Chapter Thirty-Five

  Xu Lijing and Lian Xiangyu both left for class, Huang Lingyun suddenly said, "Lian Xiangyu seems to be secretly in love with someone."

  "Hmm... The feelings of a young girl in her youth!" Chen Xiao Cheng nodded and glanced at the time on his electronic watch, "Alright, I'm off."

  "Huh? Where are you going?" Huang Lingyun asked in pursuit. Without bringing books and pens, she walked for several hours. If it weren't for Chen Huai's outfit being completely unrelated to hers, she would have thought Chen Huai was going on a date.

  "Oh, I want to find a part-time job." Since this winter break, her paid tutoring students have decreased to three, and it's no longer necessary to continue. Rather than relying on relationships for teaching, it's better to do some real work. "Tutoring during winter and summer breaks is no longer possible, and the scholarship is not enough for living expenses, so I must find another job."

  Huang Lingyun stood with her mouth agape, watching her leave, and was torn about whether or not to reveal Chen Cai's plan to find a job.

  Chen Huaisheng didn't care whether Huang Lingyun would gossip or not, to her it was all the same. If someone were to mock her for this, her response would be forceful: she had to plan for living expenses and training fees after graduation when she wouldn't immediately start working and would prepare for the judicial examination.

  I heard someone has already crowned her as a "exam tyrant". I believe once this reason comes out, the title of "exam tyrant" will be thoroughly confirmed.

  ……

  The aroma of freshly ground coffee.

  Of course, there's more than just coffee, there are flavored syrups, whole milk foam, and high rent and profit margins.

  "I like coffee, I mean coffee beans, ground into powder and then dripped with water - black coffee. Of course, boiling water for a few seconds is best, but what I'm most fascinated by is the chemical formula, however, the taste that comes out of it isn't quite to my liking... But when I was in college, my allowance wasn't enough to consume here at the store, so I chose to work here instead."

  "As a law student, your English is quite good."

  "Thank you! I didn't dare come for an interview until after I got my TEM-8 certificate."

  "Oh, really? Great!"

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  The HR manager in the city circle signed with a flourish and hired him.

  Over the weekend, Chen Hui attended this batch of new employee training. These dozen hours were unpaid, but it can't be denied that her previous understanding of service-oriented enterprises had nothing to do with such training.

  Another gain is... The profit of this coffee chain store is really not low!

  "Hehe, in this situation, let's just let our supervisor handle it."

  Part-time student workers and new employees are trained together. There were two of them, one was a boy from the foreign language department, "interesting" thing is that he can speak three languages: English, French and German, and what's more, he has mastered them proficiently. Most importantly, this guy can be called a handsome boy.

  "You're really something." This was Chen Huan's sincere words, she couldn't be considered a top student or academic overachiever, but this person was! A famous school indeed has its own foundation and background, because among those students there are always particularly outstanding ones, and they become the school's achievements.

  "They are all like that. Our translation teacher mentioned a law major girl who can translate Tang poems into very poetic English. This law major girl is also the one who makes our English major teachers sigh, with excellent translation skills and good grades in English exams, and she even got a first-class scholarship in her major."

  "Oh! Those poems made me see a very good version just in time."

  "But you didn't copy. You translated independently."

  "I wanted to cheat, but I was afraid of getting caught and it wouldn't count as an achievement. So I combined several versions."

  "Hmm, have you taken the Band 8 exam?"

  "Yes, but there is still a bachelor's degree to strive for."

  "You're really something."

  "My self-study exam was easy. Compared to learning a foreign language, I don't know how much easier it is."

  "What about the law?" He was both curious and envious of the lawyer's eloquence, but that was just on TV.

  "It's like, um, the energy you have left after mastering English to learn German."

  "Not just that. I read through the legal articles from start to finish and didn't understand a thing. But after reading your commentary on criminal law, I somewhat understood."

  "Ah, it's spread that far? Chen looked at him and said, "I suggest you find a lawyer next time. Although lawyers aren't doing charity work, they'll generally answer ordinary questions for free as long as you don't make too many comments or proposals."

  "Never mind, I'll ask you instead."

  "Good. But before marriage and divorce, please consult a lawyer seriously, it's best to pay for it." She had advised many QQ group friends and sisters like this, those who followed her advice definitely didn't lose out. As for herself, hehe, no need.

  Law students can be really intimidating!

  In the end, the two were assigned to different chain stores, but both were not too far from school.

  Chen Hua chose a store that was closer to her new home. The only slight regret was that she and the handsome colleague hadn't exchanged names, she only knew him as Arthur. Okay, she was Charlotte, a name with no relation to her past life.

  "I'm not very good at drinking coffee." This is Huang Lingyun's evaluation of her part-time job at a chain coffee shop.

  "Uh, I also can't afford a cup of coffee for twenty or thirty bucks."

  "Isn't it that kind of cafe?" Xu Lijing asked weakly.

  "I'll go take a look. But the coffee there isn't cheap."

  "Are you going for an interview? Who is interviewing? How will the interview be conducted? Is a written test required?" Lian Xiangyu's interests lay elsewhere.

  "I went there myself, signed up, and then a human resources manager interviewed me in English. I was accepted afterwards. However, the salary is very low, four yuan per hour. Moreover, they asked me to go during peak business hours, so there won't be any free time."

  "So you're saying it's almost... two hundred yuan a month?" asked Lian Xiangyu with a blink of her eyes.

  "Uh, with two thousand a year, it's enough to buy some maintenance products and also get a slightly better set of clothes." In fact, she plans to work every day during winter and summer breaks, so she estimates she'll have three thousand. Uh, that can buy a Coach bag or a whole set of Nikes, but she could rent a small apartment in a not-so-good neighborhood for half a year."

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  Everyone thinks differently, which is normal. Chen Huai didn't plan to hide it and wasn't concerned about the opinions of those little kids at school. She had too many things she wanted to do: seeing Pang Hua's face made her want to make essential oil DIYs and even get cosmetic surgery; using expensive handmade soap made her want to find a workshop to make a bunch of beautiful fragrant soaps; when applying glycerin on her face, she tried hard not to search for top-notch raw materials from Switzerland... all these things require money. And relying on doing odd jobs for several thousand yuan, it's far from enough...

  Chen Huaisheng thought for half the night, and his final decision remained unchanged: to go on like this, working while saving money and starting from small business, gradually becoming self-sufficient, able to support himself and live a beautiful life. That's enough. Life is already a perfect interpretation of the word "happiness" when it is beautiful, healthy, and happy.