"Even if you're injured or disabled, your mother, your niece, and I will take care of you!"
"Let's go home, okay? Let's not risk our lives out out there anymore..."
"..."
Gu Yunlan broke down after hearing the doctor announce that her older brother's eye injury was incurable.
She begged her older brother to come back with her for the first time.
Regardless of her beliefs or stance, she... just wanted her older brother to come home alive with her!
But.
But her older brother rejected her.
The brother and sister had an unprecedented conflict. After a huge argument, Gu Yunlan angrily returned to Northeast China, and from then on...
Even when her older brother was injured, he never asked her to take care of him. She knew he had gone home and never came back.
Once the closest of siblings, they became strangers for several years.
And today.
That was the first time the brother and sister had met since then.
Gu Guanhai: ...
Hearing his younger sister's words, he looked like he wanted to say something but couldn't.
He cannot abandon his mission.
Otherwise, he and Yu Mingxiang would have been together long ago, and it wouldn't have been delayed until now.
Just as Gu Guanhai was hesitating about how to coax his younger sister, Old Mrs. Gu, who had just entered from outside, happened to overhear her daughter's words...
Grandma Gu: "!!!"
Almost instantly, he raised his hand and lightly tapped his daughter's shoulder.
"How can you talk like that?"
The old woman gave her daughter a reproachful look and said, "Are you even one person's brother? If your brother doesn't go on dangerous missions, then someone else has to go in his place!"
Gu Yunlan heard this: ...
With a wronged expression, she called out, "Mother!"
Grandma Gu: "Sigh!"
She sighed and reached out to pull her into her arms. "Mother knows! Mother knows everything! Mother knows you've been wronged. It's because Mother is incompetent that you've had to bear it all alone for so many years. From now on, Mother will bear it with you!"
"But Yunlan, your brother's life is precious, but so are other people's lives."
"As the old saying goes, if the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up. Our family just happened to have a tall one. It doesn't make sense. Other people's tall ones are all upright and strong, but our tall one has to stay at home and suffer because of us."
"Your brother can do whatever he wants, whatever he's supposed to do. We, mother and son, can't help him much, but we can't hold him back, do you understand?"
Gu Yunlan was speechless upon hearing this.
How could she not understand?
She understood things too well, which is why she lived in fear for over twenty years.
Gu Yunlan wiped away her tears and looked up at her mother, "Mother."
She frowned and said, "I've been at odds with my older brother for years, and I know I can't win against him. I've come to terms with it, but I'm just worried..."
“I’m worried that if Dr. Yu knew what my brother does, he wouldn’t be happy to be with him.”
At this point, Gu Yunlan sighed with a worried expression.
She knew her older brother's abilities, and she also knew that many high-ranking officials in Beijing were eager to find him partners, but...
Because of the dangerous nature of her work, her brother didn't want to implicate any of the perfectly healthy girls, so...
She would only approve of her brother's marriage if her mother arranged for him to meet girls with disabilities.
After all, those girls all have disabilities, and even if they don't get married, they might not have a good life in their parents' homes. If her brother marries them, at least he can give them a place to live in their old age, and he will feel less guilty.
But.
To her surprise, her brother took a liking to a young intellectual who had been sent to the countryside.
When Gu Yunlan came in, she met Yu Mingxiang.
She was a beautiful and respectable woman.
Moreover, she's surrounded by her children and grandchildren, clearly living a peaceful life, while her older brother...
They can give people anything, except stability.
Tell me, how could Gu Yunlan not be worried?
Gu Yunlan was extremely worried.
She looked extremely depressed.
Upon hearing this, Grandma Gu couldn't help but laugh.
"Ha ha!"
She pointed to her daughter's forehead and said, "You don't believe me when I say you're a worrier, look at you, worrying about everything!"
Gu Yunlan was speechless upon hearing this.
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