Chapter 10: 010: Buying a Car (1)

    A few mansions and villas that her family had shown interest in are expected; her siblings wanted a swimming pool; some villas had pools but no gardens. Mama Yue and Papa Yue, on the other hand, wanted a farm, a greenhouse, and a garden. They enjoy tending to flowers, planting vegetables for eating, and taking care of animals for food, such as chickens.

    None of the properties they are viewing could ultimately meet their needs; there would be a mansion with gardens and a greenhouse but no pool. There would be houses with attached large land to breed animals but no gardens or pools, and so on.

    Yue Jixia said, "Ma, we want a swimming pool!"

    "Hot springs are also welcome," said Yue Ruxia.

    Mama Yue said, "Only modern-designed houses have such. I want a farm or greenhouse."

    "Can''t we just buy empty land for farming and breeding animals? That should be an option," suggested Papa Yue.

    Mama Yue said, "Then find a house with a pool and garden. We will buy empty land for farming and breeding. An orchard would be good too."

    Yue Jixia said, "But none of these houses have it."

    Yue Xuexia ceased her playful taunts and positioned the folder with details about Moonlight Lake Mansion in the center of the group.

    "How about this one? It has a large pool in the east, a wide courtyard in the south, a west side flower garden with an orchard, and greenhouses with a ranch on the north side. The mansion, as large as five houses connected as one, is at the center two floors with attic and underground parking."

    Her family was delighted to get the house of their dreams.

    Mama Yue said, "This is good. It looks very nice. The ready-made furniture is good too. But I want to make a few changes."

    "How much is this mansion? Is it called Moonlight Lake Mansion? It looks expensive," said Papa Yue.

    Yue Xuexia said, "Don''t worry, Pa. I can still pay for it fully. As for the maintenance of the mansion, there is no need to hire maids or servants. I will make programmed housekeeper robots. Abroad, there should be some robots like that, especially in Japan. It shouldn''t be hard to avail some. Until then, we can temporarily hire a morning housekeeping team and let them leave in the afternoon."

    Yue Ruxia said, "Dajie, you know programming, right? Are you going to reprogram the housekeeping robots yourself after buying some?"

    "Well yeah. We need housekeeping robots for cleaning, welcoming guests, cooking, gardening, and intelligent AI, which would be good assistance at home. No worries, I can make it within a few months. It''s not like the robots would be delivered as soon as I ordered someone. It would take a while, and I would use the time duration before it was shifted internationally to our country," mumbled Yue Xuexia, as she was already formulating programming codes in her head.

    She is able to do it so easily thanks to the master-level programming and hacking skills he just learned.

    "Actually, this mansion is already mine. I asked my assistant to find it after giving the requirements we all wanted and buy it for me. The house deed is... wait, where did I put it again?" said Yue Xuexia, when in reality she is faking her action just to secretly pull out the original house deed in her system storage.

    Yue Xuexia gave the Moonlight Lake Mansion deed to her parents and said, "This is the original copy of the house deed. Keep it for me."

    Her parents accepted the deed with stunned expressions as they stared at the house deed.

    "If you want, we can visit the house tomorrow. We can go there anytime," said Yue Xuexia. "The problem is this house of ours. Well, I guess we can hire a housekeeper to keep it. Unless you want to renovate it. What''s your plan, Pa?"

    Hearing his daughter speak, Papa Yue shook his head, turning his head away from the house deed he was holding and letting his wife hold it instead.

    "Ah, we can repair this house. Let''s do a full house repair and replace the broken areas and throw away the unusable things in the storage rooms, or... let''s renovate it and convert this house into an apartment. We can use it as an extra source of money," said Papa Yue.

    Yue Xuexia said, "I can arrange that. But we need to move houses first. Would you like to visit the mansion tomorrow?"

    "No need to visit. Let''s live there starting tomorrow. Plus, we need to go shopping again. It''s not like we need to bring our old clothes to our new house," said Mama Yue.

    "Yippee!! Shopping~"

    Mama Yue said, "Papa, I think a sedan is good. The SUV is also not bad. If we go on road vacation, then a bigger car is better."

    "That is also true. But there are too many brands to go first?" asked Papa Yue.

    Yue Ruxia noticed a Rolls-Royce car store not far from them. "Pa, there''s a Rolls-Royce store. Same brand as this car. Let''s go there first."

    "Okay," said Papa Yue as he also noticed the Rolls-Royce car store.

    The Rolls-Royce store was the first the Yue family chose to enter, and when they parked the Rolls-Royce Dawn in the parking lot, everyone there knew right once the car they were driving.

    "Fuck! Is that Dawn convertible? It''s even customized!"

    "Just how much is this car? Even our store only has two models like this at the warehouse, and one of them is owned by our store owner!"

    "Based on my estimation, there are at least 6 million, but I don''t know if the interior parts are replaced with the best ones."

    "Hiss! 6 million!!"

    "Oh! It''s a family. They are even wearing branded clothes. Are they from a big clan?"

    "Shush! Get back to work. I will personally attend to these special guests," said the store manager.

    Rows of people greeted the Yue family as they entered the store; Mama and Papa Yue, unaccustomed to such treatment, recoiled in fear; Ruxia and Jixia were already hiding behind Yue Xuexia, feeling bashful; Yue Xuexia had to move forward for her family and saw the store manager right away, standing out from the crowd.

    "Are you the manager? Can you please ask the others to step down? My family is not used to being surrounded like this, and if you have a private room, do lead the way. I want all your brochures for available car models. Would that be alright?" said Yue Xuexia with a gentle smile, but no one could decline her request.

    The store manager smiled professionally and slightly bowed his head. "Everything will be as you wish, my lady."

    "Thank you!" said Yue Xuexia.

    The manager softly approached Mama and Papa Yue and motioned for the other employees to go.

    "Please forgive us for surprising you, Sir and Madam, as well as the young ladies. Please follow me to my office. I shall serve you some tea and snacks while preparing the brochures for you. Please follow this way."

    "Sure," said Mama Yue as she pulled her stiffly standing husband beside her.

    Yue Ruxia pulled her eldest sister''s clothes and said, "Dajie, I want to look around and check the sports cars over there. Come with me, please."

    "I want to go too," said Yue Jixia.

    Papa Yue, who saw her daughters wanting to walk around, said, "Xue''er, go ahead with your sisters. The manager will help me through with the brochures."

    "Okay then. If papa can''t choose at all, then try the Cullinan, ghost, and phantom models. Don''t worry about the money; it would be enough even if you buy 10 of them," suggested Yue Xuexia.

    The manager''s eyes light up when he hears that Yue Xuexia has studied extensively about popular car models for sedan types of all brands, and that her suggestions—all luxury Rolls-Royce models that cost the most—had four seats. Additionally, she had cashed out money from the stock exchange and had half a billion in savings in her bank account. Papa and Mama Yue, who are genuinely ignorant of automobiles, did not give the introduction of the manager much thought.

    Yue Xuexia looked at the manager and said, "I will leave my parents to you."

    "Please leave it to me, my lady!"

    The sister walked throughout the store, followed by salespeople who wanted to be the ones to help introduce the car to them, but only the manager kindly brought the Old Yue Couple to his office.