Chapter 5: Don’t be greedy for some equipment
The next morning, Zhai Da got up immediately when the alarm rang.
I have never gotten up so quickly in my life, except when I was working as a slave. Then, I got drunk at an annual meeting and woke up in the accountant's rental house.
He was afraid that the accountant would count money with him.
Of course, they later discovered that there was a surveillance camera in the rental house. They were both drunk and played "finger grabbing" all night.
As soon as Zhai Da opened the door, he smelled the rich aroma of corn. There were two boiled corns and two eggs on the table.
Maybe it was because his body became younger after rebirth and his stomach was more motivated, but Zhai Da's appetite was aroused. He thought the big corn and eggs put together looked very pretty.
By the time Yu Xiaoli finished styling her hair and came out, he had almost finished eating.
Yu Xiaoli: "Is it delicious?"
"tasty!"
"Have you ever wondered why there are two of everything?"
Zhai Da: ...
Ms. Yu rolled her eyes. It didn't matter if she skipped breakfast. As she reached middle age, her waistline was increasing faster than her wrinkles.
However, at my son's age, he looks like a starving ghost. The doctor said that if he fainted in the examination room, the possibility of malnutrition cannot be ruled out.
Thinking of this, Yu Xiaoli pulled out a Mao Zedong note from her wallet and handed it to Zhai Da: "This is your pocket money for next week."
Zhai Da was a little bit unbelievable: "Our family is rich?"
He remembered that when he was in high school, his weekly pocket money was 50 yuan, which included the school cafeteria meal card, and other things like bus cards, miscellaneous school supplies, snacks, and occasional meals out were all paid for from this money.
Rounded off, this is the absolute poor population. If they want to buy something extra, such as magazines or CDs, they will have to go hungry.
I didn’t dare buy a new copy of Men’s Health even though it had turned yellow.
It increased to 100 per week, which is 400 per month. Compared with other students in school, it is considered quite generous.
But this also put some pressure on Zhai Da.
After all, Yu Xiaoli's salary is only 1900. After deducting the food, daily necessities, water and electricity bills for two people, and occasional personal expenses, she also has to save for Zhai Da's tuition, miscellaneous fees, and tutoring books...
A mother always wants the best for her child, but often can only give her child what she has.
Some time ago, because Zhai Da's grades were not ideal, Ms. Yu even thought about hiring a tutor, but her son fainted in the exam room once, so she gave up the idea and became more indifferent to Zhai Da's grades.
She was not the kind of mother who pushed her child too hard. She could accept that Zhai Da was not good at studying, could not go to college, and even worked in a factory like herself.
But she couldn't accept anything happening to her son again.
This person, you have to look at the comparison.
Compared to mental illness and kite flying, working in a factory is nothing. That's called job stability!
Giving Zhai Da twice as much pocket money was also in the hope that Zhai Da could feel more relaxed and in a happier mood.
"Take it. You're a big boy now, so it's inevitable that you'll have some weird spending habits."
"Mom, you better explain clearly... What kind of weird spending is that?"
"Just spend it. It'll be like this from now on, 100 per week."
"Are you sure? Don't you have any use for money at home?"
"I was saving it up to send you to college, but now it looks like you're going to save a lot of money for our family."
Zhai Da: ...
Mom, you are so humorous. [Clown Love Letter] should be given to you.
However, just yesterday he said that he would take it easy in life and not be in a hurry to make money. Today, thinking about the original economic situation of his family, Zhai Da considered adding "initial improvement of income" to the memorandum.
After all, earning a little money can make my mother feel more relaxed.
Of course, priority should be placed after the system and study. There are still three months before the college entrance examination, so we cannot put the cart before the horse.
Zhai Da didn't have to go to school today, and Yu Xiaoli didn't care about him. He just let it go and took the money to go online. However, in order to spend more time with Ms. Yu, Zhai Da also took the opportunity to use her bicycle and offered to take Yu Xiaoli to and from get off work.
After sending my mother there, I can ride my 28-inch bicycle to stroll around the county town and then pick her up from get off work in the evening.
Yu Xiaoli felt a little strange.
But there is no reason to refuse. If a bicycle can move by itself, who would want to pedal it personally?
However, after leaving the community, Zhai Da walked a few dozen meters and bought a few buns and soy milk at the breakfast shop, two servings, and handed them to Ms. Yu.
He advised: "It's not good for your health to skip breakfast. Take it to the factory. I'll make one for you as well. I just haven't eaten enough."
Yu Xiaoli rolled her eyes and said, "Hurry up, I'm going to be late."
But the smile on his face couldn't be suppressed at all, and his heart felt warm.
I always feel like this child has grown up overnight.
The woolen mill has been relocated several times and is currently located in a factory area far from the county center.
The pillar that once held Dongyang's immense power has now become a withered state, with grass taller than trees.
First, it was converted from military to civilian use, then it became self-financing, and finally it was eliminated by the market. The story is very long. Woolen spinning also had its own struggles, but it revealed a kind of clarity that was always one step behind. It also once made a lot of miscellaneous things such as spare parts and instruments, metal plating parts, leather shoes and socks.
It once called itself "Sany Woolen Textile Group".
However, after experiencing multiple rounds of poor management, asset divestiture, debt restructuring, and leadership meddling in personnel matters instead of managing them, the only thing left is a "garment factory" that has no barriers to entry and purely exploits cheap labor, and is not large in scale.
When you find that you are going downhill again, don't be afraid, you will keep going downhill. From now on until Zhai Da is reborn, Sany Woolen Textile will get worse year by year.
To make an inappropriate analogy, after winning the lottery in his previous life, Zhai Da could have bought Sany Woolen Textile.
That way he would end up with a bunch of broken equipment, worthless old factories, and hundreds of retired workers crying out for food.
The earliest glorious ones, such as the wool spinning middle school where Zhai Da studied, have long been
After being taken over, only the name was left, but after more than ten years of operation, it became a key high school in Dongyang County.
Of course, it is only relatively important compared with the other two mediocre general high schools in the county. Those two cannot be promoted because of the trouble.
Ms. Yu Xiaoli currently works in the only remaining "garment factory" of the wool spinning mill. She has been employed there for 20 years and is currently a pattern maker.
Riding their bicycles further and further away, the two headed towards the industrial area. There were obviously more large trucks on the road along the way, and there were billowing clouds of dust.
"What are your plans today? I heard kids are all playing C or S these days...why don't you want to join in?"
"CS is outdated now. It's all Audition and QQ Speed."
"Dancing is good and it can also exercise your body, but driving is not allowed because you don't have a driver's license..."
"Uh...I'm not playing games, I'm just wandering around the county."
Zhai Da had lost his gaming addiction in his previous life. It was a natural thing that happened as he grew older. The girls in the game became more and more realistic, but the boy he once was had already become electronically ED.
As they were chatting, when they were only two intersections away from the woolen mill, Zhai Da suddenly braked hard.
Yu Xiaoli was puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Zhai Da did not answer, but looked ahead cautiously at a thick old elm tree by the road.
It would probably take two people to hug this big tree. The bark is severely cracked and dark in color, green with black. It is completely different from the regular roadside trees. It seems that it was not transplanted, but has always been there and was not dug up because of road construction.
"Found a special green rarity item, [Shooting Old Elm]: There once was an old prison where every execution took place beneath a single tree. Many people's last sight was of the old elm's canopy."
"Status: Not owned, not activated."
"Effect: Accident probability within range +50%, corpses decay 300% faster under the tree,???."
"Unblocking mission: unknown"
"Not yet activated, the host needs to obtain ownership. High-rarity items will display all effects and unlock tasks after ownership."
"Note: Have you really thought this through before activating it?"
Zhai Da swallowed his saliva...
So... the special items that can be transformed into [Equipment] also include this kind of thing...
Turning around, I saw a warning sign next to it that read "Accident-prone road section, please drive carefully."
The guardrails on the edge of the road are mottled and crooked, as if they have been hit many times...
Although according to the system description, the [Equipment] before transformation was merely a special item, without any supernatural abilities, this warning sign might just be a coincidence...
But inexplicably, Zhai Da felt a cool breeze rushing towards the back of his neck early in the morning.
Zhai Da decisively followed his heart and chose to turn right and take a detour.
"What's wrong, Xiaoda? Why are you taking a detour?"
"I just saw a beautiful woman on the right. I'm going to catch up and see!"
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