There was a knock on the door soon, and Shangzi came over to open the door.
Looking at her headscarf and the dust on her body and face, Haixing asked, "Have you started cleaning yet?"
"Two rooms have been cleaned. Come in first."
She patted the snowflakes on her body and walked into the house.
Naruse also came out of the room.
"You haven't even changed your clothes. It seems you are really short of money."
"..."
Haixing didn't really want to talk to him, but when it came to money, she still had to speak.
"I have to change this outfit anyway... Do you really want to give it to me?"
"If you see Shangzi like this and feel that she is working hard and are willing to help for free, of course I will not object."
"..."
Haixing glanced at the disgraced Shangzi, opened his mouth, and was speechless.
"Stop bullying Haixing." Seeing the embarrassment on her face, Shangzi smiled.
Naruse also laughed, and then said: "Don't worry, I asked you to take the time to come here, and of course you will be rewarded."
Haixing curled his lips, glad that he didn't say anything about not asking for money just now.
"How about one thousand yen an hour? The hourly wage for part-time jobs in Tokyo is about that," Naruse said.
"Really?" Haixing asked casually.
Naruse was not sure. He had never worked a part-time job. He heard the hourly wages mentioned by classmates by chance, so he only remembered a rough figure.
"Don't compare the salary you get from working at home with outside."
Of course Haixing also understood, "Just one thousand, I didn't say low... should we start now?"
"Well." Naruse took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, "It's about 3:10 now, so let's start counting from 3 o'clock. Come and clean the guest room first."
Naoko put a scarf on Haixing and wrapped her beautiful blond hair.
The three of them cleaned together and divided the work and cooperated with each other, and the efficiency suddenly improved a lot.
It only took more than twenty minutes to finish cleaning the guest room.
Looking at the doors and windows that he had wiped clean, Haixing wiped his sweat and felt very accomplished.
"With the help of Haixing, cleaning will be faster." Shangzi said.
"Yeah."
She nodded and her smile suddenly froze.
No...
If you clean too quickly, your final reward will be less!
Seeing that she suddenly fell silent, her eyes moving around as if she was thinking about something, Naruse said: "Don't use your brain."
"..."
Starfish turned his head and looked aside, pretending not to hear.
Naruse was a little helpless.
"Let's do this... Shangzi's house also needs to be cleaned, starting at six o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Every time it is cleaned an hour earlier, I will give you an extra 1,000 yen. If it is less than an hour, it will be calculated as one hour.
How's it going?"
"..."
Haixing was startled, and he was calculating rapidly in his mind, but the more he hurried, the less results he would get.
Is faster, the better, or slower, the better!
"If you can clean them all today, you can get at least 20,000 yen." Naruse continued to incite.
"...How could it be so fast?"
I can’t figure it out, I don’t think about it anymore.
Haixing asked directly: "Where should we clean next?"
Naruse smiled slightly, "Study."
When he came to the study room, Haixing looked around and prepared to start cleaning from the bookshelf.
Just after unloading a few books, Naruse suddenly said: "Wait a minute, I will clean the bookshelf, Haixing, go clean the windows."
She looked back at him and said, "Oh."
When he came to the window, he used a chair to clean the glass above. Before coming down, Haixing looked back again.
After taking the books off the shelf, he was wiping them one by one.
And every time he wiped a book clean, he would open it and look at it a few times, then pick up the next one, and repeat.
He had no expression, but Haixing saw nostalgia on his face.
When her eyes fell on those books again, she felt a little nostalgic.
She still remembered that one day in the distant past, he pulled her into this study and asked the adult who was sitting behind the desk who rarely showed up to give them a book to read.
"My father has read all the books here."
That’s what he seemed to have said at the time.
"Dad himself has published several books, isn't he awesome?"
Haixing no longer remembers his reaction at that time. All that was left in his mind was his triumphant expression even though he couldn't even reach the desk.
That expression was gone forever and never appeared on his face again.
"——What's wrong?"
She was in a daze and didn't notice that he had looked over.
"It's okay."
Haixing turned his head, then turned back after a while, "Are those books written by your father still in this study room?"
"..."
Naruse was obviously startled.
"Starfish!" Shangzi, who was cleaning the door, was also startled, and then walked over quickly.
"It's okay."
Naruse shook his head at her and looked at Haixing: "No one has touched the books here, they should still be there. What's wrong?"
"It's okay... I just want to see... I mean I want to see what book Uncle Naruse wrote."
Naruse smiled and said, "If I find it later, I will show it to you."
"Well..."
Starfish turned around and climbed off the chair, continuing to clean the glass.
Naoko looked at her and then at Naruse for a while. After he smiled at himself, he returned to the door and continued wiping.
After wiping the doors and windows, Haixing Monk wiped the desk and bookshelf clean, leaving all the books on them to Naruse.
The two then went to clean Matsu Qianqiu's room, which is Shangzi's current bedroom.
When Naruse came over, he was holding several books of different thicknesses in his hands.
"The book you want."
"Ah." Haixing quickly wiped his hands on his clothes and took the book.
She scanned the covers one by one and flipped through them a few more times. They were all professional books related to screenwriting.
"Can't understand..."
He smiled.
"But now I know what books these are." Haixing lowered his head and said.
Naruse glanced at her, and then his eyes fell on the book in her hand.
"Yeah."
After reading for a while, Haixing solemnly returned the book to him.
Naruse sent the books back to the study room for storage, and came back soon to continue cleaning.
By the time the three of them had cleaned the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and living room, it was completely dark outside.
Because he was not very clean, Naruse did not sit on the sofa, but sat directly on the floor.
"It's already this time..."
His back was sore and his arms were a little weak. He raised his hand and quickly lowered it.
"Remember the time, don't blame me if you miss the reward."
Starfish also felt sore all over, so he took out his phone with difficulty and took a look.
"Seven-twenty... counts as eight o'clock, right?"
Naruse shook his head.
"Let's just say eight o'clock."
She clasped her fingers and began to calculate her reward for these few hours.
"Three, four, five, six, seven, eight... six hours, six thousand yen!"
"..."
Naruse looked over sideways, "Are you serious?"
"Any questions?"
Shangzi smiled, supported his shoulders and back, and stood up.
"I'm going to prepare dinner... Starfish, please stay and eat too."