Chapter 308 Don’t touch me!

The bathroom here at Bi Hai Lan Ting is quite large.

This one is in the corridor. As soon as you push the door, you will see a mirror and a sink on the wall.

The toilet is on the left side by the window.

Go further to the left and you will find the shower room.

But the key problem now is that the toilet is still some distance away from the bathroom door.

Li Luo simply put in one hand, and Ying Chanxi probably couldn't reach it.

Fortunately, Li Luo had his own way. He found a clothes-drying pole from the balcony, inserted one corner into the gap of the tissue box and hooked it, then knocked on the bathroom door: "I opened the door."

"Hmm..." Ying Chanxi blushed slightly in the bathroom, and then watched the bathroom door being opened a crack by Li Luo.

The next second, a pack of tissues was handed to him through the clothesline, leaving Ying Chanxi stunned.

"You, you can just open the door and hand it to me."

"That's so rude."

Ying Chanxi took the tissue speechlessly.

After completing the task, Li Luo returned to the door of Yan Zhusheng's bedroom, opened it, knocked on it, and said to Yan Zhusheng inside: "Shall I cook for you now? You can eat around twelve o'clock."

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng got up from the bed, put on her slippers, and followed Li Luo into the kitchen. While Ying Chanxi was still in the bathroom, she took the apron off the wall and put it on herself, "Let me help you."

Although Ying Chanxi was the most adept and useful in helping in the kitchen, this meal was only prepared for Yan Zhusheng, so Li Luo did not ask for too much.

The two of them were busy in the kitchen.

Ying Chanxi quickly finished using the toilet, washed his hands and came out. Hearing some noise coming from the kitchen, he walked over to take a look.

"What are you doing?"

"She hasn't eaten lunch yet, so I cooked two dishes for her."

"Didn't we buy groceries over the weekend?" Ying Chanxi walked into the kitchen and asked suspiciously.

"She bought it this morning."

Hearing this, Ying Chanxi immediately glanced at Yan Zhusheng who was washing vegetables carefully, saw the apron she was wearing, and pursed her lips.

"Zhu Sheng, how about I help him?" Ying Chanxi asked tentatively, standing behind Yan Zhu Sheng.

"No need." Yan Zhusheng shook his head. "Xixi, you still have to go to class in the afternoon, so I won't bother you."

"Well... Actually, I didn't eat too much at noon. Li Luo, can you make more?" Ying Chanxi said again, "I want to eat too."

"Of course you can." Li Luo looked at the ingredients Yan Zhusheng bought and thought it would be no problem to make one more dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

The rice had just been cooked, so it wouldn't hurt to wash a little more and put it in. "Are you sure you want to eat more?"

"Want to eat."

"Okay." Li Luo smiled helplessly, washed half a bowl of rice for her, then prepared a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and continued to prepare and cut vegetables.

As a result, Ying Chanxi squeezed in between Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng and took the kitchen knife from Li Luo: "Let me help you, you just cook."

"Don't get your clothes dirty."

"It's okay. I'm going to wash this school uniform when I get back tonight anyway."

Yan Zhusheng turned his head to look at Ying Chanxi who was cutting vegetables seriously, then turned back and continued to wash the vegetables carefully, but he washed them a little harder.

By around twelve o'clock, the three dishes were out of the pot and served on plates, and the rice was almost cooked.

The three of them sat down at the dining table, and Li Luo watched the two girls eat.

At this time, the sound of a key opening the door came from the door, and Xu Youyu came in from outside with his schoolbag on his back. As soon as he entered the door, he smelled the fragrance. Looking at the dishes on the table, he immediately sighed and said, "You guys said you would come here for lunch today. If I had known, I would have come directly here."

"Can you get up in the morning?" Li Luo asked a soul-searching question.

"Uh..." Xu Youyu avoided Li Luo's gaze with a guilty look, laughed awkwardly and scratched his face, "If you had told me earlier, I would have crawled over here."

"Thank you so much for your support."

"You're welcome." Xu Youyu put on slippers, walked into the kitchen, took out a small pudding from the refrigerator, and then lay down on the sofa, sucking on the pudding while browsing his phone.

After finishing his meal, Ying Chanxi was the first to put on his schoolbag and go to school.

Yan Zhusheng obediently cleared the table and went into the kitchen to wash the dishes.

Li Luo walked to the sofa and sat down, found a comfortable position to lean back, took out his mobile phone and flipped through it.

Seeing this, Xu Youyu immediately turned over, put his legs on Li Luo's thighs, and lay comfortably on the sofa. After eating the pudding, he did not throw it away, but continued to bite the remaining wooden stick.

Li Luo rolled his eyes at her and patted her long white legs: "Are you ashamed?"

"Why are you embarrassed?" Xu Youyu said with a smile, "It's good enough that I didn't ask you to give me a massage."

"That's fine, actually." Li Luo nodded, "Just think of it as using up the reward you get after winning the bet."

"You have a nice thought." Xu Youyu laughed, "Good steel should be used on the blade. I can't just waste it."

After finishing speaking, Xu Youyu turned his head and glanced at Yan Zhusheng who was still washing dishes in the kitchen, then asked in a low voice: "You haven't told me in detail about the things you said yesterday about the great writers. Will the writers' salon in the summer vacation directly select the great writers?"

"It's not a direct selection, but it's already a confirmed candidate for the top talent reserve. I can discuss the contract with Qidian in advance." Li Luo pointed at himself, "Do you understand?"

"Tsk." Xu Youyu stepped on his thighs with his white and tender feet. "Don't be so arrogant."

"I'm speaking the truth." Li Luo smiled, "And since you've also received an invitation, that means you're also a reserve player for this year's top talent, but you're not as good as me yet."

"Ah?" Xu Youyu was stunned for a moment, "The editor didn't tell me this."

"Do you think 10,000 subscriptions are easy to come by on Qidian?" Li Luo rolled his eyes. "Any book that can get 10,000 subscriptions will basically be recommended by the editor. However, this is only your first book, the word count is not large, the channel is not popular, the copyright is not sold, and the subscription result is only 10,000, so the probability is very small."

"The editor probably thought there was little hope, so he didn't tell you this."

"Because the greater your hope, the greater your disappointment will be, which will affect your mentality."

After hearing what he said, Xu Youyu was speechless: "I said a lot, but in the end it's still no use. I thought I could be a great god."

"You will be able to do it in the future." Li Luo pinched her soft calf, "Within three years, you will definitely be a great god."

"Are you so confident in me?" Xu Youyu raised his eyebrows and smiled, not caring at all about Li Luo pinching his leg, as if it was a matter of course.

"Ten thousand subscriptions is already a very good foundation." Li Luo said, "If you can write more than two million words for this book and keep working hard for the next book, you will basically be on track."

At the current stage in 2015, a subscription of is still a rare commodity, and the entire Qidian has only to subscriptions.

If we only count the books during the serialization period, there may be only a few dozen.

Among them, more than half are probably works by authors who have already become platinum masters.

Therefore, as long as we can get 10,000 orders, our competitiveness is actually very strong.

Unfortunately, "The Age of Literature and Art" is an entertainment-themed work, which makes it difficult to sell copyrights. It is also not popular in the channels. It is not as strong as "I'm Really Not a Celebrity", and its average subscription is only barely 10,000. Therefore, among the many serialized books with tens of thousands of subscriptions, it has the lowest priority.

Therefore, "Literary Era" is basically in the status of a runner-up this year.

After all, what the judges actually look at is not the average subscription but the sales volume, but generally speaking, the two are positively correlated.

Take Li Luo for example. He has earned about two to three million yuan in royalties from writing this book so far, which means that the total sales of "I'm Really Not a Celebrity" are at least over five million yuan.

And these five million in sales were basically earned in the past six months.

In other words, if we extend the time period to a year, this will definitely be a hit book with sales exceeding 10 million.

The only pity is that the copyright of Li Luo’s book is not easy to sell, but the subscription results alone are enough for him to win the title of a great god.

"Alas..." Xu Youyu didn't have much confidence after hearing him say that. "The next book will be fine if we keep working hard... You make it sound easy, but how can we guarantee that we can do it?"

After finishing writing "The Age of Literature and Art", Xu Youyu felt that his passion for literature and entertainment topics had been temporarily drained out.

If she were asked to write another book on the same subject right away, she would definitely not be able to handle it.

However, if she changed the subject matter of her new book, she felt that she would not be able to get 10,000 orders. In that case, she could no longer expect to win an agreement with a big writer.

She has no obsession with the title of a great writer. She just simply thinks that if she can become a great writer, perhaps her parents will not stop her from continuing to write online articles after they know about it.

Among other things, the 70% to 30% split of the royalties is the more attractive one, as it would allow her to earn a little extra money.

However, after garnering tens of thousands of subscriptions, Xu Youyu has been receiving around 30,000 to 40,000 yuan in royalties every month. By now, as she has been writing this book, she has accumulated more than 300,000 yuan in savings.

Even if you waste a little on daily expenses, you will never be able to spend all the money.

"By the way, how much money do you have saved now?" Xu Youyu kicked Li Luo curiously, "Can you tell me?"

"I'm in debt now." Li Luo laughed.

"Are you kidding me? Your royalties were 37 in February. How could you be in debt?"

"I still have a mortgage for this house that I haven't paid off yet." Li Luo pointed to his feet and then said, "My family also bought three stores. I paid the down payment, and half of it was also a loan. As a result, I am still in debt."

"Those are all assets, okay?" Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him and gritted his teeth, "If that's the case, how much did you make from this book?"

"More than two million?"

"Damn!" Xu Youyu couldn't help but complain, "Your average subscription is only a little more than double mine, so how come your royalties are so much higher than mine?"

"Your channel is not good, and the number of words is less than mine." Li Luo spread his hands and said, "My channel's manuscript fee is several times that of the main site."

"Why is my channel fee only one-third of the main site's?" Xu Youyu said unconvinced, "This is too big a difference."

"Only Qidian's readers like your style and writing method." Li Luo said bluntly, "Accept reality."

Xu Youyu's writing style tends to be more literary and artistic. Although there are gags and humor, they are all extended on the basis of literature and art.

It is indeed difficult to like it without basic literary taste.

This is not to say that what she wrote was of high literary quality, but the literary literacy of the domestic online writing audience was just like that.

Especially the readers who read books on those channel websites are all kinds of people, and the largest proportion of them are those with low education and low literary literacy.

This is not to look down on these people, it's just the current situation.

When the income level of this group of people has exceeded the level of subsistence and they have a small amount of spare money to invest in entertainment activities, online literature as a form of entertainment will naturally become more down-to-earth as the audience market sinks.

To put it bluntly, the people have become richer. Xu Youyu grew up in a family of scholars and was influenced by Xu Rongsheng's literary accomplishments. So if she were asked to write some naive online articles, she wouldn't be able to write them well.

Even if she forced herself to write, she would feel very uncomfortable, which went against her original intention of writing online articles.

"Ah..." Xu Youyu sighed again, "When will I be able to save enough money to buy a house?"

“Why do you want to buy a house?”

"Of course I want to have a space that belongs to me." Xu Youyu said as a matter of course, "It's wonderful to think about a space that I can control and manipulate as I please."

"Then keep going." Li Luo smiled, and then he heard Xu Youyu say -

"Hey, do you think I can buy stocks after I become an adult?" Xu Youyu had more than 300,000 yuan saved, but he didn't know what to do with it, so he suddenly decided to invest.

"Don't!" Li Luo stopped her immediately after hearing this. "I advise you to be more sober. If you invest in stocks, you may not earn as much interest as you earn from your annual deposit."

"What if I follow your family's example and buy a storefront?" Xu Youyu continued to ask, "You bought three storefronts. Did you make any money?"

After hearing what Xu Youyu said, Li Luo felt that there was a chance, so he asked, "Can you convince your parents to buy one now? You are a minor, so you can't buy it yourself."

"Is it not possible next year?" Xu Youyu frowned and said, "I will be an adult by this time next year."

"Not next year." Li Luo shook his head repeatedly.

Although the housing prices in Yuhang City continued to rise until 18 before the growth rate slowed down, the storefronts on West Street have been rising sharply since the subway plan was finalized in the second half of 15.

By 16, the price had risen to to yuan per square meter.

Later, due to the completion of Times Paradise Walk in 17, the prices of shops on West Street have been rising slowly. Although there are some profits, it is a bit thankless.

"I definitely can't buy it now." Xu Youyu pouted, "If I ask my parents to help me buy it, how can I explain where I got so much money?"

"Show your cards."

"If you want me to die, just say so." Xu Youyu snorted and kicked him.

“Why do you want to invest so much?”

"To make money." Xu Youyu waved his fists twice. "Now that you have the capital, don't you have to find a way to invest and manage your finances? What's that saying? If you don't manage your finances, your finances won't manage you!"

“If you manage your finances, will your finances leave you?”

"Correct!"

"The "li" I'm talking about is the "li" of leaving."

"Get away! Are you cursing me?" Xu Youyu stood up angrily and tried to grab Li Luo's collar, but Li Luo easily pushed him back to the sofa with one hand.

"I advise you to calm down and just write your book."

According to Xu Youyu's development trajectory in her previous life, if we only count the money she earned from writing books, with tens of thousands of subscriptions for several books with millions of words added up, she would be a multi-millionaire at least.

But this guy just likes to tinker with various investment and financial management projects. I don’t know what’s wrong with his brain. Every time he loses money, he comes back dejectedly to write a new book.

This time, I can't let her get this bad habit again.

"What are you doing?" Yan Zhusheng finished washing the dishes and walked out of the kitchen. He saw Li Luo pressing Xu Youyu on the sofa with one hand, and immediately asked with his head tilted.

"Ahem..." Li Luo quickly let go of his hand and sat back in his original position. He coughed twice and said, "She just attacked me and I subdued her."

"It's obviously you who bullied me," Xu Youyu said pitifully, "Zhu Sheng, come and help me, let's beat him up together."

"Haha." Li Luo sneered, "Do you think Zhu Sheng is you? She won't..."

"Okay." Yan Zhusheng nodded and walked over immediately.

Upon seeing this, Xu Youyu immediately grinned, jumped up from the sofa and pounced towards Li Luo.

"Hey! No...what are you doing?! Stop it! Stop touching me!"

……

In the evening, Li Luo and two other children left home to go to school together.

After arriving at Class 8's classroom, after the first evening self-study get out of class, Hua Xiuxiu came over with two stacks of papers and handed them to Li Luo.

One of them is the consent form for subject selection, and the other is the notification form for summer group tour.

Li Luo took the two documents and roughly looked through the subject selection consent form.

There are a total of 17 students in Class 10, of whom chose pure science and chose pure arts.

Among the remaining 13 people, Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng chose physics, history and geography.

The remaining 11 people chose physics, chemistry, geography, history, politics and chemistry respectively.

I have to say that the classification of physics, history and geography chosen by Li Luo is indeed a strange one.

I wonder if the school will persuade me to revise it in the end?

Putting the subject selection consent form aside for the moment, Li Luo flipped through the notice of summer class tour.

Among the forty classmates, 31 families agreed to participate in this event.

This surprised Li Luo a little.

Among them, the parents of six students chose to accompany them.

In this case, the number of people is much larger than Li Luo originally imagined.

Fortunately, Li Guoru chose to book the entire farm house, otherwise he would not be sure whether it could accommodate so many people.

What Li Luo didn't know was.

When he asked Hua Xiuxiu to draft the notice for the summer class tour, he specifically asked her to put the names of Teacher Kong and Teacher Ding at the end and highlight the sentence "led by Li Guohong and Lin Xiuhong, the parents of the two class monitors Li Luo."

The main purpose was to take the responsibility of the event on myself so that Teacher Kong would not be under too much pressure and would not want to come because he thought it was too troublesome.

But it was this sentence that made many parents choose to agree, resulting in the number of people being slightly higher than Li Luo had expected.

After all, this is Li Luo, the monitor of Class 8!
At the two parent-teacher meetings, all parents heard everything the class teacher said clearly.

Li Luo is the only top student in all parallel classes in the school who can always remain in the top 40 in the school!
Looking at this activity again, it was organized by Li Luo's parents, so of course they had to let their children participate.

Parents who can raise an outstanding child like Li Luo are trustworthy no matter how you look at them.

There were even six parents who chose to accompany them, not entirely out of concern for their children's safety, but a big part of the reason was that they wanted to meet Li Luo's parents again and learn more about how to better educate their own children in private.

I don’t want to be as good as Li Luo, but at least it would be good to improve my grades a little.

If Li Luo knew this was the case, he would probably be at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

He was particularly surprised to see that Lu Jiahao's parents also chose to accompany him.

After reading these two documents, Li Luo got up and went to Kong Junxiang's office. After handing in the consent form for subject selection, he explained the details of the class division tour.

The next week was the last week of the semester.

After school on Friday, July 7, Li Luo and others will be welcoming their first summer vacation in high school.

During the last week of the final exams at Affiliated High School No. 1, Li Luo worked furiously and finished most of the homework.

But the teacher had plenty of ammunition and I couldn’t finish it in a week.

This summer vacation homework is two or three times more than the previous winter vacation, which makes Li Luo, who has a memory palace, feel overwhelmed.

During this week, the head teachers of each class, including Kong Junxiang, would occasionally look for students to chat and talk.

The content is naturally very similar. It just asks students who did not choose pure science or pure liberal arts whether they intend to change their subject selection.

Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng naturally refused, and Kong Junxiang didn't say much.

But when it was noon on Friday, Li Luo finished his lunch and happened to see Kong Junxiang on the road, so he went up to greet him and then asked, "Teacher Kong, how is the class division going? Is there a result?"

"It won't be that fast." Kong Junxiang laughed, "It will take at least a while for the results to come out."

"What about the number of people choosing various subjects? Is there a rough estimate?" Li Luo continued to ask.

"Well." Kong Junxiang glanced at him, then looked around, and after confirming that there was no problem, he whispered, "There are more than 200 pure logic ones, less than 300."

"If it's just text, it's less than 200 people."

"The rest are scattered here and there. There are about 60 to 70 items on the selection of objects and land, and 50 to 60 items on politics and history. The rest are small categories like yours."

Li Luo nodded in understanding. From this perspective, the classification of the number of people in Class 8 was not much different.

In the end, it is estimated that only four classes emerged after the new college entrance examination reform, and the rest are still mostly pure liberal arts and pure science.

"Then do we have to change our subject selection?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"It may not be changed." Kong Junxiang glanced at him and said, "But Ying Chanxi from Class 1 actually chose the same subjects as you two. Did you two make a private agreement?"

"Hehe." Li Luo smiled and didn't give a direct answer.

Kong Junxiang snorted, then smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? This is really a bit troublesome."

"How to say?"

"I originally wanted to fight for the position of class teacher for physics, chemistry and geography. It just so happens that you and Yan Zhusheng have chosen physics, history and geography. Since you have two common courses, you can be combined into one class."

"Wouldn't that be nice."

"But now there's Ying Chanxi." Kong Junxiang said with a headache, "You three are the only three in the whole school who chose physics, history and geography, but Ying Chanxi is the sweetheart of Mr. Sun in the first class. What if he comes to snatch the place from me?"

"Uh..." Li Luo was speechless when he heard what Kong Junxiang said.

He thought it was a big deal, but it turned out to be just this?
For him, it doesn’t matter whether the head teacher is Mr. Kong or Mr. Sun.

After hearing what Kong Junxiang said, he felt a lot more relieved.

"Then I wish you success, Mr. Kong." Li Luo nodded with satisfaction and waved his hand with a smile, "I hope to see you again in the second half of the year."

"Why do I feel like you don't miss me at all?"

"No way." Li Luo said seriously, "You are my favorite homeroom teacher. I wish you could be our homeroom teacher in the future."

"You still have some conscience..."

(End of this chapter)