Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

Chen Yu looks older than Zhang Fengci.

He doesn't look like a senior brother, but more like a senior father.

However, he did not see Chen Dianshen as being very kind. From the way he spoke, it seemed that he thought Chen Dianshen was useless and not as promising as Lian Li.

Chen Dianshen didn't argue with him and kept smiling.

Chen Yu probably felt it was boring so he stopped talking. He turned his eyes away and asked, "Who is this child...?"

Chen Dianshan looked at the child and said, "This is the child that Zhang Dequan raised. He wants to go to the capital to find someone to take him there."

He told Chen Yu, and then said to the child, "This one should be called uncle."

The child stepped forward and squatted down obediently, saying, "Hello, Uncle Chen."

"Well, get up. You're much more obedient than your father."

Chen Yu smiled, fumbled around, took off a piece of jade from his body and handed it to her.

"Good boy, this is for you, go and play with it."

The child thought he had misunderstood something and turned to look at Chen Dianshan. However, he did not explain. Instead, he said, "Hurry up and take it. It's not in vain that we called him. Your uncle doesn't need such a small thing."

After hearing what he said, the child responded: "Thank you, Uncle Chen."

"You're welcome. When you see your father later, give him my regards. Okay, stop standing here. Xiao Ningzi, take her to play with Haitao."

This time, Chen Dianshan didn't let him go. Instead, he frowned and asked, "Who is Haitao? Did you bring another group..."

Before he finished speaking, his brows were already twisted into knots.

"Oh, why are you saying that in front of the child? I changed my ways a long time ago," Chen Yu waved his hand. "That's my wife's daughter. Like her mother, she works under Princess Ming. She's a good child. They look about the same age and can play together."

"Okay, I'll trust you this time. Go with him, kid. If he doesn't do something right, I'll beat him up first."

"it is good."

The child looked at Xiao Ningzi and really dared to agree.

Chen Yu couldn't help but murmur to Chen Dianshan: "This kid looks like a sincere person. What is Zhang thinking?"

"I didn't think about anything. Why would I think so much when it's already this late? Not to mention that if the children hear this, they'll start to think about it..."

"It's so far away, what are you afraid of?"

"She's an alien."

"Then how..."

"Retired."

Chen Dianshan's voice was so light that the child could no longer hear it after passing through a hanging flower door.

Xiao Ningzi first took her to meet Chen Yu's partner, and got a very beautiful headdress, and then she met Haitao.

This was a rather chubby girl who wasn't very lively. She smiled with her lips pursed. She awkwardly pulled the child into her little room and said, "It's a bit messy. We haven't cleaned it up yet. Please sit wherever you want."

The child was a bit of a character, and would easily become like the person he met. Seeing Hai Tao's temper, she lowered her voice and said, "Okay."

Then he did it at the table. Haitao turned around to look, then walked to the door to look again, then came back and said, "Xiao Ningzi is gone."

Child: "Yeah, I left when I got there. I saw it."

Hai Tao whispered, "I didn't even notice...drink some water."

She poured the child a glass of water, then sat down next to her and looked at her without blinking.

The child who was watching suspected that she had put drugs in the tea, waiting for her to be drugged, and hesitated to drink: "I'm not thirsty."

Hai Tao: "Are you hungry? I have some snacks in my bag."

She pulled out a large bag and a bunch of snacks.

The child was surprised and asked, "Why did you bring so much food?!"

"I like to eat it."

"Won't it be bad?"

"I ate it all before it went bad."

She opened the oil-paper packets and said, "This one is delicious, this one is delicious too. These are average, but that one is terrible. Don't touch it, or I won't eat it next time. This one is the best. My mother made it." She glanced at the child, as if hesitating and thinking for a moment, before placing the packet of snacks in front of her and saying, "You can have two."

The child thought she was quite generous. If it were her, she would probably put the food she liked away and keep it for herself instead of sharing it with someone she met for the first time.

"Let me taste how bad that tastes."

Hai Tao thought she was quite clever. If it were her, she wouldn't believe what others said. She would definitely try it herself. Just like what A Niang said, everyone has their own preferences, so she liked her stepfather...

Hai Tao pulled the package of snacks over to the child and said to her, "This is called Niupi Su, but it has nothing to do with cowhide. It's just a hard-to-chew candy."

As she spoke, she stuffed one into her mouth.

He chewed it with all his might, looking as bitter and resentful as a pumpkin.

If it tastes bad, why would she eat it?

The child, whose cheeks were aching from chewing and who had not yet finished chewing the thing, thought so and swallowed it in one gulp, which made his throat a little sore.

There was still a lot of it stuck to my teeth, and when I opened my mouth I felt like my upper and lower teeth were biting each other.

The child asked with difficulty: "Who did this?"

"I."

"Oh..." the child, "You are... quite good."

Hai Tao said seriously, "It's wrong to lie."

The child said seriously, "I'm not kidding. You can give this to bad guys. After they eat a plate of it, they'll confess anything."

Hai Tao's eyes sparkled: "You're really smart. I'll try it out when I see some bad guys."

"Remember to try again after the bad guy is subdued," the child reminded.

Hai Tao said, "I'm not stupid."

"I know."

"Then you're lying."

Haitao sighed.

Okay, the kid did think she looked a little goofy.

Hai Tao said, "Really, I'm not stupid. My mother said that I just live more seriously than others, so I look a little stupid."

Child: “That’s not a bad thing.”

"You said the same thing as my mother, but some people don't like it this way." Hai Tao's eyes were distant and her expression was sad, as if she was recalling something bad.

Child: "Ignore those people. There are always some self-righteous annoying people in this world. They don't like others this or that, and they don't think about why those irrelevant people have the right to say whether they like or not."

"It's relevant. That person is my father..."

Child: "Is it that Eunuch Chen?"

"No, it's my biological father who doesn't like me. He's my stepfather, so it's understandable whether he likes me or not."

Hai Tao was listless. The child was about to say something to comfort her, but she said, "But it doesn't matter. He doesn't like me, and my mother doesn't like him either. She brought me here to serve the princess, and he couldn't find us. There are delicious snacks here, and my stepfather is not bad, but he has too many wives.

My mother said that there is nothing perfect in this world. My stepfather married them, and those who could get married were married off. Those who didn't want to get married or couldn't get married should stay.

They were also nice to me. My mother said they were good people with miserable lives and asked me to call them aunt, but I didn’t like that name. My father’s aunt was very annoying. She pinched me secretly, and my mother beat her, so my father quarreled with my mother...”

Hai Tao had no sense of guarding against others, nor did she have any sense of keeping dirty laundry secrets private. She spoke whatever came to her mind and even asked the child, "Does your father like you?"

"He wanted to drown me, but he didn't do it, and he sent me away twice."

"Are all fathers in the world equally annoying?"

Haitao was a little confused.

The child said: "Not really, some dads are pretty good, it all depends on luck."

"That's true. What about your mother? Doesn't she care about your father?"

Child: "She... maybe she can't even take care of herself, so naturally she can't take care of others either."