At the end of this life, the year after Luo Yushu died, Ji Huai also passed away in the hospital.
With a flash of white light, he returned to the system again. The dust-laden memories were temporarily released, and he recalled the life after life he had experienced.
The task progress bar displayed by the system shows that he has completed more than half of it. What will be the next life? He didn't ask any questions and just let the system send him to the next world.
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"Click" the key was inserted into the iron door, and there was a sharp and harsh sound.
Ji Huai was woken up and frowned. Another fragrance came from his nostrils, a familiar and nostalgic smell. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Cheng Yunyu standing in front of him. She was wearing a waiter's uniform. The red clothes made her complexion fairer. She also carried two snacks in her hand. After placing them on the table, she asked him: "What are you doing today?" Did you sleep all day?"
"Well." He stood up, put the quilt aside, stretched out his hand and scratched his head, "Are you off work?"
"Yes." Cheng Yunyu nodded, "I bought you some food."
"What did you buy?" Ji Huai touched his stomach and was already very hungry. He hadn't washed up after sleeping all day, so he went to the bathroom and started brushing his teeth and washing his face.
He is twenty years old this year, Cheng Yunyu is nineteen years old, and their families are not very good. His father ran away because of a loan shark due to gambling, and his mother remarried and became a stepmother. She disliked him as a burden, so she left him with the Ji family. His cousins were all more promising than him and could pass into high school.
As for him, he was a little gangster who recognized many sisters in school and had crazy-looking hair. When he was in the third year of junior high school, the Vocational and Technical College came to recruit students. The class teacher sincerely suggested that he learn a trade. He didn't want to study, so he filled in the job high.
The old couple of the Ji family didn't take him seriously. He had no father or mother, and he was very ignorant. He went to the worst vocational high school, where he studied to be a chef and dreamed of becoming a five-star chef.
Cheng Yunyu's grades were good, but her family was not well-off. Her parents worked in farming and were in poor health. They took medicine all year round, and Cheng's father was bedridden for several years. The two of them had no skills, and their livelihood depended on farming. They heard that vocational high school was free of charge. Now the province has incentive policies and annual subsidies, but high school and college cost a lot of money. She gave up high school and went to a vocational high school with him.
The two fell in love early and went to a vocational high school together. What did the two ignorant people know? During my internship, my school arranged for me to go to a big city for an “internship”, which actually meant working as a waiter in a hotel.
Life was good at that time. I still had two thousand yuan a month, including food and accommodation. The two of them went to a big city for an internship together. They received a salary of two thousand yuan to see the bustling metropolis. They ate things they had never eaten before, drank things they had never tasted before, and played things they had never played before...
After all, he is just an eighteen-year-old kid, like a country boy who has just entered the city, watching all this with novelty. He also pointed to those high-end residential areas and said to her next to him: "The house here costs one million, right? When I have money, I will buy one too."
One million may only be enough for one bathroom, but they don't know it. She looked at him with a childish baby face, and just nodded vigorously, with longing in her eyes.
The houses here are so beautiful. When they have money, they can buy one and watch the night view of the city while living there. That will be a blessing.
Later, after their internship ended, they received a nominal salary increase and received two thousand seventy-seven dollars. They felt great. They wanted to keep making money here, save money to go home and build a big house, and then get married.
Cheng Yunyu can still save some money and send money home every month, but he can't, and he only has money every month. At the beginning of the month, he treated her lavishly, treating her to a feast worth hundreds of yuan, and at the end of the month, he relied on her to support him.
However, the hotel is too squeezed, the work is busy and tiring, and there is not much time to spend, so you can get by just so so.
Not long after the good days, the hotel business started to go bad. They were fired and the place was unfamiliar to them. All the classmates who came to intern with them went back home, so they had no choice but to go back.
I had no academic qualifications and had attended vocational high school for several years. When I came out, I found that I had no skills and there were very few jobs available. He was okay, he was tall and handsome, and he could get interviewed as a waiter. Cheng Yunyu was more troubled. She had a baby face and was not yet nineteen years old when she returned to her hometown, so she had to interview for several jobs.
She doesn't know how to put on makeup, can't sell clothes, and has little experience. The only job she has ever done is as a waiter in a restaurant. Other jobs rarely include food and accommodation.
Both of them have little education or ability, are still timid, and have no one to rely on. This is the safest profession.
They also successfully worked in the same food stall. He helped in the kitchen as a food waiter, and she worked as a waiter outside. However, her hometown was not as good as a big city. It was 2010, and the wages were generally not high.
He has 1,600 yuan a month and she has 1,500 yuan a month. They are far from being compared to big cities and are even more miserable.
He used to help in the hotel's cafeteria, and all he could see was the night view of the metropolis. Now he was facing a dirty kitchen, with a lot of work, low wages, and flies flying everywhere. He didn't feel comfortable, so he had a dispute with the head chef a week ago. Then was fired.
He received a month's salary, and when he turned away, his back was very cool and crisp.
Cheng Yunyu's voice came from outside: "I bought fried chicken collarbones and a bowl of casserole rice noodles."
"How much did you buy it for?" Ji Huai asked casually, staring at the cracked mirror, admiring his extremely long hair, and brushing the bangs in front of his eyes with his hands, looking more like a gangster, according to The aesthetics of this era are really cool.
"It's seven yuan a pound. I bought five yuan. The price of rice is five yuan. I was afraid you wouldn't have enough to eat, so I added an extra yuan for rice noodles." Cheng Yunyu replied to him.
Ji Huai walked out of the bathroom. She had opened the bowl of rice noodles. There was rice noodles in a white plastic bag and placed in a slightly deformed paper box. There was a layer of chili oil and a little chopped green onion floating on the rice noodles.
The food stall restaurant also arranged dormitories, but it was just a dozen people crammed into one room, so they couldn't live there. In the past, I couldn't afford to rent a house in a big city, so I would secretly stay in a small hotel during my breaks. Now I can rent a small house in my hometown for only 450 yuan, with a small bathroom and a small bed. Although it is very simple, it is better than renting a house. save money.
The place where the two of them ate was a small table that students used to put on the bed to do homework. The small table was a half-meter-long wooden board that could be folded. They bought it at a street stall and it only cost 21 yuan after bargaining.
Cheng Yunyu also went into the bathroom to wash her hands, sat on the floor, picked up a piece of chicken clavicle with her hands and was eating it. She put a lot of chili peppers in and breathed in while eating.
She also reached out and took out a handful of beer caps and a white plastic cap, placing them all on the corner of the table.
"What is this?" Ji Huai asked curiously, staring at one of the white plastic covers.
"That's the lid of the yogurt." Cheng Yunyu said, biting the chicken collarbone, and said with a smile, "I was very lucky today. A table of people came and they ordered several bottles of beer and a large bottle of yogurt. The team leader Said, this yogurt cap can be exchanged for five yuan."
In order to let them promote their own beer, merchants will give them rebates. Each beer costs one yuan, and they will also pay for yogurt. The more expensive ones are red wine and white wine, but customers usually bring their own and rarely buy them in the store.
"One, two, three, four, five..." Cheng Yunyu counted the beer caps, his eyes brightening again, "There are nine in total, nine yuan plus five yuan, fourteen yuan."
Ji Huai ignored it. He was a waiter and a kitchen worker, so there was no kickback. He dipped his chopsticks into the rice noodles, lowered his head, opened his mouth, and took a big mouthful of rice noodles.
The rice noodles were hot and spicy, and the spiciness of the chili slightly covered up the soup full of chicken essence and essence. He could barely swallow it, and took a second mouthful. Half of the rice noodles in the carton were gone in an instant, and he slurred as he chewed. Said: "That's all!"
"I've added a dollar of rice noodles." Cheng Yunyu looked at him, picked out a meaty chicken collarbone and handed it to him, "You haven't eaten all day, so you definitely don't have enough. Eat more of this."
Ji Huai took it and took a bite. The flour was crispy and the chicken was dry, salty and spicy. He opened his mouth and took another bite, gnawed a piece clean, and then reached for it.
Cheng Yunyu was so spicy that he picked up a plastic spoon and took a sip from the rice noodle soup in front of him. The quality of the spoon was really poor. It was scalded to softness before I even took two drinks.
Ji Huai finished eating another piece of chicken clavicle, looked at the young baby face in front of him, raised his hand, pinched her cheek, and pulled gently. Her face was slightly deformed, and she frowned: "It hurts~ ~”
He didn't stop and said deliberately: "Stop eating, I don't even have enough to eat."
"Their rice noodles are delicious, and the soup is delicious and delicious." Cheng Yunyu also wanted to reach out for his chopsticks and take a bite of rice noodles.
Ji Huai didn't give it to her, but sneered: "Do you know what deliciousness is? If you put in a big spoonful of chicken essence, it will be delicious?"
They went to vocational high school to be a chef, but in fact they didn't know anything at all. He slept all day long and was assigned to do an internship, which was to cook noodles for customers in the cafeteria.
"Give me a bite." Cheng Yunyu trailed off, feeling a little aggrieved. He pulled her cheek again, and her voice was a little slurred.
"No." He refused flatly, suppressing a smile.
"I bought it for you." She raised her voice and said, "Give me a bite!"
Ji Huai: "No."
She huffed and pulled his hand away, reaching out to slap him, but he held her hand with his backhand.
The two were quarreling for a while, and laughter kept coming. The sound insulation of the rented house was poor, and the wall was smashed by the tenants next door, making "dong dong dong" sounds to express their dissatisfaction.
Cheng Yunyu immediately didn't dare to make any more trouble. On the contrary, it was Ji Huai who lost his temper. His face suddenly darkened. He stood up and tried to knock back, but she stopped him forcefully.
"What are you afraid of? I can beat him to death!" Ji Huai snorted, and then looked at her, "Did you tell them to leave? When will you leave?"
He no longer works there and was kicked out, so of course she can't be there either.
"If I leave, I won't have a job. I haven't found a job yet, and we don't have a lot of money. How about we resign after we find a job?" She said carefully.
Ji Huai was unhappy at the moment and lost his temper: "Can you still stay? Will you die if you don't have a job? The worst is not to do it, let them find someone else, please don't do it!"
He was so angry that he wanted to teach the food stall managers a lesson so that they could not find waiters.
Cheng Yunyu: "But... you need approval to get the withheld wages, otherwise the half month's salary will be gone, and you have to find someone to approve it."
"Then don't take half a month's salary." He said very young and frivolous, "What is money? I can make more money in the future! I never take money seriously."
Youth is capital. If someone told him at this time that he could become the richest man in the world in the future, he would definitely believe it and be extremely confident.
Cheng Yunyu knew that he was angry, and the more he spoke, the quieter he said: "It's several hundred, two months' rent."
"So what?" Ji Huai looked at her with disdain, "I'm not there anymore, and those old men might do something to you. What will you do then? Stop it!"
What he said was true. After he resigned, Cheng Yunyu was assigned to serve the guests in the box. Several big men closed the door and bullied her while drinking.
After she started crying, she attracted the attention of other customers, and the manager and foreman also came over. They tried to excuse her by saying she was drunk, but the foreman didn't take it seriously and just told Cheng Yunyu not to pay attention.
Although this incident did not cause any physical harm, she was still severely hit mentally.
"No?" she said hesitantly.
"Forget it if you don't believe me. If I'm being bullied, I won't let you go." Ji Huai stood up, stopped talking to her, took his clothes and went into the bathroom, ready to take a shower.
This sentence is his mantra.
If you don’t resign, I won’t want you. If you’re bullied, I won’t want you. If you don’t do this or that, I won’t want you. He didn’t just say it, but he did it in the end.
Hearing from his so-called brother that she was close to men and was flirtatious, he kicked her out without asking any questions and cold-bloodedly said goodbye to her.
Hearing his words, Cheng Yunyu's baby face was instantly filled with sadness, her eyes dimmed, and she looked at the last few chicken collarbones on the table. In order not to waste, she finished eating silently.
After Ji Huai came out of the shower, he leaned on the bedside, took out his newly bought slider phone, and gently swiped it up. The keyboard quickly lit up, colorful and cool.
There are no smart phones at this time, and you can't download movies to watch. For entertainment, you just read novels, refresh the space log, and brag in the group.
Cheng Yunyu wanted to talk to him, but he ignored her. She had no choice but to take a shower. After she finished taking a shower and just went to bed, Ji Huai dropped her phone and rushed over to hold her down.
The young man is full of energy and bored at home. He only has some fun when she comes back.
"Working in the store, nothing should happen. Besides..." She tried to talk to him, but he interrupted impatiently, "We'll talk about it later."
After saying this, he lowered his head to kiss her, impatiently, and moving his hands wildly.
Cheng Yunyu did not enjoy this process. She was always tense and nervous. She was always worried and asked: "What should I do if I am pregnant?"
She didn't understand this knowledge and was confused, so she was particularly scared.
"Wouldn't it be fine if you're pregnant and give birth?" He casually replied, taking off her pajamas and hugging her up.
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