Chapter 17: Life is like a play

Chu Jingyi felt that she was too stupid to smile foolishly because of Lu Li’s praise. She could only turn her head and lead Lu Li to her own front door.

Chu Jingyi, Chu Jingyi, you are the class monitor, you should be a little reserved! The girl kept repeating in her heart.

“Class monitor, your house is so big.” Lu Li admired sincerely. This is not a compliment. The houses in this community are not ordinary residential buildings, but townhouses. In Shenzhou, villas have to pay additional land taxes. Ordinary people can’t even afford to buy houses, so where can they pay land taxes?

Chu Jingyi smiled, her pride was written all over her face. After all, she was a young girl, without any scheming.

As soon as the two arrived at the door, the carved wooden door was opened from the inside, and a middle-aged beautiful woman appeared in front of them. She looked 70% similar to Chu Jingyi, and her figure was also very tall. Perhaps because of her good maintenance, at first glance, I thought she was Chu Jingyi’s sister.

“Mom. This is Lu Li, my new good friend.” The silly goose said this like a primary school student. Lu Li despised her in his heart, “Lu Li, this is my mother.”

“Hello, auntie.” Chu Jingyi’s mother smiled very kindly, her eyes wandering around Lu Li, as if studying what kind of creature he was. After watching for a long time, Chu’s mother smiled more enthusiastically.

“Are you Xiao Lu? You are so pretty. Come in, come in. No need to change shoes. Just come in.”

People in Shenzhou like this kind of courtesy. If Lu Li really stepped on the mirror-like floor of her house with his canvas shoes that cost fifty yuan a pair, he would definitely sneeze more in the future. Lu Li changed into slippers implicitly and shyly, and even checked whether his socks had holes. If conditions allowed, he would even want to lower his head and smell his feet.

He realized that he might be too nervous. Also, it felt weird to wear socks and slippers.

Aunt Chu asked Lu Li and Chu Jingyi to sit in the living room first. Lu Li carefully placed the cheap plastic bag of fruits by the wall and smiled apologetically at Aunt Chu - God can prove that he just wanted to learn from the protagonist in urban novels to “smile neither humble nor arrogant”, but when facing people with much higher social status than himself, this smile lacked some confidence after all.

Aunt Chu then discovered the red plastic bag, and was surprised and happy: “What gifts did you bring, kid? How can we ask you to spend money?” This was said sincerely.

But when you give gifts, what you actually give is not the gift, but the thought. Although Aunt Chu said that you don’t need to spend money, she couldn’t hide the smile on her face, and the look she gave Lu Li was more and more satisfied. Lu Li felt a chill on his back, wondering if he shouldn’t have brought a gift?

The monitor’s house was decorated very well. It’s not that the furniture materials are expensive, but that the aesthetic level is very high, the various colors are reasonably matched, and the position of the furniture implies a sparse and dense rhythm. The designer of this house must be a master, the kind that can’t be hired without eight figures.

Lu Li and Chu Jingyi sat on the sofa in the living room. The two were alone for a while. The silly goose naturally blushed and didn’t know how to start a topic. Lu Li felt like sitting on pins and needles. Why? Because before coming here, he had imagined many situations. The most likely possibility was that his parents didn’t like him. The second possibility was that they were indifferent. He simply examined his daughter’s interpersonal relationships.

But he didn’t expect Aunt Chu to smile like a flower when they met, and praised him for being “really beautiful”. Please, can you praise a man for being beautiful?

“Class monitor, tell me the truth, what do your parents think of me?” Lu Li looked at the dull Chu Jingyi, “Speak up, my good sister, I’m not dating you, why are you blushing?”

“I have a very good impression. Dad asked me about you a few days ago, and asked me how long I have known you.”

“What did you answer?”

“I told you the truth. I said we have known each other for more than a year...”

You call this telling the truth? Lu Li was secretly shocked. He suddenly realized: the class monitor didn’t have a good grasp of the sense of distance. In his opinion, Lu Li, the two were just ordinary classmates for the whole year of high school, or even worse. The only connection was that they took classes in the same classroom and had some minor conflicts. But in the eyes of the silly goose, the two of them actually knew each other ... Yes, they knew each other, literally, but won’t your parents misunderstand you if you say that?

Fortunately, the awkwardness of the two being alone did not last too long. A few minutes later, Aunt Chu came with a plate of desserts and snacks: “Come, Xiao Lu, try Aunt Chu’s cooking skills.”

“Thank you, Auntie.” Lu Li smiled very cleanly, took an unknown dessert and put it in his mouth to chew. He was naturally unable to taste it because he had something on his mind. “Hmm! It’s delicious!”

The least greasy and deliberate way to praise housewives is to praise their cooking and baking skills. Especially for those who have husbands and daughters, praising her for her delicious cooking is more effective than praising her for her beauty. Praising is a great knowledge in life. If life is a game, then praising is a cheat code and a shortcut to life.