NFBE Chapter 41: The Jiang Family Mansion Was Burned Down
Chapter 41: The Jiang Family Mansion Was Burned Down
Li Xi had just finished breakfast when she saw Butler Zhou leading the raccoon dog into the restaurant.
Tanuki wore a purple Kuromi-style down jacket, her chestnut curly hair was tied up with a purple hair tie, and she wore a pair of sparkling hair clips.
She won the hearts of everyone in the room, young and old, as soon as she arrived. The elderly people waved to her, saying, "Little cutie, come eat with Grandma."
Ying Li rejected everyone else and took the initiative to come to Li Xi's house.
Du Yusheng arranged a small two-person dining table by the window for Li Xi. Li Xi was having an Italian coffee when she glanced down and saw Ying Li eagerly leaning over. She felt a little helpless.
"brat."
Li Xi moved the breakfast tray closer to herself, making room for Ying Li. "Did you sleep well last night?"
Ying Li nodded vigorously.
Li Xi made a sour face and said, "My sister didn't sleep well. A little guy sleepwalked into my room in the middle of the night and slept on my sofa..."
Ying Li blushed and lowered her head shyly, her fair ears turning red.
Seeing this, Li Xi decided to stop while he was ahead.
Gu Han brought over the children's nutritious breakfast and thoughtfully unfolded the napkin to put on Ying Li's chest.
Ying Li started eating breakfast.
Breakfast consisted of a small tomahawk steak, a glass of fresh milk, a soft-boiled fried egg, and some fruit.
Yingli can already cut her own steak.
She ate with great elegance, clearly indicating she had received a good upbringing.
Li Xi liked it more and more as she looked at it.
She thought to herself, if all children are this cute, then she wants to have one too.
After dinner, Li Xi said goodbye to Du Yusheng and Gu Han and prepared to leave by car. Ying Li suddenly caught up with him and started gesturing anxiously.
Li Xi didn't understand what she meant.
Butler Zhou explained from the side, "Lili wants to add you as a friend."
Li Xi smiled, squatted down, held Ying Li's hand, and playfully pinched her nose. "What should we do? I'm a grown-up now, I don't need a children's watch anymore."
To everyone's surprise, Ying Li pulled a cell phone out of her down jacket pocket; it was a newly released foldable screen phone from a certain brand.
Li Xi was quite disappointed; she hadn't managed to snag this one either.
She scanned Ying Li's WeChat QR code, hugged Ying Li, and then got into the car and left the Gu family.
As soon as she got on the bus, Li Xi received a notification that Ying Li had accepted her friend request. Li Xi added the nickname "Li Li" to her contacts.
The Gu family's car took Li Xi directly to Lanting Apartment, providing extremely attentive service.
Not only that, the Gu family also prepared a gift for her, packaged in a custom-made gift box, but Li Xi didn't know what it was.
After thanking the driver, Li Xi went home.
As soon as she got home, she couldn't wait to open the gift box and found that the Gu family had prepared a set of toiletries for her that had no brand information but was printed with the Gu character.
Last night, when Butler Zhou came to deliver the clothes, she casually mentioned that Gu's shower gel and shampoo smelled very good, and today she received this gift.
Li Xi happily delivered the items into the bathroom when she received a call from the apartment manager.
Her large fish tank has arrived.
The cylindrical fish tank is a floor-to-ceiling design, connecting the floor and ceiling of Li Xi's apartment living room.
Forget raising fish, you could raise Li Xi (a mythical creature) too.
It took the staff a whole morning to get it installed.
In the evening, Li Xi went to the flower and bird market and found a shop owner who sold expensive fish, and ordered two adult butterfly carp from him.
Li Xi prefers the butterfly carp with a normal body shape to the compact, spherical fish.
The two butterfly koi she chose were over two years old and were adults with flowing, large seven fins, just like fairies.
Swaying gracefully in the water, even Li Xi was mesmerized.
Of course, this type of butterfly koi is not cheap; two cost Li Xi 18,000 yuan.
The next day at noon, the boss personally drove the butterfly carp to Li Xi's apartment and also gave her some fresh earthworms and mealworms.
Once the butterfly koi moved into the large fish tank, her apartment suddenly became high-end and classy.
Li Xi was taking pictures of the fish tank when she couldn't resist sharing the video with Xue Ni, Jiang Xinghe, and Gu Zhen. Glancing at Li Li, whom she hadn't chatted with since adding her as a friend, Li Xi sent her a copy of the video as well.
Tanuki sent a surprised emoji and exclaimed: "Wow, a mermaid in a wedding dress!"
Li Xi chatted with her for two minutes before receiving a WeChat message from Gu Zhen: [Two messages?]
Li Xi typed without changing her expression: 【Hmm.】
She had previously said she only had one pet.
But Gu Zhen wisely refrained from pressing the matter, instead asking, "Which one brings wealth?"
Li Xi casually drew a red circle around a fish: "This is it."
Gu Zhen then asked, "What's the other one called?"
Li Xi quickly replied: 【Nine thousand.】
A butterfly carp costs nine thousand yuan; the name is certainly fitting.
Gu Zhen: [...That's good, a humble name makes a child easier to raise.]
It was 2 PM, and normally working people should be at work. Seeing that Gu Zhen still had time to chat with her, Li Xi asked him, "Professor Gu, aren't you teaching?"
Gu Zhen: [I'm currently taking a break and planning to change jobs to adjust my mood.]
Rich people are capricious; they take vacations whenever they want and change jobs whenever they want.
Li Xi didn't ask him what he planned to do next, since their relationship wasn't that close yet, and asking too much would be overstepping her bounds.
In the evening, the staff at the driving school sent Li Xi her location and told her that the driving school's minibus would pass by Lanting Apartment at 8:30 the next morning, and asked her to arrive five to ten minutes early to wait.
Li Xi noted this down and then went to Sam's Club to buy groceries.
Xue Ni will be coming to her house for dinner tomorrow night. Xue Ni usually lives alone and eats whatever is convenient. Li Xi is going to buy some nutritious ingredients to improve Xue Ni's meals.
There were many free samples at the supermarket, and Li Xi was full after shopping there.
Thinking about having to go to driving school for practice tomorrow, which would last all day, she decided to go to bed early.
midnight.
Li Xi was sound asleep when the shrill ringtone of her cell phone suddenly woke her up.
Li Xi sat up with a start, realizing she had forgotten to turn the phone to silent mode before going to sleep. She picked up her phone from the bedside table and saw an unfamiliar number registered in Dongzhou City.
Friendly reminder: If you receive a call from an unknown number in the middle of the night, it's either a scam or a honey trap.
Li Xi died immediately.
She put her phone on silent mode, and just as she was about to go to sleep, the screen lit up again.
The caller was Xie Xingyun.
Oh shit!
The constant phone calls disturbed my peaceful sleep.
Li Xi answered the phone angrily and immediately yelled, "You'd better have your old house burned down and you're trapped in the fire, unable to escape, and then call me to give your last words!"
"..."
The other end of the phone was noisy, but Xie Xingyun remained unusually silent.
Just as Li Xi was about to hang up the phone, she suddenly heard Xie Xingyun say, "The old house really burned down, but it wasn't my house, it was the Jiang family's."
"...What?" Li Xi suspected that Xie Xingyun was telling a joke.
Xie Xingyun said in a solemn tone, "Li Xi, the Jiang family villa caught fire in the middle of the night, and by the time it was discovered, the fire was already out of control."
"Although the entire Jiang family escaped, the Jiang family villa is about to burn down."
Li Xi's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was about to jump out of his chest.
She heard Xie Xingyun ask, "Jiang Qingkong suspects that Jiang Xinghe set the fire because he went back to the Jiang family this evening."
Is Jiang Xinghe not at Lanting Apartment right now?
Li Xi's eyes darted around, and she subconsciously said, "I didn't sleep in the same bed with him, how would I know!"
After saying that, Li Xi hung up the phone and went straight to the 23rd floor in her bathrobe.
Depend on!
She just casually mentioned it to Jiang Xinghe, and that kid actually burned down the Jiang family's house.