“Mom–” Ann Campbell looked at her mother’s face and her nose got even more sore, and tears immediately filled her eyes.
“Don’t cry, Ann Campbell…” Nong Cai smiled faintly as she tried to raise her hand to wipe away Ann Campbell’s tears, who grabbed her hand.
“Mom, don’t move,” Ann Campbell knew it was particularly difficult for her mother to move now: “How do you feel? Is it particularly hard …”
Ann Campbell’s heart was torn by the thought of the pain her mother was now enduring.
Nong Cai just shook her head slightly, she felt very relieved: “It doesn’t hurt, mommy doesn’t hurt at all …”
“Leroy Davis, you will take good care of Ann Campbell in the future, right?” Nong Cai’s gaze slowly turned to Leroy Davis again. From the first day she met Leroy Davis, she sensed that Leroy Davis had deep feelings for Ann Campbell.
“Mom …,” Ann Campbell said, hearing a hint of last words.
“Yes, Auntie, I will take good care of Ann Campbell,” Leroy Davis said seriously, looking Nong Cai in the eye.
“Good, good …” Nong Cai nodded slightly in satisfaction, and instantly she felt a much lighter burden on her shoulders. In her mind, Leroy Davis was no longer an outsider.
“Ann Campbell, I’m going to tell you something right now,” Nong Cai said, looking at Ann Campbell, the look in her eyes already a little dim.
Ann Campbell clutched Nong Cai’s hand tightly in her hand, her teary eyes filled with tenderness.
“I’m not your real mother,” Nong Cai said softly, looking into Ann Campbell’s eyes, a secret she had kept in her heart for 20 years.
Hearing Nong Cai’s words, the sad Ann Campbell also could not help but slightly faint: “Mom …”
“Originally this secret I was going to hide for the rest of my life, I feel that this is cheating you, this is what you should know …” Nong Cai’s old eyes, slowly condensed tears.
“No… mom …” Ann Campbell murmured in a daze.
She has been living with Nong Cai for as long as she can remember. How can Ann Campbell accept it when Nong Cai suddenly says that she is not Ann Campbell’s real mother?
Leroy Davis, who was surprised to hear Nong Cai’s words, subconsciously compared the appearance of Ann Campbell and Nong Cai and found that the two did not resemble each other very much.
“Silly child, why are you as kind as your mother, this is not good …” Looking at Ann Campbell’s delicate appearance, Nong Cai seemed to see Ann Campbell’s mother’s appearance, touching Nong Cai’s feelings, the tears in her eyes slipped down at once.
“No, Mom, you’re my mom …” Once she heard Nong Cai repeatedly mention her biological mother, Ann Campbell got anxious and looked at Nong Cai, stubbornly.
“Good boy, I am not worthy to be your mother, your mother is a dignified and elegant lady, and I am only a little maid by her side …” Nong Cai said gently.
Ann Campbell has been slowly shaking her head.
“Back then, Miss gave birth to you, after being discovered by the family, they were put under house arrest, not allowing Miss to go out, in order to prevent Miss from escaping, they even forced Miss and I to inject a toxin, and only by constantly eating the medicine they gave, could we live, today my illness, is that kind of toxin attack, you still remember before when I was in the old home, I would go up the mountain every day Picking medicine? Those medicines are to relieve the condition, I did not expect that what should come still came …”
“Mom, don’t say it …” Ann Campbell’s subconscious mind had begun to accept the reality that Nong Cai was not her mother.
“Let me finish, I’m afraid I won’t have a chance to talk about it later …” Nong Cai said softly: “Originally the days went on normally, at that time the lady only wanted to raise you peacefully, but who knows soon I happened to I heard the news that the family was looking for an opportunity to kill you, when you were still a month old baby …”
“I immediately told the news to Miss, Miss disappointed in the family, she knew that continue to stay at home, the family will certainly have the opportunity to strike, so that night, Miss and I took you, knocked out the people watching us, sneaked out of the house … ”
“Although we have been very careful, but still found by the family, we were finally forced to a cliff, they drove a car, surrounded us, at that time, Miss wanted to go back with them first, waiting for the opportunity to find the opportunity to escape, who had thought, the head of the man actually to Miss Meng Sheng killed, Miss realized that something was wrong, but it was too late, the other side of the people have put the gun aimed at The other side of the gun has been aimed at us …”
“Ah…” Ann Campbell couldn’t help but let out a soft ah, and Leroy Davis’ eyes darted a little.
“The other side has shown a triumphant smile, at this time, Miss in the moment they pull the trigger, she violently hold me, from the cliff leap, in the falling air, I was scared, in addition to the whistling wind, I suddenly heard Miss to me: ‘small Cai, from now on the child is counting on you’, I have not did not react, opened my eyes, only to see the young lady to me a sad smile, then, with a force, her body flipped, she turned to my body, when I realized the intention of the young lady, has landed on the ground …”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry Miss …” Nong Cai cried, and Ann Campbell was lost in thought for a moment, seemingly seeing the miserable picture as well.
“Cough,” Nong Cai coughed violently.
“Mom, put it on …,” Ann Campbell said back, trying to put the oxygen mask on for Nong Cai.
“Let me finish …” Nong Cai slightly don’t face, to her own body’s situation, she knows very well, wear it or not already does not matter.
“Miss on the spot …” Nong Cai could not help but whimper: “I was also injured, not very serious, and you still look at me innocently, simply do not understand what happened, I vaguely heard the people above said to come down search for us, do not dare to stay in that place more, holding you rushed away …”
Then, after a few days of escape, Nong Cai carried Ann Campbell and arrived in a small mountain village in the northeast, where he began a new life from then on.
“Mom …” Ann Campbell kept trying to put the oxygen mask on for Nong Cai, but Nong Cai kept not letting her.
“Ann Campbell, take off this phoenix jade pendant I’m wearing …”
Ann Campbell slowly took off a phoenix-shaped jade pendant from Nong Cai’s neck, only to see that the jade pendant was turquoise and transparent, and in the part of the phoenix’s tail, the color transitioned from green to crystal white, with a few hints of red at the end, which looked, quite extraordinary.
From the beginning of her life, Nong Cai has been wearing it, Ann Campbell has always had questions, they are so poor family, how can have this very noble-looking jade pendant, she also asked Nong Cai, Nong Cai only said that it is ancestral, not to say much else.
“This jade pendant is Miss’s personal belongings, I think it is most appropriate for you to wear it,” Nong Cai said slowly, her breath getting weaker and weaker.
“Leroy Davis,” Nong Cai’s eyes struggled to look at Leroy Davis.
“Yes,” Leroy Davis agreed solemnly.
“Over the years, Ann Campbell followed me to suffer a lot, she is like her mother, too soft, too kind, without me, I am afraid that she will be bullied by others, since Ann Campbell chose you, I hope you can treat her well, do not let her get hurt again, protect her for life, okay? ” Nong Cai said weakly with a hint of oral, her eyelids were getting heavy and it looked like she was struggling to keep them from closing.
Her intention was sustaining her to listen to Leroy Davis’ answer.
“Well, as long as I have Leroy Davis in the future, even if I am bruised, I promise, I will not let Ann Campbell suffer a single bit of harm, you do not worry about it,” Leroy Davis said solemnly.
“Okay, that’s a relief”, a smile appeared on Nong Cai’s face, she no longer had the strength to move the muscles of her face, and her breathing had become like a swimming silk.
“Don’t talk, do as you’re told and put the oxygen mask on,” Ann Campbell said, afraid that Nong Cai would waste a little more energy.
“Yes, yes, I miss Miss, really, I miss her so much …” Nong Cai’s eyes slowly closed.
“You take a good rest …” Ann Campbell picked up the oxygen mask and just pulled it over Nong Cai’s nose when she glanced at the corner of her eye and saw Nong Cai’s hand on the hospital bed, sliding down like a falling leaf, gently touching the same as her But Ann Campbell felt like she had been hit by a giant hammer.
Ann Campbell looked at the closed eyes of Nong Cai, a huge feeling of emptiness surged inside her, she used all her strength, her lips trembled and let out two words.
“Mom, Mom …”
She asked shakily, how she wished Nong Cai could respond to her as usual, even if it was just a soft muffled sound, but Nong Cai was just lying there quietly on the hospital bed, not moving, her face was no longer a trace of life.
“Mom —-” A cry of pathos escaped from Ann Campbell’s mouth as her subconscious finally realized what was happening.
She hugged Nong Cai’s body, pressed her head on Nong Cai’s body, and cried out in grief and intimidation. At this time, famous doctors from Eastern US hospitals arrived, but they were stopped at the door by Mons Shen, who was useless.
A scene from her childhood to her mother’s life flashed through Ann Campbell’s mind.
Ann Campbell closed her eyes tightly, a bean-sized teardrop squeezed out from between her eyes, her face was full of tears and her nose was running, Ann Campbell didn’t care, she just knew that a woman who loved her the most, knew her the most, worried the most, the woman she was closest to, was gone forever, henceforth a memory, and she was left an orphan.
5 minutes.
10 minutes.
Half an hour.
One hour.
Ann Campbell just kept crying, her mother’s voice and smile, still yesterday, now suddenly died, Ann Campbell long horn and can’t help it.
Leroy Davis just stood quietly beside Ann Campbell, listening to Ann Campbell’s heartbreaking cries in the hospital room, his heart felt like a knife, but he knew that no one could help him now that he needed to let Ann Campbell vent.
Ann Campbell, please do not cry, with me, will not let you alone, no matter the road ahead is winding, or full of thorns, with me to walk with you all the way.