Chapter 518 You can use it, but you can’t live without it
In his previous life, Xu Youyu had just finished "Gu Dao Changqing" not long ago, and he planned to travel around the country while the new book was not yet published.

Li Luo was invited by her to travel with her and visited many cities, Yuzhong City being one of them.

Before this, Li Luo had never left Qianjiang Province, and his knowledge of the outside world was limited to the Internet.

That was the first time he saw the so-called "Double-boiled Pot" in Yuzhong City.

Just like this moment.

When the waiter brought their restaurant's shabu-shabu hotpot to the table, all eight people at the table fell silent instantly.

"Is this a shabu-shabu hotpot?" Xu Youyu widened his eyes, got closer and looked at it again and again, but still couldn't understand where the mandarin duck was.

Ying Chanxi stared at the pot in a daze. It took him a long while to come to his senses. He couldn't help but say, "Isn't the tomato pot in the middle too small?"

Yes, that's right.

Although there are many types of hot pot in Yuzhong City, there are also the nine-square grid ones.

But the half-and-half dango hotpot like the one in Yuhang City is rare in Yuzhong City.

As for the shuangxiang hotpot mentioned by the waiter, most of them are of the type in front of us - the scope of the spicy hotpot is like a ring, with the outer circle tightly wrapping the small pot in the inner circle.

The small tomato pot in the middle is about the size of two fists in diameter, and it probably wouldn't be able to fit a few pieces of meat in it.

"Is this really slightly spicy?" Yan Zhusheng stretched out his chopsticks and gently stirred the hot pot, which was full of chili peppers and other spicy ingredients.

“The slightly spicy food here in Yuzhong City may be different from that in Yuhang City.” Li Luo explained briefly while holding back a smile.

To be honest, Li Luo feels that the mild spiciness here is spicier than the strong spiciness in Yuhang City.

The first time he tasted it in his previous life, he had diarrhea in the hotel that night and didn’t even go out for a walk.

This time he was honest.

After the dishes were brought to the table by the waiter, Li Luo basically did not touch the spicy hot pot except for tasting it.

The others thought that since they were already here, they decided to taste the spiciness of the hot pot and ate it until they were sweating profusely.

"In the next two days, Sister Youyu and I will attend a salon event. My lawyer will also be here tomorrow. I also have to spend extra time discussing the contract with the people from Wenyue Group."

Li Luo was halfway through his meal when he said to the others at the table, "We'll have time to go out with you guys on the 11th after we finish the salon business. You guys can just walk around the area for the next two days."

"It's okay, Li Luo, just do your thing." Cui Suling's mouth was numb from eating, so she stopped to wipe her mouth and said with a smile, "Anyway, there's plenty of time, and there aren't many attractions in the city, so it won't be too late to go shopping later."

"Let's get familiar with the environment in the next two days." Xu Rongsheng also said, "It doesn't matter whether we visit the scenic spots or not. I'm more interested in the food here."

Nowadays, most urban attractions are highly commercialized, and even those with natural scenery are hardly an exception.

Xu Rongsheng is not interested in the kind of check-in type of tourism. He prefers to experience the cultural environment of a place firsthand after arriving there.

Among them, food is indispensable.

Li Luo actually agreed with this point.

"We can eat together." Li Luo said with a smile, "Except for the party on the 10th, we can go out to eat together at other times. I'll ask local authors to recommend some to us."

After eating the hot pot, the eight of them were sweating from the heat, so they simply strolled back to the hotel to take a shower.

It's very hot in Yuzhong City, no less hot than in Yuhang City.

Even at night, it was still very hot and stuffy, like a big steamer.

After taking a shower, Cui Suling didn’t know what to do, so she simply took Xu Rongsheng and the couple next door to find a chess and card room nearby.

"Why are we still playing mahjong when we come out for a trip?" Lin Xiuhong couldn't help laughing when she found out that the destination was a chess and card room.

Xu Rongsheng would make excuses for his wife: "When you come to Sichuan, you naturally have to experience the local customs and practices here. Sichuan Mahjong is also a feature of this place, so it's okay to experience it."

"If the four of us come out, what will happen to Li Luo and the other kids?" Li Guohong asked from the side.

"Why bother with them?" Lin Xiuhong rolled her eyes. "They're probably not having fun with us here. They probably wish we'd go away."

"That's right." Cui Suling also agreed, "They are called children, but they are already 17 or 18 years old, and they are little adults. Besides, your Li Luo is so mature, he doesn't act like a child when he does things."

"It's not as exaggerated as you say." Lin Xiuhong smiled and waved her hands, and said modestly, "This kid used to be very naughty, you don't know..."

Having said this, Lin Xiuhong also paused.

I wanted to say something, but couldn't say it for a moment.

Those memories of my son being naughty and disobedient seem to have happened at least two years ago.

Ever since Li Luo was admitted to the No. 1 Affiliated Middle School, he seemed to have grown up overnight and was no longer the little kid who needed people to worry about him.

"In fact, if you put aside his identity as a student and a child and think about it for yourself, you will understand." Xu Rongsheng opened a room at the front desk of the chess and card room. After he took the three of them into the mahjong room and sat down, he said with a smile.

"Li Luo is now a very famous online writer. Last year, he became a top writer on Qidian Chinese website and is about to sign a platinum contract this year."

"You may not feel anything when you hear this, but with this identity, if he wants, he can be a member of the presidium of the Qianjiang Provincial Writers Association, or even the chairman."

"The Provincial Writers Association should have invited him to join the association before. His subsequent nomination to join the Central Writers Association is also a foregone conclusion. It's just a matter of time."

"With this identity, if he really wants to do something in the future, many things will be very convenient."

"Looking at his other identities, besides online writing, he is also very good at writing songs. Just for the company you run, there are many people who come to you every day to ask for songs, right?"

"The album he wrote for Yuan Wanqing before was of very high quality. According to the current digital album sales rankings, the sales of this album should be ranked in the top three in history."

"Not to mention that the song he wrote was performed on the Spring Festival Gala."

"Even from an economic perspective, he is now a multi-millionaire."

"You know, earning tens of millions a year and having tens of millions in assets are two completely different concepts."

"With tens of millions of cash flow, this thing will be treated as a priority no matter where it is placed."

"Li Luo has now sold the film and television rights to a book, and Ying Zhicheng has promoted the TV adaptation."

"If, I mean if, his TV series can be as popular as Yuan Wanqing's album before, then his influence in the future will be even more exaggerated."

"This is not some little kid."

Xu Rongsheng said a lot, with a look of emotion on his face.

After sorting it out, he sighed and felt that this kid was really a bit outrageous.

When I first met Li Luo at a forum, he was just a little-known online writer. Although tens of thousands of yuan a month in royalties were a lot, he looked more like a nouveau riche.

After all, it was a sudden wealth, and everyone knew that a book could not last long.

But at that time, Xu Rongsheng would never have imagined that Li Luo's growth rate would be so amazing.

In the blink of an eye, two years passed. He hasn't even graduated from high school, but he has grown into his current majestic appearance.

To put it bluntly, according to Li Luo's current conditions, no matter how much Xu Rongsheng considers himself to be a scholarly family, their family is considered to be marrying up.

And the most crucial point is that Li Luo is too mature and calm.

The way he usually behaves doesn't look like a man who has just become rich.

I make so much money, but I don’t buy brand-name clothes, watches, cars, computer headphones, etc. I have never bought anything expensive.

But before, when we went on a trip to Qiongzhou City, when it really came to spending money, we were not hesitant at all.

Such quality is truly rare and precious.

"Old Xu, please stop praising me." Li Guohong listened to Xu Rongsheng's long speech and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "It still feels a little unreal for us as a couple. We still need some time to adapt."

Even an outsider like Xu Rongsheng could feel many emotions. As Li Luo's parents, Li Guohong and Lin Xiuhong were naturally the two who felt the deepest.

But most of the time, that feeling would be overshadowed by the familiarity of "this kid is my son".

"Why are you talking so much?" Lin Xiuhong quickly interrupted the topic, "Let's play mahjong. How do you play Sichuan Mahjong?"

……

Just as the parents started playing mahjong, someone knocked on Li Luo's door.

He stood up, opened the door and saw that it was Xu Youyu from next door.

However, she had already changed into a conservative set of pajamas, with long sleeves and long pants, and her hair was still wet. When she saw Li Luo open the door, she walked straight in and sat down on the bed.

"Help me blow it~"

"Sit down."

Li Luo picked up the hair dryer and blew Xu Youyu's hair.

As a result, just when I was halfway through blowing, there was another knock on the door.

When he opened the door again, he saw Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng standing in the corridor.

Both of them were wearing conservative pajamas with a coat on the outside. When they saw Li Luo open the door, they squeezed in from outside.

Then they saw Xu Youyu sitting beside the bed.

"Have you had your hair blown?"

Li Luo returned to the bed, picked up the hair dryer, and continued to blow Xu Youyu's hair.

Ying Chanxi nodded: "I came here after Zhusheng and I played against each other."

"Then sit down for a while." Li Luo said, "We've already taken a shower, so you're not going out to play tonight, right?"

"How about playing flying chess?" Xu Youyu rolled his eyes and asked with a smirk on his face.

"Do you have flying chess?" Li Luo's mouth twitched.

"Yes!" Xu Youyu straightened his chest and said with his hands on his hips, "I brought it!"

"Why would you bring something like flying chess with you when you travel?"

"What's wrong? I even brought Monopoly, but I just played that one before, so I don't really want to play it." Xu Youyu said this, and then he counted on his fingers, "It's definitely not enough to just play flying chess. I have to buy some snacks, some wine, and order some takeout."

"And..." Xu Youyu said this, secretly stretched his feet out of his slippers, turned sideways, and rubbed them against Li Luo.

Li Luo was wearing pajamas at this time, but the pajamas were the kind of shorts that exposed his calves and knees. When Xu Youyu's feet rubbed against him, he felt that the touch was a little wrong.

When I looked down, I found that Xu Youyu's foot was actually a piece of dark chocolate.

"Then I'll order takeout?" Yan Zhusheng had already climbed onto the bed and took out his phone and asked, "What snacks do you want?"

Li Luo didn't care about snacks. He subconsciously glanced at Yan Zhusheng's feet, and then his expression became stern: "Zhusheng, you..."

"What's wrong?" Yan Zhusheng tilted her head to look at him. After noticing his gaze, she stretched out her feet wrapped in white silk and asked, "Do you want to touch them?"

Li Luo slapped her feet away and continued to blow dry Xu Youyu's hair, but he couldn't help but glance at Ying Chanxi's legs.

Zhu Sheng was wearing white silk stockings...they were in the same room...

If Ying Chanxi saw Yan Zhusheng wearing white silk, he would definitely not want to be outdone, so...

"What are you looking at..." Ying Chanxi felt a little shy when Li Luo stared at her, but she still climbed onto the bed obediently.

After taking off the slippers, Li Luo could clearly see Ying Chanxi's small feet tightly wrapped in white cotton stockings.

Such a beautiful scenery immediately reminded him of the scene of his last birthday.

"Did you guys make an appointment?" Li Luo couldn't help but ask.

"I just asked them if they wanted to play flying chess later." Xu Youyu said with a smile, and reached out to touch Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng's feet, and deliberately put his hand into the trouser legs of their pajamas, "I didn't ask them to wear this."

"Isn't senior sister wearing it too?" Yan Zhusheng narrowed his eyes and reached out to pinch her calf wrapped in black stockings.

Ying Chanxi retracted her feet, crawled behind Li Luo and hid, then poked her head out and criticized Xu Youyu: "Senior sister wore black stockings herself and didn't even remind us. If Zhu Sheng hadn't mentioned this, I wouldn't have thought of it."

"Then where did you get your white silk stockings and cotton socks?" Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at them. "You obviously brought them secretly from home, which means you already had this plan before you came here."

"You can not use it, but you can't live without it." Yan Zhusheng said seriously.

"Yes." Ying Chanxi nodded vigorously, "That's it."

"Then I'll go get the flying chess first. Zhusheng, please order the takeout quickly. I want to drink!" After blowing his hair, Xu Youyu got out of bed and ran to the next room to get the flying chess.

Li Luo looked at Xu Youyu's back as he left, then looked at Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng who were whispering to each other about what snacks to order. He looked a little dazed.

Before they knew it, the relationship between the four of them had reached this point?
It feels like a dream.

(End of this chapter)