"Hahaha! No, you're better off causing him trouble!"
"Captain, it's not what you think. This time is different."
"What's different? A girl, right? It's normal to have some trouble. Otherwise, men wouldn't know what to do."
"Anyway, you'll understand later. I'll be on my way now."
"Sure, you go back!" The captain thought Li Zhuyu was heading back to the dorm.
He couldn't be blamed for thinking that! He had no idea what had happened.
Moreover, if he knew what had happened, he would have readily told Li Zhuyu Ye Chen's address because he had been trying to set them up.
After Li Zhuyu left, the captain shook his head and went into the dorm. Just as he was about to lie down, Ye Chen returned.
Seeing Ye Chen back, Captain Li Gang opened his mouth but didn't say anything.
"Captain, why are you up?" Ye Chen asked as he took off his coat and tossed it onto the bed.
"I woke up. Where did you go again?" the captain inquired.
"Just wandering around outside."
Hearing Ye Chen's response, the captain shook his head and remarked, "Youth is wonderful."
Unlike him, who needed a full eight hours of sleep after a night shift to have any energy for work, Ye Chen, for the most part, only slept five or six hours!
That's the difference between him, a middle-aged man, and a young person. If this were twenty years ago, he could have been like this too.
During dinner, the captain and others found out about the incident. Although they had been instructed from above, internal discussion was still allowed.
At the same time, the captain understood what Li Zhuyu meant by "this time is different." It seemed Li Zhuyu had left.
Indeed! Li Zhuyu had left. While Ye Chen and the others were having dinner, Li Zhuyu arrived at Ye Chen's village alone.
Though Ye Chen's village was in the outskirts of the outskirts, there were still some out-of-towners renting houses here, albeit very few.
Li Zhuyu didn't go to Ye Chen's house but instead found a family with a sign "House for Rent" and rented a room there.
However, this house wasn't too far from Ye Chen's. It was only separated by a few households, not more than a hundred meters away.
Ye Chen's family had few houses, and they didn't rent them out. Besides, this was the outskirts of the outskirts, where rent was cheap, at most one or two hundred yuan a month per room.
And the house had to be big and new. If it was old and run-down, it wouldn't be rentable even if it were cheap. No one would rent it.
That's just the way it is. There were few out-of-towners here, unlike in the city where every stall was eagerly rented out. Wanting to rent a room in such a remote area was simply unaffordable.
Ye Chen had no idea about these matters. And so, Li Zhuyu settled down in Ye Chen's village. It was such a remote place that it would be difficult to find her if she didn't show up herself.
The next morning, just after nine o'clock, Ye Chen was once again awakened by his phone ringing. Glancing at it, he saw it was a call from Xiaochen. He smiled wryly, slipped on his shoes, and left the dormitory.
"Hello?"
"Good morning, Mr. Ye!"
"I'm not feeling good at all," Ye Chen said helplessly.
"Uh, Mr. Ye, are you..."
"Xiaochen, next time you call, could you try to call around noon, like twelve o'clock?"
"Uh, I'm sorry, Mr. Ye, I..."
Xiaochen couldn't help but understand what was going on. Ye Chen was probably still asleep.
The life of the rich puzzled her. It was already past nine, and he was still sleeping, and it sounded like he wanted to sleep until noon.
"Alright, just this once. It won't happen again. From now on, please call around twelve noon."
"Okay, Mr. Ye, I got it. By the way, there's someone interested in renting a house in Dongcheng Palace Forest Villa. Would you..."
"I'm not awake yet, so I won't go. Just go ahead and sign the contract with the tenant. I'll sign it later."
"Okay! I'll discuss with the tenant later. But, Mr. Ye, the tenant doesn't want to rent a car. What do you think..."
"No problem. If they don't want to rent, arrange for someone to drive them to Fengshang Garden. I'll send the gate code to your phone in a moment."
"Okay, Mr. Ye. You continue to rest. I won't bother you anymore."
"Mmm."
After hanging up the phone, Ye Chen shook his head, sent the gate code, and went back to sleep in the dormitory. He hadn't fallen asleep yet when his phone beeped with a message.
Picking it up, he saw it was a message from the bank: money deposited, 18.8 million. Rent was 18 million, and property management fee was 800,000.
To be honest, the price wasn't high, but it wasn't low either. A villa of 1,600 square meters next to Wangfujing, renting for 1.5 million a month, wasn't too high.
Of course, that was speaking from the perspective of the rich. For someone like Ye Chen, a poor loser, he couldn't even afford the property management fee.
After reading the message, Ye Chen stuffed his phone under his pillow and closed his eyes. He was really tired, so he fell asleep in a few minutes.
Just as he felt he had barely fallen asleep, the captain woke him up again. Glancing at his phone, it was already half-past eleven, time for lunch.
To be honest, Ye Chen never felt tired from working the night shift. He didn't even feel it at all. Of course, this might be related to his lack of sleep every day.
During lunch, the captain from the Fifth Squad walked over with a tray, sat down next to Captain Li Gang, and said, "Ye Chen, that guy came with people today."
"Oh! Did he say anything?"