Chapter Six

  After diagnosis by the repair shop, the motorcycle engine can no longer be repaired and needs to be replaced with a new one. The new engine can only be found in its entirety on the market, or if not available, it will be purchased from Japan's used parts market. It will take at least a week, or up to a month, and the engine costs 5,000 yuan.

  So, Zuo Xiaolong found a part-time job. In fact, only one person was needed to guard the sculpture garden, and Zuo Xiaolong usually wandered around outside because there was nothing valuable in the garden, except for the land itself, which couldn't be stolen. Usually, at most, some couples would come by, either driving or passing through, and Zuo Xiaolong wouldn't disturb them, just avoiding them. As the saying goes, "it's better to demolish a temple than to offend a relative," if people just wanted to have a quickie, as long as they didn't litter with condoms and tissues, it wouldn't cause any harm to society. It was inhumane to demand that others stop because you had gained some power. They were all just trying to make a living, why make your reputation stink like the neighborhood watch or city management? But Da Shuai was different from Zuo Xiaolong in this regard, and would ruthlessly use his flashlight to catch couples in the act, then ask: "What are you doing?" Da Shuai felt very satisfied when he asked this question. Of course, it was satisfying, because they were intentionally or unintentionally creating life, and suddenly being caught off guard was like indirectly killing life, which didn't require punishment, so it was naturally satisfying. On this point, Zuo Xiaolong and Da Shuai had a big disagreement, with Zuo Xiaolong thinking it was a good thing, but Da Shuai believing it must be stopped, at least on his turf.

  The general said metaphorically, it's just like one day you're walking at home and suddenly find someone messing around in your living room, can you accept that?

  Left Little Dragon means this is not your home either.

  The general said: This is my territory.

  Bruce Lee said: Where is your ground? Where is your home that belongs to you? Where is the land that belongs to you? Forget it.

  Apart from this, the two of them got along well because they were guarding the same piece of land. They both felt that with their abilities, it was a waste to just be a caretaker for an abandoned plot of land. But in reality, this was a good thing. In this world, you could live with a group of animals that wouldn't eat you and didn't need to be fed, and still get paid every month. This showed that being a caretaker was a natural and healthy profession.

  Zuo Xiaolong found a part-time job at a small thermometer factory in Tinglin Town. The factory's task was... to produce thermometers. Zuo Xiaolong was the last step in the process, responsible for packaging and testing the thermometers. He was like the quality control director, putting the produced thermometers in his mouth to check if they were 37 degrees.

  Zuo Xiaolong's body temperature was normally 37 degrees, which made him feel a bit down because he thought his body temperature should be different from others. In elementary school, when they measured temperatures, there was a classmate who always had a temperature of 35.5 degrees, and everyone was amazed. Zuo Xiaolong envied this and tried to create the illusion that he had a unique body temperature. He even tried biting the thermometer with his teeth, not letting his tongue or the inside of his mouth touch it, but the result was still 37 degrees, without any difference. This showed that even his breath was 37 degrees.

  To increase work efficiency, Bruce Lee conducted a study and found that the temperature under his armpits and anus was also 37 degrees. So he often held five thermometers in his mouth, each with five more under his arms, and another five inserted into his anus, which he called "pushing himself to the limit". Every time he pulled out the thermometer from different parts of his body, he carefully checked the temperature and workmanship, confirmed that there was no mistake, wiped it clean with a paper towel, packaged it up, and shipped it nationwide.

  Working for three months in this job can buy an engine.