Chapter 77: Life
This is the first time that Liang Shu has dreamed of him after Jiang Ping's death.
She remembered very clearly, in her dream, Jiang Pingsheng was also the same as just now, smiling beautifully, and that smile seemed to be able to melt the ice and snow in winter.
He said, "Ah Shu, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you here to take me home?"
Jiang Pingsheng's ghost was in this city, so she dreamed of him on the first night she came here.
At this moment, Liang Shu squatted on the ground, slowly stretched out his fingers, and spread his five fingers to the cold ground in front of her, this place had just been stood by Jiang Pingsheng.
Ah Sheng, I'm here to pick you up.
……
Jiang Pingsheng was adopted from an orphanage by the Ni family when he was ten years old.
After so many years, Liang Shu vaguely remembers that the weather was very good that day, and the sun was very warm on people's faces.
She hid in the corner and watched the Ni family and his wife holding Jiang Pingsheng's hand, but what about Jiang Pingsheng?
Jiang Pingsheng stared at Ah Shu in the corner, his eyes were very focused.
The dean was introducing some of Jiang Pingsheng's works to Ni Xiuli, the male owner of the Ni family, such as the arithmetic problems he did, the paintings he painted, and the various handicrafts he made.
The female director of the orphanage praised the ten-year-old Jiang Pingsheng to the sky.
Facts have proved that it is not an exaggeration to say that Dean Jiang Pingsheng is made.
Later, Jiang Pingsheng had enough ability to deter them.
Liang Shu cautiously followed their group of people, his eyes full of curiosity.
Ni Xiuli is flipping through Jiang Pingsheng's album, a thick stack, the content of each one in it is the same, it is a portrait, and each one is painted with the same person.
This person is Liang Shu.
When the dean saw these paintings, the corners of her eyes were a little moist, and she looked back at Liang Shu, who was peeking out half of her head from behind the door frame, the little girl was extremely well-behaved, with two neat pigtails, and a pair of eyes that were very smart and cunning.
She hid behind her back, as if she was shy, but when everyone looked at her face, she smiled at everyone.
Ni Xiuli dared to guarantee that this was the most beautiful and smiling girl he had ever seen in his life.
Such a stunning little girl, he can easily match the person in the portrait.
Ni Xiuli wrinkled 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, but unfortunately I haven't found anyone ...... until now."
Jiang Pingsheng glanced at Liang Shu who was hiding outside the door, his back was straight, and he bowed respectfully to the Ni family and his wife, and when he spoke, the young man's voice was pure, and his words were very clear, "Uncle Ni, can you take Ah Shu away?"
The Ni family and his wife are not very wealthy, and their living standards are only well-off.
But the two are over forty years old, and they have been married for so many years, and they have not been able to have children of their own, and finally the couple discussed and decided to adopt one.
In the end, he fell in love with Jiang Pingsheng in the welfare home.
Ni Xiuli was a middle school teacher, his wife was a laid-off worker, and the salary of teachers was not high at that time, and if they wanted to train Jiang Pingsheng well, they would inevitably only have to raise one child.
In addition, Ni Xiuli is not stupid, he heard the helplessness in the dean's words, how could he not find someone if he was such a beautiful child?
There must be some other reason for this.
When he was in a dilemma, Jiang Pingsheng said, "I can only eat two meals a day, my breakfast is for Ah Shu, I only eat half of lunch and dinner, and the other half is for Ah Shu, and there will definitely be no extra expenses for you because of the existence of Ah Shu." ”
"There are kind people who have donated clothes to us before, there are people of all ages, you don't have to buy me clothes for the next few years, just ask you to buy a new dress for Ah Shu every year during the old calendar and New Year, the little girl loves beauty, she likes to be beautiful herself. ”
The ten-year-old boy, whose articulation was neither humble nor arrogant, shocked everyone present.
The dean couldn't hold back his tears, and in a trance he sighed again.
Ni Xiuli glanced at Liang Shu on the side again, he was a little choked, and he was also moved by Jiang Pingsheng's words just now, he put his hands on both sides of the young man's shoulders, "Do you know that what you said is the most ideal state, since we have decided to adopt you, it is bound to give you the best of us, but if you raise two children, ......"
Needless to say, Jiang Pingsheng also understood.
Jiang Pingsheng nodded, indicating that he could understand him, and then he called Uncle Ni, knelt down in front of everyone, and kowtowed to Ni Xiuli, "Uncle Ni, thank you very much for choosing me as your family and your son, but please forgive me, I can't leave Ah Shu behind, there are other very good children here, you can choose more." ”
This move 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 his eyes.
Ni Xiuli sighed and glanced at his wife, "You let your uncle think about it again, okay?"
Jiang Pingsheng bowed again, "Thank you." ”
The Ni family and his wife said that they would think about it, so they went out to discuss it with the dean at this time.
Only Jiang Pingsheng was left in the room, Liang Shu came 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 little hand and rubbed it on his knee, her voice was crisp and immature, "Brother Asheng, do you hurt?"
Jiang Pingsheng smiled at her and stared at her, "Ah Shu, how many times have I told you, don't call Ah Sheng brother, call Ah Sheng." ”
She lowered her head and said sullenly, "But the dean said, let me call you Brother Asheng." ”
"Then do you listen to me, or to the dean?"
Liang Shu bit his lower lip, glanced up at Jiang Pingsheng, and said slowly, "Listen to Ah Sheng." ”
Jiang Pingsheng smiled and took her hand.
"Why did you kneel down just now? The ground is so hard. Liang Shu asked him.
But Jiang Pingsheng didn't answer, he looked at the people in the album, his eyes were soft, and he clenched Liang Shu's hand, "Ah Shu, you must be happy every day, you have never done anything wrong, those have nothing to do with you, you know?"
Liang Shu lowered her head again, and this time she didn't speak.
Jiang Pingsheng looked at her sideways and said very seriously, "Ah Shu, I will definitely take you away." ”
……
Ni Xiuli asked about Liang Shu, very puzzled, he said, "How can such a beautiful girl be adopted by no one? I think she also has a very good personality and is very likable." ”
Speaking of this, the dean sighed again.
"There are many families who like Ah Shu, even more than the people who adopted her, Ah Shu was once adopted by three families, but then some accidents happened......," the dean shook his head, "Later, they all sent her back." ”
"What's the reason for that? Is she naughty?"
"No, Ah Shu is very well-behaved. ”
The dean slowly recalled: "She went to the first person's house when she was five years old, and stayed for a year, the family was well-off, and at that time it was in the rising period of her career, because she still wanted a daughter, she took Ah Shu over, but they went bankrupt in less than a year, and she was sent back." ”
"Later, I found a second family, stayed for more than a year, and the family of He Meimei, there was a brother who was three years older than her, I heard that she accidentally ran out of the yard that day, and the eight or nine-year-old child ran out to find her and was almost bitten to death by a mad dog......"
What happened later, naturally, it was self-evident, and Liang Shu was sent back again.
"The third time Ah Shu stayed in that house for a short time, only three months," the dean looked at Ni Xiuli, "Ah Shu is a good boy, but I don't hide it from you, the family doesn't know where to find out about the first two families, I heard that I took Ah Shu to tell her fortune, and the fortune teller said that this child is in a bad life, and her family is not strong, so she can't be suppressed." ”
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, don't delay this child, everything pays attention to cause and effect, superstition has no scientific basis at all, and it is not worth believing." ”
The dean smiled, "It's hard for you to think like this, but for some people, this kind of thing would rather be believed than not, but Ah Shu is quite good with us, nothing has happened." ”
After a pause, the dean added, "None of these Ah Shu know, no matter whether you adopt Ah Shu or not, please don't let her know about this." ”
But all of these were listened to by Jiang Pingsheng word for word.
Ni Xiuli nodded, "I understand, I don't believe in this myself, it's just that our current situation is really not suitable for adopting two children...... I like life very much, please find time to help me persuade him more,"
……
In the end, it was Liang Shu who persuaded Jiang Pingsheng.
"Ah Sheng, you just follow them, didn't Uncle Ni promise you, can you 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 stay with her all the time." ”
Jiang Pingsheng hugged Liang Shu, his face was very calm, "Ah Shu, I won't leave you." ”
"You'll listen to me this time, okay?"
Jiang Pingsheng left the orphanage a year later.
The day after his 10th birthday.
Later, he really managed to come to see Liang Shu every week, and brought her a lot of things that she hadn't seen before.
He tutored Liang Shu's homework, so that she was the same as the children outside, and she didn't fall behind.
Later, Liang Shu also left here.
She was thirteen years old.
Until she was eighteen years old, Jiang Ping never saw her in his life.
In the blank four or five years, Liangshu seemed to evaporate from the world of Jiang Ping's life.
Jiang Pingsheng is extremely filial to the Ni family and his wife, and he himself is very good, but he has had a disagreement with Ni Xiuli on the issue of cooling.
The real reunion between the two 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 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 at the time, and tears hit Jiang Pingsheng's skin, she said, "Let's not care about the past, okay?"
Liang Shu said that it didn't matter before, so Jiang Pingsheng really didn't ask.
It was as if the years he had been crazy about looking for her were just a dream he had.
The cool has changed.
She is no longer the happy Ah Shu who used to be happy and can laugh all the time.
On the contrary, she is now silent, sometimes staying with him and not talking for a day.
Jiang Pingsheng knew that the woman who adopted Liangshu was a woman, and that beautiful woman raised a man with a dead brain.
He didn't know what had been missing in the past few years to make Liang Shu what he was now, but he was now trying to get back to his original Ah Shu.
So Jiang Pingsheng went to find Aunt Mei.
He asked the woman sitting across from him who looked like she was still smoking, her fingers resting on her knees, "Can you tell me what happened to Ah Shu all these years?"
She only met Aunt Mei the day before Liang Shu and Jiang Pingsheng reunited, Aunt Mei just looked at Liang Shu and was pleasing to the eye, plus that rainy night, she just met Liang Shu.
Aunt Mei felt at the time that Jiang Jiucheng was unreliable, she was a woman, and giving birth to a child was simply a luxury.
So she wants to find someone to wait for a hundred years to give her old age.
Aunt Mei didn't know about Liangxi's past at that time.
So she said to Jiang Pingsheng very lightly, "Since you want to know so much, ask her yourself, isn't she more able to tell you clearly?"
Liang Shu is completely different now than then, she is very cold, she no longer follows him like before, and she rarely laughs anymore.
Jiang Pingsheng had even seen her smoking.
It's in a western restaurant.
It was dinner time, Jiang Pingsheng asked her what she was eating, and Liang Shu said casually.
So he asked her, "Is Western food okay?"
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's 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 him.
Jiang Pingsheng had already cut the second steak, but Liang Shu still hadn't picked up the fork.
He thought ......
So he put down the knife and fork in his hand and asked her cautiously, "Ah Shu, I'll go to the waiter and ask for two chopsticks, let's eat with chopsticks, okay?"
The person sitting across from her seemed to have suddenly woken up from her own world, and she smiled at him and shook her head, "Eat." ”
The steak in front of her, Liang Shu picked up a fork and ate three pieces.
When she ate the fourth piece, she mechanically stuffed it into her mouth, but the next second, it seemed that she couldn't bear it anymore, she couldn't even go to the bathroom, and she started to vomit while holding on to the table.
Jiang Pingsheng saw clearly, and all the steaks she had just eaten were spit out at the moment.
He helped Liang Shu to the bathroom, and he didn't even have the time to say sorry to the other diners.
Jiang Pingsheng didn't have so many taboos, there was no one in the women's bathroom, so he directly helped Liang Shu in and locked the door.
Even though she had vomited everything, the retching action did not stop, and in the end, only acid water remained.
In the end, Liang Shu finally felt better, sitting on the ground with his knees and his eyes closed.
But Jiang Pingsheng's mentality collapsed.
Seeing such a cool relief, did he dare to ask what happened to the previous cool relief?
He half-knelt on the ground, hugged her, and buried his face tightly in her neck, "Let's stop eating, never eat Western food again, I'll go home and cook for you, okay? I'll cook for you, I'm a good cook now, you will definitely like it." ”
She was fine with him on other foods, but she would vomit when she ate Western food, especially steak.
Liang Shu noticed that hot tears were hitting her skin, she opened her eyes, and said without much strength, "Ah Sheng, it's my own problem. ”
Some things, once they become shadows, will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
There was a knock on the door outside, and Liang Shu leaned on him to get up, "Let's go out." ”
The air in the corridor is okay, and you can also see the night view of Yucheng.
Liang Shu looked at Jiang Pingsheng, who was silent beside him, and suddenly turned his head to him and said, "I have mouthwash in my bag, you can go and get it for me, okay?"
Wait for Jiang Pingsheng to come back with what she wanted.
What I saw was the picture of her leaning on the railing and smoking, with a touch of scarlet between her slender and white fingertips, and the blue and white smoke rose up, Jiang Pingsheng only felt that her jaw was very sharp.
She has now learned to smoke.
Jiang Pingsheng walked up to her, glanced at the cigarette in her hand, looked out with a faint gaze, and spoke, "Ah Shu, I'll move out to take care of you, let's rent a house, okay?"
Hearing this, the corner of the woman's mouth showed a flirtatious smile, and she looked at him sideways, "I'm only a freshman, do you want me to live with a man?"
What she didn't say was, would Uncle Ni agree?
Jiang Pingsheng didn't know, but Liang Shu always remembered.
Before she was picked up by the Lu family, when this respected middle school teacher found her, she was so humble and pitiful.
She was thirteen years old at the time, and it was the third year that Jiang Pingsheng left the orphanage and still took care of her.
So at that time, she hadn't changed, and she called him with a smile: Uncle Ni.
But Ni Xiuli's eyes were complicated, he suddenly knelt in front of her, and a man who was over forty years old suddenly knelt in front of a thirteen-year-old girl, what a horror.
Liang Shu was frightened at that time, and she stared at Ni Xiuli.
Ni Xiuli said, "Ah Shu, can you promise your uncle one thing?"
She froze, not shaking her head or nodding her head.
"I heard that someone will come to pick you up soon, it is an extremely prominent family, the foundation is strong, you will be able to live a very happy life in the future, so ......" Ni Xiuli's eyes were compassionate, and her voice was choked, "Can you promise your uncle not to see him again in the future, okay?"
Liang Shu made a confused face, clasped his hands, "Why?" Ah Sheng knew that he would be unhappy. ”
"He is very smart, he is only fifteen years old this year, he has to finish his high school courses, he is a genius, he needs to concentrate on his studies, he can't be disturbed by anyone, in order to let him have a good future in the future, can you promise uncle?"
Don't see Jiang Pingsheng from now on...... Is it?
Liang Shu couldn't do it, so she shook her head, "Ah Sheng knows that he will be unhappy." ”
"So uncle, please don't let him know, don't contact him again after you go to Lu's house, okay?"
Ni Xiuli's appeal, Liang Shu did not agree.
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 Pingsheng, he is very good in all aspects, but he is very stubborn in the matter of Liangshu...... he paused for a few seconds, "I used to believe in science, but I can't gamble with Pingsheng, I heard that the reason why Ah Shu was sent to the orphanage was because she killed her parents shortly after she was born, right?"
The usually amiable 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 Ah Shu, I will help him put it down, and after a long time, new things continue to appear around him, and those who can't forget will always forget." ”
"I just ask the dean not to tell him who Ah Shu has adopted, the Lu family is a famous family, a prominent family, and she can live in the town, and she will forget about it with our family in the future." ”
The dean only sighed.
Who would have thought that this girl would carry a life of the Lu family before she was picked up by the Lu family?
In this way, the other party can still accept her, this is her blessing, and it is good to be able to go to her in such a lintel in the future, Jiang Pingsheng, forget it.
These words were listened to word by word.
Liang Shu suddenly understood that Jiang Pingsheng had no difference from her before, but in fact, he must have had a lot of disagreements 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 college means at this time, every time he sees the blue and gray in Jiang Pingsheng's eyes, it is very hard to think about coming to the university.
It's so hard, and I have to come over every week to help her with her homework, which is really tiring.
Then she won't go to him for the time being, she will live well in her new family, and she will be able to really stand side by side with him in the future.
But she didn't believe that she was in trouble, and she didn't believe that such a kind and harmless person could kill the people around her.
So at this moment, Jiang Pingsheng said to her: Ah Shu, let's rent a house, okay?
If Ni Xiuli knows, what should he do?
Liang Shu knew that Jiang Pingsheng was very good now, he was only nineteen years old this year, and he had already been sent to the graduate school of Yu University, and he was a man of the year at the grass level of Yu University.
Such a talent, presumably Ni Xiuli really put a lot of effort into him, and how could she bear to ruin such a good Jiang Pingsheng?
So Liang Shu refused.
Throughout his freshman year, Liang Shu was rejecting Jiang Pingsheng.
She didn't study well, she mixed with all kinds of people in society, she 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 Liang's sophomore year.
Aunt Mei went to school to let Liang Shu study hard, and as soon as she left on her front foot, Jiang Jiucheng came on her back foot.
At the gate of the school, Jiang Jiucheng was going to find Liangshu.
was the first to be stopped by Jiang Pingsheng, this year, Jiang Pingsheng has seen him too many times.
He asked Liang Shu for money, but he didn't know what excuse to use.
Jiang Pingsheng couldn't get used to 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 arrived, he happened to see someone swinging a stick and smashing it on the back of Jiang Pingsheng's head, and the tall young man fell to the ground in response.
At that moment, her mind went blank.
She called the police, ran over and hugged Jiang Pingsheng's body, and dragged his head with her palm, and in the palm of her hand, there was a bright red sticky.
Those eyes stared at Jiang Jiucheng fiercely, eager to eat him, she cried like crazy, "How can you hit his head? How can you hit his head?"
In Liang Shu's eyes, Jiang Pingsheng is such an excellent person, if he hadn't met her, he wouldn't be like this now.
This year, Jiang Pingsheng has become a strange person in the eyes of his roommates.
A roommate sneered in private, "This is simply unbelievable, Yu Da, that high-achieving student, has been chasing a neurotic for a year, and the last time I heard someone, he was even beaten because of her." ”
Someone chimed in, "Maybe he's a weirdo, too." ”