Chapter 1359 Breaking out of the door
July 25, 1987, was supposed to be a happy day.
Because not only is the weather sunny this day, but it is also a golden Sunday, which is Friday.
After finishing this day's work, for most people working in enterprises and companies, a happy weekend will come.
Although Kagawa Rinko is also the store manager of Eibundang Bookstore, she does not enjoy the blessing of a full weekend. She has to work in the bookstore these two days.
But after all, for two days she could at least have a good nap at home, and she could sleep until almost noon before going to the bookstore. At least she could relax and take a good breath.
So she got up early this morning and was in a very happy mood.
But just when she got up and walked to the bathroom on the first floor to wash up, an unexpected situation completely ruined her mood.
When Ganqing passed by the stairs, she actually clearly heard the sound of her brother-in-law and sister quarreling in the room upstairs.
“...The competition in the insurance industry is too fierce. It’s not easy to be a branch manager, especially in Tokyo. I have no choice. Give me the money first. Then you can Renren, as long as I can become the branch leader, everything will be fine..."
"You always say that. You said the same thing last time when you were going to be the team leader, but our life never got better. Can you take a good look at our current living situation? Since we got married and spent our honeymoon, we have been It’s even harder to go out for a meal. I don’t even have a good vacuum cleaner to clean my room, and I usually only wear Rinzi’s clothes when I go out. We are even more embarrassed than when we were saving money to buy a house together before we got married. In order to make up for the family expenses, I even shamelessly accepted the rent paid by my sister. But even so, our savings have not increased, and your external expenses have increased. Who can bear this kind of life? I've really had enough..."
"You're here again. Why are you so complaining now? Don't you understand me at all? Isn't it hard for me? I get up at seven o'clock every morning, wash up, have breakfast, and then walk out of the house to catch the subway to work. It takes more than half an hour one way from our home to my company. After going to work at 8:30, I will work until at least 9 pm, which lasts for more than 12 hours. After drinking with my colleagues, it is often only around 11 pm before I get home and go to bed. One and a half hours. After finishing my late dinner and taking a shower, it’s almost time to go to bed. I only have six hours of sleep every day, and then it’s a new day. Why do I wake up so early and work around the clock? What? Am I not contributing to the family, am I trying to make your life better? "
"I know you work hard, but can I take it easy since 5:30 in the morning? Get up and be busy with cooking, laundry, cleaning, and all kinds of chores all day long, and you can't go to bed until half past ten. I said, don't avoid reality. The problem that needs to be solved now is that you get it from me every month. The money you want to take away is more than what you got back. Don't you know that we have to pay off the mortgage? Let me tell you, the last bit of savings in the family would have been used up by you if I hadn't been here, President Wei Ning. I signed a store contract with Osaka and received a labor fee. It was impossible to survive these few months. I finally managed to hold on until you paid the half-year bonus. I just thought I could breathe a sigh of relief and finally make it through two years. I don’t have to worry about expenses for a month, but the money hasn’t warmed up yet, and now you want to take it away again. Tell me, how can I persist in this life?”
“Don’t be so exaggerated. Of course I also know that you are worried about family expenses, but my half-year bonus is much more than we thought. The company is very generous and gave me a full one million yen, plus salary and commission, the total is 1 million yen. One and a half million yen. I only want 200,000 yen for necessary entertainment. Is it too much to ask for money? Okay? Let's do the math. If there is no half-year bonus, then your salary and bonus last month will be only 50,000 yen, and you will need 30,000 yen for pocket money every month. The fixed mortgage loan of 8,000 yen must be repaid. Moreover, at the beginning of the month, you used this reason to take away 150,000 yen. Now you want to take away 200,000 yen all of a sudden. This is completely overspending, okay? Even if Rinzi paid 60,000 yen in rent, she still had to pay it all. Don’t we all need money in our daily lives? Do you still think that a half-year bonus of one million yen is a lot? How many days can we hold on like this? It’s not that I don’t want to give you money, but if this continues, our lives will be completely ruined. ”
The reason why Sakai Yujiro and Miyoko quarreled was very practical, it was about money.
Listening to their fierce exchange of words, Kagawa Rinko, who walked upstairs unknowingly, stood at the door of their room and stopped.
She didn't dare to go in, but she was quite worried.
You know, her sister and brother-in-law have always looked like a loving couple in front of her.
Even if there are occasional conflicts, no one has ever cared too much about it. How could there be a time like this when we would hide in the room early in the morning and start arguing, refusing to give in to each other?
Like today, I can be so noisy that I don't care about working hours, and my voice is so loud that I am noticed.
It shows that their contradiction is quite profound and cannot be avoided or resolved.
Even she felt sorry for them. It was the first time she realized that her sister and brother-in-law seemed to have serious financial problems after their marriage.
However, she was not allowed to think too much, and the quarrel in the room escalated further.
"Isn't this because my position is not high enough? We have talked about this issue many times in the past two months. Why can't you still understand me? You have to know that I am the team leader Although the salary and bonuses have increased, there are also more responsibilities. You can’t just take care of yourself as before.”
As if he had been touched, Zuo Hai Yujiro's voice rose again and was full of grievances.
"The so-called team leader, in addition to continuing to do insurance sales business, is also responsible for recruiting and training qualified insurance salespeople outside to complete a certain amount of business. In order to accomplish this goal, he There will be a lot of additional expenses. For example, my salespeople cannot use the company phone to call customers. Instead, they have to pay out of their own pockets to use the public phone installed in the company. Many people are not willing to bear it now. With such an expense, I have no choice but to spend my own money to buy some phone cards and subsidize them for everyone to use.”
“That’s not all. Even if I hire a salesperson, I can’t feel at ease because of the turnover in this industry. Too much sex makes it difficult to retain talents. In fact, the reason is very simple. Everyone who engages in insurance sales relies on favors and finds some relatives and friends to sell. But if you think about it, this kind of resources can only last for two or three months. It will be used up in less than half a year. If it cannot be sold, people will naturally stop staying here. In this way, a lot of investment in phone cards will be wasted. "
"The most troublesome thing is. , after the salesperson leaves, all the customers they bring in will soon come to ask for insurance reimbursement. If they cannot retain the customers, the team leader will be criticized in the end. In order to maintain the sales performance under his name, in order to retain customers, he will inevitably have to do so. Give some discounts or give gifts, and I will naturally bear the cost.”
“You don’t need to tell me, I know this is not good, but all this effort is meaningful, and it will end in the end. . As long as I can climb to the position of branch manager, I will no longer have to worry about specific sales results. By then, both income and benefits will have further increased, and I will also have my own office. Everything is completely different from the fact that I am a small team leader now..."
Yujiro Sakai talked about the difficulties in his work.
But Rinko Kagawa outside the door felt that he was a bit too obsessed with the uncertain goal of promotion. Although it is understandable to demand progress in your career, you should never pursue your goals in such a way that is unrealistic or even destroys the balance of family life.
After all, he is married, so he has to be responsible for the family.
Where does this put my sister if she acts so recklessly?
As expected, her sister Miyoko also holds the same view.
"Then you are walking a tightrope. You are just an office worker who works to get a salary from the company, but instead pay out of your own pocket for work. This situation sounds too bizarre. If this is the case, How can our lives be guaranteed? Then you might as well not be the leader of this team." But these words were unacceptable to Zuo Hai Yujiro, and his voice began to tremble.
"You...what did you say? Ask...let me not be the team leader. You...you are really weird. Other wives hope that their husbands can succeed, but you are so good that you actually want me to settle down." Because of the current situation. Can you not be too weird? This is the case for any insurance company. What does it matter if you suffer a little now? This is all for the sake of becoming a branch manager in the future. You take it for granted. How can it be so easy to be a branch leader? There are probably no less than twenty team leaders in your branch, right? I remember you said that there can only be one branch leader among these people, right? Okay? If you have the support of the second minister, then others may not have a bad relationship with the minister. Besides, how can you be sure that you will be chosen? We might as well consider it. We can take practical measures to improve our situation. Now I can still go out to work. Why can't we take it easy together like we did before? If we make money together, it will be enough to pay off all the loans in two or three years. Isn’t it good that we can then think about having children and other things when we have some savings?”
It should be said that Miyoko's consideration was entirely from a pragmatic perspective.
Her step-by-step plan is much more reliable in terms of feasibility than Zukai Yujiro's radical approach.
However, in this social environment where economic bubbles are rampant and everyone is eager for quick success, her suggestions have an impact on Yujiro Sakai, who hopes to achieve success immediately and has deep-rooted machismo in his heart. A big thrill.
"You just don't think highly of me. When you say this, you are blaming me for not having the ability. I know that you make more money than me when you work. But I am also a man, at least, I have always been there Work hard. Now I know how much you look down on me. Do you think that a person like me will always be an ordinary little person? No? If you think there's nothing wrong with me, then let's just get divorced! Whatever you say, don't blame anyone else for not being good. After receiving the support he wanted from his wife, Yujiro Sakai misunderstood Miyoko's kindness and regarded her advice as a contempt and insult to himself.
As a result, his frustration suddenly aggravated his inner inferiority complex, and he became angry and roared uncontrollably.
As soon as he finished his hysterical words, he impulsively opened the door and rushed out, so much so that he almost bumped into Rinko Kagawa outside the door.
But even though this unexpected situation was surprising, what caused Yujiro Sakai to have more emotional effects at this time was undoubtedly his disgraceful sullenness.
So he only glanced at Rinko Kagawa, then left with a tigerish face, without even leaving a word.
Rinko Kagawa stood at the door and heard silence in the room.
After a while, the whimpering sounds of my sister Miyoko could be heard.
First there was a trickle of water, and then the dam mouth burst.
Rinko Kagawa looked back and found that Yujiro Sakai had disappeared at the entrance.
She didn't dare to delay any longer and hurried into the room to comfort her sister who was crying on the bed.
She shook Miyoko's arm and said, "Sister! Sister! Don't cry! It's okay, it's okay! Sister! Don't cry! Sit up, sit up! Drink some water first."< br>
Kagawa Rinko helped her sister sit up.
"Sister, don't be angry. How could you and your brother-in-law get into this quarrel over money? It's not worth it. Don't embarrass your brother-in-law, he also has his difficulties. Think of the good things. , After all, my brother-in-law also wants to make progress and give you a better life. What conflicts between you and your husband are irreconcilable? Why don’t you just take a step back and I will take a step back? No matter what, there is no relationship or family harmony. It’s important. What do you think? You guys had a really fierce fight today. You don’t look like the sister you used to be. It makes me so scared!”
Miyoko was slurring her words while wiping her tears. Said, "You think I want to quarrel with him! He really hurts my heart! I'm not afraid of hardship, otherwise I wouldn't marry him. And what I value is that he is sincerely good to me. All I ask for is a stable life and a warm family. Is this too much? He is now obsessed with dreaming unrealistically and he actually says that I despise him and wants to divorce me! "Yeah!"
Rinko Kagawa wiped her sister's nose and said, "Wipe it! Harder!"
While combing her sister's hair, he said it in anger, not really. Divorce you. You obviously know this, so why do you insist on being serious about a few words? Isn’t it difficult for you? Let me advise you again, my brother-in-law has his faults, but he works hard and is eager to get promoted. , this is at least worthy of recognition! If we are together again and find awkwardness, why bother! It is better to look at his advantages and discuss with him to see if this path is feasible. It doesn’t matter if I’m stressed, because I have money. I work two jobs now and don’t have any expenses. Just like this month, in addition to the company’s annual bonus, President Ning also gave me an annual bonus. I have saved a lot of money this year. Can I give you one million for emergency use?”
Miyoko sobbed and said, "No, it can't be done. Rinko, I can't even take care of my mother's side at home now. It's all up to you to send money to my hometown. I'm already ashamed enough. How can I take your money again for Yujiro's sake?" Money? Don't worry about me. You should save your money for the sake of the future. Don't give without reservation and trust men without reservation like my sister. I'm not afraid to tell you that I regret it now. The mistake was that I thought marriage was too simple. Now I have cut off my own retreat and left everything to others, so now I don’t even have the right to work. Why would I have gotten married if I had known this? Asking for trouble..."