Chapter 601 Two Years Later (2)_1
Ruan Jie had his eye on a new gaming console recently; it was a tad expensive, but he was eagerly awaiting this day.
Traditionally, paying respects to the Shu family’s patriarch was done on the second day of the Lunar New Year, but since the elder was now at the Ruan family’s home, they dispensed with the formality and paid their respects together.
When it came to handing out red envelopes, the elders treated everyone equally, including Ruan Hao and Xiu Xi. Each received four hundred, comprising two hundred from the Shu patriarch, one hundred from Shu Lang, fifty from Shu Wen, twenty each from Ruan Jianguo and Shu Jiao, and ten from the Ruanlin Family matriarch.
The first thing Xiu Xi did after getting his red envelope was to give the money to Ruan Jiaojiao. Nearby, Ruan Jie was happily counting his money and, seeing his cousin give his money to his sister, felt a bit embarrassed. Thinking that since he, as her own brother, didn’t give her any, and that it seemed wrong not to, he pulled out a twenty-note to give to Ruan Jiaojiao.
But Ruan Hao beside him took out a fifty-note and gave it to Ruan Jiaojiao. Feeling that, although he was younger than his big brother, he couldn’t lose in terms of spirit, he took out thirty more to give to Ruan Jiaojiao.
By the end of the first day of the new year, Ruan Jiaojiao had collected nine hundred in red envelopes just for herself.
On the second day, when paying New Year visits to her uncles, aunts, and the older generation, she received another fifty notes.
Add to that the red envelopes she got from visiting her godmother Zhao Li and Mrs. Yuan, and she had collected nearly fifteen hundred in red envelopes. Even Lu Xian and Lu Zishu had given her ten and five notes, respectively.
Ruan Jiaojiao, who had spent most of her private savings on buying a fountain pen for Xiu Xi earlier, was overjoyed to receive this amount of red envelope money. She locked herself in her room and counted it over and over again, like a little wealth obsessive.
Outside, Xiu Xi knocked on the door and came in. Seeing her counting the money with her eyes narrowed into slits from excitement, he asked with some confusion, "You like it that much?"