Li Tianran's smile froze.

He thought of the tragic character in that comedy movie, a far cry from the superhero he had imagined. His face flushed red with embarrassment and anger.

*Thwack!*

A fresh, lively crayfish landed squarely on Hanhan's head like a precision-guided missile, bringing with it slightly fishy cold water.

It waved its large pincers, clamping directly onto Hanhan's chubby cheek.

"Ah! Bad Da-ge (older brother)!"

A piercing scream filled with anger, collapse, and pain echoed across the farm, reverberating for a long time.

...

With things like crayfish and crabs, you don't necessarily have to wait until they are fully mature to eat them. Animal husbandry and crops are fundamentally different in this regard.

Even if these meat-producing creatures are not fully mature, they are at most smaller and have less meat, but there is no difference in taste.

Steam hissed from the kitchen's pressure cooker.

More than a dozen large, fat crabs had already been placed inside, and at this moment, the most exquisite flavor within their bodies was being stimulated by the high temperature.

Li Tianran used salt water to wash away the dirt from the crayfish and began preparing the seasonings for stir-fried spicy crayfish.

Chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns!

Since the world changed and the temperature plummeted, these two seasonings had become indispensable in Li Tianran's recipes.

Li Tianran liked the feeling of being hot all over and sweating profusely while eating.

So satisfying!

That's the atmosphere of a Yan Huang (Chinese) family dinner table!

The refined elegance of Western meals was not for Li Tianran.

Hanhan also sat obediently to the side, peeling scallions and garlic, preparing to make the dipping sauce for steamed crab.

She was excited, almost unable to contain herself.

Since the crabs went into the pot, she had asked three times how much longer it would take to cook…

Li Tianran answered Hanhan's questions with a smile, but couldn't help but think of the past, becoming slightly lost in thought.

Hanhan rarely ate seafood. In Li Tianran's memory, she had only eaten hairy crab once when she was four years old. After that, Li Tianran asked her many times if she liked eating seafood, and she always replied that she didn't like it and didn't want to eat it.

All along, Li Tianran had thought that Hanhan was not interested in seafood and only occasionally liked to eat some fish.

But now it seemed that the truth was not as he imagined.

Hanhan looked very eager for crabs and crayfish.

Could it be that eating too much anti-radiation food changed her physique, and even her tastes were changed?

"Little girl… I remember you didn't seem to like seafood before." Li Tianran looked at Hanhan and casually asked, "Why have your tastes changed now?"

Hanhan blinked her eyes and suddenly ran "deng deng deng" to her little house.

Soon, she came out holding a slightly yellowed arithmetic book. On the second page of the cartoon paper, there were some crooked arithmetic formulas written in pencil.

"Da zha xie (hairy crab), 330 yuan per jin."

"Wheat, 1.3 yuan per jin."

"1 jin of da zha xie = 253 jin of wheat…"

In this arithmetic formula composed of misspelled words and pinyin, some data were recorded. One could imagine that Hanhan, who wrote these things, was still a very ignorant child.

At the end of this paper, there were two large pencil characters, written crookedly.

"Very expensive!"

Li Tianran looked at this arithmetic book and suddenly flipped to the first page, which had the detailed date written on it.

This was the arithmetic book that Li Tianran had bought for Hanhan. The date was three years ago, after Hanhan ate hairy crab for the first time!

It was hard to imagine that Hanhan, who was only four years old at the time, actually used the knowledge she learned from TV and kindergarten textbooks to calculate the price ratio between hairy crab and wheat.

"This is…" Li Tianran felt like he understood something. His Adam's apple bobbed up and down as he looked at Hanhan and asked, "So, you kept saying you didn't like seafood, not because you didn't like the taste, but because of… the price?"

"Da-ge, crabs taste so good, only a weirdo wouldn't like them…" Hanhan muttered, "But Da-ge worked so hard farming back then. One crab could only be exchanged for four bags of wheat, so we couldn't afford it!"

Li Tianran was silent.

Three years ago, his life was indeed very hard. It was the darkest period of his life.

His parents passed away, and he had just graduated when he had to face sudden pressure.

While other students were enjoying graduation trips, he had to bring his parents back from the cold morgue and then raise a little girl who was not related to him by blood.

At that time, he felt that life was too unfair to him.

In order to take care of this little girl, he gave up staying in the city where he went to university and returned to this small town to become a farmer.

He studied marketing management in college, and his professional knowledge was of no help to his farm work. He was clumsy like a beginner.

As a result, in the first year, his farm only yielded 300 *jin* per *mu*, and the entire planting area only produced a few thousand *jin* of crops, earning less than ten thousand yuan.

That year, he and Hanhan lived very hard.

But Li Tianran never passed on the pressure to Hanhan, telling her how hard he was working, because he felt that he was a man, the head of the family, and should silently bear such pressure!

It was a man's duty to let his family grow up carefree.

He didn't want Hanhan to be troubled by this kind of thing, and tried his best to let her enjoy the best clothes and food like other children!

Li Tianran had always thought that Hanhan was carefree.

But now it seemed that she had known everything for a long time and was using her own way to reduce his pressure.

Hanhan knew very well that if she showed that she liked eating hairy crab, then Li Tianran would find a way to satisfy her request, no matter how hard or how little money he had.

Li Tianran felt like his heart had been struck.

"Hehe, Hanhan is smart, right?" Hanhan smiled, "Da-ge was tricked for so long and didn't even notice!"

There is a saying that is very true: children from poor families mature early.

Growing up in such an environment, Hanhan was much more sensible and smarter than her peers.

But children from such families usually have some personality flaws… for example, inferiority!

This was something that Li Tianran could absolutely not tolerate!

She was only seven years old!

If it were a child from another family, they would have been the little emperors who were spoiled and pampered beyond control, recklessly demanding from their parents and taking everything for granted.

But looking at Hanhan…

Li Tianran took a deep breath, showed a bright smile, and looked at Hanhan very seriously, saying, "From today onwards, Hanhan can tell Da-ge what she likes. No matter what it is, Da-ge will get it for you!"

"Delicious food, beautiful clothes, luxurious toys… as long as you want them, Da-ge will give them all to you!"

Li Tianran's bottomless doting method, and even a bit of a "nouveau riche" retaliatory consumption nature, if known by some education experts, would definitely be loudly criticized for the wrongness of this education method.

But so what?

My sister, I can spoil her however I want, why should I listen to education experts?

"The world of the past does not belong to us…" Li Tianran looked at Hanhan and said, "In the world of the future, Da-ge will make you the richest little princess! I will put what you once lacked in front of you a hundred times, a thousand times!"

...

At the same time, inside the Tianrun Pharmaceutical office building.

Ren Xiao was talking to someone in a high and powerful position, her tone with a polite smile: "Director Wang, I'm asking you to take care of the matter of the DNA collection library! This is a public welfare plan of our company, hoping that all residents of Nancheng City will be vaccinated against the new influenza vaccine in order to respond to possible epidemics."

"Because it is a new drug, we need to compare each person's DNA in Nancheng City one by one, because it is related to the safety of the vaccinated person's life."

"This is a huge project, and our Tianrun Company will bear the full cost."

"Okay, I'll have someone go over to get it!"

Ren Xiao smiled, seemingly having reached an agreement with the other party, and hung up the phone after saying goodbye.

"President Ren, thank you."

Bai Jingyan stood in front of the desk, nodding slightly.

"You're welcome." Ren Xiao rubbed her brow: "If you can really find out the identity of that bandit that night, it will also put my mind at ease... By the way, why are you looking for him too?"

Hearing Ren Xiao's question, Bai Jingyan said calmly and solemnly: "Someone took something from me... I want to confirm whether they are the same person."