Chapter 141 – I’m pregnant
Translator: Lav
Editor: Seliniaki llikia
In the morning, Shi Lei was woken by the ringing of his phone. It was the people from the speaker’s shop. They said that they were outside and they needed Shi Lei to let them into the apartment.
After putting on his clothes, Shi Lei let the workers in and was then surrounded by the sound of them installing the speakers. Shi Lei read investment books the whole morning. They were done at noon and he thanked them as he walked them out.
It was rather enjoyable in the afternoon. He sat in his luxuriously furnished apartment and lit a stick of agarwood incense. He was surrounded by the faint smoke from the incense and music. Also, he made a pot of…Oh. There weren’t any tea leaves at home. He’d failed at pretending to be cool, but having a glass of Sprite from 1982 wasn’t too bad.
He studied stocks until the opening quotation. Shi Lei used a mock-deal application to try to invest.
Of course, it was just mock investments, which was similar to playing Monopoly. Although it wasn’t as exciting as the game, it wasn’t too bad.
When it closed later in the afternoon, Shi Lei checked the few stocks he’d picked. Two of them increased slightly in value while the rest all failed.
Keeping these painful failures in mind, Shi Lei continued to study stocks for the remainder of the afternoon. When it was around dinner time, he calculated the amount of money left for the week.
The whole set of speakers was more than 50,000 yuan. He’d spent 3,000 yuan taking Sun Yiyi to dinner, more than 10,000 yuan on the party day yesterday, and approximately 2,000 yuan for the Xingyue Puti and incense. He had about 30,000 yuan left.
But if he included the amount of money he’d spent treating Wei Xingyue to dinner, then he would only have a bit over 10,000 yuan left.Still, it was 10,000 yuan, and he had to consider how to spend it reasonably.
The music from the speaker stopped abruptly when his playlist finished. He remembered the technician who installed the speakers for him saying that in order for the speakers to perform better, it was advisable for Shi Lei to buy a more advanced music player. It was a waste to play music through such good quality speakers from his phone.
But it wasn’t something he needed to consider that much. Since he had 10,000 yuan left, he could just buy one.
He went on the app for second hand items and chose a 5,000 yuan music player, making sure that the seller could mail it to him the next day before paying for it.
He only spent a little bit of money and still had around 10,000 yuan left. Shi Lei saw that the website recommended a bunch of earphones after he bought the player.
From Shi Lei’s perspective, the most expensive earphones were the ones which came with the iPhone, which cost one hundred yuan. It was just a mini semiconductor. How expensive could that be? But in the recommended list, he saw earphones being sold at a price of more than 2,000 yuan.
“Have there always been earphones this expensive?” Shi Lei realized that he was so much of a loser that he lacked basic knowledge of luxury objects in the world.
He typed in “earphones” into the search bar. Shi Lei selected to arrange by price, from the highest to the lowest, of course.
He was shocked. What kind of earphones cost 20,000 yuan?
Shi Lei memorised the name Ailey deeply. It was like robbing money, selling a pair of earphones for 20,000 yuan.
Eventually, Shi Lei chose an HD model of Heinz noise reduction earphones for over 8,000 yuan.
Of course, it must be one that could arrive by tomorrow. However, even though he was using the Black Card’s money, Shi Lei was still butthurt by the price.
Such tiny earphones were as expensive as an Armani blazer?
Shi Lei then discovered more things on the app. He realised that there weren’t only speakers for home use, but there were even professional ones and ones that could be carried around. That was basically building a moving home cinema! Shi Lei thought that the world was becoming more and more mysterious.
That was the progression a loser like him was making. Although his total sum had reached 100,000 yuan per week, it was obvious that he was much different than before. Previously, he’d never thought that spending money was tiring and naturally, he didn’t know that there were particular things he needed to know about music.
Shi Lei briefly calculated that if he bought a top-quality player that he could carry around, an amplifier, and a pair of top quality earphones, one week’s money wasn’t even enough for all of it. He decided to ask the Scepter tomorrow about next week’s sum. If the 10,000 yuan he spent to treat Wei Xingyue wasn’t counted within it, then he could buy a better-quality amplifier. That way, it should use up all of the this week’s money.
Money…it could actually be spent that way!
Shi Lei grew more confident, but his stomach wasn’t, voicing its complaint at the lack of food.
When he was about to leave, the door opened and Sun Yiyi appeared.
Because she realized that Shi Lei really was not short on money recently and it was difficult for him to drink all the soup she’d been making, she finally stopped bringing soup for him. Except she would come every three or five days to help him clean his house. She usually came around this time when Shi Lei was out for dinner so she could do it confidently when she was alone.
When Sun Yiyi cleaned his house for the first time, she didn’t tell him. After Shi Lei returned to the apartment, he was shocked, thinking that there was a miss paludina(1) in his house. He was bewildered; did the Black Card have a function to clean the house? Then, he realised that it was Sun Yiyi who helped him.
“Shitou ge, you are still here. I thought you went out for lunch already!” Sun Yiyi tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and smiled.
“You’re here to help again? Didn’t I tell you that I’ll ask for a cleaner? They have good service here. You are doing part-time jobs during the day and taking care of your mom at night. Don’t tire yourself out too much!”
“It’s fine, I can usually finish cleaning within an hour since your house isn’t too big. Shitou ge, is it because you think I’m not doing a good job? I’ll pay more attention, please don’t be angry. This is the only way I can repay you!”
Seeing that she lowered her head, Shi Lei knew that she would cry again if he said anything more.
When he was about to say “do what you want,” he had a bad feeling. Those three from his dorm found out about Wei Xingyue’s stockings in the rubbish bin and he had yet to get rid of them. If Sun Yiyi saw it, he wouldn’t be able to explain it even if he had a hundred mouths!
No, she mustn’t do the cleaning today!
“Great timing, since you are here, go eat with me. You are taking care of your mother everyday and I feel bad to go find you to keep me company. It’s too boring to eat by myself.” With that, Shi Lei wanted to drag her away.
“But your room is messy…” Sun Yiyi protested.
“It’s been messy for a few days now, so it won’t matter if it’s messy for one more day. We’ll talk about it tomorrow.”
Sun Yiyi could only agree and ate with Shi Lei at a nearby restaurant. Sun Yiyi ate already so she only ordered dessert. She watched Shi Lei with a gentle expression on her face as he ate.
Shi Lei wanted to send Sun Yiyi home but she refused no matter how hard he tried because she wanted to take the bus. In the end, Shi Lei could only watch her go.
Walking along the street, Shi Lei planned to head back. The American stocks were about to open and he planned to practice after reading more books. Of course, it was still only mock investments. Shi Lei didn’t have an American account, and even if he had, the amount of money he possessed could barely buy any stocks.
The phone in his pocket started to ring. He took it out. The screen showed that it was Wei Xingyue, the crazy woman.
Holy crap, she's definitely haunting me. What does she want now?
He thought for a moment, then eventually answered the phone. “What do you want from me?” His tone was extremely unfriendly.
Wei Xingyue blanked out for a second, She’d never met a man who talked to her like that. “You are taking responsibility for this! I’m pregnant!” She yelled angrily.
Shi Lei was stupefied…
Miss Paludina: A chinese fairy tale about a girl who lived inside a Paludina helped the man who picked her to clean his house and make food for him everyday