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In 2046,

When Tang Xien was fifty-five years old, Li Miaolian, who had been hospitalized for a long time, was already a dead tree.

In fact, Li Miaolian's health was not good a few years ago, she herself had a relatively serious heart disease, and it was difficult to live a long life, but later Tang Xien took her to live in the city, and she was well taken care of after reuniting with Teng Zhongqian, so she tinkered and lived to be sixty years old.

But once you enter the second half of your sixties, you can't do it.

Teng Zhongqian gave her an authority on the heart in China, and the expert suggested that the artificial heart be changed to prolong the survival period, but Fu Shiyu didn't say a word, and spent a lot of money to replace an artificial heart for his mother-in-law.

Before the heart was replaced, they knew that even if Li Miaolian had her heart replaced, she would only be able to prolong her survival by a few years.

At the beginning, Tang Xien was very uncomfortable, and he washed his face with tears every day.

Birth, old age, sickness and death, eternal separation from the beloved of her parents are things that must be experienced at certain stages of life, but when she thinks that her mother, who has depended on her since childhood, will eventually leave her, turn into ashes, and disappear forever, her grief is like a flood that opens the floodgates, and she is annihilated to the bottom of the water where she cannot breathe.

Her feelings for Li Miaolian are complicated.

When I was young, I didn't complain a lot about Li Miaolian.

When Li Miaolian neglected her in order to take care of the pair of children born to Ruan Phuc Sheng, she complained about Li Miaolian; When Ruan Phuc Sheng didn't let her go to high school and insisted that she marry the son of the village chief, she also complained that Li Miaolian didn't fight for her to the end.

But when she became the mother of three children herself, and in the twenty years that she took care of the children day and night, she finally understood that the mother was not superhuman, and in those thousands of days and nights, there was always a time when the child neglected another child because she needed her more.

And over the years, she has also figured out the reason why Li Miaolian couldn't fight against Ruan Fusheng decisively for herself, in addition to the fact that Li Miaolian, who was frail and sickly, couldn't beat Ruan Fusheng at all, but also because when Ruanjia Village had no support and her mother's family had severed relations, she had to endure it, and later had the opportunity to secretly send her out of the mountain to study.

Li Miaolian never said this, but with the change of age and identity, Tang Xien can gradually understand a mother's deep love for her children.

How successful and happy she is now, how grateful Li Miaolian is for giving birth to her desperately, raising her in such a difficult environment, supporting her studies, and risking being beaten by Ruan Phuc Sheng to send her out of the mountain.

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Over the years of Li Miaolian's illness, Teng Zhongqian has doted on her more and more, being humble everywhere and responding to requests.

When he lived with Gu Yi in the early years, he was completely a hands-off shopkeeper and a big man, and when he came to Li Miaolian's side, he did everything he could do laundry, cooking, and soup. After he retired, he simply took care of Li Miaolian at home.

Tang Xien sometimes went back to his parents' house and saw that his father took care of his mother so well, and he would always sigh that Fu Shiyu had not done so.

Later, Li Miaolian changed to an artificial heart, and because of severe rejection, her body became very poor and she could hardly go to the ground. Teng Zhongqian pushes her in a wheelchair to go to the vegetable market every morning to buy vegetables, walks around the park after buying vegetables, and then goes home to make lunch, takes care of her for a nap, and then takes her out for a walk in the afternoon.

Fortunately, Teng Zhongqian's physique has always been strong, even if he is in his seventies, he still has the strength, and it is not a problem to hug Li Miaolian up and down at all.

In the next two years, Teng Zhongqian was almost eighty years old, and his physical fitness gradually deteriorated, Tang Xien proposed to hire a nurse for them, but he refused. He said that it was inconvenient to hire a male nurse to take care of Li Miaolian; Hire a female nurse, he doesn't like to have other women walking around in the house.

The two old men lived in this way for many years until Li Miaolian passed away.

Two days before Li Miaolian left, like Master Fu, she suddenly returned to the light, and the people who had been confused for a few months woke up in good spirits that day, and told Teng Zhongqian that she wanted to eat buckwheat nests in her hometown, and wanted to see Ruan Jingya and Ruan Jiahao.

When Teng Zhongqian heard this, tears flowed down on the spot.

Fu Shiyu immediately sent people back to the city and took Ruan Jingya and Ruan Jiahao to the hospital overnight.

Ruan Jingya and Ruan Jiahao are also in their fifties, and they both have grandchildren. The two rushed to the hospital with their families.

The moment she saw them, Li Miaolian, who was lying on the hospital bed, burst into tears silently.

Tang Xien stood to the side with tears in his eyes, giving up his place to the Ruan family brothers and sisters.

Li Miaolian motioned for Teng Zhongqian to take off his oxygen mask and raised her hand weakly.

Ruan Jingya stepped forward to hold her hand and shouted, "Mom." Immediately, tears rolled down.

Li Miaolian looked at a pair of children angrily, gasped and asked, "Jingya, Jiahao, have you been doing well all these years?" ”

Ruan Jingya cried and nodded: "I'm doing well." ”

Ruan Jiahao bowed his head and was silent.

Li Miaolian looked at him and asked, "What about you, Jiahao?" ”

"I'm so ......" was just three words, but in the end it changed its tone.

Li Miaolian looked at her well-dressed children, seemed to smile reassuringly, nodded weakly, and fell into a coma again.

Teng Zhongqian put on the oxygen mask for her again.

In the middle of the night, Li Miaolian left.

Tang Xien cried until he was about to collapse, and he couldn't stand up for a while.

Even though she had been mentally prepared, at the moment when her mother closed her eyes forever, she still couldn't hold back her tears.

The past flashed through my mind frame by frame like a black-and-white movie.

In my memory, the sun was shining brightly, and the wheat in the fields was golden and yellow.

She sat down under the tree and did her homework. Halfway through her farm work, her mother came to sit beside her, drank water, and gently asked her if she had finished her homework.

She wiped the sweat from her mother's forehead with a small white handkerchief, and handed her an army-green water bottle filled with boiling water.

After drinking the water, the mother smiled at her, rubbed her hair and said to her, "Mom has gone to work, and she will go back in the evening to fry eggs for you." ”

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The funeral was low-key and solemn, and only relatives and friends of the Teng family, Fu Zhengye and his wife, and Tang Xien's colleagues and friends attended.

Teng Zhongqian looked very bad because of his three consecutive days of vigil and emotional sorrow, and his face was also very bad.

Fu Shiyu and Song Ci took on the responsibility of presiding over the funeral.

Teng Minmin also wore filial piety for Li Miaolian, and guarded Li Miaolian's crystal coffin with Tang Xien and Teng Zhongqian.

White chrysanthemums cover a whole wall, and Li Miaolian in the photo has short ear-length hair with curved eyes, crooked eyes, and smiles as kind and gentle as ever.

From her smile, you can see that you have lived a good life in her later years.

It's just such a smile, Tang Xien can no longer see it......

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After the memorial service, Li Miaolian was pushed into the cremation room.

Tang Xien was already crying until he was about to die.

Her heart felt like it had been cut by a knife, and the blood flowed endlessly, and her heart ached.

Fu Shiyu hugged her with tears in his eyes and pressed her head into his arms, not letting her see the last scene.