When the boys in the company realized that I never ate with them, they asked me curiously," I've never seen you eat with them before. Are you hiding and eating alone?”，I can't tell the truth, so I can only laugh. However, they still found out the secret of my eating. They couldn't understand how I could solve the problem of eating like this. They asked me," Can you stand the three-yuan bento boxes with dry bread every day?”I didn't answer. They guessed that I was afraid of spending money, so they laughed at me for being "stingy" and "shabby". But I didn't feel uneasy at all. At that time, my children were already working in the coastal areas, so their income was naturally much higher than those students in the mainland. My son knew that my income was not guaranteed in the mainland, so he had to send money to his family. I asked my wife to tell my son that we had the ability to support ourselves and did not need him to send money to us. When it comes to survival, I inherited my father's temperament." Live on your own and don't count on others, including my children." Even though the frugal lifestyle that was formed in my childhood due to my extremely poor family situation made others look very " stingy," I didn't think that this was a shortcoming as a person. Instead, I felt that this was a virtue of being a person. Although the living standards of the entire society have greatly improved and my family life has become richer, I still stick to the principle of frugality.
In fact, the income of these male college students working in the company was not high, only five or six hundred yuan a month. At that time, the economy in the mainland had just started. Compared to college students who went to work in the coastal areas, the income of working in the mainland was much lower. If they did not pay attention to saving their living expenses when their income was not high, they would need their parents to subsidize their money. However, at that time, when the mainland was heavily unemployed, I estimated that their parents 'living conditions would not be any better than mine. They might have saved money to let their children live a brighter life outside.
The boys were annoyed by my behavior of going to the alley to eat bread and San Yuan Fast Food for lunch. So, at noon the next day, they dragged me to the seventh floor for dinner. I had no choice but to follow. This is my first time coming to the restaurant on the seventh floor. The employees of the big and small companies in this building basically buy fast food here.
He did not expect to meet an acquaintance in the restaurant. As soon as we entered the restaurant, I suddenly saw a familiar face in the crowd. She looked like a female worker from the same factory as me. I was about to take a closer look at her when she noticed me. Across the crowd queuing up to buy food, her eyes suddenly widened. She probably didn't expect me to appear here and must have been very surprised. She made her way through the queue toward me. The boys who dragged me into the restaurant didn't understand what was going on. She squeezed through the crowd and was so excited that she didn't know what to say. She kept calling out,"Factory Manager, Factory Manager." When I left the factory, she was still a girl in her twenties. After not seeing her for so many years, she has become a middle-aged woman. She was already fat, and now she was even fatter. She was fat, but her face still retained the happiness and innocence of a girl. Jie is a worker in the factory, but this building is considered a company. I don't know what she can do in this building. Could she be the auntie cleaner here (female cleaners are called aunties)? I could only judge her like this, so I asked suspiciously,"Do you work in this building?"”She smiled and nodded."Yes, yes. I've been in this building for three years." "Three years?" Then I must have guessed it right. She is the cleaner here,"Auntie"(the general term for female cleaners is "Auntie"). I wanted to ask more, but a boy who dragged me downstairs touched my arm from behind. I turned around and he said,"So you know each other. But why didn't you know that she's the owner of this restaurant?”"Lady Boss?" "A cleaner?" My mind was about to be confused, and my heart was beating rapidly. I blurted out,"This…this…this restaurant is yours?”Jie was still smiling as she said,"Yes, yes.”A workshop female worker ran to an office building in the provincial capital and became the owner of a restaurant. I really couldn't wrap my head around it. Ten years ago, I was the factory manager, and she was a workshop worker. Ten years later, we met in an office building in the provincial capital. I became the worker in this building, and she became the boss of this building. Ha, ha, the world was really unpredictable. Things in the world are so upside down that I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I, the poor old factory manager, can't even compare to a workshop girl who used to work under me in this society. What was even more tragic was that in my old brain, I still thought that even if she, a workshop female worker, had the courage to enter the provincial capital, she would at most do some cleaning and odd jobs to make a living. The funny thing was that I was still using my superior mentality of being a "white-collar worker" to pity her, who thought of herself as a "cleaner auntie." Little did I know that this society was not as simple as I thought. And I almost asked her if she was a cleaner. If that's the case, wouldn't I be a laughing stock if she spread the news? He almost lost face again.
Jie had a warm and outgoing personality. She loved to smile and talk when she was in the factory. Now, she could not hide the smile on her face. If her previous smile was due to her personality, then the smile now was a natural display of her pride in life. Now, standing in front of Jie, who used to be a worker under her, she thought about the reality of her own difficult life and felt very sad. Jie seemed to have noticed my embarrassment, so she enthusiastically called me "old factory manager" again and again, trying to break my psychological embarrassment. Jie asked me where I had been all these years after I left the factory and what I was doing now. I pointed at the boys behind me and replied," Working with these little guys.”"This is unbelievable. You've already risen to such a high level. How can you work?”As the saying goes," Good news doesn't go out, but bad news travels thousands of miles." The news that I was demoted from the position of the director had long been known by everyone in the units I worked in. It was impossible for Jie not to know.
She asked the obvious to cover up her knowledge of my situation. Perhaps she was being polite so that I had something to say and to confirm that the rumors she had heard about me were true. Of course, Jie wasn't the kind of person who would gloat. She was warm and kind, so I didn't have to worry about her embarrassing me in front of my colleagues. Jie's words still piqued the curiosity of the few kids about my background. They interrupted and asked Jie," Was our vice president really your factory manager in the past?”Jie replied," Not just the factory manager. He was later promoted to the head of the general field and managed tens of thousands of people.”When the little ones heard this, they stuck out their tongues and said," Strange, it's so tall. Why do you have to come out to work when you have tens of thousands of people?”They were about to ask again when Jie changed the topic. She pointed at the boys and said," Are they all in the same company as you?”I said," I'm in the same company as them. I came later.”The little guy said to Jie," Your old factory manager is now our vice president. You have to give him face if he wants to eat here.”Jie smiled and said to the boys," I'm going to tell on you in front of your boss, but you always make fun of my 'fat'. How bad!" A few boys quickly argued," We're just trying to make your lady boss happy. In order to please you, give us more of the good dishes."”There was also a little guy who gestured with his hands at his waist." Look at how fat your lady boss is. Let's eat those good dishes."”Jie would not get angry at others for calling her fat. She said to the boys readily," No problem. I'm happy to meet the old factory manager. Lunch is free today.”The boys coaxed happily," Lady Boss, it can't be free just for today.”Jie was so amused by them that she almost suffocated. She was also happy to bicker with them. Peace makes money." Alright, the restaurant is yours. I'll work for you." Ha, haha!" As she laughed and laughed, she led the boys to the food stall and said to the chef inside," They are my friends. Put today's food on my tab. He also gave each of them an extra serving of red braised pork.”The boys were happily packing lunch boxes. Jie stepped back and pulled me to the side so we could talk. He asked me how long I've been in this building, and I said it's been more than half a month. She said," Why haven't I seen you eat here before?”I told her to eat in the alley behind the building. All the units I worked in knew that I was reluctant to spend money on food. Jie naturally knew that, so she didn't ask any more questions. She only said," The income of this restaurant is quite good. You can come to the restaurant to eat in the future." I'll inform the master that the food expenses will be charged to my account.”This wasn't something that happened in a day or two. How could I eat in her restaurant for free for a long time? Moreover, it was difficult to earn money in any way. But thinking that Jie was taking care of me out of good intentions, if I directly refused, it would be disrespectful to her, so I could only agree with a "yes, yes". At this moment, the lunch boxes were all packed by the window, and the little ones brought them over. Jie followed us to the door and reminded me," You must come over for lunch in the future.”With that, she turned around and went back to work.
The boys carried their lunch boxes upstairs and shouted as soon as they entered the office," I have a big piece of news to report to you. President Niu used to be a high-ranking official in a state-owned enterprise. The lady boss of the restaurant on the seventh floor used to be her worker. The lady boss is rich, so President Niu must be richer than her. I want President Niu to treat me to a meal." When those who didn't go down to get food heard this, they laughed and joined in." That's great. In the future, when we go to the seventh floor to get food, let President Niu go first. How dare the lady boss not give him face?”Everyone laughed as they spread out all the lunch boxes on the table. Everyone in the office had one, and there was an extra one." Today's lunch is on the lady boss's treat. There's no charge. Come and eat."”It turned out that the little guys had asked the waiter to order eight servings of fast food, including Sister Yang, Xiao Liu, and President Hua. That afternoon, President Hua did not come to the office, so the little guys ate that portion of food.
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