When You’re Gone

It has been six months since Chen Xian left the Lu family.

She settled in a small border town near Yucheng, and she slowed down.

She used to think more than once about leaving Lu's life and leaving Lu Jinsheng's life.

Later I discovered that when this dream came true, life didn't seem to be any better than before.

The town is a tourist destination.

There is an old lady in the town who is in a handicraft business.

She herself guarded a shop selling handmade gadgets, and lived a happy and comfortable life.

After Chen Xian came here and ran a bookstore, she herself was the boss.

The bookstore is just next to the grandma.

After being here for half a year, Chen Xian had never seen this grandma's children, but she had a grandson who was about his age and was a physical education teacher in a junior high school in this small town.

Chen Xian is now alone, and her life pace was too slow a few years ago. After coming here, she deliberately slowed down her life.

She felt that she had lost something, and now she must slowly pick it up bit by bit.

Chen Xian contacted this grandma for the first time, three months after she came here.

Grandma asked someone to pry at her store that day.

Chen Xian later heard the rustling sound from outside. She got up from the bed and walked out with slippers, not forgetting a baseball bat in her hand.

When I walked out, I met a few people standing at the door.

The master who unlocked even held the iron lock of her store door in his hand, which was a bit embarrassing for a while.

Although she had never been in contact, and the grandmother was next door to him, Chen Xian did not think they were bad guys.

But now in this scene, she can't help but think about it.

The unlocking master felt strange, and was even more afraid that Chen Xian might have misunderstood something. The iron head lock in his hand was suddenly thrown on the ground by him, and it touched the gray stone brick floor intimately with a crisp sound.

The master glanced at Chen Xian, then turned to stare at the old lady, and said in a puzzled manner: "How can you old lady say that there is no one in this house?"

Chen Xian was even more puzzled.

Later I realized that it was a misunderstanding.

For the first three months, Chen Xian's bookstore was open every day on time, closing at five o'clock in the evening.

But now, her bookstore hasn't opened the door for almost half a month, and the door is locked from the inside, and there is no trace of her going out.

Grandma thinks how can a person stay quietly in the house for half a month without eating or drinking.

In addition, when she got up early in the morning, the old lady smelled something rotten.

She immediately thought of Chen Xian next door, and her grandmother thought there was something wrong with Chen Xian.

Knowing the reason, Chen Xian opened the door openly, and invited her grandma to come in and sit down.

She makes tea to entertain the old lady.

Grandma praised her tea skills, Chen Xian was very surprised. She said, "Grandma, do you know tea?"

The grandmother smiled and said: "I don't understand, but I have been drinking tea for a lifetime. Whether the tea is good or not, I will know when I taste it."

Chen Xian is very particular about making tea. He first put the black bronzing on the aged kettle to boil water, and he heard a popping sound, and then spread the tea little by little.

When tasting tea, the first water must be filtered out first, and only the lighter-colored tea made by drinking the second water.

The grandmother said: "Girl, your tea is good, do the elders in the family like to drink it?"

Chen Xian made a cup for herself according to the method just now, and her expression was very calm. She said, "It is the former boss who liked to drink tea."

"Your boss can live a life." The grandmother concluded.

Chen Xian smiled and said nothing.

This grandma raised a Shar Pei dog, who was seriously overweight, with her eyelids squeezed together in layers, twisting and twisting her body like a pig's large intestine.

Shar Pei came to visit, and Chen Xian kindly fed him a hot dog.

The two of them were talking, and the dog swayed over without knowing what was in his mouth, and then awkwardly crossed the threshold.

A soaring smell hit Chen Xian's snort.

This Shar Pei didn't know where he took a dead mouse with a huge corpse almost decomposed. The smell was really unpleasant.

At this point, the grandmother nodded suddenly, looked at Chen Xian and said, "It was because I heard this thing that the master came to pry your door."

Later, Chen Xian took the things out and threw them away.

The grandmother looked at her with curiosity and regret, "I think your girl is still very young, so why did you choose to come here? Just like my unbelievable grandson."

Chen Xian was a little embarrassed. She said, "Is there anything wrong here?"

The grandmother said: "It's good here, but this place will swallow the passion and bones of young people little by little."

Chen Xian is very satisfied with such a day.

How passionate she used to be.

In college, she lived frugally, studied hard, got all kinds of scholarships and subsidies, and went out to do part-time jobs on weekends, read books every day and night, and finally got a place in the college.

She felt that her life like this was fulfilling and comfortable.

Until later she met Liang Shu.

The girl who wanted to do her own way, she smokes, she even fights with people outside, and basically doesn't go to class, even if the teacher will call her name.

Even if several people live in the same roof, Chen Xian rarely meets Liang Shu.

She is a good student with good living habits. It is impossible for her to go to bed on time at ten o'clock in the evening to come back to the dormitory at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night.

The lonely Liangshu has almost no sense of existence in the class.

The intersection was in the sophomore year.

Chen Xian wanted to study junior credits in advance, so she made an exception to the instructor and got the key to the dormitory building. She learned a little bit in the study room every night, and then spent half an hour walking back to the dormitory.

That week, Chen Xian encountered Liang Shu almost every day.

Later, for a semester, the two did not speak, but Chen Xian just opened Liang Shu's dormitory door for most of the semester.

It was at the door of the dimly lit dormitory building. Liang Shu was standing under the street lamp in a punk leather coat and skinny jeans.

Moths were circling around her head.

As usual, Chen Xian walked towards the gate in silence, slowing down as usual and waiting for Liang Shu to follow.

But this time, before she reached the door, Liang Shu's voice came from behind: "Chen Xian, you don't go to bed until one or two o'clock every night, and you have to go to class during the day, aren't you tired?"

Chen Xian did not entangle with Liang Shu and called out her name directly.

She paused, turned around to look at Liang Shu, raised her eyebrows and asked: "Then you come back at one or two o'clock every day, aren't you tired?"

When Liang Shu walked out of the bright light and was in the dim darkness, Chen Xian could see that she was smoking downstairs in the dormitory.

"Can it be the same? You are studying during the day, and I have enough time to sleep during the day."

Liang Shu gently stepped on the cigarette butt, looked at Chen Xian and said.

Chen Xian said, "I'm used to it."

Soon, Liang Shu walked towards her and snatched the key from Chen Xian's hand.

Chen Xian was slightly stunned and stared at her.

Liang Shu opened the door and stood looking at her in the dimly-lit dormitory hall. Chen Xian was silent for half a second and followed in.

At the foot of the dormitory hall, there was a half-person high neck decorated with blue and white porcelain. Liang Shu walked towards the vase, and then threw the key to open the door in front of Chen Xian.

"You..." Chen Xian looked at him in shock.

Liang Shu clapped his hands indifferently, "I know you passed the exam a long time ago. There is no need to come back so late every day. You don't need this key either."

"But you..."

Liang Shu walked over and hung Chen Xian's schoolbag on his shoulder. Then he said, "I will return to the dormitory on time in the future."

Chen Xian breathed a sigh of relief. She followed Liang Shu and listened to Liang Shu's complaint: "Your schoolbag is so sinking."

"Give it to me."

But Liang Shu didn't. She said, "You open the door for me, and I will carry your schoolbag once to offset it."

In fact, Chen Xian usually didn't dare to look at Liang Shu.

Because Liang Shu lives casually, she also looks beautiful, the rich and handsome Liang Shu in the class does not take it seriously, and such a small self, in the eyes of Liang Shu, I am afraid that she is like Weichen. almost.

Therefore, Chen Xian almost never looked directly into Liang Shu's eyes in the few times he spoke to Liang Shu.

And this night, Chen Xian said to Liang Shu in the corridor controlled by the cool voice-activated lights, "It can't be offset by carrying the schoolbag once."

Liang Shu was a little surprised. She laughed: "If you want me to carry your schoolbag all the time, it won't work, it's sinking to death."

Chen Xian squeezed his fingers, but stopped talking.

"What do you want to say?"

Chen Xian slowly exhaled the aura of impeccability, and she said, "Liang Shu, can we go to class later? The kind of not absent class, not late, or leave early."

Liang Shu leaned against the iron railing diagonally in front of him, thinking in embarrassment.

For a long time, Liang Shu raised her foot and walked upstairs. As she walked, she said, "You can go to class, but don't force me to eat breakfast."

Chen Xian stared at that slender back, but the corners of her mouth slowly curled up.

She never thought that Liang Shu would change her mind.

Because a week ago, she should have met Liang Shu's family.

That day, she came back early, so she sat outside in the flower bed and waited for the cool relief.

It's already two o'clock in the middle of the night.

Liang Shu appeared in her sight, and Chen Xian soon walked to the door of the dormitory to open the door. When she just got up, she saw a woman following Liang Shu.

Chen Xian watched a scene as an outsider that day.

The very slim woman in a cheongsam knelt in front of Liang Shu.

She begged Liang Shu to study hard.

And Liang Shu didn't say anything at the time, just looked down at the woman, and after a while, she turned and walked towards the door of the dormitory.

Later, after learning that the woman had left, Chen Xian appeared and opened the dormitory door.

Liang Shu was very slow that night. After Chen Xian had returned to the dormitory to wash up, Liang Shu was ready to enter the dormitory door.

A week later, Chen Xian was a little proud.

That woman couldn't change her knees to study hard in Liang Shu, but she could.

It was not until later that Chen Xian understood why.

Liang Shu said: "My aunt has never stood up in her life. It only takes a few seconds for her to kneel, but Chen Xian, you opened the dormitory door for me but persisted for a whole semester."

When there is no one, you can only guess the character of this person through some of the tip of the iceberg of her usual life.

And when you really understand a person, you will find that the person you originally thought is completely different from what you imagined.

Chen came to know that Liang Shu had rented a house in the central square.

She lives with her boyfriend Jiang Ping.

No one didn't know who Jiang Ping was born at that time.

The legend of Yu Da.

The person who was directly skipped to graduate school at a young age.

Just when he was just studying for graduate school, he published his own articles in well-known authoritative journals in China, and the content was even more original than some doctoral articles.

Liang Shu and Jiang Ping were together, Chen Xian had never thought about it.

Chen Xian did not write the graduation thesis in her junior year, and there is still another opportunity to defend, but the content of the thesis is a bit big, and the next time the defense is no better, Chen Xian will not be able to graduate early, which means that she can not apply for postgraduate early.

During that time, Chen Xian was very anxious.

One weekend, Liang Shu asked her to eat out and then invited her to the library.

It was in that library that Chen Xian really met Jiang Pingsheng, the legendary figure in the financial department of Yu University.

But Chen Xian was too shocked. Jiang Pingsheng put the paper materials of her thesis on the table, and then explained the existing problems and improvement methods to Chen Xian verbatim.

And Liang Shu stood not far away, looking down at a comic book.

After finishing the thesis explanation, Chen Xian moved her chair aside. Looking at Jiang Pingsheng, she stuttered, "Thank you, Senior Jiang, for giving me the lecture."

Chen Xian will never forget what she saw and heard that day.

Sitting next to Jiang Pingsheng, he is wearing a white shirt with perfect facial features and focused and soft eyes.

He was looking at the person sitting by the window leaning in front of him.

Jiang Pingsheng said: "You are welcome, you are the only friend of A Shu here, and she also hopes you can be well."

That day, when the Internet was not very developed, the photos of her and Jiang Pingsheng were posted to the school forum.

Chen Xian is not bad, and has a different kind of charm in it when he is studying quietly.

Everyone is saying that she and Jiang Pingsheng are a couple.

This incident passed from the school to the ears of Yu University. Chen Xian was also asked several times about when she was with Jiang Ping.

She was afraid of Liang Shu's misunderstanding, so she took the initiative to mention it when she ate with Liang Shu.

I don’t know, Liang Shu didn’t care. She said, “Don’t pay attention to the rumors. If you knew it, you won’t let Asheng talk to you in the library. Let’s go to the cafe and find a quiet table and sit for an afternoon. ."

"I'm looking for a chance to let Ah Sheng clarify, it's not good for you."

Chen Xian knew that no matter how rumored the scandal was, Jiang Ping would never be in love with other people.

Because Chen Xian had witnessed how Jiang Pingsheng treated Liang Shu.

The superb scholar who was passed down in Yu University, he would squat down on the crowded streets to tie Liang Shu's shoes.

Will willingly eat half of the ice cream left by Liang Shu.

During Liang Shu's menstrual period, he would cross the walls of the female dormitory to give Liang Shu medicine and sugar.

The love between Liang Shu and Jiang Pingsheng is like a long stream.

Only a few people around you know.

That October when Liang Shu left without saying goodbye.

Chen Xian is already a graduate student. She went back to attend the graduation ceremony of undergraduates in finance and had an appointment with Liang Shu the day before.

Liang Shu did not come the next day.

Every day from now on, Liang Shu is like a person who has suddenly evaporated from the world.

A year later, Chen Xian met Lu Jinsheng.

At that time, she was in the second year of graduate school.

The appearance of Lu Jinsheng almost ruined her carefully planned future.

So after many days and nights, she was thinking, if in that room, her answer was negative, would the ending be different?

Many people around her have different opinions about her becoming the chief secretary as soon as she joined the Lu family.

The women in the secretary's office felt that Chen Xian had some improper relationship with her boss Lu Jinsheng.

And some people think that Chen Xian is good enough.

In fact, the reason why she was able to join the Lu family is very simple.

When I first met Lu Jinsheng, Lu Jinsheng only asked her one question: "Are you her friend?"

"Which she?" Chen Xian's heart was pounding like a thunder.

"Cool Shu."

The man sat on the sofa gracefully with his legs folded, looking at her with a deep gaze.

Chen Xian was stunned for a while before nodding: "Yes."

Later, she joined the Lu family and became the chief secretary next to Lu Jinsheng.

Chen Xian thought, if she could, she chose to say no at the time.

But if he says no, doesn't A Shu even have his only friend?

The life in Lu's was difficult.

But the life around Lu Jinsheng was even more difficult.

Because that's a total lunatic.

Some late night in Linjiang Villa.

Chen Xian sat in a chair and looked at the man who was sitting on the sofa halfway hidden in the dark. He was smoking, one by one.

She had never seen such a scene at the time, her body was straight, but she was shivering.

Five minutes ago, Lu Jinsheng said, "Tell me about her."

Chen Xian knows that "she" refers to Liang Shu.

But she didn't understand what Lu Jinsheng meant, so she never knew how to speak.

When Lu Jinsheng finished smoking a cigarette, he put the cigarette **** out in the ashtray, looked up at her, and said, "Let's talk about it."

"Mr. Lu, I don't understand." Chen Xian gritted his teeth and tried to calm himself down.

Lu Jinsheng snorted suddenly, "You know everything about her college days."

"..." Chen Xian was only shocked when she heard that, she pinched her palms, "I..."

That night, Chen Xian told Lu Jinsheng a half-night story.

The story about Liang Shu.

From that moment on, Chen Xian understood that Lu Jinsheng was actually a lunatic.

He has severe hysteria.

In front of him, he is still the person in charge of the Xinyao Group with a fresh clothes and angry horse, but in front of him, he is just a poor man who can't love.

But for Chen Xian, he was not pitiful but hateful.

For nearly two years, Chen Xian's life was filled with a person named Liang Shu.

For so many days and nights, she accompanied her boss Lu Jinsheng, telling him about Liang Shu over and over again.

Almost everything is fine.

In the past two years, Chen Xian was built by Lu Jinsheng from a cowardly and inferior man into a cold machine.

So afterwards, when the real Liang Shu appeared, Chen Xian's first reaction in her heart was also to ruin her.