In this era of materialism, sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between the real and the fake. It was unknown whether it was Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou.
The protagonist of this fantasy story was called Li Xuefei. He was 26 years old and was now working in a Cantonese restaurant in Sydney. After graduating from university, he came to Australia to work and travel as a backpacker through a work holiday visa.
Li Xuefei found it hard to adapt to life in this unfamiliar foreign city for a while.
Fortunately, he had help along the way, so he barely managed to gain a foothold in this foreign country.
The place where he worked was a shopping mall next to a local university. There was a large chain of Cantonese restaurants owned by Malaysians.
Every day he came to work like a machine, 10 hours a day, 50 hours a week. It was a little better than in China. After all, the salary was high enough and there was food. It was very expensive to eat Chinese food overseas. Li Xuefei had never done such work before, but he had learned a few months of cooking skills training, so he could only start as a small worker. This small worker was also called a kitchen helper.
On this day, after clocking in, Li Xuefei started a busy and tense day of work as usual.
Because this restaurant was delivered by the central kitchen, Li Xuefei only needed to do some simple processing and was responsible for frying and other chores.
"You have to be fast today."
The person who spoke was none other than Li Xuefei's immediate superior, the boss in charge of cooking and so on. Because the labor in this foreign restaurant was expensive, they often had multiple jobs.
This boss was in her forties. She was from Chongqing and later married to Hong Kong. Now she came to Australia to emigrate. She actually looked down on people from the mainland, although she was born in the mainland.
Because I didn't speak Cantonese, Li Xuefei went to speak Cantonese with others after I finished speaking Mandarin.
As for Li Xuefei, he worked for money anyway. No one knew him in a foreign country, so he didn't worry and wasn't afraid of losing face. This boss was called Andra. Haha, that's right. It was similar to Yang Tianbao, but there was no Beibei.
Others called her Andra Beibei, but Li Xuefei never dared to call her that. There was no need for that. He just needed to do his job well.
Her attitude towards others was very good, especially those who spoke Cantonese. Only to Li Xuefei, she was very strict. He didn't know if this was good or bad.
She always said that Li Xuefei was slow at work and that she wouldn't be able to keep up with the pace at Christmas and would drag everyone down. Speaking of which, Australia had a weekly wage system. Salaries were paid on Thursdays, and malls were open until nine o 'clock from Thursdays to Sundays. This was too common in China. One had to know that in Australia, which was vast but sparsely populated, people felt that delaying until nine o' clock was already very exciting.
The foreigners didn't have the habit of saving money, so on Thursday, the restaurant was packed with people. They wanted to party after receiving their salary, as expected of foreigners.
Christmas was even more terrifying. It was said that it was the busiest day of the year for the restaurant. There were so many sheets in the kitchen that they could cover the entire floor.
Because Li Xuefei was a layman and was not born in Guangdong, it was extremely difficult for her to start this job.
Fortunately, he still had some common sense as a chef. After all, the training was not for nothing, so there would not be any big trouble.
That day, as usual, Li Xuefei worked until nine o 'clock in the evening. Li Xuefei dragged her tired body and began to prepare to close the file. Today's business was average because it was Wednesday after all.
As usual, Li Xuefei put the leftover ingredients into the wind cabinet. The wind cabinet was a house, and there was a room inside that was a freezer.
Li Xuefei wanted to get off work early and go home to sleep, so she hurriedly packed up and clocked out. However, halfway there, she suddenly remembered that she had forgotten to put the whole plate of marinated pork ribs into the freezer. If it stinks tomorrow, Andra would scold her to death. Suddenly, she was not sleepy anymore.
Fortunately, she did not get in the car. Li Xuefei rushed back to the mall. It was almost time to get off work. A fat Australian security guard was about to close the door when Li Xuefei ran back and happened to not close it.
Li Xuefei explained to the security guard in broken English that she was an employee and had to put something in. The security guard did not seem to understand. Then, Li Xuefei wanted to go in and put something in before coming out, so she forced her way in.
The security guard did not have a strong sense of responsibility. When he saw that the Asian guy went in, he did not pay much attention to it.
When Li Xuefei entered the restaurant where she worked, the bosses had already gotten off work. Only Li Xuefei knew about the plate of pork ribs hidden under the cabinet. As expected, these bosses did not find it. Li Xuefei quickly put the pork ribs into the freezer room.
When he opened it, he saw the wind cabinet room piled up slowly. Inside was the freezer room.
Li Xuefei quickly put the plate of pork ribs into the freezer. There was almost no space to walk in the wind cabinet. Then, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Sometimes, fate was a wonderful thing. At this time, on the shelf near the door of the wind cabinet room, a few plates of tofu fell down and hit the door handle, locking it from the outside.
At this time, Li Xuefei, who was about to turn around and go back, found that the freezer door was closed. This was a very common thing, but today, it was a little unusual. Li Xuefei pushed it, but it did not move.
Li Xuefei thought that he did not use enough strength, so he pushed it hard. It did not work. Something seemed to be wrong.
It was so cold. Li Xuefei was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, but it was freezing in the freezer. He began to panic. He tried to smash and kick the door, but it was no use. Because of the vibration, a shelf full of things outside the door fell down.
Now, Li Xuefei knew the seriousness of the problem. His body began to shiver from the cold. He took out his phone from his pocket and wanted to make a call. He did not have many friends in Australia and did not know the local police number. It seemed that he only had a colleague's phone number.
Before he dialed, Li Xuefei found that there was no signal. At this moment, despair began to surge. Although he was ordinary, he was not so unlucky.
It was getting colder and colder. Li Xuefei felt that he was going to fall asleep. At this moment, he felt a little warm.
His parents, his fantasy girlfriend, Li Xuefei imagined the scene with them.
The Australian security guard outside the mall came back and locked the door. He thought that the Asian guy had gone out.
In this way, Li Xuefei gradually felt less uncomfortable. He felt that it was good. He closed his eyes. At this moment, no matter how much regret he felt, it was useless. He felt that at this moment, he was relaxed and did not have any pressure.
Suddenly, he felt a trace of cold fall on his face. He slowly opened his eyes.
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