Chapter 5

Early the next morning, Zhai Da climbed up the moment the alarm went off.

He had never gotten up so fast in his life, except when he was a beast of burden, once at an annual meeting when he drank until he blacked out and woke up in the accountant's rental house.

He was afraid the accountant would calculate money with him.

Of course, he later found out there was surveillance in the rental house, and both of them were drunk, playing "finger catching" all night.

Zhai Da pushed open the bedroom door and smelled the rich aroma of corn. On the table were two boiled corns and two eggs.

I don't know if it was because his body became young after rebirth and his stomach was full of power, but Zhai Da's appetite was whetted. Looking at the big corn and eggs together, he felt they were all beautiful.

By the time Yu Xiaoli came out after fixing her hairstyle, he had basically finished eating.

Yu Xiaoli: "Is it delicious?"

"Delicious!"

"Have you ever thought about why there are two of everything?"

Zhai Da:...

Ms. Yu rolled her eyes. It's fine not to eat breakfast. Her waistline in middle age grew faster than wrinkles.

However, at this age, her son looked a bit like a starving ghost reincarnated. The doctor said that fainting in the exam room couldn't rule out the possibility of insufficient nutrition.

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaoli took out a hundred-yuan bill from her wallet and handed it to Zhai Da: "This is your pocket money for next week."

Zhai Da was a bit unbelievable: "Has our family become rich?"

He remembered that his pocket money in high school was fifty a week, the school cafeteria meal card was calculated separately, and everything else like bus cards, small school supplies, snacks, and occasionally eating out was paid from here.

Rounding it up, it was an absolutely impoverished population. If he wanted to buy something extra, like magazines or CDs, he had to go hungry.

He didn't dare to buy a new "Men's Health" even after it turned yellow.

Rising to 100 a week, which is four hundred a month, compared horizontally in school, it can be considered quite generous.

But this also put some pressure on Zhai Da.

After all, Yu Xiaoli's salary was only 1900... excluding the food, daily necessities, water and electricity bills for two people, and occasional expenses, she also had to save for Zhai Da's tuition, miscellaneous fees, and reference books...

Mothers always want the best for their children, but they can often only give what they have.

Some time ago, because Zhai Da's grades were not ideal, Ms. Yu had thought about hiring a tutor, but her son fainted in the exam room once, so she extinguished this idea and let go of Zhai Da's grades.

She is not the kind of mother who chickens her children. She can accept that Zhai Da is not good at studying, can't get into junior college, or even work in a factory like herself.

But she can't accept her son having any more problems.

This person, you have to look at the comparison.

Compared to mental illness and flying kites, what is working in a factory? That's called job stability!

And giving Zhai Da double the pocket money is also hoping that Zhai Da can be more relaxed and happier.

"Take it, you're a big boy now, it's inevitable to have some strange consumption."

"Mom, you better make it clear... what kind of consumption is strange?"

"Anyway, take it and spend it. It will be like this from now on, 100 every week."

"Are you sure? Is there no place to spend money at home?"

"Originally saved for you to go to junior college, but it seems you are going to save our family a lot of money."

Zhai Da:...

Mom, you are really humorous. 【Clown's Love Letter】 should be given to you.

However, just yesterday he said he would be relaxed in this life and not worry about earning money. Thinking of the family's original economic situation today, Zhai Da considered that he could also add "preliminary improvement of income" to the memo.

After all, earning a little money can also make Mom more relaxed.

Of course, the priority must be ranked after the system and study. There are still three months until the college entrance exam, so we can't put the cart before the horse.

Zhai Da doesn't have to go to school today, and Yu Xiaoli didn't care about him. Letting go is letting go. It's fine to take the money to go online, but Zhai Da, in order to accompany Ms. Yu more and take advantage of the bicycle, took the initiative to offer to send Yu Xiaoli to work.

Send Mom off, and he can ride the 28-inch bicycle to stroll around the county, and then pick up Mom after work in the evening.

Yu Xiaoli felt a bit strange.

But there was no reason to refuse. Since the bicycle can move by itself, who would bother to pedal it personally?

However, after leaving the residential area, Zhai Da took a slight detour of dozens of meters, bought a few steamed buns and soy milk at the breakfast shop, one for each, and handed them to Ms. Yu.

He urged: "Not eating breakfast is bad for your health. Take it to the factory. I also got one, I wasn't full just now."

Yu Xiaoli rolled her eyes: "Hurry up and ride, I'm going to be late."

But the smile at the corners of her mouth couldn't be suppressed at all, and her heart was warm.

Always felt that this child grew up overnight.

After several relocations, the Wool Spinning Factory is currently in the industrial zone far from the county center.

The pillar that was once the most popular in Dongyang is now in a withered state where grass is taller than trees.

First, military-to-civilian reform, then self-responsibility for profits and losses, and later eliminated by the market. The story during this period is very long. Wool Spinning also had its own struggles, but it revealed a kind of clarity that was always one step slow. It once engaged in messy things like parts and instruments, hardware plating, leather shoes, and socks.

It once called itself "San-Yi Wool Spinning Group."

But after experiencing multiple rounds of poor management, asset stripping, debt restructuring, and leadership interference in personnel, it only has the "garment factory" part left, which has no threshold and purely exploits cheap labor, and the scale is not large.

When you find that you are going downhill, don't be afraid; you will always go downhill. From this moment on, San-Yi Wool Spinning will get worse year by year until Zhai Da's rebirth.

To make an inappropriate analogy, after winning the lottery in his previous life, Zhai Da could buy San-Yi Wool Spinning.

That way he would get a lot of broken equipment, worthless old factory buildings, and hundreds of retired workers waiting to be fed.

The earliest glories, such as the Wool Spinning Middle School where Zhai Da studied, had long been taken over by the county, leaving only a name. However, after more than ten years of operation, it had become a key high school in Dongyang County.

Of course, it is only relatively key compared to the other two scum ordinary high schools in the county. Those two can't be mentioned, it's too much.

Ms. Yu Xiaoli is currently in the "garment factory" part of the Wool Spinning Factory, having worked for twenty years, and is currently a pattern maker.

Riding the bicycle further and further away, the two went towards the industrial zone. Along the way, the number of large trucks on the road also increased significantly, and the dust was rolling.

"What are your plans today? I heard that children now play C... S... Why don't you go play too?"

"CS is outdated now, it's all Audition and QQ Speed."

"Dancing is good, it can also exercise the body. Driving is not okay, you don't have a driver's license..."

"Uh... I don't play games, just stroll around the county."

Zhai Da had already lost his game addiction in his previous life. It happened naturally with age. The girls in the games were becoming more and more realistic, but the teenager of the past already had electronic ED.

Just chatting, when they were only two intersections away from the Wool Spinning Factory, Zhai Da suddenly braked sharply.

Yu Xiaoli was confused: "What's wrong?"

Zhai Da didn't answer, but cautiously looked at the front, a large old elm tree by the side of the road.

This big tree was afraid that two people couldn't hug it. The bark was cracked severely, the color was dark, green with black, completely different from the conventional street trees on the road. It seemed it wasn't transplanted, but was here from the beginning, just happened not to be dug up because of road construction.

"Discovered green rare special item, 【Execution Old Elm】: There used to be an old prison. Every execution was under a tree. Many people's last look was the canopy of the old elm."

"Ownership status: Not owned, not activated."

"Effect: Probability of accidental accidents in the range +50%, corpse decay speed under the tree accelerated by 300%,???."

"Unlocking task: Unknown"

"Not yet activated, requires the host to obtain ownership. High rarity items will display all effects and unlocking tasks after being owned."

"Note: Before activating it, have you really thought it through?"

Zhai Da swallowed his saliva...

So... special items that can be converted into 【Equipment】 also include this kind of thing...

Turning his head to look, a warning sign was set up next to it, saying "Accident-prone section, please drive cautiously."

The guardrail on the edge of the road was mottled and crooked, as if it had been hit many times...

Although according to the system description, 【Equipment】 before conversion is just a special item and does not carry any surreal meaning, this warning sign might just be a coincidence...

But inexplicably, Zhai Da felt a cool breeze rushing to the back of his neck early in the morning.

Zhai Da decisively followed his heart and chose to turn right to take a detour.

"What's wrong, Xiao Da? Why take a detour?"

"I just saw a beauty on the right, I'm chasing her to see!"