In order not to waste Bai Chuan's "considerate" thoughts, Mu Xiaoya let Bai Chuan hold hands throughout the whole process and never let go.
After a while, the elevator reached the top floor, and when the two were about to go out, someone rushed in ahead of them. Suddenly, Bai Chuan was startled and took a step back in a panic.
Bai Chuan is autistic. He doesn't like to have physical contact with people, so he was afraid of small spaces or crowded places since he was a child. When he was in the elevator just now, whenever a person came up, he would tense up nervously. At this time, he almost collided with someone, and he hurriedly escaped in a panic. Mu Xiaoya noticed that, she quickly stepped forward and stood between the two, while comforting Bai Chuan: "It's alright, we'll go out now."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just now I..." The visitor also found someone in the elevator at this time. He realized his rashness and was apologizing. After he looked up to see who was in the elevator, his apology instantly turned into a surprise. "Second Young Master, you are back."
The visitor was so excited that he was about to pull Bai Chuan's arm, Bai Chuan pursed his lips and shrank back again. Mu Xiaoya hurriedly raised her hand to block the movement of the person who came: "Sorry, he doesn't like others touching him."
"Ah, yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I almost forgot." The man obviously knew Bai Chuan, so he knew Bai Chuan was special, so he didn't take any further action. , "Second Master, it's good if you come back. The chairman and his wife are in a hurry, and the general manager has been out to find you for a long time."
Mu Xiaoya was stunned for a moment, listening to what this person meant, could it be that Bai Chuan sneaked away alone, and the Bai family didn't know
"Chairman, Second Young Master is back." When the two stepped out of the elevator, the man ran to report the letter.
"You didn't tell your family?" Mu Xiaoya asked Bai Chuan.
Bai Chuan looked at Mu Xiaoya, but did not speak.
Forget it, probably didn't understand, Mu Xiaoya sighed and said, "Let's go see grandma."
The two walked forward together, and after a while, an elegant woman suddenly rushed out of one of the wards. This person, Mu Xiaoya, recognized that she was Bai Chuan's mother, and Mu Xiaoya often saw her in Grandma Bai's yard during Chinese New Year.
"Xiaochuan, Xiaochuan, where have you been?" Bai Chuan suddenly disappeared, and Mama Bai was so worried that she sent a bunch of people out to look for it, but there was no news. At this time, seeing my son coming back by himself, I was really overjoyed and wished I could go up and hold him tightly in my arms to feel at ease. But she knew her son's condition well and didn't like being touched, so she could only try to restrain herself.
But when she managed to restrain her emotions, she found that her youngest son, who could not be touched easily, was obediently letting other women hold hands.
what's going on
"Auntie." Walking closer, Mu Xiaoya called out.
"Mu Xiaoya?" Bai's mother recognized Mu Xiaoya. Although they didn't meet much, her mother-in-law always mentioned a neighbor named Mu Xiaoya when she called back to talk about Bai Chuan's life with their husband and wife. Ya girl. During the Chinese New Year, Mu Xiaoya came to pay New Year's greetings, and the two of them had met several times.
"I heard Bai Chuan say that Grandma Bai is sick." Mu Xiaoya said.
"You're here to see grandma, come, come in."
Mu Xiaoya led Bai Chuan to the ward and met Bai Chuan's father Bai Guoyu at the door: "Uncle Bai."
Bai Guoyu nodded lightly, looking a little tired. When he glanced at his younger son about to say something, an old and weak voice came from the door in a timely manner: "Is Xiaochuan back?"
Bai Chuan heard his grandmother's voice, and his emotions were activated again. He took Mu Xiaoya's hand and walked in quickly, ignoring the old father who had something to say at the door.
"..." Well, the old father has long been accustomed to this kind of ignorance.
Bai Chuan took Mu Xiaoya to the hospital bed, shouted grandma loudly, and after she finished shouting, she stood silently on the side again.
"Grandma Bai." Mu Xiaoya also shouted.
Grandma Bai's complexion is not bad, she doesn't sound so weak, she first glanced at her grandson, and then her eyes fell on Mu Xiaoya's body along the grandson's right hand, and then smiled kindly: "Xiaoya, come here. Did you see grandma?"
"Grandma, are you feeling better?" Mu Xiaoya asked with concern.
"It's okay, people are getting old, this is the law of nature." Grandma Bai smiled open-mindedly. She is 89 this year, and she is actually very satisfied that people can live to this age.
"Grandma..." Although she knew that birth, old age, sickness and death are the natural laws, but Mu Xiaoya watched such a kind and amiable old man about to leave, her heart still couldn't help pantothenic acid.
"You brought Xiaochuan back?" The old man obviously didn't want to talk about his physical condition.
"No." Mu Xiaoya shook her head, "I was Bai Chuan looking for."
"Xiao Chuan went to find you?" Grandma Bai looked at Bai Chuan in surprise, "Xiao Chuan, did you go to Xiaoya?"
"Well, we're getting married." Bai Chuan happily announced and couldn't wait to announce.
Bai Guoyu and his wife Li Rong were shocked when they heard this. They looked at each other subconsciously, and both saw disbelief on each other's faces.
Only Grandma Bai looked at Mu Xiaoya after a brief surprise, and asked, "Xiaoya, is what Xiaochuan said true?"
Mu Xiaoya was a little embarrassed and a little embarrassed at the same time. Although she did agree to Bai Chuan's marriage proposal, she was still a little uncomfortable being asked so frankly by the other's parents. After all, they didn't talk about love buffers or anything before, and they came to see their parents directly. Moreover, Bai Chuan is still a person with no capacity for civil conduct. No matter how he looks at him, he looks like a person who kidnapped someone's son, even though he is the one who was proposed to marry him.
Bai Chuan was puzzled by Mu Xiaoya's silence. He didn't understand why Mu Xiaoya didn't answer her grandmother's words. Did she regret it? An unease filled Bai Chuan's heart, and unconsciously, Bai Chuan's forehead began to sweat, and the hand that held Mu Xiaoya became more and more forceful.
When the Bai family on the side saw it, they were all nervous and defensive all of a sudden. It may not be clear to outsiders, but this is a precursor to Bai Chuan's illness. When Bai Chuan didn't get sick, he looked like an extraordinarily quiet child, but when he got sick, he would become manic and restless, would keep smashing things around him, and even hit his head against the wall when it was serious.
"It's true." After a brief period of embarrassment, Mu Xiaoya, who had adjusted her emotions, replied generously, "I and Bai Chuan... are going to get married."
Bai Chuan's mood instantly relaxed, and his brows calmed down again.
"Phew~~" Bai's parents also breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, they were ready to hug someone and call a doctor just now.
"Really?!" Grandma Bai stretched out her hand tremblingly towards Mu Xiaoya, Mu Xiaoya saw it and took the initiative to reach out and hold it back.
"Xiaoya, grandma knows you're a good girl, but... Are you really willing to marry Xiaochuan? You've thought about it? You know that Xiaochuan's situation is special in our family."
After the excitement, Grandma Bai gradually calmed down. If her family Xiaochuan didn't have autism, he and Mu Xiaoya would be such a good match. But her family Xiaochuan is not a normal person. She has taken care of Xiaochuan for more than 20 years. No one knows better than her how much patience and courage it takes to live with a person with autism. Even if Ogawa's condition is much better than other autistic patients.
Although she privately likes Mu Xiaoya to be her granddaughter-in-law, but if this road is not good, then it is better not to start, it is good for both of them.
"Grandma, I think clearly." Mu Xiaoya heard the worry in Grandma Bai's words, smiled and comforted.
"Okay, okay." Grandma Bai smiled happily. "Our Xiaochuan will have a daughter-in-law, so I can finally close my eyes with peace of mind."
"Mom, what did you say?" Bai Guoyu didn't want to hear his mother say something like a last word.
But Bai Chuan on the side, when Grandma Bai said the word reassurance, there was a flash of relief and joy in his eyes.
"Xiao Rong, bring my bracelet here."
Bai Chuan's mother's name was Li Rong. After listening to her mother-in-law's words, she turned around and walked to the bedside. She took out a mahogany box from the cabinet on the side and handed it to Grandma Bai: "Mom, here it is."
Grandma Bai turned her hand and gave the box to Mu Xiaoya, who was beside her, and said, "Open it and have a look."
Mu Xiaoya was stunned for a while, then opened it according to her words, and there was a jade bracelet inside. This bracelet Mu Xiaoya has also seen before, this is the bracelet that Grandma Bai never leaves her body.
"Does it look good?" Grandma Bai asked.
"Nice. Grandma, I remember it was your bracelet."
"Yes, this bracelet was a dowry given to me by my mother when I got married. It is an inheritance of our family, and it is passed down from female to male. Originally, I wanted to pass it on to my daughter, but I only gave birth to it. A son, I have no chance to give it. Xiaoya, now, grandma wants to give it to you. "
As soon as Grandma Bai said this, the Bai family's couple on the side were surprised again. For the Bai family, the meaning of this bracelet is far greater than its value. None of them thought that Grandma Bai would give the bracelet to an outsider.
"This... this won't work." Mu Xiaoya quickly refused.
"I originally wanted to leave this bracelet to Xiaochuan's daughter-in-law, but I didn't expect that I would have the opportunity to give it by myself."
"But..." Mu Xiaoya still has to postpone, this kind of thing handed down from the ancestors is also a high-quality jade, and it must be very valuable, how dare she accept it. It's just that she didn't have time to say what she delayed, but Bai Chuan suddenly reached out and took the jade bracelet from the wooden box, and then forcibly put it on her under Mu Xiaoya's bewildered gaze.
"Bai Chuan?" Mu Xiaoya looked at Bai Chuan in surprise.
"Wear it." There was an irresistible domineering in the short words.
When Bai Zheng received a call from his assistant and rushed back to the ward, he saw such a picture. A woman who is somewhat unfamiliar to him is squatting in front of his grandma's hospital bed, while his younger brother, who is not allowed to enter, is clumsily but forcefully putting on a jade bracelet. And his grandmother was nodding her head in relief.
"It's so beautiful." Grandma Bai took Mu Xiaoya's arm wearing the jade bracelet and looked at it again and again. After a long time, she asked with a look of anticipation, "When are you going to get married?"
The grandson is getting married, and Grandma Bai is greedy and wants to hold on for more days so that she can attend her grandson's wedding.
Mu Xiaoya looked at Grandma Bai's sudden radiance and became a little worried. She didn't remember when Grandma Bai died, but she knew that it was only a few days ago. Because in her previous life experience, she went to the hospital to see Grandma Bai in the afternoon the next day, but Grandma Bai was no longer there at that time.
"I'll go home in the evening and tell my parents that I'll get the certificate tomorrow, and we'll show it to you when we're done." Mu Xiaoya replied.
"Okay, okay." Grandma Bai said three times in a row, and then her voice suddenly weakened. Everyone noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly looked up, only to find that Grandma Bai had closed her eyes.
This time, everyone in the ward was startled, and they all gathered at the head of the bed, shouting to Grandma Bai. Only Bai Chuan, still standing quietly beside Mu Xiaoya, looked at the old man sleeping on the bed with a calm expression.
After a while, the doctor also ran over. After a simple examination, the doctor said, "The old man just fell asleep."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"However, the old man's body has run out of oil, and it's a matter of time to leave.... When she wakes up, if you have anything else to say, hurry up and say it." After explaining, the doctor left the ward.
The atmosphere in the ward suddenly became solemn, and everyone in the Bai family was immersed in the sadness that Grandma Bai would leave at any time, and they ignored the marriage of Mu Xiaoya and Bai Chuan for a while.
Mu Xiaoya looked at the old man who was sleeping peacefully and seemed to be leaving at any time on the hospital bed, suddenly gritted her teeth, turned her head and said to Bai Chuan, "Bai Chuan, let's go get the certificate."
"Okay." Bai Chuan agreed without hesitation.
"I'm going home to get the household registration book, where is your household registration book?"
Bai Chuan blinked, then turned his head, ignoring his stunned parents, and stared at his eldest brother who was also stunned: "I want a household registration book."
"..." Bai Zheng, who will tell him what happened
The household registration book was finally given to Bai Chuan, and Bai Zheng went home to get the household registration book, sent it to the door of the Civil Affairs Bureau in person, and then watched Mu Xiaoya and her brother go in to get the certificate, and then came out together.
During this period, he was always amazed at the reaction of his younger brother. His younger brother Bai Chuan was diagnosed with autism when he was one year old. When he was three years old, he was found to have special memory and computing talents. A child with savant syndrome. Since discovering this, the parents finally found the development direction of the younger brother in the dazed and painful emotions, and they spared no effort in cultivating the younger brother. The younger brother also learns quickly, but he always closes himself in his own world and is unwilling to communicate with others.
Until the younger brother was seven years old, the family spent countless patience in exchange for the occasional response from the younger brother, but the communication was still difficult. In the end, it was the grandmother who retired at home and made a decision that she would take her brother back to the old house.
The doctor said that the younger brother knows how to respond, which means that he is aware of the outside world. It is not a serious autism. If he recovers well, he will probably regain the ability to socialize.
Their Bai family doesn't need a genius, what they want is a family member who can communicate with them. So the parents agreed with the grandmother's decision and let her leave with her younger brother. For more than ten years after that, the younger brother has been living with his grandmother, and the younger brother's recovery is also gratifying. At the age of twelve, he finally accepted all the people of the Bai family and was willing to answer their questions.
But this kind of response is usually not very timely. Often, after a question is asked, it takes several minutes or even half an hour for the younger brother to answer them.
Although his performance has gotten better in recent years, except for his grandmother, Bai Zheng has never seen his younger brother respond immediately to anyone.
Until Mu Xiaoya appeared.