My Red Mansion Career

Chapter 2 My Site
When Jia Yu opened her eyes again, she was stunned by what she saw.

It wasn't that he saw any monsters, but the scene in front of him was too familiar to him.

Bright and soft chandeliers, a modern platform, and a dazzling array of industrial, agricultural and various small commodities randomly placed on the platform filled Jia Yu's eyes.

This is not only the place where he worked before traveling, but also the place he dreams about every day in his sleep these days... the World Expo Hall, but this time the World Expo Hall is no longer in a power outage.

Bright, soft light shines down from the various headlights overhead.

Jia Yu rubbed his eyes vigorously and stamped his feet a few times. The clear pain coming from his feet told him that this was not a hallucination or a dream. The place where he was now was the World Expo Hall where he worked before traveling.

Wait... Now that he has arrived at the World Expo Hall, does this also mean that he can go back?

At the thought of returning to her original world, Jia Yu could no longer bear it and rushed towards the door.

He wanted to go home... He never wanted to return to that dangerous and ugly world.

But after Jia Yu wandered around crazily for nearly an hour, reality gave him another hard blow.

He looked desperately at the gray barrier in front of him.

It is this barrier that tightly wraps up the three-story World Expo Hall, which covers an area of ​​more than 8 square meters. No matter what method he uses, he cannot break out of this barrier.

The cruel reality told him that he was not traveling back in time, but entering a place similar to the Mustard Seed Space, which happened to be the place where he worked before traveling back.

Jia Yu sat slumped on a chair. In front of him was a cosmetics sales platform. On the booth was a makeup mirror. At this moment, his face was clearly reflected in the mirror.

This is the face of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy. He is wearing a shabby, thin gown whose original color can no longer be seen. His greasy long hair is tied up in a random knot.
But his eyes were dull, and his complexion showed a pallor caused by long-term malnutrition. In addition, he was thin and thin. He looked thin and thin, and there was a swelling on the back of his head that was as high as his thumb.

Compared with the body that was extremely strong after long-term training before traveling through time, this body is really too fragile.

Looking at herself in the mirror, Jia Yu finally recognized the reality. She had really traveled to a young man in another world.

"Is there no going back?" Jia Yu murmured to herself.

He looked around and once again confirmed that this was the World Expo Museum where he worked before crossing over, but he didn't know why it traveled with him.

"Did that white light cause me to travel through time?"

Jia Yu couldn't help but think of the white light that couldn't be looked directly at before traveling through time.

"Bah…"

Just as he was thinking, a general pain came into his mind. He touched his forehead as usual, and felt a burning sensation. Only then did he remember that he still had a fever.

"By the way, I remember that there is a large pharmacy on the third floor of the clubhouse, which has a pretty complete range of medicines."

Jia Yu struggled to the third floor and followed his memory to a pharmacy. After entering the pharmacy, he first found a mercury thermometer needle and stuffed it into his armpit.

When the 5 minutes were up, he picked up the temperature needle and saw that it was 39.5 degrees.

What else is there to say? I quickly swallowed the ibuprofen capsule I just found with water.

After taking the medicine, Jia Yu originally planned to have a good sleep in the clubhouse.

After all, this space is much safer than the other world, and no one is urging me to pay the rent all day long.

But when this thought first came to him, his expression changed, because he suddenly felt that the space he was in seemed to become a little sticky. Although no one told him, a thought in the dark told him that at most In less than 3 minutes, he will be expelled from the space here.

After feeling the thoughts coming from her mind, Jia Yu had no time to do anything extra.

He quickly stood up and rushed out the two remaining pills on the table.

He almost ran to a pastry shop not far away, grabbed two loaves of bread, ran to the warehouse in the industrial area on the first floor, grabbed a handful of things and stuffed them into his pockets.

When he finished all this, he felt like he was being squeezed out of this space like toothpaste being squeezed out.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was back in the dirty room filled with all kinds of body odor.

"Are you back again?"

Jia Yu looked around, with a helpless smile on her lips.

But it wasn't without good news. He looked at the bread in his hand.

This is enough to prove that what just happened is not an illusion, and the space you just entered is real.

After all the trouble just now, Jia Yu was already tired and hungry. He forced himself to pour himself a glass of cold water and gulped down the two pieces of bread.

When the familiar yet unfamiliar sweet taste reached his brain through his taste buds, Jia Yu almost shed tears. Only he knew what kind of life he had been living these days.

If you put two yuan a day into the cereal grains that even dogs don’t eat in modern society, you can’t just let it go.

Coupled with the injuries on his body, it was almost like a year.

After eating the bread, her stomach, which had been in a state of digestion for the past few days, felt full for the first time, but then a feeling of drowsiness came over her. Jia Yu struggled to get into the heavy and smelly bed. She fell asleep under the quilt.

While sleeping, Jia Yu felt her body feel hot and sweat was flowing from her back and forehead.

I don't know how long it took, but another hurried knock on the door woke Jia Yu from her sleep. "Open the door... open the door quickly...!"

"Don't pretend to be dead. I'm telling you, if you don't open the door, grandpa will crash in. Then you'll be the one to watch."

The fierce knocking on the door woke Jia Yu from her sleep.

He took a deep breath, got out of bed, pulled the latch and opened the door. Shopkeeper Hu's thin face immediately appeared in front of him.

Shopkeeper Hu said with a cold face: "Mr. Jia, it's now Youshi. I just said, if you still can't pay the rent in Youchu, don't blame me for kicking you out.

Also, don’t think that everything will be fine if you are kicked out.

I have already reported to the Shuntian government office that you cannot leave Nanfang within five days, otherwise the officials will arrest you for escaping.

When the time comes, you will not only be flogged twenty times, but you will also be "displayed in public" with a yoke. Don't even think about escaping! "

"Wearing a yoke to show off to the public"

Hearing this word, an unknown anger welled up in Jia Yu's heart.

Although he was not a history major in college, he inherited the memory of the original owner and certainly knew that "wearing a yoke in public" was not a fun thing to do.

The so-called "wearing shackles for public display" means putting a pair of wooden shackles weighing [-] kilograms and as big as an umbrella around the prisoner's neck.

The punishment period ranges from a few days to 6 months, and in extreme cases can last as long as 2, 3 years, or even forever.

And the execution place is mostly in public places where people come and go (main roads or in front of government offices), in order to achieve the purpose of humiliating the criminals.

This is a kind of torture unique to feudal society, and it is difficult for ordinary people to bear such humiliation.

Seeing Jia Yu's sudden change of expression, Shopkeeper Hu thought he was scared.

He was secretly proud of himself and showed his habitual smile, stroking his beard and saying:

"Mr. Jia, why are you doing this? As long as you agree to part with that jade pendant, I will not only waive your rent for half a month, but also give you an extra tael of silver.

You can use this tael of silver to stay in a hotel or buy some food. Isn't this much better than going to a shaobing shop nearby and buying multigrain steamed buns for a penny each? "

"A tael of silver?"

Jia Yu pretended to sneer and said: "Shopkeeper Hu, didn't you say you would give me two taels of silver this morning?"

"You also said, that's the price in the morning." Shopkeeper Hu said with a sly smile, "I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. I can still give you a tael of silver now, if you still don't agree in an hour or two. That’s not the price anymore.”

To be honest, Jia Yu II has never wanted to kill someone so much.

In order to get a jade pendant, a person can shamelessly do this.

Seeing that Jia Yu remained silent, shopkeeper Hu continued to exert pressure: "What about Mr. Jia... please think about it... ah..."

Before he finished speaking, Shopkeeper Hu felt a sharp pain coming from his mouth, and a fishy smell came out of the corner of his mouth along with liquid.

"Jia, Ni... how dare you hurt someone!"

Shopkeeper Hu, who quickly covered his mouth, couldn't believe his eyes. This down-and-out young man actually dared to hurt someone in front of himself and his two waiters.

Shocked and angry, he was about to ask the waiter to come forward, but he heard Jia Yu sneer:
"Shopkeeper Hu, please don't accuse a good person unjustly. I just paid you back the rent. Who can't take it? Could it be that this can also be blamed on me?"

"Pay back the rent? You are so poor that you even pawned your winter clothes. Where can you get the money to pay back... um..."

At this point, Shopkeeper Hu suddenly seemed to have something in the hand that was covering his mouth just now.

He spread his palms and looked down. In addition to a pool of blood and a front tooth, a shining irregular silver nugget was lying quietly in his palms.

"This...this is..."

I just heard Jia Yu's voice ringing in my ears: "Shopkeeper Hu, is this ingot of silver enough to pay back your rent?"

Shopkeeper Hu habitually weighed the silver in his hands. With many years of experience, the weight of the silver in his hand was at least eight yuan, which was more than enough to pay back his rent.

"That's not right, why did he suddenly have money?" A big question arose in Shopkeeper Hu's mind.

Jia Yu continued to press: "Shopkeeper, please speak up. Is this silver coin enough to pay your rent?"

Seeing Jia Yu pressing closer and closer, shopkeeper Hu, although full of questions, could only hold back the pain in his mouth: "Enough is enough, it's just..."

"Just what? Is there anything wrong with the money someone Jia gave you?"

Now that she has money, Jia Yu will no longer spoil her, "Shopkeeper Hu, as the old saying goes, you must pay off your debts. Now that I have paid off the rent, can I go?"

"Of course... of course!"

Even though Shopkeeper Hu was deeply unwilling, he didn't dare to make any mistakes at this moment, because he had already seen that the doors of the guest rooms around him had been opened, and many people were sticking their heads out to watch the fun.

"Master Jia, please help yourself!" After hesitating for more than ten seconds, Shopkeeper Hu finally said something through his teeth.
(End of this chapter)