Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1335 An Insignificant Day

At noon the next day, a few drivers who often got together for lunch happened to run away soliciting customers. This is the case with dry taxis, and there is no certain number all day long.Guan Hailian himself had never eaten at Hongyan's Bian Restaurant alone before, not to mention he was afraid that Chen Hongyan would return him the money for yesterday's meal, but thinking about the big boxes of heavy drinks in the back of the house, how could he still eat? Bite the bullet and go.

Before he approached the door, the voice of conversation floated out first.

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 rest of the retired old men and women will not spend money on eating out.He has been here so many times, and it was the first time he saw outsiders at this spot.

"...What's wrong with the neighborhood," a man sat face to face with Chen Hongyan on both sides of a table with his back to the door, and said to his white face, "Just in this neighborhood, do you know how much you can rent for two rooms and one living room?" Money? More than 6000 yuan! It’s not like you who want to do business for pure living, and the oily smoke is so big that my ceiling is blackened.”

If there is any intuition that Guan Hailian has developed in this world, it is a premonition that something bad will happen next.He walked up a few steps and called out, "Sister-in-law, I'm here."

"Oh, it's Lao Guan." Chen Hongyan hurriedly lowered her head before raising her head again, as if taking advantage of that moment to stabilize her emotions. "You sit down first, I'll have a few words with the landlord, and I'll be here right away."

"No hurry, no hurry, you go first." Sure enough, it was the landlord.

The man glanced back at Guan Hailian, then turned to Chen Hongyan and said, "It's not like you don't know the current house price. I have a big shop, and I rent a few rooms to those who sell breakfast and those who receive express delivery. The rent can be paid for you." Twice as much. I saw that you have been renting for so long, so I said forget it, let’s increase it a little.”

"However, I can't afford to pay two thousand five thousand if the price goes up."

Guan Hailian seldom saw this expression on Chen Hongyan's face, as if he hadn't slept for several days and nights all of a sudden, his previous energy was gone.She lowered her voice and said, "This restaurant doesn't make much money, it's almost enough to live on..."

"Then you sell breakfast too!" The landlord suggested to her.

Chen Hongyan was dumb for a few seconds.She glanced in Guan Hailian's direction and saw that the latter was pretending to be concentrating on his phone, so she whispered, "If it sells breakfast, I have to get up at four o'clock, but this restaurant has a lot of business at night... Sometimes I get ten The door closes at one or two o'clock. I can't rest during the day, and my child is only three years old, and it's not yet time for school..."

Guan Hailian suddenly realized that it was not that she hadn't considered selling breakfast before.

"Then you can raise the price, I don't care about that." The landlord interrupted her, "I also want to raise a family, so the money will definitely increase."

Chen Hongyan sat there in a daze for a while, the landlord seemed impatient, and when she got up to leave, she suddenly yelled: "But we have a contract! It hasn't expired yet, why is the price raised?"

"Contract?" The landlord stopped in his tracks immediately, and his voice became a little shrill. "You have to act according to the contract. That's fine. Then you can move out in a month. I have given you a 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 then pale, and then said in a soft voice: "How can I live after I move away...can I pay less?"

"I'm not a heartless person, so I insist on driving you away, but if you want to live, I want to live too." Seeing that she was subdued, the landlord took a step back and said, "Well, let's count it as two thousand and two. 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, coughed, and asked without embarrassment: "Sister-in-law, um... is there anything I can do for you?"

Chen Hongyan glanced at him, but didn't speak, obviously his mind was not in front of his eyes at all, and he didn't listen to a word.

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

Chen Hongyan grabbed the rag on the table and wiped it vigorously on the clean table a few times, as if trying to suppress the restlessness in her heart.She wiped the table desperately for a while, then let out a sigh of relief, threw the rag and said, "Old Guan, stop talking, this method won't work."

Guan Hailian closed his mouth—why not?He doesn't seem to know enough about the world, and this sort of thing hits his blind spot.

He hoped that Chen Hongyan could explain it to him, so as not to show his flaws in the future; what's more, if he knew why it didn't work, he could think about what to do for her.

"He said that I offered to give it, how can I prove otherwise?" Chen Hongyan got up and walked to the back kitchen, saying: "Don't say you can't afford it, even if you win the lawsuit, who will execute the more than 2000 yuan for you?" The money matter. I tore my face, and it will be even more difficult in the future."

Guan Hailian was taken aback for a moment, feeling that just to understand this passage, he might have to read a lot of newspaper materials when he goes back.

Obviously it doesn't make sense, he thought, but if you don't take a step back and admit that it doesn't make sense, you can't live.

He could think of no other way.Even in the Twelve Realms, a contract is a very serious matter.

"You watch TV." Chen Hongyan entered the back kitchen and turned on the TV for him. "Still those two dishes? It will be ready in a while."

As soon as she entered, Guan Hailian quickly turned off the TV - the ad for the evolutionist was everywhere, popping up every now and then, he couldn't bear to watch it over and over again.When Chen Hongyan came out, she absent-mindedly put down the plate, not realizing that the TV was turned off.

The atmosphere of the lunch was very heavy. He didn't even finish half of it, so he put down the money and left in a hurry, and then forgot to bring the drinks.The afternoon went quite smoothly. Not only did I not meet half of the evolutionaries, but I also took on a big job at the airport, and there was no empty car back and forth.

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

Guan Hailian's heart sank slowly, and he approached him step by step.The man raised his head, took a puff of cigarette, and smiled at him, "Just came back? Didn't you leave work early?"

"Hmm." He habitually held up the plastic bag, showing the eggplant and beans inside. "I went grocery shopping."

"How nice you are," the thin and lonely man leaned on the bench and said with a smile, "you can still eat dinner safely, and I haven't even eaten yet."

Guan Hailian nodded silently, and walked towards the building he lived in.After walking a few steps, he turned around again and asked, "Haven't you all withdrawn? It's been so long, and I've proved that I'm fine, why..."

"You have nothing to be afraid of, right." The thin man dusted off the cigarette ash, "Oh, someone will go up and register you later."

Knowing that he shouldn't ask, he still asked, "What's the registration? Haven't I finished the registration?"

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

Guan Hai paused for a moment, said "I see", turned around and walked home.

It should be because of that part of the ad... I can only blame that person named Lin Sanjiu for making such a big commotion. As a result, for those evolutionists who want to live a good life, everything is now tightened up again.It should be fine after a while, he thought, that thin man would never be able to sit downstairs for the rest of his life.

That person named Lin Sanjiu was also pitiful, he wanted to go back to the Twelve Realms, but in the end he made such a wrong move and lost all his shelter.No matter how beautiful it was before, you have to accept your fate when you come here.

He had just cooked supper 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 pushed the door in and 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 to mix some seasonings... You see, there is only one pair of chopsticks."

The woman looked at him noncommittally, said "I'll check," and went to each room to check, and when she saw that there was no one there, she left.Guan Hailian sat down and stared blankly at the hot dinner for a while, remembering the days when he could not eat for a week or two in the doomsday world.

Isn't it much stronger now than it was then?
At that time, although no one cared how many people he was eating, but now no one would attack him just to grab food, survival, of course, is the priority above everything else.

While eating, he glanced out the window. The thin man was still guarding the door of the building, sitting on the bench, swiping his cell phone, and eating bananas.

After dinner, he didn't watch TV, but 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 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 checked, and found that Chang Fan had sent him a message.

"I don't even remember your birthday, but my sister-in-law does. You have been single for so long, so you have no idea?"

He replied: "Don't fart, it's impossible."

Before falling asleep, he suddenly thought that after degenerating into the qualities of an ordinary person, he reckoned that he should be in the early forties of an ordinary person.The lifespan of an ordinary person can be seven or eighty years...he has three or forty years left.

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

　To be honest with the title, it's really not a big deal.

　
(End of this chapter)