Chapter 5: No Back
Chapter 5: No Back
The only small problem is that if you empty your savings you might end up starving.
After much thought, the only option was to continue the original owner's "job" and make money by copying for others.
Gu Lu's thoughts yesterday: I worked hard before the time travel, and I still work hard after the time travel, so doesn't that mean that the time travel was in vain? I need to finish the "project" left behind, so that I can never repeat the cheap labor again!
Gu Lu’s thoughts today: I’m sorry I spoke a little loudly yesterday.
"Then come on. Go to an internet cafe and work hard for two hours after class every day. You can finish it in about a week." Gu Lu called the editorial department of Story Club this morning to inquire about the manuscript fee.
If your work is selected, you will receive a remuneration of RMB 120 per thousand words (before tax).
The answer can be obtained using a relatively advanced mathematical equation. If all seven of his articles are passed, he will receive more than 4,000 yuan in royalties, which will be enough to solve Gu Lu's current situation.
I'm not afraid of being out of work. After all, I'm taking the high school entrance exam soon and I'll be taking exams every day.
Copying test papers as punishment is also within Gu Lu's business scope. From this perspective, we have to thank the teachers for creating the demand.
"Did anyone copy the math test?"
"Old rules."
"Do you want to do it or not?"
These three sentences left a young man stunned.
Zhang Yudong has one of the best family conditions in Class 5. His father is a senior engineer and his mother runs a company. However, he is a poor student with a love problem.
"Didn't you say before that you wouldn't copy these?" Zhang Yudong asked.
"What is our relationship?" Gu Lu asked Zhang Yudong.
"Classmate?" Zhang Yudong asked.
"You are my breadwinner. How can I refuse your offer?" Gu Lu said, "I was just talking nonsense before."
"No, no, no, I don't need my parents to provide me with food and clothing. I already have a son." Zhang Yudong rejected the eldest son in front of him.
Indeed, as both are poor students, Zhang Yudong has an extroverted personality and many friends, and more importantly, he is rich and generous, basically at the top of the poor student contempt chain.
After the two men agreed on the terms, Zhang Yudong handed a chemistry and a Chinese paper to Gu Lu, and directly and openly paid the full amount of two yuan first.
Why did they choose Zhang Yudong first? Because he is definitely a high-quality customer.
I don’t know if your childhood and my childhood are the same, but according to Gu Lu’s memory, when Zhang Yudong said “having a son” he did not mean the momentary “call dad” that boys would say.
Both parties agreed and voluntarily facilitated this relationship. Zhang Yudong's son was from another class, and both of them called each other "Dad" and "Eldest Son" in private.
It was not surprising, as there were many relationships like siblings, mothers and sons, and brothers and sisters in the class. Although Gu Lu did not understand, he was greatly shocked.
If you still feel confused, you can understand it as "spies playing house", oh no, there are no spies, just playing house.
"Let's not talk about anything else. When you grow up and look back on it, won't you be so embarrassed that you tap your toes when you call someone your age mom or dad?" Gu Lu began to wonder.
The fourth class was physical education. Before the students had time to rush out of the classroom, the English teacher walked in and said, "The physical education teacher is not feeling well today, so she asked for leave. Let me take over the class."
The physical education teacher, who looks like a strong man of about 1.8 meters tall, is actually very frail and has been feeling unwell this week, Gu Lu wondered.
"Oh no." The students were wailing.
Today's English class started with reciting words. The English teacher's surname is Tai, and she is an aunt who is almost fifty years old. Because of her strict teaching style and often making students stand in the corner, she has been given various nicknames such as "Tai buck teeth", "old witch (different from the math teacher's old witch, because she likes to dress up)", "instant noodle head"...
Tai Tai Shen is the most widely spread. In Sichuan and Chongqing dialects, Tai Shen means "brain disease".
At this moment, Teacher Tai patrols sternly, and his eyes change from sharp to dull and then to indifferent, corresponding to the average students, excellent students and poor students. There is a saying among the poor students: "Failing English means I love my country", but it is unknown who said it, so the poor students hand in blank papers for dictation.
The original body had copied a lot of English homework in the three years of junior high school. It can even be said that he was in the top three in the class, no, the whole grade. But when Gu Lu traveled through time and saw these words, it was like that song, "Am I in love again? It's impossible that I am in love again..."
Personal experience has taught us that the struggle for survival will not improve no matter how many years accumulate.
After the dictation, the class started. Teacher Tai’s level is quite good and he is one of the few special teachers in No. 37 Middle School.
Gu Lu felt a little sorry that his deskmate Zhou Lin didn’t eat any snacks.
"I am simply the ancient Greek god in charge of copying homework!" Gu Lu found that his speed was faster than his original self.
Classes at No. 12 Middle School end at 10:, and as a day student, Gu Lu has more than an hour of extracurricular activities at noon.
Haha, you may not see Gu Lu’s back during the school sports meeting, but you will definitely not see his back after school!
From the time the teacher walked out of the classroom to the time Gu Lu walked out of the school gate, the whole process took no more than five minutes.
The original body did not know where there were illegal Internet cafes, but knew where there were game halls.
It's not an arcade, but a place with more than a dozen PS2 or PS3 handheld game consoles and a big-screen TV.
Two dollars and fifty cents allows you to play for an hour. The owner of the shop is quite big, so the students affectionately call him "Fat Boss".
The games that Fat Boss can provide are limited, including "Grand Theft Auto Series", "Digimon Fighting Evolution 2", "Mountain Bike", "Metal Slug Series", "God of War Series", etc.
Even so, junior high school students still flock to it, and if they don't run fast after school in the afternoon, they can't get a spot at all.
Fan Xiaotian also invited Gu Lu to play twice. His favorite games were Digimon and Grand Theft Auto. The only drawback was that the game room could not be saved. Unless you brought a game memory card to save your progress, you had to start from the beginning every time you came.
"Huff, huff--" Gu Lu ran to the place panting.
"Don't worry, there are not many people coming at noon, so there are seats available." The fat boss smiled.
"Boss, it's still two dollars to use your computer to surf the Internet, right?" Gu Lu asked.
"What two dollars? Playing games costs two dollars and a half an hour." The fat boss said immediately.
Gu Lu pretended to be confused, "Wasn't it two pieces before?"
"How long ago was it two dollars? The price for playing games with you is the same, two dollars and fifty cents." said the fat boss.
"That's fine." Gu Lu was delighted. Compared to going to a black Internet cafe that charges three yuan an hour, he saved one-sixth of the Internet fee.
The fat boss doesn't run an Internet cafe. This computer is for his own use. Regardless of the configuration, it is just enough for watching videos and playing on Tieba.
When there are no machines, students will occasionally pay to play 4399.
After paying the bill and sitting on the plastic chair, Gu Lu started typing away on the keyboard.
[There was a thick envelope in my mailbox. I opened the envelope and counted the money inside. Not a penny was missing.
There was also a note in the envelope with the target's name and where to find him, along with a passport photo. I cursed. I didn't know why. I was an old hand, and old hands aren't supposed to do that, but I couldn't help it. No, I didn't need to look at the name, I knew the person in the photo: Charlotte.
Bassanio Charlotte, Nobel Peace Prize winner, a good man. The only good man I have ever known. In terms of moral character, there is probably no one in the world who can match him.
[…]
This is the story that Gu Lu decided not to change the address to China, and submitted it as a foreign story. After all, "Story Club" has a column for foreign stories.
There are two things to think about. One is that a killer with a domestic background appears and wants to assassinate a senior official... I don't know what the current censorship situation is like, but Gu Lu is frightened by the God of Harmony.
Secondly, the small change Gu Lu made was in the name...
(End of this chapter)