Chapter 333: Would Not Have Missed Out on So Many Years

The wind sighed, gently brushing against his cheek.

"Division Commander Jiang, since you liked me so early on, why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"Because, because of low self-esteem."

"Jiang Cheng, how could you have low self-esteem? Is it because I'm too beautiful?"

"Yes, because you are too good."

"Division Commander Jiang, don't belittle yourself; actually, you are quite handsome. If you and Shen Lan had pursued me at the same time back then, I would have chosen you, and then we wouldn't have..."

Wouldn't have missed out on so many years.

Jiang Cheng's slender fingertips traced the tombstone, "If there is an afterlife, I will definitely be a little braver."

At this moment, a tender green butterfly flew over from somewhere unknown and landed on the back of his hand.

A pair of wings fluttered in the air with the breeze, as if whispering something to Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng was stunned for a long while and wanted to reach out to touch it, but the butterfly flapped its wings and flew away at that very moment.

He wanted to chase after it, but found he could no longer see it at all, as if it had never appeared and was merely his hallucination.

"Dad," Jiang Sinian said, holding his daughter's hand as he walked to Jiang Cheng's side, "Niu Niu wants to find you."

Usually, what the family members always had on their lips was that Niu Niu wanted to find Nainai.

Jiang Cheng looked at his little granddaughter; she was the child Si Rong loved the most, even more than she had loved Sinian and Siyu when they were small.

Wherever she went, she would carry her, and wherever she went, she would always have "our Niu Niu" on her lips.

"Good child," he squatted down and took Niu Niu into his arms, holding her just as his wife used to hold her granddaughter, "Grandpa will hold you."

"Grandpa, I'm sleepy, let's go home, we'll come see Nainai again tomorrow." Niu Niu rubbed her eyes.

"Tomorrow?"

"Mm," Niu Niu pointed at the tombstone, "Nainai is right here, she must miss Niu Niu and Grandpa being here all by herself, so is it okay if Niu Niu comes with Grandpa to see Nainai every day?"

Jiang Cheng held his granddaughter's hand, "Good, good, Niu Niu will come with Grandpa."

After this day, the grandfather and granddaughter came to the cemetery every day; Jiang Cheng seemed like a different person, and his former hobbies of raising flowers and fishing were all gone.

Every day he focused on taking care of Niu Niu, feeding her, playing with her; if Niu Niu went to school, he would sit under the flower trellis, sitting for half a day at a time.

Doing those things that Si Rong used to do every day.

The women in the courtyard all envied the affection between the old couple.

"It's not easy to find a man who dotes on his wife like Commander Jiang; if I died, I reckon my man would be beating drums and blowing trumpets to celebrate!"

"I fell ill the year before last and hadn't even been discharged from the hospital yet, and my man had already picked out a replacement wife."

"What kind of things did we marry? But there are benefits too."

"What benefits?"

"It's that when the other half dies, the one left living is even happier!"

"Look at Commander Jiang, he looks like his soul has been lost all day long, how painful; people say deep love doesn't last long. It's not that I'm cursing, but for a couple with such a good relationship, if one is gone, the other is afraid that they will also..."

"Shh! Don't let anyone hear you say that."

But these words were still overheard by Jiang Yue, who was returning home from work.

She went back to her maiden home and urged her father to go keep her father-in-law company whenever he had time.

"I went, why wouldn't I go?" Jiang Dacheng was also feeling stifled, "He won't see me!"

They used to be like brothers, fishing and playing chess together, so close they could share a pair of pants.

But now, the difference was clear.

"Then you have to find a way; Father-in-law has suffered too great a blow," even Jiang Yue hadn't been able to accept this matter yet, "My mother-in-law just left this family like that; last night Niu Niu was calling for Nainai in her sleep."

"I thought her health was quite good before, why so sudden?" Jiang Dacheng was also completely baffled, "She wasn't even seventy yet."

"A military doctor said it might be related to a head injury my mother-in-law suffered when she was young."

"He also said she suffered great emotional trauma when she was young, leading to damage to her heart pulse, and she wasn't destined for a long life; the military doctor didn't dare say these things in front of my father-in-law, only quietly told me and Sinian."

"Anyway, you have to take care of my father-in-law more, don't let him do anything rash."

"Got it, got it," Jiang Dacheng saw his daughter caring so much for someone else, felt jealous, and said impatiently, "I think he's more like your real father!"

Jiang Yue ignored him and only said, "That old wine you've been thinking about, your son-in-law pulled some strings and got a small bottle for you."

Seeing her father being precisely manipulated, Jiang Yue then spoke unhurriedly, "But that wine is in my hands now; you first help my father-in-law walk out of this heartbreak, and if you behave well, I'll let you drink it! Take him out for walks more! Get to know more friends! Eat some good food!"

Jiang Dacheng:...

"Will you be my father instead?"

However, he was his good brother after all; even if his daughter hadn't urged him, Jiang Dacheng would still have done his best.

Every day he racked his brains for ways to accompany his old friend, hoping only that his old friend could quickly clear his heart's knot.

After Bai Mo learned the news that Si Rong had died, she was very happy.

The juice of the heartbreak grass she had gone to such lengths to put on those hairy peach roots had finally taken effect.

How wonderful! There was finally something that made her happy.

Jiang Siyu and Jiang Sinian, those two fellows, must be very sad, crying with snot and tears!

Hahaha, too interesting.

Bai Mo was just feeling triumphant when she saw Bai Laotaitai walk in again.

It was nothing more than spitting on her face or hitting her a couple of times with a cane; it had been this routine for several years, and Bai Mo was already used to it.

But this time it was different; Bai Laotaitai said to her son behind her, "Put her in the basket, carry her on your back!"

"What if Hongmei comes back?"

"She went as far as the county seat and won't be back for a while; if we don't throw this jinx away, our whole family will have bad luck!"

Bai Laotaitai firmly believed that this lowly girl was not a well-behaved creature.

Bai Jia Dabo thought his mother was right, and immediately hoisted Bai Mo into a wicker basket.

"Ahhh! What are you two doing? Where is my mom? Mom! Mom!"

Bai Mo was terrified, and the next second, a ball of smelly socks was stuffed into her mouth.

A cloth was also covered over her head, and she huddled in the basket, swaying for a long time; when she saw the light again, she was on a small cliff.

Bai Laotaitai told her eldest son to leave, "Leave the rest to Mom!"

The eldest of the Bai family said nothing and walked a few steps away to keep watch for his mother.

"Guosheng is the most capable child in our Bai family," Bai Laotaitai smiled as she looked into Bai Mo's terrified eyes, "He loved you so much, yet you didn't even kowtow to him once when he left!"

"Knowing he had back pain, you still made him bring you food," Bai Laotaitai slapped her mouth hard, "I'll teach you to only know how to eat! You've cursed one person after another to death, why don't you go die! Why isn't it you who is dead?"