Hearing this, Ruan Xi was stunned for a moment, but after reacting quickly, she didn't ask or say anything. She turned around and rushed out of the studio door, returned to the office to get the car keys and bag, and hurried downstairs with Qian Chuan.
After getting downstairs, she got in the car and stepped on the accelerator.
After getting on the road, she asked Qian Chuan with a stern face: "What happened to grandma?"
Qian Chuan's face was also solemn: "Your third aunt called and said that she was unconscious and went to the hospital. Yueyue called the emergency number. The others didn't say anything specific. We don't know what the situation is yet. Your fifth uncle went there first."
Ruan Xi drove Qian Chuan to the hospital. After entering, Liu Xinghua had just been sent to the emergency room for rescue. Ruan Changsheng arrived earlier, and he and Ruan Yue accompanied Ruan Zhigao to wait outside. The two of them supported Ruan Zhigao on the left and right.
Ruan Xi walked up to them and asked Ruan Zhigao: "Grandpa, what happened to grandma suddenly?"
Ruan Zhigao was trembling and couldn't speak. Ruan Yue said beside him: "After lunch, grandma went out to talk to someone. While talking, she suddenly vomited. The symptoms looked like heatstroke, so we helped grandma back to the room, let her take some medicine and sleep with the air conditioner on. As a result, she couldn't be woken up after falling asleep, and then we found that...she...had urinary incontinence..."
Hearing the last part, my heart suddenly cooled down.
But now I don't know what the specific situation is, so I can only sit down and wait.
Ruan Xi went to sit on the chair, lowered her head and covered her face with her hands.
After a moment, she remembered something, picked up her phone and called Ling Yao. After the call was connected, she asked him, "Are you busy now?"
Ling Yao heard that her voice was not right, so he said, "No, what's wrong?"
Ruan Xi whispered, "Grandma is in the emergency room..."
"I'll be there right away."
Ruan Xi hung up the phone and held the phone tightly in her palm.
At this time, Ruan Cuizhi and Yue Haofeng arrived again. Naturally, they asked Ruan Yue what was going on. After understanding the situation, they couldn't do anything. They still sat down and waited together, with a string in their hearts.
After a while, a nurse came out of the emergency room. Ruan Xi and the others stood up and asked the nurse, "What's going on?"
The nurse said, "Cerebral hemorrhage, they are rescuing her. You family members had better be mentally prepared."
Cerebral hemorrhage...
Hearing these three words, Ruan Xi's heart instantly turned cold.
When she was in a state of fear and couldn't come back to her senses, Ling Yao rushed over again.
He rushed to Ruan Xi's side and asked her quietly, "How is grandma?"
Ruan Xi shook her head with wet eyes, and sat back on the chair without saying a word.
Then the family waited outside like this, and no one spoke much. They waited anxiously from one hour to two hours. When it was almost three hours, the rescue was over and Liu Xinghua was transferred to the intensive care unit.
Ruan Zhigao was too old, and Yue Haofeng was afraid that he could not withstand so much stimulation and suffering. In the evening, he took him home and asked him to have a good meal and rest at home, and come back tomorrow after he recovered his energy.
The others did not leave and waited until the evening. They agreed that Ruan Xi and Ling Yao would stay at night to watch the situation, and Ruan Cuizhi, Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan would also go home to rest first, and come back the next day to take turns to guard the hospital.
Family members could not accompany the intensive care unit, so they could only guard outside.
In the next few days, people came to the hospital one after another. Ruan Changfu's family, Ruan Changgui's family, and Ruan Cuilan's family all rushed over from other places. After arriving at the hospital, they went into the nursing room at the specified time to see Liu Xinghua and talk to her.
Liu Xinghua stayed in the intensive care unit for five days, and finally died.
Outside the ward, everyone was crying, but Ruan Xi didn't shed a tear.
White cloth and white banners were hung in the courtyard, and all the people who could be seen or not on weekdays came in these two days. It was actually quite lively, and everyone gathered together to talk and laugh, but Ruan Xi stayed in the mourning hall without saying a word.
Ruan Qiuyue, Ruan Hongjun and Ruan Hongbing also stayed with him.
She looked outside, and the yard was full of people, like an ancient funeral painting with different people in different postures.
Ye Qiuwen and Ruan Qiuyang, the granddaughters of Liu Xinghua, had never seen Liu Xinghua, so naturally they didn't feel any sadness or sorrow. The two of them are still the closest in the family, because they have the same life, taking care of the children and doing housework every day, and their minds are all on their husband's life and the children's academic performance, so they have common topics and contact more often.
As the eldest child, Ruan Changfu has been handling various matters related to the funeral, and Ruan Changsheng helps him. Feng Xiuying cried with Ruan Cuizhi, Ruan Cuilan and Qianchuan, and Qianchuan comforted Ruan Cuizhi and Ruan Cuilan.
The second child, Ruan Changgui, and his family all had dark faces and were always looking for someone to quarrel with. It seemed that they had been holding back their anger and suffering for half a lifetime, and now they saw with their own eyes how well other people were living, so they couldn't bear the anger in their hearts any more, and wanted to find a reason to quarrel and have a big fight in the next two days to vent their anger, regardless of whether this was their mother's funeral.
But everyone could see their intentions, so no one paid attention to them, and tried to avoid them as much as possible, not giving them any chance to get angry and make trouble. Of course, they were not afraid of them, but they didn't want Liu Xinghua to leave in uneasiness.
Ruan Xi looked outside for a while with a wooden expression, and Feng Xiuying suddenly came in with red eyes.
Feng Xiuying is old now, with gray hair on her head, and she looks like a little old lady. After burning paper for Liu Xinghua, she came over and said to Ruan Xi in a soft voice: "Xiao Xi, can I... say a few words to you?"
Ruan Xi looked at her, said nothing, and took her out directly.
When they were outside and there was no one around, Ruan Xi stopped and still didn't say anything, waiting for Feng Xiuying to speak.
Feng Xiuying hesitated for a long time before she said: "Xiao Xi, Mom is sorry for you in this life."
For many years, since Ruan Xi was admitted to university and left, she has been looking for an opportunity to say this to Ruan Xi, but she has never found a suitable opportunity. Ruan Xi even did not let her and Ruan Changfu come to the wedding.
It was because of this incident that she and Ruan Changfu understood from the bottom of their hearts that this girl was not just playing tricks on them, but really meant what she said. She would never forgive them or recognize them in her life.
But since Ruan Changfu retired, she has regularly given them alimony.
Ruan Xi looked at Feng Xiuying with a calm look and tone, without any emotion or temper, and without any emotion. She just asked her calmly: "If I hadn't become so successful, if I had come to the city from the countryside, I would have been a country girl who knew nothing and was afraid of everything, who didn't get the most basic care, couldn't get into college, and even got worse and worse, would you still feel sorry for me?"
Although she knew the answer, Ruan Xi still couldn't help asking.
The answer was naturally there all along. Feng Xiuying would not feel sorry, but would only feel that "she" was becoming more and more annoying, more and more annoying, and more and more disdainful. In the end, no matter how tragic the ending was, it was all what "she" deserved.
Could she forgive them on "her"'s behalf? Would
"she" still want such fatherly and motherly love?
What "she" wanted, wasn't it to make them live in guilt and regret for the rest of their lives?
She wanted to live as dazzling as the sun, shining forever in their world, so that they could not avoid her, but could never touch her. When they dreamed at midnight, they had to be reminded that they had ruined "her" life with their own hands.
Feng Xiuying looked into Ruan Xi's eyes. She was feeling very depressed. After a moment, she said, "Xiaoxi, do you hate us so much? It has been so many years. Your father and I are old. We don't have many years left. We may die like your grandmother someday. Until now, you still can't let it go and forgive us?"
Ruan Xi looked at her and spoke without hesitation, her voice steady: "No."
Feng Xiuying's lips trembled slightly, "Xiaoxi, what else do you want us to do?"
Ruan Xi looked at her, still with the same expression and tone: "No, it's too late to do anything."
After that, she didn't linger with Feng Xiuying anymore. She turned around and went back to the mourning hall.
Feng Xiuying stood there for a while, and Ruan Changfu came over again and asked her: "What did you say to her?"
Feng Xiuying sniffed with red eyes, and said with a choked voice: "What else can I say to her? What else can I dare to say to her? I apologized to her, I made amends to her, I said sorry to her, I want her to forgive me..."
As she spoke, she began to cry, and continued in a sobbing voice: "She is kind to everyone in the family. , no matter her grandparents or her uncles, aunts, third aunts, and uncles-in-law, she treated them as her closest relatives, but she treated us, her biological parents, like this..."
She choked for a moment, "It's been so long, does she really intend to hate us for the rest of her life? She won't let us feel at ease even when we die? After all, I gave birth to her, I am her biological mother..."
Ruan Changfu's eyes darkened, he took a deep breath, and said nothing.
A few days after the funeral, there was noise in the house.
Ruan Changgui's family was full of anger but didn't find a chance to vent it, and finally left with anger. He left reluctantly, his face was darker and uglier than when he came, as if he was covered with a layer of carbon ash.
The only person who said almost nothing from beginning to end was Ruan Zhigao.
After Liu Xinghua was buried, Ruan Zhigao looked thinner and older. His waist, which was not very bent, was completely bent, as if a thousand pounds of weight was pressed on his back.
He couldn't sleep in bed at night, so he got up very early in the morning. After getting up, he did nothing but sit under the corridor with a cane in his hand, staring blankly. No one knew what he was looking at, and he would look at it for a long time without moving.
He didn't eat much during meals, just two bites, and sometimes he didn't eat at all.
Ruan Cuizhi was anxious and picked up some food for him to let him eat more, but he didn't listen at all.
Knowing that Ruan Zhigao was not in good condition, Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and Ruan Changsheng would naturally come with their families to accompany him, hoping to make him more lively. When he saw his grandsons and grandsons, his condition would be a little better, and his face would show some expression.
Tonight, Ruan Xi and Ling Yao brought Lele and Keke to dinner, and Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun also came. However, only half a month later, Ruan Zhigao's old age became more serious. He walked unsteadily and his hands shook when he held chopsticks.
After dinner, Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun didn't say anything while sitting in the car on their way home.
After getting home and washing up and going to bed, Zhou Xueyun said to Ling Zhiyuan, "I don't think the old man can hold on for much longer."
Ling Zhiyuan sighed softly, "Since Xixi's grandmother passed away, he has no motivation to live. Look, in just these ten days, his spirit has completely changed, and there is no spirit in his eyes."
Zhou Xueyun followed with a sigh, "Alas, when people get old, they all have to go through this."
Turning off the lights, Ruan Xi lay flat on the bed, blinking her eyes without feeling sleepy.
Of course, she can see what Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun can see, and everyone else can see it. It's just that she can't talk about it as a normal thing, so she doesn't discuss with Ling Yao how long Ruan Zhigao can live.
Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua are more than just grandpa and grandma to Ruan Xi, because there is no father and mother in "her" world, and all the love in this life comes from grandpa and grandma.
Without grandpa and grandma, her world is missing a big part.
Ling Yao took her into his arms, let her forehead rest on her chest, and comforted her to sleep.
After Ruan Xi fell asleep, she began to dream. Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua were all in her dream, from the first time they met, when Ruan Zhigao held chopsticks and asked her to stand there and not move, to when they sent her to the city and came to Beijing with her.
In her dream, Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua were always smiling, and they would call her "Xiaoxi" from time to time.
Finally, Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua said to her, "Xiaoxi, grandpa and grandma are leaving."
When Ruan Xi wanted to speak, she suddenly woke up. She opened her eyes and found that her face was full of tears, and her pillow was already wet. Then, before she moved, the mobile phone on the bedside table suddenly rang again.
Ruan Xi sat up, reached out to pick up the phone, put it to her ear, and before she said anything, she heard Ruan Cuizhi's choking voice saying, "Xiaoxi... your grandpa... is gone..."
Ruan Xi held the phone and stared blankly without moving. Ling Yao woke up and sat up and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ruan Xi did not answer him, and her eyes with tears in her eyes fell on the air in front of the bed.
Ling Yao followed her gaze and saw two butterflies flying in the air, their wings fluttering and their figures dancing.
The two butterflies fluttered their wings in the air in front of the bed, as if they were lingering on something, and then slowly fell down and landed on Ruan Xi's hair on the forehead, staying there for a long time without moving.
Ruan Xi and Ling Yao also did not move, silently watching the butterflies stay on Ruan Xi's head, and then watched the butterflies flap their wings and fly, one after the other flying to the window, flying out of the window that was not closed tightly, and disappearing in the flowers in the yard...
Some people say that after a person dies, his soul will turn into a butterfly and fly back to see the person he loves most.
This is also the last farewell.
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