Chapter 1260

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Soon, Wang Zhanggen was transferred to the ICU.

Then all kinds of life-sustaining potent drugs were used.

Actually this was already not his first time staying in the ICU; before, when his cerebral infarction flared up, he had also stayed once.

That time he luckily managed to snatch his life back.

But this time, I'm afraid it won't be so fortunate.

Wang Erhai hurriedly called Wang Xiaohua.

After Wang Xiaohua received the call and learned that Wang Zhanggen had heart failure and was admitted to the ICU, he wasn't all that surprised; what showed more on his face was a kind of exhausted numbness.

Because all of this was within his expectations.

Forcibly prolonging the life of a dying person — how could it be that easy?

"Alright, I'm heading over right now."

Wang Xiaohua only said this one sentence, then hung up the phone.

Turning his head to look, his exhausted mother was already lying on the bed yawning.

Wang Xiaohua couldn't bear to worry her, so he didn't tell her the truth.

Instead he said:

"Mom, you rest here. I have something to take care of at the hospital; I'll be back in a bit."

Li Xiulan then said:

"Then you go. These past few days have really been exhausting enough, making my waist ache faintly; I don't know if my old waist injury is flaring up again."

When Li Xiulan was young, she suffered from severe lumbar muscle strain.

At that time she was building a house, but Yang Xiaocai wouldn't let the trucks delivering materials pass in front of his house unless Li Xiulan paid him a toll.

Li Xiulan valued money very highly, and in a huff she decided to use her own body to move those incomparably heavy construction materials bit by bit to the building site.

As a result of over-exertion she got a waist injury, which recurred on and off for several years.

It was only in recent years, when all three sons became promising and she no longer did much heavy work, that it got a bit better.

And now, bringing Wang Zhanggen down to Guangzhou for treatment, the travel fatigue, transferring hospitals twice, being busy every day, and sleeping poorly at night, caused the waist injury to flare up a bit again.

"Mom, then you must rest well!"

Wang Xiaohua's heart gave a jolt; he was just afraid his mother might also have some mishap.

Li Xiulan, however, didn't mind at all:

"It's nothing; a rest should do the trick. You go; I'll rest properly myself. Don't worry about me!"

"Alright, then I'm off."

Wang Xiaohua left the guesthouse and quickly ran to the hospital.

This guesthouse was right across from the hospital, so walking there worked.

Running to the hospital, entering the inpatient department, and arriving at the ICU area, he saw Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai sitting on chairs in the corridor, both wearing worried frowns.

"Big Brother, Second Brother, how is Dad?"

Wang Dashan said:

"The doctor said the surgery triggered heart failure, and then they had him moved to the ICU."

Wang Erhai, on the other hand, said:

"Sigh, everything has its destiny; we've already done our best, so let's just keep a calm mindset."

Wang Xiaohua nodded.

He had actually long since kept a calm mindset; only Wang Dashan hadn't, stubbornly holding on.

Wang Dashan asked at this moment:

"Where's Mom? Why didn't you bring her over?"

Wang Xiaohua said:

"I didn't tell Mom the truth; I just said I had something to do at the hospital. She said she was very tired and her waist hurt a bit, so I let her rest properly at the guesthouse."

Wang Dashan was displeased:

"No, this is such a big matter — why didn't you bring her? Resting isn't urgent for this moment; if Dad passes tonight, Mom might not even have the chance to see him one last time!"

Wang Xiaohua said:

"I don't want Mom to be this tired; she needs rest."

Wang Dashan's face was full of irritation:

"I don't know how to put it — you've really read books until you turned into a bookworm; you can't do a single thing right."

Wang Xiaohua didn't want to talk to Wang Dashan.

He turned away and sat down to one side.

Wang Dashan still wouldn't let it go and wanted to keep saying a few more lines.

Wang Erhai hurriedly stopped him:

"Big Brother, say a couple less. Third Brother isn't actually wrong; Mom really does need rest. If something happens to Dad, we can just have Mom come over then — anyway the guesthouse is right across from the hospital, it's not far."

Wang Dashan still muttered:

"I'm just afraid Mom won't even get to see Dad's final face."

Wang Xiaohua took a deep breath, a thousand words crowding his heart, wanting to be spoken.

He wanted to say: You, this older brother of mine, if you hadn't messed around blindly back then, perhaps our father would still be alive and kicking right now!

He wanted to say: Being unable to do a single thing right is you; it's you who ruined everything, even your own marriage is about to be ruined by you.

He also wanted to say: If you keep acting willfully like this, you'll only make things even worse!

However, not a single one of these sentences did he speak out.

Because he knew, speaking them out Wang Dashan wouldn't listen either.

On the contrary, it would only cause an even deeper rift in the brothers' bond.

Because of the matter of treating their father's illness, the brothers had already had quite a few quarrels.

Wang Xiaohua didn't want this quarrel to escalate.

He wouldn't be like Wang Dashan, his heart piled full of negative emotions, just letting negative emotions run rampant, becoming a puppet of negative emotions, controlled by negative emotions, hurting the feelings of those around him.

Controlling emotions, especially controlling negative emotions, is one of the most important compulsory courses in life.

Wang Xiaohua had realized this point long ago.

It's just a pity his older brother, despite being several years older, having been out in society for so many years, still hasn't realized this point.

He also doesn't know how severe the consequences of doing this are.

This is perhaps the gap in cognition.

But it's not his fault either.

During school, he couldn't even reach the school's average grades; how could one expect him to have any level of cognition?

His first half of life, to put it bluntly, was just luck that was too good.

By a fluke, he ran into Du Xiaojuan.

If it weren't for Du Xiaojuan, perhaps he'd still be struggling bitterly on the road of entrepreneurship right now.

With his kind of personality, even ending up heavily in debt is possible.

But a person's life, how could it possibly be lucky for a whole lifetime?

And judging by the current situation, in the next few years, the probability of Wang Dashan's fortune going downhill is obviously much greater than the probability of it going uphill.

When that time comes, the real test of his life will have only just begun.

Wang Xiaohua can see all this clearly at a glance, yet he has no way to change anything.

This is the important reason why his heart is filled with a sense of powerlessness.

He doesn't resent or hate Wang Dashan; after all, in terms of personality, much is brought along in the genes; a person whose cognition can't be raised is unable to overcome the instincts in their subconscious to change their own personality.

He blames himself, for having no good method to change this flesh-and-blood older brother of his.

He can only watch helplessly as he draws closer to the abyss bit by bit.

The next morning, Li Xiulan came over bringing breakfast.

She had rested for a whole night last night; her mental state was much better than before, and her waist wasn't that painful anymore.

Seeing this, Wang Xiaohua felt that not bringing his mother over last night was truly the most correct thing.

"How come you all's father isn't in the ward anymore?"

Li Xiulan asked this one sentence.

She went to the ward first, discovered it was already empty, asked a nurse, and only then learned that Wang Zhanggen had already been transferred to the ICU.

Wang Dashan said:

"Mom, Dad was admitted to the ICU last night because of heart failure, but you rest assured, I'll have the doctors give him the best medicine, he'll definitely pull through."

Hearing this, Li Xiulan was first surprised, then said:

"How about, just don't treat him then."