Chapter 1439 - 561: Dundun: Using My Cat’s Red Envelope for Employee Bonuses—You Think You’re Noble? So Impressive!

Chapter 1439: Chapter 561: Dundun: Using My Cat’s Red Envelope for Employee Bonuses—You Think You’re Noble? So Impressive!

"Dundun is asking you for a New Year’s red envelope."

Chen Yan looked at the little guy blocking the doorway and immediately guessed what it wanted.

It must be that it’s gotten too many red envelopes lately, so it’s picked up the habit, and besides, it clearly treats Ren Jie as family to do this.

Aunt Liu and the others had just paraded back and forth in front of the little guy for ages, and it didn’t react at all.

Just for that, it’s worth giving a big red envelope as a reward.

Chen Yan directly took out the New Year money from her grandma from her bag and handed it to Ren Jie:

"This is the New Year money Grandma gave me, give this to Dundun. One New Year and you’ve turned it into a little money grubber."

Ren Jie didn’t take it. Instead he opened his handbag, pulled out a thousand yuan, found a small red envelope, stuffed the money inside, and handed it to Dundun:

"Your Uncle-in-law’s salary for the month is all going out as red envelopes to the kids. Take it, sweetheart, don’t complain it’s too little."

This Spring Festival, Ren Jie had handed out a lot of New Year money to relatives’ and friends’ kids, so his work bag going to and from the office was stocked with cash and red envelopes.

Dundun grabbed the red envelope in its mouth and trotted off to find Lin Xu.

Chen Yan stood at the doorway and gave Ren Jie a provocative look:

"Oh? I give money and you won’t take it. So you’re not listening to your Aunt anymore?"

Ren Jie changed into slippers and said with a laugh:

"It’s not like I don’t get a salary. I’m at least serving in the Criminal Investigation Team now—salary, bonuses, subsidies all add up. I can’t be with you and even have to spend your money, can I?"

Chen Yan curled her lip:

"Tch, macho man... Here, this is New Year money from Grandma and Uncle for you."

She pulled out a red envelope and a Year of the Rabbit collectible gold bar from her bag and handed them over.

Ren Jie froze for a moment:

"At my age I still get New Year money? I’ve been cut off from New Year money since high school. Didn’t expect this..."

"What ’your age’? Hurry up and take it, stop dawdling. On New Year’s Day, didn’t you accept all the New Year money my parents gave you?"

Ren Jie smiled and took the red envelope and the gold bar.

Then he handed them back to Chen Yan:

"You keep them for me. My bag’s not suitable for carrying this kind of thing."

"Okay, your Aunt will keep it for you. When you grow up you can use it to get married."

Chen Yan happily took them. She hadn’t planned on having Ren Jie hold onto the money and gold bar anyway—after all, as a public servant, it’s not appropriate for him to carry a gold bar around.

When Ren Jie handed them back, he pulled Chen Yan into his arms:

"Thank you, Yanyan. It’s so good having you."

Just then, Shen Jiayue walked over from the dining room. Seeing the scene, she immediately splayed her fingers over her eyes:

"Wow, you two just can’t wait, can you?"

Chen Yan let go of Ren Jie, turned her head and said:

"Shoo, shoo, shoo. This isn’t like when you two are kissing in the room and I’m standing guard for you. Isn’t the food all ready? Why aren’t you eating?"

Shen Jiayue rubbed her stomach:

"I stuffed myself with snacks on the way, not hungry... Brother-in-law, happy New Year. You must be exhausted after a full day’s work. Go wash your hands and eat, quick. Aunt Liu made a whole table of dishes."

Ren Jie said "Happy New Year," then followed Chen Yan toward the dining room.

Seeing Ren Jie, Shen Guofu, Han Shuzhen, Lin Xu, and Old Lady Shen all greeted him and wished him well. Ren Jie answered each of them with a "Happy New Year," and only then sat down next to Chen Yan.

There really were a lot of dishes on the table.

There was steamed turbot, blanched prawns, salt-and-pepper swimming crabs, plus braised eel, steamed blood clams, scallions-fried squid, pan-seared yellow croaker, and all kinds of seafood dishes.

In Yinzhou they basically eat various meats and freshwater fish, and only had seafood at the New Year’s Eve dinner.

So this time back home, Old Shen planned to really indulge his craving for seafood.

Lin Xu quickly peeled a shrimp, but instead of eating it himself, he put it on a plate on a small stand beside him.

Dundun was lying on it. The red envelope it had just brought in was pressed under its belly, as if it was afraid someone would snatch it.

Seeing the Shrimp placed in front of it, it sniffed, then opened its mouth, grabbed the shrimp, and gobbled it down.

Lin Xu peeled a few more Shrimp for it. Once he figured that was enough, he finally started eating this late lunch that was close to dinner.

He talked about what he’d seen on the way back, then looked at Ren Jie and asked:

"You guys must be really busy during the New Year, right?"

"Busy. I haven’t been home for two days. Firecrackers going off all over downtown, fights and brawls after drinking, relatives falling out during visits, creditors showing up to collect debts... all kinds of messy stuff."

Lin Xu asked curiously:

"Do you detectives handle that kind of thing too?"

"When the people below can’t keep up, we have to step in. And several of those involved knives, so they fall under criminal cases... The pressure of life is huge now, everyone’s like a powder keg, and after half a catty of Liquor they just can’t hold it in... So during holidays it’s better to drink less."

Today Ren Jie had just worked on a case where friends pressuring someone to drink led to a death. The deceased’s family went to make trouble at the drink-pushers’ home, and it nearly turned into a murder.

Holiday gatherings are supposed to be something joyful.

Yet some people love to egg others on to drink, and the more someone doesn’t want to drink, the harder they push. They think forcing an honest person to drink is some kind of great achievement.

But once someone dies, they can wait for the compensation, and maybe even prison time.

Once you go in, for three generations you can’t take civil service exams, can’t apply to defense-related universities. Dragging yourself down is one thing, but you drag your children down too... it’s totally not worth it.

Han Shuzhen looked at Old Shen and said:

"You need to drink less too from now on. Avoid drinking occasions if you can, and if you really can’t, learn from Head Chef Xie and carry a pill box with you. Showing off at the table and trying to outdrink everyone isn’t any kind of skill. Stop always trying to act tough."