Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 877 1

Chapter 877 Twin Sisters, Lying Together
The happy time playing mahjong in the morning passed quickly.

Li Luo didn't know what magic mahjong had that made her mother play it every day of the year without getting tired of it.

The key point is that she's not keen on winning or losing, and she doesn't bet big. She just plays casually with her family, usually betting only one dollar.

Even if you lose badly, you might only make a couple hundred yuan in a whole day.

More often than not, it's around a few tens of yuan.

According to Lin Xiuhong, a smaller amount is not very satisfying, but a larger amount would hurt feelings; one yuan is just right.

Moreover, if you're playing mahjong with the same group of friends, and the game goes on long enough without anyone cheating, all four of you will likely be in a roughly equal state of neither winning nor losing.

For Li Luo, playing mahjong occasionally was just a pastime. After all, when he was at home, he had nothing to do in the evenings and liked to take three girls upstairs to play mahjong.

However, his motives for playing mahjong were not pure... He played more of a "welfare game," never playing for a dollar or two. He usually played strip mahjong or penalty mahjong.

Hmm... Thinking about this, Li Luo really felt a bit itchy to get his hands on the three girls. He couldn't wait until after the seventh day of the Lunar New Year so he could drag them back to the villa and have some fun without a care in the world.

Whether they can bring all three back this time is still uncertain...

Thinking of this, Li Luo couldn't help but sigh again.

Hearing her grandson sigh, the grandmother asked, "What's wrong? What's making you sigh? It's not good to sigh during the New Year."

"I have something on my mind." Li Luo sat on the sofa with her grandmother, while Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu took the fruit from the New Year's gifts that had just been delivered and went to the kitchen to cut and wash it.

So at this moment, only Li Luo and her grandmother were on the sofa.

"What's bothering you? Tell Grandma." Grandma patted Li Luo's hand and said, "Grandma is no good, I probably can't help you much, but talking about it might make you feel better."

"It's nothing really." Li Luo smiled helplessly, but still said, "I just said that Xixi and the other two are all my girlfriends, and that's the truth."

Upon hearing this, Grandma's face immediately stiffened; she hadn't expected this boy to say such a thing to her.

But Li Luo continued, "Before this, Xixi and Zhusheng's parents already knew about the relationship between the three of us."

"Um... You know Uncle Ying, right? He's my dad's childhood friend, and he's Xixi's dad."

"Then, Yuan Wanqing, Aunt Yuan is Zhusheng's mother. They just got married last year, so Xixi and Zhusheng are considered sisters."

"Back then, after Uncle Ying and Aunt Yuan found out about my relationship with Xixi and Zhusheng, they had already tacitly agreed that I could be with both of them, but..."

"But what?" Grandma was still reeling from the fact that this kid could actually get the parents to agree to let her have both of the sisters, and her mind hadn't quite processed it yet.

So Li Luo continued, "But they don't know that I'm also with Sister Yu."

Upon hearing Li Luo's words, Grandma immediately realized what he meant, and her head began to throb and ache.

"Xixi and the others have agreed to the four of us being together. For me, this is already a great honor to be loved by all three of them at the same time."

Li Luo continued, "But I still don't have a clear idea of how to convince the elders."

“A fisherwoman once told me that we could cook the rice first and then make it a fait accompli. Once the child is born, the parents have no choice but to agree.”

"Zhusheng is even more eager to get married to me as soon as possible. Anyway, all three of us will get married once, and legally speaking, they will all be my ex-wives."

“I’ve even thought that because of Uncle Ying’s company, the revenue is now entirely supported by my two TV series.”

"Uncle Xu, the father of Youyu, wants to compete for the position of dean at Qianjiang University, and he needs my help behind the scenes."

"If I use these leverage points to blackmail them, will they give in?"

"But in the end, after much thought, I still didn't choose those methods."

As Grandma listened to Li Luo's words, she also began to ponder his thoughts.

To be fair, all of the methods Li Luo mentioned are actually feasible.

But what's the cost?
My grandmother is getting old and doesn't know what the best course of action is.

Li Luo didn't expect to get any answers from his grandmother.

After thinking for a long time, Grandma said, "Since you four children have decided to be together, it doesn't really matter how much the parents object."

"Grandma didn't understand many complicated things; she only knew that if two people wanted to stay together for a long time, that was the most important thing."

"Otherwise, even if the elders agree, you will want to separate after a while, and you may even regret it."

"So Grandma thinks that the most important thing is not what the elders think, but whether the four of you are really mentally prepared."

“You are adults now and should bear the consequences of your decisions. As long as you can accept them, Grandma will support you.”

Li Luo was somewhat moved after listening to her grandmother's words.

Yan Zhusheng had finished delivering the fruit and sat back down, so Li Luo temporarily stopped the topic and started chatting with his grandmother about other things.

Xu Youyu sat back down on the other side of her grandmother and quickly made her laugh.

The joyful morning passed in the blink of an eye.

Around noon, Grandma got up to go to the kitchen to cook, and Li Luo followed her in, only to be almost kicked out by her grandmother.

"You're here as guests today, how can I let you do the work? Go, go, go, go wait on the sofa."

"Oh, Grandma, I just want to stay with you a little longer. How can you bear to send me away?" Li Luo shamelessly sidled into the kitchen to help his grandmother chop and prepare vegetables.

His grandmother was quite surprised by his skillful knife work: "When did you become so good at cutting vegetables?"

"I'm not only good at chopping vegetables, I'm also quite good at cooking. If you don't believe me, let me try." Li Luo said this while preparing the ingredients for braised chicken wings. She then said to her grandmother, "Let me show you what I can do."

Seeing how skilled he was, Grandma let him do it. When the braised chicken wings were steaming hot and ready to be served, Li Luo picked up one and held it to Grandma's lips for her to try.

She took a bite and found that it actually tasted pretty good.

"When did you learn it?"

"I learned it in my past life, and the memory has recently awakened."

"You rascal, you've been writing too many novels, haven't you?" Grandma laughed at his antics, then called out from the kitchen doorway, "Old man! Come and serve the dishes! And Xiufeng too! Get moving!"

One delicious dish after another was served on the table.

Soon, everyone sat down together and began to enjoy lunch.

During the meal, everyone discussed in detail the details of Lin Xiufeng and Jian Chun's wedding, and also talked about Jian Chun's family situation.

“My dad passed away last year from an illness, and now my mom is all alone in our hometown,” Jian Chun said softly. “My current thought is, could we bring my mom here for a while and find her a place to settle down?”

“If your mother doesn’t mind, she can just come to our house,” Li Luo’s grandmother said. “It’s just the two of us here most of the time, and there are no outsiders. We always have an empty room.”

"There are many elderly people in the village, and they often get together to chat and so on."

“Bring your mother here so that we older generations can look after each other, and you and Xiufeng can rest assured.”

"Let's settle on that," Lin Xiufeng said. "After the New Year, I'll accompany Jian Chun back to her hometown to see her. If possible, I'll bring her here directly."

"Mmm." Jian Chun nodded obediently, feeling warm inside, already looking forward to her happy married life. "Oh, by the way," Li Luo suddenly remembered something and said to Jian Chun, "Teacher Jian, Uncle Xu probably arranged another job for you recently, right?"

"Other work?" Jian Chun was taken aback for a moment, then immediately realized, "Oh, you mean the approval of scholarships for impoverished students, right?"

“Yes.” Li Luo said with a smile, “That scholarship was provided by me in the name of Reign Culture Company. As the highest-level approving teacher, you will also receive a corresponding subsidy.”

"But that's not all I want to say, because Uncle Xu also plans to apply for a research center, mainly focusing on graduate employment."

"My plan is to invite you to take on some management positions, and also to give you a scholarship for outstanding students, and the approval process will be assigned to you."

“These will all come with an additional salary arrangement and subsidies, but the work is relatively easy.”

"I've already spoken with Uncle Xu. You just need to prepare for the handover next semester."

After listening to Li Luo's long explanation, Jian Chun was stunned for a moment before finally digesting it all. She quickly whispered, "Th-thank you so much..."

Several years ago, Jian Chun first met Li Luo at Lin Xiufeng's milk tea shop. At that time, Li Luo was only the second author of Xu Rongsheng's thesis, and Jian Chun's relationship with him was not very deep.

At the time, Jian Chun probably never imagined that a few years later, because she was discussing marriage with the manager of the milk tea shop, the manager's nephew would arrange her career advancement path.

To be fair, according to Li Luo's arrangement, once Jian Chun works for two more years as a counselor and in the research center, plus her experience in approving subsidies and scholarships, it would only be a matter of Xu Rongsheng saying a word if she wanted to be promoted in the college's management.

Given the relationship between Li Luo and Xu Rongsheng, wouldn't it be a piece of cake?
With this in mind, Jian Chun looked at the future prospects of her career, which were already bright.

……

After lunch, Lin Xiuhong pulled Jian Chun and Lin Xiufeng aside to discuss the wedding arrangements in detail and set a preliminary framework.

After chatting until around 2 p.m., Lin Xiuhong drove away with her four children, saying goodbye and returning to Lijia Village.

Xu Youyu was so sleepy that she fell asleep on Li Luo's shoulder in the car.

After returning to the courtyard, he quickly got out of the car and went straight to the third floor, where he plopped down on Li Luo's bed, ready to take a nap.

Lin Xiuhong noticed that her aunt and the others were all in the living room on the second floor, so she invited them to play mahjong, without needing Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng to fill in for them.

So Li Luo led the two girls back to the bedroom, planning to write for a while in the afternoon and chat with them.

There's no need to worry about disturbing Xu Youyu.

She's the type who won't be disturbed once she's asleep. As long as you don't actively shake her awake, she won't wake up before she's had enough sleep.

"I've reached five million followers." At this moment, Yan Zhusheng was lying on the floor, crossing her long legs and swinging them from time to time, and said to Li Luo in the chair, "You only have four million."

"What do you mean by 'talent'?" Li Luo glanced at Yan Zhusheng's long legs, reached out and grabbed one, playing with it in his palm for a while. "That's already a lot, isn't it?"

“Your friend already has over 1.5 million followers,” Yan Zhusheng added. “Be careful he doesn’t surpass you later.”

"Which friend of mine?" Li Luo asked, puzzled.

"this."

Yan Zhusheng handed her phone to Li Luo for a glance. Li Luo looked at it and realized that she was talking about potatoes.

"It's rising so fast?" Li Luo was surprised for a moment, but quickly understood.

In his memory, Tudou only had a little over two million followers because he joined Douyin relatively late in his previous life.

However, now that "Yuan Zun" has only been online for half a year, it is the time when he starts to exert his efforts across all online channels. Coupled with the accumulation of the previous trilogy such as "Battle Through the Heavens", it is quite normal for him to have this speed of fan growth.

The key is that he really does have a talent for live streaming. Li Luo only taught him once, and he quickly learned a lot of how to create entertaining content.

Now, every time a show starts, it attracts several thousand viewers.

While he was writing, he kept saying, "That's enough, that's enough," and told me to log in and play games.

Once they actually started playing the game, they immediately changed their tune and told him to hurry up and start writing.

At this rate of increase, Li Luo felt that he might actually surpass his Douyin achievements from his previous life.

As for Li Luo, he's mainly too lazy, and Ying Chanxi's strategy for him is to maintain a high-class image, so he rarely posts anything on his Douyin account.

Even her live stream appearance was done by piggybacking on Yan Zhusheng's live stream.

"Speaking of which," Ying Chanxi, who was lying next to Yan Zhusheng, saw Li Luo playing with Yan Zhusheng's calves, so she quietly raised her own foot and secretly kicked him a couple of times.

After Li Luo reacted and pulled her foot away, Ying Chanxi felt satisfied, but her face remained tense, as if she didn't want to. She asked Yan Zhusheng, "Tomorrow is the third day of the Lunar New Year, which is Sunday. Are you still going to do a live stream?"

"Is it okay?" Yan Zhusheng asked curiously, "There's no live streaming equipment here."

"Just use your phone to stream," Ying Chanxi said. "It's only for an hour anyway, you can just chat casually."

"Does Li Luo want to come along?" Yan Zhusheng asked Li Luo. "If we're just having a chat, I don't know what to talk about."

“You can sing a song too.” Ying Chanxi felt the warmth of Li Luo’s hand, her cheeks flushed slightly, but she still didn’t forget to stop him, “It’s the New Year, what would it look like if Li Luo appeared in your live stream?”

"My mom and I are coming to Li Luo's house to wish him a Happy New Year?" Yan Zhusheng tilted her head and said, "There shouldn't be any problem with that, right?"

"It's better not to do it if you can avoid it." Ying Chanxi pouted. He only wanted to squeeze his sister to make money for the company, but he didn't want the two of them to always be on screen together in the live broadcast room.

"Sister, you're so stingy. You can have it with me too."

"I work behind the scenes and don't appear on camera."

“Li Luo isn’t a behind-the-scenes person.”

"Oh dear, it's fine on ordinary days, but it's best not to during the New Year."

"I have to do it."

"You're looking for a fight, aren't you?"

"Sister, you can't beat me."

As the two sisters talked, they rolled around on the floor again, leaving Li Luo with no time to play with her bound feet.

"Stop fooling around, be quiet, Sister Yu is still sleeping."

Li Luo interrupted their argument and made them both lie on the floor and lift their toes for him to play with.

"I'm going to give you a massage, so don't move."

"It itches~" Ying Chanxi said softly, her cheeks slightly flushed.