I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 189. Xia Xiaoxiao's E-sports Dream

After taking Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi home, it was completely dark when they returned to the Lotus Courtyard.

The aroma of cooking from every household wafted through the air, creating a familiar fragrance.

The few stray dogs in the yard were curled up and dozing off on the ground, looking listless. They were already over ten years old, and it was hard to tell if they could hold on until the children finished junior high school.

Not far from where the dogs were napping, there was a brand-new BMW X3 parked. It was Xu Aiguo's recently purchased car, with a price of around 43 yuan.

Xu Qingfan originally wanted to suggest that his parents get a Range Rover so that he could experience being a spoiled rich kid. However, after seeing on Autohome that the Range Rover cost one or two million yuan, the two immediately gave him a tap on the head.

Actually, the most important thing is that in the early 2000s, not many ordinary families knew the Land Rover brand. Why would someone spend one or two million to buy a car and then have to speak up for it themselves?
On the contrary, the BMW logo, just by being there, tells people that you're getting a bit cocky, daring to buy a luxury car!
The couple's spending habits are quite sound. The Xu family currently has savings of a little over 4.5 million yuan, and spending one-tenth of that on a car is just right.

The three of them went back to the third floor together. Xia Xiaoxiao's door was closed, but the living room light was on. Without asking, Lin Jing must have gone next door to cook.

"Hello, uncle."

Xu Aiguo was watching TV with his legs crossed in the living room. He nodded to the three of them when they returned.

"Mom, is dinner ready?" Xu Qingfan shouted into the kitchen after taking off his shoes.

"You're back! Go wash your hands, dinner's almost ready!" Yao Jinping said with a smile as she brought out the freshly stir-fried braised duck with winter melon and perilla.

The smiles were naturally for Xia Xiaoxiao and Wu Lingyu. When it was Xu Qingfan's turn, Yao's mother began to scold, "All you do is shout nonsense all day long. The New Year is almost here. Remember to buy red paper and write couplets tomorrow!"

"Auntie, let me help you." Xu Qingfan ignored his mother's nagging and ran over to help Lin Jing when she came out with the dishes.

"Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Fan," Lin Jing said with a smile after wiping her hands on her apron.

When the children came home from school, the two families had been having a meal together for a long time. After serving the last salted egg and mustard green soup, dinner began quickly.

"Dad, why did you park your car downstairs? Aren't you afraid someone will scratch it?" Xu Qingfan asked casually during the meal.

"It can't be that bad, there are security cameras downstairs, and I'll be driving it again later." Xu Aiguo was still excited about the car, which he had just picked up and only had a temporary license plate. He was definitely going to go for a drive again that night.

He seemed to have thought of something and looked at Wu Lingyu, saying, "Xiaoyu, are you going home tomorrow? I can give you a ride home on my way!"

"Oh? Thank you, Uncle!"

"Haha, it's okay. It's good to drive a new car during the break-in period anyway."

"What's going on? Didn't you just attend the graduation ceremony? Why didn't anyone report your grades?" Yao Jinping asked, only then remembering that the group had gone to school that morning for the end-of-term ceremony.

"What's there to say? It's either first or second!" Xu Qingfan said smugly.

"Xiao Fan got first place this time?" Lin Jing asked with a smile.

"Yes, yes, Fan is first in the grade, only losing points in Chinese. Xiaoxiao and I are tied for second, Yiyi is fourth, Ruanwen is fifth, and Wanning is sixth!" Wu Lingyu reported their achievements to the adults like beans spilling from a bamboo tube.

"Wow, that's amazing! Yu'er and Xiaoxiao, keep up the good work and try to beat this brat next time!" After saying that, Yao Jinping put a chicken leg on each of their plates and said with a smile, "Auntie will reward you with a chicken leg each!"

"Thank you, aunt!"

Xu Qingfan pouted, ladled some soup to mix with rice, and finished his bowl of rice in a few bites. "I'm full, I'm going to take a shower!"

After taking a shower and coming out of the bathroom, I found the dinner party in the living room had already ended, and the place was empty.

Lin Jing and Yao Jinping were washing dishes in the kitchen; Xu Aiguo had probably gone out to test drive the car.

He returned to his room, where Wu Lingyu and Xia Xiaoxiao were already playing on the computer.

"What are you doing?" Xu Qingfan placed his hands on Wu Lingyu's shoulders and gently massaged her.

"Don't believe the searches on Baidu. They can even make a cough sound like a terminal illness," Xu Qingfan warned, seeing the other person browsing content related to uremia.

"Okay, I'll take a look." Wu Lingyu turned around and smiled at him. The girl actually just wanted to find out if there were any new medical technology advancements abroad.

"All you ever do is race cars, you'll turn into a four-eyed girl sooner or later!" He then put his hands on Xia Xiaoxiao's body and massaged her.

Xia Xiaoxiao shuddered, but luckily the map she was playing on was Chinatown, and the vehicles were flying in the air, so she didn't make a mistake.

She didn't speak, quietly enjoying Xu Qingfan's massage service. After returning to the settlement page, the girl clicked on the game backpack and the store in a daze.

"Brother Fan, do you want to play?" Wu Lingyu was using his laptop and got up to give up her seat.

Xu Qingfan pressed her down again and said, "You play, I'll watch you play."

"Okay!" Wu Lingyu typed 4399 into her browser, clicked on it, and found and opened Oobi Island on the homepage.

Compared to competitive online games, the girl prefers this kind of simulation game that's like playing house. When she was a little over three years old, her father gave her a teddy bear, but she lost it when they moved. Whenever she plays this game, Wu Lingyu always thinks of the teddy bear she lost.

The Oobi Island game's storyline is currently in the Nian Beast arc, and the battle between Oobi and the Nian Beast can be considered one of the earliest turn-based card games. There's also a game where you move Oobi to dodge firecrackers and grab red envelopes. Xu Qingfan watched Wu Lingyu play it and was filled with nostalgia.

"I remember the Pokémon egg was on the beach," Xu Qingfan reminded Wu Lingyu, who was searching the entire map for clues about the Pokémon egg.

"Brother Fan, you play too?" She turned around and looked at Xu Qingfan, asking in surprise.

"I heard it from someone online, see if it's true." Xu Qingfan smiled helplessly. He actually discovered this game by accident during a computer class in his first year of junior high school in his previous life.

"It really is there!" After opening the map and arriving at Summer Beach, Wu Lingyu indeed found the elf egg that Fengwa had hidden there.

"Now you can just go home and incubate the eggs. Apply the compress for five minutes every day, and they will hatch in three consecutive days."

Wu Lingyu glanced back at Xu Qingfan again, thinking: He knows so much, yet Brother Fan still says he didn't play!
"I heard it from someone on Tieba, why are you looking at me!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Xu Qingfan, is there a racing god competition here? Can I participate?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked Xu Qingfan after opening the official website of the racing game event.

"What are you even participating in? Just play games for fun. Do you really want to be an e-sports player?" Xu Qingfan slapped the girl on the head with his hand in annoyance.

"So what if he's an esports player? SKY was even inducted into the WCG Hall of Fame. He's no worse than those athletes who run or swim!" Xia Xiaoxiao turned around and glared at her, embarrassed and annoyed.

"Please, you've misunderstood me!" Xu Qingfan gave him a speechless look. "I'm not saying esports players are bad, I mean you, you're no good!"

"Xu Qingfan!!!" Xia Xiaoxiao got up and was about to pounce on her to bite her.

She's incredibly skilled, isn't she? She only played World of Warcraft for a week and completely crushed Xu Qingfan, who had played it for seven or eight years in his previous life. She also utterly annihilated him in Bubble Fighter and QQ Speed.

"Are you a dog?!" Xu Qingfan cursed, rubbing his shoulder where she had just bitten him.

"Hmph~" Xia Xiaoxiao revealed her usual arrogant expression.

"Esports players work very hard, and besides, your current performance in QQ Speed ​​isn't up to professional standards," Xu Qingfan rolled his eyes at her and said irritably.

"That's because I didn't practice seriously!" Xia Xiaoxiao clearly had an inexplicable confidence in her gaming talent.

"QQ Speed ​​is a bad project. Who knows, no one will play it in two years. When it loses its popularity, you won't even be able to get into high school and will end up as a factory worker." Xu Qingfan said this while thinking of a certain popular competitive game from his previous life.

[Being an e-sports player wouldn't be bad.] Xu Qingfan thought to himself, as long as Xia Xiaoxiao doesn't go abroad to study, everything will be fine.

If the girl is also interested in League of Legends or DOTA2, she could become a professional player. At most, you could buy a team to support her and profit from the short video era. Creating a star would be an easy thing.

"You're the one who works in a factory, and why couldn't I pass the high school entrance exam!" Xia Xiaoxiao looked at him with the expression of a wronged wife.

Wu Lingyu forgot to move the mouse she was using to control Little Obby, remaining a mere spectator the whole time.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to say that being an esports player is very hard work. You have to spend more than ten hours a day in front of the computer, running the same map over and over again." Xu Qingfan apologized for his earlier remarks to the girl.

"I was just saying it casually, who told you to say I'm no good?" Seeing that Xu Qingfan had apologized, Xia Xiaoxiao gave him a way out, and her voice grew softer and softer.

After the gossip subsided, Wu Lingyu immediately stepped in to act as a mediator: "Alright, maybe Xiaoxiao will really become a very, very good e-sports player in the future, and then Fan-ge will have to apologize!"

"Hmph~ Of course!" Xia Xiaoxiao said proudly.

Xu Qingfan smiled and shook his head: "I'd kneel on a keyboard if that day ever comes!"

"You said it, Xiaoyu, you have to be my witness!" Xia Xiaoxiao pointed at Xu Qingfan with her index finger and thumb, just like a beautiful girl in an anime.

"Ok!"

The two girls ignored Xu Qingfan and began to chat amicably.

"Xiaoyu, you haven't played the game in a long time, have you? Log in and open some crabs, maybe you can get a permanent Renault!"

"Really? Which one is the hairy crab?"

"This one, buy the cheapest one! Ah!!!"

"Wow!"

Xia Xiaoxiao and Wu Lingyu exclaimed in surprise at the same time, because the girl's game account had actually obtained a permanent A-class car, the Renault.

"Xu Qingfan, come quick!!!" Xia Xiaoxiao immediately took a screenshot and sent it to the group chat, and the number of people exclaiming in surprise instantly increased from two to five.

Wu Lingyu didn't actually like playing QQ Speed ​​at all, but seeing everyone happy because she got a permanent A-class car made her happy too, and she gradually started to like the game.

The ultimate gaming experience has always been about having friends who will stay with you throughout the long journey of time.

(End of this chapter)