Chapter 224: Into the City
Thanks to the blessing of the Fire Eagle, Old Man Chang's repair shop can now earn more than 10,000 yuan every day, and one day it reached 30,000 at the peak.
30,000 Lansa coins is nothing for many people in the city, but in this area, it is sky-high, and the old man Chang has been so excited that he can't sleep for several nights, and if this continues, Chang Xiaowu's medical expenses will be able to make up.
Seven days later, at the end of the day's work, the old man settled the wages of the past few days to Sirin and Biller after dinner. Cillin's salary had been agreed on a long time ago, while Piller's was the final income calculated according to the performance and so on as previously mentioned.
In this way, Xilin has 50,000, Pile has 20,000, and Chang Laohan himself has nearly 100,000, originally Chang Laohan wanted to divide them more, but Xilin and Beer refused, plus they wanted to save money for Chang Xiaowu's treatment, Chang Laohan didn't say much, but the food and so on were taken by Chang Laohan.
The gray cat licked its paws as she wondered when Xilin would be able to buy some fish biscuits back from the city, and he was already quite nostalgic.
"By the way, I see that some parts are not enough today, and several major customers need several important parts for the maintenance of flying cars, I took a look, there don't seem to be these kinds in our area, and it is estimated that we will have to run to the city." Cillin said.
The gray cat's ears stood upright, and his eyes lit up when he looked at Xilin.
Old man Chang nodded, and directly took 20,000 yuan to Xilin, and Xilin didn't refuse, according to Chang Laohan's temperament, the money couldn't be excused. After accepting the money, he asked what else he needed to buy, Chang Laohan thought about it and listed them one by one, but the most important thing was to ask Xilin to help pay attention to the big hospital in the city. When he went to ask a few years ago, it would cost at least 100,000 Lansa coins for a full treatment, not counting the rehabilitation treatment that followed. I just don't know what the market is now.
"Okay, I'll ask."
Xilin recently checked Chang Xiaowu's physical condition, and after the treatment of buffer drugs, it is indeed much better, at least in the big project of comprehensive treatment, the success rate will be much higher. In addition, Chang Xiaowu's mentality is quite good in recent days, and the number of laughs is increasing day by day, which is a good phenomenon.
"Then tomorrow I'll be the one to take the lead!" Pierre was eager to take the plunge. patted Xilin's shoulder: "With me here, you can go with confidence!" ”
Cillin: "......" Why does that sound so awkward?
Knowing that Xilin was going to enter the city, Chang Xiaoqi didn't fall asleep all night, and he was much more excited than Chang Xiaoba last time, and Chang Xiaoliu and Chang Xiaoba were red-eyed.
When they entered the city, they didn't seem to have entered the city when they were so big.
Early the next morning, Xilin took Chang Xiaoqi and boarded the passenger bus to the city. After all, the long tattered flying car of Chang Laohan's family is not easy to fly into the city.
Passenger flying cars have also been overcrowded lately. There are many more cars, and the price has doubled and doubled, but so far, each one is full, and there is no place at all if it moves a little slower. In the past, it would have been possible to squeeze a few people and stuff people in as long as there was a little space, but now the entrance to the city is strictly checked. Repeated orders are not allowed to overload, and if an overloaded car is found, it is not only a matter of fines, but also a sentence to the driver if the speeding car is directly detained. So now everyone is more peaceful.
Many people sitting on the passenger flying car are going to the city to try their luck, and when Xilin is in the repair shop, he can often hear those waiting car owners talk about the recent situation in the city, who has stepped on dog shit luck, who has won the favor of whom, etc., and what is said is more exciting than one thing.
Whether those are true or not, there are more and more people going to the city to try their luck anyway. Some of the people who were still wandering around and watching before now couldn't sit still when they heard those rumors, so they packed up their things and ran to the city. Even the owners of some repair shops with good business could not settle down, so they closed their shops and rushed to the city. Even if the business is good, isn't it a low-class commoner's life, and I have been guarding a storefront for generations in this small and poor place? If you can get the favor of the nobles. If you can get a chance, then who cares about this small storefront?
So Old Man Chang's shop had a great harvest, and he bought a few parts and some other materials in large quantities at low prices. Earned a lot of money.
Even on the bus, the topics of conversation among the passengers were tightly around those few success stories, as if they were on the scene at the time, and the impassioned words were secretly filled with jealousy and yearning that could not be concealed.
Chang Xiaoqi is a master who can't sit still, and after getting in the car, he lies on the window to look at the scenery outside the car, even if the natural scenery is boring, he can watch it with great interest.
"Look, look! That's the Star Tower! One passenger shouted excitedly.
"Really......"
"I'll see! Let me see! ”
For a while, the passengers in the car stopped talking about the previous topic, and all of them put their faces on the window and looked out. There is an image on the display, but after all, it is not what you see with your own eyes, and it is only a thing to show off if you see it in person.
The Star Tower is the tallest tower on the planet, the landmark building in the city, and when you see the Star Tower, it means that the city is not far away.
Seeing that Chang Xiaoqi was about to squeeze his face into a big cake, Xilin smiled and rubbed Chang Xiaoqi's head, "What's the hurry, you can see it clearly later." ”
"Hmm!" Although Chang Xiaoqi responded, his little face was still squeezed out of the window and looked out, "If only they could see Xiaoliu, Xiaoba and Fifth Brother." ”
"It's okay, let's come together next time."
"Really?!"
"Really."
"Good!" Chang Xiaoqi smiled brightly, and the guilt and regret just now were swept away at once.
After entering the city, Chang Xiaoba was very quiet, this is what Chang Laohan told them, don't talk nonsense in the city. Although he was silent, his eyes were idle, and he looked around.
The passenger car is parked in a parking lot on the edge of the city, which has been set up for the speeding cars that come here from the civilian area, and it is full of people who are dressed similarly, but there is no difference here.
Outside the city, there are also private estates or large factories of wealthy families, but those people and factories have specific parking lots in the city, and the conditions are much more luxurious. Not as crowded and stale as this one.
And some of the small shops around the parking lot are hardly completely urban, just like the customer introduced by Bande. They only live on the edge of the city, but even so, they feel that they have an absolute sense of superiority over the places in the civilian areas.
As for the people in the urban area who have always despised this side, if they pass by, they will basically take a detour, and they feel that this place is full of filth. will lower their status.
There are a lot of people at the station, especially at the exit, and all the people who come in and out are people.
Xilin squeezed out of the parking lot with Chang Xiaoqi in his arms, there were no taxis in the station, and there were very few taxis around here, as if there was a plague here. But. As long as you go out and turn the corner, you will see more and more taxis.
These co-authors are not against money, but only because of the problem of face, as if others would say that they have something to do with the people here. Before coming, Xilin had inquired about the matter here, and it was not difficult to get an identity certificate in a civilian area, and Xilin spent some money to get a fake temporary identity certificate. Anyway, when you're in the city, people without identification are basically treated the same as people in civilian areas. Nor will it scrutinize a person who has the status of a civilian.
After verifying his identity, Xilin walked out of the station with Chang Xiaoqi in his arms, walked a little far along the route he inquired about, and turned a corner to see the taxi parked there.
Recruited a taxi, and Xilin reported a place.
"Three hundred." The driver said without looking back.
Three hundred...... It's no wonder that people in the civilian areas didn't dare to run to the city before, and the taxis here can't afford to sit down.
After Xilin paid the money, the driver slowly started the car with a reluctant look.
Traffic control in the city is very strict now. So it takes about an hour to get to the place that Sirin is talking about. This hour is neither long nor short, maybe the driver is bored. Got a topic to talk to Cillin, although it was he who started it. But the tone is not good, there is always a sense of superiority.
"You're here to try your luck too?" The driver asked, a mocking voice in his voice.
"That's not it, I'm going to buy some parts, the store is in a hurry." As for the driver's tone, Xilin said with a smile as if he hadn't heard it.
The driver was familiar, and as soon as he heard Xilin's words, he let out an obvious "oh": "Even if you kid is self-aware and has not been involved in this matter, how can a nobleman choose someone from the civilian area, it's really ridiculous!" ”
Xilin didn't make a sound, and the driver said bitterly about some wishful thinking events after some civilians outside the city entered the city, Xilin just smiled and listened, and responded from time to time, without expressing his own opinion, and the driver probably didn't want to listen to Xilin's opinion, and talked to himself.
The flying car finally arrived at the place that Xilin said, this is a parts market, for the high-end residents of the city, this is a busy city, and it is not long, their flying car is broken and sent directly to the repair shop, and they don't go back to care about parts or anything.
As for people whose living standards are not high, the important parts they need will often be bought by themselves, after all, they are cheaper. As for those who don't have money in their hands, sometimes they will secretly go to civilian areas for repairs.
Replacing the same parts in the city is more than three times more expensive than the maintenance street in the civilian area, and perhaps the quality of maintenance in the city is indeed guaranteed, but many people who do not have a lot of income prefer cheap maintenance costs.
When you come to the parts market, it is much more lively than the parts street in the civilian area, just standing outside and taking a glance, Xilin can see a lot of high-end parts, and the store is also much more generous, as for the price, it is absolutely high.
Xilin mainly looks at second-hand parts, and customers may not be willing to use first-hand parts in Chang Laohan's shop.
Watching Xilin walk towards the second-hand parts store, some people around him cast disdainful glances
"At first glance, it's a kid from a civilian area, and he has no money to buy parts?"
"He's just a life of buying second-hand parts."
"Hey, what's that going on, let's talk about the last time we went to the casino......"
The voices of those people were not prominent in this noisy city, but Xilin still heard them clearly, and ignored the words of those people.
Walking into a store of second-hand parts, to say that this store is not conspicuous among many stores, but if there is anything special, Xilin just likes the order in which the owner of this store arranges parts. Many vendors who sell parts are not necessarily familiar with the specific use of these parts, and the parts on display are displayed according to personal preferences. How to look good and how to pose.
However, the order in which the parts are arranged by the owner of this shop is different, and at first glance the layman will think that the owner's aesthetic point of view is not good, and the order of the parts is not good. But those who are familiar with maintenance will find that these parts are arranged in the order in which they are assembled, which also shows that the owner is really good at repair.
When Xilin walked in, the shopkeeper was immersed in something and didn't pay much attention to the customers who came to him. There are only two rough-looking service robots dealing with customers. The prices of the parts are all marked and are not subject to negotiation.
There aren't many customers in the shop, and the popularity of this second-hand parts shop is a little cooler than other stores, but the owner doesn't seem to care, and scribbles on the table. Not an electronic board used. Instead, the paper used, sometimes frowning and sometimes smiling, several customers were originally going to talk to the shopkeeper, but when they saw the shopkeeper like this, they dispelled their thoughts and left directly.
The owner is a middle-aged man, a little rich, and he doesn't seem to care about the departure of his customers at all. Do your own thing.
Before, Xilin only glanced at the display of parts outside, but now when he walks in, some miniature parts have a specific order, which shows that the shopkeeper is a little paranoid about the placement of parts.
Xilin put Chang Xiaowu down and looked at the prices of a few parts he needed, which was not bad, at least not as expensive as the previous ones, although the first few were a little more expensive, they were negotiable. And this is just a final price, and there are a few models that are about the same price as the initial list price of the others. It's no wonder it's not so popular.
Just as Cillin was inspecting the parts, a few more people left the store. In the end, there was only one customer left. The store was a lot more deserted. Even a service robot came to serve, but they didn't introduce the function of each part to Xilin.
After sweeping his gaze, Xilin said to the service robot: "I want the No. 3 blade of the inner box rotator, the primary exciter of the JVII model, and the PV5 metal contact wire......"
Cillin said what he needed, and one of the robots began to pick up the parts.
But just as Xilin said the parts he needed, the shopkeeper, who was originally burying his head and doing his own business, suddenly raised his head, the light flashed in his eyes, laughed, put down the pen, and said, "You are an insider!" ”
The fat shopkeeper turned to the robot who was picking up the goods and said, "Twenty percent off." ”
Xilin looked at the fat shopkeeper in surprise, this is an interesting person.
The fat shopkeeper came over and looked at Xilin and Chang Xiaoqi, who was standing next to him obediently, looking at the two service robots curiously, took out a bag of unopened candy from his pocket and handed it to Chang Xiaoqi, but Chang Xiaoqi swallowed his saliva and did not take it, but looked at Xilin.
"Then, it was a kind gesture from the owner." Cillin said.
Chang Xiaoqi took the bag of candy and said politely: "Thank you, uncle!" ”
"Hey, no thanks," the fat shopkeeper rubbed his big belly with thick fat, "I just have a habit of eating sugar when I think about things, which makes my brain have more energy to think about problems, so every time I draw a picture, I put a bag of sugar in my pocket, hehe, holding my belly is like this." ”
Don't look at the fat shopkeeper's ignorance of people before, once you look at it, you can see that this is actually a lively person.
Cillin didn't know the cheap when he looked at the outer packaging of the bag of candy, maybe the price of this bag of candy could be worth a second-hand good part. I can't see that this shopkeeper is still worth something.
The fat shopkeeper chatted with Xilin about these parts, and for those who know, the fat shopkeeper's attitude is good, and he doesn't show any contempt for Xilin to say frankly that he is from the civilian area outside the city, but the difference is most.
"I know that there are indeed some capable people in the maintenance street outside the city, and my Lao Tzu has a saying: geniuses are buried in the people."
Cillin smiled and didn't speak.
The fat shopkeeper chatted with Xilin about the maintenance of the flying car, but said bitterly in a blink of an eye: "Some of the models that I finally made a few days ago were smashed, otherwise I can show you, maybe you can give me a glimmer of inspiration." Inspiration is sometimes just love, and it doesn't come out when it's critical! ”
Listening to the fat shopkeeper's complaints, Xilin felt that the fat shopkeeper was very special, he loved flying cars, or rather, he loved to design flying cars, but his family looked down on his hobby.
The robot sorted out the parts and handed them to Xilin, who said goodbye and left, he still had something to do. The fat shopkeeper asked Xilin to come over next time he went into the city, and he might be able to see his new model of flying car next time.
After Xilin left, he went to a large hospital in the center of the city to learn about the situation.
And in another building not far from the big hospital stood two people, the same two people who had been treated respectfully by the heads of the planetary government before.
"Is that the kid?"
"Yes, now our Royal Highness the Prince is experiencing life in his house."
"Alas, it seems that His Royal Highness the Prince is going to experience a poor life this time, and it is difficult for the Fire Eagle Royal Family to come up with such a freak who can afford to eat fine products and swallow chaff."
"A life of poverty? That's not necessarily, as far as I know, this time because of the commotion in the civilian area caused by what we came to, and even the repair shop is doing a booming business, it is estimated that the poor and cold meat will not be felt. ”
"When will the manpower that His Royal Highness said be transferred?"
"Just for a few days." (To be continued.) )