Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

Just as Ren Zhong opened the small courtyard door, preparing to go inside and tidy up, a phone call came.

"Old Ren, are you free tonight?" A boisterous voice came from the phone. "It's almost New Year's, the brothers said let's get together. We made a date for tonight at the Sanjie River Seafood Restaurant. I saw you haven't been active in the group, so I called to ask what's going on with you. You don't even chat in the group."

"Dong-ge, I quit my job these past two days and I'm trying to find something to do, so I really don't have time to chat in the group. River Seafood Restaurant tonight, right? What time?" Ren Zhong said casually upon hearing it was his university classmate Zhao Lidong.

He was a close classmate. After graduation, one entered the system, and the other failed the exam and went to work in sales. Usually, both were very busy, so even though they were in the same city after graduation, it was rare to see each other even once a year.

However, Ren Zhong thought that it was indeed almost New Year's, and he should make time to meet up.

"What? You had a good job within the system, how could you resign in less than a year? Are you crazy?" Zhao Lidong asked in surprise on the other end of the phone.

"The matter is a bit complicated, let's talk when we meet. It's not something that can be explained in a few words over the phone," Ren Zhong replied.

"Okay, 6:30, see you then," Zhao Lidong said, understanding Ren Zhong's meaning, and hung up the phone.

Ren Zhong walked into the small courtyard and took a quick look. The space enclosed by the fiberglass tiles occupied most of the yard. With the door closed, you couldn't see what was happening inside from the outside.

There were three main rooms at the back, a杂物间 utility room, and a kitchen. The rooms were completely empty, without even a stool. The floor was directly brushed with cement, without any tiles.

The kitchen had a two-eyed earthen stove, which could burn wood or coal. Opposite the stove was a cement water tank, which still had half a tank of water, who knows how long it had been stored.

There was a faucet on the water tank. Ren Zhong turned on the faucet to try it, and there was still water, probably because rural areas used to have frequent water outages, so a water tank was kept for backup.

No wonder they didn't even want the deposit. This empty house, where even a mouse would cry when it came in, what losses could there be?

But for Ren Zhong, this was even better. He wouldn't live here. He had just rented a nice apartment complex, spending several thousand a month to not live there, and running to this countryside to suffer, there must be something wrong with his head.

This wasn't the world of "亮剑 Bright Sword".

Ren Zhong estimated what he needed to do here, planning what to buy. The main things were a set of office desks and chairs, then a bed, an electric frying pan, and a rice cooker, for the convenience of occasionally staying overnight. It wasn't easy to order takeout here, after all, it was several kilometers away from the nearest town.

Then, in the courtyard, he would set up a few tables to facilitate some simple chemical experiments. He would put the bottles and jars from the laboratory in the courtyard. The original owner used steel frames to support a roof more than 3 meters high, so there was no danger of using fire in the small courtyard.

For Ren Zhong, this was simply perfect. Crossing between two planes from here was safer than in the apartment complex. After all, once the small courtyard door was closed, no one would know if he was there or not.

He would set up broadband later, and install two cameras on the left and right outside the small courtyard, so he would know if anyone was coming around.

Writing down the things he needed to buy on his phone, Ren Zhong closed the door and left, heading into the city. First, he would set up broadband, then go to the furniture city to order the furniture he needed, and then go to the appliance store to buy the necessary appliances. After all, it wasn't convenient to have deliveries there, so it was better to buy them directly offline and throw them in his Wuling Hongguang Mini EV.

By the time he finished all this, it was almost 6 o'clock. Ren Zhong remembered his appointment with Zhao Lidong and turned the car around to go to the River Seafood Restaurant in Sanjie.

As soon as he parked the car and got out, he saw Zhao Lidong also arriving on a shared bicycle. "Hey, Old Ren, you even bought a car?" Zhao Lidong looked at Ren Zhong getting out of the car with some surprise.

"Just bought a used car. I quit my job and plan to do some live streaming e-commerce. So, I got a 'god car' to haul goods," Ren Zhong said with a smile.

He couldn't hide the fact that he had resigned from the people around him, including his parents back home, so Ren Zhong followed the explanation he gave Li Junmei at noon and continued this lie, which was now becoming more and more mature in his mind.

"Live streaming e-commerce?" Zhao Lidong frowned upon hearing this. "Old Ren, no one roped you into doing pyramid schemes or something, right? Although live streaming is said to be a hot trend, you're a complete newbie with no fans. Isn't the risk a bit too big?"

Zhao Lidong was close enough to Ren Zhong to speak frankly.

"Nothing like that, I know what I'm doing. The stuff I'm doing, while not making me rich, will have no problem making a living. It's better than writing documents in the street office," Ren Zhong said with a smile.

"By the way, have Wenhui and Feng-ge arrived yet?" Ren Zhong changed the subject.

"They should have arrived, right? They took the subway. They said they arrived at the incubator park ten minutes ago. I guess they're there," Zhao Lidong said, picking up his phone and swiping a few times.

"Let me check the group messages. Yeah, they're here, in room 307. Let's go in."

Wang Wenhui and Liang Xiaofeng were both Ren Zhong's classmates, but unlike Zhao Lidong, they weren't in the same dormitory. It's just because they were in the same city, everyone formed a group after graduation to share information.

"Ren Zhong, Lidong, you're late. You'll have to be fined three cups of wine," Liang Xiaofeng shouted as soon as they entered the room.

"Didn't we say 6:30? It's only 6:25. You guys came early," Zhao Lidong retorted with a smile.

"How have you brothers been these past six months after graduation? Taking off?"

"Taking off my ass. I didn't understand what 'the beatings of society' meant before. Damn, after running the market for half a year, I deeply realized that a liberal arts graduate is worse than a dog if they can't get into the system!" Wang Wenhui blurted out.

"It's still great for you, Ren Zhong, entering the system. Now you're stable as hell."

"Hehe, don't mention it, I've already packed my bags and left. The system, the system, it's just as bad as being a dog. One month I'm either writing documents or on the way to writing documents. There's no such thing as getting off work, and there are no holidays. If the leader says they need it, you have to run and write things even in the middle of the night," Ren Zhong shook his head.

"What, Ren Zhong, you actually don't want a job within the system anymore? Are you crazy? How difficult is it to get into the system now, and you actually don't want it?" The other two brothers exclaimed one after another upon hearing Ren Zhong's meaning, just like Zhao Lidong's initial reaction.

But on the surface, he looked indifferent and began eating and drinking with his brothers. Although he came by car, there were so many designated drivers in this world, it was impossible to not let people earn money even once.

Anyway, today's gathering was to reveal his change in status. If he takes off in the future, everyone should get used to it, right?

Thinking this way, Ren Zhong quickly entered the drinking battle.