Blackstone Code

At night, Catherine, who had worked all day, changed clothes and set off on the journey home tired. She rejected several suitors proposal to use Bicycle to carry her and insisted on walking. Come back home.

Summer night wind blows not at all too much coolness on the face, but instead brings the last trace of fire and heat during the day, making people extremely irritable.

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

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

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

At night, quarrels, fights, and even gunshots are commonplace here, including calls for help, and the constant sound of police sirens.

Just after closing the door, Catherine felt a different atmosphere. The atmosphere in the house today seems a bit heavy.

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

Her father is somewhat absent-minded sitting on the dilapidated sofa snatched from the trash, while her mother is full of sadness.

The man didn’t seem to hear the sound of opening and closing the door. He kept staring at the TV. 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 is still watching TV, as if he has not heard anything. Catherine’s mother has a sad and bitter expression on her face, and her voice is slightly trembling, “You father, he… is unemployed. “

This is a very normal thing. 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 to request the factory to resume work, they did not dare to make trouble. It’s too cruel.

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 society problem at that time was.

Catherine fathers 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 go. Faced with it, I don’t want to believe that bad luck will fall on me.

Catherine became silent. Her salary is not that much, only two hundred 25 yuan a month, which is only slightly higher than the bottom line required by the minimum hourly wage law.

Before today, her father was able to get a salary ranging from 300 to 350 every month. The salary of two people is more than enough to support the family.

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

Now each factory basically does not recruit people from outside, even if the city hall requires each factory to add some jobs, they have not fulfilled it.

In the absence of profit, every employee is like a Marfa on the other side of the balance in front of Death God. 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 dont have enough profits, they can go bankrupt as long as a months salary is paid. Companies will choose to expand enrollment at this time, even if the city hall requires them to do so.

This also means that it is difficult for Catherine’s father to find a suitable, long-term job in the Employment Center. There may be short-term jobs, and he can’t even find any job.

Not to mention Catherine’s mother. She has no work experience, and even if she studies now, she doesn’t have this opportunity. In other words, the heavy responsibility of supporting the family will be backlogged on Catherine.

Her monthly salary of 225 yuan will become the only source of economy 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 sad, and sighed from time to time, full of worries about the future.

Catherine feels tired. This is her only feeling in the past few years.

I used to have this feeling, but it was not so profound. Until this moment, she felt a deep fatigue.

She is not a girl without life and society experience. She knows that the reason why she and her family are in the current situation is due to their family background, society class and education level. And so on.

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

The older youngster who pursued her was because she studied accounting. Now she 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 to continue studying after graduating from high school.

The dinner in the evening was a little less 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 has 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 in the morning of 2nd day, Catherine’s father left home. He was going to the street to find a job. He had accepted this fact after one night.

Life will continue. If he really does nothing and lies 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 all of this so easily. He had to stick to it.

Catherine also calmly faced life and chose to work.

Only, at noon, the youngster found her again.

“I heard Aunt say that Uncle is unemployed…”

Catherine glanced at him, not at all, and gave any answer, which made the youngster a little embarrassed and talked Became a little stammered.

“If… I mean if, if I arrange Uncle… to work in our mall… What do you think?” With a red light on his face, he talked and gnashed. .

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

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

youngster will also receive, but very little, which makes him a good reputation in the management.

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

In fact, for 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 wont say that. They have to show their business difficulties to gain sympathy and lower their salary standards to release more profit margins.

Youngster talked to the manager about this. The manager said that he could let Catherine’s father work in the warehouse. Some manual workers are needed there, and they can also give a basic salary.

So he came to Catherine to ask for credit, and by the way, he also hopes that through this incident, the contact between the two parties can have a leap-forward development.

Catherine did not nodded or refused, but ended the conversation between the two with the tone of going home and discussing with her family.

But this makes youngster 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 spent a long time or a short wait, Catherine still refused the request of others to send her home and went home alone.

Her father has returned, and this man who always carried a certain confidence in the past is now decadent.

All day, there were only a few dozen job opportunities in the whole city, but thousands of people were waiting in the Employment Center!

Catherines father didnt have a handy resume at all. There are too many people who are more capable than him. He didnt even get an interview opportunity. This also made him realize that in a short time, he Don’t expect to find a job.

This made him very frustrated and even doubted his worth.

Catherines mother is equally speechless. She has not told her husband about her finding the youngster, nor has she told Catherine.

She intends to wait for the youngster to give her an answer before talking about it.

Both of them are a little sluggish, but Catherine is about to suffer.

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

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

This action focused the eyes of the husband and wife on her. There was no obvious anger on her face, only calm.

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

In one sentence, let the man Suddenly lifted the head, Catherine’s mother’s complexion also changed a little, but Catherine not at all gave them too much time to react.

“Roma found me at noon and he gave me a hint that as long as I am willing to accompany him, he will give father a job. 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 familys life depends on Catherines salary, which makes her voice even if it is not so high. Also full of power!