"That is to say," Hesta leaned forward slightly, "during the transaction process, you will negotiate one-on-one with the buyer, right?"
"Of course, you are worth the effort we put in," Mihailo bent down again to pull the drawer at his feet. "You are by no means an ordinary commodity. If someone puts you in the same place as those ordinary commodities, Sold on the shelves, that is a real waste of money... Come, take a look at this."
Mihailo pushed over a magazine, and Hesta glanced at the words about District 14 on it.
"...I don't understand this."
"You don't need to read the words. Just pick it up and flip through it. Where are the pictures?" Mihailo handed the book to Hesta. "This is an investigation report made by a newspaper in the South Fourteenth District five years ago. The title is: The Hestadians Doomed to Disappear."
Hesta took the magazine, which seemed to be a special issue. If you flip through a few pages, you can see photos of the daily life of the Hesta people, including many of their festival activities and sacrificial scenes.
She looked through it without saying a word.
"The absolute number of Hestads is now very rare. On the one hand, your original number was not large. Furthermore, you are more accustomed to living in the wilderness. Any natural or man-made disaster can quickly attack you in pieces. Unfortunately, the population of the Hesta tribe has dropped sharply around the world in the past twenty years. According to this trend, I am afraid that in the next twenty or thirty years, it will be difficult for us to see children with beautiful faces like yours.
"But thanks to this report," Mihailo said softly, "the market price of the Hesta people has increased twenty times compared to before."
"...Twenty times." Hesta murmured softly.
"Not everyone can increase the price twenty times, can you understand what I mean?" Mihailo whispered, "And, let me make a bold guess, the disability of your right arm must be used there. Did you lower the price? Something like, 'Although you are generally in good condition, you are missing an arm after all'... She must have said that, right?"
Hesta did not answer, just looked at Mihailo quietly.
"I knew it," Mihailo read the affirmation from Hesta's eyes, and he let out a slightly sarcastic laugh, "You can't get any benefits from those low-level bitches, they can You can figure out who I can reach by just thinking about it.”
Hesta glanced at her empty sleeves, "If it weren't for this hand, I wouldn't have retired... It's normal for her to lower the price."
"What a big mistake!" Mihailo knocked on the table, "Just the opposite!"
"How to say?"
"Because her customers are all as low-class as she is! This low-classness is reflected in their backward aesthetics!"
Mihailo stood up again and started pacing in the office.
"There is a saying that has been very popular in livable places in recent years. I am sure you must have heard it - 'Every body shape is beautiful'. This is definitely a wise saying and expresses the essence of female beauty. Some people have their own ideas. If you are not smart, you will just say to girls, 'This is just a high-sounding lie'...Ah ha, these people don't know anything, they have never understood the true meaning of this sentence!"
"what is it then."
"I can tell you clearly that every body shape is beautiful. This is true, because every body shape can be consumed, and every body shape can be clearly marked with a price - the only question is, do you have it?" Do you have the strength to find a buyer who loves you?
"As long as you are twenty years old, as long as you have good facial features, no matter whether you are fat, thin, tall or short, black or white, there is no girl who is not twenty years old who is not beautiful! As long as you can find a buyer, every twenty-year-old girl All of them are breathtakingly beautiful - do you understand? That lady who contacted you yesterday, can she help you find such a buyer?"
It dawned on Hesta.
"…You mean you can."
"What are you talking about! Why are you still asking this kind of question at this time?" Mihailo almost laughed. He opened his arms towards Hesta. "I have a list in my mind right now, with at least ten items on it. The names of several people, most of them are not in the 14th District now, but each of them comes from the real upper class, and each of them is obsessed with stumps! You will not be underpriced here at all, do you understand? You are simply a rare treasure!"
"Before I tell you these realities," Mihailo clapped his hands excitedly, "tell me, can you imagine?"
"It's unimaginable." Hesta whispered.
Mihailo sat down directly next to Hesta, and gestured with his bare hands on the coffee table in front of the sofa.
"I ask you to imagine a normal distribution." Mihailo whispered, "Most women are concentrated under the bell curve in the middle. People like Eleven Mom are doing this part of the business... I'm different."
Mihailo hit the right end of the normal distribution hard.
"My main business will always only target those groups outside Three Sigma, whether it is my customers or the candidates I find for my customers - I hope you don't mind me saying this, I am just trying my best to express to you My sincerity.”
Hesta lowered her eyes slightly.
After a long silence, she spoke softly, "I want to believe your sincerity, but Dr. Mihailo, I believe in numbers more. You have said so much... Indeed, every sentence touches me, but if you don't Give me a specific amount, and we’d better not talk about it.”
Hesta breathed out, "I'm serious."
Mihailo stared deeply at Hesta.
"Since...you are so insistent, then I can indeed reveal some more information to you. Tell me, how much do you know about the price level here in District 14?"
"do not know much."
"Okay, let's start with this question."
Mihailo quickly pulled out a piece of white paper from the desk and wrote a number on it.
"This was last year's minimum wage in the North Fourteenth District: 947 robbies.
"That is to say, no matter who you are or where you are, as long as you find a job in the formal labor market, you can earn at least 947 robi a month - this is not a lot of money, but it is enough to make you work in the formal labor market. Live in most cities in the North 14th District. Although venues such as concerts and street restaurants are not available to you, the money is enough for you to maintain basic clothing, food, housing and transportation.
"Also last year, what was the median salary in the North 14th Ward? 2,125.
"Median, you know, you count from the poorest group of people up, and you count from the richest group of people down, the person in the middle of the crowd, take this money - these two With a monthly salary of one thousand, you can get about one thousand seventy-eight robi, and if you get it, you will be more than half the people there.”
