Chapter 544: – Stingy Xia Tian
During the National Day holiday, Lin Jin pretty much stayed at home every single day, just streaming or sleeping. She basically never went out at all and even ordered delivery for her meals.
Lin Jin actually wasn’t the type of person who felt too lazy to go outside every day. It was just that to make up for her missing streaming hours, she could only stream nonstop every day. However, she would still go out in the evening, since it wasn’t as hot during that time and she wouldn’t sweat as much when she went for a walk.
Thankfully, on the fifth day of the break, just as Lin Jin was feeling a bit burnt out from staying at home and just streaming every day, she woke up and found that Xia Tian was still lying beside her, not leaving.
“What time is it?”
Lin Jin grabbed her phone from beside the pillow and checked the time, finding it was already 8:30. She then reached out and shook Xia Tian’s arm “Hey! Get up, it’s already 8:30 and you’re still not leaving for work!”
Xia Tian rubbed his eyes with his hands in confusion. It was already nine at night by the time he got home yesterday. After taking a shower, he helped Lin Jin stream for two hours before going to bed. He also used the reason of being too tired to get Lin Jin, who was about to go home, to sleep together with him.
As a result, Lin Jin found herself in Xia Tian’s bed when she woke up.
“It’s fine. I’m not going to work today.” Xia Tian turned over and pulled the quilt over his head. “The hotel said they have rotating days off for the National Day Holiday, it happens to be my turn today.”
Lin Jin understood. She was about to get up to wash up, but then she suddenly thought of something.
She immediately laid on top of Xia Tian, continuing to shake him and questioned: “Didn’t you just say a couple of days ago that there were too many guests during the National Day holiday so you had to do overtime?! There’s too many guests to the point of overtime? Yet they still let you guys take a day off?”
“I already said it’s rotating days off!”
Xia Tian’s quilt was yanked away by Lin Jin. He helplessly opened his eyes and looked at Lin Jin. Seeing that “who are you fooling” look from Lin Jin, he gave an awkward laugh: “Isn’t it because I wanted to spend the holiday with you? Normally, you’re also busy, and I only get two days off a month…”
“So?”
“So I just asked for leave and was deducted two hundred yuan.” Xia Tian cheerfully sat up, the sleepiness long gone from his eyes, and said with a doting look “Look, we can never get our days off to line up. The weekends are probably when the hotel is the busiest and they’d never allow us to take the day off. And we can’t hang out together on normal days, so why not just ask for leave during the National Day holiday and spend it with you.”
“Two hundred yuan!” Lin Jin’s eyes went wide. “If you take another two hundred, that’d be enough to buy a game for the Switch you know!”
Seeing that his explanation wasn’t working, Xia Tian was about to say more, but Lin Jin quickly got out of the bed and ran to the bathroom to wash up.
“That girl.” Xia Tian obviously noticed the happiness in Lin Jin’s steps and shook his head.
Lin Jin just loved to act all tough on the outside, saying stuff like how two hundred was almost enough to buy a game. But deep down, who knew how happy she was.
Xia Tian also got out of bed and walked to the bathroom door wearing just a pair of shorts. He called out to Lin Jin inside: “Want me to go downstairs and buy you breakfast? Or should I cook congee for you?”
“Go downstairs!” Lin Jin shouted back from inside the bathroom as she brushed her teeth and washed her face.
“Alright!”
Without pause, Xia Tian went to change his clothes and then hurried downstairs.
It wasn’t long before Lin Jin finished up in the bathroom and sat down at her computer. She had just turned it on when Xia Tian already returned with breakfast in hand.
He had bought two servings of soy milk and buns with red bean paste. Even though Lin Jin actually preferred to eat meat buns, Xia Tian knew that she didn’t like any of the meat buns sold nearby, so he got red bean paste buns instead.
He put the breakfast on the computer desk and sat on the edge of the bed. Drinking his soy milk, he said: “I’ll do the live stream until twelve. Then let’s go out for lunch and have some fun. We can come back and stream after finishing dinner outside, how about it?”
“We’re going shopping?”
“Right, how about at Wanda Plaza? There’s not really any other malls around here worth going to.”
“I’m fine with that. I’m just worried your feet will get sore from walking and then you won’t be able to carry the stuff.” Lin Jin turned to look at him with a smile. “The weather’s going to get colder in the next two months and by then, we’ll definitely have to start wearing a thick jacket every day. For January or February, we’ll also have to add a sweater or a coat. I need to buy more winter clothes.”
Since they were in Xiamen, the cold weather came very slowly. In other places, it might have already snowed by January. But here in Xiamen, people usually just wore short sleeves plus a slightly thicker jacket. It was only around February when the cold temperatures really arrived and people needed to wear thicker clothes.
But sometimes, Frurbary wouldn’t even be over yet before the temperatures climbed back to ten or twenty degrees.
“Buying clothes at Wanda? Those are expensive.” Xia Tian’s face was slightly twitching.
Now that he wasn’t streaming, even though he had gotten the regular salary from streaming last month, the bigger chunk of revenue, the gift donations, still hadn’t arrived yet. While the money they had saved up was around a hundred thousand, but those were the funds for opening a shop and he didn’t dare touch it.
“What? Does your heart ache?” Lin Jin shot him a look, opened her stream, then tilted her head at him. “Come on, go say it to the live stream viewers. Why is this stingy person like you not even willing to buy me some clothes?”
“When did I say we wouldn’t buy it? It’s just that clothes at Wanda are a bit expensive.” Xia Tian saw that Lin Jin seemed to be somewhat annoyed, so he quickly softened his approach. “You see, opening a store costs money, renting costs money, even eating costs money…”
“Does it really cost that much for food? You eat lunch and dinner at the hotel every day, it’s just breakfast and I would either make or buy it for you for fifteen days a month.” Lin Jin wasn’t actually angry, she just wanted to tease Xia Tian a bit. But her tone did sound really serious “Look at you! At least a quarter of the live stream income was thanks to me, right? Me buying some clothes, even if it’s at Wanda, wouldn’t cost more than a few thousand, right?”
“And it’s only a few thousand for fall, winter, and spring all at once!”
Xia Tian carefully calculated the amount of money he had in his wallet. His hotel paycheck for last month wouldn’t come until the 15th, but before he set aside the initial capital for opening the shop, he set aside two thousand for living expenses. Then adding in the live streaming salary of four thousand, they actually could afford Lin Jin buying clothes.
“Then alright! Let’s limit it to three thousand, is that okay?” Xia Tian finally made up his mind, and he even randomly explained “It’s not like I’m a stingy person. The food I normally buy you is always fish and meat and all that… Even though I haven’t really given you rings or necklaces, or much clothing, it seems I haven’t given any flowers either…”
He suddenly paused, carefully thinking about what he had spent on Lin Jin during the time they had been together.
Hmm, other than food, there was just more food. During the time he had been with Lin Jin, half of the expenses was for Lin Jin to buy groceries for cooking, another half was on takeout. There was also a little bit left from buying food and stuff when he went out with Lin Jin.
Actually, adding it all together, it didn’t seem to be that much…
Thinking about it this way, why did he suddenly feel that he was actually really stingy… When others chased girls or were in the honeymoon phase, they would all give flowers, necklaces, and stuff. At the very least, they would give a box of chocolate on Valentine’s day.
But as for him.
Xia Tian immediately prepared mentally for a major money bleed.