Chapter 215: Seeing Li Xuan Again

In this life, the person she felt most guilty toward was her mother.

Her first marriage caused her mother to worry, and her second marriage took her far away from her mother.

She had always assumed there was still plenty of time.

How could her mother's health have suddenly deteriorated to this point?

Last year, when she took her mother to Haidao for a visit, she had only noticed that her mother had grown thin.

"Mom..."

Amidst Si Rong's repeated calls, a tear fell from the corner of Si Mu's eye as she lay on the hospital bed.

Her hands were still trying to grasp at something in the air.

Jiang Cheng gently held his wife's shoulders, and Si Han made a gesture; the couple followed him out of the ward.

"Little sister, don't be too sad," Si Han said, helping her wipe away her tears with a tissue. "Mom's current condition is called 'fumbling and thread-pulling'; if she can clear her thoughts, she will wake up, but if she can't..."

He did not continue with the rest of his words, but everyone understood.

"Mom misses you the most," Si Han said, unable to bear seeing his little sister cry, trying his best to comfort her. "Hearing your voice, Mom will surely wake up."

Si Rong was sobbing uncontrollably, only able to nod.

For the entire night, she kept watch outside her mother's hospital bed.

Originally, her eldest brother, second brother, and father all wanted to stay with her, but her second sister-in-law said that once Mom's condition improved, she would still need to be hospitalized for a while, so everyone should take turns keeping watch.

In the end, only Si Rong, Jiang Cheng, and her second brother Si Han remained.

Jiang Sinian and Jiang Siyu were taken back to the compound by Hu Qian to be looked after.

The two of them did not understand why their mother was crying so hard; young Jiang Sinian felt that the person inside the ward must be very important to his mother.

The following evening, everyone finally received good news.

Si Mu had woken up, and she was very happy to see her daughter.

"Mom," Si Rong leaned gently against her mother's body, snuggling up to her as intimately as she did when she was a child. "I missed you."

"The locust flowers are blooming now; come home with me and we can make locust flower dumplings together!"

Si Mu raised her hand to stroke her head. "Alright, if you want to eat them, Mom will make them for you."

After Si Rong fed her mother some millet porridge, Si Mu had a bit more energy.

She looked at her daughter as if she could never get enough. "When are you going back to Haidao?"

Si Rong felt a lump in her throat; she opened her mouth but made no sound, afraid that if she spoke, she would choke up.

"Mom, we are preparing to return to Huaiyang," Jiang Cheng said.

Both Si Rong and her mother looked at him with surprise.

"You've been transferred back?"

Jiang Cheng smiled. "Yes, I submitted an application for a transfer before we came back."

Over the past few years on Haidao, he had been promoted to Commander; returning to Huaiyang would not be a lateral transfer, but a demotion of half a rank.

But it didn't matter; he was willing to return to Huaiyang for Rongrong, just as Rongrong had once gone to Haidao for him without hesitation.

"Really?" The surprise in Si Mu's eyes was visible.

Jiang Cheng nodded. "Mom, it's true. With this return, Rongrong can stay and keep you company from now on. I just need to go back to Haidao to hand over some work."

Si Rong understood that Jiang Cheng was doing this for her, and she felt both moved and sweet inside.

She could finally stay and fulfill her filial duties.

Perhaps it was just a case of illness caused by longing, but after Si Rong returned, Si Mu's health slowly began to improve.

However, her heart was still not very well, and she needed to keep taking medication.

Wang Ma and Wu Ma had been looking after their house in the Junshuyuan all along, so after her mother was discharged, Si Rong moved her mother into the Junshuyuan.

Since she had returned from Haidao this time, the military stated they could reserve a position for her as a Dance Teacher at the Hongxing Primary School near the Family Quarters.

Previously, the student broadcast gymnastics that Si Rong had choreographed on Haidao had been widely adopted by primary and secondary schools across the country.

The military believed she could continue to utilize her strengths in this area.

It just so happened that the two little ones, Jiang Sinian and Jiang Siyu, were also preparing to transfer to Hongxing Primary School.

If she worked at Hongxing Primary School, she could go to and from school with the two children every day, just like before.

While Jiang Cheng went to Haidao to handle the handover of work and pack up their luggage, Si Rong officially took up her post as a Dance Teacher at Hongxing Primary School.

Aside from the Si Family and the Jiang Family, the happiest person was Ming Zi.

Before, she thought Si Rong had to travel thousands of kilometers, but now it was only a ten-minute drive away.

Ming Zi now had a new identity compared to before; she had become a Nainai.

After her eldest son, Luo Yu, graduated from university, he took over the company and followed the standard path of getting married and having children.

On Sunday, Ming Zi carried her one-year-old granddaughter to visit Si Rong.

Si Rong was currently tutoring her son with his math homework.

The two looked at each other, and Ming Zi burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at?"

Ming Zi placed her granddaughter on the sofa. "I'm laughing because there's a whole generation gap between us when it comes to raising children!"

"By the time you become a Nainai, I might already be holding my great-grandchild!"

Si Rong:...

"Is it funny? I just want to cry right now."

Originally, the task of tutoring little Jiang Sinian had been assigned to Jiang Cheng, but now that Jiang Cheng had gone to Haidao, this miserable task had fallen back onto her.

"Why are you so impatient?" Ming Zi couldn't watch anymore. "You watch my granddaughter, and I'll tutor your son."

"Okay! Okay!" Si Rong, fearing she might change her mind, couldn't wait to pick up Ming Zi's granddaughter.

She teased her, "Little Luo Yu, you are so cute. Will you come find Nainai to play often in the future?"

She called herself Nainai, which made both herself and Ming Zi laugh.

"Counting pineapples, asking you how many pineapples are in the picture; this isn't eight, why did you write 0?" Ming Zi felt that having her hands freed was actually quite nice; what could be difficult about tutoring homework?

Jiang Sinian explained earnestly, "Because what is drawn are peaches, not pineapples."

Ming Zi:...

"Alright, it's true that it doesn't look very much like them, but let's overlook that; just write eight and it will be correct."

"It's not correct. There are no pineapples, so I should write 0."

Ming Zi took a deep breath. Good grief, Rongrong gave birth to a real talent.

"Then let's just pretend it is a pineapple."

"No," Jiang Sinian disagreed, "pretending is lying. The teacher said that children cannot lie."

Ming Zi:!!!

"Rongrong, can I hit your son?"

That fiery temper of hers!

This brat is simply a natural-born contrarian!

"Hit him! Go ahead and hit him!" Si Rong pointed at the ruler on the table, which she had specially brought back from Haidao, "So now you remember to listen to your teacher?"

Ming Zi could not tutor Jiang Sinian; she felt that a granddaughter was still easier to handle.

"By the way, if you saw Li Xuan now, you would definitely be very surprised," Ming Zi said while coaxing her granddaughter to sleep.

"Did she mutate?" Si Rong could not imagine her current appearance; come to think of it, they had not seen each other for over seven years.

Ming Zi sighed with emotion, "You will know when you see her."

Si Rong did not particularly want to see those two, mother and daughter. Huaiyang City was only so big; as long as the two of them were not dead, they would meet one day, but she had not expected it to be so soon.

It was an ordinary afternoon, and Si Rong was eating ice cream by the roadside with the two children.

When she turned around, she caught sight of Li Xuan, completely off guard.