Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1628 Back Room
I am afraid that there is no woman in the world who would really walk into the dark room deep in the small business when the boss looked up and said, "You can wait in the back room".

Of course Xie Feng didn't move.She was still standing at the gate, and there was a blue-gray road outside. There was really no problem, she only needed to take a step outside, and she could gallop out along the road.She wiped off her sweat and said with a smile, "No, thank you. I'll just wait here. It seems to be raining soon. It's too hot. How long will it take for him to arrive?"

The boss was not a snakehead, and the supermarket was just an intermediate stop for the snakehead to contact and meet. The boss didn't seem to know the true meaning of "buy a ticket", but he thought that the snakehead would pay him a little hard work in exchange for his cooperation. And do not get to the bottom of it.

The boss didn't seem to care where Xie Feng stood waiting, picked up his cell phone, and made a call. "Hey, someone asked you to buy a ticket..." He said, keeping his eyes on the card game on the computer, "Yes, a woman, she said that the person who introduced her was Chen Qingqing. When will you arrive? Okay ,knew."

Xie Feng's ears were pricked up.

The boss hung up the phone, threw the phone on the table, and said, "About 10 minutes."

Xie Feng looked at the phone.

It is an old model, and it still leaks sound when talking on the phone; when the boss called just now, although she couldn't hear it very clearly, she still vaguely heard the person on the other end of the phone speaking with an imperial accent.

Just the imperial accent itself does not mean that he must be an official person. After all, the Siping Empire has hundreds of millions of people, so naturally there are all kinds of religions and nine streams. What's more, a person who is a snakehead must have connections to do it. In this business, since the City of Tears was dedicated to the Siping Empire with both hands, the most relevant and well-connected people are of course the imperial people.

Xie Feng also admitted that the reason why she risked staying after hearing the imperial accent was that the temptation to escape was too great.

"...he is from the empire, why did he come here to do business?" She pretended to test casually.

"Where there is money, go there." The boss is undoubtedly a local, but he seems to have no idea about the imperial people.

"How long have you been doing this?"

The boss was still playing cards, and it took a few seconds before he said, "Huh? My store has been here for more than ten years."

"No, I mean he..."

"Oh, how did I know so clearly," the boss said indifferently, "about half a year or a year."

Xie Feng had nothing to say, and could only wait silently in the sweltering heat of the low air pressure, her eyes kept scanning the streets and alleys—as long as there was any unusual movement, she would run away.The supermarket is located in a narrow and winding old street, so there are some wide-angle traffic mirrors, and there is one not far from the entrance of the supermarket; from the mirror, she can see a lot.

The sky outside was gradually dotted with gray clouds, and it looked like there was another summer rain.The air was sticky, humid and hot, and it was suffocatingly applied to the skin, as if the thick layer of air could be peeled off with a hand, and she was longing for it to rain soon.

"There are very few people like you who go abroad to work alone." The boss played cards for a while, and said abruptly, "It's usually a couple, little sisters, who go together and have a companion."

"Are many people leaving?" Xie Feng asked immediately.

"There have been a lot in recent months," the boss replied. "There are more than a dozen people who have found me here, and many women are unwilling to stay. Cough, in fact, it's not that serious at all. Whoever is an official above We still live in the same way, what is there to be afraid of?"

"However, both the university and the company have already started to reduce the number of recruiting places." Xie Feng couldn't help but whispered.This is just the first step, and everyone can see it.

The boss seemed to be disapproving: "Then don't go, what can't be done?"

Of course he knew about it, because at the entrance of his store, there was a row of posters for community promotion. Under the slogans such as "Dual household registration for children", the pair of smiling male and female models playing the role of husband and wife are the faces that Xie Feng has been tired of seeing recently.

"It's very popular for women nowadays to enter the workplace and compete with men for positions and resources," a well-known talk show host in Empire once made such a joke: "In the company, the boss wants to pay them wages, so go home , I have to hand over my salary to my wife, being a woman is too lucky!"

After returning to obedience, there were basically no programs speaking the local dialect of Laicheng on TV.Most of the locals have an accent in Imperial, which is unrecognizable by Imperial standards, so a slew of Imperial TV shows fills the void.

At that time Xie Feng was staying in the capsule hotel, and many locals from Leicheng gathered in front of the TV in the lobby, and they all laughed after hearing this joke.

The boss started another poker game, and Xie Feng stopped talking.

She has never left the City of Tears since she grew up, and she knows little about other countries; the reason why she is determined to leave is actually ridiculous-when the neighboring star is destroyed, the emergency news and news from various countries are rolling on the TV around the clock. Commenting, she once heard one of the male hosts call Neighboring Star, saying "sister planet".

Xie Feng let out a long breath slowly, his eyes swept away from the wide-angle mirror not far away again - and then his whole body froze.

...How did that fat man on the train find this place all the way?

After she got rid of him at the station, she actually walked back a lot, maybe she was seen at that time; and it hadn't been long since she walked into this supermarket, if he had been quietly following behind because of a grudge, she would now It is indeed very possible that I just saw him.

Seeing the man looking around, searching and walking in the direction of the supermarket, Xie Feng's mind was confused for a moment, he quickly pretended to look at the products, walked a few steps between the shelves, hid in the shadows, and kept his eyes on him. Looking at the wide-angle mirror outside the door.

What should I do, should I say hello to the owner first?What they do is a shady business, what if they stop doing her business out of caution?
At this moment, the entrance of Shangchao was darkened, and a person walked in from the sky outside.Xie Feng was startled, and immediately realized that it wasn't the fat man who walked in—the man was of medium height, with a fluffy hairstyle, and he opened his mouth and asked the shop owner, "Is anyone buying a ticket? Where is he?"

It's a snake head!
Xie Feng breathed a sigh of relief, quickly glanced at him a few times, and felt that he didn't look like an official person, so he called out: "I'm here."

The snake head turned to look at her following the sound, it looked like he was in his early 30s at most—— Xie Feng didn't bother to look at his appearance, so he hurriedly said: "Is it convenient for us to talk in the back room?"

The snake head stretched out his hand, and walked into the back of Shangchao first, familiarly.

Xie Feng followed behind him, looked at his walking posture, and finally felt relieved.In the past two years, she has escaped countless times from the security guards and the Union Army|Police, and has learned how to distinguish that type of people. Even without uniforms, they have a unique temperament-use In the words of one of her friends on the street, "Even if they walk into a crowded night market, they will not look at the road and avoid people."

This snake head seems to be just a commoner.

Xie Feng glanced back at the entrance of the Shangchao, and found that the fat man had already walked to the door, and was scanning the road opposite the Shangchao; Behind the small wooden door.

He reached out to turn on the light, and closed the door behind Xie Feng with a "dong".

... This room is very small, as if it was used by the shop owner for a short rest. There is a narrow bed along the wall; the table and chairs are crowded together, and there is hardly any place to stand.The only thing that is a little unusual is that there is a back door in this back room, and I don't know where it leads.

With the help of the light, Xie Feng could clearly see the appearance of the snake head.Unexpectedly, he was born pretty well—the general public's standards for men's appearance are often very low, as long as they look like they have been tidied up and clean, they are already beyond the standard. His appearance should already be regarded as a appearance that is popular with the opposite sex.

"Who is your introducer?" The smuggler sat down on the shop owner's bed aggressively.The existence of the bed made Xie Feng feel uncomfortable.

"Chen Qingqing."

She doesn't know who Chen Qingqing is; in the friend group, it is said that if there is no introducer, the snakehead will not talk to you, so remember to use the name Chen Qingqing as the introducer—she seems to be a friend of a friend.There were hundreds of people in that group, all young people living on the street, and Xie Feng didn't know all of them.

"How old?"

"21 years old." Xie Feng deliberately said that he was one and a half years older.

The snake head nodded in satisfaction, looked her up and down, moved from the feet to the legs, then moved up to the chest and head, and then returned to her legs. "Does your family agree?"

"... Agreed."

"Well, it's very smart to leave." The snake head said with a smile: "I am from the Empire. I have seen many women who married into the Empire. They are very uncomfortable and regret it to death. Let me simply say, you follow the cargo ship. Let's go together, the sailing period is three weeks, there are several destinations to choose from..."

The information he said was similar to what was circulated in the group chats of friends, Xie Feng gradually relaxed.The price was also lower than she thought, and if she sold the things she put in the locker, she could barely make up the price of a ticket.

Before, he had always wanted to leave, but when it was time to leave, Xie Feng found himself hesitating instead, constantly looking for reasons not to leave: What should parents do?Even if they say it, it is impossible for her to leave as if she had never given birth to her daughter. After all, once she leaves, it may be a lifetime... Maybe what the shop owner said is also true, common people live the same life...

When she was thinking about it and hesitated to pay the deposit, the snake head became a little impatient and said, "Why don't you come back after you think about it", and then took out his mobile phone to look.

He seemed to have received a message, and looked up at Xie Feng first—the latter noticed his gaze, and kept looking at the desktop, as if still hesitating in thought—then the snake head opened the screen, Typing the reply.

Xie Feng subconsciously didn't turn his head, and glanced quickly from the corner of his eyes.

The room is small, so the distance between the two is not far; she is standing and the snake is sitting, so she can see most of the screen of his mobile phone at a glance.She couldn't see the specific content of the message clearly, but the first two words of the private message pierced clearly into Xie Feng's eyes.

Although the angle was not right, it did not prevent her from recognizing the two characters quickly.

"Sister Chen".

It should be followed by a comma because there is a space.

The other party called him "Sister Chen".

Xie Feng stood there stiffly, as if he was still making a decision, but there was only one thought that was getting louder and louder in his mind.

...Could it be that the snakehead himself is "Chen Qingqing"?
　Caught off guard, I encountered the most critical multiple-choice question in life: When you are hungry and sleepy, do you choose to eat or sleep?It's uncomfortable to sleep after eating, as if there is a big stone in the stomach...

　
(End of this chapter)