Mo Youyou: "..."

She found the performance of the mother and son, one filial and the other considerate, boring, but she didn't expect Liu Dekai's attitude to be so firm.

It seems we absolutely have to hire this auntie.

Since that's the case, getting angry now is pointless, because anger won't change anything. What we should do now is maximize our gains and minimize our losses!

The auntie we brought back shouldn't be left to Zhang Cuihua to enjoy alone.

It's rare for Liu Dekai to be willing to spend money, so it's fine for Mo Youyou to enjoy it too!

But if she wanted to enjoy the convenience of hiring a housekeeper, it would mean that she would have to live with Zhang Cuihua.

This left Mo Youyou somewhat conflicted.

"Mom, don't worry about the money. I can come up with this amount. I'll go find someone tomorrow. You just stay home and rest well; your health is the most important thing..."

While Liu Dekai was still giving Zhang Cuihua instructions, Mo Youyou's mind was racing with calculations.

Finally, after weighing the pros and cons, she made her decision.

"Dekai, how about this?" Mo Youyou suggested.

"Stop talking," Liu Dekai raised his hand to stop Mo Youyou's persuasion. "It's no use saying anything. I've made up my mind and I won't change it."

"Why are you in such a hurry? I didn't say we couldn't hire her. We agreed to hire her, but..."

The mother and son both looked at Mo Youyou, wondering what kind of trouble she was planning to cause this time.

"But what?" Liu Dekai stared at Mo Youyou, warning her not to cause any more trouble.

“This is what I’m thinking: why don’t we have Mom move back in with us? That way, the money we spend on hiring a housekeeper can get her to do all the housework,” Mo Youyou said.

Liu Dekai immediately understood Mo Youyou's scheme.

If the housekeeper is hired and only lives in the other apartment with Zhang Cuihua, then their monthly expenses will be the housekeeper's fee plus the rent for the other apartment, and the housekeeper will only be responsible for taking care of Zhang Cuihua.

But if Zhang Cuihua moves back, firstly, the rent for that apartment can be saved, and then the housekeeper they hire will do all the housework for their family, and the meals she cooks will be for everyone. In other words, the young couple won't have to do any housework at all.

That's really good.

Liu Dekai guessed Mo Youyou's little scheme, but he didn't care.

All he heard was Mo Youyou agreeing to let Zhang Cuihua move back!

Making his mother move out was a difficult decision for Liu Dekai, but due to pressure from Mo Cheng and his mother, he had no choice but to comply in order to get married.

Now, it was Mo Youyou who brought it up herself.

“Okay, no problem. The aunt can clean and cook, which is perfect.” Liu Dekai readily agreed.

Mo Youyou's thinking wasn't wrong.

She disliked Zhang Cuihua for being unhygienic and was reluctant to eat her cooking, while also thinking that Liu Dekai's cooking skills were poor and the food he made was not tasty.

But hiring a housekeeper is a different story.

Hiring a housekeeper is a paid service, so it's like an employment relationship. Naturally, if the housekeeper doesn't perform well or doesn't meet her expectations, she can point it out directly and ask the housekeeper to make changes.

Moreover, these live-in housekeepers usually have pretty good cooking skills.

When Zhang Cuihua heard that she could move back to live with her son, she immediately stopped worrying about the cost of hiring a housekeeper.

As long as I can see my son every day, it's all worth it!

"Great, that's wonderful, that's wonderful!" Zhang Cuihua was so happy that she forgot Mo Youyou disliked her. She held her son's hand and her daughter-in-law's hand, stacking them together.

"From now on, our family will live a good life together! Mom will also try her best to take good care of her health so that this money won't be wasted!"

Mo Youyou gave a forced smile, thinking to herself, "Who's related to you, some country bumpkin?"

However, she didn't immediately give him the cold shoulder.

After all, we'll be living together from now on. It would be good if we could avoid chaos and get along peacefully.

After making the decision, all that was left was to find the right person.

"Wait a minute," Mo Youyou suddenly said.

Has she changed her mind again?

Liu Dekai and Zhang Cuihua exchanged a glance, both feeling a little uneasy.

"Youyou, what's wrong now?" Liu Dekai asked.

“You can’t just hire anyone to be your nanny. Think about it, if it’s just to take care of your mother, that’s understandable, since she’s getting old and it’s perfectly reasonable for her to be cared for. Nobody can say anything about it.”

“But hiring someone to be our housekeeper is a different story. That’s capitalism! We both work in the military. Wouldn’t that give them something to hold against us? How would we ever get along in the military again?”

Especially Liu Dekai, who is currently a deputy battalion commander. If someone reports him for hiring a housekeeper, his chances of being promoted to battalion commander will be even more distant.

Mo Youyou is alright. She belongs to the logistics unit and is the daughter of the brigade commander. If she is not promoted, no one will be so bored as to target her.

"I almost forgot about that!" Liu Dekai exclaimed in a cold sweat.

It really was his carelessness.

"That……"

Liu Dekai hesitated. Hiring a housekeeper was a must, but this matter could be handled carefully so that others couldn't use it against him.

"How about this, instead of hiring a nanny from the market, let's find a relative's nanny to help. With that family connection, we can just say she's helping take care of my mother-in-law, and no one will have any reason to complain," Mo Youyou said.

She grew up in a residential compound and had seen similar things many times, so she naturally came up with a solution.

“Okay, let’s arrange it that way.” Liu Dekai readily agreed.

Originally, I thought it would be best if Liu Dekai had relatives in the countryside. We could just invite one of them to the capital. Maybe we could even lower the price because people from the countryside are unsophisticated and don't know the market.

“But we don’t have any relatives left in the countryside,” Liu Dekai said.

Back then, Zhang Cuihua was abandoned by her husband and raised Liu Dekai alone. If they had had relatives to help them, their lives wouldn't have been so difficult.

"I see..." Mo Youyou thought for a moment. Since they couldn't be relied on, she would still have to ask her parents for help. "I'll go back and ask my mom to help me find someone."

Mo Youyou took some time to go back to her parents' home and told them about it.

Mo's mother thought that Mo Youyou had indeed been spoiled since childhood, and it was not realistic to expect her to take care of her sick mother-in-law. Hiring a nanny would be more suitable, as she could also take care of the young couple's lives.

This means that the money that would have been spent on renting a house is now being used to hire a housekeeper, which is a good deal.

"Don't worry, Youyou, Mom will try to find someone for you these next few days. I'll ask around and see if there are any distant relatives who are willing to do this," said Mo's mother.

"Okay, then thank you for your hard work, Mom."

Soon, Mo's mother contacted a suitable candidate, a distant relative from her maternal family, named Aunt Liao.