Chapter IX: Poverty alleviation

Leisurely returning to the rental house, Xiao Quan tore open two boxes of yogurt and fed Wangcai and Tiezhu, then collapsed on the bed, and looked through the "Encyclopedia of Immortal Cultivators" - "Basic Spells" in his mind.

Perspective, stealth, hypnosis......

"Why do these spells look a little out of place? It's all quite advanced...... You can't learn it, you can't learn it. ”

Xiao Quan looked at it for a long time, his cultivation was still very low, and the aura of Planet Gaia was thin, so Xiao Quan could only learn some small tricks such as manipulating small flames, letting water droplets evaporate quickly, and descaling clothes.

Because the knowledge points are stored in his brain, Xiao Quan quickly learned a lot of small spells.

"It feels like a magician ......" Looking at the flames dancing on his fingertips, Xiao Quan couldn't help but complain.

Suddenly, Xiao Quan had a flash of inspiration, clicked on the part-time job sharing group in the same city, and asked if there was any need to recruit magicians, and some group friends really transferred a recruitment advertisement:

TDDHSQ Bar is looking for a part-time magician, job requirements:

1. Excellent level of magic skills, the ability to independently choreograph magic, and rich experience in close-up magic performances are preferred;

2. Have a strong affinity, cheerful personality, good at communication, and standard Mandarin;

3. Must be of age;

4. The performance time is 21:00-22:00 every night;

5. Salary interview.

TDDHSQ Bar is located in the commercial street in the center of the city, not far from Xiao Quan's residence.

The working hours did not conflict with the beautiful pet home, Xiao Quan felt that he could try, and immediately called the person in charge.

The voice of a mature man came from the other end of the computer, and after a brief consultation, the other party asked Xiao Quan if he could go to the bar for an interview now.

Xiao Quan glanced at the time, it was only 20 o'clock now, and then said yes.

Hanging up the phone, Xiao Quan glanced at Wangcai and Tiezhu, who had started fighting for toys again, and decided not to bring them after thinking about it.

Let's not talk about whether people will agree to him taking the dog in, what if there is a guest with dog hair allergies and picking on him?

Xiao Quan has never been to the bar, I don't know the specific situation of the bar, only judging by various short videos on the Internet, Xiao Quan feels that the bar may be a mixed place, in case someone drinks too much and fights in a group, Xiao Quan is not easy to run with two puppies.

Anyway, Wangcai and Tiezhu are already familiar with living here, so it shouldn't be a problem to leave them at home for a while.

When he opened the door, the two puppies immediately jumped to the door, but Xiao Quan immediately pushed them back.

"I can't take you with me this time, but I'll be back soon, and if you're sleepy, go to bed first."

"Be good at home, it's night, don't shout and scream."

"Don't defecate in the open and don't bite the wires."

"As long as you can do it, I will reward you with a small piece of jerky."

Xiao Quan didn't care whether the two puppies could understand it or not, and closed the door under their puzzled eyes.

This is the first time to leave the dog alone in the house, Xiao Quan is not at ease, sticking to the door outside the room and listening for a while, when the door is just closed, the two puppies snort a few times, but the back is quiet, Xiao Quan then walked downstairs lightly.

Sitting on the subway, Xiao Quan searched for videos of magic performances on the Internet, he couldn't learn people's magic tricks, and he didn't need to learn, Xiao Quan mainly wanted to learn how to interact with the audience, and roughly observed the performances of several magicians, Xiao Quan had a little score in his heart.

Coming to the city center, and following the navigation for a few steps, Xiao Quan came to the door of the TDDHSQ bar.

The decoration of the bar is mainly black, supplemented by white, with blue line lights, which looks quite high-end.

"How many are you?" The greeter at the door saw Xiao Quan coming, and immediately stepped forward to ask.

"I'm here for an interview, and I just talked to you Director Li." Xiao Quan said with a smile.

"Okay, please come with me."

Following the greeter into the bar, Xiao Quan saw the real bar environment for the first time.

The bar has no dance floor, no DJs, no scantily clad atmosphere groups, just a singer with a guitar playing ballads on stage.

But the store was still overcrowded, customers were pushing cups, changing glasses, playing cards and shaking dice, it was extremely noisy, the air was filled with the smell of tobacco and alcohol, and Xiao Quan was dazzled by the colorful light scattered by the laser lights.

As a person who doesn't smoke or drink and likes to be quiet, Xiao Quan doesn't like the environment here, but in order to make money, he can only endure it.

"Director, this gentleman said he was here for an interview."

The greeter brought Xiao Quan to a man who looked to be about thirty years old, the man was wearing a white shirt and black vest, shiny black leather shoes and suit pants, and a walkie-talkie in his hand, presumably Director Li who had just talked to Xiao Quan.

"Hello, Mr. Xiao, right?" Director Li nodded and motioned for the greeters to get busy, and then stretched out his right hand to Xiao Quan.

"Yes." Xiao Quan shook hands with the other party and nodded in response.

Director Li looked Xiao Quan up and down, frowned slightly, and said kindly: "Mr. Xiao, blame me for not telling you clearly, the content of the interview is to hope that you can perform a live performance to see the effect of the performance......

"Yes." Xiao Quan nodded.

Director Li was stunned for a moment and added, "I have to wear long sleeves when I watch magicians perform...... You have to bring a bag or something, you are wearing short sleeves, and you don't have any props......"

It's a well-known secret that magicians need to hide props in their clothes, so they wear them tightly.

Director Li was obviously worried that Xiao Quan was not ready.

"I can." Xiao Quan said very confidently.

"Can you demonstrate a few first?" Director Li said with a skeptical attitude.

Xiao Quan spread out his right hand to let Director Li see clearly that there was nothing in his hand, and then snapped his fingers, and a flame appeared on Xiao Quan's index finger out of thin air! With another snap of his fingers, the flames disappeared, and a blue electric current appeared between Xiao Quan's index finger and thumb. Clenched his fist, the current disappeared, and when he spread his hand again, a snowflake appeared out of thin air on his palm.

This operation made Director Li's eyes light up.

"Okay, after a while, the magician on the bar will come down, you will go up, play for an hour first, and then we will talk about follow-up cooperation after seeing the specific effect." Director Li pointed to the bar counter on the side.

Xiao Quan had already noticed that there was a circle of customers at the bar, and a magician in a crisp suit and a high hat was performing card magic in the crowd. Presumably, it is to use the technique and visual difference to make the seemingly empty hands constantly poke out the playing cards, or to ask the guest to choose one of the cards in the deck, and then after many shuffles he will find the cards.

The expression is very exciting, and the technique also amazes Xiao Quan, but it may be that the audience has seen more now, even if they feel powerful, they will not feel so novel, and the magician in the high hat only received some scattered applause when he left.

When it was Xiao Quan's turn to play, the 'magic' he performed was to ask the customers in the front row to put their mobile phones on the bar, and then Xiao Quan charged the mobile phones in this row in the air.

Amazing!

No one had ever seen such a magic trick, and it was beyond the comprehension of everyone on the scene! Even the tall hat magician dropped his jaw in shock, he was a professional magician, and he knew better than ordinary people how incredible Xiao Quan's operation was.

"it!!"

"This is a magic ?!!"

"How?!"

Surprises arose, and those guests who were drinking on the booth were also attracted and came forward to watch.

"Cut, the group of people in front of you must be To." Some guests said disdainfully.

So Xiao Quan invited the guests who thought they had seen through the secret to put their phones up, and when their phones began to show that they were charging, they were also shocked and speechless.

"I see! There is something wrong with this bar, and there must be a wireless charger hidden underneath. Another guest said.

So Xiao Quan simply asked them to hold their mobile phones in their hands, and then stretched out their fingers, which could still make them charge inexplicably.

"! How is this possible?! ”

"Is there some high-tech hidden in him?"

"Probably not, our mobile phone brands are different, and the charging interface is not the same, will there be this kind of indiscriminate charging technology...... And it can be charged from such a distance......"

"There is this kind of technology, but the cost is very expensive, a bar magician, will not spend so much money......"

The guests were shocked, and Director Li and the magician in the high hat were even more shocked, they knew that Xiao Quan had just come here ten minutes ago, and it was impossible for him to have time to decorate in the bar, so they sincerely admired Xiao Quan's skills.

In fact, it's nothing, Xiao Quan used to work in a mobile phone repair shop and knew the principle of mobile phone charging, so it was easy to do this, the only difficulty was that it was a bit of a waste of spiritual power to convert the aura of heaven and earth into electric elements.

Xiao Quan didn't dare to be too arrogant, charging the mobile phones of each watching guest to one percent, and he stopped.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Xiao Quan changed a few more ways to play, such as lighting a cigarette for the guest in the air, adding ice cubes to the guest's wine glass in the air, etc......

At the end of the one-hour performance, Xiao Quan left the stage with full applause.

Xiao Quan's operation completely subverts people's impression of traditional magic, there are no cards, no coins, no props, and even no techniques, everything is so magical, it is too shocking.

Now Xiao Quan only feels tinnitus and dizziness, but fortunately he was only allowed to perform for an hour, otherwise he would not be able to bear it.

"Mr. Xiao, the performance is so exciting, please come here." Director Li greeted him warmly and invited Xiao Quan to the office.

The person poured Xiao Quan a cup of tea, and Director Li very politely began to talk about cooperation with Xiao Quan.

Obviously, Xiao Quan has passed the so-called interview, and the two have negotiated for a long time, Director Li originally hoped that Xiao Quan would be able to perform for two hours every night in the future, but Xiao Quan was worried that his mental strength was not enough, so he refused.

No matter how Director Li persuaded him, Xiao Quan only insisted that he would only perform for one hour every night.

In the end, Director Li offered Xiao Quan a salary of 4,000 a month, but asked Xiao Quan not to work in other bars or competing industries.

The contract was signed, and Xiao Quan was officially hired as the resident magician of the TDDHSQ bar.

Bidding farewell to Director Li, Xiao Quan walked out of the bar, stretched out happily, and suddenly found that the magician in the high hat appeared out of nowhere and walked towards him.

"It's a wonderful show, can you ask where you learned magic?" The tall hat magician stretched out his hand to Xiao Quan.

"I'm sorry, the guy who taught me magic won't let me reveal his information." Xiao Quan shook hands with the other party and said perfunctorily.

"Then your teacher must be a very outstanding master, Mr. Xiao, are you interested in joining the Magicians Association of our country?" The tall hat magician asked politely.

"The Magicians' Guild?" Xiao Quan didn't know much about this, and he wasn't interested, after all, he wasn't really a magician, so he politely refused: "Let's talk about it later." ”

The tall hat magician didn't force it, but just hoped to add a contact with Xiao Quan. Seeing that the other party was so polite, Xiao Quan was embarrassed to refuse.

After adding friends, the tall hat magician politely says goodbye and turns and disappears into the crowd.

Xiao Quan glanced at the time, the subway had not stopped running, and then rushed to the subway station.

Back at the rental house, Xiao Quan opened the door lightly, and suddenly found Wangcai and Tiezhu lying at the door!

When they found that Xiao Quan had come back, the two puppies immediately jumped up and rubbed on Xiao Quan's legs, full of excitement and grievances in their chirps, as if they had been separated from Xiao Quan for several years.

"Okay, okay, you didn't wreak havoc at home, did you?" Xiao Quan took the two dogs into his arms to comfort them, and then went into the house to check, and found that there was no messy urine and nothing was bitten, so he put his heart down and rewarded them with a small piece of dried meat.

Since then, Xiao Quan has been working in the Pretty Pet House during the day, and doing 'magic' at the TDDHSQ bar at night, but fortunately, Xiao Quan, who has entered the second floor of the Melting Pot Realm, no longer needs much sleep time, so it is quite easy to work two jobs at the same time.

He even has time to edit videos, that is, every day he shoots a video of Wangcai and Tiezhu Dry, cuts down the highlights, carefully matches them with emojis and background music, and then uploads them to the short video platform. It has also received a lot of attention.

A month passed in a hurry, and finally it was the day of payroll.

The salary of the beautiful pet home is 2500, the traffic subsidy of the short video platform is 1 yuan and 6 cents 7, and the salary of TDDHSQ bar is 4000, because Xiao Quan's magic show is really novel, it has increased the popularity of the bar a lot, and Director Li also paid 600 yuan of red envelopes to Xiao Quan out of his own pocket.

After paying taxes, rent, water and power grid fees, and then repaying the loan, Xiao Quan still has a lot of surplus in his hands.

"Finally, I don't have to borrow money to get by......," Xiao Quan sighed.

Although it is not considered to be rich, everything is developing in a good direction.

Wangcai and Tiezhu have grown up a little more, and now they also trust Xiao Quan very much, and the two puppies can provide Xiao Quan with a total of 30 sparks every day.

But Xiao Quan still couldn't complete the second layer of the Furnace Realm.

"The belief of the creatures needed at each level will be more than the previous one......" Xiao Quan stroked a dog in one hand and thought silently.

"We'll have to figure out how to get a few more dogs."