Chapter 7 - Their brotherhood had started a new level!

Wen Chenxi didn’t reply for a long time, so Zhuang Yanyu didn’t know whether his good brother liked it or not?

Could he(WCX) understand his(ZYY)mind?

Although Zhuang Yanyu was a human being for the first time and had little experience, he also knew that there were many things that could not be pursued. If he forcefully asked the other party to the end, he may not get a satisfactory answer.

Zhuang Yanyu simply didn’t wait for Wen Shenxi’s reply, but put away his phone and got on the bus home.

Zhuang Yanyu usually went home after work, and ate at 6:30pm every day.

The time he went home that day was later than the usual time to go home, so the time for eating that day was also delayed. Zhuang Yanyu didn’t sit at the table until 7 o’clock, ready to eat.

Usually at 7 o’clock, he would have already gone downstairs to the community to start the task of learning how to be a proper human being.

Zhuang Yanyu was a little confused.

Unable to complete the planned things on time, it was like the minute hand in the clock was supposed to go from 0 seconds to 60 seconds, but now went directly from 20 seconds to 60 seconds, which made him feel very awkward and uncomfortable.

But he was soon relieved: “In human life, there are times of happiness and times of depression.”

“I got happiness from my good brother, but life will give me a little unhappiness from other aspects. This is the balance of energy.”

The reason why he and his father chose to become humans after retirement was not because humans were different from machines, but that machines with programmed programs were immutable. Human life, on the other hand, was full of possibilities, variabilities and complexities.

Zhuang Yanyu no longer contemplated this matter, and began to chew and swallow slowly according to the scientific eating method.

After eating dinner in 20 minutes, washing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen in five minutes, Zhuang Yanyu was ready to go downstairs to study.

It was at this time that his mobile phone suddenly made a ‘ding dong’ sound. It was actually a WeChat message reminder.

Zhuang Yanyu took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and saw that Wen Chenxi, who hadn’t replied for a long time, finally replied: [I don’t hate it. ]

Zhuang Yanyu immediately cheered up.

Good brother said he did not hate it.

If he did not hate it, didn’t that mean he was pretty satisfied.

【Zhuang Yanyu: Then I’m relieved. 】

Zhuang Yanyu didn’t know that Wen Chenxi, who was still at the Ji House, stared at the gift he(ZYY) gave for a long time.

The birthday party had officially started long ago, but everyone was concerned about where Wen Chenxi was. After dealing with one batch, and then another batch, Ji Zhiyuan had no choice but to come to the back garden to call Wen Chenxi back himself.

As soon as he arrived at the garden, he saw Wen Chenxi sitting there, looking at something.

Ji Zhiyuan was greatly shocked. It was the first time he saw his friend not using his mobile phone or computer to deal with business, but staring at a… huh? Hand ornament?

Ji Zhiyuan said strangely: “Old Wen, why are you staring at this? This is strange, where did this thing come from? We don’t seem to have this in our house.”

He reached out to take it, but when he was about to touch it, he was caught, blocked by Wen Chenxi.

Wen Chenxi put away the ornaments, and asked calmly: “The banquet has started?”

Ji Zhiyuan hadn’t recovered yet, “Ah… yes, it started a long time ago.”

Ji Zhiyuan just finished talking only to see Wen Chenxi put the ornament into the pocket of his expensive suit, and then propping up an arc in the pocket of the jacket, the suit that was originally well-tailored was also stretched slightly out of shape.

Ji Zhiyuan finally understood, and asked: “This is yours?”

Wen Chenxi gave an ‘En’ and said: “It was given by someone else.”

Ji Zhiyuan: “??”

Young Master Ji became even more confused.

Who would give Wen Chenxi such a thing ah¹.

Could this kind of thing that looked like only about ten dollars or at most a hundred, could really be given out to Wen Chenxi? When this giver gave it away, had he never thought about how much old Wen was worth?

“Wait, this looks a bit like, when other people get married, when they decorate the wedding car, the bride and groom’s small figurines that are placed on the front of the car…”

Wen Chenxi, who was walking in front, heard this sentence and his footsteps turned slight. He paused for a while, and then asked Ji Zhiyuan calmly: “Are you still walking?”

Ji Zhiyuan muttered: “Coming, coming, it really looks like that. Don’t tell anyone… By the way, you have to be wronged when you get to the front later, many people are looking for you.”

Wen Chenxi had no objection, or maybe he had already gotten used to it: “En.”

After only taking two steps, Wen Chenxi suddenly asked: “If someone gives you a gift, isn’t it right that you have to return with a gift?”

Ji Zhiyuan shrugged and said: “It depends on the relationship, I might not even accept the gift if it was a bad relationship, but I would definitely return one if it was a good relationship.”

Wen Chen said ‘en’ and he began to think about what gift to give in return in his mind.

The next day.

After Zhuang Yanyu logged in his card, he sat on his desk, and saw a beautifully packaged box on it, which contained a palm-sized cake.

Zhuang Yanyu looked at the cake, and a question mark popped up in his head:?

Other colleagues were discussing: “Xiao Zhuang, who gave you this cake! Could it be a young lady from the service department next door?”

“Didn’t you see it when you came in the morning? It seemed that it was here when I came.”

Zhou Quan had sharp eyes and said in surprise: “This cake is so expensive, something you can’t buy even if you have money, and you have to wait in line for a long time, and it’s so early in the morning, the store shouldn’t be open yet. Xiao Zhuang, how did you get it?”

Zhuang Yanyu said seriously, “It’s not mine.”

“But when we came, it was on your desk, it should be for you, see if there is a sticky note?”

Zhuang Yanyu checked the box, and sure enough, there was a small post-it note under the box, with to²: Zhuang Yanyu written on it. The signer was the word ‘Wen’.

Zhou Quan: “So? Is it for you?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “Yes.”

Hearing this, everyone in the office let out a ‘huh’ in envy, asking if it was from a young lady, and where the young lady was from.

Fortunately, everyone was just joking. After a while, they started to make preparations and started to work.

Since the department suddenly raised their wages, everyone has come to work more actively. Even Zhou Quan, who was struggling to clock in at the last second, often came early.

After everyone sat back to their posts, Zhuang Yanyu looked at the note paper and thought. Among all the people he knew, only his good brother was named Wen.

Could it be that it was his good brother who sent it to him?

Zhuang Yanyu took out his mobile phone to take a picture, and sent the picture to Wen Chenxi: [Did you buy this? ]

Wen Chenxi quickly replied: 【Yes, I heard it’s good, young people seem to like it very much. 】

Zhuang Yanyu was happy, it turned out that it was really a gift from his good brother.

[Zhuang Yanyu: Thank you. ]

[Wen Chenxi: Try eating it. 】

In fact, Zhuang Yanyu was already full, and he respected scientific healthy eating habits very much. He always only ate seventy percent full, avoided heavy oil and salt in the morning, and paid attention to nutritional intake.

It was data to lead a healthy eating life summed up by science. Now that he was a human being, he naturally needed to take care of his body.

But thinking that it was a gift from his good brother, and it was the first time his good brother gave him something, he had to finish it!

It was okay to make an exception once in a while.

Zhuang Yanyu finished eating happily, and then quickly gave feedback to his good brother: [It’s nice, very delicious. ]

In the CEO’s office, Wen Chenxi slightly curled his lower lip when he saw Zhuang Yanyu’s reply.

He seemed to think of Zhuang Yanyu’s appearance when eating, like a pampered kitten, chewing slowly and looking very cute.

So, from this day on, every morning, Zhuang Yanyu’s desk had a piece of exquisite and sky-high priced cake.

In the first week, Zhuang Yanyu was very happy to be fed with small cakes every day.

In the second week, Zhuang Yanyu was a little hesitant. After all, he prefered a healthy diet, and he was not used to eating high-sugar foods every day.

Until the third week, when he still saw the little cake every morning, Zhuang Yanyu opened Wen Chenxi’s chat interface, hesitating to speak.

He typed, and after typing, he felt that it was not good to say that sentence, so he deleted it.

After deleting, writing and deleting for several minutes, Zhuang Yanyu still hadn’t decided how to write.

He finally understood the complexity of being a human.

It turned out that it’s the feeling that he couldn’t say directly… It’s amazing.

However, it could be because of his continuous typing and deleting, it caught Wen Chenxi’s attention, and the other party’s messaged him.

[Wen Chenxi: What? ]

Zhuang Yanyu deleted the typed words before, and asked: [What what? ]

[Wen Chenxi: What do you want to say? ]

Zhuang Yanyu was very good at drawing inferences as a system. He immediately understood that the other party must have just clicked on his dialogue box, and then saw the “typing” status on his own dialogue box, and saw that he hadn’t sent anything even after a long time, so he asked him what he wanted to say.

Adhering to the idea of being honest with brothers, Zhuang Yanyu typed carefully: 【I want to tell you the truth, but I’m afraid you won’t be happy if I tell you the truth. 】

【Zhuang Yanyu: I don’t want you to be unhappy, so I don’t know whether to say it or not. 】

After the message was sent, Zhuang Yanyu held his breath.

He felt that the friendship between him and his good brother had started a new stage.

The running-in period³!

A pair of good brothers and besties whose friendships can last for a long time, after getting to know each other, they would have to go through a crucial run-in period!

If one could successfully resolve this run-in period, then congratulations, one would get a good friend who could support each other for a lifetime!

If one couldn’t get through, then the other party could only be a passer-by in one’s life.

[Wen Chenxi: Tell me. ]

[Wen Chenxi: I won’t be unhappy. 】

Zhuang Yanyu took a serious look at Wen Chenxi’s words, and typed: 【Then I’ll say it directly. ]

[Wen Chenxi: En. ]

Then Wen Chenxi waited there.

One minute passed, five minutes passed, ten minutes passed, and there was still no movement in the dialogue box.

There wasn’t even a ‘typing’ state on the dialogue box.

Wen Chenxi:?

Didn’t he want to say something?

Wen Chenxi, who waited for Zhuang Yanyu’s reply for a long time, had no intention of going to work, so he made an intercom call, “Did the engineering department going to second Zhuang Yanyu again?”

Special assistant Lin: “Please wait a moment, let me ask.”

Special Assistant Lin replied: “No, the engineering department did not seconded anyone from any department today, and Zhuang Yanyu is still in the technical service department.”

Then why was there no messages?

After another half an hour, just as Wen Chenxi was thinking about whether to ask Special Assistant Lin to ask someone to go down and take a look, a message popped up on Zhuang Yanyu’s profile picture.

Zhuang Yanyu sent him a document. ?

Document?

Wen Chenxi accepted the document with some doubts, and then clicked on it. The title of the document was –

《Personal Psychological and Physical Report on Zhuang Yanyu. 》

The content is as follows:

[First of all, I am very grateful to Ah Xi for sending me the cakes, I am very happy. The specific behaviors of happiness are as follows— ①I usually only eat 70% full every day, but because I am happy, I insist on eating the cake sent by Ah Xi every day. ②When I usually smile in the company, I only show six teeth. After eating the cake, I will show eight teeth every time I smile…]

Looking at the report of six happy behaviors listed above, although each one was very serious, why did they feel… so weird and cute when they were placed together?

Wen Chenxi: “…”

Wen Chenxi continued to read.

【Although sweets taste good, they would inevitably cause harm to the body. Studies had shown that the calories contained in cakes were far greater than other foods, and when the human body took in too much energy, it could easily cause obesity; the sugar content in cakes was high, and it was easy to cause blood sugar to rise after eating…… Summary: Long-term eating cakes will cause ① increased blood lipids, ② increased blood sugar, and ③ body obesity. ]

Then there were all kinds of papers like academic reports, which were used to tell him clearly what kind of diseases the above three hazards would bring, and so on.

Until the end was the focus of this report—— [There was really no need to send cakes anymore! 】

After reading it, Wen Chenxi was silent for a while. No wonder it took more than half an hour to write, and the speed was pretty fast. There were more than 2,000 words.

Wen Chenxi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

[Wen Chenxi: Finished reading. ]

[Zhuang Yanyu: Then I won’t see a cake tomorrow, right? ]

[Wen Chenxi: En, how many pounds have you gained? ]

This time, it was Zhuang Yanyu’s turn to be silent.

There was silence for a full five minutes.

The former system, who had always been serious and rigorous and spoke with data, would respect every number after the decimal point, even if the scale could only display three significant figures.

[Zhuang Yanyu: 3.76 catties! ! ! 】

The three exclamation marks fully expressed Zhuang Yanyu’s disbelief and grief.

In the CEO’s office on the top floor, Special Assistant Lin, who was about to deliver documents, suddenly heard a deep laughter from inside.

The author has something to say:

PS——

Zhuang Yanyu: This hateful running-in period!

¹- 啊, just a sound ‘ah’, don’t really mean anything, just chinese way of speaking at the end of a sentence.

²- ‘to’ was originally written in english in the raw.

³- 磨合期, directly translating to ‘run-in period’. I searched up the meaning online but to no avail. Based on the contextual meaning, it just means a period when good friends fight or something though.

HelenXD:

Xiao Yu is so cuteeee~ I’m dying of laughter here XD

~Spoiler~

Lao Zhuang is going to send Xiao Yu some fruits… including Xiao Yu’s friends (⊙v⊙)

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