Chen Shuo breathed a sigh of relief, trying to calm down his mood, and then said in a calm voice: "You have developed such a mentality after just a few days of living and eating for free, which shows that you have a strong sense of shame and self-esteem.

"

"And you want us to be equal, don't want to rely on me to support you, want to be self-reliant with your own hands, and want to save your own self-esteem. It's hard for you to do these things by yourself, but I have a few solutions. You have to listen.

What?"

Hearing this, two cat ears popped up on Bai Xiaoqi's head, and she raised her head to look at him.

Looking at the two cat ears that suddenly grew out on top of her head, Chen Shuo was stunned, and for a moment he forgot what he was going to say.

Subconsciously I asked: "What's wrong with your ears? Why did they pop out so quickly?"

Bai Xiaoqi reached out and touched the ears on the top of her head, "I just can't control it."

"Can't control it?"

Chen Shuo thought for a while and finally understood that this girl was so concerned about saving her self-esteem that when she said there was a way, she couldn't suppress her emotions for a while and subconsciously wanted to listen with cat ears.

.

Maybe cat ears can hear it better.

"Don't talk about it, let's get down to business. I just said there are several ways, but strictly speaking there is only one. If you don't have an ID card, it is unrealistic to go out to find a job, and there should be no job suitable for you in this society.

But work is nothing more than using labor in exchange for remuneration. This remuneration can be money, food, a place to live, or even anything. And the remuneration you want is actually to make yourself feel at ease.

You can eat my food, live in my food, and use my food with peace of mind, right?"

"....Um."

Bai Xiaoqi opened her mouth, feeling that it seemed to be the case, but also that it seemed not to be the case. After being confused for a long time, she nodded.

No matter what, I really can't feel at ease now.

"In this way, starting from today, you don't have to live and eat for free. Let's do housework and cleaning."

Chen Shuo stretched out his hand and pointed around the room, "Every day you clean the room, sweep the floor, mop the floor, I also taught you how to use the washing machine yesterday, and then wash the clothes. In this way, you are not living in vain with me.

If you live in vain, you don’t have to feel that you have been favored by me, you should use your labor to offset the rent and food.”

"Just, is that all?"

The ears on the top of Bai Xiaoqi's head twitched, and she turned around and looked around. She felt that this could not offset the feeling of being adopted and being a head shorter than him.

"What do you mean it's just like this? Do you know how much hourly workers outside work cost per hour?"

"I don't know." Bai Xiaoqi shook her head honestly.

"..."

Chen Shuo choked for a moment, and after a moment, he breathed softly, "Then let's add one more item: cooking. Can you cook?"

"Won't."

"I know you can't, but you should say now that I can learn."

"Well, I can learn."

Bai Xiaoqi's eyes were filled with anticipation, "Do I want to learn to cook?"

During the more than fifty days of wandering in human society, she had long discovered that the most popular restaurants on the street were various restaurants, and from this she concluded that humans who can cook are the most useful.

And as long as you learn to cook, you will become a very useful human being.

This way, you shouldn't have the feeling of being a head shorter than him, right?

"Do you want to learn?"

"think."

"Very good, come and follow me into the kitchen."

Chen Shuo glanced at the clock and saw that it was almost time for dinner. He took Bai Xiaoqi to the kitchen that had not been used for eight hundred years. Seeing the environment inside, he couldn't help but turn around and said: "I think you should think about it carefully.

It’s about cooking.”

In fact, strictly speaking, the rest of the house that Chen Shuo rented was kept clean and tidy, such as the living room, balcony, bathroom and so on.

But the only exception was the kitchen. Dark oil stains covered the walls everywhere, and there were also various greasy stains on the floor tiles, making it sticky to the feet when walking on it.

The broken pot on the gas stove is covered with cobwebs, there are all kinds of dirty bottles and cans on the cupboard, the yellow bottle of dish soap is covered with grease, and it’s hard to tell whether the stuff in the seasoning box is salt or MSG.

, has formed into blocks.

The whole kitchen environment made the dog shake his head when he saw it.

Chen Shuo felt that the reason why the kitchen was like this must be the fault of the previous tenant.

It has nothing to do with him anyway, after all, he has never used the kitchen since the day he moved in.

And this kind of environment made Bai Xiaoqi, a cat girl who used to live on the street all day long, couldn't help frowning when she saw it. Then she suddenly remembered that she had just said that she would clean the room from now on.

Does that mean we need to clean here too?

Just now I thought cleaning the room was a very relaxing task, but it couldn't offset the feeling of being taken in at all.

And now....

"If you really want to learn to cook, we need to call someone first to come and clean the kitchen." Chen Shuo gave his opinion.

Hearing this, Bai Xiaoqi hesitated and shook his head.

"Aren't you going to learn how to cook?"

"to learn."

Bai Xiaoqi looked at the kitchen. After a while, her eyes gradually became firm, "I'll clean here."

"..."

It was approaching evening at this time, it was a little dark outside, and there were no lights in the room. Chen Shuo stared at her pair of blue eyes, always feeling that these beautiful eyes were blooming with a kind of light, and this kind of light was called fighting spirit.

Good guy, he felt like he was on fire.

.......

"You pack first, I'll go shopping."

Bai Xiaoqi was afraid that her new clothes would be dirty, so she put on Chen Shuo's pajamas, squatted on the ground, and used steel wool dipped in washing powder to rub the stubborn dirt.

Seeing this scene, Chen Shuo said a few words, then took the keys and went out to buy things, carrying the bottles, cans and other rubbish collected from the kitchen.

When he came to the supermarket near the community, Chen Shuo walked in and bought all kinds of messy things. There was a gas stove in the kitchen, and he had never paid for natural gas. After thinking about it, he bought an induction cooker.

Pots and pans, rice, flour, grains and oils, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, he pushed the shopping cart to the vegetable market on the first floor. There was a dazzling array of vegetables. He didn't dare to buy too much, so he just bought a little.

By the time the check was settled, a lot of things cost more than a thousand. By the time the merchants came out, it was already dark.

Back home, the cat-eared girl was still squatting in the kitchen mopping the floor. Chen Shuo kicked the door open with his foot, "Stop mopping, come over and pick it up."

Bai Xiaoqi turned around and saw Chen Shuo holding large and small bags in his hands. He quickly ran over to take them and asked, "You bought so many things?"

"Well, after all, if you want to cook at home in the future, you must buy all the things. Phew, I'm exhausted."

Chen Shuo rubbed his shoulders and felt like he was mentally ill. He should take this cat-eared girl with him to do this kind of physical work. She was very strong.

There were induction cookers, pots and pans, and rice, flour, grains and oils, which together weighed dozens of kilograms. I had to stop and go all the way, and I was tired and vomited blood before I got these things back.

"Is it so clean?"

When he walked to the kitchen, Chen Shuo was stunned for a moment by the clean and new environment. He always felt that he had gone to the wrong place. All the dirt on the floor had been removed, and the oil stains on the wall had also disappeared.

Who would have thought that the floor tiles and walls of the kitchen were actually white, and he thought they were yellow.

Hearing Chen Shuo's exclamation tone, Bai Xiaoqi wrinkled her nose, hummed slightly proudly, squatted on the ground and took out the things she bought one by one.

Chen Shuo leaned on the door frame, rubbed his arms and watched her busy, and suddenly asked: "How are you? After working for a long time, do you feel that you feel more balanced and don't feel that you are living and eating for free?"

"Um."

Bai Xiaoqi hesitated and nodded slightly.

"Labor is the most glorious."
Chapter completed!