Chapter 51 Troublesome... (1/2)
When the elegant and gorgeous Ms Cheongsam arrived, Qin Sheng was tidying up a room together with Lyu Yuan to prepare for the arrival of a club member. Lyu Yuan had specifically told Qin Sheng that this particular club member had mysopobia and that his room must be tidied up and cleaned to his stardards. If there was anything short of his expectation, Ms. An would be furious.
It was until the time when the reception instructed Qin Sheng to go to the Room Yuan, there were altogether 24 rooms of various sizes in Shangshan Ruoshui. The name of each room was named by a master and all the names were tastefully chosen. None was named after a landmark, location or numbers, but each consisted of one Chinese character. Qin Sheng had yet to find a pattern in them, neither did he know how the names were chosen.
Qin Sheng knocked on the door and pushed through it after he heard the soothing voice of Ms Cheongsam. However instead of wearing a cheongsam today, Ms Cheongsam was clad in a formal suit. She must have come straight from her busy work, with bunned up hair and an elegant jade bangle around her wrist.
”Are you looking for me, Ms Xue?” Qin Sheng greeted her warmly with a nod. Sitting next to Ms Xue was the willful boy, Xue Hao, who was making a face at Qin Sheng, but Qin Sheng couldn't be bothered about him.
Xue Qingyan, who was one of the six VVIP members of the club, still did not have a good impression of Qin Sheng. ”I heard form Hao that you are into antiques and history?” asked Xue Qingyan casually.
In fact, Qin Sheng had some knowledge of these things, but was certainly not an expert in them. Qin cursed under his breath, that the little rascal was exaggerating things. He could only humbly reply, ”I do know a little bit about them.”
”Where did you use to study?” Xue Qingyan asked, betraying her curiosity, yet her eyes remained cold and there was an air of arrogance about her, just like how most well-sought after ladies were.
”Fudan University, faculty of Philosophy,” Qin Sheng replied in honesty.
”Fudan University's Faculty of Philosophy?” Xue Qingyan was taken by surprise. She did not expect Qin Sheng to be an intelligent student. Only the very outstanding student could do Philosophy in Fudan University. In fact, there were few youngsters who chose to study philosophy. Xue Hao, who was sitting by the side was stunned. He thought Qin Sheng was just someone who only knew how to fight in the streets and had not even gone through university. Little did he expect Qin Sheng to be a hidden talent.
Now Xue Qinyan's curiosity had been kindled. Although all the young men working in Shangshan Ruoshui were carefully and selectively chosen, none of them were graduates from an university as prestigious as Fudan. Although they were not offered a low salary, it was still somewhat embarrassing for these young ambitious men to be working as a waiter. For this reason, she asked him out of curiosity, ”A graduate from Fudan University should be able to find a fairy good job, why are you working here?”
”It's for the high salary. After all we are all working to earn a living,” Qing Sheng answered casually. What he really meant was that she should mind her own business.
Narrowing her eyes, Xue Qinyan asked, ”Really?”
”I wouldn't dare to lie to you,” Qin Sheng replied with a smile.
Xue Qingyan pondered for a while and decided to let the matter rest. It was none of her business and moreover she had something else to attend to, so she said to Qin Sheng, ”Hao says he is interested to know more about the antiques and other displays in Shangshan Ruoshui. Please bring him to have a walk around and explain more about them to him. After that, you may send him home. I will let Mr Xu know about the arrangement.”
”Alright, I get it,” Qin Sheng said softly.
Thereafter, with a gleeful expression on his face, Xue Hao trailed after Qin Sheng to leave the room. Xue Qingyan thought something was not quite right but did not know what it was going on between those two. Perhaps she had been over sensitive and reading too much into Xue Hao's expression, he could be just excited about touring around the place.
Once they stepped out of the room, Qin Sheng pretended to direct Xue Hao politely, saying, ”This way please.”
”Stop fooling around with me, Qin Sheng. Be honest with me, if you can't handled that matter for me, I will look for someone else,” In the absence of his aunt, Xue Hao could now speak his mind freely.
Smiling, Qin Sheng said, ”Why? Don't you trust me?”
”I somehow have the feeling that you words cannot be trusted. Why do you come here to work as a waiter if you are such a resourceful person?” This was Xue Hao's greatest doubt about Qin Sheng, although Qin Sheng's calm and confident demeanor that day made him showed otherwise.
Qin Sheng led Xue Hao onto the corridor where he would try to introduce the displayed collectibles along the way when someone happen to pass by them. Ms. An had handed Qin Sheng a write up, detailing the information about every piece of collectible display in Shangshan Ruoshui. In addition, Lyu Yuan had also told him quite a bit about them. Coupled with some basic knowledge Qin Sheng had, he had a fairly good understanding of the items displayed.
”Don't you know that you have to find a way of escape after committing a crime?” Qin Sheng said with disdain, rolling his eyes.
Xue Hao who had a crew cut hairstyle and dressed simply did not look one bit like a rich man's kid. However, judging from how his aunt was like, one could tell that he did not come from a simple background. He must have a low-key at school.
”So what do you say we should about that matter?” while Xue Hao did not mind being bullied, he did not want the girl he fancied to despise him or to think that he was useless. However, his father forbid him to create any trouble in school and it would be too embarrassing to tell his family about it. All he could do was to swallow it since he brought this upon himself.
”Did I ever say I was going to help you? What can you give me in return if I were to help you?” Qin Sheng said, trying not to laugh.