To Your Island - Chapter 43

How did you get the money back?

Wang Jiexiang learned later how well Yin Xian can speak.

He is selling insurance. Once he wears that “professional” mask, he is a typical man and hell.

Yin Xian is best at doing both soft and hard, slap a date; and he is bold, even if he can’t cash it, he still dares to give people a bad check. If he wants to deceive others, few people can escape.

And as to why he entered this industry, there is another source.

After graduating from university, Yin Xian worked in an auto repair shop. After resigning from there, he started his own business, did not start the business, and even lost his savings. The lesson of failure made him discover his own shortcomings. He did not understand the market, had no contacts, and most importantly, he would not deal with people at all.

On this point, no one can take him on the road, Yin Xian can only rely on work experience to explore.

Entering the sales industry through the job of selling insurance, he began to learn sales skills, learn how to do business, and exercise his ability to deal with this job.

In terms of career choices, Wang Jiexiang and Yin Xian’s choices are contrary.

The two part-time jobs experience makes Wang Jiexiang even more yearning for the kind of work that does not rely on interpersonal communication and can get benefits through labor.

After waiting for a while, she found a job, working in a small seafood factory.

Trucks will deliver seafood to the factory from time to time. Those seafood that have just been salvaged must be partitioned according to size and type. Stale seafood will be eliminated. After being sorted out, some of them are processed cheaply, and some are thrown away. Wang Jiexiang is also responsible for calling to notify customers of the arrival of orders, helping to pack and move the goods.

This is a very physical job. At first, the factory director saw Wang Jiexiang thin and small, and the shovel shoveling seafood suspected that she could not handle it. Wang Jiexiang said that he had done farm work in the countryside and was no less powerful than other men working.

The director no longer looks for reasons to shirk. Anyway, the workload is fixed. She said it was possible. He had no reason not to let her do it.

Since then, Wang Jiexiang has lived a life earlier than Yin Xian and later than he went home.

Before, she promised herself that she would do housework when she lived. Wang Jiexiang did what she said. Except for dinner, she came back too late and needed Yin Xian to do it herself, and she took care of the other daily chores alone.

Yin Xian got up, and Wang Jiexiang had already dried out his clothes diligently outside.

Unlike ordinary residential buildings, the villages in the city do not have balconies. You must pull a rope to dry your clothes.

The stubby rope is tied between the two rooms. The person who ties the rope and puts on the clothes first occupies the space. The neighbors are tacitly aware of this. On the other hand, the houses on the left and right sides are close together, the aisles are narrow, and the place where clothes can be dried is very small. Therefore, the most convenient location in front of the door must be competed daily.

Wang Jiexiang was holding the clothes pole, trying to hang several pieces of clothes at once, the pole swayed.

Yin Xian opened the door and took over the clothes she hadn’t hung, stretched out her arm, and steadily hooked the hanger to the clothesline.

After drying the clothes, they brushed their teeth and washed their faces at the same time.

The two squatted side by side, taking turns using the taps. Wang Jiexiang washed his face faster than Yin Xian’s. The towel was soaked in water, and he wiped his face back and forth twice, and the matter was over.

He helped her twist the towel, and she went back to the house to cook breakfast first.

For breakfast, they eat rice porridge with mustard and white radish. Occasionally, they add some colored beans: mung bean, red bean, black bean, three kinds of beans together.

Wang Jiexiang doesn’t like black beans the least. With black beans, the whole pot of porridge is dyed black. The cooking time in the morning is short, and she can’t cook it every time. The black beans are raw in her mouth. Yin Xian often chews and chews.

Lunch boxes are available at the seafood factory at noon and evening.

After get off work in the evening, Yin Xian eats first.

As long as he smelled a strong smell of seafood in the air, it must be Wang Jiexiang who had gone home to the neighborhood.

Not only does she smell of seafood, but occasionally she brings some seafood back, such as fish, snails, sea oysters…the most often she brings is crabs.

Among the crabs eliminated in the factory, those crabs that are of poor quality or are too small are edible when they are boiled. Wang Jiexiang will pick up some and take them home every few hours.

The first time, she brought things back secretly.

That night, Wang Jiexiang was the latest to leave the factory. When cleaning up the garbage, she saw some of the unwanted swimming crabs moving, and felt that she had thrown it away, so she packed one in a plastic bag and took it away.

When Wang Jiexiang arrived home, Yin Xian did not sleep. She excitedly showed him the crab she had “stolen”.

After listening to her talk about the origin of this crab, Yin Xian was determined not to touch it.

“You eat it yourself.”

Wang Jiexiang was obviously lost: “Why, are you allergic to crabs? Don’t like crabs?”

He shook his head.

“Then why don’t you eat it? I brought it to you specially.” She took out the crab from the bag.

It was held in her hand and looked very docile.

To Wang Jiexiang who was aggrieved, Yin Xian sighed: “It’s not a good habit to be greedy for small and cheap. Even if you want to throw away the seafood, you personally don’t follow the company’s regulations. Besides, it’s something that people have lost, dirty, You pick up the trash and go home…”

“I apologize to the factory manager tomorrow.”

The crab was put back into the plastic bag by Wang Jiexiang.

With her mouth open, she couldn’t help but excuse herself a few words.

“It’s just that it’s actually edible. I didn’t think too much about it. I thought of making a supper, so I brought it back.”

“Even though it was picked up in the trash, it will be clean after a brush… Alas, I understand what you mean, I will raise it.”

The second half of Yin Xian’s sentence, “You pick up trash and go home, will lose face when seen by your colleagues”, which is no longer in keeping with the times.

Seeing that he had nothing to say, she carried the plastic bag and walked away.

Filling his bucket with water, Wang Jiexiang put the crab in it.

After showering in the public bathroom, she washed the clothes again.

Yin Xian never remembers to turn off the lights. The big lights are on in the room, which wastes electricity. The advantage is that she can see her washing clothes outside the door.

Finally washed away the smell of seafood, when Wang Jiexiang entered the room, Yin Xian who was lying on the bed just turned over.

She held the bucket and put it next to her floor.

Without looking at Yin Xian, Wang Jiexiang turned off the lights and fell asleep.

It was cold, her hands and feet were cold, and the floor was cold.

She turned her back to his bed, thinking that he disliked her and her crabs.

Wait until the end of the month is paid and move away, Wang Jiexiang thought.

When he went to work the next day, Wang Jiexiang went to the factory director and confessed to him what happened last night.

“Those sifted seafood, if you want, just pretend to go home.” The factory director was very generous and did not take her mistakes seriously.

When he got off work, he even took the initiative to give Wang Jiexiang a mouth: all the fish and shrimps thrown can be taken.

Wang Jiexiang thanked him.

She wanted to go back to Yin Xian’s house and didn’t want to be hated by him, so she went to get off work empty-handed.

Since the two lived in the same house, Wang Jiexiang turned around the downhill alley and could see the road vaguely. The ceiling light at home was always on.

The light is not bright, the small one, orange-yellow.

Yin Xian squatted beside the faucet and brushed his teeth.

The salty taste of the thick sea water made him notice her instantly.

Their eyes met and he opened his mouth first.

“Cook more porridge at night, you can drink some to sleep.”

Wang Jiexiang should be good.

Knowing that she had an unpleasant smell, she quickly walked around him, went back to the room to get a change of clothes, and took a shower.

After getting out of the bath, Wang Jiexiang put on a towel and went back to the room first, planning to change the water for her crab.

The crab is gone.

The bucket containing the crabs was washed and left in place.

But the crab is gone.

It was probably dead and was thrown away by Yin Xian.

It was originally a dying crab with a broken leg. It was raised in tap water, not in sea water, and could not hold up to die after a day. It was normal.

Wang Jiexiang curled his lips and refrained from thinking maliciously.

While washing the clothes, she glanced at the trash can outside the house.

The bag that was just changed in the bucket was dumped.

The feeling in his heart couldn’t be said, Wang Jiexiang sighed, brushing his clothes extra hard.

Back to the room, before going to bed, she saw the pot on the small table.

——Yin Xian seems to say that he has cooked more porridge.

Uncovering the lid, she smelled the fragrant sweetness.

After stirring with a spatula, Wang Jiexiang saw the crab legs.

This is a pot of seafood porridge.

Seafood porridge cooked with crabs.

He has eaten that crab!

Didn’t it mean that they were picked up from the garbage dump, dirty, and not eaten?

She looked back at Yin Xian, his eyes closed, breathing evenly.

Wang Jiexiang smiled.

She filled a bowl of porridge, chewed and swallowed softly.

Delicious and fragrant.

And it’s very warm.

While drinking the porridge, she muttered to herself in her breath.

“Very good, this person is really good…”

“what did you say?”

Hearing her talking, Yin Xian opened his eyes.

“cough.”

Wang Jiexiang was choked.

Wiping her mouth, she replied incoherently.

“I, I mean, seafood porridge! It’s very good, I mean it’s delicious.”

“Oh.” His eyes closed again.

Wang Jiexiang felt lost: Are you sleeping? Don’t you ask more?