PFC Chapter 321 She came for a job interview.
Chapter 321 She came for a job interview.
“I know you were married to Brother Fu. On your wedding day, the wedding cars lined up for half the street. I happened to see it on my way to work. You are now a member of the Fu family, while my surname is Pan. I... I actually saw you were hiring a long time ago, and I hesitated for a long time before coming here.”
Talking about these things in the bookstore is affecting their business, so Lin Yuyao invited her upstairs.
"Come with me, we'll talk to them upstairs."
"Hey."
The renovation is complete, and with the windows open for ventilation, there's not much of a smell.
Pan Xiaohua looked at the spacious and bright office in a daze, "This is your studio's office, right?"
"Yes, but it's not in use yet. Please have a seat."
Pan Xiaohua nodded and sat down opposite her.
Lin Yuyao had heard Fu Leyi say that the Pan sisters were actually quite nice people.
She didn't spend much time with Pan Xiaohua, but during the days when they lived across the hall from each other, she felt that Pan Xiaohua was indeed different from her family, which is why Lin Yuyao was willing to let her come up.
"You used to sell clothes at a department store, right? I remember the commission for men's clothing is very high. You must have earned quite a bit each month. Why did you suddenly quit your job and come here to look for work? I can't afford to pay you that much."
"Sigh!" Pan Xiaohua sighed and said, "It's all my fault for owing debts, debts I can never repay in my lifetime."
Lin Yuyao looked completely bewildered. "What debt do you owe that you can't repay in your lifetime?"
“What other debt could there be? The debt of giving birth, the debt of raising children. I have to give them my whole self in order to repay this debt.”
Lin Yuyao: "..." Was she being morally blackmailed?
This tactic can only be countered by those who lack morality.
No one can help her; she has to save herself.
“I did earn a lot there. The commission for expensive men’s clothing was really high. In the best-selling month, I earned more than 150 yuan. My base salary was only 50 yuan, and the commission was more than 100 yuan.”
That's quite a lot.
“I earned over 150 yuan and sent 100 yuan back home, but they still felt it wasn’t enough and asked me for more money. I got angry and refused to give them any more. When I didn’t give them any the following month, my older brother called and yelled at me.”
"Wait a minute," Lin Yuyao interrupted her, asking, "How did your older brother get your phone number?"
Pan Xiaohua said, "I told them because I was afraid they would worry. I told them the phone number of my workplace, my rented apartment, and my current workplace."
Lin Yuyao: “…”
“I thought that since things were like this at home, we all had to work together to get through it, right? I didn’t expect them to squeeze me so hard, always asking me for money for various reasons. I got angry and refused to give them any more, so they called and yelled at me. My older brother even threatened to come over and ask my boss to judge the situation.”
"So you're afraid she'll actually come looking for you, so you're quitting your job?"
“No, our boss is a man. Once, our boss answered the phone and got a good scolding from him. He even said that all the money I made was… all from sleeping with the boss…” Pan Xiaohua blushed as she said this.
She probably didn't say anything even harsher.
Lin Yuyao knew how good her older brother was at being unreasonable and argumentative, having inherited his grandmother's talent.
“The boss has a family. He was being verbally abused like that, and other people were pointing fingers at me, which made the boss gossip too. I couldn’t stay there any longer, so I resigned.”
These days, rumors can kill people; such talk is indeed a very serious problem.
These kinds of misconduct issues can be classified as hooliganism, and the maximum penalty for hooliganism is death.
"But if he really comes looking for you, won't he find you even if you're here?"
“I told him I had received news of my second brother. I said I was going to Guangcheng to find my second brother, and I would call him when I found him.”
Lin Yuyao: “…”
Can he really believe him?
“He can’t really come to see me, the round-trip tickets aren’t cheap. Besides, even if he did come, the food and drinks would cost money, and he can’t stay here for too long.”
"But can he trust you to go to Guangcheng? Your mother is still serving her sentence here."
"No, no, my mother has gone back to her hometown."
Ok?
"Can I change prisons?"
"Yes, it's possible. There are some special circumstances, such as elderly people, people in poor health, or people whose family members cannot visit them. I've been applying to transfer her to another prison for the past few months, and it was finally successful last month."
It turned out to be the case.
"They moved it to your hometown?"
"Yes, my older brother and the others can visit her in the future, so I don't have to stay here anymore."
"That's great! So why did you choose to stay here?"
Pan Xiaohua thought for a while before frowning and saying, "Anyway, I don't want to stay in my hometown. They can drain me dry. Actually, I've thought about going to other places, but I'm a young girl, all alone, and I don't dare to go to places I'm not familiar with. Besides my hometown, this is the only place I'm familiar with. I don't dare to go anywhere else."
Seeing how loud and boisterous she is, I never expected her to admit that she's a coward.
However, on the other hand, it is indeed not safe for single women to be out in the world these days, as there are all sorts of scams targeting young women that are hard to guard against.
Besides, she's quite pretty, the kind of person who's easily targeted by dangerous individuals.
She probably hadn't talked to anyone she knew in a long time, and she couldn't talk about her family matters with her new friends, so she caught Lin Yuyao and started talking non-stop.
After my mother was imprisoned, my eldest brother became increasingly irritable, and my sister-in-law lived a miserable life with him.
She thought that having a son would allow her to hold her head high, but her life only got worse.
My poor little niece, she has to work with her mother using only one arm.
Last year, I wanted to treat her arm, so I dropped out of school and haven't been back since.
"And then there's my little sister. She'll graduate this semester, and I want to bring her with me. Otherwise, if she stays in our hometown, my older brother might sell her for a dowry."
"How old is your little sister?" Lin Yuyao asked.
"Seventeen."
Seventeen?
When did she graduate?
"junior high school."
Lin Yuyao: "..." Another one who started reading late.
Her younger sister was the youngest daughter in their family.
She talked on and on, and finally asked about her second brother.
Feeling somewhat embarrassed, I hesitated for a long time before asking the question.
"Did my second brother contact his wife... no, did he contact Miss Fu?"
Is this what she really wanted to achieve today?
"Never heard of it," she said truthfully.
After Pan Hong left, it was as if he had vanished; there has been no news of him since.
Of course, Fu Leyi started her new life and didn't inquire about him.
"Sigh!" Pan Xiaohua sighed, lowered her head and remained silent for a long while before asking again, "Miss Lin, do you think I'm suitable?"
Lin Yuyao said, "Honestly, you're not a good fit."
"Oh? Well... I can serve tea and water too."