Chapter 246: Scene 33 (Inverted V) [He Fangying, why are you...
"grandmother?"
The old woman lying in the recliner did not wake up, so He Yuezhe had to climb up along her legs.
"Grandma!" She hugged the old woman's arm and shook it, "Grandma, don't sleep here, you'll catch a cold!"
The old man still didn't move.
He Yuezhe was a little panicked.
She quickly put her hand under the old man's nose. Fortunately, he was still breathing, but his breathing was very disordered, as if the old man could not breathe at all.
"Grandma...?" He Yuezhe called softly, "He Fangying? It's me, Shi Liu. I'm home. I've come back to find you. Please wake up."
“…” The old man closed his eyes and did not move.
"He Fangying, He Fangying, did you hear that? If you did, wake up quickly. It's very cold outside. You'll catch a cold."
“…”
"He Fangying, you're not young anymore. Can you please stop being so stubborn? Be good and go back to your room and sleep."
“…”
"He Fangying, He Fangying, did you hear me?"
“…”
"He Fangying, I hate you."
“…”
"I really, really hate you."
“…”
“…”
“…”
"He Fangying, wake up, wake up, hug me like you used to, pat my back, give me grapefruit candy, and tell me not to hate you anymore."
“…”
“…”
“…”
He Yuezhe walked into the house.
The furnishings are still familiar, old, but warm.
There was a bowl of cold noodles on the dining table, covered with a plate, and a faint aroma of eggs wafted from under the plate.
The refrigerator covered with various stickers was humming. In front of the little doll, it was like a giant steel beast, defending the food in its body to the death.
There was a small lamp on the bedside table in the room. In the light, the girl was snuggling intimately in the woman's arms.
The doll was sitting on the windowsill, not sleeping, chatting with the communicator. There was a curiosity about new things in her eyes, which was rarely seen.
“…” He Yuezhe took out a blanket from the closet, dragged it out of the house with difficulty, and covered He Fangying with it.
Then she crawled into the blanket and curled up on He Fangying's legs, just like before.
Close your eyes and everything that happened before will reappear before your eyes.
In the past, at the beginning, He Yuezhe and He Fangying were not familiar with each other, so He Fangying gave her bed and slept on the recliner. However, He Yuezhe could not sleep well alone because she was afraid that one day when she opened her eyes, He Fangying would disappear.
So she always quietly crawled into He Fangying's blanket, curled up on her legs, and hugged her to sleep.
Then every morning, she woke up early, ran back to the room, pretended to have just woken up, walked out of the room, patted He Fangying's shoulder, and told her that she was hungry.
The little girl tried to keep the grandmother who took her in by using what she thought were clever tricks, but she didn't know that the grandmother had already discovered her little tricks.
But she didn't know that sooner or later this grandmother would die of old age and leave her.
And it turns out that death only takes a moment, just a moment, to take away a person's loved ones.
Before you could react, blood covered your body, making it sticky and wet. You were frightened, and then after a long, long time, you realized that the person, she, was dead and had completely disappeared from your life.
In the following days, you stayed in the house where you once lived with her. Her traces were everywhere. You remembered her smile, her sadness, and you vomited out the blood that once blocked your throat. You cried heartbreakingly, but the sticky and wet feeling of the blood had already filled your life. It dripped down, wrapping you and numbing you again and again.
He Yuezhe originally thought that he would live like this for the rest of his life.
Until she met her friends.
"Uh, hey, Pomegranate, is that you? You're back."
Until she saw her grandma again.
"Yes, grandma," He Yuezhe raised his head and looked at He Fangying, "It's me, I'm back."
He Fangying squinted her eyes as the morning sun shone down. She yawned and said slowly, "Why didn't you tell me you were back?"
"I called you." He Yuezhe said angrily.
He Fangying just patted her on the back and asked, "Oh, by the way, how was your fun? Did you have fun?"
"Well enough."
"real?"
"real."
"That's good."
“…”
“…”
"He Fangying."
"What's wrong?"
"He Fangying."
"Oh, I see."
"...He Fangying."
"really."
“…”
"Yeah yeah."
“…”
He Yuezhe took He Fangying's hand and wrote on her palm with his fingers: [He Fangying, are you unable to hear?]
"Yes, it is..." He Fangying was speaking, and perhaps she felt someone writing on the palm of her hand, so she paused and closed her mouth.
Silence.
[You speak]
“…”
[He Fangying, you speak, I won’t scold you]
"..." He Fangying lowered her head and smiled awkwardly, "Oh, okay."
Why can't you hear?
"I, I don't know either."
[Can’t see it anymore?]
"……Um."
Do you have a system?
"System? Uh, you mean that little guy in my head?"
[Well, did it say anything to you?]
"Yes, it told me that my time is up and it's time to go."
[Okay, I think I understand. The reason you can't see or hear is probably because you've stayed in this world for too long.]
"I see..."
So why don't you go?
“Well, ah…”
[say]
"Because, didn't you say your mission here was to help Xiaobao grow up well? I was thinking, I should stay with her for a while before leaving..."
“…”
"Grandma! Grandma! Why are you sleeping outside again! Did you catch a cold? I heated up some noodles, come in and eat later." The girl poked her head out of the house and said to He Fangying with a smile.
[She wakes up, asks if you have caught a cold, and asks you to come in and eat noodles]
He Fangying turned around and said, "It's okay, it's okay. I'm fine. I'll be in soon!"
"good!"
“…”
“…”
[for you]
"What?"
He Yuezhe stuffed the pomelo candy into He Fangying's hand and held her fingers tightly to hold the candy.
[Grapefruit candy, sour]
"..." He Fangying was silent for a moment, "Thank you, Shi Liu, thank you."
[You’re welcome, come in and have some noodles.]
"well."
He Fangying brought He Yuezhe into the house. The woman was still sleeping, and the girl had already made milk and was eating noodles.
Seeing the man and the doll come in, the girl was immediately surprised: "You are back!"
"Yes." He Yuezhe jumped onto the table and smiled at her, "I brought you gifts, this flower and this candy."
"Thank you!" The girl happily accepted the primroses and pomelo candies that He Yuezhe handed to her.
Looking at the girl in front of him who had already walked towards another happier path, He Yuezhe reached out, gently touched her head, and said gently: "Okay, let's have breakfast."
"Yeah, okay." The girl sat back in her seat obediently and continued eating noodles.
He Fangying didn't need He Yuezhe's help. She was overly familiar with this house where she had lived for a long time. She pulled out a chair, sat down, picked up the chopsticks, and started eating noodles.
Starting two days ago, she began to lose her senses bit by bit.
First it was her sense of smell, then her vision, and now she was about to lose her hearing and touch. He Fangying thought that it wouldn't be long before she wouldn't even be able to speak.
She had originally planned to leave after Shi Liu came back, but last night, she suddenly regained her hearing. She clearly heard Shi Liu crying. The voice was very soft, but it made her heart ache.
This is the pomegranate that she loved so much and grew up with. If she leaves like this, the pomegranate will definitely be very sad, right?
So He Fangying made a bold decision. She decided to stay until she lost everything.
"Host, is it really okay for you to be like this?" a voice said in my mind.
He Fangying ignored it.
"Host, this is your second time entering the platform. Your soul is already much weaker than others. If you continue to consume it like this, I'm afraid you will die." The voice continued.
“…”
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"Xiaobao." He Fangying ignored the system and just shouted.
“…”
I felt an itch in the palm of my hand. It was the pomegranate writing.
[She said, what's wrong, grandma]
"What do you plan to do in the future?"
“…”
[Work, earn money, support myself, support my mother, support my grandmother]
"Besides these?"
“…”
[Save people]
"Save people?"
“…”
[Yes, save people]
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[Now I’m the one saying, eat quickly, don’t be dazed]
“…”
“…”
They had breakfast in silence. After breakfast, He Fangying got on her tricycle and drove the girl to school.
“…”
The girl's school is a very ordinary school, but it is the safest.
Because the location is remote, there are basically no people coming and there are few job opportunities, so He Fangying felt at ease to send her there.
She heard from Jiang Ruoshi that the procedures for her children were almost completed, and the children would probably come to this school today.
He Fangying was a little worried about whether Xiaobao could get along well with them.
[Is Jiang Ruoshi also going to send the children to that school today?]
At this moment, Shi Liu seemed to be able to see through her thoughts and wrote on her leg: [Do you need me to accompany her?]
"This..." He Fangying hesitated, but still shook her head, "Let's not do that."
[You should have thought this from the beginning, you should have trusted her, she can handle it]
"I...Okay, I get it."
Because girls like to sit in the open air behind the tricycle, He Fangying dared to talk to Shi Liu so blatantly.
[Can you do it today?]
"...Can I do something?"
[Accompany me]
"What do you want to do?"
[Shopping, visiting the park, writing letters to my future self, planting flowers, in short, anything is fine as long as you are with me]
"you……"
Leaning on He Fangying, He Yuezhe looked at her empty eyes and couldn't help but grab the corner of her clothes.
"Ah," He Fangying sighed and smiled, "Okay, then I'll reluctantly accompany you."
“…”
"We can go to the park next to the school first. It's said to be newly renovated. There's also a bakery nearby. It shouldn't be far away. I want to buy some bread. Also..."
“…”
He Yuezhe hadn't slept all night and now fell into a deep sleep leaning against He Fangying.
But He Fangying didn't know, she just kept chatting with He Yuezhe without asking for an answer.
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