On Saturday, with the help of the school's trade union, the college, Li Feng and Professor Ning's other graduate students, Ning Hua's mother and daughter saw off Professor Ning at the funeral home, and the two returned to their deserted home in grief. Ning Hua hoped that she had just had a nightmare, and that she would be able to see her dear father when she woke up. Seeing the portrait of her father in the black frame at home and her mother's red and swollen eyes, Ning Hua knew that her father really would never come back.

Ning Hua locked herself in the bedroom, holding a photo of a former family of three in her arms. This photo was taken by the family at the main entrance of the school when she was just admitted to university, and her parents surrounded her in the middle, with satisfied smiles on their faces. Ning Hua's right index finger gently stroked his father's face in the photo, and tears fell uncontrollably. There are traces left by her father everywhere in the bedroom: there are calligraphy and paintings on the wall that her father bought in the antique store with her, on the bookshelf is the English that her father just bought her back on the Internet, the violin on the bookshelf seems to have the aftermath of her father's play, and the vase on the desk is still inserted with the flowers that her father bought for her last week, some of which have withered and lost their leaves..., all of this is so real, but Ning Hua knows that her father will never come back!

The sky gradually darkened, and the lights of thousands of homes were already visible from the window, but Ning Hua's house was pitch black and silent. Ning Hua and her mother lay in their respective bedrooms, immersed in their own grief and pain, no one had the heart to cook or eat, when they were hungry, they ate a bite of bread and drank a sip of milk, and the days were moving slowly in difficulty.

After Peng Jianyang said goodbye to his teacher, he returned home and felt sad. He recalled his teacher's patient guidance in his studies and his teachings in life, and his teacher's words and deeds were like yesterday, but now his teacher was separated from him by yin and yang, and he painfully left tears of longing. There is a saying that men don't flick when they have tears, but it's not time to be sad. On Monday, he sat at his desk, thinking of his teacher, his wife and sister, and he didn't know how his wife and sister spent the past two days.

In the afternoon, after arranging the work of several team members one by one, he took a taxi to the city. He had something on his mind, so he had a simple dinner in the restaurant, packed two fast foods, and made an appointment with Professor Ning's doctoral student Li Bin, and the two came downstairs to Ning Hua's house together, looking up, but saw that the two windows were dark and dull, without a trace of light. The two looked at the access control in front of them, not wanting to disturb their mother and sister. They waited outside the gate, hoping that the owner would enter and exit the unit door. After waiting for about two or three minutes, an owner came back from outside, and the two followed the owner into the unit building, and insisted on following the owner into the elevator despite his dislike and saying "thank you, thank you".

Peng Jianyang and Li Bin got out of the elevator, stood at the door of the teacher's house, and rang the doorbell, they hoped that they could see the teacher's kind smiling face after the door was opened. But this time the doorbell rang for a long time, and no one came to open the door. Peng Jianyang rang the doorbell twice, but no one answered the door. He handed the fast food to Li Bin, took out his mobile phone in his backpack, and called Ning Hua. The phone rang for a long time, and just when Peng Jianyang had lost hope and wanted to remove the phone from his ear, the phone was finally connected, and he hurriedly put the phone close to his ear: "Is it Senior Sister Ning Hua?" Are you at home? I'm Peng Jianyang, I'm at the gate of your house with Li Bin now, if you're at home, come and open the door for us, okay? ”

There was no answer in the phone, but after a while, Peng Jianyang only heard a slight "click", the door finally opened, and the black light in the house was blind, and only through the light of the Microsoft light shining in the lights outside the window could he see the outline of the house. Peng Jianyang listened to Ning Hua open the door, and then sobbed and walked to the bedroom, slamming the door. Li Bin had been to the teacher's house several times before, and was a little familiar with the layout of the teacher's house, he fumbled to find the light switch at the entrance, pressed it gently, and the light in the hallway immediately turned on, and the mourning hall in the living room and the portrait of the teacher with a black gauze photo frame entered the eyes of Li Bin and Peng Jianyang, and their tears poured out at the same time. The two put down the food box and backpack in their hands, walked over and knelt in front of the mourning hall, kowtowed three times to the statue of their teacher, and then got up. Peng Jianyang hesitated for a moment, but walked over first and knocked on Ning Hua's door. Peng Jianyang persuaded softly: "Senior sister, you haven't eaten at night, come out and eat something now, okay?" ”

"I don't eat, I'm starving to death, I'm killing my father, I regret not listening to my father. I miss Daddy, but Daddy never comes back! Woooooo Ning Hua trembled his shoulders and cried out with remorse.

"What stupid are you talking about? You're starving, what about your mother? Who will take care of your mom? Ning Hua, your mother is old, and Teacher Ning's death is also a big blow to your mother. You also know that your mother has cried and fainted several times in the past few days, and her body is in urgent need of recuperation. You have to be sensible, Teacher Ning is no longer there, you have to grow up and take on the responsibility of taking care of your mother. You are young, you don't eat, and your body can bear it, but you think, how can your mother withstand it when she is older? If Teacher Ning is still here, I definitely don't want you to see yourself giving up like this! Although Peng Jianyang was sad, he still persuaded Yin Yin, "Ning Hua, be obedient, don't hide inside, okay?" Your mother didn't eat dinner either, so you get up and bring her some food and persuade her to eat something, okay? ”

Ning Hua listened to Peng Jianyang's words in his ears, and rubbed a group photo of a family of three in his hand. She recalled how happy her parents were smiling when she took this photo! It's only been a little more than three years, but my father was killed by her. Mom has barely eaten much in the past few days, and she has lost a lot of weight and aged, and has added a lot of gray hair. She knew that Peng Jianyang was right, she had grown up and needed to take her due responsibility. Now that she has made a great mistake and killed her father, she should now try to make up for her mistakes and not let her dear mother be hurt as well.

Thinking of this, Ning Hua turned on the light, put the group photo of the family of three on the desk upright, looked at the parents in the group photo with teary eyes, and then wiped a handful of tears with the back of his hand, opened the bedroom door and walked out: "Thank you two senior brothers for coming to the house, thank you for your persuasion, I will listen to you and take good care of my mother!" You sit on the couch and wait, I'll go and get Mommy up for dinner. ”

In the living room, Li Bin and Peng Jianyang secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Ning Hua come out. Hearing what she said again, I understood that my sister was at least cheering up for my wife, and I was completely relieved. Peng Jianyang and Li Bin took out two set meals from plastic bags and set them on the dinner table. Peng Jianyang took out two cartons of fresh milk from his backpack, heated them in the microwave for a while, and put them on the dining table, waiting for his wife and sister to come out.

Ning Hua's mother, with Ning Hua's support, walked out and sat at the dining table. After only a few days, Ning Hua's mother's original round face had been thinned to deformation, and her hair was almost half white. Her tears had dried up, and the strength in her body seemed to fade with the tears, and she stood and shaki. Ning Hua saw that her mother's face was pale and her body was extremely weak, she regretted that she was patronizing and sad, and did not pay attention to her mother's current physical and mental condition, and her mother's body was on the verge of collapse. Ning Hua couldn't imagine that if it weren't for her two senior brothers coming over in time tonight, would her mother faint from hunger?

"Master, you should first drink a few sips of warm milk to warm up your body. Then eat again. Peng Jianyang inserted the straw into the heated milk carton and raised it to his wife's mouth. Ning Hua's mother opened her mouth, barely took a few sips, slowed down, and finally had a trace of blood on her face. Peng Jianyang then handed the lunch box to Ning Hua and fed it to her mother's mouth. Ning Hua saw her mother chewing and swallowing mechanically, and she was already teary-eyed.

Ning Hua's mother raised her hand and slowly wiped away her tears for her baby daughter, muttering: "Birch doesn't cry, birch doesn't cry!" ”

Ning Hua heard her mother's weak voice, and tears fell like rain. Peng Jianyang, who had red eyes on the side, took the bowl in her hand, and after feeding her mother two mouthfuls of food, she said that she couldn't feed it anymore.

Li Bin handed a pack of tissues to Ning Hua and persuaded: "Don't cry, your crying makes your mother even more sad, how can you eat?" ”

Ning Hua's tears were hazy, seeing that her mother was just worried about looking at her and stopped eating, she hurriedly held back her tears and smiled at her mother. Ning Hua's mother silently wiped the tears on her daughter's face with a tissue over and over again. Ning Hua took the bowl from Senior Brother Jianyang and continued to feed his mother. The mother looked at her baby daughter with warm eyes and ate it bite by bite.

Under Ning Hua's force-feeding and the persuasion of her two senior brothers, her mother finally ate a small bowl of food. Ning Hua then sent her mother back to the bedroom to lie down. After serving her mother well, she didn't wait for the persuasion of the two senior brothers, and ate another meal with tears in her eyes. She had always lived under the wings of her parents, and she had always thought that her parents were the strongest, as if there was never any difficulty to defeat them. But her father's sudden death, and her mother's current weakness, have become so fragile and so weak, that she has finally grown up. Ning Hua forced herself to finish eating, forcing herself to become strong quickly, and she vowed to protect and take care of her mother with her ability in the future.

Fortunately, there are two senior brothers, who have given Ning Hua a backbone in his heart, and their arrival has diluted the coldness of the family a lot.