I will never give in to Miss Death

Pippi said in an instigating tone: "Is there any hope for Marisa this time?"

"How not?"

I adjusted my mindset a little and said:

"Hasn't he been working hard for a living? He's worked so hard for so many years, and now that love has come, he can hold on to it."

No. 075 Let's work! Lord Death

Pipijitu and Tonglong both knew that Jiang Wei had a good relationship with a girl in the same class when he was a child.

He occasionally brings up these old memories while playing games.

At that time, Jiang Wei was an ordinary boy studying in the only junior high school in a remote town, and the girl was the child of an ordinary pair of individual business owners in the town. They were assigned to different classes, Jiang Wei in Class 1 (A) and the girl in Class 1 (B).

Because the town is too small, the junior high school there only has two classes, which is not even half the size of most elementary schools in Kamihama City.

The relationship between them was not as eternal as described in romance novels. It might not even be called "love". It was just a simple one... Jiang Wei happened to pass by a wasteland after school that day and saw a few hooligans grabbing the girl and trying to search her and rob her of money. Jiang Wei saw the injustice and grabbed a brick and rushed forward to fight three of them at once, and finally drove all the hooligans away.

"I really didn't think that much, you know? I don't have any idea of ​​being a hero saving a beautiful girl. I look down on this kind of behavior from the bottom of my heart. It's really shameful for three grown men to rob a little girl's money. I just want to teach them a lesson. This feeling is almost the same as seeing a person with hands and feet robbing a beggar on the street with only a few dollars in his bowl. It's cowardly!"

"It seems that from then on, the girl from the next class would come to play with me from time to time, and often copied my homework. She said she was afraid of retaliation from the gangsters, so she asked me to take her home. After a while, we got to know each other."

"Looking back now, I was really young back then, and I wasn't as fat as I am now. It was just that after I entered society, I was busy making money and had no time to exercise, so I gradually gained weight."

In voice messages, Jiang Wei often lamented that that period was the happiest time in his life. His parents did not quarrel or get divorced, he did not have to worry about food and clothing, he had friends to chat with at school, and he could go home with girls after school.

Jiang Wei also said that when he was a child, his name was not Jiang Wei, but Jiang Wuwei. At that time, his father's surname was Jiang and his mother's surname was Wu. The combination of the two names plus the character "Wei" formed his name. Later, his parents divorced and Jiang Wei was awarded to his father, who took him to change his name that same day and removed the character "Wu".

"My dad also told me that Jiang Wuwei doesn't sound good at all. Wuwei Wuwei, doesn't that mean doing nothing? Living a life of mediocrity and doing nothing has such a bad connotation. It would be better to just delete the word Wu."

"Unfortunately, just a few months after I changed my name, my dad went to jail. I also stopped studying and started working."

Among the childhood memories of me, Pippi, Jitu, Tonglong and Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei's is indeed the most tortuous and regrettable one.

But he is also the luckiest one. In his own words, "At least I made it out and lived the life I wanted, with a house and a car, and no worries about food and clothing."

"..."

"Did even Noel say that?"

In the voice chat, after hearing what I said, Jiang Wei was obviously a little excited: "But I... I really have no preparation at all now, I... I think I am quite poor."

"With a house, two cars, and over 2 million in savings, is that still considered poor?"

Pipi laughed and scolded: "I remember all the boasts you made in the past. If you say you are poor, then at least half of the men in the country are not even worthy of being poor."

"It's different. I didn't think about starting a family when I bought that apartment. It's a two-bedroom apartment with an area of ​​over 90 square meters. It's fine for me to live alone. It's also fine for you guys to come over and entertain me from time to time. But I don't think it's appropriate to have another girl living here. What if we have children in the future..."

"You're thinking about having a baby now? Haha, sure, sure."

Pipi laughed out loud: "How can you not start a family in a 90-square-meter house? You probably don't know how many people are getting married by renting a house now. Do you have to be like Brother Ji to be qualified to fall in love?"

"Why are you involving me again?"

Su Yunjin in the voice chat was a little embarrassed: "Marisa's conditions are really good. If you are interested in other girls, just accept them. After all, they have been waiting for you for so many years. Now you are married, it's a good thing."

"Yes, that's great. We've been brothers for so many years. Just date that girl first, and then ask us if you have any questions."

Pipi continued to persuade him: "If you are sure that we can be together, when you get married, you can ask me any questions about the wedding and parenting. My ancestors and my wife tortured me for several years, but I finally got through it, didn't I?"

"If you really think that the old house you have is not good enough and you can't afford to use it as your wedding house, you can consider buying a new one. Doesn't Brother Ji know a few real estate owners? I can help you get a reliable one then."

"As for dating, isn't Nuoer a girl? Just ask her if you have any questions about women."

"and many more."

Hearing this, I felt something was wrong and quickly said, "Don't ask me if you have any questions about women. I really don't know."

"Haha, Nuo'er, are you used to changing your voice and acting like an uncle every day? You're the only girl here, and Brother Ji only likes men. Are you going to ask my wife?"

Pipi insisted: "Only you can solve this problem. If Marisa accidentally makes her girlfriend angry, or if there are other doubts about women's psychology, you can't shirk responsibility."

Here……

Pippi’s words made me feel helpless.

Although I am now... physically a female, I was indeed an uncle several days ago!

But I can't explain this supernatural thing to them directly.

"Well... okay, I'll try my best."

After hesitating for a long time, I could only agree: "But let me make it clear first, I have been laughing all the way since I was a child. At most, I can tell you my opinion. I may not be able to help you with anything like female psychology."

"It's okay, it's okay. No'er, it's enough that you are willing to speak your mind. Now we brothers are worried about Marisa's lifelong event."

Pipi changed his tone and said, "So, brother, this is why you are talking to me this time?"

"almost."

Jiang Wei looked a little excited: "I'll play a game to relax. The girl and I agreed to go to the movies tonight. I guess we can't play at night, so I wanted to come here at noon to see if you guys are free. I'm still 40 points away from qualifying."

"I'm free until 2pm, and my daughter has to go to a preschool interest class at 2:30pm."

"Sign up for another interest class?"

"Haha, swimming interest class, early childhood education, my wife signed up for it."

"Then there's nothing we can do. Where are Nuo'er and Brother Ji?"

Su Yunjin said calmly, "I can do anything. I don't have work today, and I have enough manuscripts saved."

"I……"

I thought about it and said, "I won't play yet. I just made lunch. I may have to go to the coffee shop you mentioned in the afternoon."

"Noer, have you really decided?"

Pipi seemed to laugh, "Is the light novel author going to switch careers and become a maid?"

"I didn't change my career, so I just wanted to go and take a look."

I quickly explained, "Minaminagi District is only 8 minutes away from here. From what they advertise, it says eight hours a day and eight days off a month, which seems pretty good, but they don't say how much the salary is."

To be honest, in this age where "two days off on weekends" and "8 to " can be written as "benefits" in job advertisements, jobs with eight days off a month can really be said to be "extinct."

Having lived in Kamihama City for so many years, I know clearly what the working conditions of office workers here are like - in this city and even in the whole country, most jobs have one day off a week. The slightly better ones are "odd-weekend and odd-weekend", that is, one day off in the first week, two days off in the second week, and then another day off in the third week. In total, you can have a maximum of six days off a month.

It can be said that as long as a company includes "odd-day and odd-day off" in its "corporate benefits", it will basically not have to worry about not being able to recruit people, let alone "two-day and odd-day off".

If I remember correctly, before I met that unscrupulous Grim Reaper, I looked for jobs on various recruitment websites. As long as I checked the condition of "two days off on weekends", the pop-up lists were either large factories or scam companies.

It is easy to understand why large factories have two days off a week. The base salary is based on the current minimum wage standard required by the law, for example 1800 yuan a month. If you only work eight hours a day in the factory and have two days off on weekends, your salary will only be 1800 yuan. You can get several times the salary for overtime. Your roommate who works from morning to night and continues to work overtime on Saturdays and Sundays may make 5000 yuan a month, while you only make 1800 yuan for eight hours a day and two days off.

The most outrageous thing is that the leaders in the factory will from time to time be sarcastic to those "useless people" who only get 1800 yuan a month without working overtime. Today they will scold you for entering the factory with your left foot, tomorrow they will deliberately increase the difficulty of your assembly line, the day after tomorrow they will deduct yuan from your salary because you go to the toilet for more than a minute, and then they will praise your roommates and co-workers who work overtime and do not take holidays in front of you, force you to "voluntarily" work overtime, and give you chicken soup for the soul.

As for scam companies, most of them are the kind of shell companies that pretend to ask you to go for an interview, and then say that you are qualified to start work on the same day. They will definitely find an excuse the next day saying that you are not capable enough and need training. The training fee is 20,000 to 50,000 yuan. But don't be nervous, you don't have to pay these tens of thousands of yuan. Our company will arrange a job for you after the training, and we will deduct the money from your daily salary. After the training, you will be a talent in society and be in high demand. Your salary will be 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, so it's okay to deduct 1,000 or 2,000 yuan every month, right?

In fact, these training companies deceive you into signing a contract, taking out a loan and getting the money. After the training is over, they don’t care where you work or how much you get paid. They just submit your resume to various recruitment websites and that’s it - there will definitely be no problem with our training, and if you can’t find a high-paying job it’s just because you’re not working hard, and don’t ask me if you don’t have enough money, because you have to pay it back every month anyway.

It is already so rare to have a job with one day off and two days off, let alone a "welfare system" with two days off and eight hours off a day?

So I really want to go to the place marked on the flyer to see what kind of routine this coffee shop has. They actually dare to publicly announce in this environment that their working hours are eight hours a day with two days off.

"If I remember correctly, their base salary should be more than 3,000, plus commission from the coffee shop's performance that month."

Pipi in the voice chat asked curiously: "Is that so, Brother Ji? Aren't you still in Shenbin and haven't come back yet?"

"Yeah, I'm still hanging out with my friends here in Kamihama."

Su Yunjin said, "If Nuoer really wants to go, I can go with you this afternoon. Three thousand yuan is the base salary for a deliveryman in a coffee shop, not a waiter. I remember the waiter's salary is higher."

"Do you have the 4,000 yuan? I think a cute little girl like Nuo'er is worth 10,000 yuan a month."

"When Nuo'er gets there, give me a call. Maid waiters are paid quite well."

"I have a question."

Jiang Wei said, "Brother Ji, I looked at the map of Shenbin City and the address of the coffee shop. I feel that the location is not very good. There are almost no residential and commercial areas around it. It is like a paradise resort. I guess there will be few people after the publicity. Are you sure it is invested by Tongmeng.com? It will not go bankrupt in the future?"

"Uh……"

Su Yunjin hesitated for a long time. "Let me tell you this. Nannagi District had a 580 billion project some time ago, which attracted many businessmen. It is located a few kilometers east of the coffee shop. This project mainly wants to build a multi-functional super-large commercial street by taking advantage of the convenience of Nannagi Port's shipping. The higher-ups attach great importance to this project. It is estimated that it will be open to bidding in less than half a month. By then, all the shops and houses near that area will definitely be... ahem, you know what I mean?"

"I see. A 580 billion project. Holy shit..."

Jiang Wei, who understood first, asked in surprise, "Brother Ji, is it really okay for you to say these things here?"

"We've been friends for many years, just don't make too much noise."

Pipi laughed and said, "Haha, the big move that Brother Ji is talking about is a business activity worth billions. Obviously, Brother Marisa and I don't have that kind of capital."

"So if Noel is interested in that coffee shop, call me when you get there this afternoon."

"Ok."

I felt a little complicated: "Well, my phone was soaked in water this morning. If it can't be repaired, I may need to change my phone. Can you put your phone number in the group and I will record it later."

"it is good."

"Row."

"no problem."

As soon as I finished speaking, three mobile phone numbers appeared on the screen.

Just at this moment, the rice cooker in the living room kitchen made a "ding" sound - the eight-treasure porridge I made was cooked.

"Thank you."

I quickly said to the headset: "My porridge is ready, I'll go take care of it first."

"It's okay, go ahead."

"Speaking of which, uncle... ahem, when Nuo'er was playing games with us before, didn't she say that she would just lie down and live a lazy life? Why is she suddenly so active in looking for a job? Could it be that... she's in a relationship too?"

"what?"

I was about to put down my headphones when I heard this, but I quickly explained, "Who am I dating? I don't even have a girlfriend."

"Sure enough, I knew Nuo'er was a lesbian, haha!"

Jiang Wei seemed very happy: "When we first met, I understood the look in her eyes when she looked at me and Su Yunjin. It was very pure. She really just treated us as brothers. I was wondering if Nuo'er was only interested in girls."

"Come on, have you gone crazy with your novels? Can you tell so much from just one look?"

Pipi immediately retorted, "In my opinion, Nuo'er probably also remembered her first love. When she saw you being confessed to by a girl, she thought of the time she had wasted before and vowed not to be decadent anymore. She plans to make money and work hard to live."

"What a mess you are talking about!"

I was neither happy nor angry at these bad friends: "Didn't you bring me the flyer yesterday? I was just interested in the advertisement and wanted to go check it out. Why are you making such a fuss?"

"No, my intuition tells me that Noelle must have encountered something similar to Marisa. I can tell from her tone that she must be worried."

"Go! Go! Go!"

I laughed and scolded, "I won't argue with you anymore. I'm going to hang up now."

"go Go."

"Oh, Nuo'er isn't a child anymore. If I remember correctly, even if two girls are together, there are still tops and bottoms, right? Nuo'er's personality makes it so that..."

I couldn't hear the rest of the conversation because I had already clicked "Exit Voice Chat".

What a mess!

These bad friends never pass by...

Jumping down from the computer chair, I returned to the kitchen, checked the status of the rice cooker, and opened the lid after confirming that there was no problem.

Suddenly, the smell of "Eight Treasure Porridge" with whole grains mixed with brown sugar hit me.

I don't know if the porridge stored in the snack box here really contains the "Eight Treasures", but at least you can see that there are red beans, longans, lotus seeds and so on in it, and it tastes very good when cooked. Usually at noon, if I'm lazy or the weather outside is bad and I don't want to go out, I will cook a pot and eat it at noon, and put the rest in the refrigerator to freeze, and have it as a midnight snack when I'm hungry after dinner.

At times like now... it's storming outside and I'm just soaked by the rain, there's nothing more comfortable than eating a bowl of warm, slightly sweet eight-treasure porridge.

"..."

One person put on heat-insulating gloves, poured the porridge in the pot into a large bowl, and used a spoon to divide some of it into small bowls. I happily carried the hot eight-treasure porridge back to the living room cushion, sat down in a duck-like posture, propped up the four-story dining table, and prepared to enjoy lunch.

Just as I picked up the spoon, a black space crack appeared in the open space in front of the cushion.

A girl wearing a brand new "uniform" and with a Band-Aid on her face came out from the crack.