The next morning, after getting up, tidying up the house, and arranging the two children to do their homework at home, Sun Yuqi rode her bicycle to the hospital. According to Gu Xueyuan, she came to the third floor of the inpatient department. By asking the nurse, she learned which ward Gu Tingkai was staying in. Gu Xueyuan was quite nice to Gu Tingkai and arranged a separate ward for him.
Sun Yuqi looked through the glass window on the ward door and found that only Gu Tingkai was in the room, leaning on the bed with his head down, wondering what he was thinking. There was no one else in the room. Sun Yuqi pushed the door open and walked in. Perhaps the sound of the door opening startled Gu Tingkai, and he raised his head.
Sun Yuqi was also stunned when she saw Gu Tingkai now. Not to mention when Gu Tingkai came to the school to find her a few years ago, he had just been released from prison. Although he did not look very well and was a little thin, he looked in good spirits. But how did he become like this now? It’s not that Sun Yuqi felt sorry for him, but she couldn’t understand why he became like this now. You know, it has only been more than ten years since they met, and Gu Tingkai is only in his sixties now, but he looks like he is in his seventies or eighties. Not only is his hair all white, but even his beard is all white.
Sun Yuqi walked into the room without saying a word, just looking at Gu Tingkai calmly. Sun Yuqi's calmness was in sharp contrast to Gu Tingkai's excited face. Gu Tingkai didn't know where to put his excited hands. He wanted to reach out and ask Sun Yuqi to sit down, but when he stretched out his hand, he saw the hand that was like dry tree bark, and he quickly retracted his hand.
He glanced at Sun Yuqi hesitantly and said in a low voice, "You're here, then... come, sit down!"
Sun Yuqi walked to a chair nearby and sat down, lowering her head to adjust her clothes.
"Gu Xueyuan said you wanted to meet me. Haha, I'm actually curious why you wanted to meet me? Is it to discuss your retirement issues?"
Sun Yuqi's words felt like a steel knife piercing his heart, causing Gu Tingkai to feel a pain in his heart. He knew that Sun Yuqi's words were full of sarcasm, but he could only listen and could not say anything.
After a long while of silence, when Sun Yuqi's patience was about to run out, Gu Tingkai spoke, "Yuqi, I'll call you this! This may be the last time I call you this in my life."
"Ten years ago, one night after I got out of prison, I had a dream. It was so real, so real. I still remember the feeling in the dream. In that dream, I was still Gu Tingkai. In 1975, after I heard that your adoptive mother had passed away, I went to An County and brought you back to Jing City. I asked you to replace your sister—no, not your sister, that was a bitch—and asked you to replace that bitch and go to the countryside to work in the fields in the south."
Having said that, Gu Tingkai took a breath, picked up the teacup beside him and took a sip of tea before continuing.
"After you went south, I didn't pay you the living expenses I promised you. I deceived you and believed that bitch Liang Qingshu. I ignored you. You ended up dying on that labor farm in 1976. I'm so sorry for you."
After saying this, he looked up at Sun Yuqi with emotion. Sun Yuqi's face was calm, as if she was listening to a story, as if it had nothing to do with her. But in fact, there was a huge wave in her heart. This made sense. So this is how it was. That's why Gu Tingkai said to her when he came back from the northwest ten years ago and saw her in front of her school, "I came to see if you look like the same as in my dream?"
He'd dreamt about his first life, but what did he mean by that? Was he trying to figure out why this life was so different from the last? Why had he left An County so early in this life, leaving him empty-handed? Thinking of this, Sun Yuqi smiled.
"This story is well-written. Are you wondering why my life is so different from the one you dreamed of? Why didn't I live according to your script, and in the end, I was taken back to the countryside by you to replace your poor Gu Yulan?"
The irony in Sun Yuqi's eyes was so strong that Gu Tingkai lowered his head in shame as he looked at Sun Yuqi. He really wanted to figure it out, but he was just a little confused as to why she happened to leave An County and go to the countryside in Northeast China. You know, she didn't need to go to the countryside to suffer. Her adoptive mother would definitely arrange everything for her.
He still asked tentatively, "Yuqi, have you also had such a dream, which is why you went to the countryside in Northeast China in advance?"
Sun Yuqi glanced at Gu Tingkai speechlessly, "You want to see me, don't you want to ask me this question?"
Sun Yuqi raised a mocking smile at the corner of her mouth. "You think too much. I'm not as boring as you, thinking too much based on a broken dream. I heard from Gu Xueyuan that you don't have much time left, but I see that you are in good health. Don't let Gu Xueyuan pass on messages to me in the future. Oh, by the way, I have already paid for your hospitalization this time. I still have the receipt from the hospital. Don't worry, you don't have to use the name of my biological father to ask me to take care of you in your old age. You don't deserve it. You sent people to kill me again and again, and I'm too lazy to say anything to you anymore."
After Sun Yuqi finished speaking, she left the ward without even looking at Gu Tingkai. As soon as she walked out of the door, she saw Gu Xueyuan standing at the door and rolled her eyes at him.
"If you have nothing to do in the future, don't come to me. You are so confusing every day."
Gu Xueyuan touched his nose awkwardly and looked helplessly at Gu Tingkai who was standing there in a daze.
"Third Uncle, tell me, can you speak? You said you wanted to see her, and I went to invite her, but look at what you said."
Gu Xueyuan frowned and looked at Gu Tingkai, then continued, "I still say the same thing. Taking care of you is the task my father gave me. Just because of what you and grandpa and grandma did over the years, I can completely ignore you. When grandpa passed away a few years ago, the people he was most worried about were you and uncle. But look at when my dad has ever cared about my uncle's affairs. Now he has been put in jail again because of my dad. My dad sympathizes with you. Where did he put you for uncle? That was exploitation. In the eyes of grandpa and grandma, except for uncle, my dad and you are just tools they use."
Gu Tingkai stared blankly at Gu Xueyuan. After hearing what he said, he smiled bitterly. "Actually, I knew they were using me back then. I was just too stupid."
Gu Xueyuan glanced at Gu Tingkai.
"I'm afraid Yuqi won't come again. I've paid all your medical expenses for the next ten days today. If you want to use your biological father's name to accuse me of being unfilial, I guess you won't be able to say it. You'd better stay here honestly. Time is running out. Spend these last days well!"
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