Chapter 67: Showing Off
Lin Yuxi probably didn't expect that I would bow my head and give in to someone with such a bad temper, and she fell off the chair, and it looked like she was seriously injured. Xiaopang quickly ran over to help her up, and after the girl sat back on the chair with her hands on her waist, she praised Comrade Xiaopang for his courageous act of saving the emperor, and then held a meeting with us.
She cleared her throat and said, "Although we don't have many people in our studio, we still have to follow the regular work process. Let's have a meeting now. Since you are new employees, I would like to first introduce the origin and scope of work of Fuling Studio. Our work is mainly to exorcise evil spirits and protect the house. Of course, we also help people pray for blessings and children, so we named it Fuling. So why open a studio..."
I couldn't stand it any more. I thought, is this a private company or a state-owned enterprise? Although I am a mountain man and have never seen the world, I have seen the society thoroughly on the Internet in the past three years. If you want to try your hand at being an official, I have no objection, but can you stop being so long-winded? So I coughed twice and said, "Just hurry up and tell me. I have to pee!"
This made the girl angry. She slammed the table and said angrily: "When the leader is in a meeting, when is it your turn to interrupt? Besides, you can't finish going to the toilet, but you are in a hurry to pee, and you speak so vulgarly. In my studio, everyone must be polite..."
I was scratching my head, and a word of "urgent pee" led to another 20 minutes of long-winded talk from her, which made me want to bang my head against the wall. This girl stared at me and finally finished talking about quality, and then went back to the topic, chattering about opening a studio, which was her unique masterpiece.
Shops that help people exorcise evil spirits and protect their homes, exorcise demons and defend the way of life, not to mention in big cities, are basically extinct in small towns. If there are any, they are just some kind of cultural store or museum run by a fortune teller, but they dare not do it openly because it is difficult to get a business license for such a business. Studios are different. They are a popular industry in cities and are easily accepted by people. In addition, if the name of the studio does not violate the rules, it is easy to get a business license.
After talking about this for about half an hour, the girl took a sip of water and continued to talk about her work scope. Not only does she accept business related to the profession of Yin and Yang, but she also buys and sells antiques. In fact, she is just an intermediary in the middle, with the title of "cultural relic broker". In fact, to put it bluntly, those antiques are all things of unknown origin, many of which come directly from ancient tombs. After they are transferred to her, she will contact the next buyer to sell them, and she can earn a lot of agency fees from it. Otherwise, how could she buy a house in the city in the past three years, and the kind with a small courtyard?
In fact, we already knew all this, today she just explained it in more detail and was more verbose. After saying this, she crossed her legs on the table and arranged our work : "Xiao Pang, you are eloquent, take charge of reception. Ding Yu, you know a little bit about burning talismans and chanting spells, I don't need to contact other Yin and Yang masters for small matters in the future, we will do these ourselves. Every day from 8 am to 8 pm, a total of 12 hours of work, lunch is only 10 minutes, whoever delays the time will be fined fifty!"
After hearing this, Xiao Pang looked at me, his fat face became more and more bitter, even more bitter than bitter gourd. I thought to myself, let this girl suffer, twelve hours is nothing, twenty-four hours is nothing to me, I just wish I could stay with you for a while longer.
"You have no objection to this schedule, right?" Lin Yuxi asked with a sullen face, but when she saw that Xiao Pang was about to open his mouth, she immediately said, "That's fine, you'll officially start work today. This room is my manager's office. I rented the studio on the west side and turned it into a reception room. The house opposite is for you to live in. But I want to make one thing clear, you are here to work to pay off your debts, and you won't get paid a penny within a year. But I'm a kind person, and I'll provide you with food and lodging."
Xiao Pang almost cried and said to Lin Yuxi: "I only ate and drank for free at your place for a month, and I didn't take advantage of you much. One month of free work is enough, right?"
"Not enough! How about you pay me back 30,000 yuan and we'll be even." Lin Yuxi said as he stretched out his hand.
"Isn't your food too expensive?" Xiaopang muttered softly.
"It's just expensive, why didn't you ask before eating it?" She was simply unreasonable.
Xiaopang hung his head and said nothing more.
Seeing that we had no more opinions (in fact, we were not allowed to say anything if we had any), she drove us to the west reception room to take up our posts. Entering this reception room, which used to be a studio, our eyes lit up. The room had been renovated a long time ago. There was a bar at the entrance with two work badges on it. One was a receptionist and the other was a master of the supernatural. I almost laughed out loud. With my shitty skills, I was called a master of the supernatural. However, the environment was quite elegant. The two of us sat on the sofa chairs behind the bar and felt quite comfortable, which made Xiaopang temporarily forget his unhappiness and the horrible memories that had happened here before.
I looked at the decoration of the house and suddenly understood why this girl was angry with me. She never liked to discuss things with others, just like she didn't tell Su Chengda about buying a house. She has a relatively independent personality. Although I stayed with her for a month, I still didn't realize that she secretly rented a studio and hired someone to redecorate it. Looking at the layout, she had actually made up her mind long ago and asked Xiaopang and me to come and help. But she threw cold water on me and disrupted her plan.
She wanted to call me back, but she couldn't swallow this anger, so she finally thought of this way of throwing a tantrum, which was equivalent to kidnapping both of us. As for not paying me for a year, I think she said it in anger. Anyway, I don't care whether I get paid or not. As long as I have food and shelter and can be with her, I will be satisfied.
While I was thinking about this, Lin Yuxi poked his head out from the door, hooked his finger at me and said, "Hey, come here!" Then he turned around and left.
I went out to catch up with her and said unhappily, "What do you mean, you know my name?"
"I - forgot - it!" She spoke each word with such emphasis, her tone was so irritating that it almost pissed me off to death.
After entering her office, she sat on a chair and said to me, "Come with me at 8 o'clock tonight. A child has been possessed by an evil spirit. The client doesn't know that we now have a receptionist, so he called me directly. This client is of some status, so I have to go there in person as well."
When I heard that it was just a small matter, they still needed to call me over to talk about it, isn't that too much? I immediately said, "After 8 o'clock is the end of get off work time, I'm not going anywhere."
The girl glared at him and said, "I didn't say you can't work overtime after work. What's your attitude? I'm telling you, you have to go even if you don't want to. Now if you pay me back, you will lose your personal freedom. You must do whatever I tell you to do."
"If I say I won't go, then I won't go. This is my attitude. Just fire me!" I said and turned away.
"Stop! You...Okay, just consider it as a request from you. I'll treat you to hot pot tonight, okay? Also, I asked you to come here to tell you...I have a clue about Chen Dahong you're looking for."
I immediately stopped, turned around and asked impatiently: "Where is he now?"
"Hotpot is cancelled. I'll tell you after 8pm!"
