Chapter 30 - The Empress Has Never Been to School
After Lin Fan repeatedly emphasized that Zhou Yan was the financial backer who had lent them money, and that he had been called over specifically to find a way to get her a job, Longyue finally gave up on the idea of killing and burying the body, and sat down on the living room sofa calmly and peacefully.
The moment she sat down, Zhou Yan cheerfully shouted again:
“Sister-in-law~ You and that brat Lin Fan are a really good match!”
Longyue: “…!”
Longyue’s cheek twitched slightly, and the killing intent that had just been pacified in her heart ignited once again.
Seeing this, Lin Fan quickly pressed down on her hand and changed the subject towards Zhou Yan:
“Right, Yan Zi, do you have any jobs you can introduce?”
“Oh! You’ve finally seen the light? You’re not planning to write novels anymore?” Zhou Yan asked with delight.
Lin Fan shook his head.
“You’ve misunderstood. It’s not an introduction for me, but I want you to help her find a suitable job.”
As he spoke, Lin Fan turned his head to look at Longyue beside him.
Zhou Yan followed his gaze towards Longyue, an ‘I see’ expression appearing on his face. He immediately patted his chest and guaranteed:
“So it’s for sister-in-law. Don’t you worry, I have plenty of good jobs I can introduce.”
Zhou Yan called her sister-in-law with every other breath. Longyue was so angry she clenched her delicate fists, but she still endured it, constantly telling herself in her heart:
This fellow is here specifically to introduce me to a job, I can’t kill him… at least, I can’t kill him for now…
“Mmm… sister-in-law, do you know how to use Office software? For example, making some spreadsheets, compiling data, and that sort of thing?” Zhou Yan asked.
“O-Office…?”
Longyue had a blank look on her face and turned to look at Lin Fan, dazed.
She thought she already understood a lot about this world, but Zhou Yan had stumped her with his first words.
She had never heard such high-end vocabulary before…
“Yan Zi, she has never touched a computer before. She doesn’t understand these things,” Lin Fan explained on Longyue’s behalf.
Even many university students nowadays couldn't use those Office software programs with ease, let alone her.
Currently, she had only figured out how to order takeout and shop online on her phone. She only had a partial understanding of the other software on her phone. To ask her to use a computer for office work was really putting her in a tough spot.
“Is that so…”
Hearing that Longyue didn't understand computers, Zhou Yan wasn't too surprised.
Nowadays, there were indeed many girls who didn't have much contact with computers and were complete computer noobs. Some even touched a computer for the first time after entering university. He was already used to seeing such things.
After thinking for a bit longer, Zhou Yan seemed to have thought of something else. His eyes lit up, and he introduced another opening:
“My uncle’s company is short on a data manager. Sister-in-law, you would just be responsible for printing documents, distributing materials before meetings, turning on the projector in advance, and just handling the preparations before a meeting. How about it?”
“Printing documents… projector…?”
Longyue’s fine brows furrowed slightly, and she once again looked at Lin Fan with a blank expression.
Lin Fan was helpless and had no choice but to explain to Zhou Yan again:
“Yan Zi, it’s not just computers. She’s completely clueless about other electronic products too. She only recently learned how to watch TV and use a cell phone…”
“Is there an even simpler job?”
“Huh…?”
Zhou Yan’s expression showed his shock, and he looked at Longyue with a face full of disbelief.
This was the 21st century. Even little kids knew how to use cell phones these days. There was actually a human who had just learned how to watch TV and use a cell phone now?
Just what kind of primitive life did sister-in-law live before!
Looking at sister-in-law, she’s a standard great Eastern beauty, and she speaks Chinese too. She doesn't look like an illegal immigrant from some remote corner of the African continent…
Not understanding electronic products meant saying goodbye to many of the more relaxed office jobs. But since he was introducing a job to his own sister-in-law, he definitely couldn’t find her one of those jobs that was like being a beast of burden.
Mmm…
Zhou Yan furrowed his brow and pondered. Then, as if he had thought of something, he spoke:
“Then sister-in-law, is your handwriting beautiful?”
“My mom over there sometimes can’t handle things by herself and needs someone to help write some documents on her behalf. The requirements aren’t high, as long as the handwriting is beautiful.”
“I can do that!”
Longyue’s eyes lit up. She excitedly rummaged through the living room to find a fountain pen and a white piece of paper and skillfully began to write on the paper.
After waiting for so long, a question about a field she excelled in was finally asked!
Zhou Yan craned his neck, his face full of anticipation.
However, as Longyue put down one stroke after another on the paper, the anticipation on his face immediately turned to astonishment.
It wasn't that her handwriting was not good-looking. On the contrary, her writing was delicate and lively, as elegant as dragons flying and phoenixes dancing. But the problem was… the characters didn't look like Chinese characters!
As a university student, he was stunned to find that he couldn't understand a single character!
“How is it~?”
Longyue held up the paper with the writing on it to show him, her face full of confidence.
She couldn't speak for other things, but she was full of confidence in her own handwriting.
As the Empress of the Supreme Sacred Heavenly Palace, she often needed to review and approve official documents. Writing was no problem for her at all.
Within the Immortal Realm, everyone who had seen her handwriting praised it without exception!
Zhou Yan moved closer to observe it carefully and repeatedly, then awkwardly pointed at the characters on the paper.
“Er… sister-in-law, your handwriting is very nice, but how come I can’t understand what you’ve written?”
“It looks like I can see some traces of Chinese characters, but it doesn’t quite look like it. What kind of script is this?”
“Immortal Script~!”
Longyue held her head high and chest out, her expression proud.
The Immortal Script was initially based on the ancient written language of mortals. Over time, it gradually incorporated the characteristics of the immortal race and was modified, evolving into the written language of the Immortal Realm, hence it was called the Immortal Script.
The Immortal Script resembled ancient Chinese characters but was more tedious and complex. Ordinary mortals generally couldn't write it, which specially highlighted the noble status of the immortal race.
“Immortal Script…?”
Zhou Yan had a look of astonishment on his face, at a loss for what to say for a moment.
Since he was a child, he had seen various scripts like Regular script, Song script, and Clerical script. This was the first time he had ever heard of Immortal Script…
Lin Fan let out a light sigh, an “I knew it would be like this” expression on his face.
He had long heard that the Immortal Realm had its own unique system of Immortal Script. Longyue was born in the Immortal Realm, so naturally, what she learned was the Immortal Script.
She had only been on Blue Star for a month; it would not be an exaggeration to say her understanding of this world was like an infant's.
Even for the recent pinyin she was learning, she was following the Xinhua Dictionary he had bought for her. Currently, just to type a single character, she had to slowly tap out the pinyin one by one, taking ages. How could she possibly write documents…
“Yan Zi, actually, your sister-in-law has never been to school. She can’t really write and is still at the beginner stage…”
Lin Fan leaned in close to Zhou Yan’s ear and whispered a helpless explanation.
“Huh??”
Zhou Yan’s expression showed his shock once again. He looked at Longyue again as if she were some kind of rare species.
Sister-in-law is not only completely clueless about electronic devices, but she has never even been to school!?
He had thought the online phrase ‘a fish that slipped through the net of the nine-year compulsory education’ was just a joke made by silly netizens. He never thought it was actually real…
And that person was his sister-in-law...
She hasn't been to school and is completely clueless about electronic products. What kind of work can she possibly do…?