Chapter 648: A Story Within a Story

The early spring sunshine is warm and gentle.

Most of the flowers in the garden are in bloom, and the scenery is pleasing to the eye everywhere.

The camphor juice temporarily drives away mosquitoes and cockroaches, but it is only temporary.

After lunch, Lin Yiyi was called by Butler Mo to the guest room to rearrange her work tasks.

“Every morning the young master goes downstairs to have breakfast, and you and Aunt Liu have 25 minutes to do some simple cleaning.

During this time, you need to change your bed sheets and tidy up the floors of the lounge, living room, and study."

"After the young master has finished using his room or has gone out, you can follow Aunt Liu in to clean up the bathroom and cloakroom, as well as other details."

"At the same time, you need to go to the backyard to get clean towels, bath towels and ironed clothes and bring them back to the young master's room."

"When doing these things, you must avoid the young master and not cause any inconvenience to him."

"There is also the matter of serving tea and water. Unless the young master has special instructions, the tea and snacks are basically fixed according to the season and weather. The kitchen will prepare them. You are responsible for this matter."

Lin Yiyi took out a notebook and took notes. The workload suddenly increased so much that it seemed that she had no chance to slack off.

"Butler Mo, will the salary change?"

"It won't change for now. Once you become proficient in these tasks, your monthly salary will increase to HK$2,000, and your red envelopes will increase a bit."

Lin Yiyi nodded. It would be good if the salary increased, otherwise it would be a big loss.

"As long as you work diligently and conscientiously in the Ding family, the master and the mistress will not treat you unfairly."

After making all the arrangements, Butler Mo couldn't help but look at Lin Yiyi twice more. In the end, he said nothing more and turned to go to the backyard.

Lin Yiyi was not idle in the afternoon, and followed Liu Ma to learn the skills of quick cleaning.

After a hasty demonstration a few times, he rushed it into production the next day.

The bedroom is very big and several rooms are connected together, so it should be called a suite.

Lin Yiyi admired the jewel wall of the lounge for a while, feeling longing, while kneeling on the ground doing hard labor, wiping the wooden floor with a half-dry towel.

Aunt Liu was very skilled. She tidied up the bedroom furnishings and then wiped the wooden floor.

It's actually pretty quick when two people clean together.

The most troublesome thing is cleaning the carpet. You need to use a semi-hard brush to sweep away the dust on the surface bit by bit.

There is only a limited amount that can be done in 25 minutes. I can only clean up the most obvious places and then return to the room to do more detailed work after the young master leaves.

Lin Yiyi was busy all day, and she was busy running back and forth in the kitchen to eat breakfast. Thinking that she would have to clean the toilet and bathtub in the afternoon, she secretly groaned in her heart.

...

Although Ding Li arranged for Lin Yiyi to do things for him these two days, he did not meet her.

She is such a lazy person. If her work gets a raise but her salary doesn't, she will definitely come to him on her own within a week.

And that is exactly what happened.

Even overestimating someone.

On the evening of the third day, Lin Yiyi sneaked upstairs without telling anyone.

She knocked gently on the door.

“Knock, knock, knock.”

"Who is it?"

"Master, it's me, Xiaoyi."

Ding Li discovered her hiding behind a pillar and peeping like a thief downstairs, so it was not surprising that she followed him upstairs.

But he still had to pretend to be surprised and open the door, "What's the matter?"

Lin Yiyi stood outside the door. Fearing that she would be seen by others, she moved closer to the door and said with a smile, "Let me go in first. I have a new discovery to report to you."

Ding Li saw her blinking her watery and affectionate eyes, her skin as white as jade, and her lightly bitten lower lip, which made people want to kiss her.

Under the illumination of the warm wall lamp, she looks even more gentle and beautiful.

He felt a little itchy and smiled gently, "This time is not very convenient."

"..." She didn't want to look for him at this time, but Ding Li was at Hong Kong University in the morning and afternoon.

There are many servants during the day, so now is the best time.

Lin Yiyi shamelessly pretended to be anxious, "...Master, I really have something urgent to do."

Only after she took the initiative to beg again did Ding Li half move aside to let her in.

Lin Yiyi felt strange for a moment, looking at the gap that was only two palms wide, then raised her eyes to look at him. He only gave her such a small distance, so shouldn't she have to stick close to him to enter the door?

"…Can you please stand a little further to the side?"

Ding Li didn't move a step, but raised his hand to close the door with a gentle expression.

Lin Yiyi thought that he didn't want to listen to her nonsense and was deliberately making things difficult for her, so she hurriedly squeezed in, not caring about whether she was touching or not.

The distance was too close. Although it was only a few seconds, the closeness of almost crashing into his arms made Lin Yiyi smell his scent.

A scent of ripe fruit.

I don't know what brand of perfume it is, but it smells really nice.

With a bang, the door closed.

Ding Li turned around and walked to the sofa and sat down, his eyes wandering over her. "Sit down, what discovery do you have that you need to tell me so quickly?"

Lin Yiyi sat on the footstool beside him, choking for a moment. She hadn't discovered anything at all, she just wanted to get back to her original job.

She asked Xia Fu in the afternoon and found out that the job change was arranged by Ding Li.

After organizing the words in her head, Lin Yiyi smiled at him and said, "I want to enroll in night school to learn languages. I'm afraid I won't be able to do my current job well, so..."

Ding Li didn't wait for her to finish and interrupted her in a very considerate manner, "Want to resign? Then I'll ask Butler Mo to settle your salary."

"No, no, you misunderstood."

Lin Yiyi didn't immediately say the second half about changing back to her original job. If she still didn't understand what he meant now, she would be really stupid.

"I just want to have time to learn the language. I have no intention of resigning."

Ding Li turned a deaf ear to him and asked, "Is this the urgent matter you are talking about?"

Lin Yiyi nodded, "Yeah."

"Your personal schedule is none of my business. You can leave now."

“…”

Lin Yiyi was a little discouraged as she hadn't accomplished anything, but there was no point in repeating the same hard work day after day.

Apart from getting older, the road ahead will only become narrower and narrower.

There was no benefit to her at all. A life of hard work with no end in sight was terrible.

Lin Yiyi mustered up her courage, smiled at Ding Li's handsome face, and tentatively spoke out what was in her heart.

“Master Ding, I don’t want to be a servant forever because I still have debts to repay.

If I don’t learn by myself, I will only stay where I am in the future, so I would like to ask the young master to help me get my original job back.”

Ding Li pretended to be entangled and thought about it for a while, then said calmly with a gentle look, "It is impossible to help you get your job back for the time being, because the original owner has already had evil intentions.

I will reconsider your job after some time."

"As for your desire to learn languages, you can always ask me."

"Really? Would that be too much trouble?"

Lin Yiyi was overjoyed. She had asked other people about the night school. The teachers during the day were foreigners, while the teachers at night were people from Hong Kong.

It is neither necessary nor wise to spend HK$600 a month to learn to speak a dialect of English.

"But I don't have any relevant books and I don't know which ones to buy."

Seeing her embarrassed but willing to take the opportunity, Ding Li chuckled secretly, still modest and gentle, "Come with me."

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