Chapter 562 Xixi's Mysterious Envelope

After the four people returned to Bi Hai Lan Ting, they went upstairs with their respective gift boxes and Li Luo's birthday cake.

It was already past six in the evening.

If Li Luo really had to cook dinner from scratch, he wouldn't know when he would be able to have his birthday party.

Fortunately, they got up early in the morning. While Xu Youyu was sleeping in, Li Luo took the two girls to the vegetable market.

After buying the ingredients, I did some simple preparation.

Ying Chanxi said that they should cook by themselves, which actually meant just frying and preparing the food, which had all been done in the morning.

"Okay, okay, stop looking." Ying Chanxi pushed Li Luo out of the kitchen and put on an apron. "Go sit on the sofa. We'll call you when we're done."

"Then you guys better be careful." Li Luo looked at Ying Chanxi and felt relieved.

After all, Ying Chanxi has been helping Lin Xiuhong in the kitchen since she was a child, so cooking is not difficult for her, and the taste is just ordinary at best.

But when Li Luo saw Xu Youyu and Yan Zhusheng wearing aprons, he couldn't help but twitching his eyes.

To be honest, he had seen the cooking skills of these two people in his previous life.

Xu Youyu is a master of instant noodles, while Yan Zhusheng only knows how to cook dumplings.

As for cooking, that was really difficult for both of them.

So after being pushed out of the kitchen by Ying Chanxi, Li Luo still stood at the door with a bit of worry and couldn't help but remind them: "Take it easy, don't burn the kitchen down."

"Who are you looking down on?" Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him. "We can cook two dishes each. We have already looked up the strategies. They are very simple!"

"I will watch over it, don't worry." Ying Chanxi added.

With Ying Chanxi's words, Li Luo felt a little relieved, so he didn't stay any longer, walked to the sofa, and turned on the TV to watch.

However, while he was watching TV, the sound of girls playing could be heard from the kitchen from time to time.

Occasionally there was an exclamation from Xu Youyu, and it seemed that he had messed up something.

However, with Ying Chanxi around, no major mistakes occurred.

Soon, waves of delicious food aroma wafted out from the kitchen, teasing Li Luo's taste buds.

"It's done!"

At around seven in the evening, Xu Youyu was the first to come out of the kitchen, holding two plates in his hands. He put them on the dining table and called out to Li Luo, "Come on! It won't taste good if it gets cold."

"Here they are." Li Luo stood up and walked towards the dining table. He saw Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng also coming out with plates one after another. There were six dishes and a soup, which was quite rich.

Ying Chanxi brought bowls and chopsticks from the kitchen, and then the three girls each took out the handmade cups that Li Luo had made earlier and poured drinks in them.

Looking at this scene, Li Luo was in a dilemma. In the end, he just took an old cup he used before and made do with it.

This is probably another interpretation of the three monks having no water to drink...

The girls didn't care what cup Li Luo used, they just couldn't wait to watch Li Luo start eating.

When Li Luo reached out and took a piece of fried pork with peppers and stuffed it into his mouth, Xu Youyu asked, "Guess who made this?"

"You did it."

"How do you know?!" Xu Youyu asked in surprise, "I've tried it, it's not bad."

"Why do you think I judged based on the taste..." Li Luo laughed and said, "I remember Uncle Xu is also good at making this dish, so the probability that you can make this dish is a little higher."

"What about the other dish I made? Guess again." Xu Youyu asked again.

"Hmm..." Li Luo looked around and then picked up the hot and sour potato shreds. "Is this it?"

"How could you guess this?" Xu Youyu widened his eyes.

"Because Uncle Xu only knows how to cook these two dishes." Li Luo spread his hands and said, "It is said that daughters resemble their fathers, and this is indeed true."

"Don't listen to his nonsense." Ying Chanxi rolled his eyes when he heard this. "He knew what we were going to do when he was preparing the dishes in the morning, but you were sleeping in and didn't know."

Xu Youyu: "...Li Luo?"

"Ahem." Li Luo glared at Ying Chanxi and clicked his tongue twice, "Eat, eat."

"Hmph!" Xu Youyu just snorted and stopped bothering him, but he was not polite to him under the table.

The flashing of swords and the shadow of sabers are all under the table.

To be honest, when cooking normally, as long as the seasonings are not too outrageous, the taste will not be too bad.

Although the food could not be compared with the ones Li Luo cooked himself, when he thought about the three girls cooking for him, he ate with gusto and finished two bowls of rice in a row.

Finally, I scooped up a bowl of steaming corn and pork ribs soup, and my whole stomach was filled with food.

In this state, I can’t eat birthday cake for the time being.

So in the end, Yan Zhusheng's wish was fulfilled. After dinner, the four of them played Monopoly for a while to help digest the food.

It is said that kissing can help lose weight. After playing Monopoly for more than an hour, Li Luo deeply experienced this.

I feel like I have digested a lot of the dinner I had earlier.

So after nine o'clock in the evening, when the four of them had cleared the table, they placed the birthday cake in the middle of the table.

Xu Youyu put a "1" and a "8" candle on the cake.

Yan Zhusheng walked to the wall, waited for Ying Chanxi to light the candles, and then turned off the lights in the living room.

In an instant, the living room was dark, with only the candlelight on the dining table shining on the faces of the four people.

Li Luo stared at the candle in front of him that symbolized "18 years old" in a daze, recalling many things.

How did you celebrate your 18th birthday in your previous life?
He was also in his third year of high school at that time, but it was something he really didn't want to recall.

For Li Luo, high school in his previous life was really unremarkable.

An ordinary high school, an ordinary class, and an ordinary him.

I don’t have any particularly close friends. I just eat and play basketball with my classmates on a daily basis.

The test results were terrible.

The type that even the teachers have given up on saving.

Li Luo recalled in the memory palace and realized that he seemed to have never celebrated his 18th birthday in his previous life.

If he had a normal birthday, it would be on the 21st, a Wednesday.

But since he entered high school, he no longer has the habit of celebrating his birthday.

That day he just got up from the dormitory, went to school, ate, and did homework as usual.

And now...

Li Luo's gaze shifted from the cake to the faces of Ying Chanxi, Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu in turn.

I could hear them singing birthday songs while clapping their hands.

This scene is like a dream.

So when the birthday song ended, Xu Youyu urged him to close his eyes and make a wish, but Li Luo was a little reluctant to close his eyes.

It was not until Ying Chanxi urged him a few words that Li Luo put his hands together, faced the candle, and silently made a wish in his heart.

I hope such a beautiful day can last forever. Li Luo made a wish silently, then opened his eyes, blew towards the burning candle in front of him, and extinguished it.

The living room became completely dark.

But the next second, Yan Zhusheng turned on the lights in the living room again.

In addition to the birthday cake, there were three small gift boxes on the table.

It was the birthday gift that Ying Chanxi and the other two made today.

"Then should I open it now?" Li Luo reached out and picked up Yan Zhusheng's gift box, shook it, looked at the three people and asked.

"Yeah." Yan Zhusheng nodded.

Xu Youyu and Ying Chanxi had no objections either.

"Hurry up and unpack it. We still need to cut the cake." Xu Youyu urged.

"Then let me take a look first." Li Luo carefully opened the gift box, "What did Zhu Sheng do?"

As he said this, Li Luo reached out and took out a small object from the gift box.

The whole thing is only as big as a finger joint.

Li Luo took a closer look and found that it was actually a miniature harmonica.

At this time, Yan Zhusheng took out the harmonica she usually carried from her trouser pocket and handed it to Li Luo: "Look, it looks very similar, doesn't it?"

"Hmm...it does look quite similar." Li Luo smiled and found that the clay harmonica given by Yan Zhusheng had a small hole on it with a red string passed through it.

So Li Luo took out his keychain and hung the harmonica on it, which served as a keychain and he could carry it with him.

Then Li Luo's eyes fell on Xu Youyu's gift box.

Compared with Yan Zhusheng's gift box, Xu Youyu's gift box is slightly bigger.

After Li Luo opened it, he got a... um... token from it?
Looking at the token which was half the size of his palm, Li Luo didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

There is also a cocktail glass carved on it, with the word "mojito" written on the wall of the glass.

It is quite commemorative.

"My token is not ordinary." Xu Youyu said with a smile at this time.

"What's unusual about it?"

"Well~" Xu Youyu rolled her eyes, glanced at the two good sisters beside her, then leaned close to Li Luo's ear and whispered softly, "Take this token and you can unconditionally order me to do something~"

Xu Youyu's soft whisper blew on Li Luo's earlobe, warm and numb.

Especially Xu Youyu's tone was a bit charming and teasing, which made Li Luo feel a chill and itchy inside.

"Senior sister, what did you say?" Ying Chanxi asked curiously.

"It's a secret." Xu Youyu blinked and didn't tell them, but he still had a smile on his face and raised his eyebrows at Li Luo.

Li Luo silently put away the token in his hand. In just a few seconds, dozens of ways of using it had already flashed through his mind.

However, since it can only be used once, the best steel should be used on the blade, and it needs to be planned carefully and not wasted.

Thinking of this, Li Luo's eyes finally fell on Ying Chanxi's gift box.

Compared with the gift boxes of the first two, Ying Chanxi’s gift box is bigger than theirs combined, and no one knows what it is made of.

Li Luo reached out and picked up the gift box, unsealing it carefully.

Ying Chanxi on the opposite side clasped his hands in front of his chest and looked at him.

Finally, Li Luo took out a photo frame.

"Huh?" Li Luo raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, but then felt it made sense, "But what kind of photo should I put on it?"

"I'm prepared." When Ying Chanxi heard Li Luo ask this, her face suddenly turned red, and she glanced at Xu Youyu and Yan Zhusheng beside her a little embarrassedly.

Then she reached out her hand, pulled Li Luo towards her bedroom, and locked the two sisters outside the door.

"So have you prepared some photos?" Li Luo asked with a smile as he watched Ying Chanxi rummaging through the drawer of his bedroom.

"Of course I'm prepared." Ying Chanxi quickly took out an envelope, pulled out a stack of photos from it, and finally picked out one.

However, she did not hand it over immediately. There was a little hesitation on her face, and the blush on her cheeks that would not fade away completely exposed her mood at the moment.

But Li Luo had already reached out and took the photo from her arms, looked down, and then suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at!" Ying Chanxi puffed out his lips, "Don't laugh, do you want to?"

"Of course." Li Luo smiled and put the photo in his hand into the photo frame, then held it in his hand to admire it carefully.

The scene in the photo shows the first time they kissed.

The girl threw herself into the boy's arms, stood on tiptoes, and hugged the boy's neck tightly.

Under the moonlight by the river, this scene is very beautiful.

But Li Luo didn't expect that Ying Chanxi seemed to have developed these scenes into photos early on and kept them secretly.

Thinking of this, Li Luo immediately revealed a malicious look. While Ying Chanxi was not paying attention, he snatched the envelope from her hand and took out the photos inside to look at them.

"Ah! Stop looking!" When Ying Chanxi saw this scene, his cheeks suddenly turned red. He jumped up and was about to stop Li Luo, but because of his height, he could only throw himself into Li Luo's arms and be hugged tightly.

Li Luo held Ying Chanxi in his arms while continuing to look through the remaining photos with his hands behind her back, and couldn't help but chuckle.

Finally, he blew hot air into Ying Chanxi's ear and said, "So Director Ying has this kind of hobby in private? Why are all these photos of us kissing when we were filming the MV? Are you planning to use these photos to threaten and take advantage of me in the future?"

Ying Chanxi felt so embarrassed by what he said that she twisted in his arms like a silkworm, babbling shyly.

"You're evil!"

"What's so bad?" Xu Youyu's voice came from outside the bedroom door, "You two are flirting with each other while posting a photo? Zhu Sheng and I are still waiting to eat the cake."

Hearing Xu Youyu's voice, Ying Chanxi finally broke free from Li Luo's arms, snatched back his collection, put it back in the envelope, and stuffed it into the drawer.

Before leaving, Ying Chanxi did not forget to glare at him, but this glaring expression, in Li Luo's eyes, was coquettish and cute, and he wanted someone to push her against the wall and bully her.

"Where's the photo frame? Where's the photo frame?" Xu Youyu asked curiously when he saw them coming out.

"Would you like to see it?" Li Luo turned his head and looked at Ying Chanxi.

“No, no!” Ying Chanxi covered the photo frame in Li Luo’s hand and said angrily, “Didn’t senior sister keep it a secret just now? Then I won’t show it to you either.”

Li Luo smiled and simply went to his bedroom to save the photo frame.

Then he returned to the living room and looked at the birthday cake on the dining table and the four little people on it. Li Luo picked up the plastic knife and was at a loss for a moment.

"How do you cut this?"

"Nothing else matters. I just want to eat you, little guy." Xu Youyu said.

"I want one too." Yan Zhusheng was not willing to be outdone.

"I want to eat too." Ying Chanxi quickly added.

Li Luo: "...You guys want to chop me into pieces, right?"

"It's not impossible." Xu Youyu said with a smile, "Give the head to Xixi, the upper body to Zhusheng, and the lower body to me."

(End of this chapter)