Chapter 115 Because you are worth the price

Song Xinyao accepted the role of tour guide.

She took Ling Yue out for wild fun for eight consecutive days.

Until continuous, overcast rain began to fall in Suzhou, and the travel plans were changed to staying at home and being lazy.

Seeing everyone cooped up in the villa, Ling Yue had a sudden idea: "I checked the weather forecast, and it's going to rain for the next week, so there's no way to go out and have fun. Anyone with ideas can apply for time off with Qu Shu."

"Just ensure that one person from each position stays by my side. Leave Alphard here for me, and you can drive the other cars yourselves. Qu Shu and Cheng Jiao, you two are also included in the list for time off; go back and relax properly."

It wasn't raining in Hangzhou, and since everyone was from Hangzhou, they could take advantage of the leave to go back and stay with their families.

Ling Yue could be called a top-tier boss, but work was work. Once they heard they could take time off, everyone was like monkeys returning to the mountains, joyful and almost jumping for joy.

They one after another found Qu Shu to arrange their time off.

Everyone had three and a half days of vacation.

That evening, the first batch of people on vacation packed their luggage.

A group of people got together, a few cars were just enough to sit in, and before night fell, they drove away from the villa.

Even though not many people left, it felt like the villa suddenly became empty.

In the following days, Ling Yue lived a life of being pampered, with everything brought to her. To keep fit, she swam for one hour every afternoon without fail.

She spent eight full days as a salted fish at home.

The April on the calendar also turned into May.

Song Xinyao pinched the roll of fat on her stomach and fell into self-doubt. "We eat the same things, so why don't you gain weight, but I gained eight pounds? Half a month! Eight pounds of meat! Do you know how hard that is to lose?"

A feeling called despair occupied her heart.

Ling Yue sat in the outdoor lawn lounge area, drinking apple juice elegantly, occasionally closing her eyes to bask in the sun.

"I thought about taking you swimming, but you were lazy and complained that the water was cold, so don't blame me."

"Wuwuwu, I finally tasted the flavor of indulgence!!!" She sang a lyric with a sad wail as she spoke.

Liang Hanlin, who was following closely, tightened his lip line and stepped forward several steps just to get away from Song Xinyao.

"Boss, your phone call."

Ling Yue had left her phone in the kitchen. Wang Junqi was plating the small desserts he had made when he heard a vibration coming from the island counter. Since only the boss used a tri-fold phone in the house, he hurriedly took the phone outside.

"Whose call is it?" Ling Yue asked with her eyes closed.

Wang Junqi looked at the screen. "Auntie Huang."

Half a month had passed; Auntie Huang calling at this time must be about company matters.

"Answer it."

As soon as Ling Yue's words fell, Wang Junqi answered the phone, pressed the speakerphone, and held the phone to Ling Yue's mouth.

"Hello, Yueyue." Huang Qianhua greeted from the other end of the phone.

A faint smile tugged at the corners of Ling Yue's lips.

"Auntie Huang, good afternoon. Are there any results regarding the company?"

"Yes!" Huang Qianhua's tone revealed joy. "The company has been registered, and the team members have been recruited. It just depends on when you can come over to sign the contract."

"I'm free anytime; I can come over immediately."

After a week of continuous rain, it finally cleared up today, so it was time to go out for a walk.

Huang Qianhua: "Then we will wait for you at Mother Jiang's house."

Ling Yue: "The lawyer is there too, right?"

Huang Qianhua: "Yes, he is."

Ling Yue: "Then I'm leaving now."

Ling Yue put down the tea set, stood up, took the phone from Wang Junqi's hand, and hung up the call.

She turned to Song Xinyao, who was testing the water temperature of the swimming pool not far away, and said, "Song Xinyao, come over and change your clothes. We're going to your house in a while."

"Coming." Song Xinyao was shivering from the cold water. There was no dry towel nearby. She wanted to wipe the water on her body, but when she looked down and saw her good friend's expensive purple-label clothing, she ultimately couldn't bring herself to do it.

"Then I'll just go home today."

Song Xinyao put on the outfit she was wearing when she went to the hotel to find Ling Yue last time.

Without realizing it, she had stayed at the villa for 16 days. It was really a waste of time.

"What are you going to do when you go back?" Ling Yue asked her.

Song Xinyao said seriously, "Before I work for you, I have to sell the embroidery I've hoarded."

"Then why don't you sell them to me? I'll buy them at a high price." Ling Yue said casually.

Song Xinyao shook her head. "Thanks, CEO, but I still want to go out and set up a stall."

"I offered you immense wealth, and you really don't know how to enjoy it." Ling Yue teased.

Song Xinyao shrugged. "Those embroideries of mine aren't mature yet. You only want to buy them for my sake, but I don't want you to spend this money. Sometimes I find it strange; I want my best friend to be successful and support me, but I'm afraid my best friend will really spend money on me endlessly. You finally became a rich woman, don't let me eat you into bankruptcy!"

To put it plainly. The premise of enjoying immense wealth is that one must contribute first. But now, she was blindly taking from Ling Yue. In a relationship, if you can't contribute to each other, problems will arise sooner or later.

"Eat me into bankruptcy? Just with your mouth?" Ling Yue certainly wouldn't expose her assets. She could think in her heart that if Song Xinyao knew how many zeros were behind her savings, she would probably be scared to death on the spot.

"Forget it, let's do it your way." Ling Yue rubbed Song Xinyao's head.

The Song family courtyard. Before they even entered the door, they could hear everyone talking.

"Mom, Dad, we're back." Song Xinyao pushed open the slightly ajar courtyard gate carelessly.

Everyone was in the courtyard, and Attorney Wang, recommended by Qian Xu, was also there.

After Qian Xu finished the house transfer, he returned to Hangzhou. He had been very busy lately, and she didn't know what he was busy with.

"Ms. Ling, this is the multi-person signing contract I prepared. Please take a look." Attorney Wang took out a thick document.

Ling Yue looked through it first, then gave it to Cheng Jiao.

Cheng Jiao had studied some legal knowledge and found it easier to understand the obscure contract terms.

"Miss, the contract is fine." Cheng Jiao read it carefully for a full 40 minutes.

"Good, then let's talk about wages now." Ling Yue sat in the high seat, glanced at the contract, looked up, and said, "Which one is Shi Ming?"

The embroiderer who embroidered the Guanyin Sitting on the Lotus picture last time raised her hand. "It's me."

When Ling Yue was lazing at home, she had carefully considered everyone's salary.

She opened her phone and found the notes in her memo.

"The annual salary I'm giving you is 400,000."

Shi Ming's body trembled slightly. She was at a loss for a moment, and the next second she looked at Mother Jiang.

Mother Jiang was also surprised. The wages of embroiderers had always been very low. The price Ling Yue gave was far beyond expectations.

The scene was silent.

Ling Yue took the initiative to break the silence. "I said, I don't care what the average salary of embroiderers outside is. The amount of money I give is because you are worth this price."

After speaking, she glanced at the contract again. "Which one is Luo Chunfeng?"

An embroiderer over sixty years old raised her hand.

Ling Yue had heard Song Xinyao mention her. This embroiderer had started learning embroidery at the age of 12 and had 50 years of experience so far. She had a language defect and could not speak, but her skills were the best among all the embroiderers.

Her shortcoming was that she had no ability to create on her own. But she also had a special skill: any picture that was photographed, she could almost completely replicate into embroidery stitch by stitch.

"The annual salary I'm giving you is 1.2 million."

Luo Chunfeng pursed her lips and raised her finger to point at herself.

Ling Yue smiled gently and nodded at her. "Yes, you heard that right."

Luo Chunfeng made a gesture.

Mother Jiang was a very good friend of hers and often took orders to work together. She knew the meaning of Luo Chunfeng's sign language and hurriedly pressed her hand down.

"Yueyue said, whatever she gives is because you are worth this price, so just take it with peace of mind."

Luo Chunfeng's eyes were red, and she clasped her hands together and bowed in Ling Yue's direction.

Ling Yue hurriedly jumped up and moved to the side.

Mother Jiang helplessly put her arms around Luo Chunfeng's shoulders. "Sister Luo, how old are you? How old is the little girl? If you bow to her, aren't you shortening her life?"

Luo Chunfeng opened her mouth, her hands moving non-stop.

Mother Jiang nodded and said, "I know you didn't mean it. Let's go sit on the side. You will be a master in the future, and you will only work for the little girl, without having to deal with other people. No one will dare to laugh at you again. In the future, let's work hard and save money."

Luo Chunfeng wiped her eyes and nodded hard.

She was mute due to acquired vocal cord damage, so she didn't go to school after graduating from elementary school and had been learning embroidery from her grandmother.

When she was young, she had joined some embroidery teams or studios. Places with many people had many disputes, and there were always people who would mock or isolate her.

She didn't like that kind of environment, so when she grew up, she went out on her own.

Also because she couldn't speak and didn't like to communicate with people, she focused on embroidery techniques. She had been studying this for 50 years.

To be honest, if it weren't for Mother Jiang guaranteeing her this time that she only needed to deal with her own sisters, she wouldn't have come no matter what.

And now that she had come, what she never dreamed of was that she would actually get an annual salary of one million~

How could this not be considered an affirmation of her work and skills?

Ling Yue didn't know about Luo Chunfeng's experiences. She only knew that the two reference works Luo Chunfeng had brought before were incredibly brilliant.

One was a sunset picture that even embroidered the light, shadow, and river texture. The embroidery was brilliant, as if the sunset was really shining.

One was a double-sided different-colored cat picture that even embroidered the hair and charm. It looked like it had been taken with a camera, as if it was about to rush out of the embroidery cloth in the next second.

Ling Yue had also visited some embroidery studios and museums during her days out.

Ling Yue didn't think Luo Chunfeng's work was worse than the works in the museum.

She was willing to pay a high price for the craftsmanship.

Even so, she was worried that the price was low, but money could be increased slowly; she had to see the finished product embroidered by the other party first.

The salary range was very large.

However, no one at the scene raised any objections.

Luo Chunfeng's work was her confidence.