bookbashuk Chapter 400 Visiting Grandma
Chapter 400 Visiting Grandma
Xu Sui and Qin Yunzhou immediately sensed something was wrong from Wang Xiuer's attitude.
The two paused, exchanged a glance, and without paying any more attention to Wang Xiuer, quickly headed straight for the old lady's room.
Wang Xiuer and her husband were stunned for a moment, then quickly chased after them.
In no time, Xu Sui and Qin Yunzhou arrived at the old lady's door and called out, "Grandma, we're back to see you."
Receiving no response, they didn't dwell on it and quickly pushed the door open and went inside.
The instant the door was pushed open.
Xu Sui suddenly saw the old man lying on the bed, his hair already gray, his face old and haggard, and he had fallen into a deep sleep.
She stopped in her tracks, her eyes unconsciously reddening, her heart aching and sore, feeling a dull ache.
"Grandma...Grandma, it's me, it's Sui Sui. I'm back. I've brought Yun Zhou and the two children back with me."
Xu Sui couldn't hold back any longer and quickly ran up to the bedside, squatted down, and held the old lady's withered hand, which was nothing but skin and bones.
On the bed, the once elegant and composed old lady no longer possessed the imposing demeanor she once had.
More than five years have passed in the blink of an eye. She lies in bed unable to move, her whole body is like skin and bones, the wrinkles on her face are just like the brown bark of an old tree, and her breath is also a little weak.
Even breathing was difficult. When she heard a noise, she could only barely open her eyes and see a vague outline.
The drowsy old lady Xu vaguely heard someone calling her grandma. Who could it be?
Is it Xiao Fei?
But Xiaofei was admitted to a military medical university last year and followed in her footsteps to study there. He hasn't come back yet.
If it's not Xiaofei, then it can only be... Suisui. Suisui is very busy; she hasn't been back for many years.
It probably wasn't her.
Who would that be?
Grandma Xu really wanted to find out who was calling her "Grandma." She tried hard to open her eyes and see who it was, but she was too sick to even open her mouth.
All it could do was scream "ah ah ah," and it couldn't even speak clearly anymore.
Upon arriving here, she felt a wave of heaviness and bitterness wash over her.
A doctor cannot heal himself. She has been a doctor for so many years and saved so many patients, but in the end, she is lying in this bed, unable to heal herself and can only wait to die.
But she just couldn't die, and her life was worse than death. Sometimes she couldn't help but think that it was better to be paralyzed in bed, unable to do anything, and even need help with urination and defecation.
It would be better to die and be done with it all.
However, for someone like her, even death is a luxury; she doesn't even have the strength to seek it.
"Grandma, Grandma, I'm back. I've come back to see you. Please open your eyes and look at me..."
Xu Sui whispered her name in the old lady's ear again and again, feeling extremely depressed and distressed.
She held the old lady's hand tightly and gradually noticed that something was wrong with the old lady.
There was a foul smell in the room, not coming from inside the room, but from the old woman and the bed.
Upon entering the room, Qin Yunzhou was the first to notice something was wrong; the bed the old lady was sleeping on reeked of feces and urine, a sour and foul odor…
The smell isn't very strong, but you can smell it if you take a closer look.
He frowned and looked at Wang Xiuer and Zhang Ergou, who were running over. Suddenly, his eyes turned dark and deep, his gaze sharp, and his aura was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.
"What happened? How did Grandma get like this? And what about the blankets on the bed? Haven't you changed Grandma's clothes?"
Xu Sui tucked the blanket around Grandma Xu and carefully checked her condition. She quickly got a sense of what was going on.
With almost no expression on her face, she walked up to Wang Xiuer and looked directly at the person in front of her.
"Wang Xiuer, back when there was a famine, every household was struggling, and things weren't much better in the city."
"Your whole family has almost all starved to death, leaving you as an orphan. Your grandmother, out of consideration for our kinship, took you to the city and let you live with her. She not only provides you with food and clothing, but also doesn't restrict you from learning medicine from her."
Xu Sui paused slightly, her gaze turned cold, and her voice deepened.
"Over the years, the famine has passed, you got married, and you still live here with your husband, under the guise of taking care of the elderly."
"But look at Grandma now. Her bed sheets and blankets haven't been changed in ages, and the feces and urine on her body are almost fermented."
"Wang Xiuer, is this how you take care of your benefactor?"
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you saying? It's easy for you to talk when you're not the one suffering, isn't it? What do you mean by saying we didn't take good care of the elderly?"
Zhang Ergou was displeased. He pouted, stepped forward, picked at his ears, pulled out a large clump of yellow, oily earwax, and flicked it onto the ground.
"This old lady isn't our old lady. Over the years, my husband and I have taken care of her in every way. None of you so-called relatives have ever shown up."
"So, if things don't go your way in the slightest, my husband and I, who have been taking care of the elderly for so long, don't get any credit at all."
Wang Xiuer's face flushed slightly. She hesitated, glancing at Xu Sui and Qin Yunzhou, then at the immobile Old Mrs. Xu on the bed. Finally, she stepped forward, tugged at Zhang Ergou's arm, and whispered:
"Alright, alright, that's enough."
"My great-aunt has been kind to me, so it's only right that I do these things. Please don't say anything more."
Then she looked up at Xu Sui, her face apologetic, "Cousin, it was my fault, I didn't do it well, I will definitely pay more attention in the future."
"That's not what Er Gou meant, don't take it to heart."
"My great-aunt saved my life during the famine. Now that she's paralyzed in bed, it's my duty to take care of her. It's all my fault for being too busy these days. Er Gou is a grown man and not good at taking care of my great-aunt, so I haven't been able to clean her up in time."
Wang Xiuer quickly explained to Xu Sui, her attitude of admitting her mistake was extremely good, as if she was afraid that Xu Sui would misunderstand.
"Don't worry, this will definitely not happen again next time. If you don't believe me, you can ask your aunt. She often comes to visit your great-aunt. If my husband and I haven't taken good care of her, she will definitely know."
The aunt she was referring to was Wang Yinhua.
Wang Yinhua is usually busy with work and has to support her whole family on her own. In addition, since the two families don't live together, she can't always know what's going on in her family's affairs immediately.
However, because the old lady's health has not been good in the past year, Wang Yinhua, as her daughter-in-law, would come to visit her whenever she had free time.