25: 9 times income reward

After selling the fish, Chen Xiangbei drove to the largest food street in Linhai City.

He didn't feel like having a proper meal today and wanted to try some snacks to change things up.

He found a place to park and started browsing from the entrance of the night market. Various aromas filled the entire street.

People came and went, making it very lively.

He ate as he walked along, wanting to try everything he saw. He ate both things he had tried before and things he hadn't. Now that his appetite was large, everything tasted delicious.

Roasted sweet potato skin, takoyaki, braised pig intestines, braised pig trotters, grilled pork belly, golden thread beef cakes, teppanyaki tofu, roasted lamb skewers, wheel cakes, ice jelly and syrup, milk tea, etc.

He browsed for over an hour before coming out, still carrying some packed snacks and chewing on unfinished grilled meat.

Facing delicious food, the vast majority of people cannot refuse it; after all, people consider food as their heaven.

At 8 PM, he drove back to his home in the urban village.

As soon as he entered the door, he started packing his luggage, putting useful and necessary items in, and throwing away everything else to buy new ones.

Actually, he had already packed once, and there weren't many things, just a few sets of clothes and some fishing gear he hadn't brought.

He put his clothes into a large suitcase, leaving one set out to change into later.

Half of the suitcase was filled with clothes, and the other half with important documents like his graduation certificate.

The fishing gear could just be put in a sack and thrown into the car later.

After packing the necessary items, everything else was treated as trash and thrown away.

He packed three full sacks of old items and carried them to the trash cans downstairs in two trips.

After returning, he took the packed luggage and gear up to the car and put them away, so he could travel light tomorrow morning.

After finishing everything, it was the perfect time for a late-night snack. He laid out the packed snacks on the table, picked up his phone, found a movie, and ate while watching.

The phone screen is too small; I need to buy a tablet, maybe buy it after moving tomorrow, Chen Xiangbei thought to himself.

The duration of a movie can turn a person from rational to emotional, especially those with low tear thresholds, who will eat and cry at the same time.

Around 11:30 PM, Chen Xiangbei came out of the bathroom, shirtless after just taking a shower, his hair still wet.

He took a small trash bag, put the clothes he had changed out of into it, and would throw them away with the trash tomorrow.

He sent a message to his landlord.

Gu Bei: Hello, Landlord, please excuse the late-night disturbance. Since it's the end of the month and I haven't found a job, I don't have money to continue paying rent. I'll be going home in a few days, so I wanted to let you know. Could you come over tomorrow morning so we can settle the remaining matters?

Sending it this way could avoid a lot of trouble because the contract was signed for half a year, but he had only lived there for a little over a month.

Usually, the deposit is not refunded if the contract is not up, or only half is refunded, so he played the emotional card, hoping to get back whatever he could.

After sending the message, Chen Xiangbei started scrolling through short videos. As he scrolled, he suddenly saw a piece of news, and this news was about him.

Evening News: This afternoon, a man in Jiangbin Park caught a giant, harmful invasive species—an alligator gar—in the Zhu River basin...

He didn't expect to be the subject of the news he was watching.

"But why didn't anyone come to interview me? I remember in the past, the person involved was always shown in the news?" Chen Xiangbei wondered.

[Ding, System settlement begins: Host's daily income +3655, average hourly wage 1462+, System reward amount 32895+, physique +0.01, settlement points +300, please keep up the good work!]

"[Bank card number 4539] received 32895 yuan at 00:01, balance 193718.4 yuan." (A few amounts that weren't doubled earlier were missed and have now been added).

The physique increase is getting smaller; it seems his basic physique is high now. To increase quickly, he needs stronger stimulation or to complete hidden achievements, which will make the growth faster.

After the six-figure income from the previous day, seeing this small five-figure amount now, it's not that he had no reaction, but rather, there was absolutely no ripple.

He put down his phone and went to sleep, looking forward to moving into his new home tomorrow.

At 7 AM, Chen Xiangbei was brushing his teeth and washing his face.

His landlord had replied to him this morning, saying he would come over to check the house at 8 AM.

After washing up, he went out for breakfast and also took the last two bags of trash downstairs to throw away.

He had just finished cleaning the entire room, mopped the floor, and thrown away the sheets and duvet covers. The whole house was restored to how it looked when he first took it over.

At a soup dumpling shop in the village, he ordered five cages of soup dumplings and a bowl of soy milk.

He finished it all under the astonished gaze of the Boss.

The taste was pretty good, and he wanted to eat more, but it was almost 8 AM, and he had to rush back.

Arriving back downstairs at the rental house, just as he was about to open the door, he saw the landlord arriving on his little electric scooter, wobbling along.

He greeted the landlord, and they went upstairs together.

On the stairs, the landlord asked Chen Xiangbei, "You mentioned in your message that you haven't found a job, right?"

"Yes, it's really hard to find a job this year. I haven't gotten an offer from any company in over a month. I plan to go back to my hometown to develop and inherit my dad's two mu of land."

"Yes, many people leave Linhai City because they can't find a job or get laid off. Like my buildings here, more than half are empty. In the past, there weren't enough to rent out," the landlord sighed.

They arrived shortly. Opening the door and entering, the landlord was stunned to see the room clean as new, finding it a bit hard to believe.

"Little Chen, you cleaned?"

"Yes, I just got up and cleaned. Look, the floor isn't even dry yet."

"That's rare. What we landlords like most are tenants like you, who are clean."

"Alright, in consideration of how clean it is, I'll refund your rent deposit. Usually, it's not refunded or only half is refunded if the contract isn't up, but I'll give you a full refund," the landlord said.

"Thank you very much then. If I have a chance to return to Linhai City, I will definitely stay here again," Chen Xiangbei thanked him.

After settling the accounts with the landlord, Chen Xiangbei drove to the pedestrian street near the CBD.

He found a Huawei offline experience store; he wanted to get a new phone and then buy a tablet.

Entering the store, Chen Xiangbei asked the service staff to bring him the latest models of phones and tablets.

Soon, a brand new Huawei P88 and a Matepad pro88 tablet appeared before him.

He briefly tested the devices, and there were no major issues, so he paid immediately.

He asked the onsite engineer to help him transfer everything from his old phone to the new one, and also download and install the same set of apps on the tablet as on his old phone.

It was done in less than half an hour.

10 AM.

He arrived at the nearest Cainiao Post Station to Galaxy International. All the packages he bought yesterday had arrived today.

This was because he paid extra postage, requesting the sellers to send them via Shunfeng Next Day Delivery.

He took some small items with him, while the larger items were delivered to his door by the staff.

After all, there were several gaming chairs and three desktop computers, as well as some quilts and other things. One person couldn't carry them all in just a few trips.

Since there was a delivery service, there was no reason not to use it.