Wan Yuning felt more and more upset as he listened, his eyes unconsciously reddened. "Dad, please don't be like this. Yuxiu has a child; I don't have one yet. You haven't even had your grandchild yet, so why are you saying such depressing things?"
"Why are you crying?" Wan Xuetang seemed to be in better spirits, with a slight blush on his face. He smiled and sighed softly, "You're still like a child."
"I'm not crying, Dad. You can't leave me alone."
Wan Xuetang smiled and nodded, handing him the wooden box. After seeing him take it, he said, "Don't worry, Yuning. I won't leave you alone. Okay, take the things out. Take the porridge out too. I need to sleep for a while."
"You said, I can't just leave quietly."
"I know. You're so nagging." Wan Xuetang took off the pillow by himself and lay down slowly, without Wan Yuning coming forward to help.
Wan Yuning was filled with fear and anxiety in his chest. The more abnormal Wan Xuetang's behavior became, the more uneasy he became.
"Go out quickly, I'm sleepy." Wan Xuetang said, closed his eyes and didn't look at him again.
Wan Yuning put down the box, covered him with a quilt, and felt his breathing again. After confirming that his breathing was normal, he put the bowl of porridge on the wooden box and went out carrying the wooden box.
After closing the door, Wan Yuning took a few steps and put the box in the corridor. He turned around quickly, pushed the door open, took a deep breath, and walked quietly to the bed. The person lying on the bed seemed to be smiling even in his sleep.
He reached out to feel his breathing again. After a few breaths, Wan Yuning's hand touched the pulse on his neck; there was no movement, his skin was warm, and there was no pulse.
"dad!"
Tears flowed down involuntarily, and Wan Yuning cried like a child, lying on Wan Xuetang.
"Dad, you said you wouldn't leave me alone, but you didn't keep your word..."
Wan Yuning cried hysterically. She didn't know how long she cried. It was getting dark outside. With her red and swollen eyes, Wan Yuning walked out of the room, sat outside the door and started crying uncontrollably again. The pain of losing the most important person in life was truly unbearable.
After he recovered a little from his grief, he had to take the box that Wan Xuetang gave him back to the room; then he went to the kitchen to boil water for Wan Xuetang to take a bath and change clothes, and endured the pain in his heart to handle Wan Xuetang's funeral.
Zhong Yuxiu learned the news the next afternoon. As the adopted daughter of Wan Xuetang, she had to go through the motions and leave. When Yan Rushan came back, she told him about the Wan family.
"Rushan, I'm afraid I'll have to go to the Wan family to help out these few days."
Seeing that she looked calm and had no other guilty consciences, Yan Rushan felt a little relieved. He hugged her in his arms and patted her on the back, "I'll go with you."
"Are you going too?" Zhong Yuxiu asked uncertainly.
"Since you have already gone, I have to go too; you are the adopted daughter of the Wan family, this is an indisputable fact, and I am your husband, so we both have to be there." Death is like the extinguishing of a light. No matter how much one does not want to do something during life, one still has to go through the formalities after death.
Humans are complex creatures. No matter how good their family background or how rich or how high their status is, they cannot escape this law.
Living among people, it is inevitable to earn a good reputation for yourself and your family.
"What about the project here, and your work?" Yuxiu said, "This trip will inevitably delay us for five or six days, and we can't leave until the seventh day."
Yan Rushan smiled faintly and said, "It's okay. There are people watching over the company. The wall is finished. We don't have to worry about our large yard either. It'll only take five or six days. Can they take advantage of this little time to cut corners?"
"In that case, let's go together and see Wan's adoptive father off for the last time." It can also be considered as earning a reputation for the original owner.
Wan Xuetang is gone, her relationship with the Wan family is severed, and what happens to Wan Yuning has nothing to do with her anymore.
Throughout history, many families have been like this, with relationships maintained by the older generation; once the older generation passes away, the relationships slowly break down, and in the final analysis, they still maintain relationships for the sake of the older generation's face.
She will not pursue the grudge between the original owner and the Wan family; the Wan family is determined to compensate the original owner, but unfortunately, the original owner is gone, and she will never know what the Wan family did later.
"good."
Yan Rushan nodded in agreement. Zhong Yuxiu continued, "If we go over to attend the funeral, we're bound to run into Wan Yutong. We might even get into some trouble. This month has been really rough."
She was tired after living in peace for too long and suddenly had to deal with troubles.
Yan Rushan held his lovely wife in his arms and chuckled, "She didn't dare to bother you. I've had someone investigate her. When the Zhong family came to the capital to look for you, it was partly because of the spies, but also partly because of her. In the end, she was afraid of those spies and was scared out of her wits. That's why she didn't dare to bother you. Since then, she has never dared to ask about you again."
People from different classes come into contact with different people; Wan Yutong is a person who has lived a second life, and his IQ is still a flaw, so he is even more afraid of death.
Zhong Yuxiu understood and said, "Just be content. If she doesn't make a scene, I won't bother to deal with her." The original owner did take advantage. Wan Yutong didn't live as well as the original owner in the countryside, not only in terms of food, clothing, and daily expenses, but also in terms of emotions.
The Wan family didn't know that the original owner was not their daughter, and they had always loved and spoiled her as their own daughter. Wan Yutong was different. She was taken away by mistake, and the Zhong family noticed it early on. It was true that they didn't have much feelings for her, so Wan Yutong naturally could not enjoy the love and care of her family.
But, filling it with one's life is a bit too much.
"Wan Yutong won't bother you anymore, but she is not a person who is content with what she has. Her previous husband was beaten and she is looking for her next target after the divorce. However, everyone knows that her ex-husband is a member of the Revolutionary Committee. Good families look down on her, and she looks down on people from all walks of life. She is neither high nor low and has not been able to remarry until now." Yan Rushan didn't know that Wan Yutong was a reborn person, and he didn't know what rebirth was.
Zhong Yuxiu smiled and said, "Everyone has their own path to walk. How she wants to walk that path is her business."
"That's right. If she hadn't come looking for you, we wouldn't have anything to do with her." He was open-minded. Even though he knew about Wan Yutong's situation over the years, he hadn't taken any action. Perhaps it was because his wife's attitude was too clear. "Let's go. Let Comrade Gu drive us to the Wan family. By the way, do you want to change our clothes?"
"Change to a black suit, no need to do anything special."
Yan Rushan nodded in agreement, and the two returned to their rooms, each changing into black clothing. Zhong Yuxiu changed her pants for black bell-bottoms, accessorized with a black turtleneck sweater and a black coat, and also changed her leather shoes to black. Yan Rushan did the same, and the couple had a perfect rapport.
Things are different now. In the past, mourning clothes had to be made specially, but now it’s enough as long as the intention is there.
The couple walked out of the room and went to the main hall in the courtyard.
"Grandpa, Yuxiu and I are going out for a few days, so I'll have to trouble you to take care of the house."
"Go, after all you raised Yuxiu, it's your turn to see her off; you can take care of the funeral and come back later. Don't rush about Yuxiu's work, the dead are the most important." Appropriate care and kindness can always warm people's hearts.
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