Chapter 340: Rapid Aging Crisis
After returning from Japan, Jolene had just returned home and attended a funeral.
Since leaving home, all the adults have been aging at a rapid rate as if they were being rushed by time.
The foreign vacation ended early, and when the final exam had not started in China, she took the report card of all A's and started her winter vacation life.
Baoqing is in her third year of high school and is the key protection object of the family, although Qiao Lin doesn't want to go to her aunt's house, but there is no way. However, there is also an advantage to living at my aunt's house, that is, I can chat with Min Jia all night.
Jolene talked about what she saw and heard in Japan, and Min Jia talked about her love affair with Dr. Yan and the trivial things that happened in this alley.
Min Jia said, you are all gone, leaving me here to feel the changes of time for you.
Min Jia, who is not good at lyricism, has also become an emotional girl after falling in love.
The love story between Min Jia and Dr. Yan can be written for a very long time. To sum up, he likes Min Jia very much, but due to the age difference of thirteen years, he can't express his thoughts directly. After going through the division and reunion, he still can't forget those fawn-like eyes, as well as her docile personality like a white rabbit, and her understanding and admiration for himself...... In the end, Dr. Yan plucked up the courage to confess, and the two formalized their relationship.
The little sister-in-law has been in contact with Dr. Yan a few times, and knows that he is a very decent and motivated person, although he also has a grudge against his age, but on the whole he is quite satisfied. And when my aunt heard the news, the world swirled, exaggerated like a musical.
In view of Min Jia's very painful past and being tormented by depression for a long time, no matter how excited Li Lanlan was, she didn't dare to strongly oppose her. After a while, she gradually accepted this fact, and Min Jia told her mother that she wanted to get married early. Li Lanlan, who was already calm, was once again forced to the brink of explosion by this news.
Don't talk about others, let's just say that her twin sister Song Minrou, who is about to graduate from college, has several domestic tours with the title of "the most watched young pianist".
Min Rou on the news is gentle and generous, graceful and dignified, and a proper celebrity image. She said that half of her income will be donated to the Hope Project to give love to children in poor mountainous areas.
Min Rou stroked her long silky hair and smiled very decently: "When I was a child, my father often took me to the mountains to give love. When disaster strikes, my dad often organizes huge sums of money and personally goes to dangerous places for disaster relief. I grew up and want to help others as much as I can, just like my father. ”
My aunt and sister-in-law kept the video, and praised (dazzled) and praised (yao) when they met people. Qiao Lin almost forgot that the elegant and kind young pianist was the rude and willful princess of the Song family who often fought with her.
Compared with the radiant nature of the eldest daughter, the younger daughter is too ordinary, so ordinary that people are speechless. Her ultimate ideal is to marry early and be a good wife. Li Lanlan had lost the strength to reprimand, and only said two words in the end.
"Fortunately, Dr. Yan is younger than me. ”
"I didn't expect you to be so ambitious. ”
Min Jia didn't feel too uncomfortable, she was originally a person with no ambitions. She doesn't have any ambition, she just wants to find a light job (she can't find it, she can just be a full-time wife), take care of her husband and children, keep the house in order, have time to have afternoon tea every day, do yoga often, dance ballet, and maintain her health and figure...... This is her most perfect state of life.
Jolene thought about it for a long time, and then came to the conclusion that it was really a dream that only a rich lady or Mrs. Kuo could have. With a background like hers, she still has to shoot in a circle, prepare for the civil service career editor or graduate school entrance examination, in order to live a life that is not too bad.
But for the matter of getting married, Qiao Lin still wants Min Jia to be cautious, after all, even after the New Year, she is only twenty years old, the age of a sophomore or junior, she is a child herself, how can she be mature enough to take care of a family?
But Min Jia was very firm: "I like Mr. Yan, so I want to marry him and be a good wife." ”
An important reason why my aunt finally accepted Dr. Yan was that he was the youngest chief physician in a tertiary hospital. She often said that in these years, there is a doctor in the family, and it is more effective than any panacea.
Min Jia accused her mother of being too realistic, and Li Lanlan told her that after experiencing the double pressure of the old and the young, the demand for doctors will explode. There is always a capable doctor like Dr. Yan at home, so even if a family member gets sick one day, he will not panic.
Li Lanlan's middle-aged worries became more serious after her neighbor, Professor Sun, was screened for early-stage cancer. They both work at the same university and are upstairs and downstairs neighbors, so they learned the news quickly.
Professor Sun was diagnosed with a thyroid nodule during his annual physical examination, and thanks to Chen Yun's alertness, he was forced to undergo further examinations. In the end, it was found that it was only a very early stage of cancer, and there was no need for chemotherapy after surgery, and it was enough to recuperate for a period of time.
But in any case, as the most healthy person in Jixianglu, his son has a history of heart disease, and Lao Tzu was diagnosed with early cancer, which really makes people panic. Qiao Jianjun has never been seriously ill and does not go to the hospital, but this year he took the initiative to go to the hospital for a physical examination, and his obedience surprised his wife.
When Jolene returned home, she even said that there was a lot of murder on the street, as if there were fewer people, and the adults were talking about sickness.
Sun Ruiyang explained: "When you were young, adults were very young, rarely got sick, and didn't worry about getting sick, but when you grew up, adults also got old, and they all reached the age of getting sick...... The number of sick people you see will naturally increase. ”
To put it simply, the growth of children is exchanged for the aging of their parents.
Jolene had been bothered by this problem for days, and even running in the alley had lost energy in her legs. In the end, Min Jia gave the answer: "Every time my sister comes back, she will say that my parents have more wrinkles and gray hair, but I am on this street every day, and I can see them every day, so I will not feel their age." Second sister, will you stay in Beijing in the future, or will you come back to accompany your aunt and uncle?"
Jolene hadn't thought about it yet, and she didn't dare to think about it.
A few days after 2011, with a heavy snowfall came the news of the death of Chenglin's grandmother. Qiao Lin was stunned by the news, but Min Jia was very calm: "My mother told me a long time ago, I'm afraid Grandma Chenglin will be bad." ”
Back then, Grandma Chenglin almost poisoned Qiao Lin with three packets of cold medicine with different ingredients, and also instigated Wei Chenglin to lie, which really made Li Lanzhi angry. But after so many years, the grievances and grievances have long been forgotten, especially in the face of such an old man who is slowly being swallowed up by chronic diseases, Li Lanzhi decided to remember her benefits more.
That day, Qiao's family went to help together, and when they went downstairs, Qiao Lin saw the blank paper pasted in front of Wei's house. Alas, that white is really melancholy.
Li Lanzhi was also very melancholy: "When the old man left, he called Chenglin one after another. It's a pity that Cheng Lin still couldn't rush back. ”
After hearing the news that his grandmother was critically ill, Cheng Lin hurried back. But it was snowing everywhere, and the plane was delayed again and again, and he still missed the last meeting with his grandmother.
Jolene only saw Cheng Lin after the funeral, dressed in a black coat with a white strap wrapped around his arm. The long-distance flight was already tiring, coupled with the funeral of his grandmother, Wei Chenglin's face was very haggard.
Qiao Lin waited for him in the corridor, and when she saw him come back, she took out a bag of milk from her pocket: "Cheng Lin, you haven't eaten much in the past two days, let's drink some milk first! ”
Wei Chenglin was tired and hungry, and this bag of milk was tantamount to charcoal in the snow. He would rather stand in the cold hallway than go back to his grandmother's house.
Jolene also stood with him in the cold wind, and in their carefree teenage years, they often finished their snacks in the hallway and then went home separately.
Another burst of snowflakes fluttered, Wei Chenglin squinted his eyes and asked, "I always feel ...... Actually, my grandmother has always blamed me...... But she never said it. It's like I had a lot of guilt in my heart, but I never said sorry to her. ”
Jolene had advised him many times that he didn't always have to feel guilty about his father's death. However, after growing up, after vaguely understanding some of her mother's thoughts, she also felt that Grandma Chenglin was a very poor person. Jolene couldn't guess if the old man would blame his grandson for his son. How complicated her feelings were, Jolene couldn't guess.
"Anyway, my grandma must have loved me, and even if she blamed me, she gave me everything she had. ”
Grandpa Cheng Lin once opened a small food processing factory, and Grandma Cheng Lin lived a good life for a long time when she was young. Later, her husband and son passed away one after another, and she survived the unspeakable pain alone, and Chenglin became her only hope again.
She keeps all her savings with her daughter, who is in business, and gets the money at interest every month. She said that it was her pension money and her coffin book, but when Cheng Lin decided to study in the United States, she took out all the money without reservation.
After the last summer vacation, Wei Chenglin's luck suddenly improved, and he wrote a few songs with good responses one after another, and his value also rose. It's not enough to spend a lot of money, but you don't have to wait for the price to drop the price of the new tablet, and you don't have to worry about the price of the latest sneakers.
"I don't need to use my grandmother's money at all now, I have the ability to honor her, but she's gone. ”
Wei Chenglin's fingers were all inserted into his hair, and he still had a lot of pain that he couldn't express. Unconsciously, he wanted to hug Jolene, but Jolene dodged it all at once.
Yes...... She is now the one who has a boyfriend.
Wei Chenglin was even more depressed, and Qiao Lin was a little panicked and incoherent: "Chenglin, didn't your grandmother leave anything for you before leaving?...... She, she definitely doesn't want you to be so upset......"
Wei Chenglin understood, the urge to almost hug her just now still scared her and made her embarrassed.
He shook his head, took the last sip of milk, and turned to walk home. When Jolene went upstairs, he stopped her, but after all, he didn't say anything, and he closed the door.
How do you tell her? Before she died, her grandmother asked her mother - can Cheng Lin marry Qiao Lin home?