My name is Tao Yongjie, I am 55 years old. A native of Qixia, Yantai, she started working in 1990 as a female worker in a textile factory in Qingdao. I am a hard-luck person. After seven years of marriage, my husband died prematurely in a car accident. I, on my own, worked hard to raise my two children.
Three years ago, it was time for me to retire. After retirement, I will face a life of doing nothing every day and a pension of just 2,000 yuan. Although the children are now in a good situation, their jobs and incomes are very satisfactory. But I still feel it’s too idle and I can’t stand it. I also want to save more money while I am still young. After all, my son and daughter are not married yet!
Through the introduction of a friend, I found a job as a live-in nanny. The employer is a 67-year-old retired government cadre named Lao Lu who lives alone. He is in good health, but he likes drinking very much. My job is not tiring. I just clean up the family that he messed up because of his drinking. Occasionally help him wash clothes, buy groceries and cook.
Lao Lu’s monthly pension is 13,000 yuan, and he gives me a salary of 6,000 yuan. I especially cherish this job, because it is a light job and a lot of money, just like picking up money. Lao Lu's wife passed away six years ago. Because Lao Lu had a lot of social activities at work, he developed the habit of drinking every day. Even now that I am retired, I still have to drink every day. Lao Lu's only son didn't have time to take care of his father, so he asked someone to find a nanny.
Lao Lu is kind and generous. Although it is an employment relationship, I feel like being with him is like a friend. But as time went by and I got together with Lao Lu, I got a job that wasn’t work, that is, he asked me to drink with him every day. He said: It’s so comfortable for two people to drink some wine at home and chat. Don’t think about whether it’s a nanny or not. It was because of drinking. One time I drank too much, and Lao Lu and I had sex in a daze.
When the two of us reached this point, Lao Lu said that we might as well live together! Live your life well. However, people who live in old age do not go to get a marriage certificate and register it. Just tell your children that we can have a good time together.
I am thin-skinned and embarrassed to say anything. It was when I went home once that I spoke to my children. Said: I found an old man and wanted to live with him. My children are also reasonable and give me blessings, hoping that I will have a happy old age.
But there is something wrong with Lao Lu. When I worked as a nanny for Lao Lu, his son said: He was busy with work and rarely went back to his father's house. When Lao Lu told him: After we two get better, he will come back every now and then. At first I thought he had become filial. Later I found out that he was here to guard against me! He's afraid that I'll take away his father's belongings!
That month, I came back from grocery shopping. I saw Lao Lu and his son arguing. I was afraid that Lao Lu would be too excited and affect his health, so I went to persuade Lao Lu not to say anything. Lao Lu said: I didn't expect that this thing was not a thing. He came to my house and asked for my salary card and asked him to keep it somewhere. When I heard this, wasn't it directed at me?
Then Lao Lu's son said to me: Auntie, I came to see you myself and wanted to talk to you about a problem. I was stunned, what are you talking about with me? Lao Lu's son then said: You and my father are now a family. The family is no longer a nanny. If you are no longer a nanny, you should not be paid. Our old Lu family is generous and will give you a thousand yuan pocket money a month!
After hearing this, I almost fainted with anger. Even if my family is not rich, it is not short of this thousand yuan! Besides, the old man lives his life. Everything belongs to the old man, does it have anything to do with him? I work as a nanny to serve his father, and I earn 6,000 yuan a month. But he changed his story to me, saying that I had no status, and an aunt was short of 5,000 yuan. He really thought I couldn’t settle the accounts!
In the end, Lao Lu and I broke up like this. It also made me understand that a nanny is a nanny. You are there to make money. Love is too far away for people like us.
Are you right?
Oral narration: Tao Yongjie
Written by: Optimist Liu Ye Piao Piao
