“Yuanyuan,” Le Rong pulled the child into her arms and hugged her tightly, “I’m sorry, Mommy is so sorry. Don’t worry, Mommy will never leave you again.”
Le Rong rested her chin on her daughter's little head, tears streaming down her face.
"Auntie~" Yuanyuan called softly, wanting to look up at her aunt in front of her. She had many questions in her little heart.
Seeing the two of them crying again, Zhang Xueshan couldn't help but sigh.
"Xiao Rong, stop crying. Look, you've scared the child. Yuan Yuan, don't worry. Since you called me Dad, I won't send you back. As for Grandma, she's having trouble accepting it right now, but she'll like Yuan Yuan a lot in time."
Le Rong wiped away her tears and pulled Yuan Yuan to sit down on a chair. "Yuan Yuan, I hid some things from you before. Actually, I am your biological mother. I didn't mean to abandon you, but I'm still sorry..."
Yuanyuan looked at Lerong with a puzzled expression, "So you're not my aunt, but my mom?"
“Yes,” Le Rong looked at her daughter cautiously, afraid of seeing disgust in her eyes, and hurriedly explained, “I’m sorry, Mom knows I’m very sorry to Yuan Yuan, I shouldn’t have abandoned Yuan Yuan.”
Seeing his wife's anxious expression, Zhang Xueshan turned to Yuanyuan and said, "Yuanyuan, your mother was too young when she gave birth to you. She didn't know anything, so she made a mistake. Can you give her a chance to correct it?"
Yuan Yuan looked at her aunt, who was looking at her nervously with red eyes, slowly reached out her little hand and touched Le Rong's round belly, and asked softly, "So, did I come out from here too?"
When Le Rong heard her daughter's question, she nodded, "Yes, Yuan Yuan also came out of her mother's belly."
"Why did my aunt give me to my parents?" Yuanyuan couldn't understand why her aunt didn't want her back then.
“No, Yuanyuan, Mommy doesn’t not want you, it’s just…” Le Rong stopped there. How could she explain? Should she say that she hadn’t planned to have her in the first place? Wouldn’t that hurt her even more?
Seeing his wife's troubled expression, Zhang Xueshan could only take over the conversation, "Yuanyuan, it's like this, your mother didn't abandon you back then, but she was too young to raise you. In addition, your uncle and aunt, who were your former parents, didn't have any children, so they wanted to raise you."
Although it's unethical to shift all the blame onto her brother-in-law and his family, it's the only option for now. After all, Yuanyuan is still young, and explaining things too clearly to her might hurt her. Some things can wait until she's older before we can talk to her about them; there's no rush.
“So, Auntie didn’t do it on purpose.” Yuanyuan nodded in conclusion. In her little world, her aunt always brought her lots of delicious food, fun toys, and pretty clothes whenever she came back, so she really liked her aunt.
"Yes, so Yuanyuan, can you forgive me? If you're not used to it, you can continue to call me auntie, it's okay."
Le Rong didn't expect the child to change his address so easily. After all, he was already four years old and could remember things. It wouldn't be so easy for him to accept calling her "Mom" so quickly.
"Yes, Yuanyuan can call me uncle, no matter what, we all like you very much."
Besides loving Yuanyuan because of her, Zhang Xueshan's main reason for loving her was that she was cute and endearing. He hoped that the child in his wife's belly would not look like him, with a small nose and small eyes, but rather like his wife.
Yuanyuan lowered her head, her hands nervously twisting together. She knew that her parents back home didn't want her because she wasn't their biological child. But if she was her aunt's biological child, would they always want her? And what about her uncle? Would he always want her?
So she raised her head and asked softly, "Is my uncle also my biological father?"
Looking at the expectation in her daughter's eyes, Le Rong didn't know how to answer for a moment, and could only look at her husband with difficulty.
Zhang Xueshan replied quite straightforwardly, "Yes, I am your biological father. Your mother and I were unable to bring you home back then for some reasons, so your father brought you back this time. Would you like to stay in this family?"
“Snow Mountain…” Le Rong looked at him, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.
Zhang Xueshan smiled reassuringly at her, then looked at Yuanyuan earnestly, "So, can you give us a chance to make it up to you?"
Yuanyuan looked at the smiling and kind Zhang Xueshan and tentatively called out, "Daddy~"
“Hey, Daddy’s here, Yuanyuan, be good.” Zhang Xueshan immediately responded loudly when he heard Yuanyuan call him Daddy.
After hearing Yuanyuan call her husband "Dad," Le Rong immediately looked at Yuanyuan expectantly, hoping that she could also call her "Mom."
Yuanyuan looked at her expectant new mother and whispered, "Mommy."
"Hey, Mom's here, Mom's here!" Le Rong responded eagerly. It was great that Yuan Yuan was willing to call her Mom.
But then her happy face fell, and she looked at her husband with some unease, opening her mouth but then closing it again.
Zhang Xueshan understood what his wife wanted to say, so he waved his hand, signaling her not to speak yet.
"Why don't you stay home and keep Yuanyuan company? I'll go to my third sister's house." He couldn't just leave his mother there like that; the matter needed to be resolved first, and he had to go and apologize.
"Alright, you go to Third Sister's house first, and be gentle with your words."
"I know, you'll stay with Yuanyuan."
...
As soon as Zhang Xuemei opened the door, Zhang Xueshan eagerly poked his head in and whispered, "Sister, where's Mom? Is she still angry?"
"What do you think? How could she not be angry when it happened so suddenly? But I told her about Yuanyuan's situation, and she softened. What you need to do now is to apologize properly. Mom is mainly upset that you kept such a big thing from her and only told her at the last minute. She feels that you don't respect her."
And she's also worried that raising two children will be too much of a burden for you, so please watch your words, okay?
Zhang Xueshan nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "Yes, yes, I know, Mom is doing this for my own good, I know all that."
"It's good that you know. Come in, go to the guest room yourself, Mom is there." Zhang Xuemei didn't want to get involved, so she let the mother and son talk it out.
Zhang Xueshan arrived at the door, knocked gently, then turned the doorknob to open it. Looking at his mother, who was standing with her back to him and remained silent, he shamelessly approached her and said, "Mom, I was wrong..."
“You’re wrong? What did you do wrong? I’m the one who’s wrong.” Liu Taohua glanced at her youngest son, then turned her back to him.
"Mom, I really know I was wrong. I know you meant well, and I shouldn't have talked back to you and made you angry. You came all this way, and I still made you angry. I really shouldn't have done that."
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