The difference between cloud and mud

Xiao Fengtai's movements were light and careful.He held Jiang Tong's hand, like holding a dream, a fog.Jiang Tong didn't move, he could feel the boy's fingers trembling.

Both were silent.Silence itself is a language.An invisible force oppressed the back of his head, and Jiang Tong inevitably lowered his head, meeting Xiao Fengtai's eyes.They were indeed too close, so close that Jiang Tong could almost see himself in Xiao Fengtai's pupils, a distorted, black human silhouette.Like a wandering spirit parasitic in the body of a young man.

The silhouette stared at him sullenly, urging him to act.A beautiful and innocent young man, born in a wealthy family, with a bright future, but he is unreasonably fascinated by him.As long as he wants, he can hug Xiao Fengtai into his arms, kiss his lips brutally and longingly like a traveler thirsting for the sweet spring in the desert.He knew that Xiao Fengtai would not resist or even immerse himself in it.Isn't the body soaked in milk and honey particularly flexible and moist?

Jiang Tong is used to taking responsibility and humility. He has no objection to this, but it doesn't mean he enjoys it.Xiao Fengtai is Jiang Tong's exclusive feast, the first love of young people, like freshly ripened plums in summer, clear and sweet, full of juice and long aftertaste.Who can say no without blinking?

He can even become a ladder, a vine that Jiang Tong has been looking forward to for a long time, uprooting him from a heavy, dirty life full of calculation and hard work.Jiang Tong has no doubt that Xiao Fengtai will soon despise himself after seeing the wider world of Huahua.Before that, as long as he is more careful and patient, he has the confidence to end this relationship decently and get a happy ending.

This is the unprecedented luck in Jiang Tong's 21 years of life, and God compensates him for all the hardships he has experienced.

Go back and hold his hand, throw away the damn coffee and say you like him too, you love him.

The brighter Xiao Fengtai's gaze was, the clearer Jiang Tong's outline became.The small, deformed black figure lived in the young man's beautiful almond eyes, urging fiercely.

You liked him anyway.Quick, get moving, you won't get another chance like this.

Jiang Tong couldn't move at all.

Everything just happened in an instant.Many images flashed through his mind like a fast-forward camera. When he first saw Xiao Fengtai’s arrogant smile, the stage lights came on, the piano bow drew a semicircle in the air, his sister opened her eyes in disbelief when she got the iPad, and her mother was swollen. Pale cheeks, the dim light reflected on Xiao Fengtai's slender back, a huge Titanic poster, Pei Jing's stern scrutinizing eyes.

"The ability to think rationally is the only difference between you and the Kenyan gorillas."

He broke free from Xiao Fengtai's hand.

"It's too late, I'll call a car to take you back." He made a gesture and took out his mobile phone: "Or do you want the driver at home to pick you up?"

Xiao Fengtai turned his head, Jiang Tong's outline disappeared from his eyes.

"You don't need the driver at home to pick you up. I'll pay for the car next time...I'll give it to you alone." Xiao Fengtai took deep breaths repeatedly, so the choking in his voice was almost inaudible.

"Give me the violin and coat, please."

Thankfully, the call-hailing taxis are quick.Jiang Tong wanted to open the car door for Xiao Fengtai, the young man stretched his long legs, and opened the door one step ahead of him and got into the car.His urgency is almost comical, as if the world outside the car is at war and the taxi is actually Noah's ark sailing towards a better future.Jiang Tong didn't even have time to say goodbye, the taxi rode away and disappeared at the end of the road.

Jiang Tong felt a bit of pleasure mixed with pain in the smoke and dust filled with gasoline exhaust.He sincerely thanked Pei Jing and was sincerely proud of himself.This is a correct, noble, typical decision Jiang Tong would make.Although he was on the verge of sinking for a while, at the most critical moment, he reined in in time, thus proving his intrinsic selflessness and kindness.

When he threw the crushed coffee cup into the trash can and went into the public restroom to rinse off the sweet brown liquid in his hands, the last trace of pain in Jiang Tong's heart disappeared without a trace.

When Xiao Fengtai returned home, the dinner party was over.In the hall, only a few servants were busy in silence and orderly, taking down the decorative flowers, the velvet cloth and the goblets that the guests placed randomly around.

"Mr. has gone back to his room to rest." The butler told him, with a warm and respectful smile as always: "If you haven't eaten yet, there is always a supper in the kitchen."

Xiao Fengtai breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and would not admit that he had been planning how to deal with his father all along.For a few minutes, his fear of the impending storm overwhelmed even his frustration at the failure of his confession.

The alarm was lifted, and Jiang Tong's face came to mind again.With his gentle and clear smile and forgiving eyes, it seems that Xiao Fengtai is an ignorant and uninformed child, while Tong Yan has always been unscrupulous.

Xiao Fengtai thought he should cry bitterly, tear up all the lesson plans left by Jiang Tong, and throw them out of the window.But he is so tired.In just a few hours, he fled over the wall with the violin on his back, and wandered around the campus with Jiang Tong on an empty stomach all night, experiencing the moment of intense heartbeat and the sadness and disappointment after being rejected.Xiao Fengtai suddenly found that his mind was blank, he couldn't feel anything except hunger and sleepiness at the moment.

Sleepy over hungry, he unloaded the piano case and fell headfirst onto the bed.A night without dreams.

In the next few days, Xiao Fengtai tried so hard to fill his schedule that he had no time to think about Jiang Tong.Now that the matter has come to this point, the Chinese class cannot be continued, and he knows that he should terminate the contract with Jiang Tong as soon as possible.If you continue to miss school frequently, sooner or later your father will pay attention.

But this paper contract is the only and last connection between him and Jiang Tong.

When people are upset, they tend to be careless and unaware of the subtle changes in the world around them.It wasn't until the day of the school band rehearsal that Xiao Fengtai realized that his violin was missing.

Not in the bedroom, not in the study, not anywhere.The qin left by his mother just evaporated from the house.

"Where's my violin?" He rushed downstairs and found the servant in charge of cleaning the bedroom: "I haven't touched it in the bedroom, where did you get my violin?"

"I... I don't know." The little girl lowered her head and muttered, her guilt was clear at a glance.

Xiao Fengtai's pretty face was distorted in extreme anger and anxiety: "Tell the truth! Do you think that only Xiao Zhizhong can fire you!"

"This is the violin played by Paganini! If you make a mistake, you will never be able to pay for it." He threatened.

"I took it to the master's study." The girl's eyes were red with fright, and she hurriedly said, "Mr. asked me to take it, and he said that I don't need to tell you."

The blood in his whole body seemed to rush into his brain in an instant. Xiao Fengtai stood there with cold hands and feet. He finally realized that he had made a huge mistake, which was more stupid and serious than escaping at the dinner party.

Xiao Zhizhong didn't get angry with him on the spot, he was not uncharacteristically, and let him go lightly.He was too angry and disappointed to bother to expend energy on reprimanding him.Xiao Zhizhong made up his mind to give him some flair.

If you hold the handle in someone else's hands, you can only fight head-on.Xiao Fengtai tried his best to suppress his emotions and called Xiao Zhizhong.

No one heard.

He took a deep breath, and then dialed Xiao Zhizhong's secretary.

"I want to talk to Mr. Xiao." He said dryly.

"Hello, Kenneth! I'm sorry, Mr. Xiao is in a meeting now." The female secretary's voice was an octave higher than usual, fully expressing her powerless state of trying to please Xiao Fengtai: "Can you leave a message for him if it's convenient? I will pass on his."

"I have something to tell him." Xiao Fengtai said word by word, "I know he is deliberately leaving me alone. You tell him that I know I was wrong, and I hope he can give me a chance to apologize."

"If he still doesn't want to talk to me." He paused for a moment, and said, "If I can go out once, I can go out a second time."

There was a moment of silence over the receiver.There was a soft rustling sound, Xiao Fengtai held his breath.

"That's how you apologize." Xiao Zhizhong's deep magnetic voice was mixed with sarcasm.

"I know I was wrong." Xiao Fengtai said in a low voice: "I shouldn't have promised to attend the dinner and then disappeared. I have already realized that on such an important occasion, my extremely irresponsible behavior caused harm to you, the Xiao family and the group. Bad influence. I guarantee with my personality that there will never be a similar thing happening next time."

"I'm sorry, Dad, I was wrong."

Before making the phone call, Xiao Fengtai knew very well that making an exception and admitting his mistake to Xiao Zhizhong was just a strategic temporary behavior.However, at the end, he was surprised to find that his eyes were hot and he choked up.

"It would be great if you could have this kind of awareness on the day of the dinner." After a while of silence, Xiao Zhizhong said flatly: "You understand too late."

"I know why you called, and my answer is no."

"Why?" Xiao Fengtai asked reflexively.

"Because the violin is no longer in Singapore. A performer friend of mine is on a global tour and needs a good violin. I promised to lend it to her for a year."

"You should have told me earlier." He even sounded a little regretful: "If I had known that it was a guarneri, I would have made better use of it."

"How could you do that!" Xiao Fengtai shouted angrily, "That's the only relic left to me by my mother!"

"And you are the only son she left to me!" Xiao Zhizhong sternly said, "Look at what you have done! You are so disappointing."

"I want to tell grandma." Grieved, pain and resentment swept Xiao Fengtai's brain, and he began to say: "This is the piano that grandma left for mother, and mother left for me...she will not allow you to treat me like this of."

"Your grandma will only stand on the same side as me and scold you." Xiao Zhizhong sneered, "I have no doubt that if I give birth to a second heir to threaten your status, your grandma will try every means to assassinate me and that poor little thing." .But a violin? Forget it, I can bet you that if Mrs. Xiao knew what you did stupidly, she would sell the violin directly and punish you for a month of grounding."

"I don't know why, but you've been so complacent recently." Xiao Zhizhong said coldly, "Think about your identity and your responsibilities. Yes, my seat will be yours sooner or later. But you can sit in this seat for a while , but may not be able to sit firmly for a lifetime.”

With a click, a cold female voice came from the receiver, and Xiao Zhizhong hung up the phone.