Chapter 123 Defeat You with Your Magic
Qianjiang University’s residential quarters are located in the north, close to the banks of the Yin River.

After Xu Youyu led them into the community through the entrance, they quickly arrived downstairs and then took the elevator to the fifth floor.

Pulling out the key and opening the door, Xu Youyu took out shoe covers from the cabinet and shouted into the kitchen: "Mom! I'm back!"

Cui Suling heard the noise at the door and hurried out of the kitchen, greeting them with a smile: "Hello, hello, come in and take a seat. The meal will be ready in a while. Youyu, please accompany the guests first."

"Know it."

At this time, Li Luo put on his shoe covers, picked up the fruit in his hand, and followed Cui Suling to the kitchen: "Auntie, please see where to put these fruits."

"Hey, why are you bringing things to my house?" Cui Suling quickly declined, "You are too polite."

"As I should." Li Luo said with a smile, "Senior sister said that these are what you and uncle like to eat, so I put them here, and you can taste them when the time comes."

"Youyu is really something. It would have been fine if he didn't refuse, but he picked it for you." Cui Suling rolled her eyes at her daughter, took the fruit from Li Luo, and planned to put it in the refrigerator first.

Xu Youyu standing by was stunned and wondered how she could have been the one chosen?

It was obviously Li Luo who made the choice on his own!

Who knows how lucky he is, he picked out all the things you two like to eat.

"Okay, go sit in the living room. There's a lot of smoke in the kitchen." After thanking Li Luo, Cui Suling said, "There's fish. You can take them to have a look around. They can go for a stroll on the balcony."

"Good~"

Xu Youyu responded and then led them to the balcony.

The Xu family’s housing estate is not particularly large, estimated to be around 70 or 80 square meters.

In addition to a small living room and kitchen, there is a master bedroom, a second bedroom, and a small study.

It’s not big, but very cozy. The whole house is cleaned and tidy, and traces of life can be seen everywhere.

The balcony of Xu Youyu's house is the place where he would bring the guests to visit whenever outsiders came to visit.

"Uncle and aunt, look."

Xu Youyu opened the window and pointed outside.

The window of their house faces west. On the right hand side, one can see the Yin River and the cross-river bridge not far away. The scenery is unique and beautiful.

On the right side, you can overlook half of Qianjiang University.

"That's the north gate of Qianjiang University. Usually only a small door is open, and it's usually used by people from the family quarters to go in and out."

"That area inside is the playground in the north. The College of Arts where my father works is in the building next to it. It's quite close to home."

"Then the tallest building is the iconic library of Qianjiang University. Next to it is an artificial lake, which is irrigated by water from a tributary of the Yinjiang River. It is called Qiuzhen Lake."

“Teach people to seek truth through a thousand teachings; learn to be a true person through a thousand studies.”

“This is the meaning of Qiuzhen Lake.”

"You spoke very well." Lin Xiuhong looked at Qianjiang University not far away, fascinated, and couldn't help but praise, "You Yu, you know a lot."

"You're welcome, Auntie. I grew up here. My dad told me these things all the time when I was little. My ears are callused from hearing them." Xu Youyu laughed, "I used to play around here all the time, so I'm quite familiar with it."

"That's great." Lin Xiuhong exclaimed, then looked at Li Luo and urged, "If you keep up your current grades, you should be able to get into Qianjiang University in the future. You have to work harder."

"Don't worry, Auntie." Xu Youyu said with a smile, "As long as Li Luo maintains his current grades, it will be easy for him to get into Qianjiang University."

If the top 30 students in the school still cannot be admitted to Qianjiang University, then it is not Li Luo’s problem, but the problem of the No. High School Affiliated to the University.

The group looked at Qianjiang University from the balcony for a while, and then sat back on the sofa in the living room. Ying Chanxi sat next to Yan Zhusheng, separating her from Li Luo, and sat in the middle.

Then she started chatting with Yan Zhusheng as usual.

"Zhu Sheng, have you ever thought about which university you want to apply to in the future?" Ying Chanxi asked curiously.

"The Central Conservatory of Music, or the Changning Conservatory of Music." Yan Zhusheng thought for a moment, then said, "The Qianjiang Conservatory of Music is also very good, and it is also affiliated with Qianjiang University."

"That's right." Xu Youyu added, "The music school is in the westernmost area. We can't see it from here, otherwise I would have pointed it out to you just now."

"So you plan to pursue an artistic career?" Li Guohong asked, his eyes falling on Yuan Wanqing, and he couldn't help laughing, "That's true. After all, your mother... um... your mother trained you well. I can see that you sang very well today."

"It would be a waste if she doesn't take the art exam." Li Luo said as he sat next to her. "With normal grades now, she definitely can't get into Qianjiang University. But if her scores in the unified exam and the school exam are up to standard, then her current academic scores will be more than enough."

After hearing what Li Luo said, Ying Chanxi bit her lip lightly and glanced at him subconsciously.

Yan Zhusheng was unaware of this, and just held Ying Chanxi's hand seriously: "I will work hard, and we can go to the same university in the future."

"Hmm... ah." Ying Chanxi pursed her lips. Suddenly she felt Yan Zhusheng's sincerity and became a little confused.

I always feel that Yan Zhusheng is sometimes dazed, and I really don’t know what she is thinking.

When Ying Chanxi thought of the Pikachu on his bedside table, his body suddenly softened. After some of the emotions in his eyes gradually subsided, he sighed softly.

Just then, there was movement at the door.

Xu Rongsheng pushed open the door and saw the guests in the living room. He smiled and said, "I'm so sorry. I just finished school and came back late." "It's okay." Li Guohong stood up first, took two steps forward, and shook hands with the other party. "Hello, I'm Li Luo's father, and this is the child's mother."

"Then this is Ying Chanxi, and next to him is Yan Zhusheng, and Yan Zhusheng's mother."

"We have just arrived and have been looking at the scenery from the balcony. I can tell at a glance that your house has a great feng shui. You can see Qianjiang University right away."

After some greetings, Xu Rongsheng changed into slippers, put his briefcase in the study, took off his coat, and returned to the living room to chat with a few parents.

So Xu Youyu simply asked Li Luo and the other three to go to the study room, where they could at least play on the computer for a while.

After more than half an hour, Cui Suling finished cooking and came to call them to eat.

There were nine people at the table, sitting in a circle. Xu Rongsheng poured a small glass of white wine for Li Guohong and asked everyone to pick up their dishes.

Perhaps because of the invitation letter he received at noon, or perhaps because he wanted to get the kids more active, Xu Rongsheng thought about it and asked Li Luo, "Does Li Luo read books?"

Li Luo was stunned for a moment when asked this question, but when he thought that Xu Rongsheng was a professor in the Department of Literature, he thought it was normal to ask such a question.

But he was not going to act like a big shot, and said frankly: "I don't usually read those traditional classics, I just read some leisure books."

"With the development of the Internet, there are indeed fewer and fewer young people reading books." Xu Rongsheng nodded, but he did not urge them to read more books as expected. Instead, he asked, "Are the books you usually read the kind of, um... online literature?"

After these words were spoken, not only Li Luo, but also Lin Xiuhong and Li Guohong beside him raised their eyebrows.

Yan Zhusheng gave Li Luo an ambiguous look, his eyes slightly curved, and then he immediately lowered his head to eat, pretending that he knew nothing.

Xu Youyu, who was sitting next to his father, was even more shocked. He wondered if his father had taken the wrong medicine today and why he suddenly asked about online articles.
Could it be that the fact that I wrote a novel has been exposed?
Is Dad testing and warning me?

With this thought in mind, Xu Youyu secretly glanced at his father.

Li Luo on the other side also had a strange look on his face, then nodded and said, "Yes, it's the online articles. Does Uncle Xu usually pay attention to these?"

"Haha, it was just something I was thinking about. I was talking about it with someone at school today, so I was a little interested." Xu Rongsheng made up an excuse and continued, "After all, it is also a new form of literature."

"But the teacher I chatted with said that the quality of online literature varies greatly, and many works are filled with low-quality elements."

"It's a bit like looking down on online literature."

"But for something new like this, young people's views are definitely different from our generation, so I'm curious about what you think."

Li Luo looked at Xu Rongsheng. When he asked this question, he suddenly remembered several articles and papers recommended by Xu Youyu in his previous life.

The first author is signed by Xu Rongsheng, who is Xu Youyu's father.

In fact, after Xu Youyu became successful, Xu Rongsheng had long since put aside some of his prejudices against online literature. Even under the influence of his daughter, he used his own status in the field of modern and contemporary literature to promote a series of studies on online literature.

One of the passages reads like this.

"Online literature has only been around for a dozen years."

"Thanks to the development of the times and the popularization of the Internet, more people can see these works for the first time."

"Of course, they have a lot of shoddy content and all kinds of cheap routines, but these are the inevitable self-pain that a new literary form must go through after it is born."

"Especially with the popularization of nine-year compulsory education in our country, anyone who has learned Chinese characters can create online articles."

"Their literary literacy may be almost non-existent, but it is precisely because of this that online literature reflects the results of our universal compulsory education."

"Otherwise, in ancient times, how many ordinary people were qualified to write books, and how many were qualified to read books?"

"What's more, the long river of history is full of ups and downs. When Tang poetry, Song lyrics and Yuan opera were flourishing, they were often belittled by the literati of the time. But later, many masterpieces were passed down through the ages, didn't they?"

"And those shoddy works will naturally disappear in the long river of history."

“The same is true for online articles.”

Xu Rongsheng didn't expect that the boy in front of him would actually give such a long speech.

The key point is quite reasonable.

Hearing this, Xu Rongsheng nodded immediately: "What you said is quite good. It gave me some new thoughts and perspectives on online literature."

It just so happens that I’m going to attend a symposium organized by the provincial online writers association in February, and I was originally planning to write something to give a speech.

As Xu Rongsheng was thinking about this, he suddenly realized that what Li Luo had just said would be very suitable to be shared with those online writers if he expanded on it a little.

"Come, have a drink." Xu Rongsheng was in a good mood. He raised his glass and clinked it with Li Luo's juice. He smiled and said, "There are very few young people who look at things from such a rational perspective as you do. I think your way of thinking is very good."

Watching her father clinking glasses with Li Luo, Xu Youyu's mind echoed with what Li Luo had just said. The guilt in her heart for secretly writing online articles behind her parents' backs seemed to be inexplicably alleviated a lot.

Xu Youyu looked at Li Luo respectfully holding the cup in both hands and returning the toast, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.

Suddenly I felt that the material for the male protagonist to go to his girlfriend's house for dinner seemed to have been prepared.

What a pleasant surprise.

(End of this chapter)