Luo Yan patted Chen Yuanshan, and Chen Yuanshan put Luo Yan on the ground.
Chen Yuanshan walked into the courtyard and asked Yin Huaiying to come with him.
Yin Huaiying refused to cooperate and picked up a laundry mallet to confront Chen Yuanshan.
Luo Yan took the opportunity to sneak into the house and looked around. There was no one there, so it seemed that Yin Huaiying lived alone.
Just as she was thinking this, Luo Yan, who had entered the kitchen, saw Dr. Li through the window.
Dr. Li waved to Luo Yan and called softly, "Yan Yan, come here."
Luo Yan walked over, and Dr. Li leaned into the window.
"Yanyan, will you come with Uncle?"
Dr. Li's attitude was very sincere, and he didn't seem like the Big Bad Wolf who was trying to deceive Little Red Riding Hood, but why did this person want to take her away?
Luo Yan shook her head.
Dr. Li's face showed signs of anxiety.
"Yanyan, your uncle won't hurt you."
Even if she really wanted to harm her, she wouldn't say it out loud. Luo Yan walked closer and reached out to Dr. Li.
Dr. Li thought Luo Yan had agreed to go with him, so he reached out to her, but Luo Yan grabbed his hand and dragged him inside.
Chen Yuanshan heard a thud from inside the house, rushed in, and saw Dr. Li and Luo Yan lying on the ground staring at each other.
When Yin Huaiying came in, she saw that the look in her eyes as she looked at Dr. Li was like a knife.
Dr. Li hadn't expected Luo Yan to be so strong that she could grab his hand and drag him in from outside the window. He awkwardly stood up from the ground and greeted Chen Yuanshan, looking rather silly, which made it hard for anyone to be on guard.
"What's Dr. Li doing here?" Chen Yuanshan asked, pulling Luo Yan's hand away from Dr. Li.
Dr. Li pointed at Yin Huaiying and said, "I'm here to see my sister."
Yin Huaiying rolled her eyes at Dr. Li and gave a dry, unconvincing admission.
"Yes, he is my brother, my aunt's brother."
Chen Yuanshan asked Dr. Li, "What brings you to see your sister?"
Dr. Li leaned out of the window and picked up a grass carp to show Chen Yuanshan.
"I'm giving one of the fish I caught to my sister."
In an era of scarcity, it was not unusual for doctors to catch fish in their spare time to improve their meals.
Chen Yuanshan took the fish and examined it. "It's quite fresh."
Dr. Li laughed and said, "That's right, it was just pulled out of the river, and it's the biggest one."
Luo Yan keenly smelled the strange odor coming from the fish and pointed at it, saying, "Fish, fish, smells good."
"Little girl, you want to eat fish?" Chen Yuanshan took out three yuan from his pocket and handed it to Yin Huaiying. "I'll buy this fish."
“That won’t do…” Dr. Li interjected, “I went through a lot of trouble to fish this out to give to my sister to help her recover, I’m not selling it.”
Yin Huaiying happily accepted the money from Chen Yuanshan's hand.
"Such a big fish will spoil before we finish eating it. We might as well use the money to buy more eggs. They can also nourish the body and will last longer."
Chen Yuanshan observed their reactions and said, "That's perfect. I'll buy some and have my aunt make fish balls. My daughters Yan Yan and Xiao Xiu love fish balls the most."
After saying that, Chen Yuanshan carried Luo Yan and the fish back home.
As Luo Yan passed by Yin Huaiying, she noticed that Yin Huaiying's hands were trembling violently as she put money into her pocket.
On the way back, Luo Yan asked Chen Yuanshan to put her down.
As Luo Yan walked along the roadside and searched, she actually caught a big rat.
Luo Yan stepped on the rat's tail and used a small twig she picked up from the roadside to choke the rat's neck, making Chen Yuanshan's mouth twitch.
“Fish…” Luo Yan pointed to the fish that Chen Yuanshan was holding in his hand.
Chen Yuanshan asked in confusion, "You're going to feed the rats fish?"
Luo Yan nodded.
"But you can't eat if your neck is choked."
Luo Yan blinked and tilted her head in thought.
Chen Yuanshan broke off some willow branches and wove them into a cage, put the rats inside, and then took out his military knife, cut off a piece of fish, and threw it into the cage.
The big rat in the cage was completely bewildered. It had come out to forage for food and was caught. It thought it would be executed on the spot, but it was just locked up and given food.
The big rat sniffed the fish and realized it didn't taste right and couldn't be eaten.
The two rats waited for a long time, but the big rat didn't eat a single bite.
Chen Yuanshan picked up Luo Yan with one hand and lifted the cage with the other.
There was only fish in the cage. The rats were so hungry they had to eat it, but they had to go home first, otherwise their families would worry.
Sure enough, as soon as Chen Yuanshan brought Luo Yan back, he was given a good scolding by Sun Bailing.
Luo Yan coaxed Sun Bailing, "Daddy Chen, save Auntie."
Sun Bailing, puzzled, asked Chen Yuanshan, "Who did you save?"
Chen Yuanshan told Sun Bailing about his encounter with Yin Huaiying, and Sun Bailing immediately called Aunt Shi over.
"Don't touch the fish that Xiao Chen brought back. Find a shady place to store it and prevent rats from eating it."
As soon as Chen Yuanshan entered the room, he handed the fish to Aunt Shi and told her not to eat it. Aunt Shi agreed and took the fish to the storage room, where she hung it on the beam in front of the window.
Chen Yuanshan then found an iron cage and moved the large rat and fish meat inside.
"Xiao Chen, what are you doing?" Aunt Shi really couldn't understand what Chen Yuanshan was doing.
Chen Yuanshan didn't hide anything, "There's something wrong with the fish."
Aunt Shi suddenly realized, "That's easy. I'll make some meatballs and you can take them to that Dr. Li. Just say they were made with the fish he gave you. If he eats them, it's fine; if he doesn't, then there's a problem."
The two walked back to the living room as they talked, where Sun Bailing was on the phone.
"What, Dr. Li?..."
Upon seeing Chen Yuanshan walk in, Sun Bailing asked him, "Did you buy your fish from Dr. Li?"
Chen Yuanshan took a few quick steps and took the microphone from Sun Bailing's hand.
"Dr. Li, what's wrong?"
Dr. Li, who was standing at the gatehouse with a microphone, apologized.
"I'm sorry, I accidentally put that fish on the pesticide jar under the window. I wouldn't have known if my sister hadn't found it. I've already brought the money over. Please take the fish out and I'll return the money to you."
“Okay…” Chen Yuanshan put down the phone and told Sun Bailing.
Sun Bailing immediately made a phone call, sending people to temporarily detain Dr. Li and to find Yin Huaiying at her home.
The statements given by Dr. Li and Yin Huaiying, who were taken away for questioning, were consistent, and there were indeed pesticide jars under the window; everything seemed reasonable.
In the end, Yin Huaiying and Dr. Li were both released, but Hua Li and Luo Shicheng, who were in Lincheng, were still nowhere to be found.
In the morning, Luo Yan and Xiao Xiu rode in Sun Bailing's car to the kindergarten. As soon as they entered the kindergarten, they saw An Xiaotong being surrounded by the other children like a peacock.
"These are chocolates my aunt brought back from abroad, they're especially delicious..."
An Xiaotong spun around and handed out chocolates with packaging printed with foreign languages.
"An Xiaotong, your dress is so pretty! What kind of dress is it?"
The girls all looked at An Xiaotong's puffy skirt with envy.
An Xiaotong proudly raised her chin, "This is called a princess dress, and my aunt bought it for me from abroad."
Upon noticing Luo Yan's arrival, An Xiaotong strode arrogantly up to her and graciously offered her the chocolate.
"You country bumpkin, you've never had chocolate before, have you? Here, take this."
Luo Yan took out several kinds of chocolates from her handbag, including the same kind that An Xiaotong had, and handed them to Xiao Xiu.
Xiao Xiu knows Versailles very well: "I won't eat it, I'm tired of it."
As she spoke, Xiao Xiu took the candy from Luo Yan's hand and put it back into Luo Yan's handbag.
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