Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 947 - 280: Is There an Immortal? (2)

"My dad? My dad... my dad was taken to the police station."

"I know." Chen Yan looked into the little girl’s eyes: "But I want to tell you, this time your dad didn’t cause any trouble. He was taken by the police not to be arrested, but to help with an investigation.

You could say, this time your dad did the right thing – you could even say it was a good thing."

The little girl was a bit surprised, the first reaction in her eyes was disbelief – she found it hard to believe that her rogue father, who had been disliked for years by others, could actually do something good.

However, these words were said by the "Immortal" in front of her, which made her have to believe.

Chen Yan smiled, picked up the bag of chocolate, tore a corner open, and handed it to the girl.

The girl hesitated for a moment but took it anyway, her expression full of hesitation.

"Go ahead, eat it. What’s given to you is yours. I won’t harm you." Chen Yan waved his hand.

The girl finally brought the chocolate to her mouth and took a bite, then frowned: "It’s so bitter."

Chen Yan laughed: "Don’t like chocolate?"

"It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s... I haven’t had anything this bitter before. The chocolate I’ve had before was much sweeter than this."

Alright, Chen Yan understood. This girl probably hadn’t tasted real good chocolate before. Most likely, she had only tasted those cheap, overly sweet substitutes made from cocoa butter powder.

Thinking about it, Chen Yan rummaged through the Storage Jade Pendant for some more items – Big White Rabbit milk candies, Ferrero Rocher chocolates.

He took out a few more and stuffed them into the girl’s arms.

When Chen Yan took out a bottle of juice, the girl’s gaze towards him was no longer full of fear, but admiration.

After that, Chen Yan chatted casually with the girl. Given his age and experience, he quickly understood the family’s situation from the little girl’s words.

The old lady who had sent the little girl back to the village from town the day before was the girl’s grandmother.

She was also Li Guohua’s mother-in-law.

After Li Guohua’s wife died of illness, contact with the in-laws diminished considerably.

Li Guohua was a wild character, with some bastard habits. He lost his family fortune to gambling in his early years and had a falling out with his in-laws.

His wife never gave up on him, even if it didn’t end well. Li Guohua squandered all the family’s money, and his wife had no money for her treatment when she got sick.

Medicine was taken sporadically, and when aid was unavailable, she had to turn to her own parents.

Her parents still remembered their own daughter, so even though their relationship had soured, they still sent some money over, but they refused to visit, not wanting to see Li Guohua, the good-for-nothing. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Li Guohua’s wife later died of illness, and less than two years later, her father also passed away from illness.

And this little girl became the old lady’s closest relative left in the world, and the only person she cared about.

The old lady used to work in Fuyang Prefecture City, just as an ordinary teacher, then returned to Taixi County and worked as a low-level civil servant in the county’s education bureau without much power.

Getting old, she retired.

In the county, she had a two-bedroom apartment, living off a fairly decent pension, so life wasn’t too bad.

People say civil servants get high pensions and good benefits, but that’s in big cities.

In small places, the pension for low-level civil servants is actually quite low.

And she had little to no savings.

After all, she was a person from the bottom tier, and through a life of struggles, from having a daughter who married a gambler and frequently came home to borrow money, to the daughter getting sick and needing money, to the old partner getting sick and needing money...

Even if there had been some family savings, they were long gone after going through so much.

But ultimately, her situation was still better than Li Guohua’s.

The old lady had once tested the waters with Li Guohua, saying she wanted to take the child to live in the county with her.

After all, studying in the county, the educational conditions would be better than in the town. Living with the old lady, her pension would cover the food and clothing for two people, surely better than living in the countryside with Li Guohua, where there was uncertainty in having enough to eat day by day.

Older and mellowed, Li Guohua, no longer the rebellious and bastard figure of his youth, actually agreed.

But surprisingly, the child herself refused!

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"Living with your grandmother, um, Granny, would certainly be better than in the countryside, so why didn’t you want to go?

Do you feel sorry for your father?"

Chen Yan asked gently.

At this moment, the two were sitting side by side on the steps under the eaves of Li Guohua’s house, the little girl holding a box of Ferrero Rocher, peeling each one, and squinting her eyes for a moment with each bite.

The little girl looked calm and whispered: "No, I like Granny, she treats me well, never scolds me, and buys me things...

As for my dad, he doesn’t hit or scold me anymore now, but... he can’t do anything, there are still many things at home that I have to do. I just hope he stops gambling."

"Then why don’t you leave here with your grandmother?" Chen Yan asked.

The little girl fell silent.

Just when Chen Yan thought she wouldn’t answer anymore, she suddenly raised her head, staring blankly into the distance.

"Before my mom died, she told me that our family owed Granny too much, and that it wasn’t right to bother her anymore. Granny is getting old, and she needs to save some money for her old age, and we can’t keep causing her trouble."

Chen Yan was somewhat surprised by this answer. After seriously looking at the little girl for a few seconds, he also sighed.

"Do you... still have feelings for your dad?"

The little girl was silent for a while longer.

A minute later, she finally whispered: "Last month, I went to the town to help collect old books from the graduating class at school, and I brought back a lot to sell to the recycling center.