Chapter 811: Digging a Hole in Advance
"Tell me, is there a possibility that the reason you think she is stunning is actually because beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?" Lin Hao joked with a smile.

"Now that you mention it, I'm even more interested!" Xu Hongdou was not to be outdone and also joked.

The two of them were being so affectionate as if no one was around, making Hu Youyu, Xie Zhiyao and Nana, who were standing beside them, almost feel sick with anger.

So Nana said, "I'll go make something delicious, and you guys can eat here at noon!"

Hu Youyu said listlessly: "I won't eat anymore. I will go out to collect inspiration and try to create the song in my mind as soon as possible!"

"goodbye!"

At this time, Xie Zhiyao was the only outsider left in the restaurant. He was about to leave angrily when he found that someone else came in.

Xie Xiaochun brought a girl into the restaurant. When little Hulu saw her mother, she ran over happily.

"Mom, mom, Uncle Lin drew a picture for me. Look, does it look like me? Isn't it very pretty?"

Xie Xiaochun took the drawing paper from Xiao Hulu's hand, took a closer look, and then praised:
"It's so beautiful! Uncle Lin drew a picture for you. Have you thanked Uncle Lin?"

"Yes, there are. Uncle Lin even praised me!" The little gourd chicken nodded like pecking at rice.

Xie Xiaochun turned around and saw Lin Hao and Xu Hongdou, and immediately thanked them: "Lin Hao, thank you!"

"You're welcome, the little gourd is very cute!"

"Hongdou, Lin Hao, take your time eating. I have something to do with my brother. Sorry!"

"It's okay, just go about your business!" Xu Hongdou said with a smile.

"Come on, come with me!" As she said that, she pulled Xie Zhiyao out of the yard and sat down with the girl she brought with her.

"This is my eldest brother Xie Zhiyao!" After Xie Xiaochun introduced Xie Zhiyao, he continued:

"Brother, this is Teacher Li, the elementary school Chinese teacher!"

“This is the first time you meet…!”

At this time, Xie Zhiyao was completely absent-minded. He felt completely hopeless. The girl he fell in love with at first sight had a boyfriend, and the key point was that his cousin just happened to introduce him to a girlfriend. It was like a hell of a Shura field!

Lin Hao and Xu Hongdou both looked at the table of Xie Zhiyao and Xie Xiaochun with gossipy eyes. Lin Hao found Xie Zhiyao's forced smile very interesting.

"Lunch is here!" Nana brought over a plate of flower cakes, two cups of rose tea, and some snacks, then said, "Enjoy your meal!"

I wanted to chat with them for a while, but after thinking about it, I decided not to disturb their date, so I smiled and said:

"A guest is coming, I'll go get busy first!"

"Thank you, Nana. Just do your own thing and don't worry about us!" Lin Hao said with a smile.

After Nana left, Xu Hongdou looked at Xie Zhiyao who was going on a blind date with an embarrassed look on his face and asked with great interest:
"They are on a blind date, right?"

"Yes!" Lin Hao said with a smile: "Haven't you ever been on a blind date?"

"No!" Xu Hongdou thought for a moment and said affirmatively.

"That's right!" Lin Hao looked at Xu Hongdou's pretty face, nodded and said:
"A girl as beautiful as you must have had no shortage of suitors since childhood. I guess you can't understand the pain of a blind date!"

"No!" Xu Hongdou said gloomily, "I don't know what's going on. It seems that no one has pursued me since elementary school."

"I did date someone in college, but after we started working, we were in the south and north of the city, so we were in a long-distance relationship in the same city, and then it ended!"

Looking at Xu Hongdou's depressed expression, Lin Hao smiled and said, "I think I know why!"

"Why?" Xu Hongdou's eyes lit up.

"I guess your grades must have been very good when you were in junior high and high school! Among the top five in the grade!" Lin Hao then said with certainty.

Xu Hongdou nodded in surprise, and then Lin Hao continued:
"And she must be the goddess of the university, probably an iceberg goddess!"

Xu Hongdou looked at Lin Hao with wide eyes, then asked in disbelief: "How did you know?"

"The reason is very simple!" Lin Hao said with a smile: "Because you are too outstanding and too dazzling!"

"In the eyes of most boys in school, the school beauties are out of reach and the goddesses are high above them. They feel inferior and think that they are not worthy of an outstanding girl like you!"

Xu Hongdou nodded in agreement and said, "If you can talk, then talk more. It seems like what you said makes a lot of sense!"

Then Xu Hongdou looked at Lin Hao and asked curiously, "What about you? You must have no shortage of girls pursuing you, right?"

"Me?" Lin Hao was a little depressed and said in a low voice:
"I used to be just an ordinary guy, the kind of guy I just mentioned, the one with low self-esteem who looked up to the school beauty goddess. How could a girl chase me like that?"

Seeing that Lin Hao was in a low mood, Xu Hongdou grabbed Lin Hao's hand and joked:
"But you are already good enough now! You have no shortage of girls pursuing you now!"

Lin Hao was speechless. This topic couldn't be avoided, right? In that case, Lin Hao was ready to use his ultimate move.

Then Lin Hao laughed and said, "No girl is pursuing me now, it's just you and Nanxing who treat me like a treasure!"

Lin Hao suddenly mentioned Chen Nanxing, which made Xu Hongdou a little at a loss. After all, Lin Hao was Nanxing's boyfriend in name, and she was more like a mistress.

Although this should have been mine, although it was Nanxing who instigated it, although~.

"Hongdou, do you know?" At this time, Lin Hao put down his chopsticks, supported his chin with both hands, looked at Xu Hongdou and said:
"You are the first woman who has made my heart beat fast since I came into this world!"

"That day you and Nanxing came to my art exhibition together. When I saw you for the first time, I realized that I fell in love with you at first sight. Later, I found that you both understood my paintings, which surprised me even more!"

"But you came to me the next day and told me to be Nanxing's boyfriend and fulfill her last wish. I was a little overwhelmed!"

"But I finally agreed to your request, because on the one hand it was because of your request, and on the other hand it was out of sympathy for Nanxing!"

"But during the time I was taking care of Nanxing, I found that I fell in love with Nanxing, and then my heart seemed to be torn in two!"

Lin Hao cupped his hands into a heart shape, then separated his left and right hands and said, "You live in one petal, and Nanxing quietly moved in in the other petal!"

"I feel like a scumbag now. I obviously love you, but I also love Nanxing in my heart. It makes me very conflicted and painful!"

"Especially since Nanxing has not much time left and the future is getting shorter and shorter, and he has been trying to match us up all this time, what should we do in the future?"

Looking at Lin Hao who was troubled by love, she thought of what Nan Xing once said, that Lin Hao was relatively simple in terms of emotions. So Xu Hongdou sat beside him, hugged Lin Hao and comforted him:
"I know, I know everything. I feel the same way in my heart, but this is not your fault. If you want to blame someone, blame it on fate!"

Discovering that Xu Hongdou was also in trouble, Lin Hao knew that he could not go on acting, otherwise this warm and healing drama would turn into a melodrama!

Just when Lin Hao was about to speak, Xu Hongdou took the initiative to say:

"Actually, I don't mind falling in love with you and Nanxing at the same time, and I don't mind you falling in love with both of us at the same time!"

As if to untie Lin Hao's knot, Xu Hongdou let go of Lin Hao, looked at him with her big eyes and said:

"Besides, Nanxing is my best friend. We once agreed that if we meet a man we like, we will share our love with him!"

Lin Hao looked at Xu Hongdou in disbelief, and Xu Hongdou said with a slightly red face:
"Although I said that as a joke, it's a fait accompli now. I think you should accept it calmly. And considering Nanxing's situation, I don't think you have anything to worry about!"

At this time, Lin Hao looked at Xu Hongdou affectionately, and thousands of words in his heart merged into one sentence:

"Red Bean, I love you!"

"I love you too!" Xu Hongdou said sincerely.

Then the two of them kissed each other. Xie Zhiyao, who was in the yard, was absent-minded during the blind date. When he saw Lin Hao and Xu Hongdou kissing, he felt even more annoyed.

I guess the girl on the blind date also noticed that Xie Zhiyao was not interested in her, so she politely left after lunch.

By the time he sent the girl on the blind date into the car and left, and returned to Youfeng Restaurant, Lin Hao and Xu Hongdou had already left. So he could only leave sadly and go to watch the filming of the promotional video for Yunmiao Village.

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After lunch, Lin Hao and Xu Hongdou did not return to Youfeng Courtyard, but came to the wood carving workshop.

In the original drama, Xie Heshun, the master of the wood carving workshop, is the inheritor of the wood carving craft and also the inheritor of state-level intangible cultural heritage.

Unfortunately, due to the rise of machine carving, the handmade wood carving industry has shrunk sharply in the overall environment.

Even several of his apprentices gradually gave up this industry, some went out to work, and some slacked off!
The location of the woodcarving workshop was easy to find, and Lin Hao quickly arrived at the workshop. The woodcarvings in the workshop were for sale to the public, and people were also allowed to come in for visits, so no one stopped Lin Hao and Xu Hongdou from coming in.

Looking around, I found that in the huge wood carving workshop, there was only one young man sitting there, carving absent-mindedly on his mobile phone.

Xie Xiaoxia heard the footsteps and said reflexively: "Just look around, and tell me if you need anything!"

But when he looked up and saw that it was Lin Hao, his expression suddenly relaxed, so he put down the tools in his hands and said:
"It turns out to be Brother Lin!"

Then Lin Hao introduced him to Xu Hongdou: "His name is Xie Xiaoxia, and he is Xie Xiaochun's younger brother!"

"This is my girlfriend Xu Hongdou, you can just call her Sister Hongdou!" After the confession at noon, Lin Hao and Xu Hongdou officially confirmed their relationship, so Lin Hao introduced her generously.

"Welcome Sister Hongdou to visit!" Xie Xiaoxia hurriedly greeted her, and found that Xu Hongdou looked familiar, and then suddenly realized:
"Hey, Sister Hongdou, you are the tenant of Room 6 in Fengyuan Courtyard, right? My sister brought you here yesterday, and I saw you yesterday!"

"Yes, I came yesterday. Your sister asked you to go to the master. It turned out to be a wood carving!" Xu Hongdou also reacted.

Seeing that Xie Xiaoxia was the only one there, Lin Hao asked curiously, "Xiaoxia, where is your master?"

"Master is at home. If you need to find him for something, I will go and call him for you!" said Xie Xiaoxia.

"Go call your master and ask him to help me find the wood. I wonder if he has found it!" Lin Hao said.

"I found it, but the master has gone home for dinner. I'll go call him for you right now!" Xie Xiaoxia was also a sensible person. Instead of calling, she went out to find Xie Heshun.

Then Lin Hao took Xu Hongdou to visit the wood carving workshop.

"So beautiful and exquisite!" Xu Hongdou couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Although I am not very familiar with the wood carving industry, looking at the strange and varied wood carvings here with lifelike flowers, birds, insects and animals, each one is a masterpiece.

Seeing that Xu Hongdou liked it, Lin Hao introduced it: "Of course, Master Xie is a state-level inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of wood carving, so his level is naturally..."

About ten minutes later, a man in his fifties walked into the woodcarving workshop. This man was Xie Heshun, Xie Xiaoxia's master.

As soon as Xie Heshun entered the room, he said, "Mr. Lin, you are here. Let me take you to see the wood!"

Xu Hongdou asked curiously, "What are you looking for wood for?"

Lin Hao smiled and said, "I want to carve a statue of the three of us myself. What do you think?"

Xu Hongdou looked at a carved statue and said with some anticipation:
"Oh, how did you come up with this great idea!"

Xie Heshun, who had taken out the wood, looked at Lin Hao in astonishment and asked with doubts:
"Mr. Lin wants to carve it himself. Aren't you a painter? Can you also carve?"

"You can learn if you don't know!" Lin Hao said with a smile:

“Painting and sculpture are just different forms of artistic expression, but in terms of skills, they have many similarities, and some things are applicable to all situations!”

Xie Heshun nodded upon hearing this, agreeing with Lin Hao's words, but still reminded:

"It's just that painting and carving are different after all. Learning wood carving is hard work. Most people can't stick to it. And your piece of wood is so big!"

As Xie Heshun brought Lin Hao and Xu Hongdou to the warehouse at the back. A piece of rosewood with a diameter of 1.5 meters and a height of 2 meters cost Lin Hao more than 500,000 yuan.

"What a nice smell! It has a light scent of sandalwood!" Xu Hongdou said after sniffing it as she got close to the wood.

Lin Hao also said, "Of course, the scent of yellow sandalwood is refreshing and helps to refresh the mind. It is said that it can also inhibit the occurrence of potential diseases in the human body!"

It is a bit expensive, but when thinking about what this piece of wood will look like after being carved, Lin Hao feels that it is all worth it.

However, Xie Heshun felt that it might not be that easy. He knew very well how hard wood carving was.

He also didn't think that Lin Hao had the tenacity to persevere, but with his help in carving, it would not be impossible to complete it in a few months.

Although Xie Heshun looked down on Lin Hao, he still said:

"Mr. Lin, I wonder if you have prepared the content of the carving!" Obviously, Xie Heshun was still itching to use such precious wood.

Lin Hao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll make a drawing when I get back today and give it to you tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)