Jiang Heshu's hand holding the phone trembled slightly. After waiting for the connection, he hurriedly asked: "Where is grandma? Is she with you?"
Her tone was urgent and her voice was a little loud. Ding Ruirui was stunned.
"Aunt Liu was accompanying grandma in the park. Grandma asked me to come to the old store to buy some candied haws. There are a lot of people here. I just bought candied haws. What's wrong?"
Jiang Heshu said, "I'll explain to you later." Then he hung up the phone and dialed Aunt Liu's number.
After the call was connected, Jiang Heshu asked the same question as he just asked Ding Ruirui.
Aunt Liu said: "The old lady is chatting with someone in the pavilion. One of her earrings fell off. I am looking for it."
Jiang Heshu had beads of sweat on his palms and said anxiously: "Stop looking for me now. Go find my grandma and ask her to have a word with me."
Although Aunt Liu didn't know why, she still did it.
Within a minute, Jiang Heshu heard Aunt Liu's questioning voice: "My old lady was sitting here just now, why did she leave? Have you seen where she went?"
Someone said: "She said she was looking for her granddaughter and walked south along this road."
Hearing this, Jiang Heshu's blood surged upwards.
She didn't care about anything and ran out.
Jiang Heshu said while running: "Aunt Liu, go find grandma quickly. Please go find grandma quickly."
She was so anxious that she was crying. No matter how slow Aunt Liu was, she could still guess what Jiang Heshu meant.
"Don't worry, the old lady will be fine."
After Aunt Liu comforted her, she didn't dare to delay at all and ran in the direction directed by passers-by.
But it was still too late after all.
When she received the call from Aunt Liu, Jiang Heshu was still full of hope. However, after hearing the content, her legs weakened and she collapsed to the ground.
The arm scraped against the ground, breaking the skin, and dazzling bright red flowed down, along with Jiang Heshu's hot tears.
She endured the pain in her body, stood up from the ground, and ran towards the park next to the community.
The further we go, the more people there become and the sound becomes noisier.
Jiang Heshu crossed the crowd and stumbled forward.
On the shore of the artificial lake, there was a man who had just been fished out.
Her hair was pale, her wrinkled skin was wrinkled and white from blisters, and she lay silently on the cold ground.
There is an empty wheelchair next to it.
Time seemed to have stopped. Jiang Heshu's eyes were red, her vision became blurred, and her whole body was trembling.
He opened his mouth, but his throat seemed to be blocked by cotton and he couldn't make any sound.
Her heart was beating faster and faster, until Jiang Heshu's eyes were dizzy and his ears were ringing, until his vision turned dark and he lost all consciousness.
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Pei Yan rushed to Z city in the early morning.
The hospital was very deserted late at night. From time to time, mournful cries could be heard in the corridor. The night wind blew the windows, making it bone-chilling.
Aunt Liu, with red and swollen eyes, stepped forward and said with choked sobs: "Miss Jiang is not awake yet."
"Where's grandma?" Pei Yan's voice was dry.
Aunt Liu left two more lines of tears, "It has been cremated, signed by Miss Ruirui."
They were still happy in the morning, saying they would have a big dinner to celebrate in the evening, but before nightfall, the old lady was separated from them.
Not to mention Jiang Heshu and Ding Ruirui, not even Aunt Liu could accept this fact.
The passport has been issued, the oncology specialist has made an appointment, and everything is going in the right direction.
When she received the call from Jiang Heshu, Aunt Liu felt that Jiang Heshu was thinking too much, but her grandmother couldn't think about it any more, so she separated her from Ding Ruirui and threw herself into the lake.
Pei Yan's eyes fell on Ding Ruirui, who was holding a black urn in his arms on the bench in the corridor and his eyes were swollen like walnuts.
"Aunt Liu, I'm here. You can take Ding Ruirui to the hotel next door to have a rest."
Aunt Liu wiped her tears and nodded.
After they left, Pei Yan opened the door and walked into the ward.
The ward was dark. After a while, Pei Yan adapted to the light and could vaguely see the outline of the room.
He walked to the bedside and looked at the motionless figure on the bed.
When he saw in City A that his grandmother was about to commit suicide to relieve Jiang Heshu's burden, he tried to persuade her and reminded Jiang Heshu.
Unexpectedly, I still couldn't...
Pei Yan sighed in his heart and covered Jiang Heshu with a quilt. There was a hint of coolness in the air in the autumn night.
He accidentally touched Jiang Heshu's arm and realized that she was trembling.
Pei Yan was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand to turn on the light in the ward.
Jiang Heshu woke up without knowing when. Her face was covered with tears and her eyes were red and full of tears.
There was no cry, but her tears were like broken pearls, falling on the pillow, and the pillow was soaked with her tears.
There was no heart-wrenching cry, she just shed tears silently, lifelessly, with endless sadness, which made people feel heart-piercing pain.
Jiang Heshu's eyelashes trembled slightly, tears streaked down her cheeks, and her voice was hoarse: "Pei Yan, I don't have a grandma anymore."
Pei Yan's heart felt like it was being held in the palm of his hand, and it hurt terribly.
He leaned over and hugged Jiang Heshu into his arms, comforting him: "Grandma is just continuing to accompany you in a different way."
Jiang Heshu stared at the ceiling blankly, "Pei Yan, if I check grandma regularly, grandma's disease will not be discovered until the middle and late stages."
"If I work hard to make money after graduation and become very rich, my grandma will not commit suicide because she is afraid of dragging me down because I have no money."
"If I had stayed with grandma after returning to Z city, grandma would not have had the chance to commit suicide."
"If I didn't send out the video of Lin Ya and Gu Jing, grandma wouldn't see the video and faint."
Jiang Heshu said a lot of what-ifs, and the more he talked about it, the more excited he became.
"I was the one who killed grandma. Grandma has had a very hard life. My mother is right. I am the one who deserves death..."
If her grandmother didn't raise her, she wouldn't be so tired, and maybe she wouldn't get cancer.
If grandma had saved his brother when he had a car accident, his parents would not have been separated from grandma forever.
if……
Pei Yan interrupted her in a deep voice, "Jiang Heshu, you did not kill grandma. You are not allowed to pin these unfounded charges on yourself."
"After you learned that grandma was sick, you sold cars and houses for her treatment, trying to make grandma happy as much as possible. You have endured a lot for her illness, and you have done your best."
"No one has the right to blame you, and I believe grandma won't blame you either."
Of course grandma would not blame her. Grandma felt sorry for her the most. In order to reduce her burden, she would rather commit suicide by jumping into the lake.
Jiang Heshu burst into tears suddenly, grief-stricken, and her tears quickly wet Pei Yan's clothes.
Pei Yan hugged her a little tighter, and when he spoke again, his tone was softer.
"He Shu, cancer chemotherapy is very painful and uncomfortable. For grandma, isn't it a relief to leave?"
"Can we respect grandma's choice?"
Pei Yan could only comfort Jiang Heshu in this way.
Grandma did say that she didn’t want to suffer from chemotherapy anymore, but...
Jiang Heshu really didn't want to accept the fact that her grandmother had left.
She cried for a long time, and Pei Yan's warm palm patted her back.
He said: "He Shu, you have to cheer up. You still need to take charge of grandma's funeral."
Her uncle and aunt are in prison, Ding Gan is dead, Ding Ruirui is younger than her, and Jiang Heshu has to shoulder this heavy responsibility.
Seeing Jiang Heshu's eyes dull and unresponsive, Pei Yan continued: "We haven't found out who was behind the trouble at the wedding and made grandma's condition worse. Cheer up, we are going to avenge grandma."
Hearing this, Jiang Heshu's eyes became focused.
Yes, grandma's condition was developing in a good direction, and the doctor said that she would just need to check her regularly in the future.
It was that video that caused grandma's cancer cells to spread and made her lose hope of living.
Jiang Heshu clenched her fists and dug her nails into her flesh, but she seemed not to feel any pain.
But she didn't know what she thought of. She felt weak and closed her eyes. "You have been investigating for so long and you still can't find it."
Pei Yan couldn't find out, so how could she find out?
She is an extremely ordinary person, and revenge is simply a fantasy.
Pei Yan looked at her expression, thought about it again and again, and decided to tell the truth.
