From the third day after arriving in the countryside, Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu gradually adapted to life here.
You can get up early in the morning and go for a morning run, or you can sleep until you wake up naturally.
In the afternoon, I played mahjong with Lin Xiuhong, or went fishing with Li Luo, and occasionally met Li Guohong and Ying Zhicheng.
At night, Li Luo took them to the fish pond to set off fireworks.
When I was bored, I would go to my uncle’s house next door to borrow a billiard table. Li Luo would teach the three of them how to play billiards step by step.
Xu Youyu, who has a shock-absorbing auxiliary device, is obviously the one who learns the fastest.
Ying Chanxi didn't know what was going on, but this time he became almost as stupid as Yan Zhusheng. He couldn't learn and had to be taught by Li Luo.
On the nights of the fifth and sixth day of the lunar month, probably due to the success of the Yingchan River Iron Cable Chain, Yan Zhusheng never attacked Li Luo again at night.
Xu Youyu had to code, so he didn't bother him every day.
After just playing around like this for several days, time finally came to the seventh day of the lunar month.
After one more night, they will go back to the city tomorrow.
There are only three or four days left before the school starts at the attached No. 1 Middle School.
"It feels like time flies by so fast."
Next to the billiard table on the first floor of the uncle's house next door, Xu Youyu bent down, lightly placed his chest on the billiard table, then thrust the cue in his hand straight out, pressed the white ball's butt, and hit the No. 3 ball.
Unfortunately, it was a little crooked and didn't go in.
"I'll go back tomorrow." Xu Youyu sighed, feeling a little disappointed. He felt that staying here was quite interesting.
Anyway, it’s much more interesting than lying at home all day during the Chinese New Year and having to be nagged by my mother.
Ying Chanxi looked at Xu Youyu, then at Yan Zhusheng, pursed his lips, and didn't know what he was thinking.
"Play for a while, and then go back and make dumplings with my mother." Li Luo stood aside holding the club, raised his chin, and motioned to Yan Zhusheng to play, and then said, "Eat dumplings and glutinous rice balls tonight."
Yan Zhusheng walked to the billiard table, looked here and there, and then turned to look at Li Luo.
"Hit this one." Li Luo pointed to the No. 10 ball, "Isn't it facing directly?"
"I'm not sure." Yan Zhusheng blinked, his meaning obvious.
Li Luo had no choice but to let go of the club in his hand, walked to Yan Zhusheng, pressed her back and asked her to lower her body: "Hold the club like this with your left hand, and keep the elbow of your right hand at the same level as the club."
Flat surface, don’t be crooked, right.”
Li Luo taught her step by step how to hold the club, but Yan Zhusheng was still a little unsteady. In the end, Li Luo held Yan Zhusheng's hand and helped her hit the ball.
The No. 10 ball was firmly hit into the pocket.
So Yan Zhusheng looked at the table and then at Li Luo.
Li Luo was speechless for a moment: "I'll teach you again, this time you do it yourself."
"oh."
We were playing billiards until about three o'clock in the afternoon, when Lin Xiuhong from next door came to call for help.
Li Luo took the three girls back to the next door and followed Lin Xiuhong into the kitchen.
At this time, Lin Xiuhong had already prepared two kinds of dumpling fillings, and said with a smile: "This one is stuffed with pork and leek, and this one is stuffed with three delicacies."
"Li Luo, come and pinch the balls for me, I'll roll out the dough, and you three will make the dumplings."
"Have you ever made dumplings?"
Ying Chanxi nodded. She had made dumplings with Lin Xiu red envelopes more than once during the Chinese New Year, so she had rich experience.
Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu shook their heads, obviously they had not tried it.
So Lin Xiuhong pinched off two small balls from the dough that had been processed nearby, rolled them out with a rolling pin into a palm-sized pancake, then picked up the spoon in the filling basin, scooped a spoonful into the center of the pancake, and then
Then he came closer to show Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu.
"Like this, dip your fingers in a little water, then pinch the edge, twist it this way bit by bit, and slowly close it."
Lin Xiuhong slowly demonstrated her technique to them.
Li Luo, who was next to him, took off a large piece of dough, rolled it into a long strip, and then put a small ball on the cutting board with his thumb.
After Lin Xiuhong finished the demonstration, she picked up the rolling pin, rolled the small balls Li Luo pulled out into dough cakes one by one, and handed them to Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu: "Here, you two have a try too."
Although Xu Youyu has never made dumplings himself, he has seen his grandmother make dumplings during the Chinese New Year. She has never eaten pork, so she has seen pigs running away.
After trying it a few times, I slowly mastered the essence.
Yan Zhusheng is indeed a bit clumsy in this regard.
Although I could barely close it, it didn't look like a dumpling in any way. It had various and weird shapes, and everyone who saw it couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Yan Zhusheng looked at Li Luo with an innocent face. She was not pretending this time. After all, in her memory, she had never tasted food like dumplings in her life.
Not to mention making dumplings.
"It's okay, it's just that the shape is a bit weird, and it looks the same when you eat it." Li Luo laughed and said, "Your bag is unique, and when the time comes to cook it, I will be able to recognize which bag is yours at a glance.
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After the division of labor was clear, five people crowded in the kitchen, one person pinched the dough, one person rolled out the dough, and three people made dumplings.
Because there are quite a lot of Li family members, even though Li Luo's second aunt and Chen Lu both left yesterday because they had to go back to work early, there are still people number 17 or 18 here.
Even if they had bought glutinous rice balls and cooked them together in the evening, they would still have to make about two hundred dumplings.
Li Luo and Lin Xiuhong rolled out the dough very quickly. After rolling out a whole ball of dough into pancakes, there were still dozens of unwrapped portions left on the cutting board.
So Li Luo and Lin Xiuhong also joined the dumpling-making army and successfully completed the task before six o'clock in the evening.
After she was done, Lin Xiuhong looked at the piles of dumplings in front of her, with an expression of relief on her face.
She looked around, at Ying Chanxi, Yan Zhusheng, and Xu Youyu. Seeing that the three of them were wearing the scarves she had given them, she couldn't help but have some thoughts in her heart. It was really disappointing.
People are confused and in trouble.
It’s really fun to look at any one of them.
Ying Chanxi had followed her since she was a child, and Lin Xiuhong watched her grow up. Ever since Ying Chanxi's mother passed away and Ying Zhicheng was busy with work, Lin Xiuhong was almost the one taking care of Ying Chanxi.
It is not an exaggeration to say that she is half a mother.
Most of the time, she treats Ying Chanxi as her own daughter.
After getting along with each other for the past few days, she also liked the two girls Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu.
Yan Zhusheng looks well-behaved, has a silly and naive personality, speaks straightforwardly and innocently, sings well, and makes people lovable just by looking at her.
Xu Youyu, on the other hand, is playful and cheerful, and his words and actions make people feel like spring breeze. Apart from his bad habit of always sleeping in, he can't find any faults, and his figure is even more pleasing to the eye.
So Lin Xiuhong looked at the kid next to her, Li Luo, and couldn't help but sigh, wondering what kind of bad luck this guy had in his previous life to be able to meet such three lovely and outstanding girls.
However, the child was only in high school, so Lin Xiuhong didn't worry about Li Luo. She just saw that the three girls liked each other very much and fantasized about some beautiful scenes in the future, which made her feel like this.
It's hard to say what will happen in the future.
There's no point worrying about it now.
Thinking of this, Lin Xiuhong also waved her hands and said to them: "Wash your hands and go out and wait. I will call you later when dinner is served."
After washing his hands, Li Luo stretched out, walked out of the kitchen to the living room, and sat down on the sofa.
Xu Youyu came out second and sighed with satisfaction: "There is new material, and it will be written into the book tomorrow."
"You really can use whatever you want." Li Luo said with a smile.
He has also read the latest chapters written by Xu Youyu in the past two days.
Unlike Li Luo, who has more than 200,000 words of manuscripts.
Xu Youyu's 10,000-word manuscript was used up as early as the third day of the third year of junior high school, and all the rest were written and published.
Then Li Luo discovered that Xu Youyu really wrote whatever he had.
It just so happened that she recently wrote about the daily transition plot of the heroine following the hero back to her hometown for the New Year.
If I had left it at that, I would have just written two or three chapters and then jumped back to the main story.
But Xu Youyu has been writing seven or eight chapters of the plot in the hero's hometown in the past few days, and the writing is so detailed and interesting.
The key is that it is real and detailed, and it is also a bit exciting. A lot of content has been changed, and the male and female protagonists even secretly do bad things in the corridor.
It was obviously Li Luo who was hit by the wall, and a shocking battle was written for her. Li Luo was stunned for a while.
Readers are also happy to see this kind of driving plot, as a kind of adjustment to the main plot, and the results of Xu Youyu's book are also improving.
With the help of Li Luozhang, "The Age of Literature and Art" has entered the ranks of high-quality products.
Now, almost two months have passed, and her average bookings have quickly climbed to the 5,000 threshold.
As the number of words gradually reached more than 900,000, and was about to break through the one million mark, the reputation of "The Age of Literature" finally gradually spread among the readers.
Coupled with the daily details that are more delicate and informative than the previous life, this reputation has been improved to a higher level.
In Li Luo's impression, the original "Literary Age" should have exceeded one million words and had enough words before its reputation slowly began to ferment.
By the middle of 2015, it had broken through the threshold of high-quality products.
Since then, due to the larger number of words, even if more and more people read it, the score increase has remained stable within this range.
It wasn't until mid-2016, when the book was about to be completed, that the average subscription had exceeded the 10,000 mark.
But today's situation is completely different from the previous life.
Under the influence of Li Luo, Xu Youyu not only wrote better and better, but his performance also far exceeded the level of his previous life at the same time.
It's not even March 2015, but it has already exceeded 5,000 average bookings. Perhaps within this year, it will be just around the corner to break through the threshold of 10,000 average bookings.
However, the two of them chatted casually for a few words. After Yan Zhusheng and Ying Chanxi also washed their hands and came out, they stopped talking in a tacit understanding.
After eating dumplings and glutinous rice balls in the evening and playing mahjong for the last time this year with Lin Xiuhong, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.
Lin Xiuhong yawned and took the lead in going upstairs.
Li Luo followed behind, but when he walked back to the third floor, he discovered that in addition to Xu Youyu, Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng were also following behind.
"Why are you two following us? Aren't you going back?"
"It's the last day." Ying Chanxi pursed her lips, "How about...stay up late and watch a movie?"
Yan Zhusheng nodded: "Watch a movie."
Li Luo twitched the corners of his mouth, and then looked at Xu Youyu.
Xu Youyu also looked at him, then smiled and leaned into Li Luo's ear, saying softly: "My leave request has been sent out."
Li Luo was speechless and sighed: "...Okay, okay, come in. The four of us can't watch the movie. Let's just play poker for a while."
"Zhusheng, you go downstairs to get the playing cards, and by the way, get some snacks like melon seeds from the coffee table."
"Xixi, go to the kitchen and wash some fruits."
"Senior, come with me and tidy up and prepare the house."
After handing over their respective tasks.
Smiles suddenly appeared on the faces of the three girls, and they took action immediately.
Those who hold pokers take pokers, and those who wash fruits wash fruits.
Xu Youyu followed Li Luo and watched him take out a mat from the cabinet and spread it on the ground beside the bed. He suddenly asked in confusion: "What are you doing?"
"My single bed is too crowded for four people, so a floor bunk here would be enough."
With that said, Li Luo had already arrived at Xu Youyu's bedroom, took her mattress, quilt and pillows and placed them directly on the spread mat.
After seeing that the floor in front of him was completed, Li Luo clapped his hands with satisfaction, and then laughed and said: "You three probably don't plan to go back tonight anyway. Let me make the bed for you first."
Xu Youyu couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene, and then smiled charmingly at him: "Then, who do you plan to choose to accompany the young master at night?"
"...It's not you anyway."
"That really makes me sad~ Master, you have to make it up to me."
"Hey...wait..."
"It's okay, they haven't come up yet, just a moment."
Chapter completed!