fall in love again

Chapter 112 He has been with them for many years (two in one)

It turned out that he was saying goodbye to them in his own way.

Two days before Jiang Shu's death, Jiang Shu had been pushing the cart around, and Chai Zhen just followed behind him, asking him what he was doing, but he didn't say anything, and could only follow him silently.

Jiang Shu stopped in front of a noodle factory. He stared at the noodle factory for a long time, then turned around and said to Chai Zhen who was following him, "Shall we go in and buy some bags of noodles?"

Chai Zhen glanced at him suspiciously, and asked in confusion, "Don't you have noodles at home? Why do you want to buy noodles again?"

"It's time to get ready." Jiang Shu parked the cart outside the noodle factory, and then stepped up the steps outside the door.

Chai Zhen also stopped the bicycle she was holding on to, and followed him into the noodle factory.

"It's almost a holiday, they like to eat the noodles I rolled." Jiang Shu stepped into the factory.

It took Chai Zhen a while to realize that he was talking about his grandchildren, nephews and nieces.

The factory manager was an old acquaintance of the two of them. After the two went in, they chatted with the factory manager for a while, and then came out of the factory with three bags of noodles.

Jiang Shu put all the three bags of noodles on the cart. It was a bit difficult to lift the handle of the cart, but he still lifted the handle of the cart.

The factory is not close to their home, and the two walked for nearly an hour before arriving home.

When he got home, Jiang Shu unloaded all the noodles, then put two bags of them in the storage room, and said to Chai Zhen, "The noodles are here, remember."

Chai Zhen gave a "hmm" and said, "Whenever you lost something, I have to help you find it. I have a better memory than you."

Jiang Shu smiled bitterly, and continued: "Yes, you have a better memory than me."

After the two came out of the storage room, Jiang Shu carried the last bag of noodles on the cart into the kitchen.

He always cut the bag with scissors, and then went to get the usual noodle bowl, took some noodles out of it and poured it in.

"I'll make you a meal of the noodles I made too." Seeing Chai Zhen staring at him, Jiang Shu raised his eyes subconsciously to explain to Chai Zhen.

Chai Zhen thought he was strange.

They had been out for a day, and it was time for dinner.

But both she and Jiang Shu wore dentures, so they seldom ate noodles on weekdays, and only cooked them when the children came. However, they drank stewed noodles most of the time, because the noodles couldn't be chewed.

"Boiled soft." Jiang Shu said.

Chai Zhen let out a "hmm", not thinking about anything else, and turned around to peel the tomatoes,
When she finished the stew, Jiang Shu's noodles were almost ready.

Jiang Shu sometimes rolled the dough while sitting down on weekdays. He didn't know if he couldn't use the strength, so that night he stood up, bent over, and rolled it vigorously.

When rolling out the noodles, the chopping board below collided with the table, making a loud bang.

Chai Zhen, who had a loud voice, looked back at him many times.

After the two finished their meal, they fed the chickens in the yard together and fell asleep.

Before going to bed, Jiang Shu kept staring at Chai Zhen.

Chai Zhen turned her head and opened her eyes to see Jiang Shu who was staring at her, and she was terrified.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Chai Zhen asked Jiang Shu who was lying beside her.

Jiang Shu said weakly, "I can't sleep."

Chai Zhen said, "It's very late."

Jiang Shu said "Yes", "I know."

His eyes are still open.

Jiang Shu kept staring at her, and Chai Zhen couldn't sleep.

There were no curtains installed in the bedroom where Chai Zhen and Jiang Shu slept, and the hazy moonlight shone into the room through the window, just enough to see the two figures lying on the wooden bed clearly.

"Why do you keep looking at me?" Chai Zhen asked, staring into his eyes.

Jiang Shu said, "I just want to see you."

Chai Zhen said, "You didn't look at me when you were young, and you didn't look at me during the day. Now that you're old and it's dark, you look at me by the moonlight?"

"You are the most beautiful under the moonlight." Jiang Shu looked at Chai Zhen and bent his eyes and said, "If you are sleepy, go to bed early, and I will lie down by myself for a while."

Chai Zhen was indeed sleepy, she yawned long and then said, "Go to bed early, too."

Jiang Shu let out a "hmm", and then pulled the quilt covering the two of them.

Chai Zhen was really tired after pushing the cart and strolling around the street with Jiang Shu all day, so after closing her eyes, she fell asleep not long after.

Jiang Shu didn't know how long he had been lying on the bed, he only knew that his body was getting more and more tired.

He tilted his head to look at the moon outside the window, then lifted the quilt covering the two of them, followed the moonlight to find the slippers on the floor, carefully walked out of the bedroom, and closed the door.

After leaving the bedroom, Jiang Shu carefully opened the kitchen cabinet, took out the reconciled noodles from the basin, and rolled and pressed the noodles as lightly as possible.

Roll it out, put it in a bag, and put it in the upper shelf of the refrigerator.

Jiang Shu kept repeating these actions that night.

Repeat until you no longer have any strength, repeat until the rolling pin in your hand falls off, repeat until your eyelids can no longer be opened, repeat until the whole person hangs his head, and just sits silently on the chair in front of the chopping board.

There was a loud "bang bang" when the rolling pin fell to the ground, followed by the sound of the rolling pin rolling on the ground.

Chai Zhen was awakened by the sound of the rolling pin falling to the ground, and subconsciously reached out to touch the bed beside her.

Cool, no one.

Chai Zhen sat up from the bed in shock, and called Jiang Shu's name in a hoarse voice.

No one answered.

The sky outside the window was still dark, so Chai Zhen stretched out her hand and opened the door in the bedroom, got out of bed and went outside to look for Jiang Shu.

As soon as the bedroom door was opened, the scene that greeted her eyes immediately made Chai Zhen's eyes wet.

"Jiang Shu!"

Chai Zhen stepped forward to hug him, squatted down on the ground and carefully touched his face.

Jiang Shu didn't give him any movement, his eyelids were drooping, his head was drooping, and his arms were naturally down.

Chai Zhen stared at him and her eyes suddenly became moist. She held his face and called his name softly: "Jiang Shu, what are you talking about?"

She dared not reach out to sniff him.

"Jiang Shu?" Chai Zhen called him again.

He still didn't make any movement.

There was a piece of paper in Jiang Shu's apron pocket, only one corner was exposed, but it was very conspicuous on him.

Chai Zhen saw it as soon as she lowered her eyes.

With trembling hands, she took out the note in Jiang Shu's pocket:

[Chai Zhen:
When you read this letter, I should be gone.

You have been with me for more than 40 years, and you haven't had a good day.

It may be that people are old, and it is always easy to miss the past.

I've been dreaming a lot lately about the scene where we first met.You come to my noodle stall to eat noodles, and praise the delicious noodles I cook.

But after I got married, I never cooked a noodle for you, nor did I have time to cook a noodle for you.

Until there are Jiang Yan, Jiang Yu and Jiang Xu who love noodles like you.

...]

Chai Zhen tilted her neck staring at the words in the letter, she couldn't understand, she couldn't read.She only knew her name, and the names of her relatives.

But Jiang Shu wrote a letter.

It is not so much a letter as a suicide note.

Chai Zhen only took a cursory glance, then put away the suicide note, and reached out to touch the bottom of Jiang Shu's nose.

Without feeling any breath, she completely collapsed to the ground.

She showed the letter to Jiang Yong, who stared at the letter and shook his head.

Jiang Yong was also illiterate.

Jiang Yong's wife, Meng Jun, took a look.

Meng Jun stared at the letter and frowned, then handed the letter to Jiang Rong, motioning for her to read it.

Jiang Rong turned her head to look at Meng Jun, and then took it.

The content of the letter was very long, but Jiang Rong felt that it would be better for Chai Zhen to read it by herself.

Seeing those contents, Jiang Rong's eyes were red within a moment, and she didn't read a single word in a daze.

Chai Zhen asked her, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Rong just shook her head, and said to Chai Zhen, "Mom, you should see for yourself."

"I can't read, what do I think!" Chai Zhen became anxious when she heard Jiang Rong's words.

Jiang Yong can't read, but at least he knows more than Chai Zhen.

He just took a rough look and guessed the content of the letter, "That's Dad saying goodbye to you again."

Jiang Rong raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, picked out the important content, and read it to Chai Zhen: "Dad said, he misses the first time he met you."

"I regret not allowing you to live a good life after marriage."

"He said, you like to eat the noodles he made. But he didn't have time to make those for you, and he regretted it. When you get old and have time, the two of you will have no teeth, and it will be inconvenient to eat. Although Got dentures, but it's still weird..."

"He said that he felt that his body was getting worse day by day, so he would buy all your things for you before he left, so that no one would help you carry them..."

"He said..." Jiang Rong suddenly couldn't continue reading, she raised her hand to cover her lips, and burst into tears.

Tears fell on the suicide note in front of him, scratching the writing on it.

"He said..." Jiang Rong took a deep breath and said, "In the next life, I will definitely not let you be wronged..."

"Who wants to have a next life with him!" Chai Zhen sat on the ground slumped in white clothes, covering her face and crying, "Who wants to have a next life with him!"

"He doesn't even want to walk with me for a longer period of time!" Chai Zhen complained sentence by sentence: "He doesn't even want to walk with me for a longer period of time!"

"He doesn't even want to tell me that he's not feeling well! He doesn't want to tell me anything! He just likes to sneak on me!"

"Jiang Shu, you bastard!"

"Why don't you want to stay with me for a while!"

"why?"

"..."

Jiang Rong stared at Chai Zhen who was slumped on the ground crying and complaining for a moment.

She also had a lot of questions in her heart, and wanted to ask Jiang Shu why he didn't want to stay with them for a longer period of time, and why he let go so early.

but……

But Jiang Shu has been with them for a long time.

He's been fighting for it for a long, long time.

Jiang Shu had a heart attack, and he almost didn't recover when Jiang Rong got married, so he let go.

Fortunately, he was rescued.

After being rescued, Jiang Shu was still the same as before, but he took more medicine than before.

At that time, Chai Zhen complained to Jiang Shu: "If you dare to leave like this, I will not be buried with you when I die!"

Jiang Shu glanced at her, and said in a calm tone: "Then you can remarry directly after I die, and you don't have to be buried with me if you remarry. If you don't remarry, it's useless to say anything."

Chai Zhen was annoyed by Jiang Shu and only said "You——".

Seeing this, Jiang Shu quickly patted her arm and said: "My body is not clear, at least I can live until my child holds a grandson, granddaughter or nephew, niece..."

Chai Zhen snorted, "It's better like that."

Jiang Shu glanced at her and said nothing.

A few years after this incident, Jiang Shu went out for a walk, but he didn't come back all morning.

Chai Zhen went out to search around, and finally found Jiang Shu in her vegetable field.

Jiang Shu was lying in the vegetable field without moving. Chai Zhen hurriedly ran up to check his breath, and then breathed a sigh of relief after making sure he was alive.

Then someone called 120 and carried Jiang Shu to the hospital.

Jiang Shu still used the original words of the year: "I am so strong that I can—"

Before he could finish his words, Chai Zhen took up his words: "At least I can live until my child has a nephew, niece, or grandson or granddaughter."

After Chai Zhen finished speaking, she replied, "You better be like this."

Jiang Shu didn't speak.

In fact, Jiang Shu did live long enough for his child to embrace his grandson, granddaughter or niece.

When Jiang Rong was 14 years old, she embraced her first nephew.
Four years after his nephew was born, Jiang Shu passed away.

He didn't break his word.

He has been with them for many years.

Chai Zhen put the noodles rolled by Jiang Shu before his death into the pot, boiled them, and served them to the table for the people around the table to eat.

Jiang Yu stared at the very ordinary bowl of tomato and egg noodles in front of him and slowly shed tears, which fell into the bowl in front of him.

They all like to eat the noodles made by Jiang Shu, so Jiang Shu rolled a lot of noodles before leaving, just to make them eat more times.

Jiang Shu is saying goodbye to them in his own way, and he is also loving each of them in his own way.

...

"It's ready." Jiang Yu put the cooked noodles on the table and handed them to Chen Zhi.

Chen Zhi stared at the tomato stewed noodles in the bowl for a while, and then looked up at Jiang Yu who was sitting opposite.

Before Jiang Yu untied the apron, she seemed to be waiting for Chen Zhi to finish eating the noodles before cleaning the bowl.

"Have you learned from your grandfather?" Chen Zhi reached out to remove the chopsticks from the bowl, and then reached into the bowl to pick up a few and asked Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu shook his head: "No."

Chen Zhi bowed his head and blew on the hot noodles, then took a bite.

"Just saw the method."

When Jiang Shu rolled the noodles, she always stood by his side, and sometimes imitated his movements.

"It's delicious." The noodles that Chen Zhi ate before were all bought by Jiang Yu outside, but this time, Jiang Yu rolled them by himself, and the taste was surprisingly good.

Jiang Yu said, "The stew is made from my grandmother's secret recipe."

Chen Zhi said "Huh?" and looked up at Jiang Yu.

People like to tell their thoughts in the dead of night.

Jiang Yu was silent for a while and said, "The noodles rolled by grandpa and stewed by grandma are the best noodles in the world."

Chen Zhi stopped eating the noodles, and his ears that were ready to listen immediately perked up.

"The noodles I make will never reach that taste, I can only imitate [-]% to [-]%."

"That's not bad." Chen Zhi said, "It's better than I can only imitate [-]%."

"[-]%?" Jiang Yu looked up at him.

Chen Zhi said "um", and said solemnly: "[-]%."

It wasn't that Jiang Yu doubted Chen Zhi. Chen Zhi's technique might not be able to show even a single piece of it.

"Are you sure?" Jiang Yu asked Chen Zhi suspiciously.

Feeling doubted, Chen Zhi solemnly put down the chopsticks in his hand, and stared at Jiang Yu with a serious expression again.

He said: "It's impossible for me not to know how to make boiling water, right? Is there [-]% of this?"

Jiang Yu: "..."

For a moment, she didn't know how to refute him.

In the end, he could only laugh helplessly and said, "That's right."

(End of this chapter)