Now, I have the following plans, and you book friends can leave comments after choosing your favorite options:
1. Start the academy chapter and let the protagonist open the academy map. Of course, I will not be an ordinary student and pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger. I have additional plans, but overall it is still within the scope of the academy flow.
2. Open the alien copy and let the protagonist go outside the human world and come into contact with other races, creatures, and civilizations.
3. Book friends’ opinions. If you have any ideas, you can leave a message in this section, or post it in the comment section or long review section. I will read them.
It's the weekend now, and there should be three or four updates tomorrow or the day after tomorrow - I mean three or four serious chapters.
There are still 28 chapters left to be updated. I don’t know if I can finish it this month. QAQ
Chapter 207 Looking for a job
After staying in a hotel for one night, Qi Ji came to a market in the western area with his only belongings.
At present, except for the long black cloak and the shirt and pants underneath, she only had less than ten ferrums in cash, a "prophecy card", a seized "veil of secrecy" spell, and a "White Notebook".
It can be said that she was quite shabby. If she didn't need to eat or drink water, she would have died of hunger and thirst.
However, even though I'm not hungry, I still have a basic appetite and sense of taste. As a former citizen of a country of foodies, my desire and yearning for delicious food is strong enough.
Whenever she passed by the windows of restaurants, snack shops, and roadside stalls, she couldn't help drooling. Unfortunately, she was short of money and could only watch, which was such torture.
In the past few days, she hasn't eaten any decent food except the meal she had at Gary's house yesterday!
Now she was almost mad with her bland mouth.
In order to maintain the living environment that a "human" should have, she must find a job and earn some money.
Of course, with her abilities, it would be very easy for her to make money. Whether by stealing, robbing, or forging, she could easily amass enormous wealth.
However, as a conscious traveler who does not belong to this world...
An ancient being whose body seems to have revived the spirit of a god...
A hidden strongman who overturned the descent ceremony of the evil god "First Creator" and saved the people of the entire city of Stio from destruction...
The ultimate freeloader who has fleeced at least three great beings above the level of gods...
A master of invisible magic who can even evade the gaze of the mysterious ruler above the astral world...
He actually went around stealing and making counterfeit money. This was too degrading. She couldn't afford to lose face like that.
In short, one still has to rely on one's own labor to earn wealth, which is both legitimate and decent.
——The commission she accepted from "Du Nie" to find the mysterious small mirror, although the reward was generous, but she didn't know how long it would take to find clues. Moreover, she herself was not very interested in this task and had no motivation to explore it seriously.
Combining her recent understanding of the city with her experience of job recruitment in big cities in her previous life, she thought about it and thought of a perfect place to find a job -
Talent market!
In the context of glorifying the Plantagenet Empire, it is also known as the "conquest market".
It's a fairly chaotic, legal place full of scams and temptations, but also full of opportunities.
A large number of enterprises, factories, self-employed owners and individuals gather here and openly recruit the personnel they need.
Because the situation is too complicated, it is difficult for the local government to effectively control and formulate clear rules and access regulations, so the atmosphere here is quite "free":
Even those who do not have a household registration or even have a blemish on their resume have the opportunity to find a job that suits them.
Of course, the premise is that there is an employer willing to bear the hidden risks of hiring a shady person to work for them.
In the mixed "recruitment market", there are not many such employers, but if you put in some effort, you can always find them.
After all, there are always times when people urgently need others to do things for them. When time is tight and funds are not sufficient, many people are willing to take certain risks and relax the standards.
This gave Qi Ji, a complete illegal resident, an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
Walking through the crowded and noisy market, Qi Ji's eyes wandered, looking for a job that suits him.
Soon, she noticed a woman who was dressed in ordinary clothes and looked like an ordinary citizen near the outskirts of the market.
She stood in the shadow cast by a roof, holding a wooden sign with a few lines of words written on it:
"I am hiring a tutor to teach my two younger siblings the human common language. Details and salary are negotiable."
The woman's face looked a little tired and exhausted, as if she had been standing there for a long time and no longer had much hope for her recruitment.
Tutor? Teaching Chinese?
If it was just about learning to read and study, it would be very easy for me.
Moreover, the work seems to be easy and free. It does not take up too much time in a day and it is convenient for me to go out.
The more Qi Ji thought about it, the more suitable it seemed to him, and he was quite tempted for a moment.
So without any hesitation, he walked straight over:
"May I ask what the specific content is?"
The woman was in a trance for a while, as if she had just woken up from a dream. Then she turned her eyes to the source of the sound and saw a short figure wearing a cloak and a hood, wrapped tightly all over.
Judging from her voice and figure, she should be a teenage girl.
She was a little confused for a moment, and seemed to not believe that such a little girl would be interested in her recruitment.
"Are you talking to me?"
She looked at the other person and pointed at herself.
"Yes," Qi Ji nodded and came up to her, "If it's just about teaching your younger brothers and sisters to read, I should be able to do it."
"Uh..." The woman scratched her cheek with her index finger. "Girl, are you sure? I can't offer you too high a salary..."
Isn't this too honest? No wonder I couldn't recruit anyone after standing there for so long.
Qi Ji exhaled slightly and said in a nonchalant tone:
"Money doesn't matter, just don't let me starve to death."
"Well, how about... ten ferrums per hour?" She stuttered a little, seeming embarrassed and a little ashamed, "I'm sorry, this is all I can give..."
Ten ferrums an hour? Isn't that too little? It's just to pay beggars!
Although Qi Ji had prepared herself mentally and didn't expect to get paid very much, this number still surprised her for a moment.
As a tutor, I can only teach the same group of people for six hours a day at most. If I teach more than that, the students won’t be able to handle it.
In other words, the daily wage for one-on-one teaching with a woman is only 60 ferrums at most.
In Sunset Harbor, even the low-level workers working in ceramic factories, printing factories, and dyeing factories earn an average of fifty or sixty ferrums a day.
For a job like this, I would lose so much money that I would have to pay for it.
You know, in this society, intellectuals are still quite scarce, and generally have a kind of noble and self-conceited mentality. How could they be willing to let their labor be equal to that of grassroots manual workers?
Seeing the young girl in front of her fall into a brief silence, the woman sighed slightly bitterly and helplessly, and muttered in a voice that only she could hear:
"Sure enough, it's impossible to recruit..."
Just when she thought that the other party was going to reject her with a disdainful and amusing tone like all the other people who came to inquire before, saying something like "Sorry to bother you", she suddenly saw the little girl in strange clothes nodded:
"Okay, when does it start?"
"what?"
Now it was the woman's turn to be shocked. Her face was blank for a few seconds, and she suspected that she had heard it wrong.
Then, the cloaked girl spoke again in her sweet and light voice:
"However, I hope you can set the time in the morning or afternoon. I may have my own things to do in the evening."
She's here, let's negotiate terms?
Does that mean she really wants to accept my offer?
Did I hear that right?!
For a moment, the woman opened her mouth in joy and surprise. After a few seconds, she nodded vigorously:
"Thank you! I will definitely not disturb your personal affairs!"
Then, she tried her best to restrain her overly enthusiastic gaze, and asked carefully and nervously in a low voice:
"Excuse me, are you free this afternoon? I want to take you to see my younger brothers and sisters first, so that you can get to know them. This way, it will be easier for you to understand the students' situation, which may help you arrange courses and teaching..."
Qi Ji thought that he had nothing to do anyway, so he nodded without hesitation:
"Sure, I'm free all day."
Chapter 208 Tutor
There is another chapter around ten o'clock in the evening.
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At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Qi Ji arrived at a shabby and small apartment in the western area according to the address given by the woman.
"Is this the place? The conditions are so bad, no wonder the salary is so low..."
She looked up at the three or four-story townhouse, which was dark and dirty, with severely peeling exterior walls, and tucked an old, wrinkled storybook under her arm, looking thoughtful.
She bought that storybook from a second-hand bookstore before she came here, and it was mainly used as a teaching material.
Even the old books that had been in the farthest corner of the bookstore, covered with dust for the longest time and had passed through countless hands, cost her her last few coins.
She, a top master who could probably be called the "strongest in the human world", was now truly penniless.
Enduring the strange smell of boiled cabbage in the air, Qi Ji walked into the main door of the apartment and stepped into the extremely dimly lit stairwell.
"There is no access control here at all, and the main door is just an unlocked wooden door, so the safety factor is basically zero..."
Sighing, she walked up the greasy black stairs to the second floor, and along the narrow and dim corridor came to a slightly deformed wooden door.
"Tuk, duh."
Knocked twice gently.
As soon as she put her fingers down, she heard footsteps and the rubbing of clothes from inside, and then the greasy and blackened wooden door was pulled open, and the woman's face came into view.
Now she has changed into a long dress. Although the material and style are quite cheap and it is not well matched, it is kept neat and clean, with no white marks from repeated washing.
These should be the few relatively decent clothes in her house that she can show off.
"Miss, you are here!"
When she saw Qi Ji with a book under his arm, her face suddenly lit up and she breathed a long sigh of relief, as if a stone in her heart had finally fallen.
I guess before Qi Ji came, she was always worried that the other party might change his mind halfway, or that he had no intention of agreeing at all and would not come in the end.
Qi Ji nodded, looking past the woman and into the house:
"Where are the children?"
As soon as her eyes turned into the room, she was slightly shocked for a moment.
Rather than calling it a "home", it would be more accurate to call it a storage room. It is quite small and you can see through it at a glance.
Apart from a bed that could barely accommodate one adult and a small wooden table the size of a palm, there was no furnishing that a "home" should have.
There is no independent bathroom, sink or faucet.
The air was filled with that sickly smell of boiled cabbage, tinged with a pungent sourness and decay that was simply repulsive.
It is hard to imagine that a place with such a harsh environment has to accommodate at least three people for a long time.
"Ah, they are all here!"
The woman quickly calmed down and stabilized her expression so as not to appear too rude. Then she turned and looked into the room that looked like a utility room, and said in a gentle and kind tone:
"Joan, Dick, the teacher is here, come and say hello!"
Joan, Dick...
When Qi Ji heard these two names, his eyelids twitched slightly.
In the glorious Plantagenet Empire, these two names are extremely common, roughly equivalent to "John Smith" in English and "Zhang Wei" and "Li Hong" in Chinese.
The type that can get at least ten responses if you shout a few times on the street.
Following the woman's call, two children, a boy and a girl, trotted to the door.
They were originally sitting on the edge of the bed, with their arms resting on the small table, as if they were helping their sister pack some things.
