Chapter 59 If you want, you can

Chen Qingqing never thought that Lao Ding had saved her!

She was too young at that time and had no memory at all, but why did her parents never mention it to her?

Chen Qingqing confirmed again and again that the people in the photo were indeed her, her parents and Lao Ding, and the signature on the banner was indeed her parents' names.

There was no possibility of joking about this matter.

Chen Qingqing calmed down and knocked on the door of the master bedroom.

A burst of brisk footsteps came, Zhou Weiyue opened the door, and made way after seeing Chen Qingqing: "Sister Chen."

Zhou Weiyue looked ashamed.

She failed to persuade the old lady.

Chen Qingqing nodded, "You go downstairs first."

She walked into the room, watched Zhou Weiyue walk down the stairs, and then closed the door.

The old lady sat on the bed, staring out the window with a dull look. Outside the window was an endless sea, with nothing but the grayish blue.

The old lady stared into the distance absentmindedly until Chen Qingqing stood beside her bed, blocking her line of sight.

"...You kid, stand aside." The old lady muttered in a hoarse voice, but she silently looked away.

Chen Qingqing put her cane on the side of her bedside table and sat down on the bed again.

She stretched out her hand in front of the old lady, and under the other's puzzled gaze, she conjured up a cup of tea out of thin air.

The old lady immediately looked up at Chen Qingqing in surprise.

"Is this... magic?"

"No."

Chen Qingqing stared seriously into the old lady's eyes.

"Like you, I also have an extraordinary ability."

"I haven't told anyone except you and my family."

The old lady was suddenly stunned, and spoke after a while: "... Then why did you tell me?"

"I don't want you to feel lonely." Chen Qingqing said honestly.

"I want to show you with practical actions that we can choose another way of life."

The old lady chuckled: "A way of life other than self-abandonment and escape?"

It seems that the old lady also knows that she is escaping.

Yes, people who have lived for sixty or seventy years know their own hearts better than anyone else.

"..." Chen Qingqing also fell silent.

"I have been lying for decades. What do you think I can do besides thinking?"

The old lady lay on the pillow and exhaled slowly.

"I thought of many ways, including killing myself to free Lao Ding."

"But all failed."

"It's not that I didn't succeed, I just gave up."

"Because Lao Ding is a kind person, right?" Chen Qingqing continued.

"He definitely doesn't want you to help him get rid of it by committing suicide, because that would only make him bear the pain for the rest of his life."

"Because he is too kind, and you know his character, so he gave up on himself."

"You saw it." The old lady looked at Chen Qingqing, her tone decisive.

"You saw the photos and banners on the wall outside."

Chen Qingqing nodded, but still asked the question in her heart: "Why didn't I know?"

"My parents never told me that Lao Ding saved me but ignored me. Even you - you could have told me about it when you saw me yesterday..."

"And then you repay the favor?" The old lady smiled and shook her head.

"If you really know Lao Ding, you know he would never do that."

These words were like the key to open a mysterious door.

Chen Qingqing suddenly understood everything.

The old lady also looked out the window and said, "Old Ding is so kind. He is helpful and a good swimmer. When he is not fishing, he often walks by the sea to prevent people from drowning."

"He has saved so many people over the years. Some want to give him money, some give him banners, and some newspapers want to interview him."

"But he is unwilling to accept anything except banners, and he is unwilling to do anything."

He will never see the rescued people and their families again.

"Because he doesn't need others to remember that they owe him a life forever."

This is why no one has ever told Chen Qingqing that Old Ding saved her life.

When she was rescued, her parents wanted her to recognize Old Ding and the old lady as her godfather and godmother.

Because the old lady was paralyzed in bed, the couple had no children. With Chen Qingqing as their goddaughter, they would have someone to take care of them in their old age.

But Old Ding sternly refused.

He said that he saved people only out of respect for life, not for rewards.

He said that the little boy had a bright future in the future and should not be tied to this small fishing village. He should not be burdened with two burdensome relationships because of something he didn't know when he was two years old .

He also told Chen Qingqing's parents not to tell the baby about this.

He wouldn't tell it either.

In order to prevent Chen Qingqing from knowing, although he accepted the banner, he posted the banner and the photo on the second floor, and he usually didn't communicate with Chen Qingqing.

"But Old Ding still likes you very much." The old lady said with a smile. When she recalled the past, she seemed to be full of energy.

"Every time he came to see me, he would tell me a lot of things."

"But you know, sometimes people don't encounter too many interesting things in a day."

"But you always become a new topic."

"You got full marks in the test, and your parents rewarded you with a set of books. You got a certificate, and the whole family had a barbecue in the yard to celebrate... Sometimes your parents would send you photos of your family of three, and Old Ding would show them to me."

In other words, Old Ding, who lived next door, watched the little girl grow up little by little, and her existence filled the gap of their childlessness.

Otherwise, how could the old lady recognize Chen Qingqing at the first sight?

Chen Qingqing never knew that other people were silently watching her growth.

Since her parents passed away, she was left with only her husband and children. The people who were closely related to her in the first half of her life suddenly left. Overnight, she had no past, only the future. In

the years since her parents passed away, she never dared to recall that memory, for fear of being trapped by the memories.

But the old lady's words suddenly made her realize that memories are not all painful.

When she looked back, the interesting and happy things she and her parents had experienced together were also vivid in her mind.

Putting herself in the shoes of the free and carefree self, it seemed as if the whole person was relieved a lot.

Chen Qingqing looked at the old lady, and her heart was filled with warmth.

She looked at the cane beside the bed again: "Old Ding can't survive if he turns into a zombie. But he likes to help others. If he knew you could help others on his behalf, he would be very happy."

The old lady smiled and shook her head: "I'm just an old bone. Help? Help whom? It's a good deed for me not to drag others down."

Chen Qingqing said seriously: "Do you know how many people with special powers we have encountered in the past half month?"

"Including me, there are only four."

"Most people are either homeless, hiding, or die at the hands of zombies or their kind."

"But people with special powers like you and me can save countless people from danger."

Chen Qingqing pointed downstairs: "The girl just now is Zhou Weiyue, and the boy is Shang Li. If it weren't for me, they might have died countless times."

"This is the power of superpowers."

Under the old lady's increasingly serious gaze, Chen Qingqing picked up the cane again and handed it to her:

"Auntie, as long as you want, you can save people."