Hua Li changed her clothes and came downstairs. She had just entered the living room when Shen Suyin called her back.
"Don't you have anything to say to me?" Since Hua Li is her daughter, she is willing to give her another chance. Shen Suyin felt that she had never been so magnanimous before, and she deserved praise.
Hua Li nodded, "Yes..."
After saying that, Hua Li quickly went back upstairs and came down again, placing one hundred yuan on the coffee table in front of Shen Suyin.
"I gave away some of the food you prepared for the family. I calculated it, and it was worth at least a hundred yuan."
Shen Suyin laughed in anger, "Hua Li, you did this on purpose, just to annoy me?"
Hua Li remained calm. "Why would I be angry with you? Isn't it only natural to pay for what you give?"
Shen Suyin pointed at the doll in Luo Yan's hand, "I spent over ten thousand US dollars on this, give it back to me."
"The person you gave me isn't Yan Yan. If you want money, you have to ask Yan Yan for it."
"Can you please not drag me into your mother-daughter feud?" Luo Yan said helplessly.
"Yanyan is your daughter, and she can't earn money right now. If you, as her mother, don't give her anything, who will?"
Hua Li frowned. "If you ask me, as a mother, whether I should buy such an expensive doll for Yan Yan, I definitely won't agree. You acted first and asked for my permission later, so I can't take responsibility."
Shen Suyin stamped her foot, "A-Ling, look at her..."
Sun Bailing, who had been called out, reluctantly looked away from the chessboard and tried to persuade Hua Li.
"Your mother dotes on Yan Yan only because you're her daughter..."
Then it was mentioned that Shen Suyin was involved.
"Why did you buy a gift for your granddaughter but not for your daughter? It's understandable that your daughter is unhappy."
"I didn't mean that."
"I'm not buying it. It's her fault for always going against me."
The mother and daughter finished speaking at the same time, glanced at each other, and then looked away.
Luo Yan knew that Hua Li harbored resentment towards Shen Suyin, but she still returned the doll to Shen Suyin.
Shen Suyin was taken aback. "Yanyan, don't you like dolls?"
Luo Yan said, "Thank you, Grandma."
She liked dolls, but she liked her mother even more, so she couldn't make things difficult for her mother.
Shen Suyin was heartbroken. Seeing this, Sun Bailing asked Hua Li to go outside and sit under the grape trellis to talk.
Before Sun Bailing could ask, Hua Li revealed the true cause of Luo Ankang's death.
"If my mother was convinced from the beginning that Xiang Yu was not her daughter, why didn't she have someone investigate in China? Why did she let Xiang Yu do whatever she wanted with the help of the Shen family?"
Without my mother's indulgence, Xiang Yu would never have been able to do this. I don't blame her, but I can't forgive her either.
"Since you're back, I'll move back over there tomorrow. I'll come back to see you when I have time."
Sun Bailing remained silent for a long time before speaking.
"Your mother fell ill shortly after going abroad. She was very ill and it took her three years to fully recover."
Xiang Yu was her only comfort during her illness, so she kept her by her side after she recovered.
She didn't ask anyone to help her find you because she didn't have the courage to face the worst possible outcome, not because she didn't care about you.
As for what Xiang Yu did, not even your mother, let alone your uncles, noticed it. How can you blame your mother for it?
"She wasn't completely unaware; otherwise, how would you explain her going to the neighboring city to follow and investigate Xiang Yu?"
Sun Bailing slowly scratched his head, "She only noticed it because Xiang Yu frequently returned to China."
She's your mother, you can't be too harsh on her.
"But she's very harsh on me..."
Sun Bailing weakly ran her fingers through her hair. "Fine, then you can move back yourself. Yan Yan and Xiao Xiu can stay."
Hua Li scoffed, "Impossible. Even if I agreed, Yan Yan and Xiao Xiu wouldn't."
"Mom, Grandpa, time to eat."
Luo Yan ran out and called Hua Li and Sun Bailing back to the room for dinner, interrupting the father and daughter's conversation.
After dinner, Sun Bailing accompanied Shen Suyin for a walk. Hua Li asked Luo Yan and Xiao Xiu whether they wanted to go home with her or stay at their grandfather's house.
Luo Yan immediately started packing her things. After a short rest, she ran to the basement to put the two children's cars in, and then ran back to the room to pack her personal belongings.
When Sun Bailing and Shen Suyin returned from outside, Hua Li had already moved away with the two little ones.
When Luo Shicheng returned, he found the lights on in the house. When he knocked on the door, he was surprised to find Hua Li there.
Luo Shicheng didn't ask why, and went inside to rest in his guest room.
Given the discord between the two adults, Luo Yan didn't tell Luo Shicheng and Hua Li about the space. That night, after Hua Li fell asleep, she went into the space with Xiao Xiu to check on the situation.
The plants transplanted into the space are all growing well, the wild boar family is catching and eating mice, the mother pheasant has hatched chicks and is leading them to catch insects in the grass, and the fish in the fishpond are all lively and jumping around. The results are very gratifying.
Xiao Xiu took out some rapeseed from home and scattered it all over the planting area.
"Can it grow?" Luo Yan asked Xiao Xiu.
Xiao Xiu, who doesn't know how to grow vegetables, said, "I don't know."
Then you'll use up all the rapeseed. What if it doesn't grow? Wouldn't Mom go be furious again?
Xiao Xiu had also thought of this, but she was confident: "Aunt Hua won't be angry and will buy it again."
Hua Li no longer worries about money. People naturally become more tolerant when they have money. Luo Yan didn't want to talk anymore and left the space to go back to sleep.
In the morning, Luo Yan was forcibly woken up by Hua Li and sent to kindergarten.
The plan to go into the mountains was shelved, and Luo Yan was listless.
Once inside the kindergarten, Xiaoxiu became quite busy, and Luo Yan could hardly find her anywhere when they went out to play in the yard.
Strangely enough, none of the children in the compound came to play with Luo Yan today.
Luo Yan was puzzled when Xiao Xiu came over to her with a grim expression.
Luo Yan looked at Xiao Xiu and asked what was wrong.
Xiao Xiu didn't say anything, but from then on, he stayed by Luo Yan's side every step of the way until school was over.
When Luo Yan discovered that it wasn't Hua Li who came to pick them up, but Mo Xian and Xiao Yanru, she knew something was wrong.
When he got home, Hua Li was there, and outwardly there seemed to be no problem.
While Hua Li was busy cooking, Luo Yan went into the kitchen and took out wild daylilies and mushrooms from her space to add to the family's meal.
Hua Li didn't ask where the vegetables came from, and made candied daylily and stir-fried mushrooms, green peppers and pork.
After dinner, Hua Li picked up a book to study. After Xiao Xiu and Luo Yan finished washing the dishes, Hua Li took Luo Yan out to play in the yard, whispering to each other.
"Don't listen to anyone who speaks ill of Aunt Hua."
"Who?" Luo Yan asked, puzzled.
Xiao Xiu took out the newspaper hidden in his pocket.
Luo Yan took it and opened it. The huge title read, "Enemy Special Forces Unit Wiped Out in One Go, Heroic Battalion Creates New Glory."
The content is about the Hero Battalion cracking a transnational arms trafficking case, which also implicated an enemy intelligence group that had been buried in China for more than ten years.
The ringleader, Xiang Yu, was arrested, sentenced, and executed. His accomplice, Li Huaiyuan, committed suicide out of fear of punishment for poisoning his mother and neighbor.
Luo Yan remembered the things Zhang Xiaofeng had said to her mother, and this matched perfectly.
Therefore, those who were present at the time saw the news and believed Zhang Xiaofeng's words, thinking that her mother had seduced Dr. Li and committed an immoral act.
Luo Yan was furious. What did Dr. Li's despicable act have to do with her mother? Did these people have no sense of reason?
No wonder my mom seems to be doing fine, but she often gets distracted.
How outrageous! She had to find a way to clear her mother's name.
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