Chapter 325: The Past Is Too Painful to Recall
"Please save Wanqing! Wanqing is sick, she's sick, I can't help it..."
Grandma Zhou suddenly became agitated, her eyes darting anxiously left and right, before grabbing Bai Zhi's arm tightly. "Wanqing, how are you? Are you still in pain?"
Bai Zhi was affected by her emotions and shook her head heavily, saying, "I'm fine."
"I'm not in pain."
"Let's hold on. Ye Rufeng and Zhou Zheng will find a way. We should trust them."
Grandma Zhou's aged face was full of anxiety, but her eyes were very firm. Bai Zhi could imagine that when her grandmother was most helpless, this fellow sufferer must have been her pillar of support, giving her a lot of comfort and help.
Her eyes welled up with tears, and she nodded, her voice choked with emotion, "Okay, I'll stick to it."
With Bai Zhi's comforting words, Old Mrs. Zhou's emotions gradually calmed down.
Ye Tiandong's expression was very heavy.
"Let's go home first."
"Go home what?" Grandma Zhou looked at Bai Zhi and asked in surprise, "We can go home now? We can go see the children?"
"Yes, we are free."
Looking at Old Mrs. Zhou, Bai Zhi felt as if she were truly her grandmother from back then, having personally experienced that catastrophe.
How helpless and desperate they must have felt back then.
They were still outside, while the couple were both locked in a cowshed.
Bai Zhi, using her maternal grandmother Li Wanqing's identity, finally persuaded the old lady, and then helped Grandma Zhou home.
When they arrived at the alley entrance, the elderly men were still engrossed in their game of chess, and the things Bai Zhi had placed beside them remained standing there untouched.
After Bai Zhi greeted them, Ye Tiandong carried the things.
"Grandpa, has Grandpa Zhou come back?"
An elderly man playing chess replied, "Not yet, I'll tell him when he gets back."
"Okay, thank you."
Bai Zhi first helped Grandma Zhou walk towards the door of her house.
The Zhou family's gate was unlocked.
They thought someone was home, but when they entered the yard and called out twice, there was no one there.
Dr. Zhou's wife was not home either.
Presumably, Old Master Zhou was in such a hurry that he didn't even bother to lock the door.
Grandpa Zhou and his two sons are all doctors, and you can smell the aroma of medicine as soon as you enter the courtyard.
There are many potted plants in the yard.
It was cleaned and tidy.
The old man's traditional Chinese jacket, which he had just washed, was still drying in the courtyard.
Grandma Zhou skillfully plopped down on the steps, refusing to let go of the vegetable leaves she was holding.
Bai Zhi tentatively reached for the things in her arms, saying, "Please put these vegetables down."
She dodged away and hugged him even tighter. "I can't let go. If I do, he'll take it away. I need to take it back to cook for my son. They're starving."
The elderly person remained on high alert.
Since the rest of the family wasn't home, they didn't feel comfortable going inside, so they just sat with the old lady on the steps. Bai Zhi said to Ye Tiandong,
“Uncle, please sit here. Let’s try to talk to the old lady. Her memory is still stuck in her youth. Maybe we can get some information out of her.”
With a solemn expression, Ye Tiandong was pulled by Bai Zhi to sit next to Old Madam Zhou.
Grandma Zhou looked Ye Tiandong up and down and pleaded urgently, "Ye Rufeng, you're a doctor, please take a look at Wanqing."
"No, how did you get in? Men can't get in at all."
“You need to take care of Wanqing. She’s sick and needs treatment. Her family is capitalist, but she isn’t.”
Whenever Grandma Zhou mentioned Li Wanqing, she became extremely agitated and hysterical, spitting as she wailed, which was distressing to witness.
Ye Tiandong's expression turned even more unpleasant.
He couldn't imagine how desperate and painful his mother must have been back then.
When Grandpa Zhou rushed back, he heard his wife's wailing from outside the door.
He ran in, his body hunched over.
When I got to my wife, I first checked her to see if she was injured when she ran out.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the old lady hadn't bumped or hurt herself.
"Dr. Xiaobai, where did you find her?"
Bai Zhi replied, "Grandpa Zhou, it's on the street ahead."
"Why is she getting agitated again?" Grandpa Zhou walked up to his wife and gently soothed her, "Honey, stop crying, there are no enemies."
"Who are you?" Old Mrs. Zhou asked, looking at Old Mr. Zhou warily.
"I am your husband."
"My husband?" Old Mrs. Zhou gave Old Mr. Zhou a disdainful look from head to toe and said, "How can you be my husband when you're so old?"
Grandpa Zhou, "!!!"
"How old are you?" He rolled his eyes and asked the old lady in an annoyed tone.
His wife, ever since she became confused, doesn't recognize him when she wakes up each day and complains that he's old.
He even often mistook his second son for him.
He shoved the mirror in front of her, and she screamed in fright.
They said the person in the mirror was a monster, not her.
"I'm only in my thirties or forties, I'm still young. Anyway, you can't be my wife. Don't lie to me, my wife isn't as old as you."
After speaking, Grandma Zhou looked at Bai Zhi with a smile on her face and asked in surprise, "Wanqing, why do you look younger than me today?"
Bai Zhi's eyes flickered slightly as she offered an excuse, "I feel good today, so I look young."
When Grandpa Zhou heard his wife's name for Bai Zhi, his expression turned strange for a moment.
They quickly understood.
No wonder Bai Zhi was able to bring his wife home so easily.
Grandma Zhou grabbed Bai Zhi's hand and comforted her, "Wanqing, it's safe now. Hang in there. We'll wait for Dr. Ye and my husband to come. They'll figure something out."
"Okay, I will stick to it."
Bai Zhi was overwhelmed with mixed emotions, feeling a tightness in her chest.
I'm very sad.
Ye Tiandong stood there with his eyes down, without saying a word.
Grandma Zhou kept muttering Li Wanqing's name, and then she started to doze off.
Grandpa Zhou quickly helped her into the inner room to rest.
They helped her to bed and covered her with a blanket. The old lady was tired from all the fuss and soon fell asleep.
When Grandpa Zhou came out of the house, Ye Tiandong and Bai Zhi were still in the yard.
He invited the two of them inside for a drink of water.
Ye Tiandong looked at Bai Zhi, indicating that he would politely decline.
"Grandpa Zhou, we won't go in. Please take care of Grandma Zhou first, and we'll come to see you later."
Seeing that Grandpa Zhou's gaze was fixed on her uncle, she realized she hadn't introduced him yet, so she smiled and said, "This is my uncle."
Grandpa Zhou was already quite familiar with Ye Tiandong.
After he met Ye Rufeng again, Ye Rufeng gradually opened up to him and talked about the estrangement between herself and her son.
Grandpa Zhou had always wanted to have a chance to persuade Ye Tiandong.
Upon seeing him, the old man spoke up for Ye Rufeng earnestly, “Tian Dong, back then, your father and I were locked up together, and your mother and my husband were locked up together. He wanted to take care of your mother, but at that time, he was really powerless to do anything about it.”
"I hope you can forgive him and stop resenting him."
Ye Tiandong lowered his eyes and remained silent.
I didn't respond to his comment.
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