Chapter 214 Ying Zhicheng's Morning Rounds

Lin Xiuhong and Li Guohong arrived at Ying Zhicheng's house at six o'clock in the evening.

Five people from two families sat around the dining table in the living room. After three rounds of wine, both the host and the guests were in great joy.

At the dinner table, Ying Zhicheng did not mention anything about the "rekindling" matter. The conversation occasionally revolved around Li Luo, asking about his academic performance.

After knowing that he had basically stabilized in the top 20 in the school, Ying Zhicheng's gaze towards Li Luo changed a little.

After all, while balancing study, I can create several popular songs and write novels every day...

This kid is really energetic.

Ying Zhicheng was thinking about these things in his heart, but then he quickly put them out of his mind and clinked glasses with Li Guohong, and discussed the arrangements for New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival.

"What date will you be back?" Li Guohong took a sip of white wine, smacked his lips, and asked Ying Zhicheng.

"Probably around the 15th. The flight hasn't been booked yet, so we'll see when the time comes." Ying Zhicheng said, "Because I'm going to three countries this time, I can't tell when I'll be back, but I'll definitely be back before New Year's Eve."

"If we can come back before the 17th," Li Guohong said, "then let's go back to the countryside together."

"Yes." Lin Xiuhong also said, "If you come back late, let us know so that we can prepare New Year's goods for you in advance."

"Thank you in advance." Ying Zhicheng smiled and raised his glass to toast them.

Ying Chanxi was listening on the side, his face full of anticipation, shaking his body happily, and said to Li Luo beside him: "I think you will be in the limelight this time when you return to the countryside. You are ranked 17th in the whole grade."

"So what do you say about being the top student in your grade?"

"Everyone is used to it, so there's nothing much to say." Ying Chanxi shook his head and said, "I guess Aunt Lin will definitely not be able to help showing off when the time comes."

"You do understand my mom well, but not well enough." Li Luo laughed, "She won't show off on her own initiative. She'll always ask other people's kids how they did in the exams first."

"No matter how well you do on the test, you'll get a lot of praise when you come up."

"She was so happy to be praised that when she was asked curiously how her son did in the exam, she would say a few reserved words, but that was it."

Ying Chanxi listened to Li Luo's vivid description of the possible showing-off tactics of Lin Xiuhong, and he immediately covered his mouth and laughed secretly. His body was shaking with laughter, but he had to be careful to hold it back so that Lin Xiuhong would not find out.

"You are too mean. Aunt Lin doesn't have so many ulterior motives." Ying Chanxi patted Li Luo's shoulder. "You didn't want to do this, did you?"

"I'm not such a dramatic person." Li Luo shook his head repeatedly. "I would only complain to my mom with a resentful look on my face. Hey, mom, can you please stop talking? There's nothing to say about being ranked 17th in the school and first in the class!"

"Haha~" Ying Chanxi was completely amused by him. He imagined the scene in his mind and the picture came to him immediately. "This seems like your style. Last time, when that annoying aunt spoke at your graduation banquet, you responded in the same way."

"Well, I'm usually very easy to talk to, unless someone is trying to be mean to me." Li Luo said with a smile, "No one can predict what will happen in life. No matter how good your academic performance is now, you may not be able to find a good job in the future."

“No matter how bad someone’s grades are, if he or she can make a name for themselves in society, they are also excellent people. It’s just that their excellence cannot be displayed in school.”

"So serving food to children based on their grades is the most boring thing."

"Be careful not to let Aunt Lin hear it." Ying Chanxi whispered, "She will teach you a lesson soon."

"It's okay." Li Luo said, "I have good grades now, so everything I say makes sense."

Two people were chatting at the table, and three adults were also chatting there.

From the matter of the two children, all the way to the subway construction in Yinjiang District, then to the recent policy direction of Yuhang City, and the country's future development plan, and finally to the implementation of the international turbulent situation, astronomy and geography were all covered.

Lin Xiuhong poured more wine for them, heated up the food, and when they talked about something she didn't understand, she would ask a few questions out of curiosity, and then just let the two men take charge.

Ying Chanxi has been reminding his father to drink less, but Ying Zhicheng and Li Guohong rarely have time to get together like this, so naturally they are reluctant to drink less.

By around nine o'clock in the evening, the two men were already drunk and fell down on the sofa again.

Ying Chanxi took a blanket from the bedroom and covered his father with it. He muttered angrily, "We have to leave at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, and he is still drinking like this. He has no sense of propriety at all."

"It's okay. It's still early." Li Luo glanced at the time. "He probably woke up in the middle of the night. He won't miss the flight."

Lin Xiuhong called the two children to help clean the dining table in the living room and wash the dishes.

Then Lin Xiuhong went back to the house opposite to take a shower and prepare for bed.

Li Luo didn't stay here for long, and wanted to go back to the room to type for a while.

As a result, when I was typing until around eleven o'clock in the evening, I suddenly heard the sound of a door opening outside the house.

Li Luo thought that Li Guohong had sobered up and came back to sleep.

But soon, there was a knock on his door.

Ying Chanxi pushed open a crack in the door, poked his head in quietly, and asked in a low voice: "Is it not disturbing you?"

"I'm not disturbing you." Li Luo was originally planning to go to sleep. When he saw Ying Chanxi coming over, he was a little amused and asked, "Why are you looking for me?"

"Hmm..." Ying Chanxi blinked and asked, "I can't sleep. Li Luo, do you want to watch a movie?"

Li Luo: "...Are you sure you're here to watch a movie?"

Ying Chanxi nodded.

"Where's Uncle Ying? It's not a good idea for you to come here like this, right?"

"It's okay." Ying Chanxi shook his head. "He slept like a pig after drinking, and he and uncle were snoring the whole time. The soundproofing in my room is not very good, so it was very noisy."

They've been drunk many times before, so why don't you say they're arguing?

Li Luo looked suspicious.

But since Ying Chanxi had said this, Li Luo did not refuse anymore. He waved helplessly and said, "Come in. What do you want to see today?"

"You choose."

After getting Li Luo's approval, Ying Chanxi happily pushed the door open.

Wearing the panda pajamas she had just put on after taking a shower and holding something in her arms, she jumped directly onto Li Luo's bed.

Li Luo's bedroom is relatively small.

There was a single bed against the wall in the room.

Ying Chanxi shrank back to the wall and lay down obediently. Only then did Li Luo see clearly what she was holding in her arms.

When seeing Ying Chanxi holding Pikachu and Doraemon in front of him, Li Luo burst out laughing: "What is this? Are you trying to give Zhu Sheng and Senior Sister a sense of participation?"

"The panda doll you gave me is too big to bring back, so I'll take these two with me." Ying Chanxi said, "Come over too."

"I'm coming."

Li Luo adjusted the charging cable of the laptop, then sat on the bed holding the laptop.

The single bed was somewhat crowded, and Ying Chanxi deliberately did not place it against the wall, leaving some space there.

This resulted in Li Luo's arm completely touching Ying Chanxi's arm after he lay down.

But Ying Chanxi didn't care about this at all. He leaned closer to Li Luo and pretended to look at the laptop screen carefully.

"Don't push around." Li Luo took a deep breath and said with a headache, "Why don't you choose what you want to see?"

"You choose, I can do either."

After hearing what she said, Li Luo didn't care anymore. He picked another movie that he had never seen in his previous life and started playing it.

This time, Ying Chanxi persisted for a long time. Perhaps the movie she chose was quite to her liking, as she actually finished watching it very slowly.

When the movie came to an end, it was already one o'clock in the morning.

But just when Li Luo was about to close his notebook and call Ying Chanxi to go back to the opposite room to sleep, he felt a weight on his shoulder.

When I turned around, I saw that Ying Chanxi had fallen asleep.

Li Luo: “……?”

No...why do I remember you were watching it with great interest just now?

Fell asleep in a short while?
Li Luo was speechless. He carefully supported her head and laid her down, but he found that the strength of his hands was a little wrong.

A sense of familiarity suddenly came over me.

So Li Luo silently grabbed one of Ying Chanxi's hands and raised it above his head, then muttered, "I heard from foreign experts that when people are asleep, if they raise their hands above their heads, they will subconsciously maintain this position."

After saying that, he let go of her hand.

As a result, Ying Chanxi's arms suddenly dropped down, as if he had really fallen asleep. Well... this one seems to be smarter than the previous one.

Li Luo couldn't do anything with her, so he reached out and took the two dolls off her body, put them on the bedside table, and then lay down.

……

The next morning, Ying Zhicheng woke up from the sofa in the living room with a slightly sore neck.

After going to the bathroom and washing up, he walked into the living room and saw a hot breakfast on the table with a note next to it.

The above is a message written by Li Guohong, which basically means that he went to the breakfast shop to work, and asked him to remember to catch the plane after breakfast. If he was in time in the morning, he could go to the shop to say hello before leaving.

Ying Zhicheng smiled and looked at the breakfast on the table, and his heart suddenly felt warm.

He looked at the time and it was already six in the morning, so he came to the door of Ying Chanxi's bedroom, knocked on the door, and shouted inside: "Xixi, get up and have breakfast."

Under normal circumstances, if his daughter was woken up by him, she would at least respond.

But this time, after Ying Zhicheng shouted, Ying Chanxi did not respond.

So Ying Zhicheng called out a few more times, but still no one responded, which made him stunned for a moment, and then he said to the room: "Xixi, are you still sleeping? Can I come in?"

After saying that, Ying Zhicheng turned the door handle and slowly pushed the door open.

Then he found that there was no one in the room? !

strangeness.

Ying Zhicheng walked around the house but didn't see his daughter.

Could it be that he had already gotten up early in the morning?

Ying Zhicheng muttered to himself, took out his cell phone and called Li Guohong.

"Hello? Are you awake?" Li Guohong answered the phone and said, "Remember to eat the breakfast on the table. I'm busy here. Tell me what you want to say."

"Is Xixi at your place?" Ying Zhicheng asked, "I woke up early this morning and didn't see her in the bedroom. Did she go to your store?"

"Huh? No." Li Guohong was stunned for a moment, "Xiuhong! Have you seen Xixi?"

"No, what's wrong?" Lin Xiuhong shouted from outside the breakfast shop kitchen.

When Ying Zhicheng heard this response, he immediately frowned.

Li Guohong reacted and said to him, "Why don't you go to our house to look for him? Did you go to look for Li Luo when you didn't get up this morning?"

"Yeah, I'll go take a look then."

"You know the key. It's under the flowerpot. Take it yourself."

"I know. I'll hang up first."

"Okay, let me know if you find it."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Ying Zhicheng walked towards the opposite door.

……

And now on the other side.

Li Luo was sleeping, and he felt like he was in the middle of winter, feeling inexplicably cold.

After waking up suddenly, he touched his body, turned his head and saw that all the quilts had been rolled away by Ying Chanxi. He was speechless for a moment.

I don’t know when I can change this habit of grabbing the quilt as soon as I fall asleep.

Li Luo thought so, picked up his mobile phone to check the time, and was immediately shocked.

What the hell!

It’s already past six o’clock?
Li Luo quickly put down his phone and was about to call Ying Chanxi to get up.

As a result, at this moment, the sound of a door opening was heard outside the house.

Ying Zhicheng walked to the door of Li Luo's bedroom, knocked on the door, and asked, "Li Luo, are you there? Have you seen Xixi?"

At this moment, Li Luo's heart suddenly rose to his throat.

If Uncle Ying opened the door and saw this scene, with his daughter sleeping quietly on the bed of the boy opposite, no one knew how he would react.

But at this moment, Ying Chanxi was awakened by the sound outside the door. He rubbed his eyes in a daze and muttered, "Li Luo...what...hmm..."

Li Luo quickly covered Ying Chanxi's mouth, hushed her softly, and then whispered in her ear, "Your father is just outside the door."

As soon as these words were spoken, Ying Chanxi's eyes widened and his cheeks turned red.

"Li Luo?" Ying Zhicheng asked again.

"Dad!" Ying Chanxi lay on the bed, pushed away Li Luo's hand, and immediately responded.

This sound scared Li Luo so much that his hair stood on end and he quickly jumped up from the bed.

But Ying Chanxi showed amazing on-the-spot reaction at this time.

She first pushed Li Luo back onto the bed, covered him with a quilt, and told him to close his eyes. Then she opened Li Luo's laptop and put it on the desk.

It was all done in a flash.

Then Ying Chanxi came to the door, opened it gently, raised his finger to Ying Zhicheng outside and said, "Dad, keep your voice down. Li Luo is still sleeping."

When Ying Zhicheng heard this, his eyes fell on his daughter's pajamas again. His heart suddenly shuddered and the nerves in his forehead began to twitch.

"Why are you here?"

"I came here to look at the questions." Ying Chanxi said in a low voice, "The computer at home has been moved to Bi Hai Lan Ting, so I came here to use Li Luo's computer."

"Teacher Sun sent out a few more questions last night. It's easier to see them if you zoom in on the computer."

"I saw you were still sleeping and it was early, so I came over to take a look at the questions."

After listening to Ying Chanxi's explanation, Ying Zhicheng felt a little more at ease.

In his impression, his daughter rarely lies and has always been his good daughter and caring baby.

So he also said softly: "Your uncle Li left breakfast on the table. Don't look at the questions yet, come and have something to eat."

"Oh, okay." Ying Chanxi nodded. "Then you go eat first. I'll come over after I finish looking at the last question. It will only take a few minutes."

"Okay, I got it." Ying Zhicheng nodded, and without thinking any more, he turned around and went back to the opposite door.

Watching his father leaving, Ying Chanxi let out a long sigh of relief, and his originally tense body almost collapsed.

"Uncle Ying is gone?"

Li Luo's voice suddenly came from behind, scaring Ying Chanxi so much that he almost screamed out.

Fortunately, she held back, turned around and punched him angrily: "You scared me to death! You didn't even tell me you got out of bed."

"It's all your fault." Li Luo was speechless, "You insisted on sleeping over here last night and even pretended to be asleep."

"How could I?" Ying Chanxi blushed and argued with eyes wide open, "I just fell asleep, how could I pretend to be asleep?"

"Okay, okay." Li Luo raised his hands in surrender. There was nothing he could do to her. "Then go back and have breakfast. You have to catch a plane with Uncle Ying later."

"Got it." Ying Chanxi puffed his lips, snorted, then opened the door and walked out.

"Hey, wait."

"What's wrong?" Ying Chanxi turned around and asked, "Can't bear to leave me?"

"No." Li Luo handed over the two dolls on the bedside table, "You forgot to take your things."

"Oh..." Ying Chanxi blushed and quickly took it, then trotted back to the opposite door to have breakfast.

Li Luo looked at her back and smiled helplessly. Then he tidied himself up, changed his clothes, and went to the bathroom to wash up.

(End of this chapter)