It was rare in German universities for the get out of class bell to ring, and the professor, as always, delayed the class for two minutes.
After Lu Wei quickly sorted out his notes, he packed his schoolbag and walked out of the classroom. After buying a cup of coffee, he came to an empty classroom.
"Hey, is this Tian Xiaorui? I'm Lu Wei."
A soft female voice came from the phone: "Oh, Lu Wei, are you okay?"
"That's right. I want to ask how you think about what I told you last time?"
"Well," Tian Xiaorui hesitated, "Sorry, I don't think I'm suitable."
"Why? You study so well, everyone wants to learn from you." Lu Wei complimented.
"I'm really sorry." Tian Xiaorui quickly hung up the phone.
Lu Wei didn't expect that the other party didn't give her a chance to speak again. She held the phone in silence for two seconds before dialing the second girl's cell phone.
"Hello, Jiayin, I'm Lu Wei."
"Well, hello." The female voice sounded sweet.
"I want to talk to you about something." Lu Wei didn't dare to ask the other party's opinion directly this time, because she was afraid that the other party would hang up on her again.
"Sorry, I'm working part-time right now. Can we talk later?" Zheng Jiayin sounded apologetic.
"Oh, that's it. Then you should be busy first, and we'll do it later..." Before Lu Wei could finish speaking, the other party had already hung up the phone.
Lu Wei successively called several other classmates who she thought were studying well, but to her surprise, everyone's response was relatively cold. No one seemed to be very interested in preparing a study group. This was completely different from everyone's answers when she consulted them about this matter before.
Is everyone talking nonsense? Lu Wei found it unbelievable. It was obviously a good deed of "everyone for one, one for everyone", so why was no one willing to do it?
Reluctantly, she called several more middle-class classmates. Except for two people who reluctantly agreed to give it a try, everyone else rejected Lu Wei without exception.
Lu Wei asked indirectly at first, and then directly asked the other party why they were unwilling to participate in the study group. The reasons given by the people asked were not uniform: some said they had to work part-time and did not have time to participate in the group; some complained that they did not have enough study time. There is no extra time to allocate to study groups; some say that their majors are unpopular and they have no experience to share; others simply say that they cannot teach.
The attitudes of the people being questioned are not all friendly: some refuse politely, some refuse directly, some hang up after answering the phone, and some are sarcastic and sarcastic. Thousands of words can be summed up into one sentence: no time, no interest, no energy.
Although Lu Wei had long known that this kind of thing would be thankless, she really didn't expect this to be the case. Disappointed, she turned her hope back to Dong Yiqing. After all, the two of them had known each other for the longest time. , the relationship is relatively close. Dong Yiqing has always been the kind of person who is good at learning. Persuading her to help her prepare a study group seems to be her only choice at the moment.
Just as Dong Yiqing was about to ask one more question, Zhang Yingfang had already hung up the phone.
She put away her phone silently and looked out the window, thinking about how to talk to Mr. Stein about the contract.
While she was deep in thought, someone touched her hand. She looked down and Stein handed her 20 marks: "This is the phone bill just now."
"This?" Dong Yiqing was really surprised when she saw that the other party took the initiative to give money. She felt hot in her heart and quickly declined the other party politely, "No, no, no."
"No, this is what I should pay." Stein insisted, "You didn't need to make this call."
Dong Yiqing didn't want his money. She rolled her eyes and said quickly: "But you also bought water for me just now. We are clear of everything."
"Buy water?" Stein glanced at the water bottle on the table, suddenly realized, shook his head and said, "These are two different things. You should accept the money."
Dong Yiqing never liked pushing money around with others in public places. Seeing that the old man really insisted, she couldn't say anything else, so she had to say thank you and put the money in her pocket.
"Well, I have something to ask again," Dong Yiqing whispered shyly, "Will you still go to the exhibition on Friday?"
"Of course." Mr. Stein nodded, "I have to visit many old customers. I am very much looking forward to this exhibition."
"Then I'll wait for you at the exhibition," Dong Yiqing said and took out the other party's business card. "Can you please leave me a mobile phone number? This business card only has a landline number."
Stein smiled and wrote his mobile phone number in Dong Yiqing's notebook. Dong Yiqing wrote down her mobile phone number and email address on another piece of paper and handed it to Stein.
At this time, the train slowly entered a small platform, and there was almost no one on the platform. The voice of the male conductor came from the announcement at the top of the carriage: "Dear passengers, the stay at this station is short. Please get on and off as soon as possible. We will move to the next station in three minutes."
Before getting off the bus, Dong Yiqing shook Stein's hand gratefully: "Then we'll see you at the exhibition on Friday."
Dragging her suitcase, she quickly passed through the underground passage under the platform and ran to the other side of the platform to wait for the next train back to Frankfurt.
"It's getting late, I have to leave." Hans stood up and extended his right hand, "Thank you for the treat."
Dong Qiangqiang stood up quickly and said sincerely: "Actually, I should thank you for telling me so many useful things."
"If you have found a team, we need to meet with the farmer together before taking action." Hans said with a serious face, "This comparison, um, you understand, will make it easier for us to sign the contract."
"No problem, I think so too."
"One more thing to remind you, how many people you hire is your own business, but if there are too many people in the team, when it comes to dividing the money..."
Dong Qiangqiang nodded, indicating that he had already thought about this issue.
The two big hands shook vigorously.
Hans walked to the door, suddenly turned around and said to Dong Qiangqiang: "I will call your mobile phone when I make an appointment."
Dong Qiangqiang made a gesture of answering the phone. Hans smiled and waved to him before disappearing through the door.
Dong Qiangqiang's team candidate is actually only Lei Lanting, because he doesn't know anyone else at all.
When he called Lei Lanting, Lei Lanting had just returned home from the agency. He depressedly took out a bottle of beer from the refrigerator and sat in front of the computer, playing computer games boredly.
Ever since he had an unpleasant quarrel with Klaus, the boss of the agency "Fresh Power" yesterday, he immediately began to actively look for new job opportunities.
But I don’t know whether it was bad luck or some other reason, but he was rejected by several agencies one after another. Some told him that he was currently unemployed, and some promised to contact him again when he got a job, but the specific time was far from certain. Some agencies even simply refused Deny his advance registration. Even fast food restaurants, which usually have many job opportunities, don’t have a single work place available. In the end, he became suspicious and began to wonder if Klaus, the agency boss, had said bad things about him among his colleagues.
The game was terrible, and he lost another game. Looking at the flashing "gae ver" on the laptop screen, Lei Lanting tapped the keyboard depressedly. He was thinking about calling his classmates in Bremen and asking if there were any suitable job opportunities there. After all, it wasn't too far from Hannover to Bremen, and his student ID card was free. Take trains and buses for your commute.
After receiving the invitation call from Dong Qiangqiang, Lei Lanting was overjoyed, but also a little worried: "Old Dong, although this job sounds good, it seems to be quite risky. We have never done it before, can it be done? And how much can we earn? I don’t know, what if we don’t catch the pig and someone is injured? Will our insurance cover it?”
"You are right," Dong Qiangqiang agreed. "The possibility of injury does exist, so we must be as comprehensive as possible before doing it. But what we want to catch is not a wild boar in the strict sense, so the risk Relatively speaking, it is still relatively low. And Hans told me that someone has already done this, so we are not the ones who are trying to do it.”
"Since that guy named Hans is a hunter, why doesn't he do such a good thing to make money?" Lei Lanting still felt that it was not reliable. "You should be careful, don't let the German devils deceive you."
"If you want to lie to me, Hans doesn't have to buy the wild boar I caught when he was in the wild boar forest, and he doesn't have to give me money afterwards. I believe he is an honest person." Dong Qiangqiang explained patiently, "And he caught this The methods of German hunters may not be applicable to growing wild domestic pigs. Besides, he has just become a hunter and doesn’t have much more experience than us.”
Dong Qiangqiang's words were reasonable, but Lei Lanting was still hesitant: "Well, let me think about it for a few more days, and I'll also ask if anyone knows anything about this."
"Sure, you should think about it carefully. After Hans finds the farmer, he will also chat with us first. You can also go and listen together. If you think the risk is high, we will just not do it. What do you think of this? Sample?"
Lei Lanting thought for a while and realized that this was indeed safer, so he agreed.
Before hanging up the phone, Lei Lanting suddenly said with envy: "Old Dong, you speak German so well. No wonder you know so many people and have so many job opportunities."
Dong Qiangqiang was embarrassed to be praised by him and said modestly: "Actually, I often don't understand, so I still listen to the radio and read newspapers every day."
"You still have time to do this now?" Lei Lanting looked very surprised.
"Of course, won't you do it?" Dong Qiangqiang was even more surprised than him. "I remember the famous saying of the teacher in the language class at that time: learning a foreign language is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Isn't there an old saying that the fist cannot leave the hand and the music cannot leave the mouth? ?”
Lei Lanting studied Dong Qiangqiang's words carefully without saying a word.
"You should practice when you have time. Ten minutes a day is actually not tiring," Dong Qiangqiang was in a good mood and said it smoothly. "You can also learn a lot of useful financial knowledge."
"Okay, then if you have any news, tell me. I will go with you to meet the farmer and Hans first." Lei Lanting suddenly made up his mind.
After hanging up the phone, Lei Lanting glanced at the flashing game screen on the laptop screen again, closed the computer with a "pop", stuffed the professional book into his schoolbag, turned around and walked out of the house.
After talking to Lei Lanting, Dong Qiangqiang suddenly realized that he no longer had to rush to chat with Max to practice speaking. He already had a better candidate.
After class, Lu Wei appeared in a cosmetics store in the city center. She had been working as a part-time shopping guide in this store for almost a year.
The location of the store is on a street corner, which is not bad but not particularly good. The customer flow is also unstable. Sometimes it is very busy, and sometimes there are not many customers in a free day.
Today, because a major international brand released a new perfume, some perfume samples were placed at the entrance of the store for consumers to try and pick up. There is usually a female salesperson next to these perfume samples to promote the product and prevent the samples from being taken away.
Lu Wei originally wanted to be responsible for taking care of the perfume samples. It was not a tiring job, and he could also get perfume samples from the store as gifts when he got off work, so that he would have the perfumes he used daily and as gifts when he returned home.
But since she started work late today, this job has been taken up by other store employees, and she can only organize the shelves in the back.
Lu Wei was counting the perfume bottles on the shelf against the roster when he suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the shelf next to him.
She glanced curiously through the gap between the shelves and saw two blond girls who looked like junior high school students trying on perfume.
She lowered her head and continued counting, when she suddenly heard a whisper in her ear: "Hurry up, be careful not to be discovered."
She couldn't help but be stunned.
