Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 648: I'll Treat You to Braised Bamboo Shoots with Meat

July 8th, early morning.

Li Luo had a dream. In the dream, he was floating on the sea with a piece of driftwood in his arms.

A seagull flew from the horizon and landed precisely on top of his head. When Li Luo raised his head, he felt the seagull's beak pecking at his face.

It seemed as if a feather was gently caressing his forehead.

It was not until he was exhausted and could no longer hold on to the driftwood in his arms and sank completely to the bottom of the sea that Li Luo suddenly woke up. When he opened his eyes, he saw Yan Zhusheng lying on top of him.

Yan Zhusheng held a bunch of her long hair in her hand and brushed it across Li Luo's face from time to time.

Seeing that Li Luo had woken up, he lowered his head and pecked him on the mouth: "Good morning."

"Thanks to you, I had a nightmare." Li Luo raised his hand and pinched her face.

"What nightmare?" Yan Zhusheng asked curiously, tilting his head.

“I dreamed that I was floating on the sea, and then a seagull stepped on my head and pecked my face, and finally I drowned.”

After hearing what he said, Yan Zhusheng thought for a while, then took out his mobile phone and started typing. He didn't know what he searched for, and then he analyzed it to Li Luo in a serious tone:

"Floating on the sea represents your inner desire for freedom, but at the same time you feel confused and lack a clear plan for the future. It symbolizes that you feel passive and powerless in life, unable to control the overall situation, and very anxious."

"Being stepped on by a seagull on your head means that you are under pressure and attack from the outside world. It may also mean that you have doubts and self-denial about your abilities, suggesting that you feel despised, bullied or treated unfairly in certain relationships."

“Drowning means that you are experiencing strong repression of emotions that you cannot release, and it also means that you want to escape from your current difficulties or problems.”

Yan Zhusheng said a lot, and his expression became more and more solemn. Then he looked at Li Luo with a worried look: "Why don't you go see a psychiatrist? It seems a little serious."

Li Luo was speechless and slapped Yan Zhusheng on the butt. "I think you bought too many bamboo shoots yesterday. You want to eat bamboo shoots stewed with meat."

"I'm concerned about you." Yan Zhusheng said with a stern face.

"Then I have to thank you?" Li Luo rolled his eyes at her.

Yan Zhusheng then asked, "What does stewed bamboo shoots with meat mean?"

"Didn't I give it to you just now?" Li Luo slapped her little butt again, "Is it delicious?"

"Hmm..." Yan Zhusheng twisted her body a little sensitively, and even blushed a little. She asked in a low voice, "It's delicious. Can I have a few more bites?"

Li Luo was also quite convinced by his reaction. He couldn't help laughing and slapped her little butt a few more times, making her groan. Then he looked at her phone and asked, "Where did you search for those just now?"

"A website that tells and interprets dreams." Yan Zhusheng's cheeks were flushed and he was breathing slightly. He turned his phone over to share it with him.

"You still believe this?" Li Luo was a little surprised.

"Yes, because I had dreams a lot for a while." Yan Zhusheng leaned on him and nodded, "So I searched and found out what my dreams meant."

"So what did you dream about?"

"I dreamed of kissing Li Luo on the bed, in the classroom, on the road, on the sofa, in the kitchen, and in the car..." Yan Zhusheng counted them one by one on his fingers seriously, and then said to Li Luo, "I checked, this means I like you."

When Li Luo heard her say these words, he was stunned for a moment, and then he felt as if a soft little claw was gently scratching his heart, making him feel itchy.

I don’t know if it’s because of his personality or something else, but Yan Zhusheng always speaks in a straightforward and innocent way.

Obviously it sounds like some cheesy love talk, but when it comes out of Yan Zhusheng's mouth, coupled with her serious look, it is so fresh and cute that people can't help but want to hold her in their arms.

This is what Li Luo thought, and naturally he did so.

He held up Yan Zhusheng's little face and kissed her crescent-shaped lips: "I like you, too."

"Of course I know." Yan Zhusheng hugged his neck tightly, resting his head on his chest, listening to the beating of his heart, "You not only like me, you also like Xixi, you like senior sister."

Li Luo felt a little embarrassed after hearing this.

Fortunately, the alarm clock rang on time at six o'clock.

Ying Chanxi, who was lying on the bed, got out of bed and walked quickly towards the back of the RV.

Hearing Ying Chanxi's footsteps approaching, Yan Zhusheng, who was about to get off Li Luo, suddenly stopped and hugged him back again.

When Ying Chanxi came to the rear bed, she looked out and saw her sister lying on top of Li Luo, actively asking for a kiss. She immediately narrowed her eyes, clenched her fists, gritted her teeth and urged, "The alarm is ringing, hurry up and get up!"

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng kissed her several times before turning her head to look at Ying Chanxi beside the bed. She blinked and said, "Sister, are you awake?"

These words suddenly made Ying Chanxi dream back to a few days ago, and the sense of déjà vu was quite strong.

I vaguely remember that after the first night in the RV, I did something bad with Li Luo early in the morning. When I got up and washed my hands in the bathroom, I greeted Yan Zhusheng like this.

Thinking of this, Ying Chanxi subconsciously looked at the trash cans at the bedside and in the toilet, and shrugged his nose again. After confirming that there were no suspicious paper balls or suspicious smells, and that the tailgate was not opened, he finally nodded with relief.

As for Yan Zhusheng kissing Li Luo in front of her, Ying Chanxi pretended not to see it.

It's not just the first or second time, just get used to it.

At worst, I can kiss her back in front of her later.

After gradually changing from the original defensive thinking to the current offensive thinking, Ying Chanxi suddenly felt that the world was broad and life was beautiful.

He was already thinking about how he would kiss Li Luo hard in front of his naughty sister.

"Get up." Li Luo patted Yan Zhusheng's little butt again. After she climbed out of bed, he got up and followed her into the bathroom.

After a few days of RV travel, Cui Suling finally faced the reality. It seemed that her daughter was not willing to exercise at all.

Li Luo doted on her so much that she refused to drag Xu Youyu off the bed, and Cui Suling had no way to deal with her.

So during the morning jog these days, everyone left Xu Youyu in the car to sleep in, and after the others washed up, they gathered under the shed outside, and then found a suitable place nearby to start jogging and exercising.

Naked Valley in Moganshan has developed into a very famous eco-resort in the local area, and its interior has become highly commercialized.

There are many ordinary small mountain villages surrounding Naked Valley.

The camping site where Li Luo and his RV parked was located on a mountainside between the highway and Zhangjia Village.

The early morning sunlight penetrated the bamboo forest and fell on the mountain path. Li Luo and four other people followed the road outside Zhangjia Village and slowly ran into the village along the village entrance.

There are many elderly people in the village and they all get up very early.

When Li Luo and his friends went for a morning run in the village, they saw many elderly people who got up early to do farm work along the way. Lin Xiuhong and Cui Suling just followed them symbolically and stopped halfway, walking around the village and chatting with the elderly people they met.

If I happened to see something new at home, I would just ask a few questions, and in the end I found a lot of very fresh local ingredients.

"What did you bring back?" After finishing his morning run, Li Luo called his mother and met them at the village entrance. They walked towards the RV together. When he saw that they were carrying things in their hands, he immediately asked curiously.

"These are pickled bamboo shoots." Lin Xiuhong raised her arm and gestured to Li Luo with a smile, "And the black pork bacon here is great for cooking."

"I also got two pieces of fresh black pork, both from their family, which was just slaughtered yesterday." Cui Suling at the side also smiled and said, "Oh, and this too."

As she spoke, Cui Suling handed over another bag in her hand.

Ying Chanxi took it curiously, opened it and immediately exclaimed, somewhat surprised.

Li Luo also leaned over to take a look: "Why are they all bamboo tubes?"

"It is said that they use it to make bamboo tube rice at home. These bamboo tubes were just made in the past two days, so I bought them." Cui Suling said, "We can try it tonight."

"That's quite interesting." Li Luo also became interested and nodded with a smile.

Although he studied to be a chef in his previous life, he only knew formal kitchen skills. He had never made something new like bamboo tube rice, and he didn't know how it tasted.

After returning to the RV, they put away the ingredients they had previously found and called Xu Youyu out of bed. After having a bite of breakfast, they took a walk to Naked Valley not far away.

They rented a few mountain bikes at the entrance of Naked Valley's eco-resort and rode slowly along the mountain paths in the village.

When we came across beautiful camellia gardens or bamboo forests scattered along the road, we would stop our bikes and take photo after photo under the direction of photography master Ying Chanxi.

There was even one time when, because Lin Xiuhong and Cui Suling had already ridden a short distance forward, Ying Chanxi deliberately grabbed Li Luo, kissed him in front of Yan Zhusheng, and took a selfie with his mobile phone.

This move made Ying Chanxi so proud for the whole morning that his chin almost rose to the sky.

"Sister is so childish." Yan Zhusheng looked at Ying Chanxi's slightly proud and smug expression and couldn't help but said expressionlessly.

Xu Youyu laughed and shook his head, just watching the show.

I wandered around Naked Valley in the morning, took a lot of photos while riding a mountain bike, and also experienced horseback riding in the stable, shuttling through the bamboo forest. It was very fresh and interesting.

At noon, the group came to the farm restaurant in the eco-resort and tasted the local specialties, free-range chicken hotpot and white tea smoked fish.

In the middle of the meal, Li Luo received a message from his good brother Zhao Rongjun.

[Zhao Rongjun]: Huanhuan, Xinyan and I will set out from here on the morning of the 10th and will arrive there around noon.

[Zhao Rongjun]: If we meet up at that time, how will we find accommodation? Your RV can't accommodate so many people, right?

[Li Luo]: There is an RV camping site near Qiandao Lake, where there are ready-made RVs available for rent. We will just park our RV next to the RV you rent.

[Zhao Rongjun]: Ah? Are we renting a motorhome as well?
[Zhao Rongjun]: Huanhuan originally wanted to follow your example, rent an RV, and then the three of us would drive to find you.

[Zhao Rongjun]: But now only Huanhuan has learned to drive, so her father did not agree.

[Li Luo]: What I mean is that the so-called RV that you rent only looks like an RV in appearance, but it is actually just a small apartment in the wilderness, the kind that cannot be driven without an engine.

[Zhao Rongjun]: Oh, so that’s how it is. Then there will be no problem on our side.

[Li Luo]: Ok, let’s meet the day after tomorrow and we can contact each other then.

After chatting with Zhao Rongjun, Li Luo finished his meal and rested for a while in the yard outside the hotel with Ying Chanxi and the others.

After a simple digestion, I went to experience the special bamboo spa massage here.

As a result, when selecting a masseur, Ying Chanxi specifically picked a male technician for Li Luo.

I have to say that the male technician has great strength and technique, and the massage is quite comfortable.

After traveling in an RV for more than a week, it was nice to relax with a massage.

After Li Luo finished the massage, he went to find Ying Chanxi and the others, only to discover that Xu Youyu had actually fallen asleep after being massaged. It seemed that he was indeed a little tired from playing these days.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the group finally returned home to the RV, took out the fresh ingredients they bought in the morning, and began to prepare dinner.

As a result, while cooking, Ying Chanxi quietly pulled Li Luo to the RV, hid behind the horizontal bed at the rear of the RV, and whispered to him, "I want to discuss something with you."

"What's wrong?" Li Luo showed a puzzled expression, thinking that someone wanted to kiss him secretly again, but it didn't look like that.

"It's what I mentioned to you last time." Ying Chanxi looked around to make sure no one in the car was eavesdropping before continuing in a low voice, "Xinyan wants that and asked if we can help create an opportunity."

"Oh..." After being reminded by Ying Chanxi, Li Luo suddenly fell silent and hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether he should remind Ying Chanxi.

Ying Chanxi continued to speak on his own: "She said she didn't want to delay it too long, and asked me if I could help get the others out of the way on the evening of the 10th so that she could find a chance to talk to Zhao Rongjun alone."

"I think this is a simple matter. Just ask Zhu Sheng to take Huan Huan to do something else, and then we can get the others out of the way."

"Then we can create a space for her and her two to be alone."

"what do you think?"

"Uh..." Li Luo came back to his senses, not knowing how to answer.

The main reason was that Zhao Rongjun had never told him the details of the relationship between him and Xu Yinghuan in private.

This led to Li Luo making more guesses and he was not completely sure about the current situation.

If this guess is wrong and it delays Qiao Xinyan's confession, wouldn't that be very embarrassing?

After thinking it over, Li Luo nodded solemnly: "Okay, then I'll talk to Zhu Sheng?"

"No, no, no." Ying Chanxi quickly grabbed his arm, "Don't tell Zhu Sheng about this directly."

"Xinyan's matter is only known to the two of us."

"When the time comes, you can just improvise and ask Zhu Sheng to call Huan Huan away."

"Okay." Li Luo nodded and agreed, "Then remember to tell me in advance."

"No problem!" Although it wasn't her intention to confess, Ying Chanxi was a little excited when she thought that her best friend was finally brave enough to take this step. She couldn't help but raise her hand and high-five Li Luo, "It's settled!"

(End of this chapter)