What do you want in life

Chapter 18 Young Love Is Like Fireworks Are Cold (12)
Wu Qiuyue snorted, turned around and walked out into the yard.Holding the cup of ebony juice, Xiaoying couldn't move as if she had been immobilized by her gaze. After a while, she followed as if she had just woken up from a dream.

Grandma Wu was still sitting in the rattan chair, turning a blind eye to the people coming from a distance.After Wu Qiuyue sat down in front of her, she slowly called out, "Mom—"

Grandma Wu seemed to have already settled down, sitting neither angry nor happy, turning a deaf ear to her daughter's calling.

Xiaoying quietly handed over the cup of ebony juice, and said softly, "Grandma, this is very fragrant, you can drink it."

Probably the sweet and sour smell of the ebony juice woke up Grandma Wu. She took a sip, sipped it slowly, and took another sip.

Wu Qiuyue stared at her mother's face with a worried look on her face, "Mom—" she called out again.

This time, Grandma Wu finally heard it, her face slowly turned to Qiuyue, her eyes also stayed on her face, her eyes were full of ignorant kindness.

"Sister-in-law, what brought you here?" She smiled and talked to her daughter.

Wu Qiuyue couldn't laugh or cry, but her heart became heavier, "Mom, I am your daughter Qiuyue! Don't you even recognize me?"

"Sister-in-law, I told Dongchun last year that the ginkgo tree at the door might bear fruit this year. I went to see it today, and it sure did bear fruit! I told him that he still wouldn't believe it..."

Wu Qiuyue's face suddenly sank, she snatched the cup from Grandma Wu's hand, sniffed it under her nose, and asked Xiaoying sternly, "What did you give her to drink?"

Xiaoying was very nervous, "It's ebony juice. Aunt Wang said Grandma Wu likes it..."

Before she finished speaking, Wu Qiuyue didn't want to listen any more, put the cup heavily on the table, and quickly took out a black mobile phone from the purse she was carrying.

Xiaoying has seen her uncle also have one. Business people seem to like to use this fashionable communication tool, but her uncle's mobile phone is obviously bigger than Wu Qiuyue's. She remembers that he called it "Big Brother" big".

After Wu Qiuyue frowned and dialed a series of numbers, she stood up with her back to Xiaoying, and stood facing the flower bed.

Grandma Wu was stunned for a moment, her eyes dangling, and she found the cup on the stone table. She leaned over to get it, but she couldn't reach it, but she stretched her hand to reach it, and she made a strange humming sound. the sound of.

Xiaoying anxiously looked at Wu Qiuyue's back, then at Grandma Wu, not knowing what to do. She didn't think dark plum juice would do any harm to Grandma Wu, but she was also worried that if she gave it to Grandma Wu without permission Yes, Wu Qiuyue would blame herself again when she found out, she had to admit that she was a little afraid of her.

Wu Qiuyue's call was finally connected, she seemed to be holding back a breath of anger, and now she let it all out.

"Xiaofen, how can you leave mom at home alone and let a little girl watch? You don't know what she looks like now...you can figure it out! She shouldn't be released from the hospital in this state. Come out! Don't argue with me, come here now and see what she looks like! She is completely out of her mind, do you know what she called me just now? Saying it makes you mad! She called me sister-in-law!"

Listening to Wu Qiuyue's stern lecture, and looking at Grandma Wu who was obsessed with the cup, Xiaoying felt sad. She squatted down, without hesitation, picked up the cup and handed it to Grandma Wu.

Grandma Wu laughed slowly, very satisfied, like a child who just got candy.

"...I know it's my mother's intention to leave the hospital, but the consequences of doing so are very serious, do you know! Forget it, forget it, I can't tell you clearly on the phone, where are you now, at home or at work? I'll go find you, Let's meet and talk..."

At the end of the phone call, Wu Qiuyue's excitement at the beginning finally calmed down a bit, but Xiaoying's nerves did not dare to relax, and she was still tense.In front of Wu Qiuyue, she could do nothing but just stand there.

Wu Qiuyue turned around and saw Grandma Wu drinking black plum juice again, her almond eyes widened and she shouted angrily, "Why are you giving her this again! I don't know her blood sugar is high!"

Her yelling was too sudden and loud, Grandma Wu's hand trembled, she didn't hold the cup firmly, she fell to the ground, soaked in ebony juice.

Xiaoying was so frightened that she hurriedly picked up the towel beside the table and wiped it for Grandma Wu.

Wu Qiuyue stood behind her, stared at her flustered appearance with disgust, and cursed in a low voice, "You're so stupid!"

Tears of grievance filled Xiaoying's eyes at once, and she tried her best to endure them, not daring to let them fall out, and not daring to turn her head to face Wu Qiuyue.

She asked herself that she was not a submissive child, but there were some things that she couldn't force. She didn't know where she offended Wu Qiuyue—or was it because of Shen Juncheng?
As soon as this thought crossed her mind, she didn't dare to think about it any more, she just wiped away Grandma Wu in vain. In the eyes blurred by tears, she raised her head impressively and saw Grandma Wu's benevolence like Maitreya Buddha. The smile is so indifferent to the world.

Wu Qiuyue received the phone, glanced at the sluggish old mother again, sighed heavily, and told Xiaoying: "Don't let her sit here, quickly help her upstairs to rest, and by the way, clean her dirty clothes. Clothes changed."

Xiaoying had no choice but to follow suit.

"By the way, where did Aunt Wang go?" Qiuyue frowned as if she had just remembered her, and asked, "How could she go away!"

Xiaoying wasn't sure how to answer so as not to offend the aunt in front of her, "She, she'll be here in a while."

After answering, he realized that he was terribly weak, and rushed forward to help Grandma Wu up.

Grandma Wu was already heavier than her, but now she was unconscious, and when someone dragged her, she immediately wanted to resist like a child, fumbling around with her hands, and swept the book on the table to the ground in one fell swoop. The portrait also fell out, face up, and floated quietly to Wu Qiuyue's feet.

When Xiaoying saw it, she immediately turned pale with fright, but she couldn't throw away Grandma Wu in her hand to pick it up. Just when she was trembling with fear, Wu Qiuyue bent over and picked it up in her hand.

She was puzzled at first, but when she glanced at the name note below, a furious expression suddenly appeared on her face, she stared straight at Xiaoying with her sharp eyes, and asked sharply, "What does this mean?"

Xiaoying panicked, unable to explain herself.

In fact, Wu Qiuyue didn't need her to explain. She gave her a hard look, then lowered her head and glanced at the two smiling faces on the portrait.
When she looked at Xiaoying again, her eyes were so cold that it could freeze people, and she restrained her disgust, and said in a deep voice, "Send the old lady upstairs first!"

Xiaoying swallowed all her grievances, glanced at the debris on the ground, and together with Wu Qiuyue helped Grandma Wu into the room on the second floor without saying a word.

Neither of them spoke, and they behaved tacitly to help Grandma Wu change the dirty clothes and put her on the bed.

Grandma Wu didn't seem to want to sleep, she straightened her neck and wanted to say something to Qiuyue, but her eyes were blank.

Qiuyue pressed her mother's shoulders, and said slowly, "Mom, you are tired, go to sleep for a while."

After repeating similar words several times, Grandma Wu finally gave in, and deep tiredness took control of her.

After staying with her mother for a while, Wu Qiuyue got up and went downstairs, walked to the door, turned around abruptly, and said to Xiaoying, "Come here." The voice was not high, but there was a sense of majesty.

Xiaoying knew that she must have come with bad intentions, her heart was beating wildly like a drum, but she couldn't refuse, so she had to bite the bullet and get up and follow.

In the living room downstairs, Wu Qiuyue stood still, looking at Xiaoying with a razor-like gaze that made her skin hurt, "I don't know if I should tell you something."

The uneasiness in Xiaoying's heart was intensifying. She thought that it must have something to do with the portrait just now, and the little luck she had had before had disappeared at this moment.

If an adult caught this kind of thing, it would be embarrassing, especially Shen Juncheng's mother, her face flushed red, she lowered her head, ready to be punished.

"But I'm a person who can't keep my words in my heart. Since we met today, I think it's better for you and me to say it—you... stay away from Shen Juncheng!" She said the latter sentence through gritted teeth. , every word is as angular as if cut out with a knife.

Like a thunderbolt striking the sky above her head, Xiaoying was shocked, angry and panicked, but found that she was suddenly powerless.

Wu Qiuyue didn't sound like an elder teaching a junior to mess around at all, but more like declaring war on a thief who was eyeing her wealth!This is beyond what 16-year-old Han Xiaoying can bear.

Wu Qiuyue stopped looking at her, looked over the top of her head, proudly cast her eyes on an unknown point ahead, and added: "I don't care what you were thinking before, but now I can tell you clearly that he will go abroad soon, I I don't want anyone or anything to interfere with him. What's more, you," her sharp eyes swept over Xiaoying's bloodless face, "you are not qualified at all!"

Xiaoying didn't know how she respectfully sent Wu Qiuyue away, she walked back to the yard in a daze of consciousness.

Outside the fence full of gardenias, some pieces of paper torn by Wu Qiuyue still remain on the ground, with a breeze blowing, the pieces of paper turn over on the ground boredly, like birds that are tired and refuse to move butterflies.

She squatted down, carefully picked up every fragment of each page, and hid them in the palm of her hand like a treasure, but the teardrops in her eyes couldn't bear the weight, and rolled down one by one, fell into the soil, and was instantly sucked clean.

Amidst the strong smell of decoction, Xiaoying and Aunt Wang sat relatively silent. The time when they first met in harmony and talked about everything seemed to be gone forever.

Aunt Wang was choosing dishes, while Xiaoying was holding a book in her hand, but her mind was not on the book at all.

Last night, Liu Juan told Xiaoying that the matter of taking care of Grandma Wu would end early, and Grandma Wu would be sent back to the nursing home next Monday.

Hearing this news, Xiaoying knew that Wu Qiuyue had won.

"It's true, Dr. Yang clearly said that staying at home with family members is easier to control the disease. I don't know what their family members think, but they still have to send them back..." Liu Juan complained dissatisfiedly, but there was nothing she could do. .

"Auntie." Xiaoying asked, "Then do I still have to go to Wu's house?"

Liu Juan thought for a while and said: "You should go these two days. You have to start and finish things. Besides, Mrs. Zhao didn't tell you not to go. Listening to her, it seems that she is also unhappy about this matter!"

Xiaoying really didn't want to go anymore, but in the end, she could only obey her aunt's arrangement, and everything must start and end.

Then let's have a beginning and an end, but fortunately, that "end" is only two days away.

The casserole for decocting medicine made the sound of "puffing, puffing", and Aunt Wang hurriedly got up to turn down the firepower. Looking back, she saw Xiaoying was still staring at the book in a daze for almost 10 minutes. Turn over.

Sitting back on the small bench again, Aunt Wang said leisurely, "When I was young, one of my relatives had an older lady who was a helper in Shanghai. Once she was ill by accident, so I asked me to help her go to Shanghai. Before I went, she explained the rules to me. The rules and regulations of the big family are very annoying, and I have forgotten many of them, but there is one, which my mother said is very important and must be remembered. "

Xiaoying raised her head and glanced at her in confusion. Aunt Wang didn't look at her, but carefully picked out the yellowed vegetable leaves with her eyes lowered, and said slowly in her mouth: "Don't have anything to do with the master's house. This is the most taboo thing for helpers."

Xiaoying suddenly understood the cryptic meaning in Aunt Wang's words, she lowered her head, her face turned red and white.In fact, from Wu Qiuyue's attitude towards her, Xiaoying had vaguely guessed that the person who "informed" was most likely Aunt Wang, and what she said at this time made Xiaoying's guess even more conclusive.

Only then did Aunt Wang take a quick look at her face, sighed slightly, and said, "Although the times are different now, and you don't like this kind of concept anymore, the rules of the older generation can't be changed in a while. If you don't talk about it on the surface, everyone will think that it is called Gao Pan. Besides, Qiuyue's son is not easy to come by. She has spent so much effort on Juncheng over the years, how could it be possible..."

Her words stopped for a moment, and she turned to Xiaoying and said earnestly: "You are also stupid, if something happens, it will always be the girl who suffers in the end..."

"Auntie!" Xiaoying's face was pale, and she lowered her head even more, "Stop talking, what you mean...I understand."

Aunt Wang saw a sadness that didn't match her age gradually rise on her sharp and thin face, and she couldn't bear it, but she reminded her that she was not trying to harm her, but helping her. She knew very well that Wu Qiuyue was absolutely It is impossible to accept the girl in front of me.

The last day at Wu's house came soon.Xiaoying had never seen Shen Juncheng before, and she had a premonition that the relationship between them might just end like this.

Perhaps, it's good for both of them to stop here. For her, the beautiful and short-lived everything is like an unrealistic dream, and now it's just waking up from a dream.

Grandma Wu's situation has returned to the starting point of ups and downs.

Aunt Wang told Xiaoying that when she was sober, some of Grandma Wu's children had politely told her that she would be sent to a nursing home for a while. The wife doesn't like to go there, and she came back with the help of her youngest daughter last time because she clamored to go home.

But Grandma Wu didn't insist much this time, and finally nodded in acquiescence. Maybe she didn't really know nothing about her body.

At this time, she was sitting in the yard, looking up at the bunches of white flowers hanging from the old locust tree, and asked Xiaoying as if she was a little sober, "Is today the 20th?"

Feeling refreshed in the chaos, Xiaoying nodded, "Yes, grandma, today is August 8th."

"August 8th, August 20th..." Grandma Wu repeated in a murmur.

Aunt Wang brought out a bowl of decoction and coaxed Grandma Wu to drink it down. Seeing her tired face, she whispered in her ear and asked, "Are you tired? Do you want to go upstairs to rest for a while?"

Grandma Wu blinked a few times, "Go upstairs? Hmm...Go upstairs..."

Upstairs, Aunt Wang helped Grandma Wu lie down, looked at her blue-gray face, and frowned even tighter.

Xiaoying went downstairs together behind her, and said softly, "Grandma Wu seems to be better, she remembers today's date."

"Really?" Aunt Wang was a little surprised, but also a little happy, and at the same time felt melancholy, "Oh, I won't be awake for long, so I'd better go to the hospital and rest assured! In this house, it's usually just the two of us, in case something happens matter, how can we handle it."

Seeing that it was still early, Aunt Wang said, "You stay here for a while, and I will come when I go back to do something, at most an hour. If Grandma Wu wakes up early, you can call me and I will be right back."

As soon as Aunt Wang left, Xiaoying went upstairs to the study to pick up a book, and went to visit Grandma Wu's room, she was in a deep sleep.Xiaoying quietly closed the door and tiptoed downstairs, a thought inexplicably popped up in her mind-whether she should be by Grandma Wu's side to guard her, after all, this was her last day in Wu's house.

However, this idea only slipped in her mind, and she rejected it. Grandma Wu never liked sitting next to someone while she was sleeping.

Sitting in the yard, Xiaoying was holding an old book she had just picked out from the study, a sense of melancholy emerged spontaneously.

From now on, the study room here will no longer belong to her. Although this study room has never belonged to her, Xiaoying is used to nesting in that spacious space by herself, shuttling among various books like a fish. This feeling of freedom and relaxation was something she had never experienced before.

There are quite a few books left by her uncle, but unfortunately the room is very small, once she walked in, she felt cramped and crowded, and it was a completely different world from here.

To her, the study is not just as simple as having books, she suddenly thought of Shen Juncheng's heart palpitations and blood rushing presumptuousness when he forced her into a corner and kissed her forcibly!
It was really like an island that was dropped from the sky because of pity on her, it was full of flowers and attractive fruits, if she accidentally tasted it, she would never forget the ecstasy.

"Stay away from Shen Juncheng!" Wu Qiuyue's cold words suddenly fell from the air, breaking all the moving dreams.

Xiaoying shuddered all over. In this hot summer, she actually felt a bit of coldness from the bottom of her heart.

Her mind returned to the book, looking at the small and clear typefaces one by one, feeling like she didn't know what day and night it was.

There seemed to be a muffled "plop" sound coming from somewhere, and it was fleeting, and Xiaoying's eyelids also jumped. She raised her face and looked around, with a somewhat dazed expression.

The surroundings were as quiet as before, without any abnormalities, but the sound lingered in her ears for a long time, which really made her feel uneasy.

She was worried, so she put down her book and ran into the house. No matter what, she had to go and see Grandma Wu first, as long as she was fine.

I don't know whether it's a psychological effect or a strong sixth sense. The more Xiaoying ran, the weaker her body became. Her heartbeat was unreasonably fast for some reason. When she stepped on the stairs, this feeling became more intense, making her feel helpless. After a pause, he rushed upstairs and went straight to Grandma Wu's room!

The door was slammed open by her. On the bed, the towels and blankets were piled up at the end of the bed, and a round fan was half hung on the edge of the bed. It was about to fall, but Grandma Wu was nowhere to be seen.

Xiaoying was gasping for breath by the door, with panic in her eyes, she had no time to think, she turned around and searched for other rooms.

The doors of the rooms were pushed open and inspected, but there was no sign of Grandma Wu anywhere. Xiaoying was so anxious that she was about to cry, and the ominous omen stirred turbulently in her body.

"Grandma! Grandma Wu!" She shouted loudly, and gradually, there was a tear in her voice.

When the door of the last study room was ajar in front of her eyes, Xiaoying suddenly lost the courage to approach it.She widened her eyes, filled with intense fear, and moved slowly step by step. If she could, she really wanted to turn around and run away without having to undertake the heavy task of revealing the secret.

But she knew that she couldn't.

She finally came to the door of the study, she didn't dare to look around, the first thing she noticed was the bookshelf by the window which was almost at the same level as her line of sight.

(End of this chapter)