Financial freedom starts from graduation

Chapter 163 What can you give Su Yajing?
When they arrived on the first floor, Zhou Wang first introduced Miao Ying to Su Yajing.

After greeting Su Yajing, Miao Ying also memorized Su Yajing's appearance very carefully...

This was what Jiang Qingkui taught her privately. As Zhou Wang's driver, if she could become a regular employee, she would be involved in Zhou Wang's private life to a great extent in the future.

In order to help Zhou Wang deal with these relationships at the right time, it is not enough to just remain silent. This requires a basic understanding of the people who have close relationships with Zhou Wang...

In fact, Jiang Qingkui was also doing this herself, but she did not ask Zhou Wang directly because she thought that was the dumbest way.

After the two girls got to know each other, Su Yajing took Zhou Wang to the room opposite the door on the first floor, which was where Zhou Wang had seen the quarrel happen before.

When the two arrived, several men and women came out. The man leading the group was wearing ethnic costumes and had obvious local features.

Seeing these people, Su Yajing quickly pulled Zhou Wang to the side, looking a little frightened.

After they walked away, communicating in a dialect that Zhou Wang couldn't understand, Zhou Wang looked at Su Yajing in confusion, "Who are these people..."

"The man leading the group is the landlord of the inn. He's been coming here quite often recently. It seems like he and my aunt had a big fight over the termination of the contract!"

Su Yajing explained in a low voice, "They always come in large numbers, and sometimes I worry that they will destroy the inn if they disagree..."

"After all, it's their own house, it shouldn't be that serious. Besides, this is the era now."

Zhou Wang found it funny and comforted him softly, "Since there is a contract, no matter what the dispute is, there will always be a place to reason."

"Brother, you don't know, some locals are really annoying, and they like to stick together. The landlord even wanted to harass my aunt..."

Listening to Su Yajing's complaints, Zhou Wang didn't know what to say.

Although he comforted Su Yajing with reason, Zhou Wang actually knew in his heart that many things cannot be justified by who is right.

The ecology of Licheng is relatively special. Due to various restrictions, although most of the people running inns here are from other places, they can only rent and contract them out. If they encounter local people with a black heart, various problems may indeed arise.

If the contract could really solve everything, there wouldn't be so many disputes...

Before the two of them entered the house, Su Yajing suddenly remembered something and quietly pulled Zhou Wang back.

"Um...Brother, my aunt may have a prejudice against you. If she says something that makes you unhappy, just ignore her. My aunt is not a bad person, but she may be a bit harsh."

"Huh?" Zhou Wang was startled and wondered, "She has never seen me before, why does she have a prejudice against me?"

"Because I told her that I have a boyfriend, and it may not be what she expected... There are some complicated reasons. It's not your fault, brother. When I have time, I will explain it to you slowly, okay?"

Su Yajing said cautiously.

"Okay, I see."

Zhou Wang nodded and pinched Su Yajing's cheek, "Don't worry, I'm not that childish. I won't get angry with my elders."

Upon hearing this, Su Yajing smiled, took Zhou Wang's hand and walked into the house.

In the room that was converted into a living room and front desk, a woman was sitting behind the counter, talking to another girl who looked like a waitress.

This beautiful woman who looks to be in her early thirties should be Su Yajing's aunt.

She wore a simple white shirt and jeans, with her hair tied up and her facial features embellished with light makeup. She had a slim figure and good looks, but her skin was a little dark. Her eyebrows and features were vaguely similar to Su Yajing, but she had a more mature charm.

Compared to Su Yajing, she has a more "fierce" temperament.

Especially when Su Yajing and Zhou Wang walked in, she was scolding someone, and the feeling was particularly obvious.

"Xiao Xia, I've told you several times that you must check carefully before returning the deposit. Look at the bed sheet in room 103. It's been messed up. You can't see it once the quilt is covering it, right?"

"But...but the guests at Room 103 said they had to catch a flight. Didn't you also say that we operate by word of mouth and should consider our guests more..."

The waitress named Xiao Xia explained in a low voice.

"Didn't I also say that it's limited to customers with good qualities? You only heard the word 'customers', right? Are all the people who come into the store customers? Some of them are not even human beings!"

Su Yajing's aunt knocked on the table and said loudly: "I think you should stop calling me Xiao Xia and change your name to Xiao Long Xia!"

"Ah, Madam Boss, why?" Xiao Xia asked blankly.

"Because you are small, deaf and blind!"

As my aunt said this, she gave the other person a slap on the face.

"puff!"

Su Yajing couldn't help but burst out laughing on the spot, and Zhou Wang also smiled.

The laughter caught the woman's attention. She glanced at Su Yajing and Zhou Wang, her eyes lingering on their holding hands for a moment. Then the woman rolled her eyes at Xiao Xia.

"What are you still standing there for? Go clean up your room. You don't want to eat, right?"

"oh oh……"

Xiao Xia ran away with her head covered, looking aggrieved. She only glanced at Zhou Wang curiously when she passed by him, obviously attracted by his handsomeness.

"Auntie!"

Su Yajing then shouted in a disgusted voice and pulled Zhou Wang forward a few steps.

"Aunt, this is my boyfriend Zhou Wang that I told you about. He came to Licheng specially to see me...Brother, this is my aunt Su Man, the proprietress of the inn!"

"Hello, auntie. I'm Zhou Wang."

Listening to Su Yajing's introduction, although he was secretly surprised that Su Yajing took her mother's surname, Zhou Wang still greeted her with a smile.

Su Man calmly closed the account book on the table, and nodded at Zhou Wang with a faint smile, "Oh, you are the brother Zhou Wang that Ran Ran talks about every day, hello."

"Aunt, I came here in a hurry and I don't know what you like, so I just bought something as a gift..."

Because Su Yajing had already received the vaccination, Zhou Wang didn't care about Su Man's unenthusiastic attitude. He waved to Miao Ying who was waiting at the door, signaling her to bring the gift bag over.

These were originally bought for Su Yajing's mother, but Zhou Wang didn't know in advance that there was an aunt of Su Yajing here, so now he can only give the things he bought to Su Man first.

As for Su Yajing's mother, I can give her a suitable gift later, it's not a big problem.

When Su Man saw the gift bag Miao Ying put on the table, her eyes lingered on Miao Ying for a moment, "Who is this?"

"My driver, Miao Ying."

Zhou Wang gave a brief introduction.

Miao Ying, who was not good at socializing, didn't know what to say. She just forced a smile, nodded at Su Man, and then shrank back.

"driver?"

Su Man looked at the two gift bags with a playful look in her eyes. She said "tsk" before looking at them. She didn't look through the contents, but just glanced at the exquisite packaging and smiled, "These things are not cheap, are they?"

"It's okay, just expressing my feelings, the price is not important."

Zhou Wang smiled and said.

"I'm just Su Yajing's aunt, and you're just boyfriend and girlfriend. It's not appropriate for me to accept these things. You can take them back."

Su Man shook her head and stood up and said, "Since you are here, stay for dinner. Ranran, sit with him for a while. I will go to the kitchen and ask your uncle-in-law to add two dishes."

After saying that, Su Man walked away with the account book, leaving Su Yajing, who looked nervous, holding Zhou Wang's hand.

"Brother, don't be angry. Auntie is really not targeting you..."

Although she had told Zhou Wang in advance, Su Yajing was still worried that Zhou Wang would lose face. After all, Su Man did not hide her cold attitude towards Zhou Wang.

It was Zhou Wang's turn to sigh. He rubbed Su Yajing's head and said, "Little fool, there's no need for you to be so... cautious when facing me. I don't have such a bad temper. Besides, a girlfriend should have some privileges."

Zhou Wang couldn't find any suitable words for a moment, and could only describe it as "walking on thin ice."

He had already vaguely sensed that hidden beneath Su Yajing's bright appearance was actually a typical "people-pleasing personality."

She indulged and catered to Zhou Wang without any limit...

Hidden in those densely packed chat records and various pictures and texts of hooking up with Zhou Wang, in fact, was her frequent anxiety and fear of loss.

If you are unlucky enough to meet a scumbag, a girl with this kind of personality will easily be played with and hurt without knowing it...

What? You said Zhou Wang is also a scumbag? Zhou Wang said this is absolutely slander.

He just wants to give every deserving girl a warm home equally.

Even if there are a lot of girls who are worthy, it is not within his expectations...

"I don't need any special privileges, I just want my brother to always have me in his heart!"

Su Yajing rubbed her head against Zhou Wang again and said in a muffled voice: "Beside me, there can also be others..."

Zhou Wang was stunned. For a moment, he was not sure whether Su Yajing was talking about the side of her heart or the side of her body...

Is this some kind of double entendre?
When Zhou Wang was smacking his lips, Shen Yutong, who had changed her clothes, just walked in and met Zhou Wang's rather strange gaze.

Shen Yutong didn't know what that look meant, but she subconsciously tightened her collar which was a little leaky.

For some reason...she was a little panicked.

……

While eating, Zhou Wang met Su Yajing's uncle-in-law.

Compared to Su Man, who seems difficult to deal with, Su Yajing's uncle-in-law is much kinder.

A dark-skinned man who looked honest and simple. He seemed to have some problems with his legs and feet, making it difficult for him to walk.

There was a large table of people eating. In addition to Zhou Wang and others, there were two regular workers in the inn, Xiao Xia and another shy boy in his twenties who seemed to be a relative of my uncle-in-law.

The main course is a big pot of hotpot, which is the Licheng specialty of cured pork ribs hotpot. The marinated ribs are constantly rolling in the broth made from native chickens, and are cooked together with yam, gastrodia elata, etc. The color is shiny and it makes people's appetite increase at first sight.

In addition, the other side dishes are also very good, such as Licheng Baba, Chicken Bean Jelly... They are all local specialties, and they are homemade and taste even better than those eaten on the street.

Zhou Wang didn't want to drink at first, but his uncle-in-law took out a large plastic bottle of wine and quietly poured a bowl for Zhou Wang.

Su Man raised her eyebrows at this time and scolded her uncle-in-law, "You're always thinking about your wine. Can you do anything else? People are about to break the contract, and you still have the mood to drink!"

"Guests come, drink a little, just drink a little..."

My uncle-in-law just scratched his head and laughed, but he stopped pouring the wine.

"Aunt, doesn't the contract still have two years before it expires? What's going on?"

Su Yajing couldn't help but ask at this time.

"He has established a relationship with the travel agency and wants to take over the business himself!"

Mentioning this, Su Man snorted coldly: "Now they are finding all kinds of faults and deliberately raising the price, just to force us to terminate the contract early..."

"Humph, I paid hundreds of thousands of yuan for the contract back then, and even with the renovations, I still haven't made back my money. Now that the tourism industry is picking up, they want to take advantage of the situation. How can that be possible?"

As she spoke, Su Man became a little annoyed. She waved her hand to stop Su Yajing from asking more questions, "Eat your meal quickly, kid, don't worry about these things!"

Su Man stood up at this time and took the bottle of wine from her uncle-in-law. When her uncle-in-law was feeling a little embarrassed, Su Man came back and stuffed an unopened bottle of Wuliangye into her uncle-in-law's hand.

"Since you know that a guest has arrived, why are you still drinking your wine that costs more than ten yuan per pound? You don't mind being shabby, drink this!"

"Hey, this is good, drink this!"

The uncle-in-law just smiled excitedly and quickly opened the bottle and poured a bowl for Zhou Wang.

Zhou Wang thanked her and took the wine bowl. He then glanced at Su Man, who still had a cold face. He vaguely understood why Su Yajing said that her aunt was not a bad person...

After the meal, my uncle-in-law and two workers took the initiative to clean up. Shen Yutong and Miao Ying also ran to help. Zhou Wang was thinking that it would be inappropriate for him to just sit there, but at this time Su Man called him:
"Zhou Wang, could you please come with me for a moment? I have something to tell you."

"it is good."

Zhou Wang was stunned for a moment, then nodded and stood up.

Su Yajing was a little anxious, but before she could say anything, Zhou Wang had already smiled and shook his head at her. Facing the glare from her aunt, Su Yajing could only pout her lips helplessly and did not follow him.

……

In the courtyard of the inn, amid the chirping of cicadas on a summer night, next to a wooden table surrounded by a fence.

This should be a place for guests to have afternoon tea. Zhou Wang and Su Man are sitting here at this moment.

What surprised Zhou Wang was that before Su Man spoke, she took out a pack of cigarettes, took one for herself and then handed it to Zhou Wang.

When Zhou Wang saw that it was a women's cigarette like ESSE, he quickly refused it and just helped Su Man light it. Then he took out his own Da Zhongjiu.

Su Man did not refuse Zhou Wang's offer to light a cigarette for her. She took a light puff and then exhaled mint-scented smoke from her rose-red lips. Her mature and charming cheeks had a hazy beauty in the mist.

There are very few women who smoke around Zhou Wang, but he doesn't mind women smoking... except for his girlfriend.

Perhaps only in this aspect does Zhou Wang have a bit of double standards.

As Zhou Wang has come into contact with older women like Chen Shu and Zhong Huilan, he has become more and more able to appreciate the charm of mature women.

Of course, considering that Su Man is Su Yajing's aunt, Zhou Wang really has no feelings towards her. Although his moral standards for men and women have always been low, he is not as beastly as this...

At this moment, it is just pure appreciation.

"You and Ranran are not in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship in the common sense, right?"

After taking two puffs of the cigarette, Su Man spoke softly.

Zhou Wang was startled, thought for a moment and said:
"That depends on how you define 'popular'..."

"When Ran Ran came back, she told me that she had found her true love, but she also made it clear to me that she would not marry you."

Su Man glanced at Zhou Wang, "She said this was her idea, and she talked a lot of nonsense to me about freedom and other concepts... But I think this shouldn't be the truth of the matter, right?"

"I told her that at the beginning. It was definitely not what she thought."

After a brief silence, Zhou Wang admitted it readily.

From the moment the aunt asked to talk to her alone, Zhou Wang had already prepared herself mentally.

"I knew it, I knew it..."

Hearing Zhou Wang's admission, Su Man couldn't help but feel disappointed, and then sneered, "I guess a rich kid like you should have more than one 'girlfriend', right?"

Faced with Su Man's questioning, since he didn't intend to lie, Zhou Wang nodded calmly.

"For now... yes."

"Oh, you are quite single." Su Man laughed angrily, "Does Ran Ran know that she is not your only girlfriend?"

"It's not mentioned directly, but she should know."

When Su Man heard this, she was so angry that her whole body was shaking: "Sure enough, she really has inherited her mother's stupid personality completely!"

When Zhou Wang heard this, his expression became confused, "Ran Ran's mother?"

"I don't think Su Yajing has ever told you what her mother's situation is like?"

Su Man asked coldly. When Zhou Wang nodded, she continued expressionlessly, "My sister used to be a mistress. Now she is mentally ill and can't even take care of herself. This is her fate."

"As for that man, he ate peanuts ten years ago... The funny thing is that Su Yajing doesn't even know what he looks like."

Zhou Wang was stunned when he heard Su Man's sarcastic words.

Is this Su Yajing's past...

It turns out that when [Su Yajing's Wish List] appeared, the system's phrase "special growth experience", these seven simple words, actually carried such a heavy weight...

While Zhou Wang was feeling mixed emotions, Su Man had already put out the cigarette in her hand, moved closer, stared into his eyes, and asked word by word:

"So tell me, Zhou Wang, what can you give Su Yajing?"

　I've been a bit busy with other things these past two days, so I'll only update once today. Sorry everyone, I'll try to speed up...

　　
　
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