Su Qiushi still vividly remembers the overwhelming despair he felt when his fingers touched Yanran's carotid artery and he could only feel a faint pulse, accompanied by a cold sensation.
After my granddaughter was admitted to the hospital, she was diagnosed with congenital heart disease.
He narrowly escaped death but was saved.
However, the child fell ill again a week later, and this time he could not be saved.
This child hasn't even been named or registered yet.
He called her Nannan, just like Yanran.
Su Qiushi was already in tears when he recalled this.
Suddenly he straightened up—the question that had puzzled him for years resurfaced in his mind—the Su family and the scumbag Wei family, none of their ancestors for eight generations had heart disease, so how could his daughter have congenital heart disease?
Moreover, Nannan doesn't look like Yanran or anyone else with the surname Wei...
And this Su Ruyi is exactly fifteen years old this year, also from Haicheng, and looks exactly like Yanran...
The next morning, when Su Ruyi arrived at the space, Su Qiushi had already prepared a simple yet sumptuous breakfast and was waiting for her with a smile on his face.
The way he looked at Su Ruyi changed; he felt as if she were family, incredibly close to him.
As soon as Su Ruyi took the chopsticks, Su Qiushi couldn't wait to ask, "Yanran, do you remember where you were born?"
here we go again!
Su Ruyi has recently become exasperated by the old man's strange and unusual questions.
She smiled and took a bite of the steaming hot scallion roll, replying, "Haicheng!"
"Where in Haicheng?" Su Qiushi asked intently.
"Haicheng First People's Hospital," Su Ruyi answered truthfully. "Back then, my mother had a difficult childbirth and was sent to the hospital for a cesarean section to give birth to me."
Haicheng First People's Hospital! That's where Yanran gave birth to her granddaughter.
Su Qiushi heard her own voice tremble: "What's your birthday?"
“June 9th,” Su Ruyi replied, looking at Su Qiushi in surprise.
What new crazy thing has happened to this old man?
Unexpectedly, when Su Qiushi heard the words "June 9th", it was as if he had been struck by lightning, and he seemed to be completely stunned.
Su Ruyi was quite frightened and quickly waved her hand in front of the old man's eyes: "Grandpa, don't scare me!"
As she spoke, she quickly grabbed the old man's wrist with her other hand.
The old man didn't have a stroke!
However, he was extremely agitated.
Su Ruyi looked at him suspiciously again—did this old man remember something?
After the initial shock, the question that had troubled Su Qiu for so many years was finally answered – there was no need for further investigation or verification; Su Ruyi's face was the evidence!
Su Ruyi is his granddaughter!
He recalled that back then, there was indeed a family arguing in the ward. After the birth of their daughter, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law privately approached him and said they wanted to sell their daughter to him as a child bride!
He doesn't have any grandsons, so why would he want a child bride?
He told the hospital about it, and when the hospital couldn't control the crazy woman, they called the police. The family was severely reprimanded.
Of all the women in that ward who gave birth, only that family and his family had daughters!
That family must have held a grudge and swapped her precious granddaughter with their own!
Oh right, he remembered!
Back then, Wei's mother, while arguing on his behalf, said, "Your family doesn't even deserve the surname Su!"
Surname Su!
Su Ruyi—also surnamed Su!!!
Su Qiushi looked at Su Ruyi again with an incredibly complicated expression.
But that's not the most important thing!
Most importantly, his own granddaughter is a bit strange!
No, it's very strange!
He remembered clearly the times he was manipulated into scaring Ding Xiuping.
At that time, I was in a daze after the injury, and my intelligence seemed to have dropped to the level of a child. I just thought that being scared was fun.
Now that I think about it... how exactly did I manage to enter and leave the courtyard in an instant?!
...
This morning, Su Ruyi first went to the village clinic, opened the door, entered the treatment room, locked the door, and then entered the space.
She has been doing this recently because when patients knock on the door, she can come out quickly without giving herself away, and she can also do whatever she wants in the space at other times.
She had just finished eating when a villager came to see her for treatment.
As the footsteps drew closer, a voice called out from outside the space: "Dr. Su! Is Dr. Su here?"
Su Ruyi, with her extraordinary hearing, naturally heard it, but Su Qiushi, whose senses were blocked from the outside world, could not hear it.
Therefore, in Su Qiushi's view, after Su Ruyi finished breakfast, she put down her chopsticks, said "I'm going to be busy for a while," and then disappeared instantly.
Su Ruyi has been doing this for the past few days.
Su Qiushi began to doubt himself again—he had never been a materialist, but these things were just too outrageous.
He was both annoyed and amused—his own granddaughter was taking advantage of his being an idiot to act so recklessly!
Su Qiushi cleared away the dishes and returned to the kitchen, her gaze fixed on the water vat, lingering there for a long time—this courtyard was truly bizarre! She had used quite a bit of water to cook, and now the water vat was completely full!
Who, who secretly fetched water and filled the water tank?
Where did you get the water from?
After washing the dishes, Su Qiushi went to the ridge outside the backyard.
His gaze swept over the rice paddies, wheat fields, vegetable gardens, and fruit trees...
Something's not right!
Something's very wrong!
For many days now, all the grains, fruits and vegetables have been at the perfect ripeness, neither overripe nor fallen to the ground!
Moreover, the entire field was completely free of weeds!
Here, not a single wildflower or weed, which are common in fields and along roadsides, can be found!
Su Qiushi raised his head and looked into the distance.
At the edge of the field... there seemed to be an impenetrable white fog.
He strode towards the white mist in the distance that was blocking his view.
After walking for about ten minutes, he arrived at the place where the white mist was.
It was indeed a thick, almost solid white mist.
Su Qiushi plucked a rice stalk and stretched it into the white mist.
Almost instantly, the rice stalks turned to ashes with a "rip".
As he pulled out the rice stalks, the ashes immediately scattered in the wind, and he smelled a chilling, burnt odor.
There was no combustion process; it looked more like direct carbonization.
Su Qiushi was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat—no wonder Su Ruyi told him not to put his hand into the white mist—if he did, his hand would disappear instantly!
Su Qiushi stood at the edge of the white mist, looking back at the small courtyard in the distance.
Mountains, rivers, fields, and gardens—a blessed land.
What exactly is this place?
Who exactly is Su Ruyi?
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