Chapter 9 — General Mighty
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"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."