Letter from Jian Hui: 5


March
Dear Julia

I think you wrote letter I didn't get.
Also the long time I could not write.
I am sorry for long time.
I give this to your friend who goes to Hong Kong.
So I think, next it goes to you.

Something happened.
Someone told that I worked for a foreigner, I don't know who.
I work in my office and the electric teapot factory.
That is not foreign. Maybe joint venture. I don't know.
Then the police come to my manager and ask.
The trouble I do not have a residence card in Beijing.
So then they talk to me.
They want me to say something I don't know what.
That day they come I do not wear my coat,
Only sweater, and I am very cold,
In additional worried.

When I cook your lunch, is that work for foreigner?
I am afraid. Nobody to answer the question.
They talk to me. Then they think they have wrong girl.
After, they let me go. But not to Beijing. Shan Dong.
So I have to give up the chance after a short time. Sixteen months.

But I think I have succeeded myself.
I finish my accounting course and business experience work.
Also the English writing machine
And because you spoke English with me.
Also some new friends, Chinese and foreigners.
Anyhow the government said
We are allowed to go to foreigners' houses now.
I told the police that's what I did.
Not work. Open up the country.
But it is true when you came I helped you
When I take care of your lovely clever grandson.
I was afraid the police might think.
But they did not.

Now I am in Shan Dong.
So I will stay home for a while and see my family,
But then I will go back to Beijing even without a work unit card.
Like America. Free.
Don't mind. I am make a joke the way I did with you before.
I have good luck. I also think you.

I love you. Goodbye.
Jian Hui

 

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