PFC Chapter 158 Asking the Old Lady for Wages
Chapter 158 Asking the Old Lady for Wages
Liu Yihuan stepped forward and asked, "What would you like to buy?"
Pan Xiaohua said, "We're not buying anything, we're just here to look around."
"Okay, you can find it in the book."
Then Pan Xiaohua saw Lin Yuyao and her eyes lit up. "It's you! Then it must be you. I heard from my second brother that you're working for my sister-in-law."
Lin Yuyao smiled and said, "Yes."
Only after seeing her did Wang confirm that the bookstore did indeed belong to Fu Leyi.
To her, Fu Leyi was equivalent to Pan Hong, and what belonged to Pan Hong belonged to the Pan family, which meant she was the one who owned Fu Leyi.
I was a little reserved at first, since I was unsure.
Now that it was confirmed, Wang felt completely relaxed.
"Kobayashi, right?"
Lin Yuyao nodded.
"How long have you been working here?"
Lin Yuyao said, "I've been doing this for more than half a year."
"Oh, that wasn't long ago. How about you?"
She then asked Liu Yihuan.
Liu Yihuan said, "I've been doing this for a year and a half, ma'am. Why are you asking these questions?"
"It's nothing, I was just asking. After all, you guys are working for my family, so it's only right that I come over to check on you and see if I can help, right?"
Two people: "..."
Lin Yuyao smiled and said, "So Auntie came to check on us. That's right. New Year's Day is almost here, and we haven't received our New Year's gifts. The promised bonus is also not mentioned, and last month's salary is still owed. I was thinking that Sister Leyi is currently taking care of her pregnancy and might have forgotten about it. I didn't expect her to still be thinking of us and ask you to do it for us."
Wang was taken aback. "What gifts, bonuses, or wages?"
Lin Yuyao blinked, looking completely bewildered, and asked, "Auntie, didn't you come to give us our wages and bonuses? We agreed before that there would be extra gifts and bonuses during holidays. All the employees in the surrounding shops have received them, but we haven't."
Wang: "..."
Pan Xiaohua said, "I'm sorry, my sister-in-law didn't say anything. We just came to check on things, not to deliver anything."
"Oh? Is that so? Then could you please ask around for me?" Lin Yuyao sighed with a troubled expression. "We employees work diligently for the boss, and we look forward to bringing home our meager wages to celebrate the New Year all year round. Business here isn't good, and I know the boss isn't even making back his capital, but he can't delay paying our wages and bonuses, right?"
The two of them had been there for a long time but hadn't seen a single person. They wondered if business was really bad and they were losing money, so they couldn't afford to pay their employees' wages and bonuses.
If that's the case, what's the point of opening it? We might as well just sell it.
Wang smiled awkwardly and stood up from the stool.
“I’ll ask her about it later. Don’t worry, young lady. No matter what, they can’t hold back your wages and bonuses.”
The two men quickly fled the scene.
After they left, Liu Yihuan asked her, "Yuyao, the boss has never been late with our wages, so why are you saying that?"
Lin Yuyao: "If I don't say this, they won't leave, and they might even try to take advantage of this bookstore."
"Oh? They're the boss's mother-in-law and sister-in-law?"
"Yes."
"But I remember the boss's husband was her son-in-law who moved into her family home."
"Yes."
"How dare the mother of that live-in son-in-law try to seize her property?"
Lin Yuyao said, "Only shameless people would try to seize other people's property."
Liu Yihuan took a deep breath, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
Thinking to myself, the boss is such a capable person, and comes from a good family, yet he still has to put up with his mother-in-law's temper.
Someone like her...
She was already a little scared even before they got married.
Sigh, I can't think about it, I have to think positively about everything.
The man is someone her aunt knows very well, so she'll give him face.
Even minor conflicts can be resolved within a large family.
Out of consideration for relatives, even major conflicts won't escalate too much.
In any case, it's better than the arranged marriages of the older generation.
Wang went back and muttered to herself.
"Hmph, he calls himself a boss, talking about how big his shop is. That shop does look quite big, and he even hired two young girls to run it, but business is terrible. There's not a single customer. Look, when we walk in, it's so quiet, we can hear each other's footsteps. With just this one shop, I wonder how much money he loses every year."
"Mother, you must be mistaken."
"How could I be wrong? If I am wrong, go ask your older sister. Do you think she could be wrong?"
Huang Chun looked at Pan Xiaohua, "Is there really no one here?"
"Sister-in-law, really, there aren't any. There are only two shop assistants, and not a single customer. When those two heard that we were Second Sister-in-law's family, they thought we were there to pay wages and even asked us for money."
"Huh? If she's not making any money, why is she even running the shop? She might as well just close it down."
"My second sister-in-law is a rich girl. Her shop is losing money, but her family has money to let her lose it. I heard my second brother say before that she opened this shop just to pass the time, and her parents gave her money to open it for fun."
Hearing her say that, Wang and Huang Chun felt extremely distressed.
Neither of them looked well.
They had originally thought that they might as well live here as a family from now on.
Since the Fu family is so rich, and we've already given them the house, we might as well give them the bookstore too.
It turns out it was a business that didn't make money, and even lost money.
They don't have the money to lose.
Pan Xiaohua thought for a moment and then said, "It's also possible that because my second sister-in-law is pregnant now and hasn't been managing the business, that's why we're losing money."
Ok?
The two of them thought it made sense.
"Let's forget about that shop for now. The most important thing right now is to give birth to the baby safely. Xiaohua, go call your second brother later and ask him to come over when he has some free time. I need to discuss something with him."
"Okay, I'll go now. I see there's a phone booth downstairs."
Pan Xiaohua made the call, and Zhang Fangfang answered. As soon as she heard Pan Xiaohua's voice, her face darkened.
"I'm not free. I won't go."
Pan Xiaohua: "..."
"Auntie, it's my second brother..."
beep~
The call was disconnected before I could finish speaking.
Pan Hong heard it because he was helping Fu Leyi downstairs.
Before he could ask, Zhang Fangfang pouted and said, "It's your sister calling, Pan Hong. Let me tell you, don't forget who you are and what you promised us."
Pan Hong's expression was stiff, and he looked completely at a loss.
Zhang Fangfang showed him no respect whatsoever and continued, "You're going to be our family's son-in-law, and I gave your mother two thousand yuan. Go out and ask around, how much do other families give when they get married?"
"Other families don't get this much money even after their wives give birth to a healthy baby boy. Now we won't let you have children, and we won't let you do any work. We just hope you'll keep your promise and be a good son-in-law in our family. If you can't even do that, you might as well divorce Xiaoyi."