NCCnovel Chapter 311 Raising a Family Together with Fang Qing
Chapter 311 Raising a Family Together with Fang Qing
Fang Qing continued, "The rent alone is twenty yuan. Before, you paid the rent, and my son and I could barely make ends meet with the subsidies. But now, you haven't paid the rent for two months."
I'm paying the rent myself now, it's forty-two yuan. After deducting twenty yuan for rent, I'm left with twenty-two yuan. What can twenty-two yuan buy these days? Twenty-two yuan can only buy these kinds of things.
As she spoke, she wiped away her tears. "It's okay if I eat less, but Chenchen is growing. I'm worried he won't be able to handle eating like this every day."
Lu Jiangting hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.
He came back today actually to borrow money from Fang Qing.
Now it seems difficult to say those words.
Before he could say anything, Fang Qing's next complaint came out.
"Chenchen's classmates all have milk to drink, but Chenchen doesn't; she can only watch longingly. I feel so guilty for raising Chenchen like this. It's all my fault for being useless, for being incompetent, for not being able to earn money to buy Chenchen milk. Jianjun, I'm so sorry..."
Fang Qing burst into tears.
Lu Jiangting stood there, at a loss.
If that's the case, it's not just that she wronged Jianjun.
He also let Jianjun down.
"Forget it, let's not talk about it anymore. It's not just you who wronged him, I wronged him too. You're incompetent, and so am I, sigh!"
Fang Qing was taken aback.
As she pondered Lu Jiangting's words, she now truly understood the various changes in Lu Jiangting, in every aspect of his life.
If this had happened before, he would have comforted her by saying that he was incompetent and that he hadn't taken good care of her and their child.
Now look what happened, it's become that the two of them are incompetent.
Fang Qing thought to herself, "Your incompetence has nothing to do with me."
Before she could even speak, Lu Jiangting asked again, "How's your work going?"
Fang Qing encountered setbacks everywhere she looked for a job.
Either the jobs she looks down on are ones she doesn't want, or any jobs she does want are ones that look down on her because she lacks education and has a child to pick up and drop off.
I was furious.
"I've been looking for several days, but I still haven't found a suitable job."
Lu Jiangting frowned and said, "Don't worry about whether it's suitable or not, just do it as long as they're willing to take it."
Fang Qing's lips twitched, suppressing her anger, and she said, "Nobody wants me. They don't want me because I have a child to pick up and drop off, and they say that picking up and dropping off the child interferes with my work."
Lu Jiangting: "Who doesn't have kids? How can you look down on someone because of something like this? Why don't you look for a few more jobs, jobs where people get off work early, or just find a job near a school?"
"It won't work. I tried to find a place that wouldn't interfere with picking up my child, but they... looked down on me because I don't have a degree."
Lu Jiangting choked, suddenly remembering that she hadn't graduated from elementary school, which was indeed a serious flaw.
After a moment, he said, "Then look for a sales clerk job and say you've done it before and have work experience."
"I looked for one." Fang Qing said dejectedly, embellishing her story about looking for a job at a bookstore.
“It’s just collecting money, I know how to do that, but they said I don’t have a degree and they didn’t want to take my money, which was fine, but they also gave me a good scolding and pushed me out. There were a lot of people watching, you have no idea how embarrassed I was.”
Hearing her say these things, Lu Jiangting's thoughts had already drifted far away.
He felt that Yu Yao must hate Fang Qing to do this.
The fact that she hates Fang Qing shows that she still cares about herself.
"Jiang Ting, Jiang Ting?"
It took several calls before Lu Jiangting came to his senses.
"Jiang Ting, what are you spacing out for?"
Lu Jiangting said, "I wasn't spacing out; I was thinking about what to do about you."
"What should I do? I don't know what to do either."
In fact, she felt that she didn't need to find a job at all.
Chenchen's child support costs several tens of yuan a month, and it will likely increase again.
Lu Jiangting also got a raise, now it's 200 a month, plus occasional bonuses, which adds up to a lot of money over a year.
The three of them have enough to live on, and they could have another child and still be fine.
Poverty is only temporary; it's all because his father got sick.
As long as she can get through this period, things will get better in the future, and she doesn't care whether she needs to find a job or not.
However, Lu Jiangting keeps urging her to find a job, which is indeed difficult right now.
She thought she would just find him any job to get through this difficult time, and then quit later, so he wouldn't have anything to complain about.
Lu Jiangting frowned and thought for a while before saying, "How about this, I'll swallow my pride and ask Lao Wang for help again, to see if I can find you a suitable job."
"Ah? This..." Fang Qing said with a troubled expression, "I don't want to hide it from you, but actually... I've already gone to look for it."
Lu Jiangting was startled. "You've already seen Old Wang?"
"Yes."
"What did he say? Did he refuse to help?"
“No, he introduced me to a job as a cleaner, sweeping the street in front. I'm so young, how could I do that kind of work? It's an insult.”
What insulting?
Lu Jiangting did not think so.
He felt that Fang Qing was all talk and no action.
"Fang Qing, cleaning jobs are in high demand. You don't have a degree, so you can't do any decent jobs. It's good enough that we're letting you do cleaning."
what?
Fang Qing looked at her in disbelief.
"If I become a cleaner, it will be your loss of face too."
"What's shameful about this? There is no distinction between high and low status in labor; all working people are honorable."
Fang Qing: "..."
That's exactly what Old Wang said.
"But……"
"Alright, I think it's a good idea." Before Fang Qing could finish speaking, Lu Jiangting interrupted her, saying, "Since you've already gone to see Lao Wang and he's helped you inquire about jobs, then it's settled. I'll ask Lao Wang tomorrow to see when he can arrange for you to start work."
"Huh? Jiang Ting, I really don't want to do this. Being a cleaner is hard work. You have to get up at five o'clock to start cleaning and finish before seven-thirty. Or you have to start cleaning at midnight to make sure the streets are clean in the morning, and who knows how long you'll have to keep cleaning."
Both of these times are when I'm supposed to be sleeping, it's too tiring, and the worst part is, I don't earn much money after all that work, only fifty yuan a month. Why don't you talk to Old Wang again and let me go back to work at the grain and oil station? Eighty yuan a month, I'd be willing to do it.”
Lu Jiangting: "What are you thinking? You were fired because of work mistakes. Frequent work mistakes mean you can't handle the work at the grain and oil station, and they won't want you anymore."
Fang Qing: "..."
Lu Jiangting sighed and said to Fang Qing, "It's not easy to find a job these days. Go ask the people in our village. If they were offered to sweep the streets in the city for fifty yuan a month, wouldn't they be eager to do it?"
This... is true.
But how can those people compare to her?
The man she married earns two hundred yuan a month.
Lu Jiangting sighed again and looked at Fang Qing seriously, saying, "Fang Qing, now that we're married, shouldn't we face the difficulties together?"