Chapter 389 Retirement Life
"I've only been gone a few days, and you've all caught the rocking chair craze too?"
The young Nezha, clad in flamboyant red, casually tore open a rift in spacetime, his robes fluttering lightly. This should have been a very cool scene, but the speechless expression on Nezha's face caused him to completely fail at being cool.
In reality, if anyone came home and saw one, two... six, seven rocking chairs lined up in the yard, with six people lying on them, covering their faces with all sorts of books, it would be hard not to be speechless.
Li Xiangxian removed the medical book from his face and waved to him: "Don't worry, I saved one for you."
Is this the important point?
Nezha said this, but he walked over, sat down, and started rocking with practiced ease.
"I go out to do some sewing and mending, while you guys just stay home lounging in rocking chairs?"
Li Lianhua removed the menu from her face: "Isn't it because of you that this old lady should retire?"
“That’s right,” Li Lian’ou agreed, “We’re getting old, we should take a rest.”
Li Lianye's desire to retire was written all over her face; she was too lazy to even speak, and simply nodded.
"Others may be old in appearance but young in spirit, but you don't even have a single gray hair, yet you call yourselves old people?"
“The main thing is that you’re reliable, Nezha,” Li Xiangxian looked at him with trust. “With you here, we can retire with peace of mind.”
Nezha looked at Lan Yan with suspicion, but before he could ask any questions, Lan Yan said directly, "It has nothing to do with me. I've been retired for many years."
Nezha rolled his eyes without any politeness. "Is that what you call being retired for many years? He hasn't done anything at all!"
Turning his spear around, Nezha walked to Li Xiangyi's side, lifted the sword manual from his face, and looked down at him: "And what about you? Uncle Lianzi? You wouldn't also say you're too old, would you?"
Li Xiangyi blinked and smiled ingratiatingly: "I'm not old in body, but my heart is old. The fighting and killing in the martial world is no longer suitable for me."
"That spacetime rift?"
"With you here, I have complete faith in your abilities."
"Can I manage all this by myself?"
"Isn't there Fang Xiaobao too—"
“That’s right, Fang Xiaobao is so energetic when you take him with you.”
Seeing the uncles who all recommended Fang Duobing to him, Nezha felt sorry for Fang Duobing. This master he chose was destined to be a life of toil.
"So, what you're really saying is that you're all just quitting and leaving everything to me?"
"Let go when it's time to let go. The current world is more suitable for you young people."
Nezha stroked his chin, circled around the group, and asked suspiciously, "You didn't sneak away, did you?"
"How could that be?" Lee Sang-hyun looked at him sincerely. "We just want to take a break. You just finished your work, so let's rest together. Sit down."
Nezha's doubts lessened a little, and he obediently sat back down in the rocking chair.
"I must say, once I lay down, I realized how comfortable it was. Senior brother really knows how to enjoy life."
Hearing Li Xiangxian's感慨 (gǎnkǎi, deep feelings), Nezha surprisingly agreed, pushing off the ground with his feet and rocking the rocking chair: "That's right, there's no one who knows how to enjoy life better than Uncle..."
“Zzzzz…”
The courtyard was quiet, and Nezha had unknowingly fallen into a deep sleep.
Then, with a somersault, all five of them stood up at the same time.
"It's all thanks to Senior Brother's resourcefulness." Li Xiangyi smiled and gave a thumbs up, standing beside Nezha's chair and gently pinching his cheek.
Li Lianhua slapped his hand away and glared at him: "Don't wake him up, or we won't be able to leave."
"You have to trust your senior brother's abilities."
Lan Yan and Li Xiangxian had already turned and walked out. Hearing this, he lazily replied, "If you're really awake, then you can stay here and be my slave."
"Wait, wait for me! I'm not going to be a beast of burden."
Li Xiangyi quickly withdrew his hand and hurriedly followed.
Soon, only the sleeping Nezha and six empty rocking chairs remained in the courtyard.
They boarded the newly prepared three-story building, a lotus-shaped pavilion with four horses pulling it, and the group of six slowly walked out.
"Speaking of which, Nezha will be angry when he wakes up, right?" Li Lian'ou couldn't help but guess, though she said it was a guess, her tone was very certain.
"Then you'll stay?" Li Lianye glanced at him sideways.
Li Lian'ou shook her head repeatedly: "I believe Nezha can figure it out."
Li Lianhua chimed in, "But, brother, you've already said you won't run away anymore. Won't Nezha be even angrier if he finds out?"
“I didn’t sneak away,” Li Xiangxian said confidently. “I left a letter. I notified myself of my retirement in writing, how can that be considered sneaking away?”
Instead of dwelling on the topic, Lan Yan asked a question: "Where should we go first?"
Li Lianhua casually suggested, "Yangzhou, then."
"Why go to Yangzhou?" Li Xiangyi asked habitually.
Lan Yan joked, "What, does Suzhou have a problem with this?"
"After all these years, please leave Yangzhou and Suzhou alone."
"Back when we were naming internal martial arts techniques, you didn't spare them either."
So, are you going or not?
"As the saying goes, 'Above is heaven, below are Suzhou and Hangzhou,' so let's go to Yangzhou!"
"Suzhou will really kill you."
...
"Aaaaaah, you liar—"
Nezha glanced at the farewell letter in his hand, then at the empty courtyard, and couldn't help but shout, "You promised you wouldn't run away! Leaving a letter doesn't mean you won't run away!"
Thinking about the medical clinic, Nan Yin, and the repair of the rifts in the small worlds left in the letter... one thing after another, Nezha felt dizzy and suddenly wanted to retire!
Why is he the only Nezha in the Li family?
...
"A pair of Kings!"
"A pair of Aces!"
"Bomb! You can't beat me, right? I still have more, bomb again! One last 3, and I win! Haha..."
Li Xiangyi happily tossed aside all the wooden plaques in his hand and beckoned to Li Lianhua and Li Lianye: "Come, come, let me see where the note is stuck."
Li Lianhua and Li Lianye, their faces covered in notes, exchanged a glance. "We're not playing anymore. We can't beat you."
"Hey, how can you cheat?"
Li Xiangyi was unconvinced, but the other two had already gotten up and gone to the next table to watch the play.
"What a joke!"
Li Lianhua, Li Lianye, and Li Xiangyi, who arrived last, all gave Li Lian'ou a thumbs up in unison. "I admire you! You're almost blind, but you still haven't given up!"
Li Lian'ou gently blew on the note on her face, revealing a resentful look in her eyes: "Do I look like someone who can get away?"
The three of them looked at the smiling Li Xiangxian, then at the lazy Lan Yan, and thought, well, this was definitely not a situation they could escape.
"Good luck, brother." Li Lianhua patted Li Lianou on the shoulder.
"Don't worry, your senior brother and elder brother will let you go once they're tired of playing with you," Li Xiangyi comforted him.
Li Lianye opened her mouth, but ultimately chose to help Li Lian'ou tuck the note on her face behind her ear: "This way you can see it clearly."
"Thank you so much!"
Li Lian'ou gritted his teeth. He was ashamed to be Li Xiangyi, a bunch of cowards who bullied the weak and feared the strong, just like them!
"Plop"
The Lotus Tower suddenly shook, as if it had bumped into something.
"What happened?" Li Lian'ou was the first to stand up. "I'll go take a look."
He finally escaped, and he vowed never to play cards again... never to play cards with Li Xiangxian and Lan Yan again!
"Huh? Where is this place?"
The group walked out of the Lotus Pavilion, looked at the bustling but unfamiliar street in front of them, and exchanged bewildered glances.
"Have you heard? General Li's wife has been pregnant for three years and hasn't given birth yet!"
"Really? Is she pregnant with a monster?"
"Shh, you can't say that."
Listening to the conversations of the passersby, several people seemed lost in thought. Li Xiangyi murmured softly, "A new world, huh?"
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