Otaku's beauty doppelgänger

Chapter 20 Journey of a Thousand Miles
It is one of Ye Han's strengths to do what he says. Now that she has decided to take her mother-in-law to Yun Province tomorrow, she will act immediately.

First, she asked her mother-in-law for her ID card, and then asked the man to help her organize some things to take when she went out. She walked directly back to the town and drove home.

Using the secure mobile phone provided by the system, she bought two high-speed rail tickets from Zhejiang Province to Yun Province tomorrow afternoon. As she expected, she used up nearly [-] wealth points, then packed her luggage and prepared enough food for Lao Huang. After the food for the week, a stone was pushed against the hospital door early the next morning to facilitate Lao Huang's entry and exit, and she drove to pick up her mother-in-law.

After arriving at the mother-in-law's house, although the mother-in-law and the man had finished their preparations, they still looked like they were in a dream.It was Ye Han's series of vigorous actions that confused them.

Yesterday I was still mourning that the house might be taken, lamenting that I couldn’t save enough travel expenses to see my son, and now I’m about to embark on a journey to see my son, so it’s no wonder that the two of them looked dazed.

After asking the man—should call him Uncle Li—to take care of her mother-in-law's house, Ye Han helped her into the car and drove all the way to the provincial capital, where the high-speed train started.

The journey was uneventful and they boarded the high-speed train smoothly. Ye Han wrapped himself up tightly like an Eskimo. However, it was cold and such clothes could be seen everywhere, so it did not cause any trouble. On the contrary, Ye Han Han brought an old man with him and received a lot of help. Whether he was going through the security check or queuing up to get on the train, everyone was courteous. When he got to his seat, conductors came to greet him. Ye Han sincerely lamented that the quality of Chinese people is really getting higher and higher.

It was already four o'clock in the morning when we arrived in Kuncheng, Yun Province. Ye Han found a fast hotel near the station to stay. The journey was tiring, and she felt a little tired with her 11 o'clock physique, not to mention that she was nearly ninety years old. What about your mother-in-law?
However, the mother-in-law was uncharacteristically full of energy. She hugged a small wooden box and refused to fall asleep. From time to time, she took out the iron plate in the box to look at it, and then stroked the name on it very gently. The iron plate It looks very new, but the original name engraved on it is already very blurred. Ye Han can barely see: the three characters Shi Gensheng, this is the name of the mother-in-law's son, and the only three characters the mother-in-law knows.

Ye Han has already seen something wrong with her mother-in-law. All these years of suffering and torture have already exhausted her body. It is only her obsession with her son that has miraculously persisted until now. There is a limit, the old man has already approached this extreme, once reached, no matter how strong her willpower is, she will not be able to hold on.

That's why Ye Han took her to Yun Province without any hesitation, and let her and her son meet for the last time. For the old man, as long as he could see his son, everything else didn't matter, including life!
After repairing for a day, they set off again to their destination - a small border town.

This is a small town named Li, just like countless unknown small towns in the motherland, without the slightest reputation, and no one knows about it outside the local area.On a hillside in the southwest corner of the city, there stands a small martyr's cemetery. It is really small, so small that it only has a square minaret more than two meters high, and there is nothing else.The body of the tower is made of white marble, which has turned yellow after years of wind and rain erosion. On the front of the tower, there are six big characters in bright red "Tomb of the Red Army Martyrs". On the top of the tower, a red star is standing quietly. There, the majesty of the tower is announced to people.

The other three sides of the pagoda were densely engraved with the names of martyrs. At this moment, Ye Han was helping his mother-in-law to search for her son's name carefully.

Suddenly, the mother-in-law froze. She was trembling all over. She stretched out her hand as if she had exerted all her strength and touched one of the names. These were the only three words she knew in her life: Shi Gensheng.

When the fingertips touch the name, time seems to stop. This touch is the silent waiting for decades. This touch is the longing for thousands of miles. One touch is the reunion between mother and child after tens of thousands of days and nights.

The mother-in-law gently pressed her face to the stepstone, rubbing it tenderly, as if she was holding her son and coaxing him to sleep when she was young.Silent tears slid down her wrinkled face, drop by drop, string after string, soaking the surface of the pagoda and falling to the ground. These were the tears she had been holding back all her life.

I don't know when, the world began to drizzle, and the cold raindrops hit the pagoda and the mother-in-law's body, gathered with her tears, and slowly flowed down from the pagoda.The mother-in-law still put her face on her son's name, with her hands open, she embraced the tower of martyrs, her face was full of peace, her tears had mixed with the rain, and it was hard to tell the difference.

Ye Han did not stop her mother-in-law, but stood quietly aside, using an umbrella to cover her mother-in-law from the increasing wind and rain. She did not want anyone, including herself, to disturb the gathering of mother and son.

Gradually, gradually, the rain subsided and Ye Han was drenched. When the wind and rain stopped completely, the mother-in-law raised her head with a satisfied smile. Like the blue sky washed by rain.

She turned around, looked at Ye Han with a smile, then bent her legs and knelt down!As soon as Ye Han threw away the umbrella, he immediately knelt down and supported his mother-in-law, and then gently hugged her in his arms.

After the rain, the sky cleared, and the sun shone again on the earth, the cemetery, the tower, and the people hugging each other. Everything was covered with a layer of gold and became one continuous piece. This moment is eternity.

Two days later, Ye Han and his mother-in-law returned to their hometown.

At night, the stars were shining brightly. In the dilapidated room, the mother-in-law was lying peacefully on the low bed, her head resting on Ye Han's thigh, holding Ye Han's hand with one hand, and pressing the other hand on her chest.

Her eyes were closed, her brows were stretched, her toothless mouth was opened, and she was humming an unknown song. Slowly, slowly, her voice lowered, and finally she couldn't hear her, and she let go of Ye Han's hand It fell, and it fell, revealing an iron plate left in Ye Han's palm.

Tired all her life, struggling all her life, suffering all her life, and waiting all her life, she was finally able to fall asleep contentedly.

Ye Han suddenly wanted to sing too. He sang a song that grandma used to sing when she was a child when she was coaxing her to sleep. The melodious singing began to echo in the small room, with sweetness, sadness, longing, and hope:

Shake, shake, shake, the boat rocks to Grandma Bridge.

Hello grandma, hello grandma, grandma smiled at me.

Shake, shake, shake, the boat rocks to Grandma Bridge.

Grandma said, good baby, grandma give me a piece of cake.

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(End of this chapter)