Chapter 20 Entrance Banquet

In Yangji Family Banquet Restaurant, Zhang Xuefen was walking between boxes 3, 4 and 5 with a smile on her face.

She took her son Wei Chun to toast the relatives and friends who came to the graduation banquet, and then received red envelopes with a smile.

"Your Wei Chun is really promising, unlike ours, whose grades are terrible."

"No, no, he still has room for improvement." Zhang Xuefen covered her mouth and laughed, "He only scored 525 points this time, ranking 286th in the district."

"Isn't that amazing? There must be thousands of people taking the high school entrance exam every year, right?" The relative laughed and said, "If you think that's too low, just let Chunchun be my son."

"Hahaha~" Zhang Xuefen laughed happily, and then said, "Didn't he get into the No. 1 Affiliated Middle School?"

"You all know that there are more than 600 students in each grade of the Affiliated No. 1 Middle School. After our Chunchun enters, he will only be in the middle level."

"There's still a lot of room for improvement. Now that you're in high school, you have to work harder, right?"

Wei Chun was quite tall, but when he was next to his mother, he kept his back hunched, looking a little shorter, and remained silent, helpless.

He would only say a few words when Zhang Xuefen called him to say hello or toast.

On the other side, Wei Dongrong was also holding a glass of wine, drinking and chatting with a table of relatives, discussing the business of his real estate project.

Several of my relatives have already invested money and are inviting others who are still hesitating to join in.

Everyone was having a great conversation at the table when Wei Dongrong drank too much and got up to go to the bathroom.

As a result, when I passed by boxes 8 to 10 at the back, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure inside.

Stopping and taking a closer look, Wei Dongrong raised his eyebrows and found that it was Li Guohong's family.

Looking at Li Guohong and Lin Xiuhong holding their son Li Luo, toasting people back and forth between several tables with smiles on their faces, it seems that Li Guohong's family is treating them.

This isn't a festival, it should be a graduation party for the kids, right?
Thinking of this, Wei Dongrong glanced at Li Luo and wondered if his wife had said before that Li Luo's grades were not very good.

I guess he performed exceptionally well in the high school entrance exam, so he did pretty well, right?
Thinking of this, Wei Dongrong went to the toilet first, then returned to his box and waved to Zhang Xuefen.

"What's wrong with my husband?" Zhang Xuefen was happily chatting with relatives over there, immersed in the pleasure of being praised and commended. When Wei Dongrong called her over, she immediately asked in confusion.

"I saw Li Guohong and his family nearby." Wei Dongrong whispered in his wife's ear, "I took them to see the project before, and the discussion was going well, but in the end, there was no response."

"We just happened to meet this time. You can come with me and bring Chunchun with you. We will go to congratulate their son on his admission to school and ask about the investment."

"If we can come to an agreement, we can ask their relatives there to see if we can attract more people to come."

"Xiuhong and the others are here too?" Zhang Xuefen was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go call Chunchun, and we'll go over together."

"Be careful." Wei Dongrong reminded, "I know you and your cousin don't get along, but don't say anything when you're gone."

"I know." Zhang Xuefen nodded quickly. "Don't I know the priorities? Don't worry."

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The private rooms of Yangji Family Banquet are connected in a row.

When several tables of people need to dine together, the screen wall in the middle can be opened to form a larger private room.

Li Luo's graduation banquet was held in boxes 8 to 10 of Yangji Family Banquet.

Around five o'clock in the evening, relatives arrived and took their seats.

They first enjoyed the meal for half an hour, and then Li Luo obediently followed his parents to toast.

Of course, he was still a minor and could only drink juice.

The red envelopes received from relatives must eventually be handed over to my parents.

However, seeing that his grandparents were healthy and happy, Li Luo was satisfied.

I vaguely remember that my grandmother passed away when he was a freshman in college.

His grandfather died just when he graduated from college.

My grandmother also didn’t make it when she was thirty.

At the age of thirty-five, Li Luo only had his parents left.

Especially since my mother was seriously ill at that time and her health was in critical condition.

In contrast, Li Luo only felt that being able to be reborn and return to the present was an incredibly wonderful thing.

So the words he said became sweeter, making the elders laugh heartily.

In addition, Li Luo did very well in the high school entrance examination this time and was admitted to the No. 1 Affiliated Middle School. He had a bright future, and the atmosphere in the box was very good.

After a round of toasts, everyone continued drinking and chatting.

Li Guohong and Lin Xiuhong sat at the table with Third Grandfather and began to discuss the issue of buying a house in detail.

Because it had been confirmed before, the conversation was very pleasant this time, regarding the price and so on. Especially since Third Uncle's family was in a hurry to sell the house, and the housing prices in the northern part of Yinjiang District were not high, Li Luo's family also got a very favorable price.

A down payment of 50 yuan, and a loan of just over one million yuan, for a house of about square meters, is about enough.

"But there is something I told you last time." Third Grandpa reminded, "I made four bedrooms in this house."

"The student who has three bedrooms just finished his college entrance exams and graduated this year, so he won't renew his lease."

"But there is another little girl who will be a sophomore in high school this year. She signed a three-year contract."

"So if you have decided, think about whether you want to continue renting it to others or not?"

"Anyway, the rental contract and deposit will be handed over to you directly when the time comes. You can handle it yourself."

Li Guohong nodded, thinking about this, and then turned to look at Lin Xiuhong: "What do you think? If Li Luo and Xixi live over there, wouldn't it be better if there were no outsiders to disturb them?" "But if we cancel the lease, we have to pay a penalty or something, right?" Lin Xiuhong thought for a moment and said, "Besides, she is also a student of the Affiliated No. 1 Middle School. Living together can help us make progress together. I just have to understand her personality and whether we can get along well."

Li Luo, who was standing by, felt a little conflicted after hearing this.

After all, if possible, he definitely wouldn't want to share a house with strangers.

But the family has to bear a one-million-dollar mortgage, which is quite stressful.

If I could get some rental income back every month, it would at least alleviate some of the pressure on my parents' mortgage.

Although Li Luo was quite confident in the novels he wrote, the market for paid online literature was not very large at that time in 2014.

Especially the paid reading market of Qidian Chinese website’s main site is completely incomparable to what it was ten years later.

If you can have an average of 3000 readers paying for the full book, you are already at the level of a very powerful boss.

On the best-selling list of the entire site, starting from the tenth place, the average subscription score has not reached 10000.

Compared with the scenes in later generations where hundreds of thousands of copies were serialized at the same time, it was still far from it.

If the data of the distribution channel is better, you can even compete for the position of the website god with 3000 subscriptions.

But even for such a big guy, the monthly royalties for the main site are probably only around 10,000 yuan.

With this in mind, if possible, it would be natural to have an extra source of income for the family and earn more money.

Although when my parents made up their minds to buy a house, they never expected Li Luo to be of any help.

But if he were to live his life over again, how could Li Luo feel at ease and simply enjoy his high school life without sharing any family pressure?
At least set a small goal first and help your family pay off the one million mortgage as soon as possible.

So Li Luo said, "Since they have signed a three-year rental contract, there is no need to cancel it, right? We can just live together."

"I have to go to school anyway, and it's just a place to take a shower and sleep when I come back, so it won't be a problem."

"We can still supervise each other's studies on the weekends, right?"

After hearing what her son said, Lin Xiuhong nodded and said, "You are right. Since you don't mind, we will definitely not cancel the lease."

"That's fine." Seeing that they had reached an agreement, the Third Grandfather said, "Let's make an appointment and go through all the necessary procedures. The sooner the transfer is done, the sooner we can feel at ease."

After finalizing the rules of the matter, everyone laughed happily.

Li Guohong held up the wine glass and toasted his third grandfather with his family.

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the box.

Li Luo looked towards the door and saw his uncle Wei Dongrong, followed by his aunt Zhang Xuefen and his cousin Wei Chun.

"Eh? Dongrong?" Li Guohong looked over following the voice, raised his eyebrows, stood up and walked over to greet them, "What a coincidence? You are here too?"

"Yeah." Wei Dongrong walked in with a smile, holding a wine glass in his hand, and clinked glasses with Li Guohong, "Aren't we going to hold a graduation banquet for Chunchun? You guys are doing the same, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Li Guohong laughed and led the three of them to the table. "Li Luo did well in the exam, so I wanted to celebrate."

"Congratulations." Perhaps because he thought that no matter how well he did in the exam, his score would not be very high, Wei Dongrong just congratulated him verbally, toasted him with a glass of wine, and then changed the subject, and slowly led the topic to the real estate project.

Zhang Xuefen, who was standing by, saw that the two men were already chatting, so she pulled Wei Chun towards Lin Xiuhong and Li Luo.

"Xiuhong, congratulations." Zhang Xuefen toasted Lin Xiuhong with a smile, "I heard that your Li Luo also did well in the exam this time, congratulations."

"Thank you." After all, she was being toasted and congratulated, so Lin Xiuhong didn't show any displeasure and replied with a smile, "Your Wei Chun did well in the exam, right? Judging from your performance, there will be no problem for you to get into the Affiliated No. 1 Middle School."

"Yes, yes. I got 525 points in the exam, ranking 286th in the district. There is really no problem with the No. Affiliated High School." Zhang Xuefen covered her mouth and chuckled. She felt happy immediately after being praised by Lin Xiuhong. She pulled Wei Chun and said, "Come here, Chunchun, toast your aunt."

"Hello, aunt." Wei Chun raised his glass with a helpless look on his face.

Li Luo glanced at his mother, then took the initiative and raised his glass.

So the four of them clinked their glasses, and on the surface the atmosphere was very pleasant.

Just when Zhang Xuefen wanted to ask Li Luo how many points he got in the exam, Wei Dongrong came over.

Li Guohong followed beside him, looking apologetic: "I'm really sorry, I was thinking of telling you guys after I finished the entrance banquet."

"It's okay." Wei Dongrong smiled faintly, his true feelings could not be seen, "Since your family has other uses for the money, I can't force you to buy it, right? We can cooperate again if there is a chance in the future."

"Yes, we'll work together again if there's a chance." Li Guohong smiled, then congratulated Wei Chun, "I just heard that your Chunchun was admitted to the First Affiliated Middle School. Come, uncle will toast you."

"Thank you, thank you, uncle." Wei Chun quickly raised his glass in response.

However, Zhang Xuefen next to her looked unhappy. After hearing the conversation between Li Guohong and her husband, she knew that the talks had broken down.

So after Li Guohong congratulated his son, she looked at Li Luo with a thorny smile, handed him the cup and asked, "Then I have to congratulate your Li Luo too. He did well in the high school entrance exam. Do you plan to go to Shulan? Or Yingcai?"

She didn't even mention No. 2 Middle School, obviously she didn't think Li Luo's grades could be that good.

After these words were spoken, Li Luo was fine, but Wei Chun's expression became awkward.

Wei Chun, who had been silent at first, suddenly pulled his mother's clothes and whispered, "Mom, stop talking."

"What are you talking about?" Zhang Xuefen glanced at her son in surprise, not realizing what was wrong. "I just asked about his grades and was concerned about Li Luo."

"But..." Wei Chun's face was full of embarrassment. He glanced at the calm Li Luo and just wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

After all, at last week's graduation ceremony, he was in the audience and saw Li Luo go up on stage to receive the award.

But the next second, Li Luo on the other side said innocently, "But aunt, I got 555 points in the high school entrance examination, ranking 86th in the district. If I choose Shulan or Yingcai, wouldn't it be a bad idea?"

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Xuefen's smiling face froze.

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