Thousand Islands

Chapter 4: No pole (4)

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She buried her head between her arms, crying so badly. She cried until her tears were dry. She buried her head like an ostrich, and didn't know how long she squatted on the beach. In the end, she was really thirsty, and she remembered that her belongings were still in the dive shop. When she got up, she was dizzy and her legs and feet were numb. Ye Fei stood by the trunk for a while before she gradually recovered. She has missed the afternoon sun and the glorious sunset. There is the last sunset on the horizon, winding across the sea, the bright red is quickly engulfed by the cold blue ash. As the sky darkened, Ye Fei walked towards the dive shop in silence, desperate.

The divers have already returned to the voyage, and the staff will clean and dry the equipment and take them back to the warehouse. When Ye Fei came back, everyone had cleaned up the shop and was sitting on the terrace drinking beer and chatting.

"We are all waiting for you, do you know?" Chen Jiajun stared at her coldly, "Everyone is busy, where did you go?"

"I'm not well." Ye Fei replied badly.

"If you feel uncomfortable, you can absent from work? Don't you know if you have to ask for leave?" He had the mocking expression again, "You are working now, not traveling, do you need me to teach you how to write the word'serious'? ?"

"Why are you teaching me? You really thought it was my boss?" Ye Fei was furious, and just wanted to slap something on the table, but unfortunately he didn't have anything long, so he had to give it up, "I'll fight now. Call and ask a friend to send you money. Tell you, sister, I'm quitting. I Quit! You understand? I Quit! I'm quitting!" She was anxious, mixed with English and Chinese, and repeated it several times.

The people sitting around the table were taken aback by her. Only Scar was drinking silently, Wenka, Chloe, and several other employees all raised their heads and looked at her in surprise. They have never seen anyone daring to be so angry at the boss. Chen Jiajun is not angry, but smiles rare: "Quit? Just a few words just Quit your job. Then I ask you, how do you quit when you encounter greater dissatisfaction? Quit your life?"

His voice is not high, but he is drunk. Ye Fei didn't know how to answer right for a while, flat his mouth, tears fell again. She didn't want everyone to see, don't turn around, and hid by the pool and kept wiping her eyes.

"Let's all eat." Chen Jiajun's voice came.

Chloe stepped forward and took Ye Fei's shoulders: "Do you want to eat something, I will bring it to you?"

"She's not hungry." Chen Jiajun said in English, "just finished the fried rice at three o'clock!"

"KC, be nice." Chloe stomped.

"I'm fine." Ye Fei whimpered with tears, choked and said, "I'm going to Monkey Bar."

"Have you heard, she's okay, everyone can rest assured to go to dinner." Chen Jiajun laughed and turned to Ye Fei, "Drink, you still have money to drink? You are responsible for looking at the store here and continuing to read. The teaching materials have supporting DVDs. Look."

The footsteps behind him gradually disappeared. Ye Fei yelled a few loudly, but the depression in his heart dissipated a little. The light under the porch attracted a few small flying insects, flying lightly around the beam of light. She yelled so badly just now that her ears were sore. She covered her ears, feeling depressed, but she couldn't cry. She had nothing to do, thinking about finding the diving materials, and continuing to read it.

The book was not on the table. She looked around and saw that there was a thick book with a dark blue cover on the counter. It was the one Chen Jiajun gave to herself, and there was a DVD box next to it. Looking closer, on the wall inside the counter, there are the business license of the diving shop and the qualification certification of several instructors. There is a book-sized photo next to it, on it is a huge and graceful whale shark. There is a diver in the upper right corner, with a stretched posture, holding an underwater camera, and shooting intently. On the dark blue sea water background below the photo, a line of words was written with a golden pen: Daniel with Baby Whale Shark. The signature is the flower body: by Jocelyn.

Ye Fei remembered something. At the end of the daytime whale shark video, the subtitles read Daniel production. Paul asked Chen Jiajun whether he made the film, and he did not deny it. So, Daniel should be Chen Jiajun's English name, maybe this photo was taken at that time. So, who is Jocelyn? Ye Fei raised his head and looked at the coaching certificate on the wall carefully. The one hanging on the top should be Chen Jiajun's, and it says Ka-Chun Tan. The next one has a long list of names, which looks like a Muslim, perhaps a scar, with Chloe's next to it. However, there is no one named Jocelyn. Maybe an employee other than the coach? Ye Fei thought for a while, and quickly dispelled the idea, because Chloe said that she was the only girl in the store before.

For some reason, Ye Fei has an intuition that Jocelyn is not a general customer. Perhaps for Daniel, she is also "in the other sea, not knowing the end". Ye Fei had a hint of curiosity in his heart, and some gloat, so a cold-hearted, cold-hearted and cold-blooded person, I am afraid it is difficult to know how to care for others.

Everyone had a long dinner. The shop was wide open, and Ye Fei didn't dare to go far, so as the boss said, he started to watch the instructional video. The video is very relaxing and interesting, with Chinese subtitles, I watched three episodes without knowing it. After that, Ye Fei felt a little hungry, and walked around the store twice before ran to the terrace and looked towards Monkey Bar. There are tourists passing by in twos and threes on the beach, but no one in the dive shop can be seen. She was desperate to wait, remembering that the dive shop prepared instant coffee for customers, and naturally also prepared sugar cubes. Ye Fei sighed and fell to the point of eating candy to satisfy his hunger.

When Chen Jiajun came back, he happened to see Ye Fei bulging his cheeks and holding two sugar cubes in his hand. He put down the plastic lunch box in his hand and teased: "So you have eaten it."

"This is... for me?" Ye Fei smelled the scent and couldn't help but open the lunch box. Inside is the squid rings fried into golden yellow, full and fluffy, fresh and fragrant, and there is a small bag of bright red Thai sweet chili sauce next to it, which makes people drooling when you look at it.

"What did I say? Don't touch anything that you didn't let you touch." Chen Jiajun's tone was harsh, but she didn't stop her either.

The hunger has long overcome the reserved. Ye Fei gave him a white look, opened the sauce on his own, picked up the squid ring and dipped it heavily, stuffed a large piece in his mouth, chewing and said: "What's the big deal? Take it to my account!" The chewing was too wide, and the roots of the ears were painful again.

"It's on your account, it's a big tone." Chen Jiajun hooked her finger at her, "Come here." He pointed to the chair in front of him, "Sit down."

Ye Fei held the lunch box, and Yiyan sat on the chair. Chen Jiajun walked over and stood beside her, the smell of alcohol on her body becoming clearer and clearer. She was a little nervous and hesitated: "Don't let me go to Monkey Bar, but I am half drunk."

"Are you going to drink, or to find Songxi?" Chen Jiajun raised the corners of his mouth mockingly, still in a familiar arc.

Ye Fei suddenly realized: "That day, the Reggae show...on the beach..." Thinking of the flash of fire, she was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a place to get in.

"What do you expect from Songxi?" Chen Jiajun stared into her eyes with a serious expression, "He has a girlfriend, Jasmine, who has already returned."

"That's why you didn't let me go to the bar? Afraid that I would find Songxi?" Ye Fei couldn't help laughing or crying. "Who do you think I am?" She curled her mouth exaggeratedly, causing her ears to hurt again, and her brows were tight lock.

"Don't move, let me see." Chen Jiajun whispered, leaning down, his big, warm palm gently supporting Ye Fei's cheek.

She was taken aback and jumped up from the chair, jumping too hard, two squid rings in the lunch box popped out, and Gu Lulu rolled on the ground. "You, who do you think I am?" Ye Fei was angrily and anxious, still a little frightened, stammering and repeating what was just now.

"Hey." In exchange for the other party's chuckling, "I have no interest in you at all. When you are..." Chen Jiajun curled his lips and snorted coldly, "What kind of vision do you think of me?" The corners of her jaws, she gasped with pain.

"Ears hurt?" he asked.

Ye Fei nodded.

"I saw it long ago. How many days has it been?"

"Three or four days."

"Then you don't go to the doctor?" He was a little impatient, and berated Ye Fei to sit still, twisting her forehead and jaw, so that his ears were facing the light.

"Didn't I have no money?" Ye Fei replied angrily, "When I went swimming, my ears got water and I lost my motorcycle. The same day."

"Luck is really bad." Chen Jiajun turned around and took the diving flashlight. "It's just the water? Or did you dive too deep and didn't balance your ear pressure?"

Fortunately, Ye Fei just watched the video and understood the meaning of ear pressure balance: every increase of ten meters in depth in the sea, the surrounding pressure will increase by one atmosphere. During the dive, you need to gradually inflate the inner ear to ensure that the pressure inside and outside the eardrum is consistent and not damaged by water pressure.

Thinking of this, she was a little nervous: "Isn't my eardrum broken?"

"Close your eyes, the light is very strong." Chen Jiajun turned on the flashlight and carefully checked her ears, "Some inflammation, I don't think it is broken. But to be on the safe side, go to the doctor tomorrow."

"I have no money." Ye Fei replied feebly.

"Don't you still have two hundred dollars?"

"Except for a little change, this is the family property. Don't you want to keep it and pay you back?" She curled her lips, "I will pay for your motorcycle!"

"Let Chloe take you tomorrow, the consultation fee..." Chen Jiajun showed his face.

Ye Fei had already guessed the second half of his sentence, and the two said together: "It will be recorded in the account."

The next morning, Ye Fei arrived at the Qiandian on time, and did not wait for Chen Jiajun's order to get busy in accordance with yesterday's process. While picking up the broom, a local boy rushed over and yelled: "Sorry, sorry, this is what I should do." Ye Fei saw this round-faced young man in the store yesterday. He came late. He was reprimanded severely by Scar, and then he followed Scar's saddle to the back without spending time to say hello.

"My name is Faey, and I'm... here to help." She remembered the black-faced boss's scolding, and swallowed the words "working in the store".

"Oh, I know you." He smiled plainly, "I heard Inda mentioned you."

"Do you know my roommate?"

He scratched his head shyly: "Yes, everyone always goes to Joy's for dinner. She takes care of us very much. She will give priority to placing orders every time and don't have to wait so long."

Ye Fei suddenly understood, when Yinda talked about the dive shop, where did the yearning come from.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Wanpeng. I do DMT in the store. Scar is my coach."

She was confused: "DMT?"

Wan Peng explained: "Dive master trainee."

"Then, what is a divemaster?"

"Don't challenge her diving knowledge." Chen Jiajun walked over and patted Wanpeng's shoulder, "DMT, is the shop slave." He turned to Ye Fei and coldly spit out two words: "You too."

She replied angrily: "I know I am."

Chen Jiajun asked Wan Peng to transfer some of the chores at hand to Ye Fei recently, such as buying rice, buying coffee and refreshments, and changing drinking water. After he walked away, Wan Peng comforted Ye Fei: "If the bucket is too heavy, wait until I come back from the sea in the afternoon, and I will help you. These are all boys should do."

"It doesn't matter, shop slave has no choice."

"KC is joking, he is actually very nice." Wanpeng said seriously.

Ye Fei thought to her heart, you and Inda both said that, it's really a tacit understanding.

Everyone packed up and set sail one after another. Ye Fei was in charge of cleaning the shop. Chen Jiajun drove to the town, brought back a few large cardboard boxes of teaching materials and various forms of copying, and then went back to the inner office to get busy. After Ye Fei finished what was at hand, he asked, "Aren't you going to sea?"

"I will go when I am busy." He showed a haughty expression. "Now, I have to watch you work."

"I'm done."

"There are so many things in the store, how can it be done?" He said to the equipment room. "Go, sort out all the wetsuits by size and number."

Except for those taken by the divers, there are still twenty to thirty wetsuits in the equipment room. Ye Fei took them all down, placed them on the wooden floor, and arranged them in large, medium and small sizes, and hung them back on the shelf. Although the doors and windows are open, the temperature is not high, but when busy in the humid air for a while, there is a sticky layer of sweat on my body. The diving suits are of different brands and sizes. Some are written with S, M, and L, while others are written with the numbers 2, 4, 6, and 8. She probably measured it, but she was still not sure, so she shouted, "Boss, do you want to mix numbers and letters together?"

"Ask all these little things, don't you think of a way to solve it?" He pushed aside the chair and walked over impatiently.

"I have compared it. No. 2 is basically S, but I don't know whether to separate the rows." Ye Fei pointed to the two rows of shelves, "One is numbers and the other is letters."

"This is for thinking, not for decoration." Chen Jiajun bends his index finger and taps his temple. "The reason for subdividing the number is to quickly find the number that the customer needs. The same size can be placed together."

"It's not impossible to divide it into two rows..." Ye Fei squashed his mouth, muttering in a low voice, "Whatever I do is wrong anyway."

"Am I a person who does nothing wrong?" He smiled without a smile, "When do you think you are competent, show me."

After finishing properly, Ye Fei worked hard to study the diving textbooks, consciously it was quite rewarding, and also a little more confident. When another visitor came to inquire, she greeted him smugly and asked, "What can I do for you?"

As a result, the other party asked: "Do you have a wreck (shipwreck) here? Do you provide Nitrox (nitrogen-oxygen mixture, at this time specifically refers to high oxygen)?"

She didn't understand the two most important words, and she was immediately at a loss, "That... wreck... and, Nai, Nai..."

Chen Jiajun turned out from the back room to help her out: "The store can provide hyperoxia. There is a large-scale shipwreck in this area. We will arrange it every Wednesday and Friday morning." He chatted with customers, chatting and laughing. Sweeping the poker face before, "Many divers like this wreck, saying it is super wreck, you can also call it s-wreck, Shrek." Ye Fei stood silently, watching him fill out the form for the customer and try it on. Equipment, discuss the diving plan for these days.

After the guests left, Chen Jiajun looked back and saw that Ye Fei was still behind him. He smiled like a gloat, and followed her tone: "Nah, Nye... Ask if you don't understand, don't be aggressive."

Isn’t it the same as being scolded after asking? She curled her lips.

He seemed to see through Ye Fei's thoughts, and said, "If you don't want to be scolded, you have to do your best."

She thought of an important question: "Then... If you think I am qualified... What is the salary?"

"If, I, I think you are qualified." He raised the corner of his mouth, as if he heard a joke, "What you do is similar to Wanpeng. In order to avoid DM tuition, he has to work in the store for six months. Do it yourself." He ordered the textbooks on the table, "It's not bad if you don't ask for tuition, but also ask me for wages..."

In order to make the best use of the material, Ye Fei, who could not be alone, was sent to arrange her fins again.

Ye Fei slandered the boss's stinginess, and had to feed his stomach. At noon, he obediently asked Chen Jiajun what he wanted to eat, and went to Joy's to buy food for the two of them. Inda placed the order for her and said, "Wait a minute, the chef will make your share first. If I'm busy, you can tell Jasmine if you have anything."

"Jasmine, Songxi's girlfriend?"

"Yeah, do you know her?"

"Oh, just listened to the people in the dive shop."

"She just came back, I introduced you to each other." Yinda turned out from the counter, waved to the door, and shouted Jasmine's name.