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Chapter 225 He is very good

After the gifts were distributed, the homeroom teacher, Qin Wei, collected the remaining gifts that no one had helped claim, intending to do his best to give them all away.

After all, he had taught this student for three years, and now that the student had passed away, his mother came to him, the teacher, with her belongings, asking for his help. He had no reason to stand idly by.

Moreover, Jiang Xia was very well-behaved in class when she was in school. Almost all the teachers liked her. Although she was somewhat unbalanced in her subjects and her grades were above average, she was always smiling. After he received the news, he sent messages to several of his other teachers from that year. Even though more than three years had passed, almost all the teachers still remembered this girl.

When we heard that she had passed away, we were all shocked, and then we couldn't help but sigh.

The group stayed in the private room for a while longer. After Li Yanhong and their homeroom teacher Qin Wei described what had happened over the past three years, everyone had a general idea of ​​what had happened.

It turns out that in the second half of her senior year of high school, less than a month before the college entrance examination, Jiang Xia fainted and was hospitalized during a holiday. She was diagnosed with cancer and then took a week off.

With the guidance of the homeroom teacher, everyone recalled that this was indeed the case.

However, a week later, Jiang Xia returned to school as if nothing had happened. When her classmates asked her, she only said that she was feeling unwell and that she was fine now.

Jiang Xia's classmates didn't take it seriously, and she stayed at school until the last day of the college entrance examination.

Jiang Xia comes from a single-parent family. Her father passed away unexpectedly some years ago, and her mother raised her alone without remarrying.

When Li Yanhong learned that her daughter had this disease, she felt like the sky had fallen, and she didn't want her daughter to go back to school at all.

But after visiting several hospitals, the diagnosis left her feeling hopeless, meaning that her daughter's life was beginning to count down.

But how could a mother give up on her child? Even if the child couldn't be cured, she had to try. Just as Li Yanhong was about to take out all her savings and sell the house to make a desperate gamble, Jiang Xia made a major decision.

Give up on treatment!

The reason is simple: she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life in a hospital bed.

She's so young, there are so many things she hasn't tasted, so many places she hasn't been. Since the outcome can't be changed, she might as well live life to the fullest according to her own wishes.

She wants to take advantage of her good health and ability to walk to go out and see the world.

Spend your money on enjoyment, not on adding to your suffering in the hospital.

She wanted to use the money to take her mother out to see the world, and to spend her last days with her mother, so that she could have more beautiful memories of her, instead of only having the memory of her suffering in the hospital ward after she was gone.

Because she knew clearly that people need some beautiful memories to sustain them in life, otherwise the rest of their lives would only be filled with pain.

At first, Li Yanhong, as the mother, naturally disagreed; she couldn't bear to watch her daughter die.

But Jiang Xia remained steadfast. Although the illness was in her own body, her inner strength was extremely powerful, so powerful that she could even face death directly and accept it calmly.

In the end, she turned the tables and comforted her mother, successfully persuading her, because the outcome was already predetermined and could not be changed.

Rather than living a miserable life, it's better to enjoy the few days you still have while you still can.

But Jiang Xia also compromised, agreeing to accept basic treatment and continue taking medication as prescribed.

Thus, the mother and daughter reached an agreement, and Jiang Xia returned to school to finish her last month of high school and successfully took the college entrance examination.

In the last month, she was more cheerful and lively than usual in class, and she often talked to classmates she hadn't been in touch with much before, like a little sun.

On the day the college entrance examination ended, she took one last look at her classmates at the school gate, then picked up her belongings and disappeared from everyone's lives.

The mother and daughter then went to many places and had a very happy and carefree time. She even received a university admission letter, and the two of them made a special trip to visit her university.

For the past three years, the mother and daughter have been traveling around, only returning home for a few months during the Lunar New Year before setting off again. During this time, Jiang Xia's health deteriorated several times, but none of this stopped them from continuing their journey.

She climbed many famous mountains, visited the sea and grasslands, went to ethnic minority areas, and tasted the local delicacies of various regions. In short, she had a wonderful time in the last two years of her life.

But as time went by, Jiang Xia's health gradually deteriorated. Until half a year ago, she no longer had the strength to walk and could only stay in bed at home. Relying on the wonderful memories of traveling around in the past two years, she remained optimistic and carefree every day.

“Jiang Xia’s health was already very poor last month, but she kept saying that she would hold on for a few more days until October 1st, when you would be on holiday. She wanted to wait for you to come back, otherwise it would be inconvenient for you to pick up the gifts she left behind.”

She did it; she passed away just after midnight on October 1st.

She said she just wanted to be buried quietly and didn't need to notify them to come and pay their respects. She told them they had finally gotten a break and should rest more, and just to remember to deliver the items. By the end, Li Yanhong was sobbing uncontrollably. Several girls in her class rushed to comfort her, and everyone felt a pang of sadness and sighed deeply.

The people in the room remained silent for a long time, as if each of them had a girl named Jiang Xia in their hearts.

Finally, everyone escorted Jiang Xia's mother to the entrance of the Experimental High School. It was still drizzling, and no one was holding an umbrella.

"Go back now, Auntie's leaving, thank you!" Li Yanhong boarded a bus and waved to the crowd at the school gate.

When she sees these children, she is always reminded of her own daughter. If she hadn't been sick, she would probably be just as full of energy.

Goodbye, Auntie!

"Take care, Auntie!"

"Condolences!"

Everyone waved goodbye to Jiang Xia's mother, each holding their own 'gift'.

As the bus drove further and further away until the crowd disappeared from sight, Li Yanhong sat on a seat on the bus, buried her head in her hands, and began to cry. Her shoulders shook, and after a long while, she murmured:
"Daughter, Mom has seen that boy named Lin Mo for you, and he's fine!"

Meanwhile, the group on the other side stood rooted to the spot, unwilling to leave for a long time. Suddenly, someone spoke up:
"Time flies! It feels like the college entrance exam ended just yesterday. We were even shouting right here."

Upon hearing this, everyone, including the homeroom teacher Qin Wei, turned to look at the school's tightly closed retractable gate. In an instant, the school, which had been quiet due to the holiday, seemed to become bustling with noise.

Before everyone's eyes appeared a series of students in school uniforms, fresh from the college entrance examination, shouting and letting loose.

【CUHK, here I come!】

Mom, I've finished my exams!

Hey, wait for your dad, let's go to the internet cafe together, I'm going to stay up all night!

Jiajia, Lu Zhiqiang likes you.

Together, together.

I want to travel all over the country.

I want to lose 50 pounds.

I want to go to the capital to watch the flag-raising ceremony.

Go to comic conventions and learn to draw.

[Take your driving test!]

[Get drunk]

I want to dye my hair green.

Sleep in until you naturally wake up!

Everyone was venting, shouting, completely disregarding the stares of passersby, as if they were finally free, finally leaving the cage that had suffocated them for three years, and were going to do all the things they loved.

It seems that there was a group of people watching me go crazy at that time. Some of them were office workers, some were food delivery workers, some were traffic police, and some were dressed in suits and looked like successful people.

But only then did they realize that those adults who had quietly watched them go crazy back then seemed to be themselves now.

What are they looking at? They are looking at their younger selves, just like everyone else now.

Given the chance, everyone would like to say to their past selves:
Slow down, the road ahead is long, pay more attention to the people around you!

Because some people, once they miss each other, may never meet again in this lifetime. The school is still the same school, but it no longer belongs to them.

(End of this chapter)