Jing Shao is infertile, but his nanny is pregnant with his child.

The two children were playing outside, while the adults were chatting in the yard.

Lu Yan learned that Qin Feng's father was in the army combat unit. After his death, the family moved out of the compound and back to their hometown.

My hometown is near the compound, just a ten-minute walk away.

Grandma Qin held Lu Yan's hand tightly. "Comrade Lu Yan, you are a good child. It's all thanks to your parents' good upbringing. Where do you live? We must visit you in person."

The police officers only said that Lu Yan was the commander's nanny, and that they could only come here first.

Jin Aiyun smiled and said tactfully, "Auntie, Xiao Lu has always lived with us and rarely comes home."

Grandma Qin was taken aback. "Xiao Lu, why aren't you home?"

Lu Yan didn't like talking about her private matters with others, so she said, "It's too much trouble to go back and forth, so I'm too lazy to go back."

Grandma Qin said "oh," and then suddenly realized a problem. According to Lu Yan and Jin Aiyun, Lu Yan had been living here with her child. So where was her husband?

Grandma Qin thought of it, and Qin Changjiang naturally thought of it too.

Qin Changjiang smiled and said, "Xiao Lu, look how happy the two kids are playing. Why don't you come to my house for dinner tonight?"

"Grandpa Qin, it's too late today. I'll bring Ya Guang to visit you in a couple of days when I have some free time."

Zhou Nuannuan: "Grandpa Qin, we're having hot pot tonight. Why don't you stay for dinner?"

Upon hearing this, Jin Aiyun invited them to stay for dinner.

Lu Yaguang, who had run back to get the marbles, stopped immediately upon hearing this and turned to Qin Feng. "My mom makes amazing hot pot! We even killed two rabbits. Why don't you stay for dinner?"

Zhou Jianguo and Jin Aiyun also saw the rabbit skin in the yard. "Auntie, don't refuse. After dinner, Yanxing will drive you there. It'll be a good opportunity for you to get acquainted with the place."

Qin Changjiang and his wife weren't the type to be coy, so they said, "Okay, then we'll stay for dinner."

It was time to prepare dinner, so Lu Yan instructed Zhou Yanxing to get the table and coal stove ready while she and Jin Aiyun went to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients.

Lu Yan brought over a rabbit, cleaned it thoroughly, and cut it into pieces; she planned to make rabbit hot pot later.

Thinking that the two elderly people and Qin Feng might not eat spicy food, Lu Yan went to ask them first.

Although the two elderly people didn't know what hot pot was, they knew that Lu Yan must be planning to make it spicy.

"My wife and I can handle spicy food."

Lu Yan understood; Qin Feng probably couldn't handle spicy food.

Qin Changjiang said, "Xiao Lu, you can do anything."

Lu Yan nodded, "Okay, I understand."

Lu Yan returned to the kitchen, her gaze falling on the sweet potatoes on the floor. "Auntie, let's fry some sweet potato balls."

Jin Aiyun: "Okay, I'll assist you."

Around 6 o'clock, Zhou Yanxing carried an aluminum pot to the living room, while the others came back and forth with hot pot ingredients. Lu Yan also made a plate of braised rabbit for Qin Feng to eat.

Qin Feng, who doesn't usually eat spicy food, fell in love with it after taking a bite of the shiitake mushrooms in the hot pot.

"Delicious, so delicious."

Qin Feng kept saying how delicious it was, while slurping his lips as he smacked his lips, which turned red from the spiciness.

Lu Yan was amused by him, "Next time I'll make a three-delicacy mushroom soup, it won't be so spicy."

Jin Aiyun: "Xiao Lu, is three-delicacy mushroom soup also a hot pot?"

Lu Yan hummed in agreement, "It's quite fresh, but not spicy."

As soon as she finished speaking, two more spoonfuls of shrimp meat appeared in Lu Yan's bowl.

Lu Yan looked down and followed the outstretched arm to see Zhou Yanchen.

Zhou Yanchen picked up a piece of rabbit meat for himself and ate it slowly and deliberately, as if serving food to Lu Yan was the most ordinary thing in the world.

Lu Yan smiled, feeling sweet inside, and picked up her chopsticks to eat.

Yes, the shrimp Mr. Zhou picked out tasted better than her usual ones!

Lu Yaguang blinked and looked at Zhou Yanchen, "Handsome uncle, you're so good to my mom. My mom loves shrimp the most."

Lu Yan's hand trembled as she picked up the shrimp with her chopsticks, and the shrimp fell back into her bowl. She lowered her head and silently picked up the shrimp again, pretending that nothing had happened.

Zhou Yanchen was much more composed, his face as expressionless as ever, as if what Lu Yaguang said had nothing to do with him.

The Qin Changjiang couple sitting opposite them were genuinely stunned by this scene. They glanced at Jin Aiyun, who was pretending not to see them and secretly smiling, and continued eating their meal in silence, neither of them revealing the relationship between the two.

Lu Yan buried her head in her food for a while, then secretly glanced at the others and breathed a sigh of relief when she found that no one was looking at her.

She turned her head slightly and glared at the man who started it all.

Zhou Yanchen, with a calm expression, picked up a piece of shiitake mushroom for her and said, "Eat."

Lu Yan responded with an "oh," sat up straight, and felt a sweet bubble rising in her chest.

Soldiers are so observant; they figured out in no time that she liked mushrooms.

With Zhou Jianguo and Zhou Yanchen, both big eaters, and Qin Feng and Lu Yaguang, who were just kids eating their fathers out of house and home, all the prepared ingredients were eaten up.

Qin Changjiang and his wife got up to clear the dishes, but Jin Aiyun stopped them.

"Grandpa, that's all. We'll pack it up in a bit."

Jin Aiyun was not a doting mother, so she had Zhou Yanxing and Zhou Nuannuan help with the tidying up.

Qin Changjiang and his wife chatted with Zhou Jianguo for a while, and Zhou Yanxing tidied up the kitchen, got the car keys, and drove them home.

Qin Feng held Lu Yan's hand, looked up at her, and said, "Auntie, why don't you bring Brother Ya Guang to my house for a visit?"

Upon hearing that they needed to take a car, Lu Yaguang immediately ran over, "Mom, I want to go too!"

Finally, Zhou Yanxing took them to Qin Changjiang's house to familiarize themselves with the place. On the way back, Qin Feng reminded Lu Yan.

"Auntie, you must come to see me!"

Lu Yan rubbed his head. "Okay, Auntie will definitely come."

—Two hours ago, at Commander Lin's home.

After shopping, Lin Changjian and Tang Qingxue couldn't wait to come to the military compound to wait for Brigade Commander Lin to return.

They need to know how Lu Yan was reprimanded by the police.

When they arrived, they found a little girl in the house, the very same little girl who had been beaten that morning.

Lin Changjian frowned. "Second Uncle, why did you bring her back?"

While feeding the child, Brigade Commander Lin said, "This child was sold to human traffickers by her parents. The traffickers have been caught, but the police haven't found her biological parents yet. Since the child has nowhere to go, I brought her back first."

Upon hearing this, Lin Changjian frowned, looking at the thin little girl, and suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Is his second uncle planning to adopt this little girl?

Tang Qingxue, however, was thinking about something else entirely: "Were those people really human traffickers?"

How could that be!

Brigade Commander Lin hummed in agreement.

Tang Qingxue frowned: "Second Uncle, are you sure you're not mistaken? You mustn't be fooled by Lu Yan."