Chapter 60 – Payday

After the Freshers’ Ball, the regular activities at the beginning of the school year are almost complete.

With the major societies recruiting the new students they want and the first-year military training ending in the second week, Shen Yu and his team are busy with their studies and squeezing in all the free time they can to work on their projects.

The peaceful campus life goes by quickly.

On the 16th of September, Three Blues Studio finally completed its outsourcing project.

“Not an exaggeration, I’ve been dreaming of knocking out code for the last few days.”

Zhao Yage is slumped over the table like a dead fish. She has short hair, probably because she hasn’t slept well, and the dull hairs that are usually pushed down are sticking up, her dark eyes are big and round, and she looks like a panda.

“What’s that to you? I haven’t slept much, which means you’re not in shape.”

Ke Liangji got up and poured a glass of water, then took it to his mouth, clanging it against his helmet and spilling water all over his clothes.

” Chicken Girl, you’re a code-snob!”

The crowd roared with laughter.

Compared to these two, the form of Shen Yu and Asaba Rika has not changed much.

For Shen Yu, it only took a little longer, but it didn’t take much brain power, and with Rika cooking for her every day at lunchtime and in the evening, and with a balanced diet, she seemed more nourished than during the summer holidays.

“Well, it’s all been hard work, so let’s test together to find the bugs.”

Shen Yu sent the installation package to several people and Asaba Rika and Jiang Ningle were happy to test it out.

Taking photos of each other with their mobile phones and rotating through various resources.

There are still minor problems, and Shen Yu has them all sorted out.

” Shen Yu , look!”

When he heard the shout, Shen Yu turned around and then Asaba Rika surreptitiously took a picture.

Using a cg template of a girl from the future, Shen Yu is shown with turquoise blue radiation-proof eyes and two antennae in her ears, and with special effects such as face slimming and peeling, a picture is taken that looks ‘ugly’ to Shen Yu.

“It’s beautiful!!!”

“…… I’m asking you to test, not to play, so delete it.”

“That’s what we’re testing.”

Asaba Rika is very proud of herself, she likes to take pictures of Shen Yu from all angles, and sometimes when he finds out, she hides her phone and runs away.

She also created a special folder in her phone called ‘Shen Yu Daily’

For example, when riding in an electric car, take a picture of him in the back, then use the front camera again and sneak in a photo with him.

Take a picture of him playing with Bai Xiaomeng in the living room, or if he is talking to Puffs.

Shen Yu is so pretty, how can I take such a good picture ……

Sometimes at night, when the lights are off in her room, she opens this album and looks through Shen Yu’s photos, one by one, and smiles at the corners of her mouth.

It’s a weird feeling ……

Whenever I reacted to it myself, I felt my little face burn and then hurriedly closed the album.

There were even a few times when I wanted to delete the photos, but there was something I couldn’t let go of.

As for Shen Yu, she has been getting used to it a bit in the past two weeks, driving her to school on her motorbike every morning and picking her up from the library at the end of the day.

Gradually, she stopped asking Rika to remember the way. Subconsciously, she felt that she would not be able to remember the way, so instead of letting her get lost and then bothering to go out and find her, she could just take her with her.

Poets are always fond of using sprouts as a metaphor for all sorts of things, such as life, such as love.

In the yard, Rika’s marigolds and goldfish plants are sprouting.

Like green grass, it grows in patches on the slightly moist soil, with dew drops on the young leaves visible when you rise early.

In the late summer, the yard froze and she planted the feeling that spring was coming.

Shen Yu admires Rika’s reverse thinking, at least he couldn’t have imagined that he could plant flowers and grass before autumn came.

By mid-September autumn was bubbling slightly in the south and the nights were arriving earlier than before.

But every time, before the night comes, Asaba Rika prepares dinner on time.

If she sees that Shen Yu is not busy, she will ask him to come up and peel the garlic.

Shen Yu watched carefully a few times and at first thought that peeling garlic was for cooking, but there were so many times when it was clear that none of the dishes were made with garlic at all.

In response, Asaba Rika gave an explanation, stammering that he had peeled them and put them in the fridge for tomorrow’s lunchtime cooking.

……

The whole project was under Shen Yu’s control, with no major bugs and minor ones fixed quickly.

On the 19th of September, the tests there were also completed, and based on the good cooperation between the two sides all along, Character Technology was quick to pay the final payment.

At lunchtime, Shen Yu called everyone into the house.

“Ahem.”

Shen Yu coughs twice, like a big leader.

Like an active little secretary, Asaba Rika rushed to bring him a glass of water.

“Our studio, we don’t do these formalities, so you should pay attention in the future. And you, Xiao Zhao, Xiao Ke, Xiao Jiang, you sit upright.”

“Yes! President!”

“……”

Zhao Yage and Jiang Ningle were dumbfounded and thought to themselves, “You guys know how to play the game, you’re so good at it.

However, the project was completed and the pressure was lifted from everyone’s minds.

“Shen Yu, I think you are addicted to being the boss, hurry up, if you have something to say, say it quickly.”

Zhao Yage came up and grabbed Shen Yu, who was taking official steps, back into the crowd.

“Okay, okay, no more teasing.”

Shen Yu took out his mobile phone and smiled, “The project payment has been settled, so I’m calling you all here today to pay your salaries, remember the quotation you took at the time?”

“Payday?”

Several people were excited to hear about it.

After all, they are still sophomores and have never had a part-time job before. When they heard they were going to be paid, the fatigue of the previous days was gone.

“I’ll send you guys on WeChat. Who gets their first paycheck first?”

“Me me me!”

Asaba Rika bounces up to Shen Yu and holds the phone high in the air.

Zhao Yage and Jiang Ningle knew it, but of course they couldn’t compete with the boss’s wife, and looking at Shen Yu’s smug face, he was responsible for most of the project, and naturally his salary was the highest.

Shen Yu ignored her and looked at the others, but none of them grabbed it from Rika.

“It’s okay to pay you, you delete the pictures of me from your phone.”

“Then I don’t want a salary.”

Shen Yu : “?”

Shen Yu is speechless, this guy is getting more and more reckless, but she can’t do anything about it, after all, she is the one who cooks, washes dishes and cleans ……

Asaba Rika’s mobile phone vibrated and Shen Yu transferred 7,500 yuan to her.

Rika and Jiang Ningle worked together to make ten cg’s for a total of 7,500 each.

“So many!!!”

When Asaba Rika looked at the transfer message, it was the largest sum of money she had ever earned on her own, not counting her meagre fee.

Zhao Yage and the others were then paid, Zhao Yage 26,500, Ke Liangji 21,000 and Jiang Ningle 7,500.

For the past half month, without Shen Yu having to push, everyone has been working around ten hours, which is a good wage for their efforts.

“I’ve never made so much money before!”

“It’s time to upgrade the configuration of your computer, just in time to buy another gaming console ……”

The employees who received their salaries discussed feverishly what to do with the money.

“I’ll treat everyone to dinner tonight, Saturday.”

Shen Yu looked at Rika with some disinterest and said.

“It just so happens to be this guy’s birthday.”