Chapter 12: Xiao Yan is dead?
Tuan'er lowered his head and stammered, "I want to go back to our original home. I miss my daddy."
Meng Mingshu lowered her eyes, not knowing how to start.
Finally, she told the truth: "Tuan'er, our previous home has burned down, and Daddy is no longer there."
Tuan'er's head shook like a rattle:
"No, Daddy said before that the village is our home. He will always be in the village, and Tuan'er will never be unable to find Daddy."
Meng Mingshu opened her lips. She knew that Tuan'er wouldn't believe it if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes.
"Okay, let's go back to the village first."
Meng Mingshu looked at Xu Shaozhang and Doctor Li, mainly Xu Shaozhang.
Xu Shaozhang looked at Tuan'er's watery almond eyes and finally softened his heart.
"Then let's go and take a look. It's not far from Sui County."
Doctor Li also spoke: "I will follow you."
Although all the people in Anfeng Village have been arrested, they are still worried that some of them may have escaped the net.
So Doctor Li decided to take his grandson and go with Meng Mingshu to settle in Chongzhou Prefecture.
"It's just ahead. Our home is almost here."
Tuan'er was so excited that his short legs jumped twice.
Meng Mingshu also felt mixed emotions.
After leaving that small village in the previous life, neither she nor Xiao Yan had ever returned.
Meng Mingshu felt guilty and was afraid of being reminded of the past.
Xiao Yan was also afraid of thinking of Tuan'er.
This is the pain that neither of them dares to touch or mention.
Meng Mingshu hugged Tuan'er tighter. Feeling the soft little body in her arms, she felt a lot more at ease.
Fortunately, Tuan'er is still alive in this life.
The ending of their family will definitely be different from their previous life.
"Grandma Li."
Seeing the familiar villagers, Tuan'er's eyes lit up instantly, "Grandma Li!"
She was rarely willing to get off Meng Mingshu and ran towards the old woman in front.
"Ghost! Ghost! Someone come quickly, there's a ghost!"
After the scream, Aunt Li covered her chest and fell backwards, as if she was terrified.
Tuan'er blinked her big, moist eyes, her eyelashes fluttering, and asked in confusion:
"Where is the ghost?"
Tuan'er ran up to Aunt Li with his short legs:
"Grandma Li, don't be afraid, Tuan'er will protect you."
"No, don't come over here!"
Aunt Li tried to stand up with the help of her arms, but she was obviously too frightened and had no strength left, so she could only crawl forward.
But he was still caught up by Tuan'er, who was walking with his short legs and panting.
"Tuan'er is here to protect you!"
"Tuan'er, Tuan'er! Don't come to me with your mother. I have said bad things about your mother before, but I have taken care of you!"
"Go find someone else to kill, leave me alone!"
Tuan'er nodded, not quite understanding. She scratched her face:
"Grandma Li was kind to Tuan'er, and Tuan'er always remembered that. That's why I came to protect her."
As they were talking, other people in the village who had heard the screams also rushed over.
The hoes in their hands fell one after another, and screams rang out one after another.
“Ghost!”
"Mom, Dad, I actually saw a ghost in broad daylight!"
"Help!"
Meng Mingshu sighed and spoke to the village chief who was still calm:
"Old village chief, Tuan'er and I are human beings, not ghosts. We are still alive."
Xu Shaozhang also spoke up: "How can they be ghosts if they have shadows?"
Everyone then looked at the ground and indeed saw a shadow.
Aunt Li believed it most of the time and bravely reached out to touch Tuan'er.
"Hot and alive!"
The other villagers then dared to step forward. Some touched Tuan'er's head, while others pinched her little face.
Aunt Li hugged Tuan'er and said, "It's good that you're not dead. It's good that you're not dead."
Tuan'er finally understood.
"Tuan'er has never died. Why does grandma think he is dead?"
Tuan'er raised his head and began to search among the villagers again. He was tired of looking up, but still couldn't see his father.
"Why didn't Dad come?"
Tuan'er was very depressed and his little head began to droop.
Aunt Li began to sigh, lamenting the cruelty of fate: "Alas, there was a big fire in your house, and your father thought you and your mother were dead."
Aunt Li looked at Meng Mingshu:
"You cruel woman, you are still alive, why don't you go back to the village and let Doctor Xiao know?"
"If you had come back earlier, Dr. Xiao might not have died."
Meng Mingshu's heart skipped a beat, as if it was grabbed by a pair of big hands.
"What did you say?"
"Who died?"
Seeing that Aunt Li still wanted to stab Meng Mingshu deliberately, the people next to her pulled her and signaled her to do it for Tuan'er's sake.
The child is still here, and Tuan'er will have to rely on Meng Mingshu for support in the future.
Aunt Li sighed, and her tone softened a little.
"Your husband is dead."
"After misunderstanding that you and your daughter had died, Doctor Xiao was so heartbroken that he fell seriously ill. He was so sick that he couldn't get up, and his hair turned white."
After Aunt Li finished speaking, her eyes also turned red.
"He doesn't eat, drink, or talk. He's as good as dead."
"Some time ago, I went to the river for some reason, fell in, and never got up again."
"You must mourn. Although Doctor Xiao is gone, you still have Tuan'er. You must take good care of Tuan'er in the future."
Meng Mingshu took two steps back suddenly, her lips trembling, and the impossible news kept echoing in her ears.
"He's not dead, he's not dead, I know, he's in the capital now."
Meng Mingshu kept shaking her head, her tone becoming more and more determined:
"He's not dead. Once he knows Tuan'er and I are still alive, he will come to reunite our family."
Madam Li shook her head:
"I know you can't accept it, but this is the truth. It was people from our village who fished him out and buried him. How could we, as a village, be wrong?"
After Madam Li finished speaking, other people in the village began to agree.
"Yeah, I fished it out!"
"The jade pendant that Doctor Xiao always carried with him is still there!"
Everyone was talking at once, and even the village chief took out a jade pendant and handed it to Meng Mingshu.
Meng Mingshu looked at the familiar jade pendant with a dazed look.
She held the jade pendant tightly and looked at it again and again.
It is indeed Xiao Yan's.
Everyone in the village was so confident in what they said that Meng Mingshu actually started to panic.
Did everyone in the village recognize the wrong person?
Or was it because of her rebirth that changed the trajectory of Xiao Yan's fate?
Meng Mingshu didn't dare to think about it, and her face turned pale as paper in an instant.
"No, no... Xiao Yan will not die."
She didn't stay in this life long.
She had never been to the capital, and only changed Tuan'er's fate.
So Xiao Yan must not have been affected by her rebirth.
He must be the same as in his previous life. Xiao Yan has already recognized his relatives in the capital.
These villagers must have misunderstood.
It must be.
She couldn't just listen to these people's one-sided words, she should believe in her own experiences in her past life.
"He's not dead."
Meng Mingshu clenched her hands tightly:
"The man you fished out of the river must not be him."
Aunt Li sighed inwardly.
When he was alive, he didn't see how good he was to Xiao Yan.
At home and outside, washing clothes, cooking, and taking care of Tuan'er, Xiao Yan took care of everything by himself.
Marrying a woman like Meng Mingshu is almost like marrying an ancestor.
That’s fine, but the people in their village have never seen Meng Mingshu give Xiao Yan a good look.
He never lives a down-to-earth life and is always making trouble, asking for gold and silver.
Now that the person has died, I know how sad it is.
There is no woman like Meng Mingshu in the world.
But because she was Tuan'er's biological mother, Aunt Li didn't say these words.
"Dr. Xiao is gone. We, the outsiders who were under his care, are all heartbroken, let alone you. Auntie knows you can't accept it, but the person we rescued was indeed him."
"Besides the jade pendant on his body, there are other characteristics."
"What?"
Meng Mingshu didn't believe that Xiao Yan was dead, but at this moment she subconsciously grabbed Aunt Li's hand.
"The man we fished out also had white hair and a similar build to Doctor Xiao. With white hair and a young age, who else could it be but Doctor Xiao?"
After Aunt Li finished speaking, her eyes turned red.
They lived closest to Xiao Yan's family and had the most interactions with them on weekdays.
She was also the one who took care of Xiao Yan when he was seriously ill.
The man who was so strong before became so sick that he couldn't get up after encountering an unexpected accident.
"And even if he hadn't drowned, he might not have lived much longer."
Aunt Li continued, "The doctor we called in from Rende Hall in Sui County said he was so grief-stricken that his heart meridians were damaged, and his life span is seriously affected."
Sui County Rende Hall?
Doctor Li looked up suddenly. Isn't this their clinic?
Only then did he remember that he had indeed been invited here.
“It turned out to be him!!”
Memories from several months ago were brought back to mind, and the situation regarding that person gradually became clearer.
Such an extraordinary appearance and demeanor are unforgettable once you have seen it.
When he heard that this man had lost his wife and daughter, he lamented that life is unpredictable.
Meng Mingshu felt dizzy and turned back to look at Doctor Li.
"Doctor Li, you've examined him. Is he really not well?"
Meng Mingshu held Doctor Li tightly.
Doctor Li sighed, "It's really not good. Your husband was very ill at the time, and it's true that his heart meridian was damaged."
"I have prescribed medicine. If he can listen to my advice, he should not indulge in sorrow."
"Also, if you take the medicine properly and supplement it with century-old ginseng, you can protect your heart meridian."
But at that time, Xiao Yan was completely unable to listen. He was like a living dead and seemed to have completely lost the motivation to live.
Doctor Li saw himself in this man.
When his son and wife passed away, he was also an old man who had to see off his loved ones and almost lost the will to live.
He had grandchildren, so he got through it.
But that person has no relatives left.
The sorrow he felt was several times greater than what he had felt back then.
Doctor Li had a hunch that this man couldn't get out, so he concluded that he wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.
If this continues, I won't live more than eight years.
After all, emotions have a huge impact on people, affecting every aspect of the body.
Is Xiao Yan in poor health?
His life span is shortened and he is likely to die?
This news caught Meng Mingshu off guard.
She vaguely thought that Xiao Yan seemed to be always pale in his previous life.
But at that time, they had already become very distant.
He didn't talk to her, and she knew nothing about many things about him.
It seems that in his previous life, he looked pale not because he was busy with official duties, but because he had health problems at that time.
It was just that Xiao Yan hid it from her.
Meng Mingshu's heart was filled with anxiety. She realized very clearly that she must contact Xiao Yan as soon as possible, no matter what means.
She wanted to let him know that she and Tuan'er were not dead.
They want a family reunion.
She didn't want Tuan'er to grow up without a father.
She also couldn't accept that she would lose Xiao Yan.
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