Chapter 127 I'm Always By Your Side
Xu Xian's grinning mouth retracted instantly without hesitation for a second.
She lowered her head and picked at the remaining noodles in the bowl.
After eating the noodles, the two took the packed beef noodles to the hospital.
It was already past ten o'clock, and the hospital's inpatient department was very quiet. Most of the wards were pitch black, and there were almost no people walking around.
In the elevator, Jiang Shibai frowned slightly, staring at the takeaway box in his palm, and gave a timely reminder.
"Mom can't eat beef noodles. Are you sure you want to bring it into the ward?"
Patients with advanced cancer do not have many dietary restrictions. Most doctors recommend that they eat whatever they can, and that the diet be based on the patient's preferences to satisfy their final preferences.
But the current situation is that Lin Pingwan has difficulty swallowing food. Even if the beef noodles are crushed into a paste, she still finds it difficult to swallow, let alone digest.
Recently, I have been relying on nutrient solution to support various body functions.
"It's okay. Actually, my mom doesn't like beef noodles. I loved it when I was a kid, so she and dad would often eat it with me." Xu Xian looked at the bowl of beef noodles tenderly. "This beef noodles is not for eating. It's a spiritual support."
"It's a pity that my mother can never taste beef noodles again." Her words were full of emotion and loss.
Her mother's sense of taste and smell has deteriorated a lot. She may not be able to smell the aroma of this noodles, nor recognize the source of this noodles.
The most important thing is the Lao Ji Beef Noodle House logo that can be packaged.
Those are warm memories for their family.
It’s a pity that she will never have the chance to have her parents accompany her to a noodle shop to eat beef noodles again.
Jiang Shibai's eyes flashed with heartache when he heard this. He tightened his grip on her hand and said in a low voice, as if making a promise, "I will eat beef noodles with you for the rest of my life."
"Aren't you afraid of getting tired of eating it?" Xu Xian raised his eyes, and a light flashed in his bright pupils.
She could see that he didn't actually like beef noodles, or to be more precise, he wasn't keen on any food.
"As long as I eat it with you, I won't get tired of it even if I eat it every day." Jiang Shibai scratched her nose affectionately with a warm smile.
"Okay, I never get tired of eating it every day." A smile spread across Xu Xian's lips.
After a pause, she finally couldn't hold back the laughter she had been holding back all night. Her laughter seemed a bit abrupt in the elevator. Tears dripped from her eyes, smudged her makeup.
She raised her head and tried to hold back her tears, but it was in vain.
Seeing that it didn't work, she simply said with red eyes: "Can you guarantee that Aunt Ji's noodle shop will be open forever?"
What she actually wanted to ask was, will he really eat with her for the rest of his life?
However, human life is too long and things are unpredictable. It is easy to say that you will live a lifetime, but it is as difficult as climbing to the sky to do it.
Besides, Aunt Ji and Uncle Ji are already in their fifties. According to the average life expectancy, if nothing unexpected happens, they will definitely die earlier than them.
How can you really eat it for a lifetime?
But she was still happy when he coaxed her.
There was only one tear in the corner of her eye, hanging on her lower eyelid, about to fall. Jiang Shibai took out a silk handkerchief from his suit pocket and carefully wiped the tear for her, trying not to ruin her makeup.
The man lowered his head and wiped it carefully. The woman tilted her neck slightly and stared at him, her misty eyes filled with sadness.
After confirming that there were no tears, he retracted the handkerchief. Their eyes met unexpectedly and looked at each other. The white light of the elevator shone into their dark brown pupils, reflecting each other's faces.
With a "ding" sound, the elevator arrived at the floor. Jiang Shibai came to his senses and walked out holding her hand.
In the quiet corridor, his voice was exceptionally low and even echoed, "Xianxian, I can't promise."
Xu Xian's sore throat tightened slightly, and his steps almost stopped. Before the feeling of loss could surge into his heart, he heard him continue: "But I can make sure that I am always by your side."
"It's not just me, it's also our children in the future. Just remember this, and I'll take care of the rest."
Xu Xian's breathing stopped, her heartbeat obviously skipped a beat, her red lips pressed into a straight line, she tilted her head slightly and looked at him in the dim light of the corridor.
The man's jawline was clear, his thin lips were closed, and his high nose bridge was like the slope of a mountain. Above him were his thin eyelids that were half-closed, and his three-dimensional facial features flickered in and out of focus.
His expression was calm and dull, and the light was on and off, so she couldn't see the full expression on his face, but she was sure that every word he said was a promise he made.
The hospital was obviously not a good place to talk about love. Before Xu Xian asked what they wanted to solve, the two of them had already arrived at the door of the ward and needed to keep quiet.
Zhang Wan was staying in the VIP ward, which was divided into two rooms, an inner room and an outer room. The two of them just walked to the living room outside, placed the beef noodles on the coffee table, and put a note for Aunt Wan underneath.
Then Xu Xian looked through the glass of the door at the woman sleeping on the hospital bed. In the faint moonlight outside the window, her thin and sunken face looked very peaceful. There was an oxygen tube in her nostrils and her breathing was weak.
She stood there for a moment, until her heels felt slightly numb, and then she left with Jiang Shibai.
What Xu Xian didn't know was that after the ward door was closed, Zhang Wan, who had originally closed her eyes on the bed, slowly opened her eyes, and her white pupils were filled with red bloodshot.
Listening to Aunt Wan's steady breathing on the accompanying bed, her pupils turned to the glass of the ward door, as if she could see through the glass how Xu Xian had looked looking inside.
Her whole body was in pain, and countless pains pulled on her bones and nerves. Painkillers were no longer effective, and it was difficult for her to fall asleep at night.
Even if I fall asleep, the quality of my sleep is very poor. I will wake up at the slightest noise and my sleep is very light.
As soon as they opened the ward door and heard familiar footsteps, she knew it was Xianxian and Shibai.
In order not to worry them, she kept pretending to be asleep.
The long, dark night was unbearable. Countless past scenes flashed before Zhang Wan's eyes: some ordinary, some warm, some quarrelsome, some laughing...
next day
It was a rare opportunity that he didn’t have to work, so Xu Xian slept for a whole night and didn’t get up until almost noon to wash up and go downstairs.
When I went downstairs, I saw Xu Yixiu sitting obediently on the sofa watching TV. It was not a childish cartoon, but a sour love movie.
Seeing her coming downstairs, Xu Yixiu immediately threw down the teddy bear pillow in her arms, ran towards Xu Xian, and hugged her thighs.
"Aunt, you finally woke up! Xue'er has been waiting so hard!"
Xu Xian gently touched her head, his pale pink lips slightly parted, his voice raspy with the early morning air, "Then why don't you come upstairs to find me?"
Xu Yixue rubbed her soft palm affectionately, smiling sweetly and speaking sincerely, "My uncle said you were sleeping! Mom said we can't disturb adults sleeping in the morning, otherwise it will delay the birth of the baby."
Xu Xian: “…”
A black line crossed her forehead. She really didn't know how Xue'er was fooled by her unscrupulous parents at home.
He told Xue'er all kinds of vicious words, taking advantage of her young age and saying that she couldn't understand.
"So, my aunt-in-law already has a baby in her belly?" Xu Yixiu looked at Xu Xian's flat belly with an innocent face.
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