At the same time the next day, the stray dog still did not appear, and Zheng Xiuwen felt that he was even more empty than before. He used to be able to aimlessly watch the pedestrians on the street, but now he only focuses on the corner where stray dogs are frequented. But a week has passed, and the stray dog has never appeared again.

Maybe it went somewhere else, or maybe it was adopted by other well-wishers, Zheng Xiuwen had to comfort himself like this, although he didn't get along with the stray dog for a long time, he had already regarded the other party as his partner. Now that it has been lost without warning, Zheng Xiuwen's heart feels empty.

He tried to shift his attention to the practice, in fact, Zheng Xiuwen has always maintained an innate enthusiasm for playing the piano, but the monotonous practice day after day is definitely not something a child can bear, he also wants to go to the street outside to play like other children, and have his parents to play in the amusement park all day on holidays.

But Zheng Xiuwen's parents never met his requirements, and told him again and again that playful children will be useless in the future, as long as they practice the piano well, they can play as much as they want when they grow up.

Zheng Xiuwen didn't know if what his parents said was right, but he did not run to the street to play anymore, for fear of being bumped into by his parents, and he did not propose the idea of going to the amusement park again, but through passive sabotage, he played a good child who was obedient and sensible in the eyes of his parents.

After this period of slackness, Zheng Xiuwen rekindled some interest in practicing the piano, and he opened the book that had been turned countless times, Beethoven's "Pathétique".

The difficulty of this piece is considered to be at the intermediate level in piano music, of course, few children as old as Zheng Xiuwen can play it, but for him who has been practicing piano for more than five years, such progress is slow.

Zheng Xiuwen is already familiar with the three movements of "Pathos", he can play it very smoothly, without a single mistake in the middle, but every time his parents listen to it, they can find a lot of faults, such as the strength at the beginning is not enough, can not express full of indignation, the middle of the play is not soft enough, can not give people a sense of calm after sadness, the last part of the strong and weak conversion is not flexible enough, can not feel the original song expressed the kind of uncertain...

According to Zheng Xiuwen's age, children of the same age should be in the sixth grade of primary school, so he can't understand the feelings his parents said at all. But when he started playing today, Zheng Xiuwen always had a lingering shadow in his heart, the stray dog that had accompanied him.

Of course, Zheng Xiuwen didn't know what kind of pain the pianist Beethoven suffered to write a piece like "Pathétique", but because of the loss of a companion who accompanied him, Zheng Xiuwen understood some of the sadness in the music, and his emotions were revealed for the first time with his fingertips playing the piano.

After the whole "Pathos" was played, Zheng Xiuwen, who was sitting next to the piano, breathed a long sigh of relief, he felt that the sadness in his heart had been released a lot, and he actually had an urge to play it again.

At this moment, there were two dogs barking outside the door, Zheng Xiuwen's heart shrank suddenly, and he jumped off the chair almost immediately, he rushed to the door of the practice room and opened the door to see that the familiar golden figure appeared again, it was the stray dog that had disappeared for a week.

Zheng Xiuwen happily picked it up from the ground, even if its fur was very dirty, he didn't mind at all, the puppy whimpered a few times in his arms, and seemed to be happy and aggrieved.

When Zheng Xiuwen put it down again, he found that one of the puppy's hind legs was injured, even if he was just standing on the ground, his body was crooked, it seemed that this was the reason why the puppy disappeared for a week.

Zheng Xiuwen found that the wound was very deep, and it looked like it had been injured by a sharp weapon, and he couldn't bear to touch the puppy's hair lightly, which was a kind of comfort to its tragic experience during this time. Then Zheng Xiuwen took the puppy to the room, learned the steps of his mother to treat his wounds, first disinfected the puppy with cotton balls and alcohol, then smeared some red potion on it, and finally bandaged it decently.

In the process of treating the wound, the puppy has always seemed calm in Zheng Xiuwen's arms, even if it shivered in pain when the alcohol was disinfected, the puppy did not make any resistance.

With the bandage, the puppy walked much more smoothly, it finished the meal that Zheng Xiuwen left for it, and stayed with it until nightfall, and the puppy limped away.

Zheng Xiuwen's mother came home and found that her son's appetite had increased again, so she was naturally very happy, and she also went to the vegetable market to buy a lot of meat and bones that her son likes to eat, and prepared to boil a big bowl of bone broth for her son to replenish his body.

This night, Zheng Xiuwen's parents accepted their son's practice progress as usual, and they were surprised to find that the music played by their son had something that had been lacking, emotion. This kind of thing is like the soul of a song, and if it is missing, even if it is played perfectly, it will give people the impression of being empty and boring.

Zheng Xiuwen has always learned music very quickly, maybe adults have to play it twenty or thirty times to master something, he only needs to play a few times to be able to understand it, which is also the biggest driving force for Zheng Xiuwen's parents to train him to become a pianist.

However, with the gradual deepening of piano learning, Zheng Xiuwen's basic skills have become very solid, but his bigger problems have also been unreservedly exposed. For any song, Zheng Xiuwen just played it mechanically, and he couldn't convey the emotion and artistic conception of the song at all. At first, they also thought that it was difficult for a child to experience the artistic conception of the music, maybe when he grew up, this problem would be solved, but until the fifth year of piano learning, Zheng Xiuwen was still in the same place, and even his mother began to wonder whether the decision to learn piano was correct.

But tonight, all this suddenly changed significantly, and the song "Pathos" was played, and the sadness of gaining and losing made Zheng Xiuwen's parents unable to help but be moved when they heard it.

The sensual mother's eyes turned red all of a sudden, not only because of this song, but because she finally saw hope in her son, and after so long, the persistence in the past was not in vain.

In contrast, Zheng Xiuwen's father just said lightly, "I played well today, and I have improved compared to before," and then the couple glanced at each other with a clear heart, and left the piano room silently.