Chapter 409 - Had she already conquered the future black-belly business tycoon just like that?
Tong Xuelu gave it some thought and said, “Okay, we’ll recognize him then.”
Tong Jiaxin had always listened to his brother. As long as Tong Jiaming was okay with it, he naturally would not object.
Truth was, Tong Xuelu resented Commander Xiao a little bit at the beginning, as he was Sun Manrou’s God grandfather.
Nevertheless, seeing that he did not side with Sun Manrou earlier nor did he wavier any, she finally got over the slight unpleasantness that she was feeling.
Sitting inside the living room, Commander Xiao was very anxious.
He had never felt so anxious ever since he had become a commander. This time, however, he felt like an ant crawling over a hot wok.
Tong Xuelu walked inside and saw that he was covered in cold sweat. She was quite startled, “Are you alright, Grandpa?”
“I’m o….” Commander Xiao’s eyes widened half way through his sentence. “What did you just call me?”
Tong Xuelu smiled and said, “I called you Grandpa. Why are you covered in sweat?”
Commander Xiao was ecstatic immediately. The crow feet at the corners of his eyes flatted out. “Hahaha, I am fine. Hahaha, you just called me ‘Grandpa’. I have a granddaughter now!”
As he laughed, his nose and eyes started to tingle.
He did not wish for his granddaughter to see him like this. As such, he forced back his tears. “Alright, alright. So you will all recognize me as your grandfather then?”
Tong Xuelu nodded and waved to Tong Mianmian. “Mianmian, this is our grandpa. Come and greet him.”
Tong Mianmian had been looking at this strange old man from behind the door for a while now. She dared not get any closer, however, because of his mean look.
Now that her sister said he was grandpa, she leaned into her sister’s ear and whispered to her, “Big Sister, will he hit Mianmian? He looks so mean!”
He looks so mean?
Hearing his granddaughter’s words, Commander Xiao was anxious. He tried his best to curve his lips upward and forced what he thought was a friendly smile on himself.
When Tong Mianmian turned to loo, she happened to look right at his vicious look and broke into tears. “I don’t want grandpa! Grandpa’s so scary!”
Commander Xiao, “……”
It took Tong Xuelu a while to finally calm Tong Mianmian. She gave Tong Mianmian a couple pieces of candies and have to go play with Mooncake in the study before she asked what was on her mind.
“Grandpa, is there anything we need to worry about after you have treated Sun Manrou the way that you did earlier? I know that she only whimpered a little, but wouldn’t others call you ungrateful after they found out?”
Commander Xiao waved his hand. “The Sun’s had gained a lot for me over the years. I had never said or do anything as long as they didn’t go too far. Take the Sun’s oldest child for example. If it wasn’t for me, he would not have been promoted as fast as he did.”
Not to mention that he had bought the Sun’s many things as soon as he recovered back then. Anything that he owed them had long been repaid.
Tong Xuelu finally felt better after hearing that. “What about the incident with my real grandmother? I felt that there was more to the story that what it seemed.”
Commander Xiao gave her an approving look. “Don’t worry about that. I will handle matters with the Tong’s.”
He would get down to the bottom of this and not them get away with Tong Menzhi’s death and them trying to have someone else pretended to be his son.
Tong Xuelu was no longer worried after realizing that Commander Xiao was no pushover,
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The Wei family was very happy for them when they learned that Commander Xiao and Tong Xuelu and her siblings had recognized each other.
Shen Wanrong, “I’ve always felt that Xuelu looked very familiar since the first time I saw her. Then I thought she looked a lot like your mother. It did not occur to me that she could be your granddaughter though.”
Had she known, she would have said something much earlier and Tong Xuelu didn’t have to go through all the hard times that she did.
Commander Xiao, too, lamented, “Yeah, who would have thought?”