Chapter 274 Etiquette Company

There are many shell companies that like to use the excuse of high salaries to trick people into coming for interviews.

At the mildest, they use interviews to defraud registration fees, material fees, and other expenses.

In more serious cases, they will express various dissatisfactions during the interview, and then turn around and ask you to purchase expensive training fees. After the training, they will be successfully hired and receive a high salary.

But in fact, you are the one who has a "high salary".

What’s worse is that they will directly trick you into joining a pyramid scheme, with all kinds of projects that sound earth-shattering, but once you’re in, you’ll sleep on the floor and eat cabbage, and your personal freedom will be restricted.

Zhou Yi asked Lu Xiaoshuang if she had gone. Lu Xiaoshuang nodded and said, "The part-time salary he quoted was quite high at the time. I asked where their company was located, and I'm afraid it's in a very remote place."

Zhou Yi nodded. Lu Xiaoshuang had a very high sense of security.

"He said it was an office building not far from here, so I followed him there. When we got there, he told me a little bit about the place. It looked quite legitimate, so I said I'd give it a try. He even asked if I had to pay anything. After all... I didn't have any money..."

"I didn't expect them to say I didn't need to pay. They called a female assistant over and said they would take me to take two photos for work."

Zhou Yi felt something was amiss with the photo shoot. Why would an ordinary hostess go out of her way to take photos? This wasn't the internet age, where photos needed to be uploaded online. These etiquette companies just took orders and promised to send a certain number of people. "Is it an ID photo?"

Lu Xiaoshuang shook her head. "At first I thought it was an ID photo, but they told me it wasn't. Then they took me to a dressing room, gave me a set of clothes to change into, and said they would put makeup on me after I changed."

Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.

"Turns out that dress was a cheongsam. Brother Zhou, you don't know how outrageous that dress is. From here upwards, it's all transparent." Lu Xiaoshuang said, gesturing at her chest.

Then he pointed to his upper thigh and said, "The slit of the cheongsam is already here."

In the 1990s, how many simple high school graduates had seen such sexy cheongsams?

Lu Xiaoshuang said that she said at that time that she didn't want to shoot anymore and wanted to leave.

"I've barely worn a skirt in my life, how could I possibly wear something like that? It's obvious it's not something a decent person would wear."

"So you left?"

Lu Xiaoshuang nodded: "I was about to leave and asked them for their ID card."

"ID card?"

"Well, before taking the photo, they asked for my ID card to register, so I gave it to them. But when I was about to leave, they said the ID card was with their boss and told me to get it myself."

Lu Xiaoshuang took a sip of water and said, "Their boss is so scary and looks so fierce. I asked him for my ID card, but he kept it and refused to give it to me. He also asked me why I was looking for a part-time job at such a young age. I must be very short of money. I said if you don't give me your ID card, I will call the police."

"Then what?"

"Then the boss smiled and threw my ID card to me, saying that if I needed money in the future, I could come to him and he could help me make a lot of money."

"Pah, it's obvious it's not a legitimate company. I won't fall for it. That's why I went to work as a nurse in the hospital because I didn't want to run into bad people like this again."

Zhou Yi admired Lu Xiaoshuang's ability to handle this kind of thing. A girl who just graduated from high school would have poor ability to handle most problems, and Lu Xiaoshuang's performance was already very good.

She was able to quickly detect anomalies and make the right decision, which was not easy. Many people at this age would be tricked and threatened without knowing why.

Zhou Yi felt that there was something very problematic about this so-called etiquette company.

They clearly said they were recruiting etiquette ladies, but they asked us to take sexy photos first and even tried to confiscate our ID cards.

Moreover, the boss's words to Lu Xiaoshuang were very pointed, as if he was leading her to engage in illegal pornographic activities.

If Lu Xiaoshuang had reacted a little slower and taken photos, there might have been even more excessive demands next time.

Leading her into a trap step by step.

"Xiao Shuang, do you remember the name of this etiquette company?"

What happened in June last year should theoretically have little to do with the Hongda case, as it has been almost a year, but there is definitely something wrong with this company.

"I don't remember." Lu Xiaoshuang shook her head. "But I remember where their company is. It's on the fourth floor of an office building on Dawang West Road in Qingshan District. There's a big pharmacy with a blue sign next to that building."

Zhou Yi nodded and remembered it.

"By the way, does the dress my aunt bought you last time still fit you?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Xiaoshuang lowered her head and mumbled a few words. She didn't want to make Zhou Yi worry because of this kind of thing.

The last time she returned to the dormitory at night, she found that the sweater was damaged and someone had cut it on purpose.

She immediately asked with red eyes who did it.

Their dormitory is an eight-person room, with six other girls besides her and Youyou.

When Youyou saw the sweater that was cut into pieces, she immediately pointed the finger at Xu Liu because she had just had a conflict with Lu Xiaoshuang during the day.

But Xu Liu looked like it was none of his business and said, "If you have the guts, go ahead and call the police. You have a policeman brother anyway, and he can back you up."

The incident also alarmed the dormitory manager, who asked them if they had any evidence or if anyone saw it. After asking, it was confirmed that no one knew who did it, and the matter was dropped.

Lu Xiaoshuang was sad about this for a long time. She wrapped the sweater and put it at the bottom of her closet.

Youyou was even more angry and made indirect accusations, saying that anyone who did such immoral things would die a miserable death sooner or later.

"Brother Zhou, thank you." Lu Xiaoshuang said suddenly.

"It's just a meal, why should you thank me? You didn't eat it alone, I was watching you." Zhou Yi said with a smile.

Lu Xiaoshuang smiled and said nothing more. She knew that Zhou Yi remembered what she said that night.

"Do you think this Western food is delicious?" Zhou Yi asked.

Lu Xiaoshuang came over and whispered quietly, "Actually, I think fried eggs taste better with noodles."

Zhou Yi smiled knowingly and asked, "Would you like to try pizza next time?"

Lu Xiaoshuang shook her head repeatedly.

Zhou Yi thought, was this one meal enough to shatter my longing for Western food? No, it seems to taste pretty good, except a bit expensive.

Thinking of the price, Zhou Yi suddenly realized that Lu Xiaoshuang was saving money for him.

This really fits her personality.

"Xiaoshuang, when the wind and waves calm down, let's go hiking. Climb the mountain and watch the sunrise." That was what she wanted to do.

"But there aren't many mountains in Hongcheng. Is it the one bordering Taicheng?"

Zhou Yi instantly thought of Sanpo Village and Long Zhiqiang, and immediately shook his head. "No, let's go to Wuguang City next door and climb Yunxia Mountain."

"Yunxia Mountain? That name sounds really nice."

"My mother is not from Hongcheng. My grandmother's family is from Wuguang next door. At that time, the Second Steel Company came to Wuguang for recruitment, and my mother applied. Later, she was introduced to my father by someone from the factory."

"Oh, no wonder I haven't met your mother's relatives."

"When I was little, my grandfather told me that when he was working in the mountains, he saw the rising sun and the clouds. I pestered him and asked him to take me up the mountain to watch the sunrise."

Lu Xiaoshuang asked eagerly, "Did you see the sunrise?"

"What are you looking at? I was only eleven years old at that time. I went to my grandma's house for the summer vacation. I slept until the sun was shining on my butt every day. There was no way I could get up."

Lu Xiaoshuang laughed so hard that her body shook.

Zhou Yi said, then it’s a deal, let’s go watch the sunrise then.

Lu Xiaoshuang nodded in agreement, but she felt a faint unease in her heart. What is peace and tranquility? She always felt that Brother Zhou was hiding something from her, and that this matter was related to her.

After eating and paying the bill, the two passed by Han Jiajia's table when they left.

Zhou Yi discovered that only the young man in the suit was eating, and Han Jiajia was not seen.

Zhou Yi and the young man looked at each other and smiled, but the young man's smile seemed a little helpless.

It seems that their blind date has failed.

After leaving the western restaurant, Zhou Yi pushed the old 28-inch bicycle and walked side by side with Lu Xiaoshuang.

"Brother Zhou, just now... the girl I met while having dinner, she..." Lu Xiaoshuang hesitated to speak.

"What happened to her?"

"I noticed that she kept looking at you in front. Does she... like you?" Lu Xiaoshuang lowered her head and finally mustered up the courage to speak out.

"I think she's so beautiful..."

Before he could finish his words, he was suddenly hit on the head.

"oops."

"What are you thinking in your little head? She's a classmate of my good friend's girlfriend. Her family was threatened before, and I helped her catch the threat, so that's how we got to know each other. She must be very grateful to me, that's all."

"Oh...I see."

"Oh, what? I'll take you back to school." Zhou Yi said, getting on the bike, "Get on."

"I can go back by myself, Brother Zhou, you should go back and rest early."

Zhou Yi held the handlebars, raised his chin and said, "Get on, it's just right for me to digest my food."

In the darkness of the night, the old bicycle moved forward steadily along the road. Lu Xiaoshuang sat on the back seat, humming softly a soothing and relaxing song, which was the song her mother sang to coax her to sleep when she was a child.

That night, Zhou Yi slept particularly soundly.

I don’t know if it’s because the case was solved and Xiaoqi had a good home, or because the song Lu Xiaoshuang hummed had magic.

In short, I have no dreams tonight.

When Zhou Yi woke up again, it was bright daylight.

Meanwhile…the alarm didn’t go off.

Looking at the time on the alarm clock, Zhou Yi felt the urge to skip work for the first time since his rebirth.

But it was just a thought. There was still a lot of finishing work to be done in Huang Jianhui's case. I couldn't really leave it to Qiao Jiali alone.

That’s it, you haven’t even climbed up yet, but you already have the airs of a leader.

I just got up when someone knocked on the door.

"Son, are you still home?"

Outside the door, it was the voice of my father Zhou Jianguo.