Chen Xu looked at Luo Xiyun with some surprise. He didn't expect that she would ask him to make a choice so directly. Just as he was about to speak, his cell phone rang. He picked up the phone, "Hello, yes, OK, we'll be out right away."

Then he hung up the phone and said, "The designated driver is here."

She picked up her handbag and said, "Let's go."

When the two walked out of the hotel gate, they saw a man in his thirties riding a small electric bike parked on the side of the road. They walked up to him and asked, and found out that it was the designated driver they had arranged.

After getting in the car, Chen Xu saw that she was looking out the window and said, "I'll think about that and give you a reply after the Spring Festival."

"Yeah." She didn't turn her head, but just responded.

There was a red light ahead, and the designated driver glanced at the rearview mirror with some surprise, thinking the atmosphere was a bit weird. However, he was not familiar with the person, so he did not say much.

After passing the red light, he concentrated on driving, not daring to be distracted at all. It would be troublesome if such an expensive car had an accident.

Luo Xiyun's home was relatively close, so he sent her home first, and then sent Chen Xu back, and the car was also parked at his place. To avoid any accidents, he parked the car in a nearby parking lot.

When he returned to his rented house, Chen Xu felt it necessary to move. After a little thought, he decided to move after the Spring Festival when he was less busy.

As for this Spring Festival holiday, there is no hope.

The company's online channels have just been opened. Even during the Spring Festival, major shopping platforms stopped operating and express delivery companies also closed down. But this is the first year. To be on the safe side, the company must have enough important people to watch over it. The formalism must be done. This person is him, who was just decided a few days ago.

It’s only a few days away from New Year’s Eve.

He quickly put these trivial matters aside, went to the bathroom to take a shower, and after coming out, started to work.

To be honest, after entering this dream, his life can be said to be very hard, and he spent most of his time working. Compared with reality, it was a completely different lifestyle. However, he didn't feel it was hard.

He had experienced tougher times in the dream game, so this was really nothing.

In fact, in reality, he has virtual dream equipment and has completed the initial accumulation. He doesn't have to put so much energy into work. He just needs to follow the steps and has plenty of free time.

But that doesn’t work here, as he is pressed for time and has a low starting point, so naturally he has to spend most of his time on the early stages of career preparation.

It's no wonder that this kind of life is a different experience for him. Without virtual dream equipment, he always has a sense of crisis in his heart - or a sense of powerlessness, a sense of powerlessness that he cannot control the development of events.

Every time he made a decision, he would think it over carefully so as not to affect the plan. It had been a long time since he had felt this nervous. It was really a little exciting.

…………

Time flies and it is already New Year's Eve.

Chen Xu came to the company as usual. Today, everyone was present, although in fact, the online mall stopped operating yesterday. Even if someone placed an order, it would not be shipped until after the New Year. Most people actually had nothing to do, and came to the company today just for the sake of formality.

Liu Kun was quite humane. In the afternoon, he let everyone go home early. Many people had to rush back to their hometowns. Those who bought tickets were fine. Those who drove home by themselves could leave earlier to avoid traffic jams.

Luo Xiyun left, she was going back to her grandmother's house for the New Year's Eve dinner. Liu Kun also left, and most of the employees left, leaving only Chen Xu and a few people who lived in the local area, who stayed until the end of the get off work day.

Chen Xu was the last one to leave the company and locked the door. When he walked out of the building, he said hello to the security guard and thought about where to go for dinner.

On New Year's Eve, it's OK if you can't go home to have New Year's Eve dinner with your parents, but at least you should eat better. Life still needs some sense of ritual.

He walked to the side of the road, scanned a shared electric car, went straight to a nearby supermarket, and bought a lot of vegetables.

After returning to the rental house, he first turned on the computer and played the live TV, deliberately turning up the volume. Listening to the sound on TV, he went to the kitchen to start cooking.

It's pitiful to go to a restaurant alone to eat New Year's Eve dinner. It's better to cook at home.

He hasn't cooked for a while. In essence, he is a bit lazy. Although he has learned cooking skills, he usually doesn't cook if he can avoid it. It's the same when he is with Xiyun and the others. He only shows off his cooking skills occasionally.

There are no decent kitchen utensils in the rented house. There is only an electric rice cooker, an induction cooker, and a very small frying pan. I can't cook any hard dishes.

When he was cooking the last dish, the phone on the table suddenly rang. It was a video call from his mother. He answered the call and asked, "Mom, have you eaten yet?"

In the video, my mother said, "I have eaten. How about you? Have you eaten?"

"It's cooking." He pointed the camera at the dishes that were already cooked and the food that was being fried in the pan. Then he placed the phone against the wall and stir-fried the dishes to prevent them from getting burnt.

Mom asked, "How do I make it myself?"

"It's New Year's Day, I don't want to eat out."

"If I had known earlier, your father and I would have come to your place."

"Aren't you and dad busy too? It's okay, you can go back on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month anyway." He said just then, and heard a knock on the door outside, which was a bit strange. Why would someone knock on the door at this time?

"Someone's knocking on the door. I'll go open it." He said to his mother, turned off the fire, wiped his hands, and went outside to open the door.

When the door opened, he was a little surprised, "Why is it you?"

Standing outside the door was Yang Jinxia, ​​who was wearing a red dress. She said, "I just happened to be passing by here, so I came up to take a look. What, you don't welcome me?"

"Of course you're welcome." Chen Xu smiled. She always did things unexpectedly. She opened the door and said, "Come in."

Yang Jinxia walked in, looked around the room, and said, "It's quite clean. Have you eaten yet?"

"I'm working on it." Chen Xu pulled out the chair in front of the computer desk and said, "Sit down first. I still have some food to cook."

She sat on a chair, looking at the dishes on the low square table, a pot of boiled chicken, a fried fish, and a meatball soup, and said, "It looks good."

Chen Xu entered the kitchen, and his mother in the video on her cell phone asked curiously, "Who is it? It sounds like a woman."

"A friend of mine, Mom. I'll call you back when I'm done eating."

Chen Xu said as he hung up the phone. Then he took the food out of the pot and put it on the table. He asked, "Have you eaten it?"

"not yet."

"Or else, together."

(End of this chapter)