I will never give in to Miss Death

The uncle's shout immediately caused disgust among the passers-by around him.

People looked at him with disgust, and many who were close to him took several steps back, looking at the middle-aged man who was breaking down and crying on the ground as if he were a plague god.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but a barber shop not far away was playing Zhang Wei’s song “Machine Bell Chopping Knife” at that moment——

"How many people live under the pressure of others for the sake of dignity..."

"How many people live under the pressure just to support his family..."

"How many people travel around the world for their families, and how many people wander around missing their friends and parents day and night..."

"..."

After hesitating for a few seconds, I transferred everything in my right hand to my left hand, slowly squatted down, picked up the coins on the ground one by one, put them back into the discarded wallet, walked to the uncle, and handed him the wallet.

"Uh……"

The dirty uncle on the ground was stunned when he saw my little hand, then he raised his head and met my gaze. He was stunned for a long time before he smiled bitterly. He didn't take the wallet and turned his face away: "Little sister, don't worry about me, go home..."

Home? I don’t have a home.

I have been alone since I was young. Although I had a good relationship with the boys in the same dormitory during high school and college, we were not to the level of "good brothers" with whom I could confide in each other. After graduation, I rented a house. Every day, apart from going to work, I would write, play games, and watch anime in the rental house. I have long been accustomed to this kind of life.

I didn't say anything, stuffed my wallet back into the uncle's shirt pocket, turned around and walked towards the marshmallow cart at the entrance of the vegetable market.

"I want a pink one."

I took out my phone, scanned the code and paid four yuan. I showed the phone screen to the person making marshmallows.

"okay!"

The Marshmallow uncle glanced at the man in a suit standing on the ground not far away, and asked curiously: "Do you know each other?"

"do not know."

I smiled: "Stranger."

"I saw him not long after you entered the vegetable market. He received two phone calls. The first one seemed to be from his boss or someone else. I heard him begging me not to cancel my account. He hung up after a while. The second one seemed to be from his wife. They talked about some trivial matters in life. After that, he sat down as if he was stimulated by something."

The marshmallow uncle stepped on the pedal and made the machine turn "buzz buzz buzz" while pouring sugar and pigment into the small hole next to it. Soon a large amount of sugar threads sprayed out from the middle of the machine.

"Little sister, if you are alone, you'd better not talk to a strange uncle. Where are your parents?"

Using a bamboo stick to continuously rotate in the middle of the machine, it only took less than a minute to make this pink marshmallow. He also poured some sugar of another color as a pattern to make it look like a small flower. The uncle handed me this big piece of marshmallow.

"Thank you."

I didn't answer his question "Where are your parents?". I took the beautiful marshmallow, went back to the man in the suit, squatted down, and handed him the fragrant big flower cloud in my hand.

"Here."

Facing the puzzled look of the man in the suit, I tilted my head and smiled what I thought was a cute smile: "Although I don't know what you've been through, but even if life is bitter...we can at least make ourselves sweet like this."

The uncle took the marshmallow in confusion.

"Come on."

I stood up, waved to the uncle one last time, and turned to leave.

"..."

Well, no one wants this kind of thing.

Although I am usually a cheerful and heartless person, I have been scolded by an unreasonable boss and had to hide in the bathroom to wipe my tears. I have also thought about ending it all several times. However, after crying in the bathroom, I would still choose to go back to work. After venting my anger in front of the empty house, I would quickly adjust my mentality and smile - isn't the world like this?

It’s a cruel world, a beautiful world, it’s always been this way.

“I always feel like I’ve been cheated.”

On the way back, the image of the uncle's incredible expression when he took the marshmallow was still replaying in my mind.

Is it possible that the guy was hired by Uncle Marshmallow?

Not quite.

Is it possible that the man on the motorcycle and the man in the suit are in the same group?

"..."

That's four bucks! I must have been crazy to choose to help a stranger.

Maybe that person will even dislike it. An ordinary man would definitely not like such a sweet and sticky thing, so it’s better for him to eat it himself.

Wow, I am really overly sentimental. I must have become sentimental after becoming a girl. You have to take the blame for this certain god of death.

Walking in the quiet alley, bathing in the summer breeze blowing around me, I thought bitterly in my heart.

But from another perspective, can we also think that I gave the marshmallow to the uncle and didn't eat it myself, thus losing a lot of calories?

If you don’t eat it, it’s the same as not adding anything, and not adding anything is subtracting something.

Well, after calculating this way, I can’t say that I gained nothing at all.

With a messy mood, I returned to the apartment, climbed to the third floor, wiped the sweat from my forehead, and entered the password into the electronic door lock in front of me.

"call……"

I went to the kitchen, poured the fish out and put it in a small bowl. I unscrewed the lid of the cooking wine and poured a little in to remove the fishy smell. I also took out a few slices of ginger, flattened them with a kitchen knife, and put them together with the fish.

Normally I seldom cook fish, because this ingredient is very difficult to handle and it has bones when you eat it, but to be honest, fish is the healthiest of all meats. I just became a girl not long ago, and I don’t know what kind of food my stomach can adapt to, but no matter what, fish is definitely easier to digest than pork, beef and the like.

It's 4:50 in the afternoon. I'm not very hungry yet. I'll make dinner later.

I put the melon seedlings in the fruit basket and watered them, and put the corn and sweet potatoes in another box for safekeeping. I looked at the time on my mobile phone, thought about it, and turned around to go out.

Next comes the final stage of preparation for a new life - purchasing basic daily necessities.

If I really have to live with my current body in the future... one piece of girl's clothing is far from enough.

Even if shoes can be worn for ten days or half a month without washing, underwear and other things should be worn in at least two sets. After washing clothes, it takes at least half a day to dry them on the balcony even in this hot summer. I can't rely on a small heater to dry them quickly every time I wash clothes...

When I thought of the small stove, I recalled the fear I once felt when I was dominated by the cold winter.

Kamihama City is a southern city where the lowest temperature in winter can reach minus four or five degrees Celsius. It is located at a latitude and longitude where there is no heating, but ordinary people have to find ways to keep warm.

Moreover, the cold here is damp and very uncomfortable. For freelancers like novelists who work in front of computers, wearing thick clothes or wrapping themselves in quilts is useless. The only thing they can do is set up a small heater or turn on the air conditioner nearby.

However, this will cause a surge in electricity consumption that month.

The same is true in the hot summer. If you turn on the air conditioner all day, use the induction cooker to cook at noon and at night, turn on the range hood for ventilation, and then turn on the computer for six or seven hours, the electricity bill will directly approach the 30-degree mark.

What does 30 kWh of electricity a day mean? The electricity charges in residential areas and most residential buildings in ordinary areas are between 0.3 yuan and 0.5 yuan per kWh, while most rental apartments are commercial electricity, with a charge of 1.5 yuan per kWh.

Once you turn on the air conditioner in the hot summer or the cold winter, the electricity bill will soar to 20 or 30 degrees. Your electricity bill will be 40 yuan or more a day, which is 1200 yuan a month, which is more expensive than rent.

It’s still bearable in the summer, at worst you can just take off all your clothes, but in the winter it’s really unbearable, so you can only buy a small heater, turn it on when you don’t feel cold anymore, and then turn it on for a while again when you really can’t stand it anymore.

I don’t know how other people get by. I have never had the concept of “parents” since I was old enough to understand. After I came out of the welfare home, I finished college with loans and part-time jobs. I had no background and no savings, and I had been thrifty all the time to survive.

Well... don't think about those sad things. My main problem now is to solve the problem of food and accommodation for the next few days and adapt to the life of a girl.

Stay calm, try to live your life as usual as possible, wait three days for the death girl who turned you into this to appear, and then deal with her moves accordingly.

“When can I get my deposit back?”

"Three working days, but today is Thursday, so one day today, one day tomorrow, and a weekend off. I'll definitely be able to get it refunded by Monday at the latest."

I walked out of the house and went down the stairs to the lobby on the first floor. I saw a pile of things that had been piled up here at some point. They seemed to be daily necessities that the tenants upstairs had moved out of and didn't want anymore, including tool boxes, floor-length mirrors, small desks, small table lamps and so on.

"Okay then, tell the group about these things and see if anyone wants them. If no one wants them, your housing manager can handle them yourself."

At this time, a female tenant in her twenties carrying a schoolbag and a suitcase was chatting with the property manager in the middle of the hall. When she saw me, she was stunned at first, then asked curiously: "Huh? I haven't seen you before. Are you here to live with your relatives? How come... Wow, you're so beautiful! Your skin is so good!"

"Um……"

I was a little afraid to look at them: "Come and stay with brother...brother for two days."

"You are the sister of the one in 301, right? He just told me on WeChat that a sister is coming to live with us. I didn't expect she is so young."

The house manager didn't really doubt me. He pointed to the various daily necessities and furniture in the corner:

"Room 602 has checked out. We don't need these anymore. Ask your brother to come down and see if there's anything you need. If there is, you can just bring it up. It's free."

No. 012 Command-Electric Wave!

In a place like an apartment, staff changes are very frequent.

The minimum lease term required when signing a contract here is three months, but tenants are allowed to sublet the house themselves. As long as you inform the property manager, they won't mind you becoming a third or fourth landlord.

Even if you don't know how to find a tenant yourself, the property manager will act as an agent to help you find a tenant, but they will take a 30% commission.

That is to say, if you ask the property management to help you find a new tenant in this way, the tenant will directly transfer the money to the property management. The original price of the house is 850 yuan per person. After the property management gets the money, it will take 250 yuan for itself, and then transfer the rest to you. You can pay 850 yuan yourself and use the APP to pay this month's rent.

It is a small loss, but after all, a contract has been signed, and the deposit will not be refunded if you move out during the contract period. You can either not pay the deposit or pay a few hundred yuan per month to stop the loss, or find the next tenant and negotiate the price yourself. If you are good at speaking, you may even make a few hundred yuan.

I remember that there was a talented person who rented out his house, which was originally priced at 850 yuan a month, to a cheater for 1000 yuan a month. This tenant was from another place and was careless. He didn't know the approximate price of houses in the nearby area, and he didn't even know that there was a WeChat group for tenants in the apartment and a special APP for paying rent, water, and electricity. He lived there for several months without knowing what was going on, and when he was leaving, he said to the "landlord" who had cheated him of his money -

"thank you!"

Therefore, what those authors in the "Yaedo Author Rights Protection Group" said before was correct. Kamihama is a very large city and many places have special rules. If there is no local to guide you, it is easy to be taken advantage of by the messy rules here.

"Ah... that's... my brother..."

In the quiet lobby on the first floor of the apartment, facing the concern of the housing manager, I tried to speak in a calm tone: "My brother played games all night yesterday and just fell asleep at noon."

There is no brother here. The person standing in front of you is the uncle you used to have, but his soul is imprisoned in the body of a little girl.

"Haha, young man, that's normal."

After listening to me, the housing manager showed an "I understand" expression, and did not inquire whether this "sister" of mine was a biological sister or a distant cousin. He did not even care why a little kid like me was running around here on Thursday without going to class. He said to the little sister next to him: "If there is nothing else, I will go over first."

"Okay, I'll be leaving too once my boyfriend comes down."

The young lady waved to the property manager and said, "When my child is born, remember to give me a red envelope?"

The housing manager said cheerfully, "Haha, sure, sure. Is one dollar enough?"

"Go away, one dollar is too stingy, right? Five dollars at least?"

"..."

I have an impression of the young lady in Room 602. If I remember correctly, she has a boyfriend who wears glasses. I don't know what jobs they both do. They often come back very late and rest during the day. She also has an American shorthair cat and often posts photos of the cat in the tenant group.

"Have you finished moving everything?"

As I was talking, the girl's boyfriend came down from upstairs holding the cat. When he saw me, the boy with glasses was a little surprised: "Who is she?"

"The housing manager said it was 301's sister who came to stay for a few days."

The young lady smiled and said, "Isn't she cute? This is the first time I've seen such a beautiful girl with fair and tender skin. I'm so envious."

"It's really cute."

The boy with glasses was still as gentle as I remembered. He was carrying luggage in both hands and had a cat sling tied around his chest. The American shorthair cat on the sling looked desperate.

"Let's go."

Probably because it was getting late, the young man gestured outside the community gate: "Why don't we wait until the peak hour when there will be more people."

"Ah."

The little sister leaned over to the young man's chest, rubbed the cat's head that was pinned there, and waved to me: "Goodbye, little sister."

"Goodbye."

"These are all things we don't want. Just look around and see if you can use them. If you can't move them, ask your brother to come down."

"it is good."

"..."

It was not until I watched the family walk out of the hall and away that I shifted my attention to the various daily necessities piled in the corner nearby.

Another advantage of living in an apartment is that...if you want, most daily necessities can actually be bought for free.

You can move in with your luggage, and the rest is all free. After a few months, you can basically stay there until graduation.

You can just say something in the tenant chat group, become familiar with them, or establish a good relationship with the property management, and when these tenants move out, you can inherit a lot of "inheritance".

Apart from other things, most tenants will not choose to take away things like pots and pans, clothes drying racks, brooms and mops, desks, stools and floor mirrors when they check out.

If some tenants have more time, they may symbolically take photos and post them in the group to sell them at a discount. For example, an electric rice cooker is 20 yuan, an induction cooker is 30 yuan and comes with a stainless steel basin. In any case, it is cheaper than selling outside.

The couple in 602 should be planning to quit the rental and return to their hometown to get married because the girl has a baby. I remember they talked about this in the group.