Chapter 135 Falling from the Building
"Yang Qin! Open the door! Open the door! Lu Yan, I am your father after all, can you really bear to ignore me?! I have raised you two for nothing!"
Since the Lu family went bankrupt, Lu Wanshan was embroiled in lawsuits and all his assets were frozen. He was in such a state of desolation that he stood outside with an unshaven beard, cursing and knocking on the door loudly, looking completely different from the scholar-merchant he used to be.
Yang Qin sat on the sofa with a cold expression. She let Lu Wanshan curse outside and refused to open the door.
Lu Yan endured it for the whole morning, and only felt a buzzing pain in his head: "I'll ask the community security to take him out."
Fortunately, they live in a single-family home, otherwise their neighbors would have complained long ago.
Yang Qin disagreed, and her gentle brows were tightly knitted: "What's the point of taking him out? Even if you call the police, it can only be regarded as a family dispute. Lu Wanshan is shameless now. He can lie down at the gate of the community and shout for the whole world to know. Do you believe it?"
She tried to hold back, but couldn't help it: "You are not allowed to give him money. This bastard came here last week. I gave him 200,000 yuan for emergency treatment because of our past friendship. I didn't expect him to come here again today. He is simply greedy and wants more than he can chew!"
In order to complete the divorce procedure as quickly as possible, Yang Qin didn't even bother to fight for the property and just left the house empty-handed. She didn't take much money from the Lu family at all, and of course she didn't allow Lu Yan to pay her back.
Hearing this, Lu Yan had no choice but to sit quietly on the sofa. However, as time passed, the noise outside not only did not stop, but became more and more intense. He didn't know where this old man Lu Wanshan got so much strength. When he shouted, he even pulled Lu Bing:
"Your brother is still lying in the hospital waiting for you to save his life! Lu Yan! Do you have any conscience? I have raised you for so many years. Even if you don't care about me, you should at least care about your brother. He is waiting for money for emergency treatment now!"
After hearing what Lu Wanshan said, Lu Yan realized that he hadn't seen Lu Bing for a long time. He thought for a moment, and finally got up and went to open the door. Yang Qin wanted to reach out to stop him but was half a step too late.
“Crack!”
The tightly closed door suddenly opened, causing Lu Wanshan, who was knocking on the door, to almost fall flat on his face. Lu Yan quickly closed the door to prevent the other party from taking the opportunity to get in. He said in a faint voice:
"Tell me, what on earth do you want to do here?"
Although Lu Wanshan was still wearing his old brand-name suits and shirts, it was obvious that they had not been taken care of for a long time, and his sleeves were wrinkled. He had an untidy beard, and if you got close, you could smell the alcohol on him. He looked like a drunk who was going crazy on the street. He pointed at Lu Yan's face and cursed, "You little beast, are you finally willing to open the door?!"
Lu Yan nonchalantly asked back: "I am a little beast, what are you? An old beast?"
Lu Wanshan was furious and raised his hand to hit him, but Lu Yan kicked him in the stomach, causing him to stumble back and fall to the ground. Lu Yan didn't use much strength at all, but Lu Wanshan rolled on the ground like a gangster, holding his stomach and shouting: "Hey, you little beast, you even dare to hit your own father, Yang Qin! Yang Qin! Come out and see, this is the good son you raised!"
Lu Yan kicked him again and said coldly, "If you don't want to die, shut up!"
Maybe it was because Lu Yan’s expression was too frightening, but Lu Wanshan really fell silent for a moment, and was so scared that he stayed where he was, not daring to move.
Lu Yan took out his phone, switched to the address book interface, and waved it in front of him, threatening him without emotion: "Did you borrow high-interest loans from Wang Xiaohu and his gang? He is hanging out in the bar opened by my friend. Do you want me to call them over?"
As soon as these words came out, Lu Wanshan was frightened and immediately got up from the ground. He pointed at Lu Yan and backed away while scolding in fear: "You, you don't even think about the father-son relationship at all! I raised you for more than 20 years, and you treat me like this?!"
Lu Yan sneered: "I just remember that you raised me, so I haven't hit anyone yet. If you don't leave, I will call those creditors over to see who is more ruthless, them or me."
His sharp eyes left no doubt about the truth of his words. Lu Wanshan had been hiding from his creditors recently, so he dared not stay any longer. He pressed the elevator button and wanted to run away, but Lu Yan suddenly asked, "Where does Lu Bing live now?"
Hearing this, Lu Wanshan wiped his nose with his sleeve, turned back immediately, and asked eagerly, "Why, do you want to give him money? Or you can just give it to me and I'll deliver it to him for you!"
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows coldly: "Do you believe me if I slap you twice? Where does he live?!"
Lu Wanshan was so frightened that he took two steps back, and then he gave the address tremblingly.
Lu Yan looked at him deeply, and it was unknown what kind of emotion he was hiding. He took out his wallet from his pocket and handed over a pile of cash inside: "Don't let me see you appear in front of my mother in the future, otherwise I will beat you every time I see you. Do you hear me?"
Lu Wanshan snatched the pile of money, counted it and found that there was only a few thousand. He muttered that he was so stingy, and said impatiently, "I know", then turned around and walked into the elevator.
Yang Qin had been watching the situation through the crack of the door. When she saw Lu Wanshan leave, she opened the door and walked out, and asked worriedly, "Will he really not come again?"
Lu Yan patted Yang Qin's shoulder and went into the house with her: "Don't pay attention to him, I have already picked out another house and I am looking for someone to renovate it. We will move out after a while, and he won't be able to find out."
Yang Qin was relieved after hearing this, but then she sighed, "It's unfortunate that Lu Bing has such a father. I was playing mahjong with Mrs. Chen some time ago, and I heard that Lu Wanshan took all of Lu Bing's savings to pay off his debts, leaving him nothing. He even couldn't run his studio and it went bankrupt."
Lu Bing's design studio doesn't make any money at all and it relies entirely on spending money to stay open. In the past, Duan Ji Yang was there to help keep it going, but now there is no external support and all the employees left in less than three days.
Lu Yan responded vaguely, not knowing what he was thinking: "We just need to take care of ourselves."
Lu Yan always thought that Lu Bing had some money, and no matter how poor he was, he would not be without money for medical treatment. Lu Wanshan probably exaggerated. But he didn't expect that when he took time to go to Lu Bing's current address, he found that his situation was indeed very bad. How to describe it, it was only slightly better than Tang Rufeng's back then.
There were eight households living in the dim and old corridor. While Lu Yan stood at the door and hesitated for a moment, the elevator kept going up and down. Four uncles and aunts were coming in and out. They were carrying vegetables bought from the market in their hands, and their conversation was mixed with their local accents, which was noisy and difficult to understand.
Lu Yan glanced at the house number in front of him and was hesitating whether to knock on the door and go in. As a result, as soon as he raised his hand, the door opened with a click, and what came into view was Lu Bing's pale face. You can see that he is very thin, but his body is swollen everywhere, which is a world of difference from his previous appearance.
The two of them were stunned for a moment at the same time. Lu Bing was the first to come to his senses and asked with an unpleasant expression, "What are you doing here?"
He thought Lu Yan was here to laugh at him.
Lu Yan was wearing a low-key black coat, with a handsome face and mature temperament, which was very different from the image of a frivolous playboy in the past. He looked around and found it hard to imagine that Lu Bing would live here: "Nothing, come and see, you live here now?"
If you ask who Lu Bing least wants to see now, Lu Yan must be ranked first, and even Duan Jiyang has to take a back seat. Although they are brothers in name only, their previous situations were very different. Lu Bing was a top student praised by everyone, while Lu Yan was just a playboy with no education. But they didn't expect their situations to be overturned overnight, and their current situations have been reversed.
Lu Bing didn't even bother to cover up. He simply opened the door, revealing the shabby environment inside. It was a small house of more than 80 square meters with simple furniture. Because of its bad orientation, not even sunlight could get in.
"You are here just to laugh at me, right? Go ahead and watch. Anyway, you are the one who is proud and I am the one who is frustrated. I have nothing to be afraid of."
Lu Yan had long been accustomed to Lu Bing's weird temper, so he didn't care and said calmly: "I came here to tell you to stay away from Lu Wanshan. He owes a lot of debts in the casino, and the gangsters outside are looking for him everywhere. Be careful not to get involved."
Lu Yan has opened a few bars now, and has someone backing him up, so those hooligans don't dare to cause trouble for him, but the same may not be true for Lu Bing.
Lu Bing didn't expect Lu Yan to say this to her. She looked at him suspiciously and said, "He is your biological father after all. Are you really so cruel as to ignore him?"
Here we go again.
Lu Yan got a headache when he saw Lu Bing's saintly look. He lifted his eyelids and said with a half-smile, "It's your business if you want to be filial. Don't bring me into this, Lu Bing. He is a bottomless pit now. No matter how much you put into it, it will be a loss. You have already suffered a setback with Duan Jiyang, you can't suffer the same setback with Lu Wanshan."
Although what he said was unpleasant to hear, it was indeed the truth.
Lu Yanyu took out a card from his pocket and placed it on the only small bookcase in the room: "I will not come to see you again in the future. You can spend the rest of your life as you wish."
When Lu Yan just became an adult, Lu Wanshan bought him a 200-square-meter house in the city center. He sold the house two days ago and deposited all the money into this card. It is enough for Lu Bing to move into a comfortable small house. Even if he finds a suitable kidney donor in the future, it is more than enough for an operation. It can be regarded as returning it to them.
Lu Yan always thought that Lu Bing didn't have to live such a miserable life, but she was obsessed with love and kept chasing after Duan Ji Yang, which delayed her career and her life. If Lu Bing was smart enough, she should have taken the money and started over in another place. There would still be time for everything.
Of course, if Lu Bing gave the money to Lu Wanshan to pay off his debts, Lu Yan would have nothing to say. Good words cannot persuade a damned man. He did what he should do and he has a clear conscience.
In late autumn, the leaves turned golden, the sky was dark, and a light drizzle fell.
It is said that spring is the beginning of all things and autumn is the season of fruition, but few people know that many stories finally break out of the ground in autumn, waiting for the next new cycle.
Lu Yan did not go home. Seeing that it was still early, he went straight to the bar. The waiter at the front desk saw him and greeted him, pointing upstairs and said, "Boss, Mr. Duan is waiting for you in the private room."
Lu Yan paused when he heard this: "How long has he been here?"
The waiter said: "Not long, about twenty minutes..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw Lu Yan turn around and hurried upstairs, as if he was afraid that the other party had been waiting for too long.
Bar rooms are dimly lit most of the time. Lu Yan pushed the door open and walked in. Before he could see the surroundings clearly, someone covered his eyes from behind. Then he heard the muffled sound of a door closing.
In the darkness, one's five senses would be infinitely magnified. At that moment, Lu Yan seemed to hear his own heartbeat. He asked in a low voice, "Tang Rufeng?"
The man behind him hummed and then put down his hand. Tang Rufeng hugged Lu Yan from behind, then slowly tightened his arms, almost half of his weight was on him, and deliberately asked: "Why don't you guess about others?"
Lu Yan didn't say that this private room was reserved for him, and no one except Tang Rufeng could enter: "It's not even dark yet, why did you come here? Aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
Tang Rufeng rested his chin on Lu Yan's shoulder, fiddling with the buttons on his coat with his fingertips, squinting his eyes contentedly like a cat: "My old friend is in the hospital, and I don't know where Duan Jiyang has gone. No one is watching me."
Lu Yan thought about it and agreed. Everyone in the Duan family was busy with their own affairs. No one would be interested in watching them. "Why are you still going to the bar? The private room is too stuffy. Come on, I'll take you somewhere else."
Lu Yanyu pulled Tang Rufeng out of the private room, walked around and went directly to the rooftop of the bar, where there were lounge chairs and parasols, and the glass canopy above was decorated with countless small colored lights.
As dusk falls, there is a dark blue sky in the distance and countless tall buildings rise from the ground, witnessing the prosperity and changes of the city against the backdrop of the night.
Tang Rufeng stood on the rooftop, looking hard into the distance, trying to find the dilapidated residential building where he once lived. However, all he could see were high-rise buildings in the central area of the CBD, and there was no trace of the past.
Tang Rufeng stretched out his hand and traced the shapes of the tall buildings with his fingertips. Suddenly, he asked blankly, "Lu Yan, will we always be together?"
He saw the moon changing and tall buildings collapsing with his own eyes. Everything around him was changing. Nothing is ever unchanging, let alone a human being who is pushed forward by fate.
Tang Rufeng had asked this question before, and Lu Yan had given an affirmative answer. When he asked the same question again now, his answer remained the same, but was more certain than before.
"Of course."
As if afraid that Tang Rufeng would not believe him, Lu Yan pulled him directly to the edge of the rooftop. The height of seven or eight floors was dizzying. The night wind blew in their faces, and the corners of their clothes rustled. Only Lu Yan's half-smile voice was particularly clear:
"If I lie to you in the future, just drag me down from here and let us die together. Even Prince Yan can't separate us."
Although Lu Yan said this as if he was joking, he was half sincere. People in the world are too fickle, as if only death can make people feel at ease. Although he didn't think he would separate from Tang Rufeng, if he really did something to let Tang Rufeng down in the future, dying together would be a good ending.
Tang Rufeng asked quietly, "Really?"
The night was dark. He stood behind Lu Yan. His soft voice and his dark eyes formed a sharp contrast, which made people feel uneasy for some reason.
"Of course it's true."
Lu Yanyu was just about to turn around when he heard a buzzing warning from the system. Then a huge force attacked him from behind, and half of his body fell off the edge of the roof. The wind was howling, and he felt a strong sense of weightlessness, as if he would fall like a kite with a cut string in the next second.
[Warning! Warning! There is a bug in the world view program! The ghost of the past life has returned! Please be careful! The system is working hard to repair it! ]
Lu Yan's eyes widened in shock when he heard this. He turned around with difficulty to look behind him, but he saw that Tang Rufeng's expression had become sinister and resolute since he didn't know when, and there was an abnormal scarlet in his eyes. He pressed Lu Yan to the edge of the rooftop, and his hot tears fell down. He said in a hoarse voice: "You lied to me... You lied to me..."
"You clearly said you would be with me forever, why did you marry Duan Jiyang? I don't ask for anything, I don't want anything, I just want to live a good life with my mother, why won't you let me go?!!!"
Tang Rufeng's voice gradually became hysterical, and his expression was like a madman. He finally leaned close to Lu Yan, stretched out his hand to grab his collar, and suddenly uttered in a low voice: "Let's die together..."
He was so serious, yet so desperate, even the smile on his lips made people feel cold:
"Lu Yan, let's die together..."
It was Tang Rufeng who was let down by him in the previous life.
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