Chapter 129 Caregiver
My cousin is not only an unfilial son, but also a love-brained man. For a woman, he traveled across the ocean and has not come back to visit my aunt for more than ten years.
Over the past decade or so, whenever my aunt had a headache or a fever, the original owner's family helped take care of her.
Later, my aunt was in a car accident and was paralyzed in bed, unable to move around. When she found my cousin, he unilaterally broke off all ties with her.
The original owner had just graduated and hadn't found a job yet. Feeling sorry for her aunt, she often brought fruits to visit her and chat with her.
My aunt was very dissatisfied with my cousin and was so disappointed that she no longer acknowledged that she had given birth to this son.
Later, the aunt fired the caregiver and asked the original owner to take care of her, and promised to leave her house to the original owner in the future.
The original owner took care of her aunt diligently for twenty years, and it became her job, but her salary was just her aunt's house.
Twenty years later, the aunt was critically ill and called her cousin back from abroad to inherit her house and inheritance, while the original owner got nothing.
"You have taken care of me for so many years. Even if you have no credit, you have worked hard. Just take this 30,000 yuan, so that others won't say that I treated you unfairly."
"Don't try to make us grateful to you. You've taken care of me for so long just to get my house. Don't think I don't know that taking care of me with a purpose is not sincere."
"You are just my niece. Why should I give my property to you instead of my son?"
"Don't be so foolish. If you continue to make trouble, you won't get a penny."
It turned out that the aunt and cousin had been in contact for a long time. She didn't want to hinder her cousin's future or destroy his happy family, so she concealed the truth and tricked the original owner into being her nanny.
My cousin’s future is a future, but isn’t her future also a future?
The original owner's heart sank.
She was the only one who foolishly believed her aunt's lies.
I was kicked out by my aunt with 30,000 yuan in my hand, and I didn’t know what to do for a while.
Although he has academic qualifications, he has no work experience and is out of touch with society. The jobs he finds do not pay well.
My whole life passed in a daze.
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"Shanshan, how could your cousin be so cruel? He doesn't even come to see me even though I'm in this state..."
The middle-aged woman was lying on the bed. Only her head could move. She needed someone to take care of her when eating and going to the toilet. If you got close to her, you could smell a foul odor.
In the previous life, the caregiver was not dedicated and my aunt didn’t want to suffer or waste the money, so she fired him.
Zhang Shan opened the window and took a breath of fresh air.
"Shanshan, did you hear me?"
My aunt was very dissatisfied because she didn't hear Zhang Shan's response.
"Aunt, I'm listening."
"Then why don't you respond to me?"
"Aunt, you know that your cousin and you are the closest relatives. If I say something good or bad, you will be unhappy. If you really have a problem with your cousin, you would have blocked his phone number long ago."
As for the aunt, she was just complaining to someone and she didn't really dislike her son.
After all, he was her only son whom she had raised like a treasure. How could she really break off relations with him?
But it is undeniable that she is still very sad that her son does not come back to see her.
But no matter how sad and desperate she was, she never gave up on coaxing her son.
"Don't mention that unfilial son to me. I want to eat an apple. Cut it into small pieces and feed it to me."
Zhang Shan picked up a fruit knife and peeled the apple bit by bit. Her aunt frowned as she watched, "You are so wasteful. How much money do you have at home to allow you to be so wasteful? Peel the apple thinner..."
She always has so many demands and is picky about even the smallest things. The original owner could tolerate it for the sake of the house, but Zhang Shan couldn't.
Put down the fruit knife.
"Auntie, I can't peel it well. Let Auntie Liu help you."
"Look at you, you don't like it when I say something. I'm your elder, and I'm teaching you a lesson for your own good, so that you won't be bullied when you go out into society."
"Thank you for planning for me, Auntie. It's lunch time. I'll eat whatever Auntie eats."
"I just finished breakfast and I'm not hungry now. If you are hungry, go home first. Your parents are probably waiting for you to come home for dinner." The aunt avoided her eyes. If possible, she wanted to send Zhang Shan out.
The original owner was more sensible than Zhang Shan. She ran away by herself when it was time for dinner. Not only did she not take advantage of her aunt, she also bought her fruit and chatted with her. How could her aunt not be happy?
When Zhang Shan left the room, she saw Aunt Liu stewing soup in the kitchen. The aroma was tempting and there were many dishes cooked. It was obviously not a special meal for her aunt, but Zhang Shan did not interfere.
When she got home, her parents had just put the food on the table and were puzzled to see her back.
"Why did you come back so soon? Didn't your aunt invite you to dinner?"
"Don't you know what kind of person my aunt is? If I want to eat at her house, I might as well go back to my own home and eat in peace."
"What nonsense are you talking about? She is the elder, don't say that again in the future." Aunt Zhang subconsciously glanced at her mother-in-law.
"I know, I know." Zhang Shan got her own meal. She was very hungry and ate with her head down.
Grandma Zhang is over 80 years old, but she is in very good spirits. After eating a bowl of rice and a bowl of soup, she strolled around the door of her house.
"Shanshan, you have just graduated and you don't have a job, so why don't you help grandma take care of your aunt for a few days?"
Zhang Shan paused as she closed the door. She even began to wonder if her grandmother and aunt had conspired to trick the original owner in the previous life.
The original owner's parents were both employees of a unit, and due to the family planning policy, a couple could only have one child. Grandma Zhang disliked the original owner, who was a money-loser, very much, but she loved her cousin, her grandson, very much, and gave him everything good.
"Grandma, it's because I don't have a job that I need to find one. Otherwise, who will take care of my parents in the future?"
"As a girl, how can you find a good job? Don't do those shady jobs, or you will lose face for me."
"Don't worry, grandma. It's absolutely serious. It's much more serious than my cousin who hasn't been home for more than ten years."
Zhang Shan was still smiling, which made Grandma Zhang a little unhappy.
Ignoring her, Zhang Shan went out and started looking for a job.
What kind of job are you looking for?
The original owner studied computer science, but she did not study it very well and her GPA was just above the passing line. Coincidentally, Zhang Shan saw a printing shop recruiting people near the middle school.
The salary was 3,800 yuan, with five insurances but no fund, and I started working the next day.
That evening, Zhang Shan announced the news at the dinner table.
Grandma Zhang's mouth sank. "What can I do with this salary? It's not even as high as the nanny Meili hired."
Zhang Meili is my aunt's name.
"Grandma, I am also a worker sitting in an office. I am not exposed to the wind or rain. I drink tea and read newspapers at work. It's so cool."
Of course not, but the old lady would not just look at her working environment and let Zhang Shan say whatever she wanted to exaggerate.
However, there is indeed a lot of potential in housekeeping.
You can try it too.
Zhang Shan's job is to repair computers and install equipment. She doesn't have much free time, after all, human-shaped cows and horses have no time to rest.
After getting a job, Zhang Shan no longer goes to her aunt's house. Her aunt has been very angry recently because the nanny she hired cheated on her and the house has been almost emptied out.
"You don't have to come tomorrow!" My aunt almost fainted from anger.
Grandma Zhang came to the house at this time, and when she saw her like this, she quickly tried to comfort her.
"Take a deep breath, take a deep breath. What on earth happened? It makes you so angry."
"It's that Xiao Liu. She has dirty hands. If I hadn't found her, she would have emptied the house."
Grandma Zhang slapped her thigh, stood up and wanted to go find Aunt Liu to settle the score, but she couldn't find her anywhere.
"What about her?"
"I fired him!"
My aunt is still very angry.
She had been a thrifty person all her life, and she was very angry when Aunt Liu took away several bags of rice and flour.
Grandma Zhang was also very angry. She called and scolded her best friend who recommended Aunt Liu, and she also felt that the other party had bad intentions.
Good aunties in society, like good men, are not circulated in the market. It is extremely difficult for a mother and daughter to find an aunt who does not want to spend a lot of money but also wants to be responsible and do a good job.
After calming down, the aunt realized that after Aunt Liu was fired, there was no one to take care of her. She could not move at all now, and needed someone to take care of her eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. It was impossible to do without a caregiver.
So, my aunt thought of Zhang Shan, "Mom, hasn't Shan Shan found a job yet? Let her come and take care of me for a few days."
"She found a job, earning 3,800 yuan a month..." Thinking that her daughter's monthly caregiver earns 5,000 yuan, which is much higher than Zhang Shan's salary, it would be better to let Zhang Shan take care of her daughter.
It is better to be cheap than to be cheap with your own family.
Although she thought so, she never considered asking her daughter to pay Zhang Shan's salary.
Grandma Zhang is the eldest in the family. Since Zhang's mother didn't give birth to a son who could break a pot, she has never dared to breathe loudly in front of Grandma Zhang and has been suppressed by her all her life.
But Zhang Shan is not as weak as the original owner.
"I won't go. I like my current job."
Snapped--
Grandma Zhang slammed the chopsticks down.
"Have you grown up and become independent? You don't listen to me anymore!"
"If I tell you to resign, then you should resign. Otherwise, don't blame me for making a scene at the door of your workplace."
Zhang Shan also threw the chopsticks hard.
"If you lose my job, I will lose your grandson's job. Do you believe it?"
Grandma Zhang covered her chest and cried out, "Ouch, ouch!" Father Zhang glared at Zhang Shan, "Why don't you apologize to your grandma?"
Zhang Shan got up and went back to her room to pack her luggage, but before she could leave home, Zhang's father was hit by a car on the way to take Zhang's grandmother to the hospital.
Father Zhang was seriously injured and fell into a coma.
Among the three people, only Grandma Zhang was intact, without any skin injuries.
Zhang's father's leg needed amputation and Zhang's mother's hand needed surgery. Zhang Shan sold the house they were living in, and there was not much money left for the surgery and subsequent recuperation.
Grandma Zhang did not appear again until Zhang's father and mother were discharged from the hospital.
At the instruction of her father, Zhang Shan transferred the household registration of her family of three from City B to City A.
Because of Grandma Zhang's unreasonable behavior, the injured couple also became tough. Grandma Zhang seemed to feel guilty and did not call them for half a year.
It was not until the Chinese New Year that she went home to ask for money, but found that the person who opened the door for her was not Zhang's father or mother.
"Zhang Debang, you actually sold the house without my consent. Do you still have me as your mother?"
Mr. Zhang on the other end of the phone looked unusually calm, so calm that he was indifferent.
"You've hurt me like this, are you still my mother? I've already given my life back to you, don't come looking for me again!"
After saying that, he hung up the phone before Grandma Zhang could react.
Grandma Zhang's heart skipped a beat and her eyes suddenly turned red.
"I...I didn't mean it, why are you blaming me..."
She was so scared at the time that she pushed them both over. She really didn't mean it.
After the family of three moved out, Grandma Zhang moved to her aunt's house. She was reluctant to hire a caregiver because she felt bad about the 5,000 yuan a month.