In the evening, Catherine, who had worked all day, changed clothes and set off on the journey home tiredly. She rejected several suitors' offer to carry her on a bicycle and insisted on walking home.

The wind blowing in the summer night does not bring much coolness on the face, but instead brings the last trace of fire and heat during the day, which makes people extremely irritable.

Catherine is a strong girl, she is unlikely to show some superficial emotions, even if there may be some other things in her heart.

Before the sky was completely dark, she returned home. Since moving back to her own home, she has never stayed on the street after the sky was dark.

It is not safe here. When night covers the sky completely, evil will come.

At night, quarrels, fighting, and even gunfire are commonplace here, including calls for help and the constant sounding of police sirens.

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

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

Her father sat on the dilapidated sofa that was snatched from the garbage dump, while her mother was full of sadness.

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

"What's the matter?" Catherine asked, she felt that today the couple was different from 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 was trembling slightly, "Your dad... is unemployed."

This is normal. In fact, since the second half of last year, people have been mentally prepared. Many factories have stopped working. Even if the union organized demonstrations and demonstrations and demanded the factories to resume work, they did not dare to make a lot of trouble.

They even set the "strike" on the weekend, which has become an international joke, but it also reflects from the side how contradictory and acute the social problems at that time were.

Catherine’s father’s factory declared bankruptcy today. This is also a sign. They have stopped importing raw materials since last month. In fact, they have this premonition for a long time, but they have been reluctant to face it or believe it. Doom will fall on yourself.

Catherine became silent. Her salary was not that much, only 225 yuan a month, which was only slightly higher than the minimum hourly wage requirement.

Before today, her father was able to get a salary ranging from three hundred to three hundred and fifty yuan a month, and the salary of two people was more than enough to support the family.

But if there is only Catherine's salary, it is really difficult to feed this family of three.

At present, most factories are not hiring people from outside. 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 a Marfa on the other side of the balance in front of the **** of death. Adding one will make you one step closer to death.

A factory with a thousand employees will have to pay hundreds of thousands every month for just paying salaries. If they don’t have enough profits, they can go bankrupt as long as just paying salaries a month, so no company will choose to expand their enrollment at this time. , Even if the city hall asks them to do so.

This also means that Catherine's father finds it difficult to find a suitable, long-term job in the employment center, maybe there will be a short-term job, and even he can't find any job.

Not to mention Catherine's mother. She has no work experience, and even if she goes to school now, she does not have this opportunity. In other words, the heavy responsibility of supporting the family will be backlogged by Catherine.

Her monthly salary of 225 yuan will become the only source of income to support the family.

All three of them fell into silence. Catherine's father had been watching TV. He seemed to be stimulated and locked himself into a small world.

Catherine's mother was full of sadness, groaning from time to time, full of worries about the future.

Catherine felt tired, which was the only feeling she had in the past few years.

This kind of feeling used to be there, but it was not so profound. Until this moment, she felt a deep exhaustion.

She is not a girl without life and social experience. She knows that the reasons why she and her family are in the current situation are rooted in their family background, social class and education level.

The latter problem is more obvious. If she can go to college, or go to accounting or other full-time jobs after graduating from high school, she may now have a completely different job.

The older young man who pursued her is because he has studied accounting. Now he not only has a decent job, but the salary is not low.

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

The evening’s dinner was reduced a bit more than usual. Catherine’s father suddenly broke out at the dinner table. He lost his temper and smashed the dinner plate, and then left angrily.

In the eyes of this man, because he lost his job, the women in the family no longer respect him, and he feels neglected.

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

Early the next morning, Catherine's father left home, he was going to the street to find a job, and after a whole night he had accepted this fact.

Life has to go on. If he really does nothing to lie in the house, at most one or two months, they will sell the house and go wandering on the street.

It took him more than ten years to have his current life. He didn't want to lose it all so easily, and he had to stick to it.

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

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

"I heard from Auntie, Uncle, he is unemployed..."

Catherine glanced at him, and did not give any answer, which made the young man a little embarrassed and became a little stuttered.

"If... I mean if, if I put Uncle... into our mall to work... what do you think?" With a red light on his face, he talked and gnawed.

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

In addition to the manager, the management in the supermarket will rely more or less on his profession. Personal tax filing also requires the help of an accountant, and the corresponding remuneration is required for help.

Young people will also receive, but the income is very small, which makes him have a good popularity in the management.

Catherine's mother came to him in the morning and explained some circumstances, asking if Catherine's father could come to the mall to work, even if the salary was lower.

In fact, for supermarket supermarkets at this stage, their operating conditions are much better than many people think, and they even maintain a healthy profit standard against the trend.

But they won't say that. They have to show their business difficulties to win sympathy and lower the salary standard to free up more profit margins.

The young man talked to the manager about this. The manager said that he could let Catherine's father work in the warehouse. Some manual workers were needed there, and they could also be given 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 with the tone of going home and discussing with her family.

But this makes the young man feel that this matter has a chance to achieve his goal. This is the first time since this time that Catherine has not directly rejected his idea. This is a good phenomenon.

After a boring day of work was spent in a long torment or a short wait, Catherine still refused other people's request to send her home and went back home alone.

Her father has returned, and this man who always carried a certain confidence in the past has become decadent at this time~lightnovelpub.net~ For a whole day, there are only a few dozen job opportunities in the whole city, but in employment Thousands of people are waiting in the center!

Catherine's father did not have a handy resume at all. There are too many people capable of doing too much. He did not even get the opportunity to interview. This also made him realize that he should not expect to find a job in a short time.

This made him very frustrated and even doubted his worth.

Catherine's mother was equally speechless. She had not told her husband about her finding a young man, nor had she told Catherine.

She planned to wait for the young man to give her an answer before talking about it.

Both of them were a little sluggish, but Catherine was about to have an attack.

She hung her bag on the clothes rack and looked back home as usual, but her steps were heavier at this time.

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

This action made the eyes of both husband and wife focused on her, her face was not obviously angry, only calm.

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

In a word, the man raised his head suddenly, and Catherine's mother's face also changed a little, but Catherine did not give them too much time to react.

"Rome found me at noon and he gave me a hint that he would give his father a job as long as I was willing to accompany him. How much do you plan to sell me?"

Obviously she was very calm, but it put a very heavy pressure on the couple, especially at this special time when the family’s life depends on Catherine’s salary, which makes her voice even if it is not so high. It's also full of power!