"What do we do now?" Zhan Chunhua was also helpless. He thought he had taken a shortcut, but who knew he had made a terrible move.
"What can we do? Stay calm and stop focusing on getting a permanent position like before. They're already trying to control you with the promise of a permanent position before you're even married. Once you're married, they'll start scheming against your job!" Xu Lihua looked down on the Jiao family's behavior. They'd only just started dating, and they were already scheming against their daughter-in-law.
"Stop running around the restaurant now. Don't just lie at home after get off work. Look around for job postings. People who go to state-run restaurants are usually quite well-off. Keep an eye out for opportunities. Maybe you can find another state-run restaurant to transfer to, or find other jobs."
"What if we don't have it?"
"It's better if you have it, but it's okay if you don't. This is just your attitude, telling you that you won't let them control you, that you have other options, and that you won't die because of Jiao Lei's crooked neck."
"If you can win over Jiao Lei and get him to help you get a permanent position, that would be even better."
At the dinner table, the two younger sisters of the Zhan family did not say a word. They had no say in the family. Zhan Hongyu was indifferent to everything. He knew from a young age that he was the only son in the family and that everything in the family belonged to him. If he had any problems, Zhan Zhiqiang and Xu Lixia would help him. He didn't have to worry about anything.
That night, Zhan Chunlan lay motionless on her bed. The Zhan family only had two bedrooms and a living room; Zhan's parents lived in the master bedroom.
The second bedroom was divided into two rooms by wooden boards. One room was occupied by Zhan Hongyu, and there was a wardrobe and a desk in his room, which was just right for one person.
In another room, there was a 1.5-meter bed where Zhan Chunhua and Zhan Chunyun slept. Opposite them, against the wall, were several wooden chests, originally used to store grain. Later, when Zhan Chunlan grew up and had no bed, and the three sisters had no wardrobes, they moved the grain chests in so that they could store clothes for the three sisters and also serve as a bed for Zhan Chunlan.
She would roll up her bedding during the day and lay it on the bed at night. The trunk was not wide, only about 80 centimeters wide, and she had difficulty turning over every day while sleeping on it.
Today, Zhan Chunlan simply lived according to the original owner's habits. Although she had sorted out most of her memories, it was like watching a movie; she had no real feelings about them.
My body lay on this rock-hard "bed," but my thoughts had wandered off somewhere else. I've already traveled through time, so how far away can my cheat system be?
"system?"
...
No response.
"Binding?"
...
Still no response.
"space?"
"Grandpa?"
"Red envelope group?"
...
Zhan Chunlan mentally called out all the cheat codes from the novels she had read, but there was no response. Could it be that I really don't have any cheat codes?
I don't believe it! I started feeling myself up and down to see if I had any jewelry or anything like that.
"Zhan Chunlan, are you sick? What are you doing making noises in the middle of the night? If you can't sleep, get out!" Zhan Chunhua was already in a bad mood and couldn't sleep, and the person next to her kept moving around and making noises, so she immediately went over without any politeness.
Zhan Chunlan immediately stopped. She had forgotten that she was not alone. She then carefully put her hands and feet back in place and lay flat on the box, like a dead body.
She lay there for a while and then fell asleep, and even had a dream.
At that time, she was working in her hometown doing self-media, but she hadn't been able to make it work. She was in a very bad mood and was depressed all night. She felt anxious as soon as she closed her eyes, and the more she lay there, the more awake she became. She just kept her eyes open until dawn. She decided to go hiking to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
She had never gotten up this early before, and she had never seen a mountain rise so early.
The morning mist was thick and the air was fresh, making people feel relaxed and happy, and they walked further and further away.
While strolling through the mountains, I came across a small "land god temple" spontaneously built by the residents. It was really small, simply constructed with three cement bricks, arranged like a couplet, with one brick on the left and one on the right, and another horizontally placed on top. Inside was a ceramic statue of a deity, but I didn't know which deity it represented.
It is said that the new generation of young people have chosen to burn incense over going to work and striving for advancement.
Zhan Chunlan is an atheist and a staunch materialist.
After carefully observing that no one was around, she devoutly prayed in front of the "temple": "My name is Zhan Chunlan, ID number... (I'm afraid there are too many people with the same name and the gods might mistake me for someone else). I hope you can bless me to become very rich, preferably so that I can earn a salary even while lying down and playing. If possible, please also give me a space on social media. Please!"
Then, he left a bunch of wildflowers he had picked by the roadside in front of the "temple" and walked away contentedly.
The "land god," who hadn't received offerings for a long time, excitedly came to Zhan Chunlan's side that very night. Making people rich was the job of the God of Wealth, but he had found a space and could give it to her, hoping that she would continue to believe in Him because of His efficacy.
While dreaming, Zhan Chunlan saw an ethereal old man. The moment she saw him, she knew he was the "Earth God" she had worshipped during the day. A ball of light the size of a peanut automatically appeared in his hand and slowly floated in front of her. She felt a small ball of soft light on her forehead and tried to reach out to grab it, but it suddenly disappeared.
She sensed something, and it seemed that something new had appeared deep within her soul, called space!
Space! Something so many people yearn for but cannot obtain. Zhan Chunlan carefully recalled the instructions the space had given her, and excitedly shouted in her dream, "Enter!"
"Ah!!!!" The quiet night was suddenly shattered by a scream, and the shouts and curses of those around could be faintly heard.
This time, Zhan Chunyun couldn't take it anymore. She grabbed a dirty piece of clothing that was lying on the side of the bed and threw it at Zhan Chunlan.
"What are you yelling about in the middle of the night? If you don't go to sleep, I'm going to throw you out. You can't sleep anyway."
Xu Lixia's voice came from next door: "If you can't sleep, close your eyes! You're all twenty-year-old girls, but you don't act like girls at all. Especially you, Zhan Chunlan, if you oversleep again tomorrow morning, you can forget about going to school. I don't think you want to go either!"
Although everyone was cursing at her, she wasn't angry at all because she couldn't hear them at all. She was breathing heavily, her hands on her chest, trying to calm herself down.
Zhan Chunlan is now both scared and excited.
She woke up to find that she really did have a cheat ability, a space, and a space where living things could enter.
It's just a little small.
She had just murmured "in" in her dream, and then her head—yes, her head—went into a small 30x30x30 box, in centimeters.
The space was too small. After she said "go in," all she could see were white walls. When she tried to reach out and touch them, she found that she couldn't move at all. No, she should say that she couldn't sense her body except for her head.
This realization terrified her. She was so worried that something might happen to her that she immediately shouted in her dream, "Get out! Get out! Get out!"
Then she woke up, and at the same time, because she was so scared, she couldn't control her mouth and let out a scream of "Ah!!!!"
She doesn't dare to shout "in" or "out" anymore. She doesn't know if the dream is real, but she has already traveled through time, so it makes sense for her to have another space, right?
People can't go in, but things can, right? Or should we try again?
There just happens to be a piece of clothing on hand? Where did it come from? Never mind, I put my hand on the clothing, and with a thought, I put it into my storage space.
However, the space is too small; a single piece of clothing almost fills it up.
Forget it, having a space that's completely my own is good enough, what more could I ask for!
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