Chapter Fifty-Two: The Lazy Holidays (2/2)
In this regard, Yan Jin did not feel any sort of wronged emotions. Instead, he felt happy that Xiao Yu was slightly more energetic.
Those so-called cat slaves and dog slaves were brought up that way. In fact, it was the same logic.
Xiao Yu felt much better after he lay still for a while. The hamster attempted to roll over like a carp as he got up, but had failed without any surprise. The hamster slipped and rolled into Yan Jin’s palm.
“I wonder if there’s psychiatry available in the veterinary clinic.”
“Squeakkk.” Xiao Yu squeaked loudly in protest.
“Okay then. I won’t tease you. Let’s not soak in the hot spring for the next two days. We’ll do a full body checkup after we get back home.”
“Squeak.” Okay then.
Xiao Yu agreed unwillingly.
After a whole day of excitement and passing out from soaking in the hot spring, Xiao Yu fell asleep very early that night. He slept in the cage from home that Yan Jin brought over in the car trunk.
Aside from the cage, Yan Jin even brought the iPad. However, during this period, Yan Jin was just like Xiao Yu, with almost nothing to do all day except take a few occasional phone calls. Most of the time was spent playing around with Xiao Yu. Although from Xiao Yu’s point of view, Yan Jin’s actions were more like one sidedly playing him, instead of playing with him.
In conclusion, Xiao Yu barely had a chance to touch his iPad – not that he dared to touch it.
Yan Jin could appear at any time, and if he discovered that his hamster had a human soul, that would be far from good. They could still explain the actions that seemed human by covering them up with the excuse of high intelligence (according to Yan Jin’s own imagination). However, if Xiao Yu used the iPad to type words and play games, then that would be impossible to explain no matter what.
The days spent with Yan Jin made Xiao Yu feel very satisfied. The hamster did not wish for any incident to mess up their lives. Also, since it was a holiday, it should not be necessary to carry electronic gadgets around all the time. Spending their days viewing the scenery and enjoying mother nature was not difficult to bear, compared to holding the phone and checking out social media.
Moreover, the signal was very bad at this location. A phone call could occasionally go through. As for Internet access, 4G was a delusion and 2G was barely strong enough. Furthermore, that depended on the time of the day.
When Xiao Yu’s iPad was in Yan Jin’s hand, the only intended use was to play some renown animation for the hamster to watch while he was at work. Normally, Xiao Yu would close them once Yan Jin left the house and did whatever he wanted with the iPad. By the time Yan Jin got home, the iPad would have shut down due to empty battery. Hence, the chairman would not learn what his hamster had done.
Those few days spent in the Four Seasons Manor were simply too idle and boring. For some reason, Yan Jin insisted on watching animations together with Xiao Yu and regardless of how the hamster protested, he would ignore it.
Thankfully, those animated movies were all downloaded beforehand. Otherwise, with the current internet speed they had, downloading a video would probably take an entire day and night.
“This company’s animated movies seem to be doing better. Maybe there will be an opportunity to work with them.”
Yan Jin commented absent-mindedly as he picked up a melon seed from Xiao Yu’s small dish and passed it to the hamster.
Xiao Yu was watching the video earnestly and remained unmoved. After Yan Jin poked him several times, the hamster would then reluctantly take the melon seed, gently bit it to remove the seed from the shell and then placed it back onto Yan Jin’s hand. Next, Xiao Yu would shift the small dish closer to himself to avoid Yan Jin’s evil clutches.
Xiao Yu had watched this animated movie a long time ago. Since it was a classic work, accompanying Yan Jin to watch it again wasn’t much of a problem. If Yan Jin were to play videos meant for preschoolers, then the hamster would refuse to go along with watching them.
The human and hamster basked in the afternoon sunlight as they watched the animated movie harmoniously. If others were to see them, it would probably be a weird scene.
During this period, the iPad had always been safeguarded by Yan Jin. It was not that the chairman would take out the iPad to play with it, but when the contact time with the iPad got longer, it was easy to have some accidents.
One time, Yan Jin accidentally discovered that the iPad had a few games that he had never seen before. Since it was just a few games, he did not think much about it, assuming that Chu Ge probably downloaded them previously. Or maybe his little hamster had accidentally downloaded them while randomly pressing something.
However, the iPad’s internal storage was not big enough for the large number of videos that he had downloaded. Hence, Yan Jin conveniently uninstalled those games.
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The two spent five days of the week long holiday in the Four Seasons Manor.
Xiao Yu could feel his bones falling apart. Everyday was spent eating, drinking, lying down, and sleeping. He had maintained in three positions – hamster ball, hamster pancake and normal hamster form. The appearance of the hamster pancake had greatly increased and that led to Yan Jin spending a lot of time worrying if Xiao Yu was having any issues. Perhaps issues like not being acclimated or altitude sickness etc.?
Due to such worries, Yan Jin specially went to check on their elevation. That was when he discovered that they were about a hundred meters above sea level and concluded that there was a high possibility that it was due to altitude sickness.
A hundred meters plus – that was like the height of a thousand Xiao Yus stacked on top of one another.
(T/N: I shall clarify that Yan Jin was just exaggerating the facts – 100 meters above sea level is not that high.)
Xiao Yu had the cool eyes of a bystander as he watched Yan Jin act stupid. The hamster decided that silence was golden.
Every time Yan Jin had asked if he was feeling uncomfortable, the hamster pancake would try his best to buff himself up to answer the question so that he could prove that he was doing alright – he was just feeling lazy after all.
Unfortunately, Yan Jin did not understand Xiao Yu’s painstaking efforts and was constantly worried that the long-distance journey had negative effects on his hamster’s body. Finally, Chairman Yan decided to return home in advance. On the fifth day of the long holiday, Yan Jin forcefully brought home the reluctant hamster who had lingering thoughts of staying.
When the two arrived at the manor, all Yan Jin brought were things that Xiao Yu needed. For example, that giant hamster cage that took up the entire car trunk. There were very few of his own belongings, barely including a few pieces of clothing to change into. In the end, the chairman had to ransack the Four Seasons Manor’s inventory and put up with the spare clothing.
When they were leaving, it was even more exaggerated.
The Four Seasons Manor’s hundred square meters backyard was filled with specialty fruits and nuts as snacks. Xiao Yu walked from the front to the end of the backyard, choosing the empty spots as stopovers as he did an inspection. If he saw something that he liked, he would tap his paws on it. Yan Jin followed behind the hamster. Whichever thing Xiao Yu pointed out, the chairman would get the helpers to move onto the vehicle.
In the end, Yan Jin had taken along fifteen pomelos, twenty tangerines, eighteen bunches of purple grapes and green grapes, five persimmons, six pomegranates, a big bag of almonds, a big bag of lotus seeds and a few big bags of local specialties, filling up the entire vehicle. Not only were the back passenger seats taken up, even the space below Yan Jin’s feet had two pomelos that were properly wrapped up.
And so, they drove back to the city with a bang as the chairman had to constantly keep an eye on Xiao Yu’s condition at the same time. The chairman’s mental and physical health was strained as his driving skills were forcefully leveled up.