After Lin Yao finished speaking, he turned to look at Situ Hao, who was having a lively conversation not far away, and said in a secret voice transmission, "Brother Hao."
Situ Hao glanced at his friends with a strange look, then looked around to the left and right. He didn't see anyone standing nearby, and the voice sounded unfamiliar. He thought he might be hallucinating, so he ignored it and continued chatting with the hot fire.
"No, that won't do," Lin Yao continued. This time, he used a disguised voice, "Brother Situ."
Situ Hao, who was in the distance, was startled. He stopped speaking abruptly and looked around in surprise, ignoring his friends who called out to him, "Situ, what's wrong?"
Lin Yao raised his hand, staring at Situ Hao with a warm smile, so that the other party could find his target.
"Excuse me, I'm coming over for a bit." Situ Hao hurriedly said to his friends and quickly walked towards the corner where Lin Yao was.
"you……"
"Brother Situ, it's me." Lin Yao grinned, stood up, left his seat, and went over to hug Situ Hao, but felt that he was hugging a somewhat stiff body. At this moment, Situ Hao still couldn't confirm it.
With a sudden burst of strength, Situ Hao hugged Lin Yao tightly. He finally confirmed Lin Yao's eyes. Although he used to have single eyelids and his eye shape was different, he couldn't be wrong about the feeling. It must be Lin Yao!
"Brother Situ, please sit down." Lin Yao gestured for Situ Hao to sit down and then formally introduced himself, "I'm really sorry it's taken you so long to see my true appearance, hehe."
"You little brat, you scared me half to death!" Situ Hao was already quite familiar with Lin Yao. Even though he had never seen his real face or heard his undisguised voice, he punched Lin Yao in the chest as soon as he heard him speak. "You made me think I'd seen a ghost."
Xia Yuwen, who was watching the scene unfold, couldn't help but chuckle and lost her composure.
She didn't know how Lin Yao had managed to get Situ Hao to come over from such a distance, but she knew it must be some kind of martial arts technique. After all, her grandfather and father both practiced martial arts, and she had even heard her grandfather say that there were more powerful martial arts in the world, but ordinary people couldn't learn them. She figured her boyfriend must be one of those people who had learned them, no wonder he was so powerful.
"And this is..." Situ Hao was surprised, only then noticing the pretty girl next to Lin Yao. Being seated alone with Lin Yao meant they had a special relationship, hence his question.
"This is your sister-in-law, Xia Yuwen," Lin Yao introduced. "She's the granddaughter of General Nu Shi."
Just as Situ Hao was about to greet someone, he suddenly choked on his own saliva, bent over and coughed, and it took him a long time to recover.
Without even greeting Xia Yuwen, Situ Hao gave Lin Yao a thumbs-up and said, "Brother, great!"
"Wow, that's amazing!" Situ Hao thought to himself. He'd been wronged by his grandfather, but in the blink of an eye, he'd snatched away that man's beautiful granddaughter. This kind of revenge is simply brilliant!
That's amazing!
"Hello, sister-in-law, I am Situ Hao."
Even after coughing, you should still greet them; this is a matter of etiquette, after all, it's the first time you've met.
"This is a small token of my appreciation, a gift for meeting you and your wife for the first time. It was all so sudden, I didn't prepare anything. I'll have your sister-in-law prepare a more formal gift for you tomorrow. The PIN is six sixes." Situ Hao casually took out a bank card from the inside pocket of his suit. Needless to say, it was a card he kept on hand for long-term use, specifically for bribery or gifts.
"Ah... no need."
Xia Yuwen was a little flustered. She had received gifts before, but being given one while with Lin Yao made her very anxious. If she accepted it, it would give her boyfriend the impression that he was greedy for money, but she couldn't say whether it was appropriate to refuse it or not. This was a difficult situation.
"Take it. Brother Situ is rich; he's a wealthy man in the capital. Besides, there's not much money in here. Just use it to buy some clothes or something, so that when we go shopping together, we can only look but not buy."
Lin Yao made Xia Yuwen accept the gift, and didn't stand on ceremony with Situ Hao; their relationship had reached a point where such formalities were unnecessary.
Most importantly, after joining the world, Lin Yao set a principle for himself: everything must be done according to the rules, except for matters outside of his official duties. All expenses were covered by his earnings from his part-time job.
But that meager monthly salary of ten thousand yuan was really barely enough to make ends meet.
The last time I pretended to be Vivienne's boyfriend to buy clothes, I almost spent all of my first month's income. Now I only have a little over ten thousand yuan in my savings account for the second month, which is really not enough to accomplish anything significant.
Now that he has a girlfriend, Lin Yao is still hesitating about whether to revise the rules and not include the expenses of dating in his worldly cultivation. After all, romance comes at a cost, and a rather high one at that. As a dating novice, Lin Yao is now facing financial troubles.
"Oh," Xia Yuwen replied obediently, smiling as she thanked Situ Hao, "Thank you, Brother Situ!"
Xia Yuwen blushed even more. This was the first time she had shown her face in front of people who knew Lin Yao's identity, and she was even called his sister-in-law. It was really too embarrassing.
Situ Hao had many questions for Lin Yao, such as how he ended up at this gathering, how he managed to seduce General Xia's granddaughter, whether he had important business in Beijing, and whether he needed Situ Hao's cooperation, and so on.
In the end, all that came out was, "What are you doing here?"
"I work in Beijing and I'm colleagues with Sister Qi. By the way, she's the hostess celebrating her birthday today. You must know her."
Lin Yao's words shocked Situ Hao once again: "Working?! You're going to work for someone else?!"
Lin Yao looked at Situ Hao's constantly surprised expression with amusement and said with a smile, "Of course, we should rely on our own efforts and work hard. We can't sponge off our parents. We can't always depend on my parents for a living, can we?"
“You’re so rich, it’s ridiculous to be accused of sponging off your parents. It would make Brother Situ laugh at you.”
Xia Yuwen spoke a fair word, instantly increasing Situ Hao's positive impression of her. At this moment, his younger brother was still teasing him, and he thought to himself, "My sister-in-law is so straightforward!"
Lin Yao had told Xia Yuwen a story about how he extorted money from her grandfather. Xia Yuwen laughed so hard she couldn't move. So she was also familiar with the best intermediary, Situ Hao, even though they hadn't met yet. Now that Lin Yao was talking nonsense, she naturally had to expose him because she also wanted to know Lin Yao's real purpose for working.
"Hehe, it's just for fun. I'm coming to the capital to stay for a while and find a wife. Of course, I can't just stay idle all the time, so I still need to find a job to do."
"He tells lies without thinking!"
Situ Hao and Xia Yuwen both thought the same thing, but they didn't press for details. It was obvious that Lin Yao didn't want to say more, so they let him be. They figured there must be something secret. People tend to be lenient and understanding towards people with extraordinary abilities.
“You could actually work at my supermarket, I’ll pay you a high salary.” Situ Hao couldn’t help but blurt out a sentence.
Lin Yao's contribution to his business is indescribable. As the only sales point for the drought-resistant beverage nationwide, his supermarket business was unstoppable, leading him to open several branches and even begin to venture into other industries.
However, because Lin Yao, who used to be Angel's only agent in China, doesn't take on much domestic business now, Situ Hao is struggling to deal with an increasing number of patients with growing status and influence, which is a real headache for him.
Fortunately, I have a capable wife at home; otherwise, I estimate that I would have to spend all my time dealing with this kind of thing, and my rapidly developing career would be affected.
"I'll think about it," Lin Yao replied, thinking to himself, "Are you kidding me? If I work for you, you'll be bringing patients to bother me all the time. What's the point of working there then?"
Lin Yao was well aware of Situ Hao's suffering, because the other party would complain on the phone almost every few days, making himself sound like a wronged wife, constantly dealing with people he couldn't afford to offend.
The Chinese people's habit of cultivating connections will never change, no matter the time or place. If they can't get treatment from Situ Hao, they will try every means to find someone who can control Situ Hao, or his relatives and friends. In short, as long as there is even the slightest connection, those who are not afraid of death will make the most of it.