In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 426 The Beginning of Being Forced to Work

"hu~hu~"

Exhaling hot air from his mouth uninterruptedly, Kai Uesugi, who was deeply tired, stopped in his tracks.

The long-term running made his body feel tired and sore, and he even felt like he was about to lose weight.

Cells need oxygen, and exercise will accelerate the consumption of oxygen. Over time, breathing cannot provide enough oxygen to cells, and cells will become anaerobic respiration. The lactic acid produced by anaerobic respiration will make the body feel sore.

At the same time, the supply of oxygen circulating in the blood to the brain is insufficient, which causes dark eyes and dizziness.

This level of long-distance running is already on the verge of the limit of physical strength, and even does more harm than good.

But today Uesugi Kai just wanted to run like this to make himself feel a little tired.

Kaoru Uesugi resisted the feeling of dizziness, barely walked out of the runway, and then put his hands on his knees, plundering the fresh air.

"Are you okay?" Totsuka Katsura walked towards him, and most of the rest of the students went to the central cafeteria for dinner.

"It's okay." Uesugi took a deep breath, propping his body upright slowly.

"Do you know how many laps you just ran?"

"I don't know, it doesn't count."

"47 laps, 18 kilometers! I don't feel like you are a person."

"The standard marathon is 42.195 kilometers. Those who run the box garden are much better than me."

"Tsk, he's jogging, but you're running fast."

"I forgot to time the time at first, but your last lap time is 400 minutes and 2 seconds for 12 meters. The speed ahead must be much faster. It is estimated that you only spent less than one and a half hours for the 18 kilometers. What are you trying so hard for? Are you going to run a marathon in Hakoniwa?"

Kaoru Uesugi didn't answer his question. After the body relaxed for a while, the dizziness in his head disappeared, and he did simple stretching to relax the tense and sore muscles.

Katsura Totsuka waited at the side, and continued to say to him: "The three part-time jobs you contacted this morning have news."

"They all refused?" Uesugi Kai stretched his legs forward alternately, supported his knees with his hands, and pressed down with one center of gravity, which could obviously pull the thigh muscles.

"I accepted them all, which one do you plan to work part-time?"

Kai Uesugi stared at the floor outside the runway and thought for a while, "Maid coffee shop."

"The one who was handing out leaflets on the street?"

"Ah."

Totsuka Katsura nodded after thinking for a while and said, "Well, that's right, the hourly salary is relatively higher, and it's closer to here, but actually, I think it would be better for you to work as a cashier at a Family Mart convenience store."

"What's so good about it?" Uesugi Kai stood up, alternately stretching his hands sideways.

Katsura Totsuka looked at Kai Uesugi's body stretching, "What a waste of your face with a puppet head on!"

Kaoru Uesugi stopped and looked at him: "Since I rely on my face, wouldn't it be better for me to go to a nightclub to be a cowherd?"

"Haha, will your wife agree?" Totsuka Katsura knew he was joking.

Kaoru Uesugi jumped up and down twice, then did a few squats and stood up again.

"Let's go, eat."

In the afternoon, I will go to the maid coffee shop two streets away to report.

According to the shop owner, it seems that work is about to start after the past.

Uesugi felt that they were hiring urgently, and he was a part-time worker, so there was nothing wrong with being so anxious.

Start early and get paid early.

At noon, I had some lunch in the central cafeteria of Dongda University.

I ordered a double burger meat set, 1920 yen.

Uesugi did not dare to spend money recklessly, but he ran for too long in the morning and was hungry, so it was impossible not to eat more.

After eating this relatively hearty lunch, he only has more than 1000 yen left.

Let alone whether the taste of the school set meal is as good as the love bento made by my wife, the portion is far from it.

There are only two meatloaf in a set meal, which can be eaten with two bites of rice.

As for Hua Huo Sauce, he will prepare meals in his meal and make bento according to his taste.

Whatever he wants to eat, he will prepare more for him.

Now that she has gone to university, Uesugi Kaoru let her not have to work so hard.

But she always said to herself in the morning when she was busy in the kitchen: "I'm used to this, it's not a problem to make a little more breakfast, you don't have to worry about it."

Now without these things, Uesugi Kai felt that his heart had also left.

Without her, who would treat herself so well?

Eating an unappetizing set meal, Kai Uesugi found that he began to miss her only half a day after she left.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Kai Uesugi rode his bicycle and rushed to a maid coffee shop called mimi.

This coffee shop is located on the second floor of the downtown area. The passage to the upper floor is sandwiched between many stores. It is not very eye-catching. There is a maid standing at the door. She wears cat ears, white silk pantyhose, and small leather shoes as standard. Holding a large stack of leaflets in his hand.

Every time a man passed by, she would go up to say hello, hand out leaflets, and ask them if they wanted to come into the store.

Kaoru Uesugi parked his bicycle at the entrance of the coffee shop. The maid obviously regarded him as a regular customer and approached him with a smile. Her legs in white silk were put together, she bent at 45 degrees, and said with a smile:
"Master, welcome home! Do you want to come in for a cup of coffee today?"

The owner's voice is very family, and coupled with the maid's imaginative dress, it is no wonder that men are invited to consume inside.

Kai Uesugi accepted the leaflet she handed over with a calm face, "I'm here to apply."

"Applied?" The cat-eared maid was taken aback for a moment, and then her expression turned into a cute smile, "Ah~~ I know, I know! The store manager told me that there will be a very handsome guy here today Applying for the job, I didn’t believe it at first.”

She looked around Uesugi Kai, then nodded with satisfaction:

"I feel that I am more beautiful than the picture."

"pretty?"

"Yes, beautiful," the cat-eared maid smiled at him, "Can't boys be described as beautiful?"

"...this is up to you."

"Hahaha," the cat-eared maid looked at Kai Uesugi, covered her mouth for some reason and smiled, and waved to him, "Go up, there are no customers in the shop now, the manager should not be busy."

"Thank you."

Kaoru Uesugi came to the downstairs of the coffee shop, stepped on the stairs, walked around the corner, went to the second floor and opened the door to enter.

"welcome!"

The decoration is very simple, more like a small fresh coffee shop, rather than a maid coffee shop in Meizhai.

The decoration, tables and chairs are mostly made of wood, and there are simple fresh flowers and plants around them.

The heart-warming fragrance of flowers, with good light transmission, the tidy atmosphere is quite leisurely.

Kaoru Uesugi glanced at it. There were indeed no customers in the shop, only two maids were cleaning the shop, and there was a woman with short hair in a small suit at the bar who was wiping the cup with a handkerchief. She looked up when Kaoru Uesugi came in. glanced at him.

One of the maids noticed a guest coming in, and immediately put down her work to greet her.

"Shiori, no more."

The cat-eared maid named Shiori Matsumura glanced back at the short-haired woman who came out from behind the bar, subconsciously put her hands together in front of her, and shouted suspiciously: "Ah? Manager."

"He's here to apply."

The short-haired female store manager walked up to Uesugi Kai, and held out her hand to him, and Uesugi Kai also extended her hand in return.

"Hello."

"Hello."

The other party's voice was sober, and she was wearing white gloves. Coupled with her attire in a small suit, Kai Uesugi felt that she was a deaconess.

"Uesugi Kai, right?"

"correct."

"Well."

The store manager didn't look at him with his eyes, but directly took him to a seat in the back of the store and sat down.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am the store manager here. My name is Liumu Zichun. I have read your brief information. Please introduce yourself."

"Okay," Uesugi Kai replied calmly, "My name is Uesugi Kai, a first-year student at the University of Tokyo."

"University of Tokyo? Have you ever worked as a handout?"

"No."

Liu Mu Zichun didn't say anything, and led him to the bar, and then took out some coffee utensils and a can of coffee beans from the back kitchen.

"Here, try it."

Kaoru Uesugi thought that the store manager wanted to teach him the words used to distribute leaflets, "Isn't it training?"

"Training what?"

"Distribute leaflets."

"No need for this, I saw you on your electronic resume. It seems that you have the experience of being a barista?"

Liu Mu Zichun placed the coffee tools flat on the table in the bar.

"This is there."

"We're short of a barista. The previous barista was hit by a car and taken to the hospital on his way to work in the morning."

Kaoru Uesugi was speechless and felt that the barista was unlucky enough.

".But am I here to apply for a job handing out flyers?"

"There are not many baristas who can recruit people at any time, but with cheap wages. I saw that your resume seems to have the experience of working as a barista in the UK, so I wanted to call you over to try the water."

"."

The shopkeeper is not polite at all. Very straightforward.

Seeing that Uesugi Kai hadn't moved, Liu Mu Zichun continued to say to him:

"You are short of money to apply for a short-term job, right?"

"Correct."

"The salary of a barista is much higher than if you go out and hand out flyers."

Kai Uesugi: "But I don't have much time, and I only value the freedom of time when I apply for a job and hand out flyers."

"It doesn't matter how much time you have. You can come in the afternoon. There are vacations, two days a week, but the time is not fixed. It depends on the arrangement and can be adjusted." Liu Mu Zichun thought for a while, "I will arrange 1200 yen for you per hour .”

The hourly salary is 1200 yen.

Start at one o'clock in the afternoon and work until seven o'clock in the afternoon for a total of six hours.

7200 yen for one day of work.

The salary in Tokyo is not too low.

However, compared to the salary of a barista at least hundreds of thousands of yen per month, this is still too much less.

It is worthy of the store manager to regard him as a cheap barista.

"How is it? I have already given the conditions, you should think about it carefully." Liu Mu Zichun's tone was flat, without any hint of anxiety, and patiently waited for his reply.

Kaoru Uesugi thought about it carefully.

Although this was not his original purpose of coming here, it is obvious that the salary of a barista is much higher than that of distributing leaflets.

Even cheap baristas.

The most important thing is that you don't have to work all day and have free time.

"Okay." Uesugi Kai agreed.

Liu Mu Zichun stepped aside and looked at the tools for mixing coffee on the bar: "The simplest milk coffee is fine, I still want to see your level."

"Row."

Uesugi Kai washed his hands, put on his work apron, and after finishing all the procedures, he took a look at the coffee beans in the transparent jar.

He opened the lid and took a sniff.

The coffee beans have been roasted in a roaster, and the smell should have been not long ago.

The aroma is mellow and thick, sweet and slightly bitter. You can guess that this is the most common slow-fire and long-term roasting technique.

This technique will make the dynamics of the coffee taste spectrum more stable, produce a larger amount of "Meinardin" ingredients in a slow fire, and produce a unique flavor different from other regions, which is also the mainstream of Japanese coffee roasting.

Knowing these prerequisites, Uesugi Kai skillfully fiddled with various utensils on the table, pouring water, filtering, and steaming.

And use lower water temperature to brew coffee.

The two cat-eared maids in the store were very curious about this new employee, and they stopped cleaning the store and watched Kai Sugi brewing coffee outside the bar.

Although they don't understand.

They only knew that he poured the ground coffee beans into a white cardboard box, and then poured hot water to make wheat-yellow coffee.

And Zichun Liu has been brewing coffee for many years, so she knows this. She knows that Uesugi Kai's experience as a barista is not just words, but fact.

It can be seen from the way he first smells the coffee beans and then blends them.

She squeezed her chin with her hands, watched Uesugi Kai's movements solemnly, and after he frothed the milk, she suddenly said:
"Pull a kitten."

Kai Uesugi did as he did, pouring the frothed milk into the milk jug.

Then put the spout close to the wall of the cup, while pouring it over the top of the coffee cup, gradually raise the milk jug, and use the layered texture of the small milk flow to alternately draw the outline curve of the cat's back.

Waves of white and yellow overlap, like the gaps left between a cat's fur.

Liu Mu Zichun could see that he was drawing an orange cat with a whole body, not just a cartoon cat head.

The orange cat stretched its front paws forward, stretched its hind paws, narrowed its eyes, and stretched its body lazily as if lying on the floor.

It's just that the orange cat is a body stretching along the circular cup wall, with a certain curvature.

On the side facing people, the orange cat's white belly is turned upside down. Apart from being cute, it also has an unusual warmth.

The two little maids watching from the side were staring at the lazy little orange cat, and kept saying things like "So cute! So cute!" to each other.

"All right."

Kai Uesugi packed up the utensils and pushed the orange cat milk coffee towards the proprietress.

Liu Mu Zichun nodded, and withdrew her approving gaze, "It can be seen that you have a lot of experience, how many years have you been in this line of work?"

"One year."

A number that Kai Uesugi said casually, the actual experience as a barista is only two months.

Usually, he would make a cup for Huahuojiang and Aiyi to drink.

"One year? Only one year?"

It was the first time Uesugi Kai saw the surprised expression of this deaconess.

She quickly retracted this expression, as if it had never happened.

She touched her chin and nodded:

"One year's level is quite good, well, you have been officially hired."

"When will you start working?"

"Right now."

"Now?"

Liu Mu Zichun looked sideways at the clock hanging on the wall in the shop, "It's 3:10 p.m., wages start at 3 p.m., and work until 7 p.m.."

"Of course, you can't leave work early if you want to have customers by then."

"is that OK?"

It is true that the working hours are a bit rushed, but Kai Uesugi has reached the point where he only has a little more than 1000 yen on his body, and he is in danger.

"No problem, but can the salary be settled daily?"

"Daily salary?" Liu Mu Zichun looked at him calmly.

"Yes." Kai Uesugi felt that the owner of the shop gave people a very stressful feeling.

She was silent for a while.

"Okay, I agree to this, but it must be written in the contract, otherwise I will have to trouble you to find someone to replace you when you run away."

After a series of details were finalized, Kai Uesugi signed a contract at this mimi maid coffee shop.

"Welcome to this family." Liu Mu Zichun stretched out his hand to him.

"Well, please advise."

Not long after, Liu Mu Zichun called back the cat-eared maid who distributed the leaflets back to the coffee shop, asked all the maids to stand together, and began to introduce them to Shang Shankai one by one.

Tashiro Yuri and Tashiro Yuno, these two are short-haired sisters.

Aka Erina, the cat-eared maid who was in the flyer outside before

There are four active maids, and one is on vacation today.

"Uesugi-kun, please give me more advice in the future!"

"Please give me more advice in the future!"

"Please advise!"

Aka Erina's shouting is the loudest. She has long hair and will suddenly stand on tiptoe when shouting, which is particularly eye-catching.

The other two girls would use this to tease her not to shout so loudly.

The voices of these three girls are very vigorous, very young and girly.

They are all college students in the neighborhood, and they come out to work when they are free.

The salaries of the maids are very high, so they all chose to work in this nearby coffee shop.

How should I put it, they are all half-newcomers.

Uesugi Kai immediately bowed slightly and nodded in return: "Well, please give me your advice."

Next, he worked as a barista at this maid coffee shop.

However, if Hei Huahuo found out that he was working here, would it be the end of it?

(End of this chapter)