Volume 1 Chapter 133 (1/2)

Come spend New Year with me

The door of the research facility was open by a rare chance and Xu Yi walked in. He saw Akali sitting cross legged in the living room, putting the clothes beside her into a luggage bag.

It seemed like she was packing her baggage.

Akali who felt someone come in looked up at Xu Yi and immediately reached out her hand.

“Sir chairman, quickly give me money. I am waiting for money to head home.”

Xu Yi smiled and took out the prepared purse in his chest to throw over to her.”

Akali took the purse and her hand went to open the purse, as she poured the money on the ground. She carefully counted it and couldn’t help saying in surprise, “Seventy six gold coins? This much! I say, sir chairman, did you make a mistake?”

Evita who heard the sounds came downstairs and beside her was Still who had come to send the two of them off.

Hearing the number Akali said, even the usually quiet Evita was surprised, “Sir chairman, why is it this much?”

Still wasn’t that surprised as she looked at Evita and Akali with a smile.

“Other than twenty six gold coins from last month and this month, there is also the fifty gold coin year end bonus for you.” Xu Yi explained.

“Year end bonus?” Evita and Akali looked at each other and their expressions became strange, “What does that mean?”

“Just as the word means. At the end of the year, in order to reward you for your hard work this year, you were given some extra bonuses.” Xu Yi replied, “Since the work you two have done is outstanding and to show how important researchers are, the company has decided to give you higher year end bonuses compared to the normal workers. The final set amount is fifty gold coins. How about it? Are you satisfied?”

“Of course.” Akali jumped up from the ground and hugged Xu Yi’s arm as she shook about, “Sir chairman, I really love you to death! You’re suddenly giving us this much money to go home with to celebrate New Years, mother and father will definitely be happy hearing about this!”

“Then they must congratulate you.” Xu Yi pulled his arm out without any changes to his expression and he took out two purses that he gave to Evita and Still.

Evita took the purse and said her thanks in a soft voice, but she didn’t open it.

Still just put the purse into her little bag and didn’t reveal any special expressions.

Seeing Akali tidy up the gold coins that had fallen to the ground, Xu Yi suddenly said, “That’s right, there’s something I want to tell you. Starting next year, the three of you will receive an increase in salary. You’ll be going from fifteen gold coins to twenty five gold coins.”

“Ah?” The three looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

Akali couldn’t help saying, “It’s actually going up this much? Chairman Xu, did you suddenly become rich?”

“Haven’t I become rich in the past half a year?” Xu Yi rolled his eyes at her, “What? I’m increasing your wages and you don’t want it? If you don’t want it, I can just increase Evita and Still’s wages while you have the same wage, alright?”

“No, no, I’m very willing!” Akali quickly waved her hand and even begged, “Sir chairman, I was just speaking casually, you can’t take it as something serious.”

Xu Yi gave a soft snort. He looked around before asking, “You still haven’t finished packing? It’s already quite late, if you don’t hurry, you won’t be able to make it to the horse carriage in time.”

Evita gave a sigh before looking at Akali, “If it wasn’t for Akali, we would have already finished packing.

“It’s really troublesome finding things.” Akali muttered as she began moving faster.

When girls were packing things, it wasn’t convenient for Xu YI to stay. After wishing them well on their journey, he prepared to leave.

Before he walked out, Still called out to him.

“Xu Yi, are you going home for the holidays?”

“Going home?” Xu Yi was stunned, “What home?”

“Your home.” Still asked naturally, “I remember that you’re not from Banta City, right? It’s now the New Years, so of course you should go back to your hometown. Speaking of this, I’ve never heard of you mentioning your hometown before. Just where is your hometown?”

Hearing Still ask this, Evita and Akali stopped moving and curiously looked over.

“Hometown?” Xu Yi silently thought this over before he couldn’t help revealing a bitter smile.

His hometown wasn’t even in this world, how could he go back?

Seeing the curious gaze of the three of them, Xu Yi shook his head and said with a sigh, “I can’t go back to my hometown anymore, so I’ll just stay here this year.”

“Can’t go back?” The three became even more curious. Akali asked, “Sir chairman, what do you mean by that? Is it because your hometown has been destroyed? Or is it because you were chased out?”

“Akali!” Evita spoke in a rare sharp voice, as she glared at Akali.