country bumpkin

Chapter 403 The Store Manager and the Neighbor Next Door

The store manager was very capable, and Yunya couldn't keep up with her at all. Every night when the sales figures were tallied, the store manager's sales were always more than half again as much as Yunya's.

Yunya felt terrible and was worried that the landlady would kick her out. But after a week of anxiety, the landlady still hadn't said anything about letting her go.

Yunya continued to go to get off work and come home every day. As the end of the month approached, the store manager had already secretly calculated her salary.

With a base salary of 800 yuan plus two percent of sales revenue, the store manager's salary can reach as high as 1400 yuan.

Yunya's commission was only 300 yuan, and with her base salary, she only received 1100 yuan.

Although it may seem like only 300 yuan more, it's difficult for a worker to even increase their salary by 10 yuan, let alone hundreds.

Yunya has only been here for a month, she can't change jobs again. Last time she worked selling clothes for only a week, but the boss was nice and actually gave her back her wages for those seven days.

Yunya is in a very awkward situation now. She can neither leave nor stay. She sighed silently and decided to continue with her current lifestyle.

One day, Yunya stayed at the shop to mind the store. The female owner was resting at home and didn't come in, and the shop manager, Qu Yuqian, had gone to buy lunch. The female owner of the clothing store next door called Yunya over to help carry a bag of goods.

Yunya felt that since they were neighbors and often talked and chatted together, she was eager to help.

The female boss next door is an 18-year-old girl named Gong Lexuan, who wears heavy makeup and has her hair permed into an afro.

Her family had some money, so they opened this small shop for her, hoping to keep her playful and adventurous spirit at bay.

But this little shop still couldn't stop her playful and carefree spirit. She would sleep in the shop during the day and work part-time as a hostess at "Wangguan KTV" at night.

The shop only makes a few dollars, but a night as a hostess can cost several hundred. Some generous customers are so extravagant that they'll throw away thousands of dollars at once.

Her family had no idea she worked at such a place at night. They all thought she preferred to live alone and slept or minded the shop!

She orders her goods by calling the wholesalers and having them mail the new stock directly to her. She doesn't need to go to the wholesale market to select goods at all.

Sometimes during the day, Gong Lexuan would make excuses to go out to the place where she purchased goods and ask her younger brother, Gong Shuoyang, to help watch the store.

In reality, she had arranged to meet a regular customer of "Wangguan KTV" and accompany him on a day trip, where he would have food, lodging, and pay her.

Her younger brother, Gong Shuoyang, wasn't a good student either. He got someone pregnant before finishing junior high school and was expelled from school. He even had to pay the woman a sum of money to settle the matter.

Sometimes when her brother is too busy to help, she will close the shop for several days in a row and go on a trip with her big spender to relax.

Every time she comes back from a "business trip," she either has a gold necklace, a diamond necklace, or a bracelet.

She really enjoys this lifestyle; as long as she gets paid, she's willing to do anything. And most importantly, she enjoys spending time with all sorts of men; she considers it an honor.

She used to mock Yunya for not having a boyfriend. When she learned that Yunya was still a virgin, she actually said, "What kind of man do you like? If you don't like one, I'll lend you one so you can experience the taste of a man."

Yun Ya blushed at her words, feeling both embarrassed and annoyed. She was angry and upset after being lectured, and didn't want to talk to someone like that.

In Yunya's eyes, such a person is mentally ill and cannot be viewed with the same level of normal thinking.

No normal person would feel proud or honored about such a thing, especially having intimate contact with different men every day.

Yunya suddenly felt very scared of her, afraid that she had contracted some unclean disease and had inadvertently passed it on to her.

Then Yunya always seemed to avoid her, intentionally or unintentionally. This time, she had no choice but to come and help her carry the shopping bags. Otherwise, she could have called out to Yunya from outside her shop all afternoon.

Qu Yuqian, the store manager of Yunya, is one year younger than Yunya, but she is already engaged. Her boyfriend is a full-time employee at the mine, earning a high salary and receiving five social insurances; his family is also well-off.

The two met online and started dating after a few months. Both sets of parents approved of the marriage, and they soon held an engagement banquet.

Qu Yuqian's boyfriend had come to the store a few times, and Yun Ya had seen him. But Yun Ya felt that this man was not good enough for their store manager; he was too ugly.

Perhaps their store manager was attracted by his family's conditions and his job benefits, not necessarily by him as a person.

This man was a little shorter than Qu Yuqian, who was 1.7 meters tall, while he was about 1.68 meters tall. He was thin, dark-skinned, and particularly unattractive.

Qu Yuqian is tall and slender with fair skin and slightly wavy hair, bangs, and almond-shaped eyes.

Her legs are exceptionally long, and she looks good in anything. Gong Lexuan's younger brother next door really likes Qu Yuqian, the shop manager of Yunya.

Whenever Gong Shuoyang came to the store, he would check to see if Qu Yuqian was there. If he saw Qu Yuqian in the store, he would always try to take advantage of her by jokingly pulling her hand or hugging her from behind.

The store manager always told him he was just a kid and shouldn't mess around. But she also enjoyed being fawned over and being pampered.

Sometimes Gong Shuoyang would invite Qu Yuqian to try on new clothes at his sister's shop.

He would take this opportunity to secretly hug her, and even unexpectedly kiss her to satisfy his desires.

Qu Yuqian would chase after him and hit him, saying, "You little brat, you deserve a beating!" But her face was flushed, and she kept grinning.

Watching them flirt like that, Yunya felt that the shop manager's boyfriend was being cuckolded.

Sometimes, when Yunya carefully recalls what happened after she came here, she realizes that the people here, or her neighbors on this street, are all the same kind of people.

They are all very open-minded people. Regardless of gender, they will playfully tease each other, hold hands, hug, or kiss.

Yunya always felt out of place with them. She wasn't one of them; she felt like an old-fashioned person from the 60s and 70s.

Yunya endured another difficult month. After receiving her salary, she went to an internet cafe to surf the internet.

She went alone this time; she didn't want anyone to accompany her. She just wanted to experience being alone.

Coincidentally, she ran into "Love Song 1990" again. Yun Ya asked him curiously, "Why are you always online? Don't you have a job?"

[Love Song 1990] "I'm at work right now!"

[Blue Enchantress] "How is this possible?"

【Love Song 1990】"I registered for the internet via mobile phone, so it won't interfere with my work."

Yun Ya understood and said "Oh".

[Love Song 1990] "How come you have time to go online? Did you just get off work?"

【Blue Enchantress】"Yeah! By the way, after knowing each other for so long, you still haven't told me your name?"

【Love Song 1990】"My surname is Chi, you can just call me Dongqing."

Yunya kept repeating his name to herself, thinking it actually sounded kind of nice. Then she sent him a message.

[Blue Enchantress] "Your name is quite nice!"

【Love Song 1990】"Oh? Really? Thank you for the compliment, I'm quite happy."