Aunt Wang's home is on the 4th floor. The elevator is in disrepair. When people walk in, they can clearly feel the shaking of the elevator box, see the flickering of the lights above their heads, and hear intermittent clicking sounds when the chain contracts and rubs.
The layout of the house is also very old. There are two bedrooms, one is Aunt Wang's and the other is her son's.
There is no partition between the living room and dining room, and the kitchen is next to the bathroom, separated only by a wall.
The decoration is also very old, but it is very clean, and there are still a few flowers in the living room.
"You guys sit down for a while and I'll go to the kitchen. The food will be ready in a moment."
After entering the house, Aunt Wang walked to the kitchen and shouted: "Chang Lin, we have a guest at home, come out and accompany us."
"Guests? I have already promised them that I will help them solve the problem tomorrow. Why now..."
A man's voice came from the bedroom, and then a somewhat drunk man opened the bedroom door and walked out in a flash. However, after he saw Ana Shen and Bai Ye in the living room, he cheered up again.
With the appearance of this man, the threads composed of scattered thoughts suddenly seemed to have a backbone, and they all gathered towards him.
In Shen Yan's eyes, the man in front of him almost became a walking ball of colorful light.
"You are……?"
"Hello, I am your mother's previous employer, Ana Shen. This is my colleague, whose surname is Bai."
Ana Shen stretched out his hand to Zhang Changlin. Zhang Changlin was stunned for a moment, hurriedly wiped his hand on his clothes, and then held Ana Shen's three fingers.
"Hello, my name is Zhang Changlin, and everyone calls me Dalin."
"Dr. Shen, I often hear my mother mention you, but I didn't expect you to be so young!"
Zhang Changlin's hands were rough and strong, which didn't match his frail appearance.
Perhaps because he had been drinking, there was a strong smell of alcohol when he spoke, and his eyes were bloodshot, as if he had not rested well after drinking.
The handshake was just a touch. With a warm smile on Zhang Changlin's face, he led Ana Shen and Bai Ye to the living room: "Please sit down... You guys sit down first, I'll go to the bathroom. I just finished socializing before, and I smell heavy of alcohol." , I’ll go clean it up.”
Ana Shen smiled back: "It's my fault that we came here without saying hello in advance. I'm sorry for disturbing you."
"Don't bother me, don't bother me. I have to thank Dr. Shen for providing my mother with a job..."
…
Sitting on the sofa, Bai Ye secretly poked Ana Shen with her elbow and asked in a lowered voice, "What did you find? Is there something wrong with this family?"
"Why didn't I detect psychic fluctuations from them?"
Ana Shen turned around and asked, "Who said they have psychic energy fluctuations?"
"Then what are you doing here?"
"Looking for Buddha."
"did you find it?"
"not yet."
Bai Ye frowned: "I think we shouldn't continue to waste time here."
"You can go."
"You're not leaving?"
Ana Shen shook his head: "Waiting for dinner."
Bai Ye was silent for a while.
"Just in time, I'm hungry too."
Aunt Wang was busy in the kitchen alone, and the TV in the living room was still playing the news, which seemed to be about the promotion of artificial intelligence robots and the placement of laid-off employees.
Both of them focused their attention on the TV, as if they were attracted by the TV show.
On TV, the spokesperson of City No. 18 was answering reporters’ questions in an orderly manner——
'The popularization of intelligent robots will create more labor value. The GDP of our No. 18 city will increase by at least 50 percentage points. It is foreseeable that prices in our No. 18 city will further decrease in the future. '
'As for the issue of laid-off employees, the People's Livelihood Office has also made detailed plans before this. '
'Here, I can first reveal that every employee who is laid off due to intelligent robots will receive a substantial amount of compensation. '
"..."
"In fact, our city's leadership has tried its best to find a way out for these laid-off workers. With every social change, there will always be a group of people left behind. There is no way around it."
Zhang Changlin walked out of the bathroom. He washed his face and combed his hair again. He did look more energetic.
While talking about the contents of the TV show, he took out a pack of cigarettes and handed them to Ana Shen: "Do you want to smoke?"
Ana Shen smiled and shook his head: "No."
"Look at my brain, you doctors must smoke less."
Zhang Changlin smiled and put the cigarette case into his pocket, while explaining: "Actually, I rarely smoke. Smoking is harmful to health. It's all for socializing. There's nothing I can do about it."
Zhang Changlin put away his cigarette, found a tea set, and got busy: "If you don't want to smoke, let's just drink some tea. It will take a while for my mother to cook."
Ana Shen looked at Zhang Changlin, who was surrounded by thousands of wishes, and started to do his homework: "What does Mr. Zhang do?"
Zhang Changlin made three cups of black tea and handed them to Ana Shen and Bai Ye, while saying, "I used to teach."
"Later, the number of students became less and less, and the teaching structure was reformed, so I was laid off early."
He pointed at the living room with his finger: "This house was bought with the help of the laid-off subsidy at that time."
"Actually, the school only gave a small part of the subsidy at the beginning, which was not even enough to buy a bathroom. Then I found Sun Jun. Sun Jun, you know, right?"
"I heard that he is now Mayor Cui's secretary." Bai Ye took over the conversation: "So... did you get the compensation money through your connections?"
Zhang Changlin nodded: "It's a relationship, but we deserve this money."
"At the beginning, according to the school's intention, the subsidy was divided into two parts. One-tenth was distributed directly to the individual, and the other 90% was pooled to jointly establish a fund, which was managed by the school and distributed dividends to everyone every year."
Bai Ye asked: "Isn't this a good way to provide the unemployed with a stable income?"
"It sounds like it's for our own good, but the problem is that I did some calculations. Even if we start receiving dividends from the second year, according to their rules, we have to live to at least 85 years old to get all the principal back. This is still Not counting interest.”
"Besides, since it is a fund, there are risks, right? What if we are told that we have lost money one day and no dividends will be paid or the dividends will be reduced in the future?"
Ana Shen nodded and agreed: "You are doing the right thing in this matter."
"Hey, I'm just trying to protect my own interests."
Zhang Changlin's face became a little ugly, and he said sadly: "Actually, when I was a teacher, I hated taking advantage of my privileges. In the end, I still had to use my interpersonal relationships to go through the back door."
"Later, after I was laid off, I took advantage of this relationship to help a group of workers resolve disputes and strive for benefits."
"As I come into contact with more and more people and things, I find that many people say they hate privilege and hate the privileged class. In fact, what they really hate is not the privilege itself, but the fact that they are not the ones enjoying the privilege."
