Marriage as a Game

Chapter 43: Free labor, are you using it properly?
"Delivering medicine to the old man?" Bai Jinyuan asked. She didn't rush in. She leaned her back against the trunk of a rare shrub and looked at Shang Jianghan.

The task of delivering the medicine was originally assigned to Bai Jingran, but this guy went out traveling these days and simply disappeared.

"Ah."

Shang Jianghan's voice spread in the air along with a puff of gray smoke.

He withdrew his gaze and fixed it on Bai Jinyuan's black shoulder bag. Was this limited edition custom-made bag worth hundreds of thousands of dollars used by her as a convenience bag for brown paper bags?
Only the second daughter of the Bai family, who regards money as dirt, can do such a thing!
"Are the results out?" Shang Jianghan pointed his chin at the exposed corner of the brown paper bag.

When talking about the results of this month's exam, Bai Jinyuan's eyes were filled with smiles, and even the black-framed glasses that covered half of her face became less rigid.

"Guess who's the oldest this time?" Bai Jinyuan's voice was filled with mystery.

The first image that came to my mind was a girl with a ponytail, lying on the desk and doing her homework seriously. Her white and delicate neck with smooth and graceful lines was like a natural sculpture, emitting a silver halo.

The index finger tapped the white dark-patterned cigarette body, and thin ash fell down.

A faint smile appeared in the bottom of his dark eyes. "Needless to say, judging from Teacher Bai's expression, your class is ranked first again, right?"

"That's right!" Bai Jinyuan was proud of it, and then lowered her voice as if she was telling a secret: "742 points, just lost a point for Chinese composition! How could this child be so... I don't know how to describe it! Anyway, Teacher Cao's face turned green, Liao Juntao only scored 710! And there are only five out of the nine classes with scores above !"

Although the voice was low, the excitement surged out like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.

Shang Jianghan raised the corner of his mouth, held the half-smoked cigarette between his lips and said nothing more.

"I've talked to Shen Chaoxi. She'll live on campus as soon as her grandmother is discharged from the hospital. We can't delay any longer. I plan to have her take some time out every day to tutor those second-generation rich kids! Although those kids are at the bottom of the list in this monthly exam, their scores have improved a lot. This is all thanks to the study plan that Shen made for them!"

Hearing this, Shang Jianghan said, "Free labor, do you think it's useful?"

The words are full of joking, but also carry deep meaning.

Bai Jinyuan naturally understood what he meant. She didn't know if it was because of Zhongli, but her nephew seemed to be quite caring towards Shen Chaoxi.

"I've thought about this question too. I'll ask Shen Chaoxi for her opinion. She's not a materialistic kid!"

Who said that teachers don’t use grades as a tinted spectacles in their eyes? Bai Jinyuan is clearly one of them this time!
At this time, the aunt from the family came out and said that the old man could not understand the instructions for the medicine.

This meant asking Bai Jinyuan to come in, but the aunt didn't dare to say it clearly because Shang Jianghan was there.

Bai Jinyuan responded to her aunt and said she would go in right away. She said goodbye to Shang Jianghan and was about to turn around when she suddenly thought of something and asked a question.

"You went on a blind date? In Xiyuan?"

The cigarette butt was casually extinguished in the trash can and cigarette box. Upon hearing this, Shang Jianghan was slightly startled, frowned and looked over with a puzzled look on his face.

Before he could speak, Bai Jinyuan's cell phone photo was already in front of him.

"I posted it in our class group and the students saw it. They were talking about you all day long!"

"Class Nine Group?" Shang Jianghan took the phone and saw that there were too many messages in the group chat, so he copied it and sent it to himself.

At this time, even he didn't have time to think about why he was so bothered by the students' comments!

"Yes, twenty of them created a group, and I was too lazy to create one, so I asked Zhongli to drag me in. There has been a lot of noise here all day!"

Although Bai Jinyuan was confused, she didn't think much about it. She put away her phone and went into the villa.

After coming out of the Bai family villa, Shang Jianghan drove a long way before stopping by the roadside.

This area is a villa district with lush greenery. There are not many vehicles coming and going. Occasionally, a few luxury cars pass by, and their high beams sweep past. The faces of the people in the cars flicker and are not clear as they look down at their phones.

Most of the members of the class group of Class 9 use their real names. Shang Jianghan just used a special method, and now the entire background of the class group is in front of him.

He flipped through the records quickly, rarely stopping to look at unimportant information, and only paused when a flaming head occasionally said a few words.

As soon as the photo of his "blind date" came out today, the class group has been talking about it from noon to now, but the person with the flame avatar has never spoken.

Can you move house day and night?
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On the 4th, Shen Chaoxi went to the city library in the morning, returned some books, and bought several sets of basic review materials at the library next door. She planned to give these things to several classmates in the class.

After getting the drawings approved, she took a walk around the nearby small shopping mall. Thinking that her grandmother would soon be discharged from the hospital, she bought her two sets of home clothes and a slightly thicker autumn outfit for herself.

It was already past four in the afternoon when she returned home, so she did not go to the hospital. Instead, she called her grandmother for a while and agreed to visit her early the next morning and ask the doctor about her discharge.

The next morning, Shen Chaoxi took two buses to get to the hospital. As she came out of the elevator, she almost bumped into someone.

The other person was a middle-aged man, well-dressed, about 1.85 meters tall, with a well-proportioned body, without the big belly of middle-aged men. He looked very elegant and wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

The two of them politely apologized to each other. Shen Chaoxi felt that the other person's features looked familiar, so he turned around and looked at the man who had already entered the elevator car.

At this moment, the man pressed a button with one hand, and when he raised his eyes, his gaze met Shen Chaoxi's.

There was a sudden look of surprise in the man's dark eyes.

The silver-white elevator car door slowly closed, quickly blocking the two people's sight.

Shen Chaoxi didn't pay much attention to his gaze. In public places, the opposite sex looked at her with a certain amount of amazement.

Shen Chaoxi walked towards the ward area. It was about time for the ward rounds, and the attending doctors and nurses were busy making preliminary preparations.

Several patients' family members were standing in groups of three or four in the corridor, each with a different expression.

Who would want to stay in a place like this for longer?

"You're here to see your grandma again! You're such a good kid!" The family members of the neighboring patients had met several times and would greet each other every time.

"Your grandma is about to be discharged from the hospital. I've seen her taking walks in the garden these days. She looks much better. But she has just recovered from a serious illness, so she still needs to rest more. Only when you are old and healthy can you enjoy the blessings of your children!"

"Yes, you look healthy too. You might even be discharged earlier than my grandmother!... I'll go see my grandmother first."

Shen Chaoxi had no choice but to deal with some social etiquette.

I met a few familiar family members of fellow patients, chatted with them briefly, and finally arrived at the door of my grandmother's ward.

Shen Chaoxi breathed a sigh of relief, feeling as if he had been executed.

The patients in the same ward as my grandmother were discharged yesterday, and today my grandmother is the only patient in this ward.

Shen Chaoxi put his hand on the tin-plated door handle and was about to push down hard when he heard suppressed sobbing coming from the ward.

The voice was not my grandmother's.

Shen Chaoxi looked inside through the transparent glass in the middle of the wooden door of the ward.

In the ward, grandma was leaning against the head of the bed, tears in her eyelashes. Next to her was a woman in a purple suit.

Shen Chaoxi's heart suddenly stopped beating, and severe pain gradually spread.

　Guess who she is?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)