ch 108 - Lots of Drama; Beautiful Scholar 1 (2/2)

“Shi xiong Gu, have you ever heard of this Cheng Xiao Xiao?”

Suddenly, a familiar voice rang next to his ears. He turned slightly to look and found a more junior schoolmate of his looking at him curiously.

Gu Junxian gave him a cold look with no intention of responding to his question.

The one who asked the question smiled with slight embarrassment and stop disturbing his peace but turned his attention back to listening to others making fun of Cheng Biyuan and his family with perked ears.

Gu Junxian, with his eyes half closed, looked at though he was meditating. As to whether he could hear the bantering or not, only he’d know.

Over at the Cheng’s at Willow!

Cheng Xiao Xiao was observing Innkeeper Zhu with the servants and maids of various ages and listening to him giving them lectures on rules after rules of how to be respectful and follow orders of their employers. Cheng Xiao Xiao couldn’t help but nodded.

Even though she was from the modern age, she still understood that ranks and rules have their places and reasons. She had no intention to play God and therefore she was not about to advocate that everyone was an equal. She could only made the best out of living within the bounds of what was the norm.

You want to be above everyone else? Let’s see if you can make that happen. You want respect from others? Let’s see whether you ere able to earn that. No matter what, nobody would just hand it over to you, everything must be gained through hard work.

As the saying goes, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Whatever it is that you want, you’d better be prepared to pay the equivalent cost. Don’t dream about it if you can afford it!

“Xiao Xiao, what are you thinking about?”

Mrs. Cheng was standing next to Cheng Xiao Xiao without her realizing it. She following her daughter’s line of sight and couldn’t help but to smile, “Xiao Xiao, good job thinking ahead, now that we have Innkeeper Zhu’s help in training the underlings, that’s truly a lot less headaches for me.”

“Mom, don’t worry too much. Anything you can delegate down, you go ahead and delegate. You just need to supervise from the side.”

“Oh you kid, I know that much!” Mrs. Cheng complained lightly, then sighed again, “Now that we are starting to rebuild our family all over again from scratch, there are so much to worry about.”