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When Zhou Siyi received the call, the lady at the next table was about to strike up a conversation.

He pointed to his mobile phone and connected the call: "Hi, are you off work early?"

Zhuang Mengqi's voice was a little unsteady, "Xiaoyi, I have something urgent, so I'll drive back first, you go to my office, I'll ask my assistant to order dinner for you."

"What's the matter? What's the matter?" Zhou Siyi found that something was wrong and asked.

"I'm still not sure about my mother. I'll find out first and then tell you."

The sound of a car horn came from the other end, Zhou Siyi's heart tightened, and he hurriedly said: "Drive well, how about I take a taxi to Biyun to find you?"

Zhuang Mengqi took a deep breath and said, "It's okay, no need, I'm sorry to let you stay there alone."

Zhou Siyi interrupted him and said: "Tell me when you get home, don't worry about me, I am such an old person, can't take care of myself? It's okay, Meng Qi, no matter what happens, calm down first, I will accompany you .”

Zhuang Mengqi responded in a low voice and hung up the phone.

Zhou Siyi put down his phone and began to feel restless.

Suddenly, at the dinner table today, Guo Ting's eyes dodged when he mentioned Kang Nian.

Does she know something?Could it have something to do with her boyfriend?

Zhou Siyi immediately called Guo Ting, but no one answered the phone. I don't know if it was on mute or what.

He got up to pay the bill, and hurriedly took a taxi home.

Finally got home in a traffic jam, but Guo Ting was still not there, and Zhou Hong was watering the flowers in the yard instead.

"Dad, where's my mother?" Zhou Siyi turned back and asked without finding his mother.

"Didn't you have dinner outside? Why are you back?" Zhou Hong straightened up and said.

Zhou Siyi said: "Where is my mother? I need to find her urgently!"

Zhou Hong said inexplicably, "Going to see your grandfather, why, what's the matter?"

Zhou Siyi sized him up and asked, "Do you know about Meng Qi's mother?"

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Hong's expression became unnatural.

"You know! Dad, what happened? Did that old Tao do something to offend her?" Zhou Siyi asked urgently.

Zhou Hong looked away and said, "It's nothing, don't guess."

Zhou Siyi rolled his eyes and said, "Dad, don't help me hide it. Meng Qi already knows about it and is on his way to find his mother."

"He knows?" Zhou Hong frowned and looked at him, "Did he tell you?"

"I didn't say it, so I'm curious. Anyway, sooner or later, you need to know. Tell me, is Auntie wronged?" Zhou Siyi begged.

Zhou Hong sighed, put down the watering can in his hand and said, "Your mother and I just found out a few days ago, aren't these two families going to meet again? Meng Qi's mother came to our house last time and told your mother about this. One thing. It has nothing to do with Lao Tao, Lao Tao is just helping her to cover, it is also a crime."

When Zhou Siyi heard that "Old Tao is covering for her", his intuition was not good. Kang Nian was not with Lao Tao?

Just as he was about to ask why he said it was a crime, Zhou Hong shook his head and said with regret: "Meng Qi's mother, it was found out a while ago that the tumor had recurred, and this time it was malignant."

Zhou Siyi only felt that he had been hit in the head, and his whole body was like being poured down by a basin of cold water.

After a long time, he got stuck with a few words: "Malignant...tumor? Are you sure?"

Zhou Hongdao: "Otherwise, why do you think she asked a doctor to help cover it up? She knows that she doesn't have much time, and in order to let Meng Qi be with you well and not be under pressure, she keeps telling us not to leak the truth. However, Meng Qi is How do you know?"

Zhou Siyi thought of Zhuang Mengqi's fragility in the phone call just now, and his heart suddenly felt like a hand was clenched.

He also thought about Kang Nian changing his hairstyle in the coffee shop when he delivered the clothes that day.Maybe she didn't change her hairstyle at all and just needed a wig to cover up the hair she'd lost due to medication.

When she sent them away, the reluctance to part was not because her son was leaving her to go to another person, but because she knew that she was leaving her son.

Tears welled up in his eyes uncontrollably, he turned his head and wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "Auntie is in Yanjiang Hospital now, I'll let Meng Qi go directly."

Zhou Hong nodded, "Paper can't hold fire. I told her at the time that the children will know one day. Go and make a phone call. Don't let him have any regrets."

Zhou Siyi went to make a phone call and directly sent the address and ward number to Zhuang Mengqi.

The setting sun was slowly setting in the sky, shining on this busy city, with red and yellow light and colorful afterglow, very much like the evening when Kang Nian hugged Zhuang Mengqi reluctantly.

Zhou Siyi's eyes fell on Zhou Hong's hair, and under the setting sun, a few white hairs appeared on his head.

The slightly curved back, the lines on the corners of the eyes and the brows are all traces left by the years.

Zhou Siyi couldn't help but went to hug him, sniffed and said, "Dad, I..."

This was the first time he hugged Zhou Hong so intimately after he was 20 years old.

Zhou Hong was stunned for a moment, then patted him on the back and said, "Go and accompany Aunt Kang, Dad is waiting for you at home."

When Zhou Siyi drove to the hospital, he saw Zhuang Mengqi's Cayenne in the parking lot.

It's hard to imagine how he rushed from Biyun to Yanjiang so quickly, and he was probably photographed a few times for violating regulations along the way.

Zhou Siyi took the elevator upstairs, and the family members of the patients who stopped on this floor all looked solemn.

Kang Nian lives in the VIP high-care ward, the surrounding is very quiet and lonely, except for the medical staff, there are no other people around.

It was hard for Zhou Siyi to imagine that she spent several months of treatment life here, and she would lie to Zhuang Mengqi every now and then, saying that she was on a date and was too busy to talk to him.

Those circles of friends who go out to eat, drink and have fun don't know who took the photos on her behalf, and they have to post them every few days, accompanied by happy copywriting.

Zhou Siyi saw Zhuang Mengqi leaving messages below several times, complaining that she only had time to accompany Lao Tao and not come back to see her son.

Thinking about it now, when she saw those comments, she didn't know how to cry.

Zhou Siyi knocked on the door a few times, but there was no sound from inside. He pushed open a crack in the door, and only vaguely heard the conversation.

"No, Mom, now that medicine is so advanced, it will definitely be cured. You believe in me and the doctor. If we can't do it in China, we will go abroad. There is always a way to cure you..."

Zhuang Mengqi's voice was choked with depression, and his tone was full of disbelief.

Zhou Siyi took a few steps forward, and through the screened compartment, he saw Kang Nian lying on the bed, so thin that only his bones remained, with the wool cap on his head, and only a few strands of hair on his shoulders.

Zhuang Mengqi turned his back to the door, holding her hand, his shoulders trembling slightly.

Kang Nian was already in tears, wiped the corners of his eyes with a smile, and cursed softly: "What did mother tell you, men don't cry when they cry, how can you make mother feel relieved."

Zhuang Mengqi remained silent, clenched his left hand on his knee tightly into a fist.

"I'm sorry, I apologize to you. I shouldn't have kept this from you. Since I was a child, my mother has only lied to you once. Forgive my mother, okay?" Kang Nian's tears fell on their hands hand.

Zhuang Mengqi couldn't speak, and kept nodding his head. Kang Nian hugged him, finally couldn't help it, and burst into tears.

"I don't want to leave you either. My baby has only grown up for a few years. I haven't seen you get married yet, and I haven't seen Xiao Yi get married. Meng Qi, don't blame mom..." Kang Nian said while sobbing.

Zhou Siyi covered his mouth and took a step back.

He bumped into someone, and when he looked back, it was a middle-aged man in a white coat with the name plate on his chest saying "Dean Tao Ze".

Rao Tao was used to seeing life and death, and his eyes were a little red. He pointed to the door and signaled Zhou Siyi to go out together and not to disturb them.

Zhou Siyi followed him outside, his throat still bitter.

"Uncle Tao, hello, I'm Meng Qi's boyfriend Xiao Yi." He said hoarsely.

Lao Tao led him to the relatives lounge, nodded and said, "Ah Nian and I have mentioned you many times, and I guessed it was you just by looking at the back."

When he arrived at the lounge, he made a pot of tea for Zhou Siyi. The hardware facilities here were indeed top-notch, and Zhou Siyi felt a little relieved.

"Aunt Kang's illness...is it really... incurable?" Zhou Siyi couldn't help asking without touching his teacup.

Lao Tao said: "Three months ago, a sample was taken for testing. The stomach cancer is at an advanced stage. Once this disease is discovered, there is no way to cure it. The longer it is delayed, the longer the pain will be."

Zhou Siyi's chest tightened, no wonder Kang Nian lost weight so fast, and no wonder she had to confess to Guo Ting and Zhou Hong, there was no way she could hide it.

"Aunt Kang, how long do you have?" Zhou Siyi hesitated again and again, but still asked this question.

Lao Tao said: "With the present, it's less than a month."

Zhou Siyi stopped talking, the nails on his palm pierced deeply into the flesh, but he didn't feel any pain at all.

He didn't expect it to be so soon. Zhuang Mengqi had just learned the bad news and would soon lose his only mother. He couldn't imagine what it would be like for him.

"Is there really no other way?" He looked earnestly at Lao Tao, who also looked at him.

Zhou Siyi understood that it had been so long, Lao Tao must want to save her life more than they did.

But the things that people can't fight most in life are time and death.

He covered his eyes with one hand, unable to calm down for a long time.

Lao Tao patted him on the shoulder and said: "In the past three months, I have calmed down a lot. Xiao Yi, to tell you the truth, when I first heard the news, I wished I could exchange my life for hers. I After waiting for her for most of her life, I didn't expect that the only thing I got was to accompany her for the last ride."

Zhou Siyi put down his hands and looked at him with red eyes, "Uncle Tao, are you really not married?"

"If you are married, can you still play this show with her?" Lao Tao laughed at himself, "I sent away so many people, but I never thought I would send her away in the end. Other patients, those with terminal cancer At the time, I always said, "Eat well if you can eat well, and drink well if you can drink well", but when I came to her, I couldn't eat this or that every day, and I still had to hang my breath. After suffering for so long, I I also feel enough for her, in my next life, I will wait for her early in my next life."

Zhou Siyi's tears fell on the back of his hands, he couldn't eat this or that.

He thought of the cup of coffee she hadn't touched in the coffee shop that day.

Such a painful life, but Kang Nian has sustained it until now, just because he wants to see Zhuang Mengqi happy.

He fell on the table, weeping uncontrollably.

The author has something to say: I’m trying my best to code and finish this episode early_(:з」∠)_