Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

“How can it not hurt?” Mother Lin glared at the impatient Lin Xi, snatched the medicine from her hand, and gently applied it to Li Xu.

The culprit didn't dare to speak even after being glared at. He just stared at the two-finger-wide red mark on Li Xu's face and said casually, "You got disfigured on the first day of the Chinese New Year. Will there be a scar left behind?"

Upon hearing this, Mother Lin, who was applying the medicine, froze in her hands and looked even more guilty. Father Lin, who was standing by, looked at Li Xu with a complicated expression and sighed, "She's almost 30 years old. Your aunt won't really hit her. Why are you approaching her?"

"Okay, aunt." Li Xu gently held Mother Lin's wrist to stop her, then looked up at Father Lin and said seriously, "I know you guys won't really hit Xixi, but she made up such a lie for me, and it's because of me that I offended so many relatives, so this is what I deserve."

"Don't feel guilty about this. Ever since I was a child, you have treated me like your own child. You always prepare a portion of whatever Xixi needs for me. I have long regarded you as my closest relatives. I have nothing but gratitude and respect for you in my heart."

"I know that I was ignorant in the past, which caused Xixi to suffer so much injustice, and also caused you to worry about me for so many years. Although the three words "I'm sorry" have no practical effect, I still want to apologize to you again here."

"I'm really sorry. I was too willful. I know that time will never come back, and the damage I caused you will never go away, but I still want to shamelessly ask you to give me another chance so that I can make it up to you and Xixi, and let me honor you together with Xixi in the days to come."

After Li Xu finished speaking, he stood up from the sofa, bowed solemnly to Lin's father and mother, and then walked into the study under their complicated gazes.

After a while, he came out with a file bag, opened it in front of Lin Xi and the other two, and took out two property certificates and several bank cards.

"These are some of the things I have saved over the years. In addition to the two houses, there are about two million in the bank card. I am willing to give them all to Xixi. If I let Xixi down in the future, I will not take a penny of these things and will leave the house with nothing."

"This..." Lin's father and mother looked at each other, picked up the two property certificates on the table hesitantly, looked at them carefully, and then exchanged glances with each other.

Father Lin adjusted his glasses and said seriously, "You know what your uncle does, right? If you really let Xixi down in the future, I am fully capable of making sure you don't get a single cent."

"I know, uncle." Li Xu nodded calmly, "I know these things may not be worth mentioning to you and Xixi, and I don't want to use these things to ask you for anything, but if I want to be with Xixi, then she has to have no worries, so you can rest assured to leave her to me."

After a long time, Father and Mother Lin finally gave in. Father Lin sighed and shook his head, "Put these things away."

"Uncle!" Li Xu thought he was going to refuse and was suddenly a little flustered. Mother Lin quickly reached out and held him down, collected the things on the table one by one, and put them back into the file bag.

"Your uncle and I are going to go out for a walk. You two can have a good talk." Mother Lin handed the file bag to Li Xu and said earnestly.

“Silly! Mom and Dad have agreed!” Lin Xi looked at Li Xu who was still in shock and patted his arm, “Call mom and dad!”

"Huh? Ah! Dad, Mom." Upon hearing that, Li Xu hurriedly called for help, somewhat at a loss.

"Why are you shouting? It hasn't come to that yet." Father Lin seemed to be offended by the name and quickly scolded him with a stern face.

"Okay, okay, stop being a light bulb. Come on, take a walk with me." Mother Lin smiled and patted Father Lin's hand, then pulled him out the door.

That night, Father Lin, who usually drank little, took out the fine wine that had been collected at home for many years for the first time, and drank with Li Xu until midnight.

Seeing that the two were chatting animatedly, Lin Xi eavesdropped with great interest at first, but later she could not hold it any longer and went to bed early. Therefore, she had no idea what the two talked about that night.

But in the days that followed, the relationship between Li Xu and Lin's father and mother began to improve at a visible speed. Even she, their biological daughter, was thrown aside, which made her depressed for several days.

Time slipped away quietly.

The weather tonight is exceptionally good, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, the wind has stopped, and the snow that had been falling for a few days has also stopped. Many adults and children are setting off fireworks and firecrackers by the river.

"How about it? Getting beaten in exchange for a wife, this deal is worth it, right? Doesn't it feel like a dream?" Lin Xi and Li Xu, wrapped up like dumplings, were strolling leisurely along the river bank, stepping on the crackling snow.

"It really is like a dream." Li Xu put her hands in his pockets, turned his head and chuckled, "I've had this dream for many years."

"Me too." Lin Xi made a face and said in a funny tone, "But if someone had realized it earlier, there wouldn't be so many problems."

"Yeah, that fool must be regretting it now." Li Xu seemed not to hear the sarcasm in her words and continued speaking along with her.

"Hehe, it's not too late to mend the fold." Lin Xi reached out and scratched his palm.

The two walked and chatted all the way. When they passed a small square where children gathered, Lin Xi was admiring all kinds of strange fireworks with great interest. Suddenly, the "ground mouse" set off by a child went out of control, spinning and crackling all the way.

Seeing the "ground rat" roaring towards her, Lin Xi was startled and subconsciously wanted to hide to the side, but she happened to trip over Li Xu who wanted to protect her behind him.

So the two people, who were dressed like snowballs and had difficulty moving, tripped over their left foot and fell into a pile of snow on the side amid the laughter of a group of children.

The snow pile was very thick, and the two men were wearing a lot of clothes, so it didn't hurt. However, the snow under their feet became extremely slippery because of the fall. They struggled for a long time and not only did they fail to get up, they also exhausted themselves.

Finally, Lin Xi, who had no energy to laugh anymore, simply turned over and lay directly in the thick snow. Seeing this, Li Xu, who was standing beside her, rested her head on his arm and lay down with her like a child.

"It seems like that time when we were kids. I also fell down at that time, and you came to help me up, but you ended up falling down too." Lin Xi smiled with a red face, and turned to look at Li Xu beside her.

"Actually, I know you did it on purpose." Li Xu adjusted her hat and smiled helplessly.

"Who told you to just keep walking forward? No matter how I told you to, you didn't turn back." Lin Xi didn't feel the slightest bit embarrassed about having her prank exposed. Instead, she turned her head away proudly.

Li Xu was about to speak when a loud noise was suddenly heard not far away, followed by a huge firework blooming in the sky, leading to cheers.

"Wow! What a big firework." Lin Xi immediately widened her eyes and looked at the fireworks in the sky with surprise.

"Yes, what beautiful fireworks." A sigh sounded in Lin Xi's ears. She was about to turn her head, but she felt a warm kiss on her cheek.

"Xixi, Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year, Li Xu!"

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