Black-bellied CEO: Lai Shang's Assistant

Chapter 125 The Seriously Ill Grandma

During lunch break, Tang Xiaochen went out to buy afternoon tea for colleagues, and met Liu Chang at the entrance of the tea restaurant.

Liu Chang asked the waiter for a Black Forest cake, and while waiting for the cake, she chatted casually with Liu Chang.

Liu Chang's face was pale, with heavy dark circles under his eyes, and he looked weak.She couldn't help asking: "Did the gang of bad guys come to you again last time?"

"No, they told me to give me ten days." Liu Chang shook his head, his face clouded with gloom.

"What happened to you?" She didn't believe that Liu Chang had turned into a bad girl, there must be something unspeakable behind it.

"Xiaochen, stop asking." Liu Chang took a sip of plain water, and then she noticed that Liu Chang's hands were dry and peeling, not at all like the hands of a girl in her early 20s.

If she hadn't been suppressed by life, how could she have become like this.As soon as they left the campus, they really became victims of this cruel society.

"Liu Chang, we are good friends. If you encounter difficulties, you can tell me and I will do my best to help you." She stretched out her hand to grab Liu Chang's hand to give her a little comfort.

Perhaps because he hadn't felt such warmth for a long time, a tear fell from the corner of Liu Chang's eyes.

She wiped away her tears in embarrassment, and forced a smile: "My grandma suffered from liver cancer and had an operation last month. My colleagues knew that my family was in a difficult situation and donated a lot of money to me. But in the end it was still a little short, so I had to borrow Usury. Because grandma can't afford it anymore, I only have her as a relative."

"I'm sorry, I didn't know that something like this happened in your family." In the past, Liu Chang was only thought to be taciturn, but it turned out that it was caused by the embarrassing family environment.

When he was in college, Liu Chang took the school's bursary every year, and whenever he had time, he had to work part-time outside the school.At that time, she had guessed that Liu Chang's family was not well off, but she never thought that at such a young age, she would have to shoulder the burden of a family.

"My mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to me. My father was a drunkard, owed a lot of debts, and ran away with his stepmother. In fact, my grandma is not my own grandma. She is an old man who lives alone. She adopted me because she saw me pitiful. It's hard work I was forced to go to college. Now I am over 70 years old, and I am still living a precarious life. I thought I could earn a lot of money to support her after I went to college, and I thought I would be successful if I worked hard. But this society is too realistic. People at the bottom of society can never climb up."

Liu Chang stuttered every word, almost accumulating all his anger and dissatisfaction with reality in these words.

She didn't know how to comfort Liu Chang, so she could only keep holding her hand.

Just at this time, refreshments were ready.Holding the Black Forest cake, Liu Chang stood up and said, "I went to see my grandma, she likes to eat Black Forest cake, I haven't bought one for her for a long time."

"Wait for me." Tang Xiaochen took out his mobile phone and called Ah Jin, asking Ah Jin to come and pick up his afternoon tea.

"I'll go with you, I want to see grandma too." She handed the tea to the waiter in the restaurant, told them that someone would come to pick it up later, and followed Liu Chang to the hospital.

Liu Chang's grandma was too old, and even though she underwent surgery, the doctor still advised her to stay in hospital for observation.Liu Chang's economic conditions cannot keep up, so grandma can only live in the worst ward.

There were five patients in the ward, one of them had a broken bone and was whimpering in pain, and the old man couldn't sleep well.

Liu Chang put the Black Forest cake on the table and said with a smile, "Grandma, I brought my classmate to see you today. Her name is Tang Xiaochen, and I mentioned it to you."

"Grandma, hello." Tang Xiaochen put down the fruit basket, sat by the bed, and took the old man's hand.

The old man's hands are full of grooves, his thick and hard nails are uneven, and there is some dust accumulated over the years between the nails.And the palms of her hands were full of calluses, which made her ache.

The old man stroked Tang Xiaochen's hand kindly, "So you are Xiaochen. I heard from Changchang that you took good care of her at school. Thank you, you are a good girl."

The old man is very simple and can't say any gorgeous words of thanks, but she is very moved when she hears it, and she just wants to shed tears.

"Grandma, I bought you a Black Forest cake, you like it the most." Liu Chang smiled like a flower.

Her sadness can be seen by anyone, but the smile can only be reserved for grandma.

"Chang Chang, didn't grandma say that this cake is quite expensive, so don't buy it in the future." The old man made a serious face, feeling sorry for the child for wasting money.

Liu Chang suddenly pulled Tang Xiaochen over, and said with a smile, "Xiaochen bought this, I didn't spend any money."

Liu Chang gave her a look, she understood, nodded quickly and said: "I bought it, I heard that grandma likes it."

"What you bought won't work. You are still children. Where did you get the money?" The old man took a bite of the cake. Although he was complaining about them, his smile was deep in his eyes.

Seeing that the old man was eating happily, she took the initiative to feed it to the old man, "Grandma, my grandma is about the same age as you, and I think you are very kind. I will come to see you when I have time, and you will treat me like a granddaughter. "

"Okay, grandma has another granddaughter. Don't just feed grandma, eat some for yourself." The old man pushed the cake back and asked her to have a bite too.

Tang Xiaochen ate the cake obediently and said, "This cake is really delicious."

"Eat more if it tastes good." The old man looked at her with relief, not treating her as an outsider at all.

Liu Chang fetched boiling water and wiped his grandma's hands and face carefully.The old man lay on the bed, weeping silently.

Tang Xiaochen hurriedly wiped away her tears with a tissue, "Grandma, is there something wrong with you?"

"Grandma wished that it would be better if she died, so as not to hurt Changchang. Look at her, a little girl in her 20s, who is tied up every day by me, an old bastard. She has never bought it for herself when she grows up. What good clothes." The old man said, tears streaming down more and more.

"Grandma, don't say such things in the future. I'm just your family member. I won't take care of anyone you take care of." Liu Chang sat beside the old man and wiped his body willingly.

Tang Xiaochen stood watching from the sidelines, feeling as if a bottle of five flavors had been knocked over, unable to tell what it was like.

"Grandma, I have to go back to work. If you have anything to do, ask the nurse to call me." Liu Chang packed everything in a hurry, grabbed his bag and was about to leave.

The old man nodded and said, "Go back to work, don't be late."

"Grandma, let's go then." Tang Xiaochen said goodbye to the old man.

After leaving the hospital, she asked, "Didn't grandma know about your loan from the loan shark?"

"I don't know, I dare not tell her."

"What are you going to do?"

"Let's take one step at a time, can life kill people?" Liu Chang took a deep breath and smiled helplessly.

And sometimes life can't kill people, but money can kill people.

(End of this chapter)