space player

Chapter 8 Employment and Unemployment
He thought it would be convenient to get to know an aborigine in the game, but he just left.The horse obtained by accepting the task was also taken back by the system. This system is really too stingy, or it may be that the developers are too strict. I remember the games I played before. As long as the horse card is not blown out, the horse will appear after being revived in the city.

Now that I have no money, I can only make money first.

Making money in online games is nothing more than mining herbs and running merchants. It’s too late to collect herbs. You need to buy equipment for mining.

In this game, there is a job agency, so why not go and see what jobs are available.The casino dealer ranked first on the income list, followed by the chef of the Zuixian Building, and the bodyguards and thugs were at the bottom.Wherever the money comes from, it will go there soon, this is Zhao Chengping's only thought now.

What kind of broken setting, there is even an interview?
The interview was just an interview, and it was divided into several sessions. The first session was to draw out the points on three cards of Pai Gow blindly. These were relatively simple. Zhao Chengping felt it patiently, and he was right.

The second session was listening. The boss first explained that this session would be more difficult and that he could be given three chances. After that, he grabbed the dice that had just been placed on the table aside, threw them into the dice cup, closed it, and the dice cup was thrown away. After shaking it, the dice inside made a clattering sound. The boss smiled and asked, "How many dice are there in here?"

"Seven." Zhao Chengping replied without hesitation. When the lid was opened, there were indeed seven, and the boss nodded approvingly: "Not bad, not bad. People like you who have never had any experience in the past should listen to it at least twice. Only then can I be right, the kid can do a lot.”

"Hehehe, wherever, as long as the boss rewards you with food." Zhao Chengping laughed.

As a painter, he is used to going to a fresh place, so he carefully observes everything around him. The dice were arranged neatly on the table just now, with 5 vertical and 7 horizontal, which is 35 pieces. Dice, when the boss grabbed the dice, he guessed that the boss wanted his hearing power.

The boss was shaking the dice cup, but he didn't listen at all, but counted how many dice were left, and there were 28 left, which meant that 7 had been taken away.

In the third game, the boss said: "You have been hired, but if you can pass this test, I will give you more money."

"People who enter the casino want to try their luck. Of course, those who run the casino also want to be lucky. If the croupiers are not lucky, all the money in the casino will be taken away by the customers, and everyone will have nothing to do." The boss took him to another On the table, there is a deck of Pai Gow, "Come and try your luck."

Zhao Chengping didn't know anything about Pai Gow. As a good young man in the 21st century, he didn't even know how to play mahjong, and he only knew how to play poker against landlords. Pai Gow is an ancient game only seen in martial arts novels.

However, he can't say that he doesn't understand. A croupier who doesn't understand a fart doesn't even know when a customer wins a card. What's the use of it?
His plan was to get in first, and then learn quickly. He never expected... There is even such a thing as an interview.Besides, did Pai Gow exist in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period? Did it exist?Idiots who make game settings don’t know that the popular gambling in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period is called Liuboqi, and Pai Gow was more than 1000 years later.

Tucao is Tucao, and the interview job has to adapt to all these seemingly unreasonable things.Alas, try your luck, this is really a try of luck.He took a deep breath first: "I don't know how to try this luck."

"I draw a hand of cards, and you draw a hand of cards. If you lose, I will give you the salary of a junior dealer, five hundred dollars. If you win, I will give you a thousand dollars a month."

The boss pressed his hands on the table and asked Zhao Chengping, "Do you want to come first?"

Zhao Chengping shook his head: "It's just luck, it doesn't make any sense." In fact, he doesn't even know how many cards should be drawn for Pai Gow. The boss first demonstrates how to operate, so that he can follow suit, otherwise the croupier should draw even the cards. I don't know a few cards, the boss will only invite him if he is crazy.

The boss first randomly picked up two cards from the pile of Pai Gow and threw them on the table. Zhao Chengping couldn't tell what it was at all, and only heard the surrounding crowd exclaimed: "Shuangtian Supreme!!"

"This young man will definitely not win."

Zhao Chengping had no idea what Shuangtian Supreme represented. He turned his head and asked, "Shuangtian Supreme? Is it very big?"

His stern eyes made the onlookers think that he was provocative, and an old man replied: "Hmph, the young man is so insane, you must be able to get the Supreme Treasure?"

Supreme Treasure, um, what does the hero of "A Chinese Journey to the West" have to do with Pai Gow?Forget it, five hundred knives should be enough, at worst, I will buy all the pancakes and walk all the way to Changping.

Once a person is free from the burden of thinking, doing things will be much easier. He quickly grabs two cards from the top, flips them over and throws them on the table. After a closer look, the points on both cards are extremely small, and one has a red dot on it. , two white dots, two white dots on one card, and four red dots. Although Zhao Chengping didn't know what it was, it must be a very bad and small card. The three and four in Doudizhu are scumbags.

Come on, it's a loser, a loser, he scratched his head, ready to ask the boss if he would include room and board in addition to five hundred dollars.

As a result, when he looked up, he saw the boss standing there dumbfounded. He was very confused, and when he turned his head to look at the people around him, they were also frozen there.

"What?" Zhao Chengping suppressed the tension in his heart and pretended to be calm.

"Oh my God, the Supreme Treasure!" Suddenly, the people around were shouting loudly, like a handful of salt being poured into a frying pan.

Oh, Supreme Treasure... Although I don't understand what they are talking about, looking at the boss's satisfied expression, the salary of one thousand dollars should be no problem.The prices of various daily necessities flashed through Zhao Chengping's mind, well, almost one month's salary is enough to reach Changping.

The gambling shop opened in the afternoon until late at night, and the boss did not include food. Zhao Chengping usually settled for a meal at a small stall outside. It was okay to eat for a day or two. After eating for three or four days, he deeply felt Xiao Spirit's mood.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, the efficient oil extraction method has not yet been invented, and lard is considered a rare thing, so there are no crispy stir-fried dishes. The game design team perfectly restored all these, and the dishes we eat every day are stewed meat Oh, cooking.

He became quite familiar with the man at the stall at the door. Finally, one day, he couldn't bear the world of stews and cooking, so he made a request. The meal was paid, and he begged the man to give him a chance to cook by himself. .

I really had to do it myself, only to find that a lot of dishes were still in the Western Regions, waiting for Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty to bring them to the Central Plains, and a lot of seasonings were in America, advanced to Southeast Asia, and then brought into the Ming Empire by Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty.

The old man at the small stall happily looked at Zhao Chengping, who seemed to have four big characters written on his face, "There is nothing to love" on his face, and laughed, and made him a bowl of pickled rice with only salt and no oil: "Xiao Zhao, look You look like this, is there something unhappy recently, listen to the uncle, as long as you are full, you can let go of everything."

Zhao Chengping struggled to pick up the chopsticks, picked up the bowl, put it to his mouth, hesitated for a long time, and finally put the vegetables and rice into his mouth with his eyes closed.

Next time, before you come out next time, you must have a good meal!
Among the people who came to the gambling house, there were some well-informed people. Zhao Chengping learned through them that Lian Po had not been guarding the city for three years and Zhao Kuo had not yet taken office. It was just King Zhao who wanted to replace him. The old man was just guessing. Just a guess.

It seems that there is still time.A person has been in this world for more than a month, and the first month's salary has been received. He intends to apply for resignation to the boss and prepares to go to Changping, but the boss says to wait and find a suitable person to replace him. .

Although it was in the game, Zhao Chengping still couldn't do such a thing as saying goodbye without saying goodbye, especially since the boss really didn't deduct wages, and a thousand knives were handed out to him completely. He was quite touched by the excuse that the accountant wasn't here and the bank wasn't open.

One day, a well-dressed but sneaky guest came to the casino. Could it be a thief?While shaking the dice, Zhao Chengping focused his attention on him. The man took out a pair of jade bracelets from his pocket and said he wanted to place a bet. Zhao Chengping didn't know any jade bracelets and refused to accept them.

Gambling addiction, how can others stop it, that person only yelled for the boss to come out to see him, the boss heard the movement and went outside, after carefully appreciating it, he said that the pair of jade bracelets can be accepted.

Now that the boss has spoken, what else can't be done?Zhao Chengping shook the dice cup, the man was very unlucky, he bet big and got small, and bet small and got big, in short, a pair of jade bracelets were taken away very quickly.That person left in dismay, without a trace, and no one cared where he went. Was he an abused gambler? He wasn't the first one.

Unexpectedly, only one day later, early in the morning, there were chaotic footsteps on the avenue, and then, the door of the gambling house was kicked open, the leader waved his hand, and dozens of people dressed as soldiers poured into the gambling house from behind, rushing into every corner. The room was searched, but found nothing.

Zhao Chengping, who was half asleep and half awake, was captured by the soldiers, and the leader shouted and asked, "Have you seen this man?"

"what?"

Someone below has handed a portrait in front of Zhao Chengping, what the hell is this painting.

From a professional point of view, Zhao Chengping expressed 12 points of contempt and contempt for the painting skills of this portrait painting. There is no light and dark relationship at all, the lines are messed up, and there are no details of facial features. The whole face is a plane, and only ghosts can recognize it. Who is this.

Zhao Chengping shook his head: "Who is this?"

"This man stole a pair of jade bracelets from Ping Yuanjun's wife. Someone saw him enter this gambling house!"

Jade bracelet?

"I seem to have some impression, but these days, there are many people coming to our gambling shop with rings, bracelets and necklaces to place bets. Why don't I confirm it first." Zhao Chengping's calm attitude made the leader relax a little, "Why? confirm?"

Zhao Chengping said: "Let me take out the charcoal pencils in the room."

Since settling down in the gambling house, Zhao Chengping felt that the skill of painting should not be wasted, but should be practiced from time to time, so the charcoal turned from the endless firewood burned in the kitchen every day became the raw material for his homemade charcoal.The pen... the serious writing brush was invented by Meng Tian of the Qin State. At this moment, Qin Shihuang was busy sweeping away all the wastelands. I don’t know if General Meng still had time to do this. Anyway, everyone else in the Zhao State was busy. I used a knife and pen to carve hard on the bamboo slips.

There is no paper at the moment, paper was invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the toilet chips are peeled from bamboo.

Alas, everything in the pre-Qin era was really inconvenient. The game production team was very serious about restoring this history and refused to give a piece of paper!

The floor of the gambling house is paved with yellow mud, which has become very solid due to the trampling of people coming and going.Zhao Chengping thought for a while, recalled the appearance of that person at that time, picked up the charcoal pencil, and began to draw on the ground. At first, everyone didn't know what his smeared lines meant. Soon, the outline of a person It gradually took shape.

"It's him, isn't this Xiao Si who is serving Mao Sui?" Someone recognized him.

Zhao Chengping didn't have the intention to stop writing, and added several more strokes on the man's face, then threw the charcoal pencil aside, and a lifelike sketch of a character appeared on the ground, and the person holding the jade bracelet With a sly look, carefully guarding the things in his arms, it was exactly the same as that person's demeanor at the gambling table that day.

"That's right! It's him!"

"This painting is much better than Master Li's. The painting on the arrest warrant, our brother also intends to recognize the shape of his beard. I also said that it would be great if this thief bone could make his beard look different."

The soldiers talked a lot.

The soldiers who searched the house also found the pair of jade bracelets from the boss's room. The stolen goods are here. Although Xiaosi can't be caught for a while, they can go back and exchange business.

When the house was being searched, the boss just came back from the outside and saw the jade bracelet being searched out, he felt distressed immediately.After the soldiers left, he called Zhao Chengping to the front and cursed at him: "You can do it. If you say you haven't seen that man, it's over? If you have to show off, that's it. The jade bracelet is taken away. Who will pay for my losses!"

Zhao Chengping said: "Mr. Pingyuan's people came here with such great fanfare, they must have evidence, rather than letting them find out that we have received stolen goods, it is better to sell personal favors, not to mention that it is a win, and the owner has nothing to lose. "

The boss obviously didn't think so, he told Zhao Chengping to leave immediately on the spot.

Forget it, it’s not speculative, Zhao Chengping just stood on the street with hundreds of knives in his pocket, looking up at the sky, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and a drop of rain hit him on the face with a thud, Immediately afterwards, "crash", the big raindrops hit the ground.

Umbrella, was that thing invented?Zhao Chengping stood on the street dejectedly, letting the cold rain slap randomly on his face.

(End of this chapter)