Chapter 145: Copote's Happy Life (Part II)

Cobot has been having a bad time lately, or on the other hand, he's doing well again.

Oswald Copote, he was born in the Cobott family, one of the four major gangster families in the East End, and his family was relatively wealthy when he was a child.

However, when he was young, the pillar of the family, that is, his father, died of pneumonia, and the family has been in the middle of the road ever since.

Now, the days of the Big Four Yakuza families on the East Side are over, and he and his mother live in an old mansion on a street near Living Hell.

His father made some money when he was younger, and Mrs. Copote lived on it.

As he grew older, the family's expenses increased little by little, and Mrs. Copote, relying on her husband's previous favors, found little Copot a job in the Mooney Gang.

The Mooney Gang was originally the biggest gang in Living Hell, but now, their boss, Fish Mooney, is a hot-tempered woman who no one can disobey her, and Colbert is small in stature and has a cowardly personality, which is very unlikable to Fish.

As a result, Cobott was often sent out to work as a porter or umbrella boy in other street properties.

It's not a good job, being beaten and teased by customers is commonplace, and the money earned has to be given not only to the gangsters in the area where the property is located, but also to the Mooney Gang, and not much falls into the hands of Copote himself.

At work, Copot was often humiliated and ridiculed by others, and he could only hide to the side with a gloomy face, trying not to attract the attention of those people, but he often angered some customers because of his short stature and lack of strength, and was beaten and scolded by the foreman, and always looked like a chicken in soup when he came home.

Originally, Cobot thought that he would have to endure such a long time, but what he didn't expect was that almost overnight, Gotham would change.

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Construction began everywhere, the whole city was hiring, and there was a shortage of people in every industry, and from this change, Cobott had worked as a bartender, a sweeper, a counter, and a waiter, and so on.

Before that, he worked as a waiter at the largest night market around Living Hell, which means helping people at roadside barbecue stalls, helping to wash barbecue trays or opening beer bottles for customers.

Although this job is not easy, it is much better than being a doorman, one is to earn more money, and the other is to often eat leftovers from barbecue.

And the guests are generally all kinds of drivers, they are often in a hurry, they want to serve a barbecue, with a beer, and leave after eating, never procrastinating, and there is little time to embarrass the waiter, and occasionally receive a tip.

Originally, Cobot was quite satisfied with this life, at least he had taken a big step forward, but the next change was even more unexpected for him.

Later, the transformation of the Living Hell began, and although Colbert did not live in the interior of the Living Hell but also lived not far from it, he watched the crowded and dilapidated city change with his own eyes.

But then, the rhythm of his life was completely changed.

Due to the transformation of the living hell, many gangs are eyeing this piece of fat, and the Mooney Gang is invincible with both fists, and more gangster forces have poured into this poorest area, and carved up the area here, and the original Mooney Gang has only a little southernmost territory left.

After the renovation was completed, the gangsters began to build a management system here, but the question is, where can they find so many people who can manage the living hell?

Although this place has been renovated, it is still intricate, and these foreign gang bosses themselves can't figure out the terrain here, let alone collect protection money or something.

Cobot is half a local, he often goes to the living hell to buy things, plus he was originally a member of the Mooney Gang, the gang boss took a fancy to him, and Colport began to follow them.

At first, he was in charge of counting the pieces at the entrance of the freight lane, but the little boss in charge of the freight found that he was good at math and could not count the wrong pieces even if he counted them manually for a whole day, so he introduced him to the commercial area of Living Hell to collect protection money.

Having worked in a stall at a night market, Cobott soon became acquainted with the owner of a restaurant in the business district and was responsible for delivering ingredients to the restaurant.

Originally, Colpote's life had improved a lot, and he was a small boss anyway.

Cobot was not even an adult, so he was in charge of the raw materials for a restaurant himself, and if you think about it, there is a lot of oil and water here, which is not common in Gotham.

But that's not all, Copote received a good education as a child, and even lived in a wealthy area in the south, so he can write a regular English font, and he is also quite talented in mathematics and statistics, and even quick arithmetic, which is a rare talent in Gotham!

It didn't take long for him to be taken by the leader of a big gang and transferred to the water management department of Living Hell.

The so-called water management department is the place that is responsible for connecting and maintaining the tap water, and then collecting water charges.

It is said that it is a water fee, but in fact it is also a protection fee, after a gang gets a living hell area, the residents give them all the water bills, and then these gangsters are responsible for maintaining the water system.

However, the water source of the living hell after the renovation and reconstruction is not like the previous wells, the modern water supply system is very complicated, with water pipes extending in all directions, various pipes and valves, and several specifications of water meters, these things the gangsters can't understand at all.

Once, when the gang clashed with local residents during the process of collecting water bills, it was only Copote's glance at the readings of the water meter that prevented the possible fire.

That's right, in the entire water management department, only Cobott can read water meters.

As a result, he became the head of the water system in the 2nd district of Living Hell North.

As ridiculous as it sounds, the truth is that Copote's path to promotion is so smooth, not because of how good the underage little penguin is now, but mainly because the others are so bad.

As the head of the department, of course, life is better, and Copot doesn't even have to wander around the living hell by himself, he only needs to have someone copy the readings on the water meter, and he can accurately determine how much water a household uses and how much protection money should be charged.

However, it didn't take long for such days to come, and the gangsters also discovered that it was not enough to rely on a genius like Copote, who could not produce one out of a hundred, to maintain the operation of the entire system.

Therefore, they began to vigorously prepare for the activities of vocational schools.

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According to Gotham's second law, when the school site is chosen, the personnel are ready, and even the teachers have been found, the gang bosses find out that they have no students.

The gang bosses themselves certainly don't have time to learn these things, they have enough to take care of.

And the middle-level gangsters generally don't know anything, they can even misspell their own names, and they all smoke, drink, and gamble, and their brains have not turned for many years, and they are blind when they are sent to school.

As a result, these gang bosses can only choose between the second generation of blacks, or the children of some young leaders, preferably in their teens, and it's okay to have a little strange hobbies, as long as they don't drink alcohol or take drugs to spoil their brains.

Even with such lenient conditions, it didn't get enough of 20 students.

There is no way, the gangsters can only cast a wide net, even if it is a street child on the street, as long as it is still about the same, they will all be arrested and sent to school.

As a result, Copote, who was excellent in character and learning, became the first batch of students in vocational schools, and as soon as Copote entered this class, he was the top student in the first place in learning.

He received a good education when he was a child, not only did he have good handwriting, he was good at mathematics, and he could even play a little violin, which was simply outstanding in this kind of environment of prenatal education per capita.

But it is true that he is not having a good time.

Although he came to school, the water system in his area was still being maintained by him, and Copote studied during the day and worked overtime at night, and he lived directly in the office these days, and he didn't even have a chance to go home.

Although it is no longer down-and-out like a soup chicken, it has also become a ruthless overtime machine.

The leitmotif of Copote's recent life is one word, busy.

Because his district's water system is well maintained and his income is higher than elsewhere, the gang boss plans to hand over Precinct 3 to him as well.

Although this gang is a big gang, it is far worse than the Twelve Families, and it does not have the ability to hire professionals, and the entire system is maintained by Colbert alone.

For the first time, Cobot also knew that the work of sitting in an office was no easier than being outside in the wind and sun.

But to say that he is doing well, it is true.

Cobott now fully understands what it means to know that knowledge changes fate.

Just because he is good at math, he has been promoted all the way, not to mention being bullied when he was a doorman, and now he manages more than 20 gang members.

Because Cobot doesn't need others to help him calculate, others run errands at most, and they also have a share of their commission on the water bills collected, many people love to do this job, and they point to Copote's money, so they naturally compliment him very much.

Cobott now has a small plot of land of his own, and even if he has saved up money, he and Mrs. Copot can move out of the gloomy old mansion and find a nice apartment to live in.

Moreover, most of the teachers who were invited by the gang were quite troubled by the situation here, and they didn't expect that the students they were going to teach would be like this, and in this environment, Colbert, who was quick and attentive to learning, was particularly cute.

Looking gloomy? So what's the matter, look at this group of eight lambs, less than ten metal rings on the whole head are considered conservatives.

Hooknose? He didn't put a string of nose rings on his nose, and he was already quite careful about the image.

Short height? That's better than having a long prick in the ass and jumping up and down in the classroom every day.

Most of the students that teachers like have the same temperament, and Cobott happens to have this temperament.

He seemed timid and reticent, which seemed unsociable to his peers, but to teachers and professors, it was a sign of being a good student.

It turns out that in the future Gotham stage, the penguin man who can occupy a place and compete with crazy geniuses such as the Joker is of course very good, and these courses in vocational schools not only can't stop him, but also give him a considerable space to play.

Even Victor looked a little different at him, calling Colbert "lettuce in the carrot field".

Hearing Victor's evaluation, Schiller couldn't help but laugh, and it was difficult for him to describe the wonderful feeling of a person who had read the original comics when he heard the Freezer evaluate the Penguin Man as a genius.

He didn't know whether it was his own arrangement in the dark, or whether it was a sympathy between the villain and the villain, in short, Victor and Cobott began to appreciate each other gradually.

In Victor's eyes, Cobot has become a studious genius who has come out of the mud, and Victor in Copote's eyes has become a good teacher who treats students equally and does not discriminate against him.

As for Schiller, after he finished that class, he left all the work of organizing classroom discipline to Victor, and he drank coffee and fished in his office at Gotham University every day, and the angry Victor scolded him for his old fritters.

As for Copote, he certainly did not forget that Schiller was a special guest he met at that time.

At that time, Schiller's speech and demeanor made him quite fond of the profession of professor, and now, Victor has also proved that reading more books is indeed different.

Cobot even came up with the idea of whether or not to go to university, which he thought was a little ridiculous when it came to him.

Going to university? This is a very distant thing for every person at the bottom of Gotham.

But the future penguin, the last thing he lacks is ambition.