Hearing this, Ruan Xi was subconsciously stunned. After quickly reacting, she didn't ask or say anything. She turned around and rushed out of the studio door, returned to the office to get her car keys and bag, and hurried downstairs with Qian Chuan.
Go downstairs, get in the car, and step on the accelerator.
After they were on the road, she asked Qian Chuan with a stern face, "What happened to grandma?"
Qian Chuan's face was also solemn: "Your third aunt called and said that he was unconscious and admitted to the hospital. Yueyue called the emergency number. There was no other specific details. We don't know what the situation is. Your fifth uncle went there first."
Ruan Xi drove Qian Chuan to the hospital. After entering, Liu Xinghua had just been sent to the emergency room for rescue. Ruan Changsheng arrived earlier, and he and Ruan Yue accompanied Ruan Zhigao to wait outside, the two of them supporting Ruan Zhigao on the left and right.
Ruan Xi walked up to them and asked Ruan Zhigao: "Grandpa, what happened to grandma suddenly?"
Ruan Zhigao was trembling and unable to speak. Ruan Yue said beside him, "After lunch, grandma went out to talk to someone. While talking, she suddenly vomited. The symptoms looked like she had heat stroke, so we helped grandma back to the room, let her take some medicine and sleep with the air conditioner on. As a result, she couldn't be woken up after she fell asleep, and then we found that...she...had urinary incontinence..."
After hearing the last part, I felt disappointed again.
But I don’t know what the specific situation is yet, so I can only sit down and wait.
Ruan Xi went to sit on the chair, lowered her head and covered her face with her hands.
After a moment, she remembered something and picked up her phone to call Ling Yao. After the call was connected, she asked him, "Are you busy now?"
Ling Yao could tell something was wrong with her voice, so he asked, "No, what's wrong?"
Ruan Xi whispered: "Grandma is in the emergency room..."
"I'll be right there."
Ruan Xi hung up the phone and held the phone tightly in her hand.
At this time, Ruan Cuizhi and Yue Haofeng arrived again, and naturally asked Ruan Yue what was going on. After understanding the situation, there was nothing we could do. We all just sat down and waited, feeling nervous.
After a while, a nurse came out of the emergency room. Ruan Xi and the others stood up and asked the nurse, "How is it?"
The nurse said, "It's a brain hemorrhage. We are trying to save him. You family members had better be mentally prepared."
Brain hemorrhage...
Hearing these three words, Ruan Xi's heart instantly sank.
When she was lost in fear and unable to recover, Ling Yao arrived again.
He rushed to Ruan Xi's side and asked her quietly, "How is grandma?"
Ruan Xi shook her head with tears in her eyes, then sat back in her chair without saying a word.
Then the family just waited outside, no one spoke much, and they waited anxiously from one hour to two hours. The rescue was finally over when it was almost three hours, and Liu Xinghua was transferred to the intensive care unit.
Ruan Zhigao was too old, and Yue Haofeng was afraid that he could not withstand so much stimulation and hardship, so he took him home in the evening and told him to have a good meal and rest, and come back tomorrow after he had recovered his energy.
The others did not leave and waited until night. They agreed that Ruan Xi and Ling Yao would stay behind to look after the situation, while Ruan Cuizhi, Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan would go home to rest and come back the next day, taking turns to guard the hospital.
Family members are not allowed to stay with patients in the intensive care unit, so they can only stay outside.
In the next few days, people came to the hospital one after another. Ruan Changfu's family, Ruan Changgui's family, and Ruan Cuilan's family all rushed over from other places. After arriving at the hospital, they went into the intensive care unit at the designated time to see Liu Xinghua and talk to her.
Liu Xinghua stayed in the intensive care unit for five days, but she eventually died and had to stay.
Everyone was crying outside the ward, but Ruan Xi didn't shed a tear.
White cloth and white banners were hung in the courtyard, and all the people who could be seen or not seen on weekdays were all there during these two days. It was actually quite lively, with everyone gathered together talking and laughing, but Ruan Xi stayed in the mourning hall without saying a word.
Also guarding with him were Nguyen Qiuyue, Nguyen Hongjun and Nguyen Hongbing.
She looked outside and saw the yard full of people, like an ancient funeral painting with various human figures in different postures.
Ye Qiuwen and Ruan Qiuyang, who are Liu Xinghua's granddaughters, have never met Liu Xinghua, so naturally they don't feel sad at all. The two of them are still the closest ones in the family, because they have the same life, taking care of the children and doing housework every day, and their minds are all on their husbands' lives and their children's academic performance, so they have common topics and contact each other often.
As the eldest brother, Ruan Changfu has been in charge of all matters related to the funeral, and Ruan Changsheng helps him. Feng Xiuying cried with red eyes along with Ruan Cuizhi, Ruan Cuilan and Qian Chuan, and she and Qian Chuan comforted Ruan Cuizhi and Ruan Cuilan.
The second son, Ruan Changgui's family all had gloomy faces and were always looking for trouble. It seemed as if he had been holding in anger and suffering injustice for half his life, and now he saw with his own eyes how well other people were living, so he could no longer bear the anger in his heart. He wanted to find a reason to have a fight and a big fight in the next two days to vent his anger, regardless of whether this was his mother's funeral or not.
But everyone could see their intentions, so no one paid any attention to them. Everyone tried to avoid them and not give them any chance to start trouble. Of course, it’s not that I’m afraid of them, but I don’t want Liu Xinghua to leave in peace.
Ruan Xi looked outside for a while with an expressionless face, and Feng Xiuying suddenly came in with red eyes.
Feng Xiuying is old now, with gray hair, and looks like a little old lady. After she burned paper for Liu Xinghua, she came over and said to Ruan Xi in a soft voice, "Xiaoxi, can I... say a few words to you?"
Ruan Xi looked at her, said nothing, and took her out.
When they went outside to a deserted place, Ruan Xi stopped and still didn't say anything, waiting for Feng Xiuying to speak herself.
Feng Xiuying hesitated for a long time before she said, "Xiaoxi, I'm sorry for you in my life."
For many years, ever since Ruan Xi was admitted to university, she has been looking for an opportunity to say this to Ruan Xi, but she has never found a suitable opportunity. Even when Ruan Xi got married, she didn't let Ruan Changfu come.
It was because of this incident that she and Ruan Changfu understood from the bottom of their hearts that this girl was not just angry with them, but really meant what she said and would never forgive them or recognize them in this life.
But since Ruan Changfu retired, she has been paying them alimony regularly.
Ruan Xi looked at Feng Xiuying with a calm expression and tone, without any emotion or temper, and without any movement. She just asked her calmly, "If I hadn't become so successful, if I had come to the city from the countryside and was just a country girl who knew nothing and was frightened everywhere, who didn't get the most basic care, couldn't get into college, and even got worse and worse, would you still feel sorry for me?"
Although he knew the answer, Ruan Xi still couldn't help but ask.
The answer has of course always been there. Feng Xiuying would not feel sorry, but would only feel that "she" became more and more annoying, more and more annoyed, and more and more disdainful. No matter how tragic the ending was in the end, it was what "she" deserved.
Can she forgive them on "her" behalf?
Will “she” still want such fatherly and motherly love?
Isn’t what “she” wants to make them live in guilt and regret for the rest of their lives?
She wanted to live as dazzling as the sun, shining forever in their world, making them unable to avoid her, yet never able to touch her. They should also be reminded in their dreams at midnight that they had ruined her life with their own hands.
Feng Xiuying looked into Ruan Xi's eyes, feeling very depressed. After a moment, she said, "Xiao Xi, do you hate us so much? It's been so many years. Your father and I are old. We don't have many years left. Maybe one day we will die like your grandmother. Until now, you still can't let it go and forgive us?"
Ruan Xi looked at her and said without hesitation, "No."
Feng Xiuying's lips trembled slightly, "Xiaoxi, what do you want us to do?"
Ruan Xi looked at her with the same expression and tone: "No need, it's too late to do anything."
After saying this, she didn't argue with Feng Xiuying any further, turned around and went back to the mourning hall.
Feng Xiuying stood there for a while, and Ruan Changfu came over again and asked her, "What did you say to her?"
Feng Xiuying sniffed with red eyes and said with a choked voice: "What else can I say to her? What else can I dare to say to her? I apologized to her, I made amends to her, I told her I'm sorry, I want her to forgive me..."
As she spoke, she began to cry, and continued in a tearful voice: "She is kind to everyone in the family, whether it's her grandparents or her fifth uncle, fifth aunt, third aunt, and uncle-in-law, she treats them all as her closest relatives, but she treated us, her biological parents, like this..."
She choked for a moment, "It's been so long, does she really intend to bear a grudge against us for the rest of her life? She won't even let us feel at ease when we die? After all, I gave birth to her, so I'm her biological mother..."
Ruan Changfu's eyes darkened, he took a deep breath, and said nothing.
A few days after the funeral, the house was in turmoil for a few days.
Ruan Changgui and his family were filled with anger but had no chance to vent it, so they finally left with anger in their stomachs. He left reluctantly, and his face was darker and uglier than when he came, as if it was covered with a layer of carbon ash.
The only person who hardly said a word from beginning to end was Ruan Zhigao.
After Liu Xinghua was buried, Ruan Zhigao looked thinner and older. His waist, which was not very bent before, became completely bent, as if a thousand-pound weight was suddenly placed on his back.
He lay in bed unable to sleep at night and got up very early in the morning. After getting up, he did nothing but sit under the corridor with his crutch in his hand, staring blankly. I don't know what he was looking at, and he would sit there for a long time without moving.
He doesn't eat much when he eats, just two bites, and sometimes he doesn't eat at all.
Ruan Cuizhi was anxious and picked some food for him, asking him to eat more, but he didn't listen at all.
Knowing that Ruan Zhigao was not in good condition, Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and Ruan Changsheng would naturally bring their families over to accompany him, hoping to make his life more lively. When he sees his grandchildren, great-grandchildren, he feels a little better and has some expression on his face.
Ruan Xi and Ling Yao brought Lele and Coco to dinner tonight, and Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun also came. However, after only half a month, Ruan Zhigao's old age became more pronounced. He walked unsteadily and his hands shook when he held chopsticks.
After dinner, Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun didn't say anything while sitting in the car on their way home.
After getting home, washing up and going to bed, Zhou Xueyun said to Ling Zhiyuan: "I don't think the old man can hold on for much longer."
Ling Zhiyuan sighed softly and said, "Ever since Xixi's grandmother passed away, he has lost his motivation to live. Look, in the past ten days, his spirit and energy have completely changed. There is no spirit in his eyes."
Zhou Xueyun sighed, "Alas, when we get old, we all have to go through this."
After turning off the lights, Ruan Xi lay flat on the bed, blinking her eyes but showing no signs of sleepiness.
Of course, she could see what Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun could see, and so could everyone else. But she couldn't talk about it as a normal thing, so she didn't discuss with Ling Yao how long Ruan Zhigao could live.
Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua are more than just grandparents to Ruan Xi, because there is no father and mother in "her" world, and all the love in this life comes from her grandparents.
Without her grandparents, a big part of her world is missing.
Ling Yao held her in his arms, let her forehead rest on her chest, and comforted her to let her sleep.
After Ruan Xi fell asleep, she began to dream. Her dream was filled with the figures of Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua, from the first time they met when Ruan Zhigao held chopsticks and asked her to stand there and not move, to when they sent her to the city and came to Beijing with her.
In the dream, Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua were always smiling, and would occasionally call her "Xiaoxi."
Finally, Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua said to her, "Xiaoxi, grandpa and grandma are leaving."
When Ruan Xi was about to speak, she suddenly woke up. She opened her eyes and found that her face was covered with tears and a large area of her pillow was wet. Then, before she moved, the cell phone on the bedside table rang again.
Ruan Xi sat up, reached out to pick up the phone and put it to her ear. Before she could say anything, she heard Ruan Cuizhi's choked voice saying, "Xiao Xi...your grandfather...is gone..."
Ruan Xi was holding the phone in her hand, staring blankly without moving. Ling Yao woke up, sat up and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ruan Xi did not answer him, but her tearful gaze fell on the air in front of the bed.
Ling Yao followed her gaze and saw two butterflies flying in the air, dancing gracefully with the flapping of their wings.
Two butterflies flapped their wings in the air in front of the bed, as if they were lingering on something, and then slowly fell down and landed on Ruan Xi's hair on the forehead, staying there for a long time without moving.
Ruan Xi and Ling Yao did not move either. They watched silently as the butterfly landed above Ruan Xi's head, then flapped its wings and flew away, one after the other, to the window, flew out through the window that was never closed tightly, and disappeared into the flowers in the yard...
Some people say that after a person dies, his or her soul will turn into a butterfly and fly back to see the people he or she loves most.
This is also the last farewell.
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