Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1351 - 658: Repairing the Riverbank - Don’t Scare Me

Chapter 1351: Chapter 658: Repairing the Riverbank - Don’t Scare Me

The few days of the New Year, if you don’t go visit relatives, are really quite idle. Because according to some old-fashioned notions, besides visiting relatives and feasting during the New Year, there is a lot you can’t do, and so many rules it could kill you.

Luckily, these rules aren’t so strict anymore, and who knows, in a few years, all those taboos and rules will probably be tossed aside, and people will just do whatever makes them comfortable.

Yan Fei has had a really comfortable past couple of days. Normally during the New Year, there would be no shortage of people coming to visit him, the boss. But the Boss’s wife... um, that is Lin Xiumei, who as the boss’s mother, fully demonstrated how a mother can be unreasonably protective of her son.

"Xiao Fei, he’s taking advantage of the New Year when there isn’t much going on, working on his experimental paper! I don’t really understand it, but I see him preparing a lot of envelopes, planning to submit his work during the New Year. I don’t have much to do as his mom, so I’m just watching the door for him, keeping people from disturbing him..." Lin Xiumei, holding a small Tibetan Mastiff in her arms, said this enthusiastically to a visitor.

Upon hearing her say this, even though her attitude was extremely warm, the visitor could only set down the gift they were carrying, "Then I won’t bother Boss Yan any longer, just came by to check in. Let Boss Yan focus on his writing!"

"Do you have any business? If you do, I’ll call him, it’ll only delay him a little bit, at worst he’ll have to pull an all-nighter..." Lin Xiumei insisted.

"No, no..." The visitor really couldn’t help it, with her saying that, how could they actually make her call Boss Yan?

"Alright then, why don’t you stay for a meal? It’s almost mealtime, right?" Lin Xiumei insisted again.

"No, no!" They didn’t get to see the boss, so why stay for a meal! As long as they leave the gift, it will be fine as long as Boss Yan knows they came by.

Just as this group left, another group arrived, and Lin Xiumei was still smiling amiably, "Xiao Fei, he has to write some kind of paper these days. He is busy inside!"

Without waiting for visitors to ask, she continued, "He says he’s writing something that people in the village can read and use. I don’t understand it, but I heard him mention something about using cow dung as base fertilizer, how to prevent diseases in mushrooms and earthworms, that kind of thing. The kid doesn’t know how to take care of his health, writing during the day and staying up at night, just thinking about letting the villagers use those technologies sooner. I can’t help him, so I’m watching the door for him..."

A mother standing there watching the door herself, not many would have the thick skin to ask her to call someone.

It wasn’t until another group came, and Lin Xiumei was about to repeat the monologue she had already recited dozens of times over the past two days when Yan Fei himself came out and shouted to her, "Mom, this is Boss Niu from our cement factory, haven’t you met him before? Boss Niu, come on in, we said on the phone we wouldn’t make the rounds this New Year, why did you still come in person?"

Lin Xiumei was not the least bit embarrassed, "Well, Boss Niu, you go inside then! I’m just watching the door because I see my kid working hard and can’t help him, don’t take it personally!"

Boss Niu certainly wouldn’t mind. He wasn’t a teenager in his rebellious chunibyo phase, and faced with a mother watching the door for her son, he couldn’t really say anything negative.

In fact, including the people who were ’persuaded’ to leave earlier, there was nothing to say. If Boss Yan had arranged someone else to block them, they might have had some complaints, assuming he was just making excuses. But with the boss’s own mother standing there, who could really speak out of turn? When someone’s mother does this for their child, others can’t really say anything!

As soon as he entered, Boss Niu got a shock and forgot the polite greetings he had prepared, blurting out in surprise, "Brother Yan, are you... planning a big project?"

The desk and chairs in the room were piled with documents and some completed manuscripts; it looked like a workspace of someone immersed in research and writing. If you are going to write a paper, it wouldn’t be right if the office looked empty like it did the other day when his father saw it. You have to make it look the part, right?

Yan Fei chuckled, "Since it’s quiet over the New Year, I’m just hurrying to organize some articles I’ve been wanting to write but didn’t have the time for. Once the New Year is over, I’ll publish them so that everyone can see them. All of this is practical stuff, and the sooner it gets published, maybe more people will be able to use it, and if used well, it could benefit them quite a bit!"

Boss Niu paused for a moment, then gave a thumbs up, "Stop right there, just listening to what you said, little brother, makes me feel ashamed! I’m telling you, I haven’t seen many bosses like you, with assets and conscience, caring about the villagers. I have nothing else to say, just one word: Respect!"

Yan Fei humbly smiled, "Let’s not speak such formalities, have a seat, I’ll make you some tea. I seldom bother to make it when I’m alone..."

"No, no, no!" Boss Niu truly felt ashamed and quickly stopped Yan Fei from pouring tea for him. "I’ll do it myself, seeing what you’re doing here, big brother here really doesn’t have the face to sit around and let you serve tea!"

While pouring the water himself, he kept expressing his feelings, "To tell the truth, I used to wonder, you just distributed some cows for people in the village to raise, how come you’re held in such high regard in the village! After all, I’m a boss too; not to say I’ve brought prosperity to the community, but my factory employs quite a few workers, and I’ve never been stingy with my salaries, so why don’t I receive the kind of treatment you do?"