Chapter 25 - ampus RomanceC (1/2)

Chapter 25: ampus RomanceC

Translator: May Zou

While she was waiting for the call for the interview, Jiang Youyou bought a used computer at a nearby flea market. Although it was a little old, it was still in good condition. The former owner must be a cute girl. The dust cover of the computer was pink HELLOKITTY, and something was written with the black oil pen on its case: “Humpty Dumpty, Baby Dolly wants to stay with you all my life. Thank you for the birthday gift you gave to me.”

It must be a romantic love story, in which the boy was named Humpty Dumpty and the girl’s name was Baby Dolly. Their photos were still stored in the computer. They seemed to be senior high school students, with a cute pose of V hands and non-mainstream facial expression. Today’s children… Jiang Youyou suddenly felt that her college days were a waste of time. All that she knew was to study, and she even didn’t know who had liked her, and now she had hardly had any contact with her classmates. There were over thirty classmates in her class, but now she could recall no one except for the monitor Wenbo, who posted a letter to her when she was in the welfare house before he went abroad, in which he thanked Jiang Youyou for her kindness to send him a mug of boiled coke with ginger when he caught cold. Such friendship between classmates was the most precious, he wrote.

Boiled coke with ginger? Jiang Youyou could never recollect she had done something like that. Maybe he had mistaken her for someone else because of his consuming fever. After that letter they lost contact with each other.

Living in this community was quite convenient for her to buy fresh vegetables, for many truck farmers had their own stalls. Because she bought vegetables at their stalls for many times, some of them offered the door-to-door service. They might send her fresh spinach or pakchoi, or various melons and gourds. When they were passing by they would cry out downstairs, “Miss Jiang, do you want anything?” If she did, Jiang Youyou would throw some bills down and the vegetables would be put at the door, which would be picked up after she got up. The door of the yard was always open, but few people would come in. It was actually a tranquil place.

The farm product market was also a most attractive place, in which there was a tailor’s shop which specialized in making clothes for villagers. Sometimes it also made graveclothes, an all-purpose style of female ghost asking for life with scarlet color.

One day when Jiang Youyou passed the shop, she saw a pile of discounted cloth of gorgeous and tacky pink plaid. It might be out of fashion, so she could buy a lot of cloth for only fifty yuan. With another ten yuan the tailor would make it into curtains with buttons sewed on. Then she would hang the curtains on the windows to replace the original dull ones. This would bring her a pleasant surprise.

And the internet was also connected. She felt more of the convenience to live here. The computer was fast enough and well worth it for its price of two thousand Yuan. It was raining intermittently outside of the window. She made a pot of West Lake Longjing tea, and drank it with some snacks. What an agreeable afternoon.

When she was chatting idly on QQ with a strange town fellow, her phone rang.

“Ah, interview at two thirty this afternoon? OK, I’ll be there on time. Thank you, Sis Zhao.” This phone call for the interview was the very thing Jiang Youyou had been expecting.

“It’s me to thank you. Later that day I went to see the doctor and she told me it’s true that job’s-tears has some side effects on pregnant women.” In her office, Zhao Huixin looked at her belly with happiness. When the new employees started to work, she could successfully retreat without any deduction of her salary.