I will never give in to Miss Death

"When I was a poster girl for that computer manufacturer, I only got less than 10% commission from the gifts people gave me. If a fan gave me 1,000 yuan in gifts, the website would deduct half of it, and I would pay 20% personal tax, and then the company would deduct two-thirds of it. I would only get a reward of about 100 yuan... So I hate this thing. It's your ability to attract as many customers as possible to ask for photos and give you gifts. I won't ask for a share."

This is what Ouyang Xue said.

So I suspect that the bulk of my salary of more than 10,000 yuan went to taking photos and receiving tips.

However, this is not something to be proud of or optimistic about. After all, it is impossible for people to come to the coffee shop and take photos with me every day. The high sales in May were only because it had just opened. The little girl "Yin Nuoer" was very cute and people bought on impulse. It may not be the same in June. After the initial novelty wore off, the enthusiasm faded.

After calculating the basic salary and tips, the rest is probably the “meal share”... Well, it’s about the same.

When the time comes, I will take out 5,000 yuan from the 10,000 yuan to repay Jiang Wei for helping me with the computer and for his help in calling the Market Supervision Bureau. Then I will buy some turtle feed to reward the little turtle at home. The remaining 1,000 yuan... no, 500 yuan, 500 yuan seems too much, 300 yuan will be fine. I will use the 300 yuan to buy myself some delicious food. I can check online for nut gift packs, crispy sharks, and Langweixian to see what snacks are available. I will buy a lot of them, so that I can stay at home comfortably and enjoy my vacation in June.

In addition, I will take about 3,000 yuan and go online to see if there is anything I can buy for Xiaomo. She bought herself so many little skirts after receiving her labor compensation, so I also want to give her some small gifts in return.

The rest... I guess I can save about four or five thousand. So I'll save it. If I need anything in the future, or if new people like Filogabri need money, I can help them a little. No matter what, savings are very important.

After experiencing successive unemployment and various setbacks in my cramped apartment, I had learned my lesson.

"Master Wang!"

I walked into the kitchen with a happy mood and said to Wang Jie who was busy inside: "Order!"

"Hey, why are you here? I remember you were on vacation today, right?"

Wang Jie was preparing the ingredients in the kitchen skillfully: "Nuo'er, have you received your salary?"

"Yes, I came here today to help my friend make some snacks."

I walked aside and put on my mask and apron expertly: "I won't have to worry about food next month."

"Haha, at first I thought you were a little princess who was experiencing the life of ordinary people!"

Wang Jie looked at me curiously: "What dish is worthy of you coming here to cook it yourself?"

"No, I'll make some egg tarts."

I put on a mask and an apron and went to the refrigerator. “Where are those chocolates with little wings that I carved earlier?”

The coffee shop's "Cute Cat Paw Egg Tarts" and "Meow Meow Tornado Egg Tarts" have become the signature dishes here. These two things are still quite expensive, costing 5 yuan each, but the ingredients are very rich. The egg tarts themselves cost nearly two yuan each if sold alone, and they are carefully made. If it is a "Cute Cat Paw Egg Tart", a piece of cat paw chocolate will be added inside. We strictly control the ingredients of chocolate, and it is almost the same as the branded chocolate sold for more than ten yuan a piece outside, so the chocolate is calculated as 2 yuan, and the whole egg tart is counted as 5 yuan for the packaging. If you order a box of 5, you can get a discount, only 23 yuan.

Although they are expensive, the sales of these two egg tarts are quite good probably because of their cute names. The "Cute Cat Paw Egg Tart" has a piece of chocolate with a cat paw pattern in the middle, and the "Meow Meow Tornado Egg Tart" is naturally an egg tart with chocolate with a cat head pattern.

As for the egg tart I'm going to make for Gabriel today, I used the "Angel's Prayer" chocolate that I made in the kitchen at night out of boredom after Su Yunjin mentioned that "the coffee shop needs angels" a few days ago. It was made with the leftovers from the cat's claw egg tarts.

But chocolate...chocolate scraps are still chocolate, there's no difference.

I often come to the kitchen to play like this after the peak dining time in the evening. We have white chocolate and dark chocolate here, so I treat it as a gift-giving live broadcast of my cooking skills. That night, I drew an angel wing pattern with white chocolate, then wrapped the small wing with dark chocolate, and then used a mold to make it into the shape of a small heart. After cooling, a heart-shaped chocolate with a small angel wing in the middle was ready.

This type of chocolate with obvious handmade patterns takes too long to make and cannot be mass-produced, so I usually make it for fun. I didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.

Put the mold on, put the tart crust in, add the tart liquid, then put it in the oven and set the time...

While waiting for the egg tarts to be baked, I took out the Angel’s Prayer chocolates I had made earlier from the refrigerator and lined them up in a box on the table.

"I really didn't expect that Sister Ouyang would actually dare to give the commission salary according to the standards in the contract."

Seeing me baking egg tarts and flipping vegetables, Chef Wang Jie sighed, "A few days ago I was still sighing, saying that I was so poor in this life, probably because no one from above gave me money to burn..."

I burst out laughing at Wang Jie's words: "What the hell, no one is spending money up there? Doesn't that mean I don't even have a tombstone up there?"

"Haha, it's just a joke. We spend a lot of money every year, don't we? I don't know if those friends who left received it."

Wang Jie quickly explained: "I usually watch short videos when I have nothing to do. I am old and don't have time to do too much, but I didn't expect Ouyang to be so considerate."

"Sister Ouyang doesn't allow us to discuss salary."

“I didn’t mention the specific value.”

Wang Jie took the cooked food out of the pot, put it in a bowl, took it to the table in front, and casually pressed the button next to it -

"Ding Dong! No. 169, please pick up your meal!"

Then came Lan Jiajia's voice running over: "Here I come... Nuo'er, why are you in the kitchen again?"

"She's messing with those chocolates again."

Wang Jie laughed: "She looks like a little girl every day, she never grows up, she's so cute, I feel several years younger just looking at her."

"Goodbye, Noer is a little adult in our house."

Lan Jiajia took the plate and asked, "How is your angel sister?"

"Catch up with Xiaomo on the second floor."

I pointed at the chocolate tart in front of me and said, "I just came down here to make some desserts to please others."

"Hey, come on, come on."

Lan Jiajia blinked and said, "Our June bonus depends on you."

"She's coming to our house tonight, too."

I was a little embarrassed: "I guess I have to discuss it with Elodie to see if we can have another person stay."

"One more person? It seems there are no empty rooms in the house."

Lan Jiajia thought for a moment and said, "The only option is to renovate the utility room on the first floor and move a small bed over there. But then the four of you will have to use two toilets, one of which is a bathroom. Is that okay?"

"fine."

I smiled and said, “It’s not like I didn’t live in a dormitory when I was a student.”

Not to mention two people sharing one bathroom, when I was a boy in middle school, I lived in a dormitory with 12 people sharing one bathroom.

The girls have it a little better, in a room for eight, while the boys have it in a room for twelve, with three beds on the left and three beds on the right, each bed can sleep two people. There is only one bathroom, and there is a sink right outside the bathroom, with only three faucets in the sink, so everyone can do whatever they want.

At that time, we also calculated that it was more than an hour from afternoon school to evening self-study, and an hour from the end of evening self-study to the lights-out bell. A boy could take a shower in the toilet for a maximum of 9 minutes. Including the time for entering, exiting and closing the door, each person was only qualified to use the toilet for about 12 minutes. Once the time was exceeded, someone would definitely not be able to take a shower that day.

Now that I’m a girl and have gradually adapted to the pace of a girl’s life, I can’t even remember what it felt like to take a ten-minute shower every day.

At least now, when I come back from working in a coffee shop every day, I am sweaty and tired, so a hot bath is necessary. Not to mention ten minutes, I often cannot finish the battle even after half an hour in the bathroom.

Because there are so many things that girls have to do when taking a bath, especially for girls like me with long hair. It takes more than 20 minutes to take care of my hair every day. I also have to bathe and take care of my skin...

But theoretically, neither I, Yin Xiamo, nor Filo Gabriel really need to take a shower. I take a shower just out of habit. Xiaomo considered this when she created my body. My sweat is said to have strong resistance to bacteria and smells very good, like the fresh scent of trees and fruits in nature mixed together. It's okay not to take a shower.

The reason why humans have odor when they sweat is because sweat increases the reproduction rate of various bacteria. Bacterial metabolism will produce various gases and waste with odors. Taking a bath is to wash away the metabolic products from the body, such as fallen hair or dead cells. I have almost no such worries, and the same goes for Xiaomo, not to mention Momo and Gabriel.

So it’s not too strange that I live on the same floor with Xiao Mofei Luo Gabriel.

I was afraid that after Gabriel "disappeared", the development in the other world would be just as Xiaomo predicted - Momo disappeared, Filo chased after her, Filo disappeared, Gabriel chased after her, Gabriel disappeared, the Elf Queen ran after her, the Elf Queen's aura disappeared, and the cat girls, fox girls, and centaurs began to stir...

It will be hard to say how to accommodate so many people and the rooms at that time.

"Hehe, our Nuo'er is still so mysterious. I have a growing feeling that you might really be from another world, or maybe it's my editing occupational disease that's acting up."

Seeing that I looked confident, Lan Jiajia outside also seemed very happy. She picked up the plate and said, "Then I won't bother you anymore. Try your best to keep your angel friend here. I plan to use the bonus this time as start-up capital. When "Age of Aquarius" is launched, I will see if I want to join in."

I was a little curious: "Isn't it said that this is directly regulated by the state and not a pay-to-win game?"

"I don't know. It's best if we don't spend money. If we don't spend money, we can go find some foreign lady... uh, what's her name?"

"raging."

"raging?"

"Oh no, Sikong Yue."

"Yes, Sikong Yue, I'll go buy her a graphics card when the time comes. It's almost time for Xiao Ai and I to replace our computers."

"..."

After watching Lan Jiajia leave, I returned to the oven, waited for a while, and at the sound of "ding" I took out the fragrant egg tarts and began to carefully "install" angel wings and heart-shaped chocolates on them.

Completed!

Finally, I carefully packed all the hot egg tarts and put them on a plate: "Master Wang, let's go."

"Hey, go ahead, come down if you want to eat."

"Meow meow meow……"

Holding the plate of angel chocolate tarts, I walked through the circle of cats on the first floor and skillfully went up to the second floor, where I found Yin Xiamo and Gabriel were.

At this time, Philo had returned to her job, while Yin Xiamo was sitting on a small chair, with her fingers crossed, her hands facing up, her chin supported, and she looked with interest at Gabriel across the table, who was holding the ragdoll cat "Nenbao" in one hand and playing with a mobile phone in the other.

"Do you understand what I just said to you?"

As soon as I walked up to the two of them, Yin Xiamo asked Gabriel in a questioning tone, like a teacher giving a lesson to a student: "Is there anything else you don't understand?"

“Yes… there are a lot!”

Gabriel was excited. She rubbed her baby's head with one hand and took photos of herself with her phone. Then she turned the screen around and said, "Is this how I look to others?"

Nenbao is a very good-looking ragdoll cat in the coffee shop, and is also one of the few female cats with particularly big cheeks. It is said that this word is a dialect in other cities, similar to the meaning of "baby snail". The owner was too busy at work to take care of it, so he sent it to the coffee shop. From the appearance, Nenbao looks very fairy, like a fairy cat, and is very suitable for Gabriel.

"There are many similar high-tech products. Mobile phones are just one of them. Even the functions I just mentioned to you are less than one percent of all the functions of mobile phones."

As Gabriel's eyes became more and more excited, Yin Xiamo glanced at me as I was walking over and said, "Nuo'er brought you some food. Didn't you say that human food is not very good? Try it."

"Come."

Under Gabriel's curious gaze, I placed the steaming hot egg tarts on the table.

"Our store manager will be here soon. After we finish eating, let's have a quick chat about computers and online games for humans here. I believe Angel Sister will like it."

"..."

……

No. 252 Like an ordinary girl

"what is this?"

Perhaps the aroma of the egg tarts was so tempting that Gabriel couldn't help but put down the mobile phone in his hand, lowered his head slightly, and looked at the plates on the table.

"Meow……"

The ragdoll cat "Nenbao" made a sweet sound in Gabriel's arms, stretched out its two cat paws and lay on the table, seeming to be very interested in the egg tarts on the plate.

Since I started working in the coffee shop and came into contact with so many cats, I gradually understood the various habits of cats and cleared up many misunderstandings.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that cats don’t actually like to eat fish.

At least in coffee shops, many breeds of cats do not like fish. Cats that like to eat fish are generally rural cats and "foreign rural cats" such as American Shorthair, or kittens that have been wandering outside and were picked up as pet cats. Because they have experienced a life of insufficient food and hunger since childhood, they almost accept all food. Not to mention small fish and shrimps, they will even eat small crabs and lizards.

Humans have more than 10,000 taste buds, while cats only have 500 to 800, which is completely not on the same order of magnitude. So some things that humans think are delicious are like eating candles to cats. But because cats' taste buds are specialized, some flavors that humans can't taste are super delicious in a cat's mouth. For example, chicken breast tastes very fragrant in a cat's mouth. But the sugars that humans like have no taste at all to cats.

Fish is not on the cat's menu. Only small birds, small rodents and insects are the main food of cats. It is very simple to tell what cats like to eat - just judge whether there is such animal in the desert.

The ancestors of cats came from the desert. The most common things there are lizards crawling on the ground and various small insects, as well as mice and rabbits digging holes underground, and hawks and sparrows catching rabbits. These small animals are food for cats. When cats see them, the memories of their ancestors will awaken, and they will instinctively go into hunting mode. Fish are obviously not animals of the desert, at least they are not common animals in the desert.

But now cats have evolved for so many years. Some cats were brought to the other side of the ocean, and some were captured by humans and turned into pet cats in cities. After so many generations of reproduction, they eat all kinds of things. If we have to say, there is one thing that almost all cats can't resist.

That's the taste of milk.

Cow's milk, goat's milk, and even... uh, human milk, including dairy products.

During my menstrual period, the estrogen level in my body rises and my breasts feel swollen. Occasionally when I change clothes, I can smell a faint sweet smell on my chest. At that time, the cats in the coffee shop were particularly attached to me. After Philo came over, she gave me a cup of dragon milk every day. After drinking it, I went to work every day. These cats in the coffee shop saw me as if I saw delicious food, which made me laugh and cry.

The egg tarts sold in the store are made with milk and eggs, which are very cat-attractive.

“This is an egg tart, a local snack.”

Seeing that Gabriel and the cat "Nenbao" both put their hands on the table with greedy looks on their faces, I took the initiative to explain: "Simply put, use butter, flour and other ingredients to make the egg tart crust, then add milk, egg liquid and sugar, bake it in the oven, and then put chocolate on it."

"What...what and what, butter and flour? What's an oven, and what's chocolate?"

Gabriel was confused: "Can you...explain it in a little more detail?"

The little angel in front of me looks very much like a primary school student who has no basic knowledge but insists on going to a university classroom to attend classes.

"Meow……"

The young baby on the side stretched out his paw towards an egg tart, but did not dare to go to the table. He just looked at me with pleading eyes.

"Okay, okay, I'll give you one. Don't make it everywhere."

I picked up one of the egg tarts, took away the chocolate on it, and put it on the stool next to me.

Tender baby jumped over happily and licked the milk and egg mixture in the middle of the egg tart.

The fragrance also attracted several cats not far away. They came over curiously and meowed around the baby.

When Nenbao didn't respond, the other cats came over and started licking the egg tart together.