Chapter 330: Xixi's Heartbeat

The taxi arrived at the All Seasons Hotel near the Jinjiang Hotel.

Li Luo took the three of them to the hotel to register and brought their luggage to the room.

Li Guohong and Lin Xiuhong lived in a double room, while Ying Chanxi lived in a room by himself.

Li Luo walked into Ying Chanxi's room and saw her putting down her suitcase and about to leave. He immediately stopped her and said, "Why are you walking so fast?"

"Let's go to your place and take a look." Ying Chanxi said, "It's 7:30 now. Let's go to your place and take a look around, then we can go out and play."

"Okay, okay." Li Luo followed Ying Chanxi out of the room. After calling the two people next door, the four of them set off towards Jinjiang Hotel.

The two hotels were separated by a street. Li Luo walked with them for a few minutes and then entered the hotel lobby.

Standing in front of the poster of the Writers' Salon in the lobby, Li Luo stopped and introduced it to the three of them: "Look, this is it. It has my signature on it."

Lin Xiuhong and the other two stopped and looked around curiously.

Ying Chanxi took a look and didn't think anything of it at first, but when he was about to look away, his expression suddenly froze and he asked in confusion, "This thing about going to bed early will make you taller, I remember you know it, right?"

When Li Luo saw Ying Chanxi suddenly mentioned Xu Youyu's pen name, his eyebrows jumped and he had a bad feeling.

As expected, Ying Chanxi added: "I remember he also gave you a reward from the Silver Alliance, and it cost 10,000 yuan."

"Oh, so much?" Lin Xiuhong was surprised. "What's your relationship? Someone gave you 10,000 yuan?"

"We released new books at the same time, and we both wrote about the same genre, so we knew each other quite early on." Li Luo coughed twice and tried to explain, "Later, my grades were quite good, so I recommended his book to readers in my own book."

"Because many readers read his books, his grades improved."

"So to thank me, I gave him a silver reward."

"Then this person has a pretty good personality." Li Guohong nodded and said with satisfaction, "He's very good at dealing with things."

"Well... yes." Li Luo forced a smile, then took them into the elevator and stopped on the fourth floor.

Taking them to Conference Room No. 1 for a look, Li Luo shared his experience of attending the meeting yesterday afternoon.

In order to delay time, he mobilized his memory palace, picked out some content from the press conference that could be introduced and talked about it, and even mentioned that he also planned to try this kind of realistic theme creation.

For example, what I talked about with Xu Youyu yesterday, I discussed with Ying Chanxi and the other two.

"So if this is written well, it can be made into a TV series?" Ying Chanxi asked curiously.

"Of course." Li Luo nodded, then laughed, "But someone has to buy the copyright, so the quality still has to be up to standard."

"I can ask my dad to buy it." Ying Chanxi said as if it was a matter of course, "Isn't their company responsible for this? Anyway, I think the TV series they produce are not that good. I don't think they are as good as the books you wrote."

"Well...it's better not to say such things." Li Luo looked at the time. It was almost eight o'clock in the morning.

So without delaying any longer, he took them upstairs in the elevator.

On the way, I would occasionally meet a few familiar authors, and when they saw Li Luo, they would take the initiative to say hello.

Ying Chanxi looked at these people curiously, and when he saw some female authors who looked older among them, he nodded.

To be honest, generally speaking, people who are qualified to participate in this kind of writers' salon are basically in their twenties or thirties.

It is very rare to see people under the age of 20, let alone underage children like Li Luo and Xu Youyu.

Therefore, as long as Ying Chanxi is attentive, he will easily find that the female authors participating in the event are much older than Li Luo.

And she's definitely not as pretty as her.

After calming down, Ying Chanxi was no longer so eager to check on Li Luo's room.

After following Li Luo all the way to the eighth floor, Li Luo took out the room card and opened the door of his room.

At this time, the room was very clean and tidy. All the sheets and quilt covers had been changed by the cleaners, and the room had been cleaned.

Seeing this scene, Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

Ying Chanxi walked into the room, looked around casually, and didn't say much.

"It's expensive for a reason." Lin Xiuhong looked around and nodded, "It looks pretty nice. The desk is big too. If it were our hotel, Li Luo's computer wouldn't fit in there."

"When did you buy this notebook?" Li Guohong glanced at the notebook on Li Luo's desk and asked curiously.

"Um... this one belongs to Xixi."

"You kid..." Li Guohong was speechless. "You've made so much money, why are you still using someone else's computer? Do you have the nerve to do that?"

"No, it's okay, Uncle Li." Ying Chanxi said quickly after hearing this, "I don't usually need this, so it's just right for him to use, so it doesn't have to collect dust at home."

"Xixi, you just spoil him too much." Lin Xiuhong laughed and shook her head, "The computer in his room is also yours, the laptop is also yours, and the clothes and pants are also bought by you, right? I think you are spoiling him."

"Hey, hey, hey." Li Luo interrupted in dissatisfaction, "Mom, you make it sound like she's raising a pet. I also bought things for her, okay?"

Ying Chanxi blushed and said quickly, "We've visited this place before, why don't we go out and have some fun?"

"Let's go."

The four of them made some simple preparations and set off from Jinjiang Hotel.

Lin Xiuhong and Ying Chanxi prepared a travel plan early and took a taxi directly to their destination.

Li Luo and Li Guohong turned into playmates and followed the two ladies.

When visiting tourist attractions, it is a camera; when shopping in a store, it is a shopping bag.

But when neither of them was used, Li Luo walked behind and whispered to Li Guohong: "Dad, it's rare for you to come out, do you want to be romantic for once?"

"What do you mean?" Li Guohong glanced at him, not quite understanding what this guy was trying to say.

"I have an idea..." Li Luo leaned close to Li Guohong's ear and whispered while Lin Xiuhong and Ying Chanxi were walking in front.

……

Near noon, Li Luo took a taxi back to the hotel alone.

I sent a message to Xu Youyu, but he didn’t reply.

So Li Luo took the elevator back to the eighth floor of the hotel, went to Xu Youyu's room and knocked on the door.

After a while, Xu Youyu, rubbing his eyes and looking sleepy, opened the door and glanced outside. After confirming that it was Li Luo, he turned around and walked into the room, letting him come in.

Li Luo walked into the room and closed the door, then watched her fall back onto the bed. He was speechless: "You didn't sleep for the whole morning again, did you?"

"How dare you say that?" Xu Youyu yawned while lying on the bed. "I was almost asleep after you left, but then you sent me a message saying Xixi was coming to visit. I woke up immediately."

"How could I have known they had to come over to take a look?" Li Luo said helplessly, "Luckily the cleaning lady here is very efficient."

"That was because I urged him." Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him, then said, "If I had known this would happen, I should have slept at my place yesterday. You didn't even realize it and took the initiative to come to my place."

"Shouldn't the best solution be for the two of us to sleep separately?" Li Luo's mouth twitched, "Did you sleep well now? Let's go downstairs to eat. The editor will also come."

"I know~" Xu Youyu climbed down from the bed and sighed, "Did you have fun playing with Xixi this morning?"

"Good."

"I haven't even visited any of the attractions in Changning City yet."

"what do you mean?"

"If you have the chance in the future, come and walk around with me." Xu Youyu smiled, took his arm and said, "Forget about it this time. Just have fun. I was very happy yesterday."

"Okay." Li Luo pursed his lips and nodded in agreement, "Then let's go eat first."

"Ah."

The two took the elevator to the restaurant on the second floor.

Qianzhou was already waiting at the elevator entrance. When he saw the two people coming out, he smiled and waved, "I'm here to have a free meal."

"Let's go." Li Luo put his hand on the editor's shoulder and led him to the restaurant. "This time, just order whatever you want. It's my treat."

"Then I'm not welcome."

Just as he was saying this, Qianzhou suddenly received a call.

When the call was connected, Qianzhou said a few words, then frowned slightly. After hanging up the phone, he said helplessly: "Something happened suddenly in the company, I have to go back."

"Ah?" Li Luo was stunned for a moment. "It's Saturday now, is there something going on in the company?"

"What can I do?" Qianzhou sighed, waved his hand and said, "I'm not lucky enough to have your meal today, maybe next time. I'm leaving now."

Watching Qianzhou leave, Li Luo thought for a moment and asked, "What about tonight? I have to eat dinner with others, but I can still have a midnight snack."

"Midnight snack?" Qianzhou pressed the elevator button and thought for a moment, "That should be fine. Today?"

"Let's go today. She will come too." Li Luo pointed at Xu Youyu next to him. "It's rare for the three of us to meet. We should have a meal together."

The office building of Wenyue Group is not far from here, only about ten minutes' walk away.

Qianzhou made an OK gesture to the two of them, then hurriedly walked into the elevator, went downstairs and left.

Li Luo accompanied Xu Youyu into the restaurant, and they found a seat and sat down. After ordering the dishes, Li Luo looked at the scenery outside the window and vaguely saw Qianzhou's back running on the road. He couldn't help but sigh.

"What's wrong?" Xu Youyu asked curiously, propping up his chin. "It just suddenly occurred to me." Li Luo smiled helplessly, "If I hadn't written a book, I would probably be like the editor, becoming a screw in society after graduation, working hard to make money to support myself, but in fact, the money I earn is not even a fraction of what some people earn."

Xu Youyu took a sip of his drink, glanced at Li Luo, and couldn't help laughing: "You have a lot of ideas. You haven't even started college yet, but you've already imagined the scene of graduation in the future?"

After hearing what Xu Youyu said, Li Luo finally reacted.

To be honest, a child of Li Luo's age, unless he grew up in a poor family, would rarely think about his future life at this time.

In Li Luo's memory, when he was 16 years old in his previous life, he was a guy who slept in class, played basketball with friends after school, or went to the Internet cafe to play games.

I never thought about what my future would be like.

In Xu Youyu's opinion, this point is already a bit unusual.

But Li Luo now doesn't have to worry about these things. He just felt inexplicably emotional when he suddenly saw Qianzhou was called back by a phone call and had to give up having dinner with him.

Once you carry the burden of life, it is often easy to lose control of yourself.

Even with Li Luo's current net worth and income, doesn't he still have to work hard?
It just so happened that he quite liked writing novels, and being able to enjoy the fun of creating plots made this job seem very easy for him.

After finishing lunch with Xu Youyu, Li Luo followed her to the fourth floor. Conference Hall No. 1, where the event was held yesterday afternoon, had now been transformed into the venue for a writers’ salon.

Compared to yesterday's relatively formal occasion, today's salon is much more relaxed.

By around 1:00 p.m., we confirmed that everyone had arrived. About a hundred invited authors had gathered together. The president of Wenyue Group also made an appearance. After a few brief remarks, he invited some well-known authors in the industry to come on stage and share some of their experiences and stories.

During the event, the person in charge of Wenyue mentioned several times the realistic essay competition that was just announced yesterday and recommended it to the authors present.

I have to say that Wenyue Group seems to attach great importance to this essay contest.

However, Li Luo is still more interested in some little gossips that the authors share privately.

After the sharing session, it will be time for free conversation.

Everyone walked around the venue and got to know each other, chatting with each other. Afternoon tea was also provided nearby, and the whole atmosphere was very relaxing.

Li Luo was originally thinking about whether he could leave early, but he didn't expect that so many people came to chat with him.

Some people were even reading Xu Youyu's works, which made the little girl a little surprised and happy.

Originally Li Luo thought they wanted to talk to him about something, but several big authors came over, actually to urge him to update... Li Luo also fought back without hesitation, thinking that you guys are all delaying the update more than the other, how dare you come to urge him to update.

……

While Li Luo and Xu Youyu were attending the writers' salon, Ying Chanxi also followed Lin Xiuhong and Li Guohong to the street outside Yu Garden in Changning City.

When passing by a hairpin experience hall, Li Guohong glanced at the door of the store for a few more times, and the employee inside greeted him with a smile: "Do you want to experience hairpins and Hanfu?"

"Let's take a look?" Li Guohong suggested.

Hairpins are a type of head ornament for women. Hairpins of various shapes were displayed at the entrance of this store. Ying Chanxi and Lin Xiuhong just took a few more glances and were almost unable to walk.

So at Li Guohong's suggestion, the three of them walked into the store and gave it a simple try.

Lin Xiuhong is relatively old, so the waiter picked out a hairpin for her that was decorated with pearls and had a lavender plum blossom pattern, which made her look more dignified.

She chose an off-white wide-sleeved shirt, paired with a light blue horse-faced skirt. She looked clean and refreshing, and made her look a few years younger.

Ying Chanxi chose a hairpin made of pink peach blossoms, dotted with small bright yellow and light red flower buds, which looked youthful and lovely.

She wore a chest-length skirt in pink and blue that complemented each other, and paired with the hairpin on her head, she looked more lively and lovely.

As for Li Guohong, he changed into a dark green round-necked robe, looked in the mirror, and looked quite dignified like an official.

Originally, Lin Xiuhong and Ying Chanxi just thought they wanted to try it out, but Li Guohong just waved his hand and bought all the clothes.

"Your sun is rising from the west?" Lin Xiuhong looked at him in surprise, but her face looked quite happy.

After all, since the two got married, Li Guohong seldom took the initiative to buy her new clothes, let alone this kind of entertaining Hanfu and hairpins.

"When traveling, having fun is the most important thing." Li Guohong coughed twice, then took the two of them to buy tickets and walked into Yu Garden.

I have to say, the feeling of walking around such an ancient courtyard wearing modern clothes and wearing Hanfu is quite different.

Walking on the corridors and paths of Yu Garden, people would occasionally want to take pictures of them, and mistakenly thought that they were staff members from somewhere who specialized in playing ancient people.

Ying Chanxi and Lin Xiuhong were particularly happy. They walked and stopped from time to time. Whenever they saw a beautiful scenery, they would stop and take some nice photos.

The three of them spent an entire afternoon wandering around Yu Garden, which could have been visited in two or three hours, before leaving through the exit with a feeling of unfulfilled desire.

"What a pity." Ying Chanxi looked at the photos in the camera and sighed slightly.

"What a pity?" Lin Xiuhong asked puzzledly.

"It's a pity that Li Luo didn't come." Ying Chanxi whispered, "If he also wore clothes similar to Uncle Li's, we would take a photo together, it would definitely look good."

"Indeed." Lin Xiuhong nodded, then smiled and said, "But we have already bought the clothes, so we are free tomorrow."

"That's right." Ying Chanxi smiled happily and became a little expectant.

Especially now that she is wearing this dress, I don’t know what expression Li Luo will have when he sees her at night.

"There is another sightseeing boat ride in the evening." Li Guohong glanced at the time and said, "It will be exactly seven o'clock in the evening after the boat ride. I can have dinner with Zhicheng."

"Okay, let's go." Lin Xiuhong adjusted the hairpin on her head and was very satisfied with today's itinerary.

Although her son was unable to accompany her due to some matters, she still had Ying Chanxi, who was more like a daughter to her, to accompany her.

In particular, Ying Chanxi is very good at taking photos, which is much more useful than Li Luo.

With this in mind, the three of them came to the bank of the Huangpu River and, in the last few minutes, boarded the sightseeing boat that was set to depart in the evening.

As the hum of the ship's engine sounded, Ying Chanxi accompanied Lin Xiuhong and Li Guohong to sit on the open-air seats on the first-floor deck, admiring the river view on both sides.

Li Guohong looked at the tall buildings on both sides and couldn't help but sigh: "This is indeed much more prosperous than our Yinjiang. Only the two banks of Qianjiang River in Yuhang City can compare."

"What's the point of feeling so much?" Lin Xiuhong rolled her eyes at him, then pulled Ying Chanxi to pose at the railing by the boat, and asked Li Guohong to take pictures of them.

Li Guohong, on the other hand, acted as a photographer while looking around with a puzzled look on his face.

As the sightseeing boat slowly sailed on the river, the sky over Changning City gradually darkened.

The red sun in the sky gradually sets, and the deep red sunset glow spreads on the river surface, like golden red dragon scales, reflecting the winding Huangpu River like a long dragon.

Ying Chanxi stood by the railing, holding up his hat, and looked at the white foam at the stern, which was reflected in the golden sunset, like pouring gold.

She looked at the beautiful scenery with a little regret, it was a pity that there was no one by her side that she wanted.

But the next second, a familiar voice came into her ears.

"Can you take a picture of me and this beautiful lady?"

As he spoke, Ying Chanxi felt someone hugged his shoulders.

The next moment, she turned her head sharply, and when she saw Li Luo's smiling face, the surprise in her eyes could not be restrained and overflowed: "When did you come?"

"Hmm?" Li Luo tilted his head with a puzzled look on his face. "Can you take a photo with me first? Or do you not want to?"

"Yes, of course!" Ying Chanxi nodded repeatedly, immediately leaned into Li Luo's arms, and raised her cute scissors hand.

Li Luo also put his arm around her shoulders and made a big "yeah" gesture in the direction of Li Guohong.

Li Guohong was smiling as he took photos of the two people. Lin Xiuhong, who was standing next to him, saw that he was not surprised at all. Then she looked at the black ancient-style outfit that Li Luo was wearing and immediately asked suspiciously, "Did you discuss this with him a long time ago?"

"What a surprise." Li Guohong laughed, "Isn't Xixi also very happy?"

"You two are really something." Lin Xiuhong smiled helplessly, but when she saw the smile on Ying Chanxi's face, she felt it was worth it.

"Where did you get this suit?" Ying Chanxi touched his fabric and saw that he had a sword on his waist. He immediately took it out and looked at it curiously, "Is this a real sword?"

"It's fake, fake, and it's not sharpened." Li Luo put the sword back, coughed twice and said, "It's mainly for matching the shape, it has no other function."

"Hmph, you secretly changed into this kind of clothes and followed us, right? Why didn't you tell me?" Ying Chanxi lightly punched him in the chest.

"How can it still be a surprise if I tell you? Just tell me, did you feel a throbbing heart just now?"

"No, I haven't." Ying Chanxi said stubbornly, but his heartbeat showed no signs of slowing down until this moment, and even the blush on his face had not disappeared.

"Heh." Li Luo touched her head and took a closer look at the hairpin. "Well, this outfit suits you very well. It's very beautiful."

"Who is prettier, me in the morning or me in this outfit now?"

"You were the most beautiful when I saw you this morning, but as time goes by, you become more beautiful every second, so you should be even more beautiful now." Li Luo pinched her cheeks and then extended his hand. "Please give this place to my parents. My seat is on the second-floor deck. Miss, would you please honor me by accompanying me up there to enjoy some fresh air?"

Ying Chanxi glanced at Li Guohong and Lin Xiuhong and saw that they were also enjoying the scenery by the railing and were not paying attention to them.

So she tucked her hair around her ears, stretched out her hand shyly, and gently placed it on Li Luo's palm: "Then... I'll accompany you reluctantly."

Li Luo smiled, then took Ying Chanxi's soft little hand and brought her to the second-floor deck. Facing the direction of the sightseeing ship, they stood in a position that Xu Youyu would probably be quite familiar with.

"Li Luo..."

"Ok?"

"I'm so happy today." Ying Chanxi held Li Luo's hand tightly, facing the setting sun, and pursed her lips, "I'm so, so happy!"

(End of this chapter)