Grandma Gu coughed and smiled as she said, "I had forgotten that you became an immortal. Your master must have been very good to you. Isn't he..."
"Grandma Gu!"
When she suddenly heard this name, Grandma Gu trembled and her mouth slowly closed.
After a long silence, Grandma Gu wiped the tears that had accumulated in her eyes and said in a hoarse voice, "My second child was a girl. We named her Gu Amei, nicknamed Niansheng. She was very beautiful. At the age of sixteen, she married a young man from the next village. She died of complications during childbirth. Her husband stayed with her for three years after her death. Later, he made a fortune and married another wife. Unfortunately, my daughter never had a good life."
"When I was little, I heard from my ancestors that there are karmas in life. My son Niansheng passed away just a few days after he was born, so Ah Mei inherited his name. Like my husband and me, she suffered the consequences."
Luo Jianqing lowered his head in silence, still facing the window, without turning around.
"Everyone in the village says that the old man and I are kind people, but they don't know that we always wake up in the middle of the night. I dreamed that my son Niansheng came back and told me that he was so scared by the lightning, and it was really cold under the Luo River."
"Before that immortal came, the old man and I hadn't had a good night's sleep in the past twenty-seven years."
"We have done something wrong, and the ones we have let down are...our children."
The voice suddenly choked, and a low sob sounded behind Luo Jianqing. At this point, Luo Jianqing finally couldn't help but turned his head, only to see the gray-haired old woman covering her face with her hands and sobbing. The thick quilt was already stained with tears. She kept crying and shaking.
Luo Jianqing gritted his teeth and took a step forward. Before he could say anything, he heard Grandma Gu continue, "Three years ago, the immortal said that my old man and I were at the end of our lives. We both said we didn't want to continue living. We just wanted to go down and take a good look at my Ah Mei, and see... my Niansheng. But the immortal said that my Niansheng was still waiting for us, waiting for us to... sever the bond between him and our parents in this life."
"We asked him where Niansheng was."
"He said... when the time comes, we will naturally know."
"For this thought, we held our breath for three whole years. We didn't actually eat that elixir. It was a precious gift, meant for Niansheng, and we couldn't eat it. Every day and night for these three years, we wondered, what would our Niansheng be like?"
"He's in his thirties now. He might be living a good life, married and having children. Or maybe he's as handsome as that immortal, and then one day he suddenly flies into my yard and says he wants to sever our parental ties."
"That day, I was washing clothes when I suddenly saw a person floating in the middle of the water. When the person was fished out, the first thing I saw was... this was my Niansheng."
"My Niansheng is more beautiful than I thought, and better than I thought."
"He's so good, we're not worthy of him. I know that after I die, he'll become an immortal. That would be wonderful, he should be that kind of person. Why would he need such parents? What does the bond between parents in this life mean?"
"Mother..." Luo Jianqing's voice choked with sobs.
Grandma Gu suddenly raised her head and looked blankly at the handsome young man in front of her.
After waiting for a long time, she waved her hand, called Luo Jianqing to her side, and said, "Niansheng, these years... have you been well?"
He spoke very cautiously and in a very low voice, as if he was afraid of scaring people.
Luo Jianqing reached out and held Grandma Gu's hand, nodded, and said, "I'm fine."
Grandma Gu asked again: "Do you have a child?"
Luo Jianqing shook his head.
Grandma Gu asked, "Do you have a wife?"
Luo Jianqing nodded: "I have someone I like."
Grandma Gu immediately smiled with her eyes curved: "That's good... That's good."
The candlelight flickered gently, and no matter how strong the wind and rain outside, it couldn't disturb the warm atmosphere inside. Grandma Gu smiled and said a lot of things, as if she had endless things to say to Luo Jianqing. When the sky in the east gradually turned white, her voice gradually faded.
In the end, Grandma Gu leaned on Luo Jianqing's chest and murmured, "That day, it was me who decided to abandon you, not your father. Really... not your father. After we lost you, we regretted it before we even returned home. Your father and I rowed a boat to the Luo River to look for you, but we couldn't find you. Really... we really couldn't find you. Later, we returned home and found a lot of silver. The silver was hidden under this bed. You can take it. This is your silver. We didn't even tell Ah Mei..."
Luo Jianqing nodded continuously.
Grandma Gu smiled and looked up, concentrating on the handsome young man before her. She looked at him greedily, reluctantly, and then slowly began to smile. "Your master must have been very good to you. Niansheng, when he mentioned your name, he couldn't help but smile..."
Luo Jianqing's body stiffened.
Grandma Gu continued, "When your master passed away, he vomited a lot of blood. His health is not good. You must be filial to him."
Luo Jianqing's eyes widened and his body trembled in disbelief.
Grandma Gu's eyes gradually closed. Using her last remaining strength, she kept her gaze fixed on Luo Jianqing. Her words were shaky, and the fingers that were tugging at Luo Jianqing's sleeve slowly loosened. A relieved smile played on her lips, a smile that seemed to bring back the youthful beauty of decades ago, captivating the hearts of people from all over the village.
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