The Days of Opening a Restaurant on an Abnormal Earth

Dongyang, this is a country that lives a good life.

At least the old days here were pretty good. However, in recent years, Toyo can be said to have gone from bad to worse.

There are many reasons for the decline of Dongyang, and many locals who are Dongyang citizens can't explain why this country seems to have reached a dead end.

Inoue Ryota couldn't explain Dongyang's current situation. He only knew that he had become a homeless Internet cafe refugee from a local who lived a good life since he was a child.

Ryota Inoue also had a house in the past, it was not very big, it was a two-story building with a total area of ​​more than 30 pings. (Note, one ping equals approximately 3.3 square meters)

I also have a Kcar and work in the packaging factory every day. Although the life he said was not considered rich and expensive, it was considered stable.

But on March 11th of that year, everything changed.

The monstrous waves swept across my hometown, and the two-storey house with a history of 70 years, which was handed down by my family, collapsed in less than a minute under the impact of the waves.

The Kcar that I bought with a loan and only opened for two months was also washed away.

Fortunately, I ran fast and ran to the nearby mountain before the waves came, so I escaped a catastrophe.

But after that, I was out of luck. I didn't have a house or a car. The point is that the factory where I worked also closed down, and I was homeless.

After the earthquake and tsunami, Ryota Inoue hoped to get help from the government. Like rebuilding a house or something.

But it's a pity that the Japanese government doesn't seem to see victims like themselves at all, and they don't seem to have any interest in rebuilding. Although I have been holding meetings to study something, the money has never come down. Reconstruction is also nowhere in sight.

The speed at which my hometown was rebuilt shocked the world, because it has not been rebuilt until now!

And Ryota Inoue also became a refugee in Internet cafes. Because although the Toyo government has issued a pension to disaster victims like itself, the amount is not large. Not enough to support myself to rent a house to live in.

Because renting a house in Dongyang is actually a very expensive expense, especially for the first month. Rent a house of 100,000 Dongyang coins a month. In addition to the rent, there are many other expenses that it needs to pay in the first month.

For example, you need to pay at least a deposit equivalent to one month to three months.

There is also an expression of gratitude to the landlord, thank the landlord for renting the house to me as a gift (at least one month's rent, and more than three months' rent).

There is also an intermediary fee, which is generally one month's rent plus 15% consumption tax.

As well as the maintenance fee and cleaning fee paid in advance to the intermediary when the lease is returned, it is almost half a month's rent.

Plus insurance, key replacement fees and other miscellaneous expenses.

Ryota Inoue wanted to rent a single apartment of about 30 square meters, with a monthly rent of 100,000 Dongyang coins. Then in the first month, he needs to spend as much as 800,000 Dongyang coins.

He really couldn't afford this fee, and in the end he could only become an Internet cafe refugee like many others.

Internet cafe facilities in Toyo are very good, which is different from many other countries. Many Internet cafes here are designed in the form of single-person cubicles.

In a tatami room two meters long and ninety centimeters wide, Ryota Inoue sat cross-legged, staring at the screen with numb eyes.

The one on the left is a computer screen, which is playing the program of the new generation AKB48. On the right is the TV screen, which is connected to the PS5 provided by the Internet cafe. Ryota Inoue is playing against "Street Fighter 6" online.

The walls of this 1.9-square-meter cubicle are covered with Ryota Inoue’s clothes, and the shelf above the screen is also stacked with his luggage.

After using Gu Lie's scissor kick to send the opponent to the sky, Inoue Ryo was too bored to slap his head. He doesn't want to play games anymore, he wants to work.

Because the number in the deposit slip is decreasing day by day. The last time I worked was half a month ago. At that time, he worked seven days at a construction site, ten hours a day. Earned 70,000 Dongyang coins.

It's a pity that as a temporary worker, when the work is completed, it is thrown away as garbage like construction waste.

"This country is coming to an end!" Inoue Ryota sighed as always.

But besides lamenting, what else can I do? Scratching my chicken coop, I haven't had a haircut for three months. Messy hair grows like weeds.

It's not that Ryota Inoue doesn't want to get a haircut, it's just because a haircut is too expensive. A haircut costs at least 1,000 Dongyang coins, and this is the cheapest hairdresser in the slums.

Although his scalp was itchy, Ryota endured it. He took out his passbook from the safe on the shelf, he couldn't bear to look at it, but he had to face the shocking amount in the passbook.

"There are only 70,000 left..." Liang Tai felt a little panicked.

He is a resident customer of this Internet cafe, and he has reserved this single room for a long time. This Internet cafe charges three hundred Dongyang coins per hour. If it's an eight-hour package, it's 1,500 Dongyang coins. If it is a 24-hour package, it only needs two thousand and five hundred Dongyang coins.

For long-term tenants like myself, the owner of the Internet cafe offered a preferential price of 2,300 Dongyang coins per day. In this way, the cost of living in an Internet cafe for a month is only 69,000 Dongyang coins.

And there is no need to pay monthly water, electricity, gas, building management fees, and insurance premiums.

Although everyone calls people like themselves Internet cafe refugees, Ryota Inoue doesn't think so, because at least he can maintain the last bit of dignity living here.

Although the compartment is small, at least I have organized it with my heart, even though there are a lot of things piled up. But messy but not messy or dirty.

The 1.8-square-meter cubicle is my own independent territory in this Internet cafe. When the door is closed and locked, at least there is a small world of my own.

Turning off the PS5 and turning on the TV program, Ryota wanted to find some social news to watch. But just looking at it made him feel his blood pressure rise.

"I think we should stop supporting 311 refugees. Now many people have become occupational refugees, lazy ones don't work at all, just wait for the government to feed them..."

Fat-headed experts on TV talk with eloquence. Inoue Ryota was so angry that he wanted to throw the remote control at the TV, but considering the price of the TV, he couldn't afford to pay for it himself. He could only press the close button on the remote control hard.

"There is only less than 100,000 yuan in compensation a month, which is not enough to rent a slightly larger apartment. I already live in an Internet cafe. How do these fat pigs who can feast on high-end food every day understand!"

Ryota cursed, but there was nothing he could do. If the government really stops aid, my life will become more difficult.

Now he can only hope that he can find a relatively formal and long-term job.

Because his hometown was destroyed, and now he has no foothold, Ryota can only hang his household registration (foothold) in the building where the Internet cafe is located for the time being.

This is a new service launched by Internet cafes in recent years, because finding a job in Dongyang is actually a very troublesome thing, especially for people who live without a fixed place.

Almost all work units require job seekers to have a place to live for a long time. And the employer will also verify it. If one doesn't have a house to live in, one can hardly find any work.

Now I have changed my place of residence to the address of the Internet cafe, and the boss has provided proof of residence. But this does not improve Ryota's plight of job hunting.

"Failed, failed, rejected, rejected..."

Liang Tai stood at the front desk of the Internet cafe, holding his reply letter of job application, he felt that he was going crazy.

"Has Liangta not found a job yet?" The waitress at the front desk has been working here for two years, and she knows Liangta very well.

Unlike other people who live in Internet cafes, Ryota is not an introverted otaku, but very outgoing and cheerful, willing to socialize with others.

In this lifeless place where few people talk all day, being able to talk to Liangta has become a rare social relaxation for the young lady during a day's work.

"I haven't found any. Now there are more than 30 applicants for a job as a security guard at a construction site. I went to a pizza restaurant to apply for an apprenticeship, and there were fifteen students who graduated from a cooking school. Even the hygiene management of the shopping street market There are more than 50 college students queuing up for interviews for the positions.”

Ryota sighed: "I just graduated from college for a short period of time, and I don't have a place to live yet. The place of residence is listed in an Internet cafe. Many interviewers shook their heads directly after hearing this condition."

"But what can I do? My home was washed away by the sea. And there is still strong nuclear radiation around, which has not subsided until now. The government asked us to rebuild in the original place, but in the old place If I build a house and live there, I will die of leukemia, cancer, and lymphatic haemorrhage in a few years!"

Although Liang Tai said this with a smile, her tone could not hide the disappointment and loneliness.

"This country is coming to an end." Ryota said his mantra.

The young lady at the front desk couldn't comfort him when she heard Ryota's complaints, because Ryota said the truth. In fact, I also asked my seniors to help me find the job in this Internet cafe.

Now it is too difficult to find a long-term stable job that is willing to sign an employment contract instead of a labor dispatch contract.

The two were silent, and after a while, the lady at the front desk seemed to think of something.

"Wait, this is for you, Ryota."

A leaflet was handed to Ryota.

"A chance to change fate?" Ryota looked at this promotional page that looked like a false advertisement, and he felt a little disgusted.

"What is this?" he asked.

"Today, a strange person came to hand out a flyer. He said that they need to recruit people for work. You might as well give it a try, Ryota."

Liang Tai hesitated a little, he took the promotional leaflet to the dining area and water bar of the Internet cafe, and made himself a free Sprite and poured it into his stomach to resist hunger.

The girl who came to the water bar to pick up the hot instant noodles on time at 8 o'clock in the evening showed up on time as always. She passed by Liangtai, Liangtai nodded to her, and she nodded to Liangtai.

Look at the brochure.

"Why don't you try it?"