Chapter 7
Chapter 7: You Want to Sell Me, So I Will Treat You Like Pigs to Slaughter
Chu Ming’s light-brain wrist terminal was on speaker, so Jiang Tea Tea’s proud, mocking, tea-sweet words were also clearly heard by Mu Mei Xi and Jiang Yi Zhu sitting across from him.
Jiang Yi Zhu almost ground her teeth to pieces. Who was overthinking it? The real one taking over someone else’s nest and occupying everything that should have been hers was that bitch.
Brother Chu Ming had been her fiance in the first place. If that girl had not taken everything that should have belonged to her since they were small, why would she have to fight for it?
Chu Ming secretly enjoyed the feeling of being fought over by two women. Separated by the screen, his tone could not help turning arrogant as he said: “Mm, as long as you understand. Tonight at 7:40, we will meet at the Capital Planet First Hotel on time.”
Jiang Tea Tea exclaimed: “We are meeting tonight? So soon?”
Chu Ming coaxed her: “It is not that it is rushed. I just want to marry you and bring you home sooner.”
The fake young miss’s account had only 3,895 star credits left. They were all earned from part-time jobs and from going out to soothe beastmen and half-beastmen, money she had saved by being stingy with herself.
As a great tree spirit whose spiritual power at its peak could have turn-stone-into-gold power, Jiang Tea Tea had never been this poor.
Her eyes turned as she thought of an idea. She opened her mouth to advance by retreating and to ask for money: “Brother Chu Ming, I know you want to marry me home sooner, and I also want to marry you sooner, but can we wait a few more days?”
“You know that ever since Little Sister was found and brought back, my mom and dad stopped giving me pocket money. I have to rely on myself for everything. Right now I cannot even afford decent clothes or decent gifts. Let me save a bit more money over the next few days so I can buy a meeting gift for your dad and mom…”
“So you have no money? I will transfer you some.”
“How can that be? How can I spend your money?”
“We will be one family in the future. My money is your money. What is wrong with you spending some in advance?”
“Brother Chu Ming, you are so good to me. When you transfer the money, you have to mark it as a voluntary gift, or else Little Sister will see me eating at the school cafeteria at the Academy and say I am spending your money before marrying you.”
“Okay, okay, I will transfer it to you right now.”
“Thank you, Brother Chu Ming. I will go buy gifts for Uncle and Auntie. See you tonight.”
“See you tonight.”
After the light-brain wrist terminal was hung up, Chu Ming looked at Mu Mei Xi and said: “Auntie Mu, I have already set up the meeting with Jiang Tea Tea. You just need to have Uncle Jiang bring Person in Charge Zhou straight to the First Hotel to book a room and wait.”
Mu Mei Xi nodded in satisfaction and said: “Good, I will go tell your Uncle Jiang right away. By the way, for the shopping money Jiang Tea Tea asked you for, I will transfer it to you.”
Chu Ming said generously: “How much can she spend while shopping anyway? I will just transfer her some pocket money.”
Mu Mei Xi was very satisfied. She patted Jiang Yi Zhu and said: “Chu Ming, you are the best. It is Yi Zhu’s good fortune that you like her.”
Chu Ming smoothly replied: “Being able to like Yi Zhu is also my good fortune.” Then he explained to Jiang Yi Zhu: “I said a lot of things I did not mean just now to trick Jiang Tea Tea. Yi Zhu, do not take them to heart.”
Jiang Yi Zhu looked shy as she said: “I understand. I understand everything.”
Now that her mother had agreed to let her and Brother Chu Ming be together, that useless Jiang Tea Tea would, after today, fall to the level of a plaything. She would have nothing left to fight over with her.
For the sake of his act, Chu Ming gritted his teeth and spent big, transferring one million star credits to Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea looked at the one million star credits that had just entered her account.
[For a scumbag, he is actually pretty generous. But when you butcher pigs, you never stop at just one.]
She immediately turned around and called Mu Mei Xi.
Mu Mei Xi was going upstairs, planning to tell Jiang Zong Shen that Jiang Tea Tea would go to the First Hotel at 7:40, when her communicator rang.
She saw that it was a call from Jiang Tea Tea. Her steps shifted and she turned into the next room. She answered in a gentle voice: “Tea Tea, have you arrived at the Academy yet? When you get to the Academy, do not forget to go to the healing room to change the bandage on your hand.”
“You have not awakened any supernatural abilities, unlike those who have them and naturally heal faster. It would be best if you do not leave any scars.”
[Humans are really hypocritical creatures. One second she is scheming here, and the next she is pretending to be a loving mother like nothing happened.]
Jiang Tea Tea got straight to the point and said: “Mom, at 7:40 tonight, Brother Chu Ming asked me to meet with his dad and mom to talk about when we will get married.”
“I thought I should not go meet them empty-handed, so I am planning to buy his dad a set of mecha armor and his mom an expensive energy stone necklace.”
“I have already picked them out. Together they cost twenty million star credits. Mom, can you transfer twenty million to me?”
[Twenty million? She opened her mouth and asked for twenty million? Does she think I am some big sucker made of money?]
Through the light-brain wrist terminal, Mu Mei Xi’s face twisted, but her voice was still gentle as she said: “Tea Tea, Chu Ming’s dad and mom are reasonable people, not those fake types who only look at surface appearances.”
“You are meeting to talk about when you will get married. As long as you show your heart with a gift, it is enough. It does not have to be so expensive.”
Jiang Tea Tea deliberately sounded sad, her voice choked with grievance as she said: “Oh, I see. I thought the reason you had Little Sister call me home today was because you were treating me as your real daughter.”
“It seems I was thinking too much. After all, I am not your real daughter. You spent several million to buy Little Sister a flying device.”
“Forget it. I am not the Jiang family’s true young lady and I cannot bring out expensive gifts. Brother Chu Ming’s parents already dislike me for not awakening any supernatural abilities. Now they will look down on me even more. I will call Brother Chu Ming and tell him I will not go to meet his parents. I will set him free and break off the engagement.”
She had finally gotten Chu Ming to coax her into going to the First Hotel, and she had not even had time to tell her husband yet. How could she let her just say she was not going and really not go?
Mu Mei Xi willingly put on the hat of being the sucker and said anxiously: “You silly child. Chu Ming has already taken the initiative to marry you and to take you to meet his parents. How can you not go?”
“Twenty million, right? That is a small amount. Mom will transfer it to you. Mom loves you and Yi Zhu equally.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s sad, choked voice turned sweet and crisp as she said: “I knew Mom was the best. I love you the most, Mom.”
Mu Mei Xi felt as if she were being pushed into doing something she really did not want, but she still said unwillingly: “I love you too, Tea Tea.”
“I will wait for your transfer then, Mom. Goodbye, Mom.” Jiang Tea Tea added a couple of fake sweet words, then hung up.
Mu Mei Xi stared at the ended call, grinding her teeth in anger. She had no choice but to transfer twenty million star credits to her from her own private savings.
After she finished transferring the star credits, she went to Jiang Zong Shen’s study. Smiling like she was taking credit, she said: “Husband, I have settled Jiang Tea Tea. Before eight, you just need to bring Person in Charge Zhou to the First Hotel and wait.”
She did not mention a word about the twenty million star credits she had transferred.
She was afraid he would blame her and blame Yi Zhu.
Joy flashed on Jiang Zong Shen’s face, and just as he was about to speak, his light-brain wrist terminal rang.
It was a call from Jiang Tea Tea.
He paused for a moment, then answered.
On the other end of the call, Jiang Tea Tea used the same method on Jiang Zong Shen that she had used on Mu Mei Xi, except this time she asked for even more: fifty million star credits.
After listening to her, Jiang Zong Shen realized that Chu Ming had sold her out and that she did not know it herself. In order not to startle the snake in the grass, he could only grit his teeth and agree to give it.
After he hung up, Mu Mei Xi asked nervously: “Husband, who was calling you and asking you for fifty million?”
After Jiang Zong Shen finished transferring the money to Jiang Tea Tea, he finally looked up at her and said: “Who else? It was Jiang Tea Tea. The moment she spoke, she asked me for fifty million.”
Mu Mei Xi’s expression changed and she asked in shock: “She asked you for fifty million, and you gave it to her?”
Jiang Zong Shen snapped back angrily: “If I do not give it to her, she will not go to the First Hotel. You had Chu Ming trick her by saying she would be meeting her parents. With her simple mind, she told me everything.”
“The moment I heard it, I knew this was the reason you said she would willingly go to the First Hotel at 7:40. If I do not give her the money, how could she go to the hotel willingly?”