As you know, isn't it almost the end of the month now? Usually at this time, I rely on Huabei to make ends meet. How about you wait another 10 days and transfer 500 to you when I get paid?
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When such a voice message came out on the latest WeChat message on his phone, Hu Biao reluctantly put down his phone, which was a little hot.
The time now is almost 11 o'clock in the morning.
Hu Biao, who had just lost his job in the morning, bought steamed buns worth 20 yuan at the "Northern Steamed Bun Shop". He also bought a bottle of large mineral water worth 3 yuan and a pack of sand cigarettes, and then came to the nearby Jiangbin.
garden.
I found a random place to sit down, and while eating steamed buns, I started to take out my mobile phone and chatted continuously on WeChat.
There is only one purpose for doing this: ask your friends to see if you can help yourself out by raising some money first, so that you can survive this most difficult month.
As for relatives at home, Hu Biao did not contact anyone because he was worried that his parents would find out and worry about him.
After a round of chatting on WeChat, Hu Biao felt very complicated.
On the one hand, his few friends are basically willing to lend money to him, and they are definitely sincere. This shows that he is not too failed as a person.
On the other hand, to use an old saying, "people play like birds," or birds of a feather flock together.
Guys who can maintain long-term good friendships with poor losers like Hu Biao are also people with similar living conditions.
Based on their economic conditions, it seems difficult to take out at least several thousand yuan at the end of the month without using online small loans.
And let others borrow money online for you, even if it is some platform that claims to be formal and relatively large.
Hu Biao once saw his colleagues around him suffer huge losses because they developed the habit of online lending, but in the end he did not let his friends do it.
Therefore, finding a job as soon as possible has become Hu Biao's most urgent priority.
And if possible, Hu Biao hopes that such a new job for him must have the following characteristics.
First, it must be paid on a daily basis, because with 26 large steamed buns, Hu Biao, who could only fill up his stomach with staple food for a week, now has a bit of a scary cost of living on food.
What the heck! It’s a lifestyle where you eat steamed buns every day and don’t even eat pickled vegetables. You have to eat 80 yuan at the end of the day just to be full.
With his current wealth of less than 200 yuan, he really can't afford his new job when his monthly salary is paid.
Besides, I am currently almost two months in arrears with the landlord's rent, which is definitely the limit of the patience of the instigating little old man.
Within two or three days, if he didn't pay part of the rent, the little old man would definitely be able to throw all his things out after opening the door with the spare key.
Second, for such a new job, it is best to have a higher income.
After all, a month later, a brand new mission will begin again; in order to survive the next unknown mission, no amount of preparation is too much.
And such preparation is nothing more than preparing some weapons and equipment in advance.
Therefore, if he can earn enough money by working for 20 days, then Hu Biao can use the remaining time to make some preparations in advance.
For example: According to the statement given by the system when others are summoned, ultra-modern electronic products such as mobile phones cannot carry these things from the past.
So is it possible to bring some less advanced things with me?
Apart from anything else, prepare a batch of medicines, food, slightly more professional clothes, shoes and socks, backpacks, etc.; you don’t expect to be able to bring them all with you, but if you can bring half of them, you might as well just go there wearing small pants last time.
Third, it is best for the working place to be remote, so that you can find opportunities to familiarize yourself with the various weapons you brought back last night.
Even if you can't shoot, practicing aiming, disassembling and maintaining firearms can improve the success rate of the next mission by a few tenths of a percentage point.
As for whether the work that meets the above conditions will be too hard, Hu Biao doesn't really care.
By the way! Hu Biao is actually an ordinary person with too many shortcomings in his character.
For example, they like beautiful young ladies and older sisters, and they talk awesome words, but they are a little timid when the critical moment comes; they insist on saving face and suffer hardships, they are always dawdling at work, they like to complain, and their personal willpower is not strong, etc.
No! The first item above cannot be considered a shortcoming, so I crossed it out.
In short, he basically has all the character flaws that poor losers have.
Under normal circumstances, if this guy can make some changes despite the constant beatings from society, then his life will also get some good changes.
Unfortunately, for a guy like this, the chances of such a change are unlikely, and his life will continue to be just like this.
Fortunately, when the system emerged, whether Hu Biao was willing to change or not, he had to make everything about himself undergo earth-shaking changes.
Otherwise, he will be the kind of little miscellaneous fish who cannot survive Chapter 30...
After setting the above conditions for the new job, Hu Biao took his mobile phone again and began searching on the local job search website in Maocheng.
Soon after, he discovered that his requirements were too high and the conditions were too harsh?
After browsing several local websites, he found quite a lot of daily jobs that he could find now.
Such as handing out flyers, housekeeping, promotions in shopping malls, temporary shopping guides; temporary waiters in hotels, dishwashers in restaurants, screwdrivers on a factory production line, etc. There is a huge demand for human hands.
However, with such a meager salary, he could not even prepare for the next mission after satisfying his appetite. It was even difficult to pay the rent.
But when he thought about eating, Hu Biao started to show signs of rebellion after having been quiet for two hours.
This let him know that although steamed buns are affordable, they don't have much oil and water and they are not very hungry. Want to meet the food needs for a day with 80 yuan? He is still too optimistic.
If you want to last longer after a meal, you still need to eat meat.
In the end, Hu Biao once again hugged the box with the cactus next to him and walked towards the place in his memory where his family could spend a small amount of money and eat enough meat.
As for whether it would be embarrassing in such a process.
"Brother, I've gotten to this point, why do I need to be embarrassed? Is that thing edible?" Hu Biao told himself as he strode forward.
Such a shameless change has already happened quietly in Hu Biao.
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I watched the guy sitting by the window carrying a large plate of meat bones from the buffet area to his seat.
Ah Sheng, the owner of the Big Bone Cafeteria, could not help but tremble with his eyelids, and instinctively muttered:
"What a shame, this tough street boy eats so much and he's not afraid of dying of it~"
The big bone restaurant opened by Ah Sheng is a popular self-service style. It claims that for only 29 yuan per person, you can eat all you want big bones, vegetables and fruits, and drink all you want.
On the surface, it must be a great value for customers to patronize this place, right?
After all, with the price of meat these days, you can easily eat it for 29 yuan.
Actually no, according to Ah Sheng’s routine, these meat bones look like they have a lot of meat, but they are all purchased from the cheapest frozen pork bones, and the fruits are also the cheapest ones in season.
And the big bones here are only semi-finished products and cannot be eaten directly.
Before eating meat, the bones need to spend time cooking in the pot before you can eat them. While waiting for the meat to be cooked, many customers will choose to eat cheap vegetables and fruits.
In this way, when it comes time to eat meat, the guests are almost full.
And the drinks here are free, which does not mean that beer and liquor are also free. All the small details add up, and each guest can still make a little money.
However, in the abnormal situation like this, he would lose money.
The man in front of me speaks Mandarin and looks tall and thin. He is basically a huge foodie. He has eaten at least 15 kilograms of his meat and bones.
Even though the purchase price of his frozen pork bones is relatively low, he can't afford to eat them like this.
The problem is that the 29 yuan all-you-can-eat sign has been up for a long time, so the only thing he can do is to stare at that deadbeat. As long as he wastes even the slightest bit, Brother Sheng will punish him to death today.
It's a pity that Brother Sheng is destined to be disappointed today...
With a sound of "clang~", Hu Biao put down the big bone in his hand that was cleaner than a dog licking.
Not eating cleanly and wasting it? That is impossible.
After eating bland steamed buns all morning, they were suddenly replaced by big bones that were full of flavor. Hu Biao wanted to bite the bones into pieces and swallow them all, as there was nothing left to waste.
Finally, when a tall pile of bones was piled on the table in front of Hu Biao, he finally stopped with satisfaction.
Even at this time, he actually asked himself that he could still barely fit another three to five kilograms in, but when he saw the local boss with a painful look on his face, he still gave up this tempting idea.
At the same time, Hu Biao also gave up on the idea of opening a live broadcast account and pursuing a career in eating and broadcasting in the future.
Compared to other mukbang routines, his down-to-earth mukbang style is simply a breath of fresh air in the industry.
But as soon as he thought about being exposed in front of thousands of netizens, Hu Biao felt a little uneasy, as if such an approach would cause some big trouble.
Finally, after hesitating for a while, he gave up on being a starter in the mukbang industry.
After finally eating, Hu Biao casually asked when he was paying the bill: "Boss, what time will your business hours be tonight?"
"From 5 o'clock to 10 o'clock, no! We will close the door at 9 o'clock at the most." Ah Sheng almost gritted his teeth and choked out these words.
By the way! Looking at the store owner's expression, Hu Biao actually felt a little embarrassed.
He also knew that this method of catching a fat sheep and gleaning its wool from the dead was a bit cruel.
But isn’t there nothing I can do? In a small city like Maocheng, the number of restaurants that offer buffets is limited. Compared with other steak and seafood buffets, this 29-piece big bone buffet is more affordable.
"Boss, please bear with me. Just hold on for one more month! When my brother becomes prosperous, I will definitely repay you."
Hu Biao muttered silently in his heart, and after comforting himself, he went out with the idea of coming over at 7pm and eating casually for two hours.
Only then did his figure disappear. Boss Asheng behind him hesitated for a while and then picked up the phone.
After dialing a certain number, he said quickly:
"Dakou Qiang, I am A Sheng from Big Bone Shop. Please teach me a lesson. Don't worry, I'm just a foreigner. I'll treat you to sweet tea later..."
Naturally, Hu Biao, who had left home long ago, knew nothing about the content of the above phone call.
But a middle-aged man who happened to pay the bill actually heard it clearly.