Chapter 438 Four-person Hot Spring
In the master bedroom bathroom on the third floor, Li Luo simply took a shower and changed into fresh clothes.

Seeing that housekeeper Liu had not come to call him for dinner, Li Luo sat down at the desk, turned on the computer, and typed for a while to relax.

I also took a look at the messages on QQ to see if there was anything important.

As a result, I saw the message sent by editor Qianzhou.

[Qianzhou]: The people in the copyright department asked for your contact information. I gave them your phone number and QQ number, and they said that if there are any subsequent copyright negotiations, they will notify you in advance.

[Rekindle]: Oh, I know this. The editor-in-chief talked to me about it before.

[Qianzhou]: Okay, it’s okay as long as you know that. If everything goes well and the copyright is sold, you will probably be platinum by the next annual meeting, and a platinum master at the age of 18!

[Rekindle]: Ahem...why do I feel like you are more excited than me?
[Qianzhou]: How can I not be excited? Ask other editors. They have been editors for their whole lives, but they probably won’t produce an 18-year-old platinum.

[Rekindle]: So do you have a bonus?

[Qianzhou]: Of course there are. If you have great players or platinum players under you, the proportion of commission bonus can be permanently increased. It's all money.

[Rekindle]: If you work hard and give Zaoshui more resources, her next book will become a great one.

[Qianzhou]: Haha! Then I definitely have high hopes for her, but you are being too kind to your girlfriend by secretly helping her with resources.

[Rekindle]: You are wrong. I am doing this for your own good. I am pointing out a path for your commission bonus. But there is no need to thank me. I don’t care about this.

[Qianzhou]: ...There is a reason why you are a good writer. You are so thick-skinned that not everyone can compare to you.

After a brief chat with the editor, Li Luo ended the topic. Then, after thinking about it, he called lawyer Tian Litian.

After a conversation on the phone, the two reached a preliminary verbal agreement.

When the people from the Copyright Department of Wenyue Group came over, Li Luo pushed Lawyer Tian over and asked them to communicate with Lawyer Tian later.

Anyway, he has a very clear positioning for "Little Joy", which is to leverage the endorsement of the Qidian platform to promote the value of his own copyright.

According to the advice given to him by the platinum boss before, for an author, once he successfully sells the copyright once, it will be much easier to sell new copyrights later than for other authors.

If the copyrights sold and the film and television works adapted from them can achieve good results.

Then this is not a question of whether the copyright is easy to sell, but how high the price can be raised, and how many companies are fighting over it in private.

For Li Luo, being able to write a book titled "I'm Really Not a Celebrity" with an average subscription of more than 50,000 was already a pleasant surprise.

Originally, he just wanted to save some money by writing books so that he could have some start-up capital and then open an account to invest in stocks after he became an adult.

In his previous life, he didn't pay much attention to the stock market and just occasionally listened to Xu Youyu talk about stock trading.

Relying on the power of the memory palace, you can still know the general trend of certain stocks in the future.

Moreover, with the investment experience provided by Xu Youyu, regardless of whether he can make money or not, at least he can perfectly avoid those cancer stocks that Xu Youyu has invested in.

However, all of this was led astray by the unexpected song "Annual Rings".

Not only relying on this original song, but also through Yan Zhusheng's relationship, he got in touch with Yuan Wanqing.

This linkage between reality and novel content also achieved a certain breaking circle effect for the first time.

This effect reached an unprecedented peak in the subsequent multiple collaborations with Yuan Wanqing.

As a result, the book "I'm Really Not a Star" brought Li Luo profits far beyond his expectations.

At the same time, it also opened another door to financial freedom for him.

If you can make a lot of money sooner, who would want to wait until later?
Look at it now.

If they hadn't made money in advance, Lin Xiuhong and Li Guohong would probably still be busy in the breakfast shop.

Where else can we be liberated from heavy work and enjoy the wonderful life of retirement in advance like we do now?

When Li Luo thought of the smiles on his parents' faces today, and the overall changes in their spirits and energy since they gave up the breakfast shop nearly a year ago, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly, and his mood became particularly bright.

Rebirth...isn't this what it's all about?
……

At 6:30 in the evening, Butler Liu came upstairs and invited them to the restaurant for dinner.

After a while, Li Luo and his group went downstairs and sat down in the restaurant.

After confirming that Li Luo and the others were all present, Butler Liu clapped his hands towards the kitchen, and the maids began to serve the dishes.

"This is Yanglan Sour Soup Fish. It's made from the two sea fish Mr. Li caught, with sour bean fruit, tomatoes, sour bamboo shoots and sour carambolas. It tastes very delicious."

Butler Liu stood aside, pointing to one of the dishes and introducing it, then pointed to another dish of fish, "This is steamed grouper, the one Mr. Xu caught. It's tender and fresh, so just steaming it will be delicious enough."

After a brief introduction, Butler Liu took his leave so as not to disturb them from enjoying the delicious food.

Li Guohong couldn't wait to taste the fish he had caught, and then said with satisfaction: "This is what I caught, it's delicious, it tastes really good, you guys should try it too."

After saying that, he first ordered himself a bowl of fish soup, then tasted the steamed grouper, and couldn't help but praise it again.

Halfway through the meal, the topic of casual conversation at the table was brought up by Xu Rongsheng to the book "Little Joy".

After learning that the copyright of Li Luo's "Little Joy" was likely to be sold, Xu Rongsheng was also slightly surprised, but he nodded and said: "If it can be made into a TV series, I think it should be very good. At least your Aunt Cui should like it very much."

"How do you know what I like to watch?" Cui Suling asked puzzledly.

"You usually even watch TV dramas with low-quality plots." Xu Rongsheng glanced at her, "Then Li Luo's drama must be no worse than those."

Cui Suling: "...You said that as if I have bad taste."

"Of course not." Xu Youyu interrupted from the side, and Cui Suling was so angry that she almost couldn't help but expose her on the first day.

"But the copyright is still under discussion, so we're not sure what will happen." Li Luo said with a smile, "And even if it's sold, it will definitely be a long time before it's actually filmed and released. It's too early to say that now."

"You can ask my dad during the Chinese New Year." Ying Chanxi said, "Let their company use the extra money to buy your copyright. In the end, it's basically the shareholders who pay, so you can make a little more money."

Li Luo: “…That doesn’t have to be the case.”

If the board of directors knew about Ying Zhicheng's disloyal behavior in the future, not only would he lose his position as general manager, he might even face lawsuits.

I can only say that Ying Chanxi is really Ying Zhicheng’s caring little cotton-padded jacket.

It was when I met Li Luo that there was a slight leak.

After dinner, the eight people had their fill and went to the second floor to digest their food.

Li Guohong and Xu Rongsheng were a little tired from sea fishing in the afternoon, so they planned to get a massage first.

Li Luo and others accompanied the two mothers into the mahjong room.

Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu accompanied them on the side, while Li Luo and Ying Chanxi joined in the fun.

Xu Youyu sat between Cui Suling and Li Luo, looking here and there while watching them play cards.

When Li Luo was struggling over which card to play, Xu Youyu said quietly, "Play Nine of a Kind."

Cui Suling was speechless when she heard this: "Girl, how can you be so disloyal? How can you talk after looking at my cards?"

"I'm just making a suggestion. What if you let him play the card you want? Li Luo may not believe me." Xu Youyu lied seriously, but in the end he only got a roll of the eyes from Cui Suling.

However, while playing mahjong, Lin Xiuhong couldn't help laughing: "I thought we were here for a trip, but we ended up playing a lot of mahjong."

"The most important thing about traveling is who you go out with and how to have fun. Everything else is secondary." Li Luo typed out nine things on the side. "We are here to have fun. We don't have to check in somewhere to count as having traveled to Qiongzhou City." "Yes, I think so too." Xu Youyu nodded and said, "Traveling is all about having fun. To be honest, most of those attractions are boring. The most important thing is that we come out to have fun together."

Because the few times I traveled in my previous life, I always went out with Xu Youyu.

Therefore, in terms of attitude towards tourism, Li Luo was also influenced by Xu Youyu. He was rather disgusted and repulsed by the special forces-style check-in tourism that goes to various scenic spots.

I prefer the feeling of taking things slowly and at my own pace.

If you travel just to see the excitement of popular attractions and take photos among the crowds, it would be better to stay home, enjoy the air conditioning, and invite a few good friends over to play cards and drink some wine.

On this point, it was obvious that Xu Youyu agreed with Li Luo. After hearing what Li Luo said, he immediately agreed.

After saying this, he looked at Li Luo with a smile in his eyes. It was obvious that Xu Youyu felt very happy that they shared the same views again.

This feeling of knowing that no matter what you do, the other person's ideas coincide with yours is so comfortable.

……

After playing mahjong with their two mothers for more than an hour, after Li Guohong and Xu Rongsheng came back from their massage, the four little ones got up and left, and the two fathers took over the game.

Li Guohong sat down at Li Luo's seat, opened the drawer of the mahjong table, rummaged around a bit, and said speechlessly, "You've almost lost everything, and you only have one chip left?"

"It's fun only when there are challenges. Come on, Dad. We'll be leaving first." Li Luo said with a smile at the door, turned around and left in a flash.

The four of them returned to the third floor, and Xu Youyu clapped his hands and said, "I've just told Butler Liu that the indoor hot spring over there is already filled with hot water. Let's take a bath, change into our swimsuits, and go straight over there."

"Then hurry up and change." Li Luo said, "I'll be waiting for you inside after I'm done."

"OKOK." Xu Youyu made a gesture to indicate that everything was fine and walked towards his bedroom.

Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng also returned to the bedroom immediately.

Seeing the three girls' backs, Li Luo slowly walked back to the room, took a shower, changed into swimming trunks, put on a bathrobe, went downstairs, and came to the door of the indoor hot spring.

At this time, a maid was already waiting there. She took the initiative to push open the door of the indoor hot spring, invited Li Luo in, and briefly explained some things that needed attention.

This indoor hot spring has a large space. The pool alone is about ten square meters. The main body is square, but it is surrounded by rockery, making it look very much like an outdoor natural hot spring.

There are four water outlets at the four corners of the pool, all shaped like stone lions. They are actually hot water filtration devices that can keep the hot water in the pool circulating continuously and maintain the water temperature.

Because the indoor hot spring room is located in a corner of the villa facing the sea, the walls on both sides facing the sea were directly penetrated to make two floor-to-ceiling windows.

After opening the curtains, you can instantly see the night sea and the moonlight.

The entire field of vision was widened countless times, as if one was not indoors but taking a hot spring bath at the seaside.

I can only say that big bosses still know how to enjoy themselves.

When Li Luo came to the edge of the pool, the maid who brought him in asked if he needed any fruit drinks.

Li Luo nodded to indicate his need, then watched the maid come to the edge of the pool. He didn't know which button she pressed, but he heard bubbles in the water. A round stone table slowly rose from underwater in the center of the pool, leaving Li Luo stunned.

"So high-tech?" Li Luo glanced at the stone table and saw that there was a chessboard carved on it. He was immediately surprised and asked, "Can you play chess on it?"

"That's right." The maid beside her smiled and nodded, "The boss likes to play chess, so he built this table in the pool. If you need it, I can bring you the chess pieces later."

"Then thank you for your help." Li Luo smiled after hearing this and said that he really had to give it a try.

"Okay, no problem." The maid nodded, and then added, "There are four stone chairs around the table, but they are not clearly visible in the water. Please be careful when you go into the water later."

"Okay, thanks for reminding me."

After sending the maid away, Li Luo was the only one in this indoor hot spring for a while.

He took off his bathrobe and hung it on the hanger next to him. Then he walked to the hot spring pool, took off his slippers, stepped over the edge and entered the hot spring water.

As the hot water reached above his knees and thighs, Li Luo let out a long sigh of relief and finally sat completely in the water, with only his head left outside.

"It's so comfortable..." I spent the afternoon recording materials, playing volleyball, and playing with sand on the beach. It was really tiring.

Soaking in the hot water at this time will instantly sweep away all the fatigue in the body, as if the spirit and soul have been refreshed.

Li Luo enjoyed it for a while, then remembered the maid's reminder and tried to move closer to the stone table in the middle of the pool and began to feel around.

Sure enough, I felt a stone pillar in the water.

Li Luo sat on the stone pier and then sat next to the stone table. The water level was about up to his chest. He placed his hands on the stone table. The height was just right.

The stone table is about as thick as a fist, with about three-quarters of it exposed to the air, and the remaining part still submerged in water.

If you look from a distance, you might think it's a slab of stone floating on the water.

It was the first time that Li Luo had seen this kind of hot spring design. Even in various animations, movies and TV dramas, he had never seen anything like this.

Not to mention the Edition Hotel where I stayed with Xu Youyu before. Although there was also a bathtub in the room, it was obviously far from this one.

I can only say that only rich people know how to have fun, and they can even build a hot spring pool according to their own needs.

In fact, the big boss may only come once or twice a year, and the rest of the time the villa is completely vacant.

Lending him the private villa for free this time is actually a rational use of resources.

Li Luo was thinking about these things, and after a while, the door of the indoor hot spring was opened again.

Yan Zhusheng, wearing a bathrobe, walked in from outside. Seeing Li Luo soaking in the hot spring, he immediately took off his bathrobe, strided his long legs, and walked into the hot spring pool.

At this time, Yan Zhusheng had changed into a swimsuit. The pink upper body swim cover still had the ruffled design, which well covered up Yan Zhusheng's flaws.

But this time it was no longer a one-piece swimsuit, but a split design, and the lower body was only wearing a pair of briefs similar to the one Xu Youyu wore before.

The only slight difference is that her swimming trunks have side straps, so they can be easily removed by just pulling gently from the side.

However, these are obviously not the point.

When Yan Zhusheng walked into the hot spring and came in front of Li Luo, the hot spring water covered her knees and exposed most of the skin on her thighs.

In Li Luo's eyes, it looked like the kind of photo-shoot where two pieces of sausage were pulled apart and pretended to be a pair of beautiful legs. They were pink, tender and delicate, making people want to take a bite.

It looks delicious at first glance.

"Li Luo, does it look good?" Yan Zhusheng blinked and noticed Li Luo's gaze on her thigh. She showed it to him without any hesitation, "Do you want to touch it?"

"Well... that's totally unnecessary."

"It's okay." Yan Zhusheng took the initiative to pull Li Luo's hand and put it on his leg.

Li Luo was forced to pinch her thigh flesh a few times. It felt so good that he couldn't help but touch it a few more times.

As a result, at this moment, Xu Youyu and Ying Chanxi also pushed the door open from outside and saw this scene in front of them -

Yan Zhusheng stood in the hot spring pool with his back to them.

Li Luo sat in the water, his hands touching Yan Zhusheng's thighs, with most of his body blocked by Yan Zhusheng.

Fortunately, Li Luo reacted quickly. After hearing the noise at the door, he immediately held Yan Zhusheng's thighs with both hands, groped around in the water, found another stone pier, and said:
"Stand still, come over here. Yes, yes, yes. There is a stone bench over here. Just sit down. Be careful not to bump your legs."

As he spoke, he supported Yan Zhusheng's thigh and helped her find a stone chair to sit down. Then Li Luo looked at Xu Youyu and Ying Chanxi at the door and said calmly, "Why are you standing there? Come in."

(End of this chapter)