Chapter 5 — Lam Ha Mat

“Ha Mat.” He called me back. It's still the same intimate way of addressing as before. I turned my head to look at him. "No longer close. In the future, please call me by my full name." 7After my parents reopened the store, the first thing they did was hire people. Dad didn't have the heart to hire a full-time employee, just looking for an hourly worker. Every day that person comes at nine in the morning and returns at six at night. No shipping. No inventory. Not responsible for bookkeeping after hours. The first week, the best-selling milk in the store was out of stock. The second week, there were three more boxes of soft drinks in the warehouse that almost no one bought. Dad angrily sent the photo to the group. "Ha Mat, which phone number in the supplier list is the person in charge of soft drinks?" I didn't answer. He called me directly. "I'm asking you." "It's written in the handover form." "There are so many names, you know who to look for?" "You can call one after another." On the phone, dad gasped in anger. "Can't you just come back here?" "The store is in such chaos, don't you feel uncomfortable looking at it?" On my computer, work documents were still open. "The store belongs to mom and dad." "You can spend money to hire someone to do it." "If you hire a skilled person, it costs more than six thousand yuan every month!" "So this proves that this job is worth more than six thousand yuan." Dad couldn't say anything. Before, every night after work, I went back to the store to take inventory. Weekends help them deliver. When they go on a trip, I look after the store from morning to night. No one has ever asked me if I want a salary. Because I'm a girl. A girl's time is not worth money. After that, dad called Chu Hanh Da to the store again. After work, Chu Hanh Da came to help. The first day, he mixed up invoices from two suppliers. On the second day, a customer brought a carton of expired milk to return. He didn't know how to handle it. He called me six times. I didn't listen to any calls. In the end, I just sent a text message. "The process has been written in the handover table." In the evening, dad scolded the family group. "This person and that person are not trustworthy." "Chu Hanh Da can't even do half as well as Ha Mat." Mom sent a recording. "Ha Mat, these past few days your father's back hurts so much that he can't sleep." "I'll come back to help for two days, wait for mom and dad to find someone and then consider more." I replied: "The temporary labor company has skilled employees, one three hundred yuan a day." Mom quickly called. "Three hundred a day, nine thousand a month." "Before, wasn't it just convenient for you to come back to help?" "Now hiring someone else, we know it's not a convenient thing." She was silent for a while. "Do you have to make such clear calculations with us?" "When we calculated the travel allowance for you, it was very clear." She hung up the phone. That month, the mini supermarket closed two hours early every day. The first time my father complained to relatives that I refused to help the family. My aunt came to advise me again. "Your parents are old, opening a store is not easy." "Your sister doesn't know how to do these things, Chu Hanh Da is an outsider." "Only you are my biological daughter." I asked her: "When traveling, why can only I be an outsider?" She was silent for a long time. In the end, he only replied: "One family member should not calculate so much." 8 At twelve o'clock at night, my mother suddenly called me. The dog in the house vomited. Its name is Dau Bao and has been raised for eight years. In the past, if Dau Bao was unwell, I would take him to the hospital. Mom was so impatient that she cried on the phone. "It lay still and didn't move, didn't respond to calls." "Hurry up and go home." I asked for the symptoms, contacted the nearby overnight veterinary hospital and called a pet transport vehicle. "The car will arrive in ten minutes." "Mom and Dad, please carry it downstairs." But mom said: "Come back with me." "Normally, he listens to me the most." "It will take at least forty minutes for you to return."

minutes." "The car is about to arrive, take him to the hospital first." "I can still make it back in time." "Take him away first." Mom cried even harder. "You're so heartless." "I hate my parents because of the trip, now even Dau Bao doesn't care." I tightened my grip on the phone. "I called a car and contacted the doctor." "Now carry him down." She still refused to act, just kept urging me to go home. I called dad. "The car has arrived downstairs. house." "Immediately take Dau Bao to the hospital." At this time, my father brought the dog down. I did not hang up the phone. Until the doctor took over, saying it was just acute gastroenteritis, I was given fluids in time, so there was nothing wrong. At two o'clock in the morning, my mother sent me a sentence: "If something happens to Dau Bao, I will not forgive you for the rest of my life." From beginning to end, I contacted the hospital, called a car, and confirmed admission. But because I did not return in person, I still became a People ignore pets. The next day, I arranged Dau Bao's vaccination records, medical records, frequent hospitals, and insurance records and sent them to my parents. "From now on, these things will be kept by my parents." "If there is an emergency, please contact the hospital directly."