Two hundred miles later, a row of small houses appeared on the left side of the road. They were ordinary stone houses, completely different from the high-tech appearance of the future world that Ronggui imagined, and even a bit rustic.
But there were lights inside.
It was not the weak fluorescence of mushroom lamps, but the bright light that only electric lamps can produce!
Ronggui suddenly became nervous.
"I'm about to see someone..." He clenched his fists and quickly took out the small mirror that he always kept under the seat. He carefully looked in front and behind. After confirming that he looked a little shabby but still clean, he tidied up Xiaomei and adjusted the green hat on her head, and then he didn't say anything.
The reason why a chatterbox suddenly stopped talking was probably nervousness.
When Xiaomei stopped the car, Ronggui was very loyal and took the lead to walk in. There was no one in the management bureau, only the counter in front...
Uh... a tall counter.
For the small robot that was not tall enough to save materials, the counter was too high, and Ronggui couldn't see behind it at all.
Embarrassing!
But before he could find a suitable footstool, a person suddenly poked his head out from behind the counter, but that person... was really strange! He poked his head out not just one, but several. Ronggui was almost scared to the ground at first, but the focus of the imager was quickly refocused, and he realized that the so-called several heads were not heads at all, but a kind of eagle-like creature. Those birds were black and big, all standing on the shoulders of the man, almost submerging the man's head.
When the man poked his head out, all the birds aimed their yellow eyes at Ronggui's face, motionless, looking very weird.
"What are you doing here?" The man spoke, and his tone was a little different from what Xiaomei had instilled in him, but fortunately the difference was not big.
After listening carefully to the first sentence of the first living person he saw here, Ronggui was about to reply to the other party.
When talking to someone you are dealing with for the first time, your voice must be loud and you can have an accent, but you must not be timid - this is what the dean often told them when they were young.
Adhering to this principle, Ronggui said loudly:
"Hello! We are here to pick up photos!"
"Huh?" The man with a bird on his head was stunned.
Ronggui was still satisfied with his neat and timid reaction, but Xiaomei behind him had already lifted him back.
Standing in the position in front of Ronggui, Xiaomei looked up and said to the condescending man: "We are here to pay the ticket."
Ronggui: Embarrassing! Oh my god! I said the wrong thing in the first sentence!
Luckily, there is Xiaomei~
Hearing Xiaomei's answer, the man behind the counter took a few steps back. After a sound similar to machine printing, he handed out a piece of paper from the counter.
"Your speed is in violation of the law and you need to pay a fine of 60 Nabi."
"Speeding? How is that possible? Our Da Huang walks very slowly!" Putting his hands on Xiaomei's shoulders, Ronggui tiptoed out from behind Xiaomei and spoke up for Da Huang.
The bird on the man's head then turned its eyes to Ronggui again, and a cold voice came from under the black bird feathers:
"Who said speed violation means speeding? On the road outside, any behavior with a speed lower than 80 is illegal, not to mention that your speed has been kept at a constant speed of 20, which is a serious violation."
Is this okay? Ronggui was dumbfounded.
Seeing the other party stretch out his hand and staring at the big and powerful palm, Ronggui suddenly noticed a very serious problem.
"Xiaomei, do we have money?" He (thinks he) whispered to Xiaomei.
"No." Xiaomei said coldly, and -
It's too late to make counterfeit money now, not to mention that he has never seen the so-called "Nabi" here.
"What should I do?" Ronggui was dumbfounded even more.
However, their conversation had been heard by the man behind the counter. I don't know if he was angry. I saw the black birds on his shoulders suddenly flew up, hovering near the roof, and the man also revealed his true face.
The moment he saw the man, Ronggui was stunned again.
"Why are you looking at me?" A majestic and low voice came from the man's mouth. The man's voice was slightly angry, which was the unpleasantness of being looked at wantonly.
Then -
"You...you are so beautiful~" Ronggui's voice sounded weakly.
It was obviously the voice of a robot, but the stereotyped voice seemed to hide a little red heart, and the atmosphere in the room immediately jumped.
"This hairstyle matches your face shape very well, and the lines of your neck are also very beautiful~ Have you trained your muscles? This line is obviously specially trained. And the color of your clothes and your tie are very coordinated. You are really a person who knows how to dress well~" Ronggui said a series of compliments, and the man was stunned. After listening to all of them, it was finally his turn to be dumbfounded.
After coughing softly, the man stretched out his fingers to adjust his yellow tie and whispered, "Do you think the color of this tie matches the shirt?"
"Yes, yes!" Ronggui nodded repeatedly, "To be honest, the color of this shirt is really tacky! I wouldn't want it even if it was given to me for free, but strangely, it instantly looks classy with this tie~"
The corners of the man's mouth immediately rose slightly, and with a reserved attitude, the man's subsequent speech speed suddenly increased a lot: "Isn't it? This shirt is so tacky in both color and style, I wouldn't want it even if it was given to me~ But this is a uniform, I have to wear it! Fortunately, the tie does not have to be a standard tie, but this uniform is really ugly, no matter what tie it is paired with, it is still ugly, until I suddenly saw this tie in a tie shop in Yot City."
"Finally, I can wear such an ugly uniform to work calmly." The man breathed a sigh of relief. As both of them love beauty, the two looked at each other and immediately saw the tacit understanding of like-minded people in each other's eyes/(mechanical eyes).
In the following time, the two had a friendly and heated discussion on the color and style of the tie, until someone inside called the man's name, he responded, and then reluctantly stopped talking to Ronggui.
"Although I still want to chat with you, my colleague is calling me." The man said.
"Don't worry about me, business is important, you should go and do it!" Ronggui said sympathetically.
"It's not business, it's asking me to play cards. There are not many people here, and I'm bored to death every day, so we got together to play cards, but there are not enough card friends..." As he was talking, the man suddenly said to Ronggui: "We just need one person, do you want to come and play cards with us? If you win money, you can just pay the fine."
Ronggui's mechanical eyes flashed immediately.
"But I don't know how to play cards..." Ronggui felt it was a pity that he couldn't take advantage of such a good opportunity, but he suddenly thought of Xiaomei.
Who is Xiaomei? In his heart, there is nothing that Xiaomei can't do.
So with a "squeak", Ronggui immediately turned his head and looked at Xiaomei straight. Ronggui asked him: "Xiaomei, can you play cards?"
Xiaomei looked at him expressionlessly and said after a while: "Yes."
No need to ask what cards to play, because he knows all cards.
"That's it~Xiaomei, go play cards, go and win back the fine, win others, don't win this big brother, this big brother is my good friend! You two should cooperate well~" Although he doesn't know how to play cards, Ronggui obviously knows something. As soon as he pushed Xiaomei over, "Ronggui's good friend" inside the counter immediately opened the door next to the counter.
The next moment, Xiaomei, who originally came to pay the fine, stood in the office area where only staff can enter.
"Come here too." Perhaps he was very satisfied with finding a poker partner, the man at the counter was in a gentler mood. He waved to Ronggui and said, "When we play cards, there is no one on duty here. You can take my place here. If anyone comes to pay the fine, you can help me collect the money. I will share the money with you as salary when I win."
"Really? That's great!" Ronggui was overjoyed and nodded. He immediately took the job.
"Play cards well!" Ronggui said to the man in uniform and Xiaomei.
"You also work hard!" The man said to Ronggui who came to pay the fine.
This conversation seems to be wrong?
But--
Who cares~
Putting the uniform hat that the man took off and gave him on his little red hat, Ronggui went to work with a serious face.
Not long after he put on the hat, the flock of black birds all landed on his shoulders and head with a whirring sound. His head was blocked tightly, and no one could see his appearance.
Ronggui is indeed very stupid, and he can't do many technical tasks well, but he has good acting skills!
It seems that he was born to be an actor. As long as he talks to someone for a while, he can immediately imitate that person.
This is an unconscious behavior, and he himself didn't even notice it.
It's just instinct.
So, Ronggui, who didn't know what to do, instinctively imitated the man who just sat at the counter.
Whether it was the other party's cold expression, tone of voice, or attitude.
So, when the first customer who paid the fine came in, he saw a black-faced traffic control bureau staff.
Although the program was completely unclear, Ronggui responded perfectly with "Ah." "Hmm?" "Hmph." with his superb acting skills.
When Xiaomei finished playing cards and came out with the man, there was already a small stack of money on the table inside the counter.
Ronggui was counting the money anxiously.
The robot obviously had no expression, but it was just him who made people feel that he was in a panic just by his movements.
"What's the matter? Did you collect the wrong money? How much less? It doesn't matter. I won the most money today, so I'll help you make up for it!" The man was obviously in a good mood. He didn't worry about Ronggui causing trouble for him at all, but comforted him instead.
"Thank you, but..." Turning around, Ronggui first expressed his gratitude to the man, then looked down at the money in his hand, and said with embarrassment: "But I didn't charge less. No matter how I counted... I charged 200 yuan more than the amount I should have charged! I'm sorry, I only know that I'm not good at math, but I didn't expect it to be this bad!"
Xiaomei:...
Staff:...
So, on this day, Xiaomei and Ronggui were finally no longer two penniless robots. After paying a fine for violation, the total assets of the two reached 350 yuan. Excluding the fine, the money Ronggui earned accounted for the majority of the family's total assets~