Chapter 5 Adoption

At that time, the mother and daughter were going on vacation to a remote town. I don't know which map Chen is pointing to, so I didn't have any preparations, so I set off with Chen Yan on a whim.

The car broke down, and Chen Wei led Chen Yan and walked on the desolate path. They got lost, there were no shops in front of the village and no shops around, and they walked for hours without seeing a single person. None of them had suffered such a sin. At night in the mountains, the temperature drops quickly. Chen is the only one who has asthma, which is a precious disease. At this time, Chen had an asthma attack.

Chen died there. Chen Yan spent the night guarding her corpse. Luckily, there weren't any beasts of prey that night. Until the next day, a hunter passed by and found them.

Chen Yan buried his mother in this mountain. For their mother and daughter, they are all rootless people, and it doesn't matter where they are born or where they die. Since you are dead here, you should be buried here. Then, Chen Yan also stayed in this town to live. That Orion adopted her.

The people of the town are quaint and the population is simple. The Orion was not good-looking, and when he was young, he was lame. No one in the town wanted to marry him, so he lived alone for decades. He was almost 60 years old when he adopted Chen Yan. Chen Yan followed the lame Orion's life, but lived the most stable life. Like the children in the small town, they go to and from school normally. Occasionally, he went up to the mountains to hunt with lame hunters. Until 5 years later, Orion was also gone.

Chen Yan's appearance became more and more beautiful as she grew up, even better than Chen Weiwei. But for this remote and traditional town, such beauty is a scourge to the old man. The kind that brought disaster to the country and the people, plus Chen Yan's origin was unknown, she was brought out of the mountains directly by the lame hunters. There is even speculation that Chen Yan is a goblin in the mountains. Therefore, only the lonely old hunter was willing to adopt Chen Yan.

So after the lame hunter died, the people of the town sent Chen Yan back to his original hukou. The hardships are self-evident. In the past 5 years, Chen Yan and Chen are both missing in the place where their household registration is located. After registering Chen's only death, Chen Yan was sent to a local welfare home. That year, Chen Yan was 12 years old.

Since Chen Yan left that town, he has consciously covered his face. Although she is small, she also knows how dangerous it is for a girl like her, who has no background but is very good-looking.

At first, Chen Wei's previous men would go to the welfare home to see her, and a few of them were kind enough to take her in. But Chen Yan refused, and even attacked them at the expense of self-destruction. Let them think that they have become animalistic in the past few years following the lame Orion. Coupled with the ugliness of not being able to see their faces, gradually, they stopped coming. And Chen Yan was also isolated in the welfare home.

She had no friends, and the staff at the orphanage were reluctant to pay attention to her. After all, so many big people came to adopt her before, and she was offended by her. It's just that she's not hungry and lukewarm. Chen Yan is a quiet character, and no one pays attention to her more to her liking. She can talk to animals, she can communicate with plants. She was even more immersed in the big study room of the welfare home. Until that day, Ouyang Zhi came.

Very abruptly, Ouyang Zhi ignored Chen Yan's resistance and went through the adoption procedures. Ouyang Zhi is 20 years old and Chen Yan is 15 years old. In terms of identity, Ouyang Zhi became Chen Yan's adoptive father, the legal and only guardian. It is not in line with reason, it is not in agreement with the law, but which reason and law can stop Ouyang Zhi? After the formalities were completed, Chen Yan was taken back to a castle in Ouyang Zhi.

It has been a week since Chen Yan was brought to this castle. Her titular adoptive father never appeared again. In charge of her life is the old housekeeper here. The old housekeeper is not old, his surname is Ouyang, and his single name is old. He has been a servant of the Ouyang family for generations, and his son Ouyang Fu was the one selected by the old patriarch among the many domestic servants at that time and placed it next to Ouyang Zhi, who was both a friend and a subordinate, and the successor of the next housekeeper.

The castle was very large, but Chen Yan didn't see many people, perhaps the servants deliberately avoided it. Chen Yan quickly calmed down, just like in the welfare home, either reading books or talking to animals and plants.

She could feel the old butler's complicated feelings for her. There is disgust, there is indifference, and there is sympathy. However, when facing Chen Yan, the old housekeeper was very polite, as if Chen Yan was really the daughter of the patriarch and the eldest lady of this illustrious family. "Miss, did you sleep well last night?" "Miss, what do you want to eat this morning? In the kitchen, prepare a stem rice porridge, simmer slowly, sprinkle with ham kernels, and serve with some side dishes? "Miss, it's windy today, let's add a cloak." And so on and so forth, every day, from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night. It seems to be a respectful question, but if you taste it carefully, you will find that he is actually asking for your opinion, but in fact he has already made a choice for you.

A week later, Ouyang Zhi finally appeared. The most controversial thing this week was the resignation bomb dropped by the youngest government official in China, who had a bright future. Even Chen Yan, a person who doesn't ask about the world, has heard of it. No one can guess why. Chen Yan didn't want to and couldn't guess. She just looked at this "father" quietly.

"Are you used to this?" Ouyang Zhi gently wiped the corners of his mouth. Every move shows the demeanor of the natural aristocracy. In the Ouyang family, food is the basic etiquette.

"If you need anything, just tell the old butler, don't be wronged. You remember, in this world, I am the only one who can wronged you. Perhaps, this sentence has foreshadowed the future relationship between the two. But now, Chen Yan didn't know.

In the days that followed, Chen Yan seemed to have become Ouyang Zhi's follower. Whether he was out at work or meeting friends, day or night, Chen Yan was in Ouyang Zhi's visible sight. Ouyang Zhi would teach her to play the piano, discuss poetry with her, and teach her calligraphy one by one in his arms. The maid didn't need to serve her, because all of her qiē was taken over by Ouyang Zhi. Even every night Ouyang Zhi would kiss her forehead and wait for her to fall asleep before leaving.

In Chen Yan's previous ten years of life, the only people who were really good to her were her mother Chen Weiwei and the lame Orion. But no matter which one it was, they didn't center on Chen Yan's wishes like Ouyang Zhi and treat her like a child.

Chen Wei has been chasing the vague figure in her heart, so Chen Yan began to take care of himself when he was very young. Chen Yan didn't go to school, so Chen Wei was interested in it, so he taught her some. More often than not, it's laissez-faire. Therefore, if Chen Yan has a word he doesn't know, he looks up the dictionary by himself.

In the 7 years she has lived with Chen Weiwei, she has followed Chen Weiwei from man to man, from this place to that place. The lame Orion is illiterate, and he has been lonely and widowed all his life, let alone taking care of Chen Yan. The relationship between the two is more like snuggling up to each other. The old hunter provided food and lodging, and Chen Yan lived with him, so that he was no longer lonely.

So Ouyang Zhi quickly walked into Chen Yan's heart. The smile on Chen Yan's face became deeper and deeper, and happiness was deeply imprinted on his face. She couldn't see what was hidden behind Ouyang Zhi's deep eyes, nor could she see the sympathy that was becoming more and more obvious in the old butler's eyes. Chen Yan thought he was the happiest person. Heaven finally saw her. She met Ouyang Zhi's friends and laughed with them. She is deeply dependent on Ouyang Zhi, the first thing she sees when she opens her eyes every day is him, and the last thing she sees after sleeping is him. She didn't care who Ouyang Zhi was.

No one knows how long it takes for a stranger to walk into a person's heart, but it only took 3 months for Ouyang Zhi to walk into Chen Yan's heart. That's not love, although Chen Yan doesn't know what love is. He is also a father and a brother, like a teacher and a friend, deeply rooted.

Until that day, the 15-year-old birthdayparty.