Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 876 They are all my girlfriends
Lin Xiuhong grew up in a place called Linjia Village, which is not far from Lijia Village; it takes about ten minutes to drive there.

It was rare for Lin Xiuhong to drive, so she sat in the driver's seat of Yan Zhusheng's Mercedes, with Li Luo in the passenger seat.

While waiting at a traffic light, she glanced in the rearview mirror and saw the three little girls sitting obediently in the back seat. A knowing smile appeared on her face, and she felt a sense of inexplicable satisfaction.

I wonder if Li Luo's grandparents will be overwhelmed with choices after meeting the three girls?

As Lin Xiuhong pondered these thoughts, she couldn't help but hum a little tune as she drove her car and quickly entered the entrance of Linjia Village.

The car stopped in the courtyard of Li Luo's maternal grandparents' house. Li Luo's maternal grandparents had already come out upon hearing the noise and looked at the car with curiosity.

Upon seeing Li Luo, who was the first to walk down from above, a smile involuntarily appeared on his face, even squeezing out his wrinkles.

"It's our Xiao Luo!" Grandma greeted him with a smile, grabbed Li Luo's wrist, and began to look him up and down, muttering, "He's getting more and more handsome, but has he not been eating well? He looks a little thin."

"Grandma, I'm really strong now. This is called looking slim in clothes, look!" Li Luo raised her arm, letting her grandma pinch her biceps, which were quite well-developed. "Where's my uncle?"

"He's sleeping." Grandma's tone returned to that of a mother when she talked about her son. "No matter how many times I've told him, he still likes to sleep in. I can't wake him up no matter what. You can't be like him."

“I get up at six o’clock every morning to go for a run,” Li Luo said with a grin. “Uncle should learn from me.”

"That's right!" Grandma immediately chimed in, nodding vigorously. "Little Luo is such a good girl. Your uncle is so old, yet he's not as sensible as a young person like you."

Just as they were saying this, Lin Xiuhong, who was in the driver's seat, and the three girls in the back seat got out of the car one after another.

Ying Chanxi grew up in the same environment as Li Luo. Although she hadn't visited Li Luo's maternal grandmother's house much, when Li Luo came to visit her grandmother's house as a child, she would always clamor and refuse to be separated from Li Luo. So, Lin Xiuhong and Li Guohong would bring her along to play.

So Li Luo's maternal grandmother still had some impression of this little girl.

At this moment, Ying Chanxi stepped forward first and greeted them sweetly, saying, "Grandpa and Grandma, do you still recognize me?"

"You are..." The grandfather next to me has presbyopia, and he couldn't see clearly when he got closer.

Grandma, who was standing nearby, glanced at her and immediately recognized her. She said with a smile, "Isn't this Xixi? She used to always follow Xiaoluo around, and she wouldn't leave him no matter how hard he tried."

Ying Chanxi blushed and stepped forward to hug her grandmother's arm: "Grandma, please don't say anymore, that happened so long ago."

After exchanging pleasantries, the grandparents' gazes fell on two other girls they had never seen before.

So they looked at Li Luo, then at Lin Xiuhong: "These two..."

"Those two... are both Li Luo's..." Lin Xiuhong thought to herself, wanting to simply introduce them as friends of that brat Li Luo, who came here to visit during the Chinese New Year.

But before Lin Xiuhong could finish speaking, Li Luo interrupted, saying, "They're all my girlfriends."

Upon hearing this, not only were the maternal grandparents surprised, but Lin Xiuhong, who was standing next to them, was also shocked. She never expected that her son would say such a thing in front of his elders.

Ying Chanxi and the others blushed with embarrassment. Even Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu felt a little nervous and embarrassed when they heard Li Luo say such things under these circumstances.

Yan Zhusheng was slightly better; when she blushed, she even peeked expectantly at Lin Xiuhong's reaction beside her.

But Xu Youyu is still a normal person after all. No matter how unrestrained he is when he is alone with Li Luo in private, he can't be so bold in front of other people.

The relationship between the four girls was so bluntly revealed that they were all stunned and at a loss for what to do.

The grandparents were at a loss for words, their gazes shifting between the three girls, each one exceptionally beautiful, making it difficult to choose just one.

But if all three are their granddaughters-in-law, then it seems... kind of nice?

Grandpa and Grandma looked at each other in bewilderment, when a familiar voice came from the second-floor balcony, breaking the stalemate.

"Li Luo?" Jian Chun poked her head out of the window, greeted him with a smile after seeing the scene downstairs, and then said to her grandparents, "Uncle and Aunt, don't let them stand outside, come upstairs and sit down?"

"Yes, yes, let's go upstairs first and talk there."

Grandpa was the first to come to his senses and then called everyone upstairs.

Li Luo immediately went to the trunk and, together with Xi Xi and the others, carried a lot of New Year's goods upstairs.

After putting the things down upstairs, Grandma said to Lin Xiuhong with a reproachful look, "You're here, why did you bring so much stuff? Your dad and I can't possibly finish all of it."

"If you can't finish it, just give it away. That way, you two won't have to buy new food," Lin Xiuhong said nonchalantly. "Have you prepared lunch yet? If you haven't bought groceries, I'll go buy some."

"I already bought them, you don't need to bother," Grandpa waved his hand and said. "Didn't you say yesterday that five people were coming? Do you think you'd go hungry?"

When this was mentioned, the grandmother standing next to her immediately looked puzzled.

She and the old man were initially puzzled, wondering why there were five more people.

Especially since Lin Xiuhong said that Li Guohong had to accompany guests there and couldn't come, that makes two people including Li Luo. So who are the other three?

However, Lin Xiuhong didn't say anything, and they weren't in a hurry to ask. They figured they'd find out when they met.

Well, when they actually met, it really surprised the elderly couple.

My grandson, without saying a word, brought three girlfriends home.

Lin Xiufeng had already been very happy to bring a wife home this year.

Li Luo is quite impressive; his uncle brought back one, but he managed to bring back three.

It can only be said that the mastermind behind making Lin Xiufeng, this iron tree, bloom, has indeed suffered an even more terrible fate himself.

But the grandparents, out of curiosity, didn't know how to ask, and were suddenly at an awkward moment, glancing at the three well-behaved girls next to them from time to time, but not knowing what to say.

Finally, Li Luo took the initiative to introduce them, saying to her maternal grandparents, "You all know Xixi; she grew up with me since she was little."

"This is Xu Youyu. You can call her Youyu or Xiaoyu, it's fine."

“A few years ago, when I had just finished my high school entrance exam, my parents bought me a house in the school district owned by my third grandfather.”

“Back then, Yu happened to be renting a place there, and we continued to live together without breaking our lease.”

"She writes novels just like me. If you two are interested, you can take a look."

"Oh dear, what are you saying..." Xu Youyu quickly and secretly tugged at Li Luo's sleeve, muttering softly, "What's so interesting about writing novels?"

Fortunately, everyone else at the scene knew about this, and Jian Chun, as Xu Rongsheng's student, was quite familiar with it.

But as Li Luo recounted his story, Jian Chun listened intently, as if watching a TV drama, as he described his relationships with the three girls.

“This is Yan Zhusheng,” Li Luo continued, taking Yan Zhusheng’s hand and introducing her to her grandparents, “She was my deskmate in high school; we sat together during class.”

"Her mother is Yuan Wanqing, who sang 'Misplaced Time and Space' on this year's Spring Festival Gala."

“I’ll tell you the song title, but you probably won’t recognize it. It’s called Zhusheng. How does it go again?” Li Luo turned to look at Yan Zhusheng.

Yan Zhusheng paused for a moment, then subconsciously coughed lightly, cleared her throat, and managed to hum a few lines.

"I gaze upon the starry sky you once saw~ Let us meet again across a century~"

She was a little nervous, and her singing was unusually shaky. Even when she was on stage with thousands of people watching, she never sang like this.

Even so, the singing was still very good. After hearing it, Grandpa immediately slapped his thigh and realized, "Oh, this is the one! This song is great!"

“This song was written by Li Luo,” Lin Xiuhong added from the side. “I told you before, Li Luo is really good at writing songs now. Most of his songs are sung by Yuan Wanqing, and they are all very popular now.”

After chatting for a while, the grandparents had a basic impression of the three girls, and they really liked them more and more.

There happened to be a mahjong table nearby, and Lin Xiuhong, feeling a bit itchy to play, invited them to come and play mahjong.

Grandma doesn't like playing, but Li Luo's grandpa loves playing mahjong.

Lin Xiuhong then called her father, and then Jian Chun and Xi Xi. The four of them sat around the mahjong table and started playing mahjong.

Li Luo, along with two girls, accompanied her grandmother while watching TV and chatting.

Xu Youyu took the initiative to sit on the other side of her grandmother and told her in a very affectionate manner about the interesting things that had happened between her and Li Luo.

Grandma listened with a smile. Over the course of a year, these few days of the Lunar New Year were probably the happiest time for her.

Around 10 a.m., Lin Xiufeng, who had been sleeping in late upstairs, finally came downstairs with his hair all messy and still half asleep.

Rubbing his head, he gradually came to his senses when he saw the lively scene in the living room and remembered that today seemed to be the day his sister came back.

However, seeing Jian Chun playing mahjong with her grandma and Li Luo chatting with his grandma on the sofa, Lin Xiufeng felt relieved.

It makes no difference whether he's there or not.

"So you still know how to get up?" Grandma couldn't help but nag when she saw Lin Xiufeng's slovenly appearance. "You have a boyfriend now, and you don't even know how to take care of yourself."

"Oh, Mom, it's rare for Li Luo and the others to come all this way, don't be such a spoilsport, okay?" Lin Xiufeng yawned, then smiled and said to Li Luo, "How long are you staying today?"

"Just having lunch," Li Luo said. "I have to go back this afternoon; I have guests at my house too."

"guest?"

“Look.” Li Luo pointed to Xu Youyu, “Youyu’s parents are here too.”

"Oh, then we have to go back." Lin Xiufeng nodded.

Just as the two were greeting each other, Ying Chanxi finished a game of mahjong and turned to Yan Zhusheng on the sofa, saying, "Zhusheng, come and play a game for me. Senior, can you take over for Teacher Jian?"

"Huh? What's wrong?" Jian Chun was a little surprised, not understanding what Ying Chanxi meant. "What are you trying to do?"

"Teacher Jian, come with me, and so does your uncle." Ying Chanxi took Jian Chun's hand and led her to sit down on the sofa.

Lin Xiufeng also leaned over with a curious look: "Is there something wrong, Xixi?"

"It's nothing important, Li Luo just asked me to pick out a gift, consider it a blessing for your engagement." As she said this, Ying Chanxi took out two red brocade boxes from her bag, which looked very festive.

Ying Chanxi placed the red brocade boxes on the table and pushed them in front of Lin Xiufeng and Jian Chun, then continued, "Open them and see if you like them."

Jian Chun picked up a brocade box with a curious look, then turned to look at Lin Xiufeng.

Lin Xiufeng also picked up his, exchanged a glance with Jian Chun, and then nodded to her.

The next second, the two of them lifted the lid of the brocade box together and saw the exquisite jade bracelet lying inside.

"Wow~ It's so beautiful." Jian Chun's eyes lit up when she saw the bracelet. She reached out to touch it, but she was afraid of getting it dirty and was reluctant to do so.

Lin Xiufeng, however, did not stand on ceremony with Li Luo. After opening the box, he took out the smoky gray jade bracelet from it. It was cool to the touch. He played with it in his palm for a while before putting it on his wrist.

"What pattern is engraved on this?" Jian Chun asked curiously as she leaned closer to examine her pure white jade bracelet.

“This one is carved with a phoenix, and my uncle’s side has a dragon,” Ying Chanxi said. “It’s auspicious because of the dragon and phoenix.”

"This is so beautiful." Jian Chun praised it as she finally reached out and carefully picked up the jade bracelet and put it on herself.

She and Lin Xiufeng leaned close together, their wrists touching, the smoky gray jade bracelet and the pure white jade bracelet colliding and making a crisp sound.

They look like a perfect match.

"How much does this cost?" Lin Xiufeng asked. "Is it very expensive?"

"It's not expensive at all." Ying Chanxi immediately shook her hand vigorously. "I'm glad you like it. It doesn't matter how much money it costs."

In fact, Li Luo had these bracelets custom-made; one bracelet costs tens of thousands of yuan, and two would cost over a hundred thousand yuan.

However, this amount of money is really nothing to Li Luo right now.

Compared to the sacrifices her uncle made for their family in her previous life, Li Luo's current reciprocation is simply what she should do.

As long as my uncle's marriage is happy and fulfilling, that's enough.

After successfully delivering the gift, Ying Chanxi breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the mahjong table with Jian Chun.

While Lin Xiuhong was playing mahjong, she asked Jian Chun about her family situation and the wedding arrangements.

According to Lin Xiufeng and Jian Chun's plan, this year's National Day holiday will be their wedding day.

In order to hold the wedding as scheduled during the National Day holiday, many things need to be planned starting at the beginning of the year.

As Lin Xiufeng's older sister, Lin Xiuhong naturally had a responsibility to take charge, since Li Luo's maternal grandparents were getting old and didn't have the energy to make arrangements.

Lin Xiuhong is said to be Lin Xiufeng's older sister, but the two are so far apart in age that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she's like a half-mother to him.

Moreover, according to Lin Xiuhong's idea, this was also a rehearsal for Li Luo's future wedding, so as to avoid being caught off guard later.

but……

Looking at the three little girls in the living room, Lin Xiuhong couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

What's the point of rehearsing?

She had never seen a wedding where three wives were married at once in her entire life...

(End of this chapter)