Chapter 22 Chapter 22 The Financial Luck of Social Animals

Chen Run got up early and went to the Sun Umbrella Building in the central circle to inquire about the news.

The steel giant still stood, and the employees of the parasol lined up in an orderly manner, swiped their cards and walked into the beast's mouth. Everyone looked normal and did not seem to be abnormal.

Chen Run hesitated for a long time and cautiously sent a message to Bai Miao to inquire about the situation, but this message fell on deaf ears and received no response.

She was completely at her wit's end.

However, for a migrant worker like her who still owes foreign debts, the fear of not having work and no salary overwhelms everything, not to mention that she has a child to support at home. If the job at the parasol shop fails, she and Chi Shuangliu will immediately have to wander the streets and pick up garbage from trash cans to eat.

Unlike some people, she does not have a family to support her. If she really runs out of money, her parents can still support her for a while. From the moment she stepped out of university, she no longer has a home. That is only her brother's home.

She suddenly felt extremely anxious and opened several part-time job groups she had joined before and browsed through them one by one.

She was lucky. As soon as she opened the store, she saw a convenience store hiring part-time workers for daily wages. Because the new store was short of staff and the boss was in a hurry, the price was relatively high, 25/h hourly wage, starting from 10 hours a day. If the work was good, she could be converted to a regular employee.

Compared to her previous two jobs, this part-time job paid a low salary, but she was not in a position to be picky at this point, so she immediately contacted the person who had sent the message to inquire about the situation.

The person who posted the part-time job sent her an address and asked her to come directly. The address was just across the street from where she lived. As long as people had work to do, they would not starve to death. Shen Run happily jumped on the bus.

The convenience store was indeed newly opened. The place was large, but there were not many people. There was only a thin girl in a convenience store employee uniform who was carefully counting the goods with a pen and paper. The top shelf was a little loose, and a large cardboard box fell down shakily, about to hit her on the head.

The girl didn't even react at all. Shen Run strode over and, relying on her height, held up the cardboard box. She stood on tiptoe and stuffed the box back onto the shelf. Then she lowered her head and asked the girl, "Are you okay... Hey, Mo Tao?"

Mo Tao had beautiful eyebrows and eyes, but she always hunched her shoulders and lowered her head out of habit, giving her a humble and timid look.

She was stunned for a moment before reacting, revealing a surprised expression: "Chen Run?"

It's always nice to see acquaintances while working, but Shen Run was pleasantly surprised but also a little confused: "Didn't you go back to your hometown? Why are you still working part-time here?"

——Mo Tao was the girl who was harassed by the pretty boy boss in her former company. At that time, she was dragged to the toilet by that pretty boy boss. Chen Run saw that something was wrong and immediately went up to stop them. The two sides started pushing each other, and the stupid boss broke a leg and several ribs, and also demanded 250,000 yuan in compensation.

According to the situation at the time, once the other party filed a lawsuit, Chen Run would most likely be convicted of intentional injury. After a period of wrangling between the two sides, she successfully bargained down the price to 130,000 yuan. She was unwilling to ask relatives and friends for money, so she took out her savings from working and borrowed online loans. It took a lot of effort to scrape together 100,000 yuan, and she could not get the remaining 30,000 yuan together.

At this time, Mo Tao took the initiative to transfer 30,000 yuan of his savings to her, which finally allowed her to raise enough compensation.

Although Chen Run took action to help her, she later learned that Mo Tao had been harassed many times before. Because she did not dare to resist, the man became bolder and bolder. In the end, he took advantage of his drunkenness and dragged her directly to the toilet. Even so, she did not dare to shout for help.

With her personality, Chen Run didn't expect her to do anything. If she was willing to help others, it was her own business and she would bear the consequences. She didn't think about asking for anything in return. But she never expected that Mo Tao not only mustered up the courage to testify for Chen Run and cut more than half of the compensation, but also took the initiative to assume the debt of 30,000 yuan.

Later, she told Chen Run that she could no longer stay in the big city and wanted to go back to her hometown to find a job. The two of them never contacted each other again.

Mo Tao's expression froze for a moment, her eyes avoided, and she whispered, "I, I..." She stammered and couldn't go on.

Chen Run became even more suspicious: "Xiao Tao, are you really okay?"

Mo Tao was really not good at lying. After hesitating for a few times, he finally told the truth.

After the harassment incident, she did think about going back to her hometown, but when she learned that Chen Run still had 30,000 yuan to raise, she struggled for a few days, hardened her heart, and found an online loan company to borrow 20,000 yuan. She also took out her only 10,000 yuan savings to help Chen Run raise the money. Now she has to stay and work to pay off the debt. Because she has a low level of education and has not even attended college, she can only find these ordinary part-time jobs.

——An even more unfortunate coincidence was that the company the two borrowed money from was actually the same one.

The only good thing is that the amount of money she owes is not much and she can pay it off in two or three months.

After hearing this, Chen Run didn't know what to say, but things had already happened, and talking about these unfortunate things would only make people more unhappy. She simply talked about something else. Mo Tao told her that her family was a poor household, and her parents had five daughters and one son. When she was just sixteen years old, her father forced her to get married in exchange for a betrothal gift. Fortunately, she escaped with the help of her eldest and second sisters.

Chen Run felt very involved in what he heard. The two of them worked while cursing the family's shameless leader, and they soon became close.

Time flies when working with friends. Before we know it, it's 10pm. Mo Tao wants to stay and help with the tidying up, but Chen Run urges her, "Your home is far away. Go back first. I can handle this."

Mo Tao felt a little embarrassed and left with a red face after being urged several times by Chen Run.

As expected, Shen Run was tidying up the food area when a transfer notification suddenly popped up on her phone - her mother had transferred 5,000 yuan to her.

Shen Run was stunned.

It was true that her mother had borrowed three thousand yuan from her before, but what about the extra two thousand yuan? Her mother had always borrowed money and paid it back, but she hadn't paid any interest.

Shen Run felt a little uneasy and made a phone call: "Mom, did you transfer the wrong money?"

"How can this child talk like that?" Mother Shen's voice sounded cheerful, and she even said to her, "Just take the money I gave you. It's not easy for you to work in another place. What's wrong with me giving my daughter some living expenses?"

Chen Run raised his eyebrows: "It's normal to ask for living expenses, but where do you get the money?"

"Your brother gave it to me. He just transferred some money to me today. I'll pay you back first." She would definitely take care of her son first if she had one, but now both she and her son are well off, so she would naturally help her daughter a little if she can.

Chen Run had a strange expression on his face: "Just Chen Wen? Does he have the ability to make money?"

Oh, it's not that she looks down on the Yaozu in her family. Her brother and her father are just the same. They only know how to brag and have never accomplished anything in their lives. They show off at the dinner table every day. They are reluctant to buy a bouquet of flowers for their parents at home, but they dare to act like rich people outside and lend thousands of dollars to unfamiliar classmates without blinking an eye.

After graduating from a junior college, he followed others to work in the provincial capital, earning only 3,000 yuan a month. His family had to give him 4,000 yuan. He also forced his parents to buy him a 150,000 yuan car to save face. Calling him a waste was a compliment to him.

"Stop talking nonsense, your brother is very capable." Mother Shen said proudly, unable to hide her boasting: "Last month, a cousin came over and wanted to take your brother to do business, so your brother drove with him. In less than a month, he made over 100,000 yuan. This month, he will probably make 200,000 yuan. Your brother's ex-girlfriend's family always thought our family was poor and asked for a 200,000 yuan betrothal gift. Look, she just broke up with your brother, and your brother made money. I think she is a husband-killer!"

Two hundred thousand a month? Just Chen Wen? Chen Run couldn't help but say what was in his heart: "Is he going to be a gigolo?" Apart from anything else, the brother and sister were both extremely good-looking. When they stood on the street, they looked like celebrities.

After hearing this, Mother Shen was like an old hen whose neck was strangled. Her face turned green and she cursed into the receiver.

Chen Run coaxed her with a playful smile before hanging up the phone, but the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. He couldn't help but open Chen Wen's circle of friends and take a look.

——She didn't care how much money Chen Wen made, mainly because the way he made money was really inexplicable. Putting aside the fact that Chen Wen was a loser, the cousin that Shen's mother mentioned had not been in contact with their family for at least ten years. Even if this cousin really had a way to make money, why did he have to bring an unfamiliar relative with him?

What if Chen Wen engages in some illegal or criminal activities, which prevents her from taking the civil service exam in the future?

Shen Run's expression turned serious.

The brother and sister haven't been in touch for hundreds of years. There's nothing special about Chen Wen's circle of friends. It's almost all about him pretending to be a rich man and showing off his wealth. He has to post at least three messages on WeChat Moments to show off when he buys a pair of high-end imitation sunglasses. The latest one is rather strange - it's a photo.

The photo was taken of his chest and abdomen, where a few light bruises and red spots appeared. He captioned the photo: "I woke up and found a few spots. What's going on?"

The comments below were filled with random suggestions or analyses, with his friends joking, "Could it be corpse spots, Mr. Chen?", to which Chen Wen replied, "Fuck you. [Curse]."

——Her first reaction was disease X.

But the picture was blurry, and even though Chen Run was a nursing major, he couldn't figure out what was going on. He could only put the matter aside for the time being, feeling very worried.

There were quite a few leftover instant lunch boxes from yesterday and today in the food area, as well as oden, bread, cakes and so on. The store manager said that employees could take these away. Shen Run happily searched through them, divided the leftovers from yesterday and the day before yesterday and today into two packages, and planned to eat them for dinner when he got home.

When she returned home, Chi Shuangliu frowned slightly: "I wanted to cook for you, but I was delayed because of something."

It was not difficult to deal with Louis and his robots, but the subsequent cleaning work was more troublesome. When he was cleaning, he once wanted to resurrect Louis and let him roll over to lick the floor clean.

"It's okay," Chen Run shook the plastic bag in his hand: "I went to work part-time today and packed some food to bring back."

She also couldn't let the patient eat leftovers, so she gave him the portion she had made today, saying proudly, "I specially microwaved it in the store so we don't have to heat it up at home. Brother Chi, eat it while it's hot."

Chi Shuangliu reached out to take it and paused slightly.

Although both plastic bags contained fast food made with high technology and hard work, and both had a cheap and low-quality smell, the smell was different. His was obviously much fresher, at least it was made 24 hours ago. Although Chen Run's was not spoiled, it did not smell very good, and the quality could not be guaranteed.

He looked at her with a condescending, scrutinizing gaze and smiled slightly: "You are so nice to me."

His tone was slightly playful: "Is there anything you want from me?" Knowing that Shen Run couldn't understand hints, he asked directly.

Over the long years, he had never met a human being who did not ask for anything in return for his help. Princes and nobles offered sacrifices to the witch temple and forged a golden body for him in order to fulfill their wishes. The Parasol Company spent a huge amount of money to build a base for him in order to obtain his power.

Before at the base, Shen Run took care of him because she was paid. Now that her job is in jeopardy and her salary is gone, her thoughtfulness and attentiveness are very intriguing.

All those who are nice to him, without exception, want to squeeze higher returns from him.

Chen Run didn't understand the cause and effect relationship between his two sentences at all, and asked him inexplicably: "Why are you asking this?"

Chi Shuangliu smiled: "Just curious."

Shen Run thought for a moment and said, "If I must answer, then I hope you will recover quickly and live a long life."