Li Chu carried his daughter directly to the kitchen door and said to Ding Qiunan, "Wife, our daughter has started to learn to talk."

Ding Qiunan was chopping vegetables when she heard his words. She stopped chopping, put down the knife, and came out: "What has she started learning?"

“Look,” Li Chu called out to Xiao Hei again, and Wen Hui obligingly chuckled in response.

Seeing that her daughter had actually started to learn to pronounce words, Ding Qiunan was so happy that she didn't even cook. She wiped her hands on her apron, took her daughter from Li Chu's arms, carried her to the recliner, and started coaxing her daughter to call her "Mom."

Li Chu smiled and shook his head, walked over and took off his wife's apron, then put it on himself. Someone has to cook, after all.

As for Xiao Hei, Li Chu was still quite disappointed at this moment. After all, he had raised it for three years, how could he not have feelings for it?

But now there's nowhere to look for it. If it was taken away, there's no way to find it again. If it just ran off to play, it will come back on its own.

At this moment, Ding Qiunan also came over carrying the child: "Li Chu, didn't you find Xiao Hei when you went out to look for him?"

Li Chu simply shook his head and didn't say anything.

"Where could Xiao Hei have run off to?" Ding Qiunan asked anxiously.

Just then, she heard her son crying from inside the house, so she had to suppress her anxiety and go see him first.

"Sigh," Li Chu sighed after Ding Qiunan left. He was anxious too, but there was nothing he could do.

During mealtimes, each child holds one of them. Ding Qiunan stopped breastfeeding after she went back to work.

Now we're not only feeding them formula, but we've also started feeding them porridge.

Li Chu and Ding Qiunan felt very uncomfortable without Xiao Hei, who used to hover around them during meals.

After feeding the two children and putting them in the stroller next to them, the two children began to eat.

Just then, both of them heard a familiar humming sound coming from the doorway.

Li Chu turned around and saw that it was indeed Xiao Hei standing at the door, looking meek and submissive, as if it was afraid of being punished by its master and dared not come in.

Seeing its cowardly appearance made Li Chu laugh in exasperation.

Ding Qiunan waved to the outside: "Come in quickly, Xiao Hei."

Upon hearing the mistress's call, Xiao Hei ran in, went straight to Li Chu, grabbed his trouser leg, and pulled it out.

"Huh, what's going on?" Li Chu stood up and followed Xiao Hei out. Ding Qiunan also stood up curiously.

Following them to the doorway, Xiao Hei sat down on the ground to the right of the gate, sticking out his tongue and looking at the ground.

Li Chu then noticed two small dogs huddled together on the ground in the corner, shivering. He squatted down, picked one up, and examined it. It seemed to be about the same size as when he found Little Black.

"Little Black, where did you get this?"

"Woof," Xiao Hei couldn't speak, it just barked at Li Chu.

Li Chu was having a bit of a headache. Should he keep them or not? Two? That seemed a bit too many. What if Xiao Hei brought him a few more some one day? Would his house turn into a dog paradise?

Little Black seemed to sense its owner's hesitation, nuzzling Li Chu's hand with its head and whimpering twice.

Forget it, they are two lives after all, let's take them back first.

Li Chu picked up the two puppies, stood up, and then looked around both sides of the alley. Not finding any other large dogs, he then walked into the yard.

Seeing that he was holding two more puppies, Ding Qiunan put down her chopsticks and came over: "What's going on? Where did these come from?"

"You'll have to ask Xiao Hei for that; who knows where it got it from?"

Li Chu put the two puppies under the eaves by the door, on the mat where Xiao Hei usually lay.

Ding Qiunan picked one up and looked at it, saying, "This can't be Xiao Hei's cub, it looks just like it when it was a kitten."

Hearing his wife's words, Li Chu squatted down again and picked up one, looking at it more and more like it.

"Holy crap, Little Black, is this your seed?"

Little Black lay quietly beside the mat, its eyes rolling upwards as it looked at Li Chu.

"But don't male dogs usually ignore puppies?" Li Chu still found it somewhat unbelievable.

"Something must have happened to the mother dog, that's why Xiao Hei brought her puppies back." Ding Qiunan put the dog back on the mat, clapped her hands, and stood up.

"I'll go make some formula for Li Chu, let's raise him for now."

"Alright." Nodding, Li Chu put down the puppy in his hand and reached out to rub Xiao Hei's head: "You really know how to cause me trouble."

After Ding Qiunan prepared the milk powder and brought it over, the two of them stopped eating and just squatted there watching.

Little Black, however, was quite carefree and ran back to the stroller to check on its two little owners.

Li Chu and Ding Qiunan didn't eat their cold meal until the two puppies finished drinking their milk.

The next morning, when Aunt Wang came over, she saw two more puppies in the house: "Xiao Chu, do you have nothing better to do? Why are you raising so many dogs?"

"Auntie, this isn't something I wanted to raise. I've already brought Xiao Hei home, I can't just throw it away, can I?" Li Chu said with a wry smile.

Aunt Wang reached out and poked his forehead: "You're always busy, aren't the two kids enough to keep you both tired?"

Then, looking at Ding Qiunan beside him, he said, "Qiunan, you too, why don't you do something about him? You just watch him act up. You need to stand up for yourself and take charge of things in this family."

Ding Qiunan chuckled and walked over to take Aunt Wang's arm, saying, "Auntie, I'll listen to you. I'll definitely take care of everything at home from now on."

"Alright, alright, you two go to work now. I'm just worrying for nothing. I think you're both cut from the same cloth." Aunt Wang waved them away and went inside to see her grandnephew and grandniece.

During this period, it seems as if the patients had conspired together, and hospitals throughout Beijing have been deserted.

Of course, every doctor also wishes for a world free from illness.

Just as Li Chu sat down in the consultation room, a man in a white shirt walked in.

"Xiao Zhang, what brings you here?"

The person who came in was Zhang Weigang, the driver from the health care team.

"Dr. Li, Deputy Team Leader Yang asked me to come and pick you up."

After Zhang Weigang said that, Li Chu understood what was going on. Deputy Team Leader Yang was in charge of personnel allocation within the team.

But I still felt a little surprised. I've never been called out for a house call before. Usually, it's the dedicated doctors who handle these cases.

"Okay, wait in the car for a moment, I'll go say hello." Li Chu thought to himself but didn't stop. He put his bag on his back, ran over to greet Director Liang and Ding Qiunan, and then got into the car and drove off.

Nurse Wang in the clinic was already used to Li Chu leaving work on a whim.

She knew in her heart that Dr. Li should still have a job, and the hospital knew that, which was why he often didn't come to work.

She likes it this way; she does less work but earns a good salary, and can take better care of her family.

Li Chu was taken directly by car to the compound where Uncle Wang lived.

When the guards at the gate checked him, they noticed he was visibly startled, but then they simply glanced at Zhang Weigang's work ID and let him through.