Chapter 53

Persevere for the sake of the living

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This is cat fur.

Fu Xiao, who combs Little Sugar Cake every night, would always go somewhere unknown. Every time, after combing Little Sugar Cake, he has to hide the cat fur that he combed, so that Little Sugar Cake can’t find it, otherwise, Little Sugar Cake will cry with heartache as if its flesh has been cut.

But why is there cat fur here?

Ding ding, his cell phone communication rang.

Fu Xiao opened it.

At the other end of the video, the butler was holding Little Sugar Cake, and the snow-white cat was slumped in the butler’s arms with dull eyes.

It was completely different from usual, Fu Xiao frowned and asked: “Little Sugar Cake, what’s wrong?”

The butler: “It’s been like this for a while during the day, and I asked Dr. Wu, and he said that Little Sugar Cake needs to be sterilized.”

Fu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief: “Find a time to arrange it.”

In his sleep, Su Zening turned over, not knowing what was about to happen.

After Fu Xiao hung up the phone, he threw the cat fur in his hands into the trash can.

Probably, because he didn’t live here for a long time, a stray cat came in. Next time, he would have someone put a few automatic feeders nearby.

After having Little Sugar Cake, he thought of Little Sugar Cake almost becoming one of those stray cats, so Fu Xiao was a lot more tolerant towards stray cats.

Ding-dong, the doorbell rang.

Fu Xiao went out to open the door, and breakfast was delivered.

This made Fu Xiao a little surprised. He didn’t tell Su Zening to do this yesterday, but Su Zening thought of it.

On the table in the living room, the checked documents and checklists were carefully put aside. They should have been sorted by Su Zening who stayed up late at night.

After this period of time, Fu Xiao also discovered that Yi Ning, who originally thought he had a willful personality, had a surprisingly good temper. Although he didn’t understand a lot of things, he will do everything seriously. And Yi Ning has been in the company for so long, and he has no suspicious behavior. Although Secretary Zhang doesn’t say anything, his attitude towards Yi Ning is much better, and he didn’t hand over Yi Ning a lot of work unlike before and embarrass him on purpose.

Fu Xiao remembered the thing he talked about on the phone with his friend.

Yi Ning has a crush. Yi Ning argued with his family about him returning to the country. Yi Ning’s strange attitude towards him. Yi Ning calling out his name in his dream last night, as well as the incoherent and evasive attitude of the older brother of Yi family on the phone call.

He rubbed his forehead with a headache and thought about it carefully.

Did he meet Yi Ning when he was a child?

It seemed he had seen him a few times.

Although Fu Xiao didn’t want to believe it himself, he already had some guesses in his heart.

“Has breakfast arrived?” Su Zening rubbed his eyes and walked over from the room. He took a sniff, and smelled the fragrance in the air, and his eyes lit up. When he opened it up, he saw that it was yam and spareribs porridge. He saw that Fu Xiao didn’t move, so pushed the plain small white bone china bowl, and pushed it towards Fu Xiao, and asked confusedly: “Aren’t you going to eat?”

But Fu Xiao stood up abruptly and said: “You eat first.” After speaking, he left quickly.

Fu Xiao couldn’t help but think that he must find a chance to explain it to Yi Ning.

Su Zening looked at the bowl of steaming porridge on the table in confusion, then he shook his head and sighed.

Ai, you are sick, but you don’t eat well, can you not let your cat worry less about snacks.

…

After breakfast, the two traveled by car to the place of today’s banquet.

The host of today’s banquet is Fu Xiao’s college classmate and business partner. Fu Xiao majored in finance in University, which ranks first in the country. A large part of the family in that major has some assets, and seven or eight out of ten are heirs.

The organizer of this party was the class president at that time, and he was very prestigious in the class. This time, although it was nominally a birthday party in a private sense, it was still about business matters.

The party was specially located in a secluded resort away from the city, and it took an hour or two to come from the city, which is why Fu Xiao arrived a day earlier. The car drove around the mountain road for a long time and came to a canyon, before everything was revealed in the eyes.

After getting out of the car, a tall lady greeted them and guided the two inside. At the gate of the resort, a black stray cat with green eyes was desperately pawing the door. The staff drove it away, the little black cat walked around aggrievedly and refused to go far.

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Fu Xiao was already far away over there, so Su Zening hurriedly followed, and later he would find an opportunity to come out and ask what happened to the black cat.

Su Zening followed behind Fu Xiao. The banquet had not yet officially started in the banquet hall, but there were already guests arriving.

The crowd was mingling with wine cups and chip, they were whispering softly, but it made Su Zening uncomfortable. He had never been to a place where there were so many people. Seeing so many people made his head spin, and the sight of those people falling on him was even more overwhelming.

Fortunately, he was following Fu Xiao, and most of them just glanced at him, and then looked at Fu Xiao.

On the other hand, Fu Xiao turned a blind eye to the many people who were looking at him with either inquiring or surprised eyes. His expression remained unchanged, and he calmly walked, looking for the host of the banquet, Nie Changyuan, and said: “Congratulations.”

Nie Changyuan greeted him and shook his hand, then patted Fu Xiao’s shoulder and said with a smile: “Ah Xiao, you’re here. I’ve been waiting for you.” Nie Changyuan’s home is in the north, they only moved here in his father’s generation. He has a typical northern appearance, with wheat-colored skin, has a tall stature, and broad shoulders. On the other hand, Su Zening was a little surprised that with Fu Xiao standing next to Nie Changyuan, even with the average height, could not be compared to Nie Changyuan in the slightest.

How should he say it, Nie Changyuan is like a heavy mountain, while Fu Xiao is like a cold pine, with only an air of temperament in his tall and straight back.

Fu Xiao probably had a pretty good relationship with Nie Changyuan, he said with a smile: “Long time no see, how is Momo?” Momo is Nie Changyuan’s younger brother, and Fu Xiao also knows him.

Nie Changyuan’s eyes lit up, and said: “Recently, his health hasn’t been bad. The doctor let him get out of the hospital. Now, he is resting in his room.”

In fact, even if he didn’t say it, Fu Xiao also knew it.

Since Nie Changmo became ill, Nie Changmo, who has always had a lingering tiredness in his eyes, was so energetic for the first time in the past few years.

The people around have slowly gathered.

After all, Fu Xiao’s identity is placed there, no matter where he is, he is the focus of the crowd’s attention.

Some people who couldn’t get along with Fu Xiao and Nie Changyuan turned their attention to Su Zening, and started chatting with him.

Su Zening, who has never dealt with these elites, was not an opponent of these elites at all. When he was overwhelmed, Fu Xiao noticed that and said to Su Zening: “You don’t have to follow me now, go out for a walk by yourself.”

As soon as Fu Xiao finished speaking, he turned his head and saw Nie Changyuan’s teasing eyes.

He was about to explain, but was speechless and didn’t know what to explain.

Su Zening breathed a sigh of relief over there, he quickly made an excuse and slipped out.

Unconsciously, he came to a corner that wasn’t very lively.

Then a dark shadow jumped past.

Su Zening was startled, and after a closer look, he realized that it was a black cat.

A teenager about sixteen or seventeen years old was chasing after it, panting, and said towards the tree: “Zhi-zhi, don’t run away.”

The black cat seemed to have heard it, it stopped on the tree, and glanced down at them, and looked at them with green pupils, as if hesitating whether to come down or not.

The teenager breathed a sigh of relief and coaxed it with a cat stick in his hand: “Zhi-zhi, come down and I’ll give you some snacks.”

The black cat jumped down, but it nimbly snatched the cat strip from the teenager’s hand, then jumped back to the tree. It gave them an arrogant glance, and swaggered away from the tree.

The teenager, who lost the beauty and possession, looked at his empty hands, and wanted to cry without tears.

Su Zening asked sympathetically: “What’s wrong?”

The teenager answered helplessly: “This is my cat. I lost it some time ago. But after I found it, it ran outside everyday, and was caught by me many times.”

Su Zening sighed and said with empathy: “Some cats are like this.” Not all cats like to be kept. For some cats, living the life they want is more important. Take Silly Bai Tian as an example, after Fu Wei moved out, it was difficult for Silly Bai Tian to meet Xiao Hei recently.

Now the cat group was betting how many days Silly Bai Tian can last. Will it abandon its owner and run away with Xiao Hei, no, to become a stray.

The teenager was a little thin and his face was pale, but Su Zening saw that he was very well-dressed. At this moment, he was panting and indifferently sat down on the steps, then leaned against the door, and said slowly: If Zho-zhi was a wild cat, i would let it go, but Zhi-zhi was raised by me and didn’t know who to live outside. When I got it back, it was dirty and full of fleas and was very skinny. This reassures me so much, since I have to raise it, I will keep it worry-free for the rest of my life, ah.”

Su Zening also sat on the other side of the steps and said: “You can buy some toys for it to play with. Are you going to chase your cat?”

The teenager’s face was pale, and he coughed a few times, then he waved his hand and said: “I can’t run, and my brother’s men are outside, they will catch it for me.” This rich or noble teenager has an unexpectedly good temper, and he slowly asked Su Zening with interest: “What toy do you think is better? I bought A’s latest cat-teaser stick, and it didn’t even take a look at it.”

This is simply asking the right person.

No one has more to say than Su Zening. He said with a look of disgust: “The one in A’s is just for appearance. It looks like a lot of fun, but it actually hooks the claws. B’s bell is the best.”

His claws were hooked before, and in the end, it was Fu Xiao who untied it for him. It was simply a black history!

The teenager was still panting, with a broken breathing sound, as if it was painful to even breathe.

Su Zening was worried: “What’s wrong with you?”

It took a while for the teenager to recover. He shook his head indifferently and said: “I’m fine.” Then his eyes lit up as he took out his cell phone and showed it to Su : “How about this?”

Su Zening saw that he was indeed better, so he leaned over his head, and the two discussed enthusiastically.

At this moment, people came over in the yard, and a group of young people came, and they were talking.

One of them envied: “Nie Changyuan is really amazing. He had the foresight to join the line of Fu Xiao’s Xingchen a few years ago. And he has made a lot of money these past few years.”

The other person shook his head and said: “Amazing is amazing, but unfortunately, he is too emotional. All these years in order to give his sick brother treatment, most of his time was spent abroad. If not, Nie family’s development would not be the same as it is now.” Who didn’t know that the youngest son of Nie Family was a sick child. He lost his mother at a young age, and then his father passed away. If it wasn’t for Nie Changyuan being a capable person, and was able to fight for the Nie Family’s business, it was unknown where these two brothers were wandering now.

The young man is a familiar one. Hearing them say this, he also interjected: “Yeah, Nie Changyuan is a person who looks powerful on the surface. But no matter what kind of big company he has, he doesn’t care, and everyday, he uselessly accompanies his brother to treat his illness. It can’t be a great thing.”

Those few people looked at the two teenagers sitting on the steps and didn’t think much about it. They continued to gossip about the privacy of the Nie family, and one of them said: “I heard that he has thrown so much money for his younger brother’s life since childhood. His younger brother spends at least seven months in the hospital in a year and is admitted to the intensive care once a month.” Each time it was said that the person is dying, waiting for the afterlife, but each time, he survived abruptly.

The teenager waved his hand and added: “Not only that, his brother is in the hospital for at least eleven months a year, literally in intensive care.”

Another person said angrily: “It wasn’t easy for Nie Changyuan. While supporting a huge family business, he also has to take care of his younger brother. His younger brother’s illness is just a matter of time, and could only live by counting how many days he has left.” Anyone with discernment knows that Nie Changmo’s departure is only a year or two away.

The young man sighed and said: “Who says it’s not. Although Nie Changmo is useless himself, fortunately he has a good enough brother.”

They were silently listening, when Su Zening suddenly spoke: “I think between Nie Changyuan and Nie Changmo, the more powerful one is Nei Changmo.”

The young man turned his head and looked at Su Zening for a moment, his pale lips cracked and his snow-white teeth showed a smile: “Why do you say that?”

Su Zening thought for a while and said: “Although it looks like Nie Changyuan is the pillar of Nie Changmo, in fact Nie Changmo is the pillar of Nie Changyuan, right?”

No one knows better than Su Zening, when breathing has become a torture, when eating has become a luxury, when every night became a sleepless night because of physical pain, when the only thing that can move in the hospital bed is his eyes, no one wants to go one living like that.

There is no such thing as getting better. Not to mention the future full of radiance in the picture.

Everyone knows that the so-called getting better is simply impossible to come.

Living at that time was a pain, a torture.

If it wasn’t for Nie Changmo’s love for his brother, how could he persist?

In fact, for a sick person, death is a release, an eternal peace and end, and only the living can’t let go and can’t accept it.

Those who are tortured by a hopeless terminal illness but still refuse to give up know that they are not fighting for themselves, but for their loved ones. They are the spiritual pillars of their loved ones. If they fall, all that is left for their loved ones is despair, so they cannot fall down easily. Even if there is only one pain left in their lives, they must grit their teeth and persevere.

Just like his original self.

Because he clearly knows that he is the pillar of his mom and dad, mom and dad can never honestly accept the fact that he left. Time and time again, when he was critically ill, he would then gritted his teeth and persisted day after day in despair.

Nie Changmo, who has been critically ill many times, but still crawled back from the death line again and again, is probably the same.

It is easy to die, but difficult to live.

Su Zening saw the teenager was frozen in place, not saying anything about what he was thinking. He thought that the teenager did not agree with his idea, so he scratched his head and said: “It’s just my idea, but it’s not wrong for Brother Nie to support his family business and take care of his younger brother.”

The few people responded and laughed: “Of course Nie Changyuan is more powerful. That huge Nei Family, if his not powerful, how can he inherit it.” As for Nei Changmo, what else did he do besides holding him back by being sick.

A few of them finally remembered, they still don’t know who the two teenagers are in front of them. Those two teenagers are good-looking and pleasing to the eye. These young men who came with their parents liked them very much, otherwise, who would want to chat nonsense with these two people.

Everyone winked, and one of them asked: “Who are you, add WeChat to make friends.”

Su Zening scratched his head and said: “I don’t have WeChat.”

Everyone felt somewhat baffled. They only thought that he was evading, and looked back at the teenager again.

The teenager snorted and said slowly: “I am Nie Changmo. I’m sorry, I’m in the hospital for eleven months a year, and I don’t have WeChat.”

Crowd: …

They’ve been gossiping in front of party himself. The group of young masters could only ran away in despair.

However, Nie Changmo sat back on the stone steps and smiled at Su Zening: “I’ve sat down, I’m tired of standing all the time, don’t you mind?”

Su Zening hurriedly shook his head and said he didn’t mind. Su Zening was at a loss. This kind of thing was too embarrassing. Fortunately, he didn’t say anything bad.

Nie Changmo rested his cheeks in his hands, tilted his head and looked at Su Zening with his dark brown eyes, and said casually: “Have you also been sick? Most people think that brother is more powerful, ba.”

Su Zening said quickly: “I have a friend who is also very ill.”

Nie Changmo looked at Su Zening suspiciously and said: “That friend of yours, isn’t it you. My brother told me that when someone said what happened to one of his friends, he was talking about himself.”

Su Zening: …

Fortunately, Nie Changmo didn’t want to struggle with this. He was a little confused, and leaned his head against the wall and coughed lightly. He didn’t know whether he said this to Su Zening or said it to himself: “But it’s really hard to persevere, ah”

Su Zening sighed, he sat next to Nie Changmo and said: “Then do you think it’s worth it?” There’s no need to convince the teenager that he will be cured one day, because he also knows that this is just a pale consultation, and a lie is still a lie. Even if everyone tried their best to believe it, it was still false.

Nei Changmo’s brown eyes flashed a lot for a moment, and he said without hesitation: “It’s worth it.”

“That’s right. When you feel like you can’t stand it, just think about the person who makes you feel worthwhile.” Su Zening smiled, and countless pictures appeared in his eyes: “Just think that living is a gift every day, and every second is earned from God. If we live one more day, those who are alive will have one more day of good memories, won’t they? Since the living have decided to live out their lives with memories, all we can do is to create more happy memories for them. That way, they smile when they think of us. ”

The corner of Nei Changmo’s mouth bent, as if thinking about the future: “When I die, that big dumb brother will surely hug Zhi-zhi while crying, and he will probably be painfully sad for a long time, so it seems to be good to have more memories about me.”

Across the door, when Nie Changyuan heard those words, he clenched his fists and was about to walk over to speak to Nei Changmo.

Fu Xiao took his hand to stop him and said: “Don’t go.” Nei Changmo didn’t necessarily want him to see this scene.

Nie Changyuan also understood, he took a deep breath and muttered: “Momo will be fine.” After speaking, he turned around and left.

Fu Xiao looked at the other side of the door thoughtfully.

Us?

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The other side of the door.

At this time, Nei Changyuan’s men also brought back the black cat. Nie Changmo dragged Su Zening to chat, bragging about his cat: “This black cat, his name is Zhi-zhi. It’s beautiful and elegant, simply my baby, it’s very well behaved.”

The black cat in Nei Changmo’s arms was desperately screaming, struggling to jump down.

Su Zening looked at the ferocious black cat who kept screaming, “Stinky human, go away” in the arms of the teenager, who was silent and did not speak.

The teenager didn’t care about this, he kissed the cat, then hugged his cat in distress, and said: “I know you’re obedient, I’ll open a can for you later.”

After speaking, the teenager pointed at the photo in his phone, showing off his black cat.

En? Where do black cats look better than white cats?

Su Zening looked at the photo critically with wide eyes.

He looked at the green-eyed black cat foolishly chasing its tail in the photo, and then looked at the black cat in Nie Changmo’s arms full of “I am Uncle” with an arrogant face.

He looked at Nie Changmo with a face full of words.

Nie Changmo raised his head and smiled without realizing it: “Zhi-zhi is cute, right?”