Chapter 236 Ying Chanxi's Smile
In the afternoon.

Li Luo accompanied Xu Youyu and typed for several hours in the living room.

After several days of hard work, his manuscripts finally returned to the 20-word mark.

Under Li Luo's urging, Xu Youyu actually had five chapters saved.

It’s enough for her to relax for two more days during New Year’s Eve and Spring Festival without having to take leave.

However, when Li Luo suggested that she use her saved manuscripts on New Year's Eve, Xu Youyu said, "Of course I have to take a leave on New Year's Eve."

"What?"

"If I ask for leave on New Year's Eve, readers won't scold me." Xu Youyu said confidently, "It's a rare opportunity to ask for leave without being scolded, but you still want to waste my saved manuscripts? You really don't know how to live! You don't know how to be thrifty at all."

Li Luo: "...I have plenty of manuscripts saved, so there's no need to think so much."

"Tsk." Xu Youyu tsk-tsk'd in dissatisfaction and strongly condemned, "You are the bourgeoisie of the coding world. You have already passed the stage of primitive accumulation of capital and cannot even empathize with the real proletarian coding workers!"

"How can there be capitalists who are personally involved in production these days?" Li Luo rolled her eyes at her. "I am at most a senior coder."

"Oh~ So you're a lackey of the capitalists who can't become a capitalist!" Xu Youyu grabbed Li Luo's neck, pinched him hard, pulled him into his arms and made a scissor hand gesture, "That's even more damnable!"

Li Luo only felt that the back of his head was stuck in some kind of extremely soft buffer zone. He almost indulged in the gentle land and did not feel the threat from the low-level code workers at all.

"Alright, alright, it's almost evening." Li Luo broke free from Xu Youyu's arms, stood up, straightened his clothes, and then began to clean up the table. "Let's go back to our respective homes and find our respective mothers."

"Alas..." Xu Youyu's originally lively expression suddenly turned lonely when he heard this, "It's about to end."

"Don't talk like it's a life-and-death farewell. I'll be back after the Spring Festival."

"But Xixi will be back by then." Xu Youyu sighed, feeling a little sad. "It would be nice if it was just the two of us."

"I always feel like you haven't finished the second half of your sentence?"

"Can't you be moved first?"

“I’m afraid of wasting my tears.”

"Humph." Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him. "Don't you think about it? You plan to tell Xixi that you are writing a novel, but I don't plan to tell you."

"Once Xixi comes back to live here, I won't be able to write with you anymore, right?"

"Then the efficiency of typing will return to normal."

"That's true." Li Luo nodded, "Then why don't you tell Xixi too?"

"I'm not you." Xu Youyu laughed, "I'm so stupid that so many people knew that I was writing a novel. I had no choice but to tell Xixi."

"Senior." Li Luo narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "Don't be too arrogant. If you make me angry, I don't mind dragging you down. You don't want your classmates to know that you, the president of the Student Union, the president of the Literature Club, and the top student in the second year of high school, can actually write that kind of novel, right?"

"You!" Xu Youyu's face flushed with anger, but she had nowhere to vent, so she could only grit her teeth and endure, swallowing the last breath of anger, and said with a smile, "What are you talking about~ Whatever the young master tells me to do, I will do it completely, and I won't dare to complain at all."

"Well, very good." Li Luo nodded, "Then help me put the laptop back into the bag, and take the keyboard and mouse, as well as the charging cable."

"Okay." Xu Youyu smiled and helped him pack his schoolbag. Then he asked with a smile, "Sir, do you have anything else to tell me?"

"My shoulders feel a little sore." Li Luo sat on the sofa and twisted his shoulders and neck.

"Let me give you a massage." Xu Youyu quickly walked behind the sofa and placed his two delicate and boneless hands on Li Luo's shoulders.

"My legs are a little sore." Li Luo lifted his feet and placed them on the coffee table.

"Don't push your luck!" Xu Youyu grabbed Li Luo's neck with both hands and said through gritted teeth, "You're getting more and more excessive!"

"Look! His true colors are revealed."

"It was you who pressed me so hard." Xu Youyu snorted, "If it were real, I would have strangled you to death long ago."

The two of them played around in the living room for a while, and soon packed their luggage while playing.

At about five o'clock in the evening, the two of them walked out of the house dragging their luggage, and they really had to go back to their separate homes.

"Hey, Li Luo."

When Li Luo reached the gate of the community and was about to take a taxi home, he was stopped by Xu Youyu who was about to leave.

"what happened?"

"The next time we meet will be after the Chinese New Year, right?"

"correct."

"Then... do you want to collect materials one last time before New Year's Eve?" Xu Youyu tilted her head and looked at him. In the moment before leaving, the memories of the past few days together flooded her mind, making her say these words.

"You're all going home now." Li Luo laughed, "How else do you want to collect materials?"

"If you agree first, won't you know?"

"I don't care, it's just..."

Li Luo had just said half of his words when Xu Youyu had already let go of the suitcase and walked quickly towards him.

Before Li Luo could react, he hugged Li Luo.

This time, Li Luo was stunned.

"Hold me." Xu Youyu buried his head in Li Luo's chest, feeling his heartbeat and temperature, and whispered, "We're collecting materials, hurry up."

Li Luo blinked, his hands frozen in mid-air. After several seconds, he gently placed them on Xu Youyu's shoulders.

But Xu Youyu was not polite to him. He hugged Li Luo's back tightly with both hands.

Even though both of them were wearing thick down jackets, Li Luo could clearly feel that amazingly broad mind changing in various ways on his chest.

I don’t know how long we held each other like this.

Xu Youyu let go of Li Luo, took a few steps back and smiled at him, with a rare blush on his face. He looked at him with a smile on his face: "The inspiration this hug gave me should last until the next time I see you."

……

After returning home, Li Luo ate the meals cooked by his mother again after many days. While eating, he listened to his mother's instructions for the arrangements for the next few days.

"Xixi and the others will be back in the evening."

"Let's go buy some New Year's goods together tomorrow, and then go back to the countryside the day after tomorrow."

"The day after tomorrow, New Year's Eve, let's have a good family gathering."

"You have to visit relatives on the Spring Festival. You have to visit all your father's relatives and friends."

"Then on the second day of the Chinese New Year, we will go to my grandparents' house in the next village for dinner."

"From the third to the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, you should stay in the countryside."

"You guys start school on March 1st, so we can come back on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. We'll stay at home for two more days and then get ready to go to school." At this point, Lin Xiuhong turned her head to look at Li Guohong and asked him, "How many children do you have this year? Qiqi and Lulu have graduated and are working, and Jiajia is still in college. We need to prepare a red envelope."

"There is one at your second uncle's house, three at your third uncle's house, and three at our house."

"Really? Did I calculate wrong?"

"I missed one." Li Guohong reminded, "Didn't my second uncle's son Guoyao get married last year? He just had a baby at the end of the year, and it happens to be the hundredth day of the New Year, so we have to give him a bigger one."

"Yeah, I was so busy that I forgot about it." Lin Xiuhong nodded and wrote it down immediately. Then she couldn't help but sigh, "Look, other people's children have all started families and established careers. I don't know when Li Luo will be able to give me grandchildren."

"Mom." Li Luo was speechless when she heard this. "I'm still in the first year of high school. If I really give birth to a child for you, you will be scared to death."

"I just said that, you take it seriously?" Lin Xiuhong glared at him angrily, "Besides, with your current situation, you can make money by writing books, so you can't have a child in high school, but why can't you have a child in college? I heard from others that now in college, a marriage certificate can give extra points."

Li Luo curled his lips: "...Your calculations are quite sound, you can kill two birds with one stone."

"Eat your meal." Lin Xiuhong rolled her eyes at him. "Study hard and don't fall behind when you write your book. Mom will be very grateful."

"Don't just talk about me." Li Luo reminded, "You and dad should also ask more about the shops near the subway entrance. If it really works out, you two won't have to get up early and work late every day. Wouldn't it be better to collect rent and enjoy a peaceful life?"

"We haven't even started yet, but you're already worrying about us." Lin Xiuhong said this, but she was very happy in her heart.

Originally, Lin Xiuhong felt that Li Luo's admission into the No. 1 Affiliated Middle School was a great blessing for their family in their previous life.

I didn’t expect that this blessing was just the beginning, and better things were yet to come.

Thinking about it now, it really feels like a dream.

Lin Xiuhong's face is now beaming with joy, and she can't wait to go back to the countryside with her husband and son.

……

After dinner, Li Luo helped his mother wash the dishes and then went back to his room to write.

As for Li Guohong and Lin Xiuhong, since the breakfast shop will officially close from today and will not reopen until March 1st, they have a rare chance to take a New Year holiday and go out for a walk late at night.

He didn't come back until after nine o'clock.

After all, my long-term biological clock is there, so I still go to bed early.

Li Luo, on the other hand, wrote until 10 o'clock in the evening, occasionally chatting with Xu Youyu on QQ, and joining the QQ group of authors added to the symposium to pay homage to the big boss.

Then, he was worshipped by the big guys in a show of affection. Everyone was in a friendly relationship and shared their latest developments.

Perhaps because of Li Luo's sharp remarks to Chu Sheng at the symposium, the bigwigs in the group all treated him very well.

This temporarily formed QQ group did not gradually lose its voice like ordinary groups. Instead, it was quite active every day.

In this group, although Li Luo, the little brat who received 37 yuan in royalties this month, is quite conspicuous, he is definitely not the most shining one.

This made him feel more relaxed in the group and he became a lot more active.

It was not until after eleven o'clock in the evening that Li Luo's QQ avatar started flashing.

It was a message from Yan Zhusheng.

[Yan Zhusheng]: It’s landed!
【Li Luo】：Received.

[Yan Zhusheng]: Are you free these two days?
[Li Luo]: I will accompany my parents to buy New Year’s goods tomorrow, and return to the countryside the day after tomorrow.

[Yan Zhusheng]: Okay...then when can I go to the countryside to see you?

[Li Luo]: At least I have to wait until the third year of junior high school, right? On the second year of junior high school, I still have to go to my grandparents’ house with my parents for dinner.

[Yan Zhusheng]: Oh.

[Li Luo]: You can contact your senior first. She also plans to visit us during the Chinese New Year. You two can go together.

[Yan Zhusheng]: So that’s it. I understand.

【Li Luo】: Tell me when you get home.

[Yan Zhusheng]: Okay.

Putting down the phone, Li Luo blinked and waited silently.

But after waiting for a long time, I still didn't receive any letter from the other person.

So he took the initiative to send a message again.

【Li Luo】：Have you arrived?

After a while, Ying Chanxi replied.

[Ying Chanxi]: We’re here.

【Li Luo】：Where are you now?
[Ying Chanxi]: On the road.

[Li Luo]: How long will it take to get home?
【Ying Chanxi】：30
At this moment, Li Luo felt more and more that something was wrong. He frowned and fell into deep thought.

It can't be that you've been traveling for too long and are too tired from flying and traveling, right?

Or……

Li Luo thought of his previous guess, the matter between Uncle Ying and Aunt Yuan... Could it be that he had a showdown with Ying Chanxi?
If this is the case, it is understandable that Xixi would be so depressed.

Thinking of this, Li Luo frowned even more.

I waited for about twenty minutes.

Li Luo got up, put on his down jacket, put on the scarf Ying Chanxi gave him, went downstairs to the entrance of his own corridor, stood in the cold wind and waited quietly.

A few minutes later, two bright white car lights turned from the entrance of the community and stopped at the entrance of the corridor.

Ying Zhicheng and Ying Chanxi got out of the car, and Secretary Rong and the driver also got out, took out the luggage from the trunk, and took it to the fourth floor first.

Ying Zhicheng and Ying Chanxi followed behind and walked to the entrance of the corridor.

Ying Zhicheng, who was walking in front, glanced at Li Luo and said, "It's so cold at night, hurry up and go up. It's hard for you to wait for us."

"It's okay. I just came down not long ago." Li Luo laughed twice, then his eyes fell on Ying Chanxi and waved at her. "I haven't seen you for more than ten days. Don't you recognize me?"

Ying Chanxi looked up at him and smiled immediately. She walked to Li Luo and raised her hand to help him adjust the scarf on his chest: "I have been thinking about you these days. I finally see you."

Upon seeing this, Ying Zhicheng immediately shook his head and laughed, and ignored the two of them. He went upstairs to open the door for the secretary and driver who were carrying the luggage in front.

At the entrance of the corridor downstairs, Li Luo looked at Ying Chanxi in front of him and always felt that she was both familiar and a little strange.

But I can’t tell what has changed.

"What are you looking at?" Ying Chanxi raised his hand and waved it in front of him, with a smile on his face. "Still want to enjoy the cool breeze here? Go up."

(End of this chapter)