Chapter 591 "Mom!"

Qianjiang University on Saturday.

The School of Literature just concluded a cross-school literary forum this week. The External Relations Department has been busy and busy, and finally got a chance to take a break.

Minister Yan Yishan stood at the front of the temporary meeting room, glanced at the department members, and said with a smile: "Let's have dinner tonight. If you are free, follow me."

There are only twelve people in the External Relations Department of the School of Arts, including the junior director Yan Yishan, five sophomores, and six freshmen.

After hearing about the dinner party, many people cheered, but some also apologized and said goodbye, probably because they were going out to eat with their partners.

Xu Youyu also stood up at the right time, apologized to Yan Yishan, and said that he had a dinner appointment.

His roommate Jiang Feiya looked at Xu Youyu in confusion, then asked, "Are you having a tryst with your Li Luo again?"

"Yes, but tonight is a family dinner, not a private meeting." Xu Youyu said with a smile, "His cousin is having a birthday, and as someone's girlfriend, I can't be absent."

"You two families have such a good relationship." Jiang Feiya said speechlessly, "You have to be present at my cousin's birthday party?"

"The relationship is different." Xu Youyu said, "His cousin also studies at the No. 1 Middle School next door. I passed the position of student union president to her. We have a good relationship."

"No wonder." Jiang Feiya was a little surprised, then nodded, "Then go ahead."

"What about you?" Xu Youyu asked doubtfully, "Didn't you say last night that Song Yu wanted to treat you to a meal?"

"We can't miss the department party, right?" Jiang Feiya said as if it was a matter of course, "Song Yu can treat us to a meal anytime, but department parties are one less time to come."

"Okay." Xu Youyu smiled helplessly, glanced at his phone, and stood up to say goodbye, "Then I'll leave first."

Coming out of the conference room, Xu Youyu walked straight towards the administrative building of the School of Literature and came to the door of Xu Rongsheng's office.

After knocking on the door and hearing his father's voice, he pushed the door open and saw Li Luo sitting on the sofa and drinking tea comfortably.

"I'm done, let's go~" Xu Youyu walked over to Li Luo and patted his shoulder, then looked at Xu Rongsheng at the desk, "Dad, are you done?"

"What's there to do on Saturday?" Xu Rongsheng cleaned up the table and stood up with a smile, "Let's go, you said you want to get a cake?"

"Yes, on West Street." Li Luo also stood up and walked out the door, saying as he walked, "Besides the hot pot restaurant and milk tea shop, isn't there another store over there?"

"Is it the newly opened cake shop?" Xu Youyu said, "Our department just did some street sweeping a while ago to update store information. The previous fruit shop is gone."

"Well, business is not very good." Li Luo spread his hands helplessly. "Hot pot restaurants and milk tea shops are okay, but fruit shops like this are more reliable if they are opened on the roads that must be passed by the dormitory campus. Otherwise, there will be too few people who will make a detour to buy."

Three people walked out of the administrative building and headed towards West Street.

Just at this time, when Li Luo and his friends were passing by the teaching building, the people from the External Relations Department just happened to come out from inside and saw Xu Youyu's back at a glance.

It was really that Xu Youyu was too dazzling in the department. With his foxy eyes and that foul-level figure, the members of the External Relations Department could recognize him at a glance even if they saw his back.

When Yan Yishan saw Xu Youyu, his eyes fell on the boy next to him, and then he pretended to be unintentional and said to Jiang Feiya: "Is that Xu Youyu?"

"Yes." Jiang Feiya nodded.

"The one next to him..."

"That's her boyfriend, Li Luo." Jiang Feiya said, "She mentioned him to the minister before."

"Hmm..." Yan Yishan was silent for a moment, then looked at Xu Rongsheng on the other side.

When the three people in front turned to West Street, Yan Yishan noticed Xu Rongsheng's profile and felt that this person was a little familiar.

"I just don't know who the person next to me is." Jiang Feiya showed a puzzled expression.

Xu Youyu never revealed anything about her parents in the dormitory, so no one knew that her father was a professor and vice dean of the School of Arts.

Although Yan Yishan felt that Xu Rongsheng's profile looked somewhat familiar, he was too far away to recognize that this was the vice-dean of their School of Arts.

Without thinking much, everyone separated from Li Luo and the other two in front at the fork in the road and headed towards Ningshan Avenue.

Li Luo took Xu Youyu and Xu Rongsheng to the newly opened cake shop on West Street to pick up the customized birthday cake for Ying Chanxi, and then walked towards Bihai Lanting.

Xixi’s birthday is on March 3th, but the 14th is a Tuesday, so she has to go to school.

It just so happened that Ying Zhicheng and Yuan Wanqing went to get their marriage certificate this Friday, so they decided to celebrate on Saturday and also celebrate Ying Chanxi's birthday together.

Because of the increasingly close relationship between the four children, the frequency of gatherings between the four families... oh no, now it should be three families, is gradually increasing.

The relationship between the three fathers and the three mothers is getting closer and closer, and they keep in touch privately.

On the way to Bi Hai Lan Ting, Xu Rongsheng found that the two children deliberately walked slower than him and followed behind him. He pretended not to notice and walked straight towards Bi Hai Lan Ting.

Xu Youyu and Li Luo followed behind, whispering secretly.

"Our department had a dinner party tonight, and I refused." Xu Youyu whispered, "You have to compensate me."

"It's Xixi's birthday, not my birthday." Li Luo said with a smile, "You should ask her for compensation if you want it, right?"

"The compensation she asks for will still have to come from you in the end, right?" Xu Youyu looked at Li Luo with a smile, and glanced down with a purposeful look, "Without a middleman to make a profit, I might as well go straight to you."

"Where are you looking at?" Li Luo pinched her chin, asked her to raise her head, and said unhappily, "You are becoming more and more unscrupulous now."

"Really?" Xu Youyu snorted, "Not eating you already shows my endurance."

After hearing these words, Li Luo's heart suddenly moved, and many wonderful images emerged in his mind uncontrollably.

But he also knew that Xu Youyu always boasted without thinking and drove faster than a sports car.

You can't really tell which words are true and which are jokes when she teases you.

But it is precisely because of this that Xu Youyu has an extra layer of charm that always makes people unable to stop.

"By the way, when will your new book be released?" Xu Youyu noticed that his father in front of him turned his head and glanced at them, so he immediately changed the topic and talked about serious matters.

Li Luo glanced at Xu Youyu, then looked at Xu Rongsheng's back, and then said, "The beginning has been shown to Qianzhou and the editor-in-chief."

"What did they say?" Xu Youyu asked curiously.

"Qianzhou thinks it's pretty good." Li Luo said, "But the editor-in-chief probably doesn't think it's good, he just said we can give it a try."

"After all, it's a transformation of such a big theme." Xu Youyu comforted, "I'm sure you'll be fine."

"Yeah." Li Luo nodded slightly, but he wasn't that confident. After all, he didn't write online articles directly by copying the original text, like he did with "I'm Not a Star".

It's just that he was proficient in the field of entertainment literature in his previous life, and with some new and more effective routines from later generations, he can still carve out a path in the entertainment literature of this era.

But for this new long book, Li Luo really can't say that he is 100% sure.

He absorbed the ideas and frameworks of several popular books in later generations from various angles, and even waited specifically for the launch of the function of this chapter in order to combine the right time and place.

For a book to become a hit across the entire Internet, in addition to the quality of the book itself, there are many external factors that need to be considered.

Many times it’s just a matter of luck.

Just like Li Luo’s current serialized book “I’m Really Not a Star”.

If it wasn't for some coincidence, and if Li Luo hadn't become popular due to Yuan Wanqing's singing of "Annual Rings", and then hadn't been linked to Yuan Wanqing's first album, it would have been impossible for him to gain such a large amount of external traffic.

The performance of this book itself may just be limited to an ordinary book with 10,000 subscriptions.

Now, this book has an average subscription of 60,000, making it a well-deserved ace in the distribution channel.

There is an obvious difference between the before and after, but the book is still the same book. Quality is the stepping stone and the cornerstone for attracting traffic.

But no one can say when the traffic will be able to be leveraged.

"The function mentioned in this chapter will be released in a book test version in mid-April." Li Luo said, "As I mentioned to you before, readers can comment directly on the content sentences. My new book will be the first batch of test books at that time."

"This is quite interesting." Xu Youyu was looking forward to it. "When will the other serialized books be promoted?"

"If there are no major bugs during testing, it will probably be rolled out in May."

While chatting, the two followed Xu Rongsheng to the entrance of Bihai Lanting community and soon returned to 1502.

Xu Youyu took out the key and opened the door skillfully, then saw his mother watching TV leisurely on the sofa.

Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng were sitting on both sides, chatting with Cui Suling.

Ying Zhicheng and Li Guohong were standing by the balcony window smoking. Seeing this, Xu Rongsheng changed into slippers and walked over there.

Xu Youyu walked over to the sofa curiously and asked doubtfully, "Mom, aren't you going to cook today?"

"Your Aunt Yuan insisted on cooking for us herself," Cui Suling said with a smile, "The kitchen was a little crowded, so your Aunt Lin just kicked me out."

"I see you are having such a good time chatting with Xixi Zhusheng. Are you going to abandon your own daughter?" Xu Youyu glanced at the sofa. The big sofa over there was occupied by three people. She had no choice but to sit on the single sofa over there. She said with a hum.

"They are much more obedient than you." Cui Suling rolled her eyes at her daughter. "If you were half as self-disciplined as them, I would be so happy."

"Then it would be easier for you to let Xixi and Zhusheng be your daughters." Xu Youyu snorted and said angrily.

"Mom!" Yan Zhusheng blinked and said to Cui Suling bluntly.

Ying Chanxi: “…”

Xu Youyu: “……?”

Cui Suling was amused by Yan Zhusheng and hugged Yan Zhusheng, saying with a smile: "Why don't I just tell Wanqing to let Zhusheng and Xixi be my goddaughters, so that someone won't make trouble for me."

"Zhu Sheng!" Xu Youyu was almost amused by Yan Zhu Sheng's actions, "How can you recognize your mother like this? If Aunt Yuan heard about it, she would be so angry that she would die."

"It was obviously the senior who agreed first." Yan Zhusheng said innocently.

Li Luo was laughing as he watched from the side. When he saw Xu Youyu glaring at him, he took the cake to the kitchen and put it in the refrigerator, avoiding the spotlight in the living room.

At this time, Yuan Wanqing was still busy in the kitchen, and Lin Xiuhong was helping her.

Li Luo put the cake away and went over to steal a piece of pork liver. He then gave a thumbs up and said, "This pork liver tastes good. It's even better than my dad's cooking."

"You're exaggerating." Yuan Wanqing said with a laugh.

Seeing that he was trying to steal food, Lin Xiuhong reached out and knocked his thieving hand away, saying unhappily, "We haven't started eating yet, why are you in such a hurry? Have you washed your hands? Are they dirty?"

Li Luo withdrew his hand in disappointment.

But Yuan Wanqing took a pair of chopsticks and handed them to Li Luo with a smile: "If you like it, try it more and give me some suggestions."

Li Luo took it with a smile, picked up a piece for his mother first, and then took another bite.

At this time, Ying Chanxi also walked into the kitchen and looked around curiously.

Yuan Wanqing happened to be making cola chicken wings and had just taken them out of the pot.

So Li Luo waved at her, motioning Ying Chanxi to come over, then he stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of chicken wing, and handed it to Ying Chanxi's mouth.

"Try it. Aunt Yuan personally cooked your favorite cola chicken wings."

"Wait, it's hot." Ying Chanxi took a half step back, but moved his lips closer, blew gently a few times, then opened his mouth and took a small bite.

Yuan Wanqing gripped the spatula nervously. She felt that she had never been as nervous as she was now when facing tens of thousands of audiences at a concert.

It was not until Ying Chanxi stepped forward and took another bite, biting off half of the bone, slurping the meat in his mouth with relish, and nodding to indicate that it was delicious, that Yuan Wanqing slowly breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on her face.

"Eat more later." Yuan Wanqing smiled happily, "There's also fried tomato and eggs in the back, which you also like."

Lin Xiuhong helped Yuan Wanqing and taught her how to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes more delicious and more to Xixi's taste.

Ying Chanxi stood in the kitchen, looking at Yuan Wanqing's back as she asked for advice seriously. Her eyes seemed to overlap with a familiar figure, making her a little dazed for a moment.

When she came to her senses and wanted to savor the taste of the cola chicken wings again, she saw that Li Luo had already stuffed the remaining half of the chicken wing into his own mouth.

"Why did you eat mine?" Ying Chanxi pulled Li Luo's arm, pouting and complaining in a low voice.

"Do you want more? I'll give it back to you." Li Luo approached Ying Chanxi and said with a smile.

Ying Chanxi pushed him away with a look of disgust: "It's so disgusting, it's all saliva."

"I never heard you say you were disgusted when we were filming music videos." Li Luo leaned close to Ying Chanxi's ear and whispered teasingly, "Director Ying, you can't only like to stick out your tongue when you are doing unspoken rules, right?"

"You, please speak a little more quietly. What if someone hears us?" Ying Chanxi blushed. She glanced at Yuan Wanqing and Lin Xiuhong who were still cooking seriously, and hurriedly pulled Li Luo out of the kitchen.

(End of this chapter)