When You’re Gone

This is the first time Liang Shu dreams of Jiang Ping after he died.

She remembers very clearly, in the dream, Jiang Pingsheng also just like before, smile very good-looking, that smile, as if can melt the ice and snow in winter.

He said, "ah Shu, long time no see. Are you coming to pick me up?"

Jiang Pingsheng's soul is in this city, so she dreamt of him on her first night here.

At this moment, Liang Shu squatted on the ground, slowly stretched out her fingers, opened her five fingers and stuck them to the cold ground in front of her. Jiang Pingsheng had just stood there.

Ah Sheng, I'm here to pick you up.

……

Jiang Pingsheng was adopted from the orphanage by the Ni family when he was ten years old.

After so many years, Liang Shu vaguely remembers that the weather was fine that day, and the sun was warm on her face.

She hid in the corner and watched the Ni couple holding Jiang Pingsheng's hand. What about Jiang Pingsheng?

Jiang Pingsheng stares at ah Shu in the corner, his eyes are very focused.

The president is introducing some of Jiang Ping Sheng's works to Ni Xiuli, the master of the Ni family, such as his arithmetic problems, his paintings and all kinds of handmade works.

The orphanage headmistress boasted of ten year old Jiang Pingsheng.

Facts have proved that President Jiang Pingsheng is not exaggerating.

Later Jiang Ping Sheng had enough ability to frighten them.

Liang Shu followed them carefully, his eyes full of curiosity.

Ni Xiuli is looking through Jiang Pingsheng's picture book. It's a thick stack. The content of each picture is the same. It's a portrait of the same person.

This person is Liang Shu.

The dean's eyes were moist when she saw these paintings. She looked back at Liang Shu, whose half head was exposed from the back of the door frame. The little girl was very clever, with two neat pigtails and a pair of smart eyes.

She quietly hid behind, as if shy, but when people move their eyes to her face, she can smile at everyone.

Ni Xiuli can guarantee that this is the most beautiful and the most beautiful girl he has ever seen in his life.

Such an amazing little girl, it's easy for him to match up with the person in the picture.

Ni Xiuli twisted her eyebrows and looked at the Dean, "this..."

The Dean sighed, "I have the best relationship with ah Shu in my life. Ah Shu is a very sensible child. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone yet..."

Jiang Ping Sheng looked at Liang Shu hiding outside the door. He stood straight on his back and bowed respectfully to the Ni family. When he opened his mouth, the boy's voice was pure and his words were very clear. "Uncle Ni, can you take ah Shu with you?"

Ni and his wife are not very rich, and their living standard is just well-off.

But they are over 40 years old and have been married for so many years that they have not been able to have their own children. Finally, the couple discussed and decided to adopt one.

Finally, he fell in love with Jiang Pingsheng in the welfare home.

Ni Xiuli is a middle school teacher, and his wife is a laid-off worker. At that time, teachers' wages were not high. If they wanted to cultivate Jiang Pingsheng well, they would have to have only one child.

In addition, Ni Xiuli is not stupid. He hears the helplessness of the dean's words. How can he not find someone else when he is such a beautiful child?

There must be some other reasons.

When he was in a dilemma, Jiang Pingsheng said, "I can only eat two meals a day. I will give a Shu my breakfast, half my lunch and dinner, and the other half to a Shu. You will never have extra expenses because of the existence of a Shu."

"Before, some kind-hearted people donated clothes to us, all ages. In the next few years, you don't have to buy clothes for me. Just ask you to buy a new dress for ah Shu every year in the old Chinese New Year. The little girl loves beauty, and she likes her own beautiful clothes."

The 10-year-old boy, who spoke clearly and humbly, shocked everyone here.

The Dean couldn't hold back his tears, and in a trance, he sighed again.

Ni Xiuli took another look at Liang Shu. He choked. He was also moved by Jiang Pingsheng's words. He put his hands on both sides of the boy's shoulders. "Do you know what you said is the most ideal state? Since we have decided to adopt you, we will certainly give you our best, but if we have two children..."

Next, needless to say, Jiang Pingsheng also understood.

Jiang Pingsheng nodded to show that he understood him. Then he called Uncle Ni, knelt down in front of the crowd and kowtowed to Ni Xiuli. "Uncle Ni, thank you very much for choosing me to be your family and your son, but please forgive me. I can't leave ah Shu behind. There are other excellent children here. You can choose more."

This action is beyond Ni Xiuli's imagination. He helps Jiang Pingsheng up, but he likes Jiang Pingsheng more.

The Dean wiped tears on one side secretly.

Ni Xiuli sighed, and his wife looked at each other, "you let uncle think about it again, OK?"

Jiang Ping Sheng bowed again, "thank you."

The Ni couple said they had to think about it. At this time, they went out to discuss with the president.

Only Jiang Pingsheng was left in the room. Liang Shu came in from the door. She ran to him and squatted beside him.

The nine-year-old girl reached out her little hand and rubbed it on his knee. Her voice was clear and tender. "Brother a Sheng, do you feel pain?"

Jiang Ping Sheng smiles at her and stares at her. "Ah Shu, I've told you many times that I don't want to call her brother ah Sheng, but ah Sheng."

She lowered her head and said, "but the dean said, let me call you brother a Sheng."

"Do you listen to me or the dean?"

Liang Shubei bit his lower lip and looked up at Jiang Pingsheng. Then he said slowly, "listen to a Sheng."

Jiang Pingsheng smiles and holds her hand.

"Why did you kneel down just now? It's hard on the ground. " Liang Shu asked him.

But Jiang didn't answer. He looked at the people in the picture album with soft eyes and clenched Liang Shu's hand. "Ah Shu, you must be happy every day. You never miss anything. It doesn't matter to you, do you know?"

Liang Shu lowered her head again. This time she didn't speak.

Jiang Ping Sheng looked at her and said seriously, "ah Shu, I will take you away."

……

Ni Xiuli asked Liang Shu, very puzzled, he said, "so beautiful a girl, how can no one adopt it? I think she has a good personality and is very likable. "

Speaking of this, the Dean sighed again.

"There are many families who like ah Shu, even more than those who have ever adopted her. Ah Shu was adopted by three families, but later some accidents happened..." the Dean shook his head. "Later, they had to send her back."

"Why? Is she naughty? "

"No, ah Shu is very good."

The Dean slowly recalled: "when she was five years old, she went to the first person's home and stayed for a year. The family was well-off. At that time, she was on the rise of her career. Because she wanted a daughter, she took ah Shu over. In less than a year, they went bankrupt and she was sent back."

"Later, I found a second family and stayed there for more than a year. There was a brother who was three years older than Meimei. I heard that she accidentally ran out of the yard that day, and the eight or nine year old child ran out to look for her and was almost killed by a mad dog..."

What happened later was self-evident, and Liang Shu was sent back.

"The third time, ah Shu stayed in that house for only three months," the Dean looked at Ni Xiuli. "Ah Shu is a good child, but I don't want to hide it from you. The family didn't know where to find out about the former two families, so they took ah Shu to fortune telling. The fortune teller said that the child had evil spirits in his life, and the family was not strong enough to control her."

Ni Xiuli is a teacher. The quality of both husband and wife is higher than that of ordinary people. After hearing this, he just shook his head. "Don't delay this fortune teller. This child is the one who pays attention to cause and effect in everything. Superstition has no scientific basis and is not trustworthy."

The president said with a smile, "it's hard for you to think like this. But for some people, they would rather believe in something than nothing. But ah Shu is very good here. Nothing has happened."

After a pause, the Dean added, "these a Shu don't know. No matter whether you adopt or not, please don't let her know."

But all these were heard by Jiang Ping Sheng.

Ni Xiuli nodded, "I understand. I don't believe it. It's just that our current situation is really not suitable for adopting two children... I like my life very much. Please find time to help me persuade the dean."

……

Finally, Liang Shu advised Jiang to live.

"Ah Sheng, just follow them. Uncle Ni has promised you that you can come back to see me at any time? The dean is so good to me, and it's very good here. I'm willing to accompany her all the time. "

Jiang Pingsheng hugged Liang Shu and said calmly, "ah Shu, I won't leave you."

"Will you listen to me this time?"

Jiang Pingsheng left the orphanage a year later.

The day after Liang Shu's 10th birthday.

Later, he really came to see lengshu every week and brought her a lot of things she had never seen.

He tutored Liang Shu in her lessons, and made her fall like the children outside.

Later, Liang Shu left here.

She was thirteen at the time.

Jiang Ping had never seen her until she was 18 years old.

The blank four or five years seemed to evaporate from Jiang Ping's world.

Jiang Pingsheng is extremely filial to the Ni family and his wife. He himself is very good, but he has disagreed with Ni Xiuli on the issue of Liang Shu.

The real reunion was when Liang Shu was about to go to college.

She ran out of the Lu family and met Jiang Pingsheng, who was looking for her all over the world.

Jiang asked her, "why did you leave the orphanage without saying a word? Where did you go after you left?"

She was holding his neck, there are tears on Jiang Pingsheng's skin, she said, "we don't care before, OK?"

Liang Shu said that no matter before, Jiang Pingsheng didn't really ask.

It's like he was crazy to find her in those years, just a dream he had.

Liang Shu has changed.

She is no longer the happy ah Shu who used to laugh all the time.

On the contrary, she is silent now. Sometimes she stays with him and doesn't speak for a day.

Jiang Pingsheng knew that the woman who adopted Liang Shu was a woman, and that beautiful woman had a man in her head.

He doesn't know what has been missing in recent years to make Liangshu what he is now, but now he is trying to find the original ah Shu.

So Jiang Pingsheng went to Aunt Mei.

He asked the woman sitting opposite him, who looked dusty and smoking, with her fingers on her knees. "Can you tell me what happened to ah Shu these years?"

The day before Liangshu and Jiang Pingsheng met again, she met Aunt Mei. Aunt Mei just looked at Liangshu. On that rainy night, she just met Liangshu.

At that time, Aunt Mei felt that Jiang Jiucheng was unreliable. As a woman, having a baby was just a luxury.

So she wanted to find someone to support herself after a hundred years.

Aunt Mei didn't know anything about Liang Shu's past at that time.

So she said to Jiang Pingsheng lightly, "since I want to know, I'll ask her. Can she tell you more clearly?"

Liang Shu is totally different from that at that time. She is very indifferent. She doesn't follow him as before, and she seldom smiles again.

Jiang even saw her smoking.

It's in a western restaurant.

Just at dinner time, Jiang Pingsheng asked her what to eat. Liang Shu said it was OK.

So he asked her, "is western food OK?"

At that time, Liang Shu replied, "yes."

Jiang Pingsheng was very impressed that day. He ordered steak, the most expensive one, which cost him half a month. Of course, he is not so short of money now.

He cut the steak in front of him into small pieces and changed the complete steak in front of Liangshu.

Jiang Ping Sheng has already cut the second steak, but Liang Shu still hasn't picked up the fork.

He thought

So he put down his knife and fork and asked her carefully, "ah Shu, I'll go to the waiter and ask for two chopsticks. Let's eat with chopsticks, OK?"

The person sitting opposite seemed to suddenly wake up from her own world. She gave him a slow smile and shook her head. "Eat it."

In front of her, Liang Shu took a fork and ate three pieces of this steak.

When she ate the fourth piece, she mechanically put it into her mouth. The next second, she couldn't stand it any more. She couldn't even go to the bathroom. Holding the table, she began to vomit.

Jiang Pingsheng saw clearly that all the steaks she had just eaten were vomited out at the moment.

He helped himself to the bathroom and didn't even have time to say sorry to other diners.

Jiang Pingsheng didn't have so many taboos. There was no one in the women's room, so he helped him to cool down and locked the door.

Although she had vomited everything, the retching didn't stop. In the end, only sour water was left.

In the end, lengshu finally felt better, sitting on the ground with her knees in her arms and eyes closed.

But Jiang Ping Sheng's mentality collapsed.

Seeing this kind of Shuoshu, did he dare to ask what happened to the previous Shuoshu?

He half knelt on the ground, hugged her and buried his face tightly in her neck. "We won't eat any more western food. I'll go home and cook for you, OK? I'll cook for you. I'm a good cook now. You'll love it. "

She had nothing else to eat with him, but when she ate Western food, she would vomit, especially steak.

Liang Shu noticed that hot tears hit her skin. She opened her eyes and said, "ah Sheng, it's my own problem."

Once something becomes a shadow, it will be with you for the rest of your life.

Someone knocked at the door outside. Liang Shu leaned against him and got up, "let's go out."

The air in the corridor is OK, and you can see the night view of Yucheng.

Liang Shu looked at Jiang Pingsheng, who was silent, and suddenly turned to him and said, "I have mouthwash in my bag. Will you help me with it?"

When Jiang Pingsheng comes back with what she wants.

What he saw was the picture of her leaning against the railings to smoke, with a touch of scarlet between her thin and white fingertips, and the blue and white smoke rising up. Jiang Pingsheng only felt that she was so thin that her jaw was very sharp.

Now she has learned to smoke.

Jiang Pingsheng walked up to her and glanced at the cigarette in her hand. He looked out and said, "ah Shu, I'll move out to take care of you. Shall we rent a house?"

Smell speech, the corner of the woman's mouth shows frivolous smile, the side head looks at him, "I just big one, you want me to live with the man?"

What she didn't say is, will uncle Ni agree?

Jiang Ping Sheng didn't know, but Liang Shu will always remember.

Before she was picked up by the Lu family, how humble and pitiful the respected middle school teacher was when he found her.

She was 13 years old at that time, and it was the third year that Jiang Pingsheng left the orphanage to take care of her.

So at that time, she didn't change. She called him with a smile: Uncle Ni.

But Ni Xiuli's eyes are complicated. He suddenly kneels in front of her. A man over 40 suddenly kneels in front of a 13-year-old girl. What a horror.

Liang Shu was frightened at that time. She stared at Ni Xiuli.

Ni Xiuli said, "ah Shu, can you promise my uncle one thing?"

She froze without shaking her head or nodding her head.

"It's said that someone will come to pick you up soon. It's a very prominent family with a strong foundation. You will be able to live happily in the future, so..." Ni Xiuli's eyes are pitiful, and her voice is choking. "Can you promise uncle that you won't see me again in the future, OK?"

Liang Shu was confused with a face and clasped his hands, "why? Ah Sheng knows that he will not be happy. "

"He's very smart. He's only 15 years old this year. He's a genius. He needs to concentrate on his studies and can't be disturbed by anyone. In order to make him have a good future in the future, can you promise my uncle?"

Never see Jiang Pingsheng from now on?

Liang Shu couldn't do it, so she shook her head, "ah Sheng knows he'll be unhappy."

"So uncle, please, don't let him know. After you go to Lu's, don't contact him again, OK?"

Liang Shu did not agree to Ni Xiuli's appeal.

But later, she heard the dialogue between the president and Ni Xiuli in the president's office.

Ni Xiuli said, "Dean, I'm very glad that I can adopt him all my life. He is excellent in all aspects, but he is stubborn only in Liang Shu..." he pauses for a few seconds. "Once I believed in science, but I can't gamble my life. I heard that ah Shu was sent to the orphanage because she killed her parents soon after she was born, right?"

The conventionally amiable Dean was suddenly silent this time.

Ni Xiuli said, "there is still a long way to go in his life. He can't let ah Shu go. I'll help him. After a long time, there are new things around him, and those that can't be forgotten will always be forgotten."

"Just ask the Dean not to tell him who adopted ah Shu. The Lu family is a famous family. They can live in her. They will forget each other in the future."

The Dean only sighed.

Who would have thought that the girl had carried the life of the Lu family before she was picked up by the Lu family?

In this way, the other party can accept her. It's her blessing. If she can go in such a lintel in the future, her evil spirit will be good. Jiang Pingsheng, forget it.

These words were heard word for word by Liang Shu.

Liang Shu suddenly understood that Jiang Pingsheng had no difference with her all the time, but in fact, he must have had many differences with Ni Xiuli because of his own problems.

However, he is going to take the university entrance examination. Even if Liang Shu doesn't understand what university means at this time, he often sees the gray in Jiang Pingsheng's eyes. It's very hard to come to the university entrance examination.

I'm so tired that I have to come here every week to help her with her lessons.

Then she won't go to him for the time being. She will live well in her new family. After that, she can really stand side by side with him.

But she didn't believe that she had evil spirits in her life, and she didn't believe that such kind and harmless self could defeat the people around her.

So at this moment, Jiang Pingsheng said to her: ah Shu, let's rent a house, OK?

If Ni Xiuli knows, what should he do?

Liang Shu knows that Jiang Pingsheng is excellent now. He is only 19 years old this year, and he has recommended Yu University's graduate students. He is a man of the moment at Yu University's school grass-roots level.

Such a talent, Ni Xiuli must have really devoted a lot of effort to him, and how could she have the heart to destroy such a good life?

So Liang Shu refused.

Throughout his freshman year, Liang Shu refused Jiang Ping Sheng.

She didn't study hard. She mingled with all kinds of people in the society. She had participated in smoking and fighting. Jiang Pingsheng saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart.

The accident happened in the first semester of Liangshu's sophomore year.

Aunt Mei goes to school to let Liang Shu study hard. As soon as she leaves, Jiang Jiucheng comes.

At the school gate, Jiang Jiucheng wants to find Liang Shu.

But he was the first to be stopped by Jiang Pingsheng. This year, he met him too many times.

He asked Liang Shu for money. He didn't know what excuse to use.

Jiang Pingsheng didn't like this man, so he beat Jiang Jiucheng at the gate of Liangshu school.

Within two days, Jiang Jiucheng found a group of people to beat Jiang Pingsheng.

When Liang Shu came, he just saw someone hit Jiang Pingsheng on the back of the head with a stick, and the tall young man fell to the ground.

At that moment, her mind was blank. She called the police, ran to hold Jiang Pingsheng's body, and held his head with her palm. In the palm, there was a bright red sticky. That pair of eyes stare at Jiang Jiucheng fiercely, want to eat him, she tears like crazy, "how can you hit his head? How can you hit him on the head? " In Liang Shu's eyes, Jiang Pingsheng is such an excellent person. If he had not met her, he would not be like this now. This year, Jiang Ping Sheng has become a strange person in the eyes of Liang Shu's roommates. A roommate said coldly, "it's incredible that Yu Da, a talented student, has been chasing a psychopath for a year. Last time I heard that he was even beaten because of her." Someone echoed, "maybe he's a weirdo, too."