Chapter 5 - Is this is the joy of having a good brother!

Probably because of the ‘yú’ in his name, Zhuang Yanyu and fish were destined.

With a fishing rod in his hand, as long as he put it down, within five minutes, he would definitely catch one.

And as time went by, the fish he caught became fatter and fatter.

And because all the fish went to Zhuang Yanyu, Ji Zhiyuan and Li Xi, who were still laughing at Wen Chenxi for not being able to catch any of them just now, were extremely jealous.

Li Xi said: “Xiao Zhuang, didn’t you say that you have never fished before? Why are you so good?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “This is indeed my first time.”

Ji Zhiyuan said sourly: “This is not the same as playing mahjong, that as a novice, he has better luck, right?”

Li Xi: “Don’t say it, it’s really possible.”

Zhuang Yanyu went to see Wen Chenxi.

The little employee’s face was full of anticipation, as if he was waiting for a compliment from him.

Wen Chenxi pursed his lips: “It’s very good, I didn’t even catch any just now.”

Zhuang Yanyu immediately became serious: “I’ll help you.”

He wanted to help catch his good brother’s share together!

Ji Zhiyuan was very good at chatting. His family owned an entertainment company, and he had met a lot of people, and been involved in various circles, so he was best at dealing with all kinds of people, and he had high emotional intelligence¹.

While Zhuang Yanyu was waiting for the fish to take the bait, he chatted with Zhuang Yanyu about how old he was that year, where he studied, who else was at home, etc. It seemed to be very common and homely questions, but in reality they were unconsciously self-revealing. In the middle, he could already figure out some of Zhuang Yanyu’s background.

Until Ji Zhiyuan asked: “You are so handsome, you should be very popular in school, right? Do you have a girlfriend? Or a boyfriend? Do you want to change jobs and develop in the entertainment industry? With your appearance, I can guarantee you that can be popular!”

Wen Chenxi frowned, he knew his good friend’s problem, if it was someone else, it would be fine, but the little employee seemed too obedient, the kind of obedience that would help count money when he was sold.

Zhuang Yanyu: “Entertainment circle?”

Ji Zhiyuan: “Yes! I guarantee you will be popular!”

Wen Chenxi couldn’t help but glance at Ji Zhiyuan, and warned, “You’re almost done.”

This was someone who was always poaching his good brother’s company! Ji Zhiyuan quickly coughed twice: “Habit, habit.”

Ji Zhiyuan hurriedly pulled Li Xi to move a little downstream, avoiding Wen Chenxi’s warning gaze.

After the two of them walked away, Wen Chenxi said to Zhuang Yanyu: “You can ignore him, and you don’t have to answer questions you don’t want to answer.”

“I don’t have a girlfriend or a boyfriend, and I don’t want to enter the entertainment industry too,” Zhuang Yanyu said calmly, “I want to answer, even if Mr. Ji didn’t ask, I want to say it myself.”

Wen Chenxi: “Yourself?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “Because it happens that you don’t know me well, so I wanted to introduce myself.”

Wen Chenxi raised his eyebrows, it turned out that the young employee didn’t know that he was being tricked, but just wanted to introduce himself, so he simply followed Ji Zhiyuan’s words.

Zhuang Yanyu asked seriously: “Is there anything else you want to know? I can tell you.”

Wen Chenxi said: “The company has your resume. If I want to know, I can go to see it.”

Zhuang Yanyu shook his head: “That is relatively simplified. I want you to know me better.”

Wen Chenxi paused slightly, and under the rimless glasses, his deep eyes gave him an unexpected extra look.

Wen Chenxi did not deny that he had some affection and interest in Zhuang Yanyu, maybe it was love at first sight, or maybe it was something else, he hadn’t cleared his mind yet, so he wanted to think about it.

Hearing Zhuang Yanyu say that now, he was slightly surprised.

Could it be that he also…

Zhuang Yanyu’s face was full of anticipation.

Studies had shown that the two people who become best friends were those who know each other well enough.

Only once they fully understand each other, they could help each other in many things, trust each other, and their friendship would last forever.

So the first step in setting up a friendship was to let good brothers get to know each other well enough!

Zhuang Yanyu looked at him intently: Do you want to come first? Brother, introduce yourself in depth.

Wen Chenxi looked away, and placed Ji Zhiyuan’s sun hat on Zhuang Yanyu’s head: “Fishing seriously.”

Zhuang Yanyu was a little disappointed: “You don’t want me to introduce myself?”

Unexpectedly, there was a subtle sense of guilt in Wen Chenxi’s heart.

How could Zhuang Yanyu know that his information had already been placed in someone else’s computer, and all his past experiences were clearly written in detail, and he had read it several times.

Wen Chenxi changed the subject and reminded him: “The fish is hooked.”

Zhuang Yanyu turned his head to look, and he saw that the buoy was moving quickly with the fish, so he quickly got up to pull it.

This fish was a bit big, it should be a big fish that ran out of the upstream reservoir as it was a bit heavy, and the fishing line was almost broken.

Li Xi, who was not far away, saw it and ran back immediately: “This fish is huge! Don’t pull it yet! Put a longer line and slide it slowly!”

“K², I think this fish weighs at least ten catties!” Ji Zhiyuan hadn’t caught such a big fish with his own hands before and gazing at Zhuang Yanyu’s thin arms and legs, he was afraid that he would not be able to bring the fish up ashore, so he ran over quickly: “Xiao Zhuang! Let me come! I will pull!”

Zhuang Yanyu gave him the fishing rod.

The big fish had great strength, so if one forcefully pulled in the rod at this time, it was easy to tear the fishing line, and pulling it also consumed strength. Unexpectedly, the fish was full of energy and kept going downstream along the direction of the current, never giving up.

Ji Zhiyuan had no choice but to walk down together with the pole, while telling Li Xi to fetch fishing nets.

They were only here to catch fish for leisure, and they didn’t bring a net at all. They didn’t expect Zhuang Yanyu to catch such a big fish, so they had to ask the nearby villagers to borrow it temporarily.

Fortunately, there were a lot of people nearby who were engaged in farmhouse entertainment. Knowing that people in the city liked to come here to fish, every household had tools at the ready, so Li Xi quickly borrowed a fishing net. The two of them worked hard pulling and holding together and the big fish was soon brought up ashore.

“It is so big, hahaha!” Ji Zhiyuan was excited: “It definitely came out of the reservoir, it is thicker than my thigh!”

Li Xi was also very excited, and as the two of them frantically took photos with their mobile phones, they didn’t look like the rich³ at all. The rich second generations were more like fools who had never seen the world.

They were really excited. It was not like they hadn’t eaten fish bigger than that before, when they had seen fish weighing hundreds of catties.

But this was what they fished by themselves. For those who loved fishing, the sense of accomplishment was very different.

“Let’s go! Have a whole fish feast tonight!”

Zhuang Yanyu, who was the biggest contributor, also received their warm invitation, and he had to go because the big fish had been caught by him.

Wen Chenxi asked Zhuang Yanyu: “Do you still want to fish?”

Zhuang Yanyu actually wanted to continue, as it was a rare opportunity to get along with his brother.

But they caught too many fish, especially the last one, which may not be able to be finished by just the few people present.

Zhuang Yanyu shook his head and said: “No.”

Wen Chenxi: “Then it’s go back.”

“Okay.”

Zhuang Yanyu went to pick up the bucket containing the fishes, but Wen Chenxi had picked up the bucket before he could touch it, and his hand was stuffed with a fishing rod.

Wen Chenxi glanced at his slender arm: “You can just take this.”

Zhuang Yanyu didn’t think much, and he just nodded to whatever Wen Chenxi said.

The little employee’s obedience made Wen Chenxi look back again, “Do you come back here every week?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “No every week, once every two weeks. My dad is busy and doesn’t have time to take care of me. So he doesn’t let me come back so often.”

Wen Chenxi: “What is he busy with?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “Farming.”

Wen Chenxi frowned slightly: “The fields in the south should have two seasons of seeds.”

And now it was the beginning of June in the new calendar, not the season for sowing, but the season for harvesting.

Zhuang Yanyu explained to him, “My father doesn’t just grow food. He seem to have something to grow almost every day, in-season or out-of-season, and he can grow anything. After planting vegetables and fruit trees, he can also grow some medicinal materials after planting fruit trees to sell, anyway, he is just farming every day throughout the year.”

He didn’t need Zhuang Yanyu’s help with planting, and Zhuang Yanyu couldn’t help with anything even when he came back, so he only went back every two weeks to take a look.

Wen Chenxi: “…it is hard work.”

Zhuang Yanyu: “It isn’t hard work. He is happy to have fields, land, and things to grow!”

Comrade Lao Zhuang—the former farming system No. 03.

When taking care of the host, he had traveled back to the primitive era, planting fields all over the world, and becoming devoted to planting – a true farming system.

So even if he was just an ordinary human right now, he would feel uncomfortable if he didn’t farm the land for a day because of his habits.

However, if these words were heard in the ears of others, it was turned into an honest and responsible farmer uncle who worked hard day and night, only looking forward to a good harvest of grain, facing the ground, with his back to the sky, all his life, and when the harvest was not good, he could only live frugally.

Wen Chenxi remembered that Zhuang Yanyu’s information did have a father who was a farmer.

It was just because his family was really so ordinary, there was only a simple sentence in the information, saying that Zhuang Yanyu’s father went to the fields every day at dawn, or went to the mountains, and would not come back until the sun went down.

At this moment, Wen Chenxi felt more intuitively how poor the family of the small employee was.

Wen Chenxi thought for two seconds, bowed his head and sent a message to Special Assistant Lin, [Raise the wages of all employees in the service center to a higher level. ]

Special Assistant Lin, who received a text message from his boss on the weekend:? ?

Didn’t the boss go on a vacation? Didn’t he say that he wasn’t going to work overtime today, and he wouldn’t have any work?

Why was there a sudden necessity to raise the wages of the service center?

Back at the door of Uncle Liu’s house, Zhuang Yanyu was about to go in with his good brother, when he suddenly heard Comrade Lao Zhuang calling him: “Is it Xiao Shi Yi⁴ back? It is time to home for dinner!”

Zhuang Yanyu: “I heard it!”

Wen Chenxi turned his head to look, and saw a house older than Uncle Liu’s more than ten meters away, where the sound came from.

Wen Chenxi: “Your family?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “Yes, my father called me just now.”

“He called you Xiao Shi Yi?”

Wen Chenxi thought that, as a lot of people in the past really liked to use the order of birth to use as their children’s name, did the Zhuang family have so many children? It was not written in the information.

Zhuang Yanyu blushed a little: “Mmm…nickname.”

This was actually his code name, he was No. 11 Long Aotian system in his previous life so his father got used to calling it, and he never changed it.

When he was just born, No. 03 of the farming system took care of him and taught him everything he didn’t understand. It could be said that No. 03 had a great influence on him, otherwise he would not be the same as No. 03, choosing that when he retired to be an ordinary human being.

Zhuang Yanyu said: “I’ll go and tell my father, Mr. Wen, you go in first.”

Wen Chenxi: “En⁵.”

Watching the little employee go home, Wen Chenxi’s eyes fell on the dilapidated gate again, and a gust of wind blew. The door also shook, and his brows frowned again.

Wen Chenxi bowed his head and typed, and sent a message to Special Assistant Lin: [The performance awards are also doubled. ]

[Special Assistant Lin: Got it, let me send the message down right away. 】

Zhuang Yanyu returned home and told Comrade Lao Zhuang that among the big bosses who came to the farmhouse next door, one happened to be his boss and was also the good brother selected by the mastermind for him. He wanted to have lunch with his good brother at noon.

Hearing this, Lao Zhuang was even happier than Zhuang Yanyu: “What a coincidence! But didn’t you say last time that you have been in that company for almost two months and you hadn’t seen him yet? Now you already know him?”

Zhuang Yanyu frowned, then said smiling, “En, we hit it off right away.”

He didn’t realize that his smile then wasn’t an expression he deliberately learned from humans, but a smile that he couldn’t hide when he was happy from the bottom of his heart.

Lao Zhuang said with emotion: “As expected, he is the one who matches your personality best. It’s great to be able to hit it off right away! Then you go over to eat quickly, and don’t keep them waiting.”

Zhuang Yanyu: “Okay.”

Zhuang Yanyu went back to Uncle Liu’s house and had lunch with Wen Chenxi and the others.

After lunch, Zhuang Yanyu, a local, took the initiative to take them to look around again.

The scenery of their village was good, because there were mountains and rivers, it was not as sultry as in the city. Especially after entering the mountain, a gust of wind blew, making people feel refreshed.

Zhuang Yanyu also took them to pick the fruits grown by Comrade Lao Zhuang, and each of them packed a big bag for them to take back to the city to eat.

After eating the fish feast at night, Zhuang Yanyu went back to the city together in Wen Chenxi’s car.

Because the arrival places were different, the way back was also different. Wen Chenxi and the three of them each drove a car, so on the way back, there were only the two of them in the car, and Wen Chenxi was driving.

At first, Zhuang Yanyu was worried that he and Wen Chenxi would have nothing to talk about on the way back.

Although they did hit it off right away and their friendship progressed by leaps and bounds. But no matter what, they just met each other, so it was impossible to have something to talk about all the time.

In fact, this was really the case. It took an hour and a half to drive back to the city. They don’t chat all the time, and occasionally they are silent.

But when they were silent, Zhuang Yanyu didn’t feel embarrassed, and it even made him feel quiet and comfortable.

Was this the joy of having a good brother!

Zhuang Yanyu lived on Wen Chenxi’s way home and was convenient, so Wen Chenxi took him home first.

After arriving at the community, Zhuang Yanyu got out of the car, with some reluctance in his eyes, he shook his phone, and said to Wen Chenxi in the car: “If you want to know me better, just send me WeChat.”

The two had exchanged WeChat accounts in the afternoon.

Wen Chenxi’s hand holding the steering wheel tightened, did not answer this question, but said: “Go back quickly, I’m leaving.”

“Okay, be careful on the road.”

“En.”

Watching Wen Chenxi’s car leave, Zhuang Yanyu didn’t enter the community until he(WCX) was out of sight.

At 10 o’clock in the evening, Wen Chenxi returned home and created a circle of friends.

Zhuang Yanyu: You can’t imagine the happiness of the system.

The accompanying picture was a picture of a computer CPU⁶ becoming popular.

The joy of the system?

Wen Chenxi didn’t understand young people’s online vocabulary very well, but he still gave him a thumbs up.

The author has something to say:

PS—

Because I know that it is impossible for companies to raise wages in reality (from the tears left by social animals), so I can only find pleasure in novels, and squeeze the company’s wool! Ask him to raise wages for Xiao Shou in various ways! Pay salary! Hit the bonus!

Comrade Lao Zhuang, who owned a few acres of land and several hilltops, accepted the living expenses sent by his son with tears, and sent back a house, “Little Shi Yi, Dad paid the down payment with the money you saved. This is a house bought with your savings, you are so good!”

The down payment was 1 million, and Lao Zhuang subsidized 880,000.

¹- 看碟下菜, like really know how to interact with others, high emotional intelligence.

²- K, it was originally in Capital letters and English in raws. It should mean the chinese curse word, kao, showing that Ji Zhiyuan was so stunned he started cursing.

³- 贵族, wealthy people. Basically, it is a common association that rich people are cultured, elegant, etc. (So this showed that Li Xi and Ji Zhiyuan were at the moment acting a bit childish?)

⁴- 小十一, means little eleven, a nickname for Zhuang Yanyu (probably from before his retirement).

⁵- 嗯, ‘en’ means to agree, like saying okay or yes.

⁶- an picture of a micro piece in a computer (?). Probably something like this.

HelenXD:

I want a salary increase too! ♡

~Spoiler~

Xiao Yu is going to give Xiao Xi a gift… （乛v乛) what will it be?

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