Chapter 115
As early as the day Zhou Yi was sent to the hospital, Li Yubai sent Zhou Daqiang's hair and blood as well as Zhou Yi's hair and blood to the city center for testing.
As for where Zhou Daqiang got his blood, he was injured and hospitalized, so it was very easy to get some blood.
The appraisal typically takes eight to ten working days. Zhou Yi, upon hearing this news, was both excited and anxious. Furthermore, with nothing to do in the hospital, he couldn't help but let his thoughts wander. After three days, unable to bear it any longer, he secretly left the hospital.
It was not until Zhou Yi returned to Changli Village with the refunded hospital fees and handed them to Li Yubai in person that Li Yubai knew he was discharged from the hospital.
The total amount of hospitalization fees refunded by the hospital was 2,315 yuan, and the money that fell into Li Yubai's hands was also 2,315 yuan, not a penny less.
When sending Zhou Yi to the hospital, Li Yubai knew that Zhou Yi had no money on him, which meant that he had walked for five hours and walked back from the county after being discharged from the hospital quietly.
Looking at the man in front of him who was pursing his lips shyly, lowering his head and snapping his fingers, hesitantly saying that he would pay him back later, Li Yubai turned his hand and stuffed the two thousand into Zhou Yi's hand without knowing how he did it.
Looking at the money in his hand, Zhou Yi looked up at him in surprise.
Li Yubai said calmly, "Since you have to pay it back, I don't mind the extra two thousand. Once the appraisal results come out, there will always be places where you can use the money. You can use it for emergencies and just remember to pay it back later."
Zhou Yi looked at the money in his hand, stammering without saying a word. Finally, he bowed deeply to Li Yubai at a ninety-degree angle, closed his eyes and said loudly, "Thank you. I will repay you double in the future."
Jiaojiao, who was standing by, watched his movements and curiously tried to imitate his bow. However, before she could even bend her waist, Li Yubai picked her up and held her in his arms.
Reaching out and pinching Jiaojiao's chubby face, Li Yubai said helplessly, "Why do you have to learn everything you see?"
Jiaojiao smiled sweetly at her father, lowered her head and rubbed her furry head against her father's chin coquettishly.
Li Yubai smiled, held his head, and turned to walk into the mushroom house.
Zhou Yi watched them leave and turned to walk towards Zhou's house.
Zhou Daqiang is still in the hospital, and Zhou Yaozu, who was staying at home alone, was taken away by his maternal grandparents. Zhou Yi, who returned to the village, couldn't find a place to go, so he planned to continue staying in the Zhou family temporarily.
Originally, he just wanted to stay at the Zhou family and wait for the identification results to come out. He didn't intend to care about the Zhou family's affairs anymore. He just looked at the pigs and chickens that were grunting with hunger, thinking that they were raised by him bit by bit, and finally he couldn't help but cook pig feed and chicken feed.
After feeding the pigs and chickens, Zhou Yi went to the mountain, picked a lot of rice, soaked it, washed it, and made two grasshoppers out of straw. He couldn't wait to give them to Jiaojiao.
Jiaojiao, who had just finished working in the fields with a small bamboo basket on her back, was dragged out by her father. She was now sitting obediently under the shade of a tree, holding a water bottle. When she saw Zhou Yi, she stood up with her hands on the ground and said happily, "Brother Zhou Yi, are you here to play with Jiaojiao?"
"Yeah." Zhou Yi responded and walked forward, handing the grasshopper and rice balls in his hand to Jiaojiao. There was a little nervousness in his eyes, as if he was afraid that Jiaojiao would dislike the grasshoppers he had made. "This is for you."
Unexpectedly, Jiaojiao not only did not dislike it, but liked it very much. She took it with both hands, touched it carefully, turned around and walked with her short legs to happily show it to her father.
"Dad, Dad, look, this is the grasshopper that Brother Zhou Yi made for Jiaojiao."
Hearing this, Li Yubai walked over to take a look. After finding that it was indeed well woven, he said, "Well, it looks good."
Jiaojiao curved her eyes and handed one to Li Yubai: "One for Daddy and one for Jiaojiao."
Li Yubai took the grasshopper from him, and when he found he couldn't find a place to put it, he came out of the field, picked up Jiaojiao in his arms, and walked to the side to select some resilient grass. After learning how to weave a grass cage from Zhou Yi, he made a miniature version of it himself, just enough to fit the grasshopper.
Li Yubai put the grasshopper that Jiaojiao gave him into a small grass cage, hung it on his wrist and shook it. He felt relieved when he found it was very sturdy.
In this way, the grasshopper that Jiaojiao gave him will not fall off while he is working.
After doing all this, when Li Yubai stood up to get off the ground, Jiaojiao, who was sitting next to him, hugged his arm.
He looked down and saw Jiaojiao looking up at him and smiling. Her voice sounded soft and tender, with a hint of coquettishness in it. "Jiaojiao wants one too. Daddy will weave it for me."
A smile appeared in Li Yubai's dark eyes. He sat back down, took Jiaojiao into his arms, and held his little hand, teaching him how to weave a straw cage step by step.
The sunlight passed through the treetops and quietly fell on the two of them, one big and one small. A breeze blew by, and insects chirped and birds sang. This healing and heartwarming scene took place in the live broadcast room and was also reflected in the eyes of Zhou Yi who was standing nearby.
He secretly felt envious and began to secretly hope that after finding his real family, he would be able to get along with his father like this.
After Li Yubai held Jiaojiao's hand and weaved a slightly crooked straw cage, he stood up and walked to the field to continue working.
After staying for a while, Zhou Yi somewhat awkwardly led Jiaojiao, Cao Yuhao and the others to play the game of "Eagle Catches Chicken" that he had seen the children in the village play before.
When playing this game, Jiaojiao, who had the shortest legs among the group, was chased and ran away howling, and became visibly more lively.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye. Since Zhou Yi came back, he would come to the field to find Jiaojiao every day, bring Jiaojiao some wild fruits and berries, and make various small toys such as grasshoppers, butterflies, and frogs. He would also take Jiaojiao, Cao Yuhao and others to play various games that he had seen the children in the village play, such as dropping the handkerchief, catching cats, and jumping rubber bands.
The popularity of Shikongzaizai’s live broadcast has increased a lot because of this. Today’s netizens love to watch this kind of healing and cheerful daily life.
However, Zhou Yi's arrival not only gave Jiaojiao and the others more things to do, but also helped Li Yubai and Lu Yian who were farming.
Originally, Zhou Yi wanted to help with farming, but the program team didn't allow it, so he just offered some opinions and suggestions from the side.
After all, he can be said to be very good at farming. When he was very young, he was taken to the fields by Zhou Daqiang to work. If he did not work efficiently, he would be beaten when he returned. In this case, it is impossible for him not to understand farming.
Zhou Yi told Li Yubai and the others many details about farming that were not mentioned in books or on the Internet. He corrected their hoe swinging posture, told them how to swing the hoe with the least effort, what was the most appropriate degree of turning the soil, how to disinfect, how to apply fertilizer, and the most appropriate number of seeds to put in a hole.
Actually, they can ask the old farmers in the village about this knowledge, but they need to pay work points when asking these old farmers about farming knowledge. This is arranged by the program team in order to show the thrifty and frugal nature of their calculations and their reluctance to spend work points to the audience, which adds a bit of fun.
However, they didn't expect that someone like Zhou Yi would show up halfway through, and the program team didn't have any explicit rules prohibiting such a situation, so Li Yubai and the others took advantage of it.
Therefore, Shi Yue couldn't help but hug Jiaojiao and rub against her: "Our Jiaojiao is really a lucky little star. Making a friend is a big help."
Although she didn't know what "little lucky star" meant, Jiaojiao knew she was being praised, and smiled happily, praising her back and forth: "Auntie is a big lucky star."
Shi Yue was so amused that she couldn't help but hugged Jiaojiao and kissed her fiercely, and then rubbed her again.
So cute! So cute!
This cub of cousin Li is so cute, soft and adorable!
I really want to steal it home!
Because her mother and Chu Yao were very good friends, Shi Yue had always called Li Yubai "cousin". However, after she found out that Li Yubai was not from the Li family, her mother stopped her from calling him that, saying that it would make Aunt Chu sad.
And because of Li Yubai's personality, she was not very familiar with him. They had only met three times since they were young.
Jiaojiao, who was stunned by the kiss, raised her little paws and pressed against Shi Yue's face: "Auntie doesn't kiss me!"
Shi Yue held Jiaojiao's little paw and kissed it, then smiled and said, "Kissing is a way to express affection. Auntie likes Jiaojiao so much."
Jiaojiao, who was told directly that she liked him, smiled happily but embarrassedly, pursing her lips.
Li Yubai strode over and bent down to take Jiaojiao from Shi Yue's arms. He reached into Jiaojiao's pocket and took out a wet wipe, focusing on wiping the place where Jiaojiao was kissed.
There was no expression on his face, and he was thinking in his heart that it was true. He himself had never kissed Jiaojiao on the face!
In the live broadcast room, the aunts and uncles who raised Jiaojiao were already crying out loud when Shi Yue kissed Jiaojiao's face, as if their baby had been snatched away.
'Ahhh, she kissed, she actually kissed my Jiaozi on the face!'
"I didn't even kiss my little one's face!!!"
'Ahhh, my Jiaozi's face is dirty!'
"Ahhh, please rewind time! I'm going to cover Shi Yue's mouth!"
"My cub, my cub's fair little face has been tarnished!"
"Shi Yue, the hatred for stealing my baby's face is irreconcilable!"
'Oh, I'm so jealous! I want to kiss Jiaojiao too!'
While netizens in the live broadcast room were going crazy, Jiaojiao, who was in her father's arms, looked up at her father, put her little paws on her father's shoulders, rubbed her body upwards, and then kissed her father on the face.
Li Yubai froze and looked down at Jiaojiao.
Jiaojiao's eyes sparkled as she looked up at her father with a happy smile, saying each word seriously, "Jiaojiao loves Daddy!"
Li Yubai was speechless, then chuckled.
If the netizens in the live broadcast room were just a little jealous just now, now they are completely jealous, and the words between the lines of the barrage are full of jealousy.
"Li Yubai, put down the cub in your hand immediately!"
'Give me back my baby's first kiss!'
"I don't accept that my child only likes me!"
However, no matter how much netizens throw a tantrum, their demands are destined not to reach the other side of the video.
When Lu Jie and the others arrived at Changli Village, Jiaojiao was sowing seeds with her father, carrying a small basket on her back. However, she was pulled out of the field by Li Yubai again after only two sowings.
Jiaojiao, who had already gotten used to it, clapped her hands and ran towards the shade of the tree, but before she got there, she saw three familiar people.
Jiaojiao stopped and stared at the person standing not far away and waving at him for a long time. When he found out that it was really Jun Che, he ran over with his short legs.
The program crew had been informed in advance that they would not allow these three people who suddenly appeared to enter the live broadcast room.
So the netizens in the live broadcast room watched Jiaojiao running forward with her short legs, and then ran out of the screen.
Where is my baby?
No picture at all?
When netizens were puzzled, Jiaojiao had already run to Jun Che and the others and asked happily: "Brother Jun Che, Brother Zheng Yu, Uncle Lu, are you here to see Jiaojiao?"
"No." Jun Zhengyu squatted down with a serious face and poked Jiaojiao's face. Seeing that Jiaojiao did not show any expression of loss or sadness, he smiled and said, "We are here to give Jiaojiao a gift."
As he said this, he stepped aside, revealing the gift behind him.
"Wow!" Jiaojiao exclaimed softly, trotted forward and gently touched it before retracting her hand. She turned her head happily to look at Jun Che and said, "Little car."
"Yeah." Jun Che held Jiaojiao's hand: "I bought it with my pocket money. Do you like it?"
"like."
Hearing Jiaojiao say that he liked it, Jun Che pursed his lips and smiled: "You can drive it and have fun, Jiaojiao, do you want to drive it?"
"But Jiaojiao won't bloom!" Jiaojiao said.
"I'll drive!" Cao Yuhao, who appeared out of nowhere, raised his hand and said, "I can drive."
His family has several of these small cars, and when he has nothing to do, he drives them around the community.
Because Jun Che was not familiar with the roads in Changli Village, the driving position was eventually taken over by Cao Yuhao, who could drive a car.
He could only sit in the back seat with Jiaojiao and be taken around Changli Village by Cao Yuhao.
Cao Yuhao, who hadn't driven a car for a long time and was itching to drive, wanted to show Jiaojiao his skills as soon as he touched the steering wheel.
They stepped on the accelerator and drove out, making several beautiful drifts in succession, which made Jiaojiao laugh happily and attracted the children in the village to chase after them.
The netizens in the live broadcast room could hear the sound but could not see the picture. They were so anxious that they kept running to the director's official Weibo and yelling, asking the director to turn the camera around quickly because they wanted to see the cub.
However, the director was very cold and did not give them any response, which made netizens so angry that they threatened to send razor blades to his home.
On this side, maybe it was because of excessive joy that led to sorrow, or maybe it was because they hadn't driven a car in a long time, so their hands were a little unfamiliar. In just a moment of not paying attention, Cao Yuhao, Jiaojiao and the others, along with their car, fell into a mud pit on the side.
Lu Jie and Jun Zhengyu, who had been keeping an eye on them, were startled and rushed over to carry the three people out of the mud.
"Pah, pah, pah." Jiaojiao in Lu Jie's arms spat out the mud in her mouth, lowered her head to look at her dirty appearance, then looked at Uncle Lu Jie's soiled clothes, and said "ah" guiltily: "Uncle Lu, I'm sorry, Jiaojiao made your clothes dirty."
Lu Jie looked at Jiaojiao, who had turned into a mud man but did not cry or make a fuss and even apologized. He couldn't help but touch his muddy head and said, "It's okay, just go back and wash it."
Jiaojiao looked up at him. All that could be clearly seen on her muddy face were her dark eyes. "Jiaojiao, wash uncle."
"You're still young, you don't need to wash."
"Then Jiaojiao will wash uncle when she grows up."
What clothes should be washed after growing up?
Lu Jie thought about it and couldn't help laughing, "Okay."
Cao Yuhao, who was put down by Jun Zhengyu, pouted in grievance. The pain from the fall was not as sad as trying to be cool in front of Jiaojiao, but ended up overturning the car and causing Jiaojiao to fall into the mud.
He sniffed, but still couldn't help crying out loud.
Jun Che, who was standing next to him, moved aside with a look of disgust, looked up at Jiaojiao who was being held by her uncle, and asked worriedly, "Jiaojiao, are you okay?"
Jiaojiao looked down at him: "It's okay."
"Are you hurt?"
Jiaojiao stretched out her finger and compared: "It hurts a little bit."
When Jun Che was about to say something, he saw Jiaojiao had overturned and fallen into a mud pit. Li Yubai had already strode over and took Jiaojiao from Lu Jie's arms: "Are you hurt?"
Jiaojiao, held in her father's arms, stretched out her short legs and pointed at her knees with her little paws: "It hurts here."
Li Yubai rolled up his trouser legs and found that his knees were slightly red and swollen. He frowned slightly and strode towards the mushroom house while holding Jiaojiao.
The injury on Jiaojiao's knee was not serious, just a little redness and swelling, but Li Yubai couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in his heart when he saw it.
Raising a child seems to be like this. Any little injury to the child is like a serious blow to the adult's heart.
When the clay figurine Xiao Jiaojiao returned to the mushroom house, washed off the mud, applied medicine on his knees, changed into clean clothes and came to the colorful mushroom house, Jun Che and Cao Yuhao also took a bath and changed into clean clothes.
Jiaojiao got down from her father's arms and ran up to them, smiling with her eyebrows curved. The two of them couldn't help laughing when they looked at Jiaojiao.
Children's emotions change quickly, and friendships are formed quickly. Soon, Jun Che, who had just arrived, was playing with Cao Yuhao, Lou Yaoyao, Shi Huairou, Mu Yicheng and others under Jiaojiao's leadership.
Jun Zhengyu was very happy to see this scene. His younger brother should have had a few good friends.
Lu Jie standing by was also happy. He was also glad to see his quiet nephew become more lively.
In the office of the president of Li Group, after learning that the person who adopted Jiaojiao was Li Yubai and that the relevant departments had approved it and were waiting for Li Yubai to go back and register Jiaojiao, Li Jingyi couldn't help but throw the coffee in his hand away.
The rich bitter smell of coffee exploded in the air, and Li Jingyi gradually calmed down as he smelled it.
He had watched the recording of Time and Space Baby and understood better than anyone that Li Yubai's transformation came from that child.
Li Yubai suffers from emotional deficiency disorder, which he heard from his parents. It is precisely because of this disease that they, including his grandfather, have no feelings for Li Yubai.
He had also observed Li Yubai in the past two years and found that he really rarely had any emotional ups and downs, and always had a calm look on his face.
Li Jingyi felt very happy about this. A person who has never experienced joy, a person who cannot hate others, is very pathetic to a certain extent.
However, the appearance of this child triggered Li Yubai's emotional changes, making him become more and more like a human being, more and more happy, more and more comfortable, more and more happy, but also more and more annoying.
Also because of this child, different voices appeared on the Internet, which had originally been one-sidedly condemning Li Yubai, because most people believed that a person who could patiently take care of a child who was not related to him by blood could not be that bad.
More and more people are impressed by the charm displayed by Li Yubai, but most of this charm comes from his appearance, muscles, and the ability to work quickly without getting tired. Of course, the most important thing is that Li Yubai has the halo of a genius.
Li Jingyi knew better than anyone how fake the negative information about Li Yubai was. These fabricated negative information had no basis to support their claims.
So it’s fine when netizens don’t care about the evidence, but once they start to care, all the negative information about Li Yubai will be cleared up.
This is what Li Jingyi doesn't want to see. He wants to see Li Yubai in poverty, wants to see him being condemned by everyone, and wants to see him being forced to quit the entertainment industry.
Anything that is bad for Li Yubai is good for him.
Thinking about this, Li Jingyi made a phone call: "Find an opportunity to spread the news that Li Yubai has emotional deficiency disorder. Remember to make it as loud as possible. Then spread the news that Mu Nuo adopted a child from an orphanage."
Muno is an actor with a huge fan base. Once the news of his adoption of a child is released, it will surely attract huge attention and traffic.
"Once the situation reaches a certain level, we will spread the news that Li Yubai has adopted the child named Jiaojiao."
"Then they draw the attention of netizens to why an emotionally deprived person would adopt a child with whom he has no blood relationship, unless there is some benefit for him to do so."
"Finally, the news spread that this child was originally going to be adopted by Mu Nuo, and the paperwork had been submitted, but Li Yubai used some means to force Mu Nuo to withdraw the adoption procedures."
In this case, those who were originally not interested in this matter would also be curious about how Li Yubai, such an unknown figure, forced Mu Nuo, the Grand Slam actor, to withdraw the adoption procedures. Does he have any leverage over actor Mu?
At the same time, whether because their brother has been wronged or to prevent their brother's handle from being exposed, Mu Nuo's fans will attack Li Yubai like crazy.
Li Jingyi not only wants Li Yubai's reputation to become even worse, but also wants him to be unable to adopt the child named Jiaojiao.
Let him know that an emotionally deficient person is not qualified to adopt a child.
When the time comes, he will hold this child in his hands. Given how much Li Yubai values this child, it will be like he is holding Li Yubai's lifeblood in his hands!
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