Chapter 2: The Afterglow of the Sunset

The pungent smell of disinfectant water, accompanied by a cold wind, and the unwarranted fear that eats away at the people who come here, if your heart is dark enough, it seems to you to be a guillotine, and those pale executioners will kill you at any moment. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

People say that the hospital is a place of gloom, a place of death, despair, sadness, fear...... It is a temple where new life will be ushered in, and it is also a sad place where relatives and friends will be sent away.

"Tick...... Backbite...... "Tick" is a very monotonous voice, a pale feeling.

Outside the huge hospital room, there were messy footsteps and deliberately light conversations. The doctor's expression gradually became embarrassed, and the reason was self-evident.

In the early morning of August 2, 2000, Jack suddenly had shortness of breath and a sharp drop in blood oxygen, probably because the food choked on the trachea, and the otolaryngology doctor came, and he had to cut the trachea at that time, otherwise he might suffocate.

After discussing with his two younger sisters, James, as the eldest son, had no choice but to agree ruthlessly.

On the day after the tracheotomy, Jack did breathe smoothly and was in a calm state, but then the situation began to get worse and worse, first, there was more and more phlegm, sometimes accompanied by a fever of 39 degrees, and second, the rice soup injected into the stomach tube sometimes came out of the trachea with phlegm, and the doctor could not find the reason.

If there is a stomach problem, but Jack's age and physical condition cannot do gastroscopy, so he has to infuse some metoclopramide, fat milk, etc. to alleviate it, but the effect is very little.

Early in the morning of the 3rd, Jack was short of breath again, was pulled into the intensive care unit again, put on a ventilator, and never came out again.

On the 4th, as the eldest grandson, I went to visit for the sixth time in a week, and Jack opened his mouth to speak, but he couldn't make a sound after the trachea was opened, which was not considered by the inexperienced operation at that time.

Jack's stomach tube was refluxing green gastric juice, and the ventilator was off and running, so there was no way to know what Jack wanted to say, guessing that Jack would ask what to do in the future, because in the previous days, Jack was in pain and dreamed about how to handle the future.

Now I can only comfort Jack and tell him that everything is arranged.

In fact, my father, mother, and two aunts have been preparing for the aftermath in the past few days. I didn't expect this to be the last time I saw Jack awake, and if I knew, I would tell Jack a lot of things.

In the next few days, Jack was in a coma, the ventilator could not be stopped, and the pulse was weak, only the carotid artery could still feel a faint beat, and the blood circulation in his feet was not smooth, and he began to swell.

I shouted into Jack's ear to wake him up and give him what I wanted to say, but he couldn't hear him anymore.

When Jack was dying, he was supported by blood protein transfusions every day, but his physical condition was getting worse and worse.

I asked the doctor if there was any return, hoping that at this moment I would tell Jack what I wanted to say but had not yet said, and the doctor said that there would be no return to this deep coma.

Let's face it and get ready.

That's the last thing I want to hear.

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On the afternoon of August 5, 2000, Jack's hands were swollen, his calves were cold, and only his upper body and head were still hot.

In the afternoon, with the doctor's permission, the family members visited Jack in the intensive care unit one by one.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Sophia suddenly ran to the house and told her father that she had a dream and bought two train tickets back from London, writing that it would arrive at 10:56 and 8 o'clock, and when she woke up, she felt that the tickets had no date.

Did Jack give him a dream?

Is Jack leaving at 8 o'clock?

Is it 8 p.m. or 8 a.m.?

So my father hurried to the hospital, and we couldn't take our eyes off the clock on the wall, and after 8 p.m., everyone breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that we should be able to spend tomorrow.

However, at 21 o'clock in the evening, the doctor suddenly called us into the intensive care unit, saying that Jack had opened his eyes and his mouth was moving, and it was estimated that he would not be able to do it.

My father, two aunts and sister, and I were all around Jack, shouting and shaking Jack.

Jack's mouth trembled, and he struggled to keep his eyes open, then slowly and serenely closed, the monitor showing that the heart rate line slowly turned into a straight line.

Jack's heart stopped beating for 84 years, and it was 21:10 at the moment when Jack, who had worked hard all his life, left us forever after 36 days of battling the disease.

Jack was lying on a makeshift "bed" with a white cloth underneath his body, a shroud on his body, and a quilt on his body. I approached, only to see the corners of Jack's mouth raised, his expression calm, seeing the body of Jack who had parted with me, tears could not stop flowing, inadvertently, I knelt on the ground, at this time, Sophia came to help me up.

After 30 minutes of difficulty, we returned to the old house of the Walker family, where many people gathered, including close relatives in the family, and some people I didn't know, and I just talked to them with a few words of interest, and then I jumped into the bedroom with a bit of rudeness, and I felt that my legs were weak and my feet were numb, and my whole body seemed to fall apart.

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I'm tired these days, but I still have to endure the pain and give Jack a ride with my people.

The next day, four men carrying the urn, and we followed, to take Jack to his "new home." In this way, my grandfather will be buried in the ground, and he will leave us forever.

Jack has a big temper, and I remember that when I was young, my grandmother always used him to scare me, and if I didn't obey, I would ask Jack out to teach me a lesson. I remember one time, I hid his snuffbox and made him look around, and when I asked me, I pretended to be nothing.

Jack understood that I was the devil, so he called me to his house, I thought he would beat me, but no, but patiently taught me: "Lying is not a good boy, you must be honest......"

Memories are memories after all, and my mind is back in real life, surrounded by white walls, and books still piled up in their original places.

At this time, a meteor streaked across the night sky, and I made a wish: I wish Jack a happy life in heaven!

Although, at this moment, I didn't know that from tomorrow, my life would be completely different because of Jack's will.

- Excerpt from Chapter 1 of "The Arthurian Dynasty", "If You Want to Wear a Crown, You Must Bear Its Weight"

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While the family was preparing for Jack's funeral - all the specific arrangements had been finalized when Jack was dying, and Arthur finally learned the full contents of Jack's will.

Several large parts of Jack's estate were severed, and the most important of them was undoubtedly Jack's 56.4 per cent stake in the Walker family business, which Jack inherited to his eldest son, James, of the 39.4 per cent of the nearly £500 million.

James, who acquired this part of the shares, plus his own shares, still holds more than half of the absolute controlling stake in the Walker family business, maintaining the original status of the Walker family business still belonging to the Walker family.

Jack left the remaining real estate and savings worth about £300 million to his two daughters, not to mention that the Chinese prefer sons over daughters, certain ideas are common to all human beings.

For the next generation of the Walker family, Jack, as a grandfather or maternal grandfather, did not directly give away some property, but established the Walker Family Care for the Next Generation Foundation, and every third-generation member of the Walker family enjoys shares in this foundation, and can receive a "monthly salary" ranging from tens of thousands of pounds per month. Of the third generation of the Walker family, there is only one exception -

Arthur, Jack's eldest grandson? Walker.

Jack left a special legacy to the only eldest grandson in the family who shared his passion for football.

Jack transferred all his stake in the Black Rangers Club to Arthur, including the refurbished Ewood Park Stadium and a $3 million bank loan.

Arthur clearly remembers how Blackburn would have been developing in the next few years in the original "history" without his own variable:

With the 2000/01 season underway, Jack passed away and the club were united in their fight for him, returning to the Premier League as runners-up in League One this season.

The following year, the club brought in Andy, one of Manchester United's "Black Wind Twins", for a record price of £8 million. Cole and won the first League Cup in history in the same year.

In the 04/05 season, Souness went to Newcastle, and Blackburn Rovers had a new look under Mark Hughes, and became the "violent book" of the Premier League with their fierce style of play.

In November 2010, India's Venky's Group became Blackburn's new owner for £23 million. After the transfer of power, the first thing India's chicken farm owners did was to fire the famous coach Al Dees and replace him with Steve? Keane, which also laid the groundwork for the later relegation.

In the 2011/12 season, Blackburn stumbled under Keane's leadership, and although there were occasional flashes of inspiration, such as a 3-2 win at Old Trafford, which upset Ferguson's 70th birthday, they were eventually relegated one round earlier. Since then, he has been playing in the lower divisions of England.

"Jack, I won't let you down, I won't let Blackburn, who you have worked so hard to build, fall into the situation of being reduced to a small team like in the previous life." After signing his name in the will, Arthur silently swore in his heart.

Wear the crown, bear the weight on your shoulders, be strong and strong, and be invincible!