In just a few days, Cheng Su received a phone call from Deng Weixia reporting a death: Auntie had passed.
Auntie was Qi Taiguo's only real aunt. Now that she was gone and the call had come, both emotionally and logically they had to go for the funeral. Right then, Qi Fenglian also got the news and called her; the two agreed to go together.
Qi Fenglian was going alone without her husband and kids, so Cheng Su also went by herself, leaving Qi Xiaoqi at home with her parents watching him; she could be back the next day.
"...I really didn't expect it. I thought she could hang on a few more years. How long has it been and she's gone already." Sitting in the bus, Qi Fenglian sighed. "Auntie's not that much older than Mom, but she just... ai!"
Cheng Su said, "Everyone has their own fate. To be honest, now that she's gone, it's actually a kind of release. Otherwise, just lying there like that, unable to talk or move, having to be taken care of..."
