That winter, Li Xiaoxi had just turned three years old, carefree, lively and cute.
The little girl wears a little red cotton-padded jacket and walks carefree through the streets and alleys all day long. She greets people in a crisp manner when she meets them. Her little mind seems to have memorized the names of everyone in the city.
Her appearance is as if God specially fabricated it to meet everyone's definition of a cute little girl: a pink round face with chubby cheeks, a crystal clear little nose that has a beauty that is unwilling to be blasphemed, and a long face.
The long eyelashes flash like the purest gems every time they open and close, and the big eyes smile like the crescent moon in the night sky...
At this moment, the little girl is running on the street in the first snow, like an elf descending to the world with the falling snowflakes in the sky.
"Oops!" The little girl accidentally fell down at the door of a restaurant. The accountant in the restaurant quickly dropped his account book and rushed out.
"Xiaoxi, are you okay? Let me see where it hurts?"
"Hee hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee, hee hee," Li Xiaoxi giggled and spit out the snow in his mouth, spitting it out... Smash it, smash it, little mouth, his eyes lit up and he actually stretched out his little tongue to rub his upper lip
The snow was also licked into his mouth.
"Don't just laugh. Hey, hey, why did you eat it? Hurry up and throw it up. This snow is not clean and it will ruin your stomach."
"Hey, brother Xiaofeng, it's delicious, want to try it?" He said, carefully holding a handful of clean snow on the ground with his little hands, and feeding it to Li Xiaofeng's mouth. Li Xiaofeng smiled softly and slowly opened his mouth.
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"Xiaoxi, come, let's go home for dinner." At this time, a handsome man in his mid-twenties, also wearing a red cotton coat, stood at the alley across the street, looking at this side with gentle eyes, and nodded slightly when he saw Li Xiaofeng.
To say hello.
"I lied to you, Brother Xiaofeng, it doesn't taste like anything. Hehe" he said, slapping the snow off his hands, running towards the man, and with a clear and sweet "Dad" he threw himself into the half-crouched man.
In the arms of a man.
The man looked at the little cutie with water stains on his hands and snowflakes all over his body. He lovingly held Li Xiaoxi with one hand and kept sorting out the water stains and snowflakes with one hand.
"Is it cold?"
"Don't let it get cold in daddy's arms." The childish voice was like the warm sun in the cold winter. The man's arms hugging Xiaoxi couldn't help but tighten, and there was longing and reluctance in his eyes. Li Xiaoxi seemed to feel the love from his father, and his little head turned towards
She arched the man's neck so that his little face could touch his father's skin.
When I returned to my home, before I even stepped onto the steps, the doorman quickly ran over and opened the vermilion door.
"The master and Miss Xiaoxi are back." The doorman obviously shouted at a higher volume on purpose, indicating that there were guests at home, and they might usually come to see men. However, the doorman's deliberate mention of Xiaoxi meant that it might be related to Xiaoxi.
Sure enough, after walking around the screen with the 'Animal Trapping' carved in front of the courtyard, the father and daughter saw that the main hall was already filled with gorgeously dressed guests. Li Xiaoxi had sharp eyes and recognized the person on the main seat from a distance.
So she struggled a little in the man's arms, and the man carefully placed her on the ground.
"Grandpa Grandpa~" Li Xiaoxi was like a runaway pony. As soon as her feet touched the ground, she ran out and threw herself into the arms of Li Zhiyan, the one who doted on her the most.
"Isn't Xiaoxi cute?" Li Xiaoxi asked in the elder's arms, puffing out his cheeks in his signature style, pointing his cute little index fingers at his cheeks and tilting his head.
"Nothing cuter than Li Xiaoxi! Hahahahaha" Nowadays, only those who are familiar with the Great Elder know that the Great Elder can only laugh so happily when he is with Li Xiaoxi for many years.
In this city, almost no one knows that the Great Elder is the number one protector of a cute girl who is only three years old.
Even drunkards who were drunk and fighting on the roadside would have to explain to Li Xiaoxi with a smile on his face, "Uncle is happy after drinking and was having fun", for fear of teaching this little cutie a bad lesson and offending him.
Great Elder, after the little girl ran away, those who should fight will continue to fight, and those who should be drunk and drunk will continue to drink crazy.
Because almost everyone remembers three major events that happened in the city in the past two years, all related to this little girl.
The first thing is that Li Xiaoxi was only a little over a year old at that time. He could just walk steadily and could speak some simple words. His big watery eyes were always shining with curiosity.
One night in the middle of the night, water suddenly came out of Xiaoxi's home. Although the fire was extinguished in time, the family could only temporarily stay in a restaurant.
The burned grandfather, father and others went to the government to file a complaint and said: It was because the third son of the sword master's family fell in love with a sword owned by Xiaoxi's father and was forced to buy it. After drinking with friends that night, he was accused of being cheated by Xiaoxi's father.
In anger, he and his friends set fire to Li Xiaoxi's ancestral home.
This matter was originally a trivial case, with witnesses and evidence. However, because Elder Dao's family was in great power at that time, there were two nurses at home, and the judge Li Baiqing was Elder Dao's son-in-law. Therefore, Li Xiaoxi's family only received a piece of cake.
The ancestral home was located further outside, and the compensation was not enough to even build a house. As for the third son of Daofu, it was nothing, and he was sentenced to a 'fault'.
What's even more annoying is that one day these three young masters brought a bunch of candied haws to Li Xiaoxi's new house where the foundation was still being dug. After giving Li Xiaoxi the bunch of candied haws, which they didn't know what they were made of, they bought it at a lower price.
Xiaoxi's father's sword.
What can Li Xiaoxi's family do? They can only admit it.
That day, Li Xiaoxi suffered from vomiting and diarrhea because of the half-eaten candied haws. After a night of resuscitation, there was finally no major problem. However, the doctor said it would be best to find an air-bending master who can release his martial energy to take care of Xiaoxi's body.
Only by combining medicine can there be no future troubles. Although there are three practitioners in Li Xiaoxi's family, they are not at a high level, and Xiaoxi's father went to guard the city wall again. Therefore, Li Xiaoxi's stepmother could only carry Xiaoxi to find Li Xiaoxi.
Grandfather--Elder Hong.
Although Elder Hong has been a member of the elder family since he was young, there were even three guardians when the family was at its peak. It can be said to be the second largest family in the city. But when Elder Hong was twenty-three years old, a monster came.
During the attack, two of the three guards at home were killed in the battle, leaving Elder Hong's father with only half a life left. He could only lie in bed moaning all day long. Before his death, his father told Elder Hong two things: to keep the family and everything stable.
From then on, this became Elder Hong’s life motto.
Later, Elder Hong lived up to his father's expectations. In the second year, when the family was about to be completely eaten up by other families, he became a new generation of guardians through the Spring Festival party. But the polished commander of a broken family faced several big families.
The joint attack outside the city wall is extremely dangerous. Although he hired a team leader to act as a team leader, even his guardians did not listen to his orders. In the first year, he almost died in the forest due to wrong information and lack of support.
Fortunately, a subordinate who had just joined the Guardians saved his life. The subordinate was only fourteen years old at the time, and his name was 'Li Hongming', who was also Xiaoxi's father. Later, the two of them became more and more affectionate due to many births and deaths.
The better, the better, and they became the 'friends of three fates'.
Elder Hong feels that fate likes to play tricks on him. It seems that his head has been hanging on his belt since the monster attack in his life. He obviously reached the air control realm before he was thirty years old, and he has always been seeking stability.
Forbearance. But those big families never gave up eating it up. Even until the moment before Elder Hong's eldest son became the latest nurse, he almost died outside the city wall. Fortunately, he was still the loyal one.
Li Hongming unexpectedly saved him again.
At a banquet after taking the eldership, Elder Hong once said in public: "I, Li Yihong, would like to thank my savior Li Hongming. I owe him three lives!"
Therefore, Elder Hong has always taken great care of Xiaoxi's father. He even married his youngest daughter to Xiaoxi's father three months after Xiaoxi's mother died due to dystocia. He also arranged a baby marriage with Li Hongming - waiting for Hong
The elder's youngest son Li Jianfan married Li Xiaoxi as his wife when he came of age.
Therefore, the Qi Control Realm generally wouldn't help with this kind of work that would damage one's cultivation level, but Elder Hong was still willing to do it. After all, it could only be replenished with one or two spiritual fruits, and he didn't expect to be able to build it anyway.
The possibility of foundation. This favor must be absolutely cost-effective. Moreover, the most important thing in the family now is to train the eldest son. Once the eldest son succeeds in building a foundation one day, then the Hong family will still be the second in the leader of this city!
In order to let everyone know that he, Elder Hong, was a prestigious elder who would repay his kindness, Elder Hong took the initiative to let his youngest daughter and Xiaoxi live in Hong Mansion during that time.
During the few days when Li Xiaoxi stayed temporarily in Hong Mansion, Elder Hong took his family and lovely Xiaoxi to attend a banquet hosted by the elder. Although Xiaoxi, stepmother and others could only eat in the side hall, they were
During the banquet, there was a competition between the ages of five and ten in reciting poems, which attracted the greatest attention.
The title is "Silent Night Thoughts", which every big family living here must have children over five years old memorize. The reason why I chose this well-known poem passed down by our ancestors is actually just to see whose children can recite it well.
, and there won’t be any child who loses face because he doesn’t know how to speak. Of course, Li Xiaoxi, who is only a little over one year old and has just learned to speak, is definitely not one of them.
After several seven- and eight-year-old children in front recited it with great emotion, it was the turn of five-year-old Li Jianfan, who was engaged to Li Xiaoxi, to recite it. The seeds of Li Xiaoxi's subsequent misfortune were sown.
As the youngest grandson of Elder Hong, Li Jianfeng has been very naughty since he was a child. Let alone reciting poems, he has not even counted from one to ten correctly several times at the age of five. He stood up tremblingly and listened to what the others had just recited.
In his short memory, he could barely recite the words "Bright moonlight in front of the bed". With his mother's reminder at his side, he finally recited "suspected to be on the ground" one by one. He couldn't recite it.
It's good but it can be wronged. As a child of the elder's family who is over five years old, it means losing the face of the family. Most people dare not say anything, but some women and children with higher status and unscrupulous will not care about you, Elder Hong.
He lost face, his smile was exaggerated, he turned forward and backward, slapped the table and kicked the bench.
How could Li Xiaoxi, who had just turned one year old, understand this? In her eyes, brother Jian Fan needed to follow others in reciting before he could pronounce it. So now that he has not finished reciting, Xiaoxi had to help his brother.
"Look up at the bright moon, lower your head and miss your hometown." When the very young Li Xiaoxi stood on the small bench and read the first word, the whole place was quiet except for the crisp voice. After that, there was a vacuum for several seconds.
time, Li Xiaoxi was so frightened that she had to shrink into her stepmother's arms.
After a while, the audience kept praising and praising, thinking that this was Li Tingting's child. Some women even took their sons to come over and introduce themselves to Li Tingting, and even wanted to arrange a marriage with them. But Li Tingting did not explain, she was very worried.
Enjoy this feeling of being surrounded by stars. Although Li Jianfan's mother is currently embarrassed, everyone thinks that the child who is up for success is still from their Hong family, so she did not dare to say anything, and even covered Li Jianfan's mouth.
Don't talk nonsense.
After the banquet, the women took their children to play in the garden. Several elder brothers took the initiative to play games with Li Xiaoxi. Li Xiaoxi was also very happy to have the love of so many brothers, so he had a great time and stayed away from the women while playing.
Line of sight. At this time, Li Jianfan saw that there were no adults around, so he kicked Li Xiaoxi into the flowers and laughed. Unexpectedly, the next moment, he was pushed into another flower bush.
Li Jianfan looked up angrily and saw that the person who had attacked him was hugging Li Xiaoxi. He became even more angry. He stood up and wanted to attack the child who had attacked him again, but was stopped by an angry shout.
"Jianfan!" The shout was made by Elder Hong. Several elders and officials from the city happened to be walking from the main hall. Everyone saw the whole process.
"Xiaofeng, I apologize to Princess Jianfan!" Li Xiaofeng's father is the largest businessman in the city, and almost all the goods have traces of his business. But facing the elder's son, he can only wrong his son, and still
My good son has always been a good and sensible boy, but I don’t know why he is so reckless today.
Everyone waited for a long time, but did not see the businessman's son apologize to the elder's son. This made everyone confused for a long time what was going on.
"Xiao Feng!"
"Father, my son has recently read a book on the principles of human conduct. The sequence one in it says that I think it makes sense - everything has its origin and end, and everything has its end. If you know the order of things, you will get the shortcut!"
"Feng'er!" The businessman called his son helplessly again. He knew that his child wanted to be willful again this time.
"Elder Hong, my son is young and ignorant. I apologize to you on his behalf." After saying this, he clasped his fists and bowed, motionless at 90 degrees and not daring to raise his head.
"Young Master Jianfan, I'm just confused. Please forgive me." Li Xiaofeng couldn't bear to see his father groveling for him. This is unfilial!
But his body still stood in front of Li Xiaoxi without moving even half a step. This chapter has been completed!