novelraw Chapter 93
Chapter 93
Chapter 93: My Girlfriend Is Deflating
In the afternoon, the range hood repairman and the bed installer arrived at the same time.
Xia Li arranged for the two groups to work in different rooms.
Lucia huddled in a corner of the sofa, watching the various strangers coming and going in her house.
They stepped on the floor, so it would need to be mopped later…
They bumped into the door frame, so the door would need to be wiped clean too!
Oh, and why did they put things on her dining table? Now the dining table would need to be washed too!
“What are you thinking about? Focus on your studies.”
Xia Li walked over and fed the evil dragon a slice of apple.
The evil dragon, holding a pronunciation notebook in her arms, opened her mouth to receive the food. “I need to clean up later…” she mumbled.
Xia Li glanced at the workers walking around the living room and chuckled. “Are you a neat freak?”
However, considering the evil dragon’s possessiveness over her territory and her sensitivity to smells, he felt that it was understandable.
“Alright, then we’ll clean up together later.” Xia Li nodded.
Lucia chewed on the apple in her mouth, her eyes quietly watching Xia Li, her brows slightly furrowed.
“Hey, what do you mean by that?”
Xia Li laughed in exasperation. “Why are you looking like I’m stealing your business?”
“…How much money have I saved up during this time?” Lucia asked hesitantly.
Xia Li got off the sofa. “Wait, let me calculate it for you.”
Xia Li took out the small notebook with Lucia and his signatures on it. He had been keeping track of her earnings every night before going to sleep, so the information inside would only be more, not less.
“282 yuan.” Xia Li pointed to the number at the end.
“It’s already over two hundred yuan…”
“What do you want to do with the money?”
“I haven’t decided yet.” Lucia shook her head.
“Okay, tell me when you decide what you want to do, and I’ll buy it for you. Or I can transfer the money to your WeChat now.”
Xia Li opened his phone, ready to do the transfer.
But then he thought, Lucia was still new to the internet, and almost all newbies would encounter some pitfalls when they first started using it.
Lucia was so easily fooled, if she was scammed out of her hard-earned money, she would cry her eyes out.
“Should I transfer it or not?” Xia Li asked uncertainly.
“Don’t transfer it, I want to save it.” Lucia said seriously.
Xia Li didn’t expect this evil dragon to have her own little plan. Could it be that she was saving up to buy gold?
At the price this black-hearted landlord was charging…
The evil dragon would have to wash tens of thousands of dishes at his house to buy gold.
“You continue reading, I’ll go check on things.”
Xia Li wandered back to the room to supervise the work.
These large pieces of furniture were assembled on site. Staring at the rows of wooden beams, Xia Li wondered if this wood could really support 1200 jin?
If you added him and Lucia together… it should be around 220 jin.
On the surface, it seemed sufficient, but if it was Lucia’s true form…
Hard to say, hard to say.
“Huh?”
Xia Li’s mind froze, and he felt something was wrong again.
This bed was for him to sleep in, what did it have to do with Lucia?
“For the layout of this room, should the bed be moved to the center or…?”
After assembling the bed, the installer in charge came to ask for Xia Li’s opinion.
This small room was quite small, and Xia Li, being ambitious, had bought a 1.8-meter bed.
After putting the bed in the room, there was only enough space for a bedside table on one side, and there was no place for a wardrobe.
Xia Li’s family had no need for a wardrobe for the time being, but a bedside table was different. It was a necessity for placing a phone and tissues.
After pondering for a while, Xia Li waved his hand and said.
“Just put it against the wall. There’s barely enough space for a computer here.”
After instructing the installer, Xia Li returned to the kitchen. The range hood had also been repaired.
He had to admit, the quality of home appliances bought in the past was really good. The repairman only replaced two parts, and the range hood was whirring again. He even saved a lot of money on the repair fee.
After seeing off the two groups of workers, Xia Li cleaned up the small room overnight.
From today onwards, this would be his room for a long time to come.
Lucia had claustrophobia, so it was definitely not feasible for her to sleep in the small room.
Not only was it not feasible for her, but it was even less feasible for Fang Xia.
Halfway through cleaning, Lucia in the living room also came to help.
Xia Li calculated the price for her and said that the small room was a bit dirty, so he would give her 20 yuan for mopping the floor.
Lucia pouted, neither happy nor unhappy, grabbed a rag and started working diligently.
After the room was almost cleaned up, Xia Li moved the computer and chair in as well.
Lucia’s interest in computers was limited to watching Xia Li play games. It would be a waste to leave it with her.
Xia Li still had to continue writing his “Record of Experiences,” so it was naturally more convenient for the computer to be in his room.
“I’m going to clean the living room.”
Lucia finished the task at hand, her little nose still covered in dust. She wiped her nose, looking like a little calico cat.
“Okay, those workers didn’t wear shoe covers when they came in, so you can clean that area too… I’ll add another 20 yuan for you.” Xia Li offered.
“…”
Lucia’s cheeks puffed up again.
Like a balloon, every time Xia Li said something, she would puff up her cheeks.
Huh?
Why wasn’t she happy about getting more money?
“Twenty is twenty…”
The little dragon muttered as she walked out of the room and went to the balcony to wash the rag.
Xia Li sat on the gaming chair, setting up his computer, and glanced over there.
Did he offer too little?
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He originally wanted to use this method to motivate Lucia, raise the unit price and give her more money, making it easier for her to reach the amount she wanted.
But Xia Li thought again, now Lucia is ostensibly his girlfriend.
It’s a bit unreasonable for him to order his girlfriend to work by offering a price.
Other people’s girlfriends are meant to be pampered.
Why is it that when it comes to him, Xia Li, she’s treated like a tool dragon?
“Hey, Lucia, why don’t I do it!”
Xia Li ignored the wires hanging next to the computer and got up to go to the balcony.
Lucia was washing the mop on the balcony.
Washing vigorously, sucking hard, the sound of rushing water from the faucet made it impossible to hear Xia Li talking in the room.
“Humph…”
Lucia puffed up her cheeks, venting her frustration on the innocent mop in her hand.
The mop cloth was washed as good as new under Lucia’s beating, but she still wouldn’t let it go.
When Xia Li offered her the price just now, it reminded her of the time when clients issued commissions at the Adventurer’s Guild in Azure Continent.
The humans back then were like this too, pointing at a task, issuing their orders, and stating the reward. If the adventurer thought the reward was good, they would fulfill the commission.
It was exactly the same as their current situation.
This was clearly an employment relationship!
Although she didn’t understand human relationships very well, an employment relationship was definitely not as good as pure friendship, maybe not even as good as a romantic relationship.
What was Xia Li doing!
Lucia puffed up like a pufferfish, the plastic handle of the mop creaking in her grip.
“What are you doing, what are you doing.”
Xia Li rescued the stick that was about to be ruined by the evil dragon.
“I’ll mop the floor!”
Lucia said the most cowardly words in the strongest voice.
“Go rest!” Xia Li retorted.
“I want to earn the client’s money!”
“What client, what client,” Xia Li was amused by the name Lucia came up with.
He grabbed the evil dragon, swaying her towards the living room, then launched her from his arms.
Dragon collision, successfully hitting the sheep plush toy on the sofa.
Lucia rolled over and hugged the sheep, her beautiful eyes peeking out from between the sheep’s horns, glaring at Xia Li.
She wanted to earn her reward through her own labor, but she didn’t want to be priced by Xia Li every time.
When she occasionally volunteered to do housework, Xia Li would still offer her money.
It was as if this house was Xia Li’s alone, and had nothing to do with her.
But Xia Li himself had said that this was their home.
“From now on, you’re my client, you know.
You take the money, I do the work, I work for you.” Xia Li said, holding the mop and wandering around the living room.
His own girlfriend, of course he had to pamper her.
As soon as he finished this sentence, his girlfriend started to deflate.
Although this was also a commission relationship, Xia Li saying it this way made Lucia feel that this house was also her home.
Her puffed-up cheeks deflated.
Lucia’s feet touched the ground, and she walked away in her slippers, tap tap tap.
“What are you doing now?”
Xia Li dodged, afraid that the evil dragon would come and snatch the mop from his hands.
“Go wash the clothes, the clothes we got wet in the rain last night haven’t been washed yet.”
Lucia grumbled, her expression much softer than before.
This evil dragon, he didn’t know how she could be so moody… Could it be that time of the month?
Xia Li’s thoughts drifted away as he bent down and started cleaning.
After he finished mopping the living room, Lucia was still in the bathroom and hadn’t come out.
That’s not right…
The washing machine was on the balcony, what was this evil dragon doing in the bathroom?
Thinking back to how he was soaked from head to toe when he came back last night, and his underwear hadn’t been hand-washed yet… Xia Li had a bad feeling.
“What are you doing?”
In the bathroom, the evil dragon was standing in front of the sink.
She was holding a light gray piece of cloth in her hand, rubbing some soap on it, and then carefully washing it with her delicate little hands.
Xia Li had said that small items like this should be hand-washed, and only large items should be put in the washing machine.
“Washing clothes.”
“That’s not clothes, that’s pants.”
Xia Li’s face flushed.
“Oh, it is pants.”
To verify whether it was pants or clothes, Lucia lifted it up and stretched it out, observing it carefully with a serious expression.
The pants weren’t big, just a little bigger than Lucia’s face, rectangular boxer briefs.
There was a small pocket in the center, she didn’t know what it was for.
“You you you, put that down!!”
Xia Li’s face was completely red now.
It hadn’t been long since he had let his guard down with the evil dragon, and she had already attacked his integrity.
“Go wash your own underwear, don’t wash mine…”
Xia Li said angrily, “I’ve never washed yours!!”