When You’re Gone

This was the first time Liang Shu dreamed of Jiang Ping after his death.

She remembered clearly that in her dream, Jiang Pingsheng had a good smile just like before. That smile seemed to melt the snow and ice in winter.

He said, "A Shu, long time no see, will you come to take me home?"

Jiang Ping's soul is in this city, so she dreamed of him the first night she came here.

At this moment, Liang Shu squatted on the ground, slowly stretched out his fingers, spread his five fingers to the cold ground in front of her, this place Jiang Pingsheng just stood on.

Asheng, I'm here to pick you up.

...

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

After so many years, Liang Shu vaguely remembered that the weather was very good that day, and the sun fell on people's faces very warm.

She hid in the corner and watched the Ni family holding Jiang Pingsheng’s hand, but where was Jiang Pingsheng?

Jiang Pingsheng stared at A Shu in the corner, his eyes very focused.

The dean is introducing some of Jiang Pingsheng's works to Ni Xiuli, the host of the Ni family, such as his arithmetic problems, his paintings, and his various handmade works.

The female dean of the orphanage praised 10-year-old Jiang Pingsheng to the sky.

Facts have proved that Dean Jiang Pingsheng is not an exaggeration.

Later, Jiang Ping had the ability to deter them.

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

Ni Xiuli is looking through Jiang Pingsheng's picture album, a thick pile of pictures, each of which contains the same content, a portrait of a person, and each picture depicts the same person.

This person is Liang Shu.

When the dean saw these paintings, the corners of her eyes were a little moist. She looked back at Liang Shu, who was half of her head exposed from the back of the door frame. The little girl was very well-behaved. She wore two neat pigtails. She had very eyes. Smart and cunning.

She hid quietly behind her, as if shy, but when everyone moved their gazes to her face, she was able to smile at everyone again.

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

Such an amazing little girl, he can easily match the person in the portrait.

Ni Xiuli curled her eyebrows and looked at the dean, "This..."

The dean sighed, "I have the best relationship with A Shu in my life. A Shu is a very sensible child, but unfortunately I haven't found anyone..."

Jiang Pingsheng glanced at Liang Shu, who was hiding outside the door. He stood straight on his back and bowed respectfully to the Ni family. When he spoke, the boy’s voice was pure and his words were very clear, "Uncle Ni, can you please A Shu also take it away?"

The Ni family and his wife are not very wealthy, and their standard of living is only moderately prosperous.

But the two were over forty years old and had been married for so many years, and they had not been able to have their own children. Finally, the couple discussed and decided to adopt one.

Finally, Jiang Pingsheng fell in love at the orphanage.

Ni Xiuli is a middle school teacher, and his wife is a laid-off worker. At that time, the teachers' salaries were not high. They wanted to raise Jiang Ping's life well, so they could only raise one child.

In addition, Ni Xiuli is not stupid. He heard the helplessness in the dean's words. How could he not find anyone with such a beautiful child?

There must be some other reasons for this.

When he was embarrassed, Jiang Pingsheng said again, "I can only eat two meals a day. I have breakfast for A Shu, and I only eat half of lunch and dinner, and the other half for A Shu. It will never be because of A Shu. The existence of relief gives you extra expenses."

"Before, good-hearted people donated clothes to us. There are people of all ages. In the next few years, you won’t have to buy clothes for me. I only hope that you can buy a new dress for A Shu every Lunar New Year. Little girls love it. Beautiful, she likes to be beautiful."

The ten-year-old boy uttered something clearly and without arrogance, which shocked everyone present.

The dean couldn't hold back his tears, and sighed again in a daze.

Ni Xiuli glanced at Liang Shu from the side again. He was a little choked. He was also moved by Jiang Pingsheng’s words just now. He put his hands on both sides of the boy’s shoulders, "Do you know what you are talking about is the most ideal state? Since we have decided to adopt you, we will definitely give you our best, but if we have two children..."

Needless to say, Jiang Pingsheng also understood the next words.

Jiang Pingsheng nodded, expressing that he could understand him, and then he called Uncle Ni, knelt down in front of everyone, and knocked Ni Xiuli a head, "Uncle Ni, thank you for choosing me as your family and yours. Son, but please forgive me, I can't leave A Shu, there are other very good children here, you can choose more."

This action was beyond Ni Xiuli's imagination. He was busy helping Jiang Pingsheng up, but he liked Jiang Pingsheng even more in his heart.

The dean secretly wiped tears from the side.

Ni Xiuli sighed, and glanced at his wife, "You ask uncle to think about it again, okay?"

Jiang Pingsheng bowed again, "Thank you."

The Ni family and his wife said they would think about it, so they went out to discuss with the dean at this time.

Only Jiang Pingsheng remained in the room. Liang Shu got in from the door at this time. She ran to him in a few steps and squatted beside Jiang Pingsheng.

The nine-year-old girl stretched out her hand and rubbed his knee, her voice was crisp and tender, "Brother Asheng, do you hurt it?"

Jiang Pingsheng smiled at her and stared at her, "A Shu, how many times have I told you, don't call him Brother Asheng, but call him Asheng."

She lowered her head and said dullly, "But the dean said, let me call you Brother Asheng."

"Then do you listen to me or the dean?"

Liang Shu's shell teeth bit her lower lip, looked up at Jiang Pingsheng, then said slowly, "Listen to Ah Sheng."

Jiang Pingsheng smiled on her face and took her hand.

"Why did you kneel down just now? The ground is so hard." Liang Shu asked him.

But Jiang Pingsheng did not answer. He looked at the people in the picture album with soft eyes, and clenched Liang Shu’s hand. "A Shu, you must be happy every day. You never missed anything. It has nothing to do with you, do you know?"

Liang Shu lowered her head again, but this time she didn't speak.

Jiang Pingsheng looked at her sideways and said seriously, "A Shu, I will definitely take you away."

...

When Ni Xiuli asked Liang Shu, he was very puzzled. He said, "How can such a beautiful girl be adopted by no one? I think she has a very good personality and is very likable."

Speaking of this, the dean sighed again.

"There are many people who like A Shu, even more than those who have adopted her in his life. A Shu was once adopted by three families, but some accidents happened later..." The dean shook his head, "Later, they all gave her away as a last resort. came back."

"What's the reason? Is she naughty?"

"No, A Shu is very good."

The dean slowly recalled: "She went to the first person's house when she was five years old. She stayed for a year. This family is well-off. At that time, she was in the rising stage of her career. Shu took over, but they went bankrupt within a year, and she was sent back."

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

What happened later, it goes without saying that Liang Shu was sent back again.

"The third time A Shu stayed at that house for a short period of three months," the dean looked at Ni Xiuli, "A Shu is a good boy, but I don't keep it from you. The family doesn't know where it came from. When I found out about the first two families, I heard that I took A Shu to the fortune-telling. The fortune-teller said that the child was not strong in his fate, and the family was not strong and couldn't help her."

Ni Xiuli is a teacher, and the quality of the husband and wife is higher than that of ordinary people. He just shook his head after listening, "This fortune teller shouldn't delay the child. Everything is causal. Superstition has no scientific basis and is untrustworthy. ."

The dean smiled, "It’s hard for you to think like this, but for some people, it’s better to believe that it has something, but it’s not that it’s not. But Ah Shu is pretty good with us. It has never happened. what's up."

After a pause, the dean added, "A Shu doesn't know about these. Whether you adopt or not adopt A Shu in the end, please don't let her know about this."

But these were all heard by Jiang Pingsheng without a word.

Ni Xiuli nodded, "I understand, I don't believe this myself, but our current situation is really not suitable for adopting two children... I like life very much, please ask the dean for time to help me persuade him,"

...

In the end, Liang Shu persuaded Jiang Pingsheng.

"Asheng, just follow them. Didn't Uncle Ni agree to you, can you come back to see me at any time? The dean is so kind to me, and it's also very good here. I'm willing to stay with her all the time."

Jiang Pingsheng hugged Liang Shu, his face was very calm, "A Shu, I will not leave you."

"You listen to me this time, OK?"

Jiang Pingsheng left the orphanage only a year later.

Liang Shu finished the second day of his tenth birthday.

Later, he did come to see Liang Shu every week and brought her a lot of things she hadn't seen before.

He tutored Liang Shu's homework, so that she didn't fall behind just like the kids outside.

Later, Liang Shu also left here.

She was thirteen years old at the time.

Jiang Ping had never seen her until she was eighteen.

During the blank four or five years, Liang Shu seemed to have evaporated from Jiang Ping's life.

Jiang Pingsheng is extremely filial to the Ni family and his wife. He himself is very good, but he had a disagreement with Ni Xiuli on the issue of Liangshu.

The two really met again when Liang Shu was in college.

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

Jiang Pingsheng asked her, "Why did you leave the orphanage without saying a word, and where did you go after leaving?"

She was holding his neck and tears on Jiang Pingsheng’s skin. She said, “Let’s ignore the past, okay?”

Liang Shu said that it didn't matter before, so Jiang Pingsheng did not ask.

It was as if he had been crazy about looking for her for a few years, it was just a dream he had had.

Liang Shu has changed.

She is no longer the happy A Shu who can laugh all the time.

On the contrary, she is now taciturn, sometimes staying with him, she can stay silent for a day.

Jiang Pingsheng knew that the woman who had adopted Liang Shu was a woman, and that beautiful woman had stubbornly raised a man.

He doesn't know what has been missing in the past few years to make Liang Shu the way he is now, but he is now working hard to find the original A Shu.

So Jiang Pingsheng went to Aunt Mei.

He asked the woman sitting across from him who looked like a dusty face and was still smoking, with her fingers right on her knees, "Can you tell me what happened to A Shu these years?"

She met Aunt Mei the day before Liang Shu and Jiang Ping reunited. Aunt Mei simply saw Liang Shu pleasing to her eyes. With that rainy night, she happened to meet Liang Shu.

Aunt Mei felt that Jiang Jiucheng was unreliable at the time. She was a woman, and it was simply an extravagant wish to have a child.

So she wanted to find someone to wait for a hundred years to end her retirement.

Regarding Liang Shu's past, Aunt Mei didn't even know at that time.

So she said to Jiang Pingsheng very lightly, "Since you want to know so much, ask her yourself, isn't she better able to tell you clearly?"

Liang Shu is completely different now from then. She is very cold, no longer following him like before, and she hardly laughs again.

Jiang Pingsheng even saw her smoking.

It's in a western restaurant.

It was dinner time when Jiang Pingsheng asked her what to eat, and Liang Shu said whatever she wanted.

So he asked her, "Is Western food okay?"

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

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

He cut the steak in front of him into small pieces, and replaced the whole steak in front of Liang Shu.

Jiang Pingsheng had already cut the second steak, but Liang Shu still didn't pick up the fork.

He thought...

So he put down the knife and fork in his hand and asked her cautiously, "A Shu, I'm going to ask the waiter for two chopsticks. Let's eat with the chopsticks, okay?"

The person sitting opposite seemed to wake up suddenly from her own world, she smiled at him slowly, shook her head, "eat."

Liang Shu picked up the fork and ate three pieces of the steak in front of her.

When she took the fourth piece, she stuffed it mechanically into her mouth, but in the next second she seemed to be unable to bear it anymore. She couldn't even go to the bathroom, and she started to vomit while holding the table.

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

He helped Liang Shu to go to the bathroom, and he didn't even have the time to say sorry to other diners.

Jiang Pingsheng didn't have many taboos, and there was no one in the women's bathroom, so he directly helped Liang Shu go in and locked the door.

Although she had vomited everything out, the retching did not stop. In the end, only acid water was left.

In the end, Liang Shu finally felt better, sitting on the ground holding his knees and closing his eyes.

But Jiang Pingsheng's mentality collapsed.

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

He knelt on the ground, hugged her, and buried his face tightly in her neck, "Let’s stop eating, and we won’t eat Western food anymore. I will go home and cook for you, okay? I will cook for you. Eat, I’m very good at cooking right now, and you will definitely like it."

She was fine with him eating other things, but she would vomit whenever she ate Western food, especially steak.

Liang Shu noticed that hot tears hit her skin. She opened her eyes and said with little strength, "Asheng, it's my own problem."

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

When someone knocked on the door outside, Liang Shu got up and leaned on him, "Let's go out."

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

Liang Shu looked at Jiang Pingsheng, who was taciturn, and suddenly turned his head and said to him, "I have mouthwash in my bag. You can get it for me, okay?"

When Jiang Pingsheng brought back what she wanted.

What she saw was the picture of her smoking on the railing, with a touch of scarlet sandwiched between her slender and white fingertips, and the blue and white smoke rose up. Jiang Pingsheng only felt that she was so thin that her jaw was very sharp.

She has learned to smoke now.

Jiang Pingsheng walked up to her, glanced at the cigarette in her hand, looked outside faintly, and said, "A Shu, I will move out to take care of you. Let's rent a house, okay?"

Hearing that, the woman smiled frivolously at the corner of her mouth, looking at him sideways, "I'm just a freshman, do you want me to live with a man?"

What she didn't say was, will Uncle Ni agree?

Jiang Ping didn't know it in his life, but Liang Shu would always remember it.

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

She was thirteen years old at that time. It was the third year that Jiang Pingsheng left the orphanage and took care of her meticulously.

So Liang Shu hadn't changed at that time, so she smiled and called him: Uncle Ni.

But Ni Xiuli's eyes were complicated. He suddenly knelt in front of her. The man who was over forty years old suddenly knelt in front of a 13-year-old girl. What a horror.

Liang Shu was frightened at the time, she stared at Ni Xiuli.

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

She was stunned, neither shaking her head nor nodding.

"I heard that someone will pick you up soon. It is an extremely prominent family with strong foundations. You will be able to live happily in the future, so..." Ni Xiuli's eyes were pitying, and her voice choked, "You can promise uncle never to see you again Life, okay?"

Liang Shu was confused with a face and clasped his hands. "Why? Ah Sheng knew he would be unhappy."

"He is very smart. He is only fifteen years old this year. He has to finish the high school courses. He is a genius. He needs to concentrate on his studies and cannot be disturbed by anyone. In order to give him a good future, can you promise uncle?"

Don't see Jiang Pingsheng... from now on?

Liang Shu couldn't do it, so she shook her head, "Asheng knew she would be unhappy."

"So uncle begs you, don't let him know, don't contact him again after you go to Lu's house, okay?"

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

But later, she heard the conversation between the dean and Ni Xiuli in the dean's office.

Ni Xiuli said, "Dean, I am very pleased that I can adopt my life. He is very good in all aspects, but he is very stubborn about Liangshu..." He paused for a few seconds, "I used to believe in science. But I can’t gamble my whole life. I heard that the reason why A Shu was sent to the orphanage was because she killed her parents soon after she was born, right?"

The usually amiable female dean suddenly fell silent this time.

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

"Just ask the dean not to tell him who adopted A Shu. The Lu family is a famous family, a prominent family, and can live in her. Let's forget about it with our family in the future."

The dean only sighed.

Who could have imagined that this girl would carry a life from the Lu family before being picked up by the Lu family?

In this way, the other party can accept her. This is her blessing. It is good to be able to go to her in such a lintel in the future, Jiang Pingsheng, let it go.

These words were overheard by Liang Shu without a word.

Liang Shu suddenly understood that Jiang Pingsheng has always treated her no different from before, but in fact, he must have had a lot of disagreements with Ni Xiuli because of his own problems.

But he was going to take a college entrance examination. Even if Liang Shu didn't understand what college meant at this time, it was very hard to come to the college entrance examination every time he saw the gray in Jiang Pingsheng's eyes.

It's so exhausting, and it's really tiring to come over to help her with her homework every week.

Then she won't look for him for the time being, she will live well in the new family, and wait for herself to be able to stand side by side with him.

But she didn't believe that she was evil in her fate, and she didn't believe that such a kind and harmless herself could kill the people around her.

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

If Ni Xiuli is told, what should he do?

Liang Shu knew that the current Jiang Ping was very good. He had already been recommended to graduate students of Yu University when he was only 19 years old this year. He is a grass-roots figure in Yu University.

Such a talent, surely Ni Xiuli really put a lot of effort into him, and how could she bear to ruin such a good Jiang Ping's life?

So Liang Shu refused.

During the whole freshman year, Liang Shu rejected Jiang Pingsheng.

She didn't study hard, mixed 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 change happened in the first semester of Liang Shu's sophomore year.

Aunt Mei went to school to let Liang Shu study hard. As soon as her front foot left, Jiang Jiucheng came on the back foot.

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

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

He asked Liang Shu for money, not knowing what excuse he used.

Jiang Pingsheng couldn't understand 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 Ping.

When Liang Shu arrived, he happened to see someone waving a stick and hitting Jiang Pingsheng's head severely, and the tall young man fell to the ground.

At that moment, her mind went blank.

She called the police and ran over to hug Jiang Pingsheng's body, dragging his head with her palm, and a bright red stickiness in her palm.

Those eyes stared at Jiang Jiucheng fiercely, wishing to eat him, she shed tears like crazy, "How can you hit him on the head? How can you hit him on the head?"

In Liang Shu's eyes, Jiang Pingsheng was such an excellent person. If he hadn't met her, he would not be like this now.

This year, Jiang Pingsheng has become a weird person in the eyes of Liang Shu's roommate.

A roommate sneered privately, "This is incredible. The top student of Yu Da has been chasing a neurosis for a year. Last time I heard someone said that he was even beaten because of her."

Someone agreed, "Maybe he is also a weirdo."