Chapter 187
Chapter 187
By the time we left Seventh Master’s place, it was already the latter half of the night.
We had found Du Yuwei’s child and sent him on to be reincarnated. That counted as fulfilling one of Du Yuwei’s wishes.
The only thing was, we still hadn’t found Anning. I didn’t know how she was doing lately, and I couldn’t help feeling a little worried.
The next day, we went to the shop very early. A few applicants were coming in for interviews today.
Meng Yifan interviewed them himself, and the interviews went on for quite a while.
After everyone had finished, Meng Yifan came out of the office heaving sigh after sigh. Clearly, none of the applicants had any intention of staying.
“Young people these days-why are they all so superstitious? They’re even worse than my dad.”
“What’s so unlucky about someone having died here? From ancient times to now, is there anywhere on this land where people haven’t died?”
Meng Yifan was both helpless and frustrated.
The shop was short-staffed, and everyone was exhausted.
Now that business was slowly picking up, we needed to fill out the proper positions.
We didn’t just need salespeople anymore. We also needed someone in charge of promotion, both online and offline.
We also needed a dedicated person to take clients through the paperwork and title transfer procedures. After all, we were just a small, no-name agency. If we wanted good performance, our service had to be thorough. We had to make clients satisfied in every possible way. They only needed to pay the money; we would help them handle all the procedures.
Song Xiaotian suggested that we go straight to the job market to recruit. If we interviewed enough people, surely we could find at least one staunch materialist.
We were discussing it when a girl suddenly walked into the shop.
The moment I looked up and saw her, my eyes went wide, and I shot to my feet with a whoosh.
For that instant, it was as if I had seen Du Yuwei. I almost thought Du Yuwei hadn’t died and had come back.
“Boss, are you… still hiring…?”
She stood there, looking a little restrained and embarrassed.
“Yes!”
Before Meng Yifan could answer, I answered for him. “Of course we are!”
Song Xiaotian and Meng Yifan were both stunned stiff. I guessed they were the same as me, mistaking Anning for Du Yuwei.
Especially with that familiar outfit of hers: a long black dress, red high heels, and an identical face. No matter how you looked at her, she was no different from Du Yuwei.
“I…” For a moment, she didn’t know how to begin.
Seeing how awkward she was, and with Xie Peng also present in the shop, I led her straight into the office.
Meng Yifan and Song Xiaotian came in too.
The two of them had once been extremely hostile toward Anning and Du Yuwei, because the sisters had killed innocent people indiscriminately.
Although Anning hadn’t directly killed anyone, she had been an accomplice.
But they also knew I was worried about how Anning was doing. As the boss, Meng Yifan didn’t drive Anning away either. He sat down and asked if she had brought a resume.
“A… resume? What’s that…?”
Anning looked at us uneasily. She seemed to have no idea what it was.
I had heard from Seventh Master that Anning had only received an elementary school education and had never held a proper job. It was normal that she didn’t know what a resume was.
“Oh, so you don’t have one.”
Meng Yifan was a little dumbfounded. He asked, “Then have you ever worked in sales before?”
Anning thought about it, then answered quite honestly, “I once set up a stall selling fake medicine…”
Meng Yifan was not mentally prepared for that answer. He froze for a long while before continuing, “Then, uh… how well did this fake medicine sell?”
Anning said, “Pretty well. I beat up all the other fake-medicine sellers on that street and chased them off, then sold it myself. I could make several hundred a day.”
I listened, utterly dumbfounded.
This… She even understood monopolistic business practices!
“Then why did you stop selling them later?” Meng Yifan asked again.
“Later, the police arrested me and I got sentenced to half a year…” Anning answered with extreme seriousness. “After that, they wouldn’t let me sell them anymore. They said if I did it again, I’d get a heavier sentence.”
Song Xiaotian sighed. “In a way, that still counts as a small business. You were an operator, at least. Those fake medicines never killed anyone, did they?”
She looked regretful. “It was because they almost killed someone that I got arrested.”
Song Xiaotian said, “You know what, the judge who sentenced you was actually pretty merciful.”
Meng Yifan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. If not for my sake, he probably would have thrown her out already.
“Then besides selling fake medicine, have you done anything else?” he asked.
Anning lowered her head, too embarrassed to look at us. “Pickpocketing…”
All three of us froze. She really treated stealing as a profession.
The key point was, she didn’t say “stealing.” She used the formal term.
“Then… why did you stop doing that line of work later?” Meng Yifan braced himself and kept asking.
Anning looked up and said, “There are cameras everywhere now. It’s not as easy to steal as it used to be, and it’s easy to get caught by the police. Also, the police said if I stole again, they’d give me a heavier sentence…”
“Oh. Right. Yes, that kind of profession really shouldn’t be encouraged.” Meng Yifan couldn’t be bothered to ask any more. He said to her directly, “Then come to work tomorrow. I’ll give you a guaranteed base salary of three thousand, two hundred a month for phone expenses, a five-hundred perfect attendance bonus, and a performance commission of fifteen to twenty-five percent. What do you think?”
After hearing the shop’s salary and benefits, Anning’s beautiful eyes immediately widened. She counted on her fingers for a while, looking a little incredulous. “That much?”
In truth, the pay package Meng Yifan offered her was already quite a bit higher than the other employees’. The base salary alone was a thousand higher. Everyone else’s guaranteed base salary was only two thousand.
And the others didn’t have a perfect attendance bonus.
Meng Yifan nodded. “Even if you don’t make any sales, you can still get this much every month. If you help the shop earn twenty thousand, you can also get three to five thousand in commission. So work hard and bring in results, and you’ll be able to earn even more.”
After listening, Anning counted on her fingers for a while again, then widened her eyes once more. “Th-that much?”
Meng Yifan nodded. “Yes. That much.”
Her face immediately turned a little red, probably because she felt sorry about what had happened earlier. “Thank you, boss.”
“No need to thank me. Just work hard from now on. Also, don’t tell the other people in the shop about your base salary and all that,” Meng Yifan instructed. “And one more thing… I mean… could you maybe not wear this outfit in the future? I’m kind of scared…”
Song Xiaotian also leaned over. “I’m scared too. We have trauma associated with that outfit.”
Anning looked troubled and said, “But this is the only outfit I have. My other set is the same as this one. I don’t have anything else…”
I said, “That can’t be right. Don’t you have other gear?”
This topic seemed to touch on something painful for her. She fiddled with her fingers, and her tone became a little low.
“A few days ago, the police caught me again. I only just got out.”
“I owed a month’s rent before that, so the landlord threw out all my luggage. I don’t have any other clothes…”