Chapter 12

Kavi took the notebook with surprise, praising Liuhuo for being so amazing. He had been guessing the password for so many years and it was finally unlocked. Although he had some ideas after talking with Ms. Sahhati today, Liuhuo had verified the guess first!

But Kavi was actually a sensitive and delicate person. He could feel that Liuhuo didn’t take his compliments to heart very much - and then he quickly realized...

Ah, little Liuhuo, an orphan who had lost his memories...

Although he didn’t want to compare his misery - his mother was still alive, and now she remarried and moved to Fontaine, living a relatively happy life - but Liuhuo didn’t even have any memories of him, and only knew friends like them, and he had even brought her back from the confinement room...

Kavi had already given Liuhuo a lot of imagination: Maybe she can guess the password, just because she really wants company...

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Elhaisen felt that with Kavi’s personality, he was probably worrying unnecessarily, but he didn’t interrupt Kavi from telling Liuhuo about his childhood memories with his mother - Liuhuo listened very carefully, and added some notes about the mother-son relationship in his mind that only he understood: There was no way, the number of friends she knew in Xumi was gradually increasing, but other types of human emotional interactions were indeed not very observable.

"...Another painting?" Kavi looked at his mother's hand-painted picture. "The blond one should be my father. The others... look familiar..."

Liuhuo answered quickly: "Tinari and Alhaisen are blood relatives..." She pointed to the person on the far right: "Gules."

Ms. Farana's painting was very vivid. When Liuhuo passed by today, Gules was within her perception range - she knew at a glance that this was the appearance of the same human being in different life cycles.

"..." It was hard for Alhaisen to not take a look after hearing his name.

Kavi didn't say anything to Alhaisen, and handed the hand-painted picture to him very straightforwardly.

Although Alhaisen didn't remember his parents well, his logic was good - nearly thirty years ago, Kavi's father's friend, Gules was of the same age - plus the characteristics of Barogasuna and the black symbol of the Zhilun School on the gray-haired man's hat - that could only be his father who he didn't remember well.

Kavi realized that Elhaisen also lost both his parents... so he thought about it and planned to take this painting to show the dinner party tomorrow - and then frame it and hang it in the living room: Why, his mother is a famous architect in Xumi, and her hand-painting is amazing!

Kavi, who was in a very good mood, was still telling Liuhuo that today was not the right time, otherwise he could tell her about the reconstruction project of Omos Port, which was also his proudest work.

"Although Kavi is very happy..." Liuhuo thought, "but he should go to bed, he still needs to refine the design drawings before the dinner party tomorrow..."

Perhaps influenced by Tinari and Elhaisen, Liuhuo has a tendency to correct Kavi's behavior of staying up late or even working all night.

Anyway, Liuhuo followed Elhaisen out the door the next morning - Elhaisen looked at the direction she was walking and had some guesses about where she was going: but this little thing is not enough to make a clerk absent from work.

Liuhuo met the owner of the jewelry store again - he was already impressed by this kid: "Is it Liuhuo? What do you want to buy? Or do you have anything to sell?"

- If he could sell some good things, the boss would be very happy.

This time, unexpectedly, Liuhuo took out a piece of draft paper - obviously, it was left over by Kawi - on which he drew a design of a jewelry.

"Oh, do you want to customize it according to this picture? Let me see... gloves..."

In fact, it was more like a metal gauntlet, but the main joints were made of soft material: "Do you want to embed some gems here?"

Liuhuo: "Buy it?"

"..." The boss was stunned for a moment before he reacted - my goodness, he was being sold a design by a kid...

The boss's first reaction was of course to refuse, but then he realized: Hey, this is not something that cannot be discussed...

Although he is not very interested in this design, if Liuhuo does not ask for a high price, then he will take it as a good thing. After all, he is doing business. Would he be stupid enough to refuse a few worthless favors?

Tsk, and the brocade umbrella that Master Xingqiu gave him to inquire about the news was really exquisite, and those big customers who came only for customization were very satisfied with it...

Liuhuo: "Picture frames... 6... of different sizes."

For Liuhuo, she didn't care whether the specific value of the design was equal to the target product, as long as she could get what she wanted in exchange.

The owner of the jewelry store was happy: "Picture frames? I have quite a few here. Take a look. These woods are good and the carvings are quite fine..."

Liuhuo recalled and pointed at one of them: "This material."

"Oh, Enlightenment Wood..." The owner secretly agreed with Liuhuo's taste, "This wood has a very beautiful texture. I still have a few without carvings. If you want, I'll process them and send them to you?"

Hearing this, Liuhuo couldn't help but take another look at the carvings on the 'sample'...

She shook her head: "I'll do it myself."

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took a few picture frames and walked slowly to a pavilion in the Ordinance Court: After all, it was a bit outrageous to cut wood in the "Palace of Wisdom" - at least Liuhuo had never seen anyone do this in the "Palace of Wisdom" - so she ran to a place where there were not many people and started cutting.

Fortunately, there were not many people passing by, otherwise the knife technique of cutting wood was like cutting plasticine, which would scare people to death.

As for the design drawings of the carved frames... well, Liuhuo had seen so many of Kawi's design drawings after all. He would usually buy decorations and take them as reference. It was no problem to make some simple designs.

After so many revisions, even if her hand speed was guaranteed, it was time to go to Zen Garden.

"Elhaisen? Isn't Liuhuo with you?" Liuhuo had heard Kawi's anxious question, "She's not at home either..."

Compared to Liuhuo not being able to find her, living with Elhaisen was not a big deal - he originally thought that Liuhuo was taken to the "Palace of Wisdom" by Elhaisen as before, so he was not anxious if he didn't see her. As a result, Elhaisen had already arrived, but Liuhuo was nowhere to be seen...

Elhaisen was also quite surprised - he could probably guess what Liuhuo was going to do, but he didn't expect her to arrive later than him.

When Tinari heard this, he also stood up and said that he might as well go find someone first… It was Senor who had a sharp eye (and the right direction), and he was the first to greet Liuhuo: “Liuhuo, here.”

Kavi was relieved immediately: “Liuhuo, you came to Zenna Garden by yourself? That’s amazing…”

—— Anxious? Why are you anxious when you found someone? If you want to be angry, you should be angry at Elhaisen who didn’t keep an eye on him.

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Tinari organized the party to celebrate the end of Cole’s first study plan, but after hearing about it, Cole, who was an i, decided to cram at the last minute to avoid being dominated by ‘I’ll test you’ before he even had his meal.

Tinari, who was worried about Cole’s second study plan, also sought help from his friends—and unsurprisingly got useless answers.

Tinari glanced at Liuhuo: Forget it, this kid, just talking about his learning progress, is also at the genius level… I guess he doesn’t know how to tutor Cole.

Liuhuo: Can you repeat it with the teaching aids I gave you?

After the argument about which academy Cole would enter ended with the second term results being seen first, the desire to go to school still burned to Liuhuo: "Which academy does Liuhuo want to go to?" Tinari opened fire first, "What about Shenglun School? Liuhuo, do you want to make your own illustrated book?"

Kavi followed up: "Miaolun School is also suitable. As for interests, Liuhuo's handicrafts are very good. Look at this puppet of mine!"

What Elhaisen said was also in line with reality: "With her talent for learning languages, she will be proficient in twenty languages before graduation."

Only Seno was really arguing: "Her name is very suitable for Sulun School, and she is also very suitable to be Cole's senior."

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At this time, Kong also appeared with Cole - of course, they left enough delicious food for Paimon.

Kavi also took out the hand-drawn map that he had taken out before. Tinari and Seno were also surprised by this coincidence. Paimon also said that he wanted Paimon to take a commemorative photo for them: Kong was very supportive and had already taken out the camera.

Liuhuo was a little interested in this Fontaine technology. Sora noticed it and asked her if she wanted to give it a try. Kawi also asked Liuhuo if she wanted to stand next to him. Liuhuo shook his head and took a photo of them himself.

Kawi thought that this combination echoed his mother's hand-painted painting, and felt that Sora and the others should also join in. So he volunteered to take another photo of Liuhuo, Sora, Paimon and Cole.

"Let's hang these photos up later..."

The dinner ended in a very happy atmosphere. Kawi also took the opportunity to ask Senor if he could take Liuhuo to Liyue to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Senor thought for two seconds and agreed readily.

Well, although the Grand Disciplinary Officer is very responsible, he is not suspicious. When Cole was in that situation, he was willing to go to Mondstadt in person to bring her back to Xumi and give her to Tinari to take care of her, not to mention Liuhuo who was emotionally stable and helped.

Sora did ask if they wanted to go to Liyue together. He would never miss the Lantern Festival every year.

Kawi had promised Xingqiu to go to Liyue together, so it was a little awkward at this moment. Liuhuo was more direct: "Go with Xingqiu, he seems to know you."

"Xingqiu!" Paimon answered, "Do you know Xingqiu too? That's right, he's the young master of the Chamber of Commerce!"

Hearing that Kong also knew Xingqiu and they had a good relationship, Kawi felt more at ease - he was worried that Liuhuo would be cheated if he went with him, but now - hey, just for fun.

Liuhuo: Cheated? Me?