“Oh my, Young Master! You didn’t hurt yourself, did you…?”
A shrill, duck-like voice came from the doorway.
The moment Su Han heard it, he knew exactly who it belonged to. It was Luo Xiaosi, the Su Family’s driver and bodyguard.
Luo Xiaosi was the son of Nanny Liu, the Su Family’s housekeeper. Ever since he was young, Nanny Liu had brought him along while working for the Su Family, so Luo Xiaosi had practically grown up here. Since he was also a few years older than Su Han, Su Han had always called him Brother Xiaosi.
Brother Xiaosi was no ordinary man. Although he had a duck-like voice, acted somewhat effeminately, and liked to raise his little finger while speaking, beneath all that was an incredibly loyal and dependable man.
Su Han still remembered that after the Su Family went bankrupt in his previous life, Luo Xiaosi had run everywhere trying to help them. During their darkest days, he had done everything within his power.
Su Han later learned that Luo Xiaosi had even sold his blood several times to help the Su Family repay its debts. In the end, his health had collapsed, and he had been hospitalized.
Now that Su Han had been reborn, hearing this familiar voice again filled him with warmth.
“Brother Xiaosi, long time no see!” Su Han greeted him immediately after opening the door.
At that moment, Luo Xiaosi was carefully gathering the shattered pieces of the blue-and-white porcelain vase. Seeing Su Han come out, he hurriedly warned him with concern, “Young Master, don’t come over yet. Be careful of the shards on the floor. They might cut your feet!”
Su Han chuckled, completely unconcerned.
He walked over and directly asked, “By the way, where’s Nanny Liu? I want a bowl of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. Have Nanny Liu make it for me, and bring me 6 bowls of rice too. Hurry up, I’m starving!”
Before closing his eyes for the final time in his previous life, this had been Su Han’s last wish.
If he could ever return, he had sworn that he would eat Nanny Liu’s Buddha Jumps Over the Wall together with 6 bowls of rice!
During the final days of his previous life, Su Han hadn’t even been able to afford a proper bowl of rice. His enemies had relentlessly suppressed him while his relatives had treated him with cold indifference. That feeling had truly been worse than death.
“Huh?”
“Brother Xiaosi, hurry up! I’m about to faint from hunger!”
“O-Okay… I’ll go right now.”
Luo Xiaosi looked completely bewildered.
Normally, forget the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall made by his own mother, even if an imperial chef from the capital prepared an entire Manchu-Han Imperial Feast, Su Han eating 2 small bowls of rice in one sitting would already have been unprecedented.
Yet today, Su Han actually wanted 6 bowls!
This was practically unheard of!
“Master! Master! Young Master wants to eat 6 bowls of rice! Haha! We don’t have to worry about him refusing to eat properly this time!” Luo Xiaosi shouted excitedly the moment he went downstairs.
Su Chengwu was also startled.
In the past, he had always worried that his precious son didn’t eat enough. Yet today, Su Han suddenly wanted 6 bowls of rice, which made him worried that it might be a little too much!
After sighing with emotion, Su Chengwu waved his hand and instructed the kitchen to prepare everything.
“What’s going on with him? Could it have something to do with this marriage arrangement…?” Su Chengwu muttered while patting his head, unable to suppress his delight.
If this marriage arrangement could genuinely make Su Han this happy, then he would definitely make the engagement ceremony as grand as possible!
However, just as Su Chengwu was about to order everyone to raise the standards of the engagement banquet, Su Han’s lazy voice suddenly came from the staircase.
“Old Su, come over here. I have 2 things for you to do!”
In the Su Family, there had always been an unwritten rule: Little Su came first, Old Su came second.
There was nothing anyone could do about it. Things had been this way ever since Su Han was young, so no one else found his way of addressing his father strange. Everyone simply continued with their work.
Su Chengwu quickly hurried toward the second floor.
In truth, the reason he indulged his son so much was because he felt that he owed Su Han far too much.
Su Han had lost his mother when he was still very young. Meanwhile, Su Chengwu had been constantly occupied with business and had almost no time to care for him. Throughout an entire year, the total amount of time he could spend with Su Han rarely exceeded 3 days.
Back then, Su Han had only been 4 years old.
Later, as his business grew larger and larger, Su Chengwu discovered that he had even less time for his son.
If it weren’t for something as important as Su Han’s engagement this time, he would still have been away on another business trip, traveling across the country to study markets and conduct research.
In short, he was always on the road.
“Heh, you brat! What’s this? You’re about to get yourself a wife, and even your appetite has improved?” Su Chengwu teased.
The moment he reached the second floor, he noticed the shattered pieces of the blue-and-white porcelain vase scattered across the floor. The vase was worth 1 million yuan, but Su Chengwu merely glanced at it and didn’t bother asking what had happened.
“Old Su, how are you planning to arrange this engagement banquet? Do you have a gift list? Bring it over and let me take a look.” Su Han sat lazily in a chair as he spoke.
Su Chengwu immediately replied, “Of course there’s a gift list. Xiaosi, bring it upstairs and let Young Master look through it.”
After giving the instruction, Su Chengwu looked at his handsome son, who now stood 1.8 meters tall with an impressive appearance, and felt genuine pride welling up inside him.
“Handsome! Truly handsome! As expected of my son, Su Chengwu. Absolutely devastatingly handsome!”
“Go away. It’s obviously because my mother had good genes. What does it have to do with your Old Su Family? Stop flattering yourself,” Su Han retorted.
Before long, the gift list was brought over.
Written on it were all the engagement gifts that the Su Family planned to give the Chen Family tonight.
“A top-grade jade ruyi? Tsk, tsk. This is such a fine piece. I remember you brought it back from Yunzhou, didn’t you? It cost more than 800,000 yuan. Keep it. I want to use it myself,” Su Han said.
Su Chengwu immediately nodded. “Right, right! We should definitely cross that one out. Look at my memory. When I first bought it, my son said he liked how it looked. Your old dad’s memory is getting worse. I actually forgot all about that… Haha.”
Su Chengwu stood beside him with an ingratiating smile.
Meanwhile, Luo Xiaosi was even more cautious, afraid that the Su Family’s Young Master might find something else unsatisfactory.
“What the hell is this? They’re only engagement rings, yet one costs 300,000 yuan? And the pair costs 660,000 yuan?”
“That’s right! The shop said 660,000 symbolizes smooth sailing and good fortune. Since this is only an engagement, I thought spending 660,000 would be enough, so I didn’t dare spend too much…” Sweat covered Su Chengwu’s forehead.
Sensing that his son was already getting angry, he barely dared to breathe and answered with an aggrieved expression.
Luo Xiaosi hurriedly added, “Young Master, Master actually asked about the most expensive pair at the time. He only thought that since this was merely an engagement, there was no need to buy that pair of diamond rings worth 6.6 million yuan. If you think these aren’t good enough, I can notify the store right now and have them deliver the 6.6-million-yuan pair?”
Su Chengwu raised his thumb and agreed, “Mm-hmm! Xiaosi is absolutely right!”
Watching the two of them cooperate so perfectly, one setting up the joke while the other played along, Su Han repeatedly shook his head.
‘What the hell are these two thinking?’
It was only 2006!
The average monthly salary in Jiangcheng was barely over 2,000 yuan, yet they wanted to spend 660,000 yuan on a pair of engagement rings!
It was ridiculously extravagant, incredibly wasteful, and the perfect example of fools having too much money.
“Enough. Tell the store to come over and return these too! Have the refund transferred directly into my account!” Su Han ordered.
“Then… what about the 6.6-million-yuan pair?” Luo Xiaosi asked.
“Isn’t that obvious? Do you think I’m stupid enough to spend that much money trying to please a white lotus?”
Su Han chuckled and continued looking through the remaining items.
The pencil in his hand moved rapidly across the page as he crossed out one item after another without stopping!
Seeing this, Su Chengwu slapped a hand against his forehead.
‘It’s over this time!’
The engagement ceremony was about to begin, yet his son had practically scrapped the entire gift list!
With so little time remaining, where was he supposed to find another collection of luxurious gifts of the same caliber?
Suddenly, Su Chengwu noticed that only one final item remained uncrossed on the gift list.
Engagement Gift: 8.88 million yuan!