mtl008 Chapter 410 Flood Disaster
Chapter 410 Flood Disaster
After distributing the prizes and benefits, Lin Jiaojiao asked the employees to go to the finance office to collect their wages so that they could take their annual leave.
It was still held on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year as before, but the restaurant was the busiest during such important holidays. In addition, the sixth day was Lin Jiaojiao's wedding day, so more than half of the employees stayed at their posts.
After all, the overtime pay during the Chinese New Year is really good.
Lin Jiaojiao accompanied Lin Yiyan to the finance office. There were already two long lines outside. With Lin Yiyan joining, the lines moved much faster.
She watched Lin Yiyan and Lan Jiu working together. The former took the employees' pay slips, checked them and asked them to sign and stamp their fingerprints, while the latter was responsible for taking money from the cash box to pay the wages.
Not to mention the tacit cooperation between the two of them, it is obvious that the queue here is much faster.
Now that there are more employees, salaries are usually paid in the middle of the month. Lin Jiaojiao also paid the salaries before the New Year so that everyone could have a good New Year.
In order to reduce Lin Yiyan's burden, she calculated the pay slips on the computer last night and asked Lin Yiyan to check them again in the morning.
It took another hour before the wages were paid.
"Finally I'm done with my work. My old waist is hurting."
Qiu Xilan stood up and shouted while stretching. She had been busy like a top these days, doing statistics and scheduling, and she was almost moving her bed into the office.
Lin Dadan and Qiu Xilan both looked tired, while Lin Jiaojiao, who was standing beside them, helped lock the cash boxes in the darkroom with great energy, and walked out humming a little tune and turning the key in her hand.
"Let's go home. Dinner is still an hour away. We can even play mahjong together."
"Come on, come on, we have to pay some money this time, otherwise it will be boring."
Qiu Xilan stretched out his arm and put it on Lin Jiaojiao's shoulder and suggested that if he didn't pay her, she was afraid that she would fall asleep while talking.
Lin Dadan was still a little tired, but his eyes lit up immediately when he heard about the money transfer.
Lin Jiaojiao turned her head and looked at Qiu Xilan with a speechless look. She first glanced at Lin Yiyan who was sorting out the account books, and then glanced at Lin Dadan whose eyes were shining.
She said slowly, "Are you sure?"
"Confirmed and confirmed, but first of all, it's just the four of us. No substitutions allowed."
Lin Dadan nodded in agreement, and Lin Yiyan had no objection.
She had an opinion. She had the worst skills among the four of them, and most importantly, she wanted to play a few games and then leave the table to change players.
She pointed at Lan Jiu who was holding the account book and said, "How about this, I'll watch you fight from the sidelines, and I'll let my apprentice go on the field?"
Everyone else looked at Lan Jiu. Lin Dadan and Qiu Xilan had never seen him play mahjong before and were a little skeptical.
In fact, Lin Jiaojiao didn’t quite understand Lan Jiu’s level, but it didn’t matter. If they lost, they lost. The main thing was to let them have fun.
She patted her chest and swore, "Ajiu has inherited my true skills, and his skills are impeccable."
Lan Jiu was not modest and continued her words.
"Yes Miss is right, the slave's skills are quite good."
Qiu Xilan didn't believe how good his skills were, because Lin Jiaojiao's technical level was already there.
"Okay, then it's you, go ahead."
When they arrived at the recreation room, it was already full of people playing mahjong at three tables.
When Fu Qi saw Lin Jiaojiao and the others, he shouted as if they were his saviors.
"Sister Jiaojiao, do you guys want to play? I'll give up my seat to you."
After Zhou Xiaofeng and his friends participated in the lucky draw, they came to the Lin residence first. Everyone gathered in the yard to chat. Later, Fu's mother suggested playing mahjong, and they just got three tables together.
The babies were all sleeping in the warm kang room next door, so Fu Qi was dragged up to make up the numbers.
Lin Jiaojiao and the others were helpless. After Xiaowu and Xiaoliu cleaned up the rest area to set up the mahjong table, she and Lin Yiyan went to the next room to take a look at the child.
The three little ones sleeping in a row are so cute.
For fear of waking up the children, the two of them looked for a while and then left.
She sat quietly at the back and watched them fight. Since she was sitting between Lin Yiyan and Lan Jiu, she could see the cards on both sides, so it was difficult for her to speak and give orders.
But not long after, Lin Bin, who had finished her work on the farm, came with her husband, and Fu Qi was rescued.
He came and sat down next to Lin Jiaojiao, leaning slightly against her, quietly extending his little finger and slowly hooking it towards hers.
Lin Jiaojiao calmly shook her hand back and slowly intertwined her fingers with his.
We had hotpot in the evening.
Fu Ling finally arrived when they were about to finish.
"It's so cold in Nanshan. I was freezing all the way here. Hey, are you guys almost done eating? Did you leave any duck blood for me?"
Fu's mother and father pulled her to sit between them. Looking at their dark and thin daughter, they felt distressed.
"I know you love to eat it, so I specially saved a bowl of fresh duck blood for you. Didn't your last letter say that you would leave on the 10th? Why did you arrive only now?"
Lin Jiaojiao had already finished eating and was holding Lin Xiayou at the table watching them eat. When she heard Fu's mother ask this, she looked at Fu Ling curiously.
Fu Ling blushed for some reason and quickly took a sip of the hot soup on the table to cover it up.
"..."
It would have been better if she didn't hide it, but this cover-up exposed it directly.
Lin Jiaojiao joked: "Sister Ling, why is your face so red? Did some heroic rescue incident happen on the road?"
Fu's father paused as he was picking up food for Fu Ling, turned his head to look at the person next to him with a red face, and immediately felt that there was something going on, so he asked in surprise.
"Ling'er can't be real?"
Fu Ling saw that everyone at the table was looking at her curiously. She just felt her whole body was burning with heat. She should have known not to drink the hot soup to warm herself up.
Seeing that his sister hadn't spoken for a long time, Fu Qi asked anxiously.
"Sister, please tell me, am I going to have a brother-in-law soon?"
"Xiao Qi, please stop talking nonsense. It's not what you think."
Lin Jiaojiao continued to joke with a smile: "What kind of thing is that? How can we know if Sister Ling doesn't tell us?"
"Yes, Ling'er, tell me which family this young man belongs to. I will go and propose marriage to you."
Fu Ling couldn't stand everyone's questioning and could only tell the story.
"There was a flood disaster in Xunzhou, and there were refugees everywhere. I almost couldn't come back when I passed by, and all the gifts I brought for you were snatched away."
They only heard about this a month ago. Xunzhou is quite far from Qingzhou and is next to Zhouzhou.
It took more than half a month for the news to come through.
Fu's mother was shocked. "Didn't the court send an imperial envoy to provide disaster relief? Why are there still so many refugees?"
Fu Ling first glanced around and then spoke mysteriously in a low voice.
"I heard that the carriages carrying silver and grain were washed away by the mountain torrents as soon as they arrived at the disaster area. However, I heard from the refugees that they didn't see the carriages coming at all. Most likely..."
Although she didn't say the rest of the words, people who heard her understood what was going on.
The imperial envoy sent to provide disaster relief this time is Yun Guijun's elder sister and the princess's aunt. I'm afraid he was corrupted by them.
After hearing that, Fu's father felt a sense of fear and took Fu Ling's hand to persuade her.
"Ling'er, why don't you not go to Zhouzhou for now? The journey is too dangerous. Leave the business to Manager Cao and the others."
Fu Ling patted his hand and comforted him: "Dad, I'm fine. Don't worry too much."
Seeing that everyone was fine, Fu Qi put aside his worries and asked curiously.
"Sister, what next?"