novel for you Chapter 2588 That Year, That Month, That Night
Chapter 2588 That Year, That Month, That Night
Beibei said, "My great-grandmother will be happy to know my decision and will praise me for growing up, becoming sensible, and having a plan for everything I do."
"Before coming here, I visited my great-grandmother at the cemetery and talked with her a lot."
Beibei has a very deep bond with her great-grandmother. Before she started kindergarten, she spent every day with her great-grandmother. She was the apple of her great-grandmother's eye. Her great-grandmother said that she had been looking forward to Beibei's arrival for a long time. Of all her great-grandchildren, she loved her the most.
She was thirteen years old when her great-grandmother passed away. She had just started junior high school. It was nine years ago, in the eleventh month of the lunar calendar. The weather in Dongguan was a bit cold. It was a Saturday, she remembered it clearly.
When she came back from school, her great-grandmother was very happy. At that time, her great-grandmother seemed perfectly fine, able to eat and sleep normally.
That night she insisted on sleeping with her great-grandmother.
Lying on her great-grandmother's bed, she chatted with her for a long time. She told her great-grandmother all the funny things that happened at school, and her great-grandmother was very supportive, laughing non-stop at the funny stories she told.
Her great-grandmother also told her to make more friends and not to just study all the time. She told her not to work too hard, that her grades were already very good, and that she should take care of her health and remember her great-grandmother.
She clung to her great-grandmother's arm affectionately, saying that she missed her great-grandmother every day and asking if her great-grandmother thought of her at home.
I remember my great-grandmother saying kindly, "Beibei is my eyes, my darling. I think about Beibei every day, every moment. I have a lot of great-grandchildren, but Beibei is the one I love the most."
“I also love my great-grandmother the most. Great-grandmother, you must live for another ten or twenty years, so that you can watch me grow up and watch me get married.”
The old lady laughed and said, "Grandma also wants to live another ten or twenty years to watch my baby grow up, get married and have children, but that's a long way off. You're only thirteen and just started junior high school."
"Grandma is over 100 years old. She is content and satisfied to have lived to this age. She will have no regrets when she closes her eyes one day."
She has seen all nine of her grandsons get married and have children. Now, the ninth grandson's first child is six years old, and her other grandsons have also had second children one after another. She already has more than a dozen great-grandchildren.
The old lady is truly content. She is now over 100 years old and has never suffered from any illness or pain. Her children and grandchildren are filial, and her eldest great-grandchildren are already adults.
How many people are as fortunate as her?
The old lady seems to have a very detached attitude towards life and death at her age.
"I still hope that my great-grandmother will live forever."
The old lady laughed and said, "If Great-Grandma were still alive, wouldn't she be an old monster? Beibei, birth, aging, sickness and death are the natural course of life. If Great-Grandma passes away one day, don't be sad. Great-Grandma will go to find your Great-Grandpa."
"We will be watching over you from heaven."
“Great-grandmother, I don’t like hearing these words. I just want Great-grandmother to stay with us forever. Great-grandmother is the best great-grandmother in the world.”
The old lady gently stroked her beloved great-granddaughter's hair, "Beibei, your hair is too long. Cut it shorter. Growing this long hair requires a lot of your nutrients."
"Okay, I'll tell my mom tomorrow to ask the hairdresser to come to our house and give me a new haircut."
The old lady nodded and said, "Beibei, go to sleep. Great-Grandma will watch you sleep, just like when you were little. Great-Grandma would stay by your side and watch you fall asleep. When you sleep, you look like a lovely angel. Great-Grandma loves watching your sleeping face the most."
Beibei snuggled closer to her great-grandmother and gave a gentle "hmm".
She closed her eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.
With her great-grandmother looking after her, she felt incredibly safe and secure.
That is, in the middle of the night she dreamed of her great-grandmother. Her great-grandmother said that she was leaving to go to find her great-grandfather and told her not to be sad, that her great-grandmother would always love her.
In her dream, she inexplicably burst into tears, crying out: "Great-Grandma, don't go!"
Then, she woke up with a start, her face covered in tears.
The dream frightened her, so she quickly touched the side of her and touched her great-grandmother. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief and tell herself that it was just a dream.
Great-grandmother is still with her; she hasn't gone to see Great-grandfather yet.
"Grandma."
Beibei cried out.
Great-grandmother is old, but she will wake up quickly if you call her name a couple of times.
Beibei thought her great-grandmother was sleeping soundly, so she called her name twice more, but her great-grandmother did not respond or get up as usual.
Beibei panicked a little, sat up abruptly, turned on the bedside table light, and gently nudged her great-grandmother beside her, calling out, "Great-grandmother, great-grandmother."
Great-grandmother couldn't be woken up.
Beibei panicked. She reached out with trembling hands to check her great-grandmother's nose, but she wasn't breathing.
Her face changed instantly. She tumbled out of bed in a panic and ran and scrambled out of her great-grandmother's room, shouting loudly in the hall, "Dad, Mom, come down quickly! I can't wake my great-grandmother!"
Her cries were like a thunderclap, waking the Youyou Manor shrouded in night.
Her parents, grandparents, and other family members were the first to come downstairs. They were just as flustered as she was. They rushed into her great-grandmother's room. Her father checked her breathing, turned pale, and his legs went weak. He knelt down in front of her bed.
She heard her father say, "Grandma is gone..."
Then, my great-uncle, great-aunt, and all my uncles and aunts came.
My eighth aunt was a doctor. When my great-grandmother arrived, her body was still warm, but after examining her, my eighth aunt said that my great-grandmother had already passed away.
She doesn't have a great-grandmother anymore.
My great-grandmother passed away peacefully in her sleep, without any pain, her expression serene.
Beibei cried her heart out, blaming herself for sleeping too soundly and not even knowing that her great-grandmother had left.
Relatives and friends all came to say goodbye to Great-Grandma.
Although everyone comforted them, saying that their great-grandmother passed away at the age of 101, which was a long life, and that she was free from illness and passed away peacefully in her dreams, it was a happy death, and they were told not to be too sad.
That was their great-grandmother, how could they not be sad?
Beibei saw that her parents and uncles and aunts were very sad. No one could accept that her great-grandmother had suddenly left them. Although her great-grandmother was very old, they knew that she would leave them one day.
However, they still couldn't accept it.
They were used to seeing their great-grandmother's kind smiling face every time they returned to the old house.
This was the first time Beibei had seen her father's vulnerable side. He leaned on her mother's shoulder, tears welling in his eyes, his voice choked with emotion, and said, "Tongtong, I don't have a grandma anymore..."
Mom cried her eyes out.
My father lost his grandmother.
She lost her great-grandmother.
Dad said that when he returns to the old house, he will never see his great-grandmother's smiling face again, and when he encounters difficulties, he will no longer be able to confide in her or get her guidance.
Great-grandmother left them just like that.
Nine years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Uncle Jiu's second child is over five years old this year. He is her youngest cousin and the only great-grandchild that her great-grandmother never saw born.
I miss my great-grandmother so much.
Before coming to Uncle Liu's place, Beibei visited her great-grandmother at the cemetery, chatted with her for a long time, and told her that she was going to come to Uncle Liu's place for a vacation.