Tech Dominator Starts with Raising Kids-Chapter 173: A True Farewell

In the early morning, the small village in the valley was shrouded in mist.

As the sun rose, the mist gradually dissipated, revealing the houses in the valley.

The clansmen who had come to help in recent days had already dispersed, each busy with their own affairs.

Only at the large stone in front of Li Wanning’s house, there was an extra person sitting in a daze.

In the kitchen, Xu Pengfei helped Li Wanning’s mother, Lu Lanfen, with the fire, listening to Li Wanning’s mother’s words.

Xu Pengfei listened attentively, because he knew very well that Wanning’s mother had been suppressing her emotions for too long, and if she didn’t slowly release this suppression in time, over time, she would inevitably fall ill.

And once she became ill, she might never recover.

This is definitely not an alarmist talk, as there are truly too many people who become seriously ill after suppressing their emotions for too long.

"Both my children have been unfortunate."

"My daughter just managed to make something of herself, and life was starting to look up, everything was getting better."

"But then, heaven played a cruel joke on us, teasing us."

"A year ago, Wenbo often had nosebleeds at school. When Wanning came home for the New Year and heard about it, she took Wenbo to the hospital for a check-up the next day."

"After a blood test in the county, the lab report confirmed leukemia."

It wasn’t until this moment that Xu Pengfei learned the reason for Wanning’s brother’s death.

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Outside the house, Li Wanning remained silent, but tears occasionally fell from the corners of her eyes.

Li Wanning couldn’t understand why, when a minor passed away, the funeral couldn’t be elaborate.

Her poor brother had just passed, and after only being at home for a day, he was sent up the mountain the next day.

There were no drumming and gongs as in memory, and the clansmen wouldn’t even allow her parents to accompany her brother on his final journey.

Before dawn broke, a group of people secretly took her brother up the mountain.

The elderly clan elder, leaning on a cane, repeatedly reminded everyone not to talk on the way.

This made Wanning, on the journey to see her brother off, dare only to cry silently, without making a sound.

Li Peng looked at the cigarette butt remaining in his hand and sighed.

With Wenbo gone, life suddenly seemed to have lost its direction, and everything felt exhausting.

It was as if he had lost his life’s goal, confused, lost, still lost.

Xu Pengfei came out of the kitchen holding two bowls of noodles, delivering them to the father and daughter by the large stone.

At the kitchen door, Lu Lanfen leaned sideways against the door, watching the three outside.

"Have something to eat."

Li Peng, holding the bowl, saw his daughter still in a daze, not taking the bowl and chopsticks, and urged:

"Be good, have something to eat."

"Your brother certainly wouldn’t want to see you like this."

Li Peng looked toward the mountain to the east, his bloodshot eyes filled with melancholy as he said:

"Eat something, your brother is watching us."

Upon hearing these words, Li Wanning couldn’t hold back her tears once more, but this time, she accepted the noodles Xu Pengfei handed over.

The reason why Li Wanning and her father sat together on the large stone at the doorway was precisely because from there they could just see the lonely new grave.

"You should go back to work tomorrow, if you don’t go back, it’ll delay your job," Li Peng advised while eating noodles.

"Don’t worry about your mother and me."

Li Wanning opened her mouth to say something, but what her father said was very realistic.

The company had just moved to Huo County not long ago, and Xu Pengfei, as the company president, was very busy, no need to say much.

If the time is short, it’s okay because the boss is there.

But if it takes too long, it won’t work.

The boss is not in the company to manage a pile of miscellaneous affairs below but to do research and development.

After breakfast, Xu Pengfei walked some distance away to call the boss and report the situation.

"Hello?"

"Boss, Wanning and I will probably return tomorrow, at the latest by the day after tomorrow to the company."

In the apartment building, just waking up, Mo Jingchun was silent for a while before asking:

"Li Wanning is not beside you, right?"

"No, boss."

"That’s good. Has someone in her family passed away?"

Xu Pengfei glanced at Wanning, still in a daze in the distance, and responded with a hum.

"It was Wanning’s brother. She rushed back to see him one last time, and not long after, he was gone."

"Her brother had been holding on, waiting for her."

"Passed away due to illness, right?"

"Yeah, it was leukemia."

Leukemia!

When the three words left Xu Pengfei’s mouth, Mo Jingchun’s heart tightened suddenly.

Leukemia!

Mo Jingchun almost screamed at Xu Pengfei:

"What did you say? Say it again!"

Standing in the vegetable garden, Xu Pengfei was so startled by the boss’s sudden shouting that he almost didn’t hold on to his phone, nearly dropping it.

"Boss, it’s leukemia."

In the apartment building, Mo Jingchun fell silent directly.

Without Mo Jingchun speaking, Xu Pengfei on the other end of the phone didn’t even dare to breathe loudly.

Leukemia, leukemia.

Why did that fool Wanning stay silent in the company, not even mentioning it in passing?

If the word had reached Mo Jingchun’s ears, Wanning’s brother probably wouldn’t have died.

Although the special medicine for leukemia hadn’t been approved for market release yet, by putting in a word and earning the consent of Wanning’s family, they could have used the medicine for her brother first; it was not likely that those above would make it difficult.

After a long while, Mo Jingchun sighed.

"Old Xu, do you know? Actually, our company has developed a special medicine for leukemia, it’s just not approved for market release yet."

"I can tell you, as long as it hasn’t deteriorated to the last stage, the cure rate for leukemia with the new drug should exceed eighty percent."

In fact, Mo Jingchun was being reserved.

According to the records, the cure rate for the special leukemia medicine was as high as 95%; leukemia was like a common cold, as long as you take medicine and treat it in time, it’s not a terminal illness.

Perhaps this is destiny.

Human fate is like this, everything is preordained.

The Xu Pengfei on the other end of the phone was already too shocked to speak.

After sighing again, Mo Jingchun said to Xu Pengfei, "Old Xu, the leukemia special medicine will be marketed eventually; instead of hiding it from Wanning, it’s better to tell her now."

"Otherwise, when the time comes, Wanning might misunderstand the company."

"Think carefully about how to tell Wanning about this matter."

After the call ended, standing in the vegetable garden, Xu Pengfei for a moment didn’t know how to talk to Wanning.

On the other hand, in the apartment building, Mo Jingchun shook his head. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

True goodbyes do not happen on ancient tracks with pavilions, nor with exhortations to drink another cup, but simply, on a morning like any other, when someone remains in yesterday.

Looking at Candy, still sound asleep on the bed, Mo Jingchun felt he must live well.

To cherish life, to watch Candy grow up.

Until his own old age.

Life is but a passage, like grass and trees in spring, a fleeting moment in the wind and rain.

Life is short, coming and going in haste.

A hand suddenly waved in front of Xu Pengfei, who was spacing out.

"What’s wrong with you, don’t scare me."

Seeing Xu Pengfei’s appearance, Li Wanning looked worried.

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