I Alone Am Immortal: My Rebirth and Leisurely Cultivation

Chapter 219 Eating soft food

Li Bao and his two companions exchanged glances. Li Bao, the cousin, smiled at his classmate, as if he wanted to say something.

Li Yan had already come out of the house again, carrying a stool in one hand and a small snack basket in the other.

Inside were chicken drumsticks, spicy strips, sunflower seeds, and dried fruit that Jiang Yingzhu had bought.

He sat down next to the three people and casually placed the snack basket on the small table in the center.

"Help yourself to eat whatever you want."

"it is good."

Having learned from past mistakes, the younger cousin who was in elementary school and the older cousin who was in college no longer resorted to any underhanded tactics.

After grabbing a chicken leg to eat, my cousin didn't forget to call out to his classmates.

"When did you get back, brother?"

Li Yan asked idly, showing he had no problem with Li Bao.

Before he was in fifth grade, he hadn't gone to school in the city. Li Bao was in junior high school in the town and would often bring back toys or snacks from the town for him to play with.

However, we didn't keep in touch often after that, and things gradually faded away.

Influenced by his aunt, Li Bao is somewhat shrewd and calculating.

But it won't happen to people with close relationships, which is unlike my aunt.

As for my younger cousin, if I remember correctly, he is only in the third grade of elementary school.

Thinking of this, he did what only wicked adults would do, and looked at Li Qingjie, asking:
"Brother, how are your grades?"

Upon hearing this question, even Li Bao, a pure and innocent freshman, couldn't help but stop eating and look at it.

Li Qingjie paused in his act of gnawing on a chicken leg and said weakly:

"It's alright, my grades aren't much worse than the first place."

"How much is it different?" Li Yan asked bluntly, showing no tact whatsoever.

Li Qingjie glanced at the chicken leg and decided to reveal a little something to this older brother who had played with him when he was a child.

"More than a hundred short."

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As expected, Li Yan turned his attention to his cousin and his high school classmates.

"Uh, shall we play cards or not?"

"Bro, you didn't fail your course, did you?"

My cousin's expression froze. "You still know about failing a course?"

"I know, it was from Douyin (TikTok)."

Li Yan nodded and did not participate in the card game.

I asked my grandparents and they said they went out.

So he got up and went to the small supermarket next door to buy two packs of firecrackers.

After that, Li Bao and the others stopped playing cards.

"No, where did you get so much money?" Li Bao was surprised; he was almost broke after his vacation.

A tray of this stuff costs twenty yuan, which is a bit too much for me. I'd rather buy some food.

"Living off a woman."

"Huh?!" Li Bao and his classmates were surprised, shocked, and couldn't understand.

"What...is this right? Li Yan, don't go down the wrong path!"

"What detour? I didn't take it!" Li Yan blinked.

"You're already living off a woman, isn't that a detour?"

"The gigolo belongs to Jiang Yingzhu."

Li Yan stopped joking, otherwise everyone in the surrounding villages would know he was a kept man.

Who knows what kind of rumors will spread about it.

I told you I was delivering food, and you said I was selling everywhere!
"Huh?" Li Bao was taken aback. "Ah~, I see. Well, that's good."

As he spoke, he even seemed a little envious. "Hey, you're so lucky. Why don't I have a childhood sweetheart?"

Li Yan glanced at him and thought of the two older girls from his village who accompanied him to and from school every day.

"Brother, wake up. You're not lacking, you're just too ugly."

Upon hearing this, Li Bao also thought of the two girls and nodded.

"They are indeed not good-looking."

He had barely finished speaking when he saw Li Yan looking at him with a smile.

Li Bao was immediately drenched in sweat, and his face looked unnatural.

"No, Yan, you're not saying I'm ugly, are you? We're the same grandfather's grandson."

Li Yan didn't speak, but just then, elementary school student Li Qingjie spoke up.

"What does it mean to be a kept man?"

Li Qingjie, who doesn't have a mobile phone and can't use Douyin (TikTok), is unaware of these things.

So Li Yan explained to him, "It means finding a girl around your age to be your playmate and spending her money." "Oh~" Li Qingjie seemed to understand something.

"Is this what it means to be a kept man?!" Li Bao asked in confusion. "Don't set a bad example for the kids."

"He's always playing around and forgets about it as soon as he turns his back." Li Yan didn't care and tossed a firecracker into the bushes.

The four of them went to the riverbank behind the house to set off firecrackers and chatted casually.

Li Yan then realized that his uncle and aunt had not returned yet, nor had his younger uncle.

My aunt came back, and she brought Li Qingjie with her.

My cousin simply had nowhere else to go.

The next day, Jiang Yingzhu came over and first met Li Yan's grandparents.

The two elderly people were quite familiar with her and greeted her with smiles.

"have you eaten?"

"After we eat, you and I will go for a stroll in town."

"Haha, okay, do you have any money on you? I'll give you two hundred." Grandpa said, and walked into the house.

"No need, Grandpa, we have enough. We're leaving now."

"Okay, then you guys go by bike."

Li Yan didn't actually have it; many small shops in the county and towns hadn't yet embraced online payment, and cash transactions were still the mainstream.

However, Li Yan did not carry cash, so the cash he had was all taken from Jiang Yingzhu.

Jiang Yingzhu drove the tricycle that Li Yan bought for her grandfather very fast.

Li Yan sat in the back of the truck, looking at the brown fields, gray houses, white clouds, and blue sky.

A moment of leisure and comfort.

When we arrived at the town's primary school, the gate was open, but the school was already closed.

This primary school is located on the edge of the town and was originally intended to serve the surrounding villages.

However, due to the merger of villages and towns, most of the original areas were no longer inhabited, so the primary school was closed.

The two went inside and looked around before arriving at the office on the second floor of the teaching building.

There's a bell here; most of the school's electronic bells are broken.

Back then, the bell for each class was rung by a teacher in the office next to the bell.

Jiang Yingzhu shook the bell, but no sound came out.

"The school is closed, and the bell is broken."

She sighed and looked at the playground in front of her.

The school's square playground was filled with clover, and she remembered that butterflies and bees would appear in the spring.

After class, she would chase butterflies and catch bees to scare people.

There's a big tree in the middle of the playground where you can cool off.

Now the tree is gone, only a big pit remains.

Jiang Yingzhu felt that this was no longer the school she remembered.

"There's no one here anymore, and this bell has been used for too long."

Li Yan raised his hand and gently flicked the bell.

"Knock again."

"What? You can just tap it?!" Jiang Yingzhu didn't believe it, but she still tapped it.

"Dang~dang~dang~"

Three crisp bell rings rang out, and Jiang Yingzhu blinked, seemingly transported back to the past by the sound, a smile appearing on her face.

"It's really all set, let's go."

Having fulfilled her wish, she didn't dwell on the bell and pulled Li Yan downstairs to leave.

"Not taking the bell with you? It looks like nobody wants it."

"If others don't want it, I don't want it either!"

"ruthless."

"You're the one who should have come back to visit if I hadn't suggested it."

Their voices disappeared into the school building and gradually faded into the distance.

Another week has passed in the blink of an eye, and there is only one day left until Lunar New Year's Eve.

The Li family's children and grandchildren have all returned and gathered in a small two-story house.

Li Yan was tending the fire in the kitchen, holding a fried dough stick in his hand, while the oil in the pan was boiling hot.

Grandma is frying freshly made youtiao (Chinese fried dough sticks), one by one.

My aunt, Uncle Li, and my other aunt were all busy working nearby.

Make New Year's goods such as hemp leaves, fried dough twists, tofu puffs, and pumpkin balls.

Li Yan particularly likes to eat pumpkin balls.

(End of this chapter)