Time Travel Article: My parents divorced at the beginning

Chapter 150 Death

"Old lady, what's wrong with you?"

It was just dawn at this time and the whole family was still asleep when they were completely awakened by the sudden miserable scream.

Gu Qingyu's room was closest to the east room where the old couple slept. As soon as the old man's voice came out, Gu Qingyu woke up suddenly.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Boss, come over and see what's wrong with your mother!"

The old man's voice became more and more shrill, and Gu Qingyu suddenly became panicked. She didn't even bother to put on her clothes. She just threw off the quilt, jumped out of bed, and ran barefoot to the east room next door.

As soon as Gu Qingyu entered the east room, she saw the old man holding Li Dahua, crying bitterly, and kept muttering, "Old woman, why did you leave first?"

"How do you want me to live?"

The old man's words made Gu Qingyu's head buzz. She stared blankly at everything in front of her. The sounds around her seemed to disappear from her mind suddenly. In her eyes, there was only Li Dahua who was still lying on the bed.

Gu Qingyu couldn't believe it was true. She stretched out her trembling fingers and placed them on Li Dahua's neck. However, she couldn't feel any trace of a pulse, and the temperature of the skin she touched was already icy cold.

Tears suddenly filled Gu Qingyu's eyes, and dripped down her cheeks onto the ground.

Looking at Li Dahua, whose face was still kind, Gu Qingyu realized belatedly that she no longer had a grandma!

At this moment, Gu Qingyu was suddenly overwhelmed by great sadness. She knelt in front of Li Dahua's bed and burst into tears.

"Dad? My mom...?" Gu Ping asked in a crying voice, looking at everything in the room in disbelief.

"Boss, your mother passed away last night. You don't have a mother anymore!"

"Mother! Mother! Mother!" Gu Ping knelt down in front of Li Dahua's bed with a bang, and each cry became more sorrowful than the last.

The noise in the east room was so loud that the other people in the family couldn't sleep. For a moment, Li Dahua's bed was filled with filial sons and grandsons kneeling in front of the bed, mourning.

No one expected that the person who was full of energy yesterday would suddenly die in just one night.

"Dad, where did my mother put the burial clothes? We must hurry and put them on the old lady!" Zhang Zaohua looked at the Gu family members who were just crying and had to interrupt them.

"It's in the low cabinet against the wall. The old woman took out the clothes to dry out two days ago. Why did she suddenly put the clothes out to dry?" As Gu Dahu spoke, he couldn't help crying again.

"Haisheng and the others go with your father to the village to report the death. Qingyu, go and inform your father and the others to come back for the funeral!" Gu Dahu said tiredly to everyone in the Gu family.

The commotion at the Gu family alarmed the neighbors. After careful investigation, they found out that it was Li Dahua who had passed away suddenly.

This happened too suddenly, and everyone is bound to start talking about it.

"Oh, how did this happen? I was talking to Aunt Li last night!"

"Yes, there was no sign at all!"

Someone disagreed, "You can't say there were no signs. The old lady took advantage of the bright sunshine a few days ago and suddenly put out her funeral clothes in the yard to dry. Think about it, how could she dry something like that before the New Year is over?"

"When I went to the Gu family to pay my respects, I saw the old lady smiling and looking peaceful. She was healthy and passed out in her sleep. It can be considered a happy funeral!"

Northwest Qing Province, a military compound, Gu family

Gu An woke up early this morning and felt a wave of anxiety. Chen Qingxue looked at Gu An, who had been walking around in the living room all morning, and said helplessly, "Old Gu, what's wrong with you?"

Gu An didn't know what was wrong and why he was so irritable and uneasy. At this moment, the phone rang and Gu An's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

The ringing of the phone kept hitting Gu An's tense nerves, but he hesitated to answer it. Gu An had a bad feeling in his heart that the news brought by this call would be unbearable for him.

"Why don't you answer the phone?" Chen Qingxue frowned and looked at Gu An, who was standing there stupidly, staring at the phone, and asked in surprise.

Seeing that Gu An still didn't move, Chen Qingxue had no choice but to step forward and answer the phone.

"Hello, this is the Gu family!"

"Auntie, I'm Qingyu. Is my dad home?"

"Ah? Qingyu! Yes, yes, yes, Lao Gu is at home. I'll go to him and answer the phone."

Chen Qingxue felt awkward when she heard Gu Qingyu's voice on the other end of the line. She couldn't hold herself up in front of her stepdaughter. To ease the awkwardness, she yelled to Gu An, "Old Gu, Qingyu's calling!"

"Qingyu, I'm your father!"

"Dad, grandma passed away this morning, and grandpa asked me to notify you to go home for the funeral!" Gu Qingyu was in no mood to reminisce with Gu An, so she told Gu An the news of Li Dahua's death directly.

With a bang, the microphone fell to the ground!

Gu An clenched his fists and covered his chest tightly, feeling a pain spreading from his heart to his limbs.

"Old Gu? Old Gu, what's wrong with you?" Gu Qingyu first heard the sound of the microphone falling to the ground, and then heard Chen Qingxue's anxious shouting.

After a period of chaos, Gu An's voice was finally heard from the other end of the phone.

"Why so sudden? How did the old lady pass away?" Gu An asked.

"She died of natural causes. Grandma passed away in her sleep last night. She didn't suffer!" Gu Qingyu explained to Gu An on the other end of the phone.

A long silence stretched between the father and daughter. After a long while, Gu An finally spoke, "You keep vigil for your grandmother for us first. We'll be leaving soon!"

"Well, I see!"

After hanging up the phone, Gu An sat on the sofa in silence for a long time. Over the years, he has been working away from home and seldom went home. He had a vague memory of what his mother was like.

I always wanted to take my wife and children home to visit when I had time, but I never had the time. Now the old lady passed away suddenly. This trip back to Gujia Village will probably be the last time to see her!

Chen Qingxue had just been by the phone, so she naturally knew about the old lady's death. Seeing that Gu An had been silent for a long time, she couldn't help but ask with some concern, "Old Gu, are you okay? Should we prepare to go back and pay our respects?"

Gu An looked at Chen Qingxue's worried expression and said slowly, "I... I'm fine, don't worry!"

"Go up first and have the two guys pack up. We'll set off back to Gujia Village soon! I'll call the logistics staff now to help book the tickets!"

"Are you really okay?" Chen Qingxue asked again uncertainly.

"Well, it's okay! I want to be alone for a while now, you go and do your work first." Gu An said soothingly to Chen Qingxue.