Chapter 576 White Roses Are Not as Good as Red Roses! (Day 3 of XXX, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!)
"He Chen, let's compete!"
Zhong Bai is very confident. Although she can't fish, it doesn't stop her from not listening to He Chen's big talk and wanting to compete with He Chen.
He Chen couldn't help but glance at Ruolan.
Zhong Bai's personality is actually very similar to Hu Yifei.
If Ruolan hadn't clearly said that she didn't want He Chen and Hu Yifei to bet, Hu Yifei would have lost the whole person long ago.
He Chen is also willing to give Ruolan this face, and doesn't want to make Ruolan lose face too much.
Yeah.
This is definitely not related to the fact that Ruolan is the ugliest person in the family and Hu Yifei is not as good as the whole family!
It's just that He Chen can be very considerate sometimes!
Zhong Bai is the same.
But she is not as extreme as Hu Yifei.
"Why are you looking at me?" Ruolan squinted at him: "I want to compete with you too."
"What if you lose?" He Chen became interested.
"If you lose, I admit that you are good!" Ruolan said with a smile: "But if you lose, you must promise me one thing!"
"This is unfair!" He Chen shook his head and laughed: "You always say I am good, and you often talk about it."
"Huh!" Zhong Bai looked at He Chen with disdain.
"Then how about this, whoever loses will promise the other one something, not too much." Ruolan's eyes flashed: "But there is a prerequisite, that is, since you said that you are Jiang Taigong fishing, whoever is willing to take the bait, then you have to imitate Jiang Taigong and use a straight hook! How about it?"
"No problem! It's decided happily!" He Chen smiled when he heard it. While talking, he took the fishhook in front of Ruolan's eyes, stretched out his hand to bend it, and then wiped it, and the fishhook was straight like a needle.
This move made Ruolan and Zhong Bai stare.
There is no technical content in bending, anyone can do it, but the straightened fishhook has no trace of bending, even they feel something is wrong.
"Is this hook straight?" He Chen looked at Ruolan with a chuckle. Seeing that Ruolan had no objection, he threw the straight hook down, teasing with a half-smile in his mouth.
"No matter how bent the hook is, I can make it straighter in my hands~"
"..." Ruolan's mouth twitched. She always felt that He Chen was implying something. Fortunately, Zhong Bai urged her to play the game quickly, so she didn't continue to think about it.
I thought it was an extremely exciting game, but soon Zhong Bai and the others felt bored.
Because it was all empty when I picked it up, and no fish was caught.
This is why many people like basketball but not football, it doesn't score goals!
"The environment in the countryside is still good. Look how blue the sky is!" Zhong Bai stared at the water surface and felt a little bored. He looked up at the sky and sighed, then exclaimed lightly and asked curiously.
"Ruolan, is this how you got your name?"
"No." Ruolan said casually while holding the fishing rod, "It's a pen name!"
Compared to Zhong Bai who quickly gave up because of boredom, she still wanted to win this competition and then ask He Chen to promise her something.
After all, the opportunity is rare and the advantage is hers!
"I know it's a pen name. I mean, is the inspiration for the pen name from the blue sky and white clouds?" Zhong Bai said excitedly: "If so, we are very destined to be together! You are the blue sky, and I am the white clouds! We become good friends under this blue sky and white clouds! By the way, what is your real name?"
"I just picked it randomly." Ruolan sighed softly, and seeing that Zhong Bai seemed to want to ask more, she quickly covered up and said: "In fact, I have taken many such pen names. As writers, it is normal to have many pen names. Sometimes I really can't remember why I took them that way."
"He Chen, what are you laughing at? Do you know?" Zhong Bai was not satisfied with Ruolan's answer, especially because she felt that there was a lot of gossip in Ruolan's sigh, but Ruolan clearly didn't want to talk more, and she had no choice. Seeing He Chen laughing, she immediately placed her hope of breaking the deadlock on He Chen.
"I laughed because Ruolan was right." He Chen naturally couldn't tell the real reason for his laughter, so he explained casually.
"Novel writers are like this, everyone should know it, for example, Lu Xun has more than 180 pen names.
This is just what we know.
There are still many people who don't know!
Do you know what each pen name means?
Many times, they just pick it randomly."
What he actually laughed at was that Zhong Bai felt that the blue sky was very blue when she saw it, so she thought that Ruolan's name was inspired by this. What about the name Zhong Bai?
Did she see a very white Zhong?
If it's true, He Chen thinks Zhong Bai is indeed a very good pen name, and it's the kind he particularly likes...
No mistake, one song, one post, one content, one look!
"That's true." Zhong Bai thought it was reasonable after hearing it. After all, anything that is linked to a writer seems to be reasonable, so she quickly put aside the question and continued to gossip.
"Then how many pen names have you used, Ruolan? What else?"
Ruolan was obviously a little hesitant, but under Zhong Bai's pleading, she felt that Zhong Bai would not let her go unless she said one, and maybe he would turn to the question of how Ruolan's pen name was chosen just now.
After all, if she didn't have many pen names, then the pen name Ruolan must have a deep meaning, at least in the eyes of outsiders.
And the fact is indeed so.
So she thought about it and said one: "There are many, such as Rumei."
"Rumei?" Zhong Bai praised it when he heard it: "I know this, is it as gorgeous as a rose?"
"I guess so." Ruolan was shocked when she heard Zhong Bai say that. She looked down at the float on the water to hide the complicated expression on her face. Then she stared at her face blurred in the water. She heard Zhong Bai's praise, "What a good pen name. It really suits you. Only a beautiful woman like you can use Rose as a name." She sighed again in her heart and opened her mouth. She finally swallowed the self-mockery that "Ru Rose is not as good as a real rose, and a white rose is not as good as a red rose."
Just when she was full of complicated feelings, she saw the float move. She suddenly lifted the fishing rod. There was a palm-sized crucian carp hanging on the hook. It was still jumping in the air with the fishing line hooked on it. This made her quite excited.
And Zhong Bai next to her cheered for her: "Ruolan, you caught a fish. You won!"
The two women happily took the fish down.
Specifically, Ruolan moved the fish horizontally to her side, put it down, let Zhong Bai go up, catch the still jumping fish, and then take out the hook.
"He Chen, are you giving up?" Ruolan suppressed the extremely complicated emotions that were aroused by the name for a moment, and looked at He Chen with joy and pride.
At this time, she really felt that although the room was shabby this time, it was really interesting and different from her past life.
"How do you know I caught a fish too?" He Chen saw that she caught a fish, and he didn't play with her anymore. He uttered the classic Versailles words of a fisherman, shook the fishing rod, and the fishing line floated up. A big grass carp rushed out of the water, causing Zhong Bai to exclaim again.
However, just when Ruolan was still thinking that fish should not only be compared in size but also in order, something even more shocking happened to her.
He Chen didn't just catch this one fish, this fish was just a signal. Then he caught six more big grass carps in a row.
What made her even more stunned was that these seven grass carps were almost the same size, exactly the same, which made her think: "It's amazing, is it God's will?"