Mysterious city

In this way, Xiaoyan only left a few yuan as a guarantee for her full stomach, and spent all the remaining money on tickets.

Buses travel very slowly, especially long-distance buses on extremely poor roads.

During the long journey, Xiao Yan seemed to have been closing his eyes and concentrating, but in fact he was thinking about how he should overcome the next difficulties.

The food on the bus was highly overpriced and was suspected of ripping off customers, so Xiao Yan would not be fooled.

Fortunately, Xiaoyan's mother had already prepared dry food for him in her luggage when she set off from home, which was enough for two or three days.

After arriving at Xishi, it was still more than a thousand kilometers away from Anshi, where Haibin Normal University is located, but Xiaoyan no longer had any extra money to buy another ticket.

This means that he must stay here for a few days to save enough money for the ticket.

This process was undoubtedly extremely arduous. During the few days she stayed in Xishi, Xiaoyan worked as a lot of handymen, washing dishes, cleaning, serving dishes, and almost any dirty work that did not require professional skills. Xiaoyan did all of it. Pass.

Although it is heavy physical work, it is naturally not a problem for children who have grown up in a "poor place" like Wangcun since childhood.

However, compared to the physical exertion, the mental impact of these tasks on Xiaoyan was actually much greater.

Take the simplest dishwasher as an example. In urban jobs, this position can be regarded as the most humble low-level job.

Because it only requires the simplest physical labor, the corresponding wages are also very low.

Especially Xiaoyan, who still needs to calculate the time to arrive at school in advance, cannot stay in a hotel for a long time, so her already low salary has plummeted like Waterloo.

In addition, the smooth and sophisticated hotel manager could tell at a glance that Xiao Yan was an honest and honest boy from out of town. Knowing that he was easy to bully, he was very harsh on him.

Not only would he beat and scold Xiaoyan at every turn, but also gave him the dirtiest and most arduous chores besides washing dishes. He also reduced Xiaoyan's salary to only 20 yuan a day.

But even so, Xiaoyan was extremely surprised.

What surprised him was that he could only earn a mere twenty yuan in salary after working exhaustingly for a whole day.

On the contrary, what had the biggest impact on the spirit of this child who came out of the countryside was that he could earn twenty yuan a day just by washing the dishes!

That’s twenty yuan!

For the villagers of Wang Village, they have to work hard under the scorching sun, wind and rain for an unknown amount of time to earn so much money.

This made Xiaoyan even more determined, that is, there are more opportunities in big cities than in Wangcun.

As long as he works hard, he will definitely be able to improve his family's situation of not having enough to eat and not having enough warmth to wear!

In this way, Xiaoyan took a salary of 20 yuan a day and worked hard for a week to save enough money for the ticket to the next city.

During this period, the dry food Xiaoyan's mother prepared for him had long been eaten. Moreover, even if the food can be stored longer than ordinary food, it cannot be eaten after three to five days, otherwise it will damage the body. Xiaoyan doesn't have extra money to go to the doctor.

For those poor people living below the subsistence line, every disease has the potential to take their lives.

Fortunately, Xiao Yan has never been picky about food. He has relied on the food saved by his brother and mother since he was a child to be able to eat enough. He is not qualified to be picky about food.

Therefore, Xiao Yan's daily food almost only consisted of two steamed buns. Occasionally when she felt like vomiting, Xiao Yan would spend one yuan to buy a bag of the cheapest pickled mustard, so that she could occasionally taste the taste of food.

When washing dishes, Xiao Yan often sees that the food on many guests' plates is still intact, without even a trace of movement.

This made this simple boy feel that his values ​​​​were impacted again. He had never left Wang Village before, and the villagers he saw had never had leftovers.

After all, if you don’t have enough to eat, where can you go to have leftovers?

So Xiao Yan couldn't figure it out despite racking her brain. Those big fish, big meat, those delicacies, even the vegetables looked so tempting and delicious under the chef's exquisite cooking skills.

Xiaoyan's family would never even think of eating this delicacy during the Chinese New Year. Why would someone be willing to throw it away without even moving their chopsticks or taking a bite?

Every time she saw those delicacies being thrown away like garbage, Xiaoyan felt her stomach growling.

No one can stand eating steamed buns every day. He really wants to taste those foods, even just a little oil and water!

However, the hotel has clear regulations. Even if the food left by the guests is thrown away, no clerk can take a bite, otherwise he will be fired directly and will not be paid.

So even though every time Xiao Yan looked at the food, his saliva would flow down like a waterfall, but he didn't dare to touch the food at all.

Even if neither the boss nor the manager is keeping an eye on him all the time, no one will notice if he takes a bite secretly, but this big boy who came from the countryside and has never received an elite education is better than Those so-called "elites" are more contractual.

After saving up the remaining tickets and money for food and drinks on the way, Xiaoyan was immediately ready to leave.

He has been in the West City for a full week, and there is no extra time to waste.

But when Xiaoyan was about to resign and leave, she found that her thoughts were still too simple.

Entering modern urban life, what Xiaoyan has to face is not only farming and labor, but also the sophistication of the world.

Although the income of the villagers working in Wangcun is extremely meager, even less than the income of the most humble position in the city, God and nature will not lie to people.

It is true that farmers will reap what they sow, but it may not necessarily apply to other places.

When Xiao Yan was about to collect his salary, the lobby manager glanced at him with disdain as if he were looking at a piece of disgusting garbage, and then said arrogantly: "If someone reports you for stealing food, it's fine if I don't deduct your money." Now, you still want a salary? That’s a great idea!”

After hearing these words, both Xiao Yan and Jiang Zhe, who was sympathetic to him at the moment, felt like a bolt from the blue.

Stealing food?

impossible!

No one knows better than Xiaoyan himself or Jiang Zhe that he has been suffering from hunger almost all the time these days.

In the meantime, several other people who washed dishes and did chores with Xiao Yan had to steal the leftover food of many guests every day.

Not only that, there are many waiters who even steal the entire food after it is cooked and before it is delivered to the guests' table.

Not to mention the waiter or the head chef, even the manager, who seemed to be very polite and had a status lower than one person in the hotel and higher than dozens of others, was no exception.

It can be said that in this huge hotel, Xiao Yan is almost the only one who abides by the rules and never crosses the line.

And now, even this well-dressed beast who broke the rules he had set could accuse himself of stealing food without blushing or heartbeat?

For a moment, Xiao Yan was so angry that she didn't know how to explain it, so she could only stutter in reply: "I, I didn't, you, you spit on others!"

As if he had expected Xiao Yan's response, the manager sneered and responded slowly without any panic: "I'm spitting blood? I just saw it, but I won't pay you a salary. What can you do?"

"Be wise and hurry up and leave, otherwise I will make you walk around without food!"

The manager said truthfully with a fierce look in his eyes, as if he wanted to eat Xiao Yan.

The lobby manager is the position that requires the most interaction with guests in a restaurant and is also the position that has seen the most exposure to the world.

After working hard in the West Market for so many years, the manager has seen almost all kinds of customers, and has long developed a sharp eye.

With just one glance, this guy can accurately determine what the other person does, what his status is, and what financial resources he has.

And Xiaoyan has been working here for a full week. In addition, compared with those gangsters and old youtiaos, Xiaoyan is as pure as a piece of white paper. How can she escape the manager's experienced eyes? His fiery eyes?

The manager has long seen through that Xiaoyan is not only young and has very difficult family conditions, but also that he is a foreigner and has no background in Xishi!

On normal days, if he were any other local handyman, this manager might not be so arrogant, but for a poor boy who came from out of town and had no one to rely on, what did he have to fear?

It can be said that from the first day Xiao Yan came to him to look for a job, the manager had no intention of paying him a salary!

Today, this kind of "robbery" may be very rare, but in the era when the law was not yet perfect, it was very common for migrant workers to be bullied by local bosses or senior officials.

In those days, what kind of labor security agreement did a dishwasher want to sign?

What's more, he is still a little kid and a temporary one!

When things have developed to this point, no matter how stupid Xiao Yan is, he will not be so stupid that he does not understand that the manager is nakedly bullying him.

This big boy with no social experience naturally didn't know how to protect his own rights and interests. Moreover, even if he knew it at that time, he had no way to protect it without money and power.

A terrible thought, or simply an instinct, began to appear in Xiaoyan's mind.

Since he can't get the rights he deserves through reasoning, then he will get it through violence!

As this thought arose, Xiao Yan, or Jiang Zhe's eyes began to slowly turn blood red, like a ferocious wolf that had been hungry for seven days and seven nights and was about to go crazy!