Chapter 4 Customers
Liu Li couldn't believe it at all.
How could a customer ask the company to let him connect directly with the translator?
Just think about it and you will know that this is impossible, and the company itself will also avoid this.
Because after all, the translation company is an intermediary platform!
If the customer directly contacts the translator, can he lose the intermediary platform and trade it directly?
This is beneficial to both customers and translators. As long as any party wants to put aside the middlemen, the company will be difficult to do.
Therefore, customers cannot directly connect with translators. If the customer insists, in this case, the company will generally ask the project manager, that is, Ding Yanhong, to call himself "translator" and represent the translator to connect with the customer.
The industry rules are like this!
Liu Li swallowed and said, "Teacher Ding, this does not comply with the rules, right?"
His brain was spinning rapidly, thinking about why this happened, what is the logic behind it, and more importantly, is there any supernatural power involved?
The project manager asked the translator if he would like to see the client. The abnormality of this matter was comparable to the treatment of myopia after waking up.
Biological organisms may suffer from radiation gene mutations, but companies cannot make money and poach their own secrets!
Ding Yanhong said on the phone: "Things are quite complicated. First, the customer has paid the entire project money and she is rich. Second, the customer has some personal relationships with our boss. The boss told me this requirement."
"I originally wanted to say that I was an interpreter, but after she asked me two questions, she was sure that I was definitely not an interpreter."
Liu Li said "tsk".
By finding a translation company to translate scriptures, it is estimated that the other party is not strong enough. Even a "cultivator" should belong to the bottom class and have no background or power.
But Liu Li miscalculated. Even at the "bottom level", he was also the bottom of supernatural power. It was normal for ordinary people to be born with dimensional reduction attacks, and the other party used this to accumulate some connections and capital!
Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, don't be nervous. Liu Li told himself that he just handed over a translation, and that customer should not regard himself as an enemy.
Liu Li forced himself to calm down. He thought he was the kind of person who had not changed his expression before. He used to play various werewolf killing games, and his speech status was always well controlled when he lies, but now he knows how big the difference between reality and game.
Playing games with friends was discovered and everyone laughed for a while. If they were in front of humans who had supernatural powers... they would likely encounter an unimaginable crisis!
"Teacher Ding, I want to know why the client insists on seeing me?"
Liu Li quickly asked a question and began to test Ding Yanhong to get more information from it.
In the final analysis, this game is very different. The customer knows that he is just a translator, and it is highly likely that he has no background or power to earn money by taking orders online. Liu Li knows nothing about the customer and has no knowledge of the supernatural powers that the customer may have.
Liu Li needed information, and he was eager to reverse the intelligence gap.
What is it? Is it a question of your own translation? Because you have understood the rhythm of the nameless Taoist sutra, it is inevitable that it will be expressed in the translation?
This is the only reasonable guess.
Ding Yanhong said: "Teacher Liu, after reading all the translations, the client thinks that what you translated is the best. I hope to communicate with you separately on the translation content."
As expected...
When Liu Li heard this, he felt relieved and things were not out of control.
"If it's all for me to translate this order," Liu Li said: "It's okay to accept a few more orders, but there's no need to meet with customers, right?"
Liu Liba was not allowed to eat all the orders, not to mention the money, but just the full text of the Wuming Sutra made him look forward to it.
Ding Yanhong said: "The customer is very persistent. Teacher Liu, please don't think about it and exchange contact information first."
Liu Li said directly: "What if the customer and I discuss separately and want to make other orders, what should the company do?"
He directly exposed this key interlaced point of interest and wanted to see Ding Yanhong's reaction.
Ding Yanhong said: "I asked the boss, but he didn't care."
Liu Li's lips twitched.
This proves that the relationship between this client and the company boss is very close, and is definitely not as good as an ordinary friend.
Very bad!
Although Liu Li is an interpreter who takes orders online and basically does not meet the company's people, the problem is that he signed a contract with the company.
On the contract, there is a copy of his ID card and his contact information with his family!
In order to send the contract, the company also knows his address!
At present, although the customer has a strong desire to contact him, the way the customer asks him to contact him is still very gentle and not tough, but if he really breaks up and makes the customer realize something is wrong, he may directly ask the company to give Liu Li information!
Liu Li was confused, but his thinking was in a flash and he had already obtained the answer.
Take the initiative to contact customers! Take the initiative!
Liu Li said: "It's okay to exchange contact information. I'm still curious about what the customer wants to communicate with me. You can give him my contact information."
"Okay, I'll give it to it." Ding Yanhong said.
Liu Li was nervous. He was about to contact an existence suspected of mastering supernatural powers. He didn't know the other party's good or evil, nor did he know the other party's abilities!
He felt anxious and his mind was full of random thoughts, such as whether it was possible for the other party to read the mind through online chats or something.
A mark suddenly shaking at the bottom right of the computer screen.
Someone added his friend.
Liu Li clicked on it, and his avatar was a 2D lady, with purple hair and purple eyes, a nightcap, and his nickname was a word composed of two English letters. It didn't look like English, and the pronunciation was probably "Arian Filia".
"From the account search, female, 127 years old."
"The additional information is, Tianlang Translation Company, yes, she is the customer."
Liu Li clicked on her avatar and saw a further message.
"The birthday is April 12, two moons and three stars..."
This information doesn't explain much. If you take it seriously, this customer must be a 127-year-old witch, but this is obviously unlikely... Well, it seems that it is impossible.
Liu Li took a deep breath, clicked to agree, and noted the customer.
He then sent a message to the client first.
"Hello, I am an interpreter at Tianlang Translation Company."
The other party sent it in Chinese, so we are very polite.
"Are you Teacher Liu?"
"I am, is there anything you need to ask me?"
"I want to entrust you to undertake other translations, and I also want to communicate with you about some translation issues of proper nouns."
Liu Li's vigilance reached a peak. He did not relax at all because of the other party's 2D avatar and polite tone. Instead, he felt that the other party's Chinese was good, typing fluently, and his speed was not slow.
Liu Li typing.
Lightning in Spring: "You ask."
Client: "The word 'mao feather', you translate it as 'fly bird', 'scis scale', you translate it as 'beetle', is there any basis for this?"
Liu Li thought, what basis can this be made? These two words should be translated like this!
He thought for a moment, found the reference materials he collected during his translation, copied them, and typed them:
"Jielin should be strictly the ancestor of fish. "Huainanzi·博少" says: "Jielin gives birth to dragons, dragons give birth to Kun horns, Kun horns give birth to evil, and evil produces common fish; all scales are born from common fish.', which means that Jielin is the most primitive ancestor of fish. In the current Chinese dictionary, Jielin refers to beetles and scale insects. The ancients believed that they were the ancestors of fish, and I translated them into beetles for neatness."
Client: "Thank you, Jie Lin, I understand that humans and many creatures on land have evolved from fish. But Mao Yu still doesn't understand why it is not translated as 'butterfly moth'?"
This question is inexplicably asked.
Liu Li replied:
"In terms of meaning, the literal meaning of feather is animal hair and bird feather, which can also refer to wings, but it has nothing to do with the "butterfly moth" no matter what."
When talking about "butterfly moth", Liu Li recalled legends such as Zhuangzi's dream of butterflies, moths to the fire, etc.
The client was silent for a long time, and Liu Li almost thought that the consultation was over and sent another message.
Client: "Teacher Liu, the communication with you shows that you are very responsible for your work. I would like to meet you in reality and discuss other contents of the original text."
Liu Li's face changed slightly.
"No need."
"Many things can only be explained clearly during an interview," the client said. "If you feel troublesome, I can come to your city. You are in Xingcheng, right?"
Liu Li felt great pressure. He wanted to refuse, but he was afraid that after he refused, the customer would still get his detailed information from the company, which would be even worse.
"That's a big trouble for you." Liu Li replied.
"It doesn't matter. I'll come to Xingcheng now and make an appointment to meet next week."
Taking a plane sounds like taking a bus, which proves that the other party’s financial conditions are not bad. Liu Li thought about it.
When the matter is about to come, there is no other way, so you can only fight to block the water and soil. Liu Li thought: "At least, I have more initiative than if I refuse. I can initiate contact, decide the time and place of contact, and make sufficient preparations."
"It's just that next week I'll be head-on with my customers, and time is tight."
Chapter completed!