Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 691 Go to the balcony to practice shooting angles

Because it was the first department dinner, He Hailu did not choose Sichuan and Chongqing Hotpot as the venue.

After all, most hotpot restaurants have tables for four or six people. It would be meaningless if the first dinner party had to be divided into four or five tables.

So in the end we chose a small restaurant on Ningshan Avenue. It was not expensive and had private rooms. After opening the screen in the middle, the two dining tables could be put together, which was just enough to accommodate the eighteen members of the External Relations Department.

He Hailu and Xu Youyu, as the minister and deputy minister, sat down at a table respectively and were responsible for leading the conversation at the table.

Li Luo naturally sat next to Xu Youyu, and on the other side was Xu Yinghuan.

Originally, Zhang Jiale wanted to sit next to Xu Yinghuan, but the seat was taken by senior student Zhu Caiying, so he had to sit next to the team leader.

"Are you chatting with Brother Jun?" Li Luo asked casually when he saw Xu Yinghuan took out his mobile phone and chat on WeChat as soon as he sat down.

"Yes." Xu Yinghuan nodded and said to Li Luo, "He asked me what time I would finish my meal and would come to pick me up later."

"It's just a little after five now. We probably have to wait until around seven to finish," Xu Youyu said.

"Okay~" Xu Yinghuan nodded and continued to reply to Zhao Rongjun's message, "Then I'll tell him."

After replying, Xu Yinghuan turned to Li Luo and whispered, "I heard from Zhu Sheng that she joined the Arts Department. Is there a department dinner today? Be careful that she is hit on by other boys."

"Zhu Sheng, I'm not that worried..." Just by thinking about Yan Zhu Sheng's personality, Li Luo could probably imagine what kind of rejection those boys who tried to show their courtesy would get.

And with Cheng Jinyan by my side, I don't have to worry too much about Yan Zhusheng's situation.

As for Ying Chanxi, after joining the secretariat, I don’t know how today’s dinner will go.

Thinking of this, Li Luo simply took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng.

"Someone is not honest." Xu Youyu leaned close to Li Luo's ear and said softly with a smile, "What bad things are you doing behind your lovely and charming girlfriend's back? You actually sent private messages to other women?"

"Can't I send a message to your two sisters?"

"Humph~" Xu Youyu glanced at the others present and did not continue to tease him, "I'll spare your life for now."

Then she stood up and discussed ordering food with He Hailu. After asking everyone if they had any food taboos, she started choosing dishes from the menu.

As for Li Luo, he immediately became busy after the message was sent out.

……

[Li Luo]: How did the department’s regular meeting go?

[Ying Chanxi]: It’s pretty good. The senior student I mentioned to you before is a very nice person and has always taken care of me.

[Ying Chanxi]: How are things over there?

[Li Luo]: We just arrived at the restaurant and started our dinner party, how about you?
[Ying Chanxi]: The regular meeting hasn’t ended yet. We’ll probably leave for lunch around 5:30.

[Li Luo]: Oh, so when you finish your meal, I’ll come pick you up?

[Ying Chanxi]: Okay, then I’ll tell you when the dinner is almost over?
【Li Luo】: Okay.

……

at the same time.

[Li Luo]: How did the department’s regular meeting go?

[Yan Zhusheng]: The meeting is over and we are having dinner.

[Li Luo]: Department dinner?

[Yan Zhusheng]: Yes.

[Li Luo]: Is it delicious?
[Yan Zhusheng]: It’s not as delicious as what you cook.

[Li Luo]: Cheng Jinyan is next to you, right?
[Yan Zhusheng]: Yes.

[Li Luo]: Do you want to go home at night?
[Yan Zhusheng]: Yes.

[Yan Zhusheng]: I want to sleep with you.

[Li Luo]: Cheng Jinyan wasn’t peeking at us from the side, right?
[Yan Zhusheng]: Can’t I watch it?

[Li Luo]: ...Let her move her head away.

[Yan Zhusheng]: Oh.

[Li Luo]: You will finish your meal in a while. If I am not finished yet, you can go back to the dormitory and wait for me.

[Li Luo]: If I'm fast, I'll drive directly to the hotel to pick you up.

[Yan Zhusheng]: Okay.

After Li Luo finished chatting with the two girls, Xu Youyu ordered the food and returned to Li Luo.

"Are you done talking?" Xu Youyu raised his eyebrows and asked when he saw him put away his phone.

"Yes." Li Luo nodded gently, "I'll pick them up and take them home later."

"Then you won't live in the dormitory anymore?" Xu Youyu asked in a low voice.

"That's not necessary." Li Luo stroked his chin and thought for a moment, "When you were a freshman, didn't you sometimes come back and sometimes not? There's no need for us to go home and sleep every day."

"I think so too." Xu Youyu nodded in agreement, and then whispered, "After all, if four people go home to sleep every day, some things will be inconvenient to do~"

"...Sister You Yu, I find that your desire in this regard is stronger than mine?" Li Luo was a little amused, "It would be even better if you could practice more."

"Then I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it." Xu Youyu groaned, "Then you'll be the one begging for mercy."

"How will you know if you don't try?"

"Heh." Xu Youyu didn't want to discuss this with him.

If you want her to work hard on her training, it would be better to let her update more than 10,000 words a day.

After the two finished chatting, Xu Youyu took on his responsibilities as deputy minister and began to guide the conversation at the dinner table.

Not long after, the food was gradually served on the table. Everyone enjoyed the food and chatted. Li Luo quickly became familiar with everyone in the External Relations Department.

In order to break the ice and ease the awkwardness of the first meeting and getting to know each other, He Hailu started to organize some small games after the meal was almost over.

The loser will be punished.

At one point, Li Luo lost the game. Due to Li Luo's well-known public figure status, others were a little hesitant to suggest some interesting punishments.

Finally, the drunk Xu Youyu thought of a good idea. He opened his mobile phone, opened a paragraph of "Daqian Night Patrol", and handed it to Li Luo, asking him to recite it.

Li Luo didn't expect Xu Youyu to be so cruel. He gritted his teeth and finished reading the above paragraph. Everyone around him immediately held back their laughter.

Xu Yinghuan couldn't hold back and burst into laughter. The others also burst into laughter instantly, and the box was suddenly filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

"I think you are tired of living." After Li Luo sat back in his seat, he leaned close to Xu Youyu's ear and said viciously.

"What? Didn't you write this yourself?" Xu Youyu became a little arrogant after drinking. He smiled and stuck out his tongue in front of Li Luo. "Lululu~ I've already written it. What's the point of reading it out?"

"Haha." Li Luo sneered and reminded her in her ear, "Sister You Yu, don't forget that you are also a writer."

As soon as these words came out, Xu Youyu's body suddenly stiffened.

After drinking a little wine, she became a little too proud of herself and almost forgot about it.

Reminded by Li Luo at this time, Xu Youyu immediately showed a somewhat flattering smile, leaned over and toasted Li Luo with a glass of wine: "Since you are a great man, please don't bear grudges against me, a little girl."

"Oh, that depends on someone's sincerity in atonement."

"Well..." Xu Youyu bit her lip lightly, then leaned close to Li Luo's ear and whispered, "Then let's go to the balcony next time, okay?"

Hearing this, Li Luo's heart was suddenly moved.

Xu Youyu saw his expression and knew that the matter was settled, so he immediately helped him pick up the wine glass and said with a smile: "Then drink this glass of juice, and what happened just now will be written off."

The two men clinked their glasses lightly and reached a private agreement.

Li Luo now felt a little regretful that he had agreed to pick Xixi and Zhusheng up and take them home.

But then I thought, there is still a long time to go, so I am not in a hurry to experience all the tricks. It's all because of Sister Yu, she is so good at seducing people.

As the meal was more than halfway through, Li Luo got up to go to the bathroom and took out his cell phone to see if Xixi and Zhusheng had sent him any messages.

As a result, as soon as I walked out of the box, I ran into a figure head-on.

"Li Luo?"

Hearing someone calling his name, Li Luo paused, put down his phone, looked forward, and saw Lin Zhixia looking at him in surprise.

"Lin Zhixia?" Li Luo raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, "Are you eating here too?"

"Yeah." Lin Zhixia nodded, and then curiously glanced at the box behind Li Luo, noticing that there was also a dinner party going on there. "Xixi said you were attending a dinner party of your college's External Relations Department, but it turns out you were in the same place as us?"

"Um...Xixi is here too?" Li Luo was shocked when he heard this.

"Yes." Lin Zhixia pointed to the other two boxes that were separated from theirs by a box, "The secretariat of our Zhu Academy is also having a dinner here. Do you want me to go and call Xixi?"

"Hmm..." Li Luo's mind was racing at this moment, and he quickly responded, "I'm going to the bathroom first, we'll talk later."

"Oh." Lin Zhixia didn't think much about it. She nodded, walked past Li Luo, and returned to the private room where their secretariat was having a dinner.

At this time, Li Luo took out his mobile phone and took a look at the WeChat message on it.

[Yan Zhusheng]: We have finished eating. Jinyan and I will go back to the dormitory first. I will wait for you there.

Li Luo replied "OK", and then immediately opened Ying Chanxi's chat box.

[Ying Chanxi]: We are getting ready to go out for the dinner party.

[Ying Chanxi]: Senior sister said it was the Zhenwei restaurant on Ningshan Avenue, do you remember it?

[Ying Chanxi]: You brought me here to eat once during the National Day when I was in the first year of high school.

[Ying Chanxi]: I didn’t expect it to be such a coincidence.

[Ying Chanxi]: By the way, where did you have dinner tonight?
Seeing Ying Chanxi's reminder, Li Luo suddenly remembered this.

Almost three years have passed. If Li Luo didn't have the Memory Palace, he might not remember it.

Especially when Li Luo recalled at this moment, the decoration of this restaurant seemed to be quite different from three years ago. It was probably renovated in the middle.

As a result, Ying Chanxi could still recognize it.

[Li Luo]: I have good news and bad news now. Which one do you want to hear first?
After sending this message to Ying Chanxi, Li Luo temporarily put away his phone and went to the bathroom.

After coming out, he washed his hands, dried them, and took out his mobile phone. Li Luo saw that Ying Chanxi had already replied.

[Ying Chanxi]: What is the good news?
[Li Luo]: I am now in the restaurant where you are having dinner.

[Ying Chanxi]: Ah?
[Ying Chanxi]: Have you come to pick me up?

[Li Luo]: This brings us to another piece of bad news.

[Ying Chanxi]: What bad news could there be?

[Li Luo]: Our External Relations Department’s dinner party is also here, so Sister Yu is here too, do you understand what I mean?

[Ying Chanxi]: …

Ying Chanxi certainly understood what Li Luo meant.

Because the current situation is that in the School of Arts, everyone already knows that Li Luo and Xu Youyu are a couple.

Not only is the military training at Zhu College separated from that of ordinary colleges, the dormitories are also separate from those of other colleges, and even the teaching model is different, so it cannot be integrated with that of other colleges.

So most people who know that Ying Chanxi has a boyfriend don’t know who Li Luo is.

Not to mention knowing the gossip about the Faculty of Arts.

But at this moment, the External Relations Department of the School of Arts and the Secretariat of the Zhu Academy both chose this Zhenwei Restaurant as the venue for the dinner.

It would be a bit embarrassing if the relationship between Li Luo, Xu Youyu and Ying Chanxi was exposed.

[Ying Chanxi]: That doesn’t matter, right? People from both sides won’t meet each other anyway.

[Li Luo]: I just came out to use the restroom and ran into your roommate...

[Ying Chanxi]: Eh? Zhixia didn’t tell me.

[Li Luo]: Maybe I want to give you a surprise.

[Ying Chanxi]: So what should we do now?
[Li Luo]: Do you want me to come over and offer you a drink?

[Ying Chanxi]: Forget it... You don’t know them, so there’s no need.

[Ying Chanxi]: When you finish eating in a while, let the senior sister go back first and you wait for me.

[Li Luo]: Then I will send Sister Youyu home first, and then drive over to pick you up.

[Ying Chanxi]: Well, that’s fine.

After chatting with Ying Chanxi, Li Luo put away his phone and returned to the box.

Not long after, when the time gradually came to seven o'clock in the evening, He Hailu saw that the meal was almost finished and everyone was familiar with each other, so she stood up and clapped her hands: "Then let's stop here for today."

"Starting next week, the External Relations Department will have activities that require our participation."

"I will assign tasks to the sophomores when the time comes. You just need to follow your respective team leaders and work hard."

"If you have any questions, please ask the team leader first."

After the announcement of disbandment, everyone picked up their belongings and followed the main group out of Zhenwei Restaurant.

When going downstairs, Zhang Jiale approached Xu Yinghuan and tried to chat with her.

As soon as she reached the door of the first floor, Xu Yinghuan's eyes lit up, her steps suddenly quickened, and she trotted towards the door: "Ajun~ you're here!"

As she spoke, Xu Yinghuan threw herself into the arms of a tall and strong boy, and then took his arm affectionately.

Zhang Jiale looked at the scene in bewilderment, and then heard Xu Ying introduce others with a smile: "This is my boyfriend, also a freshman, in the School of Computer Science."

After hearing what Xu Yinghuan said, Zhang Jiale fell silent for a moment.

So the college love story he imagined had ended so early before it even began?
At this moment, just as Li Luo was greeting Zhao Rongjun with a smile, a familiar figure appeared beside him.

"Xiao Ya!" Song Yu walked up to Jiang Feiya with a smile on his face and helped her take her bag very attentively.

"Why are you here?" Jiang Feiya asked with a frown.

"Didn't we agree to go to the movies together tonight?" Song Yu said innocently, "I just came to pick you up on the way."

"I told you to meet me at the cinema. Why are you picking me up?" Jiang Feiya rolled her eyes at him and took the bag back to hold it herself. "Have you bought the movie tickets?"

"Already bought it."

"Let's go then."

"Eh? Senior, are you guys going to the movies too?" Xu Yinghuan held Zhao Rongjun's hand and quickly caught up with Jiang Feiya and Song Yu, "We're on our way there too."

"Really?" Jiang Feiya's attitude towards Xu Yinghuan was quite good. If she hadn't met Xu Yinghuan when she went to see Yuan Wanqing's concert, she might not have been able to figure out Li Luo's true identity so quickly. "Then let's go together."

Watching Zhao Rongjun and the others leave, Li Luo also looked at Xu Youyu: "Then I'll drive you back first?"

"and then?"

"Then I'll go to the music school to pick up Zhusheng, and finally come back to pick up Xixi."

"Then you are really a busy man." Xu Youyu laughed.

"Xixi and the others didn't get here until almost six o'clock, so they probably won't eat until around eight o'clock." Li Luo hugged Xu Youyu's slender waist as they walked toward the parking lot, biting her ear and whispering, "I think we can go home and try the shooting angle on the balcony first."

"Well... that's not impossible."

(End of this chapter)