Sheriff Uncle, open the door quickly! I've come to solve a case!

"Come down and keep me company..."

The things in the water made a melodious, echoing sound.

Qin Anshi, who was closest to the water's surface, gradually became unfocused, as if he were being bent over. He released the fishing rod and slowly walked into the water.

"Dad," Qin Qingzhou tried to call out, but Qin Anshi did not respond.

"Dad, what's wrong?"

Just as Qin Anshi was about to fall into the water, Bai Zhizhi rushed forward, shouting, "Water ghost, don't hurt people!"

With a wave of his hand, Bai Zhizhi created a transparent barrier in front of Qin Anshi, protecting him on the shore.

Bai Zhizhi then flicked his whisk, and with a flick, the water ghost was swept ashore.

The water ghost was covered in rotten marks and its body was entangled in seaweed, making it impossible to see what it looked like. Its appearance was so disgusting that even Qin Qingzhou slightly looked away.

The moment the water ghost left the surface, Qin Anshi regained his senses, stared wide-eyed at the scene before him, and belatedly felt fear.

The water ghost is like a fish that has come ashore, constantly struggling on the ground.

"I was wrong, please forgive me, little deity?"

The water ghost knew it had messed with the wrong person as soon as it saw the golden light of the immortal on Bai Zhizhi's body, and desperately begged for mercy.

"I didn't hurt anyone, please let me go!"

"If it weren't for Zhizhi, you would have already hurt Grandpa!"

"I see you're incorrigible. Zhizhi let you go this time, but you'll hurt others next time!"

Seeing that Bai Zhizhi was not fooled by his lies, the water ghost gritted his teeth and struggled to fight her to the death.

Bai Zhizhi is incredibly powerful now. She didn't even need to take out a talisman; she simply raised her palm and slapped the air, and the water ghost was dispersed.

Qin Anshi was dumbfounded. When did his little dumpling become so strong?

"Zhizhi, thanks to you for saving Grandpa, you're really amazing!"

Bai Zhizhi proudly asked her grandfather for a kiss: "It's nothing, Grandpa, please be careful in the future~"

……

The first Spring Festival of the year was fast approaching, and the streets were decorated with lanterns and couplets.

This was the first time Bai Zhizhi had ever seen such a festival on the mountain.

"Why does everyone make their homes so red?"

"Because the Spring Festival is just around the corner, and the tradition of the Spring Festival is to decorate the house in red."

What does "Spring Festival" mean?

"The Spring Festival is when everyone grows a year older and enters a new year."

Bai Zhizhi nodded, not sure if she understood or not, but she followed local customs and insisted that Qin Qingzhou buy her a new red dress.

On the last day of kindergarten before the Spring Festival, Teacher Xiaoyang assigned the children a homework assignment.

That is to make dumplings with family and then post photos of the dumpling-making process in the class group.

Qin Qingzhou and his friends are from the south and rarely make dumplings by hand, but they still bought dumpling wrappers and other supplies so that Bai Zhizhi could experience it.

Shen Yanlan also prepared the filling a day in advance, which was full of meat and corn that Zhizhi loved to eat.

Qin Qingzhou had never made dumplings before, and the two of them, one big and one small, stood helplessly in front of the dumpling wrappers.

Bai Zhizhi was even a little better than Qin Qingzhou, because when she was in kindergarten, Teacher Xiaoyang had already taught them a simple way to make dumplings.

"Bai Zhizhi wants to eat lots and lots of meat." Bai Zhizhi drooled with envy as she scooped out a large piece of meat and wrapped it in a dumpling wrapper, which ended up tearing the wrapper.

"Haste makes waste," Qin Qingzhou laughed, as he clumsily made an extremely ugly dumpling.

"Hahaha, Uncle is even less knowledgeable than Zhizhi!"

Shen Yanlan couldn't stand it anymore; if they kept ruining it like this, the whole pot of dumplings would be gone.

She took matters into her own hands and quickly wrapped a very beautiful dumpling, its belly bulging with plenty of meat.

Once wrapped and cooked, each dumpling is round and plump, and looks delicious.

Bai Zhizhi took a bite, and the meat burst with juice in her mouth: "So delicious! This is truly the best meat I've ever eaten!"

"I really want to eat dumplings every day from now on!"

"How about Grandma makes you buns every day?"

The little guy was a bit confused: "But aren't dumplings only eaten during Chinese New Year? Chinese New Year isn't every day."

Qin Qingzhou was amused by Bai Zhizhi's train of thought: "It's true that the New Year isn't celebrated every day, but you can eat the food every day."

"You can tell us whenever you want dumplings, and we'll make them for you."

"So Zhizhi wants to eat dumplings tomorrow too!"

"Can."

Bai Zhizhi's mind raced at this moment: "Uncle said that you can eat food every day, but birthdays only come once a year. But can you eat birthday cake every day? Zhizhi wants to eat birthday cake too."

"That won't do." Qin Qingzhou refused without hesitation.

Bai Zhizhi screamed and slumped into her chair: "Ah...why? Uncle lied to me."

"Because cakes contain a lot of sugar, eating them will cause your teeth to fall out."

"Losing teeth?"

Bai Zhizhi imagined that all her teeth had fallen out, and she wouldn't have the strength to bite food anymore. She wouldn't be able to eat anything delicious in the future, and she was so scared that she quickly covered her mouth.

"Knowing this won't make you lose your teeth; knowing this won't make you eat!"

On the evening of the Spring Festival, Bai Zhizhi was already preparing to take a shower and go to bed as usual when Qin Qingzhou suddenly called her over.

"What's wrong, Uncle?"

"I might go to bed a little later tonight." Qin Qingzhou had something hidden behind her back, but because the thing was so big, a corner of it was sticking out.

It was a red, stick-like thing.

"Uncle, what are you hiding? Are you going to give Zhizhi another gift?"

"You'll find out when we get out."

Qin Qingzhou deliberately didn't say anything and went out with Bai Zhizhi.

Fireworks are not allowed in the city now, so Qin Qingzhou took Bai Zhi and got into the car, driving towards an area where fireworks are allowed.

You can already see people setting off fireworks not far away from the road, and the sky is full of colors.

Bai Zhizhi pressed her face against the car window in delight, staring wide-eyed.

"Why is there color in the sky? Why is there an explosion sound? Did it explode? Zhizhi, go save them!"

"It's not an explosion," Qin Qingzhou said, helping her sit down.

After getting out of the car, Qin Qingzhou took out the handheld fireworks he had prepared.

"This is called fireworks, it's those colorful lights you see."

Bai Zhizhi couldn't imagine that Qin Qingzhou would simply shove the relatively safe handheld firework into her hand, say nothing, and light the fuse.

"Don't move, or you'll get hurt."

"it is good."

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

The firework in my hand made a burning sound, and the next second, colorful flowers burst into flames at the very front of the firework.

"Wow!"

Bai Zhizhi's big eyes reflected the colorful fireworks: "So beautiful!"

"There's more." Qin Qingzhou lit the fireworks in the distance, then quickly ran back and covered Bai Zhizhi's ears.

With a muffled thud, a flower launched into the sky bloomed.

"What huge flowers!"

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