Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1062 How could it be her
The girl was surprised and asked, “Huh?”
"If you want me to tutor you, just come with me." Nan Yi smiled gently and turned to walk towards the courtyard.
The girl pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, and followed Nan Yi's pace.
They were silent all the way until they arrived at the courtyard. Nan Yi pointed to the pavilion and said, "Go sit there for a while. I'll go wash up."
"Hai, thank you for your help." The girl bowed to Nan Yi again in a panic.
Nan Yi waved his hand, went to the backyard to wash up as usual, changed his clothes and came to the pavilion.
As Nan Yi sat down, Mei Zhengyi immediately came over with a tray containing a large plate of noodles and soup, along with two sets of bowls and chopsticks.
Nan Yi picked up one of the noodles and placed it in front of the girl. He said in English, "Suofen comes from southern China. It is eaten similarly to buckwheat noodles. You put the noodles in your bowl, pour the soup on it, stir it and you can eat it."
While Nan Yi was speaking, he was also making movements with his hands. Even if the girl couldn't fully understand what he was saying, she could guess what he was saying.
The girl's eyes wandered over Nan Yi's face, hands, and noodles. Then she pursed her lips and asked timidly in Japanese English, "Can I?"
Nan Yi handed the prepared noodles to the girl, took the empty bowl from her side, and switched to Japanese. "If you want to learn a language well, you need to understand the thinking and behavior patterns of the mainstream group that speaks the language. Most people who learn English nowadays learn American English. Are you learning American English?"
"Yes."
Nan Yi switched to English again, "From now on, at the same time every day, you come here to have breakfast, and I can tutor you for two hours."
"Ha...Thank you very much."
"My name is Nan Yi, I'm Chinese, you can call me Nan Sang or Teacher Nan."
The girl screamed as if she had made a terrible mistake, and hurriedly bowed to Nan Yi: "I actually forgot to introduce myself. It's really rude. Teacher Nan, I'm Ueno Mio, a sophomore at Liangyang High School. Please take care of me."
"Don't be so polite in front of me in the future." Nan Yi waved his hand and started eating.
Seeing this, Ueno Mio picked up the chopsticks and placed them between her palms, clasped her hands together and said, "I'm going to eat."
As she slurped the noodles into her mouth with a chopstick, Ueno Mio's eyes lit up instantly and her hands moved faster. Soon the whole bowl of noodles went into her stomach and she burped inadvertently.
Ueno Mio covered her mouth with her hands and glanced secretly at Nan Yi. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he didn't notice at all.
Nan Yi, who was sitting opposite the table, slowly finished his noodles and wiped his lips. He tapped to attract Ueno Mio's attention, "Show me your speech."
"Hayi."
Ueno Mio handed her speech to Nan Yi, and then stared at Nan Yi's hand.
Nan Yi quickly glanced through the speech, then put it on the table, pondered for a moment and said, "Student Weiyang, what competition are you going to participate in? Is it within the school or between schools?"
"It's a joint English speech contest among Tokyo metropolitan universities. The top three can get admission to the University of Tokyo and Waseda University without taking an entrance exam. I really want to go to the University of Tokyo, but the deviation values of my subjects have always been below 63, so..." At this point, Ueno Mio looked embarrassed and stammered.
"I see. If it's a competition of this level and you have this purpose, then the quality of your manuscript is not good enough. Even if you practice speaking well, if the content is too empty and lacks passion, it will be difficult to win the recognition of the judges."
"Teacher, what should I do?"
The soft voice of "Teacher" made Nan Yi's bones soften. In an instant, his mind was like a kaleidoscope of thoughts, with "FBI WARING" in white letters on a red background constantly flashing through it.
The revolving lantern appeared and disappeared quickly. In just a few tenths of a second, Nan Yi used great willpower to suppress all kinds of dirty thoughts, and said earnestly, "Although the content is important, it can be solved later. The first priority is to solve your oral problem. In school, did your teacher teach you the international phonetic alphabet?"
"I haven't learned it. The teacher only taught me the romanization and the pronunciation of words using katakana."
Nan Yi nodded, "When is your game?"
"The preliminary round is on December 2nd, and the final will be before Christmas." Ueno Mio looked at Nan Yi with anticipation, hoping that he could bring a miracle.
"It's still in time. At the same time tomorrow, buy a book on the International Phonetic Alphabet and rent a video tape of The Pursuit of Happyness and bring them here together."
"Hayi."
Then, Nan Yi threw the sentence "I have a dream" to Ueno Weiyang and asked her to repeat it over and over again. He corrected her pronunciation over and over again until she could hear a hint of Martin Luther King's pronunciation. Only then did Nan Yi throw out the second sentence.
Two hours passed in a flash. Nan Yi asked Ueno Weiyang to leave first and asked her to be on time tomorrow.
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In Japan, people are accustomed to renting houses through agents. Although it costs extra money, it also reduces a lot of hassle. The office of the real company was quickly decided on and is located in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku. The rent in this place is relatively cheaper than in Marunouchi, Ebisu, Shinbashi and other places where office buildings are concentrated.
A four-story building with a single-story usable area of 105 square meters. A shop is opened on the first floor, and the second, third and fourth floors can be used as offices. There is also a rooftop where employees can take a rest and smoke.
After taking a look on the spot, Nan Yi threw out the task of purchasing office supplies.
In the afternoon, Nan Yi received a call from Taniguchi Ai, who decided to accept the position of head of the sales department, but needed a week to resign and hand over the position. Nan Yi readily agreed.
A little later, Nan Yi received another call from the headhunter, saying that two candidates had been selected. Nan Yi rushed over to look at their resumes. One was a woman named Yasuko Watanabe, and the other was a man named Eiji Otsuka.
Yasuko Watanabe, 37, currently works at Tokyo Electric Power Company as deputy director of the Economic Research Office of the Planning Department with an annual salary of 13 million yen.
In 1980, after graduating from Keio University, Watanabe Yasuko joined Tokyo Electric Power Company as one of the first female employees. From the first day she joined the company, Watanabe Yasuko worked very hard. By 1993, she was the only woman in the company's history to enter management, and she was highly regarded by the leadership.
In the eyes of Watanabe Yasuko's leaders, Watanabe Yasuko is a hard-working and motivated woman, but she is usually taciturn and keeps strangers away. However, due to her outstanding business ability, her leaders admire her very much and call her a truly strong woman.
This is because once Watanabe Yasuko gets down to work, she becomes a completely different person. She basically works overtime until one or two in the morning every day, and is very strict with everyone, even speaking out about her boss' mistakes.
It can be seen from her resume that Watanabe Yasuko is a strong woman with certain obvious flaws. As for what flaws cannot be analyzed through the resume, it is impossible for headhunters to mark the candidate's shortcomings truthfully when making resumes. This requires employers to discover them on their own.
Eiji Otsuka, 32, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked for a little-known data company in Silicon Valley for two years and then jumped to AOL, where he was responsible for managing the technical service team for online content.
Eiji Otsuka's resume is much simpler than Yasuko Watanabe's, but he is more suitable for the job than Yasuko Watanabe. However, as far as Nan Yi is concerned, Eiji Otsuka's resume is just average and has no highlights. Twenty years later, he would at most be able to earn an annual income of around 200,000 US dollars at an Internet giant. In today's world where there are not many Internet talents, his resume is a bit dazzling.
Nan Yi was not very satisfied with either of them, but in comparison, he was more interested in Watanabe Yasuko.
The Japanese workplace is full of implicit discrimination against women. If a woman wants to be promoted to deputy director of the Economic Research Office of the Planning Department, she must work twice as hard as a man, and her talent must be at least 50% higher than that of men at the same level.
There was no rush to arrange a meeting with the two people. Nan Yi asked the headhunter to continue looking for other candidates. After leaving the headhunter, he made another phone call to the United States and asked them to check Otsuka Eiji's resume, and then called Shinoda Kenichi.
"Shinoda-san, I have something to ask of you."
"Nan Sang, please speak."
"I have a new company that is about to open in Tokyo and I am currently recruiting staff. There are two candidates that I am quite satisfied with. Before recruiting them, I need to investigate their basic situation. I would like to ask Mr. Shinoda for this matter."
"That's absolutely fine, Nan-san. I'm in Yoshiwara. Two new stores are opening today, one for Japanese cuisine and one for a bubble bath. If it's convenient for you, Nan-san, please come to my store and try some of the dishes and give me some suggestions."
"Mr. Shinoda is opening a new store, so of course I have to go and congratulate him." Nan Yi looked at his watch, "One hour left."
Nan Yi hung up the phone, got into the car and searched for a while, and found a seal of Xuelangzhai.
According to legend, Xuelangzhai was a stone that Su Dongpo found by chance in his back garden. The stone is black in texture with white veins, and contains water patterns in the middle, presenting a hazy landscape painting, like "a stream running between stones, the changes of water". Su Dongpo named it "Xuelang Stone".
Su Dongpo loved the Xuelang Stone so much that he often watered it and observed the vivid textures on it. He then named his study Xuelang Zhai and later asked someone to engrave the name of his study on a jade seal. This is the Xuelang Zhai seal.
What Nan Yi has in his hand is naturally not the real Xuelangzhai, but the work of Xiao Xiangyu. It is first engraved by a machine and then repaired by hand. Compared with the original, it is about 60% similar to it, and can be sold in the old market as an authentic product.
I should have sent a wreath to celebrate the opening of a new store, but there was not enough time, so it would not be impolite to send a "Su Dongpo" wreath.
When he arrived in Yoshiwara, he met Kenichi Shinoda. After some greetings, Nan Yi was invited by Kenichi Shinoda to the newly opened "Aokusa Ke" kaiseki restaurant.
Nan Yi looked around and it was just like the previous style of the Yamaguchi-gumi. Regardless of whether the food was delicious or not, the sanitary conditions were impeccable. It was clean from the inside out.
Shinoda Kenichi arranged a Japanese-style room for Nan Yi and he accompanied him. The dishes in the restaurant were served to Nan Yi to taste one by one. Nan Yi did not say much and directly told him his true opinion of each dish.
Shinoda Kenichi was quite impressed by this and listened carefully, and even asked Ito Maimi, who was serving him, to take notes.
When the tasting came to an end, the shoji door of the Japanese-style room was opened, and a man came in from outside and handed Shinoda Kenichi a booklet similar to a photo album. Shinoda Kenichi flipped through a few pages and handed the booklet to Nan Yi, "Nan Sang, this is the list of service staff for Peppermint, another store that opened today. They are all new employees."
Nan Yi couldn't figure out what Shinoda Jianshi was up to for a moment. Was it to apologize for the incident with Ito Maimi, or did he just want to entertain him.
With doubts, Nan Yi took the booklet, opened the first page and glanced at it. He found that the girls in each photo were good-looking, so he quickly turned to the second and third pages. After comparison, he found that the first page was not a collection of selections, and the girls on the next two pages were of even higher quality than those on the first page.
When he reached the fourth page, Nan Yi changed his careless attitude and began to appreciate each photo as if he were looking at pictures of beautiful women. Gradually, when he turned to the fifth page, his eyes stopped on a photo.
"Hey, why is it her?"
