Chapter 66
In recent months, Xiaoxi has always felt that she is too stupid, and she often cries her nose because of it. The reason is that half a year ago, she found out that when her father came back each time could be known by calculation. Although Xiaoxi, as a family member, can also get a lot of news about her father's return from work, and there are two elders who like her very much, and can provide her with the latest schedule. However, the two elders never directly helped Xiaoxi calculate when his father would come home, and even if they did, most of them would only say that one day, they were often not allowed. However, due to various factors of change in the number of people and shifts, she is a three-year-old child, and the combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division is really powerless. Fortunately, if you want to know exactly when your father will come back, you can go to Brother Xiaofeng, who opened a restaurant in the city.
Li Xiaofeng has now become the bookkeeper and partner of the largest restaurant in the city, "Fuxiang Restaurant", and often helps out in the restaurant at home in addition to schoolwork. On weekdays, I always like to hold a hand behind my back to straighten my waist, even in the store, it is difficult to hide the elegant bookishness. Although the treatment of people is a little bland, people who are a little familiar with it feel that this Li Xiaofeng is actually very gentle and humble.
Li Xiaoxi felt that in addition to always liking to pull himself and not letting go, Brother Xiaofeng could only operate with one hand when he and Brother Xiaofeng went to the street to eat delicious food, which was very inconvenient, and everything else was fine.
At this moment, Li Xiaoxi ran to Li Xiaofeng's side again, holding the guardian information given by the Great Elder with both hands, "Brother Xiaofeng, Brother Xiaofeng, help me calculate, help me calculate." ”
"Xiaoxi, the information given by the Great Elder must not be seen by others," Li Xiaofeng looked at Li Xiaoxi, who was panting and anxious, and his willow-like eyebrows were wrinkled together. showed a gentle smile that only appeared every time he saw Li Xiaoxi.
Li Xiaoxi looked around, there were high counters on three sides, and there were other people there. So he stuck his head out of the counter again, only to see a table of two people drinking tea in the far corner by the window. Hurriedly lowered his voice: "Xiaoxi knows, Brother Xiaofeng will help Xiaoxi calculate." The Great Elder said that this is the latest information from Dad's side, and it must be calculated accurately. ”
"Xiaoxi, sit down and rest for a while, Brother Xiaofeng will calculate it for you immediately." After speaking, he took Li Xiaoxi to the stool and sat down, turned around and took a pen and paper at the counter and sat next to Xiaoxi. After taking the information in Li Xiaoxi's hand, he was about to start counting, when he saw that Li Xiaoxi had given the information and hurriedly put his little hand behind his back. Li Xiaofeng looked at this strange behavior and didn't understand what it meant, but just smiled and felt that this world was really 'cute but Li Xiaoxi'.
Every time Li Xiaofeng calculates, every step will be explained to Li Xiaoxi in detail, whether she understands it or not, and she doesn't know when Xiaoxi can calculate the time by herself. But he felt that one day he would be very happy if Xiaoxi could calculate it by himself, and he would be very grateful to himself. But by then, the creek may not be so close to herself.
Soon Li Xiaofeng calculated, then retracted his emotions and said to Li Xiaoxi with a smile, "See, the time has come out."
Li Xiaoxi smiled and shouted with a happy and confused expression, "Brother Xiaofeng, say it quickly, say it quickly, is it tomorrow?" ”
Li Xiaofeng touched Li Xiaoxi's head with a gentle smile on his face and said, "Xiaoxi is really smart again, yes, it's tomorrow, and it's probably tomorrow, if Xiaoxi is not afraid of being hungry, you can wait and see, according to Uncle Hongming's habits, Xiaoxi can have breakfast with Uncle Hongming tomorrow morning." ”
Hearing this, Li Xiaoxi jumped up happily and stood on the bench, hugged Li Xiaofeng's head and kissed him the cheek, and then ran back with a cigarette. I thought that I had to go home quickly and inform the others, and then ask Uncle Fu and them to prepare some delicious breakfast.
While running, he shouted "Daddy is back, Daddy is back". This is the first time Li Hongming has been on duty on the city wall since Li Xiaoxi's third birthday, but this time it is said that it was because the previous patrol team had an accident, so the time was longer than before.
Li Xiaofeng wiped the saliva on his face with his sleeve while happily looking at Li Xiaoxi, who was about to run away, feeling full of a sense of accomplishment and happiness. Although he couldn't see the smile on his face, he knew how exaggerated the smile must be, so he quickly pretended to be calm and wiped his kissed cheek again. Turning his head, he raised his hand and looked at his sleeve, a little regretful... And then I feel like I'm a little perverted, I can't do this. He flicked his sleeve and even wiped his face again with another sleeve, and then went to work.
When Li Xiaofeng turned out of the counter, he looked at the back of the creek leaving in the distance, and recalled the first time he saw the one-year-old little girl holding back her crying, which actually reminded him of his mother who had begun to blur in his memory.
On that day, because there were only a few doctors in the city, the number of people injured in the fire at Xiaoxi's house exceeded the limit of receiving treatment at the same time. Therefore, Li Hongming took the initiative to give up the first treatment, and planned to treat the wound simply in the room by himself.
Li Xiaofeng, who was called to the restaurant by his father to help, was mainly responsible for delivering water to the room where the wound was treated. When Li Xiaofeng pushed open the door of Li Hongming's room, he was stunned by a one-year-old girl who was half-kneeling on the ground to clean Li Hongming's wounds. His eyes kept looking at Li Xiaoxi who was cleaning Li Hongming's wounds without blinking, the appearance of being strong and unwilling to let the other party worry about him, and the expression of forcibly unwilling to blur his eyes.
Mom hugged herself as a five-year-old on the hospital bed, and suddenly returned to Li Xiaofeng's memory.
The next day, Li Xiaoxi was already sitting on the steps at the entrance of the mansion as soon as he arrived, dragging his chin with his hands and staring at the front with his eyes wide.
The street in front of Li Xiaoxi's house is always deserted except for the market day and his father and uncle, after all, the street under the high wall is not well lit most of the time and is slightly narrower. With a width of about two meters, occasionally a carriage passed by, and the chessboard of the old men playing chess on the side of the road had to be lifted.
But now, because of the joy of the little girl coming home yesterday, the residents of the whole street know the news that their male protagonists will go home around midnight today. Many families have already gone home early with the freshest ingredients when they go out to buy vegetables, and the streets suddenly become lively, and people who see Li Xiaoxi will greet her and praise her for being sensible and cute. Li Xiaoxi also responded one by one, but his mind was all on the corner of the street.
My father said that there was magic around that corner, and that if you had someone in mind, that person would emerge from that corner. But you must be patient while waiting, and you must not run out of that corner to the street to see, because magic is magical, and when you go out of the corner, the magic disappears, and the person who may want to appear will not appear.
In Li Xiaoxi's memory, that corner was indeed magical, as if everyone he was thinking about appeared from there. For example, once she especially wanted to eat sugar gourds, and Uncle Fu, the housekeeper, appeared from there with sugar gourds; The little yellow dog that had been lost for three days also ran back to his side from there, so Li Xiaoxi was convinced of the magic of the corner.
Although it was summer, the temperature was still very low before dawn.
The housekeeper Li Chenfu saw that the time had passed, opened the door completely, and looked at Li Xiaoxi, who was still in the same posture and looked at the corner, and felt the word "pitiful" from the little girl for the first time. Immediately afterwards, Li Chenfu smiled self-deprecatingly, walked to Li Xiaoxi's side and squatted down, and asked softly: "Miss, are you cold, are you hungry, are you thirsty?" Li Xiaoxi just shook his head, his eyes still staring at the corner of the alley. Li Chenfu knew the temper of this young lady, looked up at the sky that had begun to turn white, smiled self-deprecatingly, and turned into the courtyard without saying anything.
At the hour of the hour, there were people waiting at the door of every house. At that time, there were few people left in each household waiting at the door. At noon, only Li Xiaoxi and the guards were still in the entire alley.
Everyone speculated that it must have been a miscalculation of the day, and it was normal to temporarily transfer to a shift or something. Besides, his own man may not necessarily be in the same class as Li Xiaoxi's father Li Hongming. However, Li Xiaoxi knew that Brother Xiaofeng would not be wrong, and he never missed it. But her father didn't come back, and she didn't understand why.
Li Xiaoxi felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, and kept crying unconsciously. When the doorman noticed it, he suspected that his eyes might have been dry from staring at one place all the time, after all, such a young girl had begun to sit motionless on the steps so early. The doorman still stepped forward and called, "Miss... After that, Li Xiaoxi fell down the stairs, and the doorman hurriedly reached out and grabbed it.
Li Xiaoxi fainted like this, and the fairy tale ended when he woke up.
2022/9/16/21:12(2022/11/30Change Daddy's birthday tomorrow)
Li Xiaoxi's father died, and his uncle Li Hongyi was rescued by the Great Elder on the third day, missing a leg.
After the collapse of the pillars of the family, the family business fell into the hands of a few uncles and aunts who were usually idle, and they couldn't even keep the house in less than a year. Later, Ting's mother took Xiaoxi and her uncle to marry a guest named Li Sishu in Hongfu, and she returned to her parents' house. I finally didn't see the home that was finally revitalized, and in the end it was so destroyed that even the tables, chairs and benches could not be left in a tragic state. It's just that Li Xiaoxi occasionally goes to sit on the steps of the courtyard gate, staring at the corner of the alley.
It is said that Li Hongming's team was not actually patrolling at that time, but to search and rescue the previous patrol. In the end, he was attacked by demon beasts without even seeing the shadow of the previous patrol, and when the Great Elder led the team to arrive, only Uncle Li Xiaoxi and the other three were saved. The Great Elder was also seriously injured because of this, and it was even rumored in the city that the Great Elder said that he was in retreat to recuperate from his injuries, and he might not be able to last long. In the following ten years, although there was no new Great Elder in office, all the people in the outer city thought that the Great Elder had passed away.
In the blink of an eye, Li Xiaoxi has lived in the mansion of Hongfu for ten years. During this period, except for her grandfather, who dragged his illness to the back door of Hongfu to visit her before he died, everyone seemed to have abandoned her. Li Xiaoxi has been living in a small side house in Li Sishu's courtyard.
Li Xiaoxi, who is already a girl, is now not only beautiful in her face, but compared with other peers who are vigorous and grow their bodies, she only has a sickly look on her face. is not single tall and short peers for a long time, and she is particularly thin, and cuteness seems to have nothing to do with her anymore.
Once, Elder Hong met Li Xiaoxi on the street, and after stopping to look at it for a while, he just asked the steward around him in a flat tone if he had mistreated Li Xiaoxi. The steward thought for a while and said that it might just be that the little girl was developing late, and there was no follow-up to this matter.
In the past ten years, only Li Xiaoxi has a courtyard that knows that on the surface, Li Xiaoxi is still living the life of a young lady, but in fact, he is even worse than the subordinates in the family when the courtyard door is closed. Today's Li Xiaoxi rarely goes out, doing chores in the backyard all day long, and everyone has long forgotten that she is the cutest Li Xiaoxi in the city back then.
Although living with the people in the backyard barely survived, the people often laughed at this young grandmother who might not become a young grandmother in the future. Jealousy made Li Xiaoxi not get equal treatment among his subordinates, and he was often bullied.