Lin Qingping lay in bed that night, thinking for a long time. When she fell asleep, all she could see was Gu Juncheng's face.
She dreamed that when he was still in the frontier, she went to see him with a lot of luggage. He came to pick her up at the train station, and when he saw her coming out, his dark face was full of smiles.
She ran towards him excitedly, and the bag on her back hurt her, but she saw him smiling and calling out "Xia Xia"...
The dream ended at this moment.
Whether in her dreams or outside of them after she woke up, the bone-chilling pain in her heart was extremely clear.
The next day, Gu Youlian took a train south to see Du Gen, and everything in the capital fell on Lin Qingping's shoulders.
Visiting time was in the afternoon, so Lin Qingping went to Lao Zheng's store before the time was up.
Lin Qingping had not come since Chen Xia started working in Lao Zheng's store. At that time, she told Gu Juncheng that the person delivering goods to her store must not be Chen Xia, otherwise, she would not purchase goods from Lao Zheng.
She guessed that Gu Juncheng must have told her the truth at the beginning. Later, the person who delivered goods to her store was no longer Chen Xia. She had never seen this person again since then.
She thought about it all night and decided to come find Chen Xia.
She was reborn, and this life was stolen by her. She remembered her original intention of coming back to life, which was to repay Gu Juncheng. She didn't care about escaping from her parents' control or living a life of sudden wealth.
Making money and getting rich is what she had done in her previous life. There is no fun or meaning in competing with her parents' family. The only difference she hopes for in this life is that Gu Juncheng lives well and can live happily until old age. Everything else is attached to this meaning.
If the person who accompanied him in his happy life was not her...
That's fine too.
This was the result of her staying up all night trying to convince herself.
So, she came, to find Chen Xia, the person he truly cherished in his heart, the person he would never forget even if he forgot her, his wife in two lifetimes.
However, when she arrived at Lao Zheng's store, she did not see Chen Xia, who was always behind the counter. Instead, he was replaced by a young man who often came to the store to deliver goods.
The young man was very enthusiastic when he saw her, and followed Gu Youlian to call her Pingzi, "Sister Pingzi, why are you here today?"
Lin Qingping glanced behind him, but Chen Xia was not there.
"I'll come... to find someone." She said hesitantly.
"Looking for Brother Zheng?" The young man chuckled, "He's in his hometown and hasn't come to the capital yet. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Your store... turns out there is a female clerk?" Lin Qingping had a hard time saying this.
"Shopgirl?" the young man recalled.
"My surname is Chen." Lin Qingping said, suppressing the discomfort in his heart.
"Oh! I remember now!" The young man slapped his head, "I quit."
"Quitting?" Lin Qingping was quite surprised.
"Yeah! She left before the New Year. She was told that she was offered a job with a higher salary."
"So, can you contact her?"
The young man shook his head, frowned, thought for a moment, and then said, "However, I can ask. Although I don't know where she is, maybe someone else knows. I can help you find out."
"Okay, tell me when you find out!"
Lin Qingping left in a hurry. She had to go home again. Visiting time was about to come, and she had to take the soup to visit Gu Juncheng.
Even so, try your best...
In short, ever since Gu Juncheng was admitted to the hospital, her mind has never been clear, it has always been a mess, and she has been taking one step at a time based on her intuition.
Gu Juncheng was truly the only element that she couldn't figure out after her rebirth.
To her, making money was not a big deal. She knew clearly what her stance should be towards her mother's family, her attitude towards studies, her classmates, Zhiyuan, and all other people and things. But she couldn't get rid of Gu Juncheng.
When she got home, she could already smell the aroma of the soup. She had slowly simmered it over the smallest coal fire before she left. She only told Zhiyuan to watch the water and make sure it didn't dry up.
When he came back, the water was just right. Zhiyuan held a book and sat in front of the soup pot, watching over it diligently.
"Mom, you're back?" Zhiyuan said.
"Well, are you okay being home alone?" Lin Qingping began to serve the soup. She scooped out the soup, put one third of it into the thermos bucket, and put the rest in a bowl for the family to eat in the evening.
"What's wrong with me? Haven't I been able to be alone at home for a long time? I'm grown up." Zhiyuan said as he closed the book.
Lin Qingping smiled and said, "I know you can do it."
Smiles are all empty, floating on the face but having no roots in the heart.
"Mom, are you going to visit Dad?" Zhiyuan asked her.
Lin Qingping was stunned by the question. What else could she do? Chen Xia couldn't be found either, so she had to go.
Just think of it as fulfilling Gu Youlian's request.
She said this to herself, as if she was looking for an excuse to go to the hospital to visit Gu Juncheng. She knew it was just an excuse. Maybe she just needed an excuse.
When the soup in the thermos was full, she closed the lid and nodded, "Well, I'll go see him."
"Mom, can I go too?" Zhiyuan stood up and looked at her expectantly.
Zhiyuan had only followed her to see Gu Juncheng in the intensive care unit. Since Gu Juncheng woke up, Zhiyuan had not been to the hospital.
Logically, he should go and check it out, but he didn't know that Gu Juncheng had forgotten her. How embarrassing would that be? What if Gu Juncheng had forgotten him too?
"Zhiyuan, why don't you stay at home and look after the house?" she tried to persuade him.
"Well...I have to go to school tomorrow, and I only have Sunday to rest." Zhiyuan lowered his head.
Seeing Zhiyuan like this, Lin Qingping couldn't bear it. After thinking for a while, she said to him, "Zhiyuan, your father Gu is sick now. He has a head injury and doesn't recognize people very well. If he recognizes you by mistake, don't be surprised or sad."
Zhiyuan nodded obediently, "I understand."
Lin Qingping took him to the hospital.
Gu Juncheng was lying there with an IV drip, and it was unclear whether he was awake or asleep.
The two of them quietly walked to his bed, and he still moved and called out, "Sister?"
It turned out that he was not asleep.
"Dad Gu." Zhiyuan hadn't seen him for a long time. It should be said that he hadn't seen him alive for a long time. He was very happy to hear him speak and rushed to answer, "Aunt went to uncle's place. My mother and I came to see you."
Zhiyuan was quite sensible and knew not to tell Gu Juncheng about Du Gen's injury.
After listening to him, Gu Juncheng called out with suspicion in his tone, "Zhiyuan?"
Zhiyuan originally saw that he had a bandage covering his eyes, and Lin Qingping said that Dad Gu didn't recognize people very well, so he thought he didn't know who he was. But when he heard him calling his name, he was overjoyed, "It's me, Dad Gu, it's me!"
Lin Qingping, who was standing behind Zhiyuan, was stunned. It turned out that he really just didn't remember her?
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