Chapter 45 Heavy Rain
Chapter 45 Heavy Rain
"Rumble"
As a light blue flash of lightning flashed through the thick dark clouds covering the city, a dull thunder came quickly, as if it exploded somewhere above one's head.
In the courtyard of the DreamToys toy factory, An Rushong looked up at the sky and felt the increasingly cold wind. It was obvious that a heavy rain was about to come.
At this moment, there were two trucks parked in the yard of the toy factory. A dozen workers were busy loading boxes onto the trucks. From the large "LOTTEMART" logo on the side of the truck, it was clear that these were trucks belonging to Lotte Mart.
This is indeed the case. What is being loaded onto the truck now is a batch of goods purchased by Lotte Mart. The quantity is not large, only 5000 pieces in total, but An Rushong still attaches great importance to it and comes over to watch the loading.
After finally loading the last box of goods onto the truck, the workers were busy installing rainproof cloth. When the truck finally drove out of the factory, raindrops the size of soybeans began to fall.
With one hand covering his head, An Rusong trotted to a silver Hyundai sedan, opened the driver's door and got in. Then, he pulled a tissue from the center console, wiped the rain off his face, started the car, and slowly drove out of the toy factory gate.
Since yesterday, the weather in Seoul has been maddeningly stuffy. The air feels like it’s filled with steaming oil, sticky and greasy. If you don’t stay in a room with air conditioning on, even breathing feels difficult.
Now, the heavy rain that had been lingering all day finally fell, and the world seemed to become refreshed all of a sudden.
But the rain was a little too heavy.
After driving away from the toy factory, An Rushong headed all the way to Anyandong.
He found a tutor for his sister Rubin through an agent, and the tutor started working the day before yesterday. However, as he has been busy debugging the website for Liu Taihe these days, he has not been able to meet the tutor until now.
An Rusong is the kind of person who either doesn't do anything or does it well. Since he has decided to play the role of An Rubin's brother, he must play this role well.
Originally, An Rusong planned to find a few more tutors for his sister, three subjects, Chinese, math and English, plus two subjects, natural science and social science, for a total of five tutors, each tutor would give one hour of tutoring every day. In this way, she could take tutoring courses for about half a month before she officially entered school.
But his idea was rejected by his sister An Rubin. The little girl was confident in her various courses, except for her weakness in English. Therefore, she insisted on finding only one English teacher to tutor her for two hours every day.
In the end, An Rushong accepted his sister's request and only found an English tutor for her.
According to the agent, the tutor is a woman. She is not a recent graduate with little teaching experience, but a current teacher at Yonsei University High School with five years of teaching experience.
Because she is a teacher, the time she can tutor An Rubin is only at night. However, she provides home tutoring, so there is no need to worry about Rubin's safety.
Braving the pouring rain, An Rushong rushed all the way to the high-end student apartment he rented for his sister.
The security of the apartment is very strict. Although An Rushong paid the rent and other things in the beginning, if he wanted to go in, he had to contact his sister using the security room's phone first. Only after getting permission could he register to enter the building.
The rain was so heavy that An Rusong was soaked even though he was only getting on and off the bus. After completing the registration, he took the elevator to the 11th floor of the building.
When he came out of the elevator, he saw two women, one tall and one short, standing at the door of his sister's residence deep in the corridor.
The shorter one is the younger sister An Rubin, and the woman who is nearly half a head taller than the younger sister and has a fuller figure should be the English teacher named Li Miaojing mentioned by the agent.
In South Korea, teachers have a very high status. Therefore, when An Rushong saw the other party and his sister standing in the corridor, he quickly quickened his pace and almost ran over.
"Is this Teacher Li Miaojing? I am Rubin's brother, An Rushong," An Rushong approached the man and bowed before saying, "I'm very sorry that I'm late."
"Don't mind, Mr. An," Li Miaojing should be in her early thirties. Her appearance is not particularly outstanding, but her temperament is very good. She has a bun and wears a light yellow professional dress. Her tone of voice is also very gentle. "Actually, I just arrived too."
"Brother, your hair is all wet. Go in and wipe it first. Be careful not to catch a cold." An Rubin interrupted.
An Rushong glared at his sister. He was chatting with the teacher, and it was very rude of this girl to interrupt.
"Yes, Mr. An, you should wipe your hair first," Li Miaojing didn't mind. She smiled and bowed and said.
At that moment, An Rusong was no longer polite. He invited the other party in first, and then he changed his position at the entrance, wiping the rain off his head with the towel sent by his sister. In fact, the information about Li Miaojing provided by the intermediary was already very detailed. Judging from those materials alone, he was very satisfied with the conditions of this teacher. The reason why he came to meet this person today was actually mainly out of courtesy. After all, he found a tutor for his sister, but he did not show up from beginning to end, which was always impolite.
After wiping his hair, An Rusong chatted with teacher Li Miaojing in the living room for a while, reconfirming the tutoring time and required fees. An Rusong was also very satisfied with the other party's words and deeds.
Most importantly, after hearing that An Rushong was planning to find a general tutor for his sister, Li Miaojing also gave him some advice, saying that she knew there was a training class in Anyan-dong specifically for high school students, which provided tutoring services in various subjects, and even Japanese, art, taekwondo, and even extracurricular interest tutoring such as stage plays and orchestral music.
The key point is that the tutoring fee there is also very cheap. If calculated based on two hours of tutoring per day, the monthly fee is about 30000 won per hour. And if An Rusong wants to hire a tutor like Li Miaojing, the fee per hour is 43500 won, which is about 350 yuan in RMB.
Therefore, all in all, it is more appropriate to attend that training class.
After listening to Li Miaojing's recommendation, An Rushong was also somewhat tempted. As for An Rubin, she was also very interested in this training class, mainly because there were some extracurricular skills tutoring programs there, which was very new to her.
However, although he was somewhat tempted, An Rushong did not make a decision immediately. He has always been cautious and suspicious. If he wanted to arrange a tutoring class for his sister, he had to do some research in advance.
After chatting with Li Miaojing for a while, An Rushong looked at his watch and felt that it was almost time, so he said goodbye and left. He still had to rush to Liu Taihe to keep an eye on the website testing work.
Facts in the past few days have proved that although the two Indian brothers have some skills, that's just the extent of it. When it comes to the operation and testing of the flower card website, they probably can't figure it out in the short term on their own, so An Rushong has to lead them to learn step by step.
Perhaps in order to avoid being noticed, the place where Liu Taihe tested the website was arranged in a five-story building in Yulhyeon-dong near Cheonggyecheon Stream.
This building belongs to Damushan Real Estate. It used to belong to a company called E-Ang Electronics. Later, the company went bankrupt and the building was acquired by Damushan Group as a property.
In order to test the operation of the Hanahatsu website, Liu Taihe activated the building that had been sealed. The test team was arranged on the top floor of the building because it was the most spacious and half of the floor was connected.
An Rushong drove to the testing building and parked his car directly in a parking space in front of the building. Next to his car, there were two seven-seater cars. Just by looking at the license plate number, he recognized that this was the car that Zhao Chenghao usually used.
Wondering why Zhao Chenghao came here, An Rushong pushed the door, got out of the car, and rushed into the building.
Although he ran very fast, by the time he rushed into the main entrance of the building, he was still soaked all over, like a drowned chicken.
As soon as he walked into the lobby of the building, An Rushong saw Zhao Chenghao and Zhao Jingsheng standing together, whispering about something. Beside them, seven girls from KSE Entertainment gathered together, looking around curiously.
Seeing An Rusong coming in from outside, Zhao Chenghao raised his head and greeted him from a distance, shouting: "Rusong!"
Not understanding why they came here, An Rushong waved at them. Just as he was about to go over and chat with them, the phone he was carrying rang first.
He took out his phone and looked at the screen. Haji's name was displayed on it. So he answered the call while walking towards Zhao Chenghao.
On the phone, Haji had nothing else to say except asking him to go to the testing group as soon as possible, as the program probably had encountered some problem again.
An Rushong just said he would be there soon and then hung up the phone.
"Brother Chenghao, Brother Jingsheng, why are you here?" An Rushong asked as he approached the Zhao Chenghao brothers.
"Why else?" Zhao Chenghao spread his hands and said helplessly, "Jingsheng wants to arrange for Huixiu and the others to perform on the 'Show Music Center' stage, but he has no connections, so he can only ask for help."
Who should I ask for help? Liu Taihe?
An Rushong thought to himself, I really don’t know what you guys are thinking. You obviously don’t get along with Liu Taihe, yet you still come to him to beg for help.
However, this was the brothers' business, and it was not his turn to interrupt. Besides, he was in a hurry to go upstairs to instruct the two Indian brothers, so he did not chat for long, just greeted the two brothers, and then hurriedly said goodbye and left.
When he walked past several girls, they all called him "Brother Rusong" in unison. Although they were not familiar with each other, the girls still recognized him.
(End of this chapter)