Chapter 87 Invitation Letter

The sky was dark, and a cold wind blew. The snowflakes piled on the branches fell one after another, and the tassels of the small lanterns danced in the wind. The

red lacquered door had a crack, and the door knocker was rusted by the erosion of wind and rain, revealing the vicissitudes and heaviness of the years.

This is a small courtyard, which is Lin Yu's original residence. Not only the current tenants live in it, but the vacant main house and east wing have also welcomed new guests. An

old couplet was hung on the lintel. Lin Yu stood under the old courtyard wall and was about to reach out to knock on the door knocker when a familiar voice came from behind him.

"Lin Yu? Why are you here?"

He turned around and saw that it was Tang Yichao and the other two who were carrying a lot of things.

"Someone asked me to deliver something to you." Lin Yu took his hand back, looked at Tang Yichao who opened the door, and asked, "Are you used to living here?"

Tang Yichao's expression changed several times, and finally, he said bitterly, "Not very used to it."

Lin Yu smiled and patted Tang Yichao on the shoulder: "Young man from the south, you will get used to it after living here for a few days."

"That's not necessary, the boss has found a new house and will move out tomorrow morning." Tang Yichao turned his face away, pretending not to see the curious look from the back house.

Lin Yu was surprised: "It seems that the large residences in the base can no longer be sold."

"Besides, you... are not locals, so you should not be able to buy it."

You know, he still spent some effort to barely rent the main house and the east wing of this small courtyard.

Tang Yichao shrugged: "You go ask our boss, I don't know either."

Lin Yu had just stepped into the inner courtyard when the fragrance hit his nose, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, and his saliva rolled into his stomach along with the unfinished words. He asked: "Which survivor is this? The cooking smells so good?"

Xu Huili knocked on the door, and Long Yilan's hand stretched out: "You came back so late? I thought you were taken away by ghosts!"

Jixue handed the things over and said helplessly again: "Sister Alan, there are no ghosts in this world."

"Oh, okay." Long Yilan followed suit and said again, "You came back so late? I thought you were taken away by zombies!"

Tang Yichao: "..."

Chu Wanyue who followed over: "..."

Forget it, as long as Alan is happy.

"Captain Lin? What brings you here?"

Upon hearing the noise, Chu Wanyue opened the door, and the fragrance became stronger.

Lin Yu scratched his head. He wanted to talk about business, but his mind was distracted by the fragrance.

"What delicious food are you making? It smells so good." He followed in.

The door closed, blocking the frequent glances from the yard.

This is the disadvantage of sharing a house in a courtyard house. No matter what you do, someone will watch you, and the privacy is not as good as that of a single villa.

"It took you two hours to buy a glutinous rice dumpling." Gu Bingchen sat on the chair. As Tang Yichao expected, he was overwhelmed by the strangeness of the atmosphere as soon as he entered the door. "I almost thought you were in a pit. Look at what pit it was. You haven't climbed out after two hours."

Tang Yichao put his hands on his waist and vividly recounted everything that happened in the afternoon. Instead of praise, he received another round of strangeness.

"I asked you to be low-key. Did I mean you should be cowardly?"

Gu Bingchen stood up, poked Tang Yichao's forehead with his slender fingers, and said in a cold voice: "You didn't learn anything I taught you a while ago."

"I don't want to cause trouble for you." Tang Yichao lowered his head, feeling a little aggrieved.

Jiang Yunqi patted the back of Gu Bingchen's hand, frowned, and told him to go to the kitchen and busy himself, and not to waste time on this work that would destroy his young mind.

"Don't listen to his nonsense. Are you hurt?" Jiang Yunqi handed over a candied haws. "Someone was selling at the door just now. I bought a few to try."

Tang Yichao happily unwrapped the candy wrapper on the candied haws, took a bite, his almond eyes sparkled, and he said vaguely, "Great."

"It's not our turn to get hurt." Xu Huili supplemented on the side, "Don't look at him as a fool at ordinary times. When he really encounters something, he can still hold on."

Chu Wanyue listened to Xu Huili's narration of Tang Yichao's tricks, chuckled, and laughed: "White and black, you will eat glutinous rice balls with black sesame filling tonight."

Tang Yichao wailed: "No, I like peanut filling!"

"Captain Lin,

please sit here and have some tea." Xie Er came out of the kitchen, poured a pot of hot tea, and greeted the guests.

Lin Yu hurriedly thanked him.

Xie Er noticed that he was looking towards the kitchen and smiled gently: "Today is the winter solstice. Bingchen said that we would like to eat mutton hotpot. Captain Lin, do you want to stay for dinner?"

"No need. Ape cooked dinner for me at home." Lin Yu coughed twice and retracted his gaze. "I haven't asked yet. I heard from Tang Yichao that you found a new house to live in?"

"Yes, we found a two-story farmhouse not far from here."

Lin Yu took a sip of hot tea, still wondering: "How did you find the house?"

"Money makes the world go round. Of course, it's for the crystal core." Gu Bingchen strolled out of the kitchen with a bowl of cooked glutinous rice balls in his hand. The aroma of hotpot was mixed with a hint of the sweet fragrance of peanuts. "Try it?"

"Is this for me?" Lin Yu was surprised. He bit into the round glutinous rice ball and the peanut filling came out, soft, glutinous and sweet. This was his first time eating glutinous rice balls. "It's delicious! I'll send you some dumplings later. Ape made a lot of dumplings at home."

"But why do you want to move away? Isn't this place good?" He almost bit his tongue while chewing the hot glutinous rice ball.

Gu Hua sighed and looked up and down at the decoration of the house: "This courtyard is actually quite good, but the people are a bit mixed, it's not suitable for us."

Lin Yu thought about the open and covert gazes on the way back, which really made him feel uncomfortable, so he nodded with some empathy: "I didn't think it through. In fact, at the beginning, I wanted to take you to live in the apartment for people with special abilities."

Tang Yizhao tilted his head: "Apartment for people with special abilities?"

"Yes, the people living in the apartment are all people with special abilities or their families. In the past half month, all the people with special abilities from other places have been arranged to live there." At this point, Lin Yu put down the bowl, his eyes dimmed, "I sent someone to inquire, and it's almost full. The few remaining rooms are all separated and not suitable for you to live in."

"You look like the apartment isn't very good either?" Long Yilan was quick to notice the change in Lin Yu's expression.

Lin Yu: "Well, the attributes of the superpowers in the apartment are very complicated. They may be from one faction in the last second, and from another faction in the next second."

Xu Huili continued: "They are just wallflowers."

"That's not a bad way to understand it." Lin Yu touched his stubbled chin, "In short, there are many things going on inside, so it's best not to get involved."

Chu Wanyue turned on the switch of the incandescent light in the room. For a moment, it was a little dazzling. Lin Yu looked at the lantern that was lit outside the window, and remembered the purpose of this trip. He took out three gilded envelopes from the briefcase he had been carrying.

"What is this?" Tang Yichao asked.

"Invitation letter." Lin Yu opened one of the envelopes, and a gold-plated card fell out. "The Superpower Exchange Association will be held in two days. The forum has specially arranged a dinner party, called the promotion of relations."

Jiang Yunqi picked up the invitation letter, which had the time and place, as well as the names of the people to be invited, written in beautiful and neat cursive script.

"What a coincidence, this one is yours." Lin Yu came over to take a look, and handed the other two envelopes to Gu Bingchen and Gu Hua respectively.

Long Yilan: "Only three?"

Lin Yu scratched his head awkwardly: "I don't know, anyway, only two were given."

"It's getting late, I should go back to eat. I've disturbed you for too long. You should go to eat early too." He stood up, straightened his sleeves, put on a fluffy wool hat, opened the door, paused before stepping over the threshold, turned around, and reminded, "If conditions permit, I suggest you dress more formally."

Gu Bingchen did not open his own envelope. Instead, he was curious about Jiang Yunqi's invitation letter. He rubbed Jiang Yunqi's name lightly with his fingertips. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Thank you, and have a happy winter solstice."

Lin Yu waved at the gate of the courtyard to indicate that he heard him.

On a cold winter night, the north wind was howling outside, the lights in the house were soft, and the steaming hot pot was filled with the aroma of various ingredients. Tang Yichao picked up a potato, and his teeth gently ground the soft potato, his mouth was full of the sweetness of potato. He took a sip of drink and asked, "Boss, are you going to that dinner?"

Gu Bingchen didn't eat much, he was busy picking up food for Jiang Yunqi, his tone was calm: "Go, why not? I want to see what their purpose is."

Gu Hua's cheeks were lightly red from the heat, and she also smiled "I guess my fellow apprentices are also on the invitation list. It's okay to go and have a look, but I'll have to trouble you to move."

Chu Wanyue scooped a spoonful of boiling soup and said in a clear voice, "It's not a problem. I'll only stay for two or three days. There's not much stuff, and there's space for Alan and Brother Xie. It won't take much effort."

Gu Bingchen picked up a chicken leg and put it in Tang Yichao's bowl. Under his surprised eyes, he said calmly, "Well done, this is a reward for you."

Tang Yichao took a bite of the chicken leg. He knew that this was Gu Bingchen's compliment to him.

Woohoo, the chicken leg is so delicious! Oh, oh

, oh, the boss praised him!

The red plum blossoms burst out with a few bright red spots in the silver-clad world. The burning candles were swaying in the wind. An elderly man, leaning on a cane, walked slowly through the long pavilion corridor, followed closely by a steady step.

"Have the invitations been sent out?" The old man lowered his head to look at the road and coughed softly.

The person behind him immediately put a thick cloak on him.

"Lin Yu went to send it personally." The man's voice was hoarse and unpleasant, as if his vocal cords had been injured.

The old man smiled slightly: "That's good, I'm relieved that you two can do it."

"Those two people can only be friends, not enemies."

"I know."

"The world is going to change."

A heavy and worried sigh was blown away in the cold wind.