Chapter 111 Li Qiaomeng
"Mom, the villa you live in here is really luxurious!" Li Qiaomeng couldn't help sighing while looking at the decoration inside the room, "I don't even know how much better the room you live in than the one in your hometown."
Li Qiaomeng is none other than Mrs. Zhuang's daughter. At this moment, she is in Mrs. Zhuang's room, her eyes are rolling restlessly. She has been working as a servant for her mother in a rich family, but when she really got here, she realized clearly what is meant by high society.
Mom is just a helper, but the room they live in is almost bigger than their hometown. Moreover, there is actually a bathroom in this room.
Such a room was something she couldn't even dream of. However, now it is just a servant's room. Not to mention, the furnishings in this villa were almost the same as the princess' castle she had imagined since she was a child.
Before, she had been in school all the time, so she didn't feel any difference. But now, after seeing everything here, she can no longer calm down. Especially when she knew that the owner of this villa was actually a girl younger than her, she felt the injustice of this world even more deeply.
"It's really good here." Mrs. Zhuang didn't notice that something was wrong with her daughter, but sighed, "Miss Ye is also a very good employer. If it wasn't for her, I would definitely not be able to find such a high-paying job."
She is very satisfied with her job. The job is easy and the salary is high. Moreover, Miss Ye is also very talkative. At the beginning, she just spoke tentatively, but she didn't expect Miss Ye to really agree to let her daughter come and stay temporarily. Although the working hours are not long, she cherishes this job very much.
Moreover, according to the current situation, in addition to her daughter's tuition and living expenses, she can still save a lot of money. In a few years, she will be able to build a new house in her hometown.
"Mom, what kind of person is your employer?" Li Qiaomeng asked curiously, "Is she the only one living here? Why didn't you see her family?"
When she came here, there was only her mother in the house, and she didn't even see the so-called employer. Moreover, this villa doesn't look like there are many people living there.
"Actually, I don't know very well." Mrs. Zhuang shook her head, "I was directly hired by Miss Ye at the beginning. After I came here, I haven't met Miss Ye's family. However, Miss Ye is not yet an adult this year, so she should have a guardian."
"Then have you seen her guardian?" Li Qiaomeng continued to ask, "What kind of person is so rich that he bought such a big villa for a girl who is underage!"
If only she could be born into such a family, she was born with a golden spoon in her mouth, had the best food and clothing, and had someone to serve her.
"Don't worry too much about other people's affairs." Mrs. Zhuang shook her head and warned, "Mengmeng, remember, this is not our home, so you can't be too casual, you know? Another thing to remember is the pharmacy I showed you just now, but you must not enter it."
"Understood, you have repeated this many times." Li Qiaomeng said angrily, "Isn't it just a room! What's so great about it."
"What are you talking about!" Mrs. Zhuang stretched out her hand and patted Li Qiaomeng on the back. "This is someone's home, not ours. We must abide by the owner's rules. Also, do you only know what is in the pharmacy? There are many high-grade medicinal materials there, such as ginseng and ganoderma. If it is accidentally damaged, we can't afford it."
"What?" After hearing Mrs. Zhuang's words, Li Qiaomeng was a little surprised, "What kind of family are these! How could they keep such precious medicinal materials at home!"
"This is other people's business, why do you care so much?" Mrs. Zhuang said angrily, "Can you control what people like to keep at home?"
"Understood." Li Qiaomeng curled her lips, "I won't run around. Usually, if I have nothing to do, I will take it with me in the room."
"Just remember," Mrs. Zhuang nodded, and continued, "After two days, I'm on vacation, so we'll go to the post office together. I have to send the money back. Your brother doesn't have time to send back the next semester's tuition!"
"Okay." Li Qiaomeng nodded, and after rolling her eyes a few times, she took Mrs. Zhuang's hand and began to say coquettishly, "Mom, after sending the money, let's go shopping, okay? Didn't you say you won't go back during the Chinese New Year? Then buy me a new set of clothes!"
"Don't you have a lot of clothes?" Mrs. Zhuang couldn't help frowning, and then began to babble, "Buying so many clothes, can you wear them all? Now you and your brother are studying, and the tuition alone costs a lot of money every year. With this spare money, why not buy more things to send back. Besides, I still have to save money to go back to build a house when the time comes!"
"Mom, you have to think about me!" Li Qiaomeng said with a look of resentment, "I'm a college student now, and you know that most of the classmates in our school are natives of the imperial capital. I dress so rusticly every day, even if they don't laugh at me, they won't be willing to get too close to me."
"Mengmeng, you can't compare yourself to others." Seeing Li Qiaomeng's appearance, Mrs. Zhuang said earnestly, "You are still a student, and the most important thing is to study hard. When you graduate and earn money, do you want to buy anything?"
"I'm no comparison here." Li Qiaomeng said with a face of disbelief, "I don't want to buy any luxury goods, but I just want a new set of clothes. How can it become a comparison! I don't care, I just want to buy new clothes anyway."
"You child—" Seeing Li Qiaomeng's appearance, Mrs. Zhuang didn't know what to do.
After a long time, she still sighed and compromised, "Then I can only buy one set of clothes! Also, don't buy too expensive ones."
After hearing Mrs. Zhuang's words, Li Qiaomeng's face turned cloudy immediately, and she promised with a smile, "I'll just buy one set of clothes and nothing else."
Looking at Li Qiaomeng's appearance, Mrs. Zhuang shook her head helplessly, "Okay, let's not talk about this, I still have to clean up! If you have nothing to do, just help me clean up together!"
Li Qiaomeng doesn't want to help clean at all. She wants to live here, but she just wants to live the life of a rich family. Although this villa is not hers, but living here, she can still imagine that she is a princess. She didn't come here to be a maid. But mom just agreed to buy her new clothes just now, so she can't say she won't help.
Soon, the mother and daughter began to get busy.
Because it was almost noon, Mrs. Zhuang began to prepare lunch first, and she asked Li Qiaomeng to help clean the upstairs first.
Li Qiaomeng came to the master bedroom soon.
As soon as she stepped into the master bedroom, she knew what a world of difference it was. Just now, she was still lamenting how big her mother's room was. However, the room in front of me is more than three or four times larger than my mother's room. The important thing is that in the room, there is also a cloakroom.
Stepping into the cloakroom and seeing the dazzling array of clothes inside, Li Qiaomeng felt that her eyes were going to be dazzled. She has never seen so many clothes, those clothes that can only be seen in luxury stores, here, they are just randomly placed in the closet. In addition to those clothes, there are many luxury bags in the cabinet.
However, what surprised her the most was that in the corner of the cloakroom, there were still quite a few bags from luxury stores. It could be seen that those things hadn't been taken out and put away, but were just thrown there casually.
Seeing all this, Li Qiaomeng couldn't help being extremely jealous, and the vanity and jealousy in her heart could no longer be suppressed. Everything she wanted in her dreams was easily available to some people.
Those luxuries that she would have to save up to buy even if she will work in the future, but they are just daily necessities with others, and they can even be placed on the ground at will.
While cleaning, Li Qiaomeng imagined that she was the owner of this room. In such a luxurious large room, you can choose clothes and bags at will, as well as endless pocket money.
Slowly, she came to the dressing table and looked at the box placed in the cabinet. She couldn't help being attracted to it, and out of nowhere, she stretched out her hand and opened the box.
Looking at the jewelry lying quietly in the box, her already restless heart became even more impetuous at the moment. She couldn't help reaching out, wanting to pick up the necklace in the box.
"Who are you?"
A voice sounded from behind, making Li Qiaomeng almost jump up. She turned her head immediately, and saw a young girl standing at the door of the room, frowning and looking at her.
The person who came was none other than Ye Leng'an. Standing at the door, she frowned when she saw the stranger suddenly appearing in her room.
"You are Miss Ye!" Li Qiaomeng realized that she straightened up immediately, looked at the girl, and explained, "I am the daughter of Mrs. Zhuang, and I am staying here for a while. My mother asked me to come in and help clean."
She had never seen such a beautiful girl before, coupled with her out-of-this-world temperament, people couldn't help but stare dumbfounded. She felt that even the school belle of their school would be turned into scum in front of this girl!
Before, she had guessed many times what kind of girl lived in the villa. Now that he saw the real person, he was involuntarily stunned.
"Why?" Li Qiaomeng was a little anxious, "Miss Ye, is there something I didn't do well?"
Although she doesn't want to be a maid, she doesn't mind helping to clean the room often. Everything in this room is what she dreams of. Although she can't own it, she still wants to see it often.
"There's nothing wrong with it." Ye Leng'an said directly, "I just don't like too many people entering my room. Let Mrs. Zhuang clean it in the future. If you want to help Mrs. Zhuang, you can clean it elsewhere."
Li Qiaomeng originally wanted to say something more, but after seeing Ye Leng'an's face, she closed her mouth consciously, then picked up the cleaning tools, and left the room.
As soon as she left the room, her originally well-behaved face immediately darkened.
She was very dissatisfied with Ye Leng'an who was in the room at this time. She felt that she was only here to help, and she was not the maid in this house. What qualifications did the other party have to arrange work for her! The other party didn't pay wages, so what qualifications do they have to demand so much!
Also, apart from being a little prettier than her, that girl has nothing to compare to her! The other party was just lucky, born in a wealthy family, to live in such a big villa, and yelled at her here.
Thinking of these, she felt that the world was too unfair.
Holding back his anger, Li Qiaomeng went downstairs.
Ye Leng'an, who was in the room at the moment, didn't know about all this, nor was she clear about Li Qiaomeng's inexplicable dissatisfaction. However, even if she knew, she probably wouldn't care too much!
After taking a shower, Ye Leng'an changed her clothes and came downstairs.
Just as Mrs. Zhuang had cooked lunch, she started eating directly. After the meal, Ye Leng'an also directly stated her request, that is, not to allow anyone to enter her room casually in the future.
After hearing Ye Leng'an's words, Mrs. Zhuang looked apologetic, "Miss Ye, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. Just now, I was busy preparing lunch, so I asked Mengmeng to help clean it first."
"It's okay." Ye Leng'an shook his head, and didn't really care, "You don't have to be too nervous, I just don't like too many people entering my room. From now on, wait until you have time to tidy up my room! Don't worry too much."
"I see, Miss Ye." Mrs. Zhuang quickly agreed.
"By the way, there is one more thing." Ye Leng'an continued, "Sister-in-law Zhuang, I told you earlier that I would give you five times the salary if you stayed during the Chinese New Year. Things have changed a bit now. I may have to go abroad for a while, and it is very likely that I will come back after the Chinese New Year. The salary will still be given to you as I said before, but if you want to go back to your hometown for the New Year, it doesn't matter, you don't have to stay in the villa."
"Okay, Miss Ye, I understand." A gleam of joy flashed across Mrs. Zhuang's face.
Originally, she had already planned to stay in the imperial capital, and she would not be able to return to her hometown for the New Year. However, now there is such a surprise. Not only can she go back to her hometown for the New Year, but the five times salary will be paid as usual. This is really a great thing!
After cleaning up, Mrs. Zhuang picked up her and Li Qiaomeng's lunch, returned to the room impatiently, and told Li Qiaomeng the good news.
"What?" After hearing such news, Li Qiaomeng was not happy at all, "You mean, we are going back to our hometown?"
She doesn't want to go back to her hometown for the New Year at all, the dilapidated house, annoying relatives, and the street where you can see the head at a glance. All of this cannot be compared with the imperial capital here. Even living in this maid's room, I don't know how much better it is than going back to that dilapidated house.
"Yes!" Mrs. Zhuang didn't notice that something was wrong with Li Qiaomeng's mood at all, she was still immersed in her joy, "Anyway, we have to go back for the New Year, so don't send the money back. However, during the two-day holiday, we still have to go out for a stroll and see if there is anything we want to buy back."
After finishing speaking, Mrs. Zhuang was excitedly counting what to bring back.
"Mom, do we have to go back to celebrate the New Year?" Li Qiaomeng couldn't help but interrupt Mrs. Zhuang, "We don't want to go back, but stay here in the imperial capital for the New Year, okay?"
"Why did you stay?" Mrs. Zhuang was very puzzled. "I agreed to stay before because of Miss Ye's request and the five times the salary. Now that Miss Ye is going abroad suddenly, it happens that we can take this opportunity to go home for the New Year. How great it is! Besides, Miss Ye also said that the five times the salary will still be given to me."
This is a great thing for her. She can get a high salary and go back to see her family.
"Mom, it's actually like this." Li Qiaomeng racked her brains, and finally had a flash of inspiration, and said, "You also know that I will graduate next year, right? Our supervisor said that there are several good internship positions, and you can recommend me to interview at that time."
"The time hasn't been set yet. If I go back to my hometown, wouldn't I lose such a good opportunity? Next time, the instructor may not necessarily introduce me to an internship position."
"Why didn't I hear you talk about this before?" Mrs. Zhuang was very puzzled, "Why didn't you say such a good thing earlier!"
"Isn't this just an interview opportunity!" Li Qiaomeng quickly explained, "I don't know if I can get an interview yet! That's why I didn't tell you. Originally, I planned to go to the interview by myself at that time, and I will tell you after I got it. So, Mom, we still can't go to our hometown for the New Year."
"If I go back and miss this opportunity, I'm afraid it won't be that easy to find a job in the imperial capital when I graduate."
Of course, this is just an excuse she made up casually. At that time, she just needs to find a time to go out, and then when she comes back, she can say that she failed the interview.
"That's it!" Mrs. Zhuang's original excitement was gone, but, "What kind of company is it? Don't they have vacations during the Chinese New Year? Why did you choose such a day for the interview?"
Mrs. Zhuang's words made Li Qiaoqiao's eyebrows twitch, and she quickly said, "You don't care when the company interviews! There are so many people who want to squeeze into those big companies, and now they are the ones who choose people, not me who have the opportunity to choose people. So, naturally, I can only accommodate people's time!"
"Okay then!" Aunt Zhuang had no choice but to nod, "I thought I could go back during the Chinese New Year and take a good look at your brother and your father. Now I can only stay."
It is impossible for her to let her daughter stay in the imperial capital alone. Not to mention anything else, if she left, it would be impossible for her daughter to continue living here, and then where she would live would be a problem. If it is only rented for a few days, it is impossible for them to rent the house to them. Then you can only stay in a hotel, even in those cheap hotels, it will cost thousands of dollars to stay for a few days. Then it's better to stay and continue to live in the villa, so that she can take good care of her daughter by the way!
"Mom, it's okay. When the time comes, you will look at the situation, save a little more vacation time, and then go back, it will be the same!" Seeing Mrs. Zhuang's lost appearance, Li Qiaomeng didn't regret it at all, and still thought it was very good.
That night, Mrs. Zhuang told Ye Leng'an her decision, and hoped that Ye Leng'an would allow them to continue living here during the Chinese New Year.
Ye Leng'an was a little surprised by Mrs. Zhuang's decision. Because at noon, she could tell that Mrs. Zhuang was obviously going back to her hometown for the New Year. Although he didn't say it, the happy mood couldn't be hidden. But in one afternoon, he immediately changed his mind.
"If you want to stay, then stay!" Ye Leng'an didn't feel much about this, "You can do whatever you want, but you must pay attention to hygiene and clean up."
Sister-in-law Zhuang repeatedly agreed.
She didn't care much about Mrs. Zhuang staying in the villa during the Chinese New Year. She focused more on going abroad this time.
The main reason for going abroad this time is because I learned from Huangfu Ruiling that an auction will be held abroad soon. And at the auction, there will be a very precious medicinal herb to be auctioned.
She is not very interested in other things, but she is very interested in that precious medicinal herb, so she decided to go there in person, no matter what, she must take pictures of that precious medicinal herb.
However, speaking of the auction, she sorted out her funds and found that it was not enough to participate in the auction. Therefore, in the next period of time, she really wants to make good money.
Just do it, Ye Lengan returned to the room, took out the computer, and then invested part of the money in the stock market. Take advantage of the rise and fall of stocks to earn the difference. She chooses stocks that are rising and falling quickly, because this is the fastest way to make money.
If someone is here, they will definitely be surprised, because in just half an hour, the money in Yelenan Stock's account has doubled several times.
(end of this chapter)