Work Prophet
Chapter 172 - 20 New Garbage

Chapter 172: Chapter 20 New Garbage

"Did you guys hear? Last night, there seemed to be someone electric fishing by the reservoir, and they even alerted the police; everyone got caught in the end," Zhou Xi said during breakfast.

"Seems like that did happen," Qin Shen added, "I heard it was a tourist wandering around in the middle of the night who called the cops."

"Eh, wandering around at dawn? They sure have the energy... After working all day yesterday, I was so tired I fell asleep as soon as I got back to my room. I didn’t wake up until nine, and Zhang Yanlin was even worse than me; when I got up, I saw her drooling there," Zhou Xi said while peeling an egg.

"Stop spreading rumors; I’m not like you. How could I drool in my sleep," Zhang Yanlin retorted, then turned to Li Yu with concern, "You seem to have some dark circles, did you not sleep well last night?"

Qin Shen, upon hearing this, seemed to remember something and apologized, "It’s my fault, sometimes I snore in my sleep, I probably kept Li Yu up last night... Why didn’t you wake me?" He addressed the last half of the sentence to Li Yu.

Li Yu replied, "It’s fine, I had already slept for almost four hours at that point, and you needed to drive back, so I definitely wanted you to get some rest first. I could catch up on sleep in the car."

Zhou Xi, biting into her egg, said, "Lao Qin, this is a problem, you need to get it treated!"

"I’ll deal with it when I have the time," Qin Shen tried to brush it off.

"Tsk, the modern-day Cai Huangong," Zhou Xi, having finished her egg, suddenly slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "Ouch!"

Startled, Qin Shen nearly dropped his chopsticks, "What now... you’re always so jumpy, I feel like one day you’re going to be the death of me."

"Li Yu, you said you couldn’t sleep last night because of Lao Qin’s snoring. What were you doing after that?" Zhou Xi’s eyes lit up with curiosity.

"I went out for a stroll," Li Yu said truthfully.

"......"

At that moment, Qin Shen and Zhang Yanlin also caught on, exchanging glances before exclaiming in unison, "So it was you who called the police last night?!"

Li Yu nodded, "I saw it and just reported it on the spot."

"Then we might as well start calling you the righteous citizen Mr. Li from now on, maybe soon the media will interview you!" Zhou Xi grew excited.

"If you keep making a fuss like this, that just might happen."

"What’s wrong with that, it’s a good thing. Why hide it? Maybe if word gets to your company, your boss will give you a big compliment and even promote you and give you a raise, leading you to the peak of your life."

"That won’t happen. Promotions at our company are completely transparent and only related to performance."

"Wow, that’s pretty cutthroat, isn’t it? They don’t consider the moral character of the employees or anything like that?" Zhou Xi said, unable to understand.

"What you’re describing is the ideal scenario, but in reality, the more vague the criteria for promotion are, the more room there is for manipulation, and it often ends up being all about pleasing the ones who do the evaluations," Qin Shen explained, "Of course, a performance-only approach has its own flaws; colleagues feel more like competitors rather than teammates. Even in a team, resources are hardly shared."

"The workplace really is complicated. It’s better working solo for someone like me. It might be tiring, but at least there aren’t so many messy issues to deal with."

Having finished her breakfast, Zhou Xi put down her chopsticks and suggested, "How about we go horse riding later? On the way back yesterday, I spotted a stable. We could ride for a bit and then head home!"

Qin Shen and the others had no objections, so they headed to the small stable. They each rented a horse, with both girls choosing smaller ones, and Qin Shen and Li Yu choosing relatively gentle big horses.

After the horse farm owner briefly explained the key points of horse riding, the four of them started to try it out, but Li Yu only rode for two rounds before getting off the horse.

For people like Zhou Xi who live in the city, this was certainly novel, but for Li Yu, it was an everyday mode of transportation, similar to a bicycle.

Since the anchor point was on Miss Rabbit, Li Yu would always appear by her side every time he arrived, and afterwards, he had to ride to the territory of the Double Rest Sect.

Sometimes, if some other matters came up, he would have to ride back to Teacup Castle from the sect, which basically took six or seven hours round trip.

So Ma Liyu had already had his fill of riding.

He was hoping that one day Eco-friendly Frog would pick up a small electric scooter for him, preferably the kind from before the new national standard was introduced, capable of speeding over 25 kilometers per hour, so that he could switch to commuting on an electric scooter with a solar charger.

There were other guests at the horse farm, so after teaching for a little while, the owner went to serve other customers.

Seeing that Zhang Yanlin seemed somewhat scared on the horse, Li Yu went over and temporarily took on the role of an instructor, leading her horse and correcting her riding posture in the process.

With someone by her side, Zhang Yanlin immediately felt a lot more at ease and was also somewhat surprised, asking Li Yu, "Have you also learned horse riding?"

"Had to, for work."

Zhang Yanlin assumed that among the clients Li Yu had served before, there were those who liked horse riding and that he had learned along with them, so she didn’t inquire further.

The four of them rode horses for about an hour.

Under Li Yu’s guidance, Zhang Yanlin gradually dared to let the horse trot a bit.

The horse farm owner, seeing this, even asked Li Yu if he was interested in working or part-time working there, probably mistaking Li Yu for one of those horse-loving types.

After all, he wouldn’t have thought that there was a young person living in the city who rode horses purely for commuting purposes, assuming that Li Yu’s equestrian skills must be due to regular practice.

Therefore, the owner, trying to attract Li Yu, offered a condition, saying that as long as he came to work there, Li Yu could ride any of the horses in the farm freely, but Li Yu politely refused.

He had no plans to become a Knight, his riding skills were good enough for his needs, and although his equestrian skills were rated as lv1 by "Game Sunglasses," Li Yu felt there was no need to improve them further.

After horse riding, the four of them finally embarked on the return journey.

Li Yu caught up on some sleep in the car, and by the time he opened his eyes again, they had reached the entrance to the residential complex. He bid farewell to the three of them one by one, then got off the VW Tiguan with his backpack in tow, ending this suburban outing.

Li Yu took advantage of this day and a half to temporarily detach himself from work, to relax a bit, and he didn’t know if it was because his actions were in alignment with the teachings of the Double Rest Sect, so the Supreme Saturday also rewarded him with a way to trap that Dragon.

Moreover, when Li Yu returned to the sect’s territory, he received another piece of good news.

Eco-friendly Frog had brought back two pieces of trash during the two days he was away, and one of them was actually a vehicle.

However, it wasn’t the little electric scooter he had been longing for, but a motorcycle.

Its body was red, the seat cushion black, and the brand Qianjiang was printed under the seat.