At 9:45 in the evening, Grandma Qiao passed away suddenly.

Before leaving, she ate two bowls of seafood porridge with a good appetite, and looked around at her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson standing in the room with a smile. Her eyes fell on Qian Erbai, and she waved to him with a smile: "Qiao Qiao, come here, I will see my eldest grandson again."

Qiao's mother broke down in tears, turned her head, and leaned against Qiao's father's arms, Qiao's father She also wept silently, wiped her face roughly with her big hand, and pushed her son forward.

Qian Erbai walked over and squatted in front of the old man's bed: "Grandma, I'm here." His voice became more choked, and his throat tightened.

Grandma Qiao reached out and stroked his head. Her old palms had rough calluses from doing work when she was young, and they rubbed his hair loudly.

She stared deeply at the young man in front of her, looked at his eyebrows, his behavior, his slight frown, sighed, her words were full of nostalgia, and there was a trace of regret: "It's really like it, my Grandson Qiaoqiao..." Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, the strength in her hand weakened, and it slipped from the top of Qian Erbai's head. He held that hand between his two and called her: "Grandma..." The

old man's expression A little lax, the glimmer of brilliance that had been exhausted just now gradually dissipated, she looked at Qian Erbai, and seemed to be looking at another fat person who liked to hide behind her, who needed protection and encouragement through this face. child. She said: "Qiao Qiao, please be well, you must be well."

Qian Erbai held her hand tightly, and answered her sentence by sentence: "Grandma, I am well, and Qiao Qiao will be well..."

Qiao Grandma seemed to be relieved, and called others: "Jiancheng, go to bed early, don't stay up all night."

Qiao's father repeatedly agreed, rushed to the bedside, and held her other hand: "Got it, Mom, I won't stay up late, I'm fine too."

Grandma Qiao called out again: "Yunzhen, where are my eggs, fry them for Qiao Qiao, Qiao Qiao will be back in a while, I'm going to pick him up..."

Yunzhen was Qiao's mother's nickname. She was so crying that she couldn't speak, but kept nodding. Father Qiao grabbed her hand and silently passed on strength to her.

Grandma Qiao took one last look at Qian Erbai, sighed again, and closed her eyes as if relieved.

The three people in front of the bed hugged each other and wept bitterly.

The old people are not shy about death. They even prepare the shroud cemetery early on, and take pictures of their remains calmly. Occasionally, they will chat with their children about their funerals.

Grandma Qiao was 85 years old, and she went there without any illness or disaster. It was a happy funeral, so she held the funeral according to her plan before she was alive.

At the memorial service, her old friends came to see her in twos and threes, and complained that she left without saying a word. Thinking about her age, she would be gone at some point, and she sighed for a while, and seized the time to enjoy life. .

The Qiao family did not embarrass the nanny, but just explained the situation to the housekeeping company and terminated the contract.

Strictly speaking, the old man was in the nanny's working hours when the accident occurred, which is strictly speaking a negligence of the caregiver, but Grandma Qiao insisted on not allowing the nanny to go out with her, and the employer knew about it; as for whether it was because she was too scared and didn't call for help in time, which caused the delay The best rescue time has yet to be proved, and if a lawsuit is really going to happen, the two parties will not be able to tell it so easily.

Besides, Grandma Qiao had been kind to others all her life, and she didn't want to be unclean after death.

The little nanny was grateful and guilty for the Qiao family. She attended Grandma Qiao's funeral and cried uncontrollably at the memorial service. On the contrary, it was Qiao's mother who forgave her mistake and persuaded her.

After seeing off the guests, the three of them sat in the living room to rest. Qian Erbai cut a plate of fruit and put it on the coffee table.

Qiao's mother dug out the photo albums from long ago, and the three of them looked at them one by one.

Looking at the people who have passed away in the black and white photos, Qiao's mother felt sore, and she couldn't help but said sadly: "When a person comes to this world, no matter whether it is suffering or scenery, after death, only some immovable photos will be left behind. ..."

Father Qiao saw the photo of Grandpa Qiao when he was young, and was taken aback for a moment, looked at Qian Erbai, then at the photo, and said, "No wonder your grandma said it really looks like..." That photo was wearing a military uniform, tall and handsome, His facial expression was almost exactly the same as that of Qian Erbai.

Qiao's mother also sighed, and said, "Mother-in-law, she misses her father-in-law."

In his memory, his father was very kind to his mother when he was alive. His mother suffered a lot from pulling him up alone, and when she felt a pain in her heart, she began to regret not spending more time with her old man.

As a child, I always want to earn more money, give my parents material benefits first, and spend more time with my parents when I am free. But there is no day when the money will be earned, and the son wants to support him but will not wait for his relatives. Everyone understands the truth, but only when you experience it can you know how painful it is.

The two fell into memory, looking down in thought. Qiao's mother was touched, and thought: After so many years, the old man's anger is almost gone, so he should go home and have a look.

Looking at the photo, Qian Erbai felt a little complicated. Only he knew that the person Grandma Qiao saw through him was not Grandpa Joe, but Qiao Beisi. Sure enough, no matter how disguised it is, it can fool the gene sequencing machine, and it can't fool the relatives who live with each other day and night.

He asked the system in his heart: "Liuliu, is there really no soul in this world?"

Lu Liuliu hesitated for a moment, but said truthfully: "No. But their consciousness dissipated in the same space, and the host can treat them as if they have met again. It's gone."

Qian Erbai's chest felt empty, he pressed on his heart, felt the heavy beating of his hand, and doubted the system's information for the first time in his heart.

The moment he said "Jojo will be fine" over and over again, and watched Grandma Qiao close her eyes, he felt a tiny throbbing pain in his heart, as if something had been pulled out of it, a little cold, wearing Dissipates invisible over the spine.

Then, the sadness and reluctance that suddenly erupted outside the operating room door disappeared instantly. He was embraced by Qiao's parents and Qiao's mother, his body was stained with their tears, and their deep sobs were heard beside his ears. But they couldn't enter their circle, and wept together with empathy.

This should be the state that an outsider should have, feeling sorry for the dead, but not overly immersed in grief.

And the previous feelings should belong to Qiaobeisi who has been judged by the system to have lost consciousness.

Qian Erbai pressed the button and didn't say anything.

After sending off Grandma Qiao, the Qiao family was immersed in grief for a long time.

Especially Qiao's father, who is usually an upright man, often looks at Grandma Qiao's photos in private with red eyes silently, woke up from sleep one night, suddenly hugged Qiao's mother and cried loudly: "Yunzhen, I don't have a mother anymore... "

A child with a mother is a treasure no matter how old he is. A child who loses his mother will grow up completely overnight. He will no longer have the capital to act like a baby, and there will be no harbor for being infinitely tolerated.

Qian Erbai stayed in Tang City temporarily.

According to Grandma Qiao's will, the old house was left to Qiao Beisi. Qiao's father and Qiao's mother bought another house in Tang City. After the first seven days of Grandma Qiao's life, they left just to avoid getting emotional.

In order to take care of Qiao's parents and Qiao's mother, Qian Erbai lived with them, and occasionally went back to the old house to visit.

The bedroom in the old house is still the same as it was when Jobes was in college. The certificates and prizes the original owner got from elementary school to high school are all preserved in their original form. His clothes are neatly hung in the closet from inside to outside according to the seasons. , the decorations on the desk are not stained with dust, obviously someone wipes them frequently.

The original owner's room didn't like outsiders coming in. One could imagine who this person was cleaning his room every day.

Looking at every detail in the house, Qian Erbai thought of the proprietress who adopted him in the world of cooks.

She was short in stature, but strong in build, and her dark face reflected the fire, and her eyes were shining brightly.

She herself is a miserable person, and within two years after marrying a man, she went to the city to deliver goods and was trampled to death by a frightened horse, leaving behind a blind old lady and a vegetable butcher shop that lost money. Working from dawn to dusk to barely make ends meet for the two of them, but when they saw Qian Erbai who was dressed as a bare-bottomed doll who could not speak, and was dying from the cold, Qian Erbai scolded a few words, "God damn thief, throw me away." Don't throw the child far away", turned around and took him home to raise him as his own child.

When he finally became a world-renowned chef, finished the birthday banquet for the emperor, and returned to the former shop and the current restaurant in the four-wheeled green-covered carriage given by the emperor, the mother who should have enjoyed the honor But he pulled his son in his arms for a long time to check. Everyone in the world envied him to show his face in front of the saint once he was favored, but the mother was worried about her son's safety.

After more than a hundred years, he has never forgotten the feeling of being loved and cherished. That was the first time he felt the warmth of his relatives, and it was also the first time he recognized the original owner's world from the heart.

When the proprietress passed away, he showed a kind of disordered hesitation, and the dishes he made lost two flavors. That feeling of emptiness lasted for a long time, until he adopted a pair of siblings from Shantang by chance, and the arduous task of raising children occupied his life, and this state gradually faded away.

This feeling disappeared after opening the next world. But his fondness for children survived, and every world kept one or two.

Maybe it's because of touching the scene, reminding him of the distant past and the family relationship he thought he had forgotten. His eyes couldn't help getting wet, and he felt sorry for this middle-aged man in his forties who was about to turn fifty after losing his mother.

Qian Erbai felt that it was time to take over the burden of the family.

He disclosed his live broadcast income and signing contract to Qiao's parents and Qiao's mother, and stated that his future work plan and goal is to continue to be a network anchor while striving to sign with a dubbing company and become a voice actor.

Qiao's parents and Qiao's mother are not old-fashioned. Although they feel that being an anchor or an actor is not considered a mainstream career, it is better to enter their own company for stability, but their son can do what he likes and make a career. It is the most gratifying thing for them . After expressing his support for his son's decision, Joe's father specially downloaded the software and followed his son's account.

At this time, Mother Qiao took out her level 4 account and waved it in front of her husband, and said proudly: "I have been paying attention to my son for a long time, and I am still the leader of the fan club!" The growth of the family caused the relationship between the original owner and his parents to be relatively estranged. After the family talked openly and honestly this time, the family atmosphere became much closer.