By the time Dong Qiangqiang walked back to the multi-purpose room, most of the people in the room had already left.
He saw that Lu Wei and a boy wearing glasses had just finished talking and walked over quickly.
"You spoke very well tonight," Dong Qiangqiang complimented, although he didn't listen very carefully. "Candidates like you who take into account both study and life must be very popular. I believe there will be many people choosing you. of."
"Really? I'm still very nervous," Lu Wei smiled shyly, "I was always worried that my tube top would slip off, so I didn't even look at the audience."
Dong Qiangqiang saw that many people had left and asked straight to the point: "Can you please introduce the people you mentioned on the phone who have taken the preparatory exam so that I can learn from them?"
Lu Wei opened her mouth in shock: "Oh no, I forgot all about this." She quickly looked around for a while, then said apologetically: "They... seem to have all left."
Dong Qiangqiang was a little uninterested, but he still showed indifference on his face and comforted him: "It's okay. I'll wait until I have a chance next time."
"Don't worry. I'll say hello to you later. You can just talk to them face to face. The environment today is not very good, it's a bit noisy."
Dong Qiangqiang was about to say a few words of thanks before leaving, when someone behind him suddenly said: "Isn't this Dong Qiangqiang?"
This is Yu Jianghai's voice.
Sure enough, Yu Jianghai strolled over from behind him. He glanced at Dong Qiangqiang and then at Lu Wei: "I saw the two of you chatting lively from afar. Isn't it about the student union president?"
Lu Wei felt a little embarrassed when he said it. She pushed her hair behind her ears: "This is Dong Qiangqiang, whom you know. He is a new classmate. Let me introduce him to the situation here."
"Canvassing for votes is canvassing for votes. What's the point of being embarrassed? Come on, let me do the same: Dong Qiangqiang, you are welcome to vote for me. We have a happy cooperation." He said while extending his right hand, ready to shake hands with Dong Qiangqiang.
Dong Qiangqiang ignored his overture and smiled slightly: "I'm here to learn from Teacher Lu. Maybe I will vote for her, maybe I will run for the student union president myself."
Yu Jianghai was a little surprised, but he reacted immediately. He laughed, stretched out his left hand and patted his right hand naturally, looked at Lu Wei, and praised: "Look at how powerful the newbies are now. Not long after they arrived, life has changed." I don’t know much about the country, so I started thinking about participating in the election. It’s amazing, it’s amazing!”
Dong Qiangqiang ignored his sarcasm, turned to Lu Wei and said, "I'm leaving. Let's call back later. Good night." After saying that, he strode towards the door.
Yu Jianghai silently stared at Dong Qiangqiang's back, with a complicated expression on his face.
Dong Qiangqiang looked while walking. He originally wanted to say hello to Dong Yiqing before leaving, but after looking around, he didn't find Dong Yiqing.
As soon as he walked out of the multifunctional door, he bumped into someone. The person didn't even raise his head and said, "Don't you have eyes when you walk?"
Dong Qiangqiang was about to have an attack, and when he looked at the other party, he suddenly became happy: "Why are you here?"
"You kid...why are you here?" The person who came was Lei Lanting.
"I'm here to listen to the seniors' sharing. Why are you here now? The sharing is over."
"Hey, I overslept. I rushed here when I woke up, but it was still too late." Lei Lanting looked frustrated.
"There are still a few people inside, you can go in and take a look. I'll leave first."
"Hey, Dong Qiangqiang, do you live far away?" Lei Lanting asked suddenly.
"It's usually far away. What's wrong?"
"Well, I was in a hurry to go out just now and I left my keys at home. Can you..." Lei Lanting rubbed the back of his head, looking a little embarrassed, "I'm going to spend the night at your place? I promise not to snore."
Seeing Dong Qiangqiang's hesitant look, he quickly added: "Don't get me wrong, I'm a straight man, and I have no other thoughts about you. I really forgot my key. I have to go to the landlord tomorrow to get the spare key."
Dong Qiangqiang was amused by him: "I'm not worried about you. I know you like Tong Lele. But the problem is that I only have a mattress. If you go, you can only sleep on the floor."
"That's no problem." Lei Lanting looked happy, "Sleeping on the floor is better than sleeping on the street. You don't know, I didn't bring the key with me once before, so I had to sleep on the street. It was so painful that time. "
"You've been here for so long and don't you know anyone else?"
"I didn't bring anything with me that time. I left my mobile phone, wallet, student ID card and everything else at home. Where could I go in the middle of the night?"
The two of them talked quietly as they walked outside, and their figures gradually disappeared at the end of the path outside the building.
There are many empty lunch boxes thrown in the trash cans on the roadside. The restaurant's red logo is printed on the side of the box, and four powerful traditional Chinese characters are written on it: Yipin Hibiscus.
*
Dong Yiqing sat in front of her desk. The desk lamp on the desk emitted a warm orange light, shining on a black suitcase in front of her. She remembered the conversation between Zhang Shuo and herself just now.
Thirty minutes ago, in a corner of the multi-purpose room.
Zhang Shuo sat upright on the chair, crossed his legs, and stretched out two fingers: "Let me tell you two things. First, the exhibition will still start next Friday, but you need to come to my house at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning. The company in Frankfurt accepts interviews from the company’s top management, that is, our family members.”
"Wednesday?" Dong Yiqing took a breath. She had an important class to communicate with the German professor on Wednesday morning. "Since the exhibition only starts on Friday, can't we arrive on Thursday afternoon? I will definitely not delay Friday's work. .”
Zhang Shuo sneered twice and gestured in the air with his hand: "When you become the boss in the future, you can set your own time." As he said, he threw a small off-white card on the table, "This It’s your ticket.”
It seems that there is no room for negotiation on time.
Dong Yiqing glanced at the ticket and asked, "Didn't you say before that you could work directly? What happened to the interview?"
"Huh, just work right away? Do you think we are some kind of small workshop?" Zhang Shuo's tone suddenly became domineering, "Our family is a well-known private enterprise in the south and will be listed soon. Everything must be done according to the rules. Come on. Do you understand the rules? I've already given you preferential treatment by letting you participate in the interview, so don't be dissatisfied."
Dong Yiqing immediately understood: Zhang Shuo had no control over finding business translators. His biggest say was to select some people to participate in the translator interview. It seems that he is just a little guy in their family.
"What if I pass the interview?" Dong Yiqing put the ticket in her pocket.
"Then congratulations on being able to go to work on Friday." Zhang Shuopi said with a smile.
"What about the reward?" Dong Yiqing was worried that there would be changes in terms of money.
"We are a big company, and we keep our word. The promised number will not change. It will still be 240 marks a day. From 8:30 in the morning to 17:30 in the evening, you can take a break at noon. If you work overtime at night, you will be counted as overtime. One hour of overtime will be counted as 50 marks. . Wages are paid daily. How about it?" Zhang Shuo said and suddenly reached out to hold Dong Yiqing's hand, "If you perform well, you may even get a red envelope."
Dong Yiqing moved her hands behind her back to avoid the opponent's sneak attack. Although Dong Yiqing was a little surprised by the first request, she had no choice. She needed money now. Let alone let her compete for the position of translator, she could accept it even if she was asked to compete for the position of hotel cleaner. Who would let her She owed someone else money.
"What about the second thing?" Dong Yiqing asked coldly.
Zhang Shuo put a black suitcase on the table, opened the lock on the box with two "pops", opened the lid and turned the suitcase around.
Dong Yiqing saw that the box was filled with various documents and materials.
"This is what you may be asked in the interview. Don't be nervous, it's in Chinese." Zhang Shuo stood up with a smirk on his face, turned around and walked towards the door. He waved his hand and said without looking back, "Forgot Let me tell you, you can only speak German and English during the interview. Good luck to you."
Zhang Shuo twisted his waist and disappeared from the door.
Dong Yiqing opened the suitcase and neatly stacked the documents inside on the table. She looked at the contents of the materials while coding, and found that except for a few materials related to building materials, most of them were related to stone materials. The articles were mixed with a large number of technical terms and proper nouns.
The interview was coming up on Wednesday, and she didn't have much time left. She decided to start by solving new words.
She picked up one of the materials and started searching.
*
"Do you live here?" Lei Lanting stood at the gate of No. 54 Hippo Street, looked at the left and right sides of the street, and whispered in surprise: "Is this a red light district?"
"Really? Why didn't I know?" Dong Qiangqiang took out the key, unlocked the door, and walked in. Lei Lanting was still looking outside the door, and Dong Qiangqiang whispered: "Stop looking, come in quickly."
Lei Lanting looked at everything in the building curiously as he went upstairs, making "tsk tsk" sounds from time to time.
"I live in this room." Dong Qiangqiang opened his door and pointed to the other side of the corridor. "The bathroom is over there. If you want to take a shower, hurry up. If you wait too late, there will be no hot water."
"No way? Are you limiting the time of hot water supply?" Lei Lanting muttered dissatisfiedly, "My place has 24-hour hot water. As soon as I turn on the faucet..."
Lei Lanting suddenly saw Dong Qiangqiang's eyes and quickly changed his words: "Forget it, I won't wash it tonight."
"If you are sleepy, you can sleep first. If you are not, you can surf the Internet at my place." Dong Qiangqiang pointed to the laptop on the table and said, "I have to go to class tomorrow and go to the kitchen to read a book."
Lei Lanting knew that Dong Qiangqiang was going to take the preparatory exam. He couldn't help but feel a little strange: "You didn't even take the entrance exam for the preparatory course. What classes are you taking?"
Dong Qiangqiang shook the driving textbook in his hand.
"You want to learn to drive?" Lei Lanting was shocked, "This... I heard this is very expensive."
"Well, it's really not cheap."
"That's more than a thousand marks, right?"
"It depends on the road test. If it goes well, it should be within one thousand."
"I wanted to learn to drive before, but I couldn't save the money. The money I earned from working was nothing after paying for living expenses. I occasionally earned some money and often spent it on traveling during holidays, so I never succeeded in learning." Lei Lan Ting returned the book to Dong Qiangqiang and said enviously, "You are still rich."
"You can't just think that learning to drive will cost money. You should think from another perspective: once you learn to drive, you will have more opportunities to make money."
"More?" Lei Lanting's eyes flashed and he lowered his voice and asked, "Do you have a way to do this?"
"Not yet. But I see that the agency has many hourly employees related to driving, and the hourly wages are quite high."
"Really?" Lei Lanting was moved by Dong Qiangqiang's words, "Then you study first, and then lend me the textbook after you finish studying."
Dong Qiangqiang took the teaching materials into the kitchen. When he finished the simulation paper, he returned to the house and found Lei Lanting snoring loudly and lying on his mattress.
Dong Qiangqiang smiled bitterly, spread some quilts on the ground, and lay down. Through the slanted skylight above his head, he saw the moon emerging from behind the clouds. Looking at the bright moon, accompanied by the sound of high and low snoring, he soon fell asleep.
