Chapter 30 The Baby Ghost (1/2)

Chapter 30 The Baby Ghost

I could feel my anger quickly rising from my stomach to my throat.

Damn, this beggar was turning up his nose at me.

I pointed at this beggar and scolded him: “Damn, I understood you were poor and gave you some money, but you thought it was beneath you. Well, I will give you nothing. And now get out of here, or else, I will hit you.”

But this beggar clanged his iron rod, singing and laughing: “One two three four. My brother, don’t get so angry, when I said I didn’t want your money, I didn’t mean your money was beneath me. It was said, ‘even though you have gold and silver mines, if you sit idle and eat, in time your whole fortune would be used up’. So could I come and make a living here?”

This beggar wanted to find a job in my studio?

I looked him up and down, asking curiously: “How could you become a beggar if you wanted to work?”

“Hah, several years ago I earned some money, but now I used it up and I have to find a job and work.” The beggar pointed at my studio and told me that this was a good place for him to work since it belonged to Yin.

I drew in my breath: “Were you also in this field?”

“Well, more senior than you.” The beggar smiled and said: “Shall we go inside and have a chat?”

“Please.” I thought that this beggar might be a master so I invited him in.

This beggar was sitting in my studio, complaining and whining. He said I had good skill that could bring me a fortune, but I just stayed here.

I told him I didn’t want to earn too much money and I would never do things that violated the rules and went against my conscience.

When I said this, the beggar immediately stuck up a thumb and said: “You are a good guy with great skills, but you are not impetuous. What a rarity.”

Then he said he wanted to be my membership consultant, or the receptionist of my studio.

I stared at him and asked: “You seem to be a capable person, so you still want to work for me?”

“Why not? I had been wandering for a long time, and now I want to rest.” This beggar said and laughed.

I asked him how much did he want for his salary.

He raised one finger.

“One thousand?” I asked.

He shook his head and said: “Ten thousand.”

I got surprised by this beggar when he demanded such an exorbitant price.There were indeed membership consultants in the big tattoo studios, but they were usually paid one thousand and eight hundred, some bosses paid higher, at two thousand and two hundred per month.

This beggar asked for ten thousand.

I shook and told him this price was too much and I couldn’t afford it.

He said he was worthy of this price, and he wouldn’t work for me if it was lower than this price. Otherwise, he would go to another place to work.

He was about to leave when I pulled him back.

I was thinking that I hadn’t been in this field for long and I needed to find a master to follow. Though Liu the Sixth could help me when he was free, he came from privilege and wealth and only helped me occasionally. On the other hand, I could make faster progress in this field if this beggar was really a capable and experienced person.

I just calculated, I could earn about twenty or thirty thousand Yuan per order, and it was not so expensive to spend ten thousand per month to hire this person for guidance. If he was not so good, I could fire him after a month. In any case, ten thousand was not so much, or not so little.

Thinking about that, I gritted my teeth and said to this beggar: “Ten thousand is OK.”

“Generous.” The beggar smiled and stood up. He asked me whether I could provide him with a change of clothes. Otherwise, nobody would consult him if he looked like that.

I didn’t have any spare clothes, I only had clothes for working. So I pointed at the wardrobe and said that there are several working out fits and told him to change first.

The beggar smiled to me and said: “My name is Feng Chunsheng, and you?”

“Yu Shui”, I replied.

“Brother Yu, nice to see you. Let me have a bath first and I’ll talk with you later.” He made an obeisance to me and went into the bath room.

After the bath, he wore the working clothes. Then I could tell this beggar was about a forty or fifty mid-aged man. He looked decent, but with a bad smell.

Feng Chunsheng patted the working clothes and told me it was the first time he got new clothes in the past ten years. Damn, what he said might nearly make me burst into tears.

After he cleaned up his clothes and intended to chat with me, someone came knocking at the door.

I turned back and found a well-dressed, beautiful lady at the door. She was in the grey silk tunic, white-washed jeans, and Asics sports shoes which looked very clean.

It was Bai Ling.

“Xiao Ling, here you are.” I said hello to her.

Bai Ling smiled sweetly. She came in, sat on the tattoo couch and said hello to me. She said, “Shui, I got into trouble, so could you help me?”

I was about to ask her what happened when Feng Chunsheng pulled me back to the door and whispered, “This girl is unusual.”

Nonsense, normal people never came to my shop for a Yin and Yang tattoo.