Chapter 9 — General Mighty

"Miss, call me any time if you need anything. I will still bring dinner at seven tonight." With that, Uncle Qing hurried away.

Gu Mengyao looked at the man before her and did not know what to say. Still, she could hardly turn him out to sleep on the street. Her father was a philanthropist of some renown, and if word got out that she abused her servants, it would hardly reflect well on her.

After seething for a long while, Gu Mengyao finally remembered the culprit behind the whole affair. She took out her phone and dialed Shen Yushu. "Hello, Xiaoshu, my dad wants this migrant worker to live in my villa. What am I supposed to do?"

"Yaoyao, you mean Shield Brother? That is wonderful. Tomorrow I will go tell everyone at school that you two are living together, and then no one will pester you anymore." Shen Yushu was lying comfortably on the chaise lounge watching television, and answered offhandedly.

"Shen Yushu!" Gu Mengyao was ready to explode. She shouted into the phone, "Girl, have you no loyalty at all? You told me to keep him, and now you are rubbing it in? You, at once, right now, get over to my house!"

"Oh, all right. I will take a shower in a bit, have a sleep, and come find you on the way to school tomorrow morning." Shen Yushu said lazily.

"If I do not see you within one minute, we are finished as friends!" Gu Mengyao said crisply.

"Oh dear, I have already stripped down to take a shower, and now I have to get dressed again." Shen Yushu complained as she sat up from the sofa, admiring her figure in the mirror. Hmm, was that a little belly forming? It seemed she would have to eat a little less from now on.

"Fifty seconds." Gu Mengyao said, watching the call timer on her phone.

"Well, I have to lock the door at least, do I not?" Shen Yushu said as she quickly pulled her clothes on.

"Forty seconds." Gu Mengyao went on.

"All right, all right, I am coming!" Shen Yushu pulled on her shoes and ran out the door.

Shen Yushu's villa was only a few dozen meters from Gu Mengyao's. A narrow lane ran between the two houses, which faced each other diagonally from afar.

Only when she saw Shen Yushu's figure in the distance did Gu Mengyao breathe a sigh of relief and hang up the phone.

"Yaoyao, what are you doing? I had just taken my clothes off to take a shower when you called me out." Shen Yushu grumbled.

"Ahem." Gu Mengyao coughed twice, pointed at Wei Zhao, and said, "Xiaoshu, there is an outsider here. Mind what you say."

"Oh, it is nothing." Shen Yushu said carelessly, "It is only Shield Brother. He is one of us."

"Since you and he are so close, then let him live at your house. It is decided." Gu Mengyao said, greatly annoyed by Shen Yushu's gloating look.

"Uh..." Shen Yushu stuck out her tongue with an innocent smile. "Yaoyao, you know me. I like to strip stark naked as soon as I get home. It would not be very convenient to have him move in..."

"And it is convenient to have him live at my house?" Gu Mengyao cursed Shen Yushu inwardly for her disloyalty.

"Oh, how simple this is." Shen Yushu shook her little head and said, "Yaoyao, let him live at your house, and you come live at mine. Problem solved, is it not?"

"Hmm, that makes sense." Gu Mengyao thought Shen Yushu had at last offered a halfway constructive idea.

But Gu Mengyao at once grew unwilling again. Give her villa over to a migrant worker to live in? Why should she? Besides, what if things went missing?

"No. I cannot let him stay alone in my villa." Gu Mengyao said through gritted teeth.

Shen Yushu was in a bind as well. She had only told Gu Mengyao to keep Wei Zhao for fun, but now the trouble had come. Let Wei Zhao move into Shen Yushu's villa? Shen Yushu would never agree to that.

After long hesitation, Shen Yushu finally thought of a compromise. "How about this, I will stay here with you. Let him live downstairs. Anyway your bedroom is upstairs. We will simply forbid him from going up to the second floor."

Hearing Shen Yushu's suggestion, Gu Mengyao felt it was the only way, and nodded reluctantly. "Fine, we will do it that way then."

Shen Yushu often stayed over with Gu Mengyao, so she walked in as if she knew the place by heart. Wei Zhao, lugging his baggage, trailed slowly behind.

Wei Zhao could naturally see Gu Mengyao's hostility toward him, but when he thought of the old man's solemn instructions when he left home, and of Uncle Chu's trusting eyes, he did not take it to heart. After all, Gu Mengyao was a girl, so it was only natural that she did not wish to live with him.

"Hey, what is your name?" Gu Mengyao sat on the sofa, stretching her long slender legs onto the chaise lounge, and asked as she looked at Wei Zhao.

"My name is Lin..." Wei Zhao spoke as he moved to sit on the sofa. He had stood at the door for ages and was tired enough, but before his backside could touch the cushions, a sharp cry rang out and gave him a terrible fright.

"Stop! Do not sit!" Gu Mengyao shouted, her eyes wide as she pointed at Wei Zhao.

"What is wrong?" Wei Zhao jumped, his backside suspended in midair as he asked in bewilderment.

"Your trousers are so dirty. Do not dirty my sofa. Xiaoshu is always lying on it naked." Gu Mengyao said with a frown.

Shen Yushu rolled her eyes in exasperation, thinking, Yaoyao, how can you be like this? Just now you told me to watch my words before an outsider, and now you are saying such things yourself.

Wei Zhao was not angry. His clothes were indeed none too clean. He had sat on the train for half the day and rushed about covered in dust for most of the day. Dirtying the sofa was a small matter, but if he gave this pretty young lady some skin ailment, that would be the end of him.

"All right, you may go on." Gu Mengyao said, relieved to see Wei Zhao stand back up.

"My name is Wei Zhao." Wei Zhao said.

"Good, Wei Zhao, at night you will sleep in the guest room over there, but remember, upstairs are Xiaoshu's and my rooms. You are not allowed up there, or I will have Daddy dismiss you at once." Even Gu Mengyao herself did not sound very confident as she said this. For some reason, she always felt her father had been bewitched by this Wei Zhao, so she had to add, "If you dare come up, I will have General Mighty bite you to death!"

"Oh." Wei Zhao nodded indifferently, but puzzled by the second half of her threat, he asked, "General Mighty? What is that?"

Hearing his question, Gu Mengyao called triumphantly upstairs, "General Mighty, come down!"

"Woof! Woof!" A burst of barking came, and a fierce Rottweiler dashed down from upstairs, planting itself beside Gu Mengyao with a menacing glare and fixing Wei Zhao with a wary stare.

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