That winter, Li Xiaoxi had just turned three years old, carefree, lively and cute.

The little girl wears a red padded jacket all day long, shuttling carefree through the streets and alleys, and will greet people crisply, and the little brain seems to remember the names of everyone in the city.

Her appearance is like a deliberate fabrication by God, in order to meet everyone's definition of a cute little girl: a pink little round face with fleshy cheeks, a crystal clear little nose with a kind of beauty that is unwilling to blaspheme, long eyelashes flash like the purest gem every time they open and close, and big eyes smile like a crescent moon in the night sky...

At this moment, the little girl is running on the street in the first snow, like an elf that has landed on the earth with the snowflakes falling in the sky.

"Oops" The little girl accidentally fell at the door of a restaurant, and the bookkeeper in the restaurant hurriedly threw down the account book in his hand and rushed out.

"Xiaoxi, are you okay, let me see where the fall hurts?"

"Hee-hee-hee, hee-hee, hee-he Smash it, smash it, smash it, and when his eyes lit up, he actually stretched out his little tongue and licked the snow on his upper lip into his mouth.

"Don't just laugh, eh, eh, why are you still eating? Hurry up and vomit, this snow is not clean, and it will eat bad stomach. ”

"Hehe, Brother Xiaofeng, it's delicious, can you taste it?" As he spoke, he carefully held a handful of clean snow on the ground with his little hand, and fed it to Li Xiaofeng's mouth. Li Xiaofeng smiled softly and slowly opened his mouth.

At this time, a handsome man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, who was also wearing a red cotton coat, stood at the alley across the street, looking at this side with gentle eyes, and nodded slightly to say hello after seeing Li Xiaofeng.

"I lied to you, Brother Xiaofeng, you don't have any taste. Hee hee said as he patted the snow off his hand and ran towards the man, and with a crisp and pleasant "Dad" he threw himself into the arms of the man who had already half-squatted down.

The man looked at the cutie who was still sticking to the water on his hands and covered with snowflakes, and he was doting on Li Xiaoxi with one hand, and kept sorting out the water traces and snowflakes for the creek with one hand

"It's not cold?"

"Dad's arms must not be cold" childish voice is like the warm sun in the cold winter, so that the man's arm holding Xiaoxi can't help but tighten, and there is longing and reluctance in his eyes. Li Xiaoxi seemed to feel the love from his father, and his little head arched towards the man's neck, so that the little face could be attached to his father's skin.

When he returned to his door, before he stepped on the steps, the doorman at the door quickly ran to open the vermilion door.

"The old man and Miss Xiaoxi are back" The doorman obviously shouted at a deliberately loud voice, indicating that there were guests in the house, probably usually coming to find a man, but the doorman deliberately mentioned Xiaoxi, indicating that it may also be related to Xiaoxi.

Sure enough, bypassing the screen carved with the 'Beast Hunting' in front of the courtyard, the father and daughter saw that the main hall was already full of richly dressed guests. Li Xiaoxi's eyes were sharp, and she recognized a person on the main seat from a distance, so she struggled a little in the man's arms, and the man carefully put her on the ground.

"Great Elder Grandpa~" Li Xiaoxi was like a loose pony, as soon as his feet touched the ground, he jumped out and threw himself into the arms of Li Zhiyan, who doted on her the most.

"Isn't the creek cute?" Li Xiaoxi was in the arms of the Great Elder, his signature cheeks were puffed out, his hands stretched out his cute little index finger and pointed at his cheeks, tilted his head and asked crisply.

"It's as cute as Li Xiaoxi! Hahahaha" Now only those who are familiar with the Great Elder know how many years the Great Elder has been, and only when he is with Li Xiaoxi will he laugh so happily.

In this city, almost everyone now knows that the Great Elder is the number one protector of a lovely girl who is only three years old.

Even the drunkard who was playing drunk and brawling on the side of the road had to explain to Xiaoxi with a smile on his face when he saw Li Xiaoxi passing by, "Uncle is happy after drinking, and he is having fun", for fear of teaching this little cutie badly and offending the great elder. After the little girl runs away, those who should fight continue to fight, and those who should be drunk continue to play drunk.

Because, in the past two years, almost everyone remembers that there have been three major events in the city, all of which are related to this little girl.

The first thing was that Li Xiaoxi was only a little more than a year old at that time, and he was just able to walk steadily, and he could say some simple words, and his big watery eyes were forever shining with curiosity.

In the middle of the night, Xiaoxi's home suddenly ran out of water, and although the fire was extinguished in time, the family could only stay in the restaurant temporarily.

The burned grandfather, father and others went to the government to complain, saying: It was because the third son of the elder Dao's family fell in love with a treasure knife of Xiaoxi's father, and after he couldn't buy it, he drank with his friends that night and was arched and said that Xiaoxi's father relied on Elder Hong's support to not give him the third son of the Daofu Mansion. In a fit of rage, he set fire to Li Xiaoxi's ancestral house with his friends.

This matter was originally a case that was not easy to try, and there were witnesses and evidence. However, because Elder Dao's family was in full swing at that time, there were two guardians in the family, and the judge Li Baiqing was Elder Dao's son-in-law. Therefore, Li Xiaoxi's family only got a homestead farther away than the location of the ancestral home, and a little compensation that was not enough to build a house. As for the third son of the Daofu, there is no, and he was sentenced to a 'negligence'.

What's even more annoying is that the three sons took a string of rock sugar gourds to Li Xiaoxi's new house one day, who was still digging the foundation, and stuffed the string of sugar gourds that he didn't know what it was made of to Li Xiaoxi, and swaggered to buy Xiaoxi's father's treasure knife at a lower price.

What can Li Xiaoxi's family do? I can only admit it.

On the same day, Li Xiaoxi vomited and diarrhea because of the sugar gourd that he ate half of the mouthful, and after a night of rescue, there was finally no major problem. However, the doctor said that it is best to find a master of the Qi Realm who can release martial qi to take care of Xiaoxi's body, and cooperate with medicine to achieve no trouble. Although there were three cultivators in Li Xiaoxi's family, none of them were enough, and Xiaoxi's father went to the city wall to guard again. So it was Li Xiaoxi's stepmother who held Xiaoxi and went to Li Xiaoxi's step-grandfather, Elder Hong.

Although Elder Hong was also a member of the Elder Family since he was a child, there were even three guardians at the peak of the family. It is the second largest family in the city. But when Elder Hong was twenty-three years old, a demon beast attacked, and two of the three guardians in the family were killed in battle, leaving only Elder Hong's father to pick up half of his life, and he could only stay in bed and moan all day. Before his death, his father told Elder Hong two things: to keep the family and to seek stability in everything. Since then, this has also become Elder Hong's life motto.

Later, Elder Hong lived up to his father's expectations, and the following year, when the family was about to be completely devoured by other families, he became a new generation of guardians through the Spring Festival Party. But the commander of a broken family's light pole, facing the joint targeting of several major families, is extremely dangerous outside the city walls. Although he was a squad leader, he didn't even listen to his own orders from his guardians. In the first year, he almost died in the forest due to misinformation and lack of support, but fortunately, a subordinate who had just joined the Guardian saved his life, and that subordinate was only fourteen years old at the time, and his name was 'Li Hongming', which is Xiaoxi's father. Later, because of many births and deaths, the relationship between the two became better and better, and they became 'friends of three lives'.

Elder Hong felt that fate was so fond of playing with him, and his life seemed to have been hanging on his trouser belt since that demon beast attack. Obviously, he had reached the Qi Realm before he was thirty years old, and it was clear that he had always sought stability and forbearance. But those big families never gave up and gnawed it clean. Even the moment before Elder Hong's eldest son became the latest guardian, he almost died outside the city walls. Fortunately, it was still the loyal Li Hongming who saved him again by surprise.

At a banquet after sitting on the throne of elder, Elder Hong once said in public: "I, Li Yihong, thank my life-saving benefactor Li Hongming, I owe him three lives!" ”

Therefore, Elder Hong has always taken great care of Xiaoxi's father, and even married his youngest daughter to Xiaoxi's father in the third month after Xiaoxi's mother died of childbirth. also made a doll kiss with Li Hongming - when Elder Hong's youngest son Li Jianfan became an adult, he would marry Li Xiaoxi as his wife.

Therefore, this kind of favor that is a bit detrimental to cultivation is generally not helpful in the Imperial Qi Realm, but Elder Hong is still willing. After all, the big deal is that one or two spirit fruits can make up for it, and anyway, I didn't expect that there would be the possibility of building a foundation. This favor has to be absolutely cost-effective, and the most important thing in the family now is to cultivate the eldest son, once the eldest son succeeds in building a foundation one day, then his Hong family is still the second place in this city lord!

In order to let everyone know that he, Elder Hong, was a prestigious elder who would repay his kindness, during that time, Elder Hong took the initiative to let his youngest daughter and Xiaoxi live in Hongfu.

In the few days when Li Xiaoxi was temporarily staying in the Hong Mansion, Elder Hong brought his family and lovely Xiaoxi to attend a banquet held by the Great Elder. Although Xiaoxi and stepmother and others could only eat in the side hall, they received the greatest attention when they recited poems in a competition between the ages of five and ten.

The title is "Silent Night Thoughts", which every child over the age of five from a large family living here must memorize. The reason why I chose this well-known poem handed down by my ancestors is actually just to see whose children can recite it well, and there will be no loss of face because there is no child who can't. Of course, Li Xiaoxi, who has just learned to speak not long ago and is only a little over a year old, is definitely not among them.

After several seven or eight-year-old children in front of them recited it with emotion, it was the turn of five-year-old Li Jianfan, who had a marriage contract with Li Xiaoxi, to recite. planted the seeds for Li Xiaoxi's misfortune later.

Li Jianfeng, as the youngest grandson of Elder Hong's family, has been very stubborn since he was a child. Not to mention memorizing poems, I haven't even counted one to ten times at the age of five. Standing up tremblingly, with the short memory that a few people heard after reciting it just now, it was worth reciting the five words "bright moonlight in front of the bed", and finally recited word by word "suspected to be on the ground" word by word, and it could be mistaken if the memory was not good, as a child over five years old in the elder's family, it was a loss of the family's face. Ordinary people don't dare to squeak, but some women and children with higher status and unscrupulous can't care about your Elder Hong's face, and they laugh so much that it's an exaggeration, leaning forward and backwards, slapping the table and kicking the bench.

Where does Li Xiaoxi, who has just turned more than a year old, understand this, in her eyes, Brother Jian Fan needs to follow others to read it. Then before she finishes reading, Xiaoxi has to help her brother.

"Raise your head to look at the bright moon, bow your head and think of your hometown." When the very immature Li Xiaoxi stood on the small bench, and as soon as he pronounced the first word, the audience was quiet only with the crisp voice. After that, the vacuum time lasted for several seconds, and Li Xiaoxi was so frightened that he had to shrink into his stepmother's arms.

After a while, the audience continued to praise her, thinking that this was Li Tingting's child, and some women even took the initiative to bring their sons over to introduce themselves to Li Tingting, and even wanted to kiss the dolls. But Li Tingting didn't explain, she enjoyed the feeling of the stars holding the moon. And although Li Jianfan's mother is currently losing face, at this moment, everyone thinks that the angry child is still from their Hongfu, so she didn't dare to say anything, and even covered Li Jianfan's mouth to tell him not to talk nonsense.

After the feast, the women took the children to the garden to play, and several older brothers took the initiative to pull Li Xiaoxi to play games. Li Xiaoxi was also very happy to have so much love from his brother, so he had a lot of fun, and he stayed away from the sight of the women while playing. At this time, Li Jianfan saw that there were no adults around, kicked Li Xiaoxi into the flowers, and laughed on the side. Who knew that the next moment, he was pushed into another flower bush.

Li Jianfan looked up angrily and saw that the person who shot at him was going to hug Li Xiaoxi, so he was even more angry, and he stood up and wanted to do something to the child who made the shot, but he was stopped by an angry shout.

"Simplified!" The shout was made by Elder Hong, and several of their elders and officials from the city happened to walk from the main hall, and everyone saw the whole process just now.

"Xiaofeng, apologize to Princess Jian Fan!" Li Xiaofeng's father was the largest merchant in the city, and almost all the goods showed traces of his sale. But in the face of the son of the elder's family, he could only grieve his son, fortunately, his son has always been a sensible and good child, but I don't know why he is so reckless today.

Everyone waited for a long time, but they didn't see the merchant's son apologize to the elder's son, which made everyone wonder what was going on for a long time.

"Xiaofeng!"

"Father, the child recently studied a book on human reason, and the order of it says that the child thinks it makes sense—that everything has its beginnings and ends, and that things have always been true. If you know what to do, you will be short! ”

"Feng'er!" The businessman reluctantly called out to his son again, he knew that his child wanted to be willful again this time.

"Elder Hong, the child is young and ignorant, I apologize to you for him." After speaking, he clenched his fists and bowed, and he didn't dare to raise his head at 90 degrees.

"Jian Fangongzi, the villain is confused, please have a lot of adults, forgive me." Li Xiaofeng couldn't bear to see his father grovel for him, this is unfilial!

But his body was still in front of Li Xiaoxi and he didn't move half a step.