Chapter 79 (1/2)

Chapter 79: Yuan Zhou’s Principle

“Tell me.” Yuan Zhou changed his position while holding the telephone.

“Yuan Zhou, we have known each other for years. As your brother, I can say to have treated you pretty decently. And you…” Sun Ming switched to a gentler tone, talking about their old days.

“Just get to the point,” Yuan Zhou didn’t wait for Sun Ming to finish his emotional speech and just interrupted directly.

Sun Ming choked back the long paragraph of emotional words he had prepared due to Yuan Zhou’s words. He felt uncomfortable with the words stuck in his throat and unhappy without being able to say what he meant.

“Can’t you just let me finish my words?” Sun Ming’s tone started to get cold.

“Ok, sure. Go on, please,” Yuan Zhou had thought himself to be a considerate person all along, thus he accepted the good advice answered.

“HoHo”, Sun Ming could only reply with that.

“Can we get to the point now?” Yuan Zhou asked considerately.

“For my birthday tomorrow, you don’t need to prepare any gift,” while holding the phone in his hand, Sun Ming took a deep breath and said calmly.

“I’ve never intended to send you the gift. A man doesn’t need gifts.” Yuan Zhou didn’t really accept Sun Ming’s seemingly friendly offer. He directly brought out his idea.

“After being friends for several years, are you going to make me die of anger and then come attend my funeral tomorrow?” Sun Ming asked in a cold tone.

“No, no. I was just joking.” Yuan Zhou immediately corrected himself.

“Just cook a bowl of Clear Broth Noodle Soup for me tomorrow, treating it as longevity noodles.” Sun Ming felt that he had gone through great difficulties just for this request.

Having considered for a second, Yuan Zhou answered, “Just this?”

“Yes. I’ll appreciate it if you want to cook something else,” Sun Ming tone became lazy as he spoke, as he knew Yuan Zhou feared troublesome matters.

“You prepare the ingredients and I’ll cook Egg Fried Rice for all of you,” Yuan Zhou thought for a while and said.

“That would be great. Thank you.” There was an obvious surprise in Sun Ming’s tone.

“You’re welcome.” Yuan Zhou was very polite. He would never hang up on others randomly, even if it was a sales call.

“Let’s meet tomorrow at my home at 5:00 in the afternoon, alright?” Sun Ming told him the time and address.

“Alright.” After calculating the time, Yuan Zhou felt it was not a problem, hence agreed.

“Then I’ll hang up now. Don’t be late tomorrow.”Sun Ming hung up immediately as soon as he finished talking.

“Sure.” The call was ended by Sun Ming before Yuan Zhou could answer him.

Yuan Zhou set down the telephone and thought for a while before heading upstairs to wash up. After setting the alarm at 6:30 a.m. for the next morning on his phone, Yuan Zhou went to sleep.

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“Ling ling ling, Ling ling ling”

The alarm woke Yuan Zhou up from his sound sleep in the morning. He then reached to turn off the clock and walked with his eyes closed to the bathroom familiarly to wash up.

Every morning, Yuan Zhou cleared his head in the bathroom. Today would be no exception as well.

He changed into his work clothes and then walked downstairs to prepare breakfast.

Normally, Yuan Zhou would only provide one dish in the morning for the sake of convenience and speed.

However, he took out two different types of flour today, one for making the wrappings of the Soup Dumplings and the other for the noodles.

It was 8:00 a.m. when Yuan Zhou put the Soup Dumplings onto the steamer and finished preparing the noodles. After getting up and washing his hands, he opened the door with a “Hua La” sound.

“Morning, boss.” Mu Xiaoyun, who was standing at the door, greeted him politely.

“Morning. Come on in.” After nodding his head, Yuan Zhou moved his body aside and entered the restaurant first.

“Ok, boss.” Since she had gotten her salary yesterday, Mu Xiaoyun’s heart was filled with delight; thus she bounced about while entering.