The Slaughterman of Love
Chapter 25 - ampus RomanceC
Chapter 25: ampus RomanceC
Translator: May Zou
While she was waiting for the call for the interview, Jiang Youyou bought a used computer at a nearby flea market. Although it was a little old, it was still in good condition. The former owner must be a cute girl. The dust cover of the computer was pink HELLOKITTY, and something was written with the black oil pen on its case: “Humpty Dumpty, Baby Dolly wants to stay with you all my life. Thank you for the birthday gift you gave to me.”
It must be a romantic love story, in which the boy was named Humpty Dumpty and the girl’s name was Baby Dolly. Their photos were still stored in the computer. They seemed to be senior high school students, with a cute pose of V hands and non-mainstream facial expression. Today’s children… Jiang Youyou suddenly felt that her college days were a waste of time. All that she knew was to study, and she even didn’t know who had liked her, and now she had hardly had any contact with her classmates. There were over thirty classmates in her class, but now she could recall no one except for the monitor Wenbo, who posted a letter to her when she was in the welfare house before he went abroad, in which he thanked Jiang Youyou for her kindness to send him a mug of boiled coke with ginger when he caught cold. Such friendship between classmates was the most precious, he wrote.
Boiled coke with ginger? Jiang Youyou could never recollect she had done something like that. Maybe he had mistaken her for someone else because of his consuming fever. After that letter they lost contact with each other.
Living in this community was quite convenient for her to buy fresh vegetables, for many truck farmers had their own stalls. Because she bought vegetables at their stalls for many times, some of them offered the door-to-door service. They might send her fresh spinach or pakchoi, or various melons and gourds. When they were passing by they would cry out downstairs, “Miss Jiang, do you want anything?” If she did, Jiang Youyou would throw some bills down and the vegetables would be put at the door, which would be picked up after she got up. The door of the yard was always open, but few people would come in. It was actually a tranquil place.
The farm product market was also a most attractive place, in which there was a tailor’s shop which specialized in making clothes for villagers. Sometimes it also made graveclothes, an all-purpose style of female ghost asking for life with scarlet color.
One day when Jiang Youyou passed the shop, she saw a pile of discounted cloth of gorgeous and tacky pink plaid. It might be out of fashion, so she could buy a lot of cloth for only fifty yuan. With another ten yuan the tailor would make it into curtains with buttons sewed on. Then she would hang the curtains on the windows to replace the original dull ones. This would bring her a pleasant surprise.
And the internet was also connected. She felt more of the convenience to live here. The computer was fast enough and well worth it for its price of two thousand Yuan. It was raining intermittently outside of the window. She made a pot of West Lake Longjing tea, and drank it with some snacks. What an agreeable afternoon.
When she was chatting idly on QQ with a strange town fellow, her phone rang.
“Ah, interview at two thirty this afternoon? OK, I’ll be there on time. Thank you, Sis Zhao.” This phone call for the interview was the very thing Jiang Youyou had been expecting.
“It’s me to thank you. Later that day I went to see the doctor and she told me it’s true that job’s-tears has some side effects on pregnant women.” In her office, Zhao Huixin looked at her belly with happiness. When the new employees started to work, she could successfully retreat without any deduction of her salary.
More than two hundred girls crowded around the door of the Human Resource Department in OSY Foreign Trade Corporation. Jiang Youyou forgot to put on makeup. How awful it was!
They got the number and waited in the training room outside. The company was not really big, but the decoration of the office was rather fastidious, and one could tell this from the magnificent and expensive crystal chandelier.
Zhao Huixin entered and glanced around. She handed around an introduction to the company to each of them. Jiang Youyou read it briefly.
“OSY Foreign Trade Corporation belongs to ‘WORLDBEATY’, which is headquartered in America. It is a company specializing in foreign trade with the spirit of specialization, self-confidence and self-reliance, and courageous innovation. It is doing a lot of business in Europe, America, in Southeast Asia and in China. It is a specialized agency rapidly growing in distribution of new small household appliances, ornaments and clothing. Our business philosophy and long-term goals are to reach a win-win cooperation through a sustainable, healthy and stable development!”
Zhao Huixin looked at the whispering girls below the stage and stood before the podium. “Everybody, please be quiet.” She drew her belly a little back so that it wouldn’t be so obviously seen that she was in the family way, which was actually quite noticeable to everyone as long as one watched narrowly.
Jiang Youyou seated herself in the last row. Zhao Huixin’s eyes fell on her head for over five seconds. Then she began to speak, “I believe all of you have now had a brief knowledge of our company after finishing the informative reading at hand. The staff in our company work eight hours a day from Monday to Friday, then rest at a two-day weekend per week. They also enjoy legal holidays. In the urban area there are free shuttle buses to fetch the employees to and back from work. Of course the company can also provide free dormitories and free lunch. Besides the legal holidays, there are an extra two-month vacation per year. The competition is fierce in this recruitment, so I wish all candidates obtain their expected results.”
The long-haired girl beside Jiang Youyou turned to her and said, “Which university did you graduate from? I’m Alice, and my Chinese name is Xu Nuo.”
“I’m Jiang Youyou, I graduated from an ordinary college. Glad to meet you.” Jiang Youyou cast a look at Xu Nuo and saw that she didn’t put on any makeup except her eyelashes. It had rained, but her eyelashes weren’t smudged at all. Jiang wondered what brand her mascara was.
If she were a man, Jiang Youyou thought, she would choose a beautiful girl like her as the girlfriend. She looked very confident. And the suit she wore looked more expensive than the Ports suit Jiang Youyou herself was wearing. And she also wore a necklace with a diamond pendent. Her fingers were delicate and tender. Jiang Youyou couldn’t understand why such girls from rich families would want to work. If she herself were in rich family, she would stay at home, just enjoying the fortune of her parents.
Xu Nuo gazed at Zhao Huixin on the stage and listened carefully to her.
“All right. Now let’s begin the first part of the interview.” Zhao Huixin raised her voice a little, which made the audience below quieter. “First, the girls who put on beautiful makeup please stay here and those who didn’t have any makeup please follow Mira and go out of the training room.”
Translator: May Zou
While she was waiting for the call for the interview, Jiang Youyou bought a used computer at a nearby flea market. Although it was a little old, it was still in good condition. The former owner must be a cute girl. The dust cover of the computer was pink HELLOKITTY, and something was written with the black oil pen on its case: “Humpty Dumpty, Baby Dolly wants to stay with you all my life. Thank you for the birthday gift you gave to me.”
It must be a romantic love story, in which the boy was named Humpty Dumpty and the girl’s name was Baby Dolly. Their photos were still stored in the computer. They seemed to be senior high school students, with a cute pose of V hands and non-mainstream facial expression. Today’s children… Jiang Youyou suddenly felt that her college days were a waste of time. All that she knew was to study, and she even didn’t know who had liked her, and now she had hardly had any contact with her classmates. There were over thirty classmates in her class, but now she could recall no one except for the monitor Wenbo, who posted a letter to her when she was in the welfare house before he went abroad, in which he thanked Jiang Youyou for her kindness to send him a mug of boiled coke with ginger when he caught cold. Such friendship between classmates was the most precious, he wrote.
Boiled coke with ginger? Jiang Youyou could never recollect she had done something like that. Maybe he had mistaken her for someone else because of his consuming fever. After that letter they lost contact with each other.
Living in this community was quite convenient for her to buy fresh vegetables, for many truck farmers had their own stalls. Because she bought vegetables at their stalls for many times, some of them offered the door-to-door service. They might send her fresh spinach or pakchoi, or various melons and gourds. When they were passing by they would cry out downstairs, “Miss Jiang, do you want anything?” If she did, Jiang Youyou would throw some bills down and the vegetables would be put at the door, which would be picked up after she got up. The door of the yard was always open, but few people would come in. It was actually a tranquil place.
The farm product market was also a most attractive place, in which there was a tailor’s shop which specialized in making clothes for villagers. Sometimes it also made graveclothes, an all-purpose style of female ghost asking for life with scarlet color.
One day when Jiang Youyou passed the shop, she saw a pile of discounted cloth of gorgeous and tacky pink plaid. It might be out of fashion, so she could buy a lot of cloth for only fifty yuan. With another ten yuan the tailor would make it into curtains with buttons sewed on. Then she would hang the curtains on the windows to replace the original dull ones. This would bring her a pleasant surprise.
And the internet was also connected. She felt more of the convenience to live here. The computer was fast enough and well worth it for its price of two thousand Yuan. It was raining intermittently outside of the window. She made a pot of West Lake Longjing tea, and drank it with some snacks. What an agreeable afternoon.
When she was chatting idly on QQ with a strange town fellow, her phone rang.
“Ah, interview at two thirty this afternoon? OK, I’ll be there on time. Thank you, Sis Zhao.” This phone call for the interview was the very thing Jiang Youyou had been expecting.
“It’s me to thank you. Later that day I went to see the doctor and she told me it’s true that job’s-tears has some side effects on pregnant women.” In her office, Zhao Huixin looked at her belly with happiness. When the new employees started to work, she could successfully retreat without any deduction of her salary.
More than two hundred girls crowded around the door of the Human Resource Department in OSY Foreign Trade Corporation. Jiang Youyou forgot to put on makeup. How awful it was!
They got the number and waited in the training room outside. The company was not really big, but the decoration of the office was rather fastidious, and one could tell this from the magnificent and expensive crystal chandelier.
Zhao Huixin entered and glanced around. She handed around an introduction to the company to each of them. Jiang Youyou read it briefly.
“OSY Foreign Trade Corporation belongs to ‘WORLDBEATY’, which is headquartered in America. It is a company specializing in foreign trade with the spirit of specialization, self-confidence and self-reliance, and courageous innovation. It is doing a lot of business in Europe, America, in Southeast Asia and in China. It is a specialized agency rapidly growing in distribution of new small household appliances, ornaments and clothing. Our business philosophy and long-term goals are to reach a win-win cooperation through a sustainable, healthy and stable development!”
Zhao Huixin looked at the whispering girls below the stage and stood before the podium. “Everybody, please be quiet.” She drew her belly a little back so that it wouldn’t be so obviously seen that she was in the family way, which was actually quite noticeable to everyone as long as one watched narrowly.
Jiang Youyou seated herself in the last row. Zhao Huixin’s eyes fell on her head for over five seconds. Then she began to speak, “I believe all of you have now had a brief knowledge of our company after finishing the informative reading at hand. The staff in our company work eight hours a day from Monday to Friday, then rest at a two-day weekend per week. They also enjoy legal holidays. In the urban area there are free shuttle buses to fetch the employees to and back from work. Of course the company can also provide free dormitories and free lunch. Besides the legal holidays, there are an extra two-month vacation per year. The competition is fierce in this recruitment, so I wish all candidates obtain their expected results.”
The long-haired girl beside Jiang Youyou turned to her and said, “Which university did you graduate from? I’m Alice, and my Chinese name is Xu Nuo.”
“I’m Jiang Youyou, I graduated from an ordinary college. Glad to meet you.” Jiang Youyou cast a look at Xu Nuo and saw that she didn’t put on any makeup except her eyelashes. It had rained, but her eyelashes weren’t smudged at all. Jiang wondered what brand her mascara was.
If she were a man, Jiang Youyou thought, she would choose a beautiful girl like her as the girlfriend. She looked very confident. And the suit she wore looked more expensive than the Ports suit Jiang Youyou herself was wearing. And she also wore a necklace with a diamond pendent. Her fingers were delicate and tender. Jiang Youyou couldn’t understand why such girls from rich families would want to work. If she herself were in rich family, she would stay at home, just enjoying the fortune of her parents.
Xu Nuo gazed at Zhao Huixin on the stage and listened carefully to her.
“All right. Now let’s begin the first part of the interview.” Zhao Huixin raised her voice a little, which made the audience below quieter. “First, the girls who put on beautiful makeup please stay here and those who didn’t have any makeup please follow Mira and go out of the training room.”