When You’re Gone

Gu Hansheng smiled with thin lips and did not expose Liang Jiujiu's clumsy acting skills. When the car was about to turn at the intersection ahead, he held her firmly in his arms before jokingly saying: "Jiu Jiu has a good relationship with Qu Yu, then I have to find a chance to talk to Qu Yu, so that she will tell you less about my embarrassment."

Liang Jiujiu blinked, and shook Gu Hansheng's arm, "No way, no, Uncle Gu has no embarrassment at all, so crying is not an embarrassment."

"In fact, we have classmates crying every day in our school, which is not ashamed." The little girl added.

In the front seat, the driver Xiao Chen and Xu Shanhai were both holding back smiles, and the atmosphere in the car suddenly became alive.

When he was about to arrive at Gu's house, Ji Shen called Gu Hansheng.

Liang Jiujiu noticed that the big palm holding her hand unconsciously squeezed her twice. She tilted her head to look and saw Gu Hansheng looking forward with a solemn expression. He mumbled before answering the other party: "I'll go over now. ."

Hanging up, Liang Jiujiu looked at Gu Hansheng, "Uncle Gu, are you still going out?"

Gu Hansheng touched her head, "Well, A Shu's aunt has passed away, I have to take a look for her."

Liang Jiujiu's expression suddenly became a little strange. After a while, she sighed, "Will A Shu come back?"

"I will be back." Gu Hansheng answered her.

…

Aunt Mei left at 4:50 in the afternoon. She never woke up after a nap, and she went there without pain.

Some people seem to be able to predict the end in the last moments of their lives, so they will tidy themselves up early and be more decent when they leave.

The nurse at the hospital said that Aunt Mei took her favorite clothes to wear early in the morning. She even asked the nurse to take a small mirror and put some powder on her face, so she was in a good mood all morning.

The doctor who came to the routine checkup also said that if Aunt Mei's situation persists in this way, she hopes to be transferred to a nursing home.

Unexpectedly, she would never get up after taking a nap that day.

He called Ji Shen over there, and Ji Shen then notified Gu Hansheng of the matter.

Gu Hansheng went there in person and asked a few words about the funeral. When he left the hospital, it rained lightly. Ji Shen opened the umbrella and put it on Gu Hansheng's head. The two walked all the way to the parking lot.

When getting in the car, someone called Mr. Gu twice from a distance.

Ji Shen and Gu Hansheng turned their heads at the same time. Through the misty rain and fog, they happened to see the nurses in hospital overalls running towards them quickly under the rain.

Ji Chen's eyes shrank, and he subconsciously stood in front of Gu Hansheng.

"Mr. Gu, please stay, I have something for you!" said the nurse.

Gu Hansheng gestured towards Ji Shen. The latter stood quietly under an umbrella. The elderly female nurse squinted her eyes, and the fine rain fell on her face. She handed out the thing in her hand, "This thing is She asked me to give it to you when she was alive."

In her hand was a small square box, which was bigger than the cream powder box. It was red. The patent leather on it had fallen off a long time ago. It was a small object that had been on for a few years.

Seeing that he didn't answer, the nurse said, "There is something she gave you."

Gu Hansheng's face was soft, he smiled at the nurse, reached out his hand to take the box, he looked down, and then asked her, "Are you sure it's for me?"

He thought that Aunt Mei should leave things to A Shu, not him.

The nurse frowned, scratched his head, and nodded, "I'm sure."

Seeing Gu Hansheng staring at the box in a daze, the caregiver bowed to him, "People can't come back to life after death. She was peaceful when she left, and there was no pain. I hope you will also be sad."

Gu Hansheng returned to his senses, and the nurse nodded, and Ji Shen pulled the car door to protect him into the car.

Turning around and nodding to the nurse, Ji Shen walked around to the other side and got into the driving seat.

As the car started, Ji Chen secretly looked in the rearview mirror and glanced at Gu Hansheng's state, and found that he was just sitting on the seat with his usual expression, and the red tin box with the patent leather was still holding in his hand.

Halfway through, Gu Hansheng suddenly called him to turn around, and the person who went to Gu's house temporarily changed back to Mansion Zero.

Since Liang Shu disappeared, Liang Jiujiu has been living in Gu's house with Wen Mingting.

In order to take care of her, Gu Hansheng also moved in during this time.

But today there is more to it, he wants to go back to Mansion Zero.

When the car entered the boundary of the mansion, the leaves of ginkgo fell on the ground, and the wheel ran over it. It was golden.

When I got home, the sky was completely dark.

When the servant saw him coming back, he was a little surprised, and asked him hurriedly, "Mr. is back. I haven't used dinner yet. Would you like to let the kitchen prepare some?"

Gu Hansheng didn't even look at this person. He walked towards the stairs and said, "No."

The servant nodded at him and watched his back disappear into the stairs.

Gu Hansheng went to the study room on the second floor. He placed the box on the desk and stood by and looked down. The box was empty, and there seemed to be nothing in it. It was very light, and there was an untitled collision after two shakes.

He turned around and went out, first went back to the bedroom to change clothes, and then took a shower.

Then I made a video call with Yu Shenzhi. Yu Shenzhi was drinking wine at home. He looked at Gu Hansheng on the other side of the screen and said, "I suggest you do the ideological work of his secretary assistant again."

Gu Hansheng sat in the chair and looked up at Yu Shen after hearing the words, and said, "Well, I can't think of a better way other than killing them."

"..."

Yu Shenzhi was too lazy to tell him, thinking he was boring, so he pinched the phone a few times.

When the video was hung up, there was no sound in the room, and everything fell silent again.

The light was very dim, and he sat in a chair, faintly like a ghost.

After a while, there was a "pop" in the quiet environment. It was he who opened the lamp on the side of the desk.

Gu Hansheng narrowed his eyes and slowly adjusted to the light, he opened the box in his hand.

There was nothing in it, only a small USB flash drive remained.

He took out the things.

Gu Hansheng didn't have any special expressions. He took this thing under the light and carefully identified it with the light. Only then did he discover that it turned out to be a recording tool.

This should have been recorded when Aunt Mei was sober.

It was indeed recorded for him.

He opened it tentatively and found that there was no electricity, so he plugged the thing into the notebook.

The first sentence of the recording is:

Don't blame A Shu, she actually loves you very much.

Aunt Mei’s hoarse voice slowly spread in this quiet space. She said: What you asked me about, I now remember it, that night her mobile phone fell into the fish tank, and she didn’t mean to not answer your call. . I called you to ask for money, but A Shu refused. During our dispute, the phone fell into the water. She must have blamed herself if she didn't receive your call and she failed to save your person.

I know you have been looking for him, presumably you don't care about this at all, but I still want to make it clear to you.

…

This recording lasted ten minutes. Gu Hansheng listened all the way until the last words Aunt Mei said in his mind: A Shu has a hard life, and Mr. Gu is one of the few lights in her life. Thank you.

In fact, he didn't feel much. Like Aunt Mei said, he didn't care about those things since he decided to find her.

It can only be said that fate makes people.

…

December 24th is Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve.

On this day, Liang Jiujiu received a lot of apples, mostly from classmates.

After dinner, she distributed the apples she received at school today to everyone in the family.

The Gu family house is very lively today.

In addition to Wen Mingting and Liang Qing, Jing Yu and Mo Xiangsi also came.

This is also the first time Liang Jiujiu has seen the young master of the Jing family, Jingxing.

Jing Xing had just returned to China a month ago and happened to meet Christmas. Now that Jing's family has no elders anymore, they have lived in Gu's house just like in previous years.

In the living room, Liang Jiujiu held the apple and sent it all the way to Jingxing. The little girl stared at Jingxing carefully, and then picked the most unsightly apple and put it in his hand.

Jing Xing looked down at the defective product in his hand, stretched out his hand and rubbed Liang Jiujiu's hair in revenge. Jing Xing said, "It's really stingy."

When Liang Jiujiu saw him moving her hair, she stared at her round eyes, and took back the apple that was given to Jingxing, and said to Jingxing solemnly: "Your apple is gone! "

"Why?"

Liang Jiujiu pouted, gave Gu Hansheng an aggrieved look, then glared at Jing Xing, "I'm going out with Uncle Gu later, you messed up my carefully prepared hairstyle!"

"Oh." Jing Xing looked at her, and soon he stretched out his hand and rubbed Liang Jiujiu's head more heavily, making the little girl's well-tied braids fluffy.

Jing Xing blinked from her, raised his hand to the crowd and pointed at Liang Jiujiu's head, and said, "Look at it, her head is like a chicken coop."

Liang Jiujiu bit her lip and stared at Jing Xing. For the first time, she was so aggrieved that tears were covered in her eyes. She was very aggrieved. She shouted at Jing Xing, "You are so naive, no wonder my mother. I don’t like you, I just like Uncle Gu!"

Everyone, "..."

This is really a painful foot stepping on Jing Xing, and Jing Xing stared at her, "Who told you this? Lord, I'm very popular."

Liang Jiujiu stared at him tearfully without speaking.

Wen Mingting couldn't stand aside anymore. It happened that Gu Hansheng came back from the restaurant with water. Seeing this situation, he raised his foot and kicked Jingxing's calf, "What's the matter?"

Jing Xing wailed and looked at Gu Hansheng dissatisfiedly, "Your kid is attacking me personally!"

Before Gu Hansheng could speak, Mo Xiangsi, who was nestled on the sofa in Jing Yu's arms and enjoying the super-emperor-level treatment of Jing Yu's legs, said: "A Hang is almost done. You are how old you are, you are so naive."

Liang Jiujiu glanced at Wen Mingting aggrievedly again. Wen Mingting's heart softened. She couldn't help but stretched out her hand and patted Jingxing's shoulder again, "Axing, you don't know how to converge, Jiujiu is so small."

"Jiu Jiu here, grandma will wipe the tears for you, don't be familiar with him, ah." Wen Mingting pulled the little girl into his arms and coaxed with kind words.

Now that's all right, Jing Xing has become a sinner in everyone's eyes.

Jing Xing didn't really want to care about her child, after all, how old he is... but he was not reconciled, saying, "This little girl is also eccentric. Why is the apple for you so big and red? , The one given to me is small and bad."

Gu Hansheng bent down and hugged Liang Jiujiu from Wen Mingting's arms, and gave Jingxing a cold look, "You deserve it."

Liang Jiujiu lay on Gu Hansheng's shoulders, looking at him with red eyes, sniffing, and learning Gu Hansheng's tone, "You deserve it, who made you like him..."

Speaking of Liang Shu, Liang Jiujiu dared not say any more. She hugged Gu Hansheng's neck tightly and buried her face in his neck.

Others subconsciously watched Gu Hansheng's reaction, but Gu Hansheng looked at Wen Mingting as usual, "I'll take her out for a stroll later. It's still a long time at night, mom, please get together."

Wen Mingting got up and looked at Jiujiu, "Just pack up and go. The temperature outside is very low today. Bring her one more to avoid catching a cold."

Gu Hansheng nodded and was about to turn around. Wen Mingting said again, "I'll clean up, lest there is anything missing."

"Mom doesn't need to, I just pack it."

When they went upstairs, Wen Mingting sat back on the sofa, but his emotions were a lot more lost than before. There was less Liang Jiujiu in this living room, and even the atmosphere seemed to be suppressed a lot.

Even Jingxing just sat quietly on the sofa.

Wen Mingting blinked, but it seemed that there was no way to keep his eyes moist.

Within a short time, Gu Hansheng hugged Liang Jiu Jiu down from upstairs. Gu Hansheng was wearing a black long woolen coat, while Liang Jiu Jiu was wrapped in a red down jacket. Gu Hansheng’s hair was re-made, and he put on a Christmas hat. , Very beautiful.

Gu Hansheng hugged her and walked to the living room and greeted everyone. Liang Jiujiu lay on his shoulder and waved to them one by one. When she reached Jingxing, she twisted her head and jumped directly over him.

Wen Mingting was a little worried, and followed all the way to the door with a worried expression on his face: "Did she bring her water bottle? Drink hot water if she gets thirsty..."

"Mom, take it." Gu Hansheng looked at her helplessly.

"Okay, it's cold, although it doesn't snow, but remember not to stroll outside for too long." Wen Mingting ordered.

Liang Jiujiu smiled and waved to Wen Mingting, "Goodbye grandma."

Wen Mingting looked at those eyes, and the eye sockets became wet in an instant. She watched the two of them walk to the car, and looked at the dark night outside, and sighed heavily.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the mall is still very lively.

Gu Hansheng has been walking around with Liang Jiujiu for more than two hours. The two of them are sitting in the rest area of ​​the mall to rest. Liang Jiujiu is playing with the Santa Claus doll in his hands, which is made of plasticine. She suddenly "ah" Screamed.

The man turned his head when he heard the sound, and Liang Jiujiu raised his hand to him, very sorry, "It broke."

That Santa Claus directly broke an arm by Liang Jiujiu.

Gu Hansheng unscrewed the thermos and handed it to her, "Drink some water."

Liang Jiujiu licked her lips and watched the kid next door eat ice cream. She looked at Gu Hansheng pitifully, "Uncle Gu, can I also eat some ice cream?"

She can't touch such things.

But this night, Gu Hansheng couldn't bear it, and bought her a meal.

He stared at Liang Jiujiu with a contented expression, with mixed feelings in his heart.

There was no news from the people who were sent out, as if Lu Jinsheng really disappeared into this world with Liang Shu.

…

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Gu Hansheng and Liang Jiujiu had just returned home.

At this moment, a black car passed all the way through the city, galloping in the bleak birch forest in the suburbs.

On Christmas Eve, Lu Jinsheng secretly returned to Yucheng with Liang Shu.

This was a very difficult and compelling decision for Lu Jinsheng.

At this time, Liang Shu had been ill for half a month.

Unlike before, she couldn't do anything with the nutrient solution. She couldn't eat anything, and she had fever again and again.

It is often in the evening when everyone is busy and the fever subsides, but at night it will repeatedly burn again.

The doctors who came to see didn't know what was wrong with Liang Shu, so they could only prescribe the right medicine. If they couldn't eat anything, they would inject nutrition solution.

Many things were done by Lu Jinsheng himself, and Liang relieved his illness and tortured him at the same time.

But occasionally, as long as she feels a little better, or if she doesn't vomit something after eating this meal, Lu Jinsheng's face will be relieved a lot.

He was flustered and anxious from the beginning to Leng Ran at the back. It was in this time of fear that he changed.

At night, he could sit in her room all night without doing anything, just watching her sleep.

When he first came here, he had stopped his medicine.

But later he realized that it couldn't work, so he started eating again, and could barely sleep at night.

But now, he couldn't remember the feeling of closing his eyes and resting, and guarding her had become a habit.

One night, Liang Shu woke up from a deep sleep, only to feel smoke in his throat.

She described lying thin on the bed, as if she was very ill, as if the end was approaching.

Lu Jinsheng looked at that, her eyes gradually turned crimson, but she just sat motionless on the sofa. If it was usual, he would come forward to check that her fever had subsided.

Liang Shu wanted to drink some water, so she turned her head to the sofa and stared at Lu Jinsheng calmly.

There is no need for her to say anything, Lu Jinsheng consciously got up and took the water and fed it to her. Before that, he tried to test the water temperature.

After doing this, he still reached out and probed the temperature on her forehead, and he sighed with relief when he noticed that there was no trace of hotness.

But Liang Shu felt that his eyelids were hot.

She swallowed twice, staring at the ceiling calmly, her mouth opened, and she wanted to speak, but found that she hadn't spoken for a long time, and her voice seemed to be dead.

Liang Shu's fingers gripped the sheets under the quilt, and then she said softly, "Look, Lu Jinsheng, you have trapped me here. I can't live."

Lu Jinsheng just stood there, looking down at her with deep and deep eyes. From her eyebrows to lips to the facial features, he carefully looked at everything, for fear of missing something.

Liang Shu’s eyelashes trembled unconsciously, and continued, “I go for a walk every day and read a book when I come back. I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but I can’t control the vomiting after eating. I can’t control my spirit getting worse day by day."

She turned her head and looked at him, not only her, but Lu Jinsheng had lost a lot of weight during this period.

She smiled, "You let me go, take me back, let me come back to him, okay?"

Liang Shu stretched out his hand and took his hand hanging beside him.

Lu Jinsheng slowly closed his eyes and lowered his head slightly. The warm light in the room spread his shadow on the wall, and there was a sense of despair spreading for no reason.

Soon, the hand that was pulling Lu Jinsheng's finger was manually released twice, slowly and lifelessly.

He looked sideways, that slender hand was lying on the quilt softly and without any strength, his fingers were as thin as green onions, and the back of his hand had raised blood vessels, pale and transparent.

After this night, Liang Shu fell asleep for no reason, no matter how many methods the doctor used, it was useless.

Some people say that this is a kind of self-protection mechanism of sleeplessness.

Just like in winter, bears will hibernate because they don't have enough food.

…

Arranged for the doctor to wait in the suburban villa long ago.

In the car, Lu Jinsheng hugged Liang Shu all the way, she quietly leaned on him as if she was really just asleep, as if she would wake up and talk to herself in the next second.

The weather in Yucheng is very bad, and the temperature is not the same as that of the island.

Lu Jinsheng wrapped a thick blanket on her, then hugged her out of the car and walked all the way to the villa.

Some morning three days later.

The person lying on the bed opened his eyes suddenly.

The ceiling is still white, and the room is quiet. She has a hanging needle on the back of her hand, and gently tilts her head. There is a person lying next to the bed, Lu Jinsheng.

Behind him is still a huge floor-to-ceiling window, even if the curtains are fully opened, the room is very dim, and the sky outside is pale and gloomy, and under a blank space, is a neat and bleak birch forest.

The sky seemed to be raining lightly, and just by looking at it, Liang Shu seemed to be able to feel the biting wind on his skin.

Tears gradually came to her eyes, and she closed her eyes, split her mouth and laughed silently.

Her body was weaker than when she woke up on the island last time. She didn't have the energy to speak, but the sound of breathing slightly heavier than when she was asleep pulled Lu Jinsheng back to reality from her light sleep.

Lu Jinsheng met her gaze, something in his heart was slowly growing, as if he had understood something in an instant.

He reached out and touched the top of her hair, his eyelids moved twice, his voice hoarse, and he looked at her and said, "What do you want to do?"

Liang Shu stretched out his bruised hand that was pricked by the eye of a needle, pointed out the window, and opened his mouth, "I want to... look at the scenery."

The doctor first came in to check her body and confirmed that all aspects of her condition had improved before they left. She just woke up and she should have something to eat.

So Lu Jinsheng set up a simple small table at the French window, put the food on it, and carried her over.

The room is very warm, don't worry about her being cold, but he still put a shawl on her.

He sat aside and watched her eat, his eyes fell on her for an instant, and even his eyes were a little nervous when he looked at her.

After she finished a bite of her meal safely, Lu Jinsheng's nervous nerves relaxed a little, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Liang Shu squeezed the spoon and turned his head to look at him, "Aren't you going to eat something?"

Although she is the one who is sick, it seems that Lu Jinsheng has not been any better than her these days.

The man shook his head, his thin lips pressed tightly, "You eat."

Liang Shu nodded, lowered his head and started to eat silently, fed himself a bite of rice, and looked up at the window.

Maybe it was the influence of the environment. After a few days of raising her, her body slowly began to get better.

Lu Jinsheng is with her almost every day.

There is no way to take a walk here, the weather outside is too bad, but Liang Shu doesn’t need it either.

She is almost the same as her work and rest on the island. She spends the most time every day reading, and Lu Jinsheng stays with her.

There are two study rooms here.

Liang Shu only used one of them, and the other was locked up, but Lu Jinsheng occasionally went in.

She had heard him say something inside, so she thought, there should be a phone in that study.

It's just that she needs to find the key.

One night, she was sitting downstairs in the living room eating fruit. Lu Jinsheng came out of the dining room and sat next to her. Liang Shu passed the fruit plate in his hand. He didn't like to eat this kind of food, but he took a piece of it and put it in his mouth like a ghost. in.

The sweet and bitter taste of apple filled his mouth, and Liang Shu asked him, "Is it delicious?"

Lu Jinsheng nodded.

She passed the fruit plate over again, "Are you still eating?"

He ate another piece, and the curvature of his mouth gradually softened.

The next second, Liang Shu stared at the show on the TV and said to him, "I want to meet Jiujiu, can you find time to take a video of me?"

There was no emotion on Lu Jinsheng's face this time. Instead, he said, "If you want, we can pick her up and live with her in the future."

"Forget it, you just shoot me a video first, I want to see her."

A few days later, Lu Jinsheng actually took a video of her.

He took the tablet to her, Liang Shu held it in his hand, looked at him, choked up and said thank you.

She touched the room by herself, locked the door, sat down on the carpet next to the bed, and then opened the video.

The video is actually very short, less than a minute.

The background is in Liangjiujiu’s school. She was led by Xu Shanhai and walked out of the school gate. She was wearing a down jacket and a cute hat. She was still walking insecure and didn’t like to watch the road. , Occasionally I have to turn my head back to talk to Xu Shanhai next to him.

Liang Shu cried when he watched.

But I was relieved.

Her daughter is still doing well after she left.

Apart from gratification, there is still a trace of sadness. I wonder if the little girl will miss her often?

This evening, Liang Shu did not go downstairs to eat.

When Lu Jinsheng opened the door with the spare key of the villa, he didn't turn on the light. At first glance, she couldn't find her where she was. The room was very dim. Lu Jinsheng's heart missed a beat, and he raised his hand to turn on the light.

The dazzling light made the woman lying on the ground slowly open her eyes, she got up holding the tablet, and squinted at the man standing at the door.

Lu Jinsheng flashed her eyes, walked towards her, picked her up from the ground, "Why don't you go to bed if you want to sleep?"

She rubbed her eyes, "I didn't expect to fall asleep, what time is it?"

"Seven o'clock in the evening," he said, "go downstairs to eat."

Liang Shu shook his head, "I'm not hungry, you can eat it."

He stood still, looking at her.

"What's wrong?" Liang Shu asked.

Lu Jinsheng's lips moved, her eyes deep and abnormal, "It won't be long before we are leaving here."

Liang Shu's heart tightened, and the fingers hanging on his side slowly curled into a ball, "Why?"

He just looked at her and didn't answer.

"Did...he found here?" Liang Shu asked this carefully.

Lu Jinsheng curled her lips, raised her eyebrows and looked at her, "Hope?"

She lowered her eyes and didn't speak, but she didn't actually have too much emotion on her face.

"Then you will be disappointed, he hasn't found here yet." He said.

Liang Shu tightened her lips and stared down at the ground, "Then why should we leave?"

"If you give up, then we won't leave." He followed.

Liang Shu pinched his palms with his fingers and closed his eyes, as if he had made some determination, "Does I look like I don't give up all these days?" After a pause, Liang Shu raised his eyes and looked up. He scoffed: "So, you are afraid of him, right?"