Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 60

Gu Jialing called his driver over.

The black luxury car was parked outside the community, and four people went to the car. Xie Jingyuan opened the door first, let Su Miaomiao sit in the back, and then he sat next to her.

Relying on his strong physique, Xu Shou squeezed Gu Jialing away, and as soon as he sat down, he closed the door.

Gu Jialing gritted his teeth and went to the passenger seat.

The driver gave him a worried look.

Obviously that was the Gu family’s car, why were the three classmates so rude?

Just as the driver had that thought, Su Miaomiao in the back was squeezed by Xie Jingyuan. She looked at Xu Shou and said unhappily, “Let Gu Jialing sit in the back, Xu Shou is taking up too much space.”

Although she liked the smell of Xie Jingyuan, that didn’t mean she liked being squeezed by him.

When resting, Su Miaomiao liked to occupy the entire sofa by herself, and liked to sleep on a big bed by herself.

Her meaning was too obvious, Xie Jingyuan silently moved toward Xu Shou.

Xu Shou only wanted to protect the Taoist master, but realized that his body size had brought inconvenience to him, so he changed positions with Gu Jialing without hesitation.

Gu Jialing proudly said, “Isn’t it inconvenient for you to grow so strong?”

Xu Shou ignored him in a serious and introverted way, like a professional bodyguard.

The driver looked at Gu Jialing’s sunny smiling face, and completely swallowed his worries.

After ten o’clock, the four of them arrived at Longxing Building, one of the landmark buildings in Anshi.

There, one could find famous domestic and international brands, including jewelry, clothing, gourmet food, etc.

Gu Jialing was most familiar with that place, and took the initiative to lead the three of them to the jewelry area on the second floor.

Su Miaomiao seldom visited jewelry stores, because Su Mingan and Tang Shiwei were afraid of their daughter’s love for jewelry. If the daughter could restrain herself and only pick one or two pieces, that was fine. But not wanting to cruelly reject their daughter’s expectant eyes, the couple simply added the jewelry store on the blacklist of parent-child activities, a sad place destined to disappoint their daughter.

Before entering the store, Xie Jingyuan emphasized to Su Miaomiao, “Just buy one kind of earring.”

Su Miaomiao nodded obediently.

The four of them officially stepped in.

The building opened at ten o’clock in the morning, and the four of them came early. They were the first wave of customers of that jewelry store.

Three men and one woman, all about fifteen or sixteen years old, the men were handsome and the woman was beautiful.

Several female shop assistants were dumbfounded. After a while, they took out their phones to secretly take pictures, and were going to show off to their friends that it was like a big star visiting the store.

In Su Miaomiao’s eyes, only the cabinets of jewels remained.

Her eyes were drawn to, and stuck by every jewel, and her steps became slower and slower. Her fair and beautiful face was almost attached to the glass surface of the counter.

Gu Jialing was different, he only had a soft spot for blue jewelry.

Xu Shou had no interest in jewelry, and followed Su Miaomiao every step of the way with Xie Jingyuan next to him.

Xie Jingyuan told Xu Shou that he was going to leave after buying the earrings, otherwise the mall would be closed by the time Su Miaomiao finished seeing all the jewelry.

“Taoist Master, how much living expenses does uncle give you a month?”

Just as Xie Jingyuan stood still in front of the sapphire jewelry display case, Gu Jialing approached in a fawning manner. He also understood the situation, that the Gu family was just a local tyrant, but the Xie family was the richest.

Xie Jingyuan: “I don’t know.”

Xie Rong’s money was directly handed over to Grandma Tao. Since Xie Jingyuan got his own card, he had never asked Grandma Tao for money. Instead, he regularly transferred money to Grandma Tao.

Gu Jialing mistook that Xie Rong gave too much living expenses, and the Taoist master had already saved so much that he forgot the exact amount.

“Taoist Master, my living expenses for this month have been used up, why don’t you support me?”

Xie Jingyuan glanced at him, “What do you want to buy? If it is a necessary item for high school students, I can pay for it for you.”

Gu Jialing: “…”

Xie Jingyuan ignored him and looked down. There were sapphire earrings inside, but the style was different from the one Gu Jialing had.

Xie Jingyuan called Su Miaomiao, “Will you pick yourself, or should I just buy it?”

Su Miaomiao finally gave up those jewels that could only be seen but not bought, and went to Xie Jingyuan’s side.

There were all kinds of sapphire jewelry in the showcase, among which sapphire stud earrings belong to the smallest category.

Su Miaomiao pointed to a necklace inlaid with eight cat-eye-sized sapphires and diamonds in the middle, “Master Taoist, I…”

Xie Jingyuan said coldly, “No, you can only choose earrings, a necklace is not acceptable.”

Su Miaomiao bit her lower lip and looked at him pitifully with big eyes.

She knew that every time she behaved like that, her parents would have the heart to refuse, and even if they refused, they would secretly feel guilty.

Xie Jingyuan frowned.

Seeing that the method seemed to be useful, Gu Jialing hurriedly imitated Su Miaomiao’s posture and looked over pitifully.

Xie Jingyuan’s slightly frowned brows relaxed again, and his voice became colder, “It’s fine if you don’t want to buy it.”

Su Miaomiao pouted angrily, pushed away Gu Jialing who was in the way, and began to carefully compare the sizes of gemstones on several earrings.

Gu Jialing could only watch helplessly.

Although his family had a mine, the living expenses given by the old man couldn’t be enough for him to buy gems as he liked, and the earring was bought with the money he had saved for a long time.

“Jing Yuan?” A familiar female voice came over.

Xie Jingyuan turned his head and saw Qiao Lili walking toward the store together with two rich wives who were similar in appearance and temperament to her.

“This is my Jing Yuan, who just entered No. 1 High School this year,” Qiao Lili introduced him to her two companions with a smile as she walked.