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[You were not here tonight. I missed you a lot. Yesterday I cooked two meals, waiting for you to come back. But you didn’t come home even after waiting for a long time. So I had dinner alone.]
Jiuhuayue typed slowly, one word at a time, and typed out a long string of words.
[How about you reply to this message if you see it?]
Unfortunately
Even though I squatted in the corner and stared at the screen for more than ten minutes, the uncle still didn't reply.
Jiu Huayue held her cell phone, looked up, and gazed at the azure blue sky outside through the window glass that they had wiped when they did the spring cleaning together.
The plane departing from New Chitose Airport split the blue sky in two. A long plane cloud was straight in the sky.
She stretched her palm upwards and spread her five fingers. The sunlight shone through the gaps between her fingers, which was very dazzling.
It’s so strange, Jiuhuayue feels that her life at this moment is just like that plane.
Although you are moving towards freedom, you still need something to maintain your motivation.
What the plane needs is oil, what I need is love.
The plane always has fuel, but when will the uncle fall in love with me?
I want to be loved.
Of course, I will also give him more love.
Be good to him.
After being depressed for a while, Jiuhuayue realized that her words were useless.
Jiu Huayue thought that she still had to take action.
After waiting for a few minutes and still not receiving a reply from the uncle, Jiu Huayue encouraged herself and cheered herself up. She changed into clothes for going out, took the bus, and rushed to the supermarket near the commercial street.
As soon as I got off the bus and walked into the city, I suddenly received a message from Line.
Jiu Huayue originally thought it was an uncle and was somewhat happy.
Unexpectedly, when I took it out, I found that it was Rinka Hiiragi who was asking me about my meeting with Jujube Sawa yesterday.
[Yue-chan, You said her sister agreed to help!]
Do you agree to help?
Jiuhuayue felt relieved. Having a senior who could play the trumpet to guide her proved that she was one step closer to returning to the trumpet-playing team.
This is a good thing.
Jiuhuayue replied slowly, word by word, in agreement.
"Thank you, Jushizawa-san, for me. If I meet her in person, I'll say thank you too."
Hiiragi Rinka: [It’s okay, it’s okay! Didn’t Yuzu say she wanted to help Yue-chan when we met yesterday afternoon? She doesn’t object to you liking Mr. Fujii, on the contrary, she approves of it! ]
"Well, but it's okay to just tell Shiroizawa-san about this, right?" Jiuhuayue asked doubtfully.
Hiiragi Rinka: [It's okay. Although Yuzu likes interesting things, likes to play, and is a bit free-spirited, she won't talk nonsense.]
Whatever you want?
When Jiu Huayue saw this word, she couldn't help but think, it would be great if she could do the same.
Not constrained by family members, not threatened by family members.
She typed back slowly again:
"understood."
[Yuzu's sister will ask Xiaoyue to practice together when she has time. The time will probably be next week. Will Xiaoyue be free by then?]
"It's likely to be in the afternoon."
[That’s good. I won’t bother you today, Yue-chan. We can talk again when we have time~]
"Well, let's talk later."
After replying, Jiu Huayue put away her phone and continued walking along the street.
She received a call from her parents today, and her father said some harsh words to her, which made her quite unhappy.
But the good news right now helped her to regain her composure.
She, Jiuhuayue, is not the kind of person who would be easily defeated by difficulties.
She is moving forward with goals and beliefs!
She fully understood that if she just relied on the uncle and used the money he lent her, she would not be liked at all.
To be worthy of being liked and loved, you must first be independent.
Financial independence is the first key.
For this reason, she specifically found a job outside, hoping to earn money on her own and have the material conditions for living on her own.
When I have a chance to make a lot of money in the future, I will have the chance to give it to my uncle to spend.
The uncle has to take care of the welfare home and needs money during the holidays.
He has no savings at all.
If I get sick in the future, the cost of treatment will be a problem.
Um.
Only if I help him save this money, his life will be secure and happy in the future.
At around nine o'clock in the morning, Jiuhuayue arrived at a large chain supermarket near Otaru shopping street.
This is where she found her job.
The job description was what she had told the uncle about that night: being a salesperson, selling shredded squid.
When she arrived here, she first went to the staff room and changed into her work uniform.
The supervisor is a very strict middle-aged man. The first thing supermarket employees do when they get to work is to recite various regulations about the supermarket and the rules that strictly prohibit employees from stealing or taking anything.
"When it comes to sales, you need to show your passion for sales! Do you understand?!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
Jiu Huayue also stood up straight in the team and agreed in a slightly childish voice. However, compared to these people, she was the tallest in the team.
Most of Jiu Huayue’s fellow salespeople are older young men, college students, and a few housewives.
Although everyone is a salesperson, they are responsible for different areas and sell different items.
Today is the weekend, so there are a lot of customers.
After giving orders to other colleagues, the supervisor came to Jiu Huayue, closed his eyes, and ordered:
"As for you, Jiuhua, right? Today's mission is to sell 200 items. Do you understand?"
"Yes."
"You are a high school student. It's not easy to work, so I won't make it difficult for you. But you also have to understand that the more you sell, the more commission you get. Do you understand?"
"clear."
"Well, remember to smile when facing the guests. Even if you can't smile, you have to force a smile for me!"
"Yes!"
Chapter 119 Confrontation
"Hello, ma'am. This is today's——"
"Hello, sir!"
"Hello! You need—"
"Hello!"
"Hello!"
Being rejected again and again, Jiu Huayue tried her best to put a smile on her face.
After every sales pitch, most of the responses were rejections, as expected.
Facing the customers coming and going in the supermarket, Jiu Huayue looked back and saw that the small stand behind her was still full of squid shreds. If she said that she didn't feel disappointed, she would be deceiving herself.
The supermarket sells a serving of shredded squid for 400 yen.
For every copy she sells, she can earn an extra 20 yen on top of her basic salary.
Today is the weekend and her supervisor asked her to sell 200 bags.
This is a very difficult task.
Because on weekdays when she was at work, she only sold more than 30 bags.
Even if they can really sell out, the commission is only 4000 yen.
Plus, she has to go to school from Monday to Friday, so she has little time to work.
A monthly salary of 70,000 to 80,000 yen for a part-time job is considered good.
You should know that when I was a model in Tokyo, a random set of photos would cost me hundreds of thousands of yen.
Although she hated Takarazuka, the salary was much higher than her modeling photo shoot.
wrong.
Why do you think about these things?
I promised not to go back to Tokyo, not to go back to Tokyo!
Since you are planning to live alone in the future, why bother thinking about the past?
'Wake up! Wake up!'
Jiuhuayue patted her face hard and cheered herself up.