Eli's reason for inviting Sean is actually very simple, he just wants to embarrass Raphael, so that Raphael can't get off the stage in the whirlpool of Shura Field, and let Kazucao see that his tie flower has actually been unclear long ago, and he is not a good bird at all.

But what Eli didn't expect was that all the personnel had arrived, but the Shura field was not performed at all!

As in the past, any punch to Raphael is the same as hitting cotton. Raphael's favorite way to deal with it is "I don't care about you at all" and doesn't quarrel with you or mess with you, with a high posture of not being too lazy to pay attention to a fool like you, so that Eli's evil fire against Raphael can never be spilled, and every time he has to be added with a bundle of firewood and pour a cup of cold water that can't extinguish the fire at all.

All the fires were covered in the wet wood, and they couldn't burn vigorously, but the smoke became more and more fierce, and it was stuffy and choked inside.

In the past, Rhea or others around Raphael were still a little loud and quiet, but since the closest person around Raphael was replaced by Fabea, Eli found it more difficult to make some Mars, and Ichikusa's style of doing things simply complemented Raphael. One is "I don't care about you" and the other is "I only care about you", the difference is that the "you" of the former refers to all of Raphael's opponents and enemies, while the "you" of the latter is limited to the flower of the grass family.

This time, Eli had expected that there would be an undercurrent between Sean and Fabea, creating a gap between Raphael and Kazuma. But what he didn't expect was that the person standing upstairs and almost fighting with Sean was his quasi-fiancé Neil......

"Have you figured out where you stand?" Eli dragged Neil over, pulled the person into his room, and said angrily, "I haven't settled accounts with you about you going to find Raphael a few days ago, what are you going to do now?" You don't change your dress, you're still staring at Lieutenant Colonel Neil, what do you want? ”

"You're the one who didn't figure out where you stand!" Neil opened Eli's hand and smoothed the wrinkles on his white coat, "Do you really want to be a family with me when you're with me, or do you just want to hold Raphael down?" Sean and I have been at odds with each other for so many years, and you invited him and asked me if you did? ”

"You ......" Eli had no idea that Neil would turn against him at this time.

It's just a poor boy from the countryside, and his family can't even afford to buy a ferry ticket to participate in the engagement banquet, so what qualifications do they have to yell at him? If you can make some inventions, you really think you are great? If it weren't for Carlisle's guys who had a bad idea on his side, where would he have taken a fancy to this kind of phoenix man?

Eli already had a heart for Neil, but now that Neil doesn't use him anymore and begins to resist, Eli feels more and more that Neil is not pleasing to the eye.

And Neil, he just finally saw it clearly, finally understood. He turned to open the door to leave, but Eli stopped him through gritted teeth behind him.

Truth be told, Eli wanted to give Neil a few punches right now, but he couldn't. He had spent too much time and energy on this engagement banquet, and even after receiving the news of the arrival of the eldest prince, the other members of the privileged group excluded him from the preparations under the pretext that he was too busy to get engaged. It took so much sacrifice to make this banquet, and he said that he would not make a situation of "newcomers do not get along" at such a time.

Patience, must endure! Eli took a deep breath, pressed the call button on Zhi's brain, and said to the servant at home, "Find a man's medium-sized dress and send it to my room." ”

Then he looked at Neil coldly and said, "You'd better be honest today, and don't make any more moths." You have to know that he can't give you what you want, only me. ”

May I? Not necessarily. A sneer hung on the corner of Neil's mouth, and he went out without saying a word, not planning to change into the spare dress that Eli had asked someone to find him.

He wants a home, he wants a place where he can rely on and care, so that he has a thought in his heart and knows what he is living for. In the past, he would yearn for and desire to go home, but today Neil has no expectations of the past, there is only a black hole in front of him, and when he turns around, he can't see clearly which one is a way out, and he will definitely be crushed if he jumps.

Neil searched the crowd for his salvation, but he knew better than anyone that the man was no longer reaching out to him as he had done in the past, and even if he did, someone else would take his salvation away from him.

Regret, unwillingness, chagrin, all kinds of irritability weighed down on him, Neil covered his eyes with his hands, and his fingers were staggered so that only one person could be seen through the gap in his fingertips, and that was his only light.

***

The engagement ceremony took place in the middle of the banquet, and after Lin Yuan and Raphael had received almost everyone's admiration and worship, the guests were finally guided to the engagement hall, which had previously been only accessible to Capone.

When Raphael stepped into the main ballroom, he saw the familiar grand piano in the middle of the ballroom at first sight, and when the luthier opened the lid to reveal the black and white inverted keys, Raphael's face showed a touch of unease and anxiety.

It turned out that the black and white keys he didn't buy were snatched by Eli...... Raphael's knuckles trembled slightly, and a sense of foreboding arose.

The characteristics of the black and white keys are destined for its timbre and tune, and the strange and depressing and dull timbre has always been the best way to express the pain of falling out of love, and no one has ever used the black and white keys in wedding ceremonies. Even if you didn't know this kind of thing before, you should understand it once after listening to the timbre of the black and white keys. So when the joyful and melodious tune was played, Raphael's mind was dizzy, and all the strings broke at this moment.

Someone asked in surprise, "How can the piano sound like this?" ”

Raphael replied in a voice he didn't know what he didn't know, "He changed the keys and the plucked strings." When he said this, he only felt a chill in his back.

Aslinia has produced more than 200 inverted pianos in his lifetime, the most collectible of which are the top three "Sunrise" series and the "Lark" series made in the last 18 years of Aslini's life, which represent the birth of the concept of inverted pianos and the highest craftsmanship of Aslinia.

The rest of the black and white keys are classified as real and special according to the time of birth, and different instruments have different values. The black and white keys that are played today belong to the earlier real yàn piano made in Aslinia, and are of a relatively medium value of all the instruments.

Raphael vividly remembers that when he first inquired about the piano, the owner gave him a purchase code that clearly listed the ninety-eight rules that must be followed after purchase. The average person might find this rule cumbersome, but for collectors and buyers who really like it, they love this kind of collection with a purchase agreement attached.

For, as a general rule, the more detailed the agreement, the more the previous owner of the thing took care of it, and the fervent hope that the new buyer of the thing would take care of it as much as they did. Therefore, the integrity of such objects tends to be particularly high, and the maximum is close to the original appearance of his birth.

The music was still playing, but Raphael bowed his head and turned away, no longer having the patience to stay in this place.

It's not that he wants that piano much, it's just that Eli's approach didn't just ruin a piano, it ruined the expectations of his former owner. Raphael suddenly realized that he had made the wrong choice. If he had given Eli a punch early enough that Eli would never have been able to get up again, he might have avoided the current situation.

Outside the banquet hall, Eli, as the main character, is urging someone to find Neil, and he forgets to hide the joy on his face when he bumps into Raphael's black face head-on.

Raphael: What's wrong with this? Could it be that the piano inside was stirred up? Ha! It won't be that easy! This year, after spending so much effort and not giving people to Raphael, I didn't expect a broken piano to succeed? Eli couldn't help but laugh.

Just as he pretended to ask why Raphael came out at this moment, he saw Raphael's blue eyes cross Eli's face like an ant.

"Soon you will regret what you did today." Raphael said in a tone that would condense the air around him, and left without a hint of pause.

Neil, who was being urged to the banquet hall in the middle of the road, couldn't help frowning, his eyes were closely following Raphael, and his footsteps moved unconsciously, and he was about to run away but was caught. Seeing Lin Yuan pass behind him, he quickly stepped into the royal red sports car.

Neil shook off the hand that was on his shoulder and turned to glare at the man in military uniform.

Sean yawned boredly, "I advise you not to go to him now." It seems that the anger is too big. When I broke up with him, my face was never so bad. ”

Neil didn't see what had just happened, and the first person he suspected of was Sean.

"Don't look, it's not me." Sean motioned for Neil to look over the ballroom, and put his hand on the man's shoulder, "What did your little mane dog do." Let's go, you can't get engaged today. I think the dark-haired guy just now seems to have called the police, and I guess there will be an art preservation society or something like that, and you don't want to stay here anyway, so come with me for a drink. ”

"By the way...... Let's talk about that new favorite. ”

was dragged away by Sean, Neil originally refused, but he was really unable to drive a mecha as a scientific researcher, and was dragged to the garage after a while.

Driving along the main road in front of Capone's house, Raphael drove the car more than 50 kilometers after only a few words, and if it weren't for the privilege of the "Royal Red" to use the highest level of speeding, it is estimated that he would be surrounded by the traffic police by now. After a burst of venting acceleration, Raphael finally realized that there was no point in doing so, so he slowed down and parked the car at a rest point on the side of the road.

A cold object was pressed to Raphael's lips at this moment, and he looked back...... Lin Yuan was holding a fruit bowl full of candy in his arms.

Raphael: "When did you get it?" ”

Lin Yuan: "When you suddenly ran away." ”

Raphael looked at the half-breed sitting in the co-pilot in horror, he never thought that such a cool grass would have a habit of holding sheep, how many men and women would be frightened if he said it!

"Come, open your mouth, ah!" Lin Yuancai didn't care what Raphael was thinking, and directly stuffed the candy into Raphael's mouth, "When you're in a bad mood, you have to eat sweet, although I don't believe that such a little sugar can inspire enough to change the mood of Andorfin, but let's try it some." ”

The candy is stuffed straight into your mouth, and the sweet taste overflows in your mouth...... Then, he decisively vomited the sugar.

Lin Yuan: "......"

Raphael doesn't explain: "You eat one and taste it." ”

Lin Yuan grabbed one and licked it carefully, and then stuffed it into his mouth after making sure it was sweet, but he spit out in less than five seconds, his red tongue spit out, and the entire fruit pot was thrown into the back seat, and he took the water bottle handed by Raphael, and didn't care that the other party had already taken a sip, so he hurriedly poured all the water into his mouth.

Lin Yuan was about to get angry, "Don't sue me, this is another thing from the big fat man's family of Klers!" ”

Raphael shrugged regretfully, "I don't know, but judging from the pungency of this second layer, it seems to be really his home." ”

Lin Yuan stuck out half of his tongue and fanned it with his hand angrily.

Seeing that it was fun, Raphael stretched out a hand and poked Lin Yuan's side face while pillowed on the steering wheel, and his finger was held by Lin Yuan after only one click. Following that hand Lin Yuan looked at Raphael, Raphael looked at Lin Yuan.

The golden and blue eyes met in the air, and they didn't even know why they were staring at each other like this, but no one looked away. After a long time, it was Lin Yuan who broke the silence first.

"Say it. Why came out suddenly. ”

Raphael withdrew his hand, looked out the window a little unnaturally, and asked in a slightly lonely voice, "Do you know the inverted black and white keys?" ”

"Yes. I've heard of it. Lin Yuan nodded. In fact, he didn't know anything about this thing before today, and it wasn't until Raphael ran away without saying a word, and the people around him were surprised or discussed, that he asked Mistetin to consult the information about the inverted piano, which ...... As a literate collector, he decisively chose to report.

According to the provisions of the Law on the Protection of Imperial Cultural Relics Collections, collections with a certain value will be subject to the principle of state supervision of individual private ownership, and citizens have the right to buy, sell, exhibit, and transfer private collections, but if they severely destroy collections of certain significance, they will be punished in accordance with the regulations.

"It's a pity that the piano is only a fifth-grade collection, at most it is recycled and ......restored by the official," Raphael looked out the window in decline, and said to Lin Yuan about him and the piano with a gloomy look, and in the end he couldn't help but be annoyed, "What if someone repairs and adjusts it?" Is it possible for a piano with all the keys to be modified back to its original form? ”

Lin Yuan wanted to reach out and stroke Raphael's soft hair, but his hand was halfway up and lowered again, he understood what Raphael thought, for any collector, it would be unacceptable for a collection that was originally intended to be ruined in the hands of others. But in this matter, it is not comforting, he just has some different ideas.

"Once something is created, whether it is destroyed or not, its state is different every day, and there is no way to maintain a thing at the moment of its initial birth, so why pursue restoration? If you can't go back, you just can't go back. Because of its obsession with restoration, I am more inclined to correct. Make them something more perfect. ”