The primary school that Lu Lingxi attended was located in Jing'an District, Zhongjing. It was summer vacation at the time and there was no student in the school. It was very quiet.
The two were stopped by the old man guarding the school gate. Lu Lingxi went up to greet him and said that he was a student here and came back to visit. He and Yan Yue were both good-looking and did not look like bad people. The old man looked at them warily, asked Lu Lingxi's name, and waved to let them in.
"Thank you, sir." Lu Lingxi thanked him with a smile and ran inside with Yan Yue.
The old man couldn't help but smile when he saw Lu Lingxi's smile. He thought the child was very cute, but the name sounded familiar. He seemed to have heard it somewhere. Where? As people get older, their memory is not good. The old man carefully wrote the words "visitor Lu Lingxi" on the blackboard at the door, then turned back to the hut and continued reading the newspaper.
A few minutes later, the principal of the school personally sent Lu Guangjing to the school gate. Lu Guangjing contacted the school some time ago and planned to donate to build an indoor stadium here. The school welcomes donations from outsiders. The principal personally accompanied Lu Guangjing to visit the school several times. The school didn't know much about the Lu family, but only heard that a child of the Lu family went to school here eleven years ago, but later dropped out due to health reasons. Now that the child has passed away, the family hopes to do something to commemorate the child.
"Mr. Lu, don't worry about the stadium. I'll call you once I've made arrangements..."
The principal suddenly shut up in the middle of his speech. He noticed that Lu Guangjing seemed to have seen something and was staring at the small blackboard on the wall. His expression was a little strange. The principal looked over and saw the words "Lu Lingxi". He was slightly stunned. Wasn't this the name of the child who died in the Lu family?
While the principal was stunned, Lu Guangjing turned around in despair and whispered, "I'm leaving first."
The principal wanted to ask Lu Lingxi what was going on, but he felt that Lu Guangjing's son had already passed away, and it would be embarrassing for him to go after him. While he was hesitating, Lu Guangjing had already got into the car parked on the side of the road and motioned for the driver to leave first.
After seeing off Lu Guangjing, the principal couldn't help but ask the old man at the door, "Who is this Lu Lingxi?" As soon as the old man described him, his age matched, his previous school experience matched, and they had the same name, so the principal's face turned pale.
The principal was so scared that his legs went limp, muttering to himself that he saw a ghost in broad daylight. On the other side, Lu Guangjing closed his eyes, feeling that God was constantly reminding him to remember to atone for his sins. Recently, the name Lu Lingxi has appeared very frequently in the Lu family's old house. Even he, who lives outside, has heard rumors in the old house - about his father's other son and grandson. Lu Guangjing doesn't care about business matters, but occasionally thinks of the child with the same name and surname as Xiaoxi, and can't help but wonder what Xiaoxi would be like now if he hadn't had an accident a year ago? Unfortunately, there is no if in this world.
When the car was halfway there, Lu Guangjing opened his eyes and said, "Let's go to Li's house."
The driver simply turned a corner and took a sympathetic look at Lu Guangjing when he was not paying attention. The servants in the family were saying that Mrs. Lu was crazy and was driven crazy by the eldest young master. Now she was taken back by her parents. The driver thought about it and thought that if the kid in the family dared to be so unfilial in the future, he would break the kid's legs. The driver thought he was doing it secretly, but Lu Guangjing still noticed it. Lu Guangjing smiled self-deprecatingly. This driver had just come to the Lu family and didn't know about the Lu family's past. If he knew, he probably wouldn't sympathize with him anymore, but would just scold him for what he deserved.
When they arrived at the Li family's house, Li Caiying's elder brother Li Yao was there. He was not polite to Lu Guangjing, "What are you doing here? I have arranged for a lawyer to send you a letter. Caiying wants to divorce you. You should prepare yourself."
Lu Guangjing whispered: "I won't get divorced. It's my responsibility that Caiying has become what she is now. I..."
"It doesn't matter whose fault it is now." Li Yao interrupted him. "I know my sister well. She has a problem with her character. She is too paranoid. When you were having fun outside, I advised her to divorce, but she insisted on having a child to tie you down. Later, Wei'an was born prematurely, and her mental state was a little off. When Wei'an got sick, Caiying felt even more sorry for Wei'an, and she poured all her motherly love into Wei'an. Over the years, the Li family only saw Caiying revolving around Wei'an, but they didn't realize that her mental state had become more and more paranoid. When it exploded now, it was too late."
He glanced at Lu Guangjing with a slightly sarcasm when he said this, "Now don't talk about taking care of Caiying. To be honest, I'm worried about you. No matter how many mistakes Caiying has made over the years, when she married you, she was always planning to live a good life with you. But what about you? Let's not talk about what happened back then. If you had paid more attention to Caiying's emotions later, she wouldn't have become like this now."
"I……"
"You don't need to explain." Li Yao followed up with, "I know you're sad that Xiaoxi is dead." He paused and said, "...Xiaoxi was a good kid, and now this is Caiying's retribution."
Li Yao sighed, and Lu Guangjing's heart trembled, "Weian..."
"Don't mention Wei'an to me." Li Yao's face turned cold. "Caiying feels sorry for Xiaoxi, but she doesn't feel sorry for Wei'an in the slightest. Since Wei'an feels that he has been living a life worse than death for so many years, and it is Caiying's obsession that forces him to live, then there is nothing left for the Li family to say to him."
"I……"
"Okay, you can go now."
Li Yao interrupted Lu Guangjing again and ordered the housekeeper to send Lu Guangjing out. The Li family no longer wanted to have anything to do with the Lu family. After sending Lu Guangjing away, Li Yao turned and went to Li Caiying's room. The doctor said that Caiying had just taken a sedative and fell asleep. Li Yao looked at his sister's pale and thin face and sighed deeply. He didn't know why Caiying lived her life like this. The eldest son who was so kind and devoted was an ungrateful person, and the youngest son who was well-behaved and sensible died early. The man she had been holding on to for a lifetime was a coward, and she herself became seriously paranoid and crazy in middle age. If she had known that this day would come, would she still have fallen in love with Lu Guangjing and insisted on marrying into the Lu family?
No one could answer Li Yao's question.
Lu Guangjing stood at the door of the Li family and took a last look, then hunched back into the car. Caiying was crazy, Xiaoxi was dead, and Wei'an was sacrificed by the Lu family as an abandoned child. He originally wanted to find Li Yao to see if he could find a way to get Wei'an out, but Li Yao... Lu Guangjing couldn't blame Li Yao for being ruthless, after all, Caiying was provoked by Wei'an. The previous quarrel between Wei'an and Caiying flashed through his mind, and Lu Guangjing shrank back in his chair tiredly. He really didn't know that Wei'an had lived with resentment for so many years.
He and Caiying spent so much time and effort on Wei'an, but in the end, they were the ones who selfishly forced Wei'an to live, and they were the ones who let him down. Lu Guangjing really didn't know what went wrong? Why did Wei'an become like this? He still remembered how well-behaved Wei'an was when he was a child, and how good his relationship with Caiying was, but in the blink of an eye, everything was no longer what he remembered.
When Lu Guangjing got home, the house was empty, not a single person was there, not even the servants had gone. He sat hunched on the sofa, looking at the family portrait hanging on the opposite wall...soon he would be the only one left in the house.
On the street not far from the Lu family, Lu Lingxi looked at the Lu family's house from afar. He had lived there for eighteen years, but he still felt that the house was very strange.
Yan Yue bought a cup of lemon tea from a cold drink shop on the roadside and handed it to Lu Lingxi. Lu Lingxi retracted his gaze, took the lemon tea and suddenly said, "Brother Yan, let's go back to Fengcheng. I miss my mother."
Yan Yue raised his hand and touched Lu Lingxi's hair, and said softly, "Okay."
The two said goodbye to Ye Kang, went home to pack up their things, and drove away from Zhongjing that afternoon. The highway from Zhongjing to Fengcheng was full of cars, and it was very congested. Yan Yue said casually: "We should take the high-speed rail back."
Dahei immediately called out, reminding others of his existence.
Lu Lingxi laughed, scratched Dahei's chin soothingly, and called Wang Shuxiu.
"Mom, Brother Yan and I are on our way home. There's a bit of traffic on the highway, so we'll probably be home in the evening."
"Why so soon? Why didn't you stay in Zhongjing for a few more days?" Wang Shuxiu was a little surprised.
Lu Lingxi held the phone and said seriously: "I miss my mother."
"Little bastard." Wang Shuxiu scolded with a smile, "What do you want to eat when you get home tonight? I'll make it for you first."
"...I want to eat glutinous rice and pork ribs."
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Wang Shuxiu, with her big belly, told Xiao Feng to hurry out to buy ribs, because if it was any later, there would be no good ribs left. Xiao Feng took his wallet and prepared to go out. Before leaving, he told Wang Shuxiu, "Xiaohua, don't worry about anything. Wait for me to come back and wash the rice and clean up."
"I know." Wang Shuxiu gave him a glare. Xiao Feng smiled and touched Wang Shuxiu's belly, feeling the movement of the baby under his palm, and looked at Wang Shuxiu with a very gentle look, "Xiaohua, what do you want to eat? I'll buy it all."
"The refrigerator is full of food, don't buy anything." Wang Shuxiu stopped him.
Xiao Feng smiled and walked out of the door, thinking that Xiaohua liked to eat the braised pork elbows at the shop in front of the street, and Dahei happened to be back, so he would buy some pork elbows for dinner. Xiaoxi liked glutinous rice and lotus root, and Yan Yue seemed to like the braised meat sold in the same shop, so he would weigh some together, and... He was thinking about what to buy as he walked, all of which were what the whole family liked.
A family? Xiao Feng smiled silently. When the baby in Xiaohua's belly was born, it would be the perfect time to take a family photo again. This time, he would invite Yan Yue to come too. Oh, and that little black dog with missing teeth.
As if they had a tacit understanding, Lu Lingxi was talking to Yan Yue about taking a new family photo. "We'll take it when the little brother is born. Big Brother Yan, Dahei, Xiaohei, we'll all be together."
"good."
Yan Yue was sure there would be no problem. When Xiao Hei heard his name, he poked his head out of Lu Lingxi's bag and tied a knot around Lu Lingxi's wrist with satisfaction.
The traffic in front started again. Yan Yue curled up the corners of his lips, looked at Lu Lingxi with a smile, stepped on the accelerator, and drove towards home.
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