Chapter 319

Jin Li was dragged by Xi Sister Meng Ze to take many photos, and when she was bold, she even dared to pull down her mask to take them.

There were also tourists at Yixian Temple, but not many.

Because the scenery was beautiful, many people were taking photos, and Jin Li and Xi Sister Meng Ze's behavior was just like that of ordinary, normal tourists.

Their behavior was ordinary, their clothing was ordinary, and they were all ordinary while mixing in the crowd.

Jin Li glanced at Xi Sister Meng Ze, and this glance was very obvious, immediately captured by Meng Meng.

Xi Sister Meng Ze asked: "What are you thinking about?"

Jin Li said: "I feel that you are much more at ease when you go out than I am. I always look around, worried about being recognized, but you don't worry at all; you are much more relaxed and natural than I am."

Xi Sister Meng Ze said "Pfft," held her head high, and said somewhat proudly: "When you go out, you rely on having a thick skin!"

Jin Li laughed.

Xi Sister Meng Ze paid attention to her surroundings this time, looked left and right, and seeing that there was no one nearby, she specifically shared her experience with Jin Li.

"When I traveled before, I was actually recognized by fans, but I wasn't wearing makeup, so the fans were also hesitant and asked if I was Xi Sister Meng Ze.

I said I wasn't, that I just looked a bit like her, and I smiled and told her that celebrities don't go out so simply. The fan also thought that made sense, apologized to me, and left."

Jin Li gave her a thumbs up in admiration: "Why didn't I realize you were such a social butterfly before? That's amazing."

After Xi Sister Meng Ze finished taking photos and vented her remaining energy, she honestly went to pay her respects with Jin Li.

Jin Li specifically waited until the evening to go, as there weren't as many people in the evening.

She glanced at her phone and found that Gu Cheng had sent two more messages afterward, but then retracted them.

Jin Li sent a 【?】 over.

She looked at Gu Cheng's previous reply, and for some reason, she seemed to smell a faint sourness.

Jin Li couldn't help but smile lightly. Emmm, playing with men... men in reality are more fun to play with.

Before going to pay her respects, Jin Li asked Xi Sister Meng Ze: "How are things going with you and Yan Yan Xingdong?"

Xi Sister Meng Ze sat with her on the bluestone steps, occasionally slapping her legs to scare away mosquitoes, flipping through WeChat chats casually, and said nonchalantly: "It's okay, he's a good person."

Jin Li felt that this statement was somewhat familiar; she seemed to have often said this about Gu Cheng before.

But Jin Li understood Xi Sister Meng Ze very well, because she felt that Gu Cheng was also a very, very good person.

Jin Li thought for a moment and said: "Do you think that game is fun?"

Xi Sister Meng Ze covered her mouth and giggled: "It's quite fun. I especially like a warm man in it; he will accompany me to do anything I like to do. I even specifically topped up thousands of diamonds for him, just to be able to draw his card."

Jin Li: "Then in real life, isn't there such a warm man accompanying you?"

Xi Sister Meng Ze choked on her words, her eyes darting around, and a blush flashed across her face, obviously thinking of something.

"W-what?" she asked stammeringly, "Why are you suddenly asking this?"

Jin Li had just asked casually, but hearing Xi Sister Meng Ze's expression, she couldn't help but become interested.

"Just asking casually. So, is there really such a warm man in real life? Who is it? Can I know?"

She blinked at Xi Sister Meng Ze, blinked again, and blinked a third time, her expression innocent, simple, and naive.

Xi Sister Meng Ze felt uncomfortable being looked at by her and quickly turned her head away, "N-not telling you. What about you? Haven't you met a warm man?"

Facing Xi Sister Meng Ze's shyness, Jin Li was much more frank and generous, "Yes, I've also met very good people and have been keeping in touch with him."

I don't know if it was because she was in the Daoist temple, but Jin Li was very relaxed. In this leisurely and comfortable state, she said things she wouldn't usually say.

"I think paper characters aren't fun; you can see them but can't touch them, and you have to spend money on them. It's better to play with men in reality; they can also provide you with pleasant emotional value every day."

Xi Sister Meng Ze:???

"P-play with men?" she said stammeringly.

Jin Li nodded as if it were a serious matter, "I don't know which senior I heard a sentence from: when you're in a bad mood, play with men; the more you play, the better your mood gets."

"Ah?" Xi Sister Meng Ze's brain was dizzy.

She thought confusedly, how did this restricted-level topic unfold?

Jin Li was just saying it; she didn't intend to discuss it in detail with Xi Sister Meng Ze. After all, she was just a rookie stuck in the novice village—

Only knowing how to talk but not daring to do, having the heart of a thief but not the courage.

When there were fewer people in the Daoist temple, Jin Li dragged Xi Sister Meng Ze to pay her respects.

The deity enshrined in the main hall of Yixian Temple is the Immortal of the South Pole. He is the Old Longevity Star in ancient myths and legends, the eldest disciple under the seat of the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Lord, also known as the "South Pole True Lord, Long-Life Great Emperor, Jade Purity True King," etc.

This deity's duty is to preside over longevity, so he is also called the "Longevity Star" or "Old Man Star."

In the "God Genealogy" of Daoism, the highest positions are the "Three Pure Ones and Four Royals." The "South Pole Long-Life Great Emperor," one of the "Four Royals," is the prototype of the "Immortal of the South Pole."

From the perspective of folk belief, the "Immortal of the South Pole" is the "Longevity Star" among the "Three Stars of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity," representing "longevity."

Jin Li had also paid respects to deities related to longevity before; that time she paid respects to Magu.

This time, paying respects to the Immortal of the South Pole was because she drew a lot; there were several candidates in the lot tube, and this one was drawn in the end.

Perhaps even God felt that she urgently needed to use a deity with powerful longevity to replenish some divine power so as to keep her body strong.

Stepping into the main hall and looking up, the deity placed in the center was a white-haired elder with a bulging forehead, holding a cane in one hand and a longevity peach in the other, accompanied by various animals and plants implying longevity.

Jin Li paid her respects solemnly and respectfully. Stepping out of the Daoist temple gate, she felt a stream of divine power slowly pouring into her body.

This power was very vast and gentle, as comfortable as soaking in a hot spring. Jin Li couldn't help but let out a soft sigh; the fatigue of many days was relieved, and she felt her body had been repaired again.

Previously, running errands for nearly two months in a row made her feel exhausted, but after today, her endurance should be able to extend to three months.

Jin Li didn't know if this was good or bad; as her body gradually got better, she also gradually became busier and more tired than before.

After paying her respects, Jin Li returned to the apartment with Xi Sister Meng Ze. Meng Meng's apartment wasn't together with Jin Li's, so she simply came over to stay.

What the two didn't know was that they were photographed when they went to pay respects to the deity. At first, it didn't rush to the hot search, but fermented on the short video platform first.

Netizens teased one after another:

【To be recognized even when disguised like this, confirmed by the eyes, the blogger is definitely a loyal fan of Pink Girls.】

【It's over, I've never heard that Meng Meng likes to go to Daoist temples to pay respects. She must have been infected by Jin Li! Scared ing, always worried that these two will stop asking about the mundane world from now on.】

【You don't need to worry about Meng Meng; Meng Meng is still very obsessed with the human world and runs off to travel from time to time. You'd better worry about Jin Li. Why did she go to the Daoist temple as soon as she finished filming? I think she is more active in running to Daoist temples than in business!】

After netizens discussed it more on the short video, #Jin Li and Xi Sister Meng Ze visit Daoist temple together# rushed into the top thirty of the blog hot search list, hanging shallowly on the hot search.

After hanging on the hot search, netizens began to miss Pink Girls again.

Ji Ji Qinglian, Xi Sister Meng Ze, and Qi Guan Mingzhu had more interactions with Jin Li, only Yu Lina and Gong Zitong didn't appear together much.

But this is actually not strange. It is too difficult for celebrities in the entertainment industry to put their errands together. Last year, Xi Sister Meng Ze and Qi Guan Mingzhu were both selected as first-tier artists, and the errands of first-tier artists could still overlap at the end of the year.

But Yu Lina and Gong Zitong are second-tier; one is active in youth idol dramas, and the other is active in the company's self-made adventure variety shows, rarely receiving brand activities.

If there are artists who can meet frequently, netizens should worry instead.

Meeting frequently is very likely the result of careful design.

In the evening, Jin Li started a live broadcast and entered the mode of doing practice problems.

Some netizens only cared about playing during the summer vacation and didn't insist on studying together. Now that they went in to take a look, they all felt very surprised.

【Is Jin Li's progress too fast? She has already started learning the content of the third year of high school. Is this a comprehensive entry into the third year of high school era?】

【Because she only learns science subjects and not liberal arts subjects, her learning speed is very fast, but it is not recommended for students to follow her, because this easily leads to partiality in subjects (dog head).】

【I have always been curious about how Jin Li works while studying. I tried to persist for two months, but I only felt very tired, so tired that I felt sleepy as soon as I saw books after work.】

【Same +1, work is so tiring, how did Jin Li manage to work while studying?】

【In the past, my sleep quality was not good. I could stay up late until the early morning playing with my phone after work. During the few months I followed Jin Li to study, I managed to fall asleep after reading for two hours when I came back from work. My years of insomnia were cured!】

【To the one above, is there a possibility that your insomnia was not cured by Jin Li, but because you stayed away from your phone (dog head)?】

When Jin Li started the broadcast, Xi Sister Meng Ze was also sitting on the side.

She showed some attitude, didn't read comics or do evening self-study, but seriously wrote music scores.

She recently tried to create songs one by one, wanting to dedicate these songs to her fans.

Xi Sister Meng Ze occasionally raised her head and looked at Jin Li's serious expression of doing practice problems, and couldn't help but secretly cheer herself up.

Jin Li can do practice problems seriously, isn't it just writing a song? Can it be as difficult as doing practice problems? She can do it too!

After working for two hours, Xi Sister Meng Ze stood up and went to the kitchen to cut a plate of fruit.

Handing the fruit plate to Jin Li's desk, Xi Sister Meng Ze glanced casually and suddenly caught sight of Jin Li's phone left on the side (Jin Li was using a tablet for the live broadcast), and couldn't help but be stunned.

On the phone screen appeared the side face of a young man, wearing a white shirt, with hair on both sides hanging down softly, but a few strands of hair on his forehead stubbornly sticking out, propping up the hairstyle, looking a bit rebellious.

Combined with that expressionless face, brushing through problems at high speed, spinning a pen while thinking... it added a bit of cold, high-achieving student and the currently popular high-cadre family child feeling.

Why is Gu Cheng here?

No, why are Gu Cheng and Jin Li on a video call?

Eh, wait, the notebook Gu Cheng is holding is exactly the same as the one in Jin Li's hand. Are they both doing the 'Five-Three' practice books?

Hiss—

Xi Sister Meng Ze took a deep breath; she is really cruel to herself!

She had heard Yan Yan Xingdong say before that Gu Cheng loves to study and often discusses problems with Jin Li in private. She also occasionally encountered the two of them making appointments to do practice problems together in reality.

Last time she also bumped into Jin Li and Gu Cheng on a video call doing practice problems together, but at that time she just thought it was an accidental phenomenon.

As a result, looking at it now, could it be that Gu Cheng accompanies Jin Li to do practice problems every time?

If it were just companionship, that would be nothing, but looking at Gu Cheng's appearance, it is obvious that he is also doing it himself!

Thinking of those numerical symbols that she couldn't understand, Xi Sister Meng Ze felt both admiration and emotion in her heart: Gu Cheng, it's really not easy!

Xi Sister Meng Ze glanced at Jin Li a few more times, her eyes turned, and she suddenly felt that she had gotten something, a smile flashing in her eyes.

It's just that I don't know if doing practice problems together counts as playing with men?

I've shipped it, I've shipped it!!!

She was not only happy herself, but also specifically went to the Pink Girls group to send various excited and agitated emoji packs. Finally, under the inquiry of her teammates, she replied:

【It's nothing, I was just shipping a CP.】

Lotus: 【Understood, you are shipping the CP of the TV series, right? I also shipped it some time ago and specifically asked the actors. They all told me it was fake and they weren't together.】

Lotus: 【Shipping CP is good, but don't be too addicted!】

Xi Sister Meng Ze: 【You don't understand (earnest and well-meaning).】

Lotus: 【?】

Xi Sister Meng Ze: 【You don't understand the happiness I get from shipping.】

Lotus: 【??】

Xi Sister Meng Ze: 【This kind of silent companionship, knowing and guarding each other, and the feeling of growing up with you is really too wonderful, woo woo woo!】

Lotus: 【... Are you watching a campus drama?】

Xi Sister Meng Ze raised her head and looked at Jin Li, then secretly glanced at Gu Cheng who was doing problems on the phone, and hummed lightly.

She was clearly watching a "real-life transformation of a poor student counterattacking a top student"!

When Jin Li started the live broadcast, the latest observation results of a certain agricultural research laboratory also came out.

Kong Lingxian's phone popped up a push notification from the Mao Zhao live broadcast room. He saw it was Jin Li's study room, so he subconsciously opened it and adjusted it to mute.

In the past few months, as long as he saw the push notification, he would open it, whether he was in the laboratory, conference room, or study...

He didn't know if Jin Li had provided him with inspiration, but whenever he felt irritable in the experiment, he would look up at Jin Li. Seeing the little girl doing practice problems quietly, the irritability in his heart would also dissipate a bit.

"Don't be so anxious." Kong Lingxian said to himself in his heart.

Research is a process that cannot be impatient. How many people work day and night to overcome a difficult problem, although this difficult problem may only be a small step in a big difficult problem.

Their team had already obtained key information, and now they only needed to figure out the homologous gene of Fhb7. This tracking was not difficult in past experiments.

Suddenly, a researcher ran in hurriedly, breathing rapidly and saying:

"Professor, there is a new discovery! We found in the genome of the endophytic fungus Epichlo? of Gramineae plants that its existence gene has a similarity of up to 97% with Fhb7!"

Kong Lingxian couldn't help but be energized and ran out hurriedly, not forgetting to hold his phone tightly before leaving.

After running into another laboratory to check the data, Kong Lingxian was determined in his heart and said: "Now do homologous control observation. We need to do a few more sets of control experiments and strive to explain the fungal transfer process clearly. This is definitely a breakthrough discovery in cross-border gene transfer!"

Not knowing what he thought of, Kong Lingxian's eyes were slightly red, but he grinned and said with a smile: "Our research is about to succeed!"

As soon as this was said, all the researchers present were slightly choked up.

They cried and laughed, but their expressions were proud!