(It's impossible to work for others, absolutely impossible in this lifetime!)
He packed up the supplies at home, untied the items one by one, and then stored them into his Storage Space. There were seven or eight large bundles, and untying them one by one took time. After spending the entire morning finishing these tasks, Xiao Hen began to busy himself with lunch.
"Perhaps, it would be nice to have a woman help with the cooking."
Xiao Hen sighed with emotion.
Yet he did not know that women nowadays would hardly cook for you.
After finishing his meal, what Xiao Hen considered was the problem of money. Without finding a job, restocking supplies every time he came out was a huge expense, and without money, he couldn't buy things.
"I'll go out to find a job after eating."
After the meal, Xiao Hen rode that battered electric scooter into the urban area, looking up everywhere as he searched for job-opening locations.
"What kind of job should I look for? I must consider the time I enter the different world to do quests. Work hours need to be flexible and cannot be too restrictive."
Xiao Hen pondered in his heart, moving forward while searching, when he suddenly saw a recruitment notice.
This was a high-end skyscraper, and a neon fluorescent screen displayed a recruitment advertisement: Chen's Martial Arts School is recruiting martial arts instructors; retired military officers are given priority; those with various competition experiences and certain large-scale martial arts competition titles are given priority. Application phone number: ***********.
"A martial arts instructor should be relatively leisurely. Furthermore, looking at my current abilities, apart from planning, I'm only really good at killing and combat? Am I supposed to go be an assassin or a mercenary?"
Xiao Hen smiled and shook his head, then glanced at this recruitment advertisement, rode his electric scooter to the roadside to park it, and walked into the building with his hands in his pockets.
The first floor of the building was very spacious. Xiao Hen went straight to the elevator area and, following the signposts, took the elevator up to the eighteenth floor. This was the floor where the martial arts school was located. Wonder who chose this floor? Didn't they know that the eighteenth floor of a building is the hardest to sell?
The eighteenth floor represented the eighteen layers of hell, and those who bought houses just believed in this nonsense superstition.
The eighteenth-floor elevator doors opened, and Xiao Hen stepped out casually. Walking out, he spotted a large row of long, floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Goodness, the entire eighteenth floor consisted of this sturdy setup. Inside the floor-to-ceiling glass windows were all kinds of fitness equipment, along with some faintly visible martial arts rings. Xiao Hen knew he had come to the right place.
This was Chen's Martial Arts School.
Xiao Hen stepped into Chen's Martial Arts School, and a girl at the front desk immediately greeted him with a smiling face.
"Hello, sir. May I ask if you want to join our martial arts school to learn martial arts? Please come this way to process your membership!"
The girl was all smiles, but Xiao Hen raised an eyebrow, gave a playful smile, and said, "No, I'm here to challenge the school!"
"Ch-Challenge the school?"
The girl was stunned, stammering.
In this era, things like challenging a school really rarely happened. Even if they did, it was a major event that required negotiations between both parties, a scheduled time, and finally a fight with the purpose of friendly sparring. How could it be like Xiao Hen, who just randomly came over to challenge a school?
"This..."
The girl didn't know how to respond and turned around, shouting, "Coach Xu, someone is here to challenge the school!"
Coach Xu was a sturdy young man wearing a set of tight fitness apparel. A black tank top clung to his muscular body, and he walked over with an arrogant expression. "What? Someone challenging the school? You've got to be kidding me, right?"
"It's him!" The girl reached out and pointed at Xiao Hen, who still had his hands in his pockets. At this moment, Xiao Hen looked just like an ordinary person, gazing at the two of them with curiosity on his face.
"Challenge the school? Just him?" Coach Xu was taken aback, pointing incredulously at Xiao Hen. With a scrawny guy like this daring to come challenge the school, he figured this was probably just another fellow who had gone mad reading martial arts novels. Coach Xu shook his head.
"Kid, this isn't a place for you to mess around. Get lost quickly and go play somewhere else," Coach Xu said, shaking his head.
"No, I saw the recruitment advertisement here and came. Aren't you hiring instructors here?" Xiao Hen said with keen interest.
"We are indeed hiring instructors here, but we are not hiring weaklings like you. Be off with you!" Coach Xu frowned and waved his hand. What was wrong with this person? Didn't he even look in a mirror to see what he looked like? Looking so scrawny and still coming to apply as an instructor—he really was puffing out his cheeks to masquerade as a fat man.
"How do you know I won't do until you try?" Xiao Hen said with a smile.
"Try? Heh!" Coach Xu gave a cold laugh. "I'm afraid I might beat you until you fracture a bone, and then I'd have to take responsibility!"
"It's fine. Since I dared to come apply for an instructor position, I'm not afraid of getting hurt. You look like you're pretty well-fleshed out, how about the two of us spar?" Xiao Hen looked the other man up and down.
"Well-fleshed out?" Coach Xu was stunned, and then he sneered. It seemed this kid still wasn't going to give up. With his own fully muscular physique, the guy actually dared to say he was just well-fleshed out. He really was courting death.
"If you want to try, let's try. Come, I'll let you kid witness for yourself—a martial arts school instructor isn't something just anyone can be!" Coach Xu let out a chuckle of cold laughter, then turned and walked toward the martial arts ring. Xiao Hen followed with an unchanged expression.
Downstairs in the building, a Maserati President sedan was parked in a roadside parking space. A short-haired woman stepped out of the driver's seat, and then opened the rear door. From inside the rear door stepped a long-haired woman. The woman had a seed-shaped face, an exquisitely beautiful countenance, and a calm demeanor. Wearing only light makeup, she still could not conceal her heroic bearing.
"Lili, President Yang of New Lake Group's banquet has been canceled. I have other matters to deal with today." The long-haired woman stepped out of the car while continuously flipping through documents. The short-haired woman understood the words she spoke.
"Yes, CEO Chen!"
"Also, have the instructors recruited recently been found?" The long-haired woman closed the documents, walked toward the elevator area, and asked with a frown.
"Not yet..." The short-haired woman pressed the elevator button and looked at the long-haired woman with concern. "CEO Chen, don't worry either. This recruitment notice was only sent out a few days ago, perhaps they'll be recruited in a few days..."
The long-haired woman, however, laughed bitterly at herself. "Don't comfort me either. I know myself that this idea of clutching Buddha's feet when death is at hand is very naive, but it's still a hope after all, isn't it?"
The short-haired woman remained silent.
That's right, in a few days it would be the martial arts school competition among the major branches of the family. By then, the martial arts schools established by several younger generations of the Chen family would hold competitions, and the final outcome would have a huge impact, even determining CEO Chen's ultimate fate.
The short-haired woman looked at the long-haired woman's back. Only she could know just how immense the pressure this strong woman was currently bearing!
"Miss... CEO Chen, rest assured, these difficulties will eventually pass. Coach Xu is not weak; even compared to those instructors invited by the young masters, he won't be much worse. There's a chance he might win..." The short-haired woman couldn't help saying.
"No... you haven't seen it with your own eyes, so you won't know how strong those martial arts masters are!" The long-haired woman sighed instead. She had seen with her own eyes how that martial arts master under her second brother could easily kick a tree as thick as a rice bowl in half with a single kick and shatter granite blocks with a single punch. That kind of terrifying power was simply not something ordinary martial arts school instructors could compare to.
"Sigh... Perhaps my fate cannot be changed after all..." The long-haired woman lamented softly.
Drip...
The elevator doors opened, and the two women stepped out of the elevator, arriving at the eighteenth-floor location of the martial arts school. Through the glass floor-to-ceiling windows, however, they witnessed a shocking scene.
"Eh, th-this is..."
Upon seeing the scene inside the arena, the two women were instantly startled, and the long-haired woman widened her eyes even further.
Regarding this chapter, it's not really about doing manual labor; it's considered necessary for the plot!
This author's note was something I added later. A lot of people were scolding me when they saw this chapter, but there's really no need—it's just a minor trope. Thank you.
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