Chapter 41: Temp Tong (2/2)
Luv Ma cracked a smile, ”He showed up only on weekends, you were too busy wooing girls then.”
”A life without love is not worth living, but...” Miao Xiu paused to allow a smirk crept onto his face. Luv Ma pulled a face that said, ”spit it out.”
”But love without a bro like you is not true love.”
”F*ck off, you f*g.”
”Pff. Einherjar Wannabe, you think you are so cool... I will show you what's cool when you hand your a*s over to me,” Miao Xiu hissed.
Wang Tong never had time to play cool. Without any financial support, he had to learn to look after himself; a job would be more useful than playing cool to that end.
After lamenting over his destitute situation, Wang Tong followed it with actions. He applied at a Chinese restaurant close to school and quickly got an offer to handle miscellaneous tasks. The pay was good, and the restaurant would pay him daily which was the icing on the cake to Wang Tong.
Wang Tong's task today was to prepare and clean vegetables. Looking at the pile of vegetables in front of him, Wang Tong was perplexed. In this day and time, even cooking could be done by robots, but some fancier restaurant had insisted using manual labor as their marketing gimmicks. However, gimmicks aside, some connoisseur were convinced that there was a particular satisfaction when eating a meal that was prepared by hand.
Wang Tong never understood that particular desire, but he welcomed its existence nonetheless; without it, he wouldn't get this job.
Wang Tong changed into his work-cloth and started to pick out the bad leaves, cleaned the vegetables, sorted them on the table, then rinse and repeat. Despite the large amount of vegetables he had to sort through, his EMF had allowed him to keep a good pace, and soon, he was engrossed in the activity. Unlike Samantha and Ma Xiaoru, who were born with silver spoons in their mouths, life had never been kind to Wang Tong. However, he had learned to make a lemonade whenever the Gods had decided to give him a lemon.
After two hours, Wang Tong walked out of the work area and reported to the manager: ”I am done.”
”Ok... Oh, what? You are done? Everything?” the manager asked in surprise. He had assigned him a week worth of workload. He walked into the prep room, fearing that Wang Tong had made a mess, but surprisingly, he found out that all vegetables had been cleaned and were set neatly on the counter. The manager picked one up to examine it closely; he could hardly find a fly-speck on it.
The manager was impressed. It appeared that this student of A-Class Academy was worth his salt. ”Well done! Excellent! Due to your exceptional performance, I will double your wage from now on. And, I will give you a free dining coupon in our restaurant.” Joy was written all over the manager's face. His generous gesture would make up only a small portion of the expenses that Wang Tong had already helped him saved.
Wang Tong nodded. The manager's profit did not concern him, this was just a temporary job to keep himself busy and make some extra cash. Wang Tong hadn't realized how hungry he was until he received the dining coupon, so he decided to satisfy his gluttony right then.
As the waiter laid out five dishes in front of Wang Tong, each lusher than the next, the sight had exhilarated him. He waved his chopsticks in the air and said, ”Eat your heart out, Old Fart, these are all your favorite dishes! Haha”
Wang Tong quickly buried his face in the food. He could hear jibes floating in the air and felt a few pairs of eyes staring at him with disgust, but he didn't care to slow down, shoveling food into his mouth.
”Truly happy people don't care what others think” had always been Wang Tong's motto.