Chapter 19: The Zeroer
In the evening of that day, Gu Naihui, who went to the city, returned to the hotel, and the scene in front of her almost made her think that she had gone to the wrong place. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There are customers in the store, and there are quite a few, although there are not as many customers as the Dujia restaurant opposite, but compared to the day she left two days ago, it is simply a prosperous business.
And what is the white, clump of things that the guests eat? It looks delicious, and most of the guests eat the same thing, and some of them are not addicted, and they shout "one more" from time to time.
"Could it be...... This is the new dish?"
Seeing the guy who walked into the kitchen wearing a chef's uniform, Gu Naihui had a flash of inspiration in his mind.
He...... How is it possible that he actually did it?
But so what, relying on a single dish still can't save the Gu family restaurant, and can't grab back most of the passenger flow, only the intelligent kitchen robot can save the Gu family and recapture all the passenger flow!
"Sister, you're back, come and try the xiaolongbao made by Brother Qiang, it's so delicious! You don't know how hot xiaolongbao is today, and many old customers are back today! Brother Qiang is the lucky star of our store!"
After listening to her younger brother's words, Gu Naihui still had a cold face, ignored him, put down the bag on her shoulder, held it with her hand, and went straight to her room on the second floor.
In the room, unzipping the bag, Gu Naihui gently took out the contents of the bag with her hands, mainly two things: a small bottle of spray similar to anti-wolf spray, and two round coins with golden colors.
Looking at the two things on the table that he had bought with great difficulty, a wistful smile flashed on Gu Naihui's face, and he thought: With these things, tonight, you can start, those two guys who have been eating and drinking in Gu's house for several days should pay their "room fee".
There is also the intelligent kitchen robot manufactured by the Oriental Kitchenware Company, she is also optimistic, the function is more complete than the one bought by the Du Family Restaurant, it can make more dishes, the taste is better, the energy saving is 3%, and the speed is 5% faster, she took it on the spot, paid a 30% deposit, and three days later, the Oriental Kitchenware Company will send the machine over, and it is just in time for the arrival of the harvest day in the town.
She said in her heart: All this I did was for the future of the Gu family, no one came to accuse me, they would only praise and praise me, I didn't do anything wrong, some garbage, I should go to the place where the garbage stays......
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Nine o'clock in the evening.
After everything was done, he took off his chef's clothes and ate a little, Zhou Ming went to the bathroom to take a big shower, washed away the smell of oil smoke, and then dragged his somewhat tired body to his room on the third floor, ready to sleep.
His room is very small, less than ten square meters, it was a utility room with sundries stacked before, and after vacating it, he made a bed on the ground, and he still slept with Da Zhuang and two people, and the conditions were relatively simple.
But Zhou Ming is already very satisfied, compared to sleeping on the street for almost a month before, being able to sleep in a sheltered house and sleeping in a soft and warm quilt is already a great improvement.
"Whew~, Whew~"
In the middle of the night, there was only a thunderous snoring in the room.
"Kaz~Kaz~"
A sound of metal striking inside the mechanical door lock came from the door, and under the cover of snoring, the sound was small but a little abrupt.
"Click~"
The door that was originally locked was opened a crack, and in the dark, a hand reached through the crack in the door, and then there was a sound of "Z~Z~", and after more than a dozen consecutive "Z", the door was closed again.
Fifteen minutes later, the door was opened in the normal way, and after turning on the light, a graceful woman in pajamas, covering her mouth with a towel, crept in, and saw two men on the ground who had become dead pigs, first kicked them twice, but there was no response, and then with a happy face, she searched and rummaged in the room.
There was no furniture in the room except a low table, let alone a locked box, how could the lady in the pajamas prepare it for them? So, after searching for a while, she found what she was looking for—money.
Two coins, one of them, hung on the neck of the big strong with a rope, opened the photo box at the end of the rope, there was a small photo of a family of three in the box, the people on it were smiling brightly, the woman in the pajamas looked slightly stunned, but still took out the money, and put a coin in again; it took a little effort to find the other one, the guy did not have it in his bag, nor did he have it on his body, and finally she relied on an instrument in her hand to find this money in the gap of the chandelier at the top of the room, and it was very strange how he stuffed it in such a high place?
With all the money in hand, the woman in the pajamas left the room with a satisfied face, turned off the light casually, slammed the door shut, and didn't notice at all that in the dark, the eyes that had already been opened.
"Is that the purpose, but you're the crudest of the 137 thieves who want to take my money. ”
Got up from the ground, a sturdy figure, silently, followed the woman in pajamas just now, to the second floor.
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As the harvest day approached, more and more migrant workers came to Baowan Town, and the number of thousands of people increased every day, bringing a lot of warm and noisy atmosphere to the quiet Baowan Town.
These "pigeon clans" have a complex composition, including middle-aged and elderly people with gray hair, strong young men and women, and even some families come in groups, some adults and children, laughing and laughing, it doesn't look like they are here to do short-term work, but like the whole family is traveling together.
However, when a rumbling motorcycle engine sounded at the entrance of Baowan Town, just this unique sound was heard, and the entire Baowan Town was instantly enveloped in an abnormal atmosphere.
The pigeon tribe, in particular, seemed to have been spelled by the collective, the adults stopped talking, the children stopped crying, and everyone trembled, looking down at the tall, indifferent-looking man with special armor and armor, a tubular weapon around his waist, and a strangely patterned "zero" on his arm The uniformed man with the black armband showed an inexplicable fear in his eyes, and his heart beat with the rhythmic sound of the uniformed man's boots and stepping on the ground.
As soon as he appeared, the man in uniform became the focus of the entire town.
In the Gujia Hotel, several guests were discussing.
"I didn't expect the zero-clearers to come so early this year, and in previous years, they only came after the harvest day. ”
"yes, it's been a few days in advance, and the pigeons are scared and caught off guard, and I can see someone peeing their pants. ”
"I was arrested five last year, which is the fewest in the past, I don't know how many will be taken away this year?"
"The Zeroer is here, don't discuss it, don't be targeted by him. ”
Clearer?
Zhou Ming, who was stir-frying in the kitchen, paused slightly in the movements of his hands after hearing this term, and a trace of disgust flashed on his face.
In the city, he was inspected three times by this kind of thing, but he didn't expect that in the countryside, there was still such a haunting existence.
Suddenly, there was a burst of crying and screaming on the road outside the store.
"Please, sir, please don't take my child! I am such a child, please have mercy and let him go!"
"Sir, I can give you whatever you want, please don't take my child, I kneel down for you, I kowtow to you!"
"Oh, don't, please, don't take my baby!"
A young woman, desperately holding the hand of a teenage child, like a tug-of-war, tried to snatch the child back from the armpit of the tall man in uniform, and the child who was pulled was also crying with horror, and the child's father, a thin young man, also knelt in front of the man in uniform, hugged his legs, and begged for mercy in a very humble tone.
There were more and more onlookers, one by one, they couldn't bear it, Zhou Ming also walked out with a stir-fry spoon, and when he saw this scene, his heart was like a pinprick and he felt a slight pain.
This is not the first time he has seen this kind of scene, in Yaoxing City, he has seen a similar scene four times, and three of them, the one who was taken away was the champion of all kinds of killing competitions from the lower districts with a similar identity to him, because he lost his vigilance and spent money, he was quickly "swept away" by the Clearer , Another time, it was a cute 12-year-old girl who was taken away, Zhou Ming had stepped forward to stop it, and even moved his hand, but after a shock from the high-energy stun gun, he got up from the ground in five minutes, and he never did such an impulsive stupid thing again.
Money is a currency that must be owned by anyone in Area 52, and the number of coins must not be less than 1.
But anyone has to marry and have children, if a couple each has only one piece of money, and if they breed offspring, if there is no extra money to open an account, such a child is a natural "zeroer" with a money balance of 0, and it seems that it should be within the scope of the zeroed out.
And the top-level designer of this world also saw the unreasonableness of this, so it was stipulated: children under the age of 12 are not within the scope of purging, and the parents of these children are given a long enough buffer period.
So this is also why, during Zhou Ming's stay in Yaoxing City for more than a month, most of the people who wanted to steal his money were those minors, and those seemingly innocent smiling faces almost made him fall into the abyss several times.
In this world, there is no so-called family planning, and those poor families who have more children will not care at all except for asking their children to get a piece of money back by any means necessary.
Those children from better families, after seeing the tragic experience of these peers, think that they are almost 12 years old, those who are usually disobedient, playful, and do not study seriously, as long as they hear a sentence from their parents' mouths "If you are disobedient, you will not be given money" This kind of words, no matter how willful and rebellious the child is, he must also learn to be a good baby, obey his parents, reflect his own value of existence in front of his parents, and become mature and sensible.
And the young couple at the door of the Gujia Hotel knelt down and begged, crying so sadly, presumably their children must be very well-behaved at ordinary times, bringing a lot of joy and beauty to the parents, but this originally happy family, now encountering such a human tragedy, the fault is not that they are not qualified to give birth, but that the fault is this cold and cruel world.
Zhou Ming didn't want to listen anymore, took the spoon, silently returned to his kitchen, and continued to fry his dishes.
Maybe it's an escape, he's just a little chef who isn't very stable, and he doesn't have the ability to change this bad world......
"Mr. Zero, there are two cooks in my shop, I found that they have no money on them, and they have been hiding in my store for several days, Mr. Zero, I am afraid that they will steal valuables from the store, so please take them with you, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks. ”
When this voice sounded in Zhou Ming's ears, he raised his head and couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the woman next to the man in uniform, with the corners of her mouth raised high and her face full of smugness.
This woman is really not ordinary stupid!