Chapter 2216 Two words
"What answer?"
Boss Bai looked at the old man and asked his doubts.
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The old man's eyelids drooped.
A deep sigh sounded.
Looking at the jade in his hand, a bit of confusion, loss and melancholy appeared on his face.
"Grandpa..."
It was the first time that Boss Bai saw his grandfather's expression.
No.
It should be said that the grandfather after seeing the separated jade balls was the grandfather he had never seen before.
"If you don't want to say..."
He didn't want the old man to be so upset.
The old man shook his head.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to say it…
"...just old things..."
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An old story?
Boss Bai listened silently.
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The old man pursed his lips.
I haven’t told anyone about this for a long time...
"I have a brother..."
"Brother?"
Boss Bai couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.
"Why didn't I know?"
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"Stop talking about you..."
The old man smiled and said, "Your father doesn't even know."
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ah?
Boss Bai opened his mouth wide.
Even his dad doesn’t know?
"Why?"
he asked blurtly.
Could it be...
Many conjectures flashed through his mind instantly.
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"Because he was very early..."
The old man said slowly, "I was only a high school student at that time..."
"He was hit by a car..."
"A lot of blood was shed."
"Grandpa."
Boss Bai held the old man's trembling hand.
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"I'm fine."
The old man showed a somewhat forced smile.
"...Rescue failed...Death."
"I still remember the way the doctor looked when he told us the news."
"I remember my mother's cry."
"I remember the sound of my father's heavy punch hitting the wall..."
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"We have been sad for a long time."
The old man lowered his eyes and seemed calm.
But his voice was trembling.
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"In addition to being sad...I'm also angry and disappointed with myself."
The old man clasped his fingers together.
"I know, I'm not as smart as my brother..."
"This is something I never thought would make me..."
The old man took a breath and said, "I'm so angry with myself."
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"Grandpa?"
Boss Bai didn’t quite understand, “My uncle’s car accident... was it an accident?”
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"Yeah."
The old man responded in a low voice, "It was an accident."
"My brother didn't pay attention to the traffic lights when he was walking and was hit by a speeding vehicle."
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Boss Bai's doubts increased instead of abating, "Then..."
What was the reason for the frustration, disappointment, and anger that the old man mentioned before?
My uncle's car accident was just an accident, wasn't it?
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The old man looked down at the jade in his hand.
"...By coincidence, I happened to pass by the place where my brother had an accident."
"I saw my brother lying in a pool of blood."
"...I saw my brother for the last time."
"My parents didn't even see my brother for the last time."
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"Brother is seriously injured."
"I was panicked and scared at the time."
"My mind is blank."
"...It was a kind person on the road who helped call an ambulance."
"When I sat in the ambulance, I felt a little relieved at that moment."
"I thought that as long as I got into the ambulance, there would be a doctor nearby..."
"Brother, everything will be fine."
"It's really a child's naive idea."
The old man smiled to himself.
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"Grandpa." Boss Bai, who has been in shopping malls for many years, felt that he was clumsy for the first time.
"It's okay."
The old man patted his grandson's hand and said, "It happened so many years ago."
"It's just..."
"But I always have a regret in my heart."
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"Regret?"
Boss Bai has a feeling.
Many of his doubts will be solved.
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"Yeah."
The old man nodded, "Sorry."
"My brother actually said his last words to me in the ambulance back then."
Final words...
"Legacy-"
Boss Bai's voice stopped suddenly.
Isn’t it bad to say last words or something?
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"I didn't react at the time..."
At that time, if his brother hadn't been too persistent, he wouldn't have wanted him to speak at all.
"Later I realized..."
"Ah, those are my brother's last words."
"Only two words of last words."
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"Two words?"
Boss Bai was surprised.
It seemed that my uncle was really seriously injured at that time.
Did he only leave two words of last words?
"Which two words?"
He was a little curious.
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"Jade-ball."
The old man said word by word.
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"Jade ball?"
Boss Bai felt a bit ridiculous in his heart.
Why is it the jade ball again? !
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"This jade ball..."
The old man re-formed the two halves of the jade into a ball, "It was originally my brother's."
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Although he vaguely guessed it, Boss Bai was still surprised.
"This jade ball belongs to Uncle?!"
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"Yeah."
The old man looked at the jade ball with complicated eyes, "I only discovered this jade ball when I was cleaning up my brother's room after my brother left."
"I didn't know my brother had such a jade ball before."
"So, I didn't understand what my brother meant at all when he said it to me in the ambulance."
"Of course, I didn't understand it later."
The old man smiled bitterly, "I thought that if I found the jade ball, I would understand what my brother meant by what he said to me..."
"Turns out it's not."
"The last two words that I must tell my brother... Yuqiu... I can't figure out what exactly my brother wants to express?"
"What does he want from me?"
"I thought about it for a long, long time."
"Mom and Dad gave up."
"I just thought it was my brother who said it casually."
"But I know it's not."
"How could it be possible that those two words that my brother tried his best to tell me were meaningless?"
The old man's tone was a little excited.
"Those two words are my brother's last words."
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"Grandpa."
Boss Bai patted the old man's back gently to help him calm down, "Don't be excited."
"You are not in the same body as before."
"Be more careful."
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The old man's shoulders were slumped, "If you are a brother, you will definitely understand what I mean..."
"But I'm thinking about it...I just don't understand what my brother means..."
"...I'm such a useless brother..."
"I can't even understand my brother's thoughts..."
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"Grandpa."
Boss Bai comforted the old man, "If there are only two words... it would be too embarrassing."
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The old man shook his head.
"I'm stupid..."
"I also gave up later."
"I have to give up..."
"Later, your father saw this jade ball and liked it very much, so I gave it to your father."
"That was many years later."
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"I didn't tell your father that he had an uncle."
"I didn't even tell him that this jade ball was his uncle."
The old man thought of his grandson's initial question, "It's not necessary."
"After all, there is no intersection between them at all..."
"Brother has been gone for so many years..."
(End of chapter)