Chapter 288 - "I am glad you thought of me." (1)
Zhang Huaxiu looked better after a couple days of rest. Shu Yan made sure she was feeling alright before she allowed her back at work.
“Let me know if you feel any discomfort. Don’t just try to bear it through. Nothing is more important than the baby in your belly right now.” Many people thought they could just bear it through for work. She didn’t want to be responsible if anything happened to the child.
“I know. I will let you know if I don’t feel well.” After a slight hesitation, Zhang Huaxiu said to Shu Yan, “I feel that Ling-jie is quite good. She isn’t a strong salesperson but that can be worked on.”
Ling-jie is the salesperson that was slightly older. She was reliable and attentive. She was the one who had been running the shop during Zhang Huaxiu’s absence and had not made any mistake.
“Do you plan on quitting after you have your child?” This was important for Shu Yan to know. She would need to plan ahead if Zhang Huaxiu did not intend to keep on working.
Zhang Huaxiu wanted to keep working. Now that she was familiar with it, the work wasn’t tiring plus the pay was excellent. She didn’t want to give it up. That being said, but she worried that she may not be able to handle it when she was more along her pregnancy plus she would need time off after the baby came. What was she going to do then?
Shu Yan could tell from her look that she liked the job very much and said to her, “I have mentioned it to you before already. If you want to work, then keep working. I’ll give you three-month maternity. Don’t worry too much. Worrying too much is not good for the child.”
Perhaps because she had taken a 5-day break and then discovering that Ling-jie was quite good at what she did, Zhang Huaxiu felt a bit threatened and panic.
Shu Yan had already thought about this when Zhang Huaxiu and Chen Fei got married. At their age, they would be thinking about having children as soon as they get married. Shu Yan figured that she could stand in for a little while but she had not expected Yanxue to expand so quickly. But it was fine. She’d just promote Ling-jie to deputy store manager and had her stood in for a while. If she was competent, Shu Yan could recommend her to become the store manager for their underwear shop.
Now that Zhang Huaxiu was pregnant, Shu Yan told her to avoid any heavy lifting and have the sales people under her take care of inventory, etc. She could still sell clothes. She didn’t need to be coddled to that point. If she couldn’t even do that, then there would be no point in her coming in to work.
Now that Zhang Huaxiu was back, Shu Yan no longer needed to stay in the shop all day long. Shu Yan planned to go and visit Hu Ruixue now that she was back.
Hu Ruixue was very emotional when she saw Shu Yan. “Duoduo… Duoduo called me mom yesterday when she saw me. She called me mom.” Hu Ruixue cried with her hands over her face.
Shu Yan patted her lightly on her shoulder and put her arms around her. This woman had tried very hard to appear strong and confident but she was fragile inside.
“That’s a good thing that Duoduo was able to call you mom. She will get better and better from this point forward.” Shu Yan, too, was happy that Duoduo was improving. It was very unfortunate that she could not be cured.
Hu Ruixue lost control of herself and cried into Shu Yan’s chest.
“I’m sorry you have to see that,” said Hu Ruixue, sniffling. She broke into a smile and said, “I’m just too emotional, being able to hear Duoduo calls me mom in this life time. I…” Having said that, she started crying once again.
Even Shu Yan felt the urge to cry when she saw that.
“She will get better and better. I came today to talk to you that as our company expands, we will need to go on business trips more often. My thought is to do that as little as possible and spend more time with our children. At the very minimum, only one of us will go at any given time. What do you think?” Never mind that Duoduo would need a lot of attention from Hu Ruixue, JingJing and Tianbao also needed to have Shu Yan by their sides. She couldn’t just pawn it all off onto the nanny.