More than ten days have passed since she received the call from Chocolate, and Yang Qianye not only failed to scrape together 10,000 yuan, but became more and more stretched due to her mother's sudden situation.

The money funded by Min Yuhua lasts for half a year at most, and the time left for her is not too much to say a lot less. Before finding a full-time job, she decided to find another part-time job and earn an extra one.

Song Yingchen helped with this. The gym he went to called "HotFit" was diagonally opposite the Sakura Apartment, and it happened to be recruiting part-time jobs in the evenings, mainly responsible for floor cleaning, equipment storage and other chores. The salary is not high, 1200 in January, and the time is 19:00-22:00 every night.

When Yang Qianye effortlessly lifted the hundreds of pounds of barbell with one hand, the gym owner gladly accepted her.

They're in need of a powerful administrator to get these iron guys in order. Gym guests have no habit of recovering after using equipment, which is not only unsightly, but also has several accidents where equipment has hit and injured ankles, and Chiba can be used as a "scavenger" to sweep out these hidden dangers. What's more, her strength is completely capable of withstanding two or even three people.

After getting off work from the children's clothing store, she had to rush to the gym, and she didn't have time to eat dinner, so she had to wait until after 22:00. But this is nothing for her, and she is willing to be tired ten times more at the thought of making more money.

She ran around the gym in a short gym suit, wiping the floor stained by sweat and drinks, moving the equipment to the right position, and quickly getting her hands on it.

At about eight o'clock that day, Song Yingchen came. Chiba was busy packing up the equipment for his Pilates class when he looked up to find him standing outside the classroom with an apologetic expression.

"Coming?" She greeted in a tone that could not tell whether she was a friend or a guest, and she did not stop her work.

"Tired?" Song Yingchen asked.

"I'm not tired, you know I'm very energetic, and these jobs are nothing."

"Such a small salary, such a heavy job......" Song Yingchen paused, thinking about what kind of wording to use so as not to embarrass her, "I mean, I didn't introduce you if I knew this way, I'm really sorry." ”

"Thank you too late, don't say that." Beads of sweat dripped down, and Chiba quickly grabbed the towel around her neck to wipe the ground clean.

Song Yingchen hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Do you want to go to my mother's place to work?" ”

"Aunt Lu?" She straightened up, feeling her muscles sore from bending over for a long time, "It's not appropriate." ”

"Yes, I can still refuse to introduce her. Besides, isn't your mother an old friend of her, this little favor will definitely help. ”

"Old friend......" she repeated, only then did she remember the lie she had told to Song Yingchen with Lu Meiqin before, and hurriedly replied to his words, "Just because I am an old friend, I shouldn't cause trouble, I'm already embarrassed to live in your house, how can I embarrass Aunt Lu again." ”

"You're a strange person, it's all from the last century. It is normal for friends to help each other as much as they can, so that they can feel the friendship and weight of each other. You're here now, aren't you also helped by my friend? ”

A sentence made Chiba's face red, both moved and guilty. Touched by the fact that Song Yingchen used the word "friend" to her, and the guilt was that she deceived him.

"It's different, the gym is not opened by you, and you are directly responsible for the boss whether you do it well or not. But Aunt Lu is going to do a bad job there, and she is embarrassed by you, isn't it? Besides, she is engaged in architecture, I don't know anything at all, and I can't be practical just by relying on your words to get in. ”

Song Yingchen thought about it, and nodded thoughtfully.

"That's right, my mother is quite serious, she values career rather than favor, and if there is any friction with you, she will definitely be ruthless."

"So, you've already helped me, it's good here, I can afford it." After saying that, Chiba began to work again, and sweat was on his forehead again.

Song Yingchen didn't say more, entered the locker room, changed his clothes and came out after a while, first did 20 minutes of aerobic work on the treadmill, and then went to the equipment area to sweat like rain.

Chiba was busy in the east and west, and he didn't pay attention to when he left later.

It was half past ten at night when I returned to the Sakura apartment, and Da Mao saw her coming far away from the surveillance and quickly ran out.

"What are you carrying?" Da Mao asked.

Chiba carries a large bag, full of drink bottles that gym guests have drunk.

"Empty bottles. Do you have a place for me to put it there, and I'll come down tomorrow morning to sell it. ”

Da Mao's eyes widened, and he asked incredulously: "Sell scrap!" How short of money are you? ”

She smiled slightly, not ashamed, and replied, "I didn't pick it up on the street." Didn't I tell you that I work part-time at the gym, these are all thrown away by the guests. The boss thought there was too much garbage for me to throw away, thinking that it was a pity to throw it away, anyway, it was so close to carry it back. ”

"This can sell for a few bucks, miss, you're a man who lives in a mansion."

"Don't make fun of me, I'm not a young lady, and you know this mansion has nothing to do with me. The bottle sells enough for breakfast, so saving one counts as one. ”

Feeling that they are quite familiar with each other, and they belong to the same class, Chiba doesn't care about the so-called face in front of Da Mao. They were born equally, they all lived a hard life, they came from a small place, and the unspeakable source of inferiority complex in front of others was precisely the unscrupulous conversation between the two.

"Also, when a little money accumulates, don't rich people also save up one by one. My mother often said that I should live a careful life, and tell me to find a daughter-in-law who can run the family in the future. Da Mao stared at her with words, "Our family is used to frugality, and we use a basin of water to wash our feet. ”

"It must be because your feet stink the most." Chiba joked, stretching her neck to look into the community, "I'm afraid that other owners will see me and complain about me, saying that I picked up rags." ”

"If you don't steal or rob, why should they complain. But ah, you are indeed a big weirdo in this apartment, carrying big bags of empty bottles for a while, and big bags of meat buns for a while......" Da Mao said and pursed his mouth, mentioning what Grandma Wang reported to him.

"You saw it all?" Chiba asked embarrassedly.

"Ah, oh, yes, it's something I didn't see on the surveillance." Da Mao hurriedly grabbed his head, not daring to say anything more.

"Hey, don't talk about that, stupid." Thinking of the short live broadcast experience, she didn't want to say more, and patted the back of her head in annoyance, "How about it, is there a place to put it?" ”

"Yes, I usually sell scrap as well."

"You?"

"Yes, the property has a subscription, several copies. The master asked me to take care of it, and I sold it when I got back. Of course, he knew that I was poor, so he sold some money to add some pocket money, and he didn't say anything. ”

"I'll leave it to you." Chiba handed the pocket over, and Da Mao happily took it.

"I can't put it in the sentry box, I'll put it in the parking lot, and there's a place to pile up debris below."

"You can do it."

"I change shifts every other day, you pick it up and sell it yourself on the night shift, and I help you sell it on the day shift. Every morning at about 10 o'clock, there is a scrap vendor opposite the apartment, the price is fair, and the children are not bullied. ”

"You also take the money, buy a bottle of drink or something when it's hot, I don't want money to take these back, I just think it's a pity to throw it away."

"No, no, no."

"Keep it, next time I go back, I'll buy sour horns for me to eat." Let's go, go up. ”

Chiba grinned and walked towards the unit building.

In the past few days in Lucheng, the extravagant and wasteful scenes of people in the city have simply opened her eyes, and she often feels regretful. She found that she could not fully integrate into the city, which had to do with their own personalities. Lucheng is arrogant, and she has low self-esteem, and Lucheng's extravagance and glitz are even more incompatible with her frugality.

To achieve inner stability in a foreign land, there are only two possibilities: one is the character of the right road, and the important person.

She is very affectionate to Da Mao, and it is easy to gather like things, but Da Mao is not enough to be that important person. In front of her favorite Song Yingchen, she will unnaturally build a higher personality barrier, but she is gradually distancing herself from the character of the city.

She knew in her heart that even if Song Yingchen had never looked at her with a condescending eye, she felt that she was lowly.

She was very tired after a busy night, and she didn't have much appetite after a hurried shower, so she went straight to bed.

Or wrote a diary:

"Master Shangguan said that I could transfer after cutting my hair, and now I have fallen into a trough, which is the last test before transfer. But there are still a lot of good people in the world, or even if it's a minority, but I'm lucky enough to know most of them. For example, Da Mao, although sometimes he is silly and has some gossip, he feels happy every time he sees him. I remember that I don't like to laugh, but I laughed with him the most after coming to Lucheng for so long...... There is also Song Yingchen, he is like a person in the comics, clean, enthusiastic, optimistic, delicate, when he heard that I wanted to find a part-time job, he immediately helped me find it, and asked me to go to his company...... No, what am I thinking, now I should be thinking about how to make money, no matter how tired I am, I have to persevere, why did I start thinking cranky again. Who the hell are you, Chocolate, and when will I see you? You won't lie to me for how long you will test me, will you? ”

Writing and writing, she sighed. She was suspicious of the mysterious man more than once, but she always forced herself to dispel her doubts. Before she saw the bright moon through the clouds, she only had such a lookout, no matter where this lookout was built, whether it was unattainable, whether it had a solid foundation, she had to climb it step by step.

She took out the cosmos brooch again and looked at it carefully, which she thought was the most valuable and suspicious thing.

It was precisely because of this idea that she did not give the brooch to the police, and when those people defined Mo Lianzhi's incident as an accident, she lost trust in them.

The hidden message behind the brooch must be directed at the murderer, and Chiba is convinced. She admonished herself to be patient, to wait a long time, and to be able to peel off the cocoon from the mysterious man's guidance.