What does it have to do with me if they hate vests?

Was it because the maid cafe's attributes were too prominent and it was complained about and needed to be rectified? Shiki also subconsciously thought of this possibility.

Although Wagunaria can be said to be the most complete of all the maid cafes that Shiki knows, the employee uniforms are quite conservative, and it does not provide the common feeding and photo-taking services in other maid restaurants. The only thing is that the food is very rich, which can easily beat those maid cafes that still use pre-made bags to make food. To be honest, this situation once made people confused about whether Wagunaria was a cafe or a family restaurant.

However, considering that even The Legend of the Rainbow ○ Blue △ Seven and □ Sheep and Sheep are likely to be complained by parents, it seems understandable that Wagunaria, as a maid cafe in name only, would be complained about.

"Don't be afraid, those guys who complained are all paper tigers. If you don't want to make changes, I can speak up for you!" Yamada Fairy took out his mobile phone with a common hatred: "My Twitter account has more than 300,000 followers... Hey, why is it going viral again?" As a result, the girl just logged into her account, but found that it was a mess and it was going viral again for some inexplicable reason, so she started to operate in a panic.

"No, it's not what you think. It's not something worth talking about."

Todoroki Yachiyo whispered.

She sighed and felt that at this point it would be better to tell the whole story instead of letting Si Ji make wild guesses and spread strange rumors.

After listening to the other party's story, Si Ji showed an inexplicable expression.

"Okay, that's roughly what happened. Don't worry, Wagunaria won't disappear... In fact, as long as the store manager and Miss Anzi don't leave, I will become a ghost here!"

"As an obsession, this is too scary!"

Si Ji complained: "It will scare away all the guests."

"Okay, that's what happened anyway, so stop guessing. If you guys want to eat here, how about I call Yukino over? She'll probably be a little happier seeing you."

"There's nothing wrong with me."

Yamada Aoi had sat down opposite Shiki without her knowing: "Hey, can I have a sundae?"

"Master Ya, it's okay to play around normally, but you can't be so rude in front of guests, okay?" Yachiyo picked up the other person like a chicken.

The latter shrank her neck pitifully and looked at Shiki and Yamada Fairy for help, but the latter two ignored her.

Shiki knew that this guy liked to take advantage of others, and although Yamada Fairy acted so well-behaved and cute in front of Shiki, she was actually a spoiled and willful person by nature. She had long been dissatisfied with the other party for speaking so loudly and saying weird things to Shiki.

"Hurry up and apologize to the guest." Yachiyo continued.

"No need to apologize, just sing a song for me later."

Shiki had no intention of torturing each other with Yamada Aoi. After all, today she was on a date with the fairy and didn't have much time to flirt with each other.

"Oh, that's no problem. I'm really good at singing!"

Yamada Aoi immediately started to show off.

As a result, he was naturally taken away by Yachiyo Hong.

After a while, Yukinoshita Yukino came over and saw the two people in the booth. She couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise: "Shiki-kun... when did you come?"

It seems that Yachiyo just asked her to come here and did not tell her that Shiki and the others were coming.

"Just now," Si Ji looked at the girl's indifferent expression and said, "I have heard about this from Foreman Hong. What do you think?"

The girl bit her cherry lips lightly with her pearly teeth, looking a little dazed.

It is worth mentioning that although in her opinion, this was definitely Qiu Ling Wenping's suppression of herself for the sake of the bet, but in fact Si Ji didn't know about this - Maple Leaf Investment was just a casual move made by him after he broke up and reorganized some useless assets after swallowing up the Shigong family before. It was not in his plan itself, and it can only be said that everything was a coincidence.

Chapter 374 Let’s Buy the Land First

When Maple Leaf Technology has grown to its current size, it is impossible for Siji to continue to do everything himself as usual.

Confiscating property and exterminating a clan is one of the fastest ways to make money. Even if you look throughout Japan, there are only a few people whose property is as rich as the Shinomiya family. This shows that even if the Shiki did not take this matter seriously before, when the Shinomiya family was destroyed in the end, they still made a huge and astonishing amount of cash from this matter.

With inflation so rapid at the moment, it is impossible to just let so much money lie in the bank and rot. Otherwise, when Si Ji thinks about it one day, who knows how much value will be left.

The best option is to have liquid funds that can make money.

In addition, he was planning to take a good rest this year, so he chose to do many things in the most labor-saving way.

Temporarily formed venture capital companies are one of them.

However, there is a lot of room for manipulation in this matter, and no one knows whether the people in charge will behave irrationally for their own selfish reasons. After all, with just a little trick, billions of dollars can be deposited into private accounts in the name of losses. I am afraid that not many people can resist such temptation.

——A certain person from the Mi Game Workshop who wishes to remain anonymous and became rich from a hit mobile game, found an unreliable investment company because they had no experience in this area. In the end, the company went bankrupt and became a big loser of hundreds of millions of dollars (in fact, the total loss was 1.5 billion, but Mi was not a full investor, so he probably only lost part of it. But considering the lack of progress in brain-computer interfaces and nuclear fusion, it is estimated that the money they lost in this regard is even greater).

The few confidants that Si Ji could trust were all in charge of the head office in Europe and had no time to come to the Japanese branch to deal with such trivial matters. He was also not interested in finding someone specifically for such matters, so he simply set rules for the temporarily established venture capital company.

Considering that all small workshops that seek angel investors with patents are likely to transfer their patents to other companies, Four Seasons directly denied its venture capital company the right to invest in those small workshops that may be the "future trend" and "high-tech".

After all, can you surpass Maple Leaf Technology, which is the answer to the version, no matter how popular you are?

Compared to the painstaking search of wind vents that can make pigs take off, Siji can already create their own wind vents, so why would they need a bicycle...

Someone might ask: You don’t allow investment in this, you don’t allow investment in that, is your venture capital company just for show?

Maple Leaf Investments is certainly more than just good looking, in fact Four Seasons only allows one investment, and that is real estate.

Before the bubble economy burst, Japan's real estate was booming, and land in the inner circle of Tokyo was extremely expensive. At that time, some Japanese even boasted that "the land price of one street in Ginza could directly buy the entire United States!"

When the Americans heard this, they were immediately happy: Our dog has become fat!

Then they used the Plaza Accord to slaughter the barking dog and eat its meat.

As a result, Japan's bubble economy burst and it has been in a slump for decades, and even now it is still listless and lacks energy.

However, compared to those other inexplicable things, it is obvious that tangible things like land are more valuable, not to mention that land in Japan can be privately owned, and as long as you can pay the taxes, you can hold it in your hands forever - Mount Fuji is still the private property of the Sengen Shrine.

In addition, large-scale investment in real estate will give people the illusion that they will increase investment in this land and carry out deeper cooperation with the local area.

In this way, other people would not think that Maple Leaf Technology might run away from Japan just because Qiu Lingwenping has not appeared for a long time.

As for building a shopping mall or something like that, it is purely one of the few land-derived usage options provided by Four Seasons after investing in the land.

After all, it is impossible to buy the land and let it remain barren forever. Let alone the fact that it was originally a rural area, it would be too conspicuous if a few pieces of land were bald in Tokyo, which is full of skyscrapers.

However, the fact that this would affect Wagunaria (although it was not a bad thing) was still something that Shiki had not expected.

However, Four Seasons does not intend to stop its investment in the company.

Rather, even if this had not happened, he would have deliberately set up some similar tests for Yukinoshita Yukino before the end of this school year - otherwise this girl would have won the bet too easily.

"It's just a little accident, nothing special."

After a moment's silence, Yukinoshita Yukino answered as if nothing had happened.

However, this deliberate act of nonchalance was meaningless to Si Ji, who spent a long time with her.

Even without using the cold reading method, Si Ji could roughly guess that she probably felt that she was being targeted by Maple Leaf Technology or "Qiu Ling Wenping".

"It's just a matter of changing the place where I work. I've been prepared for it for a long time." The girl continued.

Having said that, it is not easy to find a good working environment like Wagunaria.

Many job opportunities don’t even support weekly wages. You have to work for a full month. The hourly wage for daily wages is also very low, and the work is often time-consuming and laborious.

"Hum," the fairy Yamada put down her fork and wiped the corner of her mouth with a napkin. There was a small corner missing from the small cake in front of her. It was obvious that she had just tasted the cake, but judging from her expression, it didn't seem to suit her taste. "It's really just a small matter. Since Xiaoxue has nowhere to go, why don't you just be my assistant?"

"Assistant?" Yukinoshita Yukino showed a puzzled look: "But doesn't Miss Yamada write light novels? She doesn't draw comics, so would she need an assistant?"

"That's a personal assistant, that's pretty much it! The salary will be based on the price of a normal assistant." Yamada Fairy continued, with a look that said, 'I'm very willful, you have to be prepared.'

Yukinoshita Yukino immediately realized that the other party was just taking care of her, so she gently shook her head and refused: "Thank you, but it's not necessary."

"Huh? At this time, you still can't let go of your self-esteem?" Yamada Fairy said dissatisfiedly.

"not like this……"

Although there was indeed a problem of self-esteem in not accepting charity, the main reason why Yukino rejected Yamada Fairy was that she was afraid that doing so would bring a bad influence to Yamada Fairy.

In her opinion, since Qiu Ling Wenping had started to bully her, if the fairy was kind enough to take her in, she would definitely be implicated as well, and she might even lose her job as a light novel writer.

If something like that really happened, the girl felt that she would definitely feel extremely guilty.

So instead of letting Yamada Fairy suffer for his kindness, it would be better to refuse from the beginning.

Chapter 375: Ways to Break the Stalemate

The Yamada fairy supported her cheek and looked at Yukinoshita Yukino for a moment with a sharp look that was rarely seen in her eyes, as if she wanted to see what she was thinking.

But Yukinoshita Yukino still had a cold face as always, not revealing the slightest bit of inner hesitation.

After a while, the Yamada Fairy put down his hand with a dull look, turned his attention to the sundae in front of him, and said, "Whatever you want."

Yukinoshita Yukino had a complicated expression and stammered her cherry lips, as if she wanted to say something, perhaps to apologize for failing to live up to her kindness, but the girl who was used to being lonely and withdrawn ended up not being able to say anything.

Seeing that the tenants of Washimiya Dormitory were about to leave in a bad mood, they might feel awkward when they meet in the dormitory in the future, and the relaxed atmosphere of the past would no longer exist. Shiki could not help but rub his chin and think for a moment.

Washimiya-ryo, which has its own healing ability, is an important place for him to relax.

Although I wanted to adjust... ahem, educate Yukinoshita Yukino, but if it made me uncomfortable in one of the few places where I could relax, then that would obviously be putting the cart before the horse.

"Although the minister is a man of high character and would not accept charity, the current economic downturn means it may not be easy to find a part-time job that pays by the day that suits your taste."

So Si Ji said with a warm face.

"As long as you work hard, you can overcome any difficulties."

Yukinoshita Yukino answered seriously.

"Do you really think so?" Si Ji, who had originally intended to offer some advice indirectly, couldn't help but ask back after hearing her say that.

Yukino was about to nod, but as if she had thought of something, her face and neck became stiff, and in the end she was unable to give a definite answer.

After all, there had been a person named 'Qiu Ling Wenping' before her, a difficulty that she could not overcome no matter what... No, rather than calling that guy a difficulty, it might be more accurate to regard him as a natural disaster in a society built on money and power.

It's like humans who claim to be the masters of the earth are still unable to fight against natural disasters. At most, they can only provide rescue and reconstruction after the disaster. However, judging from the speed of post-disaster reconstruction, the Yukinoshita family, which has not made any significant progress for so long, can be called the orthodox Japanese under the snow...

“In fact, reliable part-time jobs are not as easy to get as the minister thinks.”

Shiki cleared his throat and brought the girl's attention back to the original topic. "From finding suitable job advertisements in various newspapers and magazines to searching for jobs that recruit students to do part-time jobs on the notice boards of various shopping streets, the time cost of these things alone is quite large... Even if we look at the optimistic situation, it is not impossible to spend one to two weeks to find them."

"And to be honest, jobs that are paid daily are not suitable for a minister. After all, the minister's physical fitness..." Si Ji raised his eyebrows.

As mentioned before, jobs that pay on a daily basis almost never require a work contract, as they are either dirty, messy or tiring jobs like plastering, or jobs that are difficult for normal people to accept.

Obviously, neither of these two categories is suitable for Yukinoshita Yukino. The girl cannot do the former, and the girl does not know how to do the latter.

"Then we can only lower the demand and change daily pay to weekly pay. In this way, some jobs such as convenience store waiters can be done."

Si Ji counted on his fingers and said, "But because the salary is paid weekly, let's not talk about the complicated and tiring work. If this job is not reliable at all, it will take a week to confirm. In that case, if you want to change jobs, you have to repeat the whole process... This will take more than a month, and the income during this period, if I may be frank, it will probably be quite bleak."

After listening to his analysis, Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't help but bite her lower lip with an unpleasant look on her face.

Having had previous job-hunting experience, she knew very well that what Si Ji said was not an exaggeration, and could even be considered quite mild.

But even so, she found it hard to accept, because the bet between her and Qiu Ling Wenping was exactly one month. If this month was really as bleak as Si Ji predicted, and she couldn't even earn enough to live on, then it would undoubtedly be her defeat. Granted, she could only eat one meal a day with the extra-standard dinners at Jiugong Lodge, and maybe she could get through a month, but if she won the bet in this way, let alone whether Qiu Ling Wenping would accept it, she herself couldn't stand the fact of becoming a parasite.

But even in such despair, she would not choose to bring disaster to the Yamada Fairy.

Anyway, the worst case scenario is that she loses and continues to be Qiu Ling Wenping's plaything. She had already realized this when she stood up for the family.

Rather, being able to live a peaceful daily life like now has given Yukinoshita Yukino a feeling of "having gained something".

“… Even so, I will not give up.” The light of hope in the girl’s eyes did not disappear. At this moment, she was mentally prepared to risk her life in this last month.

No matter how difficult the work was, no matter how low the pay was, as long as she could overcome the test, she would do it.

This is her struggle to survive!

"Actually, there's no need to be so excited..."

Si Ji looked at the girl's face which was full of determination, as if she was ready to die at any time, and couldn't help feeling ashamed.

Could it be that Qiu Lingwenping's vest really puts her under such great pressure? Obviously, I feel fine here. Apart from a few sweet words, I haven't really humiliated her. If I really want to do something, I haven't put on any whips, wooden horses, candles, or computer accessories yet...

"Although it wasn't my intention, but you know I'm doing pretty well in the student union, right?"

"Does Washimiya-san plan to quit the club and join the student union?" Yukinoshita Yukino asked, looking up, obviously not quite sure why Shiki mentioned the student union at this time.

"If it's any personal secret, I apologize first, but since I'm doing well in the student union, I've seen it... The minister was recommended by Maple Leaf Technology for admission, right?" Si Ji lied seriously.

"..." Yukino had no expression on her face.

"It just so happens that Maple Leaf Technology is recruiting players to participate in the closed beta test of the stealth game "Blade Online"... Ordinary people definitely can't get a closed beta test account, but if the director has connections there, maybe he can get one. At that time, whether it's earning gold in the game, krypton gold mother... player trading, or writing guides outside and submitting them to game media, you can make a considerable amount of money, right?"

Shiki continued speaking seriously.

Upon hearing this, Yukinoshita Yukino fell into deep thought.

According to Qiu Lingwenping's bad taste, if he applies for the closed beta qualification himself, he might actually get it.

It seems...it's not impossible?

Chapter 376: Many Thoughts