Blackstone Code Chapter 125: You can control your destiny by holding on to your wealth

In the evening, Catherine, who had been working all day, changed her clothes and embarked on a journey home. She rejected the proposal of several suitors to carry her on a bicycle and insisted on walking home.

The wind in the summer night does not feel much coolness on the face, but it brings the last trace of anger and dryness during the day, which makes people feel extremely irritable.

Catherine is a strong girl, and she's not very likely to show some superficial emotions, even though there may be something else inside her.

She returned home before it was completely dark, and since moving back to her own home, she has never stayed on the street after dark.

It's not safe here, and whenever night completely covers the sky, sin will come.

Anytime squabbles, fights, and even gunshots are commonplace here, including cries for help and the constant sound of sirens.

As soon as the door was closed, Catherine felt a different atmosphere. The atmosphere in the house today seemed a little heavy.

She changed her shoes, hung her bag of no more than five dollars on the hanger, and walked towards the living room.

Her father sat absentmindedly on the dilapidated sofa that had been snatched from the **** heap, while her mother had a sad face.

The man didn't seem to hear the sound of opening and closing the door, and kept his eyes on the TV, but it was Catherine's mother, who looked up at Catherine and lowered her head again.

"What's the matter?" asked Katherine, who felt that the couple was different today than usual.

The man was still watching TV, as if he hadn't heard anything. Catherine's mother had a sad and bitter expression on her face, and her voice trembled slightly, "Your father is... unemployed."

This is a normal thing. In fact, people have been psychologically prepared since the second half of last year, and many factories have begun to stop work. Even if the labor union organized a demonstration of workers and asked the factories to resume work, they did not dare to make too much noise.

They even set the "strike" on the weekend, which became an international joke, but also reflected how contradictory and acute the social problems at the time were.

Catherine's father's factory declared bankruptcy today. This is also a sign. They have stopped the introduction of raw materials since last month. Unwilling to believe that bad luck will befall you.

Catherine fell silent. Her salary is not too much, only two hundred and twenty-five dollars a month, which is only slightly above the bottom line required by the minimum hourly wage law.

Before today, her father could receive a salary ranging from 300 to 350 yuan per month, which is more than enough to support the family.

But if only Katherine was paid alone, it would be really difficult to support a family of three.

Nowadays, factories are basically not recruiting people. Even if the city hall asks each factory to add some jobs, they have not fulfilled it.

When there is a lack of profit, every employee is like Marfa on the other side of the scale in front of the **** of death. Add one more and you will be one step closer to death.

A factory with 1,000 employees will pay hundreds of thousands every month just by paying salaries. If they don't have enough profits, just paying salaries a month can make them go bankrupt, so no company would choose to work in Expanding enrollment at this time, even if the city hall asks them to do so.

This also means that Katherine's father has a hard time finding suitable long-term jobs in the job center, maybe short-term jobs, and he can't even find a job.

Not to mention Catherine's mother. She has no work experience. Even if she goes to school now, she doesn't have this opportunity. In other words, the heavy responsibility of supporting the family will be backlogged on Catherine.

Her salary of 225 yuan a month will be the only source of income to support the family.

All three fell into silence. Catherine's father had been watching TV, and he seemed to have been stimulated to lock himself into a small world.

Catherine's mother was sad, groaning and worrying about the future.

Catherine felt tired, the only feeling she had felt in years.

I used to feel this way, but it wasn't so profound. Until this moment, she felt deeply tired.

She is not a girl with no life and social experience. She knows very well that the reason why she and her family are in this current situation stems from their family background, social class and education level.

The problem with the latter is more obvious, if she could go to college, or go into accounting or something full-time after high school, she might have a very different job now.

The older young man who pursued her learned accounting and now not only has a decent job, but also has a decent salary.

But she can only think about how difficult it is for a child born in an ordinary family to continue their studies after graduating from high school.

The evening meal was a bit smaller than usual, and Catherine's father suddenly broke out at the dinner table.

In this man's mind, he felt slighted because the women in the family no longer respected him because he lost his job.

The mother-daughter duo just accepted all this calmly and silently, and cleaned up the mess.

Early the next morning, Katherine's father left home to get some work on the street, a fact he had come to accept over the course of the night.

Life will go on, if he really does nothing and lie in the house, for a month or two at most, they will sell the house and go to the streets.

It took him more than ten years to have the life he has now. He doesn't want to lose it all so easily, and he has to persevere.

Catherine also faced life calmly and chose to go to work.

Only, at noon, the young man found her again.

"I heard from my aunt that my uncle is unemployed..."

Catherine glanced at him and didn't give any answer, which made the young man a little embarrassed and stuttered a little.

"If...I mean if, if I put my uncle...in to work in our mall...what do you think?", with a tinge of excitement on his face, he spoke chomping.

He has a good relationship with the manager of the mall and will help with the manager's personal tax return, which allows the manager to save a lot of money every time he files, which is also the value of accounting.

In addition to the manager, the management of the supermarket will more or less rely on his occupation. Personal tax returns also need to ask an accountant to help, and the help needs to be paid accordingly.

Young people also accept, but very little, which makes him a good person in management.

Catherine's mother came to him in the morning, explained some things, and asked if it was possible for Catherine's father to come to the mall to work, even if the salary was lower.

Actually, for the supermarkets and supermarkets at this stage, their business situation is much better than many people imagine, and they even maintain a healthy profit standard against the trend.

But they won't say that, they also have to show their difficult side to win sympathy, to lower the salary standard, and to release more profit margins.

The young man and the manager talked about it. The manager said that Catherine's father could go to work in the warehouse, where some manual workers were needed, and they could also give a basic salary.

So he came to Catherine to ask for credit, and by the way, he also hoped that through this incident, the contact between the two parties would have a leap-forward development.

Catherine did not nod or refuse, but ended the conversation between the two in a tone of discussion with her family and home.

But it gave the young man a sense that this matter had a chance to achieve his goals, and it was the first time in a while that Catherine didn't directly reject his idea, which is a good sign.

A day of boring work was spent in a long torment or a short wait. Catherine still refused the request of others to send her home and returned home alone.

Her father has returned, and the man who used to always carry a certain kind of self-confidence has become decadent at this time~IndoMTL.com~ Throughout the day, only a few dozen job opportunities appeared in the whole city, but in the There are thousands of people waiting for the job center!

Catherine's father didn't have a good resume at all. There were too many people who could do so much better than him. He didn't even get an interview. This made him realize that in a short period of time, he should not expect Find a job.

This made him very frustrated and even doubted his worth.

Catherine's mother was as speechless as she hadn't told her husband, nor Catherine, that she had found the young man.

She plans to wait until the young man gives her an answer before talking about it.

Both are sluggish, but Katherine is about to have a seizure.

She hangs her bag on the clothes rack and appears to be back home as usual, but this time her footsteps are a little heavier.

She first went to drink a glass of water, then moved a chair, sat across from the sofa, and reached out to turn off the TV.

This action made the eyes of both husband and wife focus on her. There was no obvious anger on her face, only calm.

She looked at her mother, and with the same calm tone, asked a very sharp question, "How much are you going to sell me for?"

In a word, the man raised his head suddenly, and Catherine's mother's complexion also changed, but Catherine didn't give them much time to react.

"Roma found me at noon, and he gave me a hint that as long as I was willing to accompany him, he would give my father a job. How much are you going to sell me for?"

She was very calm, but she put a lot of pressure on the couple, especially at this special time, when the family depended on Catherine's salary, which made her voice even if she didn't. So high and full of power!