Chapter 1565 Mission Accomplished 3
Liu Zhenguo clutched the tin box in his hands, his fingers trembling incessantly, and his eyes slightly red.
He furrowed his brow and muttered repeatedly, "Old Liu was waiting for us to come back and take the child? How is that possible? How is that possible? Back in ’55, I couldn’t find the time, so I told the kid’s mom to go pick up Yuanyuan. Didn’t they say Old Liu didn’t want to let her go? He said they’d raised her for so long, developed feelings for her, didn’t want to give her up—and that the child herself didn’t want to come back. He also said he didn’t want us disturbing them. At that time, I thought, what he said wasn’t wrong. The child wasn’t raised by us when she was born. Old Liu raised her, so it’s only natural she’d be attached to him. The gratitude of raising surpasses the gratitude of giving birth."
Cheng Baoguo said solemnly, "That’s not what Old Liu said! Old Liu never moved, for fear you’d come back and take the child. In the end, he waited over twenty years, but he never saw a trace of anyone from your family."
Who was lying? Everyone looked at one another, bewildered.
One claimed they didn’t fetch the child; the other said they did. Their stories didn’t add up. One of them must have been lying.
"My soldier wouldn’t lie about something as serious as this!" Cheng Baoguo pounded his chest and declared, "Liu Zhenguo, you were also one of my soldiers. I believe you’re not lying either. Whenever you lie, your eyes dart around, but they’re steady this time."
Liu Zhenguo, like Old Liu, had served under Cheng Baoguo. When seeing his former commander, Liu Zhenguo was overjoyed, but his happiness didn’t last long, as it was shattered by the news of Liu Erya. "I’ll return and get to the bottom of this matter, but for now, let me meet Yuanyuan’s daughter. I only saw my daughter once when she was born."
Years ago, Old Liu was discharged due to injuries. Since Liu Zhenguo and his wife needed to move with the army, they entrusted their child to Old Liu and his wife, who were childless at the time. Who could’ve expected that this separation would become permanent?
Thinking that his child had died at just twenty-seven years old, Liu Zhenguo couldn’t stop his tears from flowing.
Feng Qingxue felt a tightness in her chest and said gently, "I’ll go bring the child over."