Gentle to the Bone

Although Lu Jingce said it depends on his mood, he still drove Shen Yansheng down the mountain to go home after lunch.

Because of cold, Shen Yansheng slept on the passenger seat on the way down the mountain.

It wasn’t until around one o’clock in the afternoon that the car drove back to the city, and she slowly woke up. Looking at the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival outside the window, she suddenly thought of last year’s Spring Festival involuntarily.

What was she doing this time last year? Was she making dumplings at home with your mother? Or help Dad hang lanterns in the yard? Or shopping in the supermarket with Fu Shiyu to buy new year’s goods?

It’s still last year, why can’t she remember clearly?

She lay on the edge of the car window, trying to let the cold wind blow her head soberly, but her head was so heavy, and the memory in her mind became more and more blurred.

Seeing her lying on the window blowing the wind, Lu Jingce frowned, stretched out his hand to pull her back, and said, “You don’t think your cold is serious enough, do you?”

He stretched out his hand to close the car window.

Shen Yansheng turned her head, her face was so pale that there was no blood, she looked at Lu Jingce, and said, “Lu Jingce, my head is so heavy, I think I’m going to lose my memory.”

Lu Jingce raised his hand and touched Shen Yansheng’s forehead, it was hot like a fireball, he unconsciously frowned, turned around, and drove towards the city center hospital.

On New Year’s Eve in 2016, Shen Yansheng originally thought that she could spend the Spring Festival with her parents, but who knew that she had a bad cold and fell asleep in the hospital all day, and it was already midnight when she woke up.

It was quiet in the ward, only Lu Jingce was sitting on the chair beside the bed to accompany her. He also looked tired, eyes closed as if asleep.

But when she moved a little, he opened his eyes, and his voice was a little dry, “Are you awake? What do you want?”

Shen Yansheng struggled to get up, but Lu Jingce had a severe headache, so he got up to help her, “Tell me what you want, don’t move around.”

Shen Yansheng was a little embarrassed, and whispered: “I want to go to the toilet.”

Lu Jingce didn’t think there was anything wrong, so he lifted the quilt and hugged her horizontally.

Shen Yansheng was startled, and subconsciously hugged Lu Jingce’s neck. She blushed inexplicably, and whispered: “I can go by myself.”

Lu Jingce ignored her, carried her to the bathroom, turned around and went out, and helped her close the door.

He must also be very sleepy, tiredness could be heard in his voice, and he said: “Okay, call me.”

Shen Yansheng knew that Lu Jingce was outside, so she was too embarrassed to go to the bathroom, she blushed for a long time, but couldn’t help but say: “You are outside…, i can’t…”

Lu Jingce was really tired at first, but hearing Shen Yansheng’s words cheered him up, and he said amusedly, “I don’t even despise you, what are you afraid of.”

Even though he said that, he still walked back to the bedside. He sat down on the chair, leaned on the armrest of the chair with his elbows, raised his hand and pressed the center of his eyebrows, and said, “Okay, get on and get out quickly.”

Shen Yansheng was finally relieved when she heard Lu Jingce’s voice far away, and took off the pants sat on the toilet.

After going to the bathroom and coming out, Shen Yansheng took off her shoes, obediently went back to bed, and got into the bed.

Lu Jingce was awake now, and took the infrared thermometer on the bedside table to take Shen Yansheng’s temperature.

Seeing that the temperature on the thermometer was normal, he dropped the thermometer and asked, “Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?”

Shen Yansheng shook her head. She looked at Lu Jingce and asked, “Is it still New Year’s Eve?”

Lu Jingce said “It’s three o’clock in the morning, what do you think?”

Shen Yansheng didn’t see her mobile phone, and asked worriedly: “Have my parents called me?”

Lu Jingce said “Yes”.

Shen Yansheng became nervous when she heard the words, “Did you answer it? What did you say?”

Lu Jingce looked at Shen Yansheng’s nervous and frightened look, and couldn’t help teasing her for a while, saying, “How can I not answer whenmy future mother-in-law calls?”

Shen Yansheng couldn’t help frown when she heard the words, she sat up from the bed, looked at Lu Jingce, “Stop joking, okay, I’m really worried.”

Seeing Shen Yansheng’s face as if she was facing a formidable enemy, Lu Jingce suddenly lost the ability to tease her, Shen Yansheng let out a long sigh of relief, and she lay back on the bed, curled up in the quilt, and she seemed to have an indescribable sense of brokenness.

Lu Jingce looked at her quietly for a long time, until the indescribable distress appeared in his heart again.

He stretched out his hand, touched Shen Yansheng’s cheek lightly with the back of his finger, and said in a low voice, “Move to my place after the next year, okay?”

Shen Yansheng closed her eyes, nodded her head meekly, and replied: “Okay. “

Shen Yansheng didn’t want to stay in the hospital for too long. The next morning, after hanging up two bottles of infusion, she wanted to go home.

Lu Jingce had already left by then.

In fact, he should have left last night, because Shen Yansheng suddenly had a fever he had to ask his secretary to help him change the ticket.

Seeing that Shen Yansheng’s condition was almost stable in the morning, He was relieved to hand Shen Yansheng over to Aunt Ping to take care.

Before leaving, he told Aunt Ping that if Shen Yansheng woke up and was going to be discharged from the hospital, he would ask the doctor to check again, and if there was no problem, he will have Uncle Chen to send her back.

Aunt Ping kept Lu Jingce’s words in mind, and she didn’t persuade Shen Yansheng to go home when she heard that she wanted to go home. She called a doctor to do a checkup for her, and helped Shen Yansheng pack her things after making sure there was no problem.

During the Spring Festival of 2016, Shen Yansheng spent the rest of the time with his parents except for the New Year’s Eve night spent in the hospital.

In addition, she took the time to resubmit several resumes. Before, because of family affairs, she had no way to work at all. Now that the family affairs are finally resolved, she has to start working again to make money.

In addition, she also asked an intermediary to show her several houses.

After all, the old house on Minghua Road is too dilapidated. It was because her mother was hospitalized, and her father’s matter didn’t know when it would be resolved. She was afraid that there would still be a lot of money needed in the future, so she didn’t dare to spend a penny indiscriminately, and rented the cheapest house, thinking that it would be enough to keep out the wind and rain.

Now that the family affairs have been settled and she can start working again, she plans to use the last little savings left to help her parents rent a house with a better environment.



Her parents are old, her mother has just had an operation, and her father has rheumatism, living in such a dark and humid environment all year round, she is really afraid that something will happen to them.

After looking at houses for several days, she finally settled on the two-bedroom apartment in Fairview Garden.

The house is on Ping’an Road. The location is not prosperous, but it is not remote. The surrounding businesses are sufficient for daily life.

The most important thing is that there is a wetland park next to it, which is very suitable for her parents to go for a walk when they have nothing to do.

After negotiating the price with the landlord, she signed a half-year contract immediately.

But on the day of the move, her parents were actually a little unhappy, blaming her for wasting money without telling them.

She took her mother to sit on the sofa and said with a smile: “Anyway, I have already found a job. I just earn money when I run out of money. The house on Minghua Road is really dilapidated, and it was cold and damp all winter. I worked in the middle of the night the other day. I heard you coughing. You have just had an operation. If something bad happens , I will regret it for the rest of my life.”

Zhou Xiuyun said: “How can it be so serious? Others can live, why can’t I.”

Shen Yansheng smiled hugging her mother, she said coquettishly: “Okay, my good mother, anyway, I have rent it, so you can live here with peace of mind, and this community is opposite the wetland park, you and father can also go for a walk when you are free. Seeing that spring is coming, it will be good for your health to go out and walk more.”

Shen Haihua listened to it and thought it made sense, he nodded and said: “Sheng Sheng is right, moving here is indeed better than Minghua Road.”

Then, he turned to Shen Yansheng and said, “But Shengsheng, I will treat this money as father lent you. I contacted a former friend yesterday, and we will make an appointment in two days. I will go and have a meeting and see if we can start a small business with him.”

Shen Yansheng was a little unhappy when she heard that, and said, “Dad, if you insist on making this clear with me, then I owe you and mother a lot since I was a child. There are too many, and I will not be clear all the money in this life.”

Shen Haihua shook his head and said, “That’s different.”

Shen Yansheng sat down and took his father’s hand, and said, “Okay, okay, don’t think so much. I just hope that you and mother are safe and healthy. The most important thing is that our family will be together forever. As for whether we can make money , those are not important anymore.”

Shen Haihua nodded, patted his daughter’s hand, and said, “Father knows, take care of yourself and don’t worry about us.”

After Shen Yansheng moved the house for her parents, Lu Jingce came back not long after , called to ask her when she would move to his place.

Shen Yansheng is not hypocritical, since she is with Lu Jingce now, she naturally wants to move to live with him.

Fortunately, she also found a new job, and told her parents that because the company is too far away from home, she plans to live in the company dormitory on weekdays and go home on weekends.

Maybe it’s because she never lied since she was a child, so her parents didn’t doubt it, they just told her to take good care of herself outside, and don’t work too hard.

Shen Yansheng was actually very guilty of lying to his parents, so after moving to Lu Jingce’s place, she was depressed for a long time.

That night, Lu Jingce finally couldn’t stand her anymore. When she said that she had no appetite to eat, he put down his chopsticks, looked at her with a cold face, and said, “You look like this, do you want me to find a psychiatrist to help you take a look?”

Shen Yansheng was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Lu Jingce. Only then did she realize that Lu Jingce had been putting up with her for a long time.

That’s right, he had spent so much money on her, and in the end, she not only didn’t have the consciousness of a canary, but also put on a face all day long.

No wonder he lose his temper.

But she really didn’t do it on purpose, but she didn’t want to make Lu Jingce angry, so she forced herself to eat more.

But before taking two more bites, her stomach was churning and she wanted to vomit. She wanted to hold back, but the feeling of churning in her stomach was really uncontrollable. Before she spit it out, she covered her mouth and ran to the bathroom quickly.

Seeing this, Lu Jingce couldn’t help frowning, and then told the servant, “Go and have a look.”

Aunt Ping responded and hurriedly followed.

Lu Jingce suddenly lost his appetite, and said to the butler, “Go and call Dr. Yang, and ask him to come over quickly.”

“Yes.” The butler responded, and immediately went down to make a call.

Twenty minutes later, the doctor came and examined Shen Yansheng. After asking some questions, he got a general idea of what was going on. In addition to prescribing a prescription for the servant to buy medicine, before leaving, he told Lu Jingce: “Miss Shen is too weak, so she feels uncomfortable after eating a little, and I think she is not in the right mood. Find a psychiatrist to take a look.”

Lu Jingce frowned, “So serious?”

Doctor Yang said, “Maybe it’s not as serious as we imagined, but Miss Shen must have something on her mind, so it’s good to find a psychiatrist to help”.

Lu Jingce rubbed the center of his brows with a headache, nodded, “Yes”, and said, “I see.”After the doctor left, Lu Jingce turned and went back to Shen Yansheng’s room.

Seeing Lu Jingce come in, Shen Yansheng quickly sat up from the bed, and explained: “I really didn’t do it on purpose just now. I just have a bad appetite recently, so I didn’t mean to make faces with you.”

Lu Jingce didn’t ask her this, he sat beside her bed , looked at her for a while, and suddenly asked: “Have you slept well recently?”

Shen Yansheng was stunned for a moment, “What?”

“Did you have a nightmare?”

Shen Yansheng was a little puzzled, looking at Lu Jingce, “Why do you ask? “

Lu Jingce looked at her for a long time, seeing that she refused to speak, he simply stopped asking, “Forget it, you have a good rest.” After speaking, he got up, turned and left Shen Yansheng’s room.

Shen Yansheng actually didn’t think there was a problem with her mental state, she just felt that the past few months were too tiring, and her mental pressure was too great, so much that even now that the danger was lifted, her nerves were still tense.

Until one day, Lu Jingce found a psychiatrist for her. At that time, she still felt that Lu Jingce was inexplicable, but after talking with the doctor, she realized that there were so many things in her heart that she wanted to tell.

She cried for a long time, as if she had cried all the tears that had been suppressed in her heart for the past few months.

Lu Jingce was sitting in the living room smoking, and Shen Yansheng could be heard crying in the study from across the floor.

He was disturbed by Shen Yansheng’s crying, and he smoked several cigarettes in a row, but the butler couldn’t help reminding him, “Boss Lu, you’ve already smoked almost half a pack of cigarettes right now”. Then only he put half of his cigarette butt into the ashtray.

At nine o’clock in the evening, the doctor finally came down from upstairs, and Lu Jingce got up to walk him out. When he arrived in the yard, the doctor smiled and said to Lu Jingce: “You don’t have to worry too much, Miss Shen’s condition is not serious. After experiencing drastic changes in her life and being betrayed, plus she has never confided in anyone, all her emotions have been suppressed in her heart for a long time, plus she has been under too much mental pressure for a long time, and she has been kidnapped, The fear at that time also left some scars in her heart.”

Lu Jingce frowned, and asked straight to the point: “So what should we do now?” The doctor said: “If you have time, you can take Miss Shen for more Outdoor activities, spring is coming soon, get in touch with nature more, get in touch with some happy things, and she will gradually get better.”