Chapter 780
Chapter 780: Chapter 10 Kinship_5 Chapter 780: Chapter 10 Kinship_5 Look, she’s smiling so sweetly.
“Old Zhao, how old do you think this little girl is?”
Yan Mei pondered from behind:
“Judging by her height, a little over one meter five, she must be around fourteen or fifteen.
But kids grow up early these days, and many twelve or thirteen-year-olds are already at their full height.”
“What do you think, how old is this little girl?”
Zhao Ruihai shook his head:
“You can’t figure it out, and neither can I.
But I do think this little girl is kind of skinny…
Thin arms and legs, she needs to eat more meat.”
“We’ve almost spent enough time playing in the park, shall we go to eat?”
He turned back, looking at the little girl on his back:
“What do you want to eat?
Grandpa will take you!”
The little girl blinked her eyes:
“Meat!”
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…As it happened, there was a high-end barbecue restaurant near the park, with its huge sign visible from a great distance.
Yan Mei and Zhao Ruihai took the little girl straight there.
At the barbecue table.
Yan Mei kept grilling meat for the little girl, who ate bite by bite, while Zhao Ruihai sat opposite, watching this warm scene and smiled contentedly:
“Ah…”
He sighed:
“They say grandparents, grandmas and grandpas, love through generations.
I didn’t realize it before and thought I would also be strict with my grandchildren, to raise them well, to make them outstanding people.”
“But now, I don’t think that way at all, I’ve turned out just like my cliché colleagues and classmates…
When it comes to grandchildren, I have no aspirations or expectations, just ask for health and happiness!
Studies and dreams aren’t important…
I just hope the little ones are healthy and happy.”
“I feel the same way now.
Look at this little girl’s eating, if it were Yingjun when she was little, she would’ve been scolded by me and too scared to eat.
But now…
watching her wolf it down, I find it cuter the more I watch.
When it comes to eating, being full is all that matters, right?
Why bother with so many etiquettes?”
Hum.
After hearing this, Yan Mei gave Zhao Ruihai a glare:
“That’s not how you treated Yingjun back in the day, so demanding at meals.
No sound from the mouth, chopsticks couldn’t be held too low, not facing someone while placing them down, every single grain of rice had to be eaten, no waste allowed…
”
“There’s no such thing as ‘love through generations,’ you just realize now that you were too harsh, too strict with Yingjun…
So now, you want to make up for that guilt with your grandchildren.”
“People are like this, even if you apologize to Yingjun now, compensate her, what’s the use?
Her childhood was spent in that kind of scolding and pressure-filled environment, compensations made later are useless.”
“This is the so-called truth behind ‘love through generations’…
In the future, even if our granddaughter wants to tap the bowl with chopsticks or eat with her hands as long as she’s not feeling hot, let her be!
Indeed, people do change…
I haven’t even spent 24 hours with this little girl, and already my heart as a grandma is overflowing, only fearing she won’t eat enough.”
Zhao Ruihai let out a laugh as well.
Looking at his own empty plate in front, then at the variety of thick and thin bones around the little girl’s dish…
Indeed.
He didn’t feel hungry at all, his heart full just from watching.
But the thought that the little girl would sooner or later find her parents; that he and Yan Mei would soon have to send her back to her original family…
Made him unavoidably feel a bit downcast.
Even though he had reminded himself countless times in his heart that this wasn’t his biological granddaughter, that he shouldn’t feel so attached and reluctant.
But…
He just couldn’t help it!
Over the years, he had held many other people’s children, had looked after kids for colleagues and friends.
But.
There was never a time like now, so unwilling and attached!
What was the reason?
Indeed, it must be because this little girl, looked like Yingjun.
Uh-huh.
Zhao Ruihai silently nodded.
It had to be that reason.
Otherwise…
How else can we explain this closeness that comes from the marrow of one’s bones?
…
After finishing the barbecue, the two of them each took a hand of the little girl and returned to the public hospital where they came to the DNA identification office and received two reports.
Zhao Ruihai and Yan Mei each held a report in their hands, lips tight, silent.
“Hehe.”
Yan Mei was the first to laugh, teasingly looking at Zhao Ruihai:
“What’s the matter, Old Zhao, feeling a bit guilty?
You don’t dare to rip open the report…
Are you afraid that the affair of the illegitimate daughter might be exposed?”
“You’re spouting nonsense.”
Zhao Ruihai grunted:
“If one has done no wrong, one need not fear a crooked shadow.
What do I have to be guilty about?
Besides…
if anyone is guilty, it should be you, right?
Didn’t the doctors just say that the little girl resembles you in many ways?
If there’s an illegitimate daughter, it would be yours.”
“Oh my, I know whether I’ve had a child or not!”
Yan Mei also humphed in response:
“Fine then, seeing as you’ve even started to suspect me, let’s look at my report first.
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After all, I am ‘clear in my conscience.’”
Having said that.
Yan Mei directly tore open the seal, opened the report, and, without looking, lifted the page with the DNA results in front of Zhao Ruihai.
Zhao Ruihai also bowed his head, tore the seal:
“Making it seem as if I’m really scared, am I not ‘clear in my conscience’ as well?”
He didn’t look at his own report, either, opening it up and thrusting it in front of Yan Mei:
“You take a look at mine too!
See if it has nothing to do with me!”
The two looked into each other’s eyes and shared a smile.
Having met in their youth, they went from classmates to the marital altar, and their feelings for each other had always been strong; naturally, they both had immense trust in one another.
Therefore…
Not only did they have confidence in themselves, but they also had confidence in each other.
They both knew that the words they exchanged just now were all in jest.
How could there possibly be an issue of an illegitimate daughter?
Thus, both chuckling, they directed their gaze to the other’s report——
“Ah??””What!?”
In an instant!
Both their eyes widened, and they blurted out in a manner unbecoming of their status and temperament, drawing the attention of several onlookers.
For a moment, Zhao Ruihai and Yan Mei found themselves gasping for breath.
The two turned around.
They placed the reports together on the windowsill, looking at the two nearly identical DNA results——
[Upon examination, Yan Qiaoqiao is found to have a blood relationship with Zhao Ruihai.]
[Upon examination, Yan Qiaoqiao is found to have a blood relationship with Yan Mei.]
…
“This…””You!”
The old couple turned as pale as death, looking at each other, at a loss for words.
Then.
They both turned their focus to the little girl!
Zhao Ruihai swallowed a gulp:
“You…
who exactly are you?”
“Me?”
The little girl pointed to herself, solemn and articulate:
“I am…
Yan Qiaoqiao.”