"Oh, Hans. Hello, hello." Dong Qiangqiang replied hurriedly, "Sorry, I have to practice driving soon. Are you okay?"
"Practice driving? Are you learning to drive now?"
"Today is my first day on the road." Dong Qiangqiang said excitedly.
"K, let me make a long story short, do you remember the wild boar you sold me last week?"
"Of course I didn't forget it. For 500 marks, you even wrote me a receipt."
"You didn't call me yesterday. When I called you again, your phone was turned off."
Dong Qiangqiang then remembered that he fell asleep while reading stocks yesterday and forgot to check his mobile phone: "I'm sorry, there were so many things yesterday, I forgot."
"I asked several restaurant owners and the wild boar finally sold for 1,200 marks." When Hans told the price, Dong Qiangqiang thought he had heard wrong.
"Did you just say... 1,200 marks?" Dong Qiangqiang asked in surprise, "Just a wild boar?"
"That's right." Hans said with a hint of pride in his tone, "The restaurant owner said he had never encountered a drunk wild boar before, so he wasn't sure what to do. But live wild boars are very rare for restaurants. , that’s why he was willing to pay a high price.”
"It's really... I didn't expect it." Dong Qiangqiang sighed.
Karina's car stopped steadily in front of Dong Qiangqiang. Seeing that Dong Qiangqiang was on the phone, Karina tapped her watch twice with her right index finger, indicating that Dong Qiangqiang's driving lesson time had started. Dong Qiangqiang nodded in agreement. Walk to the back of the car.
"The price we agreed on before was 500 marks, and now we sell it for 1,200 marks. Logically, I should give it all to you, but I also did a lot of work in the process, so in theory I should share some of it." Hans He said seriously, "Based on my workload, I think I should be given 400 marks out of the 1,200 marks, and the remaining 800 marks are yours."
Dong Qiangqiang did not expect Hans to say this. He could have kept the money without letting Dong Qiangqiang know about it, but he did not do so. Instead, he told Dong Qiangqiang honestly.
Dong Qiangqiang thought for two seconds and refused: "I don't agree with your distribution plan. I think it should..."
"Why?" Hans stopped Dong Qiangqiang's words angrily. He originally thought that Dong Qiangqiang would happily accept his suggestion, "Don't you think my work is worth so much money? If it weren't for me, you might have already Arrested by the police." His tone became stern.
Dong Qiangqiang patiently listened to him and then said calmly: "No, I think your work is very important, so I think we should split the money equally."
"Tie...?" This time it was Hans's turn to be dumbfounded. He had no idea that Dong Qiangqiang's "disagree" actually meant this. "So what you mean is... we each get half? 600 marks?"
"Yes, I think this is reasonable." Dong Qiangqiang said calmly.
Although Dong Qiangqiang also needs money, one of his advantages as a person is that he is willing to share the fruits of victory with those he thinks are worthy, rather than choosing to monopolize the benefits for himself.
"Well, since you said so, let's do what you said." Hans immediately got off the slope, his tone filled with happiness, "But I want to tell you in advance, these 1,200 marks are subject to tax. Yes, not so much after tax.”
"I am willing to pay taxes." Dong Qiangqiang said truthfully, "But I have never done it before. I don't know how to pay it?"
"I'll tell you about the tax payment once I find out. But now I have something urgent to ask you. Are you willing to catch a pig?"
"Catching pigs? What is that?" Dong Qiangqiang was confused. His first reaction was that the other party was talking about the "pig-gong" game in poker. "You mean playing poker?"
"Poker cards? What nonsense?" Hans was confused by Dong Qiangqiang and said quickly, "I can't explain this clearly on the phone. Are you free this afternoon?"
Karina tapped the car window impatiently with her finger and pointed at her watch, indicating that a long time had passed. Dong Qiangqiang bowed to her apologetically, indicating that his call would be over soon.
"have."
"Do you know the KFC opposite the electronics supermarket edia arkt?"
"Know."
"Then let's meet at the door of KFC at 14:00 in the afternoon." Hans added before hanging up the phone, "Don't forget to bring the receipt I wrote for you."
As soon as Dong Yiqing walked in, she immediately saw the blue and white logo hanging on the wall in front of her. Under the logo, the company name was written in Chinese: German Meite Bear Whale International Trading Co., Ltd., and there was also a row of German characters written under the Chinese language.
Dong Yiqing was still observing, and the German girl at the front desk came towards her with a smile and asked in German: "Hello. How can I help you?"
"Hello." Dong Yiqing replied in German without hesitation, "I'm here to interview for the position of exhibition translator."
"Please come with me here." The girl at the front desk led Dong Yiqing into a small conference room and gave her a form and a test paper. "You have a total of 30 minutes to answer the questions. It's time for me." I'll come and call you." The girl at the front desk said and walked out of the room.
Dong Yiqing quickly took out a pen and paper from her bag, filled out the form in a few clicks, and then immediately devoted herself to answering the questions in the written test.
The content of the written test is quite difficult, and some questions require drawings to illustrate. But as the saying goes, if you sharpen your weapon in battle, you will lose your happiness. Dong Yiqing had just reviewed a lot of content on the toilet, and there were still impressions in her mind. She wrote while thinking about it, and completed the written test answer sheet in almost 22 minutes.
She sat in the conference room and looked out carefully. She saw that the office area was filled with small cubicles. In some cubicles, Chinese people were sitting, and some were Germans. They looked like international people. ized company.
While she was observing, a door ten meters away from the front of the conference room suddenly opened, and a Chinese girl with a wavy perm walked out quickly with a frown on her face.
The girl looked unhappy. Dong Yiqing was sizing her up when he suddenly saw a familiar figure coming out of the door, it was Zhang Shuo.
He took three steps at a time to catch up with the girl. He tried to grab the girl's arm but was thrown away by the girl. He tried again before grabbing the girl. He seemed to be explaining something. The girl said a few words to him with red eyes and then left in tears. Zhang Shuo stood there and shook his head helplessly.
Seeing Zhang Shuo walking towards the conference room, Dong Yiqing quickly lowered her head and pretended to read the test paper. Zhang Shuo walked straight into the conference room without knocking.
"How is it?" He glanced at the test paper on the table, "Is it difficult?"
"Yeah." Dong Yiqing responded, still lowering his head to check the test paper.
"It's up to you this time." Zhang Shuo looked very nervous, "Everyone I'm looking for has been eliminated except you." Dong Yiqing explained before he could ask him, "The one who was eliminated yesterday, I just It’s probably out of the question.”
Dong Yiqing was quite confident at first, but when he said it, she became uneasy.
Seeing that Dong Yiqing ignored him, Zhang Shuo thought she was still working on the test paper, so he waved his hand quickly and said in a deep voice: "I won't disturb you anymore, just do your best. Someone will call you soon. Remember not to be nervous during the interview. , never say 'I can't' or 'I don't understand'. The point is the man and woman sitting in the middle, those are my uncle and aunt. I wish you good luck."
Dong Yiqing saw that the door in the distance suddenly opened again, and Zhang Shuofei also ran out of the conference room.
As expected, the girl at the front desk collected the papers in 30 minutes. Dong Yiqing waited for more than 10 minutes before being led into the interview room.
After Dong Qiangqiang got in the car after answering the phone, Karina had already changed to the passenger seat.
She looked at Dong Qiangqiang with a serious expression and said in a stern tone: "Mr. Dong Qiangqiang, I need to explain to you: your appointment for driving practice is from 9 to 10 o'clock. If we make an appointment to start driving at 9 o'clock, then It must start at 9 o'clock. If the actual time you drive the car is less than 45 minutes, that is, less than one lesson hour, because you are on the phone or for other reasons, then we cannot count you as completing one lesson hour of practice, and you still need to continue to pay Pay money to study until you have enough time for one lesson. I hope you will remember my words."
Dong Qiangqiang said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Ms. Karina. I remember what you said, and I will pay attention to it in the future."
Karina stared into Dong Qiangqiang's eyes and said earnestly: "I hope you can take learning to drive seriously." She turned her gaze to the dashboard: "Now think carefully about what we have taught in the first class, and then It’s time to start.”
Dong Qiangqiang hasn't touched a car in a few months, and his hands are a little raw. He closed the door, fastened his seat belt, checked the car's dashboard, then started the car, turned on the left turn signal, and turned to check if there was any oncoming car on the left. He was about to put down the handbrake and step on the clutch. Karina Suddenly he shouted: "Stop."
Dong Qiangqiang was shocked by her shouting and asked nervously: "Did I do something wrong?"
"Put out the fire first." Karina didn't answer his question, "Think about it again."
Dong Qiangqiang thought about it for a long time and couldn't remember what he had forgotten. He had the impression that this was how he learned it in China. There didn't seem to be anything particularly different in what Karina taught in class that day.
Seeing Dong Qiangqiang's confused look, Karina said seriously: "You forgot to check whether the co-pilot is wearing a seat belt."
Dong Qiangqiang looked down and saw that Karina was indeed fine.
He could only say honestly: "Please fasten your seat belt, I'm about to start the car."
Karina obediently put on her seat belt. Dong Qiangqiang repeated the previous action, gently stepped on the accelerator, and the little red car drove steadily into the main road.
The room is about 50 square meters, with floor-to-ceiling windows on one side and walls on three sides. A large white square table is placed in the center of the room.
The golden morning light shines directly into the room through the window, shining on the table, the floor, and reflecting on the off-white ceiling. The room was bright, and the bright light was even a bit dazzling. Dong Yiqing couldn't see clearly what was happening across from him for a while.
After a few seconds, she saw five examiners, two men and three women, sitting side by side behind the square table in front of her.
Sitting directly opposite her was a middle-aged woman with short gray hair, making it impossible to judge her age for the moment. Her hairline is slightly set back, making her forehead look a bit high. The eyebrows are short and light, and there is a pair of light brown glasses on the bridge of the nose with light brown spots. It seems that the eyes are not very big. There is very little meat on both sides of the cheeks, which makes the cheekbones a bit high. Two nasolabial folds extend from both sides of the nose to near the thin lips, and the corners of the mouth are slightly downward.
Dong Yiqing's first impression of her was very bad.
The middle-aged woman put down Dong Yiqing's resume in her hand and turned to glance at a man in his 30s sitting at the square table. The man immediately said to Dong Yiqing in Chinese: "Welcome to participate in today's interview. First of all. Please introduce yourself in English for 5 minutes. You can start now."
Dong Yiqing had already expected that the other party might ask her to speak English, and she was about to introduce herself. A middle-aged man who looked to be about the same age sitting next to the middle-aged woman suddenly said: "Since we are doing business with Germans, we should first examine the candidate's German level. What about English? What's going on? Do Germans speak English? Xiao Wu, let her introduce herself in German."
The 30-year-old man named "Xiao Wu" had an embarrassed expression on his face. Before he could speak, a middle-aged woman sneered: "We are participating in a global exhibition, and we have guests from every country. Just say Can you sell products in German? If you can't sell products, how can I pay you such a high salary? Use English."
"I said in German." The middle-aged man became angry and shouted in a voice close to a roar, "It must be in German!"
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became very strange, and no one spoke anymore.
Dong Yiqing stood alone opposite them, feeling like a lonely boat in the sea.
