What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?

That day after school.

In the cafeteria.

Zhang Yu, Zhou Tianyi, and Bai Zhenzhen were sitting together, having dinner.

Bai Zhenzhen was still as cold and silent as usual, calmly devouring the large plate of food in front of her.

Zhou Tianyi glanced at Zhang Yu and said, "Your recent financial situation is a bit rough."

"Is it that obvious?"

Zhang Yu was slightly stunned, wondering if the debt collection calls had already reached his classmates. Would the fact that he owed 700,000 be exposed at school?

Zhou Tianyi glanced at Bai Zhenzhen's lavish dinner, complete with chicken, duck, and fish, then at Zhang Yu's meager 5-yuan meal.

He stroked his chin and said, "Based on my observations of the cafeteria over the past three months, what a person eats in the cafeteria can effectively reflect their financial situation, and even their cultivation level, during that period."

"For example, someone who eats ten pounds of food in one meal won't sit at the same table as someone who eats three pounds."

"Because they are in completely different classes, located at the top and bottom of the campus food chain of contempt, respectively."

"So, it's because I'm eating less." Zhang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking his identity as a super pauper was about to be exposed.

He turned to look at Bai Zhenzhen, staring at the dozen or so chicken legs in her rice bucket, and asked curiously, "Ah Zhen, these chicken legs look special. Can I have one?"

Bai Zhenzhen said without looking up, "Scram."

Zhou Tianyi, who was next to him, smiled and picked a duck leg from his bowl for Zhang Yu: "Zhenzhen had a lot of exercise today; she must be starving. Try mine."

"Good brother!" Zhang Yu gave Zhou Tianyi a thumbs up, grabbed the duck leg, and started gnawing on it.

Zhou Tianyi looked at Zhang Yu's ravenous appearance and smiled slightly: "If you encounter financial difficulties, I can lend you some money."

Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, "No need, I'll figure it out myself."

Although he was heavily in debt, Zhang Yu didn't plan to borrow money from his classmates, or rather, borrowing money from his classmates wouldn't solve the huge debt of 700,000 in one go. What he needed was a way to earn money continuously and pay off the debt continuously.

"At least I have to pay off the monthly interest, and I can't let the collection agency escalate its methods."

Zhang Yu knew that as the time he was overdue increased, the collection company's methods would become more and more severe, from online insults to real-life actions, each step more serious than the last.

"And the rent, utilities, food expenses..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu felt a headache coming on.

After Zhou Tianyi left, Bai Zhenzhen suddenly said, "Based on my observations of you and Zhou Tianyi over the past three months, he's especially nice to you."

Zhang Yu: "Is he?"

Bai Zhenzhen chuckled and said, "A guy smiling and giving the duck leg in his bowl to another guy... in my eighteen years of life, I've only seen two situations where this happens."

"One, the two are father and son."

"The other, hehehehe..."

Zhang Yu raised an eyebrow: "Ah Zhen, you watch some pretty miscellaneous stuff."

Bai Zhenzhen: "Yuzi, you don't have to be afraid. Anyway, in this school, you're the one with the initiative."

Saying that, Bai Zhenzhen pushed her plate in front of Zhang Yu: "Ah, I can't eat anymore. I'll reward you with these leftovers since you're my good son."

"Scram." Zhang Yu grabbed the plate, and a glance revealed that the small portion of food inside was neatly arranged and untouched.

Just as Zhang Yu raised his head to thank her, he only saw Bai Zhenzhen's back as she left the cafeteria.

Walking out of the cafeteria, Bai Zhenzhen's gaze turned indifferent again. She thought to herself, "Yuzi, actually, there's a third situation where this happens."

Bai Zhenzhen turned to look at the steps at the entrance of the cafeteria, where a cafeteria aunt was pouring the leftover food from the swill bucket into a cat's bowl.

...

Leaving school, Zhang Yu began planning how to earn money.

"My rent is 1,500, utilities are about 200 a month, and the loan repayment is 15,000 a month..."

"Hiss..."

Thinking of this, his head started to ache again.

"I need to earn at least 20,000 a month. An ordinary job definitely won't cut it."

With a thought, the Feather Book unfolded before Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu

Dao Heart: Level 1

Mana: 7.7

Physical Strength: Level 0.84

Martial Arts: Thirty-Six Styles of Body Strengthening Level 2 (17/20), Freehand Combat Level 1, High School Basic Swordsmanship Level 0

Dao Techniques: Basic Breathing Technique Level 1, Basic Mind Refining Technique Level 1

Seeing the newly appeared 'High School Basic Swordsmanship Level 0', Zhang Yu recalled today's martial arts class.

The so-called martial arts class was a course to learn various fighting and combat martial arts. Practical combat accounted for 80% of the 100 points in martial arts class.

Like, the first year of high school requires learning a practical unarmed martial art and a practical weapon-based martial art.

And this High School Basic Swordsmanship was what he learned in today's martial arts class, but it still showed Level 0, probably because he hadn't really mastered it.

But Zhang Yu tried it a little and found that this 'High School Basic Swordsmanship Level 0' could also be dragged.

He estimated that if he specialized in this martial art, he could quickly master it and level it up quickly with his potential.

These thoughts flashed quickly through his mind, and Zhang Yu continued to stare at his panel, thinking about what kind of work he could do.

"Although I just embarked on the path of cultivation not long ago, I am still a formal student of Songyang High School..."

After a moment, Zhang Yu began to contact his former tutoring center with his phone.

The original Zhang Yu had entered Songyang High School after tutoring at this tutoring center.

"The income of this kind of tutoring center should be good, and I am a formal student of Songyang High School, so I should have an advantage."

But after he inquired, the teacher at the tutoring center said that they were already full and told him to try other tutoring centers.

So Zhang Yu contacted other tutoring centers.

"Hello, I want to be a part-time tutor. I'm a first-year student at Songyang High School..."

"Where did you graduate from elementary school and junior high school?"

"No, I'm already a formal student at Songyang High School!"

"Sorry, because there are also many tutors with key high school diplomas, if a first-year high school student like you comes to work part-time, parents will value your first and second diplomas before high school."

After learning about Zhang Yu's elementary school and junior high school, the other party didn't reply again.

And after repeating the above conversation five or six times, Zhang Yu gradually understood.

"Damn it!"

"Are the requirements for the first and second diplomas so high?"

"Is the competition for tutoring teachers so fierce now?"

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Zhang Yu felt that his elementary school diploma and junior high school diploma were like two ugly labels, deeply printed on his face, making it extremely difficult for him to even find a part-time tutoring job.

So Zhang Yu had to temporarily abandon the tutoring center route and try another backup plan.

"I can only try doing odd jobs first."

Regarding the path of doing odd jobs, the original Zhang Yu had also learned about it in the three months since the start of school.

Of course, the temporary jobs mentioned here are not the temporary jobs found by ordinary people, but the temporary jobs found by people who have already embarked on the path of immortality.

Like, high school students account for a large proportion in this group, after all, not every high school student is a rich brother, and a considerable number of high school students need to earn money themselves in order to reduce the burden on their families, or to buy some things they want.

And because high school students neither have a high school diploma, and most of the time they need to attend classes, they often can only work part-time in some temporary jobs.

Zhang Yu had also learned a little about this path in the past two days, and immediately added a middleman and asked if there was any work to do now.

"You're too late to ask, today's jobs have all been taken for the time being."

"Why don't you come here and wait? You can grab a new job directly."

...

Half an hour later, Zhang Yu came to a small square.

From a distance, he saw many people scattered around the square, sitting or lying down. Among these people, there were old and young, men and women. Some just lay on the ground to take a nap, and some were still wearing school uniforms and meditating cross-legged.

According to the address given by the other party, Zhang Yu found a human resources company in the corner of the square.

The company was not big, and the facade looked like a real estate agency. The dirty glass was covered with various simple recruitment advertisements.

Taking a look at the old signboard, Zhang Yu just pushed the door open, and a strong smell of smoke rushed over him, making him frown.

Behind the messy desk, a middle-aged man who was smoking raised his head, glanced at Zhang Yu, and said, "Are you the high school student who just consulted?"

Seeing Zhang Yu nod, the man introduced himself as Lao Wang, a middleman here. He took out a few pieces of paper and said, "Fill out the resume, and I'll register it for you later."

Zhang Yu took it and saw that in addition to some information, he also had to fill in the martial arts and Taoist techniques he had learned and their levels, as well as his grades in school.

After handing the completed form to the other party, Zhang Yu asked, "How long does it usually take to find a job? How is the income?"

Lao Wang scratched his messy hair and said casually, "The minimum is also several hundred yuan per hour... but it's hard to say how long it will take to find one. It's normal to have no work for a week if you're unlucky."

Zhang Yu thought, "Is the income of this job so high? If that's the case, wouldn't working two or three hours a day be enough to pay off the loan and living expenses?"

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu was overjoyed.

But then he heard the other party say that the job was not easy to find, so he asked curiously, "Why?"

He emphasized his identity: "I'm in the top ten of the first year of key high school, is it also difficult to find?"

Lao Wang smiled when he heard this and pointed outside and said, "Did you see those people in the square? Except for high school students like you, the rest are all high school graduates."

Zhang Yu was shocked when he heard this, and then didn't believe it: "How is that possible? After graduating from high school, they have cultivated immortality and still come here to find temporary workers?"

Lao Wang shrugged: "They didn't get into college, not every high school student can get into college."

"If you can't get into college, you'll be in the Qi Refining stage for the rest of your life, and you won't be able to go to the second layer of Kunxu, so you can only mix in this first layer year after year..."

Zhang Yu still didn't understand: "Then you can find a formal job on the first layer, why come to do temporary work?"

Lao Wang explained: "They don't need to sleep. After finishing their daytime work, if the company doesn't work overtime, they'll come to find some temporary work to do."

"Otherwise, how can they pay off the loan? And how can they have enough money to maintain their cultivation?"

The other party's words set off a wave in Zhang Yu's heart. He didn't know that high school graduates were so hard in his previous memory.

I only thought that after graduating from high school, even if they didn't get into college, they would sit in the office in the skyscraper in the city center every day, blowing on the air conditioner, drinking tea, and getting a decent salary...

As a result, good fellow, studying 24 hours before graduation and working 24 hours after graduation, the more you eat bitterness, the more it is, right.

Lao Wang looked at Zhang Yu's resume and smiled: "Yo, Songyang High School, then we are alumni, I am also from Songyang High School, but I dropped out in the third year of high school."

Zhang Yu: "Dropped out?"

Lao Wang shrugged: "I couldn't get into college, so I simply didn't waste money. I just paid off the loan I owed in high school the year before."

"For the sake of being alumni, I'll give you a suggestion."

"Do what you can in high school, and if you feel like you can't get into college, withdraw early, so as not to owe too much debt like some people and ruin your life."

After filling out the information, the other party asked Zhang Yu to wait outside, and they would notify him immediately if there was any work.

Zhang Yu: "Competing with those high school graduates, can I get a job?"

Lao Wang: "Don't worry, some jobs are specifically looking for high school students."