Grandpa is gone

  The car drove very fast, and it only took more than ten minutes to enter a lane, turn into an alley, and Li Lu'er happily jumped out of the car. Looking at the courtyard gate wide open, suddenly a certain inexplicable fear arose in her heart?!

  She rushed into the yard and saw that it was in a mess, her grandfather was lying beside the flower pot, with a trace of fresh blood still hanging from the corner of his mouth...

  Corresponding to those bright red ones were also the tightly clenched stacks of 100-yuan bills in his hand...

  What happened after all?

  "Grandpa... Grandpa..." Lei Lu'er's voice was trembling, she wiped away the bloodstain from grandpa's lip corner, using all her strength to lift up grandpa's upper body, loudly shouting, tears streaming down her face.

  "Luò ér? Your school bag... Grandpa?!" Shen Xiaoxuan, carrying two school bags with some difficulty, was about to scold Lei Luòér, but instead saw this scene.

  Shen Xiaoxuan stood there as if she had lost her soul, the school bag in her hand was thrown to the ground, and she was stunned.

  "Grandfather, wake up... Grandfather... What's going on?!?" Li Lu'er shook her grandfather desperately, but he didn't respond at all. With tears in her eyes, she looked out the door and shouted loudly: "Lu Xiansheng, come quickly... Lu Xiansheng..."

  Lu Xuan Sheng was originally inquiring about Lu Mei You and Lu Jun's recent movements with the driver, but when he heard Li Luo Er's crying voice, he rushed into the yard.

  Looking at Grandfather who was covered in footprints and Lei Luo'er who was crying like a ghost, Lu Xiangsheng felt like he was about to go crazy and suffocate! What on earth had happened again?! He rushed forward, picked up Grandfather and quickly ran back to the car. Chen Zhiquan, who was in the car, was so frightened that he became flustered and muttered: "Grandfather, what's wrong?"

  "Hurry up and get on the bus!" Lu Xiangsheng shouted at Shen Xiaoxuan and Li Luer in the yard.

  Shen Xiaoxuan finally came back to his senses and pulled up Lei Lu'er who was still kneeling on the ground and hurriedly got into the car.

  The driver knew it was an emergency and stepped on the gas, ignoring all traffic lights.

  The car drove directly into the Red Star Hospital, stopping at the entrance of the emergency room. Lu Xiansheng carried Grandfather and rushed into the emergency room, seeing the nurse inside, panting and shouting: "Save him! Come quickly to save him!"

  The nurse may be used to such situations and only pushed out the stretcher after pressing the emergency notification.

  Lu Xiansheng carefully placed Grandfather on a stretcher and followed the nurses as they rushed towards the emergency room.

  Looking at the door that closed again and the indicator light that lit up once more, Lu Xiangsheng leaned against the wall, feeling an unprecedented sense of sadness and sorrow.

  This is not Shanghai, there's no grandfather to rely on! No father to protect me! No sister to dote on me! Everything has to be shouldered by myself! Undertaken by myself!...... But why do I still encounter such things despite trying my best to guard against them?!

  Lu Xuan Sheng was bewildered, for the first time feeling like a failure, for the first time feeling powerless! For the first time feeling that he was just an ordinary person, an extremely ordinary person...

  "Bang!" A crisp and clear throwing sound.

  "What are you doing?" Lu Xiansheng raised his head in confusion and stared at Chen Zhiquan and the shattered phone.

  "Come out!" Chen Zhiquan sighed and turned around to walk outside.

  Watching Li Luor fall on Shen Xiaoxuan's leg and cry so pitifully, Lu Xiansheng stretched out his hand to comfort her, but his fingertips stopped in mid-air and fell back down again. He walked straight away, going to find Chen Zhiquan.

  On the corner balcony, only Chen Zhiquan was alone, he puffed heavily on his cigarette, with a look of panic and confusion in his eyes.

  "Speak!" Lu Xian Sheng closed his eyes and leaned against the door frame.

  "Just now Bai Shi sent a message..." Chen Zhiquan rubbed his temples hard, trying to calm himself down.

  "What does she want to do again?" Lu Xiangsheng spat out a mouthful of resentment, somewhat helplessly.

  "The house in our home is gone, the money in Grandpa's hand is the money from selling the house..." Chen Zhiquan said with difficulty, his eyes feeling a bit sour, he turned his head away, not letting Lu Xiansheng see."

  "Why?" Lu Xiangsheng's eyes widened as he grabbed Chen Zhiquan's shoulder, his voice beginning to tremble.

  "I don't know! But the text message from Bai Shi said that Lao Er's grandfather has already sold the house to her, with proof and a seal, she will come to collect the house within three days, let's move out as soon as possible, if anything unexpected happens, they won't be responsible..."

  "I shouldn't have let her be so unbridled from the start!" Lu Xiangsheng said, gradually clenching his fist and punching it onto the balcony railing. Fresh blood flowed from his fingertips, was it painful? It was! But there wasn't a deeper pain in his heart! Bai Shi!!! Our war, starts now!!!

  Chen Zhiquan looked at Lu Xiansheng's solemn expression, took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands, but was slapped away by Lu Xiansheng.

  Lu Xuan Sheng turned back to the emergency room door, his footsteps staggering, but his eyes carried a cold gleam, as if they could swallow everything.

  Looking at Li Luo's tears, Lu Xiangsheng's heart was a little hesitant. Was his stay right or wrong? Bringing her so much disaster and suffering! And powerless to protect... Is it necessary to let go in order to end all this?

  "Family members of the patient, come here!" The doctor pushed open the door and shouted expressionlessly.

  "I am!" Lei Luo'er wiped away her tears and walked up to the doctor.

  "Isn't there an adult in your family?" The doctor was a bit concerned, wondering if such a small child could make decisions on their own.

  "My mom is on her way to work and will be here soon, you can tell me anything! I'm his granddaughter!" Li Lu'er said, pulling on the doctor's sleeve.

  "Ask your mother to prepare for the aftermath! The old man's ribs are already broken, compressing his esophagus. Although he has tried his best to recover, he still can't eat and is in a state of despair... Alas... Condolences!"

  As soon as the doctor finished speaking, Li Lu'er collapsed to the ground, powerless. She knelt at the door of the emergency room, staring blankly at the glass, reminiscing about the day Grandfather first came home with such vigor... "Why?! Why?! Why did it have to be like this?! Grandfather..." Li Lu'er cried out weakly, looking at Grandfather being pushed out, his face pale, only his mouth moving as if he wanted to say something, but couldn't get the words out.

  The nurses arranged Grandpa in the ICU and after hanging up the IV bottle, they all turned around and left.

  Li Jinyun also came, without changing into that grey work uniform, and rushed over in a flurry.

  "Dad, I'm here!" Lei Jinyun's uncontrollable tears wetted her collar as she grasped the thin hands of Lao Er's grandfather and called out to him.

  Grandfather slowly opened his eyes, and his trembling lips uttered a faint voice: "Yun... Father was wrong! Father was wrong..."

  "Dad! You're not wrong, it's okay, no matter what happens, as long as you're fine, that's all that matters. Your being alive is our greatest blessing, everything else is just external things, don't take it to heart, okay? Okay......" Li Jinyun was already sobbing uncontrollably.

  The old man took out a contract from his pocket, his eyes filled with tears, and said in self-reproach: "There was a family who wanted to buy my four connected houses, they looked for me many times, I thought of selling it...wanted to give the money to Luo Er and Chao as tuition fees...anyway this old man doesn't need that courtyard anymore...but unexpectedly, they were swindlers!!! Although I am illiterate, I can still recognize numbers...cough cough"

  Grandfather's breathing became more difficult, and Li Jinyun endured the heartache, crying out: "Dad, don't worry about these things anymore, okay?"

  "No... Let me finish! When I was signing the contract, I saw that one word and felt it wasn't right, but then they brought over a bunch of big men to pressure me into signing... And then they said that the house you're living in now is the one that's been sold! Your father has lost his eyesight... Can't even help his own children, yet still wants to harm them and leave them homeless..." Tears streamed down Lao Er's weathered face as he slowly closed his eyes.

  "Doctor! Doctor!" Li Luo'er desperately pressed the rescue bell and shouted loudly.

  Several people in the ward bit their teeth and held back their tears, but their hearts could not be controlled. Chen Zhiquan really couldn't hold it in, ran out of the door, lay on a long chair with his head buried and cried painfully...

  "We can give him intravenous nutrition, but the effect should be minimal, just prolonging his life for a few more days. If the old man has any last wishes, you as his children should fulfill them, consider it your final filial duty!" The doctor said calmly while looking at the ECG.

  "Please, doctor! Save my grandfather! I don't want my grandfather to die! I really don't want my grandfather to die! I'm still young, how can I let Grandpa leave me first..." Li Lu'er knelt at the doctor's feet, desperately begging him to save her grandfather, even if there was only a glimmer of hope.

  "Child, some things are destined! It's too late to turn back now! Although I'm a doctor..." A hint of desolation flashed in the doctor's eyes, but quickly returned to calm.

  Shen Xiaoxuan pulled up Li Lu'er, and the two of them wept bitterly. It was only at this moment that they could truly understand the phrase: "The tree wants to be still but the wind will not stop, the child wants to be raised but the parents are no longer waiting..."

  "Go home!" Li Jinyun wiped away her tears and calmed down a bit.

  "Why go home? I don't want to go home! Let Grandpa stay in the hospital instead... At least we can have a few more days..." Lí Luòér turned her face away, not understanding her mother's actions, and cried until her head felt like it was going to explode, but the pain in her heart surpassed the headache.

  "If there's no way to save him, we'll have to face it! Your grandfather doesn't like hospitals and doesn't want to leave here. Let's go home... At least at home, there are us! Let him leave with a peace of mind, he won't be so lonely! Look at this hospital, the walls are cold and foggy, not a bit of warmth..."

  Li Luo'er listened to her mother's words, closed her eyes, pinched off the tears, endured the headache, got up and helped her mother clean up everything in the hospital room. Lu Xiangsheng half-squatted beside the bed, carried Grandpa on his back, and slowly walked out...

  Bai Shi!!! Why are you so cruel?! You come to harm a 70-year-old elderly person, when facing this old man, can you really bring yourself to do it?!

  The tears in Lu Xiansheng's eyes gradually changed color...