The lack of maternal love caught Shi Ran off guard when facing Cheng's mother Aiwujiwu's care, but she was no longer a child. She would not recognize another mother just because she was treated so tenderly. She just felt very envious.
Cheng Xiuyan's family is so loving, it is the "perfect family" that she can only dream of.
The brief sadness didn't really make Shi Ran cry. She adjusted her mood and let Cheng's mother rest on the sofa.
At this time, both grandma and grandpa were sleeping peacefully in the ward and did not require special care. Shi Ran accompanied Cheng Xiuyan to the smoking area downstairs of the hospital and watched him smoke three cigarettes in a row.
If this trend continues, it's hard for Shi Ran to imagine whether Cheng Xiuyan can abide by the agreement at the beach.
If he had kept his promise, he would definitely not have told her like Cheng’s mother to treat her as his own daughter. There is no doubt that such an arrangement can accurately hit the most vulnerable part of Shi Ran’s heart, but this approach is also out of bounds.
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Before "Heroes" was disbanded, Cheng Xiuyan weighed the pros and cons, which was understandable. Later, he secretly helped Feng Xinghai and Wang Yan connect. It can be expected that after Feng Xinghai had enough fun, he would ruthlessly abandon Wang Yan. This way of revenge is really
Somewhat inferior.
Now Shi Ran can no longer completely interpret what Cheng's mother said as purposeless kindness. Does Cheng Xiuyan want to mobilize the whole family to make up for the shortcomings Shi Ran has suffered in the family relationship, so as to break through her emotional defense line?
Even if everything this man did was not at all harmful to Shi Ran, Shi Ran still felt that he was thinking too much and was used to using means to achieve his goals.
Someone like Cheng Xiuyan might benefit a lot from being his partner, but once he is hostile... Shi Ran felt a chill running down his back, and instinctively became more defensive about staying away from him.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Cheng Xiuyan put out the last cigarette butt, and his face looked even paler under the light. "Are you still worried about me letting Feng Xinghai get close to Wang Yan?"
"It's not a fuss." Shi Ran shook her head. She had a lot to say clearly to Cheng Xiuyan, but now was not the time, so she raised a small smile and said, "Let's go, while grandpa and grandma are asleep,
You go back to the ward and sleep on the sofa for a few hours."
In the past two days, my grandma had very little waking time. Cheng Xiuyan contacted the hospital and finally moved her grandpa and grandma, who were one floor apart, into the double VIP ward.
As long as grandpa was energetic, he would always watch grandma silently. The two old people were too quiet, and the footsteps of Shi Ran and Cheng Xiuyan walking around in the ward seemed so abrupt.
The faces of the two elderly people have lost their vitality. Grandma's eye sockets are deeply sunken. Grandpa's digestive system is already fragile. He only relies on nutrition and some liquid food to survive. Even his wrists are as thin as a gust of wind.
Dead branches to be broken.
Cheng Xiuyan originally called Shi Ran because the doctor announced that his grandmother could not survive for a few days. He would often stare at the heartbeat waveform on the instrument when the two old people were sleeping too peacefully. As if he couldn't believe it, he would reach out over and over again.
Go and feel grandma’s breath and the temperature in her neck.
Two days later, Shi Ran felt that grandma might really be leaving, so he applied to Yang Cheng for an additional two days of leave.
The second vacation lasted only one day, and grandma left this world peacefully without leaving any words before leaving.
Like a real granddaughter-in-law, Shi Ran dressed in black and knelt in front of her grandmother's bed with Cheng Xiuyan. Listening to the suppressed cries of Cheng's mother and Cheng Xiuyan, she felt the same and started to shed tears.
Cheng's mother muttered and repeated "I don't have a mother anymore", which was like a sharp knife piercing Shi Ran's heart.
Feng Xinghai brought two friends together to help Cheng Xiuyan. These friends all called Cheng Xiuyan's parents "mom and dad", and only then did Shi Ran know how deep their friendship was.
Lin Huan hadn't seen Shi Ran for a few days. She called and Shi Ran hid in a quiet place. He wanted to tell her about it, but he still held back. The Cheng family only informed Guan Guan of the news of the old man's death.
The nearest relative and friend, why did she call Lin Huan over? It would only cause trouble for Cheng Xiuyan.
After telling Lin Huan that he was busy, Shi Ran hung up the phone in a hurry.
Before the farewell ceremony for grandma was completed, Cheng's father, who was staying in the hospital, suddenly called Cheng Xiuyan to tell Cheng Xiuyan that grandpa was also dying.
Shi Ran hurried back to the hospital with the Cheng family. Grandpa's heartbeat had long since become a straight line that would not fluctuate again.
Cheng's mother cried and accused Cheng's father of not rescuing her, saying that her mother was hopeless, but her father could still be saved. Cheng's father could only try his best to hold his painful wife, and any words of comfort seemed so futile.
Cheng Xiuyan told his mother that he was the one who asked his father not to resuscitate him anymore. His grandfather could no longer bear the trouble. Every step to restore his heartbeat was extremely painful for the old man. It was better to let his grandfather go and stay with his grandmother. They lived together.
After a lifetime, I definitely want to walk this last part of the road together.
After listening to such gentle mother Cheng, she slapped Cheng Xiuyan in the face with her backhand, and then she finally became exhausted and fainted.
Cheng Xiuyan was in charge of the overall situation. He did everything he needed to do by himself, holding back tears when he needed to wash his body and put on clothes.
Send him off, cremate, and place him in the cemetery.
Cheng Xiuyan smoked one cigarette after another. For a few days, he was like a zombie.
Relatives took turns staying at Cheng Xiuyan's parents' home to comfort and miss him.
Cheng Xiuyan seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, so he asked Feng Xinghai to take care of his parents for him, then said goodbye to his family and drove Shi Ran back to his own house in Qiantan.
There is a grand piano with traces of its age placed in the large living room. Cheng Xiuyan said that when his grandmother was in good health, she liked to play the piano. Later, when her health deteriorated, she gave the piano to him.
He asked Shi Ran if he could play the piano. Shi Ran learned two pieces of music from his biological mother when he was a child.
He asked Shi Ran to play "For Alice", which is the first piece that children who learn piano are exposed to.
Shi Ran followed his instructions, stumbled through the piano music, made him some minced meat porridge that was easy to digest, fried a portion of mustard mustard with sesame oil to go with the meal, and then called Lin Huan in front of him and sent him a message on WeChat.
He gave her the location and specific house number, and told her to come quickly because Cheng Xiuyan needed to accompany her.
Cheng Xiuyan laughed at himself for a while, "You are really hard-hearted. I also want to take advantage of you and ask you to tell me a fairy tale and coax me to sleep."
"I don't know how to tell stories." Shi Ran took his coat and put it on, smoothing the mourning cloth on his sleeves, "Lin Huan is very good at coaxing people, and she will take care of you even more diligently than me."
"Aren't you afraid that I'll ask you to pay back the money right away? Aren't you afraid that I'll stumble you in the Shanghai gaming circle and make Yang Cheng fire you, so that you can never find the game research and development job you love again?"
Shi Ran lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "I'm afraid, if you really do that, I can lend you the money and pay it back, or I can leave Shanghai."
"Who are you borrowing money from? Liu Yu? Where are you going after leaving Shanghai? Are you looking for Liu Yu? Did he give you such confidence?!" Cheng Xiuyan came over, grabbed Shi Ran's wrist and lifted it high.
, his eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was almost ferocious, "Why can you be so close to him, but always so distant from me? Don't tell me you like him?"
Shi Ran would not take Cheng Xiuyan's question seriously, she just raised her head and stared at him steadily.