Chapter 47
One day, when Yin Zheng was carrying Jiaojiao back from kindergarten, he saw Yin Changshan sitting in a wheelchair on the lawn outside the community.
Yin Changshan, sitting in a wheelchair with his trouser legs empty, looked at Yin Zheng and smiled, his cloudy eyes full of caution: "I just came to see you."
While he still looked young to his peers, his hair had already turned gray and his face was covered with loose wrinkles.
Yin Zheng stopped and looked at his empty trouser legs. Thinking of the results of Luo Andeli's investigation, he didn't know what to say for a moment.
In his childhood memories, his father Yin Changshan should have hated him, but if he hated him, why did he search all over the world for him after he disappeared, and even lost his two legs?
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Yin Changshan's gaze fell on the child in his arms who was looking at him curiously. Meeting the bright, dark, curious eyes, he was stunned for a moment before saying, "This is your child, right? What's his name?"
"Jingjiao." Yin Zheng said.
"Feet, feet?" Yin Changshan said with a little hesitation.
This name is a bit inappropriate, isn't it?!
Thinking that Yin Zheng had lived in a harsh border town for so many years and had never been to school, it was understandable that he had such a name. Yin Changshan guiltily suppressed the hesitation in his eyes.
"My feet are fine!" he said with a smile.
Yin Zheng, who had noticed the change in his expression, said, "The 'jiao' in 'jiaoyue' is not the 'jiao' in 'jiaoya'."
After hearing Yin Zheng's explanation, Yin Changshan's smile froze, and he said awkwardly, "Oh, yes, I'm talking about the Jiao in Bright Moon."
As he said this, he waved to Jiaojiao: "Jiaojiao, come here, come to Grandpa."
"Grandpa?" Jiaojiao, who was in her father's arms, looked at the stranger in front of her with confusion, then looked up at her father.
Yin Zheng raised his hand and touched the back of Jiaojiao's head. Under Yin Changshan's nervous and expectant gaze, he said to Jiaojiao, "He is Daddy's dad. Jiaojiao can call him grandpa."
Yin Changshan's eyes became moist when he heard his words, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad. He had always thought that Yin Zheng didn't want to recognize him and hated him, so he refused to return to the Yin family. But it turned out that it was not the case. He didn't hate him, nor did he not recognize him. He just regarded the Yin family as a strange place and thought there was no need to go back.
Jiaojiao came down from her father's arms and walked over to Yin Changshan, looking up at him. Seeing tears in his eyes, she asked in confusion, "Grandpa, why are you crying? Did someone bully you?"
"No one bullied me, I just got sand in my eyes and I feel a little uncomfortable." Looking at the tender face of the child in front of him, Yin Changshan tried to soften his voice for fear of scaring him.
Yin Zheng and Yin Changshan look very similar. They both have a face with sharp features and looks unfriendly. When they get older, this face will look even more severe and difficult to get along with. It is a look that children are very afraid of.
"Jiaojiao, help me blow it out." Jiaojiao stood on tiptoe to help blow the sand out of her eyes, but Yin Changshan quickly said, "No need, the sand is gone."
He took out a carefully prepared gift from the space storage device and placed it in Jiaojiao's arms: "This is a meeting gift for Jiaojiao."
Holding the gift, Jiaojiao smiled with her big eyes curved into crescents: "Thank you, Grandpa."
"You're welcome." Yin Changshan said happily.
"Grandpa is not feeling well, so he has to use a wheelchair for a while?" In Jiaojiao's memory, the only person who has used a wheelchair is Uncle Luo An.
Yin Changshan didn't say anything, but just smiled and touched Jiaojiao's head.
From then on, Yin Changshan would often come to Fanyun Community to wait for Yin Zheng. He was determined to get Yin Zheng to go back and inherit the Yin family. Even though Yin Zheng's personality and abilities made him not the most suitable person to inherit the Yin family, he still wanted to give the Yin family to Yin Zheng.
Because that was what he had always wanted to leave to his son, and it was also the most precious thing he could leave to his son.
Time passed by little by little, and winter came in a blink of an eye. I felt curious about the bright rain, but I was a little scared when I saw the snow and didn't dare to go out.
Heavy snow fluttered down from the sky like goose feathers. Melhos and Luo Andeli divided into two teams and started a very intense and childish snowball fight in the yard.
Jiaojiao, who was in her father's arms, looked at them curiously, but refused to go to the yard with Uncle Luoan and the others to play snowballs.
"It's cold." Jiaojiao, who was wrapped up like a ball in his father's arms, waved his little hands with a serious look on his fair and tender face, refusing Luo Andeli's call for him to play snowballs.
Luo Andeli looked at Jiaojiao, who was wearing a constant temperature bracelet but still wrapped himself up like a ball, forcing Yin Zheng to lower the temperature of his constant temperature bracelet. He was very puzzled as to why Jiaojiao was so afraid of snow.
Yes, Jiaojiao is afraid of the snow, not the cold. No matter how low the temperature is when it is not snowing, Jiaojiao will not wrap himself up like this. But as soon as it snows, he will ask his father to wrap him in thick clothes.
Luo Andeli didn't know that even though the child who had frozen to death in the snow had forgotten that not-so-good memory, he was still instinctively afraid of snow.
So in this weather with heavy snow, Jiaojiao is more attached to her father than ever before and wants to stay in her father's arms at all times.
As if sensing his fear, Yin Zheng gently patted Jiaojiao's back and hardly went out during this winter.
Winter goes and spring comes, spring replaces summer. Who wound the spring behind time and made three years pass in an instant?
Three years later, Jiaojiao hasn't changed at all. His height, weight, and even his intelligence haven't changed. It's as if someone has pressed the pause button on him, and he remains at the age of three forever.
Not only Yin Zheng was worried about Jiaojiao's situation, but Cloverd was also very worried.
Jiaojiao, who didn't understand the fathers' anxiety, sat on the sofa, holding the bottle and drinking with eyes curled up happily. After drinking almost half of it, Jiaojiao handed the bottle to her father: "Dad, ah."
Yin Zheng lowered his head and took the bottle, looking at the dense needle holes on the fair and tender arms. After struggling and thinking for a while, he chose to compromise.
"I don't plan to take Jiaojiao to other cities to see a doctor." He said to Luo Andeli and others who were discussing which city to take Jiaojiao to see a doctor next.
Over the past three years, he, Cloverd, Luo Andeli, Hillianbur, and Melhos had taken Jiaojiao to no fewer than three cities for medical treatment. Jiaojiao had undergone countless blood, bone marrow, and cell draws. Her fair arms and thighs were covered in dense, unhealed needle marks, but ultimately, nothing was found.
Jiaojiao was a well-behaved girl who didn't cry or make a fuss. Even when she was in severe pain, she would just bury her head in his arms and whimper like a kitten, but this made him feel so distressed.
So he thought, forget it, he won’t go to see it!
"Are you sure?" Luo Andeli turned his head to look at him. He knew best how deep Yin Zheng's feelings for Jiaojiao were.
He had been the man's father for not long, but because Ji Luo Bushan said that he was in danger of death, he took a dagger and slashed at his neck without saying a word.
It was also from that time that Luo Andeli realized that Yin Zheng, a man with emotional defects, valued Jiaojiao more than his life!
"Yeah." Yin Zheng raised his hand and touched Jiaojiao's head. When he met her eyes, his expression softened slightly: "I will raise Jiaojiao for the rest of my life."
It’s just that he can’t grow up. If you think about it carefully, it’s not a big deal!
Cloveford, who was standing by, looked at Yin Zheng with his emotionless iris-purple eyes: "I can raise one too."
If Yin Zheng can't afford it, you can give it to him!
Yin Zheng ignored the marshal who was trying to snatch his son away from him. The next day, he turned around and accepted the Yin family that Yin Changshan insisted on handing over to him, and followed Yin Changshan to learn how to manage the Yin family's assets.
He learned very quickly and had a sharp eye, always able to hit the nail on the head, which made Yin Changshan very happy.
Because Jiaojiao never grew up, he stopped going to kindergarten after sending his third kindergarten classmate away. If you count carefully, his first classmate is now in the second grade of elementary school.
Servis, the kid who took Jiaojiao to play Defend the Blue Star, would often come back to the kindergarten to see Jiaojiao. If this continues, after Servis graduates from the military academy, he will probably still have a classmate in kindergarten.
After Jiaojiao stopped going to school, she followed her father. Sometimes when Yin Zheng was too busy to spare time, Cloverford would seize the opportunity to take Jiaojiao to the military headquarters to play, and introduce her to everyone as his child. After taking Jiaojiao to the third and fourth military regions to ask for gifts, he also took Jiaojiao to the first and second military regions to ask for gifts.
Faced with Cloverd's drastically changed temperament, if the results of his mental strength examination had not shown that he was in a stable period, the military would have sent him to St. Vincent's Hospital again.
A year later, when Yin Zheng completely took over the Yin family, Yin Changshan was like a deflated balloon. He suddenly collapsed and was admitted to the hospital due to serious illness.
"Grandpa, Jiaojiao is here to see you." When Jiaojiao's childish voice sounded in the ward, a smile unconsciously appeared on Yin Changshan's face, which looked gloomy.
"Jiaojiao, why are you here so early today?" he said with some difficulty.
"It's not early. Jiaojiao is telling grandpa a story." Jiaojiao, who was in her father's arms, held up the candy in her hand and said, "Grandpa, eat candy. If you eat candy, you won't be sad."
Yin Changshan took the candy from Jiaojiao's hand, with a smile in his cloudy eyes. He looked at Jiaojiao and then at Yin Zheng, and the self-blame and regret that had been weighing on his heart for all these years were gradually relieved.
After enduring for three months, Yin Changshan died on the day of the Beginning of Summer.
Over the past twenty years, he had spent all his energy searching for his son Yin Zheng. After finding him, the hope that had been in his heart was lost and he could no longer hold on.
But before he died, he finally delivered the gift he had been longing for to his son Yin Zheng.
Yin Changshan felt guilty and regretful towards his son Yin Zheng.
He and Yin Zheng's mother, Bertha, got married because they loved each other. He loved Bertha very much, and she was the only love of his life.
Bertha's accidental death was a huge and fatal blow to him. That's why on the day of the funeral, when he saw that Yin Zheng had no expression about the death of his mother who loved him very much during her lifetime, and didn't even shed a tear, he lost his mind and took his anger out on Yin Zheng, who was only four years old.
He knew it clearly, from the moment Yin Zheng was born, he knew this was a little cub that couldn't cry. When Yin Zheng was two years old, the most prestigious hospital in Central City even diagnosed him with emotional impairment.
He knew everything clearly, but he still cowardly took out all the grief over his lover's death on his young son.
He took his anger out on him, ignored him, and didn't want to see him.
When he was forced to marry another woman due to a scheme, and when he saw Yin Zheng calling the woman he married "mother" without any hesitation, he became more and more dissatisfied and resentful towards Yin Zheng.
It was not until he was five years old when Yin Zheng suddenly disappeared and could not be found in the entire central city that he suddenly woke up.
But it's all too late!
In the cemetery, Yin Zheng, dressed in black, stood in front of the grave with complicated feelings. It would be a lie to say that he was not at all touched by Yin Changshan's sudden, short and strong fatherly love, but it would also be a lie to say that he was greatly moved.
There was a look of confusion in his only remaining right eye. He didn't know whether the emotion surging in his heart at this moment could be considered sadness. He just stood there silently for a long time without saying a word.
When leaving, Yin Zheng inexplicably turned his head to look at the grave next to him. The tombstone read "My Beloved Wife Bertha".
"Daddy, hold me." Jiaojiao, who was held by Luo Andeli and waiting outside the cemetery, opened her arms impatiently when she saw her father.
Yin Zheng held Jiaojiao in his arms and rubbed his furry head. Jiaojiao obediently let his father rub her. His little hands patted his father's chest and he said in a soothing voice, "Daddy, don't be sad. Jiaojiao is here. Jiaojiao, comfort him."
"Yeah, not sad." Yin Zheng responded softly and got into the car holding Jiaojiao.
As the car left the cemetery, Jiaojiao couldn't help but feel curious. She looked up at her father and asked in confusion, "Why did you send Grandpa here?"
"Everyone who dies will be sent here." Luo Andeli on the side answered quickly.
Jiaojiao tilted her head, the confusion in her dark eyes not fading: "But Jiaojiao wasn't sent here even after she died?"
Hearing his words, Yin Zheng's heart suddenly tightened, and he felt very uncomfortable. He raised his hand to pinch Jiaojiao's little mouth, frowned and said, "Don't say such things, it's unlucky."
Although Jiaojiao didn't understand and had her mouth pinched, she still nodded obediently.
From the beginning to the end, Yin Zheng and Luo Andeli believed that Jiaojiao's claim of death was just a dream she had had.
Children always think that things in their dreams are real.
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