There's no way he's sending her back.
Not in this lifetime.
His sweet and soft daughter, who he'd just found a couple of days ago and hadn't even had the chance to dote on properly, there's no way he'd let go even if you beat him to death.
If it weren't for the practical constraints, he'd even want to tie his daughter to his belt and carry her around with him every day.
But...
What did it mean that she'd be reduced to begging on the streets out of hunger?
Yu Shanhe was utterly confused, bewildered, and dumbfounded...
"How is that possible? I don't understand what you're saying at all. When did I ever let my daughter go hungry?"
"Humph, Niannian is right now at the entrance of Fushan Park. I advise you to figure out the situation quickly and come over. If you're not here in an hour, I'll take Niannian away."
Click.
The phone was hung up.
All that was left on the receiver was a series of busy tones.
When Yu Shanhe heard that Niannian was at Fushan Park, he was completely stunned.
This park was quite far from their home. How did the little girl manage to get there?
The first person he thought of was Yu Sheng, so he quickly called his son.
Hearing that his son had just dropped off Zhao Tang at kindergarten and was on his way home, he felt a sudden tightness in his chest.
If his son wasn't with his daughter, then who took Niannian there?
Immediately afterwards, he quickly called the nanny at home.
No one answered...
Listening to the mechanical voice on the phone call broadcast, Yu Shanhe was completely stunned.
Without a second thought, he didn't care about the important meeting anymore. He grabbed his car keys and rushed out.
To hell with this company! He didn't want it anymore!
The sky and the earth were big, but his daughter was the biggest. His child was about to get lost. What good was this lousy company anyway!
While Yu Shanhe was rushing out in a hurry on one side, on the other side, Little Glutinous Rice Ball had just eaten her fill and was squatting on the ground looking at the bell.
The patterns on the small bell weren't just random carvings for decoration. Instead, they contained the power of an eye-like formation.
It seemed to be a sealing formation.
She circled around the table, staring intently at the bell from every angle, not even reaching out her hand once.
Grandpa had said not to touch it, so she'd just look. She definitely wouldn't touch it.
Seeing how obedient Little Glutinous Rice Ball was, going to such lengths as to turn her whole body around but still not touching the bell, Chu Dacheng thought this little kid was incredibly well-behaved.
Looking into her eyes, he could tell she wasn't a naughty child.
At first, when he said not to touch it, he was just afraid that the little kid would be naughty and mess around carelessly.
Now that he was sure Niannian was a well-mannered child, he didn't mind as much.
A bell like this, made of copper, how could it be so easily broken?
Seeing that she was really interested and was even wearing a Taoist robe, it was quite interesting.
He coughed lightly and relaxed his stance: "Pick it up and take a look."
"Really?"
Getting permission to touch the magical bell, Little Glutinous Rice Ball's eyes immediately lit up. But she was afraid she'd misheard, so she double-checked.
"Yes."
Getting the confirmation, Niannian's smile widened.
She carefully picked up the bell and examined it in her hand.
Her little fleshy hands were so small that the originally quite dainty bell seemed to suddenly grow bigger in her hands.
Niannian had already observed every part of the outside of the bell.
Now what she most wanted to see for herself was the inner wall of the bell.
She held it above her head and looked up. As she'd expected, there were carvings on the inner wall of the bell.
But what was carved on the inner wall weren't formation patterns.
Instead, there were dense characters.
She recognized these characters.
They were incantations for suppressing ghosts.
The sealing formation on the outside and the incantation for suppressing ghosts on the inner wall. Combining the two, Niannian was sure that this was a magical tool for capturing and suppressing ghosts.
Looking at the yin energy seeping out from it.
Hmm... there was a ghost sealed inside.
"Grandpa, did you catch the ghost inside?"
Niannian carefully put the bell back in its original place.
Just now, she'd noticed a very thin crack on the inner wall of the bell.
The bell was damaged, and the seal was faintly showing signs of collapsing. If it got damaged even more accidentally in her hands, the ghost sealed inside might immediately break out.
Niannian was a good girl.
She wouldn't do something as bad as letting a ghost go.
"What?"
Chu Dacheng was utterly confused...
He didn't understand what Little Glutinous Rice Ball was saying at all.
One of his ancestors was a very powerful yin-yang master, and this bell was passed down as a family heirloom from that yin-yang master ancestor.
It was a pity that the family hadn't inherited the yin-yang techniques of the ancestor.
No one in the family practiced this profession.
When he was young, he was good-for-nothing, and when he grew up, he could only do hard labor. He didn't want to live like that, so he remembered the skills that his ancestor hadn't passed down.
After that, he started doing the work of fortune-telling and exorcising evil spirits for people.
He didn't have much real skill. All the knowledge he'd learned was from the widely circulated books nowadays. But after traveling far and wide for so many years, relying on his smooth talk and half-baked knowledge, he'd really managed to make a name for himself.
This bell had also helped him a lot in his career.
For example, when exorcising evil spirits, he'd take the bell and go to people's houses to shake it around pretending to be doing something. Basically, sixty percent of the problems could be solved.
If he solved it, he'd get paid. If he couldn't solve it, he'd refund the money. He wouldn't stubbornly claim that he could do it.
This was also the reason why he'd been able to live safely until now without being arrested as a fraud.
But as for the specific use of this bell, he wasn't very clear either. Now, suddenly hearing Little Glutinous Rice Ball say that there was a ghost inside the bell, he was also quite startled.
Maybe it was just a random guess from a little kid.
Looking at the little girl's dressing, she should be interested in this kind of thing.
But she was just a kid...
How could she really know the mysterious arts of the Xuanmen?
"Haha, yes. Isn't grandpa amazing?"
Chu Dacheng stroked his beard with a smile and answered following Niannian's words, just to humor the little kid.
"Yeah! Grandpa is so amazing! Although Niannian can't tell what kind of ghost is sealed inside or how many there are, she can feel that the ghost inside is also very powerful! To be able to catch such a ghost, grandpa is really amazing!"
Niannian didn't stint on her praise.
She could feel the powerful aura of the ghost inside the bell.
If she were to make a move, she'd have to spend quite some effort to kill it.
Well, and all she could do was kill it. The thing inside was so fierce that she couldn't capture it.
Capturing and then sealing it was very difficult... very difficult for her...
Grandpa was really amazing!
"Hey, you little tot have quite an imagination. Where are your parents? How could they just let you run around alone?"
Chu Dacheng thought the little kid had a really good imagination. Seeing that no one had come to look for Little Glutinous Rice Ball for so long, he couldn't help but feel more dissatisfied with Niannian's parents.
He just asked casually.
Just as he asked the question, a luxury car pulled up at the park entrance.
Yu Shanhe got out of the car. Seeing Niannian chatting with Chu Dacheng without a single adult around, he almost had a heart attack.
He quickly ran over and picked Niannian up in his arms.
Seeing someone rushing over to grab the little kid, Chu Dacheng looked on guard. He stood up as if he was about to fight Yu Shanhe to the death.
And Niannian felt the familiar aura and immediately beamed with joy. She hugged Yu Shanhe back and said with a big smile, "Dad!"