Coming out of the game cabin, Lin Jichen stretched out.
After getting the Earth Core Hao Jade, Lin Jichen only needed two more materials: dragon bone lapis lazuli and demon blood stone.
These two materials are one in the south and one in the north, which is quite troublesome.
Gu Qiuxue and Ren Lan agreed to go watch a movie today, so Lin Jichen had half a day to spare.
The four of them simply tidied up and went out under the sunset.
Ren Lan and Gu Qiuxue walked in front hand in hand, and Lin Jichen led Niu Naitang to follow. Maybe he hadn't been out for several days, so Niu Naitang was very excited along the way.
"By the way, Xiao Linzi, the New Year is next month. What are your plans to go home for the New Year?" Ren Lan suddenly turned around and asked.
Lin Jichen replied: "There is no one in my family, except for some distant relatives who don't want to talk to me. Why are we going back? We're celebrating the New Year in Jiangling."
"Really?" Ren Lan was delighted. After all, her home was in Jiangling, and she might be able to hang out with Lin Jichen during the Chinese New Year.
"Sister Qiuxue, what about you? Do you want to go back?"
Gu Qiuxue smiled and shook her head, saying: "I went back a while ago, and this year I will spend the Chinese New Year with Xiaochen in Jiangling."
"Yeah, that's great. We can work together again. I'll come to you when the time comes." Ren Lan clapped her hands.
Lin Jichen smiled and said: "You are overthinking it, are your parents letting you run around during the Chinese New Year?"
"That's right... There are many relatives at home during the Chinese New Year, and we have to eat everywhere... Thinking about it, I may not have time before the fifth day of the Lunar New Year." Ren Lan looked up to the sky and sighed.
Niu Naitang chuckled: "Sister Xiaolan, just stay at home. My aunt said that we won't go back to grandma's house this year and will just spend time in the city. Then my aunt and I will have New Year's Eve dinner at Brother Lin's house~"
"Isn't your father coming to see you?" Ren Lan asked curiously.
Niu Naitang pursed his lips and said: "He won't come to see me. He has gone abroad a long time ago. I don't want to see him. I prefer to be with my aunt. It would be better if he didn't come."
Gu Qiuxue was afraid that Niu Naitang would think of the unhappy past, so she quickly comforted her: "Tangtang, let's have a New Year's Eve dinner together during the Chinese New Year. My sister will cook whatever dishes you want."
"I want to eat so many dishes~"
"Okay, I will definitely do it for you."
"Thank you, Sister Gu~"
Ren Lan joked: "You are a little kid, you can eat so much, be careful of your belly getting bigger."
"Don't worry if you grow up. We can celebrate the New Year together. Sister Ren, you can't. You will definitely be scolded during the New Year, hehe."
"Why do I get scolded during the Chinese New Year?" Ren Lan said unconvinced.
"I've seen it on TV. College students will be asked by their relatives when they go home during the Chinese New Year, how are they studying? When will they graduate and get a job? Do you have a partner? Your relatives will definitely ask you the same question, right?" Niu Naitang said earnestly.
Ren Lan was a little worried. This was indeed a question she would be asked every year when she met her relatives during the Chinese New Year...
"Don't just talk about me, won't you be asked about your grades during the Chinese New Year?" Ren Lan countered.
Niu Naitang spread his hands and said, "Yes, but I am ranked first in the school every year. If you ask, you will give me a red envelope."
Ren Lan had absolutely no way to deal with her, so she could only grumble angrily: "There will come a time when you fail the test, and then you will be miserable, and your aunt will beat you up."
"Haha." Niu Naitang made a face.
"No hehe."
“It’s delicious.”
"..."
The four of them chatted and laughed, went to the third floor of the shopping mall, and found a restaurant to have something to eat first.
The restaurant was very popular and almost full.
A group of old men were sitting at the dining table next to Lin Jichen and the others.
As soon as Niu Naitang saw them, he shouted in surprise: "Hello, grandpas~"
The old men looked at it and smiled in surprise: "It's you, Tangtang."
Niu Naitang nodded with a smile and said, "Grandpas, why haven't you played chess recently?"
The expressions of the old men were slightly stiff, and they smiled awkwardly, so they could only excuse themselves by saying that they were busy recently.
Niu Naitang nodded innocently and did not ask any further questions.
Ren Lan asked curiously: "Tangtang, do you know all these grandpas?"
"Yes, they are both grandfathers in our community. They often play chess together, and they have all played chess with Tangtang." Niu Naitang answered.
"So that's it. No wonder you play chess so well. It turns out it was these teachers and fathers who taught you."
Niu Naitang immediately pouted in dissatisfaction and replied proudly: "No, they are all defeated by me. They have never defeated Tangtang once."
Lin Jichen and Gu Qiuxue suppressed their laughter, and the group of old men next to them couldn't sit still.
It's so embarrassing, Ma Dan...but I can't find a reason to refute it, because what Tangtang said is indeed true...
Fortunately, not long after, the waiter began to serve the food, and Tangtang stopped discussing the chess game and concentrated on serving the rice.
The food in the restaurant tastes average, but the chicken drumstick with vine pepper is pretty good, and several people love it.
"Don't grab it. The last four chicken legs are one for each person." Ren Lan distributed the chicken legs.
Niu Naitang stared at the chicken legs in his bowl, but his thoughts turned to Ren Lan's bowl.
She picked up an unpalatable piece of braised pork and asked Ren Lan: "Sister Ren, do you eat braised pork?"
Ren Lan happened to have braised pork in the bowl, so she refused: "I won't eat it."
"Oh, if you don't want to eat it, I'll eat it." Upon hearing this, Niu Naitang not only put the meat back, but also took the braised pork away from her bowl.
Ren Lan glared at the little one angrily and asked, "Do you eat chicken legs?"
It looked like he was going to take away the chicken legs in Niu Naitang's bowl and retaliate in kind.
Who would have thought that Niu Naitang nodded with a smile: "Eat!"
Then, he stretched out his small chopsticks and took away Ren Lan's chicken legs, and then started eating, completely ignoring Ren Lan's dull eyes.
Ren Lan was so angry that she slapped the table and said: "Niu! Nai! Tang!"
Niu Naitang raised his head, biting a chicken drumstick in his mouth, and holding another in his hand, with bulging cheeks and an innocent look on his face.
"You said it was food. I thought you were going to give me the chicken drumsticks."
Ren Lan pointed angrily at the bowl with only white rice left and said, "Then what should I eat?"
Niu Naitang handed over the chicken leg that was almost full of bones and asked cautiously: "Can you eat it?"
Ren Lan: "...."
Phew...hahaha...
Lin Jichen and Gu Qiuxue, who were sitting opposite them, laughed unkindly.
Even the elders at the table next to me were overjoyed.
Although several old men together cannot make up a complete set of teeth, it does not prevent them from smiling happily.
Fortunately, in the end, Niu Naitang was forced to give the chicken drumstick back to Ren Lan due to her "power". Of course, she took two more bites.
After eating, the four of them went to the cinema on the fifth floor, picked up tickets and watched the movie. They also walked around the mall and bought some snacks and fruits, and finally got home after nine o'clock.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Lin Jichen always felt that someone was following him on the way back, but when he looked back, he found nothing unusual.
He could only attribute it to himself being too sensitive and no longer doubted it.
As soon as he left, in the far corner, a man holding a SLR camera walked out of the dark alley. He looked around, and then quickly slipped away.