As he spoke, he shivered involuntarily, and the quilt slipped off him. Bai Xu then realized that his grandfather, who had always been tall and majestic in his eyes, had become so thin without him knowing when.
Like a wrinkled old man in his twilight years.
He opened his mouth and uttered with difficulty, "Chongchong, Guigui, why are you still standing there? Call me great-grandfather."
"Grandpa, I'm Chong Chong. My sister and I are going home!"
"Grandpa, are you...are you sick? Is it hurting somewhere? Can Guigui give you some comfort?"
Bai Muting widened his eyes in shock.
Because the fact that the ten children could speak was basically known only to a small circle of relatives and close friends. Bai Muting was at the mountain gate during this period, and Bai Xu had no time to come back. He also had some resentment towards Bai Muting in his heart, so he did not take the initiative to send a message.
So much so that Bai Muting never knew about it.
At this moment, the two little kids suddenly called him "Grandpa" in a milky voice, which was filled with an indescribable care and warmth.
Bai Muting was shocked and his eyes couldn't help but tear up. "Okay, okay, it's great that my great grandfather can still hear you call him that in his lifetime. I have no regrets anymore..."
Seeing this, Bai Xu couldn't bear to turn his face away.
Guigui was a sensitive little girl, and she seemed to have sensed something. She pulled on Bai Xu's finger and shook it, "Daddy, why is Grandpa talking so strangely? Is it because Guigui was naughty and made Grandpa angry?"
Chong Chong jumped into Bai Muting's arms and said, "Grandpa, don't be angry. When you get better, we promise to be good and stop making trouble. How about coming back every month for three days, no, five days to play with you?"
In fact, children are most sensitive to the loneliness of adults.
Especially smart and intelligent children like Chongchong and Guigui.
But because when they were with Bai Muting, he was always very strict in disciplining them, which made it boring, and there were no playmates of similar age in the mountains, so both children preferred the Holy City.
But now, seeing Bai Muting's lonely and thin appearance, the two children's innate blood relationship was touched, and they naturally couldn't bear it.
Bai Muting felt an unprecedented sense of comfort after hearing this. With trembling hands, he touched Chong Chong's round, furry head and said in a broken voice, "Okay... Grandpa has always known that our Chong Chong is a very filial and good child."
"Squeak!" Guigui cried out instinctively and jumped onto Bai Muting's shoulder.
A loving smile appeared on Bai Muting's lips. He also raised his hand to touch Guigui's tail, "Yes, Guigui is the same. She is Great Grandfather's favorite child. Great Grandfather is very grateful to your mother. She gave birth to you two babies for your father and our White Tiger Clan. Otherwise, after Great Grandfather passed away, your father would have been so lonely..."
He knew that feeling. Food had no flavor, and he didn't know whether the water was hot or cold. It seemed as if life had no meaning at all.
He survived those days by relying on Bai Xu.
Now, Bai Xu can continue to live his life with the help of Chong Chong and Gui Gui, inherit the White Tiger Clan, and shoulder the responsibilities of the entire clan.
Bai Xu realized that although his grandfather's hands were still moving and stroking the two children, his eyes had actually been staring in one direction for a long time.
The death in his eyes became more and more obvious.
Sighing, Bai Xu asked Bai Wei to take the child away first.
"Chong Chong, show your sister your old room. Are you used to it? If there's anything you don't like, ask Uncle Bai Wei to buy it for you. Daddy needs to talk to Great Grandpa."
"Okay, sister, come on, I'll take you to the back mountain to pick bamboo shoots. Now is the time when bamboo shoots are ripe. They are crunchy and delicious!"
"Brother, why do you only know how to eat? And don't you eat meat? Why do you always like to chew on big radishes and watermelons, and now you're eating bamboo shoots?"
"You don't understand. Meat is meat, and crunchy vegetables are vegetables, and they taste different. Let's go and see if there are any pine cones left. I'll get you some pine nuts."
"That's great! I love pine nuts the most. They're so oily and fragrant!"
After the two children left, Bai Muting followed them with his eyes full of affection.
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