Chapter 264 Extra: Your Father Allows You to Recognize Your Biological Father
Mother, I haven't seen you for several years. We only communicate through letters. Do you still love me? Father has spared my life out of mercy. I wonder if my life can bring me back to see you for the last time?
Mother, my father raised me for eleven years. Now that he is gone, I will never have the chance to repay him. I just want to help him fulfill his last wish. Please don't let me regret it in this life, and don't let me be ashamed to see my father again in this life.
Riding at full speed, Xie Congyuan finally caught up with the Dragon Scale Guards at the Ten-Li Pavilion.
He handed the lacquer-sealed letter to the Dragon Scale Guard and bowed to see him off.
He stroked the reins and murmured with red eyes.
"Dad, Mom, my father robbed me back then, but you also let him raise your children for so many years. You don't owe him anything, but I do..."
"Mother, please, for the sake of your son, come back and see father for the last time..."
"Otherwise, how can I repay my father's kindness in raising me for eleven years? How can I repay such a good father..."
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For many days thereafter, Xie Chengyun and Xie Congyuan stayed by Xie Junlin's side the whole day.
They were reluctant to leave their father even a step away.
Because the less they see their father now, the less they want to see him. They wish they didn't even have to go to the toilet and just stay with their father who is about to die.
Xie Junlin did not drive the two children away.
Whether Yun'er is studying or Yuan'er is practicing martial arts, it's not a life-threatening matter. It doesn't matter if you slack off for a few days.
He would not let his children miss the last time they spent with him in tears just to urge them to study.
He wanted to see the children more, and he didn't want to make them regret.
He was afraid that his children would regret it for the rest of their lives when they would recall that they were too busy with their studies and didn't spend more time with their father when their father was dying.
"Why are you crying again?"
Xie Junlin was feeding his youngest son medicine. As he was drinking, he saw tears falling from his eyes. The tears fell into the medicine bowl.
Xie Junlin patted his youngest son's head lovingly, "Why are you crying? This medicine is bitter enough. You secretly added bitter tears to your father's bowl, didn't you? Xie Congyuan, Xie Congyuan, why didn't your father see that you are so bad before, huh?"
He wanted to make his youngest son laugh, but who could laugh?
Xie Congyuan looked at his gentle and smiling father with tearful eyes, and his tears fell like beads from a broken string.
He didn't understand why his father treated him as his own son and loved him like a brother even though he was not his biological son...
When he was a child, he didn't understand why the Empress Dowager hated him, but later he understood.
But he still doesn't understand how good his father is to him.
He really didn't know what made him worthy of his father's love...
He doesn't deserve it at all...
Xie Congyuan handed the bowl to his brother and threw himself into his father's arms, crying loudly.
Xie Junlin felt helpless.
here we go again.
After Yun'er finished crying, Yuan'er came again.
Neither of them fed him the medicine properly. They would put the bowl aside after feeding him a few sips and cry non-stop while holding him.
He is a dying man, but he has to rack his brains and spend all his energy to coax his children. He is really tired.
Xie Junlin held his crying little son in his arms, raised his head and smiled at Xie Chengyun who was standing next to him, "Look, your brother is crying like a wolf howling. It's almost deafening, isn't it?"
Xie Chengyun couldn't laugh either.
But he knew that his father wanted to see them laugh, so he forced out a smile, "Father, if you think your brother's crying is unpleasant, then you can comfort him."
Xie Junlin hummed.
He patted his youngest son's back gently and coaxed him.
"Don't cry, don't be afraid. Everyone will die one day, no one can escape it. Father is gone, but you still have your brother, your mother, and your mother. What are you afraid of, huh?"
Xie Congyuan shook his head desperately.
"Hello, mother, hello, brother, hello, mother...but no one can replace father...the one who loves me the most in the world is father, and you are the only one..."
Xie Junlin patted him gently on the back of his head.
"Nonsense, your mother carried you for ten months and gave birth to you, and your queen mother raised you. Which of them doesn't love you?"
Xie Congyuan choked up.
He raised his head and glanced at Xie Chengyun, "Brother, I want to tell my father something in private..."
Xie Chenghuan turned around and left, taking Chen Hai with him.
Only the father and son were left in the room.
Xie Congyuan looked at Xie Junlin with red and swollen eyes and asked tremblingly, "Father, why don't you kill me?"
Xie Junlin was slightly stunned.
The next moment, he suddenly grabbed Xie Congyuan's shoulders tightly and said in a deep voice, "Yuan'er, what are you talking about?"
Xie Congyuan cried bitterly and said in a low voice, "Father, I know everything. I know why I was able to knock my grandmother away when I was four years old. I know why my grandmother has hated me to the core since then. I know that the blood of the Xiao family flows in my bones. I know that the power of General Xiao surges in my body..."
Xie Junlin clenched his fingers.
He didn't expect that before he died, he would tell his youngest son about his life experience.
He thought that even if the child knew his background, it would be a few years later.
At that time, the youngest son came to his tomb and cried for a while. He stayed with him for two days, hoping that he would be able to accept the reality after releasing his emotions. Who knew that the youngest son had already known it...
Xie Junlin took a deep breath and asked, "When did you find out?"
Xie Congyuan gritted his teeth and said, "When I was eight years old."
He wiped his tears and said slowly, "I made a mistake that day and my father beat me. I felt so wronged that I ran to hit the pillar with my hands. I didn't expect that I would accidentally unleash the power in my body. The eight-year-old me no longer knew nothing. I knew that my mother was once the wife of General Xiao, and I knew that General Xiao had a strange power in his body, so I guessed that I was not my father's child..."
Xie Junlin was shocked.
This kid knew it three years ago, and he never discovered it!
He looked at his son with complicated eyes, "Father has not told you this all these years because he was afraid that you would become distant from him after you knew the truth, and that you would no longer be able to be close to him. But now that you know the truth, you don't seem to have become distant from him in these three years..."
Xie Congyuan put his head against his father's chest and said, "I will not alienate myself from you, I will only love you more."
Xie Junlin was stunned for a moment, then found it a little funny.
Too.
His Yuan'er is not a sensitive child. Yuan'er is carefree and pure-hearted. How could he think about all kinds of things?
It would be nice to be able to talk about this matter frankly with Yuaner before I die.
Xie Junlin held his little son and said, "You asked why father didn't kill you. It's because when father found out about your life story, you had already been his son for four years. How could father have the heart to kill you? You were so obedient and cute. You followed father around all day. Whenever you were unhappy, you would run to father and put your chubby self into father's arms for a hug... You and father were so close, how could father kill you?"
Xie Junlin smiled and said, "So Father told himself that it doesn't matter whether we are related by blood or not. What matters most is that this child is willing to be close to me. You are my son who I have watched grow up day by day since I was a little baby. No matter whose blood flows in your body, I will recognize you as my child."
Xie Congyuan raised his head and looked at Xie Junlin.
Xie Junlin kept wiping his tears, "Yuan'er, listen to me. To your father, you will always be his biological son. Your father has two children in his life, one is your brother, and the other is you. You are your father's children, and no one can take them away from you."
Xie Congyuan felt depressed and painful.
He threw himself into his father's arms and burst into tears again.
Xie Junlin stroked his son's head with his large hand and whispered, "Be good, mourn for your father for three years. After three years, you can secretly recognize your biological father. However, never let your brother know about this, and never let anyone in the world know about it, okay?"
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