Chapter 156: Jinjiang First Launch

Chen Xinyun nodded: "Yes, and hurry up, my mother doesn't have much time left."

After hearing that, Bai Mian said no more and reached out to check Chen Xinyu's pulse. While she was checking her pulse, Chen Xinyu put the photo on the table. Xia Mang started gossiping about the photo:

"Wow, it's obviously a photo from that era, it's already yellowed. The tall boy in the first row is good-looking, tall and thin, wearing a white shirt. He must have been the school hunk at the time, right? Could he be your mother's first love?"

Chen Xinyun shook his head: "It's not him. He later stayed in our village and became the village chief. He gave me this photo. According to my mother, my first love eventually left the village to go rogue."

"I asked the village chief if he knew who my mother's first love was, but strangely, the village chief said my mother had never been in love. He remembered that my mother was very introverted when she was in school and she hardly talked to the boys in her class, let alone had a love relationship."

At this point, Chen Xinyun sighed: "Hey, you tell me, isn't my mother's wish tormenting me? Her classmates are all in their sixties now, some are no longer alive, and even if they are still alive, they have spouses. If my first love has a spouse, will his spouse agree to let him come to see my mother?"

She said with a sad face: "When I returned to the village, the village chief saw that I was filial and helped me to find out the contact information of my male classmates. He wrote it down on a piece of paper and gave it to me. I called them one by one, but everyone said they didn't know my mother. It seems that my mother's presence was really low back then. Oh, it was so embarrassing for me."

Xia Mang suddenly said, "Wait, I have a bold idea - is it possible that your mother's first love never existed?"

"Ah?" Chen Xinyun was puzzled. "Why did she ask me to do this? Was she trying to trick me?"

Xia Mang said seriously, "No, don't blame me for being presumptuous. I've seen this kind of news before. Some elderly people will deliberately send their children away from them before they die because they don't want their children to see them die. It's too sad."

"There was a news report about an old man in the north who felt that he was going to die soon, so he asked his son to buy some tropical fruit, which he had to pick himself. The son had no choice but to go to the south himself. A few days after his son left, the old man passed away. Although it was not appropriate, in the old man's eyes, he was protecting his child."

Hearing this, Chen Xinyun's heart skipped a beat: "You mean, my mother felt that her time was coming, so she made up a story to deceive me, is my mother really dying..."

She sobbed, "... Wuwuwu, I don't believe it, my mother is only sixty, how could she be like this... Wuwuwu, Master, please say something!"

Bai Mian took her pulse, slowly raised his eyes, and said calmly: "Don't worry, your mother will get through this - as long as you can bring your first love to her bedside."

Chen Xinyun hurriedly asked, "Who is this first love? I've almost asked all the boys in the class, it can't be their teacher, right?"

Bai Mian shook his head and pointed at a face in the photo. When they saw that face, everyone exclaimed in surprise.

"This, this person is obviously——"

Chen Xinyu looked at the girl with two braids in the photo and didn't know what to say.

Bai Mian: "That's right. You have never been able to find your mother's first love because you have been looking in the wrong direction. Your mother's first love was not a boy, but a girl named Gu Miao."

"My mother is a lesbian?" Chen Xinyun was shocked.

Bai Mian nodded: "Yes, she realized that she liked girls when she was in school, and she liked her deskmate, and her deskmate also liked her, but such a relationship was not accepted by the society at that time, so they could only have a secret relationship, and no classmates around them knew about their relationship."

"The village chief didn't know the truth and thought your mother had never been in love. In fact, she had always been in love, and her lover was right under everyone's nose. Your mother was not interested in boys. She rarely interacted with boys during her school years, so the boys in the class had no impression of her."

Chen Xinyun's eyes widened: "So the reason why my mother couldn't marry her first love wasn't because of the gift price. The atmosphere in the village was so conservative at the time. If everyone knew that my mother was a lesbian, my grandparents would have broken her legs!"

Bai Mian nodded and continued, "After graduation, the families of the two girls were unwilling to pay for their studies. Your mother was also of marriageable age, and her family wanted to marry her off, but Gu Miao was very defiant. She decided to elope with your mother, and the two agreed to meet under the big white poplar tree at the entrance of the village at dawn."

Chen Xinyun exclaimed: "Oh - so this is the white poplar my mother was talking about!"

Xia Mang and Lu Xue came closer, both with smiles on their faces, Xia Mang interrupted and said, "What a pity, why didn't they leave?"

Bai Mian: "Yin Youfu originally planned to keep the appointment, but her actions were discovered by her family. Just before she left, her mother hung a rope on the beam and threatened to hang her. She thought about it, but in the end she was reluctant to risk her mother's life, so she had to give up eloping and stayed at home."

Xia Mang grumbled, "It's enough. Rural parents only use this method. They only kidnap their children and make them obey them. They don't care about their children's happiness at all."

Bai Mian continued, "Gu Miao waited under the big white poplar tree until noon. Smoke rose from every household in the village. She realized that Yin Youfu would not come, so she decided to leave the village. The two of them lost contact."

"You also know what happened later. Your mother married your father under the arrangement of the family and gave birth to you. Although you and your family were harmonious, she never let go of this relationship. After your father passed away, she thought about looking for Gu Miao, but she was worried that you would oppose it, so she put it on hold. It was not until she was bedridden that she mustered up the courage to tell you about this past."

Xia Mang sighed softly: "When she was young, she took care of her parents, and when she was old, she still had to take care of her children. This woman's life is really miserable."

Chen Xinyun asked in confusion: "If that's the case, why didn't my mother tell me the name of my first love directly? If she had said that my first love was called Gu Miao, I would have found him for her a long time ago, but she only said Bai Yang, which left me confused and going in circles!"

Bai Mian explained, "That's because she couldn't say the two words 'Gu Miao'. These two words are simple for ordinary people, but they are very difficult for her to pronounce. You should know that patients with severe cerebral infarction cannot pronounce specific words and phrases. She couldn't say the name of her first love, so she could only say the place she and her first love had agreed to go. I hope you can understand what she meant."

Chen Xinyun wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Oh my god, who can understand this? I'm not Detective Conan! Master, I'm lucky to have you. If it weren't for you, I would have died of exhaustion and still not been able to find it."

Bai Mian smiled slightly: "It's okay, you're welcome. The most urgent thing now is to find Gu Miao."

Chen Xinyun asked hurriedly: "Yes, yes, yes, after all this talk, where is this Gu Miao? Is she still alive?"

Bai Mian: "Gu Miao is still alive and single. After she left the village, she found a job in Qinghai-Gansu Province. She also had a few romances, but none of them worked out. In the end, the person she misses the most is your mother. Now she has retired and has free time at home. You can contact her."

"But, will she come?" Chen Xinyun suddenly hesitated, "After all, it was my mother who dove her out back then, she won't bear a grudge, right?"

Bai Mian smiled, "How could that be? After all, she was the person I loved. Your mother broke her promise, and Gu Miao was indeed angry, but soon her longing for her overcame everything. She thought about going back to the village to find your mother, but when she saw the three of you quietly leaving, she thought your mother was living a happy life, so she didn't dare to disturb her. If she knew that your mother was also thinking about her, she would definitely be very happy!"

"That's good," Chen Xinyu relaxed and urged Bai Mian, "Give me her contact information quickly!"

Bai Mian tore off a piece of paper and wrote a string of numbers on it. Chen Xinyu called the number and a kind old lady answered the phone. The two did not exchange much greetings. Chen Xinyu quickly explained his purpose, and Gu Miao agreed to Chen Xinyu's request immediately.

Gu Miao is now in Qinghai-Gansu Province. She bought a ticket for the nearest flight, which would arrive in two hours. Chen Xinyun was going to pick her up at the airport. At this time, Chen Xinyun suddenly received a call from the hospital:

"Hello, Ms. Chen? Your mother's condition is a bit urgent, please come to the hospital as soon as possible!"