About him I have a crush on

Chapter 2 Manqing
Love, joy and celebration, illness and loneliness.

【one】

Now Chi Wei had to calm down and put on a friendly tone, and pressed her boyfriend's number on the keyboard again.

A few minutes ago, she was still full of anger, planning to lecture the other party for 10 minutes and then break up with him.At the end of the lengthy speech, let's say "I wish you happiness".

Well now, they are useless.

The moment Chi Wei silently recited her lines complacently, pressed the number and clicked "Dial"——she fell down the stairs.

But as the saying goes, when disasters come, blessings lean on them, and when blessings come, disasters lie there. God must have opened a window for you while closing the door.

A few hours later, Chi Wei successfully persuaded the doctor with her penetrating tongue to allow her to spend two weeks in the inpatient department to recuperate for her cracked hand.Being able to get an air-conditioned room at a [-]% off student price in the nearly [-]-degree summer, Chi Wei joyfully wrapped her boyfriend's arm with her remaining hand, as if she was a lover in love, but the boy couldn't help it because of this. The sudden reversal was embarrassing.

However, there is another meaning of the saying that misfortune and good fortune depend on each other, which means that God will not let you have an easy life.

The place in front of me is not so much an inpatient department, but a nursing home, with chess players on one side and music singers on the other side, bustling like a park.

Chi Wei walked into the ward helplessly, her boyfriend helped her tidy up the bed and looked at her mobile phone, "There is still a meeting in the department, I'll go back first, bring your things here tomorrow, and send me a list later. "

Chi Wei nodded to see her boyfriend off, picked up the milk tea on the table and wanted to drink it.

"Do you have a small stereo?" The door of the room next door was not closed, and when Chi Wei walked to the door, he heard the old man inside talking, and his grandson was sitting beside the bed with his back to the door.

"This is a hospital, how can I listen to the stereo." The boy's answer was a bit of a complaining tone that teenagers often have.

"I see that the granddaughter of Lao Zhang next to him helped him get that kind of loudspeaker?" The old man was still a little unwilling, "The song he played is really terrible, I really want to listen to Man Qing's "The Heavenly Girl Scattering Flowers"."

"But she didn't sing your tape either."

"That's right." The old man sighed and said something to himself, "None of them can sing as well as Manqing."

Seeing the topic come to an end, "Well, hi," Chi Wei pushed open the door and shook the plastic bottle in front of the boy, "Can you open it for me?"

"Hey... Chi Wei?" The boy took the bottle and showed his familiar face in front of her.

【two】

When the old people came back from their morning exercises, Grandpa Xu babbled and sang the jokes of "Farewell My Concubine" all the way.Chi Wei, who was standing at the door and swiping her phone, paused in the familiar melody, she raised her head, "Grandfather, I have "Farewell My Concubine" sung by Leslie Cheung here, would you like to listen to it?"

"Leslie Cheung..." Grandpa Xu stopped, as if recalling this somewhat familiar but unclear name, "Is he famous?"

"Well, he's an actor, and he sang this when he played Tsing Yi." Chi Wei said and turned on the player.

"Tsing Yi has already become a role to be played." Grandpa Xu sighed a little, and soon fell into deep thought during the sound of the song, until the aria ended with a sad "Bie Yi".

"Actor, it's boring to be so serious." Grandpa Xu said in that kind of old man's tone that sees through the world. There is a solution, so there must be a degree of seriousness, and probably only Man Qing can see through this kind of thing."

Chi Wei was stunned for a moment, and found that Grandpa Xu always mentioned one person repeatedly, "Grandfather, is the Manqing you are talking about a Peking Opera actor?"

"Yeah, she was really popular back then." Grandpa Xu sighed, "It's a pity that she stopped singing later. There are so many celebrities in Liyuan, so it passed quickly, and no one remembers it now."

"Don't Peking opera actors practice hard since they were young, why don't they sing anymore?" Chi Wei asked.

"Meet someone you like more than singing." Grandpa Xu said and walked back to the room, "It's all about old sesame seeds and rotten millet."

After learning that the old man's grandson is a classmate Xu Zishun, Chi Wei naturally took more care of him.At noon, I helped Mr. Xu make lunch together, but when she came back with two lunch boxes, there were already two bowls of steaming hot food on the old man's table.

"I didn't know she brought it for me too." Grandpa Xu gestured to Chi Wei in the direction of the balcony, she turned around and saw a mother-in-law in a navy blue shirt packing her things, and Chi Wei, who was confused, took the bag Put it on the table.

"I'm sorry, little girl," the mother-in-law walked in. She had only a few strands of silver hair on her head. She looked much younger than Grandpa Xu, but she didn't look like she was old enough to work as a nurse. To be precise, it was her body. That kind of elegant temperament made it impossible for Chi Wei to connect with the word "nursing worker". "The old man has been clamoring for a few days ago to eat hairtail fish, so I brought it over for him. I didn't know that you had already bought it for him. I'm really sorry."

"It's okay." Chi Wei smiled generously.

"By the way, Xiaochi listened to "Farewell My Concubine" for me today." Grandpa Xu interrupted their apologies, and commented on his own, "Young people nowadays can sing quite well. ,but……"

"Why are you bothering him again?" the mother-in-law interrupted Grandpa Xu's rambling emotion, "Didn't I say that I would bring you the tape next time? I can't wait so much."

"You just talk like that, how long has it been since the next time, it's useless to listen to it." Grandpa Xu made a dissatisfied tone, but the chopsticks stuffed the octopus into his mouth without stopping Li, showing a satisfied look.

"What nonsense, you still have time to listen." The mother-in-law turned her head to Chi Wei and said, "Little girl, don't pay attention to him, he talks about Peking Opera endlessly."

"No, I like it too." Chi Wei said.

【Three】

The sky in summer was so clear that there was no cloud, and the lush branches and leaves of the trees were projected onto the ground of the ward by the sunlight, flickering, as if bringing the wind outside the window into the room.It seems that in many stories that happened in the ward, the author will describe the patient looking out the window on the bed. At this moment, Chi Wei is standing on the balcony, and those sticky ink-like shadows fall on her body, making her feel that these The ordinary dark green plants suddenly become fresh and lively.

After two knocks on the door, a strong fragrance wafted into the room. "Little girl," the mother-in-law stood at the door with a bag in hand, "I made bone soup for you, drink it while it's hot, it's good for your long bones."

"How embarrassing." Chi Wei was a little flattered, and followed her mother-in-law into the next door.

"Hurry up, hurry up," Grandpa Xu said with a smile when he saw them coming in, "Xiao Shen's cooking skills are very good, I don't even have anything I want to eat."

"What do you want to eat again?" The mother-in-law put the lunch box on the table and opened it, then turned to ask.

"Tsk, I haven't eaten chestnut roast chicken for a long time."

"Why eat that on a hot day?"

"Look, you didn't bring it for me after I told you."

Chi Wei glanced at Grandpa Xu's lunch box. Her mother-in-law brought some Jiangnan side dishes, fried shredded eel and chestnuts and ginkgo. "Isn't Grandpa from Beijing?" she asked.

"I went to Shanghai many years ago, and I will never forget it." Grandpa Xu looked at the ceramic lunch box in front of him, which made Chi Wei feel as if he was lamenting the passing of a lover.

The spoon in his hand was stirring, and the porcelain bowl in front of him was not the enamel tableware commonly used by old people, but a Korean-style round-mouthed deep-bottomed bowl.Chi Wei quietly took a look at her mother-in-law. Her fingers were white and slender, unlike ordinary old people who were plump and swollen. Even the wrinkles on her knuckles did not affect her elegance in the slightest.She seems to have been living with the times without any stagnation, which is completely different from Grandpa Xu who has been obsessed with the old times.

Grandpa Xu, who has been stuck in the past, is still reminiscing about the past, "In fact, the famous ones are not necessarily good. The most famous ones in Shanghai must be fried buns, and the best ones are the small wontons sold on the street. .It’s like Man Qing’s play, it’s not the most famous, once you’ve seen it, you’ll never forget it.”

"Grandpa Xu, you haven't told me why Manqing stopped singing." Chi Wei followed his words and asked.

"..." The old man suddenly fell silent after hearing this, "I'm married."

"It wasn't the old society back then. She sang so well, why didn't she sing when she got married?"

"Probably because I like that person too much." Grandpa Xu said lightly, and Chi Wei suddenly remembered his sentence, "Meet someone you like more than singing." Chi Wei turned around and found that Granny Shen didn't know what The time has gone out.

Probably because he is often in a hurry, Chi Wei is used to solving lunch quickly.And Grandpa Xu ate very slowly, as if he regarded eating as a great pleasure in his ordinary daily life, chewing slowly like a treasure.

And the mother-in-law, who started tidying up the ward after she came back, also moved very slowly, as if she was just passing the time.Chi Wei caught the look of the other party looking back several times. The caring look is by no means an unfamiliar nurse, but it lacks the intimacy of being with each other for a long time.If I remember correctly, last semester Xu Zishun took a week off to attend grandma's funeral.It's not like a nurse, nor a husband and wife, but neighbors, drama friends, card friends, or patients? It can't be love at dusk, right? Chi Wei got up and went to the balcony to wash the dishes while thinking.

The mother-in-law's voice came faintly amidst the sound of the water, "The bones of the hairtail fish were picked out, and it messed with me all morning..." The water ran across Chi Wei's fingertips and rushed towards the bowl of noodles. No matter what the relationship is, at this age It is happiness to have someone by your side who takes care of you attentively.Chi Wei glanced at the two old men who were talking and laughing.And her so-called boyfriend only appeared when she was singing K and watching movies, and her friends were too busy to take care of themselves, and the relationship between people seemed to be just a crumbling thread.

【[-]】

The number of times Grandpa Xu mentions Manqing continues unabated. Chi Wei is a little hard to understand such feelings. The celebrities he liked when he was young will still maintain the feelings of nostalgia and nostalgia when he is seventy and eighty. It also seems unreasonable.

Thinking of this, Chi Wei asked casually, "Grandpa, Manqing must be very pretty."

"Of course." Grandpa Xu looked very happy, and opened the drawer to search for it. Does he still have magazines from 50 years ago? Seeing the old man carefully take out a flannel bag, Chi Weiyu I was surprised.

The old man took out a photo from inside, it wasn't an artistic photo with her head resting on her head, nor was it a still photo in a costume, it was a zig-zag photo like that in a photo studio. With a youthful smile, there is no publicity of a popular star at all.

"It's so beautiful." Chi Wei sighed involuntarily, Grandpa Xu smiled, took the photo and looked at it for a while, and put it back carefully.

"Grandfather, are you very familiar with Manqing?" Chi Wei asked, if you are not an acquaintance, how can you get such a private photo.

"Yeah, I even wrote a script for her."

In this way, Mr. Xu and Man Qing should be confidants who met each other lately, because of the regret that the other party no longer sings, so they miss it until now.Thinking about it this way, the identity of the mother-in-law is even more embarrassing. She takes care of Grandpa Xu who has someone else in her heart, what is she trying to do.

When Xu Zishun came, Chi Wei and Grandpa Xu lowered their voices and listened to "Dream", the old man looked at Xu Zishun with a "disturbed" expression, "Why is it you, I thought it was you Xiao Shen brought the tape."

Xu Zishun let out a "hmm", and put the things in the bag on the table one by one as if he had completed his task.Chi Wei got up and walked out of the ward, Xu Zishun followed after a while, and asked apologetically, "Does he bother you to listen to Peking Opera?" He thought he had just rescued Chi Wei from the inexplicable singing.

"No, no." Chi Wei quickly explained, "I like it too."

"It's good that I didn't bother you." Xu Zishun said, "Whenever he sees someone, he pulls them and keeps talking about Man Qing Man Qing..."

Chi Wei remembered his hesitant look on the first day, so he was worried about this. "Is Manqing a famous Huadan?" Chi Wei asked, she searched for this person on Baidu, but found nothing related to it.

"No one remembers." Xu Zishun said, "When she first came on stage, a young master praised her. You know the young master at that time. It wasn't like what was shown on TV, but Manqing really fell in love with him. , thought that person would marry her, and the two of them got into a heated discussion about marriage, and the show stopped. But in the end, that young master still married a lady from a noble family. "

"What about Manqing?"

"I'm married to him." Xu Zishun pointed in the direction of the ward.

Is it actually his wife? Chi Wei's eyes stopped at the door of the ward for a long time without moving away, and the person mentioned in that distant, admiring, and nostalgic tone turned out to be the closest wife.

"By the way, that's not my grandfather. I didn't say it before because I was afraid that it would make people feel eager to get rid of the relationship. He is my grandfather's cousin and has been living with us. But as you can see, he is not If you like me, it should be said that you don’t even know me.” The boy met Chi Wei’s eyes, “Alzheimer, I can’t remember anyone.”

"But he knows me." Chi Wei was stunned.

"What did he call you?"

"Little Pond."

"Listen carefully, it should be Xiao Shen. After he got sick, he saw everyone called Xiao Shen. But that woman named Shen Manqing ran away with the young master within two years of her marriage."

"Then it will be 50 years. Has he been living on the memory of her?"

"My mother said that the little grandpa never mentioned that woman before. They all thought he hated her too. That ruthless woman caused him to give up his career and family, but now... how should I put it?" , everyone is quite disappointed, after all, I have lived for so many years. Although I still miss it very much, but the hurdles in face are always difficult to overcome. Let me, a junior, take a look, but every time I hear him mention Manqing, I still feel Can't be happy."

"When people are sick, they will definitely think of the person they love the most." Chi Wei said casually.

"By the way, where's your boyfriend? Why didn't you see him coming?" Xu Zishun glanced at Chi Wei's hand with plaster, and asked.

"We were about to break up, and we haven't had a chance to talk about it yet."

"Isn't it a time like this that you need your boyfriend to take care of you the most? Why break up? What's wrong with you?"

"It's just a need. Apart from eating and watching movies together, there is nothing else. What's the point of being together."

"Aren't they all like that?" Xu Zishun said.

Chi Wei lowered her head and didn't speak. She didn't like that person very much. When she was a child, she also thought that she would marry someone she really loved, not the so-called suitable for each other. Now she realizes that there is no choice at all. Love is not so easy. Things that happened.

When Grandma Shen came the next day, Chi Wei remembered that he forgot to ask Grandma Xu Zishun about it, but he had no choice but to give up.Every day after that, my mother-in-law would bring two sets of meals, and then clean the room. One day, she even brought a pot of orchids, but there was no audio from the agreed-upon tape. Every time the old man mentioned it, the mother-in-law would just say "" next time".

Xu Zishun came over on the weekend. When he asked about the pot of orchids, the old man quickly took the conversation away, saying that Xiaochi bought it. Of course, in his heart, he may be generalizing Xiaoshen.

If Grandpa Xu had been remembering Man Qing all these years, he would not have fallen in love with others, and the identity of Grandma Shen became more and more elusive.A scene from the Republic of China drama suddenly appeared in front of Chi Wei. Could the mother-in-law be Grandpa Xu's old friend?Just like the female number two in the story, she has been silently taking care of the male lead for so many years, even though the other party's heart is full of another person.

It's so uncomfortable to listen to him talking about another person every day.

【Wu】

The afternoon sun shone on the white sheets with a languid laziness. The old man was sitting on the balcony, flipping through the newspaper and saying, "Xiao Shen, help me go home and find the script of "Matchmaker" is still there." not there."

"Why do you want to find what you wrote yourself?" The mother-in-law stopped peeling the walnuts for a while.

"I can't remember it for a long time. I haven't written it for many years."

"Who is to blame, who told you not to write."

"Manqing doesn't sing anymore, what else is she writing about?"

The mother-in-law stopped answering the phone as if she felt bored. Even if she was used to it, it would be uncomfortable to be called by other people's names constantly.

"Grandpa Xu said he wanted to read "The Matchmaker" he wrote back then, why don't you go and look for it?" Chi Wei lowered his hair and sent a text message to Xu Zishun.Grandpa Xu's entrustment to her mother-in-law is likely to end without a problem like that tape. It's better to let Xu Zishun take it, and she will pass it to her mother-in-law.

"Understood, thank you." The phone screen was quickly lit up.

But Chi Wei didn't expect that at noon the next day, her mother-in-law actually took out a handwritten version of "Matchmaker".The slightly yellowed curling edges, the neat pen writing, and the way Grandpa Xu looked through it carefully, no matter how you look at it, it is not a fake.

"Mother-in-law, that, where did you find it?" Chi Wei asked out of curiosity.

"His home." The mother-in-law said with a smile.

"Did you go to his house to look for it? Aren't Grandpa Xu living with many people?"

"It's not there, it's his own home, but he hasn't lived in it for more than 20 years. I used to be neighbors with him, and Lao Xu has always taken care of us. I came to the hospital to visit relatives and saw him that day. You also I know, it’s not easy for him to live alone, so I thought I’d come to see him often when I’m free anyway. By the way, I went to look for him after dinner.”

"Mother-in-law, you are so kind." Chi Wei said, and found that her mother-in-law spoke at the same speed, whether it was a long sentence or a short sentence, very even and stable. This is the temperament, Chi Wei thought, really enviable .

That night, there was a sudden heavy rain. The thunderstorm that was supposed to come in the afternoon pierced the dark night sky, and flickered outside the curtains with a rumbling sound.It's the late summer typhoon.

For two days in a row, Chi Wei's ears were filled with the sound of heavy rain falling on the asphalt road. The rain was majestic and continuous, pouring down like a waterfall.Due to the lack of visitors in the hospital, the proper silence was finally restored amidst the hustle and bustle of many days.

The billowing dark clouds all over the sky drifted away at some point in the night. In the early morning of the third day, the sky was clear and the sun was pouring down.The whole atmosphere of the hospital soon became lively again, the sound of doors opening and closing in the corridor kept coming and going, but the door of room 213 remained closed, and Granny Shen did not come.At the beginning, Grandpa Xu still read the script seriously as usual, and said a few words to Chi Wei from time to time, and then raised his head more and more times, and finally couldn't help but muttered, "Where is Xiao Shen, why hasn't Xiao Shen Come on, the rain has stopped."

When Xu Zishen opened the door and came in in the afternoon, he said dissatisfiedly, "Why is it you, Xiao Shen?"

Xu Zishun looked at Chi Wei suspiciously, and the girl walked out with a helpless smile.

"Let's go to the second-hand stall." Seeing Xu Zishen push the door out, Chi Wei said, "Grandpa Xu has always wanted to listen to the tape, although there is no Shen Manqing's, I think it's better to find something else."

"Yeah." Xu Zishun nodded and looked back at the ward. "I didn't find it. Grandpa said he remembered one, but he couldn't find it after searching all night."

"Because someone has already brought it over." Chi Wei said.

"what?"

"She said she was Grandpa Xu's friend."

"You mean, besides me, there are people who came to see him?" Xu Zishun was obviously very surprised.

"That's right," the girl paused, "Don't you know she brings lunch every day?"

"There is no "The Goddess Scattering Flowers", but there is also "Broken Bridge", why not?" The boss rummaged in the room for a long time before coming out.

"Okay, thank you boss." Chi Wei took the tape that had no box.

"She said she was Grandpa Xu's neighbor. Grandpa took good care of her before, so..." Chi Wei relayed her mother-in-law's words to Xu Zishun, "But why don't you know?"

"Our family doesn't have such a neighbor..." Xu Zishun was a little puzzled.

"She said it was Grandpa Xu's own home, and she hadn't lived in it for more than 20 years."

"Is there..." He seemed to remember something, "This is impossible, there is no one in that place." After saying this, Xu Zishun's cell phone rang.

【land】

The corridor of the hospital was empty and quiet, reflecting the pure peace, but an angry voice came from the end of the corridor, "He just can't recognize people, why did he suddenly have a coronary heart disease!" The old man was dissatisfied. Hit the ground with a cane.

"Grandpa." Xu Zishun called out.

"What are you doing!" the old man said angrily.

"What's the matter?" Xu Zishun didn't mind and continued to ask.

"Rescue."

The corridor became quiet, and even the swaying green plants outside the window could not change the pale atmosphere around.Later, Xu Zishun's parents also came, and they sat outside the rescue room without speaking.

"By the way, Grandpa Xu said thank you." Chi Wei whispered to Xu Zishun.

"what?"

"One day he suddenly said, 'Xiaochi, thank you Shun for helping me.' I think he can recognize people clearly sometimes."

"He has a conscience." The grandfather sitting next to him said something, and immediately turned his head away after speaking.Chi Wei smiled, these two old people must have been arguing like this for a lifetime, no one wants to lose to the other, a thank you in my heart has to be relayed in a twist and turn, so it doesn't seem so hypocritical.

"Squeak—" The door of the operating room was half opened, and the nurse who came out to get the equipment shook her head at the crowd, "The situation is not very optimistic, you have to be prepared."

The old man who had just stood up on crutches sat down again, his eyes fell on Chi Wei's hand, and suddenly he became excited again, "Why do you have this, he gave it to you? How could he still keep it? It's impossible for him to keep it. on!"

"What?" Before Chi Wei and Xu Zishun could react, the old man muttered to himself again. "Radio, go get the radio." Seeing everyone's blank faces, he tapped on his crutches, "The little girl has a tape, go and play it for him, hurry up."

"Oh." Xu Zishun nodded and ran to the ward.

The mellow voice has passed through decades, and it is even more hoarse in the sound of the tape.Chi Wei suddenly felt that the song "Broken Bridge" was so long that he couldn't finish singing it, so he kept singing like a dream, until the red light in the operating room went out with a "snap".

"It's out of danger." The nurse came out and smiled with relief.

Chi Wei felt that there should be night vigils for the next few days, so he gave up the bed and moved back to the school.Early the next morning, he received a call from Xu Zishun, saying that the old man still hadn't survived the night.Chi Wei was silent for a while, not knowing what to say, the boy was not impatient, and kept waiting on the other end of the phone.

"Well, will you go to the old house to sort things out? I want to go and have a look, maybe I can meet my mother-in-law." Chi Wei said hesitantly.

"I'm going to come, but those are relics, don't you mind?"

Chi Wei stepped across a quagmire cautiously, and the corners of the alley were full of debris, which made the already narrow road even more crowded.The house is a villa combining Chinese and Western styles during the Republic of China. The eaves are engraved with intricate and delicate European patterns, but the surrounding area is blackened by large areas of cement, making it look old and dilapidated.

"These old houses have already been vacated. The younger generations have taken the old people to the new community. They are afraid that thieves will come in and make a mess, so everyone draws the curtains, and some even keep a light on all year round. There was no one in the house for a long time." Xu Zishun said, "It was about 20 years ago, I heard that it was because my grandpa fell and moved out later."

"In that case, who is the mother-in-law? How could she have the key here?"

Xu Zishun glanced at Chi Wei and shook his head, "Grandpa was also a famous literati when he was young. There are too many people who know him. Even my parents don't know, let alone me."

Chi Wei thought of that romantic and distant era, maybe it was really like she imagined, everyone was waiting for someone who didn't belong to them.

The scene inside the house is completely different from the outside, and the magnificence and elegance of that year can be seen.There are crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, floral wallpapers on the walls, and a few oil paintings, but they are all dusty.Chi Wei and Xu Zishun walked into the study, "You really don't mind, it would be unlucky." Xu Zishun asked.

"No way. I watched a Japanese movie before, which talked about the profession of helping people organize their relics. I remember that at the end of the movie, the heroine shouted to the sea, 'Are you all right?'. I don't think these pages are just sorted out. The process is a good commemoration of the deceased, the spirit of the deceased will definitely bless that person." Chi Wei smiled and picked up a notebook, "If you look through these, maybe you can piece together a romantic past .”

"No matter how romantic it is, it's the past." Xu Zishun forced a smile.

But Chi Wei did not continue to talk. In the crimson velvet book in his hand, the owner of the handwriting described a love he experienced, as well as 50 years of longing and memories with the unique tenderness and romance of that era.

At that time, everyone thought that Shen Manqing left with that person, until Xu met that person again ten years later, he said that Manqing had never looked for him.Before she left, that person did threaten her with Xu's things, but unexpectedly, after weighing the two, she actually chose to leave alone.After that, the notes stopped for a long time, and then some intermittent records.

At the end of the story, the date of March a year ago was written, "Manqing, is that you?" he wrote.

"When did Grandpa Xu get sick?" Chi Wei raised his head and asked Xu Zishun.

"A year ago," he said, "it should have been a year and a half, last March."

"How did you find out?"

"One evening, he was sent back by the police, saying that he had lost his way. It wasn't until we talked at night that something was wrong."

——Manqing, is that you?

Looking at the handwriting on the page, the story in Chi Wei's heart became concrete.It was probably at that time that he met Shen Manqing 50 years later, and all his thoughts and memories became reality in an instant. Perhaps it was the huge stimulus that made him forget others, and fell into a chaotic and vague dream forever.

Then, where is the Shen Manqing he met?

【VII】

After school started, Chi Wei went back to the hospital again, and she had to issue a hospitalization certificate to replace the internship certificate she didn't get.The hospital was still filled with the lingering smell of disinfectant, so Chi Wei took the form to the inpatient department and asked the visiting doctor to sign it.

When passing by the door of 213, Chi Wei suddenly saw a familiar figure coming out, "Mother-in-law?" Turning around, squinting at Chi Wei for a while, "Oh, little girl, it's you."

"Mother-in-law, you..." Chi Wei had a lot to ask, but in the face of the fact that Grandpa Xu had passed away, she suddenly didn't know how to speak.

"A person is old, how can he be free from illness and disaster." The mother-in-law smiled, answered a question on her own, then turned and walked away.Chi Wei froze for a moment and then disappeared.She turned around and walked to the front desk, "Sister, may I trouble you to ask the patient who lives in 213?"

"It's you." The nurse on duty had a little impression of this little girl who came to the hospital at a young age, so she didn't mind helping her to look it up, "It was No. 17 who came here in August."

"August [-]th?" Chi Wei repeated, her mother-in-law was admitted to the same ward three days after Grandpa Xu passed away.

"It's strange to say that she came to the hospital by herself." The nurse sister raised her head.

"What do you mean?"

"She had a fever a few days ago, and she came to the hospital for a blood test that day. She didn't know what to do when the results were boring, so she walked to the inpatient department by herself, but she fainted at the gate of 213. There was nothing wrong with the test, and the family was still worried. It’s not staying here.”

"Then..." Coincidence, or something else hidden, Chi Wei's heart was filled with countless thoughts, "What's her name?"

The nurse glanced at the record, "Shen Manqing," she closed the notebook and smiled at Chi Wei, "It sounds good, like the heroine of a Republic of China drama."

Chi Wei smiled and nodded, "Yes, it's really nice." Like the girl in the photo, she is beautiful and kind.

Not far behind her, Xu Zishun stood in the shadow of the corner and heard those three words clearly.Just like when the little grandpa said that Man Qing hadn't left with that person, they didn't want to believe it.That person owns his plays, owns the keys to the house, because she sang his plays, because she is also the owner of the house.He guessed it, but he didn't want to believe that she really came back, until Chi Wei spread the truth in front of him bit by bit.

If they had given little grandpa a little trust and comfort at that time, it would not be like this today.

But those love and romance are all written in novels, if they are not put in front of them like this, who would believe it.

They all seem to have heard a melodious female voice, which is a bit hoarse because of old age, but it exudes the misty brilliance of time like washed old clothes.Chi Wei took out the tape that had no box in his pocket. The writing on it had been worn mottled for a long time, but there was still a dark blue word "Shen" faintly visible.

She sang, "Auspicious clouds spread across the heavens, leaving the kingdoms of fragrance and traveling across the world, all the worlds seem to pass by like a light smoke."

(End of this chapter)