Against the Fate - Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Chapter 21: New Housing

One month later, North Luna stood on the second floor of the office and watched as Evelyn’s car drove up to the office . Cui Ming and Evelyn got off . The two spoke and shook hands . Evelyn returned to the driver’s seat and lifted her sun hat to acknowledge North Luna . However North Luna ignored the gesture and watched Evelyn drive away . Then she said, “Add one more condition to the contract, while the contact is in effect the signer cannot apply to join the Aura Alliance by himself . ”

Ding Ze blew a kiss towards Evelyn and replied, “I don’t think Cui Ming will sign a contract with Dawn City . ”

“Oh? You know him that well?”

Ding Ze laughed, “I’m not interested in men . I just think he’s not stupid and won’t be convinced by Evelyn . ”

“How is his progress?”

“He mastered all the basic . ”

North Luna said, “The payment from the Classical Exploration Company has arrived . ”

“How much are we missing?”

“The gap in money is insignificant, but the gap in personnel is still relatively large . ”

The two waited for the meeting . Cui Ming came up and stood in front of North Luna and Ding Ze . He bowed his head slightly and said: “Good morning Boss . Good morning Ding Ze . ”

“Skip the courtesy, I think Ding Ze has made it clear to you that our relationship is that of an employer and employee . ” North Luna looked at Cui Ming, “We can talk in my office . ”

When they walked towards the office to begin the meeting, they encountered with a supervisor, the two sides did not say hello as they passed each other . After entering the room, Ding Ze closed the door . Cui Ming saw a new desk . North Luna said: “Our company only has three people including you . We are all free people . We accept commissions to get paid . Money is very important, even in the world of cultivators . For example, we applied to join the Aura Alliance . The enrollment fee was one hundred thousand per person . How much do you think your salary should be?”

Cui Ming said, “I can accept any amount . ”

North Luna sighed, “I hasn’t been decided yet, I don’t know how much to pay you . ”

Cui Ming looked at Ding Ze, “How much is your salary?”

Ding Ze sat in a chair and replied, “I don’t know what a salary is . ”

North Luna never thought about salary . She and Ding Ze lived in a small villa and kept hundreds of thousands of RMB in cash inside the safe of their villa . Whoever needed money, took from the safe by themselves . Cui Ming thought for a long time, “What about me?”

North Luna did not anticipate this situation . According to her principles, since it had been determined that they were a team, they should stay together in the villa . Although she felt that Cui Ming was too strange to live with, she thought that if she rejected him, he might think he was being abandoned .

Cui Ming was a specialist in fraud, he could read the embarrassment on North Luna’s face . As an outwardly cold individual, the rare appearance of expression on her face could easily be read by others because she did not know how to cover up her expressions . Cui Ming immediately replied, “Boss, if I make five thousand a month, it should be enough to take care of myself . Is that fine with you?” People’s mentality was very strange, although Cui Ming answered very directly, in his heart he did not want North Luna to agree .

North Luna thought for a while and said, “Our goal is to join the Aura Alliance and it will benefit all of us . We are all teammates and we should be familiar with each other . You should live with us . But… there are some rules you don’t need me to say to understand . ”

Cui Ming understood, smiled, and nodded, “Boss, I’m not a kid . ”

North Luna turned around, “Ding Ze, take Cui Ming home and help him pick a room . After you finished, go to the market and purchase some clothes and daily necessities . ”

Ding Ze nodded, stood up, and sighed lightly, to lament about going out . He took the car keys thrown by North Luna and said, “Let’s go . ”

Cui Ming nodded to North Luna and left with Ding Ze . On the car, Ding Ze asked, “Can you drive?”

“No . ”

“Well…” Ding Ze said: “You must learn . ”

“Yep . ”

“Can you cook?”

“Yep . ”

“Good enough to cook a meal?”

“Yep . ”

Ding Ze was very satisfied with Cui Ming and said, “I am very happy to live with you . ”

……

The villa was not inside Dawn City, but in the suburban area 10 kilometers away from Dawn City . However, because North Luna Office is on that side of the city, it did not take long to get there from work .

It was a two-storey villa, built in an unified design like all other villas here . There were more than fifty villas, which were lined up and quite eye-catching . The area was small, each small villa covered an area of ​​only 200 square meters . The car stopped at the roadside, and the two entered the door . Ding Ze began to introduce the various rooms, “This is the living room . To the left are the kitchen and the laundry rooms . There are three rooms in the right side . I live in the first room . You can choose one from the other two . North Luna lives on the second floor, the rule is not to go up to the second floor . This is the safe, the password is sixty and forty . Turn left to forty, turn right to forty, then turn left to forty… after you repeat that six times, you can open it . Take as much as you need . Try it . ”

This safe could be opened without a password . Cui Ming smoothly opened the safe . Ding Ze lay on the sofa in the living room and said with his eyes closed, “Get the money, there’s a bus stop at the entrance, and one bus into the city each hour . ”

300,000-310,000 RMB in cash, Cui Ming approximated the amount with a glance . He stretched out his left hand, and accurately took 5,000 RMB with one swift motion . He closed the safe . and turned back to speak with Ding Ze, but Ding Ze was already asleep . Cui Ming frustratedly went out alone . Unfortunately, the bus just left…

Cui Ming put his left index finger in his mouth and wet it, then he stretched out his hand to feel the wind . A white car came from the distance . When it was approaching, Cui Ming let go and a dozen of his notes flew out of his hand . Cui Ming chased them and the car stopped . Cui Ming raised her hands and apologized . A middle-aged man in a suit bent down and picked up a few notes which landed at the side of the car .

Ding Ze leaned against the window in the living room and saw Cui Ming catch a ride . He picked up the phone in the living room and called, “This kid is very smart . ” The bus departed in time, exactly according to Ding Ze’s calculations, thus Cui Ming was unable to take the bus . He did not think of Cui Ming would  hitch a ride .

A middle-aged man would not stop for a young man . Cui Ming knew that, so he closed the distance between the two in a grateful way . Then he praised the middle-aged man for his morality, after that how could the man could refuse to let him take a ride? This move had a failure rate, but the success rate was relatively high . The amazing thing was that among the twenty notes that Cui Ming threw out, there were 7-8 notes stuck on the wheels near the driver’s position . This made it easy for the middle-aged man to help save the money . If the banknotes flew to the back of the car, the middle-aged man would not stop the car . If the middle-aged man didn’t help pick up the banknotes, the success rate of Cui Ming’s trick would drop . Therefore, Cui Ming’s seemingly ordinary behavior of taking a ride, in fact, including many considerations .

North Luna asked: “What about his character?”

“I do not know . ”

“The first time we met in jail, he kept staring at my chest . ”

“It will take a long time to see the true face of people . ”

“Well… Didn’t you take him to buy clothes? Did he know the road?”

Ding Ze replied, “He said he wanted to go alone, he naturally enjoyed a good bus ride…sort of . Even though I strongly suggested that I drive him…”

North Luna interrupted, “Then you will go to the Lincoln Manor again . ”

“…” Ding Ze had already laid down on the sofa, but now he helplessly stood up and replied, “OK . ”