The old man's best friend is a good friend he met when he was young. The two worked together in the same unit for ten years. Later, the best friend was transferred to another province due to changes in the nature of his work.
In the following decades, although it was difficult for the two old friends to see each other often, they exchanged letters.
Originally, during the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, the old man wanted to invite this friend to come to the imperial capital to celebrate the festival together, to enjoy the moon, eat moon cakes, and drink chrysanthemum tea.
They talked about their plan to climb Wuyi Mountain together next year.
Who knows that things are unpredictable.
He was in a car accident. During this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the old man was destined not to be able to raise a glass to the moon and recite poems to the moon with him.
When Jin Chenhan took Meng Luoning to pick up the old man at his old house, the old man couldn't hide his sadness, his eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept all night, more like crying all night.
Looking back, he saw Meng Luoning, who was wearing a pure black cheongsam specially designed for condolences. The old man pretended to be strong and smiled kindly at her: "Ning Ning, please come with us to another province. "
Meng Luoning shook her head, walked up to the old man in a few steps, and whispered, "Grandpa, it doesn't matter to me."
"Don't be sad. My condolences."
It would be a lie to say that I am not sad. After all, we have been good friends for decades.
Apparently a while ago, the two of them were laughing on the phone and made an appointment to come to the imperial capital to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, eat moon cakes and drink chrysanthemum tea. However, not long after making the call, they suddenly got into a car accident and left. Everyone was caught off guard and worried. The stem is uncomfortable.
The old man endured the sadness in his heart and nodded: "Thank you Ning Ning."
"Get in the car with Shen Han?"
After the old man said that, he got into the black Audi car in front. Jin Chenhan reached out and took Meng Luoning's hand and led her to a black Mercedes-Benz car in the back.
The remaining bodyguards took another commercial vehicle.
After the car door closed, Meng Luoning looked through the car window at the Audi car in front, with a faint eyebrow, and said, "Grandpa seems to have cried."
"It was the first time I saw my grandpa cry."
Jin Chenhan said in a deep tone: "That friend has a very good relationship with my grandfather. We worked together for more than ten years and saved my grandfather's life in an accident."
"The two have a lifelong friendship."
Therefore, people often say that things are impermanent.
That's true.
The person who was smiling at you one moment may be gone in the next moment.
Meng Luoning suddenly remembered that she was like this in her last life...a moment ago, she had happily received the trophy for being the youngest actress in history on a star-studded podium.
As a result, the trophy was still warm in her arms. The next moment, she was killed by Jin Tianfeng in the mud in the backyard.
She didn't even know what he was thinking about dragging her body in the middle of the night, sneaking into her house secretly, and dumping her in the mud in the backyard.
Maybe, if you are a scumbag to a certain extent, you can do any evil things.
Fortunately, she received God's mercy.
You can start over.
She should be grateful.
I'm glad I'm alive, I'm glad I've found the man I truly love.
I'm also glad...she will be by his side for the rest of her life.
Thinking of this, Meng Luoning's nose felt uncontrollably sore, and her eyes suddenly became foggy, but she didn't want to cry now because she was afraid that the man next to her would worry about her.
Trying to suppress the sadness, he turned his face and looked out the window.
But, a little late, Jin Chenhan still saw it, reached out and gently pinched her chin, asking her to look at his face: "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
"Is it about grandpa?"
Meng Luoning nodded, yes, grandpa. Thinking about her own affairs again, she felt sad: "Yeah."
"Don't worry. When the condolences are over, I will take some time to come back to be with him. Then I won't be able to accompany you often."
"Please be considerate of me."
Meng Luoning is not that squeamish, nor is she ignorant. When something like this happens, it is natural that her grandfather is in an important mood: "I won't be angry. Can I come back with you to accompany grandpa?"
Jin Chenhan nodded tenderly, stretched out his arms to hold her in his arms: "Ning Ning, thank you for always being by my side."
"Don't say stupid things. I am with you because I love you." Meng Luoning leaned into his arms and held his right hand tightly with both hands.
"The most important thing now is to take care of grandpa mentally and emotionally."
Jin Chenhan knew it and hugged her tightly with one hand, his eyes dark and deep.
The black Mercedes-Benz continued to drive rapidly on the highway following the Audi in front.
After a three-hour drive, all three cars arrived at the Zhang family in other provinces to express their condolences within a few minutes.
The Zhang family now lives in the urban area, but it is not convenient to hold funerals in the urban area, so the Zhang family built the mourning hall in an old self-built house in the suburbs of their hometown.
After the old man and Jin Chenhan got off the bus, the Zhang family knew that they were from the imperial capital and were old Mr. Zhang's best friends during his lifetime. Naturally, they did not dare to neglect them. They had already arranged for their nephew, who had just graduated from college, to wait on the concrete roadside in front of the old house. With.
Wait for the three of them to come over.
Uncle Zhang's nephew hurried over to receive him: "Grandpa Jin, Mr. Jin, I am Uncle Zhang's nephew. My aunt asked me to receive you. Please come with me."
After speaking, the nephew glanced at the old man, Jin Chenhan, and Meng Luoning beside him.
I was a little nervous subconsciously. These wealthy people from the imperial capital had such a strong aura.
One glance at him made him feel like he was being interviewed in front of a Fortune 500 boss, making people afraid to say anything.
The old man nodded to him, raised his hand and patted his shoulder, saying, "Take me to see your uncle."
The nephew quickly responded obediently: "Okay, Grandpa Jin, please come with me."
The old man suppressed the sadness in his eyes, followed the young man's footsteps and entered the mourning hall to express his condolences, followed closely by Jin Chenhan and Meng Luoning.
The three of them walked from the courtyard of their self-built house to the living room together.
At this time, there were cries in the living room, and a coffin covered with yellow cloth was placed in the middle of the room. A small window was opened in front of the coffin for guests to pay their respects.
Uncle Zhang's wife and children, all dressed in white burial clothes, stood beside the coffin and cried bitterly.
The old man took one look at this scene and thought that old man Zhang had called him a while ago. Lehaha said that he wanted to come and play with him and practice chess with him.
He said he took a chess improvement class a few months ago.
He has been able to defeat the teacher in the chess class, and he is waiting for him to come to him during the Mid-Autumn Festival for a spar.
To repay the 'humiliation' of defeating him before.
He replied: "Come on, let's compete again, but don't let me defeat you again?"
He smiled: "How could it be? I admitted losing to you when I was young. Now I have signed up for special training. If I lose the thousands of dollars I spent in your chess class, it will be in vain."
He was waiting, always looking forward to the Mid-Autumn Festival coming soon.
He wanted to reunite with him to drink tea, play chess, and admire the moon.
How... can he break his promise?
The more the old man thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. When he lowered his head and bowed to him, there were tears in the corners of his eyes.
After bowing three times, he walked to the coffin, raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and looked at Old Man Zhang, who was lying quietly in the coffin.
The old man's eyes turned red again, and he stretched out his hand to touch him, but finally held back: "Old man Zhang, you... always break your promises."
"How many times did you lie to me when you were young? Then you still lie to me when you are old?"
"Let's see how long you can deceive me. When I go down later... I have to find you and ask you clearly. Why can't you promise me something and fail to do it?"
"You...you...just wait...I will definitely ask you."
After the old man murmured in a low voice, the muddy tears at the end of his eyes fell again. Meng Luoning saw it and quickly took out a clean handkerchief from the bag she was carrying and handed it to her grandfather: "Grandpa, don't be sad."
The old man lowered his head to hold back his tears, reached for the handkerchief, pressed the tears at the corners of his eyes and said, "Well, it's okay."
"You and Shen Han should go and bow too."
After saying that, the old man put his handkerchief in his pocket and turned to see Uncle Zhang's family.
Aunt Zhang was also familiar with him. When she looked at the old man, she originally didn't want to cry and wanted to talk to him. But when her emotions came over, she couldn't hold it back and kept crying while covering her mouth.
The old man pressed the corners of his eyes and took out a stack of thick envelopes from his pocket. There was one hundred thousand in cash and a check for one million.
Now that the pillar of the Zhang family has fallen, he knows that life will be difficult for their family in the future.
"Shufen, I apologize and accept the change."
"This is a piece of my mind, keep it."
Aunt Zhang nodded, but she didn't want this, and said quickly: "We are very grateful that you can come to see him, but we can't have this."
The old man would not take it away, so he forced it into her hand: "Take it, this money is clean, my family Shen Han is doing business."
"Just think of it as my piece of mind."
"Besides, I see that your daughter-in-law just gave birth to a baby this year, and the family has a lot of expenses. Don't be polite to me."
"If you don't accept it, I won't treat you as old friends in the future."
Aunt Zhang couldn't refuse the old man's words for a moment. She could only keep saying thank you and accepted this huge favor from him with red eyes.
