Chapter 437 443. Gathering at the Beauty Salon

“Cheng Cheng.”

“Ok?”

“Although these are minor matters, I think I should briefly mention them to you.”

In the office inside the factory, Lu Jincheng and Xie Yujia sat facing each other.

“For example, our garment factory pays wages based on piecework, with the unit price of each piece ranging from a few cents to a few dimes, and at most a little over one dollar.”

“To get a salary of 11 or yuan, the workers work about hours a day.”

“But this salary is considered high income in Jiangcheng.”

“I’m not suggesting a salary increase for everyone, but I’m thinking about whether we can improve our benefits and supporting facilities.”

Xie Yujia paused for a few seconds and continued.

“We have been in the factory for so long. When we have a sufficient supply of new models or when we need to rush the production, the workers have no choice but to work overtime.”

“Sometimes workers arrive at around 8am and don’t leave until 10pm.”

“Working for such long hours can cause cervical spondylosis or even a sore butt.”

Xie Yujia frowned slightly, took out a cushion from the chair and pointed it to Lu Jincheng.

“You see, after a few days of using my own sewing machine, I realized that putting this on a plastic chair might work well.”

“Specialized seat cushion.”

Different from ordinary soft cushions, this cushion is made of a wooden frame with a grid made of cow tendon wire on it. It is both heat-dissipating and breathable, and will not deform after sitting for a long time.

As Xie Yujia spent more and more time on the front line, he clearly felt the hardship and fatigue of this job.

In order to see the needle and thread clearly, some people have to bend down on the table, and years of work have aggravated their hunchbacks.

Whether it is sunny or cloudy, day or night, the sewing machine light at the workstation must be turned on, otherwise the light will be dim and it will be easier to make mistakes.

While working, she chats with her coworkers with her mouth and keeps her eyes on the needle of the sewing machine. If her sight shifts slightly, the sewing may go astray.

Workers are also prone to hearing problems.

Although I am used to speaking loudly in the workshop, when I leave the workshop and chat with others, I often ask questions because I can’t hear clearly.

Sometimes even if you shout loudly in the next room, no one can hear you.

“Sister Jia Jia, if you think it is necessary, then arrange everything for everyone.”

Lu Jincheng took the cushion from Xie Yujia’s hand with a smile and looked at it.

“The company will pay for this, thanks to your frontline experience. Apart from that, workers can ask for anything they need at any time and we will solve it at any time.”

“Making money from business is only one aspect, but what is more important is to fulfill social responsibilities.”

“Tsk tsk tsk, Mr. Lu is really a man of vision!”

Xie Yujia chuckled, her eyes curved, as if she didn’t expect him to be so easy to talk to.

“No wonder so many girls like you.”

“Who said that?”

It is difficult to distinguish between public and private matters between good-looking opposite-sex partners.

Faced with Xie Yujia’s teasing, the man subconsciously raised the corners of his mouth.

“Cheng Cheng, if you are upright, you have nothing to fear. Do you need anyone to tell you about this?”

Xie Yujia pursed her cherry lips, raised her left hand and pinched the pearl earring on her earlobe.

“It’s not like I can’t see it. During the few times you came to Hangzhou, I don’t know how many young girls you had around you.”

“With so many people around you, it must be troublesome to deal with the jealousy, right?”

“.Little things.”

Mr. Lu waved his hands, showing no intention of denying it.

In this era, a philandering man needs to have certain abilities.

A man who can face his own fickleness, without lying, pretending or making empty promises, and who can confess everything with confidence and handle the chaos in his harem needs higher-level abilities.

Mr. Lu is just such a man with an extremely strong heart.

No matter who is on the other side, he simply doesn’t bother to package himself and present himself in the way that ordinary people view things.

“I am a sentimental person.”

he added.

“You are sentimental. So, you can’t let go of any of them, right?”

Xie Yujia smiled, and the corners of her mouth and the arch of her eyebrows formed a beautiful parabola like a fine brush painting.

She started out as a Taobao model and started hanging around in shops at a young age.

Of course, her thoughts are not as innocent as those of a little girl. She stays away from scumbags and sneers at them.

in contrast.

Xie Yujia often looks up to business experts who are openly interested in getting more and more, and who have both ability and skills.

She understood that what men coveted were nothing more than wine, sex, money and power.

It’s just that the threshold of desire in one’s heart is different depending on whether one has the ability or not.

Although Xie Yujia looks gentle, she is a grassroots female elite who has made her fortune from scratch and possesses extraordinary insight.

“Okay, let’s not talk about this.”

Xie Yujia rolled up her sleeves, stood up, and smiled.

“Don’t go back at noon, eat here and try something new.”

“.also.”

Lu Jincheng was stunned and wanted to refuse subconsciously.

Looking at Xie Yujia’s actions and tone, he changed his mind.

“This lotus root soup is absolutely amazing.”

The lunch looked ordinary.

A few home-cooked dishes and a bowl of lotus root soup were placed on the table.

The workers brought lotus roots from home as the base for making soup, and the season was just right.

The noodles are excellent and they are filling when stewed.

“I didn’t expect Sister Jia Jia to have this skill.”

Lu Jincheng lowered his head and tasted it. When he picked it up with chopsticks, it was still in lumps, but it broke into pieces when he put it in his mouth.

The ribs were tender and the bones were a bit soft.

It is warm and delicious, the soup is clear and slightly reddish, with some lotus color, as if the lotus flowers in the lake under the setting sun have withered, and the setting sun and the color of the lotus have fallen into the lotus root.

The soup is a little sweet, and it is indeed a taste that can only be made at a family banquet.

“My hometown also produces lotus roots, the small ones grown near the lake, but they are famous for being brittle. The lotus flowers are still in bloom, and when you pick them out of the mud, they crack when you touch them with your fingers.”

Xie Yujia unbuttoned the shirt on his wrists, sat opposite Lu Jincheng, and told the story.

“At that time, we wrapped them in lotus leaves and sprinkled them with sugar before eating.”

“There is no residue. Although it tastes good, I always feel that the lotus root is still a little astringent at the end. The lotus root in Jiangcheng is really good.”

“It’s more lotus root powder than what we have back home, and it’s similar to stewed chestnuts or red bean paste. Lotus root soup is simple and easy to make, just sprinkle some salt on it.”

“You know what, I’ve learned something new.”

Faced with such hospitality, Lu Jincheng couldn’t help but feel a little surprised.

Compared to Xie Yujia dragging him to some high-end restaurant outside for lunch, these simple dishes and a soup really hit his spot.

In what kind of occasion is it more comfortable to eat? How to distinguish between your own people and outsiders? The balance lies here.

If Xie Yujia hadn’t talked to him for most of the day, demonstrating her ability to get to the grassroots level and her empathy, he might not have talked about private matters with her.

I won’t agree to this lunch either.

Without this lunch, he would not have discovered that besides being smart, Xie Yujia had another side.

I don’t know if she really did her homework or if she was born with maxed-out talent points.

All in all, being with her gives me an inexplicable sense of comfort.

“Sisters, long time no see~”

“Hey, Qingyue, it’s been a while since we last saw you, right?” “Hahahahaha, yes, I can see Qingyue on the leaderboard every now and then.”

“Why did the host from the University of Finance and Economics come to Huazhong University of Science and Technology to interview you? Are there no beauties in the University of Finance and Economics?”

“Don’t ask. The reason I’m asking is to see the cherry blossoms.”

At the end of April, the leading female anchors of Dianjin Media organized another regular gathering.

The eldest sister Miao Keyan was away on the set filming a movie, so the remaining five people spent most of the day discussing what activities to go out and play.

There is no way, there is no woman who can make the final decision.

Let’s play mahjong?

One of the five is redundant.

Go to the Internet cafe to play games?
It’s so filthy and it doesn’t sound like something a beautiful girl should do.

Singing and drinking?

But it was still daytime.

Finally, someone had an idea and proposed a new project.

Everyone hit it off immediately – and made an appointment to go to the beauty salon.

Loving beauty is women’s nature, especially those women who make a living by their looks and talents.

Yu Qingyue pushed open the glass door with cherry blossom patterns on it and greeted the sisters who had arrived a few minutes earlier. The warmth mixed with rose essential oil and hot towel steam hit her face.

The girl at the front desk looked up from the Korean drama and handed over a pair of pink slippers with familiarity.

“What are you doing? That’s not the video I posted!”

Yu Qingyue had a smile on her face. They had agreed to go to the beauty salon together, but no one even put on makeup.

The light blue sweatshirt is tucked into white pencil pants, and the sleeves are rolled up to the elbows, revealing a Cartier blue balloon.

——This was the outstanding employee award given to her by her boss at the end of last year.

A girl.

Although there is no need to dress up too much for this occasion, one will still be a little vain and scheming in front of the sisters.

“I have to say, for the topic of campus beauties, Qingyue is hard to rival among amateurs.”

After applying a hot towel scented with chamomile, Ji Shu raised her wrist and took off the crystal hairpin that was hurting her head.

“She has too many labels!”

“It’s okay to just look at her face, she’s a top student, has a nice body, and looks like a romantic cherry blossom. Even the questions in the interview are interesting.”

“Qingyue’s followers have increased wildly in the past few days. Although she already has a popularity base, this is too exaggerated.”

“It’s not just Qingyue, those two hosts are also taking advantage of her traffic.”

This afternoon, the sisters booked the entire theater.

Everyone was lying in the huge box, talking to each other.

Ever since Song Wan and Jiang Fengting went to the Huazhong University of Science and Technology campus and interviewed Yu Qingyue in person, the video has remained extremely popular under the topic #campusbeautifulgirls#.

It was just the end of April, the day when the event ended.

This short video shot at Huazhong University of Science and Technology also successfully defeated a series of competitors, ranked among the top in the popularity list, and successfully won a 30,000 yuan event prize.

As the protagonist, Yu Qingyue siphoned traffic at an astonishing rate, and the number of her fans reached 100,000.

Don’t underestimate this number.

Putting aside the celebrity contestants who have joined Miaoyin one after another and brought their own traffic, accounts with six-digit fan levels are definitely in the first tier of potential.

These are all real live fans!

Yu Qingyue, who was already quite famous in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, even became a little popular among her classmates after this video was repeatedly pushed.

Even the usually deserted laboratory was now filled with many students pretending to pass by, wanting to see Yu Qingyue in person.

As I said, it’s hard to satisfy everyone these days.

There is no recognized campus beauty in colleges and universities.

But being the most popular, does that mean it’s the first in some way?

Miaoyin is still a niche short video software, and it is impossible for the contestants to include all the top beauties in Jiangcheng area.

Even if the scope is limited and the participants are unknown, the influence cannot be said to go beyond the circle.

But first is first.

“Qingyue, I now have a reasonable suspicion that this event is prepared for you.”

“Don’t talk nonsense. I’m actually a backup. Why did you interview me? I don’t even want to tell you the reason.”

Yu Qingyue curled her lips and explained the reason to everyone without opening her eyes.

“Wow, how do we divide the prize money for this event? At least give you half.”

“I didn’t want it.”

Yu Qingyue shook her head.

“It’s a matter of mutual achievement. One should not be too greedy.”

The occasional words and fan numbers that popped up made the beautician blink from time to time with a look of surprise on her face.

Are these people all stars?
“To be honest, I don’t think it has anything to do with me. I can only say that the wonderful music produced by the boss is amazing.”

“At first, everyone thought Mr. Lu was just playing around with investments.”

“Who would have thought he could build a platform like this?”

“How many weeks has this been the top download? It seems like it’s been seven or eight weeks in a row.”

The infusion device felt cool as it circled my cheeks, and the humidifier in the corner sprayed lavender mist.

Yu Qingyue narrowed her eyes, letting her fingers rub her T-zone and scrape across the wings of her nose, and continued softly.

“I have a feeling that Miaoyin may become a very large platform one day.”

“why?”

Ji Shu turned his head to the side, and his face, which was covered with a facial mask, was full of confusion.

“Do you remember those two hosts?”

“Uh-huh.”

Respond to the sound of the bed.

“Their account has only a few thousand followers, and advertisers around the school have already sent them private messages to connect with them.”

“Huh? Real or fake?”

“They don’t have someone to guide them like us, and they can also start to earn advertising fees!”

The beautician combed the loose hair at Yu Qingyue’s temples, picked up the calming roller, and carefully applied it near her jaw.

“Think about it, when you have only a few thousand followers on Weibo, will anyone pay attention to you, let alone accept advertising?”

“I heard from the staff at Miaoyin that the algorithm is slightly different, but I am not a computer science major, so I don’t quite understand what it means.”

“It feels really great anyway.”

“So in terms of focus, I suggest that everyone should lean more towards Miaoyin.”

“What if we can broadcast live on Miaoyin in the future?”

Yu Qingyue opened her eyes a little, caught a glimpse of her own delicate face in the mirror, and couldn’t help but smile.

“Then even the platform commission can be waived. I think that’s fine!”

Ji Shu’s face was full of essence, and her bright eyes were full of longing.

“Good fellow, this time the contract is used twice, and the whole person is sold to Mr. Lu.”

Jiang Yu said.

“If you say so, it is indeed so.”

The powder puff is gently swept across the eyelids, and after the treatment, it is the beautician’s last step.

Comes with a complete set of bare face makeup.

Yu Qingyue sat up, full of energy, stood by the window and looked down at the overpass at the street entrance, her cheeks swaying in the twilight.

“Everyone is the same. They have already sold themselves to him.”

(End of this chapter)