Chapter 16 of the Year of Tranquility
In Ya's bookcase, there is a delicate copy of the Bible, which has a black and dignified cover, and the seams are pink, and there are the opening words of each chapter on it, so you can see which chapter opens the word. Ya has never seen such a delicate and convenient Bible, in her hometown, the Bible book that my mother bought is as thick as a brick, and the cover is made of thick cardboard, and it takes a while to blindly turn through the pages to find which chapter.
When Jaya saw such a convenient and delicate Bible book, he couldn't help but fall in love with it. She thought: If the Bible books in her hometown are also typeset and designed in this way, it will be much easier for her mother to read them. I never thought that a few years later, the Bible books sold by the church in my hometown would become like this, and it seems that this version of the Bible was generally welcomed.
Seeing this Bible book, a man came to Jah's mind......
At that time, Ya was working at a large beauty salon in Beijing, which was mainly open to foreign tourists. Beijing is a city with a well-developed tourism industry, and there are many tourists from all over the world, most of whom travel in groups. Most of the visitors to this shop are Koreans. Some Koreans speak Chinese very slippery, and sometimes Ya's colleagues meet to talk about a special Korean, they think that Koreans can't understand Chinese, who knows that they suddenly hear Koreans speak to them in Chinese with straight words, and they are so impressed that they are more standard than many Chinese. Many Chinese speak with a local accent, but these Koreans speak Chinese, like the TV and radio presenters, in proper standard Mandarin. Ya felt embarrassed every time she heard it: she couldn't speak such standard Mandarin.
Koreans are generally very polite, but there are some people who are more picky and will dislike the clerk's unskillful technique, excessive force or too light, and then the store guide needs to communicate.
One day, Ya went to work in the store, and a young man of medium size with slightly dark skin was turning his head, and he saw Ya smiling brightly, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. The proprietress said to Ya: "This is the new tour guide, the golden tour guide." ”
Ya smiled at him: "Hello! ”
"Hello, beauty!" The guy smiled and nodded at her.
"What a handsome guy!" Looking at the young man's bright eyes under his thick eyebrows, Ya thoughtfully.
"You've just gotten out of school, haven't you? Is there a 20-year-old? Ya asked the lad.
"It's not that small, I'm 25." Guide Kim burst out laughing.
In addition to interpreting for tour groups, Guide Kim is also responsible for teaching staff to learn simple Korean and Chinese in his spare time. He printed two Chinese-Korean translations for the clerk to learn. He doesn't just teach in general, but exams one by one, and he can only pass his level, otherwise he will learn endless exams.
Guide Kim's Korean is very standard, even with a Korean regional accent, and many Koreans think he is also Korean. Mr. Kim, a native of Korean, said that his mother's Korean language was older and few people could speak it now, so it was no wonder that he spoke Korean.
The salary of the clerk is the basic salary plus commission, and they can speak Korean, which means that they can get more tips and commissions, and some old employees get tips and commissions a month, even higher than the basic salary. Although Ya is not good at words, the simple Korean she learned from Guide Kim also came in handy, and some Koreans even asked her if she was Korean.
She also learned from those colleagues and used Korean to sell products and projects to Koreans, and although the income was not much, she also had 1/3 of the basic salary. Working in this industry, the income is much more than Ya's previous pharmacy, of course, the time is longer than the pharmacy, and the rest time is not as much as the pharmacy.
Once, Ya went to a Korean restaurant to eat, and when she walked to the elevator after eating, two waiters on either side looked at Ya and said, "It's like a Korean." As Ya approached, a waitress said in Korean, "Please go." ”
Ya smiled and nodded, and said in Korean, "Thank you", and the waiter immediately excitedly said to the other waiter, "It's Korean, I said it's Korean!" Ya smiled and walked out of the elevator.
Ya once worked for a job at a shoe store in Chongqing, where more than one customer said Ya spoke with a Zhejiang Jinhua accent. Zhejiang is a beautiful place, but unfortunately Ya has never been there, and she has wanted to travel to Zhejiang more than once. The faint mist and clouds in the south of the Yangtze River appeared in Ya's dreams more than once, and there was a feeling of nostalgia. Ya thought, in her previous life, she must have wandered in the rain alleys in the south of the Yangtze River, and there must be her standing figure on the green willow causeway.
Ya's appearance has a small and delicate feeling of a Jiangnan woman. But my mother and sisters are all tall and big, are they being raised? But his facial features, his smile and smile are so similar to his mother. Many people say that my mother is a big beauty, from young beauty to old beauty, but why don't many people call themselves big beauty? Is it because you are not tall enough?
Now, some Koreans say that Ya's accent has a Korean regional accent, could it be that she has also been to Korea in her previous life? Who can travel from Zhejiang to Korea? I should have been a man in my previous life, and I still regret why I wasn't a man. What's so good about a man? It may be that the constraints from society are smaller, you can freely gallop in the desert wilderness, you can set foot in the mountains and remote places, you can drink booze, you can get drunk, you can talk loudly.
Can't a daughter? In today's society, women can also be in this form, but it seems that they can't always drink happily, and they can't always do what they want.
When her daughter was one or two years old, Ya went to Beijing again to work, first as a lecturer at a health center.
Ya's youth was basically spent in school, so she was deeply impressed by both her status as a teacher and a student. At that time, the specific dream should be to become a teacher. But after entering the society, he didn't deliberately pursue this, but he also became a teacher a few times, and he was even an adult teacher. The most memorable thing is a period of teaching career in Beijing.
Ya's boss is a girl in her twenties and thirties, who is of Korean ethnicity. Her child was just over a year old at the time and had previously worked as a Korean translator. She is a very intelligent person, and in just a few years, she bought several houses in Beijing. She sold a house to start the health center.
The health center is an assembly hall that can accommodate hundreds of people. In the middle of the hall is a lecture hall, and on both sides and behind it are many medical equipment such as medical beds and chiropractic equipment, all of which are made in Korea. It is mainly made of agate, using the energy emitted by agate to cure diseases, the price is expensive, and the curative effect is still significant.
There are many elderly people who often come to the lectures for treatment, and their complexions have become ruddy and their hair has turned blue. At that time, there were seven lecturers with the dean. Those are all from Beijing, and one of them, Mr. Wang, is from Hebei. After graduating from university, Mr. Wang got married, had children, and took care of the children at home. When the children are older, they come to this industry to become lecturers. She has been working in the health center in Daxing for two or three years. Later, the hospital was renovated, and it took a few months, so she was seconded to the health center where Ya was working to give lectures. Her lectures are as free and vivid as the dean's, and she sings songs and operas well.
Sometimes there is still time left after a lecture, and it is necessary to find ways to motivate these elderly people and participate in some recreational activities. There are four lecturers who give lectures, and the other ones mainly do some maintenance work. Except for Mr. Wang, all three of them are newcomers, and they will start to give formal lectures after a month of training. For the first day of class, Ya prepared for nearly half a month, wrote a manuscript with all aspects, and memorized it every day, in order to print it into her mind and lecture without reading the manuscript.
Finally waited for this day, although Ya had the experience of being an adult teacher, but after all, it was only a small classroom, at most dozens of students, and now there was a black pressure of hundreds of people looking at Ya. Ya still got stuck when she started lecturing. The quality of the people of Beijing is beyond doubt, and they applauded in return. Ya quickly calmed down and slowly entered the state. Ya talked about the knowledge of the human body and the principles of health care, and the first class ended like this. There was applause below, and those uncles and aunts gave Ya a thumbs up: "Girl, that's a good point!" Ya was also relieved, and a heavy stone that had been pressed on her heart for half a month finally landed.
Sometimes, when there was time to spare, Ya would recite a poem or sing a song to them, and then choose one of the uncles and aunts below to sing. Many of these elderly people can sing and dance well, and they sing very well, especially Peking Opera, which can be imagined as talented people back then.
Several teachers take turns to give lectures every day, and those who don't give lectures will be dealt cards to those who come, and with this card they can take turns to do treatment. There is a female teacher, and her manuscript is also relatively comprehensive and very good. But she is the same manuscript in every class every day, and she doesn't even change the examples. Those old people don't know if they listen carefully, but they listen to it every day without objection. But Jass listened in agony. She couldn't allow herself to tell the same story every day. This also makes Ya's life not easy.
Teachers start class at eight o'clock and leave work at five o'clock in the afternoon. The students are gone, and the teachers do physiotherapy for half an hour and then clean up. After the cleaning was done, they all left, and Ya was left alone in the huge hall to prepare for class. Due to the high rent in Beijing, Ya slept on the physiotherapy bed at night.
The health center is closed every Sunday, but Ya doesn't really have time to rest. After work and on Sundays, she spends her time writing handouts and memorizing handouts. Those uncles and aunts were very respectful of the teachers, and when they saw them, they greeted the teachers for a long time and a short time.
During the Dragon Boat Festival that year, many elderly people took their boiled eggs, zongzi and fruits to the teachers, saying that the teachers had worked hard. Like students, these elderly people come to their classes and receive treatment on time every day. Each teacher assigns a group of trainees, and they are usually followed up to inquire about their health. Because insisting on coming every day to a month can reward an agate bracelet, two months can reward an agate necklace, and the longer you persist, the more rewards......
The business model of that health center should be in the early days, and since then this model has been in full swing throughout the country, and there are many such business models in small places in my hometown, but the scale is relatively small, and there are almost no ...... in the Great Hall, which can accommodate hundreds of people, like in Beijing