"I'm sorry, Steve...... Uh, that's the name, right? An old gentleman wearing monocles and his eyes did not stop at Zhou Daoan, standing behind the counter of the store, he flipped through the account book in his hand. His tone was official and polite, but it was also indifferent.

"We need people who can speak French, and your English is not good enough, so how can you be qualified for this job? Sorry for the waste. ”

In order to maintain his "personality", Zhou Daoan has been using a ventriloquist simulated Merseyside accent, which is not uncommon in Wudu, but it is definitely not high-grade.

The furniture store's products claim to be high-end made from France, and the clerks must also speak French – although this is not stated in the job posting.

In short, this is the twenty-third "enterprise" that rejected Zhou Daoan within 4 days.

In the past 4 days, Zhou Daoan has almost visited half of the East District, in addition to the recruitment wall on Goldon Street, he has also visited almost all the recruitment points on the busy streets, and he has not even let go of the small advertisements on the telephone poles. Unfortunately, I didn't find a job.

To be precise, it means not finding a suitable job, and to be more precise, it means not finding a job to support yourself. In terms of the two expenses of food and housing, the vast majority of work cannot be supported, and temporary workers have no long-term effect. Unless Zhou Daoan works several jobs part-time, most of the places where workers are recruited also require long hours to "sit on duty", leaving little room for either sacrificing sleep time at night, or having to cross the two ends of the East End in a short period of time, paying a lot of money for transportation.

By the way, the transportation in the East End in these years is walking and horse-drawn carriages, horse-drawn carriages have public ones, and the price is far cheaper than chartered cars alone, but the "gentlemen" who can squeeze public carriages are not happy to share a room with an Oriental American.

Zhou Daoan has really experienced the difficulty of job hunting in the past few days, and has completely understood how difficult the main line of the task is to complete this time. He was really lucky to find an apprentice at the clinic before, but unfortunately......

At noon, the sun was very high, and Zhou Daoan's thin coat was also taken off and draped over his shoulders. Entering October, the climate change in the fog capital is also large, cold in the morning and evening, and hot at noon. Under the scorching sun, many workers hid in the shade of the streets, took out their lunch boxes, and ate them with cold water. Zhou Daoan is also one of them.

By the way, Zhou Daoan's residence these days is a temporary apartment, sharing a bed with a dark-skinned elderly man. Just last night, in the middle of the night, the old black man reached out to pull out Zhou Daoan's crotch and was kicked out of bed by Zhou Daoan...... So, he has to find a new place to live today.

The fog capital, the largest and most advanced city in the world at that time, was an "abyss" in the eastern district. Someone once described the eastern part of the fog as a scene seen behind the curtain of a terrible drama: hungry children, miserable women, men working hard; horrific drunkenness and vice; brutal demons and bad guys; Terrible sickness and despair......

After eating the black bread in his hand, Zhou Daoan squinted at the sky - gray, barely a little blue. There is 1 shilling left in his pocket, and in 2 days at most, he will go bankrupt.

You have to find a job.

"Hey, you, that's you, come here."

Just as Zhou Daoan was about to step away, a voice came from the market stall on the side.

It was a butcher shirtless, but wearing a black, oily leather apron. His curly hair and beard were also greasy in the dreadlocks, and he carried a large string of cleaned pigs into the water in one hand - tied with a hemp rope - and the fat hand with the butt of a cigarette in the other hand was quickly beckoning to Zhou Daoan.

After confirming that the butcher was calling him, Zhou Daoan hesitated a little and walked over.

"Boy...... Shhhh Help me run an errand! At least make some loose money. ”

It turned out that there was a shortage of people in this butcher's stall, and he didn't want to run, so he found an "errand". But there are a lot of people squatting in this bazaar, why do you greet Zhou Daoan?

"This pig goes into the water, no one wants it, only those Oriental people in the Oriental restaurant can cook. You run a trip - you don't have to settle the money, they all calculate it directly with me for 1 month and 1 month. They'll give you the errand money - seeing that you're yellow-skinned too, maybe they'll give you two more. ”

Then the butcher gave the address of the Chinese restaurant. When Zhou Daoan heard that it was the street where Dr. William entrusted him to "buy medicine" last time, it was still a place he was familiar with, so he thought about it and agreed.

In fact, Zhou Daoan also went to this street two days ago - looking for a job. He originally thought that they were all descendants of China, and in a foreign country, there should be opportunities here. Unexpectedly, this later Chinatown has not yet flourished at the moment. Foreigners and Chinese people are half each, and there are not many Chinese people who "start their own businesses", and the existing stores have long been full. What's more, the workers recruited by these Oriental residents are mainly their relatives and fellow villagers first, which is a bit of unity. Zhou Daoan walked around and didn't find any vacant positions.

Try your luck on another trip today? In fact, there is no better place to go, it is nothing more than brushing the map over and over again, relying on fate.

Therefore, Zhou Daoan did not dislike it at all, and took the string of pigs with a big smell and went directly to the "Chinatown" four kilometers away.

When I arrived at the destination, the owner of this "Chaozi Tea Restaurant" really paid the errand fee very happily. But it's a pity that if he wants to recruit workers, he must also find Chaozhou fellows. Although Zhou Daoan can speak Cantonese, Teochew is a different language altogether (ventriloquism can imitate some timbre and intonation, but it cannot cross language types). The dialects of southern China are ten miles different from each other, and the differences are huge, and if you can't speak it, you can't say it, which can't be simulated). So it's a pity that he failed to apply again.

"Hou Shengzi, you take this pineapple bag...... Eat here before you go! "The boss didn't tip Zhou Daoan, but generously compensated for a small bread. At the time, it was considered a delicacy.

Zhou Daoan is also as good as a stream, just to make up for the stomach that was not full at noon. After a while, he heard a commotion coming from the tea restaurant.

This noise is not in the Chinese language, but in the local fog capital. Originally, it was not worth noting, but because one of the voices was heard by Zhou Daoan, as soon as it entered his ears, he immediately sketched the image of the owner of the voice.

Sure enough, when I looked back, I saw a young woman in her twenties, wearing a loose dress, swearing very unceremoniously, walking from the back half of the restaurant, turning back as she went, arguing step by step.

There is a Chinese medicine doctor in this restaurant all the year round, and he borrowed a table to see a doctor - this combination is very wonderful, but I think that this old Chinese medicine doctor must also be a shy person in the bag, unable to open an independent store, and unable to walk the streets and alleys with inconvenient legs and feet, fortunately, he is also a Chaozhou person, so he was very united with the boss of the villagers to sit in a place.

Of course, the boss's family never paid for the doctor's treatment.

The old Chinese medicine doctor did not come out with the woman, but sat in a chair and blew his beard angrily and glared. Obviously, I was angry enough by the words "old rascal" and "old pervert" in the woman's mouth.

And this woman with a strong language and a domineering tone is none other than Kelly who was rescued by Zhou Daoan!

After nearly two months, Kelly's appearance at this time has not changed much, her face, neck, and arms are still slender, if it weren't for the obviously bulging lower abdomen, she can be said to have almost no change, and she can't see that she is pregnant with Rokka.

Like many pregnant mothers who pay attention to body maintenance in later generations, Kelly obviously pays attention to her appearance.

When she was first treated, Mrs. William immediately diagnosed that Kelly was pregnant, but it was not more than 4 months old, so she was not pregnant. Eight weeks have passed, and her stomach can no longer cover it. Even so, she still wears looser clothes that don't show her figure.

But compared to her well-groomed appearance, Kelly's interior is really nothing to praise. At the beginning, Zhou Daoan had no good impression of this lady with vulgar language, short temper, and no distinction between good and bad, but now when she sees it, this lady still does not change her true colors.

Seeing that there was a quarrel in his restaurant, the boss hurriedly came out of the counter to dissuade him.

Zhou Daoan didn't want to do much, but after listening to a few words, he understood the reason for the dispute: Kelly's heart has already had problems, and she has been even more unwell recently. The picture is cheap, and Kelly came to the old Chinese medicine doctor. But as soon as the old Chinese medicine doctor listened to her heartbeat against her chest, she was slapped away by Kelly and scolded.

Seeing the boss join the war group, but he was still speechless by the sharp-toothed Kelly. Zhou Daoan couldn't help but shake his head, he hesitated for a moment, but still stood up - if he didn't stop this noise, the boss would probably call those guys who were ready to move to throw this shrew out.

It's my original patient......

Zhou Daoan walked over directly, and then drank Kelly, whose mouth was "dirty".

"If you want to heal, I can show you, you don't have to quarrel here, it's not good for your condition." Zhou Daoan's tone was flat and objective.

Seeing Zhou Daoan who suddenly appeared, Kelly was stunned for a moment, and then a look of joy immediately appeared.

"Ah, little doctor, it's you! What a coincidence! Thank you so much for your help last time...... Are you still at that clinic? The potion I took last time really worked, and I was fine that week...... But then the old illness recurred. I didn't keep the potions, and I didn't know how to catch them...... Well, this old rascal, with poor technology, can't solve my problem, so he will only take advantage! I talked to him for a long time, and he couldn't prescribe that kind of medicine......"

Kelly nagged impatiently as if she had met a savior.