Soling Internet Cafe

Chu Lingya stopped at the end of the alley.

In front of it is a double-opening vermilion lacquer door, the paint is old paint, the color has become dull, there are two steps, a chair is standing beside it, and a sign is in front of it, with the words "Sao Ling Internet Cafe, 5 yuan/hour" painted on it. , Look carefully, there is a piece of A4 printing paper next to it, with four big characters "recruitment notice" written in flamboyant patterns.

"Certificately recruiting 1 network administrator, cash register and cleaning, over 18 years old, male, hard-working, hard-working, no bad habits, relevant work experience for more than 1 year is preferred, salary is negotiable, immediately start the job, interested parties please enter."

Handwriting is good handwriting, it is a bit wasteful to use it to write recruitment notices.

Chu Lingya tore off the piece of paper, folded it, put it in his pocket, picked up the suitcase and went up the steps.

Suddenly, he lowered his head.At this time, the door was only opened a crack, and a tortoiseshell cat with mottled fur was lying on the ground in front of the door, playing with its paws feebly like a puddle of slimes, pulling a fancy bouncing ball.

Chu Lingya straightened her clothes and bowed to the cat, but it didn't pay much attention to it, and just glanced at him with its green eyes, and then went to play with it again.

So Chu Lingya stretched out his hand, grabbed the door knocker, and knocked lightly twice.After a while, there was a voice from inside: "The door is not closed, go in by yourself."

Chu Lingya saluted the cat again, pushed open the door, stepped over the tortoise shell that was trying to turn herself into a "cat threshold", and walked in.Hearing a "ding bell" in his ear, Chu Lingya looked back and vaguely saw a bell hanging on the eaves outside the door, and trembled for a while, but the door closed again, so he didn't have time to see it clearly.

It was already hot outside, but it was very cool in the yard.As soon as you enter the door, there is a screen wall, which is square, complete with seat, body, and roof. The brick and stone carvings are exquisite. However, this time, the words "Piltergeist (Sao Ling) Internet please enter" are pasted on A3 paper. In the middle of the screen wall, the boss here seems to be born with a problem with normal aesthetics.

Chu Lingya walked around the screen wall and came to a courtyard.

In early summer, a huge pagoda tree with verdant green leaves occupies the best position in the courtyard. At this time, a deck chair and a small tea table are placed under the tree. There are teapots, teacups and a plate of pastries on the tea table.

A person was lying on the recliner, with a book covering his face, shaking a fan in his hand, shaking it twice and then not moving, and then shaking it twice after a while, as if it takes a while to gather strength to perform a big move in a game.

"Internet access is 5 yuan/hour, and you can go into the house to find a computer by yourself." The voice is pleasant, cool, and a little sweet, like a frozen cold cake out of the ice cellar in summer. Yuan/day."

Chu Lingya walked across the courtyard, took a look into the back room, and then turned back.

"I'm here for the interview."

The hand shaking the cattail fan finally stopped moving. After a while, he saw the pool of humanoid slimes slowly shrink their shape, struggling to stand up with their long arms and legs.

"There's really someone here for an interview."

Chu Lingya listened to the man muttering while looking for the shoes, and bent down to pick up the shoes that had been kicked aside for him, and put them gently at his feet.

"So it's here, thanks." The book was taken down, revealing a really beautiful face.

Chu Lingya suffocated slightly, took two steps back, and looked at the man silently.

He looked to be in his twenties, wearing a white silk Tang suit, with coiled cloud buckles and dark patterns that attract wealth and fortune. His hair was very long, not too dark, as if it had been dyed, and a braid was loosely braided and hung down on his body. side.There are thin and dense gold and silver bracelets on the hands, and some rings on the fingers are fastened with thin chains, and they are on both hands.This attire was vulgar enough, let alone on a man, but for some reason, it only seemed elegant and uninhibited on this man.

Chu Lingya saw that the man opened a pair of phoenix eyes that seemed to be out of focus, and slowly put the silver-rimmed round glasses hanging around his neck on the frame, and then looked back.

"What's the name of the boss?"

"Surname Xie."

"name is?"

"what?"

"My name is Chu Lingya, Chu of the Chu River and Han Realm, a spirit with a heart, a cliff on a cliff."

"Oh, thank you Rujian."

"Brother Rujian, I want to try to apply for the network administrator here." Chu Lingya calmly accepted the scrutiny from the other side, only he knew that the heart in his chest was "thumping" and beating a few beats faster.

"come in."

"Hey."

The two walked into the main room one after the other.

Saoling Internet Cafe is obviously remodeled from an old house. The storefront is a room of 0.5 to 4 square meters. There is a cash register and counter at the entrance. There are some snacks, instant noodles, cola and so on. There are ten machines in the room, crammed into each other. I bought a photocopier, pasted A[-] paper with "copying fee, [-] yuan per sheet for one side, double-sided double", and finally separated a small room with a partition. I don't know if it is an office or a warehouse.

"I work 12 hours a day, from nine in the morning to nine in the evening, and there is no lunch break, but I can do my own thing when there are no customers, but I can't walk away. Include lunch and dinner, pick the instant noodles at the counter, and eat one meal One package. One day off per week, generally not on weekends, special circumstances can be mentioned in advance, holidays depend on the situation, pay three gold, no overtime pay, probationary period 3 months monthly salary 1800 yuan, probationary period expires It will be 2300 yuan/month."

"What about accommodation?"

"You have no place to live?"

"I just came back from abroad and haven't found a place to stay yet."

Xie Rujian looked at Chu Lingya from head to toe, and from foot to head: "Are you kidding me?"

"Seriously." Chu Lingya took out a few pieces of paper from the outer layer of the suitcase, "Here is my ticket and resume, take a look."

After Xie Rujian finished reading it, he looked suspicious: "You came back from Stanford, what do you do as a network administrator?"

"interest."

"Interests can't be eaten as food, you still..."

"Is your machine here newly replaced?"

Xie Rujian took a look: "Last month, when the network manager was still there, I changed a batch. Otherwise, I couldn't even drag the game. It cost more than 5000 each."

"You were deceived."

"what?"

Chu Lingya turned on a machine and downloaded a test software for Xie Rujian to look at.

"This kind of software can tell the usage time and production date of the hardware. I just checked it, and the hardware information has been changed. If you don't believe me, I'll disassemble the machine and take a look at the production serial number and the physical appearance, and you can also see the clues. The refurbished ones usually leave the factory early and have traces of use; the counterfeit ones can be seen by looking at the solder joints of the process.”

There was no response from the room for a long time, Chu Lingya looked at Xie Rujian, the latter seemed a little dazed, with "what to do" written all over his face.

"Brother Rujian, give me your contact information, and I'll take care of it."

Xie Rujian looked at the young man in front of him with suspicion.

"Don't worry." The man spoke as if bewitching.

Xie Rujian gave Chu Lingya the contact number of the previous network administrator, and sat beside him to wait.He saw Chu Lingya dial the phone, said a few words, hung up the phone after a while, and dialed another number. Not long after, the landline in Xie Rujian's shop rang.Xie Rujian walked over to pick it up.

"Thank you, boss, I was wrong..." Li Yi's bastard begged for mercy as soon as he opened his mouth.

After hanging up the phone, Xie Rujian looked at Chu Lingya.

"How about it?"

"He said that he would find someone to replace it with a new one for me tomorrow. It will be upgraded to a new level for free, and it will include two years of free maintenance. The supplier turned out to be his cousin." Suddenly realized.

"It's okay." Chu Lingya said, "Brother Rujian, can I stay?"

Xie Rujian nodded: "Ah, then stay, stay."

"Where do I live then? Is there any room available where you live?"

"No. When you go out, turn right at the intersection, go onto the main road, and there is a 700-days hotel 7 meters to the left..."

"Look, I have no money for now."

Xie Rujian took another look at Chu Lingya.

"Can I really not live with you?"

"Then live in the warehouse first." Xie Rujian pointed to the separated hut, and said solemnly, "Remember, you must finish work on time at 9 o'clock in the evening, and return to the room before 10 o'clock. No matter what sounds you hear in the middle of the night, don't say yes Don’t come out even after opening the door, understand?”

"What about going to the toilet?"

"The toilet in the front yard can still be used before 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. Go out and bring the lamp on the table."

"What about after 12 o'clock?"

"Hold on."

"..."

"So I told you, hurry up and find a place to stay, the previous network administrator just walked out unruly."

"Okay, brother Rujian."

"Let's call the boss."

"Okay, thank you boss."

Xie Rujian looked at Chu Lingya again: "You really need to remember."

……

Zheng Ziyu tiptoedly turned the key, opened the door, and entered the room in a flash.

"Daughter is back." The old voice suddenly sounded in the dark room, which startled her, and then, a little light was turned on.

Zheng Ziyu took a deep breath and turned around angrily.A few dishes were placed on the table in the center of the room, and a thin old lady in an azurite cloth jacket sat beside her, and a dim lamp was lit on the table.

"Pretending to be a ghost!" Zheng Ziyu cursed in his heart, and turned on the headlights in the room with a "snap".

The moment the light came on, the old man's face seemed to flash an abnormal bluish-white color for an instant, and the schoolbag in Zheng Ziyu's hand fell to the ground in fright, but when he looked closely, he turned into a normal old man again Often waxy yellow.

"Why come back so late, the food is ready, grandma will heat it up for you."

"No need, I've eaten outside." Zheng Ziyu frowned and scanned the four dishes and one soup on the table.

It is said that the old man is getting old and his sense of taste has deteriorated, and the dishes he cooks are either salty or bland. Zheng Ziyu thinks that the dishes made by her grandmother are not only unpalatable, but also have a waxy taste, which is not at all for living people. .

"Don't always eat outside, it's not clean outside, in case you eat something bad..."

"What do you know!" Zheng Ziyu's original good mood was completely ruined in an instant, "I went to Yun Banshan to eat, Yun Banshan, a Michelin three-star restaurant, a place where most people can't eat if they want to eat !"

"Mi what..."

"Okay, okay, I'm going to review my homework." Zheng Ziyu picked up his schoolbag, walked quickly past the old man, and wanted to enter his room.

"Nannah."

The old man stretched out his hand and suddenly grabbed Zheng Ziyu's wrist.

It’s so cold!

Zheng Ziyu couldn't help being clever, and subconsciously swung it suddenly.

There was a slight "click" sound in the room, as if some old branch suddenly broke because it was too brittle.

Zheng Ziyu was taken aback. She looked over and saw the old man grabbing her wrist with the other hand. The former turned half-turned weirdly, like a broken branch, hanging in a strange and twisted way.

"It's okay, baby." The old man was taken aback for a moment, and then he said slowly, "Just twist it a little bit, and grandma will be fine after a night of sleep."

Perhaps because of the closeness, Zheng Ziyu could clearly see the old man's face covered with age spots in his eyes. She stared at Zheng Ziyu with a pair of cloudy eyes, and a faint stench penetrated into Zheng Ziyu uncontrollably. It smells like the smell of locusts taken out of formalin when doing dissection experiments in biology class.

"Ugh..." Zheng Ziyu covered his mouth and rushed into his room quickly, the door was shut tightly with a heavy "bang".

After a while, the old man in the living room moved again.

She took out a handkerchief, put the abnormally folded wrist back to its original position, fixed it with the handkerchief, and then silently picked up the food on the table.

During this period, she didn't make any sound, not even the sound of breathing.