Chapter 488 Death

Now, I barely see Maomao once throughout the entire year.

But she also understood that Maomao was contributing his light and heat to the country's efforts to advance high-tech fields, and as parents they should support their child's choice.

When Yaya was admitted to a third-rate university at the bottom of the class, Huang Qin also started working.

Yaya refused to go to school, so she joined the art troupe and became a glorious soldier of the People's Liberation Army.

Before, Maomao went to the army, and Huang Xinran was not used to it. Now Yaya has also left, and Zhuangzhuang has also been promoted to junior high school and started living in the school dormitory, so the courtyard suddenly became deserted.

Huang Xinran was not used to such loneliness and was always in a daze from time to time.

Fortunately, Sun Ya also retired at this time.

In fact, Sun Ya had retired from her original position several years ago. She took over her parents' share and had enough money to support her two daughters.

Huang Xinran invited her to live with him.

Sun Ya agreed.

But he bought a small house next to her and came to visit her every morning and went home after dinner.

The older her two daughters grew, the more their white genes became apparent. They had fair skin and were tall, and were extremely beautiful.

Unfortunately, these two children speak Chinese and their English is very poor, which always makes the teacher doubt life.

For this, Sun Ya often scolded their irresponsible father.

Every time she cursed someone, Huang Xinran would always laugh at her, saying that she was the one who was blind at the time. Otherwise, how could she have been in a long-term relationship with her foreign boyfriend for so many years.

Huang Xinran didn't want to talk about their love life, but a relatively traditional woman like Huang Xinran could never see through it. For example, her foreign boyfriend kept saying that he loved Sun Ya, but he could turn around and sit at the table with other women. If it were her, she would definitely not be able to handle it.

This is probably due to the influence of the living environment.

Just at this moment, bad news came that something happened to Zhang Wenbi!

On the way to the store, Zhang Wenbi suddenly fell ill and was admitted to the hospital. When they rushed to the hospital, the doctor had already covered her head with a white cloth.

"The patient's heart has stopped beating and he has died despite efforts to save him. Please accept my condolences, family members."

The doctor's words made Lu Yunchen and Huang Xinran look panicked.

How could a good person just leave like that?

But this is the fact, even if they don't want to believe it, they have to believe it. Zhang Wenbi fainted due to a sudden illness. After being sent to the hospital, the doctor confirmed that it was a cerebral hemorrhage. The amount of bleeding was too large, and despite all efforts to treat him, he was still brain dead in the end.

Zhang Wenbi passed away unexpectedly, so naturally he had to be sent back to his hometown to escort the coffin.

Lu Yunchen called a funeral home car overnight to send the person back to his hometown.

Meanwhile, Huang Xinran was busy notifying relatives and friends to rush back to his hometown.

After several consecutive all-nighters, they finally returned to their hometown, the place where they were born and raised.

The situation in my hometown has also undergone tremendous changes.

Most people in the village left for other places, but some stayed in their hometown to develop planting and expand their business.

The Lu family's house looked quite dilapidated, and the yard was overgrown with weeds.

They cleared a corner to hold the body and began to take care of Zhang Wenbi's funeral arrangements.

At that time, the country advocated cremation, but except for civil servants, other people were not forced to do it. Lu Yunchen initially planned to cremate her body, but the elders of the Lu family were strongly opposed. In the end, Lu Yunchen had no choice but to follow the crowd and buried Zhang Wenbi in the Lu family's ancestral tomb.

After Zhang Wenbi was successfully buried, Huang Xinran also went to the small grave of the deceased soldier and presented her own bouquet of flowers.

After returning from this trip, Lu Yunchen not only felt the changes in his hometown, but also felt that he himself was out of tune with his hometown. He even had conflicts with the villagers many times because of Zhang Wenbi's death.

The villagers today are no longer the simple people they were in the past, which makes Lu Yunchen even feel "eager to go home".

"Apparently, I was looking forward to returning to my hometown to see the mountains, waters, and people. But in the end, everything was not as I expected... This is probably what they call homesickness, right?"

"What's the point of being shy? It's just that people nowadays are materialistic and competitive. They lack human touch. Without the thoughts we once had, we naturally feel that everything we have been thinking about has faded."

"Yes! They have all faded..."

"So, will we come back next year?"

"Yes."

Lu Yunchen said affirmatively, looking back at the mountains and rivers in the distance: "This is my hometown, my roots. No matter how much it changes, I will come back. Because I miss our childhood, our hometown, and our lost youth. What's more, my mother is still buried here, and our son... When we are a hundred years later, we will also be buried here. If we don't come back here, where else can we go?"

A wanderer who is away from home will eventually find a place to turn his soul.

Home is where mother is.

Wherever they have home, that is their root.

Green waters and green mountains stretch endlessly.

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After burying Zhang Wenbi, Huang Xinran and Lu Yunchen returned to the capital again.

They wanted to keep vigil for Zhang Wenbi, but reality did not allow that. Lu Yunchen's business was huge, and his stalls were spread out too widely. The value he created every minute was tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. They could not afford to delay.

However, Lu Tianlei took the initiative to take over the task of keeping vigil for Zhang Wenbi.

Ever since Lu Tianlei fell ill and went to the capital for treatment, although Huang Xinran helped him take care of his body, his health was still up and down.

To put it in a more superficial way, the various parts of his body have been used for decades, and each of them is on the verge of being scrapped. Even if the most capable repairman repairs it with all his strength, he can only ensure that the machine can operate barely. To completely restore health, it must be rebuilt - in other words, if the heart is dirty, replace the heart; if the kidney is dirty, replace the kidney; if the liver is dirty, replace the liver.

However, this proposal was rejected by Lu Tianlei.

He thought that it was no longer him.

"I have lived for sixty or seventy years. I have lived enough. I don't want to harm several people just to prolong my life. Now that your mother is gone, let me stay here, in my hometown, to accompany her. I couldn't accompany her before she passed away. I think she must blame me in her heart. I want to compensate her..."

After Lu Tianlei said this, what else can Lu Yunchen say?

All that could be left was enough cash for Lu Tianlei to spend.

Lu Tianlei didn't answer.

In the countryside, the thing you need least is money.

The family doesn't spend much money except for buying some food and meat, and growing vegetables. Why does he keep so much money around? Is it to wait for him for a hundred years in the future, so that his descendants can fight over money?