Chapter 125

"Earn? Three thousand yuan is only a few years' wages for us. How is that worth it?"

Qi Xiyu and the others voiced their outrage too.

Three thousand yuan?!

Liang Ying was stunned, then furious.

She had been in management herself. She knew how greedy factory leaders could be, pocketing funds worth hundreds of thousands. Yet the laid-off workers were getting only three thousand yuan each.

Zhang Xing'er and the others included skilled workers who had put in more than twenty years. If even they could get only three thousand, there was no telling how little everyone else would receive.

"Grandma, what are all those aunties here for?"

Gu Yousi had finished her homework long ago and was reading a comic book. When she saw He Chunlian rehearsing her lines in the room, she asked casually.

"I don't know either," He Chunlian said. "But from what I overheard, it sounds like the Textile Factory is laying people off."

"Laying people off?"

Gu Yousi stopped turning the page. "There are so many people at the Textile Factory. Are they all getting laid off?"

"I'm not sure about that. Ask your mom once they've left," He Chunlian said.

Gu Yousi had a poor impression of the Textile Factory's leaders, but she liked the people who worked there.

People like Auntie Zhang had often looked after her. Sometimes, when they ran into her on the street, they insisted on buying her a snack.

Gu Yousi and He Chunlian waited more than an hour before sounds from the living room suggested that the visitors had left.

He Chunlian figured it was safe to come out and brought Gu Yousi with her.

Liang Ying was starving. "Mom, is there anything to eat?"

"Oh! You haven't had dinner?"

Startled, He Chunlian hurried to the kitchen to