Psychic Tattoo - Chapter 80 The Livor Mortis

I was a little shocked by what that girl said. “Come again?” 

She waved and asked me blankly, “What did I say?”

“‘The tiger lacks wings. Lame people can’t go across the river’,” I replied.

The girl shrugged; she said she didn’t know what this sentence meant. “The tiger lacks rings and lame people can go across a liver?” She repeated my words but with totally different meanings.

I didn’t want to deal with this so I just asked her: “So, what’s your name?”

“I’m Cang Shushu, but my friends always call me Hamster.”

Hamster? Well, this girl was really cute.

If this girl worked in my shop, I would get more customers.

I asked her directly: “What’s your expected salary?”

She replied: “What are you offering?”

I thought for a while and told her, “The average salary is two thousand and five hundred. I will give you another thousand, so what about three thousand and five hundred?”

This girl had a good appearance and quality. She was cute and gentle, and this was in congruence with our studio’s philosophy – low-key luxury.

I had to give her a higher salary to draw her in.

Hearing this, she looked happy and nodded: “Wow! That is so much for me.”

“It’s only the beginning. You will get a commission if business is good,” I told her.

She smiled and narrowed her eyes into thin cracks: “So, boss, how about this – I only want three thousand, OK?”

I thought I had misheard. Damn, didn’t she want to earn money?

She continued and said she would reduce the five hundred but the salary would include three meals a day.

“Three meals?” I asked her.

Cang Shu nodded and said, “Yes, three meals.”

I thought for a while and figured it was only a small amount of money. I said: “You can eat as much as you like.”

“Really? Boss, you are really a good man.” She took my hand and looked at me with admiration.

I felt so high and noble when she looked at me like that. I laughed and said: “Just so-so. Well, you can start work now. Let me give you a simple training.”

“Boss, but I didn’t have any food yet, what about ” She covered her stomach and looked at me in embarrassment.

What?

This girl came to the interview hungry? Well She was cool.

I called to Feng Chunsheng and told him to order four dishes, as she would also join.

“All right.”

We were not stingy; we would invite her to lunch, since she asked.

As Feng Chunsheng was leaving to order the food, I saw him beckoning to me discreetly.

I told Cang Shu to wait a bit, and that I would be back soon.

Then Feng Chunsheng and I went out to order.

When we went out of the door, he asked me: “Shui, that girl said ‘The tiger lacks wings, the lame can’t go across the river,” right?”

“Yes, but she denied it,” I said.

Feng Chunsheng asked me, “What’s the meaning of ‘A tiger lacks wings’?”

I said, “Actually, my master once told me there were four kinds of tattoos we should never do. One of them was the ‘nine dragons pull coffin’. The second was the ‘black tiger with four wings’.”

There was a legendary animal – the black dragon, which was a dragon with two wings.

The dragon followed the clouds and the tiger followed the wind.

Where there was the black dragon, there was the black tiger. There were four wings on the back of the black tiger.

The black tiger without wings

“This girl is a little strange.”

Feng Chunsheng told me that when you looked at her up close, she was a cute little girl, but when you looked at her from a distance, there seemed to be something odd about her, especially if you saw her back.