fingers of musicians

Before entering the courtyard, Zhong Guanbai stood under the eaves of the courtyard door and called Lu Yingru, but no one answered.It was Tang Xiaoli who called to urge him to go back to work, Zhong Guanbai said, "I'll be back in two days."

Tang Xiaoli scolded him for not believing what he said, and said that there will be a maximum of two days' grace before he arrives, and he will go to chief Lu to expose his inhumane behavior, which is absolutely true.

Zhong Guanbai walked into the courtyard while listening to the phone, and when he heard Tang Xiaoli mention Lu Zaoqiu, he suddenly remembered the Lu Zaoqiu who was also standing under the eaves, so he turned his head to look at the eaves. Stacking to a high place, the last row of tiles in sight extends to the white, deserted and high sky in winter.

He walked back unconsciously, stood under the eaves, and touched the door frame of the courtyard door.

He raised his head and saw a swallow's nest formed in the eaves.

"I'll be back. Come back and invite you and Qin Zhao to eat and make amends." Zhong Guanbai was not in the mood to follow Tang Xiaoliu in a joke, he was thinking about Lu Zaoqiu, Lu Yingru, Lu Huaichuan, even Ye Yu, and what he had done Useless work.This kind of thinking is not a kind of thinking, but a continuous stream of things stuffed into the mind, which cannot be emptied.

There was the sound of a piano in the house, fluttering and curling, coming over a pool of stream water, Zhong Guanbai hung up the phone and went into the house to have a look.

He Yinxu was playing the piano, Wen Yuean sat beside him and listened, and He Yulou was picking up a small hand stove wrapped in a blue patterned cloth cover on a white background and putting it in Wen Yuean's hand.

Zhong Guanbai also listened to it for a long time, and when He Yinxu finished playing, Wen Yuean waved his hand and said, "Ah Bai, come and play."

Zhong Guanbai sat on the piano bench and played the piece he had recently written, as well as the unfinished concerto.If he doesn't play, he may be able to pretend to be a little at ease in front of Wen Yuean, but when he plays the piano, his flaws are revealed. There is a little panic and restlessness in the sound of the piano at the beginning, and there is endless worry when he plays the piano one after another. It poured down like a heavy rain, and it couldn't stop at all.

After playing, he turned his head and shouted as if waking up from a big dream: "... Teacher."

Wen Yuean went to make him a pot of calming tea, waiting for him to calm down.

Zhong Guanbai took a small sip from the small purple sand cup, drank for a while, and then said: "Teacher, I... have to go." He originally planned to stay for two days, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt uneasy. It would only make Wen Yuean more worried, so she planned to leave.

Wen Yue'an saw Zhong Guanbai's thoughts, knew what he didn't want to talk about, and believed that he didn't need to be worried about, so she didn't say anything to keep people, and didn't ask too many questions, just said: "Let's go after drinking tea."

The teapot was not small, and the tea was hot, so it took a long time to finish it.

This is considered to be keeping people.

Zhong Guanbai then sat in front of Wen Yuean for a long time.

In the past, he was the one who talked a lot. When he was around, Wen Yue's house was very lively. Now that he doesn't speak, the house is extremely quiet. Even the sound of swallows returning to their nests outside the house can be heard clearly.Several people sat together like this, occasionally saying a few homely things.

When Zhong Guanbai got up to leave, it was already dark outside the window, He Yulou pushed Wen Yuean and watched him go out.

The wheelchair stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and the stone lamp was lit, reflecting on the white hair of He Wen and his wife.

Zhong Guanbai stood in front of Wen Yuean, a little reluctant to leave, so he asked if he could come if he had time during the Chinese New Year, Wen Yuean nodded and said, "Bring Zaoqiu together."

He Yulou said to He Yinxu: "Go see him off."

On the way, Zhong Guanbai called Lu Yingru again, but he still didn't get through.After he hung up the phone, another unknown number called, and it was Abe who answered, saying that Lu Yingru was in a meeting.

Zhong Guanbai asked: "What will happen?"

After two seconds of silence, Abe said, "It's a work meeting."

As soon as it seemed that the specific situation could not be disclosed, Zhong Guanbai asked, "Then when will Sister Yingru finish the meeting?"

Abe glanced at his watch, the door of the conference room had been closed for two hours, no one came in or out, not even a sound came from the door.

"Not sure yet." Abe said, "I will tell President Lu that you called when he comes out."

Zhong Guanbai held the phone in one hand, and touched the air-conditioning outlet in the car with the other hand, feeling that the wind coming out of there was chilly.He Yinxu saw it and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Zhong Guanbai said, "It's a bit cold in the car."

He Yin hurriedly turned up the temperature of the air conditioner.The car got a little hot, but Zhong Guanbai just started to feel a little warmer. He then said to Abe: "If sister Yingru finishes the meeting, please ask her to call me back. I'm going to your side now. If She hasn't come out yet, and I'll wait for her outside when the time comes."

When he was about to hang up the phone, Zhong Guanbai seemed to suddenly remember, and asked, "Is Mr. Lu also in the meeting room?"

Knowing that "Mr. Lu" refers to "Lu Huaichuan", Abe replied, "Mr. Lu is not here."

Only then did Zhong Guanbai feel a little relieved.

Originally, after getting on the car, He Yinxu was a little afraid that Zhong Guanbai would make fun of him again, but Zhong Guanbai sat alone after making a phone call, leaning his head back on the seat cushion, staring at the ceiling of the car.It wasn't until the car stopped at the high-speed railway station that He Yinxu reminded him to get off, and Zhong Guanbai came back to his senses and opened the door.When he got out of the car, he didn't say anything that would make people blush and embarrass as usual. Instead, he told him seriously: "Practice the piano well. Come and play it for me next time we meet."

He Yinxu said a little embarrassedly, "Okay."

After speaking, he asked Zhong Guan Bai the name of the last concerto he played just now.

This piece of music stayed in Zhong Guanbai's mind for too long, over and over again, constantly adding, deleting, revising, polishing... The score piled up like a mountain, but there is no name until now.

Zhong Guanbai thought for a while and said, "...it should be called "Finger."

These few words are not like an answer, but more like a soliloquy when thinking and deliberating. He Yinxu didn't hear clearly when the car came and went: "What?"

Zhong Guanbai waved his hands and said, "I'll tell you later."

He Yinxu nodded, gave Zhong Guanbai a hug, and said, "Safe journey."

Zhong Guanbai patted him on the shoulder: "What could happen to me."

It was nearly midnight when Zhong Guanbai arrived downstairs in Lu Yingru's office. Abe went downstairs to pick him up, and upon meeting him, he said, "Boss Lu is still in the conference room, I'll take you to the lounge."

Zhong Guanbai waited in the lounge until two o'clock, and finally fell asleep on the sofa.

He woke up once in the middle of the night and ran out to ask, but the door of the meeting room was still closed.

When it was daylight, Zhong Guanbai was woken up by the slight sound of pushing the door, and Abe said to him apologetically, "Boss Lu has already left."

Zhong Guanbai asked anxiously, "Why didn't you call me?"

Abe's face is not relaxed, because this meeting has been going on for too long, and it is abnormally long. After Lu Yingru came out of the meeting room, he was not the same as usual: "I didn't have time." He didn't even have a chance to say a word. , "Boss Lu just left, and he didn't bring anyone around him with him."

Zhong Guanbai stared at Abe: "Did she drive away by herself?"

Abe said: "Mr. Lu arrived at some time. Mr. Lu got into Mr. Lu's car as soon as he came out of the conference room. Mr. Lu brought bodyguards, so he should be safe."

"Safe? You just let her get into Lu Huaichuan's car?" Zhong Guanbai blurted out the words, and then realized that no matter whether Lu Huaichuan wanted to take someone away or Lu Yingru wanted to leave by himself, Abe couldn't stop her. Besides, in the eyes of most people, Lu Huaichuan and Lu Yingru are father and daughter, I'm afraid no one would expect any accident, "Sorry. Do you know where the car went?"

"Mr. Lu has a positioning device on his body, but you can't check it under normal circumstances." Abe's face became serious, "Mr. Lu is in danger?"

"I don't know." Zhong Guanbai himself was in a mess, everything was just his guess, "I don't know yet," he repeated, "so I have to know now."

The word "get" is very heavy.

But it was not enough to convince the other party. Zhong Guanbai took a step closer, stared into Abe's eyes, and racked his brains to threaten: "If you Boss Lu is fine, I will take the blame if she blames Boss Lu. If something happens to Boss Lu, Lu Zaoqiu He will come back to inherit the family business, and he will not keep you when the time comes."

Zhong Guanbai's threat was too simple. Abe had experienced the battlefield and was not threatened. He calmly recalled the one-day meeting. He didn't know the content of the meeting. He only knew that Lu Yingru called all the shareholders.Usually, he would not be ignorant of the content of the meeting, but this time Lu Yingru didn't let him know, and he didn't even notify the people to attend the meeting. He only knew who came after all the shareholders arrived. I don't know if this has changed. Because he listened to Lu Yingru's call on the balcony that day, he lost her trust in carrying out this matter.

Thinking of this, he recalled those words word by word, from the sentence "Abe's name is just to remind me that I still have one thing to do" when he just approached, to the last sentence "And in your near Where, the people you have abandoned will not forgive you", there are still some whispers in the middle, the voice is too soft to hear.

When he listened to it at the time, he couldn't directly tell what these words had to do with Lu Huaichuan, but now that Zhong Guanbai was extremely worried about Lu Huaichuan's words and attitude, suddenly, some of the previous questions seemed to have vague answers.

What has Lu Yingru been doing all these years?

A family like the Lu family controls a company with countless employees, and the hierarchy and system are clearly established. The large and small enterprises have already operated on their own, and Lu Yingru actually doesn't have to do everything by himself.As long as she is willing, the Lu family will be hers sooner or later, there is no need to work at high speed like a machine, and there is no need to do anything to fight for power.

Unless, she doesn't want to wait anymore.

Lu Yingru once said: "Take a vacation after the next year."

Abe thought, according to Lu Yingru's behavior, it must be because she wants to finish the unfinished business before the end of the year.

—probably today, now.

Just a thought, Abe decisively called out the system monitoring Lu Yingru's location, entered three different passwords, and entered a map.

There is a blue dot on the map. Abe zooms in on the area where the blue dot is located, and finds that the blue dot has left the city and is slowly moving in a certain direction.

The moving arrow points to a large pocket-shaped green field, and there are no other small-scale side roads to go, and the blue dot will definitely enter that pocket.

Zhong Guanbai pointed to the green field on the screen with a sullen face, and asked, "Where is that place?"

Abe hadn't been there either, but he knew what the place was for.

"That's it," Abe said after a pause, staring at the blue dot that was fading away, "Lu's Shooting Manor."

Chapter71【"By the Roes, And By the Hinds of the Field"-Jóhann Jóhannsson】

Tall and straight metasequoias are layered on top of each other, like a barrier, enclosing a wide and slightly undulating grassland.The sky was covered with dense clouds, and the morning sun only opened a slant in the gray and white gloom, illuminating a section of the brown tree trunk like its orange-red leaves, showing a kind of brightness dyed gold.

Gradually, the light passing through the tree trunks and branches soaks every inch of shallow grass, sand, soil, and dry fallen leaves, extending to the human-shaped targets near and far, with different heights.

Suddenly, there was a gunshot, and a bullet pierced through the air, piercing through the target paper and leaving a bullet hole an inch away from the circular mark in the center of the human-shaped heart.

The bullet came from a shotgun.

"I haven't been here for two years." Lu Yingru put down his gun, and looked into the distance with his eyes under the goggles.

Before she could finish her sentence, another bullet flew past her and hit the same human target, hitting the heart exactly.

"Lu Zaoqiu hasn't been here in the past ten years." Lu Huaichuan took off his goggles and walked to the rest area where a row of bodyguards stood. "Does your brother still remember his surname Lu?"

"Of course." Lu Yingru walked up to Lu Huaichuan, sat down unhurriedly, took off his glasses, his movements were exactly the same as Lu Huaichuan's, and opened his lips and teeth when he put the glasses on the table, "Isn't your surname Lu, is it possible that your surname is Ye?" ?”

Surname Ye, Ye Yu.

For the first time in so many years, someone mentioned Ye Yu in front of Lu Huaichuan again.

No one mentioned it before, because mentioning her is like peeling off the barb on Lu Huaichuan's ten fingers, peeling off the skin from the edge of the nail, tearing it to the back of the hand, forearm, shoulder, and finally the barb went all the way to the entire arm The chest, together with the skin on the chest, was ripped off.

Lu Yingru's words were like a bullet.The ones on the target before are not counted, this is the first shot she fired in front of Lu Huaichuan.

The shotgun that was used just now was not far from Lu Huaichuan's hand. The bodyguards who had been with him for many years almost thought that Lu Huaichuan would do something out of control at this moment, but he didn't even expect his face to change.

"Lu Yingru," Lu Huaichuan picked up a cigarette, and the bodyguard beside him lit it for him. He took a puff with half-closed eyes, and an unreal, vague smile appeared on his lips. Shareholders explained my 'illness' just to wait here for me to have an attack?" He raised his finger holding the cigarette, almost burning Lu Yingru's side cheek, his gesture was half teaching and half regretful, "Is it too late now? A little bit, this sentence should be said at the latest when I took the gun just now, and now I say—"

"How could I accidentally hurt someone?" Lu Huaichuan said in a flat tone, but the cigarette butt in his hand had already touched the skin below Lu Yingru's ear, "Is that so?"

Lu Yingru didn't move at all, she got that blow, and when the cigarette butt left her ear, a circle of scald marks with tiny blood bubbles fell on her skin.

From the time the cigarette touches the skin to when it leaves, Lu Yingru looked directly at Lu Huaichuan's half-raised eyes, looking into his eyes.There she saw his morbid madness as uncomfortable as his apparent calm.

He had already turned into a monster, clumsily dressed in human skin.

"You're wrong." Lu Yingru smiled, her jaw was firm and distinct, and she still looked elegant even with burn marks on her face, "When did our Lu family do this?"

Zhong Guanbai was also wrong.

At this time, he was sitting in Abe's co-pilot, looking at the blue dot deep in the green field on the screen in the car, thinking wildly, all the way in his mind was the image of Lu Yingru being shot and lying in a pool of blood.The speed of the car was already very fast, but Zhong Guanbai still found it slow, and while urging Abe to drive faster, he couldn't help but describe the picture in his mind.

"No way," Abe said.

"How do you know not?" Zhong Guanbai asked back.

Abe still stared straight ahead, driving steadily: "Boss Lu won't let anything happen to him."

Zhong Guanbai glanced sideways at Abe and saw his tightly pursed lips: "If you really think so, why don't you just go home and sleep?"

Abe stopped talking.Zhong Guanbai felt the thrust from the back of the seat, and the trees on both sides of the road sped backward faster.

At the end of the tree, Lu Huaichuan extinguished the cigarette in his hand.

His eyes that were always half-raised finally opened, after he heard Lu Yingru's next words.

"Father, I want to ask you a question: Why did you let Ye Yu go?" After Lu Yingru finished speaking, she picked up the cigarette that was extinguished by Lu Huaichuan and stared at the blackened end, implying, "By the way Can she go by herself?"

The rising sun rose higher and higher, tearing through all the clouds.

The vast grassland and the endless red gold metasequoia forest.

Lin Feng rushed over and made a whistling sound, blowing away the black soot between Lu Yingru's fingers, some of which floated to the white clothes that Lu Huaichuan was used to, and just stuck to it.

With a light release of the fingertips, the cigarette butt fell on the table, Lu Yingru stood up and walked away.

"It's so beautiful here." Lu Yingru looked at everything in front of her without turning her head, but she knew that Lu Huaichuan was listening, "These beautiful things are named Lu, at least until today, they are still named Lu."

Lu Huaichuan slowly stood up and followed behind Lu Yingru. Some bodyguards wanted to follow, but he raised his hand to signal that there was no need.

The father and daughter walked on this pasture for a long time, as if they were taking a walk.

Neither of them spoke, and even their walking postures were very similar.

When he came to a human-shaped target, Lu Huaichuan put his hand on the shoulder of the human figure, as if patting a person's shoulder, and then walked forward together with Lu Yingru.

"Pretty?" Lu Huaichuan looked at the dazzling sun, "You only see beauty?"

"It's not beautiful." Lu Huaichuan looked at the moist grass, "It's not grass either."

And those scattered shooting targets.

"Not a target."

There are also endless metasequoia in the distance.

"Not the woods."

There are also countless invisible properties and people who support them.

The wrinkled hand picked up a stone from the ground, and the sand and soil leaked from his fingers and fell back to the ground.

"This is the glory of my whole life and the Lu family."

Lu Yingru stretched out her hand, and very lightly flicked the stone from Lu Huaichuan's palm to the ground: "Then, for the sake of the last face of the Lu family, please go to the hospital by yourself."

It was a hard earth that looked like a rock, fell to the ground, fell apart, and could not be picked up again.

Lu Huaichuan stared at his daughter, she was very much like Ye Yu at this moment.

It was the same when Ye Yu was about to leave.

Her whole body was wrapped in a long white dress as usual. The long sleeves and hem of the skirt covered up the extensive bruises on her skin, and the petal neckline that gathered to her chin also covered up the pinch marks on her neck.

"The Lu family's most profitable biomedicine produces a large number of deaths and disabilities every year...how many people know that those deaths and disabilities could have been avoided..." Ye Yu's voice was as gentle as usual, "I don't quite understand, But Huai Chuan, you should be clear."

Of course Lu Huaichuan was aware of that loophole.

Human lives are not worth the capital, and the higher-ups half ignored and half-indulged that loophole for profit, and the secret of that loophole became Ye Yu's pass, making Lu Huaichuan watch her leave the Lu family helplessly.Lu Huaichuan thought, now Lu Yingru also wants to use that pass to send him to a mental hospital.

"Lu Yingru," Lu Huaichuan brushed off the soot sticking to his white clothes, turned and walked back, as if he had lost interest in this walk, "Ye Yu has been walking for so many years, is it too late to use that now?"

Lu Huaichuan has gradually cut off the property left by the senior members of the Lu family, those old news have long been covered up, nailed, buried in the ground like the coffin made by that property, and cannot be easily retrieved.Even if someone finds out, the public relations of the Lu family are enough to deal with those old things. After all, too many years have passed, and nothing can be shaken.

"It's not too late. Didn't anyone tell you?" Lu Yingru followed behind Lu Huaichuan, looking at her father's tall and straight back, her voice was extremely calm, even a little flat, "The Lu family picked up the biological medicine of the past...

"Not just picking it up again.

"In the past few years, I have raised it up."

She brought up the industry once cut off by Lu Huaichuan, just like those high-level people back then.

It took Lu Yingru so many years to finally understand Ye Yu's departure, and at the same time really understand Lu Huaichuan.She knew what was most important to Lu Huaichuan.Of course not her, not Lu Zaoqiu, not even Ye Yu.What Lu Huaichuan cares most about is the statue of David——

"Stand forever on the marble base, for thousands of people to admire."

He has worked hard all his life, the glory of the Lu family.

He raised the Lu family and let them live the best life. At the same time, everyone in the Lu family must also live according to his requirements, standing on the marble base and never getting off.

"I've been raised..." Lu Huaichuan repeated those three words, turned around, looked at Lu Yingru, with anger that could not be concealed in his eyes, "Don't forget, you are also from the Lu family. Ye Yu can leave, but you can't." .”

"I didn't think about leaving." Lu Yingru continued to walk forward unhurriedly, and Lin Feng brushed her cold lips, "Father, I'm suggesting that you go to see a doctor."

Otherwise, if the base collapses, everyone will be smashed to pieces.

Like Anlu Huaichuan's heart, she said the words she said most often: "Father, is it not enough for me here?"

Lu Huaichuan's hand seemed to lose control, and he pinched the scald under her ear with his fingers very hard. The tiny blood blisters burst, and the blood stained his fingertips: "You are not from the Lu family, your surname is Ye."

The blood made him crazier, like a demon.

At this time, Lu Yingru had overlapped with Ye Yu back then, and they were the same woman.

Not far away is the gun rack.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Huaichuan had drawn out a pistol, fired the safety, and pointed the gun at Lu Yingru.His index finger was already on the trigger, and it was shaking slightly uncontrollably, and there was a possibility of a fire at any time.

"Ye Yu..." Lu Huaichuan's lips moved, calling out to the person in front of him.

Zhong Guanbai and Abe happened to see this scene when they arrived.

Lu Huaichuan and Lu Yingru were only a few steps away, not to mention Lu Huaichuan's marksmanship, no one would miss at that distance.Seeing that something was wrong, the well-trained bodyguards ran forward quickly. Although they were Lu Huaichuan's bodyguards, they had to prevent the boss from shooting at his daughter.

However, the bodyguard was still some distance away from the two of them. Seeing the critical situation, Zhong Guanbai rushed over with the bodyguard without thinking, and shouted at the same time: "Sister Yingru!"

Lu Huaichuan seemed to be awakened by that sound, the person in front of him was not Ye Yu, but Lu Yingru.

The muzzle of the gun hangs down, facing the ground.

This is like a kind of surrender, Lu Huaichuan surrendered, Lu Yingru was right, he still wanted the marble base.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The bodyguard slowed down, and Zhong Guanbai also stopped.

Zhong Guanbai waved to Lu Yingru not far away, with a relieved smile on his face.

"father--"

Only Lu Yingru, who was the closest, discovered Lu Huaichuan's intentions, but it was too late.

At a moment that no one expected, Lu Huaichuan raised his gun in the direction of Zhong Guanbai and Abe, and the moment the bullet burst out, Lu Yingru could almost hear Lu Huaichuan's voice, cold, weird, sick, full of hatred , to him, this is a discounted revenge.

But it's revenge anyway.

"It doesn't matter if I'm mentally ill, the Lu family still has you."