Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 26 Working in the Porcelain Kiln

Shen Qingqing saw the pile of books she had moved from her uncle's house overnight to show off. "If there are some words I don't understand, I will look up the pinyin. If I don't understand the meaning, I will wait for my parents to come home at night to ask. I only read them after I finish my homework."

Chen Man looked at Shen Qingqing in shock. She saw Qingqing going to school so happily every day, but she had no idea that she had to read so many books at home! This was too tragic!
Chen Yanfeng, however, looked at the pile of books thoughtfully, wondering whether he should accompany Chen Man to read like this every night...

Then Shen Qingqing showed the Chinese teacher and Chen Yanfeng how she studied every day after returning home. She boasted about herself to the skies. In just twenty minutes, the Chinese teacher and Chen Yanfeng looked very pleased and their eyes lit up.

Before leaving, he kept looking at her and nodding.

Watching the car at the alley entrance disappear from sight, Shen Qingqing snapped his fingers, and the plan worked!
Not long after finishing the meal, Li Xunli and Shen Rongzhou came back together.

"The factory fired a few more people today. Alas, there are less than a hundred people left working in the factory."

"With two production lines and fewer than a hundred people, everyone was privately saying the factory was doomed."

As Li Xunli walked in, she spoke to Shen Rongzhou, who was holding Shen Yangyang, "Huiyun took five or six days off because her child had a fever a few days ago. When she came back, she was fired and only received 200 yuan in severance pay. One batch is worse than the next."

"I don't even know if I'll get severance pay when it's my turn..."

Shen Qingqing heard what they were discussing and thought, not only is there no severance pay, but even wages are not paid.

"I used to think Qingqing was talking nonsense, but now it seems the boss is really losing money." Shen Rongzhou looked at Li Xunli with some concern, "Why don't you try looking for another company?"

Li Xunli knew what he was worried about. She sighed and said, "Let's wait and see. Dong's garment factory is big enough. If his factory can't even work, who knows how long other factories can last?"

Shen Qingqing struck while the iron was hot and added, "Other families won't last long. As long as they don't lose money, there's nothing to worry about. What's scary is that you'll stay here until their money gets less and less, and they can't pay you anymore, but you still won't leave."

Hearing this, Li Xunli opened her mouth to scold Shen Qingqing, but then she remembered what she said half a month ago, which now seemed to have come true, and she couldn't say the words to scold her.

I was holding my breath and my facial expression turned ugly.

Seeing her mother was angry, Shen Qingqing quickly comforted her: "I just said it casually, isn't everything okay now?"

But it was no use. Her mother glared at her and sat down with a depressed expression.

Shen Qingqing sat down angrily. When the family was about to eat, the voice of her uncle was heard.

"I'm here at the right time!" Zhang Mingyang came in from outside.

"Uncle!" Li Xunli and Shen Rongzhou stood up.

"Uncle! Come and eat!" While everyone was looking at Zhang Mingyang, Shen Qingqing quickly scooped a ball of rice and put it into Shen Yangyang's bowl, without forgetting to say hello.

Li Xunli asked Shen Qingqing to go to the kitchen to get dishes and chopsticks. Without giving Zhang Mingyang a chance to refuse, she pulled him to sit down at the dining table. "Uncle, you worked as an electrician for us, and you refused to take the money I gave you. You must eat this meal!"

Zhang Mingyang couldn't leave, so he had to sit down with a smile.

Shen Rongzhou brought over two bottles of beer. Zhang Mingyang wasn't a big eater either, but thankfully there were two meat dishes today: a braised chicken with potatoes and a braised goose dish, enough to go with the drinks. "All the wires are connected today. I tested them two or three times before I left, and they look fine. You can test them tonight when you're free. If there's any voltage instability or flickering, call me and I'll come take a look," Zhang Mingyang said, taking a sip of his beer.

Li Xunli agreed straightforwardly.

The meal was lively. After seeing Zhang Mingyang off, Li Xunli dug out her peach-colored set of twelve zodiac animals from her room. She then loaded the bags of raw materials she had bought a few days ago onto the back of her bicycle and said to Shen Rongzhou, "Rongzhou, go pick up Xiaohong yourself tonight. I'm going to check out the porcelain kiln now."

After saying this, she rode away in a hurry, and Shen Rongzhou didn't have time to respond to her.

Shen Qingqing volunteered: "Dad, let's go together! Yangyang can sit in the front and I can hold Xiaohong in my arms and sit in the back."

That night, Shen Qingqing didn't see her mother come back until she fell asleep.

When she woke up the next day, she saw her mother walking out of the master bedroom in a daze, with a small spot of blue under her eyes.

Shen Qingqing was so shocked that her jaw dropped. You know, her mother, whether in this life or the previous one, was a ruthless person who never stayed up late, and she always maintained a long record of going to bed on time at ten o'clock.

I didn’t expect that her mother had dark bags under her eyes last night because she had to try out the porcelain kiln!
Shen Qingqing couldn't help but say to her mother while eating breakfast: "Mom, take care of yourself. You've never stayed up all night before. Don't do it too hard all at once."

Li Xunli felt soft in her heart when she heard her daughter caring so much about her. "Don't worry, Mom just went to try it out last night. I will definitely not stay up late next time."

Shen Qingqing looked at her mother and blinked, inexplicably feeling that her mother's promise this time seemed unreliable.

This feeling was confirmed when I came back from school in the evening.

Because as soon as she opened the door, she heard the sound of cartoons playing on the TV at home. Shen Yangyang was sitting upright on the sofa, eating watermelon and watching TV.

"Mom! Mom!" Shen Qingqing called out twice, but she didn't see Li Xunli, nor did she hear Li Xunli respond. She looked around inside and out, but couldn't find her. She walked over to Shen Yangyang and asked, "Yangyang, why are you watching TV alone? Where's Mom?"

Shen Yangyang turned her face, half of which was covered in watermelon juice, to look at Shen Qingqing and said in a childish voice, "Mom went to the porcelain kiln and told me to watch TV at home and wait for my sister to come home!"

Shen Qingqing nodded and asked again: "How many pieces of watermelon did you eat?"

Shen Yangyang blinked and raised her thumb and index finger, "One!"

Shen Qingqing was speechless and took away the half piece of watermelon left in front of her. "You have eaten two pieces, and your sister hasn't eaten yet. Give me the remaining half."

"Ah..." Shen Yangyang frowned. She clearly said one piece, so how did her sister know that she ate two?

Shen Qingqing was cooking while waiting for her parents to come back. However, she waited until Shen Rongzhou came back, but there was still no sign of Li Xunli.

The three of them looked at each other, and Shen Qingqing immediately said, "Dad, call Mom to come back for dinner. She must have gone to the porcelain kiln without eating anything!"

Shen Qingqing was greatly shocked. She had never seen her mother obsessed with something in her two lifetimes. This was truly like she was completely obsessed with something and forgot to eat and sleep!
　See you tomorrow night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)