Chapter 120: A sense of foreboding
The sudden death of his mother was a bolt from the blue for the whole family!
When Li Hanqing and Li Hanmei saw their grandmother now, they still had such a kind smile, still sitting quietly and peacefully on the soft chair, and the warm sunlight was evenly sprinkled on her body. Pen ~ fun ~ The flowers and plants on the balcony of the www.biquge.info pavilion are still verdant and verdant, the green leaves are swaying, the breeze blows frequently, and the mottled shadow falls on the grandmother's weather-beaten face, swaying and beating, as if with a silent melody, silently seeing off the grandmother.
Everything around Grandma is still so warm and familiar.
The only difference is that Grandma can no longer wear reading glasses, comb their ponytails with great kindness, and can no longer quietly hand them steaming mung bean soup and peanut milk while they are doing their homework!
Detective Liban found that his mother was dressed very differently today, and she dressed herself up very beautifully: wearing a fiery red and bright Tang dress like a peony blooming, black suede pants and a pair of red leather shoes.
Que Ni wiped her red eyes while comforting the sisters who were lying on the old man's knees and crying. Thorn Plate held back his grief and called his brother Kuribanma in New York with trembling hands to tell him the news of his mother's death.
As soon as Kuribana heard the bad news, he was silent for a few seconds, and then he cried on the phone. After a while, he choked up and said, "I'll come back with Che Miao and my first secretary Yakov Belisa the day after tomorrow." You have to wait for me, and we brothers will change our mother's clothes together so that she can go in peace. β
"Isn't Hanlin coming back?" asked Chestnut Board. Li Hanlin is the son of Kuribanma and is in high school in New York.
"Hanlin is now in his second year of high school, and he is very nervous about studying, and he will not have time to come back when he is preparing for a big exam next month." β
Li Hanmei's eyes flashed with tears, and after listening to the call, she immediately urged: "Second uncle, hurry up and tell my parents to come back quickly!"
The chestnut board was stunned and became like a sculpture, standing still.
Li Hanmei's words made him become six gods and no master for a while, and he was so nervous that his heart was about to jump out.
Yes, the voice can be fooled, and the video can be fooled, but when the real face of the real person appears in front of you, can you still be fooled? What's more, in this world, it is no longer possible for Li Hanmei's real father and mother to appear again!
Chestnut Plate Tan looked at his niece's red and swollen eyes that were already crying, and his heart was about to be shattered.
He seemed to feel that he was lying on a big tree dozens of meters high, and suddenly, the big tree was cut off at the waist, and then, he fell down with the big tree, and for a while his eyes were full of stars, his head was dizzy, and his body was shaky.
He also had a sense of guilt and guilt.
For so many years, he, Que Ni, Li Banzhen, Che Miao, and Li Hanqing have joined forces to weave this seemingly seamless, but in fact a super big lie full of loopholes, deceiving a most innocent and pure child and a mother in her old age who loves boundlessly.
Now, my mother has left with the greatest concern and regret of her life, and the lies and deceptions against her have come to an end.
But for this niece, who is becoming more and more sensible and sensitive, will this lie continue, and if so, for how long?
The chestnut banter has come a long way of eight years of deception, and almost every day is condemned by his conscience.
Now being asked by Li Hanmei like this, it is even more heartbroken, exhausted, and a thousand tastes come to my heart together.
"Do you still need to explain such an important matter?" said Chestnut Plate Detective, pretending to be relaxed and flustered, "My first thought was to call your parents. β
"Second uncle lied, your first call was to the uncle," Li Hanmei frowned slightly, her tear-wet eyelashes kept beating, staring at the chestnut plate detective tightly, never letting go of any expression on his face.
"Oh, I'm busy, I'm busy! Oh no, I don't know what I did just now. The chestnut bantan covered up as he walked to the bathroom. "I'll go to the bathroom first, and I'll call them right away later. β
Chestnut Bantan walked to the bathroom and tried to calm himself down. He lowered his voice, first told Li Baohua in London the news of his mother's death, and then explained again and again: "I'll call you later, you must not answer the phone, ask Luo Li to answer, let Luo Li say that you are sick and hospitalized, you have just undergone surgery, and you are on a drip, so it is inconvenient for you to answer the phone." β
"This ...... This ......," Li Baohua said hesitantly, "this is not ...... It's not good, I ......" He felt fine, but insisted that he was lying in the hospital after surgery, which seemed unlucky.
"Don't hesitate any longer! I'm the time to burn my eyebrows, and I'm going to have to do me a favor if I look for you. When the time comes, I will thank you very much for giving you a box of the best Longyan Shenglong brand peanuts in Fujian," said Li Bantan in a commanding tone, "Besides, we have cooperated so well for so many years." We can't give up all our efforts, Jiren has his own natural appearance! Don't worry, you will be wronged. β
Li Baohua was confused by his cousin's words that were both a request and a threat, a praise and a criticism, and agreed in a daze.
Chestnut Bantan returned to the living room, immediately pretended to be in a hurry, and called his brother in London. He raised his voice and spoke the key conversations very loudly, as if he was afraid that others would not hear them.
"What? Hospitalized? No wonder he doesn't answer the phone," Chestnut Detective pretended to be taken aback, and asked very nervously, "That's not a big problem, right? Oh, oh, appendicitis is right? That's okay, okay, you have to take care of the plate, we will take care of the family affairs, rest assured." β
Li Hanmei pricked up her ears, and after hearing the news of her father's hospitalization, she immediately asked for the chestnut board's mobile phone and asked loudly: "Mom, why did Dad get sick and hospitalized?
"Daughter, it's normal to get sick, you also know that your father has always worked very hard, staying up late every day, you see, isn't this sick?" Tie Lianlian replied, "But there is no big problem, Dad will be fine in ten days and half a month, I will take care of him, you can rest assured." β
Li Hanmei did not answer.
With suspicious eyes, she looked at the chestnut board seriously for a while. Then, she didn't even say "goodbye", just hung up the phone, returned it to the chestnut bantan, didn't look at him, didn't say anything, turned around and ran away.
Chestnut Plate Tan shuddered in his heart!
The sixth sense told him that Li Hanmei had realized something.
Li Hanmei ran to Li Hanqing's practice room, closed the door firmly, kicked her left foot, lifted her buttocks, and sat on the rattan chair, her head on the calligraphy table, thinking of her grandmother's love for her before, thinking of the disguised expression when the second uncle talked about her parents recently, thinking of her lonely and strong growth in the favor of her parents for so many years, thinking of the truth or falsehood of her parents' work in the UK, a strong sourness and desolation rose from the bottom of her heart and spread, Li Hanmei could no longer control her fragile emotions, trembling her weak shoulders, and cried sadly, letting the tears soak and wet the stack of rice paper on the calligraphy tableγ
Li Hanmei let herself cry as much as she wanted, crying happily, and after ten minutes, she was tired of crying, so she fell asleep on the calligraphy table in a daze.
In her sleep, she suddenly saw a kind old man come to her side, gently pat her shoulder, and said to her affectionately: "Meimei, my good granddaughter, you have grown so big and so smart, what a good example!"
Li Hanmei was startled, stood up from the rattan chair, looked at this kind old man, with a wary expression, and asked, "Who are you? I don't know you so much? How can you know me?"
The old man smiled heartily, walked over, stroked Li Hanmei's cheek with great pity, and said, "My good granddaughter, I am your grandfather Li Guozhang." When you were still in the womb of your parents, I will give you your name. β
Li Hanmei thought about it seriously, there was nothing wrong, this was exactly the same thing that her father had told her about her grandfather naming her before.
"Are you really my grandfather? I haven't really seen you since I was born, but you're still quite similar to the grandfather in my photo," Li Hanmei tried to compare the old grandfather to the grandfather in the photo, "but I'm not sure you're really my grandpa." Let me ask you, my father, mother, my uncle, my second uncle, my second aunt, what are their names?"
"It's not difficult for me, as a father, if you can't even say the names of your sons and daughters-in-law, it's not a big joke. The old man then smiled and said the names of each of them accurately.
Li Hanmei said excitedly: "Ah, you are really my grandfather!"
"Is that still false? Meimei, it's right for you to be more vigilant, don't trust strangers easily," Li Guan nodded uncontrollably, and then changed his words, with a thick sadness on his face, and said: "Grandpa knows, grandma is gone, and you are very sad." Grandpa knows that you love grandma very much. Grandma told me that she had a lot to say to everyone, but she didn't have time to say it and left. Come, grandpa will teach you how to hold a brush, and you will write a long letter for grandma, okay?"
"Okay!" Li Hanmei wiped away the tears that rolled down her cheeks.
Kuri took the brush from the pen holder, dipped the ink in the glass bottle, and spread out the letter. Li Guozhang let Li Hanmei hold the pen, and then, his hands were lightly placed on Li Hanmei's hand, the two hands were one, the pen walked the dragon and snake, and the lines of rigid and soft, strong and powerful handwriting appeared on the letter paper like a cloud......
After writing, Li Kuangzhang put the brush horizontally on the table, waited for the handwriting to cool and dried, folded the letter, and said to Li Hanmei: "My good Meimei, I put the letter in my grandmother's pocket, you can rest well." β
"Grandpa!"
Li Hanmei screamed, raised her head suddenly, stretched out her hand, and was about to pull her grandfather's placket, but knocked down the pen stand erected next to her, Li Hanmei opened her eyes wide, looking around for her grandfather's figure, except for the brush that was placed horizontally on the desk and exuded a faint ink fragrance, but found nothing.
Li Hanmei woke up in an instant, it turned out that everything just now was just a dream.
However, why is this horizontal brush exactly the same as the one that my grandfather used to teach me to write letters in my dream?
Li Hanmei was puzzled, so she no longer wanted to drill these horns, opened the door, and went to find Sister Qingqing.
On the third day, Kuriban Zhenhe, Che Miao, and Yakov Belisa arrived at Beijing International Airport, and as soon as they got off the plane, they got into a special car sent by Liban Detective and hurried to the funeral home.
When they arrived at the funeral home, they saw their mother's quiet and peaceful appearance, and remembered their mother's hard work and thrifty housekeeping.
While sorting through their mother's body, the brothers discovered a letter hidden in her pocket.
They were astonished: how could a mother write a letter if she hadn't even graduated from elementary school?
(To be continued.) )