Chapter 498 God is always arranging
Du Yunkai and Richard didn't go anywhere. After Liu Wangxue and Du Yunxiang went out for a walk, they sat down at the cleaned dining table and started chatting.
It was mainly because of Richard. He couldn't wait any longer. He felt that he could endure the time from the studio to the courtyard and then until after dinner. He had already reached his limit. If he wasn't given an answer, his heart would surely be tortured to death.
Xu Qingsong went to the sunroom upstairs to take down Liu Wangxue's tea set and made a pot of tea.
Seeing that they were ready to chat, Liu Nanshan and Gu Xuelan prepared some snacks and fruits for them. Especially when they felt the indescribable atmosphere between Du Yunkai and Richard, they thought that they were fine when they were eating just now, what happened? They were worried that something might have happened, so they pulled Xu Qingsong aside and asked quietly, with worried looks on their faces.
Xu Qingsong explained, "It's okay. It's probably some personal issues. I'm not too sure. Don't worry. It will be fine after we talk."
Liu Nanshan and Gu Xuelan went to the kitchen, leaving the space to them.
Xu Qingsong felt that it might not be appropriate for him to be there, and was about to follow the two elders out, but was stopped by Richard.
Richard looked at Du Yunkai with a puzzled look on his face, and pointed at Xu Qingsong with one hand: "Why can't you tell me who Charles' father is? Ask Qingsong, is this a secret that cannot be made public?"
Xu Qingsong had just been pulled aside by the two elders and had not paid attention to what they were talking about. When he was stopped by Richard and heard what he said, the curiosity in his heart came to the fore.
Xu Qingsong turned on his toes and walked back to the dining table, pulled out a chair and sat down: "What's going on?"
Du Yunkai picked up the kettle and added tea to his cup. He said, "My sister told me in the studio that Charles didn't have a father, but he didn't believe it. Now he's asking me again. But Charles didn't have a father anyway, so no matter how many times he asks, he still doesn't have one."
Richard just didn't believe it: "Your sister is not the Virgin Mary. If there is no father, how did Charles come about?" He was surprised and said: "Could it be that Charles was adopted by your sister?"
Du Yunkai really wanted to roll his eyes at him: "Charles is my sister's biological son."
Richard was even more confused: "Then Charles must have a father. Who is he?"
Du Yunkai put down his tea cup and exhaled: "How many times do I have to tell you that Charles has no father."
Richard looked painful: "Kai, how could you do this? Why don't you want to tell me? This is very important to me!"
Du Yunkai: "If there is none, there is none. I can't just make one up out of thin air, right?"
Richard: “But…”
As soon as Richard opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Xu Qingsong: "Stop! Wait, wait--"
Xu Qingsong finally understood. It turned out that these two people had been asking and answering the same questions over and over again. No wonder one felt that he had answered the question while the other felt that he had not asked the answer.
Xu Qingsong thought, I didn't drink alcohol at dinner today, how could I be so dizzy? Is it because of too much work pressure recently? It shouldn't be, the atmosphere in their studio has always been very good. Tsk, it must be because of staying up late.
Xu Qingsong said to Richard, "Can I ask why you must know who Charles' father is?"
Richard had a complicated expression: "Because it is very important to me!"
Xu Qingsong held back an inappropriate laugh and coughed to cover it up: "I know, I'm asking, why is it important? What's the importance?"
Du Yunkai forked up a piece of cantaloupe and just brought it to his mouth when his mind suddenly cleared up: "Yeah, what's the important thing?" He must have not had a good rest recently, and was completely confused by Richard just now: "You can't just ask one question, you have to tell me the reason, tell me the reason, okay?"
Richard suddenly came to his senses and then despised himself. He was so anxious that he was confused. It was strange that he could get any result by asking this question. He picked up the tea cup and drank it in one gulp, drinking the tea like wine. He held the empty cup, his eyes fell on the lotus on it, and said softly, "Because Charles looks exactly like me when I was a child."
Now it was Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong's turn to be surprised.
Richard put down the empty cup, took out his phone, tapped the screen a few times and pulled up photos for them to see: "Look, this one is when I was four years old, and this one is when I was five years old."
The photo of Richard when he was four years old was in black and white, and it was a group photo of the orphanage. He could not remember the reason for taking this photo, but he only remembered that the children in the orphanage were very happy that day, just like Christmas. All the children changed into their favorite clothes, and even the nuns helped each other trim their eyebrows. At noon, the children lined up as required, and under the guidance of the nuns, took this group photo on the grass in front of the orphanage.
This is an old photo from more than 30 years ago. It was not well protected at the time. The paper has long been yellowed and some of the characters are blurred. The photo in Richard's hand was taken home as a souvenir by his second parents who adopted him when they took him back to the orphanage to visit the nun. The nun who picked up Richard and raised him was old and seriously ill at that time. They went back to visit her and got the photo from there.
After returning home, his adoptive parents sealed the photo and preserved it. Later, Richard gave the photo to professionals to scan and restore it as much as possible, and the result was the photo that Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai see now.
The photo of Richard when he was five years old was in color. It was taken by Richard's first adoptive parents to commemorate their formation of a new family. This photo was sealed with plastic when it was developed, so it is basically intact.
Richard didn’t have many photos taken when he was a child. This was the only photo of him in the orphanage. The others were taken with his adoptive parents, all of which he scanned and stored in the cloud.
After they looked through all the photos, Xu Qingsong scrolled back to the photo of the four-year-old in the orphanage, and enlarged the image of little Richard sitting cross-legged at the feet of an elderly nun to fill the entire screen. He recalled Cha Cha's little face in his mind and said, "You can't say they are exactly the same. They are simply cast in the same mold."
Du Yunkai had only one feeling after looking at these photos. He seemed to have seen Cha Cha's growth and changes in advance. When he looked up again, he saw Richard's face. Du Yunkai felt that he could not accept it. How could his nephew, who was so young and so cute, become this rough man with unshaven beard and tired face? He couldn't accept it! He couldn't! Richard felt that his eyes were getting hot again. He raised his hand and pressed it, saying: "You understand, this is really very important to me. Kai, Qingsong, I believe you can understand that everyone - I mean, even a child who is born an orphan, has parents. He also wants to know who his parents are. He also wants to know if he has any relatives in this world..."
Richard paused, suppressing his choking voice: "Kai, you know, ever since I became rich, I have been asking people to look up my background, but so many years have passed, and there is no news at all..."
Richard really wanted to know where he came from and why he was abandoned at birth. He had imagined all kinds of things, but he didn't care. He felt that he could accept any result, because as long as there was a result, it would prove that he was not a lonely duckweed in this world, but a seed taken away by an unknown bird from a tree. He always stubbornly believed that only by knowing where he came from in the past could he find the way back to the future.
After searching for many years without any results, Richard had actually given up because Edwin had made him bankrupt and he could no longer afford the high search fees. Unexpectedly, after arriving in Country Z, he met Cha Cha.
Richard swore that he had never even met Du Yunxiang before - he didn't even know Du Yunkai had a sister before coming to Country Z - so it was even more impossible for him to have that relationship with her, right! Therefore, Cha Cha could only have some kind of kinship with him, which indirectly proved that he had relatives in this world!
That's why he asked so excitedly and persistently who Cha Cha's father was.
Richard went on to say, "Kai, this is God's will! Oh, God, this is really God's will! I want to thank Edwin! If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have lost everything. Kai, I also want to thank you. If you hadn't contacted me, I wouldn't have come to Country Z, and I wouldn't have met Charles!"
Xu Qingsong sighed: "It's fate——"
Du Yunkai squinted at him and said, "What fate!" He hadn't recovered yet.
"How can it not be fate?" Richard was very excited. "This is fate! Look, Richard and Charles, our names have a common syllable 'char'. All this must be arranged by God!"
Xu Qingsong almost choked when he drank a cup of tea. He managed to hold it back and couldn't stop laughing.
Du Yunkai was speechless about Richard's "forced fate" statement. He didn't mean to pour cold water on him, but he didn't want Richard to be disappointed when the time comes: "Have you read some reports that there are twins in this world who are not related to you by blood?"
Richard had a question mark on his face.
Du Yunkai explained: "For example, if you are in the northern hemisphere and that person is in the southern hemisphere, you have no blood relationship with him for 18 generations, but that person looks exactly like you."
Richard still had a question mark on his face.
Xu Qingsong understood what Du Yunkai meant and further explained: "That is to say, Charles looks like you when you were a child. It is probably just an accident. You should not be too..."
"No, no, no," Richard shook his head, his tone firm, "I have a feeling that there must be a relationship between Charles and me, believe me!"
After he finished speaking, he asked Du Yunkai again: "So, Kai, can you tell me who Charles' father is now?"
Xu Qingsong added tea to the three people's tea cups and refilled the teapot with boiling water. To be honest, he was also aroused by Richard's curiosity.
Du Yunkai sighed: "Richard, it's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that Charles really doesn't have a father. His so-called 'father' is just a sperm. Do you understand?"
"What?" Richard felt like his brain was shutting down. "I don't understand. What does that mean?"
Xu Qingsong guessed it. No wonder Cha Cha said, "I came here because my mother missed me."
Sure enough, Du Yunkai asked Richard: "Sperm bank, you should know this, right?"
At this time, sitting on the wooden stool next to the threshing ground, Du Yunxiang and Liu Wangxue were also talking about this matter.
They went out for a walk, but didn't go to the asphalt road, because there were no street lights at night, and there was a small river beside the road, which was unsafe. So they went to the village and came to the threshing ground, which was large and flat, and had street lights installed. Some children came to play after dinner, including Xiao Tao and Hao Hao, who they met in the evening.
Several children, including the three little ones, soon started playing together, chasing each other and running around laughing. Anding played with them and also took care of them, wiping the sweat off Chacha from time to time, fearing that he would catch a cold.
Liu Wangxue and Du Yunxiang started out walking around the threshing ground, mostly talking about work. Later, the topic turned to daily life and focused on Cha Cha.
Although Liu Wangxue was curious about Cha Cha's father, he didn't ask too much. Perhaps it was because the environment here was really relaxing, or perhaps Du Yunxiang just wanted to chat at the moment, so he took the initiative to bring it up. The two of them sat down on the wooden stool and chatted while watching the children playing with the three little ones.
Du Yunxiang is a purely career-oriented person, but you can say that she has no interest in love. She has had a relationship before.
This happened during her postgraduate study. The guy was in the same department and grade as her, but his family was relatively ordinary. Du Yunxiang didn't care about the economic conditions at all. She only cared about the person. The guy was really excellent in all aspects. In her opinion, he was at least much better than her peers in the circle she was in.
Yunxi Entertainment was founded by Du Yunxiang during her graduate studies. It started out as a film and television investment company. Her family members didn’t know about it, let alone her boyfriend.
When they graduated, the boyfriend started a business with a few people, but encountered some difficulties in funding. Du Yunxiang couldn't bear to see her boyfriend suffer, so she offered to help. The boyfriend didn't know Du Yunxiang's family background, and only thought that she was the only daughter of a well-off family who was loved by everyone. It was hard to believe that she could come up with hundreds of thousands of yuan at once.
Du Yunxiang liked him at that time, and after observing him for nearly two years, she felt that he was a good person, so she wanted to stay together. So she thought that she would have to let him know about her family situation sooner or later. But for some reason, she didn't tell him everything, but told him about Yunxi Entertainment first, saying that the money was earned from her investment.
The boyfriend did not take Du Yunxiang's money at the time, but a few days later he suddenly sent her a message to break up. Du Yunxiang asked why, and he replied with four words, saying that the pressure was too great.
Looking at these four words, Du Yunxiang suddenly felt that he didn't like him that much anymore, so let's break up.
After the breakup, they graduated and Du Yunxiang focused on his career. When Yunxi became famous in the circle, she encountered a serious celebrity scandal. Her investment was lost and her company was affected. She had to go home and ask her parents to help cover the bottom. Later, after the crisis was over, she transformed the company and expanded the artist management department, and gradually managed it to its current scale.
During this period, there were people pursuing her, but she looked down upon all of them and had no intention of falling in love at all.
Until one day, a secretary from the president's office returned from maternity leave and brought her a return gift. She also saw the photo of the baby and was immediately struck by the little cutie.
After careful consideration, Du Yunxiang felt that she also wanted a child, so she told her mother Yin Donglei about this idea after returning home.
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