After Li Yuzhu finished speaking, she started the car and drove out of the hotel parking lot.
I bought some paper money and offerings along the way, then restarted the car and drove into the mountains.
Around 9 a.m., Li Yuzhu drove to the foot of the cliff. After getting out of the car, she looked up at the cliff, which was at least 200 meters high. She thought she saw a woman falling off the cliff, but upon closer inspection, there was nothing there but small trees and rocky cliffs. It turned out to be an illusion.
There is a solitary grave at the foot of the cliff. Years ago, Dong Yuhan insisted on burying her mother here. Her mother jumped off the cliff and died here for her father. She was afraid that her mother's soul would wander away, so she insisted on burying her mother in the place of death.
My mother's grave was overgrown with weeds many years ago. After my father died, my stepmother buried him next to my mother, and now it has become a new grave.
Dong Yuhan lay on the grave, crying, "Dad, you owed Mom so much when you were alive. Now that you're reunited with Mom, I hope you can repay your debt to her from the other side..."
Before Dong Yuhan could finish speaking, she cried herself unconscious. Li Yuzhu hurriedly picked her up from the grave and she gradually woke up as Li Yuzhu called out to her.
This child experienced more in her first nineteen years than most people do in their entire lives. She should have had a happy family, but her father took it away when she was ten. He took her mother's life, robbed her of her childhood happiness, and ruined her teenage years. At seventeen, she became the wife of a vicious man.
When Dong Yuhan woke up, she knelt down on her parents' graves and cried for a while. With the persuasion of Li Yuzhu and Su Wei, she kowtowed to her parents several times.
With the help of Li Yuzhu and Su Wei, she stood up and walked towards the car, turning back every few steps.
After the three got into the car, Su Wei started the car and drove away from the cliff, heading back to her hometown amidst Dong Yuhan's cries.
After several hours of travel, they returned to their hometown in the evening. Li Yuzhu first took Su Wei home, and then drove home herself.
Li Yuzhu parked the car outside the gate and said, "Honey, wait in the car for a bit. I'll go home and say hello to your dad."
Having brought home such a grown daughter out of nowhere, Li Yuzhu had to go home first to let her husband know; she absolutely couldn't just bring her home directly.
Dong Yuhan nodded after hearing this, and Li Yuzhu said "Wait for me" before getting out of the car.
She walked to the front door, took out her key, opened the door, closed it behind her, and headed towards the villa.
She walked into the living room, where Dongqing and their three children were eating at the dining table. Seeing his wife enter, he stood up and asked, "Why didn't you call ahead when you were coming back? I didn't make dinner for you."
"I'll cook some more food in a bit. Let's not talk about this now; I have something important to discuss with you."
After finishing her story, Li Yuzhu sat down at the dining table and briefly recounted Dong Yuhan's background to her husband. She said, "That girl is so pitiful. Her mother jumped off a cliff to her death, her biological father sold her, and now her father has died at work. She's a homeless girl now. I've decided to take her in as my daughter. You don't object, do you?"
Dongqing said, "This girl's life is too hard. We have two daughters, one more won't make a difference. Please bring her in."
Li Yuzhu and her husband stood up and walked together to the gate. Her husband opened the gate completely, and she got into the car outside and drove into the yard.
After Li Yuzhu got out of the car, she saw her three children running out of the house. She opened the car door and said, "Yuhan, get out of the car quickly and greet your father, brother, and sister."
Dong Yuhan got out of the car, knelt down in front of Dong Qing, and called him "Dad".
Just then, Dongqing's three older sisters heard that their younger brother and sister-in-law had returned and came over. They were shocked to see a girl kneeling in front of their younger brother. Dong Sanmei asked, "Younger brother, younger sister-in-law, what kind of show are you putting on during the New Year?"
Dong Qing helped Dong Yuhan up from the ground, smiling as he said, "It's hard to explain in half a sentence, let's go inside and talk."
The three older sisters nodded after hearing this and followed their younger brother's family into the house.
Li Yuzhu recounted Dong Yuhan's life story to her three older sisters, saying, "Yuhan: 'Quickly greet your eldest aunt, second aunt, and third aunt!'"
Upon meeting, a grand ceremony was required. Dong Yuhan knelt on the ground to pay respects to her three aunts, each of whom gave her 5,000 yuan as New Year's money.
Next, the children reunited with their younger siblings, older cousins, and other cousins, and then the three aunts took the children home.
The next day, Li Yuzhu took her newly adopted daughter to her parents' home to pay respects to her maternal grandparents, uncles and aunts, and aunts and uncles. From then on, Dong Yuhan was the eldest daughter of Dong Qing and Li Yuzhu.
The year passed quickly. After spending some time with Dong Qing and his wife, they realized that Dong Yuhan was indeed a simple, kind, and very sensible girl.
This daughter is not related to the couple by blood, but as long as Dongqing and his wife accept her as their daughter from the bottom of their hearts, it can be even more affectionate than blood ties.
After the New Year, Dong Qing originally planned to go to the island with her third sister, but due to Dong Yuhan's household registration issue, they could only go to the island after finishing these matters.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Dong Sanmei took her son and left by plane ahead of schedule.
After the Spring Festival holiday, when the government offices reopened, Dongqing and his wife spent several days running around and finally completed the adoption procedures.
Adoption and being adopted are very complicated matters. If Dong Yuhan were a minor girl, the adoption would not have been possible at all.
Because Dong Qing and Li Yuzhu already have three children, they do not meet the requirements for adopting children.
However, Dong Yuhan is already an adult girl with the ability to take care of herself, and therefore does not meet the adoption criteria. Such adoption can only be determined based on the actual situation.
Dong Yuhan is an orphan with no one to rely on. She has the right to choose her own life. Their relationship has little to do with adoption or being adopted, because an adult girl can live independently even if she is not adopted.
Dong Yuhan is currently uneducated, and she should be placed in a good family so that she can go back to school and learn to read and write, and be raised to be a useful member of society. Dong Qing and his wife are the best candidates to adopt her.
She and Dongqing are simply forming a natural family, which is permissible as long as both parties agree.
It is rare for people to adopt a girl into an adult family. The staff had never received such an adoption case before. Based on Dong Yuhan's actual situation and for the sake of the girl's future, the relevant departments finally approved the adoption of Dong Qing and his wife as their adopted daughter.
According to regulations, for an adult orphan to be adopted, the adoptive parents must be over thirty years old, have the ability to raise, educate and protect the adopted child, and have sufficient capacity to care for and educate the adopted child.
Dong Yuhan is now an orphan with no one to rely on. Dong Qing and his wife meet the requirements for adoption and being adopted.
After Dong Qing and his wife form a father-daughter family with Dong Yuhan, she will have someone to rely on in the future. As long as both parties are willing, it is fine. When the household registration is transferred in the future, it can be written in the column of adopted daughter relationship.
In fact, in this kind of adult father-daughter relationship, as long as they have each other in their hearts, that's more important than anything else.
Dong Qing and Fang Lin are not biological siblings, but their relationship has long surpassed that of biological siblings, and this relationship mainly depends on the level of understanding between the two parties.
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