Chapter 432 - The End
Chapter 432: The End (1)
Old Madam Zhou?
Zhou Heng’s expression turned dark. The reaction that people had during dangerous times was the most honest and true reaction. He looked at Tong Li and chided her softly. “Who are you exactly?”
It was only then that Tong Li realized that she had exposed herself. She immediately changed her stance and ran over to tug Zhou Heng’s sleeve. “Dad, I am Dou Dou. I am your daughter. Have you forgotten that today is the day that you are officially welcoming me into the doors of the Zhou family once again? Dad, I know that Mum is unable to accept me for the time being. She has misunderstood me, but I beg you to ask mum not to touch my son. My son is also your grandson.”
Zhou Heng placed both of his hands behind his back. His clouded eyes did not lose their sternness as he looked at Tong Li.
At this moment, Grandma laughed coldly. “You are my Dou Dou? I think that you have not seen a mirror in your entire life?” Grandma waved over the bodyguards standing beside her. “Have someone cut off her son’s pinkie finger. After that, cut his ring finger. Don’t stop until this woman tells the truth!”
“Yes, Old Madam.”
The bodyguards put the video on their phone in front of Grandma. A painful shriek came out from the video, Tong Li’s son’s finger was cut off mercilessly, and fresh blood trickled down from the wooden table and flowed into the dirty mud below.
Kong Lan who was standing aside was taken aback. The Zhou family was not boasting when they held the title of being the king of wineries. They had their overbearing tactics, and even an old grandma who was dependant on a wheelchair was absolutely heartless towards anyone. She did not even blink when she ordered someone to chop off his fingers.
Maybe it was because she did not have that last ace hand in her hand anymore and was long afraid, but now, other than wanting to laugh, she did not think of anything else.
That Tong Li was already an unneeded tool of hers, and it looked like she was going strain relations with her today.
As expected, Tong Li collapsed numbly onto the floor in shock and said, “Old Madam Zhou, Old Madam Zhou, I am begging you! Don’t harm my son…”
She crawled forward to tug the ends of Grandma’s pants.
But she was unable to do so. She was kicked by the bodyguards as she rolled on the floor. Grandma had a stern expression on her face, and she said, “Begging me has no use. Will you confess or not? Who asked you to pretend to be my Dou Dou? You have guts. What do you want from this?”
Tong Li burst out crying in fear, “I will confess, I will confess. As long as you let go of my son, I will confess to everything. I am not Dou Dou. I am just an ordinary woman from the village. It was her; it was them…” Tong Li stretched her hand to point at Kong Lan, Zhou Zhilei and Zhou Dao. “It was this family of three who came to look for me. They gave me money and asked me to pretend to be Dou Dou. They said that I would not be exposed. After they have inherited the estate of the Zhou family, they would give a sum of money to me… I am also an innocent party. I was harmed by them too.”
Zhou Heng’s sharp gaze scanned at Zhou Dao. He was panting vigorously, and his entire face was sinister and dark. “Speak. Is all of this true? Was it you who asked her to come to pretend to be Dou Dou?”
Zhou Dao straightened his waist, and he looked at Zhou Heng. “Dad, since things have already come to this point, then we will also admit to it now. Yes, it was us that looked for her to pretend to be Dou Dou.”
“You!” Zhou Heng grabbed the ashtray on the table and threw it directly in the direction of Zhou Heng’s head.
Zhou Dao turned his body sideways to duck away. He managed to escape, and the ashtray crashed against the wall and landed with a loud bang.
Zhou Heng was shaking. He put one hand on his own chest. Painfully, he said, “You are such a…traitor! I shouldn’t have adopted you back then!”
Lu Dinghua and Song Yajing both did not expect such a drastic change to happen today. Lu Dinghua stepped forward and patted Zhou Heng’s back as he advised him, “Old Grandpa, these things have already happened. Don’t be angry anymore. Your health already in a bad state. From what I have seen, the most urgent thing right now is to look for the real Dou Dou.”
“That’s right.” Song Yajing carried Little Qinwen in her arms. The sound of the ashtray falling to the ground was too loud, and she was afraid that Little Qinwen would be shocked so she protected him tight in her embrace. “Old Grandpa, Old Madam, the thing that is most important right now would be to look for Dou Dou.”
Little Qinwen was not afraid at all as his grandmother protected him in her embrace. He used one of his tiny white hand to lift his grandmother’s hand away. Making use of both his hands and feet to crawl onto the floor, he ran in front of Zhou Heng and hugged Zhou Heng’s thighs. He lifted his small head up, and his large eyes that were grape like were bright and sparkling as he said, “Great Grandpa, Great Grandpa, how could you be so foolish? Didn’t I tell you already that you are my Great Grandpa.”
His childish voice reverberated through the room loudly. Song Yajing did not listen carefully. She treated him playing around a kid and she went forward to carry him. “Little Qinwen, don’t make a fuss. Come, Grandma will carry…carry…”
Song Yajing’s last “carry” was choked inside her throat. She froze entirely, and suddenly lifted her head to look at Zhou Heng and Lu Dinghua, who were both standing in front of her.
Both Zhou Heng and Lu Dinghua had the same expression on their faces as Song Yajing. The three of them lifted their heads to look at Yue Wanqing. They saw Yue Wanqing kneeling beside Grandma, and Grandma was gently caressing Yun Wanqing’s head. Her face had long been covered with tears.
The room was completely silent. It was so quiet that they could hear Grandma crying. Nobody dared to say a word. Everyone was in deep shock, and they were flabbergasted and mindblown by this heavy piece of news.
Yue Wanqing was actually… Zhou Heng’s biological daughter?
It turned out that Dou Dou was Yue Wanqing!
Everyone present at hand felt that the world was really too small. Dou Dou turned around, and everyone was reunited again. It turned out that the person that they were always searching for was just by their side, and in the sea of people, Heavens had already made the best arrangement.
Everyone thought of it carefully. It was really the case. Ning Qing’s intelligent and gentle character was like someone. Ning Qing’s natural talent in red wine was inherited from someone. It was inherited in her blood. Even if sparkling pearls were buried in the desert, they would still be sparkling. A person’s noble bloodline would not change at all.
Grandma was already choked up with tears. The senior citizen that had been in a coma for a week had her eyes sunk in deeply. She knew that one of her feet had already stepped into that happy word, and she had another leg in this world because she was mesmerized, and it was because she was unable to let it go.
Grandma looked at Zhou Heng, and slowly stretched her hand out towards Zhou Heng. “Dou Dou’s father…”
Zhou Heng came forward and bent down beside Grandma.
Grandma held Zhou Heng’s hand and placed his hand on top of Yue Wanqing’s. The family of three held their hands together tight, and they would not be separated anymore. “Dou Dou’s father, Wanqing is… our daughter Dou Dou…”
Zhou Heng looked at Yue Wanqing. His eyes were already moist.
How did he dare imagine, and how did he dare recognize?
The impression of Yue Wanqing in his head was?
At the time during the red wine competition, he had learned of her innovation from Ning Qing. He was very curious about her. After that, in the hospital, she was warm and elegant in her behaviour, and she was very caring as she took care of Grandma….
She had a daughter like Ning Qing, and a son in law like Lu Shaoming, and also Little Qinwen… Her life was very perfect.
Without him, her life could be so perfect. A father like him, he had never given her any fatherly love for 40 years. How could he not be guilty, and could he not be afraid to approach her but fear instead?
Zhou Dayuan said, “Grandpa, I took…Aunt’s hair and yours to do a DNA comparison. Aunt really is your daughter. This is aunt’s childhood photo here.”
Zhou Dayuan handed a photo over to him, and it was taken when Yue Wanqing was eight years old.
Zhou Heng looked at that smiling face on the photograph. It was exactly the same face that he had in his memories. She did not have the luxurious clothes of the Zhou family, but her smile was still so bright.
Zhou Heng lifted his head and looked at Yue Wanqing. He stretched his hand out, and it was only then that he realized that his hands were shaking. The tears in his eyes were trickling down his face, “Wanqing… Dou Dou… Good child…”
Yue Wanqing’s tears blurred her vision. She tried hard to put a smile on her face. She was crying as she laughed. “I still remember… when I was seven years old, you carried me and asked, how about Older Brother Dinghua from next door? I said with a smile, Dad, how can you match me with such an old older brother. He was 12 years older than me. How could I want him? Also, I had not told you this secret; I once realized the older brother from next door liked to climb the walls to perch himself outside a dance studio to sneakily look at girls dancing inside when I was eight. He must be very perverted when he got older.”
She remembered it all. Her memories from 40 years ago, it all appeared before her when he called her “Dou Dou.” Everything that happened in the past came flooding back to her, and they were all of her happy childhood when she was pampered and loved.
It turned out that she actually had a set of parents who loved and pampered her that much.
Only in the future, in the sea of people, in the dust and dawn of the city, she forgot about them.
Zhou Heng nodded his head. His hot tears rolled down his elderly face. “It is my Dou Dou. Those words that you said when you were seven years old, it was a secret between father and daughter. Other than you and me, no one else knows about it.”
At that time, he had the intention. He wanted to marry his precious daughter off to Lu Dinghua.
Lu Dinghua, who was at one side, nodded his head inside his heart. It was really Dou Dou who came back. At that time, he was 20 years old, and fell in love with Song Yajing at first sight. He climbed over the wall to the dance studio to look at her dance, and Dou Dou unintentionally witnessed it. At that time, he threatened her and told her not to leak the secret, but she turned her head and ran off.
At that time, he did not understand why she ran off. Now, he understood why. She probably thought of him as a perverted thug from then on.
She was afraid.
Lu Dinguha looked at Lu Shaoming and Ning Qing, who did not say a single word at all. Maybe all of this was fated.
Yue Wanqing wiped her tears. She looked at Grandma and opened her mouth to call, “Mother…” She looked at Zhou Heng and addressed him as “Dad.”
“Okay… Dou Dou…our good daughter.” Zhou Heng and Grandma embraced Yue Wanqing in their arms.
Ning Qing looked at her own mother and her grandparents all hugging each other as they cried. She took a tissue and handed it over. “Mum, don’t cry anymore. Grandma has always been in poor health. Don’t make her cry even more. Today is a good day to be reunited with one another. All of you should be smiling.”
Yue Wanqing took the tissue and helped grandma wipe her tears off her face. “That’s right. Qingqing is right. Dad, Mum, let us stop crying. In the future, our family will be together with one another. I will be filial to you two, and everything is still in time.”
Grandma stopped crying and said, “Dou Dou, it is not too, but it is very late. We have been separated from one another. We have wasted so many happy times that we could have spent with one another. Who was the one who took you away at that time; who caused you to be lost? Say it. We will conclude it today!”
Zhou Heng was taken aback and quickly asked, “Dou Dou, could it actually be someone’s plotting that you got separated away? Who was it that harmed you?”
Yue Wanqing stood up slowly, and she walked in front of Zhou Dao. “40 years ago, when you came into my house, your clothes were torn and tattered. It was my father who saved you from begging on the streets. I really treated you well with my heart, and treated you as my younger brother, but that day after school, I just wanted to return home, but you ran over and told me that my father was involved in a car accident and was sent to the hospital. I was anxious and did not wait for my car. I turned around and ran, and when I ran to the bend, someone blocked my mouth, and I was thrown into a van. It was you, right?”