadn't told her this himself, she would never have believed that such a huge windfall would fall into her lap.

But that wasn't what made my wife happiest.

My husband not only found me a good job that earns me over 10,000 yuan a year, but he also found me a good job that pays me over 200 yuan a month.

When she was in high school, many of her classmates had already become cadres in state-owned factories. Even those who hadn't become cadres were still cadres and earned a considerable salary every month.

As a housewife, it would be a lie to say that my wife isn't envious.

Now he has a job, and his monthly salary is higher than most of his classmates, and much higher.

In the future, when there are class reunions, she won't have to worry about being looked down upon by her former classmates.

Thinking of this, the wife's first reaction was to hug Guo Lin and kiss him hard twice, otherwise it wouldn't be enough to vent her excitement.

But because her daughter, son, and in-laws were all sitting next to her, she held back at the last moment.

Seeing the smiles on his wife's and parents' faces, his son and daughter, though unaware of what had happened at home, also smiled and were very happy to see their parents and grandparents so joyful.

But Guo Lin's joy didn't last long.

Because Wang Dong offered him such a high salary, he was bound to have to dedicate a lot of time to his work.

He immediately interrupted to remind her: "Wife..."

"It's a great job, you'd be lucky to find one even if it fell from the sky..."

“But because the farm is dozens of kilometers away from Beijing, even though Mr. Wang provided the farm with several large trucks, I can’t go home every day.”

"If nothing unexpected happens, I'll only be able to go home once a week from now on, and stay for at most two days. The rest of the time I'll basically have to live at the farm..."

"Of course... this is assuming no unforeseen circumstances occur."

"If things are busy at the farm, I might not be able to come back for two weeks at a time..."

“But you can come with the big trucks that come to Beijing to deliver goods to the farm to find me, and spend the weekend with me there.”

"I heard from the boss that the place where the farm is located is beautiful with clear waters and lush mountains, and the environment is excellent. I also have my own dormitory, so I can go there to play during my holidays." (End of Chapter)