"Wife, Mom now regrets saying those words to you, you can come back tomorrow." Wang Mengliang whispered on the phone in the room. His mother had fallen asleep in the next room.

"Well, I'll go back tomorrow."

They talked on the phone for half an hour before they hung up.

At noon the next day, Shen Yuewan called and said that her grandmother's condition was not very good, and she had now been transferred to the central hospital. She hurriedly asked the company for half a day off and took a taxi to the central hospital.

My sister and Choi Hyun stood at the door of the ward, looking anxious.

"Yuehuan, what's wrong with grandma?" She calmed down and looked at her sister.

"Grandma started to have a fever last night, and she didn't get better after taking medicine in the morning, and at about ten o'clock, I noticed that her condition was getting worse and worse, so I called Xiaoxuan to send her to the hospital." Shen Yuewan tried her best to make her narrative concise, her eyes filled with tears, "Sister, grandma will be fine, right?" ”

She hugged her sister and soothed her emotions, "Grandma is still waiting for your wedding, it will be fine." ”

She knew her grandmother's condition very well and could die at any time, but she still couldn't bear to tell her sister.

The last time we met, Dr. Gao had already told her the reason for her grandmother's illness, and the most likely thing was that grandma was too lonely, coupled with the loss of her wife and son-in-law all of a sudden, and her granddaughters had been in other places.

The door to the emergency room opened, thinking that the middle-aged male doctor had told them that their grandmother's condition had stabilized and that they were now preparing to move to a regular ward.

"Thank you!" Shen Yin thanked the doctors and nurses around him, looking at his haggard grandmother, he felt very uncomfortable, but he was a little happy.

She stood in front of her grandmother's bed, looking at her grandmother with various tubes inserted into her body, and felt uncomfortable in her heart. Although my grandmother is now demented and sometimes I can't recognize her and my sister, as long as my grandmother is alive, she feels like she has something to rely on. There was a time when her aunt told her that she wanted to take care of her grandmother, but she stayed at her aunt's house for three days, clamoring to go back like a child, and knocked over the food brought by her aunt on the floor. In just three days, she felt that her grandmother had changed her appearance. When she finished her work and went to pick up her grandmother, her grandmother grabbed her arm tightly, hid behind her, and followed her every step of the way, as if she was afraid that she would leave her. At that time, my grandmother couldn't remember the people around her clearly, lost her basic cognitive ability, and was always very wary of outsiders, except for her.

Since then, she has always found time to visit her, even if she is still in a nursing home. During this time, my sister came back, and she offered to take care of her grandmother, so Shen Yin asked the nurse aunt to go home and rest for a few days. Two years have passed since I found out that my grandmother has dementia, and my grandmother was able to eat by herself, go to the toilet, and take care of herself. But in the past six months, grandma's condition has deteriorated severely, and now she has to be taken care of by her side, and every time grandma sees her, she is always very kind and gives her snacks that she hides. She felt as if her grandmother had thought of herself as a mother, because in her old memory, she always treated her mother like this.

Half a year ago, she had the intention of quitting her job to take care of her grandmother at home, but seeing Wang Mengliang's hard work every day, she couldn't bear to put all the burden of the family on him alone. She thought that life would return to its original peace, but after only half a year, her grandmother's condition had deteriorated to such an extent, so she felt guilty in her heart, thinking that she was the one who caused her grandmother's condition to worsen.

My sister and Choi Hyun went to a nearby restaurant for dinner, and she sat quietly in front of the hospital bed for an hour.

"Sister, I bought some things, let's take care of them here." Shen Yuewan put the adult diapers she bought in the cabinet next to the bed.

She noticed the black smoke ring on her sister's lower eyelid, "Yuehuan, you've been busy all night, go back and rest, I'll take care of it here." ”

"Sister, are you worried about me?" Shen Yuehuan was also blaming herself for not taking good care of her grandmother.

She pushed her sister and gently urged: "No, you didn't rest well last night, can I not see such a serious black smoke ring?" She glanced at Choi Hyun, "You can send her back quickly, I'll be alone here." ”

Sending them out the door, Shen Yin checked the area around the bed, and a nurse came over to check on grandma.

"Ah, so you're sisters, I'm sorry, I didn't see it." The nurse smiled at her and reached out to roll up the sleeve on Grandma's right side.

She saw her appearance from the glass mirror on the wall, now she was wearing black short sleeves, shoulder-length short hair was a little messy, with a pair of black-rimmed glasses, she really didn't look like a grade in her twenties, if it weren't for this nurse aunt who heard the conversation just now, she would definitely treat her and Shen Yuehuan as mother and daughter.

Shen Yin smiled awkwardly and looked directly at the detector.

"When will my grandma wake up?"

The nurse aunt skillfully operated the instrument in her hand, "About three hours later, probably after the anesthetic has taken effect." ”

"Oh, okay, thanks!" She politely replied.

The nurse aunt put away the instrument in her hand and looked up at her, "But you two really don't look alike, no wonder I admit my mistake." She whispered.

Shen Yin didn't answer and smiled.

She didn't want others to know her sister's background, so after meeting He Tao and Gu Kai, she visited her door again, begging them to keep her sister's background secret, and not to mention her parents' background to others again. Unexpectedly, these two uncles are also people who keep their promises, and their father also told them this way back then, and she can learn the truth, which is the only thing that his father has ever asked them to do.

After this incident, her father's image in her heart changed, she couldn't imagine that such an irresponsible father would do such a far-sighted act, maybe her father didn't think so much at the time, probably just out of the instinct of fatherly love, she persuaded herself like this. My father didn't tell him about it himself, but told him through his friends, because he was afraid that he would look down on him, and he didn't want you to admit that he was a failure in his role as a father.

At half past four in the afternoon, my grandmother woke up and saw Shen Yin beside her, reaching out to hold her hand. Grandma muttered something she didn't hear clearly, "Grandma, are you hungry?" ”

Grandma nodded slightly, she went downstairs to buy some gruel, the doctor said that grandma can only eat liquid food now.

After dealing with these, she looked at the time and saw that more than an hour had passed, and she sent a message to Wang Mengliang, telling her grandmother's current condition. Two hours later, he called and said he was downstairs.

"I told my mother about the situation, and she made fish soup for me to bring over." He was holding two insulated boxes in his hands, "This is a dish made by my mother, she said she wanted to apologize to you, and my head was confused for a while yesterday." He looked at his grandmother, who was asleep on the bed, and asked, "Grandma is asleep?" ”

"Well, I just fell asleep, the fever has subsided, and the doctor said that I would observe it for a few days." She placed the lunch box with the fish soup on the table.

He hugged Shen Yin, "Wife, thank you for your hard work." He suddenly realized that he was so incompetent, and could only watch her bear it alone, and he could do nothing.

Shen Yin said shyly: "The nurse will come in in a while." "There's a hint of resistance there, it's not embarrassing to do such an intimate gesture here.

He let go of her, "Mom made your favorite sweet and sour pork ribs today, how about you taste it?" He digressed and placed the contents of another insulated box on the improvised table.

She found that she only brought a pair of chopsticks, "Aren't you going to eat?" ”

He smiled softly, "I've already eaten, I'll watch you eat." ”

After eating, grandma woke up, Shen Yin fed grandma some fish soup, chatted in the ward for a while, and before she knew it, it was nine o'clock in the evening.

"Go back, haven't you been working overtime lately? I'll take care of it here. Shen Yin thought about it for a while, worried that his headaches would become more and more frequent.

Wang Mengliang handed her the car keys, "I'll send you downstairs, I'll stay tonight." She took the time to get her driver's license last year and is now very proficient in driving.

She hesitated for a moment, but did not answer.

Wang Mengliang knew what she was worried about, took out the guarantee she wrote last night from her trouser pocket, and shook it in front of her, "Mom has already apologized to you, don't worry, she also asked me to throw away this thing, but I haven't had time to throw it away, so I left it until now." He patted her on the shoulder, "If you're not at ease, take this with you." ”

She couldn't help but smile and took the car keys, "It's yours." ”

They walked downstairs, outside the night came, the street lights installed along the road turned on, Wang Mengliang led her to a car, "Pay attention to safety on the road, call me when you arrive." ”

"Hmm."

Shen Yin returned home, the light in the room was still on, her mother-in-law was sitting in the living room watching TV, she heard the sound of the door opening, she turned her head, "Xiaoyin, you're back, how is your grandma?" ”

"Much better, Mom, why aren't you sleeping?" She looked at the clock on the wall, and it was almost ten o'clock.

"When you come back, I'll go to sleep." The mother-in-law stood up and prepared to walk in the direction of her room, she put the car keys in the storage box on the first floor of the bookshelf, and prepared to go to the shower.

"That ......" the mother-in-law turned around, as if she had something to say to her, but she was hesitating how to say it.

"Mom, if it's about children, I don't want to talk about it." She turned her head and saw her mother-in-law's evasive gaze.

The mother-in-law waved her hand and said anxiously: "Mom didn't mean that, what happened last night was my fault, it was my impulse and I said something I shouldn't have said, don't worry about me." She took a deep breath and seemed to be making up her mind, "I will never mention the matter of the child in the future, and you husband and wife will discuss it yourself." Xiaoyin, you just forgive Mom this time, okay? ”

"Mom, this matter is over, you go to bed early." She stared into her mother-in-law's eyes and realized that she had said these words from the heart.

The mother-in-law smiled, "You're tired for a day, rest early." ”

She turned off the TV in the living room, walked into the bathroom, noticed that the guarantee appeared in her coat pocket at some point, took it out and threw it into the toilet, pressed the flush button, and flushed it down. She rubbed her temples, and this conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law finally came to an end.