When You’re Gone

At four or five in the morning, Linjiang Villa was quiet.

Lu Jinsheng lowered his head, gently rubbing the picture in his hand with his fingers, his eyes focused.

No one knows how many times he opened the wallet in his hand over and over the past three years.

Over the years.

Liang Shu has grown into a lump in his heart, and he needs to be cut open. If he doesn't cut it, he will gradually grow into a malignant tumor. When he realizes it, it will already bring him heart-wrenching pain.

2005 was the year when Liang Xiyin died.

It was New Year's Eve that day. He was only 21 years old and he was struggling in the company. But his mother Liang Xiyin was in a very bad mental state.

At that time, it was a critical moment for Lu's full-scale entry into the Internet industry.

In order to gain a firm foothold in the Lu family, he quietly exposed his ambition.

Lu's acquisition of emerging companies one after another, at that time, can barely be regarded as a dark period in this industry.

None of the companies doing online platforms are not afraid of being caught by Lu.

Acquired by Lu's, it is only a subsidiary, the boss will not change, just become Lu's wage earners, but the company still continues to operate.

The company went bankrupt and liquidated directly, changed its name and surname, and ceased to exist.

During that time, many small and medium-sized Internet companies merged with each other, operating and developing with a one plus one equals two model in an attempt to escape Lu's clutches.

But Lu's things are absolutely amazing.

Especially Lu Jinsheng, who tensed a string every day to deal with the monsters around him.

But Liang Xiyin suffered from depression at this time.

The career and Liang Xiyin, Lu Jinsheng chose the latter.

So he slowed down Lu's pace and put more thoughts on Liang Xiyin.

Later, Liang Xiyin's depression improved. She was willing to communicate with the psychologist and tried to let it go.

Lu Jinsheng breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as this state is maintained, Liang Xiyin's illness has the hope of healing.

On the twenty-ninth new year, the charity meeting for orphans in the orphanage was held in a hotel in Yucheng.

The Lu family is a famous family in Yucheng. In addition to supporting the orphans, they also adopted a child into the Lu family.

This child will be adopted under Liang Xiyin's name.

That night, Liang Xiyin, as the daughter-in-law of Lu's parents, naturally had to follow along.

Lu Jinsheng had known about this a long time ago and was faintly worried, but Liang Xiyin couldn't shirk it. Otherwise, not only Lu Lixian, but the entire Lu family would be criticized.

Liang Xiyin understood Lu Jinsheng’s concerns. She said to Lu Jinsheng, "Jinsheng, don’t worry about me, I always have to come out, right? Not only do I look like a normal person in the eyes of others, but I also want to be A normal person."

Of course, Lu Jinsheng compromised.

It's just a charity meeting, and it will be enough for people to look at her a little more at that time.

In addition, Liang Xiyin's inner world is sensitive and soft, and it may not be a bad thing to be able to go out more.

Before leaving that night, Lu Jinsheng took the time to rush back to Lu's house from the company.

In Liang Xiyin's bedroom.

She changed into that plain cheongsam and came out from the cloakroom with a gentle smile on her face.

After turning around in front of Lu Jinsheng twice, he asked him, "Son, do you think it is appropriate for me to wear this tonight?"

Lu Jinsheng twisted her eyebrows for a while and thought, "Does the color look too plain?"

These days, Liang Xiyin has lost a lot of weight, but this cheongsam fits her well.

She hardly wears any jewelry, except for the sapphire and diamond ring on the ring finger of her right hand.

"It's a bit vegetarian, but it's not good for me to dress in bright colors for that kind of occasion tonight. Will there be children coming to our Lu family? That will scare people. I don't want to leave one for others. bad impression."

Liang Xiyin lowered his head to adjust the buttons on the side, and saw Lu Jinsheng still standing there still.

She raised her head, moved her hands for a while, and looked at him, "Is it hard to come back here?"

"That way, I feel at ease," Lu Jinsheng stared at her, her voice suddenly rustling, "Mom, Lu Yao spent the New Year with her aunt this year and can't come back. You didn't receive the call yesterday, so remember to call her back tomorrow. Phone calls."

Liang Xiyin nodded, "Okay," after a pause, she said to herself, "If we have a chance tonight, we can bring in a child about the same age as Ayao in our family, so that Ayao won't be too lonely..."

Lu Jinsheng's face was soft, and the corners of her mouth were rarely dyed with a smile.

He walked forward and hugged Liang Xiyin's shoulders, his tone was very relaxed, "Good luck, then."

After that, Lu Jinsheng added, "Why don't I push my job to accompany you tonight? By the way, I will check and pick a child who is about the same age as Ayao..."

Liang Xiyin drove him away, "Don't worry about me, don't you have something to do tonight? Hurry up and finish things today. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, so you are not allowed to work overtime."

Lu Jinsheng helplessly spread his hands, "I see."

Who could think of it later.

Just two or three hours later, something like that happened.

He rushed over at an extremely fast speed.

Pulling away the crowd and squeezing in, what came to my mind was that picture.

Liang Xiyin was lying on the ground, her long hair loosened, and a very pale face appeared between her black hair.

Under her, a puddle of dark red blood shed.

And under her head, there is a pool of plasma brains, both white and red.

For a long time, Lu Jinsheng couldn't forget the scene he saw that day.

If the time can go back to three hours ago.

He will never take it lightly.

Whatever you say, you have to go with Liang Xiyin.

Patients with depression usually seem to be no different from ordinary people, but if others do not know what they say or do when they are depressed.

Normal people may not understand, but people with depression are extremely sensitive.

At that moment, they would not look at the problem rationally.

Besides, there is only Lu Jinsheng in the entire Lu family who knows Liang Xiyin's secret.

It is even more impossible for outsiders to know Liang Xiyin's situation.

Liang Xiyin's exposure to this environment is of course dangerous.

But if he was by her side at that time, it would be fine, Liang Xiyin might have an accident.

But it wouldn't be like that, falling from a tall building, knocking his head on the ground and blooming, and everything inside was thrown out.

In the years that followed, "Liang Xiyin" followed him for a long time.

She does not appear frequently, but it will not disappear. Every time she appears, she comes to ask for a ring, or she wants to find Liang Shu.

Lu Jinsheng slowly got used to it.

Occasionally seeing "her", he behaved very calmly.

This Liang Xiyin, slowly, slowly, pulled him closer to the abyss, turning him into a **** on earth.

And what about Liang Shu?

Liang Shu is his salvation.

Lu Jinsheng put the photo back in the wallet and looked at the sofa beside the bed quietly.

He knew he was actually a monster.

There is too much obscurity in his heart.

On a certain occasion, someone in the industry said that he treated his girlfriend Cheng Geling very well.

Cheng Geling appeared during the three years when he could not go to see Liang Shu.

The same snowy day, the same bushes, almost the same temperature, and the face that barely looked like a three-pointed face.

Everything is just right.

On the Lunar New Year's Eve in 2005, the Lu family was shrouded in a cloud of clouds.

No one noticed the kid who was accidentally picked up last night.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, she followed the Lu family to the funeral home, and then followed them back to the Lu family. Later, no one knew her whereabouts.

Lu Jinsheng went to watch the surveillance video that day, but found nothing.

At that time, the location of Liang Xiyin Station was a blind spot for monitoring.

On the way back, he drove the express train, and nothing happened.

When I passed the Lujia Garden, I saw her wearing a hat and squatting under the bushes.

Lu Jinsheng was equally impressed on this day.

She was wearing a large cotton coat. She probably didn't know who threw an adult's dress to her, and she was caged in this dress.

There is a layer of white snow on the hat, it seems that the time squatting here will not be too short.

She lowered her head to hold the snow on the ground in front of her with her hands, then crumpled them into a ball and placed them on the ground, faintly seeing that they looked like a person.

The expression is also very focused.

The hat was so big that she couldn't see her whole face clearly, her eyes were hanging down, her eyelashes were very long, and the tip of her nose was red from the cold.

Lu Jinsheng walked messily through the garden, and stopped a few meters away from her.

He is still wearing yesterday's outfit, with a suit jacket and trousers, and a white shirt inside.

It's just that the whole person looks very shabby and unshaven.

There was still a cigarette between his fingertips, and the faint red flashes in this not bright garden.

Occasionally, small white snowflakes fell on the red cigarette butts. At the moment when the ice and fire touched, there was a "noise" in the rustling air.

The little snowflake melted into the red cigarette butt, and the cigarette **** was briefly black.

When the wind came, the cigarette butts that had not been dusted for a long time were blown by the wind, and the ashes drifted forward.

Liang Shu raised his head at this moment.

She followed the direction of soot and looked at Lu Jinsheng.

Those eyes were too innocent, too clear.

Lu Jinsheng became angry, threw the cigarette in his hand, and walked over in several strides to stop in front of her.

Looking down, on the ground is the faintly graceful body of a woman who spread out unevenly on the ground with snow.

Liang Shu looked up at him. There was no emotion in her black and white eyes. She seemed to be wearing an indestructible armor, and she was not afraid of anything.

Even if a woman died in front of her yesterday, her brain blossomed, and the brains of those disgusting people's eyes were covered with blood.

She doesn't seem to feel the pain.

But she is not afraid of death.

She glanced at the things she made out of the snow on the ground, and then looked up at Lu Jinsheng. She apologized first, and then said, "I know you don’t have a mother anymore. I made one for you. Look, do you have some Like?"

Where does the slightly undulating pool of things on the ground look like?

He just stared at her, without saying a word, his eyes were scarlet, and he was full of red blood.

Liang Shu shrank into the bushes.

The stiff branches from behind made her back hurt for a while.

She lowered her head, shrank the red-frozen fingers into the wide sleeves of the cotton-padded jacket, and then stopped talking.

After a while.

She reached out her hand again and carefully fumbled something out of her pocket, then lowered her head to the front.

Open the palm, there is a sapphire ring lying quietly inside.

"This is back to you."

Lu Jinsheng only felt her throat tighten for a while, and he really wanted to choke her to death right away.

But what's the use?

Even if she died, Liang Xiyin couldn't come back.

What's more, she can't even see any panic and pain on her face. What is the use of strangling her to death?

Lu Jinsheng didn't even touch the ring.

He lifted his foot and kicked the thick pile of snow on the ground in front of her with great force.

Lu Jinsheng watched her close her eyes, and the fine snow fell on her face like powder, and her heart finally got better.

Later, after he said that, he left without looking back.

A few days later, Liang Xiyin's funeral was finished.

It was the New Year in the old calendar year when she came to Lu's house with a few luggage.

What does the Lu family mean to her?

She was taken in by the Lu family and became the lucky one in the eyes of all orphans of the same age.

On the surface, the Lu family is her refuge.

But in fact, the Lujia place really wants to eat people.

If it weren't for Lu Yao, Liang Shu would have died at the age of 16.

If it weren't for Xia Mingyu and Liu Qin's unscrupulous talk one night, he would never have known that it was a steak that almost killed her back then.

Last time I saw him in person, Lu Jinsheng was shocked.

It has been so many years, and she is still so resistant to this thing, enough to see how much the events of the year have affected her.

He went to find Xia Mingyu.

Both Xia Mingyu and Lu Qingsong were driven out of the Lu family by Lu Lixian.

Xia Mingyu's life is not easy after leaving the Lu family.

All the money she had on her fell on those men, and now she was downright, and naturally no one would like her anymore.

The people who had violated the arrogance in front of her in the past all showed their true colors.

She lives in an area of ​​more than ten square meters.

Smoking and drinking alcohol every day.

The whole person is like smoking marijuana, decadence is like a madman.

Lu Jinsheng carried a bag and kicked open the door. Xia Mingyu, who was lying on the sofa, was shocked and looked towards the door.

There was a smile on his face at first, and the moment he saw someone coming, he fell off the sofa in fright.

Xia Mingyu hugged her head and muttered, "Don't find me, don't find me..."

When Lu Jinsheng approached, Xia Mingyu raised her head again and begged him, "I want to go back to the Lu family. I am the second youngest grandmother of the Lu family. I want to go back... When I go back, none of you can run away..."

Lu Jinsheng stepped back two steps to prevent Xia Ming from catching his trouser legs.

When I walked back, I accidentally bumped into the coffee table cabinet next to me, and there were a lot of white A4 papers scattered on it.

Those A4 papers fell in front of Xia Mingyu's eyes one after another, as if returning to that night, dozens of hundreds of photos fell from the sky.

Xia Mingyu went crazy to grab those papers, and those papers turned into pieces in her hands, "You bitch, I must kill you, you broom star--"

"What did you do to her back then? It made her so afraid of eating steak." Lu Jinsheng stared at her condescendingly, and interrupted her.

Xia Mingyu was taken aback, suddenly raised her head and glanced at Lu Jinsheng, and then began to laugh.

She became more sober, got up from the ground, and sat back on the sofa.

Xia Mingyu glanced at Lu Jinsheng, very gloating and contemptuous, "Why should I tell you? She was like that back then, this makes me happy, an inexperienced hillbilly--"

Lu Jinsheng's eyes flashed, and there was a little bit of cruelty in his eyes.

He carried the bag and walked to the sofa, bent over and took out a stack of cash from it and threw it on the ground.

As soon as Xia Mingyu saw the red banknote in front of him, his whole body instantly boiled.

She threw herself on the ground, trying to grab the pile of cash.

But he was stopped one second before the finger touched, and Lu Jinsheng's black leather shoes were in front of him.

At this moment, Lu Jinsheng was stepping on this stack of money.

Xia Mingyu flushed anxiously and reached out to buckle, but to no avail.

Lu Jinsheng snorted coldly, "You said, that bag is yours."

Xia Mingyu glanced at him and gradually calmed down. She got up and wanted to touch the sofa and sit down, but Lu Jinsheng was caught off guard and kicked to the ground.

"Just kneel and say that." He said.

Xia Mingyu had only money in her eyes at the moment. She swallowed her saliva and knelt down on the ground, her fingers holding the black-haired wrinkled cloth in front of her.

After a moment, she looked up suddenly, "I...what did I say?"

Lu Jinsheng hooked his lips, reached out his hand and took a stack of money out of the bag, and then took out the lighter from his pocket.

He lit the pile of cash in front of Xia Mingyu.

"Don't... don't..." Xia Mingyu's eyes were shining with the fiery red tuft, and she scratched her hair frantically, "My money, that's my money!"

She wanted to pounce on her body, but when she got up, she was kicked back by Lu Jinsheng in the chest.

Lu Jinsheng threw the thick stack of burning money into the open cup of beer on the coffee table.

In an instant, the fireworks were flooded with water, and thick innocent smoke gasped.

He dusted the paper dust off his clothes, and spoke indifferently, "If we can't remember, we will continue to burn until it is finished--"

"Please, don't..." Xia Mingyu's eyes flickered, and she breathed loudly, and said, "I remembered, I remembered, I said I said..."

"The servant found the steak meat that had been frozen in the refrigerator that day. They fried it and wanted to feed it to the dog. I'm going to take a piece and give it to her. She—"

Xia Mingyu said incoherently, she stared at the completely ruined pile of money in the open cup, "She likes steak, she likes..."

"Ah -" Xia Mingyu exclaimed.

Lu Jinsheng stomped a foot directly on the back of her hand, "You give me a lot of land, every detail is clear!"

"I said I said... I forced her to eat it. I stood by and watched her finish eating that whole piece."

Xia Mingyu's expression was painful, and the whole face was very distorted, "Later I even specifically asked her to go to the backyard, and deliberately let her run into the scene where the servant was feeding the dog with steak..."

The more I said Xia Mingyu's body was shaking more severely.

"Continue." Sitting on the sofa, Lu Jinsheng took a cigarette leisurely.

"I heard the servant say that he doesn't even eat the steak," Xia Mingyu's voice became lower and lower. "Later, she vomited in the dark, and we were all laughing at her. All the servants, including the servants, gathered around and looked at her. Laugh at her..."

"Anything else?"

Xia Mingyu lay on the ground, rubbing her forehead against the floor, shaking her head, "No more, no more, really no more, I didn't know her reaction would be so big..."

The man got up, kicked over the coffee table in front of him, and the things on it rolled all over the floor, scattered and broken.

He raised his hand to loosen his neckline, and threw the cigarette **** directly on Xia Mingyu, with an extremely cold tone, "So you teased her so much, and later you didn't even ask a decent doctor for her?"

"Xia Mingyu, who taught you to kill you so rashly?!"