If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 496

Going out from the convenience store, there is constant traffic on the street, and the traffic lights at the crossroads in the distance jump. Pedestrians on bicycles stand at the end of the zebra crossing and look at the crowd on the other side from a distance. The midday sunshine is separated between them. The tanned skin looks dazzlingly white, and the black shadow hits the ground as straight as a telephone pole. When the green light turns on and moves around, the shadows cross each other. A unique feeling of dizziness in summer.

After leaving the 24-hour convenience store, the man walked along the shadow cast by the wall on the side of the road, half of his body was exposed in the sun, and the peaked cap covered most of the sun, covering his face with a piece of black, making it difficult to see him clearly. The face, holding the plastic bag of bento in his hand is hidden in the shadows so as not to be spoiled by the heat.

He lives very close to a convenience store. He walked straight for less than 200 meters and walked there. The wall beside him also came to an end. Turning the corner to the right, there is a large piece of open yellow land exposed to the sun. There is no paving, and there are soda cans and white garbage everywhere. It is an overseas place that even the sanitation workers don't bother to deal with.

In the depths of the open land stands an old four-story residential building. The color difference between the exposed red brick and the plaster wall is eye-catching. The entire external wall is mottled like an old woman who can't save it with heavy makeup. s face.

Like its appearance, its age can be regarded as an old building in disrepair with half of its legs buried in the ground. Someone saw it here 20 years ago, and it has been brought to 20 years after it has been changing with each passing day.In fact, the Osaka Urban Planning Bureau also said in the early years that this building would be demolished, and the documents were almost approved, but they were obstructed. It seemed that the compensation for the demolition could not be negotiated, which made the people who wanted to make money a little angry , so I wanted to be hard, but later I found out that the background of the owner of this building was more hard than imagined. It seemed to be related to the top level of the Kansai underworld, and when it was half hard, it suddenly withered.

It is said that the pendulum drove to the front of the building at that time, and then drove back in a desperate manner. The owner of the residential building even stood on the top of the building with a pair of flip-flops, the wind blowing a floral shirt behind him, watching the pendulum swing In front of himself, he swept across the construction workers wearing hard hats below with a look of contempt, and after making a phone call under the eyes of everyone, he stepped on the hanging hammer and pointed to the street and said where he came from and where he went back. Dora How windy it is.

It may also be that when the two sides were negotiating conditions, they talked too hard, leaving no room for turning around. The building and the land were just vacant. There was no corresponding plan for more than ten years, and the building followed this plan. The land has been deserted all the time, and there are strange people living in it. There are female escorts who work in Kabukicho, and there are cowherds who are not very successful in opening the cowherd shop and are still familiar with the business. Beaten social animals and temporary workers.

Everyone living here seems to be temporarily rotten here like this land and this building. I don’t know how long it will be rotten. It may be more than ten years. , or this building could not stand the disrepair and was knocked down by a small earthquake.

The man accurately found a path artificially opened by the residents of the residential building inside from the garbage dump of the yellow land, and slowly carried his lunch through the open space to the downstairs, and went upstairs while touching the key. The walls are full of graffiti, ranging from small advertisements for color services, websites for making fake documents, to red-painted "XXX will kill your whole family if you don't pay back the money", it's as wonderful as a post-modern art drawing.

The man went all the way up to the third floor. He lived in 1303, a room with no special features in the building. The neighbor on the left was an employee of a pachinko chain shop. His working hours could be called starry-eyed and he got up earlier than the gamblers. He sleeps later than a gambler, and the dark circles under his eyes are thicker than a panda every day. He often jokes with his neighbors that if he sees that the trash is not thrown out at his door, he can call the police directly, because he probably died suddenly in the room.

The neighbor on the right is the woman who accompanied the drink in the izakaya. She is about [-] years old, with heavy makeup and a house full of wine bottles. She often jokes about the man, saying that he looks quite fierce. Should you consider going to the izakaya to find a job as a security guard? As long as she played with her for one night, she would introduce the man to the store manager of the izakaya. The man ignored her, and she didn't respond to it. Will die of overwork later, then this woman will probably die of alcoholic hepatitis.

In fact, in the eyes of neighbors, compared with their jobs and identities that can be seen everywhere, the men living in 1303 are more mysterious, because no one knows what a man's job is, at most they only know that a man has a fixed job every night. I went out in time, came back in the early morning, never brought any briefcase or anything like that, went out empty-handed, and returned empty-handed, but unexpectedly never defaulted on the rent (this is a very unusual thing in this building) things), but life is very tight.

Many people speculate that he is a member of the underworld, but they feel that although the underworld in Japan has fallen in recent years, it is not down to the level of a man. Some people guess that what a man does must be disgraceful, but there is no evidence.

It’s not uncommon for everyone to have their own secrets in the snow-sweeping land. Curiosity is nothing but curiosity. Seriously wanting to inquire about things has never happened. At most, you pass by door 1303 to go to the window with the curtains tightly drawn. Take a look, you can’t see anything anyway, you can only keep your curiosity fresh. It’s always right to keep some freshness in a life like mud. After all, there must be something that drives you from 30 square meters every day. Get up in your room, right?

The man went up to the third floor from the corridor, and walked towards the open-air corridor on the third floor while touching the key, but he slowed down before he took a few steps, because he found a person standing in front of his room, who was walking toward Looking at it from my own window, I almost put my face on it.

In fact, the word "thug eyebrows and mouse eyes" is not used very well. It is appropriate to use this word to describe a treacherous person. But the guy standing in front of 1303 is not cunning, but surprisingly beautiful. From outside the open-air corridor Judging by the large swath of sunlight that came in, it was a girl, a pretty young girl, with light makeup on her face, and wearing a high school uniform. The wind blew through her clothes, lifting up her white and tender skin underneath. , holding a box in front of him with both hands, he was repeatedly puffing his feet and taking deep breaths with a nervous expression on his face.

"." The man stood in the shadows and watched the girl for dozens of seconds. When the other party was about to knock on the door, he finally stepped out and walked all the way to the girl.

Before the knocking hand knocked on the door, the girl noticed the man's arrival. After her eyes lit up, she forcibly suppressed the nervousness she had shown before, stepped back a few steps to get out of the way in front of the door, and looked at the man. Putting on a smiling face, he said, "Excuse me, are you a resident here?"

"." The man didn't answer the girl at all. He rummaged through the key chain with one hand and found the key of the door, inserted it into the keyhole and twisted it open. He walked in with a plastic bag in his hand. The girl took half a step forward before she could say anything. The door slammed down on her face, the wind from the door and the loud sound made her face stiff, her hair fluttered and fell down by her ears.

The girl stood awkwardly in front of the door of 1303 for a full half a minute, her back was a little numb from the sun, she managed to organize her thoughts, raised her hand and started knocking on the door again, and knocked for a full minute All right, the door opened.The man who opened the door was staring at her with a juicy fried chicken bento that he had only eaten two bites of, and he still didn't speak, but the gloomy look in his eyes made the girl nervous, but she still did her duty He said his opening remarks, "Well... I heard that people here are under a lot of pressure. Do you need door-to-door stress relief services, sir?"

"." The man chewed the chicken chop in his mouth, and looked at the quail-like girl in front of him expressionlessly. As long as he had eyes, he could tell that this girl was a novice, and it was very embarrassing to learn the clichés, because the man knew the real proficiency I don’t talk like that when I’m socializing. I’ll just ask you to sit in a newly opened coffee shop next door. If you refuse, you’ll tactfully say that drinking coffee at your home is actually the same thing, and then it’s a matter of course. up.
The girl stood in front of the door and felt the other person's gaze fall on her like a pinprick. It was too quiet. The man's expected reaction was almost completely different from what she had imagined. He just looked at her without saying a word for a whole minute. , seeing that she felt uncomfortable all over, and wanted to turn around and run away, but the persistence in her heart and the agreement with others made her persist in the oppression of this predicament, and she stood up straight with all her strength, as if wanting the underdeveloped The chest attracts the opponent's attention.

"How old are you?" Finally, the man spoke.

"16 years old." The girl immediately raised her head and said.

Mr. Ryoichi told her that once the other party asks about her age, she should answer her real age. She can directly apply her own template for school and family questions, because there is nothing more convincing than reality.

"name."

"Jingchuan Dance." The girl said.

"16 years old?"

"Yes. I'm studying at the girls' high school over there from the TV building." The girl said, turning her head and pointing to a direction far away.

"native."

"Yes."

"Why do you do this?"

"Uh..." Jing Chuanwu was asked in an instant, because the man's question was out of line, would the client ask the lady why she went into the sea?Probably will?But she really didn't prepare the answer to this question, so she held it in for a long time before finally saying, "I ran away from home. I have no money."

"If you don't have money, you can go to a convenience store to work."

"I don't have relevant documents, and the owner of the convenience store won't accept me."

"Then shouldn't be doing this," the man said. "First time?"

"Yes." Jing Chuanwu swallowed her saliva, "My friend recommended me to come."

"Male and female?"

"male."

"What's in the box?"

"Props."

"From a friend?"

"Yes."

"Then your friend should really be beaten into a concrete pillar, Shen Wan." The man turned around and closed the door expressionlessly with his lunch box in his hand, "If you lived farther away, I would have already called the police, since you are a local Then go back to reading your book, this line of business is not for you, nor for any girl."

Then there was a snap, and the door slammed shut again.

Rejected yourself?

Jing Chuan Wu was stunned, and stood there and was slammed down by the same door again. This was different from what was written in the script. According to the script, she should have sealed the second emergency exit in the toilet of the rental house by now. And this man should also be obsessed with the various bed props in the box. But now she didn't even enter the door!
Not giving up, she gritted her teeth and knocked on the door again. This time she only knocked for a few seconds before the door opened. She was about to raise her head and smile and continue to sell herself, but before she could say a word, she was slapped on the cheek. , almost slapped her to the ground, the red marks on her face burned by the sun.

"Let me get out before I get sick of you." Looking at the girl who took a few steps back, the man said lightly, "Girls your age should study in school instead of running away from home to do these things, just like you There are a lot of young girls who want to read but don't have to read, so you compete with them for work?"

"I..." Jing Chuanwu almost burst into tears after receiving this merciless slap, and the door in front of her fell down again before she could explain why!
She stood blankly in the sun-exposed corridor and felt that she was wronged to death. She wanted to cry but couldn't find someone to cry to. She calmed down after basking in the sun for a while, took out her phone, opened a contact, and made a call A text message passed, recounting what happened just now.

One minute later, she received another letter. The content of the text message was very simple, and it also gave her a solution to the current predicament.

"Keep knocking on the door and call him by his name this time."

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