Doomsday Wonderland

At noon the next day, several drivers who often gathered for lunch happened to have gone far away to solicit customers. This is the case with taxis, and there is no accuracy all day long. Guan Hailian had never been to Hongyan's restaurant to eat alone before, and he was also afraid that Chen Hongyan would pay him back the money for yesterday's meal. But thinking about the large boxes of heavy drinks behind the house, after all, it was still Bite the bullet and go.

Before he could approach the door, the sound of conversation floated out.

This is rare. Lunch time is the slowest time for business, because all the young people in the community have gone to work, and the remaining retired old men and women will not spend money to eat in restaurants. He has been here so many times, and this is the first time he sees outsiders at this point.

"...What's wrong with the community?" A man with his back to the door, sitting face to face with Chen Hongyan on both sides of a table, said to the white face: "In this community, do you know how much two bedrooms and one living room can be rented for?" Money? More than 6,000 yuan! It’s just for living, not like you who want to do business. The fumes are so big that my ceiling is blackened."

If Guan Hailian had developed any intuition in this world, it would be a premonition that something bad was going to happen next. He walked up in a few steps and shouted: "Sister-in-law, I'm here."

"Oh, it's Laoguan." Chen Hongyan hurriedly lowered his head and then raised his head again, as if taking advantage of that moment to calm down. "You sit down first, I'll have a few words with the landlord and I'll be back soon."

"No hurry, no rush, you go first." As expected, it was the landlord.

The man turned around and glanced at Guan Hailian, then turned to Chen Hongyan and said: "You don't know the current housing prices. My shop is big. I rent several rooms to those who sell breakfast and those who collect express delivery. I can charge you the rent." Twice that. I saw that you had rented it for so long, so I said forget it and raise it a little bit."

"But the increase is two thousand and five thousand, and I can't afford it."

Guan Hailian rarely saw this look on Chen Hongyan's face, as if he had suddenly not slept for several days and nights, and his previous energy was gone. She lowered her voice and said: "This restaurant doesn't make much money, it's just enough to live on..."

"Then you sell breakfast too!" the landlord said to her.

Chen Hongyan was speechless for a few seconds. She glanced in the direction of Guan Hailian and saw that the latter was pretending to be looking at his mobile phone. Then she whispered: "If we sell breakfast, I have to get up at four o'clock, but this restaurant does a lot of business at night... Sometimes I get ten We don't close until one or two o'clock. I can't rest during the day. My child is only three years old and hasn't even started school yet..."

Guan Hailian suddenly realized that she had never considered selling breakfast before.

"Then you can raise the price. I don't care about that." The landlord interrupted her, "I also have to support a family, so the price will definitely go up."

Chen Hongyan sat there blankly for a while. The landlord seemed to be impatient. When she stood up to leave, she suddenly shouted: "But we have a contract! It hasn't expired yet, so why did the price increase?"

"Contract?" The landlord immediately stopped and his voice became shriller. "If you want to act according to the contract, then okay, then you can move out in one month. I am giving you one month's notice in accordance with the contract. If you don't leave by then, the deposit will not be refunded."

"No, there's no such thing!" Chen Hongyan's face turned red and white, and she softened her voice and said, "How will I live after I move away... Can I raise the salary a little less?"

"I'm not a heartless person. I have to drive you away, but you want to live and I want to live too." Seeing that she had given in, the landlord took a step back and said, "Well, let's count it as two thousand two thousand. Starting next month."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left without looking at Guan Hailian again. Chen Hongyan was stunned for a while. Guan Hailian felt that he should comfort her. He coughed and asked without embarrassment: "Sister-in-law, um...is there anything I can do to help?"

Chen Hongyan glanced at him and said nothing. It was obvious that her mind was not in front of her at all and she didn't listen to a single word.

"He insists that you pay more. You can print out the transfer records when the time comes. You can use this to sue him." Guan Hailian couldn't bear to look at it. He walked over and persuaded: "The records show that he actually overcharged." Rent, this is a violation of the contract..."

Chen Hongyan suddenly grabbed the rag on the table and wiped it on the clean table several times, as if she was trying her best to suppress the irritability in her heart. She wiped the table desperately for a while, then breathed out, threw the rag and said, "Lao Guan, stop talking, this method won't work."

Guan Hailian shut his mouth - why not? He doesn't seem to understand the world well enough, and this kind of thing touches on his blind spots.

He hoped that Chen Hongyan could explain it to him so that he wouldn't be exposed later; not to mention that once he knew why it didn't work, he could think of what to do for her.

"He said that I took the initiative to give it to him. How can I prove that it's not the case?" Chen Hongyan stood up and walked to the kitchen and said, "Don't say you can't afford to sue. So what if you win the lawsuit? Who will enforce the two thousand yuan for you?" It’s a matter of 1 yuan. If you break up, it will be even more difficult to deal with in the future.”

Guan Hailian was stunned for a moment, feeling that just to understand this passage, he might have to read a lot of newspaper information when he went back.

It's obviously unreasonable, he thought, but if you don't take a step back and recognize that this doesn't make sense, you won't be able to live.

He couldn't think of any other way. Even in the Twelve Realms, contracts are quite serious matters.

"You watch TV," Chen Hongyan entered the kitchen and turned on the TV for him. "Should we still have those two dishes? They'll be ready in a moment."

As soon as she entered, Guan Hailian quickly turned off the TV - the advertisement looking for evolvers was everywhere, popping up at every turn, and he couldn't bear to watch it over and over again. When Chen Hongyan came out, she put down her plate absentmindedly and didn't even realize that the TV was turned off.

The atmosphere at this lunch was very heavy. He didn't even finish half of it, so he hurriedly put down his money and left. In the end, he forgot to bring the drinks. The afternoon went quite smoothly. Not only did I not meet half of the evolved people, but I also had a big job running to the airport, and there was no empty car to go back and forth.

After handing over his shift, Guan Hailian went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables for dinner and walked home with his bag in hand. As soon as he entered the community, he first saw a familiar face from a distance, sitting on a bench in front of his building and smoking.

Guan Hailian's heart slowly sank and he approached him step by step. The man raised his head, blew out a puff of smoke, and smiled at him: "You just came back? Didn't you get off work early?"

"Yeah." He habitually raised the plastic bag to show the eggplant and beans inside. "I'm going to buy groceries."

"How nice of you," the thin man said with a smile, leaning on the bench, "You can still have dinner in peace, and I haven't even eaten yet."

Guan Hailian nodded silently and walked towards the building where he lived. After walking a few steps, he turned around again and asked, "Haven't you all withdrawn already? After so long, I have proven that I am fine, so why..."

"You have nothing to fear, right?" The thin man dusted off his cigarette, "Oh, someone will go up and register you in a moment."

Even though he knew he shouldn't ask, he still asked: "Registering for what? Haven't I registered everything?"

The smile on the thin man's face fell. "You said registration is over after registration? Are you so familiar with our regulations?"

Guan Hailian paused, said "I understand", turned around and walked home.

It should have all been caused by that advertisement... It's only the man named Lin Sanjiu who made such a big fuss. As a result, things are tightening up again for evolutionaries like them who want to live a good life. It should be fine after waiting for a while. He thought that there was no way that thin man could sit downstairs for the rest of his life.

The man named Lin Sanjiu was also pitiful. He wanted to return to the Twelve Realms, but in the end he made such a wrong move and lost his place of refuge. No matter how beautiful it was in the past, you have to accept your fate when you come here.

He had just cooked dinner and put it on the table when the doorbell rang. When he opened the door, a strange woman holding a registration book asked him: "Population registration, where is your ID card?"

Guan Hai quickly agreed and went back to the house to get his ID card. When he came out, he found that the other party had opened the door and came in. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net was standing in the living room watching his dinner. "Don't you live alone?" she asked, "Why are there two bowls on the table?"

Guan Hailian explained: "I live alone. When I eat, I like to take an extra bowl and mix some seasonings... Look, don't I only have one pair of chopsticks?"

The woman looked at him noncommittally and said, "Let me check." She went to each room and saw that no one was there before leaving. Guan Hailian sat down and stared at the hot dinner for a while, remembering the days when he couldn't eat for a week or two in the apocalyptic world.

Isn’t it much better now than then?

At that time, no one cared about how many people he was eating with, but now no one would attack him just to grab food. Survival, of course, comes first before anything else.

While eating, he glanced out the window. The thin man was still guarding the door of the building, sitting on the bench, using his mobile phone and eating a banana.

After dinner, he didn't watch TV and read a book for a while. It was still a bit difficult for him to understand the written words of this world, so he read them very slowly; when he gradually became sleepy, he once again felt the peace that can only be found in a stable world. Before going to bed, he picked up his phone and looked at it. He found that Chang Fan had sent him a message.

"I don't even remember your birthday, but my sister-in-law does. You've been single for so long, so you don't have any ideas?"

He replied: "Stop farting, it's impossible."

Before falling asleep, he suddenly thought that after degenerating into the qualities of an ordinary person, he estimated that he should be in his early forties. The life span of an ordinary person can be seventy or eighty years... He still has thirty or forty years left.

He didn't know for a while whether thirty or forty years was too long or too short.