I hadn’t been sleeping well since the visit to Shaolin, wondering why I was working hard and had to save every penny to pay for a shared room. I quitted from the Ukrainian company, staying in my room thinking about life. I even didn’t think about looking for another job, because a job with about 1000 dollars could not save me from this situation, let alone 500 dollars.

Thanks to Shaolin, he called me after I was sitting at home for a week, and asked if I would like to travel to Wenzhou, and working as an interpreter for 2 Ukrainian buyers from Kharkiv, with payment of 100 dollars a day. Of course, I accepted it, because I was about to run out of funds. The meat of mosquitoes is also a meal.

I flew to Wenzhou the next day, spending half of all my money. The 2 Ukrainian guys met me at the airport, but, oh my god, I could not understand them, they were speaking Russian in a Ukrainian dialect, which I didn’t get used to. However, we barely understood each other in the evening.

The next morning we set off to work at a factory discussing the order of carburetors for motorcycles. The process was hard, and unsuccessful, for the high price. But the clients blamed me of the bad translation, they called Shaolin, complaining about this unqualified translator. Finally, we made an agreement, that I would try another day, and the day after tomorrow I should leave since they could not find another interpreter then.

Finally came the next day, maybe my last day there. We went to a trading company, again discussed the order of carburetors, and again the deal was not made, the Ukrainian guys thought the price was high. We went back to the hotel, killing time, waiting for my plane. I opened my computer and searched the carburetor manufacturers in Wenzhou, and I told them, “Hey, there is a carburetor factory near our hotel, just 2 minute's walk, would you like to take a look?” I showed them the web page.”Yes sure, let’s go.” So we walked to the factory and met the managers there. When the 2 Ukrainian guys first saw the package of the carburetors, they opened their eyes widely, and showed it to me,” Lionia (my Russian name), you know what, you earned the day. This is what we are looking for. The price is good!”

In the evening, Sasha and Vitally(the 2 Ukrainians) invited me the dinner and asked me if I could stay for one more day. ”Lionia, you speak excellent Russian.” Sasha said to me.

Then I searched cylinders, pistons, and piston rings factories in Wenzhou too, and at end of the next day, we found everything, and signed contracts with factories. They were excited, Sasha said:” You are not only a translator but also a problem-resolver. Without you, we are going home empty-handed. Thank you! Let’s keep in touch!”

We said goodbye to each other, and I went back to Shanghai.I called Shaolin and told him about the story, but he said, “Oh Shifeng, you were stupid, you brought business to those factories, but the manufacturers didn’t ‘thank’ you? ”

“Well, I didn’t think of that, what shall I do?”

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