Chapter 211 Yan Zhusheng's Letter

After seeing Yan Zhusheng off, Li Luo and Ying Chanxi packed their luggage and prepared to go home.

Xu Youyu planned to go back when it was almost time for dinner.

After all, she didn't plan to take anything with her, and it would only take a few minutes to get home, which was very convenient.

I can stay here and write in the afternoon.

"Senior, remember to wash the dishes from lunch." Li Luo reminded before leaving.

"I know." Xu Youyu waved his hand, then suddenly remembered something, smiled and leaned close to Li Luo's ear, whispering, "Did you read the pen pal's letter? How about coming back around the 10th to stay with me for a few days?"

Li Luo was tickled by the heat of her voice in his ear, and subconsciously took a half step back, saying helplessly: "We'll talk about this later."

After saying goodbye to Xu Youyu, Li Luo pushed the suitcase, put on his schoolbag, and walked out of the door of 1502 with Ying Chanxi.

Ying Chanxi asked curiously, "What did the senior sister say to you?"

"She said that if she was disliked again after going home during the winter vacation, she would sneak back here to stay for a few days." Li Luo said, "and asked me if I would come over to help her cook and save her stomach."

"Senior lived here last year, right?" Ying Chanxi said with a stern face after hearing this, "Didn't she stay here during last winter vacation? How could she trouble you to come all the way here to cook for me?"

"Indeed." Li Luo nodded.

Seeing that Li Luo also had a positive attitude, Ying Chanxi felt relieved and went downstairs with him happily.

In the elevator, she looked at her reflection in the elevator door, adjusted the light red scarf around her neck, then looked at the red scarf Li Luo was wearing, a satisfied smile on her face.

Ying Chanxi was even happier when he thought about how he had successfully slept in Li Luo's bed again last night.

When she woke up this morning, she saw that there was an extra quilt on her body and she knew that Li Luo had taken it from her bedroom.

Apart from that, only Li Luo's quilt was left on the bed.

Judging from this, Yan Zhusheng should have gone back to his bedroom to sleep after watching the movie last night.

Thinking of this, the smile on Ying Chanxi's face became even more intense, and his whole body was filled with a happy atmosphere.

Li Luo looked at her smiling face and couldn't help asking, "Why are you smiling so happily?"

"Ah?" Ying Chanxi realized that he had been laughing too much after hearing what Li Luo said, so he quickly restrained his expression and explained, "It's winter vacation, of course I'm happy."

The two people walked out of the elevator, hailed a taxi at the entrance of the community, and returned to Jincheng Community with their luggage.

After calling their mother at the breakfast shop to tell her that they were back, Li Luo and Ying Chanxi went upstairs and went home to put their luggage away.

After a while, Ying Chanxi took out the key at the door of Li Luo's house, walked into Room 401, and knocked on Li Luo's door.

"What are you doing?" Ying Chanxi poked his head in curiously and saw Li Luo opening the laptop that Yan Zhusheng had borrowed from him. "Are you going to play games?"

Of course, it’s not to play games, but I want to take advantage of the time to write more words and get back to the level of 200,000 manuscripts as soon as possible.

But since Ying Chanxi was here, Li Luo temporarily put aside his thoughts on typing and asked, "Would you like to play together? Or do you plan to review your lessons?"

"What are you reviewing for?" Ying Chanxi rolled her eyes at him. "I'm not a real machine. It's only the first day of winter vacation. Can't I just relax?"

"Then come."

……

The two of them played games for an entire afternoon, from the simplest 4399 two-player mini-game to some two-player games on Steam.

When he finally played "Portal 2", Ying Chanxi was completely focused and immersed in the fun.

"I feel this game is very interesting and it really tests one's spatial imagination." Ying Chanxi played until Lin Xiuhong and the others came back, and only then did he let go of the keyboard with a feeling of unfulfilled desire.

"Let's continue playing next time." Li Luo smiled, stood up and went to the living room with Ying Chanxi.

Seeing the two people coming out of the bedroom, Lin Xiuhong smiled and pulled Ying Chanxi over and greeted her warmly.

"Xixi is back, what did you do this afternoon?"

"I played games with him for a while." Ying Chanxi said honestly.

"Oh, that's good." Lin Xiuhong nodded with a smile, "Playing games is good for your brain, and playing them occasionally can also help with your studies."

Li Luo, who was standing by, rolled his eyes when he heard this.

Lin Xiuhong said this only because they both have good grades.

If your grades are at the bottom every day and you dare to play games at home, you will probably be criticized immediately.

Your parents' attitude towards you often does not depend on what you actually do, but on their dynamic adjustments based on your academic performance.

In other words, if his grades improve in this life, then a loving mother and filial son can be achieved.

"Have fun during the winter vacation." Lin Xiuhong said to Li Luo, "Just remember to do your winter vacation homework."

"You are the class monitor now. You can't just not finish your homework like before, right?"

"Oh yeah, how was the final exam?"

Li Luo watched Lin Xiuhong go from "I'll have fun during the holidays" to "How will the final exam go?" and he felt a little amused and helpless.

"17th in the school, first in the class."

"Oh, it's pretty good." Lin Xiuhong nodded, but then asked, "You were ranked 15th in the last monthly exam, right? How come you dropped two places this time?"

"Auntie Lin~" Ying Chanxi walked towards the kitchen holding Lin Xiuhong's arm, and said with a smile, "It's normal for the top 40 in the school to have such fluctuations in rankings. Everyone is at a similar level. It all depends on the difficulty of the test paper and actual performance."

"So, Xixi, how did you do in the exam this time?"

“Still number one.”

"Look." Lin Xiuhong said, "Why don't you fluctuate? Li Luo, you need to learn more from Xixi and keep improving."

Li Luo looked at Lin Xiuhong, then at Ying Chanxi who was holding his forehead with a helpless look on his face, and immediately covered his mouth and almost laughed out loud: "I know, mom, when I surpass Ying Chanxi in the future, what will you say then?"

"If you have the guts, try to surpass someone else?" Lin Xiuhong chuckled. "Xixi has never been ranked lower than first since junior high school, right? You can surpass someone just because you say so?"

Li Luo shrugged his shoulders without commenting, after all, he was just joking.

Ying Chanxi followed Lin Xiuhong into the kitchen and helped her prepare dinner.

Watching his wife and Xixi enter the kitchen, Li Guohong sat on the sofa, turned on the TV in the living room, and then waved to Li Luo.

When the father and son came together, Li Guohong asked in a low voice: "How much can you expect to earn from your writing this month?"

"Just for the current website, the monthly royalties should be over 100,000, right?" Li Luo estimated. "What's wrong, Dad?"

"Didn't you tell your mom before that you wanted to discuss whether you should buy a house or a store near the subway in the future?"

Li Guohong whispered, "I think what you said makes sense. After all, your money is just sitting there anyway."

"Now that we have such a good investment direction in the subway area, we can't waste it."

"But you have to tell me the truth first."

At this point, Li Guohong paused, glanced at the kitchen, and after confirming that Ying Chanxi couldn't hear him, he continued to ask:

"When will you finish writing this novel?"

"I've been searching a lot about online writing lately, and I feel like the income here isn't very stable."

"If you finish writing this book and no one reads the next one, won't you make no money?"

"Before we do anything, we still need to do this risk assessment in advance."

After listening to Li Guohong's words, Li Luo could understand and nodded, saying: "It will take me a long time to write this book. It will not be finished in at least one or two years. You can rest assured about this."

The main reason is that Li Luo had written and read a lot of entertainment in his previous life, so he has a good control of the rhythm in this aspect and has never let the protagonist develop too quickly.

Especially when the three female protagonists are all well-characterized, Li Luo often pulls one of the female protagonists out from time to time to write some daily life to smooth things over when a plot is advancing.

The number of words went up rapidly.

Some readers really enjoy reading this kind of daily flirting content and often clamor for more of it.

So I argued with another group of readers who liked to see the main storyline develop, and the comment section became very lively.

Under such circumstances, the book has just reached 1.3 million words, and Li Luo feels that he can at least write 4 to 5 million words, so it is indeed still a long way from completion.

At least he should make back the money he paid for the house, right? It would be even better if he could earn a few more.

After hearing what Li Luo said, Li Guohong felt a little relieved. After thinking it over, he said, "Anyway, you should study hard. I'll go and see what's going on here first."

Li Luo nodded to show that he understood, and decided to do his duty as a son.

When it comes to family decision-making, as he is still a minor, even if he makes a lot of money, he still needs to guide his parents to indirectly gain certain decision-making power.

Therefore, he is more measured in doing these things and in the way he communicates with his parents, leaving everything to his parents to decide.

But in fact, when he was speaking, he had already consciously spoken in the direction of the result he wanted.

In this way, you can achieve your desired goals.

……

After dinner, Ying Chanxi returned to the house opposite.

Li Luo also returned to the bedroom and started typing.

After typing until ten o'clock in the evening, Li Luo stretched and looked at the number of words in the manuscript that kept increasing in the background. He nodded with satisfaction.

Then, he suddenly thought of something, looked at his schoolbag, and pulled out a letter from it.

It was the pen pal letter that Yan Zhusheng handed to him before leaving today.

I was so busy typing just now that I forgot about this.

Thinking of this, Li Luo pushed the notebook on the desk aside, then carefully opened the envelope, took out the letter inside, and spread it out on the table.

Compared to the way Ying Chanxi and Xu Youyu addressed him, Yan Zhusheng sounded much more normal.

【Li Luo:】

【This is my second time writing a letter】

[The first time was at the last parent-teacher meeting, where Teacher Kong said she would write a letter to the parents]

[But in fact, I only wrote one sentence in that letter: Thank you, Mom, for taking the time to attend my parent-teacher meeting.]

[So this should be the first time I write a letter seriously]

[I don’t know what I want to write, so I write whatever comes to mind]

[I can no longer remember things from my childhood]

[I have lived abroad since I can remember]

[My mother didn’t arrange for me to go to school. Only the tutor would come to my house every day to teach me.]

[So when I was in junior high school, I followed my mother back to China. After I was sent to school, I felt a little uncomfortable.]

【I do not know why either】

[Whenever I talk to people, even though I am simply expressing my thoughts, it is always easy to make them angry]

[But when I was young, my tutor always taught me to express my ideas seriously, and I did the same.]

[But it seems that not everyone is like this]

[Everyone prefers to hide themselves and not express their true thoughts]

[But after entering high school, I met you, and I found that no matter what I said to you, good or bad, you never seemed to get angry.]

[Actually, sometimes I just want to make you angry. I want to see how angry you are, but it seems that I have never succeeded once.]

【it's wired】

[When we first met, I told you that you were looking at me, and you didn’t try to avoid it at all. Instead, you admitted it generously.]

[During military training, I told you that you played several wrong notes on the guitar, but you didn’t get angry at all]

[You also taught me how to get along with roommates and make friends with classmates]

[I have many good friends now, including Xixi, Xuejie, Huanhuan, Xinyan, and Zhao Rongjun]

【I like being with you guys】

[Now I am no longer hiding from others like I was in junior high school]

[I really like the feeling of being with you every day, I like listening to you chat, I like talking back to you, and then seeing you speechless]

[Because I know you won’t be angry, I can share my true thoughts without reservation, without having to hide anything, and feel at ease]

[Li Luo, you are my best best best best best friend now]

[It will definitely be, always has been, and will always be in the future]

[So, if we are good friends, shouldn't you come and see me off on the 2nd? ]

Since meeting Yan Zhusheng, this was the first time, whether in this life or the previous one, that Li Luo received such a long message from her at one time.

He read it carefully once, again, and again.

Then he smiled, closed the letter again, put it back into the envelope carefully, and put it away carefully.

He is now somewhat fortunate that he met Yan Zhusheng in high school in this life.

In his memory, when he knew Yan Zhusheng in his previous life, her personality was far less approachable than it is now.

They have been together for more than half a year.

In this life, Li Luo gradually let down Yan Zhusheng's guard after knowing her for a few days.

The originally pure white paper gradually became covered with his handwriting.

But there is a gap of nearly twenty years between Yan Zhusheng in the previous life and Yan Zhusheng today.

Li Luo had no idea what had happened in the meantime.

But the Yan Zhusheng in his previous life, who was more aloof and serious, is obviously very different from the Yan Zhusheng today.

Thinking of this, Li Luo stroked the envelope in his hand, and the smile on his face became even wider. He felt that after his rebirth, he had one more meaningful thing to do.

Then he thought about it, took out his cell phone and found Yan Zhusheng's phone number.

Make a call.

"Hello?" Yan Zhusheng answered immediately and asked in sync, "Have you finished reading it?"

"How do you know I've finished reading it?"

"You'll call me after you finish reading it." Yan Zhusheng said, "Am I right?"

"You're getting smarter."

"I'm pretty smart."

"What time will you and Aunt Yuan go to the airport tomorrow, the 2nd?"

"We should go there after lunch," Yan Zhusheng said. "We'll probably leave around 1:00 p.m. Do you want to see me off?"

"You said that in your letter. If I don't go and see you off, I'd be a terrible person."

"really."

"So you usually talk like this just to deliberately anger me and see my reaction, right?"

"No, I'm a very nice person." Yan Zhusheng said seriously, "You are the bad one."

"The bad guy still won't send you off."

"It wouldn't be bad if you came to see me off."

"Hehe, let's meet at the airport tomorrow. Remember to tell me when you leave for the airport."

"Sure."

(End of this chapter)