Chapter 298 Cherish the People Around You


After that, three female guests were taken to the hall of the venue.


In front of the venue was the theater stage where there was no one, and behind it was the auditorium.


The audience was already full of "elder people" with similar makeup.


Three of them were respectively taken to different seats.


Then the staff said, "Please try your best to imitate the old people. Later, your husband will come to you."


Ebony sat in the chair that the staff arranged for her, looking down at her fingers.


Her hands were also made up, and her fingers looked skinny, dry, and wrinkled.


After a while, there was a small noise from behind.


Ebony heard the voice of Donald.


Donald said, "How to find them from so many old ladies?"


Ebony didn't look back, she was thinking that there were at least nearly 100 people there; could he find her within five minutes?


As she was thinking, suddenly, she was slapped on the shoulder.


Ebony was stunned for a second.


At the same time, the voice of Donald sounded again, "Lloyd, don't be so hasty! She is definitely not Miss Gibson. If you choose the wrong one, you will have no chance to choose again!"


Ebony paused, and she slowly turned back.


In an instant, she saw a tall man in a thin coat, all white hair, and familiar facial features, but a very old face.


Ebony stared into big eyes, so surprised to look at Lloyd who became very very old.


He sat down next to her, then slowly held her hand, clasped her fingers, and whispered: "Sorry, I'm late."


"Wow, did you really choose the right one?" Donald followed and squeezed over.


He stared at Ebony's face for a long time and recognized that it was really Ebony. He couldn't help but be appalled, "I can't recognize her just from behind! Mr. Vasquez, how did you recognize Ebony just by looking at her back?"


Lloyd sipped his lips, and he pinched Ebony's fingers tighter. He sank his voice and said, "I can recognize her no matter what she has become."


Ebony stunned, turned to Lloyd.


Donald admired, "Awesome."


But after a while, Donald suddenly remembered that he had not found Kara, and hurriedly went to find his "wife", Kara.


Donald went to the other side, but no one else was around. Ebony wanted to draw her hand back from the hand of Lloyd, but she found that Lloyd changed his usual gentleness and didn't let go.


Ebony frowned, "You..."


As she just said a word and raised her eyes, she found Lloyd was looking at her at the same time.


Lloyd also wore Cosmetic Contact Lenses, thus his usually sharp eyes were now completely covered.


He wore special makeup near his eyes. There were slender crow's feet, gray eyebrows, and many old people's spots on his face.


Ebony looked at the "elder man" in front of him, choking with sobs. She said, "You are old and not handsome at all."


Lloyd chuckled and said, "But you are still beautiful."


Ebony turned her head away because she thought of her grandpa and grandma again.


She remembered that one year when grandma had retired and was invited back to the base as a consultant, she went on a business trip for three months before she came back in a dusty way.


It was Saturday when her grandmother came back, and Ebony had a day off. She followed Grandpa to the university where he worked. After class, Grandpa took her hand and left the classroom. When they came out, Grandpa suddenly called to the back of a woman wearing a hat in the corridor, "Honey."


Ebony was stunned at that time.


When the old lady wearing a hat turned around, Ebony was surprised to find that it was really grandma.


The afternoon sun shines obliquely from the outside of the corridor, and the slightly warm breeze blew gently. Grandma took off her hat, and she smiled happily.


Grandpa looked at Grandma, and he also smiled happily.


Ebony laughed the happiest among them because tonight she could get rid of unpalatable food made by her grandpa.


The memories of the past which had already been sealed in her heart seemed to be opened again, floating in her mind.


The man around her made a noise at this moment, "When we are old, will you still hit me?"


Ebony stared at him and said, "If you sadden me, I must still hit you!"


Lloyd chuckled and nodded, "I'm so happy that I will be with you when we are getting old."


Ebony was speechless.


She fell into his trap again.


At this time, Donald over there finally found Kara.


Josue also found Belinda who took the initiative to tell him at the last second of the deadline.


The three groups of guests joined together again, only to hear a "pa", and the lights of the theater suddenly dimmed.


On the huge stage ahead, the red curtain slowly opened.


A play began to be performed.


This play was called "Time Shift", which told the story of an old lady who sent her husband away in front of the hospital bed and woke up only to find that she had returned to 60 years ago before she met her husband.


The actors on the stage performed very wonderfully.


In the beginning, the story was very humorous and warm, and people sitting in the auditorium on the stage were very happy.


But in the middle, something happened.


In the play, after the old lady met the old gentleman, the old gentleman was buried alive in a landslide.


The old lady cried and lay on the ground digging in the mud. It was raining cats and dogs.


The voice-over was the tearful confession of the old lady.


"I know he will survive, but why am I still so afraid? He is my husband, my family, and the person who has lived with me all my life and accompanied me to grow old together... It turns out that I can't live without him in my unconsciousness. I can't imagine what is the point of losing him..."


Ebony was fascinated. At this moment, her face was suddenly held by the men around her.


Lloyd wiped the tears for her with a rustic black and white plaid handkerchief.


Ebony sucked her nose. She took the handkerchief and murmured, "The props are quite ready."


Lloyd did not speak, just quietly looking at her.


Ebony looked up and asked Lloyd, "If you can come back to the past, what do you want to do most?"


The man lowered his head. After a long time, he said, "I want to go back to your childhood. I will hold you in my arms when you are sad and cornered."


Ebony frowned and found fault, "Then why don't you stop me from being sad and cornered?"


Lloyd was silent for a moment and said, "I'm afraid I can't do it."


Ebony thought for a while. She realized that when she was young, Lloyd was also just a child.


Ebony blinked her eyes and said, "In fact, what if time can come back? If you can't go back to the time point where you want to go back most, the rest is just to make up for it."


Lloyd stunned.


Ebony said, "Everything is destined. God let you make up for your regrets, but he won't let you make up for the regret you want to make up the most. He is intentional."


Lloyd touched her hair and asked, "What are you talking about?"


Ebony shook her head and didn't say anything.


On the stage, the performers were performing.


Ebony vomited at this moment.


It was dark around the auditorium.


Ebony took Lloyd's arm, suddenly tilted her head, and pillowed her head on Lloyd's shoulder.


Lloyd's body stiffened.


Ebony looked ahead, and she said slowly, "Lloyd, I know why the deputy director said that this is a gift given to us by the general director."


Lloyd calmly said, "Why?"


Ebony turned her face. She put her chin on Lloyd's shoulder and looked at his old face closer. She said, "Because he wants us to see that time is actually passing quietly. He wants us to know that when it is still too late, we must cherish the people in front of us and don't turn the present into irreparable regrets in the future."


Lloyd and Ebony were looking at each other affectionately.


The man's throat moved slightly, and he sipped his lips as if he couldn't believe what his ears heard.


He breathed a sigh of relief and asked solemnly, "So?"


Ebony turned her head again. She put her head back on Lloyd's shoulder and looked at the stage in front of her. She said arrogantly, "You know, the brain is a good thing. I hope you can have one."