Zheng Wang

Guan Zan sat in the piano room all night, awake at first, then fell asleep at some point.

The room faced east, and he was sitting close to the window.In the early morning of the next day, Guan Zan was awakened by the morning light. After regaining his composure, he went to the public washroom to wash his face, then sat back in front of the kite again, put back the piano bridges knocked down last night one by one, calibrated the tone, and finally took back the box.

Today's class is full, but Guan Zan is not in the mood to listen, so he directly takes the morning subway to Anding Hospital.

The ward has an hour of visiting time from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am, but because it is too early and it is a working day, few family members will choose to visit the hospital during this time period.Guan Zan didn't call beforehand, the nurse was surprised when he saw him, and asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Guan Zan handed her the fruit in his hand, and said calmly, "Come and have a look if you think about it."

"It's just in time." The nurse said with a smile, "The patient is very energetic today. I just drank some porridge. I went to throw away the lunch box. After washing the fruit, I will send it to you. She is alone in the ward. You hurry up." go!"

Guan Zan thanked her and walked past the nurse's aunt.

Yuan Xin didn't go to bed after getting up, and went to the balcony to water the flowers after the nurse went out.Guan Zan's movement to open the door was very light, but the sound was obvious, but Yuan Xin still turned his back to the ward, as if unconsciously, holding a thermos bottle and pouring water into the flower pot wholeheartedly.

After the scalding accident last time, Guan Zan specially told the nurses to prepare an unused thermos on the balcony, never fill it with hot water, fill it with tap water when it is empty, and use it for watering Yuan Xin's flowers.He closed the door with his hand back, and walked over slowly, but he didn't enter the small balcony, but stood by the hospital bed and looked at his thin mother in the sun.

Today's weather is very good, the heat has not yet arrived, and the cold has already faded away.

Yuan Xin was only wearing a hospital gown, and her light chestnut curly hair hung down her back. She was not a small Chinese girl, but she inherited the tall, slender figure of the fighting nation.Guan Zan couldn't see her expression, and didn't know whether she was smiling or calm, but from the back view, she could tell that her mother was in a good mood.

"Mom, I'm here." Guan Zan said.

Unmoved, Yuan Xin continued to water the flowers.

Guan Zan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, his eyes were soft, but a little empty, with a sense of loss and bewilderment. "I..." He pursed his lips and swallowed hesitantly, "I saw some news about my father."

Facing him, Yuan Xin froze suddenly while watering the flowers.With her back to Guan Zan, she didn't say a word, she didn't move, she watched the small stream of water gushing out of the bottle, watching it splash on the blue grass flowers that had just sprouted.

Guan Zan's eyelashes drooped, and his attention had long been drawn away from his mother, as if he were simply narrating.He was at a loss for the whole night. He needed someone to confide in so much. He didn't know who else to talk to. In the end, he chose Yuan Xin who was delirious and didn't recognize anyone.

"Mom." Guan Zan sat down on the edge of the hospital bed, raised his eyebrows with his palms, and rubbed his thumbs hard on the corner of his forehead.His voice trembled slightly, with obvious uncertainty and faint disappointment, "My dad...is he a good man?"

All people are born ordinary, but Guan Zan has come all the way, from being low in the dirt to finally having what he is today.He didn't think he was superior to others, and he didn't imagine that he might have a prominent family background, but at the same time, he didn't think that his father would be so unbearable, so contemptible, even mentioning his name would be a blasphemy to another person... But The insider around him either kept silent, or was a lunatic who didn't even recognize his son.

The soil in the flower pot could no longer absorb any more water, and Yuan Xin watched the clear water overflow from the foggy field of vision, bursting down like tears.

As soon as eight o'clock came, the nurse opened the door and came in to remind the family members that it was time.

Guan Zan was not in a good mood, and his mother didn't recognize him. He didn't want to waste here, so he left.

I didn't go back to school all day, and I have piano lessons in the evening, so I can't skip it anymore.Guan Zan had nowhere to go during the day, so he walked around the city of Beijing. Finally, after calculating the time, he simply walked to Teacher Xia's residence and walked for nearly four hours.

Spring flowers bloom at the end of May, and the villa area is full of lush greenery.

Guan Zan turned around a courtyard wall full of Mashan tigers, and when he looked up, he saw a black Land Rover parked opposite the courtyard of Mr. Xia's house not far away.He froze for a moment, then stopped, hesitated for a while, and finally walked over slowly.

About ten minutes before class, Guan Zan opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat. There was a strong smell of cigarettes in the car, and he didn't know whether he had been waiting for a long time or was smoking all the way here.Guan Zan was a little frightened, his mind that had been out of state had just come online, and then he remembered that he hadn't contacted Ke Jinrui today.

He quietly glanced over, and the cigarette in Ke Jinrui's hand was almost burnt out, leaving only a little spark near the butt of the cigarette.Guan Zan thought for a while, took the initiative to take it out and pressed it, and asked in a low voice, "Are you angry?"

Ke Jinrui had seen him in the rearview mirror a long time ago. From the distance from the corner to here, he watched Guan Zan appear, watched him come over, and watched him obediently return to his side.Ke Jinrui was very calm, with a peaceful face, showing no signs of happiness or anger. Hearing this, he just exhaled the last puff of smoke, and then turned to look at the missing little guy next to him.

Their eyes met, and with just one look, Guan Zan knew that Ke Jinrui was not angry.

Ke Jinrui stared into Guan Zan's eyes, remained silent for a while, and then said, "If I don't wait for you here, I will really be in a hurry."

When Guan Zan heard that he was about to laugh, he pursed his lips slightly, and there were smile lines at the corners of his eyes.Ke Jinrui knew that the little guy was about to start cheating, so he calmly smiled and warned lightly: "You still dare to laugh?"

Guan Zan laughed out loud, leaned forward and hugged Ke Jinrui's nape, put the tip of his nose against his cheek, and licked the corner of his mouth lightly.Ke Jinrui had something on his mind, and he didn't really want to worry about Guan Zan's disappearance this time. He hugged the little guy into his arms, covered the back of his head with his palms, and kissed Guan Zan's lips very seriously.

At the end, the two parted lips, and Ke Jinrui asked, "Do you know how many times I called you?"

Guan Zan was stunned, but took out his phone without saying a word. After pressing the Home button, there is no response, and when it is turned on again, the low battery prompts, and the startup fails.

He raised his head again, and when his eyes met, Ke Jinrui stared at him for a moment, waiting for the little guy to take the initiative to admit his mistake.Guan Zan didn't even know when the phone was turned off. He thought it's no wonder why he didn't receive a single call, and suddenly became more confident than before. He explained obediently: "I forgot to charge it last night. I didn't expect it to be turned off. I'm sorry... He paused for a few seconds, and couldn't help asking tentatively, "How much did you hit?"

Ke Jinrui put one arm around Guan Zan's waist, and put his palm on his left crotch, kneading it repeatedly.Guan Zan didn't pay much attention to it at first, but now that he suddenly calmed down, he belatedly realized that the place was a bit ambiguous, and he was very itchy to be teased.

"If a missed call counts as one," Ke Jinrui said slowly, "You don't have to get out of bed this week."

Guan Zan said along the way: "Today is Thursday, two days plus one night, counting as four and 10 minutes for you once..."

Before he finished speaking, Ke Jinrui interrupted and questioned: "Which time have I been less than an hour?"

Guan Zan smiled and kissed him, jokingly said, "Isn't this too many times, the time will be shortened in the future, so we have to calculate the average value."

Ke Jinrui: "..."

Mr. Ke pointed out seriously: "Is the topic off topic?"

Guan Zan became obedient in an instant, stopped talking nonsense, held his arm and showed him the watch on his wrist, and said, "There are still 5 minutes to go to class, I always arrive at least a quarter of an hour earlier, Teacher Xia must be waiting, we Let's continue later, okay?"

After finishing speaking, Guan Zan wanted to return to the co-pilot, while Ke Jinrui directly opened the door on the side of the driver's seat and carried the little guy down.

Guan Zan was taken aback, mainly because he was afraid of being bumped into by Xia Mingxi.Recently, Ke Jinrui has been a little unscrupulous, which has caused Ms. Ke to be particularly dissatisfied with him. If this unscrupulousness continues to spread to private piano lessons, and then spread to Ms. Ke's ears, it will probably explode.

Passing through the courtyard, Guan Zan knocked on the door, and Xia Mingxi came over to open it in person. When he saw Ke Jinrui, he was surprised and reacted for a few seconds, asking, "Are you...Mr. Ke?"

The two shook hands, Ke Jinrui said: "If you have time, I will send Zan-Zan over to class tonight, don't bother me."

Xia Mingxi said that he would not disturb, and politely let them in.

Sola squatted in the corner of the entrance as usual, her body was as soft as cotton candy, but her cat eyes were very sharp, she stared straight at Ke Jinrui, and then threw herself into Guan Zan's arms with a "meow". Well intentioned.

Mr. Ke had a subtle feeling of being treated as a third party by the cat, and said to Guan Zan, "This is the little fairy you mentioned?"

Guan Zan took a quick look at Xia Mingxi, not wanting the teacher to find out that he used such pornographic words in private, so he cleared his throat and introduced, "This is Sola." Then he lowered his voice, and Tsundere corrected him, "It's not a small thing. Leprechaun."

Ke Jinrui looked at the little goblin and then at Guan Zan, and commented with a smile: "It really looks like you."

When the three entered the room, Xia Mingxi poured coffee for Ke Jinrui and asked, "Mr. Ke is waiting in the living room, or do you want to listen in the piano room?"

"Can you?" Ke Jinrui said.

"Of course." Xia Mingxi said as he pushed open the door of the piano room, "Guan Zan has made rapid progress. Although there is no advantage in his starting age, he wins in talent and comprehension. If Mr. Ke didn't take the lead, I would like to persuade him He changed to a piano major."

He looked at Ke Jinrui with a smile, and joked: "Don't mention this to senior sister, or you won't be able to spare me."

Entering the piano room, Ke Jinrui sat down on the sofa, Guan Zan sat on the piano bench, Xia Mingxi stood side by side with him, opened the piano score, and began to check the etudes one by one.

Guan Zan studied the piano for three months, but his level was not at the three-month level.Although the repertoire is still mainly at the elementary level, as Xia Mingxi said, he is a natural player. No matter if he learns the zither or the piano, he can easily master it with his hands, especially his overly flexible hands, with fast and flexible fingers. Accurate, easy to retract and release, compared with stroking the strings, it is another scene when it jumps on the black and white keys.

Ke Jinrui stared silently, thinking that with Guan Zan's temperament, Western music is more suitable for him.

The course is mainly divided into three parts. After checking the old repertoires, Xia Mingxi commented on them one by one, and then began to teach the new repertoires of this class. He will play first, and then Guan Zan will fumble with the scores after the end. Finally, it is time for practice.Generally speaking, Xia Mingxi would watch over the practice and guide him at any time, but today there was a guest, Xia Mingxi didn't want to keep Ke Jinrui by his side all the time, so when Guan Zan started to play by himself, he took the initiative to invite him out for a sit-down.

The door of the piano room opened, and the two went to the living room, where they could listen to music and chat.

Sola, who was hiding at the door, slipped in immediately, jumped onto the piano bench, and rubbed against Guan Zan, begging for a hug.

Xia Mingxi said with emotion: "My cat, as soon as Guan Zan enters the door, it will immediately deny me as its owner."

Ke Jinrui leaned against the back of the sofa, crossed his long legs, sipped his coffee calmly, and said, "It's such a coincidence that my dog ​​abandoned me like this."

Xia Mingxi laughed immediately when he heard the words: "Mr. Ke is really humorous, it's not at all the same as what the senior sister said."

"That's for sure." Ke Jinrui said, "She can't say good things about me."

In the piano room, Guan Zan listened with his ears pricked up while playing, but unfortunately, the sound of the piano was too loud, and the voice of the two of them talking was too low, not as loud as the noise of the puppet cat.He was a little worried that the chat would not be pleasant, because the jealous Mr. Ke seemed to be hostile to Mr. Xia.

Fortunately, everything was calm, and Ke Jinrui sent Guan Zan back to school at night.

When he arrived at the apartment building, Ke Jinrui deliberately drove the car further away and parked in the corner.Guan Zan asked knowingly, and said with a half-smile, "Do you want to continue?"

"What do you think?" Ke Jinrui asked back.

Guan Zan rolled his eyes with a smile: "Mr. Ke is too courageous when the car shakes at the entrance of the student apartment?"

Ke Jinrui said: "There is no camera here, no one is passing by, and the inside of the car is darker than the outside. As long as you don't scream too much, who can find out?"

Guan Zan said: "I want to call my senior sister and say that you are going to rape me in school."

Ke Jinrui smiled without saying a word, took out his mobile phone generously, dialed the number and handed it to Guan Zan.Guan Zan saw clearly that the owner of the phone waiting to be connected was Ke Jinxi, he was startled immediately, and quickly snatched it up and hung it up.

"Forget it, I'm thin-skinned and I can't play with you."

Ke Jinrui raised his eyebrows slightly: "Are you calling me shameless?"

Guan Zan retorted politely: "How can you skip the thick skin and just say that you are shameless?"

Ke Jinrui was completely amused by the little guy's eloquent teeth, and after a moment of silence after laughing, he suddenly spoke, with a deep voice, looking particularly serious: "Xia Mingxi mentioned the invitation to exchange students in Vienna, why didn't you tell me? "

Guan Zan thought it was something, and after he finished speaking he breathed a sigh of relief, and said indifferently, "I'm not going anyway, so what's there to say?"

"Why didn't you go?" Ke Jinrui was puzzled, "That school is much better than Yangyin. With your personality, you should be very excited."

Guan Zan looked at him sideways, and replied with the same earnest voice: "Because I don't want to part with Guzheng, Teacher, and you. I don't have to have the best ones, these are enough for now."

After speaking, there was silence between the two of them.

Guan Zan stared intently at Ke Jinrui, looking at his dark eyes and unwavering face, he was too quiet, and he didn't feel like he was going to do such a thing at all.It's too quiet tonight, as if every wave of air flow contains tacit and unspeakable intentions, and it seems that there is only a layer of window paper, and no one is willing to pierce it.

Guan Zan didn't want to get the truth from Ke Jinrui, there was no special reason, he just didn't want him to explain it.He thinks that a serious explanation consumes emotions, and the price of being too serious is to wear down those more important things. Besides, there is Ke Su, the teacher is the one who should say something, rather than letting others do it for him.

What's more... they are not the ones who are wrong...

Ke Su was the victim instead. Without him, his father would be the old man's closed disciple, and what his father had done was a stain on the old man's old age. Do we have to ask them for the truth?

Guan Zan is impulsive, but he also knows how to restrain himself. He will never touch what should not be done.After all, he had no idea what kind of attitude the Ke family had towards that incident ten years ago, whether it was shame or indifference, and he was afraid that just one word would break the current calm.

After an unknown amount of time, Ke Jinrui suddenly took his left hand and squeezed it into his palm carefully.He asked, "Why didn't you have class today?"

Guan Zan subconsciously raised his eyes to look at him, and noticed that Ke Jinrui's eyes were very gentle, as if carrying a vast ocean, the night was quiet, with a sliver of starlight, reflecting his pale and absent-minded face.

He came back to his senses in a flash, and explained casually: "I went to the hospital to see my mother."

Ke Jinrui was a little surprised: "Is she uncomfortable?"

Guan Zan gave a perfunctory "Yes" and lied that his mother was suffering from a cold. She was weak and a minor illness could easily turn into a serious illness. He was worried, so he went to have a look.

Ke Jinrui listened carefully, and when he finished speaking, he asked again, "Where did you go after that?"

Guan Zan smiled mischievously, and replied, "I don't want to go to class, so I just played outside for a day. Don't tell the senior sister."

"Why didn't you look for me?" Ke Jinrui said.

Guan Zan said cunningly: "What's so interesting about your company? I've been there and I've been played."

Ke Jinrui couldn't help laughing out loud, and reached out to scratch the tip of Guan Zan's nose.He was silent afterwards, and Guan Zan was also silent. Guan Zan couldn't see his eyes clearly, and felt nervous for no reason.Ke Jinrui was silent for a moment, then smiled and asked again: "I've always been the one asking you the questions, Zan-Zan, what's the matter with you today, you don't have anything to say when you see me?"

Guan Zan was stunned for a while, and after a while, he whispered, "Maybe I'm tired." He pursed his lower lip calmly, feeling that Ke Jinrui wanted to hear much more than that.Finally, he couldn't help but leaned over, put his finger on the belt buckle around his waist, and suggested: "Why don't you do it, don't use the back, I'll bite it out for you?"

Ke Jinrui didn't speak, and pressed Guan Zan's back into his arms.Guan Zan lay on his chest, tensing his body almost subconsciously, his heart pounding.

"Let me ask for you." Ke Jinrui's voice came from above his head, "What's the matter with that Weibo? Why is Guan Yuwen the old man's closed disciple? Is the content mentioned in the comment true? We Is it always clear but didn't tell you?"

Guan Zan trembled as if out of control, his voice was soft and urgent: "Stop it!"

Ke Jinrui groped for Guan Zan's chin, and forced him to look up at him with a little force: "If you don't ask, keep your words in your heart and torture yourself, I feel sorry for you."