Chapter 215
Actually, if you think about it carefully, Xiao Taozhi's problem is not a big deal.
He is his mother's biological son, and they are related by blood, while Xiao Taozhi was just picked up by him.
No matter how much he liked this little guy, they were just strangers who had nothing to do with each other.
What's the point of talking about whether we are close or not?
Although Pei Yan thought so in his heart, he did not say it out loud.
Pei Yan had thought carefully about the question of whether Xiao Taozhi should stay or go.
He planned to wait until Ms. Pei Rao's 60th birthday was over before taking her to the police station to report the case.
If the little girl can successfully find her family, he will send her home to reunite with her family. This should be the best outcome.
After all, what child wouldn't want to be reunited with their biological parents? No matter how close he was to Xiao Taozhi, it couldn't compare to how close she was to her biological parents.
Whenever Pei Yan thought about that day, he would feel depressed.
In fact, he was very unwilling and reluctant to let Xiao Taozhi leave.
He even had a despicable thought. He hoped that Xiao Taozhi could not find her biological parents.
Or even if Xiao Taozhi's parents came to him, with his methods, he could make her parents never appear in front of Xiao Taozhi for the rest of her life, so that he could adopt the little guy naturally.
But he still softened his heart.
Noticing the man's sudden downturn, Xiao Taozhi raised her soft little face and nervously looked at the man's expression: "Dad, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No."
Pei Yan shook his head and instantly calmed himself down.
Then he squatted down, and the frivolity in his peach blossom eyes, which had always been charming and attractive, was gone, and only incomparable seriousness remained.
His light-colored lips moved twice, but no syllable came out.
After a long pause, as if struggling, his deep gaze finally met Xiao Taozhi's. He spoke slowly, his voice a little hoarse: "Xiao Taozhi, after you find your biological parents, will you still... miss me?"
Little Taozhi blinked her clear eyes, not understanding what Pei Yan meant. She said as a matter of course, "But you are Zhizhi's father. Zhizhi will always be with him! Zhizhi promises~"
Pei Yan's dark pupils trembled twice.
Then he chuckled softly, tidied up the messy hair on Xiao Taozhi's forehead, nodded, and said, "Okay."
This day.
A rare fiery cloud appeared on the horizon, its bright red color seemed to burn through the sky.
Little Taozhi pointed at the clouds in the sky, jumped up and down in surprise, and insisted on pulling Pei Yan to look at them.
Pei Yan cooperated by looking towards the horizon, and then cooperated like a country bumpkin, shouting a few times in surprise.
later.
The image of the fiery clouds gradually became blurred in Pei Yan's memory.
However, he still clearly remembered that Xiao Taozhi's deer eyes were brighter than the stars and were exceptionally clear and bright.
So much so that not long after, during the dark time when he completely lost Xiao Taozhi.
These eyes were deeply engraved in his mind, indelible...
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Early the next morning.
As soon as Xiao Taozhi opened the door, she saw Pei Yan standing at the door.
The little guy was still asleep, with a hair standing on top of his head. He yawned sleepily and asked softly, "Daddy, what do you want from Zhizhi?"
"Yes, of course! And it's a big deal!"
Pei Yan pretended to be mysterious and walked into Xiao Taozhi's bedroom and placed a piece of paper on Xiao Taozhi's pink little table.
"Come, sit down, let's talk in detail." Pei Yan pulled out a chair for Xiao Taozhi.
Little Taozhi sat down, rubbed her big eyes, and put her two little hands on the desk.
Looking at the black words on the white paper in front of her, little Taozhi frowned and poked the paper with her little finger: "Daddy, what is this?"
"contract."
Pei Yan thought over and over all night about Xiao Taozhi's promise to him yesterday. He felt that verbal words would not be very effective. He would only feel at ease if he had a written document in black and white.
"What's a contract...for?"
Pei Yan pressed down the silly hair on Xiao Taozhi's head and then explained.
Afraid that Tao Zhi wouldn't understand what he was saying, Pei Yan tried to make it as simple and understandable as possible: "A contract is the agreement we made between us. If we only remember it in our heads, we'll forget it. So we write it down with pen and paper. If someone cheats later, they can just bring out a copy and they won't be able to deny it."
"Zhizhi won't deny it! Zhizhi is a good kid who keeps his word!"
Pei Yan followed Xiao Taozhi's words and said with a hint of coaxing: "Zhizhi certainly wouldn't lie, but..."
Before he could finish his words, little Taozhi interrupted him: "Oh, Zhizhi knows! Daddy is a bad boy, Daddy will lie."
???
Pei Yan: "Not really..."
"That's because when daddy gets old and develops Alzheimer's, he won't be able to remember this, so he has to write it down! Right?"
Pei Yan: “…”
Could this little guy please stop clinging to him?
It turns out that they are not biological children!
Pei Yan didn't want to argue any further, so he gave a compromising answer: "Just take it as it is."
Then he changed the subject and picked up a watercolor pen from the desk.
He put it in Xiao Taozhi's hand and pointed at the blank space on the paper: "Come, sign your name here."
Little Taozhi scratched his head, looking very embarrassed: "But Zhizhi can't write..."
Pei Yan settled for the next best thing: "Then you draw a symbol of your own here, that's the same."
"Oh, okay!"
The little guy uncapped the pen, grabbed the pen, and was about to put pen to paper.
But she suddenly stopped and looked up: "Dad, what does it mean on this contract?"
Since it was a serious treaty anyway, Pei Yan told Xiao Taozhi directly.
He pointed at the words and translated them for her sentence by sentence: "This means that Xiao Taozhi will always be Daddy's daughter, and Daddy will always be your Daddy. Zhizhi will always stay by Daddy's side and be his sweet little cotton-padded jacket."
"oh!"
Little Taozhi nodded her head as if she understood something, but she was smart enough to notice something was wrong.
She pointed at the sentence on the paper and said, "Dad, what you just said were two sentences, but on this paper, there are one, two, three, four... four sentences! What does the last sentence mean?"
Pei Yan glanced at him.
It was written in black and white: "Party A is not allowed to date or marry without Party B's consent."
He added this sentence specifically to prevent Xiao Taozhi from running away with some bad boy with bad intentions.
Pei Yan coughed dryly, then said nonsense without changing his expression: "This sentence means that Dad will always love you."
Little Taozhi tilted her head back: "Really?"
Pei Yan nodded. "Of course it's real, even realer than gold! How could Dad, such an honest, friendly, and conscientious businessman, lie to you? If Dad lied to you, then Dad would be single for the rest of his life and never find a partner!"
(End of this chapter)
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