Chapter 589 Love Until Death
"This is our home, Dad, why have you forgotten again? I am your daughter Bai Muchu, and this is my brother, your son Shen Guibai." Nian Bao explained this at least three times a day.
Only when their names are mentioned will Bai Qiujing react and remember them.
Nian Bao took out his phone, found the photo album, clicked on the family photo and showed it to Bai Qiujing: "Dad, look, this is our family photo."
Bai Qiujing looked at the photo, his eyes fixed on Shen Zhichu. He opened his mouth and unconsciously called out, "Chuchu."
His memory was sometimes good and sometimes bad, but after Nian Bao's reminder, he had an impression of it.
Nian Bao saw that it was still early and wanted Bai Qiujing to go back to his room and sleep a little longer.
Bai Qiujing was unwilling to do so, not because he didn't want to sleep but because he couldn't sleep. His muddled mind became particularly clear at night. Thinking of the death of Chen Zhichu, who was sixty-seven years old and left him alone, Bai Qiujing felt so heartbroken that he couldn't sleep all night.
He held Shen Zhichu's photo in his arms and stroked her face carefully. He often did this when Shen Zhichu was by his side. He had been used to this action for decades and had seen it for decades, but he could never get enough of it.
How can I help but think about it? I will never see the person I have loved for forty years again.
On New Year's Eve, the gala was playing on TV, but no one was watching except the sound.
Before it gets dark, Bai Qiujing turns on the lights in every room of the house one by one. Tonight they are eating glutinous rice balls, which symbolizes a happy reunion.
Bai Qiujing stood upstairs looking at the lights in the distance. Nianbao brought up a bowl of dumplings and put it on the table, reminding Bai Qiujing to eat.
Bai Qiujing took a sip of the soup and found it not sweet enough. The taste was really not to Shen Zhichu's liking. He walked to the bedside, opened the drawer, grabbed a handful of candies, tore open the candy wrappers one by one, and put the candies into the bowl to melt.
After tasting it and finding it sweet, he subconsciously picked up the bowl and said, "Chu Chu, the glutinous rice balls are sweet, try some..."
He turned around and remembered that Shen Zhichu, who liked sweet things, had passed away half a month ago.
Bai Qiujing put down the bowl stiffly, lowered his eyes and looked at the round dumplings in the soup. He smiled, and tears fell from his eyes, falling into the bowl of soup and creating faint ripples. The good bowl of soup became "bitter" again.
This year's New Year's Eve was undoubtedly the most lonely one. There was not a trace of red, even the fireworks in the sky were dimmed. Only the lights in the room were brightly lit, and the light stretched into the distance.
Chuchu, I'll leave the light on for you. I know you are afraid of the dark. Remember to go home when you see the light.
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Bai Qiujing, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, always likes to run around. Once he runs away, he can't be found again. The tired brother and sister and the servants in the house look for him everywhere.
Sometimes he ran to the orphanage, sometimes he sat by the river, and sometimes he went to the playground... He walked through the places where Shen Zhichu often walked, looking for any trace of her.
I was supposed to go to the hospital for a follow-up check today, but Bai Qiujing ran away again on the way. Although he has a poor memory, he is smart and can react quickly when seizing the opportunity to "run away".
Before I knew it, he disappeared.
Where did Bai Qiujing go?
He went to the cemetery and walked to Shen Zhichu's tomb. He was holding a string of candied haws in his hand and sitting on the ground next to the tombstone.
Shen Zhichu loved to laugh. She requested to have her posthumous portrait taken and she also personally selected the photos.
In the black and white photo, Shen Zhichu smiled sweetly, with the corners of her mouth raised gently.
The sun rises and sets in the west, the stars are so romantic, all the scenery he has seen in his life is not as good as her smile, and being lucky enough to accompany her from beginning to end is the greatest luck in his life.
"Chuchu, I came to see you. Today I brought you your favorite candied haws."
He tore off the transparent plastic wrap on the outside, ate one, and left one on the ground covered with clean toilet paper. There were eight candied haws in total, and he ate four. They were very sweet and sour, and they hurt his stomach and were so sour that his teeth fell out.
Literally, the tooth really fell out. Bai Qiujing spat out the tooth, looked at the tooth covered in icing sugar in the palm of his hand, smiled and said, "So... I'm already this old, so old that my teeth have fallen out and my hair has turned white..."
Just two days after Shen Zhichu's death, his hair turned completely white.
After eating the candied haws, Bai Qiujing grabbed a handful of candies from his pocket. These flavors were all Shen Zhichu's favorites before he was born.
It was February and the weather was cold. Bai Qiujing leaned against the tombstone and shed tears silently, with wrinkles on his face showing loneliness.
He was really tired, too tired...his body was so tired that he lost consciousness.
Bai Qiujing half-closed his eyes, looking ahead vaguely, muttering: "Chu Chu, you have to walk slower, wait for me..."
He was mistakenly taken away to the Li family as a bodyguard when he was young, doing the work of a servant. It seemed that he came only to protect Li Jingshen and to die in his place when danger came. He lived with inferiority in those years until he picked up a little crybaby in the amusement park at the age of nine and carried her back home. From then on, there was a ray of light in his dark life, allowing him to live for himself.
When he was ten years old, the Li family was in chaos. He changed into Li Jingshen's clothes to lure away the kidnappers, but ended up falling off a cliff and damaging his brain, and became Bai Qiu, a fool, for fifteen years.
At the age of 25, he was shot and fell in front of Shen Zhichu, losing all his memories again, this time becoming Bai Qiujing.
At the age of 32, he met Shen Zhichu on the plane and fell in love with her again.
At the age of 35, Shen Zhichu married him and became pregnant in the same year.
At the age of thirty-six, he became a father of two children.
At the age of sixty-nine, he lost the love of his life.
He is going to be seventy this year. Two months after losing Chen Zhichu, he finally couldn't stand the loneliness and decided to go find her.
The moment Bai Qiujing closed his eyes, he seemed to see a door open in front of him, and Shen Zhichu appeared in front of him, smiling and holding out his hand to him: "Big brother, Bai Qiu, Qiujing, old man Bai, we agreed... to be together in the next life."
Bai Qiujing held the candy tightly in his hand, looked in the direction of Shen Zhichu, and raised the corners of his lips slightly.
That’s great, he and Shen Zhichu even made an agreement for the next life.
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Bai Qiujing likes to run around, so it's impossible for the brother and sister to not make any preparations, so they placed a locator on him a long time ago, but he didn't know it.
This time when Bai Qiujing "escaped", his brother and sister had already seen the mobile phone location reminder. Nian Bao originally wanted to intercept him, but was stopped by his brother.
My father wasn't running around, he just went to the cemetery to see my mother.
He missed her too much.
Worried that he might be in danger, the brother and sister secretly followed him, just staring at him from a distance and not going close to disturb him.
They saw their father buy a string of candied haws on the roadside and enter the cemetery. They saw him sitting against the tombstone and eating the candied haws bite by bite, and finally holding the remaining bamboo stick. Then they saw him take a handful of candies from his pocket and put them in front of his mother's tombstone. Finally, they watched him fall asleep quietly with his face against his mother's photo while hugging the tombstone.
The 70-year-old man had been holding a candy in his hand. As the weather was warm, the candy gradually melted in his palm.
Life is forgotten, but love becomes stronger with time and lasts until death.
——(End of Bai Chu Chapter)
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