Li Yu returned to the police station and handed the foreigner over to 147 and 369 for interrogation and training. He then left early to go home and accompany A Xiang.
The next day, as Li Yu was about to leave the courtyard for the police station, a group of people were gathered around the entrance to Xi Yang Cai's room, talking amongst themselves. Li Yu walked over to see what was going on.
He saw a spring palace picture pasted on the door of Xi Yang Cai's room. Li Yu said, "Xi Yang Cai is so bold, he dares to post this picture in public. Does anyone know where he is?" Immediately, someone stepped forward and said, "I saw A Wen with him, they went to the kitchen on the second floor."
On the second floor kitchen, Tan Wen, who had replaced A Xiang as Ba Gu's new maid, led Xi Yang Cai to his cooking area. Xi Yang Cai followed behind A Wen with a look of disgust.
A Wen saw Lan Jie cooking soup and greeted her. "Lan Jie, you're making soup?"
Lan Jie smiled and replied, "Yes, it's a meat stew."
A Wen stopped at a spot and turned to Xi Yang Cai. "Xi Yang Cai, this is your stove!"
Xi Yang Cai pointed at the stove with disgust. "This is it? It's dirty and small, how can I cook on this?"
A Wen looked at Xi Yang Cai with displeasure and said, "All stoves are like this."
Xi Yang Cai pointed again with disdain. "This doesn't fit my style!"
Lan Jie, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but speak. "Those with money won't stay here."
Xi Yang Cai heard Lan Jie's words, took out a wad of money from his pocket and waved it, proudly saying, "Do you think I'm broke? I just haven't found a place to stay yet. I usually eat steak, if I can't afford steak, who else can? You all look like you've never had it, should I treat you all?"
Li Yu, who was searching for Xi Yang Cai, walked into the kitchen and heard what Xi Yang Cai said. He decided to give him a lesson. He walked up to Xi Yang Cai and asked deliberately, "Xi Yang Cai, you're so generous? You're going to treat everyone to steak? Since you're paying, I'll help you buy it!" He then snatched the money from Xi Yang Cai's hand.
"Steak is hard to find, I'm afraid I won't be able to find it." Xi Yang Cai looked at Li Yu with a constipated expression as he held the money. Li Yu saw his look and deliberately said, "Don't worry, money can buy anything, I know where the best steak is!"
Xi Yang Cai was still thinking of ways to get his money back. He was still contemplating when he heard Li Yu's voice. "Oh, right, Xi Yang Cai, did you put that spring palace picture on your door? You're really bold, doing it in public. You better take it down now, and I'll pretend it never happened, seeing as you're treating everyone to steak."
Upon hearing Li Yu's words, Xi Yang Cai could only abandon his plans to retrieve his money and said, "Chief, I'll go take it down right now!" He hurried downstairs to remove the spring palace picture from his door.
Li Yu saw A Wen standing there and said, "A Wen, are you free? I need your help."
"Yu Ge, I'm free! What's up?" A Wen asked with a smile.
Li Yu took three large silver coins from his pocket (system space) and handed them to A Wen. "A Wen, take this money and buy some steak, let everyone have a taste of what it's like."
A Wen looked at the silver coins Li Yu handed her and asked in confusion, "Didn't Xi Yang Cai offer to treat us? Why are you giving me your money, Yu Ge?"
Li Yu smiled and replied, "I just can't stand how he looks down on everyone and pretends to be rich when he's actually broke. I wanted to teach him a lesson and let him know that pretending to be cool can lead to trouble! Come on, consider it me treating the neighbors to steak."
A Wen happily took the money from Li Yu. "Thank you, Yu Ge. I'll go buy it now, I want to try what steak tastes like too!" She then rushed out.
That night, Li Yu personally cooked the steak and let the neighbors try it. They almost ate their tongues! While they praised Li Yu's cooking skills, they also thanked Xi Yang Cai for his generosity in treating them to steak.
Xi Yang Cai stood there, his face black, eating the steak like he was chewing wax.
The next morning, Xi Yang Cai walked out of the courtyard as if he had lost his soul. A neighbor saw him and thanked him. "Cai Sheng, thank you for the steak yesterday!"
Xi Yang Cai's face froze into a stiff smile. "You're welcome!" He continued walking forward, muttering to himself, "You guys are all happy now, you ate a month's worth of my salary!"
Li Yu went out and saw Xi Yang Cai like that, he found it quite funny and went straight to the police station.
Aang Mei just came downstairs and saw Xi Yang Cai, she walked closer and shouted, "Xi Yang Cai, are you going to work?"
Xi Yang Cai replied weakly, "Yeah, what's up?"
Aang Mei took out a betel nut and gave it to Xi Yang Cai. "You treated everyone to steak yesterday, I'll treat you to betel nut today!" She saw Xi Yang Cai wasn't reacting and stuffed the betel nut into his hand.
Xi Yang Cai held the betel nut for a while and said, "I'm full of betel nut and hungry for cigarettes. I haven't had breakfast yet, I can't eat betel nut, give me a cigarette!"
Aang Mei heard his words and opened her cigarette box, taking out a pack of loose cigarettes. "You're lucky, I just happen to have a pack of loose cigarettes!" She took one out and gave it to Xi Yang Cai.
Xi Yang Cai took the cigarette, put it in his mouth, but immediately took it out and threw it on the ground. He frowned and said, "What kind of cigarette is this? It smells so bad!"
Aang Mei immediately picked it up and said, "This is a Ba Qiao brand, twenty yuan a pack."
Xi Yang Cai pointed at the cigarette in Aang Mei's hand. "You give me a twenty yuan a pack cigarette? I can't smoke that, I usually smoke Three-Cannon foreign cigarettes."
Aang Mei was surprised. "Three-Cannon? That's expensive, three hundred yuan a pack. I don't have cigarettes that expensive here."
Xi Yang Cai immediately became arrogant and started talking nonsense again. "Aang Mei, if you had this Three-Cannon, I would buy it from you immediately."
Aang Mei immediately extended her hand happily. "Alright!"
Xi Yang Cai saw Aang Mei's outstretched hand and started to make excuses. "Can you even get it? It's hard to find."
Aang Mei immediately replied, "It's not hard to find, just need money."
Xi Yang Cai heard her words and started searching his pockets, seeing if he could find some money. He actually managed to find a hundred yuan note.
Aang Mei saw it and immediately grabbed it, saying, "This hundred yuan is a deposit, I'll get you the cigarettes later, and you pay me the rest."
Xi Yang Cai could only stare at the hundred yuan, his vanity preventing him from refusing Aang Mei, taking the hundred yuan back. He could only say to Aang Mei, "Alright!"
Aang Mei put the money in her pocket and said, "Thank you in advance, Xi Yang Cai!" Then she walked out of the courtyard.
Xi Yang Cai watched Aang Mei leave, he just pointed his finger at her, then slapped his own face. "I really have a big mouth!"
Li Yu came back to the courtyard after work and saw Aang Mei and A Xiang sitting together eating glutinous rice dumplings. A Xiang saw Li Yu coming back, she immediately offered him the glutinous rice dumpling she was eating and said, "Yu Ge, you're back, come here, Aang Mei made glutinous rice dumplings, try it, it's very delicious."
Li Yu walked over, took the glutinous rice dumpling from A Xiang and took a bite. He said, "Aang Mei, your cooking skills are amazing!"
At this time, Xi Yang Cai came back from outside, stopped at the door, leaned against the wall to rest, and mumbled to himself, "These unscrupulous capitalists are inhumane, they fired me and didn't even give me a penny. Oh, my stomach is so hungry, I haven't eaten all day."
Xi Yang Cai rested enough, he raised his head, just as he was about to walk in, he saw Li Yu, A Xiang, and Aang Mei sitting there eating. He swallowed his saliva, took a toothpick from his pocket and put it in his mouth, pretending to be full, before walking in.
Aang Mei, who was eating, saw Xi Yang Cai coming back, she stood up, took a pack of Three-Cannon cigarettes from her pocket, and handed it to Xi Yang Cai. "Here you go!"
Xi Yang Cai took the cigarette from Aang Mei and said, "Aang Mei, I'll give you the money for the cigarettes later."
Aang Mei continued eating and said, "No rush, it's fine later."
Xi Yang Cai walked over while looking at the glutinous rice dumplings in Aang Mei's hand and said, "Thank you!"
Li Yu, who was sitting next to him, saw Xi Yang Cai like this and knew he hadn't eaten and was starving for a day. He deliberately teased him, "Did you eat? Too bad, there are only two, not enough for you."
Xi Yang Cai was very hungry, but he was still stubborn. "Yes, I did, the boss treated us to a whole chicken banquet, I'm still full!" He then burped and played with the toothpick in his mouth.
Aang Mei walked in front of Xi Yang Cai and said, "If you eat those whole goose banquets, whole beef banquets, whole lamb banquets next time, can you invite us?"
Xi Yang Cai sighed and helplessly said, "Alright!" Then he turned and walked home, shaking slightly.
A Xiang looked at Xi Yang Cai and asked in confusion, "Yu Ge, Aang Mei, I feel like Xi Yang Cai is walking a bit strangely."
Li Yu smiled and said, "He must have eaten too much, so he's walking a bit unsteadily. Come on, A Xiang, have some too!" He fed the glutinous rice dumpling in his hand to A Xiang.
Aang Mei looked at Xi Yang Cai's back and said, "That's definitely the reason!" Then she turned around and saw Li Yu feeding A Xiang, she shouted, "Ah, you two are so mushy!" She then rushed upstairs.
Xi Yang Cai returned home, threw the bag on the table, then sat down on the bed and said as he took off his suit, "People really can be so black, they fired me and didn't give me a penny. Oh, I'm so hungry, I haven't eaten all day!" He then lay down on the bed.
Xi Yang Cai couldn't bear the hunger anymore, he got up and looked for something to eat. He only found a pack of tea leaves after searching for a long time.
Xi Yang Cai drank the tea, as he drank, he felt dizzy, he wanted to go out and find Doctor Jin, but he fainted as soon as he reached the door.
Li Yu and A Xiang sat there for a while. A Xiang said to Li Yu, "Yu Ge, it's late, let's go home, I'll cook for you!"
Li Yu stood up, patted A Xiang's head and said, "Alright, let's go home!" He then caught a glimpse of something large on the ground in the distance, he turned his head towards Xi Yang Cai's room and saw him lying on the ground!
Li Yu immediately helped Xi Yang Cai up and sent him to Doctor Jin's clinic. After an injection, Xi Yang Cai gradually woke up.
Xi Yang Cai slowly woke up and saw a group of people surrounding him. He asked, "What happened to me? Where am I?"
Doctor Jin said, "Xi Yang Cai, what did you do, you're hypoglycemic, and you still dared to drink so much tea, you're drunk on tea!"
Li Yu deliberately said, "Hypoglycemic, that's not possible, you're so big, it must be because you didn't eat, you were hungry!"
Everyone heard Li Yu's words and started to make fun of Xi Yang Cai.
Seeing this, Xi Yang Cai made another excuse. "I was rich before, because I had a foreign wife who helped me, but she took a plane back to her country to visit her family, the plane crashed, she's gone, and now I have nothing!" He then started to wail and cry.
Li Yu saw that Xi Yang Cai was starting to learn his lesson, so he said to Xi Yang Cai, "Alright, you don't have nothing, you still have the money you used to treat the neighbors to steak." Li Yu took out a wad of money from his pocket (system space) and gave it to Xi Yang Cai.
Xi Yang Cai was stunned and asked, "Why is the money I used to treat everyone to steak with you?"
Li Yu looked at Xi Yang Cai and said, "I just couldn't stand you, I wanted to teach you a lesson, so I used my own money to treat the neighbors, making you think you used your own money to treat them, I didn't touch a penny of your money, I just wanted you to learn a lesson, don't be so pretentious!"
Xi Yang Cai readily agreed. "Yu Ge, I learned my lesson, I won't do that anymore, never again!"
Li Yu heard Xi Yang Cai's words and said, "That's good, go eat now! Otherwise, you'll get hypoglycemic again and faint!"
Xi Yang Cai heard Li Yu's words, he stood up and walked out of the clinic, trembling slightly.
Li Yu saw him like this and said to Fu Ge next to him, "Fu Ge, you go with him, I'm afraid he'll collapse halfway!"
Fu Ge looked at Xi Yang Cai's back and said, "Okay, I'll go with him, I'm afraid he'll collapse halfway too!" He then rushed to Xi Yang Cai's side and helped him out of the courtyard.