8 Ming Er story

I try to stay calm after hear her name and continue to ask her,

"So miss Li, you used to work at Bao chain restaurant but don't want to work there again, yes?"

She nodded hearing my question.

"But there still many other restaurants that not owned by Bao Chain Restaurant, why you don't apply there?"

"I do, but they don't accept me"

"Oh, why is that? You don't ask much for salary but they still not accept you. That's sound not right"

"That's because my body condition, they don't want to accept me"

"Your body condition? Are you having a sickness that can contagious or something?"

"No, it's not like. I'm healthy and have no sickness. It's just I am...."

She looks hesitate to continue her words. Maybe because she already rejected in many places because of that, she hesitates to tell me the reason.

"Because you're what miss Li?"

"Because....I'm pregnant!..... I'm currently pregnant for two months, that's why they didn't accept me. They don't want to hire someone who her belly will get bigger in couple month later and can't move easily and must pay benefit for birth labor too"

She's pregnant! Moreover two months! Just like Ming Er when she dies. Is this just a coincidence? Or heaven really sent her back to me? Wait, maybe I'm just overexcited with this, how if she already married, is not that only my wishful thinking if she already married and I'm expecting her?

"So, you already married miss Li. Is your husband income not enough to support you and your baby that makes you look for a job?"

"I'm…. I'm not married….yet"

She said that with sad tones. Her eyes also start to teary when she said that. What happens to her that makes her so sad?

"You're not married but pregnant?"

She nodded

"The man who makes you pregnant don't want to be responsible?"

She nodded again

"If I may guess, that man works in Bao Chain Restaurant?"

Her cries are broken with my last question. It's seemed my guess hit the right spot in her heart.

"Sorry miss Li, I don't' mean to make you sad"

I handed her my handkerchief to wipe her tears

"It's my fault that makes this all happen, mister….sorry, I don't even know your name"

"You Ben, my name is You Ben. Why don't you tell me from the start"

"Alright, Mister Ben. When I start to work at Bao Chain Restaurant, everyone is nice to me there, although the work hours are long I feel good to work there. Young master Bao also good for his employees. Three months after I work there, master Bao starts to get close to me and even ask me to be his girlfriend. He's young, handsome and rich, which girl who doesn't want to be his girlfriend. So I accept his request and become his girlfriend. Since then treatment from my colleague to me become colder, especially among the female workers. When I told master Bao about this, he only laughs and said that they're just jealous of me. I supposed to ignore that and keep being his girlfriend. Master Bao is good to me, sometimes he gives me a present like flowers or chocolate or buys me a nice dress, just like a real gentleman"

Ming Er telling this story with her eyes looking far away like remembering her good time.

"He also takes me to party, introducing me with his friend. Until one day he asks me to come with him to a party, and at that party he makes me drink too much and I'm was drunk. When I'm sober, I already in the hotel room with him, and my….."

"You don't have to tell me that part if make you sad, but I know what he did to you in that hotel room"

Ming Er nodded, that incident in the hotel room seems to leave a trauma to her. But she can continue her story

"After that, my relationship with master Bao, bit by bit is getting distance and distance. When I ask him if he abandoning me, he always said he was busy, until two weeks before today, I just realize I don't get my periods again and when I'm checking with Pregnancy test-Kit, I'm pregnant. When I tell this to master Bao he only gives me money and told me to do abortion. At that time I just realize that master Bao only wants my body and didn't really love me, I'm only his lust object and ditched after he satisfied. When I return home and tell my parent about this, they enraged and cast me away. They say I'm bringing shame to the family. Except this baby in my belly, I don't have anybody else in this world"

I'm sighing hearing her story. These Bao families are indeed rotten from their ancestor. Both You Ben and Ming Er in this world was also being their victim again.