Volume 6: Summer Chapter 12 Rent
Jiang Mo and Jiang You fought each other for several days. After wasting a lot of paint, he finally admitted defeat and sat in the yard to paint obediently.
He squeezed two lumps of paint onto the canvas, one lemon yellow and the other sky blue. After looking at the drawing board for a while with his chin in his hand, a spider silk hooked up the drawing board. Then, the drawing board swung violently and greatly in the air, and the two lumps of color began to flow, intertwine, and spread along the trajectory of the swaying drawing board...
After the two lumps of color filled the canvas, the drawing board was thrown back to its original place by the spider silk.
Jiang Mo looked at the finished product and jumped off the chair.
Jiang You, who was squatting by the pond and negotiating with the talent recruiter, looked up at Jiang Mo and said, "There's still one more picture. Don't be lazy. You can only play games after you finish drawing it. Did you hear me?"
Jiang Mo staggered straight into the store.
With a bang, the shop door closed.
"It's the rebellious stage," Jiang You shook his head. He lowered his head and touched Zhaocai's head. "Remember this. I'll hang up the sign for the opening of the business in a while. Then you stay by the door. If a girl passes by, you wave and invite her in. Got it?"
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"Would you like to review those cute videos again?"
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"How about we do something exciting and jump through a ring of fire?"
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Jiang You picked up Zhao Cai and said, "It's settled then."
"Meow!"
Jiang You walked to the gate, opened it, put the sign next to the gate, and then went back to get the billboard. When he reached the door of the store, he felt in his pocket and didn't feel the key, so he knocked on the door a few times.
After waiting for a while with no response, he sighed.
"It's very expensive to open a lock. It's one hundred and fifty dollars."
Jiang You kicked the door.
"Then why don't you throw the key down from upstairs and I can open the door myself?"
"Little colored ball? Are you talking about that? No, no, I, I didn't forget. I'm just too tired. I'll fix it for you in a few days, okay?"
"I promise seven colors, sparkling."
The door opened.
Jiang You walked in.
"Your temper is getting worse and worse," he walked to the counter, took out the small blackboard, found a red chalk, and wrote the three big words "Open for Business" on it. After admiring his handwriting for a while, he said, "I haven't practiced calligraphy or played chess for a long time . How about we play a game of Gobang? You give me three pieces..."
A ball of spider silk fell on Jiang You's face.
Jiang You pulled it off with a smile and said, "Okay, go and have fun."
He was holding the small blackboard, turned around, and when he walked to the door of the store, he heard Jiang Mo's voice.
"Outside. There's a change."
Jiang You turned around and saw Jiang Mo standing on the stairs looking at him.
"It's none of our business." After saying that, Jiang You walked out of the store. He saw that the recruitment department had already hired someone, an acquaintance, his tenant Dai Qi.
She squatted beside Zhaocai and touched its fur.
After hearing the footsteps, Dai Qi looked up and saw the small blackboard in Jiang You's hand. She said, "Brother Jiang, you are finally open for business again?"
"Yes, we have to open the door now. My capital is almost gone." After hanging a small blackboard on the door and adjusting its position, Jiang You pointed to the drawing board in the yard and said, "Look, what do you think of the painting my son drew?"
Hearing this, Dai Qi stood up, walked to the drawing board, looked at it for a while and said, "Is this an oil painting?"
"Really?" Jiang You was also a little uncertain.
"The colors are quite harmonious," Dai Qi commented.
"Everyone who has seen his paintings says he has a good sense of color and is talented," Jiang You walked over to Dai Qi, "Today is Thursday, don't you have to go to work?"
"I'm unemployed," said Dai Qi.
"What's going on?"
"The game was reported by a parent and can only be put online again after rectification."
“So the company is laying off a lot of people?”
"No," Dai Qi sighed, "There was a new leader who came in. When he first came, he made a mistake. I accidentally discovered it and told the higher-ups about it. He probably thought I did it on purpose and held a grudge against me. He finalized the operation plan, and I wrote the copy, but in the end I was the one who took the blame."
“That’s very unkind.”
Dai Qi sighed again, "Besides, this game is not meant for children. It's ridiculous that parents fail to take good care of their children and expect the game company to cultivate their children's values."
"That's not fair."
"What's unfair about that?"
"As for games, they deliberately try to increase users' online time, design all kinds of dazzling consumption scenarios, and spend real money on promotion to attract traffic. They use all kinds of knowledge. Ordinary parents want to compete with you for their children's attention, but they really can't. You are not your opponent."
"If you can't raise the child well, don't give birth to it," Dai Qi complained.
"People are resources," Jiang You saw Dai Qi's face was a little ugly, so he asked, "Did you get the compensation?"
"No, they forced me to resign," Dai Qi paused and added, "I was originally thinking about changing to another company where I had to work less overtime, but my friend advised me to just hang in there, go to work every day, and stay until the end of the day. Unless I was compensated, I would never leave."
"You have a lot of experience in struggle."
"I did this for a few days, and then they took my computer away. My colleagues didn't dare to talk to me. I was like an invisible person. I felt it was boring, so I left."
“Have you started looking for a job?”
"I'm sending out my resume, and my friends are recommending me."
“By the way, has Dong You moved out?” Jiang You remembered.
"I moved out. The girl I'm sharing the apartment with now is about to graduate from college."
"What kind of job do you do?" Jiang You asked.
"It seems like he is preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. I am not sure. Our schedules are not aligned, so it takes a long time for us to see each other." Dai Qi watched Zhao Cai jump onto the flower bed. "It is much bigger than before."
"An orange cat."
"It can't be too fat. I have a friend who also had an orange cat. It was this big when she was hugged," Dai Qi gestured at its size. "Then it got sick and couldn't have surgery. It died not long after."
"Why can't we have surgery?" Jiang You asked.
"Because of its size, ordinary anesthesia may not be enough. If we increase the dose..." Dai Qi glanced at Jiang You, "It may not wake up after the operation."
Hearing this, Jiang You looked down at his stomach and said, "Yes, I need to lose weight, that's not right..."
"What's wrong?"
"A tenant didn't pay me rent this month," Jiang You took out his phone and looked through the transfer records. "I felt something was wrong. I just bought a little more paint, but the money was gone."
