The 10-year-old young master of the house. Lovable (and patriotic) isn't he?
Meet sweet sweet Xiao Hong -- the resident maid of this house. She's 18 and yes, that is her uniform. In the first photo, she was trying out some of the paper folds I taught her. In the first few mornings, she would fry us our "zha dan" (fried egg). I was craving for eggs and they were still in abundance there. Laurette told us that she only bought foreign-imported eggs because she once saw a news report with a spy camera showing how workers in an egg farm illegally injected dye into the yolk to give it a stronger colour -- these eggs sell better because Chinese love their yolks with a strong orange.
Here's the gardener..
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..and Laurette's personally hired young handsome driver. His first day happened to be on the day of our arrival. The 25-year-old Xiao Hou (Little Monkey) didn't quite impress the Missus with his lack of familiarity with the Shanghai roads. The poor nervous boy even beat the red light and got booked on his first day. It was quite an experience -- the cop found out Xiao Hou didn't have with him the proper driving license documents with him and told us that he could officially confiscate the car. My father, in his gruff but sly Chineseness and his thick-lip smile, got out of the car to help the young inexperienced boy sort things out. After a good 10 minutes, the cop finally let us go with a 100RMB fine (approximately S$20).
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