Chapter 121: Just repaying a favor and paying off a debt (more updates with monthly tickets!)
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There is a group of people who, in their prime years, live in Internet cafes, smoking all day long and living in a virtual world far away from worldly troubles.
And Zhang Gong is one of them.
This is Zhang Gong’s third year working in the Internet cafe.
As long as he didn't have work as an extra, Zhang Gong would eat and live in Internet cafes every day, sitting opposite a lonely computer and playing an online game called Blue Moon 24 hours a day, just like a hermit crab and its only shell.
In the Internet cafes hidden in the corners of the city, there are many young people like Zhang Gong who regard Internet cafes as their home, and a special term has emerged - Internet cafe refugees.
In their view, Internet cafes are a good retreat, a warm roof that can accommodate people from all backgrounds. The noisy atmosphere of the buzzing host and the typing of keyboards is enough to hide people's expressions and postures in their seats, providing a small, free and cheap space.
In almost all contexts, such people are tantamount to homeless people, or to be more direct, losers.
Five years ago, Zhang Gong was still a wealthy second-generation.
At that time, he was very happy with luxury cars and beautiful women. He would not even look at such a low-class place as an Internet cafe when passing by.
But five years ago, Zhang Gong’s furniture store suddenly caught fire due to workers’ illegal use of electric welding.
The fire not only burned down the furniture store that Zhang Gong's mother had built with all her money, but also burned his capable mother to death.
When Zhang Gong's mother was dying, she handed Zhang Gong, who was almost disabled due to a series of blows, to Qi Qiaoqiao, who owed Zhang Gong's mother 300,000 yuan in payment for goods and also owed her a big favor.
Qi Qiaoqiao, who was grateful, did not refuse.
After the funeral of Zhang Gong's mother, Qi Qiaoqiao took Zhang Gong, who was like a walking corpse at that time, to run a transportation business.
But Zhang Gong, who was used to being spoiled, simply couldn't stand the hardship of transporting goods, even though he gradually came out of his zombie state.
Because he didn't want to work in transportation, Zhang Gong refused to take the A1 driver's license test.
There was no other choice, Qi Qiaoqiao had to drive herself, and Zhang Gong sat in her car and played video games.
At that time, Zhang Gong slept when he was sleepy, ate when he was hungry, and played video games when he was full. He didn't care about anything else.
Once, Qi Qiaoqiao was so tired from driving that she stopped the car on the side of the road to rest and asked Zhang Gong to help look after the goods in the car.
However, Zhang Gong was so engrossed in playing the video game that he didn't take Qi Qiaoqiao's words to heart at all, and as a result, goods worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen.
After such a big incident, Qi Qiaoqiao naturally lost her job and owed the company hundreds of thousands of yuan. No other transportation company dared to hire Qi Qiaoqiao.
There was no other way, Qi Qiaoqiao could only take Zhang Gong to work everywhere and look for a job while still working.
The two have worked as assembly line workers, delivered couriers, worked as car mechanics, sold socks, and even sold alcohol in KTVs.
In less than two years, Qi Qiaoqiao and Zhang Gong changed more than a dozen jobs.
Neither of them could last more than three months on any given job.
The reasons for leaving each job were similar, almost always because Zhang Gong had a quarrel with his boss.
There are too many reasons for quarreling.
Zhang Gong complained that his leader's work arrangements were unreasonable.
Zhang Gong complains about too many things about his leader.
There are also leaders who want to take advantage of Qi Qiaoqiao.
Anyway, Zhang Gong always found an excuse to quarrel with his boss. When the quarrel got too intense, Zhang Gong was naturally fired by his boss, and Qi Qiaoqiao had no choice but to quit.
The two had also mistakenly entered an illegal factory, where the boss could use any excuse to deduct their wages.
Later, Qi Qiaoqiao knocked down more than a dozen "security guards" in the illegal factory, and the two of them received their wages in full.
Recalling those two years of working life, Zhang Gong felt nothing but pain.
Being tired is one thing, but what is even more uncomfortable is the depression.
Except for Qi Qiaoqiao, no one treated Zhang Gong as a human being. They were even unwilling to look at Zhang Gong, who looked like a stray dog.
Three years ago, Qi Qiaoqiao brought Zhang Gong to Hengdian.
Here, Qi Qiaoqiao found a job as a bus driver.
Because Qi Qiaoqiao's body was damaged by driving the bus, she finally had no time to care about Zhang Gong.
Zhang Gong, who had nothing to do, soon discovered that the Internet cafe was a good place.
In the Internet cafe, no one can see how miserable Mr. Zhang is now. He can chat with strangers, curse people happily, and enjoy the admiration of thousands of people in the gaming world.
Moreover, in the Internet cafe, Zhang Gong also met several Hengdian people.
Following them, Zhang Gong became an extra and did a job that paid him daily.
Gradually, Zhang Gong discovered that this kind of life was too free and comfortable.
When he had no money, Zhang Gong would work as an extra.
When he had money, Zhang Gong lived a god-like life in an Internet cafe.
Gradually, Zhang Gong stopped returning to the house rented by Qi Qiaoqiao and started eating and sleeping in the Internet cafe like those Internet cafe refugees.
Qi Qiaoqiao looked for Zhang Gong several times.
But Qi Qiaoqiao discovered that Zhang Gong in the Internet cafe was so happy and so like a human being.
Qi Qiaoqiao, who was also tired, let Zhang Gong go.
Unexpectedly, this made Qi Qiaoqiao and Zhang Gong get along better.
Under the leadership of Zhang Gong, Qi Qiaoqiao also joined the ranks of extras.
The two of them stayed in Hengdian.
The bed made of Internet cafe chairs was suspended in the air and leaked air. Zhang Gong twisted and turned on the chairs like an earthworm.
At around four o'clock in the morning, Zhang Gong was woken up by the cold again.
After taking the cigarette box, Zhang Gong found that there were no cigarettes left.
Just when Zhang Gong wanted to ask the network administrator to send him a pack of cigarettes, he remembered that he was out of money again.
There was no other way, Zhang Gong could only find a longer cigarette from the cigarette butts he had smoked last night, light it up, and then smoke the butt while thinking about things.
There are no special jobs for the past two days. As for the ordinary extras, sorry, Young Master Zhang doesn't want to do it. How much money can I make from it? "There's no other way. I can only ask Qi Qiaoqiao for some money to spend and get through these two days first."
Strictly speaking, Zhang Gong is not a real Internet cafe refugee, because he has a skill and a capable and beautiful "wife".
In fact, many Internet cafe refugees couldn’t understand why Zhang Gong left his beautiful wife alone and stayed in such a hellish place like an Internet cafe with them all day long?
There is certainly a reason for this.
Five years ago, Zhang Gong hooked up with a gold digger.
The two of them quickly went to the hotel and checked in.
As a result, the gold-digger's boyfriend showed up.
The gold-digger had her face scratched and painted by her boyfriend.
Zhang Gong, who was timid by nature, saw that the gold digger's boyfriend's eyes turned red. He was afraid of angering the gold digger's boyfriend, so he stabbed him with a knife. Zhang Gong was so scared that he dared not move, and was eventually "cut to death" by the gold digger's boyfriend.
From then on, Zhang Gong was no longer a complete man.
If not, how could Zhang Gong not confirm the rumor that Qi Qiaoqiao was his wife?
But Zhang Gong really had no intention or ability to help Qi Qiaoqiao.
Not only that, because there are rumors that he and Qi Qiaoqiao are the modern version of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian, Zhang Gong also hates standing next to Qi Qiaoqiao.
This is also the main reason why Zhang Gong is unwilling to live with Qi Qiaoqiao.
Honestly, Zhang Gong really wanted to tell others: "Qi Qiaoqiao is not my wife. The reason she takes care of me is because my mother saved her life and lent her 300,000 yuan. She is repaying the favor and paying off the debt."
But Zhang Gong was afraid that people would know that he was no longer a man, so he still needed Qi Qiaoqiao, his "wife", as a disguise.
Confused!
No direction!
There is no motivation to live!
This is why Zhang Gong is willing to hang out with these Internet cafe refugees.
Zhang Gong was so hungry that he had no choice but to walk out of the Internet cafe and ask Qi Qiaoqiao for some money.
Who would have thought that as soon as he came out, Zhang Gong saw a man and a woman getting out of a Polo and then walked into the Holiday Inn opposite.
Zhang Gong snorted: "What a pair of dogs, coming to check in so early, how shameless!"
After looking down on the strange couple, Zhang Gong put up his collar and walked towards Tang Garden with his body hunched...
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(End of this chapter)
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