Chu Yanyan asked them to stay and drink porridge.
Shen Qihe also made some side dishes, and Chu Yanyan assisted him.
When grandma saw the neighbors coming to visit her, she felt warm in her heart.
Chen Yurong chatted with her for a while and asked Grandma Chu not to sit in the room all the time, but to go to the yard to bask in the sun more often.
After the porridge was ready, they sat around the table, talking and laughing while eating.
Shen Qihe picked up a piece of pickled carrot and put it in Chu Yanyan's bowl, his eyes revealing a hint of tenderness that he himself had never noticed: "Eat more."
With the company of Chen Yurong and Shen Qihe, Grandma Chu felt much better.
After eating, Shen Qihe and Chu Yanyan cleaned up the dishes.
Chen Yurong boiled a pot of water, filled a basin with it, asked Yanyan for Grandma Chu's towel, then walked into Grandma's room with the water and wiped her body.
After she came out, Chu Yanyan immediately ran in to see her grandmother.
Shen Qihe stood at the door and looked at the grandfather and grandson.
Chen Yurong poured out the bath water, rinsed it clean and put it aside. She called Shen Qihe out and said she had something to say.
“Ahe, Yanyan’s mood is a little off today. You should accompany Yanyan to sleep.” She said it subconsciously, and after saying it, she looked at Shen Qihe.
"Okay." Shen Qihe agreed without hesitation.
Shen Qihe went back to take a shower, changed his clothes, washed his clothes briefly, hung them on the bamboo, packed his notebooks and stuffed them into his schoolbag, and went to Chu Yanyan.
It was already dark at this time, and only the sun's rays in front of the house illuminated the path between the two houses.
He came to Chu Yanyan's room.
When Chen Yurong saw Shen Qihe coming, she stood up from her chair: “You accompany Yanyan, I’ll go back first.”
"I understand. Mom, you should go to bed early." Shen Qihe said, looking at her haggard face.
As soon as Chen Yurong came back from work, she came to help without even changing her work clothes.
"Yeah." Chen Yurong nodded and smiled at her son.
Shen Qihe watched his mother walk into the house and close the door before he closed the wooden door on his side.
He turned and walked into the house. Chu Yanyan had already finished taking a shower in the shed and came out with a basin of clothes.
"Brother, why don't you go back?" Chu Yanyan asked him.
Shen Qihe walked over and touched Chu Yanyan's wet hair: "Sleep with you."
Chu Yanyan's eyes lit up: "Is it really that good?"
Shen Qihe retracted his hand: "Yeah. By the way, I'll watch you do your homework."
Hearing the latter sentence, Chu Yanyan's face immediately turned bitter: "Then let's not do it."
Shen Qihe accompanied Chu Yanyan to wash clothes. After hanging them on the bamboo pole, the two of them tiptoed into the room.
After closing the door.
Incandescent light illuminated the room.
Chu Yanyan was afraid of waking up his grandmother, so he didn't use a hair dryer to dry his hair. Instead, he rubbed it with a dry towel, while Shen Qihe used a palm-leaf fan to help him dry it physically.
Chu Yanyan leaned in Shen Qihe's arms, enjoying the young man's service.
Shen Qihe felt the warmth in his arms, and for some reason, some thoughts flashed through his mind, Yanyan's body was so soft, closer, closer.
When he realized that he was thinking about something dirty, he immediately stopped thinking about it. He pulled Chu Yanyan out of his arms and stuffed the palm-leaf fan into the boy's hand: "Fan yourself, I need to do my homework."
"Oh." Chu Yanyan said, thinking that Shen Qihe would forget about the homework, he thought it was too simple.
Chu Yanyan fanned his hair slowly and waited quietly for it to dry, because he didn't want to do homework at all.
But before his hair was done drying, he was glanced at by Shen Qihe, and he had to finish his homework first even if he didn't want to.
There was a desk on their bed, and each person sat on one side. It was very quiet around them, with only the rustling sound of pen on paper and the crisp sound of turning pages of books.
After completing the learning task.
Shen Qihe folded up the desk and put it in the corner on the ground. He looked at Chu Yanyan who was holding a carrot doll next to him and waved at him: "Come and sleep together."
The summer was relatively mild that year. It was early June, and I lay on a wooden bed mat, a thin quilt folded in half, just enough to cover my stomach. The room was filled with wormwood and mosquito coils, and the air was filled with a faint scent of wormwood.
Chu Yanyan only had one pillow, so he used the doll in his hand as a pillow for Shen Qihe and lay down in the corner of the wall.
Shen Qihe turned off the lights.
There was a clicking sound, and the whole room went dark.
"Good night, brother." Chu Yanyan said softly.
"Good night." Shen Qihe turned around and faced Chu Yanyan's back.
Chu Yanyan closed his eyes and seemed to be sleeping, but he was actually chatting with the system.
"Xiao Qi, do you have any medicine that can save my grandma? I don't want her to forget me."
Tongzi was silent for a moment. "Yanyan, this is impossible. The laws of life and death have long been established. Your grandmother has reached her limit. Memory loss is a hurdle that old people must go through. No matter how good the medicine is, it can't keep getting better forever. Besides, I don't have any medicine to give you."
"But I don't want to."
"Alas, separation between life and death is inevitable. While grandma is still alive, I should be filial to her and let her leave without regrets." Tongzi sighed.
Chu Yanyan became even sadder when he heard this, and he blocked the conversation with the system.
He opened his eyes, turned over and looked at the person next to him. The moonlight shone in, and he could see clearly that the person next to him was still awake: "Brother, can you hug me?" There was a tearful tone in his voice.
Shen Qihe’s heart ached: “Okay.”
Chu Yanyan rolled into Shen Qihe's arms, feeling the scent of soap on the boy's body.
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