"Young man, Uncle Liu is here too. I'll open the door in a bit."
"Uncle Liu, it's rare for you to come out these days." As the door opened, Li Qin hurriedly came out to greet him.
"Sigh... I'm getting old, I'm just too lazy to move. Xiaoqin, do you still recognize who this is?"
When Li Qin came out, she saw the old man standing next to Uncle Liu. She glanced at him but didn't pay much attention. But when Uncle Liu spoke, she took a closer look.
It had been almost sixty years since they last met, so how could she possibly recognize her?
But seeing the excited look on the old man's face, and feeling that she should know him, she could only look to Uncle Liu for help.
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"Qin girl, don't you recognize me?"
Before Uncle Liu could introduce them, the old man spoke up himself.
This address immediately pulled Li Qin back into her memories. Apart from her parents when she was a child, there was only one other person in her memory who had called her that.
"Uncle Cheng, you haven't given me the sesame candy you promised me yet."
"Hahaha...cough cough...cough cough..." The old man had just laughed out loud when he immediately started coughing violently.
This terrified the other three people.
"Jianjun, quickly help Lao Cheng inside. Xiaoqin, do you know where Xiao Chu went?"
"I'll page him."
Li Qin and Sun Jianjun helped the old man into the house, and then quickly picked up the phone and dialed the paging number.
While chatting in the car team, Tian Jun felt his pager vibrate in his pocket. He quickly took it out and saw that the number belonged to his leader's sister. He didn't dare to delay and got up to run outside.
The other drivers looked at Tian Jun's retreating figure with envy. They also wanted to wear a pager on their waist, so that when they walked on the road, it would beep and beep, and the attention they would get was just dreaming.
"Director, this is a pager from your sister's home."
"Okay, I understand. Go and prepare the car. I guess something's happened at home."
"yes"
"Hey? Sis, what's up?"
...
"Jianjun has brought Uncle Liu over, and there's another patient who's already unconscious?"
"Okay, I'll go back now."
The old man probably recognized Xiaoqin when he saw her, and he even said the last time they met, the wish he made before he left. He was so excited that he coughed violently and then fainted.
Fortunately, he is still breathing and has a heartbeat, and he is currently lying on the sofa in Li Qin's living room.
Li Chu returned quickly, and Uncle Liu, without saying anything, told him to see the patient first.
"Xiao Chu, how are you? How's the situation?"
Seeing him withdraw his hand, Uncle Liu asked anxiously.
"Uncle Liu, this old man is terminally ill. To be honest, given his physical condition, I think it's a miracle he's still alive."
"You...you can't do anything about it either? Aren't your medical skills supposed to be very high?"
“Uncle Liu, medicine can’t cure a fatal disease. This has been going on for too long, and... and he also has old injuries, probably from previous injuries that weren’t fully treated.”
Li Chu turned his head and glanced at the old man lying on the sofa. Suddenly, he noticed that his sister, who was standing next to the sofa, had red eyes, which puzzled him even more.
Judging from this situation, does the older sister know this old man?
Thinking of this, he looked at the old man again, examining him carefully. He really didn't recognize him; he had absolutely no recollection of that face.
"Sister, you know this old man too?"
“Xiao Chu, when our family was still in Hunan Province, Uncle Cheng had already been with my parents. If you count the time, he was two years earlier than Uncle Liu.”
Later, when my parents received the notice to go to the Northwest, Uncle Cheng also left around that time…
At this point, Li Qin glanced at Uncle Liu, who was immersed in grief, and continued, "He went on a mission! Uncle Cheng promised me when he left that he would bring me sesame candy after he completed his mission."
At this point, tears streamed down her face.
!
!
Holy crap, on a mission? What mission? What other mission could it be?
Li Chu's gaze returned to the old man. This was... what kind of hero was he?
I've known my sister since we were little, so it's no wonder she's so sad.
"Sigh..." Uncle Liu sighed softly, "Little Chu, how much longer can Lao Cheng hold on?"
"Uh... without treatment, it will last at most a week; with treatment, it will take about a month."
"Can we wake Lao Cheng up now?"
"Can"
"Wake Lao Cheng up and ask him what he wants," Uncle Liu waved his hand.
Li Chu had just walked to the sofa and taken out acupuncture needles from his bag when Li Qin grabbed her brother's hand: "Xiao Chu, is there really no other way?"
"sister……"
"Never mind, you should wake Uncle Cheng up first."
Five minutes later, with the help of Li Chu and Sun Jianjun, Lao Cheng sat up. He stared at Li Chu for a while and said with a smile, "He looks just like him, really like him. He looks just like Brother Quanyou."
He then looked at the military uniform he was wearing and nodded: "Brother Quanyou and Sister Ya have successors. I believe they would be happy in the afterlife."
"Hello Uncle Cheng, I am Li Chu."
To be honest, he was really shocked at that moment.
Given the old man's physical condition, he should be having difficulty speaking by now, but he just woke up and not only did he sit up, but he also spoke very clearly, and his eyes were not cloudy like those of an older person; they were quite sharp.
It truly is something that ordinary people cannot endure.
This is also why he didn't know what the old man had gone through in the past. If he knew about the old man's past, he would know that these ailments were nothing to the old man.
...
Sun Jianjun left with the two old men. Li Qin wanted Grandpa Cheng to stay with her, but he refused.
He also refused to let Li Chu treat him, but he seemed quite surprised when he heard that he could live for another month or so after treatment.
The old man also had some medical knowledge and was very familiar with his own body. Looking at Li Chu's calm and confident face when he said this, he knew that he was not just talking nonsense.
But he still did not agree. He believed that life and death were predestined, and he had already lived to be nearly ninety years old. He had long since become indifferent to life and death. Compared to his comrades who sacrificed their lives before liberation, he had at least witnessed the new China with his own eyes, and he was already very content.
"Sister, I'll go see Uncle Liu tomorrow and try my best to persuade Uncle Cheng to accept treatment." Standing at the gate, after watching Sun Jianjun drive away, Li Chu put her arm around her sister's shoulder and said softly.
"Okay, come pick me up tomorrow. He still owes me a piece of sesame candy, so he can't just leave like this."
“Okay, let’s go together, brother and sister.”
"What are you two looking at at the door?" Wang Ziwen walked over from the east and asked loudly from a distance.
"Brother-in-law, we just saw off an old friend."
"I was wondering why you two siblings were standing at the door."
"Woof woof..." Well, the dog in the house couldn't hold back any longer.
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