Chapter 255: Liberation
Wen Lan's heart was bleeding.
Wen Zuming was right, her mother was on the verge of death!
"My mother is still breathing, she is still alive, I won't prepare for her funeral!"
Wen Lan collapsed and cried, but deep down she didn't want to admit the fact that Ji Minxin was about to die.
The staff came in and lifted Ji Minxin's eyelids, sighing, "The pupils have begun to dilate, there is really no hope."
"My mother won't die! Because I haven't done my filial duty for my mother yet!"
Wen Lan hugged Ji Minxin tightly, and her hot tears fell on Ji Minxin's dry face.
Drop by drop, she poured out eight years of care and longing...
"Mom, I am Lanlan--"
She shouted in Ji Minxin's ear again and again until her voice was hoarse.
At this time, Xie Yansheng had stood at the door of the ward, and Wen Lan's sad cry made his heart ache.
What he cared about was not the life and death of the woman on the bed, but Wen Lan lied to him again!
She was obviously her biological mother, but she said she was her aunt!
He had long known that Wen Lan was Wen Yunzheng's illegitimate daughter. The Wen family said that Wen Lan's biological mother died in a car accident many years ago and was buried in the West Suburb Cemetery in Jiangcheng.
After marrying Wen Lan, he also mentioned Wen Lan's biological mother in casual conversations, but Wen Lan kept silent every time, so he tacitly agreed with the Wen family's statement.
Half an hour ago, Wen Lan was still telling him that she was going to find her aunt. Now that her aunt has become her biological mother, she felt deceived and fooled instantly!
But compared with his own loss, Wen Lan's heartbroken look made him feel more distressed.
He walked to Ji Minxin's bedside and reached out to touch her pulse, which was like a gossamer.
"It's time to prepare for the funeral." He looked at Wen Lan.
Wen Lan's face was pressed against Ji Minxin's chest, feeling Ji Minxin's last warmth...
An hour later, Ji Minxin's heart stopped beating.
Wen Lan's tears had long dried up, and when Ji Minxin was declared dead, she was extremely calm.
She wiped Ji Minxin's whole body with a clean towel and water, and put on layers of burial clothes for her.
With Xie Yansheng and Lao Jin around, she didn't have to worry about any subsequent trivial matters.
But when choosing a cemetery for Ji Minxin, Xie Yansheng was in a dilemma.
"Are you going to bury her here or in Jiangcheng?" Xie Yansheng asked.
Wen Lan was stunned for a long time, and said in a hoarse voice: "Here and Jiangcheng have brought her all pain, so let her go back to Meicheng."
Meicheng is a small fifth-tier city, more than 300 kilometers away from Jiangcheng. It is where Wen Lan was born and Ji Minxin's hometown.
There, Wen Lan and Ji Minxin spent the happiest time of their lives so far.
When Wen Lan was six years old, Ji Minxin had a car accident and became a vegetable. The mother and daughter were taken to Jiangcheng by Wen Yunzheng.
Since then, Wen Lan has never returned to Meicheng.
Now that everything has settled, she wants to personally send Ji Minxin back to Meicheng and let her rest in peace.
Ji Minxin was relieved, and so was she.
Just as Xie Yansheng arranged for Li Duan to go to Meicheng on the phone, Lao Jin ran up from downstairs and said that someone from the funeral home had come.
The staff of the nursing home wrapped Ji Minxin in a funeral package, carried her downstairs, and put her on the funeral car.
When Wen Lan got on the funeral car, her body was shaking, and she couldn't step on her right foot several times.
Xie Yansheng stepped forward to support her, and got on the funeral car with her without hesitation.
She looked at the yellow funeral package calmly, thinking about the familiar face inside, and her thoughts drifted to her childhood...
"Why didn't you tell me earlier that your mother was still alive?" Xie Yansheng, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke.
Why?
Wen Lan also began to ask herself.
On the third day after she and Xie Yansheng became husband and wife, with the help of Wen Jinyin and his mother, the two got the marriage certificate and had a banquet.
From that time on, she was no longer worthy of the bright and handsome Shen Yi, and she also gave up all her fantasies about Shen Yi.
She was ready to live a good life with Xie Yansheng, but before their honeymoon was over, Xie Yansheng started running to the club.
She had quarreled with Xie Yansheng, made a scene, and even smashed the private room of the club, but in the end, she still failed to stop Xie Yansheng from cheating frequently.
If Xie Yansheng was just unreliable and generous to her, she would find a suitable time to tell Ji Minxin about it.
But Xie Yansheng spent a lot of money on women outside, but he was stingy with her!
She asked Xie Yansheng for money in various ways, but Xie Yansheng asked her to bring receipts for everything!
Ji Minxin's illness was a bottomless pit that could not be filled as long as she was alive. Based on her understanding of Xie Yansheng, he would not pay at all.
She had to pin all her hopes on Wen Jinyin.
Wen Jinyin had always said that Ji Minxin was receiving the best treatment abroad, and she believed it without a doubt, helping Wen Jinyin to plot against Xie Yansheng again and again to make profits for the Wen family.
The funny thing is that she has been living in Wen Jinyin's lies for the past eight years!
Ji Minxin was not abroad, nor in the urban area of Hong Kong City, but stayed in a sanatorium in a small county called Qihe for three years!
Although there was no information about Ji Minxin three years ago on the medical records, she could guess that it would never be in a hospital or sanatorium with good medical conditions!
In order to prevent her from finding Ji Minxin, Wen Jinyin took great pains to change Ji Minxin's age and name, and even left the contact number of the family members as company employees.
Wen Lan's thoughts were like a tide...
"If you told me the truth two years ago, it would not be the result now." Xie Yansheng's voice was deep, and a pair of strong arms fell on her thin shoulders.
A lot of grievances lingered in her throat, and her heart was very tired, and she didn't even have the strength to speak.
Even though there were several layers of clothes between them, Xie Yansheng's palm still gave her support, which made her feel inexplicably at ease.
This feeling was something she had never had before.
Xie Yansheng stared at her profile deeply, and his complaints gradually turned into pity in his reason...
Two hours later, Ji Minxin was burned into ashes.
In the afternoon, Wen Lan, accompanied by Xie Yansheng and Lao Jin, brought Ji Minxin's ashes to Meicheng.
Li Duan had already brought people to the "Tianfu" cemetery.
Although Wen Lan had not come to Meicheng for many years, she knew from the scale and facilities of the cemetery that Xie Yansheng was concerned about the cemetery.
In the evening, Ji Minxin's ashes were buried in the cemetery, and a stone tablet was erected on it.
Xie Yansheng dismissed Li Duan and Lao Jin and stayed alone to accompany Wen Lan.
It was completely dark when Wen Lan slowly walked out of the cemetery and followed Xie Yansheng to a hotel in the city.
Xie Yansheng was considerate and booked two adjacent rooms.
After helping Wen Lan open the door with the room card, he did not rush to leave, but ordered dinner on his phone.
At the end of the day, Wen Lan only drank a bowl of brown sugar taro balls and ate two vegetarian pot stickers in the morning.
After doing all this, Xie Yansheng began to hate his soft heart!
He hated it when he called Li Duan to buy a cemetery for Ji Minxin!
He hated it even more when he followed Wen Lan into the funeral car!