Chapter 47: Did this foreigner go crazy because of eating steak? The verdict of Chen Dong'er and other scumbags is out!
He hesitated and said, "Mr. John...is not used to our Chinese food. He wants to eat Western food, like steak and red wine. He also said that he won't help us properly without these."
Nie Dahai frowned even more tightly. What kind of conditions are these? It's good enough to have meat to eat. Who can give him steak and red wine? Why is this foreigner so difficult to serve?
But the factory is still waiting for John to finish producing the machines, otherwise he will be a drag on the people if he fails to complete the task assigned by the state.
So he endured the pain and said to a man in a Zhongshan suit beside him, "Secretary Xie, go to our production team and ask if any of them have sick cows... No, find a healthy cow and slaughter it for Mr. John to eat."
Secretary Xie was in his early twenties. He was the man in the Zhongshan suit who had walked in front and had the idea to help John find his son.
He was a shrewd and stingy man and couldn't help but said, "Director, this beef is hard to come by. Mr. John might not be able to finish a whole cow in a month, but our beef can't be kept that long. How many cows would we have to slaughter?"
Nie Dahai frowned even more tightly. Every cow was a treasure of the production team and was equivalent to several strong laborers. How could they tolerate killing so many of them?
Nie Dahai felt that he was about to explode, but John sitting across from him slammed the table and stood up first.
"I want to change my translator. I want to change my translator. I don't want him to be my translator anymore." John pointed at translator Cheng and shouted without any gentlemanly manners.
Director Nie: ...He hasn’t gone crazy yet, why is this foreigner going crazy first?
"Xiao Cheng, what is Mr. John talking about?"
Nie Dahai was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with Cheng the translator. Shouldn't a translator always translate for both parties? Why was this guy like a piece of wood, only moving when pushed?
And why does this foreigner sound like he is scolding him now?
John: Be more confident and remove the word "as if". I was just scolding him.
Translator Cheng was very panicked at the moment. In fact, his English level was just so-so. He had difficulty reading a simple English article, and it was almost incomprehensible to him to listen to John speak.
He took this job purely for the sake of gilding. He thought that all the work would be done by John and he only needed to translate the other party's needs for food, clothing, housing and transportation. He could just muddle through.
Who knows that this is not the case at all, but it is impossible for him to admit that he can't translate now, otherwise he will be punished, and then not only will he not be able to gild his reputation, but his future will be ruined.
So he continued to fool people: "Mr. John said that he would quit if he couldn't have steak this time."
Nie Dahai and others: Is this foreigner going crazy because he can't eat steak?
Secretary Xie couldn't help but wonder, "Is Translator Cheng really like that? I don't think Mr. John is that rude. He was very kind to the woman who helped him find his child today."
Secretary Xie's doubtful words immediately touched the sensitive nerves of Translator Cheng. In fact, he could have made another excuse, but because he was too panicked, he showed a look of panic instead.
Now everyone looked at him with suspicion.
At this moment, Lu Chiyu and the others walked in. John saw Lu Chiyu again and rushed over as if he had found a life-saving straw: "Little girl, can you be my translator?"
Lu Chiyu was confused: "Mr. John, why did you ask me to be your translator?"
"Because the translator they assigned to me was so bad that he couldn't understand what I said at all." John pointed at Xie Yuanshan and the others.
This time, before Lu Chiyu could reply, Nie Dahai came over with his men.
When Gu Yuan saw Nie Dahai, he clapped his feet together and saluted him: "Hello, old leader."
Nie Dahai laughed: "My dear, I am no longer in the army. Just call me Uncle Nie. Who is this?"
"This is my beloved, Comrade Lu Chiyu." Gu Yuan said to Lu Chiyu, "Ayu, this is Uncle Nie, the director of the steam turbine factory."
Lu Chiyu: "Hello, Uncle Nie."
"Okay, okay! Xiao Lu, right? You can speak English? What did Mr. John say to you just now?"
Nie Dahai didn't care about the old reunion. Thinking of the fluent conversation between Lu Chiyu and John just now, he immediately asked impatiently.
"He said he wanted me to be your translator, and..."
"What else, Xiao Lu, just tell me."
"And Mr. John said that the translator you found for him couldn't understand what he said at all." It wasn't that Lu Chiyu wanted to complain, but the other party asked her to translate and she had to be responsible for it, and she felt that Nie Dahai had the right to know about such things.
The suspicion in their hearts was confirmed, and Nie Dahai and the others showed an expression of "as expected".
Nie Dahai was very angry. He sent a car all the way to the provincial capital to pick up translator Cheng, but he didn't expect to bring back a fool.
He had long heard that most of these so-called workers, peasants and soldiers college students had no real skills or knowledge, but he didn't expect it to be true.
But I have to put aside my anger for now and deal with the real thing first.
So he immediately asked Lu Chiyu, "So, Xiao Lu, you can completely understand what Mr. John said?"
"At the moment, I can understand everything Mr. John says to me." Lu Chiyu said conservatively.
"That's fine, Xiao Lu, just like Mr. John said, we'll ask you to be his translator, okay? We'll give you double the salary."
Nie Dahai is a decisive person. There is a shortage of translation talents at present, and they cannot find other translators in the near future. Since Lu Chiyu is a better translator than Cheng, of course they decided to let her take over without hesitation.
"This..." Lu Chiyu couldn't help but look at Gu Yuan to ask for his opinion.
Seeing Gu Yuan nod slightly, she continued, "Then I'll temporarily help Uncle Nie and you translate, but I'm not sure I'm up to the job. I'm afraid you'll have to hire another translator when the time comes."
Nie Dahai was very happy to see Lu Chiyu agreed: "Okay, then it's settled. Let's have dinner together now."
Next, Lu Chiyu and the others sat at the same table with Nie Dahai and others. As for the translator Cheng, he had slipped away at some point.
With Lu Chiyu acting as an interpreter, Nie Dahai and the others realized that John didn't want to eat steak at all, he just wanted to change to other dishes.
Seeing Mr. John dancing with joy and enjoying his meal with them, Nie Dahai and the others said: What a close call! Thanks to Lu Chiyu's appearance, they saved several cows!!!
After dinner, Lu Chiyu followed Nie Dahai and the others back to the factory. She spent the whole afternoon translating for John.
Then Nie Dahai and the others were ecstatic to find that Lu Chiyu could accurately translate every word John said for them, including very professional technical terms.
Their efficiency in just one afternoon was higher than that of the previous few days combined!
They also learned that whenever the translator didn't understand the technical terms, he would make excuses to John and refuse to teach him, but in fact, John did teach him...
One of the senior masters even cried, saying that if they had known there was a translation talent like Lu Chiyu, they would not have messed around with Cheng the translator. They had tight tasks to do and no progress in their work, and they had had a hard time in the past few days!
John even told Nie Dahai directly that he wanted Lu Chiyu to be his translator and there was no need to change him.
In this way, Lu Chiyu decided to take on this translation job.
Because she lived too far away from the military area, Nie Dahai offered to send a car to pick her up to the factory every day.
By the time he got off work, Gu Yuan had already bought three major items by himself and also took the photos.
They had just returned to the military area and the car had just stopped in front of their home when a young soldier came to find Gu Yuan and said that there was a call from the Jun City Public Security Bureau.
As soon as Lu Chiyu heard it, he knew that the verdict on Chen Dong'er and those scumbags had finally come out, so he excitedly urged Gu Yuan to answer the phone.
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