Just after twelve o'clock in the evening.

"Pedal pedal pedal..."

I carried a big bag of food and climbed up to the 4th floor, an old building with no elevator.

The walls were covered with all kinds of small advertisements, scribbled and written, written and scrawled, messy.

Following the door number, I found No. 4-9 and raised my hand to knock on the door.

"Bang bang bang-"

It took eight minutes for the door to open, and it was a man with glasses and a mustache.

"Wow, it's taken so long for my brother to open the door, and I still have to work!" I'm a little angry.

The man with glasses glanced at me: "Little brother, it's sent so soon, is it simmering?" ”

"I'm sorry, I don't know, anyway, it's not rotten ask the kitchen, a total of forty-five yuan!"

I spoke in a hurried voice, took the money from the man with glasses, and turned to go downstairs.

It's my job.

I am a food delivery person, not part of the Meime group, hungry or not, but specializing in delivering food for a private small restaurant.

Today is my second day at work, but I don't want to do it anymore. Because an old man told me that if I kept doing it, I would die...

Before I talk about this, let me talk about how I got here to work.

My name is Bai Xiaodao, I was born in 99 and I am 21 years old this year.

Soon after the Chinese New Year, my mother and I were forced to leave the village, but to put it mildly, we were almost kicked out by the villagers.

Not for anything else, because the people in the village think I am a "dead star".

On my twentieth birthday, my grandfather died inexplicably, and then my dad died soon after.

What's even more bizarre is that there have always been rumors in the village that my grandmother also died on the day I was born, and there was also an evil incident of defrauding corpses!

It is said that "the baby falls to the ground, and the dead man rises." "Say I'm a scourge of plagues.

Because of this, the people in the village have always disliked our mother and son.

In the end, my mother couldn't bear it anymore, so she had to call my uncle to find a place to stay in the city.

I thought I would be able to live in peace, but shortly after I moved out, my mom got sick.

I was so anxious that I had no choice but to give up the idea of preparing for graduate school, and began to desperately look for a job to support my family.

Maybe people are unlucky, and everything is not going well, I have done several jobs, but none of them can be done for long.

It's not because I'm lazy and don't want to do it.

Rather, the places where I have worked, without exception, have either gone out of business or inexplicably got into a lawsuit and closed down!

It's almost like entering one house, collapsing another, and everywhere it goes, it's like a swift tornado, all uprooted.

Sometimes, I think to myself, is it true that it is really like what the people in the village say, I am really possessed by some calamity star?

It is said that there is no endless road to heaven.

Just when I was lost and depressed, a stranger suddenly came to my house, saying that he had come to find our mother and son.

The person who came was not tall, in his early thirties and seventeens, slightly fat, with curly yellow hair.

claimed to be Huang Wei, and said that he was the youngest son of Huang Erye.

After listening to his introduction, I was very puzzled, because I didn't know anyone surnamed Huang at all.

I thought he was a liar, and I wanted to drive him away, but my mother was very surprised when she heard this, and immediately hurriedly beckoned this man into the house, and said happily that it was a distinguished guest.

And let me call this person the second uncle.

I was confused, but I still reluctantly shouted: "Second uncle." ”

Later, in the conversation, I figured out that this Huang Wei family was originally from the countryside of our hometown.

His father Huang Erye's full name is Huang Decai.

In the early years, I had a good relationship with my dead grandfather Bai Mubai in the village, and later their Huang family made a fortune in business, so the family moved to Nancheng to settle down.

At that time, I was not yet born.

After briefly talking about these things, Huang Wei smiled at me and said, last time his father Huang Decai returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and heard about my family, so he told him to come over and take a look to see if he could help.

Later, he told me that he had a small restaurant in Nancheng, and he happened to lack a helper to do chores at the moment, and asked me if I would like to work with him?

I thought to myself, since people look at my grandfather's face, regardless of the rumors, they made a special trip to find him, which can be regarded as righteous enough.

How can there be any reason not to agree?

Although, there is no future in the restaurant chores, but now I am in this situation, where can I still choose?

Moreover, Huang Wei's conditions are also extremely tempting, not only do you have to eat and live every month, but you also have a salary of 6,000 yuan to get.

Six thousand dollars is not a small amount for me, and I don't even dare to think about it.

So, I immediately nodded my head.

I thought that this time, I finally burned high incense, and it was time to run and meet nobles.

My mother is naturally very grateful, and she told me to follow Second Uncle Huang well.

At noon that day, after Huang Wei had a light meal, I simply cleaned up and hurried away with him.

On the way, I learned from Huang Wei that the restaurant he opened was located on the edge of the city in the north district of the south city, and the geographical location was somewhat remote.

Although I have not been in Nancheng for a short time, I also know that the North District is an old city in the suburbs, and I heard that I have been relocating and evacuating recently.

Presumably, business should be good.

But I didn't think about it, when I arrived at the place, I was almost dumbfounded.

Even, I thought to myself, can he make money by opening a restaurant in this place?

The name of the restaurant is "Ten Miles of Fragrance", and it is located at the end of Xinhe Street in the North District of Nancheng.

It occupies a small area, just a hall of thirty or forty square meters and a narrow back kitchen.

The streets are very old on the outside, and there are only a few open shops in the surrounding area, which looks very bleak.

The most important thing is that the flow of people here is extremely sparse, and you can't see a passerby passing by for most of the day, and even the vehicles passing by are a little strange and rare.

I really can't understand what Huang Wei's intention is to open the restaurant in such a secluded and inappropriate place?

Seeing that I was stunned, Huang Wei coughed a few times on the side, and then gave me a brief introduction to the situation in the restaurant.

There are only three people in the whole restaurant, and I added a Granny Yu who is in charge of washing vegetables and dishes.

After introducing these, he immediately patted me on the shoulder and said happily: "Xiaodao, this will be your home in the future, you live on the third floor, I will take you there in a while, how about we start work tonight?" ”

"Ah, work at night?"

I was a little angry, and I looked at him with my head touched.

"Knife, you don't know, our store is open from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., and you will get used to it slowly."

Huang Wei said as he took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to me.

I took the cigarette and lit it, thinking to myself, this restaurant is really wonderful, why does it have to open in the evening.

It's so cold during the day, can there be diners at night?

Huang Wei took a puff of cigarette, his face was full of comfort, as if he could see what I was thinking, and then he grinned and said, "Xiaodao, the second uncle will tell you about work first." As you must have seen, this area is sparsely populated, and our restaurant mainly earns money by going out to deliver takeaways. ”

After listening to him, I couldn't help but look left and right, and then suddenly nodded.

"You know how to ride a bike, right?" Then he asked me again.

I hurriedly replied, "Second uncle, I can ride a bicycle, and so can a motorcycle." ”

"Okay, you come with me, and the second uncle will take you out first to familiarize yourself with the surrounding terrain."

Then he drove me around the old town.

On the way, he kept introducing me to the surrounding terrain so that I could remember it.

I nodded and took a general look, the terrain of this area is not complicated, and many places have already been relocated.

The two main points of food delivery are concentrated around a construction site and several old buildings.

The location is extremely easy to find, almost all the way down the main road, very easy.

Immediately, I thought to myself, this is a good job!

Although it was a night shift, it was fortunately not too long. Moreover, it is very simple to simply deliver food, and you don't have to do anything else at all.

As long as you're not a fool, you're up to the task.

It was because of this easy, lucrative job that I met the old man who said I was going to die...