Is home just a simple word?

Home is a person's safe haven, home is the sustenance of a person's soul, and home is the driving force for a person's hard work!

The dawn of late autumn is unusually cold, but it can't stop people who are busy for their livelihoods, and there are people in twos and threes on the cold streets, either walking forward in clothes or walking with sleepy eyes open.

Among the many pedestrians, there was a burly man, even though the temperature had dropped a lot, he was only wearing a shabby cowhide armor, and some places had worn holes, perhaps because he was too busy, and the beard on his chin was as lush as a weed, which made him look a little mentally abnormal.

Taking a deep breath of cold air, feeling the refreshment of the cold air entering his lungs, the burly man rubbed his cheeks vigorously with both hands until his face was red, and then cleared his throat vigorously, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, making himself look more energetic, and turned left and right in the alley a few times, and stood in front of a courtyard with a gate ajar.

Looking around suspiciously, and then at the half-open door, and really unable to think of anyone who would visit him, the burly man stepped in, shouting loudly in a deep voice.

"Mom, I'm back!

When he walked into the courtyard, the hidden door suddenly opened, and a bloated middle-aged man appeared in front of him.

Looking at this familiar face, the burly man frowned and couldn't help blurting out.

"What are you doing?"

The bloated man stood in front of the door, but instead of answering the former's question right away, he looked the former up and down before answering.

"Leon, it seems that I'm not the only one being punished, and so are you!"

"Humph!"

The burly Leon didn't say anything, just snorted, which was considered to answer the former's question, but in this voice, the Jersey team leader heard a trace of anger, a trace of resentment and unwillingness.

"To make a long story short, I'm here to partner with you to do a thing, as long as this bet is right, you and I may have a beautiful turnaround!"

Hearing the Jersey leader say this, the burly Leon didn't give much reaction, just raised his eyelids, as if he was not interested in the former's words.

As if he had expected the other party's reaction, the bloated Jersey team leader spread his hands helplessly and spoke.

"I've had a hard time in the past few days! After this mission was judged to be a failure by President Shaquille, not only you, but I was also dismissed from my position and expelled from the Shaquille Chamber of Commerce! Now you and I are both fallen people in the world!"

Hearing this, the look on the burly Leon's face eased slightly, and he looked down at the former, as if he believed the other party's words, but he still asked the doubts in his heart.

"With your ability, it should be easy to find the same job, after all, the tool you use to earn money is that head, and I only have the brute strength of these hands, if you don't try your luck in other chambers of commerce, how can you come to me?"

But he never thought that as soon as Leon's words fell, the smile on Jersey's face, which was still smiling just now, suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a kind of resentment, an expression that only had to be driven to a corner.

Looking back at the hidden door, Jersey did not answer immediately, but tilted his head towards the door, and gestured, the burly Leon still didn't know what the other party meant, nodded tacitly, and the two walked out of the door lightly, and then closed it.

After doing this, Jersey spat fiercely and seemed to vent.

"I can't find a job!

"Well, how do you know that?" Leon subconsciously asked rhetorically when he heard this.

But thinking that the Jersey team leader who seemed to be able to restrain himself just now, after hearing this, his spirit seemed to be out of control, his arms waved angrily, and he lowered his voice almost hysterically and roared.

"Hehe! How do I know! How do you ask me? Of course I do! Because all the chambers of commerce that usually want to poach me have rejected my request for a job, one refused, and two of them also refused, and I ran into a wall several times in a row, and of course I sensed that something must have happened!"

"So I privately found a guy in one of the chambers of commerce who could manage things, the kind that used to have a good relationship, guess what I knew? You can't even think of killing you!"

"Hehehe! It's Shaquille's old fellow! It's him! He's behind it! He's claiming that our mission failed because we had secretly made some kind of deal with the bandits of Antelope Canyon, and that we had betrayed the Chamber of Commerce in exchange!"

"He publicized this matter everywhere, and now all the chambers of commerce in this city know about it, so you and I have become big rats! Big rats who sell the interests of the chamber of commerce in exchange for their own interests! No chamber of commerce will recruit such a person, even if this matter is just a rumor, not what they have seen with their own eyes, no matter how strong this person's ability is, there is no possibility!"

"So, it's not just you're unemployed! So am I, if it weren't for the fact that I still had a sum of savings before, I believe I'm not much better off than you! It's okay for a short time, but what if it goes on like this for a long time? My little savings won't last long!"

"You and I have been cornered by that old Shaquille!

Hysterically saying the words that were held in his heart, Jersey, who had become neurotic, suddenly quieted down, as if after venting, it was as if he had changed a person, and his excited emotions suddenly became unusually calm, and the silence made people palpitate.

Staring at Jersey with a calm expression, Leon's expression gradually changed, as the former said, after leaving the Shaquille Chamber of Commerce, his job search path was also full of obstacles, and the guards who had extended an olive branch to him in the past became afraid of him.

He also had doubts about this, but the burden of the family made him have no time to take care of him, let alone find out like the other party, because he had to spend all his energy to make money, and he was the pillar of the family, so he chose to take the initiative to forget.

But now, what he took the initiative to forget was suddenly mentioned, and the truth of the matter was indeed surprising, but he was helpless, after all, the initiator of this matter was the Shaquille known as Silver Lightning, the president of the Shaquille Chamber of Commerce, a person with a certain status in the city, but he was the lowest level of the city, not even the middle class.

Shocked by the news, Leon's mind was briefly confused for a moment, and his gaze at Jersey was mixed with some complicated meanings.

"What do you want to do?"

Hearing this from Leon's mouth as he wished, Jersey was finally relieved that he didn't have to bother to persuade him any more, and he did not answer the former's words directly, but asked an irrelevant question.

"Do you know anything about tomorrow's game, the game that is opened?"

"I know, the people around me have been crazy lately, and the topic of conversation is all about gambling odds!" Glancing at the other party in confusion, Leon nodded to indicate that he knew about it. "Why do you ask this? You know I'm not a gambler!"

But then his eyes widened and he looked at the other in surprise.

"The counterattack method you said about putting oneself to death and resurrecting oneself should be to participate in this gambling game, right?"

When Leon saw Jersey's eyes, he knew that he had guessed correctly, and that the latter was talking about the way to participate in this grand gamble, and he waved his hand repeatedly.

"No! Absolutely not! Gambling is always a deception! It is impossible to win a bet with nine out of ten guarantees, and I will never agree to this method!"

In Leon's series of words of refusal, Jersey still looked at the former with a smile on his face, as if he was not at all worried about the other party's resolute attitude.

"Hehe, you're still so cautious! To put it nicely, you call it cautious, to put it mildly, you don't have the courage that a man should have! If you want the Jedi to fight back, you must put it to death and come back to life, so that people can fight indomitable!"

"No, no! I won't say yes no matter what you say! I don't want to put my whole family on a gamble!" Leon shook his head like a rattle at Jersey's sarcastic words.

"Do you know which prince has the highest odds right now?"

"Of course I know, because as of yesterday, the eldest prince has not found a suitable candidate! Because of his special status, he can't abstain like other princes, and he hasn't found a suitable candidate until now, so he can only choose one person to participate in the competition in a hurry, so his odds are the highest!"

"That's right! The eldest prince must participate in the competition, he has no right to give up, this sentence is not wrong at all, but since the person who hastily found the contestant is bound to be weaker than the person who the other prince has carefully prepared to find, everyone will think so!" "So, we are ready to put all the bets on the eldest prince!"

"You're crazy, you're really crazy! This is the end of losing! Look at the people other princes are looking for, which one is not a famous young talent, and there should be a limit to opportunism, I think you are really crazy!"

"Don't talk so much, look at this, you make a decision!" As he spoke, Jersey reached out and pulled out a neatly folded note from his bosom and slapped it Leon's chest. "See for yourself, look carefully, and then tell me your decision!"

Looking at the other party suspiciously, Leon reached out and took the note that the former patted on his chest, opened it skillfully, and looked down.

At first, it was better, there was no expression on his face, but when he saw the last line, his puzzled eyes suddenly widened, and he held the note in one hand, his hand trembled like a sieve, and his mouth could only make a uh-uh sound, and he couldn't say a complete sentence.

"Take it easy, take it easy! When I first got this note, my reaction was the same as yours, and the name written on it, I have also confirmed it repeatedly, and the name written on this note will only be announced today, so I won't give anyone else time to investigate, only familiar people know how terrifying this person is!" Looking at Leon's expression with great satisfaction, of course Jersey knew that the name on this sticky note would have a similar impact, and officially because of this, he had always been confident and confident, looking at the other party and asking. "Now tell me your choice!

"If the name on this note is true, it's not impossible!" Glancing at the confident Jersey, Leon's heart was very entangled, although he believed that the owner of this name had a good chance of winning the championship, but it was only a good chance, and he couldn't do it 100%.

After all, the candidates found by the other princes were not easy to choose, so he did not give an answer immediately, but looked at each other hesitantly.

"But...!"

"But what's it! I'll tell you, this matter should be sooner rather than later, the information of the owner of this name, I believe that it will be found out tonight, and by that time, the odds will be very different!" Looking at Leon's hesitant appearance, Jersey's eyebrows furrowed, obviously becoming a little impatient, he didn't expect the other party to be so procrastinating in the decision on this matter.

"That being said, but... But...!" Seeing that Jersey was getting impatient, Leon's heart was also very entangled, he also wanted to seize this opportunity, but after hesitating to do so, there was really no way out, he needed to feed this family.

"Think about your bedridden old father, and then think about your mother, who is also sick, can the meager salary you earn desperately earn now really support this family? Can it really support the two old people to recover their health?" "Don't hesitate any longer, whether you are dead or alive, as long as you fight this time, the outcome will naturally be known! We have no choice!"

"Okay! I'll fight! If I lose, I'll take the two old men back to my hometown in the countryside to live, and this place won't come back!" Under the other party's passionate persuasion, Leon finally gritted his teeth and made a ruthless decision.

This decision seemed extremely difficult for him, his father and his two generations had worked hard for so long in this city where every inch of land was valuable, and finally moved out of the slums, and with just some more hard work, he could save enough to buy the outermost house in the Outer Imperial City, although it was not big, but it only left the civilian city, didn't it!

But if this gamble fails, then the efforts of both generations will come to naught, everything will have to start all over again, or it is not impossible that the ending will be more tragic, but what can be done, if he doesn't fight this time, if he doesn't seize this rare opportunity, maybe he will regret it for life.

As Jersey said, he has no choice, there is no way out, he can only grit his teeth and move forward!