Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 35

At noon, Su Miaomiao really took a taxi with Xie Jingyuan to the Skyline Building, and had a very delicious meal with her friends at the grilled fish shop.

Su Miaomiao brought a satchel, and when she was full and remembered to pay, Xie Jingyuan had already paid the bill in advance.

If the two of them were together, no matter what they did, Xie Jingyuan would pay for it. Su Miaomiao was used to it and didn’t care too much.

When Su Mingan came back in the evening, Su Miaomiao took out the one thousand yuan from her wallet and returned it to her father.

The Taoist master had already earned hundreds of thousands of yuan, but Su Miaomiao was still a high school student who thought that a thousand yuan was too big an amount to handle. Such a sum of money should be handed over to her parents for safekeeping.

Su Mingan looked at the banknotes in his daughter’s hand, and asked speculatively, “Did Jingyuan pay for lunch?”

“Yes.”

Su Mingan took a deep breath, went to the kitchen for a while, sorted out the ingredients for dinner first, while sorting out the thoughts in his head. Su Mingan came out again, and called his daughter to the dining table, preparing for a father-daughter conversation and money education.

“Miao Miao, Jing Yuan is of the same age as you, and he is still a student. His pocket money is given by Uncle Xie and Grandma. You can’t always spend his money. I have money, you can ask me for money. You can’t just spend other men’s money, okay?”

“Why?”

Su Mingan said solemnly, “Because you are short-handed, you accept the benefits of others, and the other party can use this to negotiate terms with you. In the end, you are the one who will suffer the real loss. We can only use our money, or in the future, what you earn by yourself.”

 “Okay, I’ll remember that.”

Su Mingan thought it would be difficult for his daughter to accept the truth, but he didn’t expect it to be resolved so smoothly.

He patted his daughter’s head in relief, looked at the one thousand yuan on the table and said, “Then you should find a chance to return the money for the grilled fish to Jing Yuan, and say it’s your treat.”

Su Miaomiao nodded.

The next day her parents went to work, Su Miaomiao slept well and ate well, then she went to 1002 to find Xie Jingyuan.

Grandma Tao was not at home either, Xie Jingyuan stood at the door, as if he didn’t want to invite Su Miaomiao in, “What’s the matter?”

Su Miaomiao took out the money from her pocket and said what she was told.

Xie Jingyuan knew that Su Mingan wanted to teach his daughter the correct view of money, and he also supported it, saying, “It was more than five hundred in total, just give me five hundred.”

The tranquility and obedience on Su Miaomiao’s face disappeared, and she looked at him in disbelief, “Taoist Master, you are so stingy. Do you really want it?”

Her father said that she couldn’t spend other people’s money casually, Su Miaomiao really accepted it.

The question was, what kind of outsider was Xie Jingyuan?

She was the cat of the Qingxu Temple, and he was the master of the Qingxu Temple, so it was right for him to support her. That was because she had her parents to take care of her, otherwise Xie Jingyuan should be responsible for her basic necessities of life.

Xie Jingyuan looked into her shining eyes, and said helplessly, “If you don’t want to give it, then forget it.”

Su Miaomiao didn’t want to give it, and told him, “If my father asks you, just say that I have already given you five hundred yuan.”

Xie Jingyuan hummed perfunctorily.

Su Miaomiao turned around and was about to leave, but Xie Jingyuan suddenly asked, “What are you going to use the five hundred yuan for?”

Su Miaomiao turned her head, stared at him and said, “I want to hide it. In case you don’t care about me one day, and my parents don’t want me anymore, I will still have money to buy food.”

Xie Jingyuan felt that this was not a good sign.

Once the cat demon had the heart to stand on her own, her heart would become wilder, and one day she would run away.

In that world, Xie Jingyuan’s methods of restraining demons were useless. The easiest way was to keep her in sight.

“If you hide it, it can be discovered by uncle and aunt. Why don’t you leave it to me and I will keep it for you? I will keep the account. If you want to use it in the future, I will give it to you,” Xie Jingyuan suggested.

Su Miaomiao asked vigilantly, “What if you renege on my account?”

Xie Jingyuan’s eyes were calm, he said, “Cultivators don’t lie.”

Su Miaomiao believed it, and walked to 1002, “I want to see your accounts.”

Three minutes later, Su Miaomiao returned home contentedly with the remaining five hundred yuan.

In a blink of an eye, it was Sunday, August 29th, the last weekend before the first year of high school.

At around ten o’clock in the morning, Su Mingan drove his family’s SUV with Xie Jingyuan, Grandma Tao, Tang Shiwei, and Su Miaomiao to the villa where Xie Rong and Qiao Lili lived together.

The women sat in the back.

Tang Shiwei sat in the middle, with her daughter on the left and Grandma Tao on the right.

She chatted with Grandma Tao, “Miaomiao is ignorant. Every time she sees Lanlan, she always gets into a fight. I feel embarrassed.”

Grandma Tao snorted, “Why are you telling me this? I like Miaomiao more than Lanlan. That child, Lanlan, is spoiled by her parents. Wasn’t she the one who provoked Miaomiao first? I think Miaomiao is pretty good.”

Tang Shiwei: …

Su Mingan joked, “It turns out that Miaomiao’s unwillingness to suffer was learned from you.”

Grandma Tao said proudly, “That’s how it should be. The child I raised can do whatever she likes.”

If Su Miaomiao really obediently let Xie Wenlan bully her, she would be angry.

Talking and laughing all the way, they arrived at the villa.

When the two families got together, Xie Rong intentionally spared a day’s schedule. He saw Su Mingan’s car driving in from the living room, and he called Qiao Lili and the twins out to greet them.

“Grandmother!”