"Gu Congfen, that's my mother. If she wants to send a dream, it's for us. Why are you, an outsider, interfering?"
After Yang Lao finished scolding Gu Congfen, he immediately put on an extremely sad expression.
"Mom, why didn't you wait for us a little longer? You just left us like that and I didn't even get to see you for the last time!"
Old Yang was crying and howling, and for a moment his voice was the only sound in the whole room.
But strangely, the old lady in the middle of the room seemed to be unable to hear his voice. She just stood there unmoved and didn't even look at Mr. Yang.
Mr. Yang's whole body stiffened and his voice stopped abruptly.
Seeing this, Boss Yang hesitated and called out "Mom".
"Mom, we are right. I'm sorry. Please don't be angry..."
Boss Yang shrugged his shoulders, looking cautious.
He has always been the dumbest, slowest to react, and the least promising of the three siblings.
But he is a little bit shy. As he doesn't talk much, he doesn't dare to speak freely most of the time. He will just observe silently from the side. He should be the one who knows their mother's temper best among the three siblings.
He could always tell at the first moment whether his mother was angry.
Looking at the old lady's actions, he knew that his mother must be angry.
He didn't know what to do, but apologizing was definitely the right thing to do at this time.
The old lady turned around after a while and looked at him, then slowly glanced at Mr. Yang and Yang Jianling, and then as if she sighed silently, her eyes suddenly became extremely tired.
"What are you doing here looking for me?"
The old lady spoke slowly.
Seeing that his mother was finally willing to pay attention to them, Old Man Yang didn't care about the two yin and yang words. He said to the old lady immediately: "Mom, we came here because we want to see you again and talk..."
It is said that no one knows a child better than his mother. How could the old lady not know their personalities and thoughts?
Just to say a few words to her, you went through so much trouble to summon her soul back?
Haha, you’re kidding!
The old lady looked at them and said calmly, "Ask whatever you want to ask."
The third child, Yang Jianling, who had been silent by the side, immediately stepped forward. She gave her mother a complicated look and asked, "Mom, is the will you left behind true? Did you do it voluntarily? Were you deceived or forced? Do you really intend to leave all that money to an outsider?"
Yang Jianling's tone became increasingly harsh, and in the end, there was even a hint of anger in her voice.
As she said, she simply couldn't believe that her mother was sane and sober when she left that will.
The old lady listened quietly all the time, but the look in her eyes became more and more disappointed.
She looked at Yang Jianling quietly for a while before she said, "Old Third, why don't you ask me if I've been doing well down there lately?"
Yang Jianling was stunned. She had never expected her mother to suddenly say this.
After being stunned for two seconds, Yang Jianling's expression suddenly became a little uncomfortable.
She really hadn't thought of asking how her mother was doing down there.
But then she thought, her mother was dead, and the dead could not be resurrected. If she hadn't heard before that the souls of the dead could be summoned, she probably wouldn't have believed that people could have feelings after death.
When a person dies, everything is over. There is no point in asking whether it is true or not.
Besides, her mother hadn't looked for them either, which meant there should be nothing wrong with her down there.
Thinking of this, Yang Jianling immediately explained: "Mom, if you have any problems, just like my brother said, you can find a way to send me a dream, but since you haven't contacted us for a few days, I don't think you have encountered any problems down there."
Since she was a child, her parents have praised her as the smartest and most rational one. She would analyze almost everything with rational thinking at the first time.
But how can we analyze matters concerning family affection solely with rationality?
The old lady smiled bitterly and murmured.
"Yes, you are right, I didn't tell you..."
She was clearly answering the questions in the dream, but Yang Jianling inexplicably felt that her mother was talking about something else.
She frowned.
"Mom, let's not talk about this for now. Can you please answer my question about the will first? We have been investigating this for a long time, but we still can't find any evidence. Gu Congfen is scheming..."
I was just about to say that she was very scheming and had deceived all of them, but now I can only find my old mother to tell her the truth in person.
But before Yang Jianling could finish her words, she was interrupted by the old lady.
She said expressionlessly, "She didn't lie to me. I made the will myself, and no one forced me to do it."
As soon as these words were spoken, the room was silent for a moment, and then one exclamation after another was heard.
Old Yang's eyes widened: "What? Mom, are you crazy? How can you leave your inheritance to an outsider? You have a son and a daughter, those things should be left to us!"
The boss was also very anxious.
"Mom, Mom, you are lying to us, how is it possible..."
Yang Jianling insisted.
"Mom, I don't believe it! You must be lying to us!"
She wouldn't believe that her mother would give the things she left behind to someone else, not to her.
In her mind, she is the most promising of the three children, and the one that makes her parents the most satisfied and proud. Before her mother became paralyzed, she would hear her mother's concern and thoughts every time she went home. Even when there were gatherings at home, all she could hear at the dinner table was her mother's voice praising her to relatives and friends.
There is no doubt that her mother loves her the most, and she must be her favorite child.
Moreover, since she was a child, she has received countless preferential treatments from her parents because of her excellent academic performance. Every time her parents have something, they will save it for her, even if she doesn't really want it. But it belongs to her, and she will never give it to others.
Just like her mother's inheritance, although she didn't need that little bit of money, she felt that her mother should have left it to her.
The old lady laughed after hearing this.
"I lied to you? I didn't lie to you when I was alive, but you said I did. Now that I'm dead, I didn't lie to you, but you say I did again. In your hearts, I'm just an old liar, an old liar!"
The old lady laughed but her voice choked and her face looked miserable.
The three children and even Gu Congfen knew what she meant by "lying to them while I was alive."
The old lady said that when she was sick before, she called her children and asked them to come see her. However, when the children arrived at her house, they found that nothing was wrong with the old lady.
They thought she was lying to them.
Although nothing happened to her physically, the loneliness and solitude in her heart, as well as the longing to talk to her children, suddenly became a kind of heart disease.
The old lady's husband passed away early, and she has been alone for so many years. If she had not been paralyzed before, she could occasionally go out to chat and stroll with a group of elderly people who also stayed at home.
But since she became paralyzed, the only person she sees every day is her nanny Gu Congfen.
Although the nanny can talk and chat with her, there are always some emotions and companionship that she cannot provide. The sense of security that requires the company of relatives and children can only be provided by her children.
Sometimes she would even wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, either because she was frightened by a sudden noise outside, or because she had a nightmare and dreamed that she died alone.
Looking at the empty room, where only her weak breathing could be heard, she wished at that moment that her children were with her.
But she called several children, and they all said they were busy.
The eldest said that he couldn't leave because he had to harvest vegetables at the vegetable base recently, the youngest said that he had to tutor the children, and the third said that he had to go abroad to participate in activities. Anyway, they all had their own things to do.
After the old lady called them a few times, no one came to see her again.
Fortunately, one night, Gu Congfen got up to go to the bathroom and saw that the light in the old lady's room next door was still on. She thought she had carelessly forgotten to turn it off. As a result, when she opened the door and went in to turn off the light, she found that the old lady's eyes were wide open and she had not slept at all.
At that time, the old lady was not completely unable to move. Except for her lower body, her arms could still move and she could speak normally.
Moreover, the old lady had a bell next to her pillow. As long as she rang the bell, there would be a sound in Gu Congfen's room, and she would go over to check it out immediately.
When she saw the old lady still not sleeping so late at night, she felt puzzled and thought she was feeling unwell, but the old lady kept saying that she was fine.
Of course Gu Congfen didn't believe it.
Not to mention that this is her employer, her purpose and responsibility is to take care of her, and there must not be any mistakes, otherwise she will definitely not be able to escape responsibility.
Besides, the old lady was actually a nice person, and Gu Congfen couldn't bear to see her feel bad.
So after Gu Congfen's repeated questioning, she finally learned that the old lady was afraid to sleep alone at night.
In the end, Gu Congfen simply set up an iron bed in the old lady's room and slept in her room.
With her company, the old lady finally fell into a sound sleep again.
When she was old, the children hardly had time to visit her, so the old lady asked them to pool their money and increase Gu Congfen's salary by a few yuan, saying that in order to take care of her, she now slept on the iron bed in her room. The bed was only one meter wide and it was difficult to turn over.
But when she said this, she was strongly opposed by her husband.
My husband said, "Why do you want to raise her salary? Didn't we say it would be that price from the beginning? Mom, don't let her just talk you into raising her salary. I'm telling you, if you raise her salary so casually like you are now, she'll blame you when you don't raise her salary later!"
"Besides, isn't it her duty to take care of you? If she can't even do this, then you can just find someone else. Don't let her become greedy and want more!"
After the uncle said this, the eldest brother thought it made sense, so he stammered and said that he was short of money and had to ask for money from all sides, so he couldn't come up with these few dollars.
Although the third child didn't need this little money, since the eldest brothers didn't want to pay, why should she? It wasn't like she really liked being taken advantage of.
So in the end, none of the three children paid any money, and the old lady didn't mention it again.
She was afraid that if she said anything more, her three children would really drive Gu Congfen away.
She didn't dare ask them to pay anymore, but she sincerely felt that Gu Congfen took good care of her, not only in life, but also in spirit, giving her a lot of warmth.
So in the end the old lady would give Gu Congfen some subsidies from time to time.
But she didn't dare give too much at that time. She was indeed a little worried that if she gave too much, Gu Congfen would stop supporting her. Moreover, at that time, she was actually thinking about leaving as much money as possible to her children.
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