Chapter 51 – Eat, Eat, Don’t Talk

“Well, all go back to your rest and take a half day off this afternoon.”

At 11.30am on Sunday morning, Shen Yu greeted everyone at the end of the day.

The staff were too motivated and sat in their positions doing their jobs without moving their bottoms.

“So early today?”

Zhao Yage wondered, “I don’t have anything to do in the afternoon, what’s the point of taking a holiday, if it wasn’t for the dormitory check at night I could stay here until tomorrow.”

It is addictive to do what you love, and in the past two or three days, Zhao Yage and Ke Liangji have encountered a number of problems with their work, which instead of dampening their confidence, they have enjoyed tackling them.

Shen Yu didn’t want to. He had been coding all day yesterday, Saturday, and his mother called him in the evening and told him that he had to take Asaba Rika out for a walk today, and called again this morning to ask if they had left yet.

After some thought, Shen Yu asked, “I’m taking Rika out for a walk this afternoon, do any of you want to join me?”

At that, Ke Liangji wanted to raise his hand. He was not interested in going out with the others, but he was interested in going out with Shen Yu, but he thought that Asaba Rika was also there, so he retreated weakly.

He can’t wear a helmet to a library, a museum, a science fair, etc. Shen Yu, if he goes out, where else can he go but these places? Can’t he just go to the mountains and play in the water?

Zhao Yage and Jiang Ningle are much smarter, they’re clearly on a date!

Go and be a lightning rod for the boss and his wife, do you want to be worn in small shoes.

A trap! It’s all a trap!

“No go.” Several people said in unison.

“Eh ……?” Asaba Rika also quite likes the crowd, and seeing this, he also enthusiastically greeted everyone to come along.

“Let’s go and have fun! Le Le, you’re coming too!”

Jiang Ningle was very moved but declined the offer.

Everyone is not going, so am I just going to eat lemons by myself.

Zhao Yage shook his head no and went back to his dormitory, each with his computer in his arms.

If Shen Yu is not here, there is no need for them to come to work, they can just work in the dormitory and sort out any questions and ask him another day.

It has been more than two days since the project started, and everyone has been working very hard on it. Apart from the daily classes, we basically have time to knock out code, do original drawings, etc.

Even though the work experience is somewhat lacking, the progress is pleasing.

If the progress bar for the whole project is evened out to 100 per cent, then it is now about 15 per cent complete, and that is just at the beginning, it will be a little faster later on.

“I’m going! I’m going!”

Su Zhifu, the caretaker, who had just cleaned the leaves in the yard, encountered this good thing as soon as he entered the house.

But before Shen Yu could say yes, Auntie Wang took her home for dinner.

“Mum, I’m going to play with Shen Yu’s brother and sister this afternoon!”

“Go what go! Have you done your homework yet?”

……

Shen Yu returns to his seat to continue coding while Asaba Rika goes upstairs to make lunch.

Today’s lunch was two small stir-fries, a stir-fry with shrimp and a stir-fry with broccoli.

Asaba Rika’s cooking skills have improved rapidly. Chinese stir-fry is all about explosive stir-fry, where the wok has to be very hot and a snickering sound is made when the oil is added to the dish.

At first she was a bit scared of splashing hot oil, but after two or three times she was able to fry without changing her face.

Faintly, Shen Yu can smell the smell of food coming from the window and hear the sound of spatulas turning.

It wasn’t long before her voice could be heard from the kitchen window: ” Shen Yu, dinner is ready!”

That’s weird ……

In the past, Asaba Rika would come down to the ground floor to call out to him every time he ate, but the last two times he has called out from upstairs, so I don’t know where he picked up this bad habit.

But what was even stranger was that every time Asaba Rika called out to him, he could always hear him.

It’s obviously not too loud either, and you work very hard yourself ……

If it had been his mother, she would not have heard him, and he would have been left to his own devices downstairs, eating or not eating.

When he heard Asaba Rika calling for dinner, Shen Yu quickly dropped what he was doing and went upstairs to smell the aroma.

When I walked into the living room, I saw her in her apron, bending down to bring a plate of colourful and fragrant dishes to the table.

Then he smiled at him, ” Shen Yu, wash your hands and eat.”

“Hmm.”

Shen Yu went to the kitchen to wash her hands and help her take the dishes out of the steriliser.

“You serve the rice first.”

After bringing all the dishes in, she went back to the kitchen, added some water to the frying pan to soak it, so it would be easier to wash it, then took a wet rag to wipe off some grease stains on the kitchen counter, otherwise it would not be easy to wipe when it dries, and finally washed her hands, took off her apron and hung it on the hook by the kitchen door, then happily trotted over, pulled out a chair and sat on the seat opposite Shen Yu, looking at the table of dishes she had prepared. He looked at the table of dishes he had prepared, sniffed at them and waited expectantly for Shen Yu’s comments.

Shen Yu is serving the rice and fills the bowl with a spoonful, which he holds in front of Asaba Rika.

Asaba Rika was a little embarrassed, holding his bowl of rice and looking at him with big eyes, “So much, I can’t eat!”

“Don’t snacks look like you can eat them ……”

“That’s different, if you eat so much white rice, you’ll get fat!”

“High in calories with crisps?”

“But I don’t get fat eating chips.”

“What sophistry ……”

Shen Yu muttered, saying that girls are trouble, so he took her bowl of rice, scooped out a small portion with his rice spoon and pressed it into his own bowl.

Anyway, she hadn’t eaten it, she had no saliva, it didn’t bother her.

Asaba Rika took the bowl of rice, which was much short of rice, and only then said to him with a smile on his face.

” Shen Yu, try it!”

Shen Yu’s bowl was filled with a lot of rice. In order to avoid adding rice frequently and giving Asaba Rika the illusion that ‘her cooking is delicious and I will eat at least three bowls’, Shen Yu filled her own bowl with a little more rice and then pressed it hard. It was so high.

At that, Shen Yu took two prawns into his mouth with his chopsticks.

The stir-fried prawns are quite a delicate dish, and the side dishes include diced cucumber, carrots and bamboo shoots, which are colourful and look very good.

In the mouth, you can feel the firm texture of the shrimp with a slight pop of teeth, not greasy and well preserved in the freshness of the shrimp.

” Shen Yu , how does it taste?”

When Shen Yu didn’t say anything, Asaba Rika asked him once more.

Can’t you eat properly, you’re making it difficult for me!

“Keep up the good work.”

Shen Yu gave a vague answer and continued to eat in a sultry voice. The stir-fried shrimps were too troublesome to pick up with chopsticks, so Shen Yu used a spoon to scoop up a large spoonful and put it into his bowl.

You can’t pinch the food too often, otherwise it will give her the illusion that ‘her cooking is so good that I’m eating one chopstick and then another’.

Bai Xiaomeng also jumped onto the table and watched the two eat with bated breath.

Asaba Rika then pinched a shrimp and fed it.

Bai Xiaomeng’s tiny pink nose sniffs, then opens its mouth to eat, chewing twice before swallowing.

” Xiaomeng , how is it, is it good?” Asaba Rika asked it.

Can’t you feed properly, you’re making it difficult for meow!