Chapter 1546: Life is Unpredictable

The man is speaking incoherently today; there must be something wrong.

She was just about to get to the bottom of it, but a commotion came from downstairs; the two children had returned from kindergarten, and as soon as they entered the house, they started chattering away non-stop.

"Mommy, where is Mommy? I have a story, come quickly..." This was Yueyue.

Shi Yuan followed along, calling out: "Grandma, Grandma, come down quickly..."

After Shi Yuan arrived at the Sheng Family, he gradually became more cheerful.

Near vermilion, one gets stained red; near ink, one gets stained black. Having spent a long time with Yueyue, Shi Yuan is now a little chatterbox too!

She had no choice but to go downstairs first to deal with... to take care of the two children.

If she ignored them, the two of them would soon come looking for her.

Her husband is in a bad mood; it is better to let him have some peace and quiet.

Shi Youxuan went downstairs, and the two children scrambled to tell her interesting things from kindergarten, shouting that they were hungry, and without washing their hands, they grabbed snacks from the coffee table and stuffed them into their mouths...

Shi Youxuan busied herself with the children, and only after much effort did the two children stop pestering her and go to the playroom to play by themselves. She called Shi Ran: "What happened at the company? Your father is very abnormal today; he didn't even eat dinner and has been unhappy since he got home."

Shi Ran said: "You know Li Zong from the company, right? He was fine when he came to work, but he suddenly felt pain in his heart during a meeting. An emergency 120 call was made, but he passed away before he could even be sent to the hospital."

"People in the company around my father's age are all feeling insecure... Oh right, Li Zong is the same age as my father."

So that was what happened.

Shi Youxuan asked Fangjie to cook a bowl of chicken noodle soup, and then she delivered it to the bedroom.

"Get up and eat something. I had Fangjie cook you some chicken noodle soup; eat a little."

Her husband was lying on the bed with his back to her, not moving at all, but she knew Sheng Hanyu was not asleep.

Sheng Hanyu said in a muffled voice: "I have no appetite."

"Look, I've already brought it over. Just eat a small bowl, and after you finish, I'll stay and talk with you."

Under his wife's persuasion, A Yu ate a bowl of noodles, and then the couple chatted.

Shi Youxuan said to her husband: "Life is unpredictable. No one wants such things to happen around them, but since it has happened, let it serve as a wake-up call for us. At our age, we should focus on health; we can't keep working ourselves to the bone like we did when we were young and overdrawing our bodies."

"My body was overdrawn in the past; now is the stage to make up for it..."

Sheng Hanyu said: "You already know?"

"Yes, you were suddenly acting abnormally, how could I not ask? Shi Ran told me."

Sheng Hanyu: "Li Zong joined the company the year Zirui and Zihan were born; he could be considered a veteran of the company. He was always diligent, had strong professional skills, and was well-liked. He was cheerful with everyone and was my indispensable right-hand man. He just suddenly passed away right in front of me; I have an indescribable feeling in my heart..."

The thing to fear is bottling things up inside.

Once he said it out loud, his mood felt much better. Shi Youxuan comforted her husband for a while, and he suddenly said to his wife: "Xuanxuan, shall we go to the countryside and build a house? Let's build it now, and we can move in in half a year."

This was a question they had discussed not long ago.

Shi Youxuan blamed her husband for why he had to have Yueyue at an age when he should have known better; otherwise, the children would all be grown up, and they could go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers, or go to the countryside to live a pastoral life—how wonderful that would be?

Her husband had said nonchalantly at the time: "People must strive and struggle; live until you're old, struggle until you're old—only then does life have value." She didn't expect that not much time had passed before he changed his mind.

Shi Youxuan said: "What about renovating the old Villa a little and going to live there?"

The Villa from when they got married has now turned into a wildlife park.

Back then, the wolf Bailang Xiaobai and Shi Ran's pet—Bai Yangyang—were sent to the Villa to be raised.

Many years later, they have now bred quite a few wolf cubs and lamb cubs.

And these two animals, which were originally natural enemies, have actually been living together in peace and harmony all along.

In the summer, they run around outside, and in the winter, they run into the house... In any case, if the original Villa isn't cleaned up, it's not fit to live in.

Sheng Hanyu shook his head: "I've already thought it through. We'll build a house near Chen Family Village. It's too far for the children to go to kindergarten, so we'll set up a kindergarten in the village and have them attend classes in our own kindergarten, then go outside once they reach elementary school."

"Zirui and Zihan are boarding for high school, so we don't need to worry about them; just have the driver pick them up on the weekends."

"Living in Chen Family Village, we can also be closer to our parents. When the time comes, we can bring my father-in-law over too; it would be nice to have everyone together and lively."

"Are you alright?"

It seemed her husband had been quite shaken. Shi Youxuan held her husband in her arms and comforted him softly.

She told him that not everyone dies suddenly, and tomorrow they would go for a physical check-up!

The next day, the couple went to the hospital to have a check-up and do a normal health examination.

After the results came out, all of Shi Youxuan's indicators were normal. The doctor said that even though she was over forty, she had the heart of a twenty-year-old!

But Sheng Hanyu was not quite normal; his blood lipids were slightly high, and his blood pressure was high, but there were no other problems. He asked the doctor: "Is it possible for someone in my condition to die suddenly?"

The doctor said with a rigorous attitude: "It is possible; everyone has the risk of sudden death."

"How can one prevent sudden death?"

The doctor told him: "Maintain a normal daily routine, a light diet, appropriate physical exercise, and a happy mood."

Consequently, Sheng Hanyu pushed aside all overtime work. He stopped working overtime, went to work normally every day, got off work on time, and ate very light food—just boiled vegetables with a tiny bit of salt.

Shi Youxuan said: "You can't do this; it's easy to have nutritional imbalances. Eat some meat."

"I won't eat it, not even a little."

He wouldn't easily change things he had decided on. Since she couldn't persuade him, Shi Youxuan stopped trying.

The children at home were still young; Yueyue and Shi Yuan couldn't have insufficient nutrition, so everyone else ate what they normally ate.

Only Sheng Hanyu was living on simple, plain food.

Every meal was a form of torture for him.

Looking at the fish, meat, shrimp, and eggs on the table, he didn't dare eat them. The boiled vegetables in front of him were okay for one or two meals, but as time went on, they became increasingly tasteless.

Just the sensory stimulation was already torturous enough, but his wife was also deliberately smacking her lips to tempt him—that was too much!

So, when eating, he would take his bowl and go to the courtyard to eat, out of sight and out of mind.

Shi Youxuan quietly called Zichen and asked him to make some recipes for his father and send them over. Wasn't Sheng Hanyu trying to eat vegetarian recently?

Then she would make the vegetarian dishes tasty and just as appetizing. Watching her husband eat boiled vegetables every day, her heart ached too.

"Alright!"

Zichen agreed very readily: "Give me three days, and I guarantee I will hand you a perfect score."

Although he said three days, in reality, it only took a day and a half to produce a thick cookbook.

It had pictures and videos; it was all vegetarian dishes, but they were complete in color, aroma, and taste, nutritionally comprehensive, and would absolutely not cause high blood lipids.