Grandma Yu was critically ill, so Li Xiyue left all the company's affairs and rushed back to Hunan Province overnight.
When she arrived in a hurry, Grandma Yu was still hanging on to her last breath.
"Grandma Yu, I'm back." Li Xiyue came to the bedside and held the old woman's skinny hand.
When the old woman heard her voice, her mind suddenly became clearer than before. She opened her eyes, looked at the child in front of her, and smiled lovingly, "Yueyue, you're back. Did you have a hard time on the road?"
"Grandma!" Li Xiyue knelt beside the bed, tears falling uncontrollably.
She is unfilial. She has been too busy with the company's listing recently and has not been able to come back earlier to accompany the old man.
When Grandma Yu saw the silver hairpin on her head, her smile deepened. "Grandma is already satisfied just to see you again. In my heart, I have long regarded you as my own granddaughter."
"I know, I know." Li Xiyue nodded while crying, "Grandma, you are also my real grandma."
A few years ago, when Grandma Yu was still in good health, she would take Grandma Yu to Beijing to live for a while every year, but the old lady was not used to leaving her familiar environment and was worried about her family, so she could not stay for long.
In the past two years, she has grown old and cannot withstand the fatigue of traveling, so we no longer take her there.
But Li Xiyue and Chu Xun would bring their children back to see her every year.
This year, she was busy at work and delayed it, but she didn't expect the old man to...
"Good girl, don't cry." Grandma Yu patted her hands and looked at her children and grandchildren. "You are not allowed to cry either. I am old now, and it is time for me to go. Everyone should be happy."
Xu Guoqiang and Sun Xia, whose hair had already turned white, wiped away their tears and forced smiles, "Mom, we will listen to you."
Xu Xiaolong and his wife tried hard to control themselves and forced out a smile that was uglier than crying.
Hu Zi also got married. His wife held the child and turned her back to wipe her tears.
Xu Lanlan, who was already married, knelt beside the bed, unable to hold back her tears, "Grandma, please don't leave me, I can't bear to leave you..."
She was raised by her grandmother and great-grandmother, and her affection for them is far greater than for her parents. She wants to be filial to her great-grandmother for a few more years and doesn't want her to die.
"Lanlan, good girl, don't cry." Grandma Yu patted her great-granddaughter's hand and coaxed her as before.
Xu Lanlan cried even harder, "Grandma, Grandma, I don't want you to leave!"
Everyone in the room couldn't help crying again.
Li Xiyue could understand Xu Lanlan's mood at this moment.
When she first went to the countryside, Xu Lanlan was only three years old.
The little girl was often held in Grandma Yu's hand. Sometimes she would sit on the old woman's lap and watch her work, and sometimes she would be held in her arms, telling her stories of the past while fanning her with a palm-leaf fan to coax her to sleep.
In a blink of an eye, the little girl grew up and got married.
But her feelings for Grandma Yu did not change at all, but grew deeper.
Now, the most important person in her heart is passing away, and she is sadder and more reluctant than anyone else.
Xu Lanlan's man tried to persuade her with kind words, and it took a while for him to calm her down.
Grandma Yu looked at the room full of grandchildren, and then at Li Xiyue, a child who was not a granddaughter but was better than a granddaughter. She thought about her life, in which she had suffered hardships and enjoyed happiness, experienced storms and also seen rainbows, and had no regrets.
She took care of her parents-in-law and raised her children. She had done her best for the ancestors of the Xu family and her husband who passed away young. Now she could leave with peace of mind.
The strength in her hands loosened, and Li Xiyue was startled. She looked up and saw that Grandma Yu had closed her eyes.
She gently took the old woman's pulse, but there was no pulse. Thousands of sorrows surged in her heart, "Grandma!"
"Mom!" Xu Guoqiang and his wife knelt down.
"grandmother!"
"Grandma!"
All the children and grandchildren knelt down, and the room was suddenly filled with crying.
The sound of firecrackers alarmed the whole village. The villagers rushed over and were heartbroken when they learned that Grandma Yu had passed away.
Xu Guoqiang had been the team leader for more than ten years. He was an upright and selfless person. Many people respected him and he had a wide network of contacts, so there were a lot of guests coming to pay their respects.
Grandma Yu was smiling before she died, and she passed away at the age of eighty. It was a happy funeral and the funeral was very grand.
Li Xiyue and the Xu family wore mourning clothes and returned gifts to the guests in front of the coffin.
"Auntie..." Fang Yue'e was supported by Xu Dashan and stumbled into the mourning hall. She hugged the coffin and cried bitterly, "I am Yue'e. I came back late. I am sorry for you, Auntie..."
Some villagers were crying, and the family members had to cry with them. Women like Sun Xia also climbed on the coffin and cried. The whole mourning hall was filled with crying sounds, accompanied by the sad sound of suona, which made people cry.
The women cried for the deceased, while the men knelt before the coffin and burned incense.
Xu Dashan kowtowed four times, "Aunt, I'm Dashan, I'm back."
His son worked in the city and took him and his wife there. When he heard the news, he and his wife hurried back.
Xu Guoqiang, along with his son and grandson, stepped forward to return the greeting and kowtowed.
Some villagers came forward to persuade the women who were crying to stop, and the argument lasted for a long time.
After Xu Dashan finished offering incense, he held Xu Guoqiang's hand and said, "Captain, I express my condolences."
Although reform and opening up have been going on for many years, old comrades like Xu Dashan are still used to calling Xu Guoqiang the captain.
Xu Guoqiang nodded sadly, "Where's Panpan?"
"He didn't get leave, and you know his job..." Xu Dashan felt guilty. Aunt Yu was so good to her son in the past. Now that Aunt Yu passed away, her son should have come back to pay his respects.
Xu Guoqiang understood very well, "My mother knows that he is busy because he has a promising future. She won't blame him. Dashan, my mother will be very happy that you and your sister-in-law can come back..." When he said this, his voice choked.
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