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Chapter 11 - Chapter 11: Goodbye Venice, Goodbye Bianca

The long gondola moved slowly through the narrow canals of the city on the water, the Venetian buildings appeared like pictures on the water that would be blurred by a gondolier with an oar, a gray-haired man in a well-tailored suit was silent in the solitude of his soul.Gondolier remembered this gentleman who used to often come to Venice with his wife, sometimes he would ride the gondola with them and the boy who sat on his father's lap.Bianca, a girl remembered by the whole city for her beauty, married him in distant China, gave birth to a beautiful boy there, and now when she came to give birth in her native Venice, she died during childbirth, to make the tragedy even greater, she died in the hospital of her surgeon father. Bianca was given a choice of either Bianca or the child, Bianca chose to die rather than her baby.This is our brave Italian mom, her children always come first.Dr. Ling ran a hand through his hair, just like Bianca would have touched it when they spoke for the last time."Don't worry papa, everything will be fine like last time.""But Bianca you know that your disease has returned, the cancer is in the third stage.""No, no, Bianca will give birth easily like last time, after giving birth I will take therapy, they say that now there are anti-cancer injections that successfully treat it. I want to give this little baby, who will be a girl, a life like before her older brother."Do you remember ?"You were by my side the whole time, and you were afraid for me then, like now."You are my darling, I am happy that I married you" - Bianca took to him gently."We have arrived, " said the gondolier.Dr. Ling picked up his briefcase and headed for Bianca's father's house.The black sadness in his heart was suffocating him to the point of tears, and in front of him it was as if Bianca was standing, talking jokingly like she used to:"Doctor Ling, why did you put hot pepper in my ramen?"Bianca told him once that that time she had peppery tears."When we get to Venice, I'll let you try the red pepperoni to see whose peppers are hotter, these little round ones of yours like beckoning flowers or tiny pickled oblong pepperonis!"Now Doctor Ling would rather eat ten hot pepperoni so he could cry his sorrow for Bianca, he would soon arrive at her father's doorstep and he knew he had to be brave and squeeze the tears from the pupils of his eyes, there in the doctor's office the tender hands of a newborn baby girl were waiting for him, his Bianca wishes he didn't cry in front of her.After saying goodbye to Bianca's father, the banker took in his arms the newborn baby who looked like her brothers when he was born."This is the reborn Bianca in our little girl," and he decides to name her Bianca after her mother.