The father and son helped the old man up and gave him two mouthfuls of warm water.
After drinking water, the old man felt a little better.
"...Child...Child..." Xiao Huzi was slightly stunned and asked: "Grandma, you want to see my son, right?"
The old man nodded slightly.
Xiao Huzi replied: "He is already on the way and will be there soon.
Grandma, please feel better soon.
Didn’t you say before that you wanted to help me take care of my son and grandson?
We want five and six generations to live under one roof, but it’s not enough yet.”
The old man twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled again.
Ahu helped the old man lie down and quickly wrapped him in a quilt.
Xiao Huzi couldn't help but whisper: "Dad, why don't you send grandma to the hospital?"
"The doctor won't let me."
Ahu explained: "Your grandma insisted on going back to her old house.
Your grandfather used to go here, and she said he would come back to find her, so he had to wait here."
Xiao Huzi didn't believe in any gods or ghosts at all, but he was moved by his grandma's idea.
The ideas of the older generation are not complex, and may even be ridiculously simple.
But their feelings are the most sincere and intense.
Suddenly, he remembered the time Shan You had quarreled with him before returning to Nandao, and angrily asked him whether he had ever liked her or loved her.
She said that she thought that relationships could be cultivated slowly and that love could be resumed after marriage, but he could not even be seen, leaving her how to cultivate the relationship between husband and wife in the air! She cried, crying very sadly, saying that he had let her down, and she was very sad.
Very disappointed.
She even said that she felt that their marriage was basically a responsibility for their children. She had too much expectations, thinking that she could develop a relationship with him.
If I didn't place too many expectations on him, I wouldn't be so disappointed and sad in the end.
At that time, he didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only hold his son helplessly.
Shan You left anyway and took his son south.
The reason she gave was that the weather in the Imperial City was too cold and the heating was too dry, which was not good for the child's trachea and skin, so she had to take the child back to the South Island for the winter.
Only the two of them knew that their relationship had reached a turning point.
And this point is very close to divorce.
At this moment, Ahu yawned and said in a low voice: "You are so lucky to be able to see your dad and have your dad to ride a horse for you.
In my memory, there is almost no trace of my father.
In this world, your grandma should be the only person who misses him.
Because I don’t even know what he looks like.”
"Grandma and grandpa...love each other very much, right?"
Xiao Huzi suddenly asked.
Ahu was slightly stunned, unable to react.
"...I don't know this.
They were brought together by a matchmaker, and I heard they had never even met before they got married.
Later I got married, but never had any children.
My father is a boatman and fisherman, and he doesn't come home every three days.
Grandma was growing vegetables and raising ducks by the river, waiting for him to come back.
When your grandma was almost forty years old, she still wasn't pregnant.
Someone encouraged my father to marry a younger man, but he refused and scolded the man away.
Later, my grandma finally got pregnant with me... It's a pity that my father didn't live long enough to see me get married and start a family.
Not only does the family have a tiger and a little tiger, but there is also a little tiger.
What the older generation pays most attention to is family inheritance, passed down from one line to the next.
Grandma and Dad are both the same, hoping to have more descendants.
She is eager to see the little tiger, she has wanted to see it for a long time."
Xiao Huzi was stunned, seeming to be thinking about something.
Ahu turned around and walked out of the room.
After breakfast, the father and son sat around the old man, a little too quiet.
At this time, Xue Ling and Cheng Tianyuan came.
After Chen Min took them to the door, he ran to buy more diapers for the elderly and let them come in first.
When everyone met, they lost the joy of meeting each other before, and their hearts were generally heavy.
Xue Ling held the old man's hand and shouted several times.
The old man twitched the corner of his mouth, made a "gurgling" sound in his throat, and then stopped responding.
Thinking of the smiling and cheerful Ahu Mom in the past, Xue Ling couldn't help but burst into tears.
Cheng Tianyuan's eyes were also red and he whispered: "Stop shouting, the old man has already heard you."
Wang Qing handed Xue Ling a tissue and sobbed as he talked about the recent difficulties.
"Xiao Yuner is preparing for the exam in the provincial capital. She goes to and from school alone. I always feel uneasy, so I ask her to call me morning and evening to report that she is safe.
Shan You and Xiao Xiaohu haven't arrived for a long time, the old man has been waiting, and we are also waiting anxiously."
"Already on the way."
Xue Ling explained: "Sister Chen is coming with me. I can help take care of the little tiger on the way."
Wang Qing pushed his son aside, "It's already past nine o'clock. Please call Shan You and ask where they are."
Xiao Huzi nodded, took out his cell phone and walked out.
Wang Qing looked at his thin back and murmured: "Ling Ling, he has changed quite a lot in the past two years.
Thanks to you and A Yuan, it’s really…” “It’s something he has worked hard on himself.”
Xue Ling whispered: "The competition will be fierce in the second half of the year, so he will have a hard time.
However, he needs this kind of training so that he can grow faster.
It was very painful, but he kept persevering."
Wang Qing secretly felt distressed and even said: "I asked Ahu to lend him a sum of money, but Ahu refused.
He said that unless Xiao Huzi asked for it, he would not take the initiative to help."
"Ahu is right."
Xue Ling said warmly: "Let him endure it until he can no longer bear it, and then we can help him a little more."
If he can get through it, he will be happier."
Wang Qing sniffed and whispered: "Ling Ling, you are the same as before... you are still much stronger than me."
Xue Ling took her hand and walked to the corner to chat.
Wang Qing seemed to remember something and sighed.
"Lingling, I...I met Liu Xing in the hospital a while ago.
He...is hospitalized. I heard he has an incurable disease."
What?
! Xue Ling was startled and asked: "What's going on?
Can’t be cured?
sure?"
"Um."
Wang Qing whispered: "I asked Lao Liu.
Old Liu is now in his eighties, still in good health, and walks along the riverside every day.
He said that Liu Xing had already retired early and was going to the provincial capital for treatment... there was little hope."
Xue Ling frowned and sighed: "Is there no law to cure it?"
Wang Qing shook his head: "Lao Liu said that he has been to many hospitals, and they all said it was in the late stage.
Although his wife's daughter was born to her ex-husband, Liu Xing raised her with loving care.
After graduation, my daughter worked at a TV station in Rongcheng. She is a very outstanding young man.
Now his wife and daughter are with him and never leave him.
Lao Liu also said that there is no need to worry about finances, but money cannot buy health and life."
Xue Ling recalled the scenes when he worked at the Rongcheng newspaper office more than 20 years ago, and his intuition suddenly seemed like a dream.
Thinking of that artistic young man who likes to hang a camera on his chest, I can't help but sigh sadly.
"...I hope he will be peaceful and happy in the remaining days."