"My wife uses the car every day." the driver said at the time.
He was a good-looking young man, about twenty years old, and his last name was Zhou. Generally speaking, people who work as drivers only have a high school education. In front of Zhang Huan, he was quite serious and respectful.
In front of this "kid" Zhang Yansheng, he was more casual.
"First come, first served." She said, "She hasn't left yet, right? I'll use it first."
"That won't work." Xiao Zhou said with a smile, "I'll be scolded later."
The contempt in this attitude is the same as Aunt Wang's.
The fifteen-year-old Zhang Yansheng didn’t notice it, but the reborn Zhang Yansheng saw it very brightly. Her face immediately fell, as if covered with a layer of frost.
Xiao Zhou was also recruited by Liang Yingying. The driver that the Zhang family originally employed had been in the Zhang family for many years and had watched Zhang Yansheng grow up.
After Liang Yingying came to this family, there were several times when the old driver put Zhang Yansheng's needs first and put Liang Yingying behind Zhang Yansheng. Liang Yingying instigated Zhang Huan to fire him and recruit this young man instead.
Zhang Yansheng was still young at that time and could do nothing about it. And she didn't realize the impact Liang Yingying's actions had on her at that time.
Of course now, she realizes it.
Among all the staff in this family, Aunt Luo is probably the only one who truly regards her as the eldest daughter. The other new staff members all followed Liang Yingying's lead.
"You're the driver we hired, so you're leaving me without a car?" She stared at Xiao Zhou and said, "Then you can get out!"
Xiao Zhou was stunned for a moment.
I heard that the eldest daughter of the Zhang family has a bad temper. But Xiao Zhou had never seen her, because Xiao Zhou only picked her up from school and had no dealings with her at other times. Moreover, because Zhang Yansheng hated riding in the same car with his stepbrother and stepsister, after entering middle school, he often called a taxi by himself to avoid them. Xiao Zhou spent even less time interacting with her.
She doesn't talk much, is well-educated, and has a nice attitude towards the staff. To be honest, he is much better than that naughty kid Zhang Shuocheng.
Rude words like "get out" are really not something Miss Zhang would say. And he said it to my face.
Zhang Yansheng had already taken out his cell phone: "I'll ask my dad to settle your salary."
Is she serious about this?
Xiao Zhou was dumbfounded.
Xiao Zhou just bullied Zhang Yansheng because he was young and had a weak reputation. But when this matter really came to Zhang Huan, he was indeed in the wrong. Zhang Yansheng is just young, so she has the right to ask for the use of the car.
"No, no, no!" Xiao Zhou was busy and changed his face, stopping Zhang Yansheng, "Where are you going? I'm going to start the engine. Wait a minute, I'll turn on the air conditioner first!"
Zhang Yansheng glanced at him, finally put away his phone and got into his car.
On the way, Liang Yingying called.
Xiao Zhou had just experienced Zhang Yansheng's temper, so he gritted his teeth and told Liang Yingying what she said: "Miss Yanyan said that she will use the car today, so you can drive it yourself..."
Most headphones leak some sound. Xiao Zhou’s mistake is very clear.
Zhang Yansheng was sitting in the back row and heard Liang Yingying's sharp curses on the phone - in a place where Zhang Huan couldn't see or hear her, she could swear.
"Hang up." Zhang Yansheng said. Her voice was not loud, she was neither anxious nor impatient, but her meaning was clear.
Xiao Zhou raised his eyes and saw a pair of dark eyes in the rearview mirror. The young girl looks at people in a somewhat scary way.
Xiao Zhou said to the phone: "Well, Madam, I need to concentrate on driving now. I'm going to hang up first. Bye."
It really died.
Zhang Yansheng stopped looking at him and turned to look at the scenery outside.
She was merely reborn six years ago, and basically nothing had changed in K City.
But she suddenly had an idea and said, "Let's go to Jianshe Road first."
Xiao Zhou asked: "Where on Jianshe Road are we going?"
"Just Jianshe Road." Zhang Yansheng did not specify the specific location, "Just drive over there."
Xiao Zhou had no choice but to do as she said and go to Jianshe Road. When they arrived at the destination, he didn't know where Zhang Yansheng was going, so he reminded her "we're here" and then slowed down.
Zhang Yansheng didn't even mention getting out of the car. He just said "hmm" and said, "Just keep driving over there."
Xiao Zhou was confused and drove at a slow speed from one end of Jianshe Road to the other.
Zhang Yansheng kept looking outside. She saw a ten-story building sandwiched between two buildings. But the building's facade now looks a bit rustic, and the sign also shows that it is just an ordinary shopping mall.
The Jinding KTV, which later became popular in K City, had not yet opened at that time.
It was there that Zhang Yansheng was six years later, and someone had drugs put into his drink.
Xiao Zhou drove slowly while looking at Zhang Yansheng in the rearview mirror. He saw the girl staring out the window.
She is clearly still an adolescent girl, but her face has no expression at all, and that look is strangely inconsistent with her age.
He didn't know that what Zhang Yansheng was thinking of at this moment was the stranger who had been with her, holding her hand, and comforting her gently before her death.
When she later left her body, she saw him very clearly.
The young man was in his twenties, with a slender figure, deep eyebrows and eyes, and was very handsome. The look in his eyes looking at her was full of pity and regret.
Zhang Yansheng memorized his face firmly in his mind.
"Ms. Yanyan, we are about to leave Jianshe Road." Xiao Zhou couldn't help but remind her as he saw that the road was almost at the end.
Zhang Yansheng came back to his senses and said calmly, "Okay, let's go back to where we were going."
Xiao Zhou was speechless.
Do you force him to come to Jianshe Road just to drive around? Or was it just to get back later and deliberately leave Liang Yingying without a car?
Such a young girl, but she is so scheming.
Xiao Zhou shook his head in his heart.
Zhang Yansheng didn't have dinner at home that day. When she returned home carrying a pile of shopping bags, Zhang Huan was already at home.
Seeing her come back, he looked particularly kind and asked, "You're back. Where have you been? Have you eaten?"
"I ate." After all, Zhang Yansheng is still a middle school student. It is not yet time for her to be completely out of her parents' control. As a father, it is only natural for her to ask her where she has been and what she has been doing.
She answered him simply: "I went shopping and found a new sparring partner for boxing."
The person she was looking for was actually the sparring partner she continued to use.
It’s just that the other party’s number has been saved in my mobile phone, so I can contact him directly when needed. Now that she has been reborn, she doesn’t have that person’s contact number in her phone, so she can only go to the scene to find him. Fortunately, the person was there today and I found him right away.
The man was a little surprised to see that she was a middle school student. But since Zhang Yansheng could afford the money, he gladly took her business.
"Oh, that's good, let's practice." Zhang Huan said.
His brows were relaxed, and Zhang Yansheng watched him coldly, noticing that he was in a really good mood today.
Didn’t Liang Yingying and Zhang Shuocheng file a complaint?
"Sister, you're back!" Zhang Heling ran down from upstairs and reported to Zhang Yansheng in a gushing manner, "Shuo Shuo writes very slowly. He finished his homework today only after he had lunch and I watched him in the afternoon. I checked everything for him and taught him the mistakes he made."
"Where are the others?"
"He was afraid that you would beat him, so he locked himself in the room and dared not come out." Zhang Heling said gloatingly.
"Yanyan." Zhang Huan interrupted and asked, "Did you beat up Shuoshuo again today?"
He smiled, without a trace of unhappiness on his face. Zhang Yancheng came over, he must have known everything - she beat Zhang Shuocheng, and Zhang Shuocheng completed his homework for the first time.
The first is the cause, the second is the result. The cause is not serious, but the result is very good, which is the result that Zhang Huan likes to see. So he is in a good mood.
"No, I just slapped him a few times." She said, "I set a rule for him that he should do his homework in the morning during the summer vacation and can play in the afternoon."
Zhang Huan had already known all this from Zhang Heling. Whether it was the changes in his eldest daughter or his youngest son, he was surprised and happy, and was in a very good mood.
He said comfortingly, "Very good, very good. You really act like a sister now."
Having understood the man's mentality, Zhang Yansheng lost interest in talking to Zhang Huan. He no longer craved for his attention like before.
She hummed and said, "I'll go upstairs."
Just as I reached the stairs, Liang Yingying came down.
Liang Yingying glared at Zhang Yansheng.
Zhang Yansheng just glanced at her indifferently.
Two people passed each other on the stairs.
"Sister, wait for me!" Zhang Heling chased Zhang Yansheng upstairs.
Liang Yingying pulled her and said, "Where are you going?"
Zhang Heling twisted his shoulders and ran away from her: "I have something to do with my sister!"
Liang Yingying gnashed her teeth in anger.
This daughter is born silly. Ever since she was brought here, she always wants to treat Zhang Yansheng as her real sister. It's really infuriating. It's a money-losing thing, it's of no use at all.
Liang Yingying watched Zhang Heling run upstairs to chase Zhang Yansheng. She was angry for a while and then went downstairs to find Zhang Huan.
"Little girl, why are you back so late?" She went over to massage Zhang Huan's shoulders and said in a coquettish voice, "Your daughter has grown up now. Is she dating someone else?"
"No." Zhang Huan immediately denied, "Yanyan said that she went out to practice boxing. Yanyan is not the kind of child who tells lies."
At this time, Zhang Huan had not yet experienced the rebellious girl he would later become. In his heart, although Zhang Yansheng often had conflicts with Liang Yingying and his academic performance was not as good as it was in elementary school, overall, he was still a good and innocent child.
Liang Yingying felt depressed. Finally, she couldn't hold back her complaints and said, "She asked Xiao Zhou to go out with her, and she just came back. She has been occupying the car all day, so I can't use the car."
As soon as Zhang Huan heard it, he understood why she was unhappy.
"Don't you have a car at home? You can just drive yourself," he said. "You don't have a driver's license."
Liang Yingying pouted: "Driving by myself is not as convenient as having a driver. He can also help me carry the bags when I go shopping."
How could Zhang Huan not understand Liang Yingying's little thoughts? Rather than driving herself, she prefers to have a driver serving her, so that she can look more respectable in front of her sisters.
Zhang Huan smiled inwardly.
But he thought about it and said, "Yanyan is older now, and she will go out more often in the future. She can't drive herself, so the driver at home should be used by her first."
Before Liang Yingying could get angry, he said, "You, you have a driver's license. Do you think your car is not pretty enough? How about this, I'll buy you a new one, how about a Ferrari?"
Liang Yingying was surprised and happy.
Zhang Yansheng's mother had been ill for several years before her death and had been recuperating. All the cars in the house are used by Zhang Huan, so of course they are designed to suit his aesthetic tastes and preferences.
Except for two cars driven by drivers, Liang Yingying doesn't like any other cars because they look old-fashioned! It doesn't match her youthful beauty!
If you had a Ferrari of your own, how face-saving it would be to drive it out!
She was overjoyed: "I want a nicer one!"
"I know. Go pick it yourself and tell me when you're done."
As soon as Zhang Huan finished speaking, Liang Yingying hugged him and kissed him on the face twice: "Thank you, dear!"
The children had all gone upstairs anyway, so Zhang Huan held Liang Yingying in his arms, kissing and caressing her.
But I thought to myself, how nice it would be if my eldest daughter could be like my concubine and could be made happy with money. Zhang Huan is not short of money, and he is unwilling to spend more energy on things that can be settled with money.
Unfortunately, family matters cannot be resolved with money and require the most thought.
He couldn't help but sigh.
Zhang Heling caught up with Zhang Yansheng and said, "Sister, there is a package for you. Aunt Luo put it in your room."
Zhang Yansheng responded: "Got it."
Zhang Heling urged her excitedly: "Hurry up and open it to see what it is."
"No hurry." Zhang Yansheng said indifferently and stepped into his room.
Zhang Heling opened his mouth and held it in.
Zhang Yansheng threw the pile of shopping bags in his hand onto the sofa and saw the express delivery on the coffee table. Zhang Yansheng doesn't like others, especially Zhang Shuocheng, touching her things, so Aunt Luo usually puts her express deliveries in her room.
Zhang Yansheng took out a paper cutter from under the coffee table, cut the tape, opened the outer carton, and saw the inner box that actually contained the product. Only then did he realize why Zhang Heling was so noisy just now - the latest model of game console she bought for her had arrived.
She turned around to greet her, but there was no one around her.
When I looked up, I saw the sister standing at the door, looking at me eagerly with her big eyes full of anticipation.
But even though she was so anxious, she didn't dare to step into her room without Zhang Yansheng's permission and stood outside the door honestly.
So well-behaved that it makes people feel distressed.
Zhang Yansheng was silent for a few seconds, took a breath, and said, "Come in."
Zhang Heling's thin legs quickly rushed in: "Sister, is my game console here?"
Zhang Yansheng took the game box out of the outer carton and handed it to her. Zhang Heling happily jumped a few times while holding the box: "Sister, thank you!"
The little girl couldn't wait to leave: "Sister, I'm going back to my room. I won't disturb you anymore. You should go to bed early."
Zhang Yansheng called her back, "Come back!"
Whoosh, the little girl jumped back again.
Zhang Yansheng: “…”
Zhang Yansheng rolled his eyes. She took out a card from her bag and handed it to Zhang Heling: "This is for you."
Zhang Heling took it: "Bank card?"
His eyes were confused, as if he didn't quite understand.
Zhang Yansheng unexpectedly found some common ground with Liang Yingying in that he felt Zhang Heling was "not very smart".
"You're going to be in the fourth grade soon," she said, "and it's time for you to have some pocket money."
Zhang Heling suddenly realized, and was surprised and happy: "Can I buy things by myself in the future?"
If I told my dad what I wanted, he would say, "Go ask your mom."
But if she tells her mother, she seems unwilling to satisfy her for some reason. The family was clearly not short of money, and Zhang Shuocheng could buy whatever he wanted immediately, but when it came to her, if she took the initiative to ask for something, her mother would always be unhappy. As if she owed her.
Zhang Heling gradually grew up and began to need to spend money, but the older he got, the less willing he was to ask Liang Yingying for money.
I've been hit too many times.
"You can use this card to buy anything you want. You are old enough now, it's time for you to learn how to spend money and manage it," she said. "But giving you pocket money is not to let you spend it recklessly, but to let you learn how to manage your own money. Do you understand?"
Zhang Heling nodded repeatedly and promised: "I won't spend it recklessly!"
Compared to her naughty brother, this sister is really well-behaved.
Zhang Yansheng was quite satisfied and nodded with his arms folded.
"This card is opened in my name, so I can see your spending records. You are still young, so I won't give you a lot of money..." Zhang Yansheng hesitated for a moment, referring to the amount of pocket money he had when he was a child, and decided, "I will give you 10,000 yuan a month first."
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