novelweb Chapter 503 Faith Collapse
Chapter 503 Faith Collapse
Huo Tingshen dropped his slippers on the ground and walked to the door barefoot.
The door to Grandpa's house was not closed, and the lights were dark in the room. He stood quietly at the door. Within a few seconds, the old man's hoarse voice called him,
"Ah Shen is back? Why don't you come back with Yangyang?"
Huo Ting took a deep breath and walked in.
"Grandpa, are you awake?"
The old man reached out and turned on the bedside lamp, moved his body to sit up,
"As we get older, we don't get much sleep. Just squinting for a while is enough."
Huo Tingshen is not a sentimental person. Seeing his grandfather's old state at this moment, he can't help but feel his nose sore.
Under the light, you can clearly see the old man's cloudy eyes, as if he hasn't slept for a long time and is extremely lacking in rest.As my uncle said, those eyes look like they haven't slept all day and all night.
How could this old man endure such torture?
He brought his grandfather to Haishi to let him take care of his health. Unexpectedly, he didn't think he had enough care not long after he arrived here.
"Grandpa, you sleep while I watch."
The old man laughed,
"I'm not a child, why are you using your kid to coax me? I miss the children. I'd like to ask Yangyang if she can bring two little ghosts over to have some fun tomorrow?"
Huo Ting nodded deeply.
"I will pick them up after school tomorrow. Grandpa, do you want some water?"
"Have a drink."
Huo tingshen took the cup to pour it, but neither his father nor his grandson mentioned anything about it.One didn't dare to ask, the other didn't dare to mention it, so he just pretended it never happened.
Huo Tingshen returned to his house after watching his grandfather, and Tao Shuhe called.
"A Shen, why did you hang up the phone with uncle? Is it so difficult for uncle to ask you to do a small thing?"
Huo Ting was deeply troubled and had no good tone.
"Mom, don't let your uncle do those immoral things. Is it worth it for a few dollars?"
Tao Shuhe was woken up by her brother's phone call early in the morning. She was still angry after getting up. She couldn't understand that her uncle and her nephew had such a close relationship, so asking him to help him with something would not result in a scolding for her uncle, right?
"Ah Shen, your uncle is really in trouble this time. It happens that these things are not difficult for you. You can save a family by helping him. Why don't you feel sorry for your uncle? Your aunt Tiantian thinks he can’t make money back, but we have the ability, so what’s wrong with helping a bunch?”
Huo tingshen now feels a headache when she hears her mother's voice. She can never consider the key points of the matter and only sees her own interests.
"Mom, my uncle transported waste materials to the construction site in order to get kickbacks. This incident killed four innocent lives. Why didn't you tell us what to do with the four families? The four workers who were killed were also the backbone of the family, and their children What should I do, what should I do with the elderly, what should I do with my spouse?”
Tao Shuhe yawned.
"Why can't you figure it out? Are they your uncle? Do they have anything to do with you? He is my brother now, your biological uncle. If he encounters a difficult situation and asks you for a favor, should he kneel down and beg you? "
Tao Shuhe was even a little angry at himself for not educating his children well and raising a cold and ruthless money-making machine.In his eyes, apart from the business empire, he is just that vixen. He doesn't care about his mother, nor does his uncle care about him. He simply doesn't recognize any of his relatives.
Huo Tingshen's patience has been exhausted.
"Mom, if it's about my uncle, don't call me again. I can't help with that matter. If he is short of money, I have also borrowed it. This time is nothing else. He has harmed others. Let him Face it yourself.”
Huo Tingshen hung up the phone, and within a minute, Tao Shuhe called again.
He didn't answer, and then Tao Shuhe started bombarding him on WeChat.
[Your uncle is the only male in the Tao family. If something happens to him, your grandpa's family will have no heirs. I beg you, mother, to help him this time.Money can make all the difference, but Mom doesn't believe that even if the money is in place, this matter can still be settled. Isn't the family just asking for money? 】
[If you ignore me, I have to finish my sentence.We must help our uncle. He has the same blood as your mother. This is a family relationship where blood is thicker than water. You cannot be an indifferent person.Mom taught you not to do this. Uncle loves you very much. 】
[If you don’t say anything, then I will have to fly back to deal with this matter. I will use money to deal with it, and I will beg for help! 】
Huo Ting was so angry that he directly put Tao Shuhe on the blacklist.
Early the next morning, Huo tingshen had just gotten up to wash up and prepare to work out when there was a loud knock on the door.
He opened the door, and his uncle stood at the door anxiously.
"A Shen, grandpa needs to go to the hospital, please come and help."
Huo Ting was so panicked that he just pulled on a shirt and went downstairs.
The old man had a fever. He lay there coughing violently and refused to seek medical treatment or eat.
Huo Zijin tried his best to persuade Huo Tingshen for a long time, but he couldn't do anything. He called Huo Tingshen down when he had no other choice.
Huo Ting came in deeply, packed a bag of the old man's clothes, and then forcibly picked up the old man and went downstairs.
The old man couldn't resist. He knew that his heart was incurable, so he began to explain the funeral arrangements in the car.
"A Shen, don't bother. Send me back to the capital now. I don't want to die in another place. Your baby is still waiting for me at home."
Huo Tingshen was driving the car and forced back tears when he heard the grandfather in the back seat saying such things.
"Grandpa, you just have a fever. Don't talk nonsense. We will be at the hospital in ten minutes."
The old man said in a hoarse voice,
"How can a person live without faith? You obey and send grandpa back to the capital. In my bedroom in my old house, behind your grandma's photo are the letters I wrote to her over the years. Put them all together with me. Take it away, and there is a pair of earrings in the bedside table that I gave to your grandma when she celebrated her 27th birthday. She liked it very much. Later she accidentally lost it. After she left, I picked up a coat that she had not worn for a long time. Find it inside, and you can bring that one to me too."
Huo Zijin on the side couldn't listen anymore.
"Dad, please stop talking. Anyone who eats whole grains will get sick. It would be unlucky to tell such a thing when you are sick. We are almost at the hospital. If you feel uncomfortable, just stay close to me. If it doesn't work, you can relieve your stress by humming. , stop saying depressing words."
Huo Ting stepped on the accelerator hard and drove the car to the hospital at high speed.
When the old man was receiving treatment in the clinic, he and Huo Zijin were waiting outside the door, anxious and restless.
"Uncle, where has grandpa been these past two days?"
Huo Zijin recalled it,
"He hasn't gone anywhere. We have been staying in the house for the past two days. Since yesterday morning, he has become very abnormal. He has not eaten a bite of food, drank water, neither slept nor talked to me. I also spent the night copying scriptures in the study, and fell ill in the morning."
Huo Ting felt a deep pain in his heart. He knew that the belief that his grandfather had kept for his whole life collapsed.
That was tantamount to his world falling apart.