Chapter 7 - Work to Earn a Living

On Saturday morning, before dawn, Cen Jingyan was busy in the kitchen. After he made breakfast, he went on to make lunch and dinner, and put them in the refrigerator when they were cold.

Before going out, Cen Jingyan told Cen Xiaoman again: "Xiaoman, I have prepared lunch and dinner and put them in the refrigerator. When you eat, heat them in the microwave. Remember to wear insulated gloves when handling them. Be careful, don't get burned. Don't open the door if a stranger knocks, call brother's cell phone immediately if you have something to do."

Cen Jingyan's part-time job today is from ten in the morning to seven in the evening, which means he will not be at home all day. By the time he got home at night, it was probably around nine o'clock.

Cen Jingyan felt a little regretful that he agreed to Wu Limei without serious consideration. After thinking about it, he decided to wait until the part-time job was over this week, and then told Wu Limei that he would not go to part-time work next week, so he could only thank her for her kindness. He should look for another part-time job with suitable working hours.

Now the brothers and sisters, Cen Jingyan and Cen Xiaoman, don't have a lot of living expenses, but their savings are also very small. What worries Cen Jingyan is that the cost of going to college in the future may not be enough even with the scholarship and Fan's support.

As for the future, it's not that Cen Jingyan has never thought about going to prestigious universities in big cities, but her sister is still in elementary school. But if he goes, what will my sister do? After careful consideration, Cen Jingyan has already planned to enter K University next year.

K University is the best university in K City, not too far from X County. According to Cen Jingyan's grades, there shouldn't be any difficulty, so if he chooses to go to school in the future, although it will be harder, he can continue to take care of his sister.

Therefore, part-time work is necessary to make money, but Cen Jingyan is still a little worried when he is away from home for a long time and only leaves his sister at home. After all, Xiaoman is the most important thing.

"I see, brother." Cen Xiaoman listened to her brother's words, and responded obediently. Every time her brother went out, he always gave a lot of instructions, and she had already remembered it.

Although Cen Xiaoman is only in the second grade of elementary school, she is sensible very early. Cen Jingyan often has to work part-time to earn money, and she is used to being alone at home, and she will not be afraid, and will help her brother with some simple housework.

Cen Jingyan settled down with his sister and went out. The KTV opened by Wu Limei's house is far away from his home. Although this KTV is said to be opened in the county, it is actually not far from K City.

For this reason, Cen Jingyan needed to change to two buses, and the journey took a long time. This is also the reason why he is determined not to continue to work part-time there next week, the time spent on the road is too long.

Cen Jingyan arrived at the KTV of Wu Limei's house before ten o'clock. This is a newly built business building. Walking into the magnificent lobby, Cen Jingyan found Manager Liu.

Manager Liu had obviously been told, he asked Cen Jingyan to keep his student ID card, and after registering, he took Cen Jingyan to the reception area.

Manager Liu said to a tall and thin young man, "Xiao Zhou, this is Xiao Cen, Missy's classmate. He came to work part-time on weekends. Please take care of him."

"Manager Liu, don't worry, I will take good care of him!" Xiao Zhou said to Manager Liu obeyed naturally, and quickly responded.

"You are Missy's classmate, and you are also from the No. 1 Middle School of the county. No. 1 Middle School is a key high school. Your grades must be very good." As soon as Manager Liu left, Xiao Zhou started chatting with Cen Jingyan.

Cen Jingyan learned that this little Zhou is called Zhou Cheng, who is only three years older than himself, but he came out to work very early.

Seeing that Cen Jingyan was young and a little thin, Zhou Cheng patted him on the shoulder. "I was ordered by Manager Liu to take care of you. I don't have much to do here. You just need to be responsible for answering the appointment calls. It's very easy."

As Zhou Cheng said, what Cen Jingyan has to do is very simple. He just needs to answer the appointment call and register.

There are not many high-end entertainment facilities in the county town, and young people with some spare money in the county love to come here. This wealthy KTV is not far from K City, and some people will come from K City.

Zhou Cheng was in charge of receiving the guests, leading them to the box and starting the jukebox. There are dozens of large, medium, and small boxes here. There are many people who come on weekends, and soon one-third of the boxes are full.

Cen Jingyan also answered several appointment calls one after another in the morning. When Zhou Cheng was busy, he also helped to receive a few waves of guests. When it was time for lunch, he followed Zhou Cheng to the cafeteria inside the KTV.

There were already employees coming to eat in the cafeteria one after another, and Cen Jingyan had lunch with Zhou Cheng. The lunch here is one meat, two vegetables and one soup. It is a very ordinary big pot of rice, and the taste is average. Cen Jingyan is not picky about food, he ate bite by bite, he went out early today, so he is already a bit hungry now.

"You look quite handsome when you eat." Zhou Cheng ate very fast, like a storm, and finished eating quickly.

Cen Jingyan smiled, he has been slow to eat since he was a child, and his mother often complained about him when he was a child. It's a pity that the person who often talked about him is long gone.

"Brother Zhou, I'll be ready soon." Seeing that Zhou Cheng had finished eating, Cen Jingyan also accelerated his speed.

"It's okay, eat slowly, it's still early." Zhou Cheng took out a cigarette, "I'll smoke a cigarette."

After lunch, Cen Jingyan called home on his mobile phone, and heard from his sister that he had already eaten, nothing to worry about.

Zhou Cheng was smoking a cigarette, and when he saw Cen Jingyan's cell phone, he raised his eyebrows: "Your cell phone can be considered an antique."

Cen Jingyan's cell phone was left by his mother Han Yan before, not a smart phone.

"As long as the mobile phone can make calls and send messages, it's fine. My mobile phone is of good quality, and it won't break." Cen Jingyan said with a smile. To Cen Jingyan, the mobile phone is just a communication tool.

"Haha, this is true. The screen of the current mobile phone is too easy to drop." Zhou Cheng said.

Cen Jingyan does not like to pursue the latest digital products like the young people nowadays. First, the economy does not allow it. Thousands of yuan for a mobile phone are enough for him and his sister's living expenses for three or four months. Furthermore, Cen Jingyan is busy studying and working every day, so he can't use the entertainment functions on his smartphone. Although many students in the class have switched to new smartphones, Cen Jingyan is not tempted at all.

The two came out of the cafeteria when several gorgeously dressed women walked past them in the corridor.

When those women disappeared at the stairs, Zhou Chengcai said in a rather surprised tone: "It's rare, I don't see them on weekdays."

Zhou Cheng saw Cen Jingyan looking at him with some doubts, thinking of Cen Jingyan's young age He has a simple personality, so I don't talk to him too much.

"Well, they are...employees on the fifth floor."

"Fifth floor?" Cen Jingyan heard from Zhou Cheng that the first floor to the third floor were all KTV boxes. Could it be that there are still upstairs?

Zhou Cheng said vaguely: "Well... the fifth floor and above are membership-based, which is different from the first to third floors."

Here, the first to third floors are ordinary KTVs for mass consumption, while the fifth floor and above are membership-based. Yes, it is used to receive the so-called "distinguished guests". Upstairs there are not only KTV boxes and restaurant rooms accompanied by beauties, but also guest rooms for guests to "rest".

"The one upstairs is more expensive." After hearing this, Cen Jingyan also understood that the general membership-based VIP would definitely be more expensive.

"Hehe, that's right, it's so expensive! Ordinary people can't afford it." Zhou Cheng shrugged.

The work in the afternoon was the same as in the morning. Cen Jingyan answered a few appointment calls to register, and the appointments for tomorrow were basically full. When he got off work, Manager Liu came to pay Cen Jingyan today's salary, Cen Jingyan took it and thanked him politely.

"Xiao Cen, can you do me a favor? Take this bottle of wine upstairs to private room 602 to the boss. I won't be able to leave later." Manager Liu said to Cen Jingyan while holding a bottle of red wine.

"Okay." Cen Jingyan took the red wine bottle without thinking too much.

Manager Liu showed him the way with a smile, "Just take the elevator over there, it's on the right."

In the private room of 602, Ren Yuqiang was complimenting Fan Haoting: "Boss Fan can agree to the invitation of Dahai and me. It really surprised us."

"That's right! Although my place is not as good as City B, it still has a lot of fun. Tonight I have asked our best cook to carefully prepare dinner, and I hope it will satisfy you." Wu Hai said.

"Let the two bosses bother you." Fan Haoting said with a half-smile.

Private room 602 is the largest private room on the entire floor, divided into two rooms inside and outside. The outer one is a restaurant with a large round table for 10 people, and the inner one is a luxurious box with complete KTV facilities, and there is a small stage in the middle of the box for people to sing and perform.

There are a total of five people sitting in the inner box at the moment, namely Wu Dahai, Ren Yuqiang and Fan Haoting, and two women with pure appearance but curvy figure.

"This is Xiaoli and Yanyan." Wu Dahai introduced them, and gestured to the two of them: "This is Mr. Fan of the Fan Group, come here... you two, go and sing a few songs for Mr. Fan." There is an entertainment company under the Fan family, if you are attracted by Mr. Fan, you don't need to be with me, just become a big star."

Xiaoli and Yanyan hurriedly greeted Fan Haoting, and Mr. Fan shouted loudly Is it sweet or not? Does anyone in the famous Fan Group know about it?

Yanyan had heard Wu Dahai talk about the Fan family before, and she had been tempted for a long time, but of course, this temptation was not for Fan Haoting. Yanyan still has this self-knowledge, and she already knows that Fan Haoting likes men. For this reason, Wu Dahai made special arrangements tonight. But as Wu Dahai said, there is no telling what opportunity there will be, and she is still ready to perform well.

So, Yanyan took the lead in ordering one of her best songs and started singing. Yanyan's voice was soft, and she swayed her body gently in tune with the music while singing. That soft and charming appearance made Wu Dahai and Ren Yuqiang clap their hands incessantly.

Xiao Li walked up to Fan Haoting and asked softly, "President Fan, what song do you like to listen to? I'll sing it to you later."

Fan Haoting didn't even give her a look, which made Xiaoli a little embarrassed. Xiao Li, whose real name is Xia Li, is a sophomore in K University. She is different from Yanyan who has a difficult family and needs to support her family. The main purpose of her part-time job here is to meet rich and prestigious people, so she is usually very picky about her guests. Of course, with her education and appearance, she still has the capital to be picky.

Today, when Xia Li saw Fan Haoting, she was attracted by his young and handsome appearance, and this is Fan's president! Even if she was treated indifferently by Fan Haoting, she still refused to give up.

Seeing that Fan Haoting was obviously not interested in Yanyan and Xiaoli, Wu Dahai and Ren Yuqiang looked at each other. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with tonight's arrangement.

Wu Dahai looked at the time on his watch and said to Fan Haoting: "Mr. Fan, I have a bottle of red wine produced by a famous winery in country F. I don't know much about red wine. I would like to invite Mr. Fan to taste it for dinner later."

As soon as Wu Dahai finished speaking, there was a knock on the door of the box.

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