lcionline Chapter 530 Don’t blame me for being rude
Chapter 530 Don’t blame me for being rude
"Xiao Luo, I don't have any cash on me, and my phone is offline. Can I use this to pay?" Wang Xinyao asked.
Luo Xiaoyu looked closely and, good heavens, it was a piece of gleaming gold!
"A...a gold brick?" Her eyes widened, and her fingers trembled as she touched the gold brick. "This...this must weigh at least five hundred grams, right?"
Several staff members who were busy working nearby heard the commotion and gathered around.
Looking at the five people dressed in ancient costumes, and then at the gold bricks on the counter, they were all stunned and dared not even breathe.
"Sister Wang, you should put this away quickly!" Xiao Luo hurriedly pushed the gold brick back. "Besides, paying with gold is against our hotel's rules."
"But I have nothing else to pay for, you know, my account has been closed!"
Wang Xinyao whispered, "It's almost afternoon. Even if I go to get my ID card back, I won't be able to get my bank card back. There are so many of us. You can't just stand by and watch us have nowhere to stay, can you?"
Luo Xiaoyu glanced at the sky outside, then bit her lip and took a deep breath.
"Sister Wang, how about this? I'll pay for one night's stay in advance, and you can check in first. You can pay me back once you exchange the gold for cash. Is that alright?"
Wang Xinyao felt a warmth in her heart. Looking at Xiao Luo's sincere eyes, she thought to herself that this girl was truly kind.
Just as she was about to thank him, she suddenly heard a sharp, cursing voice coming from outside the hotel: "You brat, isn't today your payday? Why haven't you transferred your salary to me yet?"
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a woman wearing a floral shirt and with curly hair walking in angrily.
"Quick, transfer the money to me!" She rushed to the front desk, pointed at Luo Xiaoyu's nose, and started yelling.
"That Li Jun, just give up! He's a convict in jail, how dare you associate with him? If you dare to visit him in prison again, or even try to overturn his case, I'll break your legs!"
The name "Li Jun" was like a needle, causing Wang Xinyao's heart to clench sharply.
Why is it so familiar?
She clenched her fists instinctively, and her cousin's bright and sunny smile from his youth flashed through her mind.
She remembered that when she left Earth, her cousin was only twenty years old, a junior in medical school, with excellent grades and a bright future.
'Reformed labor camp inmates'?
impossible.
My aunt's family is well-off; my uncle is the director of a hospital. My cousin has been spoiled since childhood. How could he possibly go to jail?
It must be someone with the same name, Wang Xinyao comforted herself inwardly.
The woman continued her incessant rant: "The guy Aunt Zhang introduced you to a few days ago is Director Liu's brother!"
He's the hospital director, and he said that if you marry him, he'll give you a dowry of 500,000 yuan and buy us a house. Where else can you find such a good deal?
"Mom, this is my workplace, please stop making a scene here, okay?" Xiao Luo's eyes were red, and she was holding back her tears as she reached out to pull her mother outside, her voice pleading, "Please leave quickly, otherwise it will cause a lot of trouble."
"I'm not leaving!" The woman shook off her hand, put her hands on her hips, and said, "Let me tell you, Dean Liu is coming to stay at this hotel tomorrow. If you don't agree to date him, I'm not leaving!"
"Mom! If you keep making a scene, I'll lose my job!" Xiao Luo's voice choked with anxiety. "Then I won't even be able to afford food, let alone get paid!"
"You can't lose your job!" the woman said immediately. "Fine, I won't make a fuss! Mom worked so hard to get you into the lobby manager position, how can you just give it up like that? But you have to agree to that marriage, or I'll never forgive you!"
Xiao Luo bit her lip, tears welling up in her eyes. After a long while, she lowered her head helplessly and said, "Okay, I promise you, I'll meet him tomorrow. You can go now."
"Fine, transfer your salary to me via WeChat later. Otherwise, you'll be sorry!" After saying that, the woman nodded in satisfaction, glared at Luo Xiaoyu, and walked away cursing.
Looking at her mother's retreating figure, Xiao Luo took a deep breath, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, turned around and gave Wang Xinyao a forced smile: "I'm sorry, Sister Wang, I'm sorry you had to see this."
"Do you need my help?" Wang Xinyao looked at her reddened eyes and felt a little sorry for her.
She likes this girl very much because she is kind and righteous.
Xiao Luo shook his head and handed over the room key: "Sister Wang, here's the room key, please keep it safe. You can take the gold back for now, we can talk about it when it's convenient for you."
Upon seeing this, the surrounding staff members began to whisper among themselves.
"Manager Luo is so stupid. She didn't even get the money she advanced last month back, and her mother beat her half to death. And now she has to advance it again..."
"Keep your voice down, she's the manager!"
"What are you afraid of? She's soft-hearted, how could she fire us? If you ask me, the reason she's a manager is because she's pretty."
"Sigh, she really has a tough life. Her father died early, and her mother is biased, only favoring her son from her second marriage. She finally found a boyfriend she truly loved, but he ended up in jail..."
These words were relayed to Wang Xinyao and the others without missing a single one.
She couldn't help but recall the time when she was a child and was bullied by her classmates because her father left her at a young age.
At that time, even with her aunt and uncle protecting her, she was still in a difficult situation.
The woman in front of him, whose mother was clearly a 'vampire,' was no different from Granny Xie in character.
Wang Xinyao couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy.
Instead of taking the gold, she pushed it back and looked at Luo Xiaoyu seriously.
"Xiao Luo, I need to ask you for a favor. After get off work, could you help me find a place to exchange this gold for cash?"
We'll be staying here for a while, so could you please help us buy each of us a cell phone, three sets of clothes, and some daily necessities?
In addition, give each colleague present a red envelope containing 2,000 yuan. The remaining money is your reward for helping us with the task.
She paused, her gaze sweeping over the staff around her, her tone becoming serious: "But I have one condition: no one must know that we are paying rent with gold."
If you can do that, I will give each of you a red envelope containing 8,000 yuan when I leave.
If anyone leaks the word, not only will I take back all the red envelopes and rewards, but don't blame me for being ruthless—I'm talking about everyone.
As soon as he said that, the surrounding chatter vanished without a trace.
The staff were stunned, their eyes filled with disbelief and envy.
Some people even started quickly calculating in their minds.
The rent for twenty days was 136,000 yuan, five Huawei phones cost over 30,000 yuan, clothes and daily necessities cost a maximum of 20,000 yuan, and the red envelopes from colleagues present cost 40,000 yuan. The total amount was less than 230,000 yuan.
That gold brick is worth at least 500,000 yuan. By that calculation, Manager Luo has made a huge profit!
If they had known this would happen, they should have offered to pay the rent for me earlier!