Chapter 530: Who is the sucker?

Oh, this.

Zhang Yanping and Xin Jun both fell silent.

Only Qiaoqiao spoke innocently: "Then Brother Tianyu, do you give gifts to get a raise?"

Zhou Tianyu laughed: "We look at performance, and my performance is quite stable. Getting a raise isn't that easy. At most, if I give gifts, I'll get fewer new people assigned to me later, the group will have less trouble, and it'll be easier to get money."

"Then..." Qiaoqiao calculated silently: "That means giving gifts doesn't increase your salary. Not giving gifts doesn't increase your salary either—then why must you give them? Can you not give them?"

That's not how it works. Zhou Tianyu opened his mouth to refute, but after thinking and thinking, he didn't know what to say. Facing Qiaoqiao's inquisitive gaze, he racked his brains to come up with a metaphor:

"It's like this, adult social interactions are very complicated. For example, I'm taking my annual leave to go home this time, a total of five days. If I give gifts, the leave request is approved as soon as it goes up. If I don't give gifts, there might be various excuses for not letting me take leave, such as being busy or recent training or something like that."

"Then I can only take personal leave. Personal leave deducts 200 a day, that's 1000 for five days. You tell me, isn't that a huge loss?"

"Yeah, a huge loss." Qiaoqiao looked at him with heartache, as if saying "You are a fool."

Zhou Tianyu was stunned, thinking he had seen it wrong, and then saw Qiaoqiao start counting on his fingers:

"Uncle Maozhu took a total of five jin of tea. Brother Tianyu, how many jin did you give away?"

"Three jin." Zhou Tianyu explained: "Later I said I wanted more, but my dad didn't agree."

"Oh, three jin." Qiaoqiao started calculating: "Three jin of tea is thirty thousand yuan. Brother, you could take, take... 150 days of leave!"

"Brother Tianyu, you lost a lot!"

Zhou Tianyu:...

He laughed: "Who told you tea is ten thousand? I know it's your family's tea, but you don't have to cooperate with my dad like this, right?"

Qiaoqiao was puzzled: "Our family's tea has always been this price. We even have an online store, we've sold two hundred jin!"

It's just that the money hasn't been seen; it's scattered here and there, so that money comes and goes, and they are still destitute to this day.

Uncle Maozhu's wife was cleaning fish at home.

Her son sent a message earlier saying he was on the car, so she killed that grass carp—she felt heartache when killing it; such a big grass carp, it had so much energy!

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Originally, for a family of three, a two or three jin fish plus something else would be enough. But when she was preparing, she remembered this fish was 40 per jin, so how delicious must it be?

And their Zhou Maozhu, he never ate like this usually! He insisted on holding on at noon, walking around the room with a fan for a long time.

So she simply hardened her heart and cut the fish in half!

She didn't know any high-end cooking methods. Grass carp, isn't it just home-style?

Half a grass carp cut into pieces, first soaked in salt water for a while, and when cleaned, mixed well with salt and cornstarch. When the oil pan was hot, it went straight in to fry.

That fragrance...

Not to mention anything else, there was movement on the ceiling panels; it must be the wild cats smelling the scent again!

Uncle Maozhu's wife sniffed herself and couldn't help it; she picked up a piece of the freshly fried fish first... Oh my god!

No wonder this costs 40 per jin!

As long as she tasted it, she would have to buy... buy... buy two jin this time!

After all, it's really too expensive!

Thinking of this, she hardened her heart and didn't eat it. She quickly cut onions, green onions, ginger, garlic, and some bird's eye chili and stir-fried them in the oil pan until fragrant. After stir-frying, she poured them into a clay pot, added the fish pieces, added water, and slowly stewed it over charcoal fire...

Uncle Maozhu, who had eaten his belly round at noon, walked in: "This fish is really fragrant..."

Seeing his eyes turning on the basket, his wife glared at him: "It's not stewed yet!"

"Besides, didn't you eat at noon?"

Uncle Maozhu didn't dare to reach out: "What I ate at noon was crucian carp, fresh and tender! It's just that there are too many small thorns. If it weren't for the fear of getting stuck, we would have eaten it especially fast!"

Waiting and waiting, finally, it got dark.

The watermelon in the pool was already cool to the touch, the fish stewed with a fragrance that drifted for miles, cats walked back and forth on the roof, meowing anxiously...

A taxi finally stopped at the door!

Uncle Maozhu greeted it happily, not knowing whether he was greeting his son or his stewed fish.

However, he saw Zhou Tianyu getting off, dejected and gray-faced. His heart skipped a beat, and he didn't even have time to ask why the car was still driving forward—

"What's wrong?" he asked nervously.

"Nothing." Zhou Tianyu twitched the corners of his mouth, feeling that he was the biggest sucker in history.

When he gave the tea, he really thought it was a local specialty, three or five hundred at most, so he politely told people it was a local specialty from home, give him some face, and taste the flavor.

The next day, the manager patted his shoulder with a kind expression, saying good tea, good tea... He even thought to himself, no wonder he can be a manager, this emotional intelligence! He praised such a little bit of tea so much that he felt embarrassed.

After work, he was even more energized and bought a book "High Emotional Intelligence Speaking Skills" and studied it hard.

Thinking about it now... bullshit high emotional intelligence!

Only he is a fool!

Thinking of this, Zhou Tianyu's expression became even more bitter.

How could this make Uncle Maozhu believe nothing was wrong?

For a moment, he couldn't even smell the fish fragrance, he just sighed: "Tianyu, if there's anything, just say it. Your dad earns quite a bit of money a month now. If you really quit your job, it's fine to stay at home for a month or two."

Any longer wouldn't do.

If the child stays by his side for too long, people will dislike him, so it's better to go out.

"No." Zhou Tianyu looked at his dad's serious expression and could only twitch the corners of his mouth with difficulty:

"I just didn't expect that tea to be ten thousand yuan per jin..."

"What's unexpected about this!"

Uncle Maozhu thought he was fobbing him off: "Didn't I tell you it was ten thousand yuan per jin? Could I lie about this! You say, such expensive tea, if someone wanted to give it to me, I would be embarrassed to accept it, and he didn't give money for stir-frying the tea..."

"Hey, what do you mean?" After muttering, he looked at his son vigilantly: "I'm telling you! We can't afford such a big gift. You say if you are looking for a job and entering a unit, we have a way, then your dad won't be stingy about giving gifts."

"But you are working for someone else and you still give this, aren't you being a sucker?"

Isn't that right!

Zhou Tianyu thought: I am that sucker!

While speaking, the two had already walked into the courtyard.

In the courtyard, a big tabby cat with flowery arms was anxiously circling the kitchen door, its eyes fierce, but its meow was soft to death.

Zhou Tianyu was stunned, and then smelled the pungent fragrance:

"What is stewed here? Why is it so fragrant?"

"Oh my, oh my!" Uncle Maozhu was anxious: This fish has been stewed for a long time, don't let it stew until it's rotten later!

"Hurry up, why don't you wash your hands? Just to wait for you, we haven't eaten until now."

But it's not even seven o'clock yet, seven o'clock on a summer evening, is it very late?

The thought flashed through Zhou Tianyu's mind, and another fragrance drifted over. He could no longer care about anything else and rushed to wash his hands. ===== CHAPTER 531 =====