Chapter 156 Acquaintances (Asking for a Guaranteed Monthly Pass)
After leaving the room and going down to the ground floor, Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian met Aunt Nan from the "Ah Fu Gun Shop" head-on.
"You guys are quite calm." The graceful lady swept her eyes casually and said with a smile.
"Aren't you too?" Jiang Baimian responded with a smile, "What does other people's affairs have to do with us? I'm afraid they will pierce the sky of the weed city."
They had already confessed before, and everyone ended the topic with a tacit understanding, one plan to go upstairs, and the other party was ready to go out.
At this moment, Jiang Baimian's heart moved, and he asked:
"Aunt Nan, do you know what 'temporary teachers' are nearby?"
Aunt Nan looked at the two people opposite suspiciously:
"Do you want a 'temporary teacher'?"
Judging from his appearance and clothes, he doesn't look illiterate.
"We mainly want to understand this line of work to see if we can take on this task. Jiang Baimian instinctively made up a reason.
Shang Jianyao immediately dismantled the stage:
"You explain too much."
Jiang Baimian glanced at him, but he wasn't too worried, because Aunt Nan obviously didn't believe her words.
How can a relic hunter who can easily kidnap Eugene back and leave no clues need to take on the task of being a "temporary teacher"? It's not a tutor for the children of aristocrats.
If what was said just now, who would believe the person who knew the inside story?
Aunt Nan didn't ask what it was for, and said with a smile:
"We have one in this building."
"Where does he live?" Jiang Baimian asked.
Aunt Nan lifted the hair hanging down at her temples:
"She, a lady."
The word "she" is used by Aunt Nan in the Red River language, otherwise it would be impossible to distinguish it.
Aunt Nan continued:
"She doesn't live here, she comes over at two o'clock every afternoon and takes an hour and a half class.
"Hehe, more than a dozen girls in this yard joined forces to invite it.
"Several of the people you saw last night participated, and they had some dividends in the 'Ah Fu Gun Shop', which was relatively generous. If you want to see it later, I will let them lead the way."
Jiang Baimian knew that the "girl" in Aunt Nan's mouth referred to women who were engaged in the flesh business full-time or part-time.
"Okay, let's go out for lunch first, and come to our room to find it at almost two o'clock." Jiang Baimian looked at Shang Jianyao's hand touching his stomach, and said gratefully, "Thank you."
She seemed to have completely forgotten that she had just avenged Aunt Nan and the others last night, as if it was something that had not been worth mentioning in a long, long time.
At 1:50 p.m., there was a knock on the door of Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian.
And they had already sensed that someone was coming and were waiting at the door.
"I just wanted to go out and take a look." Jiang Baimian smiled and explained to the lady outside.
This lady was one of the people who killed Eugene last night, with big eyes and short hair just above her ears, she looked both intellectual and young, making it difficult to accurately judge her age.
"Ten minutes left." The lady exchanged pleasantries and said, "Gu Changle, you saw it last night."
"I won't introduce myself, otherwise it's meaningless to use a pseudonym. You can call me Dabai." Jiang Baimian laughed at himself, "He, he doesn't have a name, just use 'Hey'."
She was retaliating for the demolition of the platform before Shang Jianyao.
Gu Changle didn't answer this, turned around and said:
"On the top floor, the sun is better there."
There was no electricity from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Glancing at the flower scarf on Gu Changle's neck, which seemed to be much more gorgeous than last night, Jiang Baimian took two steps quickly and walked side by side with the other party.
She had a "professional habit" attack and asked curiously:
"Sister Gu, why would you think of pooling money to hire a 'temporary teacher'?"
Gu Changle's expression slowly softened, and the corners of his mouth hooked up slightly invisibly:
"I accidentally had a child before, and I was reluctant to abort her, so I gave birth like this.
"I don't want her to be like me in the future, always thinking that being literate should be better and have more opportunities."
Jiang Baimian echoed:
"Indeed, the situation in Weeds City is relatively stable, and literacy is an advantage.
"Has the child already gone to the classroom?"
She didn't know what the place where the "temporary teacher" gave lectures was called, and could only be defined by the most common nouns.
"She's only two years old, how do you get there?" Gu Changle smiled, "I put her with Aunt Nan."
Jiang Baimian asked thoughtfully while climbing the stairs:
"Do you want to teach her after you learn it yourself?"
"Yes. I am still young, I am still relatively popular, I have room to choose, and my income is still stable, plus the dividends from the gun shop, I can support the cost of hiring a "temporary teacher". I just thought, I'll learn more first, and then I can teach her myself no matter how bad it is." Gu Changle talked about his considerations.
"That's right, people have immediate worries without foresight." Jiang Baimian praised.
Papa, Shang Jianyao also applauded.
While chatting, they went to the fifth floor and entered a relatively spacious room near an alley.
The light from the outside shines through the glass windows on all sides, illuminating the beds, tables, benches, paper, and simple blackboards inside.
At this time, seven or eight women were already sitting on stools and on the edge of the bed, looking down at the paper in their hands, quietly reviewing the words they had learned before.
Jiang Baimian looked around and pulled Shang Jianyao to sit next to a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl.
The girl was wrapped in a shriveled white padded jacket and looked intently at the notes from the previous class.
In this cold room, she trembled slightly.
When the other party came to an end and raised his head, Jiang Baimian showed a harmless smile:
"How long have you been here for classes?"
The girl looked beautiful, but a little haggard.
She replied politely:
"It's been almost two months."
"How is the teacher?" Jiang Baimian pondered and asked.
This is probably the biggest concern for first-time students.
"Very good, very patient, and know a lot." The girl did not skimp on her compliments.
At this time, Shang Jianyao interjected:
"Why do you think of pooling money to hire a 'temporary teacher'?"
Only then did the girl realize that something was wrong, looked at him, and said in surprise:
"How can there be a man?"
This matter was done by the women in the yard who were doing the flesh business, and there were usually no men there.
"Don't you allow men to do flesh business?" Shang Jianyao is justified.
"My friend." Gu Changle hurriedly introduced,
The girl's eyes swept over the faces of Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian, becoming more and more confused.
She didn't ask any more, sighed, and answered the question just now:
"My sister works as a prostitute in a nightclub, whether she accepts customers or not, what kind of guests she takes, she doesn't count, just like a slave.
"She got a dirty disease half a year ago and was kicked out, and she found someone to treat her for a while but was not cured, and she died not long after......
"She kept saying that there was no hope in this industry, she couldn't jump out, and she might get sick and die in a few years, so I didn't want to learn from her. But what can be done, you have to live first, right?
"I'm pulling guests by myself, it's okay to pay attention, but if I keep going like this, it's not a way, one day she will be like my sister, when she dies......"
The girl stopped, lowered her head, and turned to "smile":
"I just thought, while I still have some money, I can recognize characters, learn more things, and maybe I will have the opportunity to work as a clerk in the municipal building in the future, and I can also take on some relic hunter tasks that don't require risks, so I don't have to do this line of work anymore."
"Yes." Jiang Baimian sincerely agrees.
The girl was about to say something, and suddenly saw someone coming in at the door, so she stood up and said:
"Hello, Teacher An."
Jiang Baimian looked over, and was a little dumbfounded for a while.
The "temporary teacher" who came was actually someone she knew.
Ruxiang An, a relic hunter who has met in the "Kuronuma Wilderness" and the ruins of Marsh No. 1.
She is a member of Wu Shoushi's team and learned from the "Old Tune Team" where Wu Shoushi's body was placed.
An Ruxiang's originally cold and indifferent expression also fluctuated slightly:
"You?"
"Are you surprised?" Shang Jianyao stood up and asked enthusiastically.
No longer wearing military green camouflage, An Ruxiang, dressed in black, opened her mouth, not knowing how to answer.
She is both vigilant and confused.
Jiang Baimian hurriedly pointed outside the door and said:
"Go out and talk."
An Ruxiang nodded silently, and walked out of the room in the doubtful eyes of the students.
Coming to the end of this floor, Jiang Baimian took the lead in saying:
"We took on an investigation mission, but we didn't expect to meet you."
An Ruxiang's expression darkened, and then returned to normal:
"After leaving that ruin, we took the stone back to Weeds City and buried him in the place where he was born.
"Our trip was quite rewarding, and there were only two people left, so we simply went our separate ways.
"I wasn't in the mood, I didn't take on tasks for a long time, but then I recovered a little and took on some tasks in the city, including being a 'temporary teacher'."
"And then you just got it like this?" Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
In her eyes, An Ruxiang is a woman who is very suitable for adventure and battle.
An Ruxiang looked back at the temporary classroom and said calmly:
"I just wanted to be a week and find something to do."
"You ended up falling in love with this profession?" Shang Jianyao also asked with great interest.
"I can't talk about whether I like it or not." An Ruxiang's tone was not ups and downs.
Perhaps because she met an acquaintance who had helped each other, she talked a little more and continued as if recalling:
"I grew up in a killer organization, there is nothing to hide, there were many such organizations in the first few years of the new calendar.
"Later, that organization was destroyed, and I narrowly escaped and began to wander the ashes.
"The education I received since I was a child is how to kill, even if I read words, it is also to kill, once there is no goal, I don't know what to do, I can't find it, well, Shoushi said, the meaning of survival.
"It wasn't until I met Shoushi that I slowly got rid of that state, maybe I understood too late, he couldn't wait for ......"
Speaking of this, An Ruxiang was silent for a few seconds before saying:
"After his death, I couldn't find the meaning of living again.
"But when I gave them a lesson, I found that there was light in their eyes when they looked at me."
PS: At the beginning of the month, I asked for a guaranteed monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)