Chapter 17
Almost when Jiaojiao called out "Dad" for the first time, Yin Zheng heard the anxious little voice. He immediately stood up, strode forward, squatted down, and held the stumbling Jiaojiao in his arms.
"Who bullied you?" Yin Zheng, who thought Jiaojiao was bullied, picked him up. Although he tried his best to suppress the ruthlessness provoked by Xi Fang, the tone of his question was still full of ferocity.
"I didn't bully him." Jiaojiao, anxious to comfort her father, leaned into Yin Zheng's arms. She tried to open her arms wide, but she only gave Yin Zheng an awkward hug: "Daddy is upset, Jiaojiao is worried."
Jiaojiao's tone was soft and anxious, and she looked up at Yin Zheng, whose clear pupils reflected his figure clearly.
Yin Zheng lowered his eyes to meet his gaze, and the violent anger that he had been suppressing suddenly eased.
Jiaojiao rubbed her face against Yin Zheng's heart, and patted his chest gently with her small hands. The rhythm mixed with Yin Zheng's strong heartbeat seemed to penetrate his flesh and blood and land on his heart.
"Jiaojiao is here. When dad is sad, Jiaojiao will coax him and comfort him, and then he won't feel sad anymore."
"Dad isn't afraid. If anyone bullies you, Jiaojiao will beat him up..."
Imagining her father being bullied by others, Jiaojiao pretended to coax him when he was about to hit someone, but before she could finish her words, she started crying.
He lay in Yin Zheng's arms, pouting his little mouth. His nose felt sore and he used his little hands to hold his red eyes to stop himself from crying. His little baby voice was filled with obvious sobs: "Don't bully Daddy..."
Yin Zheng, who felt inexplicably protected and comforted, subconsciously tightened his arms and hid the small figure lying on his chest.
He looked down at Jiaojiao, whose mouth was as puffy as a duckling, and couldn't help but reach out and pinch his mouth, "Looking like he's about to cry but not crying is so ugly."
With her mouth pinched, Jiaojiao tilted her head, her black grape-like eyes still wet with mist. Feeling that Yin Zheng's mood had improved a little, he said vaguely: "Jiaojiao is ugly, Daddy, can't you bear it? Ah, Jiaojiao is very ugly..."
After saying this, he nodded twice in affirmation.
Upon seeing this, Yin Zheng directly held down Jiaojiao's little head and hid it in his arms, like a dragon hiding its treasure so that no one could see it, then turned around and strode away.
When Xi Fang followed with Fang Xingqiao, he was glared at warningly. The cruelty in his eyes, which had not yet subsided, made Xi Fang stop in his tracks.
His intuition told him that if he continued to follow, the evil dragon would attack him.
No wonder, that child is really adorable!
Xi Fang sighed inwardly as he thought about the scene just now.
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After returning home, Jiaojiao was sitting in the living room playing with the newly bought toys, looking absentmindedly outside the door while playing.
Jiaojiao had something hidden in his little head. Knowing that he was still young and couldn't hit anyone, he planned to find Uncle Luo An to complain and tell Uncle Luo An that someone was bullying his father, so that Uncle Luo An could vent his father's anger.
Gophers kept popping up on the off-white board to steal food. Jiaojiao, who was worried about something, didn't hit a single gopher with a hammer and was even laughed at.
He puffed up his fair little face angrily and swung the hammer loudly.
Luo Andeli, who learned from his men in the black market that Jiaojiao and the others had returned, threw away the work he had been busy with all morning and walked towards Yongxiang.
He couldn't wait to play with the sweet and soft Jiaojiao to soothe his heart which had been devastated by all kinds of trivial matters.
As Luo Andeli just stepped into the door, Jiaojiao, who was sitting in the living room, jumped up, dragged her hamster board and small hammer to Yin Zheng, and then grabbed Luo Andeli's trouser leg as he was about to step into the living room and pulled him aside.
"?" Luo Andeli glanced at the abandoned Yin Zheng, and then at Jiaojiao who was pulling at her trouser legs.
Jiaojiao actually chose him between Yin Zheng and him
Luo Andeli was extremely surprised. Driven by his strong curiosity, he followed Jiaojiao to the corner of the yard very cooperatively.
Jiaojiao walked to the corner of the yard, squatted down, and raised his hand to signal Luo Andeli to squat down as well.
Luo Andeli squatted down as he asked and looked at Jiaojiao who waved to him to listen, and fell into strange silence.
Well, do you know how small a child who is not even as tall as a person's knee is when he squats down?
It was difficult for him to bend over and listen at this height, so Luo Andeli was silent for a while and then reached out and lifted Jiaojiao, who was squatting on the ground, into his arms: "Tell me, what's the matter with you so mysteriously?"
Jiaojiao pursed her lips and smiled embarrassedly, then lowered her head and started taking out candies from the pocket in front of her belly. She did this several times, and after taking out all the newly bought candies and putting them in Luo Andeli's hand, she pursed her lips and quietly complained to Luo Andeli.
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With your father's fierce fighting ability and his character of taking action without saying a word, who in this outer city can bully him?
Although he thought so, Luo Andeli did not say it. He looked at the colorful little mountain of sugar in his hand, then looked at Jiaojiao's eager eyes. While complaining in his heart about what Yin Zheng had done to make the child so uneasy, he nodded in agreement.
There was no way. The kids had bribed him with candy, so he couldn’t just refuse!
After getting the promise, Jiaojiao got down from his arms and couldn't help but happily circle around Luo An Deli. Her black grape-like eyes were shining, and she said in a soft voice, "Hello, Uncle Luo An."
Luo Andeli, who was so cute that he fell backwards, couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
He is so good at being cute, no wonder Yin Zheng looks at him like the apple of his eye.
He bent down and pinched Jiaojiao's soft face, then stood up and glanced towards the living room window.
Yin Zheng, who was standing by the window and watching this side, frowned when his eyes fell on Luo Andeli's hand that had just pinched Jiaojiao's face. He wondered if he had washed his hands.
At night, as the sun rises, the chirping of insects and the sounds of wild cats hunting interweave to become the characteristics of summer nights.
Amidst these sounds, Yin Zheng, lying on the bed, looked at Jiaojiao curled up in his arms, and the words Xi Fang had said during the day flashed through his mind.
"You can't give your child a safe, excellent life, or a bright future. But we can give them all. Whether it's a safe, excellent, and prosperous life, sufficient resources, loving parents, or a bright future, the Ji family can provide it."
Excellent and safe life, sufficient resources and a bright future.
Can’t he give Jiaojiao all these?
He thought about these things for a long time and couldn't sleep.
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The morning sunlight swayed and fell slowly, and the occasional passing car left behind exhaust fumes. Amidst the noisy sounds of cursing, the people in the chaotic area and the wild children squatting everywhere could not help but cast their eyes on the two unfamiliar faces walking on the street.
Their eyes were either narrowed or flickering, all of which contained emotions such as scrutiny, calculation, and greed.
Xi Fang noticed these gazes and looked back at them one by one with a smile, and the gazes of those around him all withdrew.
Not a good person!
This is the evaluation of Xi Fang, who had just entered the Chaos Zone, given by people in the Chaos Zone.
Xi Fang's gaze swept over these chaotic and disorderly people and those wild children. With a slight smile on his lips, he took Fang Xingqiao's hand all the way to Yongxiang, and walked towards Yin Zheng's courtyard with a clear gaze.
Yin Zheng went hunting in the Endless Sea early this morning, and Luo Andeli was playing whack-a-mole with Jiaojiao at this time.
This whack-a-mole toy was bought by Yin Zheng for Jiaojiao yesterday. It was a thin piece of board. When you turned on the switch, virtual hamsters would pop out of the board to grab food. You had to hit them on the head with a hammer to keep the food.
The bright laughter and occasional angry sounds drifted in the yard along with Luo Andeli's teasing.
There was a knock on the door. Luo Andeli put away his whack-a-mole hand and turned to look outside the door.
He rubbed Jiaojiao's hair, which was frizzy because of him: "You continue to play, I'll go find some fun."
"Oh." Jiaojiao nodded and continued to knock on the mole hurriedly to protect her food.
Luo Andeli didn't open the door. He climbed over the wall, squatted on the wall, and saw Xi Fang knocking on the door. He raised his hand and greeted him, "This way."
Xi Fang stopped knocking on the door and turned to look. Seeing that it was a stranger, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
Luo Andeli nodded at him nonchalantly: "What's the matter?"
"I'm looking for Yin Zheng." Xi Fang said.
"He is in the Endless Sea." After saying this, Luo Andeli clapped his hands and jumped back from the wall, with no intention of paying any more attention to the two people outside the door.
Seeing this, Xi Fang took Fang Xingqiao's hand and walked back the way they came. It was very interesting that they didn't find such a person next to Yin Zheng when they were investigating.
In the next few days, Yin Zheng would go to the Endless Sea to hunt alien species, and when he came back he would bring back two doves. He would take Jiaojiao to Yu Sheng Private Kitchen and have someone prepare the doves to cook for Jiaojiao.
The price is a dove's heterozygous nucleus.
When Luo Andeli found out, he looked like he was wasting such a great thing. You know, a level 4 alien core is enough to buy private dishes for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, Yin Zheng later said that he would only give them this one special core, and that Yu Sheng’s private dishes would be provided for their meals from now on, and would even have the food delivered to their door.
Otherwise, Luo Andeli would tell Jiaojiao how much of a prodigal his father was.
Five days later, Yin Zheng carried Jiaojiao to the outer city to complete the adoption procedures. Before entering, he looked at Jiaojiao in his arms and said, "Once you complete the adoption procedures, you can't change your father. I'll be your only father."
Yin Zheng has been thinking these days about whether to hand Jiaojiao over to Xi Fang. It is true that he is right. They can give Jiaojiao the life and future that he cannot give.
But the shallow emotions in his heart were entangled in all directions, like an unbreakable thread entangled with his reason, constantly surging and making him selfish for once.
In the end, the shallow emotions in Yin Zheng's heart prevailed.
In fact, for a person who has never had emotions, even the shallowest emotions are like a raging fire. Once they appear, all rationality has to bow.
So Yin Zheng didn't want to let Jiaojiao leave. Jiaojiao called him dad, so she should be his child.
As for the bright future and bright life, he will shoulder them all.
He will give Jiaojiao a good enough life and a bright enough future.
Having made the decision, Yin Zheng carried Jiaojiao to the place where the adoption procedures were carried out. However, when he met Jiaojiao's innocent and clear eyes, he became a little hesitant.
"Daddy, I only want Daddy." Upon hearing his question, Jiaojiao clutched Yin Zheng's clothes tightly, a rare firmness emerging in her dark eyes: "Jiaojiao only wants Daddy, I don't want anyone else."
After saying that, he waved his little hand and pointed to the door, and said in a baby voice, "Adoption!"
Seeing this, Yin Zheng smiled, rubbed the back of her round head, and walked in.
An hour later, Yin Zheng came out of the door with a heavy look in his eyes.
The person who handled the adoption procedures said that he did not meet the adoption requirements, and recorded Jiaojiao's situation, saying that they would find parents for him who met the adoption requirements.
Yin Zheng, who had searched the adoption requirements on the Internet, knew that in a place like Border Town, he met or even exceeded the adoption requirements.
Jiaojiao's eyes were red as he buried himself in his father's arms. He understood what those people meant when they said they would find him a new father.
Jiaojiao clutched Yin Zheng's clothes tightly, her dark eyes filled with moisture, and she cried in her baby voice, "Jiaojiao doesn't want any other daddy."
"I only have one dad."
"Well, you can only have me as a father." Yin Zheng said as he tightened his arms and hid Jiaojiao in his arms.
He would never let anyone take Jiaojiao away from him!
This is his!
It can only be his!
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