Chapter 168 - 163: Being on Guard
Fang Pingying knew Fang Xiu well because when she first came to the provincial city, she needed her to take care of everything, so she was behaving herself.
But later, once she had a place to settle down, or when she didn’t need her help anymore, who knew what kind of trouble she might start causing.
If she found out she had the money to open a store, it was uncertain how she would stir things up, so it was still better to be cautious and just say she was helping someone else with work.
Since she was planning to collaborate with Zeng Weiguo anyway, Fang Pingying wasn’t worried about being exposed for the time being.
"Twenty-five yuan?" When Fang Xiu heard that it was twenty-five yuan a month, she felt a small joy inside—thinking about how many things she could buy with that money.
But she kept her composure and thought to fight for a bit more, "Big sister, isn’t that a bit too little? If all the chores are to be done by just a few of us, we might end up working longer days than Zhiming does, and he earns thirty dollars a month."
"The shop has just opened, and we don’t even know if it will make money. If it does, they can raise our wages next month. It’s just the beginning of the month now, if we start working right away, we can still count it as a full month," Fang Pingying thought about observing how the business in the shop goes. If it turns out well, they could gradually increase the wages.
Twenty-five yuan a month in wages was indeed not a lot in the provincial city.
"That’s true too," Fang Xiu wasn’t hung up about it and was just thinking that more would be better. Since there wasn’t more, she didn’t dwell on it. However, when it came to working immediately, she said, "But big sister, you said yesterday to let Zhiming take a couple of days off. I can’t work during these days."