May 1st, Labor Day, early morning.
Li Luo had a dream.
In the dream, he could not move or control his body, but sometimes he would rise to high altitudes and wander among soft clouds, and sometimes he would fall into deep valleys and roll on the lawn.
Finally, he fell into a lake. He couldn't breathe and couldn't swim. He seemed to be pressed by something and sank straight to the bottom of the lake.
It wasn't until he couldn't hold his breath anymore and finally couldn't help opening his mouth to breathe in that he suddenly woke up from his sleep.
As a result, when he opened his eyes, he saw Yan Zhusheng straddling his stomach with her legs and holding his nose with one hand.
After seeing him wake up, he let go of his hand.
"I almost thought someone was going to murder me."
"How could that be?" Yan Zhusheng said, "I just came to wake you up."
"Is this how you normally wake someone up?"
"I called, but you didn't get up." Yan Zhusheng blinked, "So I changed the method."
"Did you really scream?" Li Luo looked suspicious, expressing doubts about the legitimacy of Yan Zhusheng's procedures.
Yan Zhusheng nodded vigorously, and then asked: "You usually wake up when I call you, but not today. Did you stay up late last night?"
"Ahem..." When Li Luo was asked this question, his eyes suddenly felt guilty. He avoided Yan Zhusheng's gaze and said in a low voice, "I am mainly coding to prepare for the plot of "I Am a Singer" during the summer vacation."
"Oh." Yan Zhusheng nodded, "But why don't you dare to look at me?"
"You are thinking too much. I just woke up and my eyes are still a little blurry."
"Then what is this?" Yan Zhusheng reached out and touched his pillow, then picked up a long hair and said with narrowed eyes, "Senior's."
"What?" Li Luo looked at the hair in front of him and fell into deep thought for a moment, "My bed is covered with hair from the three of you. What's so strange about this? And how did you know it belonged to my senior?"
"Senior sister's hair is the shortest and not that dark." Yan Zhusheng said seriously.
"Okay, okay, I don't know when I stayed here." Li Luo patted her slender waist, and then said, "You come down first, I'm getting up."
Yan Zhusheng didn't like to inquire as much as Ying Chanxi, so after hearing what Li Luo said, he got off him obediently.
Li Luo lifted up the quilt and got out of bed, put on his slippers and walked towards the bathroom. He said by the way: "Go and wake up Xixi. After washing up, we will go for a morning run."
"oh."
Yan Zhusheng nodded obediently. After seeing Li Luo get up, he turned around and walked out of the master bedroom, went to Ying Chanxi's bedroom door and knocked on the door.
Seeing that there was no response inside, Yan Zhusheng opened the door, glanced at Ying Chanxi who was sleeping inside, and then walked to the bed.
At this time, Ying Chanxi was sleeping on his side with one leg on the panda doll. Pikachu and Doraemon were swaying next to the pillow.
Seeing the Pikachu she gave to Ying Chanxi being placed beside her pillow, Yan Zhusheng was quite pleased, thinking that Xixi really liked the doll she gave her.
"Xixi, wake up." Yan Zhusheng leaned down and gently shook Ying Chanxi.
"Well..." Ying Chanxi was woken up. He covered his head and struggled for a while. He opened his eyes drowsily, and then closed them again, "I'm so sleepy... let me sleep for a while."
"Oh." Yan Zhusheng nodded, covered Ying Chanxi with a quilt, turned around and left.
But when Ying Chanxi heard Yan Zhusheng's "Oh" on the bed, it seemed as if some kind of stress response had been triggered, and she sat up from the bed: "I'm getting up."
This can't be blamed on Ying Chanxi being too sensitive.
The main reason is that Yan Zhusheng has done this kind of thing many times.
It was clear that Ying Chanxi just asked her to sleep a little longer, but Yan Zhusheng really let her continue sleeping without any intention of continuing to wake her up. As a result, she had not been able to get up and go for a morning run together several times before.
So much so that when Ying Chanxi hears Yan Zhusheng's "oh" now, he will be completely awakened like a conditioned reflex.
After Ying Chanxi got out of bed, he put Pikachu and Doraemon back on the bedside, and when Yan Zhusheng wasn't paying attention, he secretly punched Pikachu.
Then the two girls went to the bathroom to wash up together.
At about 6:30 in the morning, the three of them went out for a morning jog together.
I had breakfast at the breakfast shop downstairs and brought one back for Xu Youyu.
But after coming back, Ying Chanxi went directly back to the room and continued to catch up on her sleep.
I really stayed up too late last night. I watched Li Luo's goal highlights for a while, and read the novels he wrote. Then I clicked on the complete video of the third and fourth quarters of the basketball game and watched it with relish.
After reading it, I will continue reading Li Luo's novels.
Then I couldn’t help but watch the video.
As a result, when I was flipping through the video, I accidentally clicked on the photo. When I saw the characters and composition in it, Ying Chanxi was so angry that he felt sleepy and couldn't sleep again.
By the time she came to her senses, it was already two or three o'clock in the morning.
Being able to persist until the end of her morning run is already a reflection of her supreme perseverance.
Ying Chanxi went back to her room, and Yan Zhusheng went into the piano room. She was bored in the morning, so she liked to play the piano and sing.
Li Luo, on the other hand, took the breakfast he bought and knocked on Xu Youyu's room. When there was no response, he opened the door a crack.
Seeing Xu Youyu sleeping on the bed, he opened the door and walked in. He pulled out the chair under the desk and placed it next to the bed. He patted Xu Youyu's body and said, "Wake up, it's time for breakfast."
"Well..." Xu Youyu slapped his hand away impatiently and turned his back to him, "Don't make any noise... I want to sleep."
"Senior, wake up, your dad is here to see you." Li Luo said softly, "He said that this paper also wrote about "The Age of Literature and Art"."
"Fuck!"
Xu Youyu was instantly awakened by these words, sat up from the bed, and then looked at Li Luo beside the bed.
But after seeing his smiling face, he immediately reacted and hit him angrily: "You want to scare me to death!"
"Who told you to sleep in? Let's have breakfast first."
"I don't want to think about who stayed up so late with you yesterday." Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him, then came to the bedside and sniffed the fried dumplings and fried buns that Li Luo bought.
"Is that what I thought?" Li Luo's face darkened, recalling the scene of being teased by Xu Youyu in bed last night, and he couldn't stand it anymore, "I think you are obviously enjoying it."
"Let's get the ingredients." Xu Youyu picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of fried buns, bit into his mouth, and then asked, "Where's the vinegar buns?"
"Here it is." Li Luo took out a bag of vinegar packets from the bag, tore it open and poured it directly on the fried dumplings, "eat slowly, I'm going out first."
"No, wait." Xu Youyu reached out and grabbed the hem of his clothes, not letting him go.
"What else are you doing?"
"This." Xu Youyu handed him the chopsticks in his hand, then opened his mouth and said, "Feed me."
"...Are you a three-year-old child?"
"It's time to collect materials, collect materials, hurry up." Xu Youyu urged, "Have you ever fed other girls?"
"I've been fed."
"Xixi? Or bamboo sheng?"
"They all have...right?"
Li Luo was too lazy to use the memory palace to search for this kind of thing.
"Then I won't have more than one person."
"Your brain circuit is really different from that of ordinary people..."
Li Luo picked up the chopsticks and stuffed a fried dumpling into Xu Youyu's mouth, and said with a smile.
After they were all fed, Li Luo stuffed the chopsticks into the plastic bag, stood up and said, "You can go back to sleep. I'll call you again during lunch."
"Do you really treat me like a pig?" Xu Youyu lay back on the bed and sighed comfortably, "I'll get up and code after I sleep for another two hours."
"So hard?"
"It was just recommended yesterday, so you have to update two more chapters, right?" Xu Youyu snorted, "Some guys who have deposited 200,000 manuscripts, please don't talk to me about this kind of thing."
Li Luo smiled and did not disturb her again. After leaving the study, he closed the door for her.
Not long after, Li Luo received a call from his mother.
"Hello?"
"What are you doing?" Lin Xiuhong asked on the other end of the phone.
"Thinking about life."
"Why are you so talkative?" Lin Xiuhong said angrily, "Your father and I are just passing by your place and then going to West Street. Do you want to go and have a look together?"
"Okay." Li Luo thought that nothing happened in the morning, so he nodded and agreed, "Then I will go downstairs and wait for you at the gate of the community?"
"Come down, we'll be there soon."
Li Luo responded, hung up the phone, walked into the piano room, and spoke to Yan Zhusheng.
When Yan Zhusheng heard that Li Luo was going out, he originally wanted to go with him, but when he heard that he was accompanying his uncle and aunt to look at houses, Yan Zhusheng gave up the idea, nodded obediently and said, "Then you go."
Even though he said this, Yan Zhusheng still walked out of the piano room and walked Li Luo to the door. He also specially helped him take out the pair of sneakers he gave him and put them in front of Li Luo for him to put on.
Watching him put on the sneakers he gave him, Yan Zhusheng nodded with satisfaction, then opened the door and watched him leave.
…
At the gate of the community, Li Luo waited for the second-hand car driven by Li Guohong. After getting into the back seat, he followed it to West Street not far away.
Walk all the way through Ningshan Street, pass the south gate of Qianjiang University, and come to the intersection with West Street in front of the Ningshan Tunnel. Turn right and you will reach West Street.
Li Guohong stopped the car on the side of the road, and the three of them got out of the car and came to West Street. Li Luo looked at the depressed shops here and couldn't help but sigh.
In later generations, after Qianjiang University and surrounding supporting communities gradually became active, the bustling scene of West Street was completely different from what it looks like now.
"This way." Li Guohong took them to the west gate of Qianjiang University as soon as he got off the car.
On the south side of the west gate, the first shop is a milk tea shop, and the next one is a breakfast shop.
At this time, there was a middle-aged man standing in front of the store, short and fat, with a beer belly. When he saw Li Guohong arriving, he smiled and handed him a cigarette.
The two started chatting, and Li Luo listened and soon got a general understanding of the situation.
This middle-aged man is the landlord of this milk tea shop and breakfast shop.
When these two shops were rented out before, although the business was not very good, the landlord only collected rent after all. Whether the business was good or not had nothing to do with him, as long as he received the rent that should be collected.
But the summer vacation is coming soon, and the owners of these two stores have said that they do not plan to renew the lease when it expires at the end of June, because they really can't make much money here.
This makes the landlord quite upset.
At this time, the agent happened to act as a middleman and contacted a buyer for him, saying that he wanted to buy a storefront house recently.
Upon hearing this, the landlord immediately became interested.
You know, although the business here on West Street is not very good, housing prices have not increased much recently.
But when Qianjiang University first moved here, the housing prices in the surrounding areas increased accordingly.
Most of the landlords on West Street bought storefront houses at that time, which cost about seven to eight thousand per square meter. Compared with the current price of more than ten thousand, they have made a lot of money.
Therefore, the landlords here are not very willing to sell their stores.
It's just that some people don't want to sell because they don't have enough money at home. They plan to keep it and see if it will continue to rise in the future.
For example, the landlords of these two stores, because their home business has not been very good recently, happened to need some funds to circulate, so they gave away pillows, and the intermediary found a buyer.
The two parties hit it off immediately, and they were the smoothest people to talk to with Li Guohong.
We chatted for about half an hour, because we had already chatted many times before, and the conversation went very smoothly this time. The two parties agreed on a specific time to discuss the contract next time, and the landlord left happily.
Then Li Guohong took Li Luo to meet the landlords of the other two storefronts.
One is the landlord of a fruit shop. This shop has been closed for several months and has not been able to find a new owner to renew the lease.
The landlord is more interested in finding people to rent the house, and he is also willing to sell the house, but it is not as high as the previous landlord.
The other is the landlord of a hot pot restaurant.
Looking at this Sichuan-Chongqing old hot pot restaurant in front of him, Li Luo felt a little dazed for a moment.
It seems that they came here to eat when their rock club had a dinner last time.
In the previous life, Xu Youyu often brought him to this restaurant to eat hot pot, so Li Luo could be said to be very familiar with this place.
But compared with the bustling business in the previous life, the old Sichuan and Chongqing hot pot restaurant in this life is still in a state of making ends meet.
It will take at least until the next year or so, when the subway opens and Times Street is built, that this hot pot restaurant will be able to survive.
Its geographical location is excellent. Exit D of West Street Subway Station is right in front of his store.
Whether coming from Ningshan Street or coming out of the west gate of Qianjiang University, students passing by basically cannot avoid the entrance of his store.
Especially after the road on West Street was widened once, and because it is the first traffic light before the Ningshan Tunnel, the east-west green light time is very short.
As a result, later Qianjiang University students did not like to wait for the green light when crossing the street. Instead, they went directly from Exit D of the subway, and then came out from Exit C of Times Street opposite.
This means that every time students walk here, they will pass by this old Sichuan and Chongqing hot pot restaurant.
Some college students who were too lazy to walk more were intercepted and became loyal customers of Sichuan-Chongqing Old Hotpot.
Especially after it has been open for a long time, the reputation of Sichuan-Chongqing Old Hotpot has also spread in Qianjiang University.
Many departments and groups like to go here when they have dinners.
Not only is it close, but the prices are more affordable than the hot pot restaurants in Times Street, so I often come here to grab a seat.
Every weekend, the store is almost full, from four o'clock in the afternoon to eight o'clock in the evening, it is almost full.
And for a hot pot restaurant like this, in the previous life, the house price was at least 30,000 yuan per square meter.
Because of its superior location, even if house prices fell later, the prices of this store remained strong.
In the end, Li Guohong even talked to the landlord of this store?
And looking at it like this, it’s quite entertaining, right?
Li Luo stood aside, quietly listening to his father chatting with the landlord opposite, and probably learned something about the situation.
The business of this store is really not very good. It has been open for a year. It doesn't matter if there is no customer flow during the summer and winter vacations. When there are students, they basically spend money on Ningshan Street and don't come here at all.
Although the hot pot restaurant also spent some money on publicity in schools, it had little effect.
Only on weekends can we sit at three or four tables at the same time.
The rest of the time there is no one around.
After paying the rent, water, electricity and labor costs every month, the hot pot restaurant owner basically makes little money.
The summer vacation is coming soon again recently. Although the owner of the hot pot restaurant did not say that he would give up the rent, he had privately talked with the landlord and wondered if he could lower the rent again.
After all, no one expected at the time that the flow of people on West Street and Ningshan Street, which are both next to Qianjiang University, would be so different.
Li Luo didn't know how the hot pot restaurant owner persisted in his last life.
Anyway, looking at the current situation, either the landlord finally compromised and chose to lower the rent.
Or the hot pot restaurant later changed hands to someone else, letting others step into this trap.
I just don’t know whose hands this hot pot restaurant became so prosperous in the end.
But none of this matters anymore.
If Li Guohong can win this store, then Sichuan-Chongqing Old Hotpot will naturally shine in his hands.
Today's landlords, because they have an escape route from Li Guohong, can choose to sell the house and pocket the money, so they are a bit tougher on the hot pot restaurant owner's request to lower the rent.
However, just when Li Luo was listening with interest, Lin Xiuhong suddenly said: "It's already past nine o'clock, you two stay here for now, I'll buy some food, and we'll cook a meal together at Li Luo's place at noon
Eat."
"Okay, you go first." Li Guohong waved his hand, then looked at Li Luo, "Are you going back with your mother?"
Li Luo shook his head, he wanted to know more about the situation.
So Lin Xiuhong left alone. After a few words of advice to the father and son, she came to Bihailanting and went upstairs to put her bag away.
Yan Zhusheng, who was practicing in the piano room, heard the faint sound of opening the door outside and immediately ran out with his slippers on.
The word "Li Luo" she was about to blurt out, the moment she saw Lin Xiuhong, she swallowed it down and said politely: "Hello, aunt."
"Bamboo sheng." Lin Xiuhong saw her, then looked around and asked doubtfully, "Where are Xixi and Youyu?"
"They are still sleeping."
"It's already past nine o'clock." Lin Xiuhong shook her head helplessly, "Why is Xixi starting to sleep in too? Has Li Luo led her into trouble?"
"No." Yan Zhusheng shook his head, "Li Luo got up in the morning and went for a morning run with me."
"That's good." Lin Xiuhong nodded and patted Yan Zhusheng on the shoulder with great satisfaction, "You have a good habit, you must keep it up."
"I'm just going to put a bag first and take a look at what's in the refrigerator."
"Li Luo and his father will be back soon. I'll prepare the meal for you first."
With that said, Lin Xiuhong walked into the kitchen, looked at the remaining ingredients in the refrigerator, and after some mental calculation, she walked out and said to Yan Zhusheng, "Then I'm going to buy groceries first."
When Yan Zhusheng saw this, he immediately ran to the door and changed shoes with Lin Xiuhong: "Auntie, let me go with you."
"Hey, just stay at home, no need."
"It's okay." Yan Zhusheng had already changed his shoes and walked out of the house. He turned to look at Lin Xiuhong obediently, "I'll press the elevator button first."
Watching Yan Zhusheng run to the elevator, Lin Xiuhong had a helpless and somewhat relieved expression on her face. She put on her shoes and then went out. The elevator had already reached the 15th floor.
The two of them went downstairs together and went to the nearby vegetable market to buy vegetables.
Yan Zhusheng followed Lin Xiuhong obediently, not bothering to watch her bargaining with the stall owner, but watching with great interest.
After Lin Xiuhong paid, she took the initiative to carry the bag.
After walking around the vegetable market, most of the bags were in Yan Zhusheng's hands, and Lin Xiuhong didn't even bother.
After buying groceries and returning to Bihailanting, Lin Xiuhong was sighing at Yan Zhusheng's cleverness. As soon as she entered the door, she saw Ying Chanxi, who had just gotten up, hanging the washed clothes on the balcony.
Seeing Lin Xiuhong enter the house, Ying Chanxi was surprised at first, and then asked happily: "Aunt Lin, why are you here?"
"I'm buying food for you to cook." Lin Xiuhong said with a smile, "Li Luo and his father will be here soon, and I'll cook first."
As he said this, Yan Zhusheng came in behind him.
When Ying Chanxi saw this scene, his face suddenly froze: "Zhusheng...how did you..."
"I went shopping with auntie." Yan Zhusheng said with a wink, "Just now Xixi, you were sleeping, so I didn't call you."
"That's right." Lin Xiuhong remembered this and reminded her, "Xixi, we still have to go to bed early and get up early to develop good habits. If you don't get enough sleep and your biological clock is not adjusted properly, I won't be able to follow you.
Dad will tell you."
"Well, um..." Ying Chanxi nodded quickly, scratched his face in embarrassment, walked to Yan Zhusheng quickly, helped her take the bag in her hand, and said to Lin Xiuhong, "Aunt Lin, let's cook first.
I'll give you a hand."
"Okay." Lin Xiuhong chuckled. After walking into the kitchen, she and Ying Chanxi put on aprons and worked together.
Looking at the ingenious Ying Chanxi beside her, Lin Xiuhong couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
While the two of them were busy in the kitchen, Xu Youyu had also gotten up and started coding seriously in front of the computer.
After I came out to use the toilet once, I realized that Lin Xiuhong was there.
"Hello, aunt." Xu Youyu poked his head in at the kitchen door and greeted Lin Xiuhong with a smile.
"Youyu, good morning." Lin Xiuhong saw Xu Youyu and said with a smile, "Among the three of you, you are the one who likes sleeping in the most. Please change this habit sometime."
"Well..." Xu Youyu was a little embarrassed by what he said. He instantly felt that when he returned to his home in a dream and was nagged by Cui Suling, he almost thought that Lin Xiuhong was his mother. Such words were really carved out of the same mold, "
I know, auntie, and I will work hard to correct it in the future."
"Then you and Zhu Sheng have a rest first. The meal will be ready in a while."
"Uh-huh."
Xu Youyu returned to the living room, stretched and said hello to Yan Zhusheng who was watching TV on the sofa.
At this time, Lin Xiuhong walked out of the kitchen and walked straight to the bathroom, probably to use the toilet.
Seeing this, Xu Youyu quickly took a pack of toilet paper from the living room and followed him. When Lin Xiuhong was about to close the door, he said, "Auntie, the paper in the bathroom has just been used up. You can take this in and use it."
"Oh, thank you." Lin Xiuhong took the toilet paper and closed the toilet door, her expression suddenly in a trance.
After going to the toilet, she washed her hands in front of the sink and couldn't help but sigh.
These three little girls all have great personalities.
Moreover, when in front of her, everyone is more well-behaved and sensible than the other. Lin Xiuhong really likes everyone she looks at.
All of them are so handsome and beautiful. Lin Xiuhong really gave her son a cold sweat.
How does this guy Li Luo get along with these little girls in private when she's not here?
Chapter completed!