Happy Little Scholar

"Uncle..."

Her little hand was held tightly by a big hand. Xiao Huan trembled, turned around, and looked at him infatuatedly.

When they were in Liuye Village, they went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, hunt rabbits, and catch pheasants. When she couldn't walk down the mountain, Uncle would carry her on his back. When she fell asleep while listening to stories, Uncle would carry her back to the room to sleep... Uncle hadn't held her hand for a long time.

Li Yi looked at her hand. The originally slender and white fingers were now covered with scratches, and the smooth nails also had many small gaps caused by wear and tear.

Li Yi held her hands with both hands and whispered: "Why are you so stupid..."

Her eyes curved again, two dimples appeared at the corners of her mouth, and she whispered: "Uncle, Xiaohuan is not stupid, Xiaohuan is willing."

Li Yi pulled her over, let her sit on his legs, held her in his arms, and whispered: "It's all Uncle's fault..."

Xiaohuan's face showed a little panic, and she hurriedly said: "Uncle is the best to Xiaohuan..."

Even Li Yi himself felt that he was nothing. He ignored her during this period of time. She was still defending him at this time and said that she was not stupid. Li Yi scratched her nose and said: "Let's go, Uncle will cook longevity noodles for you."

A light suddenly flashed in Xiaohuan's bright eyes, and then her nose was sour: "Uncle still remember..."

"Let's go..."

Li Yi took her hand and walked towards the small kitchen.

A long time ago, in the family of four in Liuye Village, when he was not yet a county lieutenant, a county marquis, a Jinzi Guanglu doctor, or King Jing, what he had to do every day was nothing more than teaching, cooking, and teasing the little maids...

At that time, he was not so familiar with Ruyi, nor with Ruyi, and the only person he could talk to every day was Xiaohuan.

She would listen to him telling the story of the three fights with the White Bone Demon in the school with the group of naughty children. After school, she would help him wash and cut vegetables. Even if she couldn't do anything, she would hang around and listen to him telling those strange things...

The method of making longevity noodles is very simple, noodles, vegetables, eggs, and Xiaohuan can only make fire. What she likes to do most is to make fire.

She sat by the stove, looked over, and said, "Son-in-law, just put one egg, I can't eat two..."

"How can you put one egg in longevity noodles? You must put two, not one more, not one less..." Li Yi didn't look back and continued to be busy.

The maid's pretty face showed an interested expression, and she asked, "Sir, why is this?"

Li Yi explained, "There is a reason for this. Two eggs represent good things come in pairs..."

The maid's eyes began to show admiration again: "Sir, you know a lot..."

Xiao Huan's daily admiration for him should have been accumulated from the strange things she heard from him every day in Liuye Village...

Time seemed to go back to six or seven years ago. It was a smaller and more dilapidated kitchen than this one. Li Yi now recalled that his hesitation and confusion when he first came to this world probably disappeared slowly in such a small place, amid the chattering and surprise of the maid...

Today's moonlight is still bright, and there are many lanterns hanging in the yard, so it doesn't look very dim.

Li Yi and Xiao Huan sat in the yard, and the longevity noodles in a small bowl in front of her were still steaming.

Xiao Huan picked up the chopsticks, thought about it, put them down, ran into the kitchen quickly, and took another bowl and walked in.

Seeing that she was about to share the noodles in the bowl, Li Yi hurriedly stopped her: "You can't share the longevity noodles. If you share them, you won't live long."

Xiao Huan shook her head and said: "It's meaningless for Xiao Huan to live long alone. Xiao Huan wants to live long with her son-in-law..."

If Xiao Huan is stubborn about some things, Li Yi can't persuade her.

He no longer insisted, Xiao Huan gave him half of the noodles and a poached egg.

A bowl of noodles is not much, for Li Yi, it's just two or three mouthfuls, but she eats very slowly, chewing every mouthful carefully.

Li Yi smiled and asked: "How does it taste?"

She nodded and said: "As long as it's cooked by my son-in-law, it's delicious."

Only Xiao Huan thought so. What can he cook with a bowl of ordinary longevity noodles? Maybe it's slightly worse than Ruyi now.

Snap!

Li Yi watched her eat noodles. In the dark night, a streak of fire suddenly flashed across the night sky, and then exploded, and the fire trees and silver flowers turned into stars in the sky.

Xiaohuan was startled, put down the bowl and turned around. After a moment of stunned, she pointed to the sky in the distance and said happily: "Son-in-law, son-in-law, look, someone is setting off fireworks!"

Xiaohuan was very happy. Ruyi City is in the mountains. Because of the fear of causing forest fires, fireworks are prohibited even during the New Year and other festivals. This is the first time she has seen fireworks here.

With the first explosion, a series of flames rushed straight into the sky, illuminating the entire Ruyi City like daylight.

There are certain safety hazards in setting off fireworks in the mountains. For this fireworks show, Li Yi specially cleared a square.

In recent years, Jingguo has made great progress in the research on gunpowder, and fireworks and firecrackers have also been played in many ways.

From Li Yi's perspective, the little maid was in the depths of the fireworks between the flickering flames, and the flickering fireworks made her pretty face more beautiful.

This was the first time that Ruyi City had set off fireworks on a large scale. Countless people in the city walked out of their homes, came to the yard, and walked on the street, looking at the night sky in the distance. After a brief moment of daze, they began to cheer and shout...

The whole Ruyi City became boiling at this moment.

The fireworks lasted for a quarter of an hour before gradually extinguishing. Only the four words "Fu Shou Kang Ning" remained in the night sky for a long time.

Xiao Huan looked at the four words for a long time before she came back to her senses. She looked at Li Yi with moist eyes and opened her lips, "Son-in-law..."

Li Yi walked over, wiped the tears from her face, and smiled: "Don't cry, everyone is waiting for you..."

"Everyone..."

Ruyi and Ruyi walked in from outside the yard. Ruyi hugged her, touched her head, and said: "Our Xiao Huan has grown up..."

Miss Liu Er gave her a sword, which was tailor-made for her, with her name on it.

Everyone in the Li family practices martial arts, and Xiaohuan is no exception. With so many masters teaching her, even though she looks weak, she can fight with Li Xuan's mediocre kung fu.

Xiaocui and Xiaozhu also sent gifts. The three of them are now as close as sisters, so naturally they can't leave out any gifts.

Even Li Duan had a gift, which was a little man he cut with a knife. Although it was hard to tell that it was a little man, it was also his intention...

People inside and outside Ruyi City may not know whose birthday is on March 21st, but they will remember this day forever.

Because every March 21st, Ruyi City will have a grand fireworks show, which has become a tradition of Ruyi City.

That night, they made a lot of noise in the room until late, and when Xiaozhu, Xiaocui and the others left, Xiaohuan had already fallen asleep on the table.

Li Yi walked into the room, gently picked her up, and when he walked to the bed, before he put her down, he saw the little maid's eyelashes trembled slightly.

Li Yi didn't put her down, just held her and sat on the bed.

He looked down at her, and after a long while he leaned close to her ear and whispered, "If you don't wake up, I'll leave..."

Xiao Huan's eyes opened immediately, her face flushed with shame, and she whispered, "Uncle..."

Li Yi hugged her tightly, and Xiao Huan said in an even lower voice, "Uncle, can you stay a little longer..."

Li Yi kissed her forehead gently and whispered, "I'm not leaving today..."

He felt the body in his arms tremble.

Xiao Huan looked up at him, and mist quickly appeared in her eyes.

She hugged Li Yi tightly, leaned her head on her shoulder, and choked up and said, "Uncle, Xiao Huan..., Xiao Huan has been waiting for you for a long, long time..."