A pleasant life in a courtyard

Chapter 537: Brilliant Afterglow (Final Chapter)
The rise of short videos has made Li Xiang famous again.

By then he was old enough to stay at home and enjoy the company of his grandchildren.

In the cell phone video, one can see a photo of himself when he was young, which was photoshopped into a big-headed doll. He was jumping around and introducing his life in a rap style.

Li Xiang took a look at it and immediately took it away with disgust.

"Grandpa, you're more popular than those stars recently. As long as you are in the video, it will easily get hundreds of thousands of likes." The little grandson explained with a smile.

"No wonder the last time I went to the park with your grandfather, I always felt like someone was pointing fingers at me." Qiu Fanghua put the peeled boiled eggs on her grandson's plate, looking as if something had suddenly dawned on her.

Seeing that his grandmother was quite interested in the content of the video, the grandson immediately changed his target and held the phone in front of his grandmother.

"Let me show you what netizens say about Grandpa."

The evaluation content can be roughly divided into several categories.

There were those who came for scientific knowledge, those who were ignorant but felt it was impressive, those who came to join in the fun, those who were sarcastic, those who were crazy about him and called him handsome, and some even went so far as to inquire about his family and want to recognize Li Xiang as their father-in-law.

Qiu Fanghua was still smiling when she looked at the front, but when she looked at the back, her face gradually became stern.

After a while, she actually started replying to others on the comment page.

She typed as she muttered to herself, "Girl, thank you for your compliment, but he is too old. You are so young, you should find someone of comparable condition."

After replying to this, Qiu Fanghua immediately moved on to the next one.

"Not only has his son been married for many years, he also has several grandchildren. We are very satisfied with our daughter-in-law, so I'm afraid she can't be your father-in-law."

Li Xiang was drinking porridge at first, and when he heard what his wife was mumbling, he almost spit it out.

He signaled to his grandson to quickly get the phone back to prevent his grandmother from making any shocking remarks online again.

The little grandson coaxed and tricked the phone away from his grandmother. When he took it away, Qiu Fanghua still looked unsatisfied and obviously hadn't had enough.

"Why take online comments seriously?" Li Xiang looked at her as she wanted to reply and felt a little amused.

"It doesn't matter if I didn't see it, but if I did, I have to tell them the truth." Qiu Fanghua was talking to netizens for the first time and her thoughts were still naive.

"How could people know who you are? They might think you are deliberately trying to pick a fight." Li Xiang snorted, laughing at her simple thinking.

"That's what you think. I replied so sincerely, and people might even thank me." Qiu Fanghua replied unconvinced.

The old couple were arguing with each other, and soon the topic of the debate returned from the present to the past.

The little grandson was so absorbed in watching the fun that he completely forgot there were some important things that had not been resolved.

The news spread quickly on the Internet. In less than one morning, the account of the little grandson was dug out.

Originally, this account was a relatively well-known internet celebrity with about three million followers.

The content on the account are all some interesting sharings from his daily life.

These contents and his occasional posting frequency are not enough to support his millions of fans.

What really attracted him to the attention of fans was the luxurious life that was unattainable for ordinary people that was inadvertently revealed in his content.

A watch worth tens of millions flashed by.

A corner of a mansion worth over 100 million yuan.

These are nothing. The most recent exposure was when he was sharing the big fish he caught, the yacht under his feet was dug out and it was found to cost more than one billion.

I don’t know where these resourceful netizens found the information from.

I can’t say that I guessed correctly every time, but I guessed about 80 to 90 percent of them.

This time, Qiu Fanghua used his account to reply to several comments.

Netizens once again started to use their magical powers, and when the conclusion was confirmed, there was another lively carnival on the Internet.

The previous envy and desire to get married in the comments of his videos immediately turned into doubts about his identity.

Everyone is very curious whether he is a direct relative of Academician Li Xiang.

Faced with a flood of questions from netizens, the little grandson did not choose to respond.

In fact, his account was silent for a long time.

It was not until half a year later that netizens discovered that the account named "I Love My Home" had been secretly cancelled.

"Why are you here again? Can't you let your grandma and I have a few days of peace?" Li Xiang looked at his grandson with disdain.

The concept of inter-generational kinship does not exist for him at all.

Li Xiang treats his son and grandson equally. As long as they get in his way, he will still dislike them.

The little grandson felt miserable, and he didn't want to bother his grandparents. It was because of the incident in the first half of the year, when his grandparents' biological father had a handle on him.

In the past, the surveillance work was shared equally between him and his brothers and sisters, but now it has become his job alone.

"How can you be so ignorant, kid? I finally retired and have some time, so I wanted to take your grandma out to travel around the beautiful rivers and mountains of our motherland. How could you hold me back? You come to me every day. You have no home of your own." Li Xiang cursed angrily with his hands behind his back.

The little grandson had a guilty look on his face and lowered his head, but he was actually complaining a lot in his heart.

Whatever his grandfather said, he would reply in his heart: "What's the point of scolding me? If you want to scold someone, go scold my daddy boy's father. He just knows that you want to go out and play with grandma alone, so he asked me to keep an eye on you and be a light bulb. Otherwise, how can he come to your place for a free meal after you and grandma leave and come back from work after work?"

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

Li Rui, who is nearly 40 years old, has lost the childishness of his youth and gained some majesty and domineering look brought by power.

Now he is a father of three children and he is no longer the boy who could act like a spoiled child in front of his parents.

Li Xiang and Qiu Fanghua also took into consideration that he and his daughter-in-law got married and had children at a young age. In order to prevent the children from affecting their work and life too much, they tried their best to help take care of their grandson and granddaughter in their upbringing.

Finally, the three children grew up old enough to take care of themselves, and Li Xiang felt that it was time for them to enjoy their retirement life.

But they didn't expect that their own son would play tricks on them.

"Where is your wife?" Qiu Fanghua asked when he saw that he was the only one there.

"When there is a school meeting, she has to set an example and stay until the end." Li Rui explained on behalf of his wife.

Back then, he and his wife got pregnant before marriage, but fortunately the pregnancy happened during graduation period.

In order to facilitate future development, his wife chose to stay in school, studying for a master's degree, working on campus, and having a child at the same time.

Or maybe it can be said that he is worthy of being a member of the Li family. His style of doing things hits the mark completely.

Li Xiang saw that his wife got up and busy herself with adding rice and soup just because his son came, and all her attention was on his son. He was unhappy about this.

Li Rui had just taken a bite of the rice in his bowl when he heard his father issuing an ultimatum to him.

Li Xiang pointed at his little grandson who was pretending to be well-behaved and said, "Take this child away quickly. I'm going to take your mother out for some fun, so I won't have time to entertain you guys."

Li Rui slowed down his eating habits and cast an embarrassment look in the direction of his mother.

Then he replied to his father, "I can understand that you two elders don't want to take care of the two older ones. After all, they are already fifteen or sixteen years old. But the youngest one is only thirteen. Are you really willing to leave him alone at home?"

When Qiu Fanghua received her son's pleading look, her face softened and she thought to herself, forget it. She and the old man are not so old that they can't walk, so it's not impossible to wait a few years before going out.

"Do you want to listen to the nonsense you are telling? What do you mean he is alone? When you are not here, the nanny is not a human being. How can she let him starve or thirst?" Li Xiang looked at his son with sarcasm, indicating that he would not be fooled by him again.

In the past, the children were really young, so the half-hearted ones were left behind.

But this time, I will not change my decision for them no matter what.

It turns out that once Li Xiang gets angry, his words are still useful at home.

The next day, he took Qiu Fanghua, packed a simple baggage, and boarded a plane to Shanghai.

There were only two of us when we set out, but along the way, we became a team for the rest of the journey.

When they stopped by to visit old acquaintances and heard about their travel plans, they all expressed their desire to join.

In this way, when they arrived at Mount Tai, their team had expanded to a size of more than a dozen people.

Others watch the sunrise, they watch the sunset.

When the sun was only a glimmer on the horizon, Li Xiang held his wife's hand tightly.

It's worth it to live a life like this.

He has climbed the highest peaks and been to the lowest valleys.

At this age, he can say that he has no regrets.

Li Xiang looked into the distance and murmured to himself: "Teacher, I have done what you expected. I have taken care of the country, the people, my relatives, and my friends."

Qiu Fanghua heard his murmurs and immediately held her lover's hand tighter.

Li Xiang, whose attention was drawn back by the pain, turned around and looked at Qiu Fanghua beside him. The two smiled at each other, with a tacit understanding in their eyes that showed decades of mutual support.

Sun Guoqing and Gu Danniu, who joined the team last, came to their friends after looking at the scenery on the other side.

"The ending is also beautiful, right?" Sun Guoqing hugged Gu Danniu and asked his good friend and his wife.

Li Xiang and Qiu Fanghua looked at this beautiful scene, snuggled together and nodded.

The closing does not mean the end, this brilliant afterglow can still shine for a long time.

(End of this chapter)