Chapter 218 Vests finally meet

"Bring a sweater and long johns, and remember to change your underwear and socks."

In the afternoon, Lin Xiuhong rushed back home from the breakfast shop to help Li Luo pack his luggage.

Originally, Li Luo just carried a schoolbag with a laptop in the interlayer, and a few sets of underwear and socks stuffed in it, and that was it.

But Lin Xiuhong was too concerned. It was obvious that he was only going to be away for two or three days, but she still dug out a large suitcase from the storage room and put everything in it.

"And these are our Yinjiang District's specialties. When you get there and meet authors, editors, and friends, you can take them as a gift."

Naturally, Lin Xiuhong thought much more than Li Luo and even thought of a gift for the meeting.

Li Luo looked at it with a mixture of laughter and tears, but he did not refuse and accepted his mother's arrangement with peace of mind.

In my previous life, I almost couldn’t hear such instructions and warnings.

Now it is a happy thing that I can still watch my mother nagging me while she packs my luggage.

"That's about it. If there are any more, we won't be able to fit in." Li Luo reminded, "The authors we met this time are all from Yuhang City. There may be quite a few from Yinjiang District. The gift you prepared is..."

"It's just a token of my appreciation. Why are you talking so much? Just take it with you if I tell you to."

"Okay, okay, I understand."

After finally finishing packing, Li Luo put on his schoolbag and dragged his suitcase, and Lin Xiuhong accompanied him all the way to the entrance of the community until he got into a taxi.

"Master, go to the subway entrance."

After Li Luo told the destination, he said goodbye to Lin Xiuhong outside the car window.

Lin Xiuhong gave a lot of instructions again, and she was obviously nervous and worried about her son's first time staying away from home alone and participating in such an activity.

But Li Luo waved his hand and said, "Okay, the driver is waiting anxiously. Bye, I'll be back in a few days."

After the car drove away, Li Luo patted the driver's seat and said to him, "Go to Lakeside Yintai, the Four Seasons Hotel on Jiefang Road, thank you."

"Not going to the subway entrance?"

"Ahem... Let's go directly to the destination."

In front of my mother, I still have to save some money, but it takes more than an hour to get there by subway, and I have to change trains twice.

If you take a car, it's comfortable and you can reach your destination in about thirty to forty minutes.

After all, he is making so much money now, but Li Luo knows that if he says in front of his mother that he will spend dozens of dollars on a taxi to such a far place, he will definitely be criticized.

Li Luo had no choice but to resort to this last resort.

After taking out his cell phone and sending a message to the editor, Li Luo closed his eyes and rested in the car.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the taxi arrived at the West Lake in the urban area of ​​Yuhang City. Li Luo paid the fare and got off the car and came to the entrance of the Four Seasons Hotel.

At this time, Qianzhou was already waiting at the hotel entrance and waved at him.

Li Luo's gaze paused on Qianzhou, and then he looked at a middle-aged man next to Qianzhou.

This man was thin and also wore glasses, but they were round-framed. He had sparse hair and looked quite gentle.

Li Luo walked forward, and Qianzhou introduced him enthusiastically: "This is Hongdou, the editor-in-chief of our urban group. Boss, this is Chongran."

"Hello." Hongdou smiled warmly and took the initiative to hold Li Luo's hand. "I've heard Qianzhou talk about you for a long time. This time I finally meet you in person. It's true that the younger generation pushes the older generation forward. From now on, online literature will be dominated by you young people."

Li Luo said a few humble words and was then taken to a hotel by two editors and arranged accommodation.

Qianzhou escorted him all the way to the hotel room. After putting his luggage away, Li Luo took out some local specialties from his suitcase and handed two to Qianzhou: "One is for you, and one is for you to give to Editor-in-Chief Hongdou."

"Okay." Qianzhou didn't bother to be polite with him and accepted it with a smile, "I'll take you to the venue to sign in first."

The venue for this symposium is in a rented conference hall next door.

After Li Luo followed Qianzhou to sign in, he also met many online writers along the way.

Many authors act very flirty when chatting in online groups, but when they get offline and everyone is not familiar with each other, they suddenly turn into ostriches with social phobia and are too embarrassed to talk when they meet.

Only some big guys who were already familiar with each other offline gathered together to chat.

Qianzhou took Li Luo to find Hongdou in the venue, and followed him to introduce Reignite to many authors.

Most people couldn't believe it when they saw how young Junran was.

"Fuck, how old was Tudou when he wrote Sword Master?"

"I feel like I've been living a dog's life. When I was 16, I was still playing games in the Internet cafe every day."

"I'm still secretly looking at the school beauties every day, how can I have the energy to write a novel?"

"Could it be that you are reborn?"

"Is 'I'm Not a Celebrity' making a lot of money recently? It's been beating me on the bestseller list, and you're telling me the author is a kid?"

"I thought it was a middle-aged uncle! How could a high school student write something like that?"

When Li Luo heard someone doubt whether he was reborn, he felt ashamed.

I can only say that they are worthy of being online writers, and their imaginations are much bigger than those of ordinary people.

After Li Luo followed Qianzhou around, he added many big shots on QQ, and his network of contacts expanded rapidly.

Especially now that he has the halo of "I'm Really Not a Star", even though he is only 16 years old, few authors dare to look down on him.

In this regard, the online literature circle is like this.

Everything is based on results.

Even if you are young, as long as your grades are good enough, everyone will look up to you.

In fact, because you are young, people will admire and envy you even more.

When many people see Li Luo’s age, they can’t help but sigh, wishing they knew more and could write online articles when they were 16 years old.

"Alright, alright, you're all old-timers. When I was 16, there weren't even any online novels! What you wrote is just a piece of crap."

The online literature circle was just beginning to take shape at that time, and Qianjiang Province was the first to take the plunge and set up a writers' association for online writers.

Therefore, many famous authors who are not from Qianjiang Province rushed here from other places to attend the conference just to not miss this feast.

Li Luo looked at those faces that still looked quite young, and for a moment he felt a little emotional.

After all, although he is young, among the many people present at this time, there are only a few who are actually over 30 years old.

Many of the popular authors are under 30 years old and are at the peak of their careers.

As the saying goes, everyone was in high spirits and full of energy. It also happened that the status of online writers was recognized for the first time through official channels, so everyone was naturally beaming with joy.

In this atmosphere, when it was almost time for dinner, someone invited Li Luo to have dinner together. But when Li Luo was about to decline, the editor-in-chief Hongdou coughed and reminded him: "Hey, hey, hey, she is still a minor, you better not lead her astray, otherwise I will have a hard time explaining to her parents."

The group of people immediately started to giggle and make faces, but they didn't really take Li Luo with them.

Some of the more familiar ones patted Li Luo on the shoulder and said, "Let's talk about it when you become an adult. In two years, the brothers will take you to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks."

Afterwards, a group of authors gathered and left.

Li Luo looked at their backs, then looked at Qianzhou: "What are they talking about? Aren't they going to eat?"

"Ahem..." Qianzhou was a little embarrassed. "The point is not the meal, but the activities after the meal. But it's better for you not to know about this. Aren't you going to treat me to a meal? Let's go."

Li Luo probably thought of something, laughed and shook his head, and then without saying anything more, he took Qianzhou to the Yuhang Restaurant near Yintai.

Very similar to what he remembered, this Yuhang Restaurant located next to the West Lake still had the same quaint charm as when he saw it in his previous life.

Li Luo ordered several local specialties of Yuhang City for Qianzhou according to his memory, such as West Lake Vinegar Fish and Dongpo Pork.

After tasting it, Qianzhou couldn't help but say, "This Dongpo pork is delicious."

"Where's the West Lake Vinegar Fish?"

"Um... the fish meat is quite tender." Qianzhou smiled awkwardly, "but I feel that the taste is a bit weird."

“That means this store is pretty authentic.”

After dinner, the two strolled around the West Lake for a while and then returned to the hotel.

Li Luo planned to continue typing and said goodbye to Qianzhou at the door of the room.

Qianzhou also waved his hand and walked towards the elevator: "An author just arrived. I'll go and greet him first. You can write."

"OK." Li Luo made a gesture, then entered the room, closed the door, took out the notebook Yan Zhusheng had lent him, and started typing in the room.

It was at this time that he discovered that he had been pulled into a private group of authors by some big shot.

Basically, they are all male authors who came to the party.

Looking at the familiar nicknames and IDs, Li Luo couldn't help but smacking his lips.

If you take a stone and throw it in here, almost all of them will become multi-millionaires in the future.

Some of them have even sold their copyrights.

Thinking of this, Li Luo couldn't help but sigh. Who would have thought that after starting over again, he could actually enter the circle of this group of people.

Even Xu Youyu, who later became a great figure at Qidian, was not very familiar with these early bigwigs.

In addition, Xu Youyu doesn't care about the management of personal connections, so she has very few acquaintances in the circle, and Li Luo has rarely seen her interacting with other online writers.

Just when he put the QQ group aside and kept typing until after ten o'clock in the evening, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Li Luo opened the door with a strange look on his face, and saw Qianzhou standing at the door. He couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"An author insisted on treating me to a barbecue, but I thought it would be inappropriate for me to go out alone in the middle of the night since she's a girl, so I thought of inviting you along."

"Who is it?" Li Luo blinked. He didn't know why, but suddenly, a sense of uneasiness rose from the bottom of his heart.

But the next second, the door of the hotel room next door was pushed open.

A familiar voice suddenly entered Li Luo's ears: "Editor, are you here? I'm at 9106. Did you go to the wrong place?"

Xu Youyu walked out of room 9106 and saw Qianzhou standing at the next door.

"Oh, I was thinking of asking someone else to go with us. It will be more lively with more people." Qianzhou smiled, and then he saw Li Luo suddenly take a half step back, grab the door handle and was about to close the door.

Qianzhou was stunned for a moment, then hurried forward and stepped into the room: "Li Luo, what are you doing! It's early to go to bed, didn't I ask her to ask you for chapter recommendations before?"

"I remember you two had a good relationship, didn't you?"

"Why are you hiding when we're having a barbecue together?"

As soon as these words came out, Li Luo, who was about to close the door, suddenly lost his strength and quickly leaned close to Qianzhou's ear, begging in a low voice: "Don't you call me by my name? Don't you usually call me by my pen name?!"

"Uh... I'm a little impatient." Qianzhou was stunned for a moment, looking at Li Luo's reaction, he was a little confused.

But what he didn't know was that Xu Youyu, who had originally walked to the door to see what was going on, suddenly froze in place after hearing what he said.

But, everything is irreversible.

Because she had already arrived at the door of Li Luo's room.

At this moment, Qianzhou was leaning against the door, and most of Li Luo's body was inside the room.

But his head was not covered, and his eyes crossed Qianzhou and met Xu Youyu's gaze.

next second.

Xu Youyu turned around abruptly and fled back to his room at lightning speed. With a loud bang, the door was closed.

Qianzhou stared at this scene in amazement. He loosened his hand that was holding the door open. He looked at Li Luo, then looked at the next door, and couldn't help but wonder:

"Did you offend someone online?"

"Could it be that he secretly fell in love online and then dumped her?"

When Li Luo heard this, his face suddenly darkened: "You haven't told me yet! Why didn't you mention to me about going to bed early and attending the symposium?"

"You didn't ask." Qianzhou scratched his head, "Besides, she is a minor and a girl. I think it's better to respect her privacy and safety. I basically haven't mentioned this to anyone online."

"Then thank you so much..." Li Luo leaned against the door frame and covered his face with a look of despair.

"So what happened to you two?" Qianzhou asked curiously.

"What else could it be? It's just..." Li Luo was halfway through his sentence, and before he could finish, they heard the sound of the door next door being opened.

When I turned around, I saw Xu Youyu covering his face with one hand and dragging a suitcase with the other hand, pretending that he didn't know anyone and running towards the elevator to slip away.

Seeing this scene, Li Luo, who was originally a little socially frustrated, was immediately amused by Xu Youyu's actions.

Thinking that my family members knew that I wrote a book and Yan Zhusheng knew it too, having another senior schoolmate wouldn’t seem to be a big deal.

Li Luo has rich experience in this area and adjusts his mindset quickly.

So he quickly stepped forward, grabbed Xu Youyu's wrist, and said helplessly: "Senior sister, you've already seen it, there's no need to deceive yourself by covering your ears and stealing the bell, right?"

"Ah! Let go!" Xu Youyu reacted violently, his face flushed red, and he felt so embarrassed that he wanted to find a hole to crawl into, "I don't know you! Let go!"

"Wow! I'm too embarrassed to see anyone!"

(End of this chapter)