The disciple of Yue Lao

Chapter 56 No reward for no merit

"Miss Lan..." Wang Guihua led Luo Fan, Zhou Hai, and Meng Xiaodong to the hall. Seeing that Lan Yue and Wei Shuzhen were still arguing, she said, "A guest has arrived."

After leading the guests into the hall, Wang Guihua turned around, took the fruits from Luo Fan and the other two and returned to the kitchen.

"You're here..." Lan Yue stood up, suppressed his bad emotions, and said to Luo Fan and the other two with a smile: "It's enough for you to come, why do you need to bring gifts?"

"Sister Lan Yue, are you feeling better from your cold?" Meng Xiaodong asked.

"Yeah." Lan Yue replied.

"You are all Xiaoyue's friends, right?" Wei Shuzhen's angry expression immediately turned into a friendly one, and she smiled warmly, "I am Xiaoyue's mother. I will live here from now on. You are all welcome to come and visit often!"

"Lan Yue turns out to have a mother..." Meng Xiaodong said this with an innocent look on her face, not knowing whether it was intentional or unintentional.

The expression on Wei Shuzhen's face changed. Zhou Hai quickly pulled Meng Xiaodong's hand and smiled at Wei Shuzhen: "Thank you, Auntie..."

"Hello, Auntie." Luo Fan called out reluctantly.

Luo Fan knew everything about Lan Yue's past, and he could probably guess the purpose of Lan Yue's mother's visit.

"Okay, okay..." Wei Shuzhen finally smiled happily, secretly glared at Lan Yue, stood up and said, "Then you guys chat first, my luggage is still at the door, I'll go move it in first."

"Okay, Auntie." Zhou Hai pulled Meng Xiaodong and forced a smile.

"Wang Guihua... Wang Guihua..., come out quickly and help me move the luggage." Wei Shuzhen called Wang Guihua while walking out.

After Wei Shuzhen left, Lan Yue collapsed on the sofa like a deflated ball.

From Lan Yue's expression, Luo Fan could understand how helpless she was.

"Are you okay?" Luo Fan asked with concern.

Zhou Hai and Meng Xiaodong sat down next to Lan Yue with Luo Fan. They didn't know much about Lan Yue's past and didn't know what to say.

"Do you also think that I've gone too far?" Lan Yue suddenly asked Luo Fan and the other two.

Zhou Hai responded quickly: "Young people don't want to live with their parents. This happens a lot, and you're not the first one."

"Moreover, this is the villa Xia Yu gave you, not one you bought yourself. You have the right not to let anyone live in it," Meng Xiaodong added.

"Your parents ignored you more than ten years ago, but you still gave them so much money. I don't think you did anything wrong." Luo Fan thought of Lan Yue's past experience and said with empathy.

Lan Yue shed tears of sorrow as she spoke. "The point is, I am just renting this villa. I will move out once I find a new house, but my mother insisted on moving in. What's this? Not only is Xiaotian and I renting this villa, but you also want to bring my mother in to live here?"

"Actually, you don't have to mind it so much. Didn't Xia Yu say that she bought this villa especially for you? Don't say anything about 'staying here'. Just accept it!" Meng Xiaodong said.

"Yes." Zhou Hai agreed.

"No merit, no reward." Lan Yue paused before continuing, "I must set an example and teach Xiaotian this truth."

After a while, Wang Guihua helped Wei Shuzhen move the luggage to the elevator entrance in the living room, and asked Lan Yue in a hoarse voice from a distance: "Miss Lan, which room is the madam staying in?"

Wei Shuzhen followed Wang Guihua, pulling her sack of clothes, and reminded her in the tone of "master": "Stay close to my eldest grandson."

Even if Lan Yue was extremely reluctant, Wei Shuzhen had already walked in with her luggage, and she couldn't really chase her biological mother out.

"Aunt Gui, please take my mother to room {216} on the second floor!" Lan Yue said after thinking for a while.

"Okay, Miss Lan." Wang Guihua agreed as she walked into the second elevator and greeted Wei Shuzhen warmly, "Madam, come in."

Wei Shuzhen didn't know which room Lan Tian was in. After entering the elevator, she hurriedly asked Wang Guihua: "Which room is Room 216? Is it close to my eldest grandson's room?" "Madam, you'll know when we get there." Wang Guihua couldn't say it directly, so she had to help her move the luggage in first.

216 is the last room on the left side of the second floor. It is farther away from 202, but very close to the elevator.

There are two elevators in the villa, one on the right and one on the left.

It’s better to let her mother stay away from Xiaotian so as not to affect Xiaotian’s studies.

"Fanfan..." Lan became more and more anxious as he thought about it, and asked Luo Fan hurriedly: "Have you contacted Xia Yu? Can you help me get her household registration booklet and ID card? I must transfer the villa to her as soon as possible."

Summer rain...

Maybe she doesn't have household registration booklet or ID card?
Thinking this in his heart, Luo Fan changed his words and said, "Since she said it was a gift for you, she probably won't agree to take it back."

"I think Brother Fan is right." Zhou Hai agreed, and at the same time asked Luo Fan curiously: "But can you really contact Xia Yu? Dongdong and I sent her messages and called her, but the answer was 'out of service area'. Where is Xia Yu's hometown?"

"There aren't many places on Earth that are 'out of service area', right? Could it be... in the countryside?" Meng Xiaodong also asked.

"We contacted each other once before." Luo Fan said, while explaining: "The signal in her hometown is not good, and the network is sometimes disconnected, so it is normal that the call cannot be connected."

"Then..." Lan Yue suddenly looked at Luo Fan very seriously and said, "Fanfan, give me your household registration booklet and ID card, and I can transfer the villa to you. Anyway, when you catch up with Xia Yu in the future, once you get married, the villa will belong to both of you. This way, I will return the villa to Xia Yu."

"Of course not." Luo Fan decisively refused and said with a smile: "You yourself said 'no merit, no reward', don't I understand this principle?"

Perhaps feeling that Lan Yue was in a low mood and wanting to make a joke to liven up the atmosphere, Zhou Hai suddenly gave Meng Xiaodong a look, and the two began to perform in tacit understanding.

Zhou Hai: "Sister Lan Yue, I think you are absolutely right. The villa and other things are secondary. The main purpose is to help you. I can change a girlfriend."

Meng Xiaodong: "I agree. We'll break up now, and you go chase Xia Yu. Whether I help you or not is secondary. The main thing is that I want to change my boyfriend."

"You two...are you showing off your affection?" Luo Fan looked at the two with contempt.

"Show... your affection?" Zhou Hai tried his best to act very angry and said, "We were preparing to break up. Didn't you see?"

Luo Fan disagreed, so Lan Yue had to look for another candidate. She remembered someone she had had dinner with a month ago.

Xia Yu’s cousin——Li Jian.

Since Li Jian paid the full amount for the villa, it would be the same to return the villa to him.

In order to move out as soon as possible, she has to work several more jobs.

"No more joking." Lan Yue asked seriously, "Do you know...the contact information of Xia Yu's cousin, Li Jian?"

Zhou Hai and Meng Xiaodong shook their heads. Luo Fan seemed to know something and replied, "I don't have any contact information, but I heard from Xia Yu that her cousin runs a clothing store."

"Clothing store?" Lan Yue was pleasantly surprised and asked, "What's the name? Where's the address?"

"It seems to be called...'Fairy Costume'." Luo Fan replied.

Fairy costume?

Lan Yue vaguely felt that the name of this store sounded very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.

"That's a national chain clothing store!" Meng Xiaodong heard the name of the store and suddenly said with regret: "I just saved enough money last month and bought my first limited edition dress there. I went there after work, and at that time they even took away the human-shaped sign at the door and were about to close the store. I was busy answering the director's call, and vaguely seemed to see a few familiar posters, but I didn't look at them carefully at the time. Now think about it, those photos really look a bit like Xia Yu. If I had known that it was her cousin's clothing store, I would have bargained hard!"

(End of this chapter)