In mid-October, on the streets of the old town of Tanyi City, Calvin and Sean walked out of the door of a real estate agency one after another.
Sean jumped up and down and bumped into passers-by several times. Whenever this happens, he bows exaggeratedly and apologizes. Passers-by don't know why, but they always forgive him in shock.
Calvin rarely intervened - he was rarely as excited as he was today. He held a newly signed house sales contract in his hands: the two brothers used all their savings over the years, totaling 300,000 ropi, to pay I made a down payment for a house adjacent to the church in the northern part of the old town of Tan Yi.
Although this house does not have a 600-square-meter back garden, a dozen meters away from the backyard door is a 60-hectare Swan Lake. The name of the lake does not seem to be this, but this is the first time I went to see the house. At that time, they saw a group of swans taking off from the middle of the lake, so they just called it "Swan Lake".
This was the first time Calvin saw swans. If it weren't for their slender necks and huge bodies, he almost mistaken them for ducks.
That day, the swans spread their snow-white wings and pedaled their pitch-black webs. After stepping on more than a dozen splashes of water in the center of the lake, they entered a flying posture and gradually disappeared above the distant woods.
This scene shocked Calvin greatly.
He was standing by the lake, breathing lightly. These graceful water birds made him almost forget where he was and what he was doing. At this moment, the hourly bell rang from the church not far away. , awakening him from this great happiness.
After viewing the house that day, Calvin and Sean took a walk along the lake. They met an old man walking his dog. For some reason, the two dogs started barking when they saw Sean. He was startled. You can only stay away from it.
The old man was apologetic, so he stayed and chatted with Calvin for a while. During this period, the two big dogs got along happily with Calvin. They stuck out their tongues, twirled around, and listened to his orders to sit down and shake hands.
The old man said that he would go out for a walk with his dog at this time every afternoon. After hearing that Calvin might become a future neighbor, he enthusiastically pointed the direction of his home to the burly young man and cordially invited him to move in. Then come and sit at home.
Now, Calvin has bought the house, which seems to say that the quiet life he briefly experienced that afternoon is close at hand.
One day in the future, he will wake up in that house. On that ordinary morning, he cooked, tidied the house, and then spent several hours taking care of the garden and vegetable patch, inspecting whether the flowers, plants, fruits and vegetables of the day were growing well.
Maybe he will find that there is a problem here and there, for example, there is something missing at home - a specific insecticide, a special type of screws or wrenches... and so on, then he will immediately prepare to go to the supermarket two kilometers away. purchase.
But at that time, he would not choose to drive or take any public transportation. He would put on a sun hat and walk leisurely along the asphalt road outside.
When the day is gone and evening comes, he will put on his coat and go out for a walk with the dog like the old gentleman. Along the way he will inevitably meet many neighbors walking towards him, and he will greet everyone kindly. Of course, he can't do all the housework, and some of the things have to be left to Sean to do, such as weeding, watering, or walking the dog - he walks for two days, and it's Sean's turn to walk for one day...
This was the "ordinary day" that Calvin had imagined thousands of times.
Although he had been so busy in recent years that he never spent more than a month in Tan Yi each year, the details of these fantasies had become especially real because he had seen the house.
"We finalized the down payment today, and the bank still owes 490,000," Sean was calculating the accounts beside him with great interest. "Ahgas pays for our food and accommodation now, and your monthly salary basically costs nothing. I only spend half of it, so we can still have an extra 3,700 or 3,800 ropi every month. 2,000 ropi of this money can be used to repay the loan, and the remaining money can be saved for renovation. Assume that the renovation costs 200,000. Including our bonus subsidy, we have to wait a little longer——"
"You don't have to calculate it like this," Calvin interrupted gently, "In two years we will reach the theoretical retirement period. At that time, ahgas will have a pension, usually 150 to 170 months' salary, that is, every Personally, it’s nearly 400,000 – by then we can just pay off the loan and start renovations.”
"Oh-oh--" Sean let out a cheer of sudden realization.
He almost forgot that there was such a thing as a "pension".
Since the physical functions of some mercury needles will experience a cliff-like decline around the age of 27, Ahgas has always set the theoretical retirement age at 25 years old. However, due to the excessive scarcity of mercury needles, most people still do not work after the age of 25. He will return to the team in the form of "retirement and re-employment".
The pension is a huge subsidy paid at this time.
Theoretically, the mercury needles are faced with three choices at this time. The first is to return to ahgas, the second is to join the coalition government of each district, and the third is to suspend the fighting career, choose a habitable place or a wasteland, and spend the rest of your life according to your own wishes.
But for the Gringoire brothers, there are always only the first two - the cost of relearning how to integrate into a livable place as an ordinary person is too high, and so far, they seem to have never seen even one Seniors who choose the third path.
Sean once enthusiastically planned to defect to the coalition government at the age of 25, but in the past few years, he had stolen more than a trillion coalition government documents for ahgas. He was afraid that one second he defected to the coalition government, the next second he would be reduced to Imprisoned.
Fortunately, Calvin never seemed to waver in his determination to continue working at ahgas, so for Sean, this life has not been unbearable.
——Especially, as a technical backbone and a rare social engineer in ahgas, he does not have to go to the battlefield.
Suddenly, Sean noticed something was wrong. He looked around and said, "Carl, where are you going? Isn't this the way back to the base?"
"I plan to go shopping in the mall in front," Calvin replied, "If you are in a hurry, you can go back first."
Sean shrugged, "In a moment, what do you want to buy?"
"If you don't want to buy anything, just go and have a look."
Sean burst out laughing, suddenly realizing that this was a wonderful exercise—going to the mall on the weekends like a normal person.
After all, there are many products in this world that can be bought without the need of base buyers or black market buyers in livable areas. They are displayed on the shelves in shopping malls and can be taken away if you have money.
And he has never been as rich as he is today.
Thinking of this, Sean was full of strength. He pulled up Calvin's sleeves and said, "Go! Go! Go and have a look!"
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