How can one become an immortal with such laziness?

He couldn't help but roll his eyes, stretch, think for a moment, and then walk towards the courtyard outside the gate.

...............

"Oh dear, Mom, you've been waiting so long! Come and teach me!"

Hongli breathed a sigh of relief when she confirmed that Heiyang really hadn't been peeking this time. She turned her head and saw her mother looking at her with amusement. Her face flushed slightly, and she couldn't help but speak.

"Mom, what are you laughing at!"

"What's wrong? Can't Mom even let Xiaoxiao laugh? Our Xiaoli is so bossy!"

Lan Yuying sighed heavily, feigning sadness, with an expression of utter misfortune befell her family.

"Ah this..."

Hongli looked at her dramatic mother and chuckled, revealing her half-moon eyes.

To be fair, other things might have been taught to her by Hei Yang, but her dramatic flair is probably hereditary.

"Mom! I'm eighteen now, not a three-year-old anymore!"

Hongli pouted in feigned displeasure, which made Lan Yuying laugh.

"Hehe, okay, okay, I'm just teasing you."

Lan Yuying shook her head with a smile and chuckled, "I wonder who it was a few months ago, the day before they were to get married, who was hugging their mother and crying their eyes out."

Saying she doesn't want to grow up and still wants to be a child...

"Oh dear, those who know, know!"

Hongli waved her hand and chuckled, "When people say they miss their childhood, aren't they just missing their childhood? Okay?"

Being scolded by parents, criticized by teachers, or punished in childhood can be somewhat overlooked.

"Oh, so you only want rights and not obligations, is that it?"

Lan Yuying pointed at Hong Li, shook her head and chuckled.

"You've been the same since you were a child!"

"Hmm, I'm still the same girl I always was, without the slightest change."

Hongli hummed and walked over to her mother, Lan Yuying, stretched, and looked full of energy.

"Come on, Mom, start teaching me!"

Hong Li looked up at Lan Yuying and said confidently, "Hei Yang would never guess that there are more than a few dishes today!"

All the dishes he eats will be cooked by me, hehe!

"Tsk tsk, you two, always bickering and fighting, you're both just little kids!"

Lan Yuying smiled and shook her head, then began to teach Hong Li seriously.

Lan Yuying first demonstrated a few movements to Hongli, then told her the steps, and then supervised Hongli to do the work by herself.

Her daughter said that she did all the work today and didn't let her interfere, so Lan Yuying was naturally happy to have some free time.

Seeing her daughter's serious expression, completely unlike her usual fear of trouble, she couldn't help but marvel.

"So I think the sun is rising in the west."

As Lan Yuying watched Hong Li cook, she teased, "Why has my little lazy cat suddenly become so diligent?"

Oh my, you really like Xiaoyang that much!

If you like each other so much, do you hold hands and hug each other all day long, doing everything together?

"Oh dear, oh dear, no, no, you're just stating the obvious..."

Hong Li chuckled awkwardly, coughed twice, and made an excuse, saying, "It's because I was in the Five Elements Sect last year, and he rushed to find me."

As a result, I wasn't able to be by his side to celebrate his birthday...

"So angry!"

As she spoke, Hongli became a little angry. She said unhappily, "Ever since I was five, I've been there for every birthday of Heiyang!"

But I was absent that time, leaving him all alone. Ugh, just thinking about it makes me so unhappy!

As a result, he was still by my side on my birthday, along with several friends.

Last year, comparing Hei Yang's birthday to mine made me feel really guilty!

Hongli sighed, her face turning fierce as she said, "So, on his birthday this year, I'm going to make it up to him, or I'll make it up to him on his birthday next year, and on his birthday the year after that, and on his birthday the year after that..."

"Okay, okay, I know, I know, you'll make it up to me handsomely, right?"

Lan Yuying waved her hand, rolled her eyes, and laughed, "You still say you like him so much? You're just being hypocritical, aren't you!"

"Hehe, where can I find it?"

Hong Li chuckled.

"I never said I didn't like him, so how did that become hypocrisy? Hehe."

"You are the only one who is smart."

Lan Yuying tapped Hong Li's head, watched as the other party let out an exaggerated scream, laughed and scolded, her eyes full of amusement.

"But Xiao Li..."

Lan Yuying suddenly wanted to say something.

"Ok?"

Hongli was chopping vegetables when she asked curiously, "What's wrong? What did Mom want to say?"

"Ah, it's nothing really, it's just that after hearing what you just said, I feel a little regretful."

Lan Yuying waved her hand with a smile, looking at Hong Li with some heartache.

"You only met Xiaoyang when you were five years old. Before that, I celebrated every one of your birthdays with you, and I never missed a single one."

I couldn't be there for your birthday last year, which must have been a real shame.

"Oh, what's the big deal?"

Hongli smiled nonchalantly and said, "Okay, okay, I admit I really missed you guys back then."

But isn't that all from last year? We're still together for our birthdays this year!

It seems like something has changed, but in reality, nothing has changed; we're still the same as before.

"Moreover……"

Hongli paused, then shook her head and said, "The moon wanes when it is full, and water overflows when it is full. Nothing in the world is perfect."

A few minor regrets are part of life!

If you give in to everyone's every whim, wouldn't people become bad? Don't you think so, Mom?

"Ah, yes, yes."

Lan Yuying laughed and scolded in an annoyed tone, "So it's your turn to lecture your old mother on grand principles, huh?"

"Mom, I know just as many道理 (principles/truths) as you do!"

"Yes, yes, Mom, you're a lady from a respectable family, and I'm just a crazy girl, so I definitely don't know as much as you do, hehe..."

"You're going to get a beating from your mom sooner or later. I'll teach you a lesson, you brat."

"Hehe, you've been saying that for over a decade, and you still haven't taken action!"

Hongli laughed as she exposed her mother's lie.

"Hmph, what's the rush!"

Lan Yuying snorted and feigned displeasure, saying, "It's only been a little over ten years, not long at all. I haven't even prepared any plans to deal with you yet. Just wait, you'll get what's coming to you sooner or later!"

"Yes, yes, hehe, you can continue preparing. There are plenty of days ahead, you can prepare for hundreds of years."

"This girl is just talking nonsense. Hundreds of years from now, even your mother will be dust..."

"Pah, pah, pah! Mom, don't talk nonsense! If I say it's possible, then it's possible! I'll get angry if you keep talking nonsense!"

"Alright, alright, Xiao Li is right!"

"Hmph, of course!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 394 Sigh, the brightest smiles of my life have probably all been given to my phone screen.

While chatting and laughing with her mother, Hongli was preparing the ingredients in her hands.

Under her mother's approving gaze, Hongli, perhaps due to practice, became increasingly skilled, her movements becoming more and more refined.

"Hey, that's great."

Lan Yuying looked at Hong Li with a smile and praised, "As expected of my little Li, she can do what she wants!"

"Yes, I definitely inherited my mom's skillful hands; she's just like her."

"Tsk tsk..."