With tears washing her face, Ye Jian nodded her head unstoppably, “When I was young, mother used to tell me that only a simple life could lead to happiness, that’s why she named me with the word ‘Jian.’ My mother’s last name is Sun, her first name is Xue Qing, she was the one that named me.”
Fu Yusheng’s twenty-one years of waiting, twenty-one years of searching, twenty-one years of dreaming, after hearing Ye Jian’s answer, he knew that his world was complete at this moment.
Jian-er… the child in front of his eyes was called “Jian-er,” the biological daughter of him, Fu Yusheng, definitely his biological daughter!
There was no need to ask in detail, there was no need to further investigate, looking at the eyes that resembled him so much, and the features that came from her mother, his daughter had gathered the good parts of both him and his wife, growing up to be this beautiful, and had even followed after her mother’s footsteps and became a special forces soldier.
“Good, good… good child, good child! Oh, Dad’s good child! My good daughter!”
Never imagining that he had a daughter, Fu Yusheng was so excited now that he didn’t even know what to do, filled with excitement from the joy, he couldn’t even say a complete sentence.
He really wanted to hug his daughter tightly, but seeing that her injury was still being treated, he shakily raised his hands as his heart was wringing in pain and helped his daughter wipe off the tears on her face, “Don’t cry, don’t cry, be good, don’t cry. Return home, we’ll talk more when we return home, and your mother too, then the three of us will be reunited. Dad had looked for your mother for twenty-one years, never had I thought I had a daughter; it’s Dad’s fault for not finding the two of you sooner.”
“By the time we get home, the three of us should sit together and have a good chat, when that time comes, no matter if your mother beats me or scolds me, that’s what your Dad deserves, it’s Dad’s fault, for making you and your mother unable to come back to the Fu family.”
Deep self-blame and his excited speech caused Ye Jian’s heart to feel waves of aching pain. She could hear how deeply in love her father was for her mother, so how could she say something like… her mother had already died.
Looking at her father expecting their family of three to be reunited and seeing how he mentioned her mother, the light that shined out of his eyes, she didn’t even know how she could say it out loud.
The moment she spoke of it, she would just violently crush her father’s dream of twenty-one years.
But she had to say, how could she hide it and not speak of it?
She also needed to bring her father to the Martyr’s Memorial Garden to visit mother, and tell mother, the husband you have been waiting for is here, he had always been looking for you, he had been searching for you these past twenty-one years.
She would say it, but at least not right now; it’ll have to wait after they return back to China.
Gently sniffing her nose, Ye Jian laughed: “Mhm, when we go back home, we’ll have a good chat, when the three of us reunite, we’ll have a good chat!”
In front of Mom’s grave, staring at a picture of Mom when she was younger, while she and Dad were going to talk, talking about how Dad had spent the last twenty-one years, and saying how happy she felt after finding her father.
“Good! Good! Good! The three of us will talk by the light of a candle after going home!”
Chief Engineer Fu was too happy, at this time, the military scientist who worked in missile research and development and was usually very strict and dour seemed as happy as a child.
He turned his head, telling the three scientists who kept being surprised by listening to this conversation: “My daughter, Jian-er, I finally found my daughter. Old Xu, I finally have my own daughter! See, this is my daughter; I actually have a daughter now!”
“Also, I’ve also found my wife, I found her! Never had I thought I could still find my daughter. See, see how much she resembles me, her eyes take after me, and her features look just like her mother….”
