The return of the son-in-law

After Huo Yu read Wu Jia's letter, he was so anxious that he wished he had the ability to escape, so he rushed back to Elder Sun immediately.Guo Zhan'an didn't persuade him too much. He knew that Wu Jia had never been a frizzy person. Tonghua County was quite far from the northwest. If Sun Lao had only a small problem, Wu Jia would definitely not write it so seriously in the letter.

Seeing that Huo Yu was in a hurry, Guo Zhan'an said, "Yu'er, tell Fuquan to pack your bags, you and him, and bring a few more people, and leave early tomorrow morning for Tonghua County to visit your grandfather. My identity cannot leave the boundary of Xuzhou at will. , I can’t go to visit Elder Sun with you, and I will apologize to the old man for me after you pass.”

Only then did Huo Yu calm down, nodded and said, "Thank you brother, but I want to leave today."

Guo Zhan'an persuaded: "From Xuzhou to Tonghua County, it will take ten days of hard work even if you go fast and sleepless. Don't you bring the dry food for these days? Also, I have to go back to Tonghua County. Get ready, you are rushing back with your people now, without any paperwork to prove your identity, what if someone treats you as a fleeing prisoner?"

Huo Yu said in a muffled voice, "I'm being frivolous, I'm going to pack my things now."

Guo Zhan'an was worried that Huo Yu would be bored, so he couldn't help but say a few more words: "Don't worry, Wu Jia is meticulous in his work. With him around, Mr. Sun will definitely be fine."

Huo Yu nodded, Guo Zhanan saw that he was in a better mood, so he let him go.

There is no need to elaborate on how this journey took place day and night. By the time Huo Yu and others arrived in Tonghua County, Elder Sun had already been unconscious for many days.

Seeing his grandfather lying in bed seriously ill, Huo Yu couldn't help but say harsh words to Wu Jia: "Grandpa is already sick like this, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Wu Jia complained again and again: "Second young master, it's not that I don't want to tell you, but Mr. Sun stopped me from telling me! His old man has been coming here one after another since he has a small problem in winter. I said he should just write to the second young master. , but the old man said, you followed the young master to do great things in Xuzhou, so you can't come back just because of his trivial matters."

Huo Yu was angry and hated at the same time, he was angry that Sun Lao kept hiding it from him, and what he hated was that he didn't come back until Sun Lao was seriously ill.

Seeing that Huo Yu was silent, Wu Jia just bit her lower lip tightly, almost bleeding, until Huo Yu blamed herself, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Second Young Master, I have invited the doctor to come over, according to the doctor's prescription these few days. Fang Zi boiled the medicine for Mr. Sun, and he is already much better."

Huo Yu was shocked: "It's much better like this? How serious was it before then?"

Wu Jia had no choice but to tell the truth: "More than a month ago, I took advantage of Mr. Sun's sleep to go out to shop. I didn't expect Mr. Sun to wake up and go out by himself. As a result, Mr. Sun walked halfway, and suddenly He fell down. Fortunately, someone passed by. Seeing that Mr. Sun was unconscious, he quickly called for help, carried Mr. Sun to his home, and invited a doctor to show Mr. Sun. Some of the helpers knew Mr. Sun Yes, come to inform me. The doctor said that Mr. Sun is getting old and his eyes are getting worse and worse, and he is afraid that he is going to lose his sight."

"Blindness?" Huo Yu was shocked, "How could this happen? What does it mean to be blind at the age of age? There are several elderly people in the county, all of whom have good eyesight. Why do they become old when they come to my grandfather? "

Wu Jia replied: "The doctor said that Mr. Sun's eyes were injured when he was young. Although he seemed to be fine at that time, it caused the root cause of the disease. He used to be young, so there was no serious problem. Now that he is old, There are several big and small problems on the body, and the old wounds of the eyes were brought out."

Only then did Huo Yu reluctantly accept this fact, and asked again: "What about the others? If it's just blindness, why have you been unconscious?"

Wu Jia added: "That fall was really hard. There was a big wound on the side of the head. Fortunately, the bleeding was stopped in time, otherwise the injury would have been more serious. The doctor said that Mr. Sun can only rest in rest because of his age. Many medicines cannot be taken casually. However, Second Young Master, please rest assured that Elder Sun wakes up for an hour or two every day, I have all the medicines, porridge, and so on, and Elder Sun can take it whenever he wakes up."

Huo Yu also had no other choice: "I see, you go down and get busy, I will guard Grandpa."

Seeing Huo Yu's dusty appearance, Wu Jia said, "Second young master, why don't I go and prepare bath water for you first. You'll have a bumpy journey, so you should wash up quickly."

Huo Yu shook his head and said, "Grandpa doesn't know when he wakes up now. What if it's when I take a shower? I'll just watch over Grandpa and wait until Grandpa wakes up."

Wu Jia couldn't persuade Huo Yu, so he could only let Huo Yu stay by Elder Sun's side, and let the cook prepare a table of food and wine for Fuquan and the others, and gave Huo Yu some light food.

After guarding for more than four hours, Old Sun woke up leisurely.He couldn't look at him, and didn't know that Huo Yu, whom he was thinking of, was beside him, with a pair of cloudy eyes, he slowly reached for the rope beside the bed, and there were several bells hanging on the other end of the rope, for Wu's convenience. Jia and the others heard it.

Huo Yu was dozing off, when he suddenly heard a bell ringing next to him, he was startled, he thought it was water or a thief, so he woke up quickly.

When he saw that the ringing was actually made by Elder Sun on the bed struggling to pull the rope, Huo Yu lost all sleep and shouted, "Grandpa!"

Elder Sun was shocked, and asked in disbelief, "Yu'er?"

Huo Yu knelt in front of the bed, and kowtowed heavily to Elder Sun: "Huo Yu is not filial, he only came back to see you now."

When Old Sun heard the sound, his heart ached terribly, but unfortunately he couldn't exert all his strength, especially his back and legs, which were bursting with pain.

He could only say in a trembling voice, "Get up, get up."

Huo Yu got up and sat down on the bed again. Seeing Old Sun waving his hands indiscriminately, he quickly reached out to grab them and said, "Grandpa, I'm here."

Only then did Mr. Sun stop and asked him, "Why are you back?"

Huo Yu replied honestly: "Wu Jia sent me a letter, and I didn't know that you are sick, Grandpa." Speaking of this, Huo Yu couldn't help complaining, "Is Grandpa going to see me? Why do you always ask Wu Jia to help you hide it from me?" , don’t let me know about your illness?”

Old Sun coughed a few times and said, "It's not that I don't want you anymore. I just let Wu Jia hide it from you because I was afraid that you would be distracted because of me. I'm getting old, and my faults are always easy to find. Just take care of me." Yes. If I told you every time, you would have spent more than a year traveling back and forth between Tonghua County and Xuzhou."

Huo Yu knew what Elder Sun was thinking a long time ago, but now that he heard it with his own ears, he was still so moved that he almost cried, "Grandpa, it's true. It's only natural for me to take care of you, so don't hide it from me in the future."

Elder Sun laughed twice, and said, "Then you plan to stay with me, a bad old man, for the rest of your life, and not return to Xuzhou until I die?"

Huo Yu was taken aback for a moment, unable to answer for a moment, and then said after a while: "Grandpa, don't curse yourself, you will live a long life."

Old Sun was blind and couldn't see Huo Yu's expression of worrying about gains and losses at the moment. He only thought that he was a man with ambitions everywhere, and he saw the world with Guo Zhan'an, and he didn't want to hide in a corner of Tonghua County anymore.

He has always wanted Huo Yu to stand out, so naturally he would not blame Huo Yu for hesitating at this time, but was deeply relieved and said: "Yu'er has grown up after all, I see that Mr. Guo's letters are full of praise for you , I intend to cultivate you well. Let me tell you, my illness is over, you go to your father's grave tomorrow to pay homage, and then go back to Xuzhou."

"No," Huo Yu shook his head and said, "I don't worry if I don't see grandpa recovering with my own eyes. I will stay with grandpa during this time. Father, I will bring joss sticks and paper money to go to the grave tomorrow. Don't worry, grandpa."

Elder Sun also wanted to spend more time with Huo Yu, so he didn't say anything more.He only hated himself for being blind now, for not being able to see with his own eyes how much Huo Yu had grown.

On the second day, while Elder Sun was still in a coma, Huo Yu left Tonghua County with a basket and went to visit a tomb in a mountain near Tonghua County.

After Huo Dashan passed away that year, no one in Tiger Village knew where the Huo family's ancestral grave was, and they never even heard Huo Dashan say where his hometown was.This group of bandits was also worried that Huo Dashan's enemies would come to their door, so they specially found a hidden place in the mountains near Tonghua County to build a tomb for Huo Dashan, and took Huo Yu to visit the grave every year.

Huo Yu was very familiar with this road, and horses were inconvenient in the mountains, so he tied the horses to a tree at the foot of the mountain and walked up the mountain with a basket.

It's just that Huo Yu didn't expect that he would meet an old friend in front of Huo Dashan's grave—Boss Liu.

When Huo Yu came, Boss Liu was standing in front of Huo Dashan's grave, lowering his head and muttering to himself, but because the distance was too far, Boss Liu's voice was soft, so Huo Yu couldn't hear what he was saying clearly.

Boss Liu heard the sound, turned his head and saw Huo Yu, and was very panicked: "You, why are you here!"

Huo Yu said: "I went back to Tonghua County yesterday, and today I will visit Dad's grave."

Boss Liu tentatively asked him, "Did Master Guo come back with you? Is he in Xuzhou now, or is he in Tonghua County?"

Huo Yu frowned, thinking about the purpose of Boss Liu's question.

He is no longer the same as he was back then. Now that he thinks about it carefully, Boss Liu was actually vaguely hostile to him back then, but it was only for the sake of his late father that he didn't show it too clearly.

But Huo Yu thought about it, now that Tiger Village is gone, the source of Boss Liu's hostility towards him has disappeared, even if he answered honestly now, he would not have the guts to hurt himself.

So, Huo Yu replied honestly: "My brother is in Xuzhou. He is the general judge of Xuzhou. He has to look over everything big and small in Xuzhou. If you have time, come back with me."

Boss Liu let out a long sigh of relief, and said, "I just came back to pay homage to Boss, there is no other meaning. You, don't tell Mr. Guo that I have been back."

Suspicious in Huo Yu's heart, he stopped Boss Liu's way: "Why can't you tell me?"

Boss Liu was anxious and angry: "Don't tell me if I don't tell you, go away, don't block my way!"

Huo Yu refused to let him go. He realized that Boss Liu was so afraid of Guo Zhan'an because he had hidden secrets that he didn't know.But when it comes to Guo Zhan'an, Huo Yu is extremely unkind.

"If you don't tell me, I'll tell my brother that you've been here." Although I don't know why Boss Liu didn't let me tell Guo Zhan'an, since Boss Liu had concerns this time, Huo Yu unceremoniously threatened him with it.

Mr. Liu was so angry that he was half dead, but he had nothing to do with Huo Yu. He could only avoid the seriousness and said lightly: "Master Guo once gave me a sum of travel expenses and asked me to take my wife to the southwest. But in the end we didn't go, it was in Yong'an Mansion A small county next to it used this money to start a business. I’m afraid Mr. Guo will blame me for not keeping my word when he knows about it.”

Huo Yuxin thought it was true, and smiled and said good things for Guo Zhanan: "Don't worry, my brother is not that kind of person. Since you used the money for the right way, even if my brother knows about it, he won't blame you."

Boss Liu simply bowed deeply to Huo Yu: "Master Huo, I beg you, don't let Mr. Guo know about this."

Huo Yu didn't want to embarrass Boss Liu, and said, "Don't worry, I will keep the secret for you."

Boss Liu was relieved now, and trotted away all the way, afraid that Huo Yu would stop him from asking questions again, and let Huo Yu know the truth about what he and Guo Zhanan said that day.

After Boss Liu left, Huo Yu walked to Huo Dashan's grave.

Perhaps because of Boss Liu's previous actions, there were no weeds in front of Huo Dashan's grave, it was very clean.

This saved Huo Yu a lot of time. He took out the incense sticks and paper money in the basket, placed them in front of Huo Dashan's grave, took out a fire pocket, lit the incense sticks, and then burned the paper money.

"Father, I haven't come to see you for more than a year. The brother-in-law I told you about last time took me to the Northwest. Although I encountered a lot of bad people and evil things, I survived. I, I and now I think it's good that he's together, but I'm sorry for letting our Huo family die in my generation."

Sitting in front of Huo Dashan's grave, Huo Yu babbled on about the past year's experience, almost detailing everything.The result of this is that when he went down the mountain, the fire cloud in the west was burning thickly.

The confession in front of Huo Dashan's grave gave Huo Yu a lot of relief, and he became more agile in taking care of Elder Sun on the hospital bed.

Guo Zhanan told Fuquan and the others who came with them one by one before they set off that they must not urge Huo Yu to return to Xuzhou as soon as possible.Although he missed Huo Yu and was worried about Huo Yu, he didn't want to have conflicts with Huo Yu over this matter, so as not to affect their relationship.What's more, he abducted him early, and he felt a little guilty towards Elder Sun, since he didn't want to disturb the time that Elder Sun and Huo Yu got together because of his own selfish desires.Moreover, he is much younger than Elder Sun, and Huo Yu will spend a long time with him in the future, so there is no need to fight for it.

With Guo Zhan'an's explanation, Fuquan and the others never mentioned Xu Zhou and Guo Zhan'an, and they either followed Huo Yu's orders to run errands for him every day, or helped Wu Jia with some chores.

Under Huo Yu's careful care, Elder Sun's condition has not improved for a long time.He was anxious, so he asked Fuquan and Wu Jia to go to Yong'an Mansion to invite several well-known doctors to diagnose Mr. Sun.

After the doctor's diagnosis, they all just shook their heads and said that they were helpless——Sun Lao was so old, and he had never stopped suffering from serious and minor illnesses after winter. Tuo is still alive, otherwise we can only procrastinate like this - I suggest that Huo Yu can start preparing for the funeral.

Huo Yu didn't believe it, so he invited a few more doctors, but they all gave the same answer.

Only then did Huo Yu accept this cruel fact. He felt as if he had fallen into a thousand-year-old cold pool, and a chill came from the bottom of his heart, and he shivered all over.

He lowered his head, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and forced himself to go into the house to accompany Mr. Sun.

After four or five days in such a daze, Boss Sun's time had come, and he was lying on the bed panting for breath.

Huo Yu stood by the bed, never leaving him. Seeing him in such pain, he couldn't hold on to the bowl of life-extending soup in his hand.

Old Sun knew that Huo Yu was in front of the bed, he smelled the familiar smell of medicine, and said with great effort: "Stop drinking, Yu'er, I dreamed about your adoptive father yesterday."

"Father?" Huo Yu asked puzzled, "Who is my foster father?"

Elder Sun coughed a few times, feeling much more comfortable, and replied, "It's Huo Dashan. Yu'er, you are not Huo Dashan's parent."

Huo Yu was shocked when he heard the words, and as soon as he let go, the bowl containing the medicine fell to the ground, the medicine juice swept the floor, and some of Huo Yu's calf was also stained.

Fuquan, who was guarding the door, heard this, and hurried in. Seeing such a scene, he couldn't help but say, "What's the matter? Second Young Master, come, sit here, and I'll clean up."

Huo Yu only felt a rush of breath in his chest, and a heart seemed to be about to pop out of his mouth. His mind was full of the scenes of getting along with Huo Dashan in the past.

He let Fuquan help himself to another stool, and stared straight at Elder Sun.

Although Old Sun couldn't see it, he knew that Huo Yu was frightened.He wanted to comfort Huo Yu, but he knew that he didn't have much time, so he could only make a long story short: "You were picked up from the snow in Huo Dashan, and the jade pendant and the note in the bag you hung are probably left to you by your biological parents." Yes. If you want to look for it, you can look for it according to the jade pendant and characters."

Huo Yu kept shaking his head: "No, Grandpa, don't lie to me! Don't lie to me!"

Elder Sun coughed again, spat out a mouthful of phlegm in pain, and said, "I, I wanted to hide it from you, but last night I dreamed of your father, he, he said, cough cough cough."

Fuquan didn't expect to hear such a secret, he really didn't want to leave or stay.Seeing that Elder Sun was coughing uncomfortably, he stepped forward to pat Elder Sun's back gently, and said to Huo Yu, "Second Young Master, Elder Sun, this, I'm afraid, will return to the light. You, you hurry up."

Huo Yu suddenly smiled and said: "I know, grandpa is lying to me, just like when I was a child, there are monsters eating children outside at night. Fuquan, you go down first, and I will accompany grandpa."

Fuquan didn't dare to say anything, so he could only back down.

Huo Yu didn't seem to have heard what Sun Lao said earlier, so he took out a handkerchief and wiped away the phlegm from Sun Lao's mouth, and said for Sun Lao: "Grandpa, don't worry, I will definitely not disappoint Grandpa's expectations, I will Made a career out of it."

Old Sun heard the determination in Huo Yu's words, and two lines of hot tears fell down. He exhausted all his strength, and finally uttered a few words: "Grandpa, no, I lied to you."

After saying these words, Elder Sun heaved a sigh of relief and closed his eyes in satisfaction.

Huo Yu couldn't bear it anymore, threw himself on Sun Lao's body and howled loudly.