Chapter 411 Motherly Love (Part 2)
Xu's mother easily changed the subject: "We have to make osmanthus wine too. We can sell it for a lot of money. Let's go pick some more."
The fragrant osmanthus wine does not need to be brewed for a long time. Seeing Xu Nian taking the winnowing basket out, Xu's mother's gentle expression suddenly changed. She bent her upper body, and for a moment, pain spread all over her body, making it difficult for her to breathe.
This disease is getting more and more painful, there is no cure, and even a kidney transplant will not fully cure it. At most, you can survive for a few more years.
Death will come sooner or later. For a person with a terminal illness, living requires more courage than dying. I just can't bear to let her go.
Xu Nian quickly came back with a basket of osmanthus flowers. Mother Xu endured the severe pain. At this moment, her body was at the end of its strength. She could feel her body becoming softer and weaker.
She forced a smile and looked at Xu Nian: "Niannian, Mom suddenly misses the hat she saw when she was discharged from the hospital that day."
It has been half a month since I was discharged from the hospital, and I don’t know if that beautiful hat has been bought by anyone.
Xu Nian put down the dustpan in his hand: "Then I'll take you to buy it another day."
"If it's too late, I'm afraid it's gone. It's still early today, and we don't have much food or wine at home. You can buy some and take a look at that store. If the hat is still there, please buy it for me. If not, forget it."
Xu Nian glanced at the sky outside. The return bus ride would take about three hours. Her mother was sick and didn't have the strength to walk that far. Besides, this was the first time her mother had told her that she wanted something.
"Okay, I'll go buy it right away." Xu Nian changed his clothes, carried his bag, waved to Xu's mother, and ran to the station.
As soon as she left, Xu's mother staggered. She propped herself up and continued to make osmanthus cakes, one piece, two pieces, ten pieces, fifty pieces. There was no more osmanthus flowers and wine, and the glutinous rice flour was also done. She didn't count how many pieces of osmanthus cakes she made in the end, but this table of osmanthus cakes should be enough for Nian Nian to eat for the whole year.
She weakly took off her apron and staggered into the yard.
The sun is shining brightly outside, and you can enjoy the coolness under the osmanthus tree. Not only can you avoid the sun, but you can also smell the fragrance of flowers and listen to the birds singing.
Usually when she had nothing to do, she would lie in the rocking chair under the osmanthus tree. Today the sun was shining brightly, the wind was blowing gently, and the flowers were fragrant. She would be very content to die on such a day.
She squinted her eyes and murmured unconsciously: "Niannian, you were born and raised with hope in your mother... If there is a next life... be my daughter again..."
Tears welled up in her eyes, and she gently closed them, never opening them again.
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Xu Nian didn't find the hat in that store, and she didn't want to disappoint her mother, so she went all over the city center and finally found the same one.
After paying, she picked up the shopping bag and thought to herself, my mother would be very happy if she wore this hat.
Xu Nian bought some wine and went to the market to buy some fresh vegetables on her way home. She carried a bag of them home and before she even reached the door, she called out excitedly, "Mom, I'm back."
No one answered her. Xu Nian felt something strange in her heart. She suddenly felt a little scared when facing the quiet home. There was even a voice in her head telling her to stop and not go in.
She walked into the house and saw a table full of osmanthus cakes, which smelled particularly fragrant. Xu Nian put down the dishes in her hand, took out the hat, walked through the kitchen to the yard, and saw her mother lying on a rattan chair under the osmanthus tree.
It was so quiet that she looked like she was asleep. Xu Nian walked over and looked at her mother's pale face: "Mom, wake up... I'm back. I bought you the hat you like. Try it on and let me see it."
Xu's mother still didn't move.
Xu Nian reached out and grabbed her mother's hand. "Why is it so cold?" she asked. "It must be because I'm not covered with a blanket."
"Mom, wait a minute. I know you like to sleep in the yard. I'll get you a blanket. Don't catch a cold."
Xu Nian placed the hat in her arms, stood up and went back to the house, quickly grabbed a blanket and covered her mother with it. She also took a hot water bottle and knelt on the ground to warm her mother's hands, but this time, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get them warm. She lowered her head, tears falling from her eyes.
"Mom, I saw the osmanthus cake you made. Didn't you say you would teach me? How come you made so much when I wasn't paying attention? I'm so stupid and I still haven't learned how to make it. Can you teach me again?"
"I also bought some wine. Now that I'm grown up, I can drink the osmanthus wine you brewed."
"I need to make a lot of osmanthus cakes and osmanthus wine this year, but I don't know if the flowers from this tree will be enough."
Xu Nian tremblingly grabbed Xu's mother's hand and placed it on her face, tears sliding down her cheeks onto Xu's mother's hand.
"Mom, I'm going to tell you a joke. After you listen to it, open your eyes and look at me, okay?" She sobbed and choked, "There was a duck playing with a ball on the beach. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew and blew the ball away. It ran after the ball, desperately chasing it and shouting, 'Ball, don't go...Ball, don't go...' Mom, did you hear that? The little duck said, 'Ball, don't go...'"
Please don't go, don't leave me alone.
"Mom, I haven't had the time to honor you, and I haven't taken you to see the pink sea." She suddenly couldn't help crying and sobbed.
There is a price to pay for doing wrong things, but why can't this price fall on her?
Xu Nian knelt in the yard guarding his mother's body from dusk till dawn. The weather in autumn was really cold, and it was so cold that people lost their minds.
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