Chapter 44: Black Key Etudes
Early the next morning, Ji Qianyu stepped on the class bell and appeared in the classroom on time.
There were few classes in her senior year, and she got Professor Zhou's permission, so she basically didn't show her face in the class this semester. She sat in front of her easel, cleaning the brushes and palette of floating dust, and many curious and inquisitive eyes fell on her, and she was unaware of this qiē, and methodically scribbled on the canvas.
Du Ruoxiao didn't come to the classroom in the morning, she drank a lot of wine last night, and only came back in the early morning, skipped a class and went back to the dormitory to sleep, and just woke up and saw several unread text messages on her mobile phone. She read them one by one, and found that it was Ji Qianyu who pouted after returning to school and threw her phone aside.
What are you doing, what are you doing when you suddenly come back to class and pretend to be in class? must be trying to do something bad, now that she has a good temper, otherwise she would have changed to the beginning, and directly led people to make trips, how happy.
What is like this......
Thinking of the current situation, Du Ruoxiao suddenly frowned, and scolded in a bad mood in a low voice. She had a hot fight with the person in the city hall, and the person took good care of her, and when she was arrested, a phone call bailed her out, and it was extremely convenient to have that person acting in a qiē. However, I don't know what happened lately, but the person has gradually become more and more cold to her, and he keeps his distance as if he is careless, making it a lot more laborious for her to do things that could have been done with a single sentence, which is really annoying.
And this qiē is that after Ji Qianyu appeared, he gradually became uncontrollable. Du Ruoxiao frowned, scolding Ji Qianyu hatefully, but suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the bedroom where she lived. Her heart rose to her throat, and she looked in the direction of the noise in fear, staring warily at the door of the bathroom where it was closed. After a while, the sound of water came, Ji Qianyu came out wiping her hair, glanced at her round glasses, and walked to her position casually, without saying a word to her.
"You, ......" Du Ruoxiao pointed at Ji Qianyu, and was so frightened that he couldn't speak much for a while, "Why are you here?!" ”
"I'll go back to my bedroom, what are you screaming over there?" Ji Qianyu hung the half-wet towel aside, turned his head and glanced at her coldly.
"Shut up."
Du Ruoxiao was excited, and subconsciously quickly shut up, and after a few seconds, he felt that he was not at odds, as if he had finally reacted, and asked her in a bluff, his words a little stammering.
"You...... So what are you doing when you suddenly come back here? ”
Their dormitory is actually a four-person room, but due to some historical problems, this room has always been occupied by two people. They had had a terrible unpleasantness before, but now that she thinks about it, she still has palpitations, and she can still vaguely feel the hot pain on her face. Now that Ji Qianyu suddenly moved back again, he really couldn't think of any other explanation except for ulterior motives, Du Ruoxiao shrunk his neck, trying to suppress the panic in his heart.
But Ji Qianyu didn't seem to have the slightest interest in taking care of her, so he only glanced at her lightly, and replied one sentence at a time, and didn't say much else.
"The Baoyan exam is about to start, and I will be in the all-night study room at the school for a few days."
Oh, so that's what it was. Hearing a more reasonable answer, Du Ruoxiao finally breathed a sigh of relief. The next day after the school celebration show is the competition of the qualification assessment of the research institute, Ji Qianyu has participated in both, and now he is back in the dormitory to live, mostly to save time as much as possible. There are no people who do this in other dormitories, but she and Ji Qianyu had a lot of unhappiness before, and she became good friends with Yao Yuling, and she was absolutely unwilling to live under the same roof again.
However, I am afraid that Ji Qianyu's reluctance in her heart is only a lot more than her, and ...... She must not know about this exam herself, but in fact, it makes no difference whether she prepares for it or not.
When Du Ruoxiao thought of this, she felt a little inexplicable happiness, and looked at Ji Qianyu's gaze with a trace of pity. She cleared her throat reservedly and threw up a sweet smile at her that she was quite good at: "Oh, in this way, you don't do your part-time job?" ”
"Not anymore." Ji Qianyu said lightly, paused slightly in the action of packing up his things, and then continued to take care of himself as if nothing had happened. Du Ruoxiao nodded, feeling that the scene was a little unfinished, so he casually found a topic and picked it up.
"Oh, that's right." She smirked and nodded understandingly, "It's just right to live in the school, and it's the school celebration show in two days, so it's time to rehearse your show." What about the pianist you played with? If he is free, why don't he also come to our drama and play the piano? In the end, the background music of playing the piano can only be played on cassette, and it is of course best to have someone next to you to play it live. ”
There was nothing wrong with what she said consciously, at most it was a little sour and sour. I didn't expect Ji Qianyu to react so much after hearing this, and after freezing for a moment, he slowly looked back at her.
Du Ruoxiao shivered in an instant in the warm air-conditioned room.
She is also a person who has fought to the death with Ji Qianyu, but whether it was the confrontation a year ago or the joint arrest a month ago, she had never seen such a fierce and obedient look on Ji Qianyu. Du Ruoxiao was used to being arrogant, but she also spared her life, she stiffened her limbs in Ji Qianyu's irritable and cold eyes, struggling to squeeze out a broken excuse or two.
"I ...... I'm kidding, what are you ...... Why are you so serious? ”
Ji Qianyu lowered his eyes silently and walked towards her. Queen Du Ruoxiaocang retreated, was forced to the table by Ji Qianyu, leaned back against the edge of the table, leaned back in panic, and didn't pay attention, her head hit the raised edge of the bookcase, and she made a solid muffled sound, and the exclamation was stuck in her throat and couldn't come out, choking her face in pain, but Ji Qianyu didn't leave, and fear came out of her heart uncontrollably.
I don't know how long it took, Ji Qianyu reached out, grabbed Du Ruoxiao's long hair, and lifted her face up. Du Ruoxiao was forced to raise her face, Ji Qianyu's gaze slowly scanned over her face, and the corners of her lips were lightly hooked.
"You are also worthy?" She whispered.
With what? Du Ruoxiao was confused for a moment, and then reacted that Ji Qianyu was responding to the fact that she had just asked the pianist to talk about background music, and hurriedly shook her head: "No...... No, I'm sorry ......"
Ji Qianyu didn't speak again, let go of her coldly, turned his back and went back to continue to busy himself. Du Ruoxiao pinched his chest and gasped twice, looked at Ji Qianyu's back, and turned white in fright again uncontrollably.
She has been a little afraid of Ji Qianyu since that time, she only felt that she was cold and ruthless, but now she found that she had become extreme and extreme, when Ji Qianyu grabbed her hair, she really had the illusion that the other party was going to kill her.
This illusion deepened her sense of fear, and Du Ruoxiao cautiously lay back on the bed, opened her eyes uneasily, and pricked up her ears to listen to Suosuo's movements under the bed.
What a madman. She scolded secretly in her heart, thinking hatefully that she didn't have to be so arrogant now, Ji Qianyu couldn't be in this school for a few days, but on the other hand, she thought a little unfocused, although Ji Qianyu looked dangerous and terrifying just now......
But it makes people feel very vulnerable and sad.
This outrageous cognition made Du Ruoxiao want to laugh a little, she pursed her lips, and temporarily left Ji Qianyu's matter behind, but she felt that she couldn't stay in the dormitory, so she hurriedly got dressed and went outside with her painting folder on her back.
After the sound of the door opening and closing, Ji Qianyu slowly stopped cleaning up, sat on the chair and was silent for a while, and then lay on the table, closing his eyes tiredly.
She didn't want to come back here at all, she had just arrived from Austria, and she didn't expect to receive much care, but she didn't expect someone to be so malicious to a stranger who had no grievances. When she returned to her dormitory tired after working part-time, she was greeted by a quilt that had been splashed with water, a disappearing essay and painting, and even a mocking gaze and a playful look. Then these secretly learned that Suosuo's movements gradually became bigger and bigger, she was busy running around to make ends meet, living alone in a foreign country, not caring about the intrigue between girls, and was involved in an inexplicable love triangle.
It feels ridiculous to say it now, she hasn't even recognized the boy's life, but she has been unilaterally declared by the girls to be patient to the extreme. When she pushed open the dormitory door again, she was greeted by a dormitory with paint and ink splashing all over her space, and a dozen or so fierce girls waiting for her to return, and the camera dutifully recorded a qiē, which would later be a testament to her humiliating experience.
She was pulled in by several hands, and the door to her dormitory was slammed shut.
The rest of the matter was not beyond the logical range that should have been, she opened her eyes, rested her arm on her forehead, and turned her gaze away. This night did not become a shame and a black history that she could not mention, as others wished, but in this closed space, she looked at the others with a smile, like a hunter looking at a flock of sheep to the slaughter. In the midst of the mess of hands, feet, and nails, she squinted, and as the eyes of the others gradually changed from excitement to fear, she kicked over one of them, resting her foot carelessly on the man's face and crushing it hard.
At that time, I really didn't pick many people, and it was good to kill an example, but later I found out that the girl who stepped on it was just a girl who couldn't stand the man and shouted to kill her, which was also a bad retribution. What happened after that, she can't remember clearly, the girls were smart but were mistaken by the smart, and she was sure that she had no power to resist, and she wanted to use the camera to record all the moments of her shame, but she couldn't think of being smart but was mistaken by being smart, and this time she completely planted herself in.
It no longer matters who was suppressed after this incident, and she doesn't care. I only remember that when she returned to the dormitory later, she packed up her things and calculated the loss, and stood at the door lightly pressing the calculator, and a few girls in the room cleaned up for her, packing the things that were not stained by ink and paint one by one. She took the compensation from the girls in one hand, gave them a few slaps in the other, then lifted her suitcase and left the place without looking back.
After that, everyone almost took a detour when they saw her, and it was a long time, and she didn't expect to return here one day. It is said that even if she doesn't live in Fu Yufeng's house, it is okay for her to find a small rental house to live in, but this time she didn't do so.
She's actually keen to settle down quickly in an unfamiliar place, maybe to prove her strength, maybe she's just too insecure. No matter how small the place is, no matter how simple the conditions, you must always arrange a territory of your own. Whether this place is rented temporarily, or under the fence, maybe people will always desire something more if they lack something, and she has never given up this kind of unstrict prayer and hope.
But now I feel that I don't have the strength and meaning to do so. She already knew it, but she still had to tell herself every minute in this extreme way-
Miss that place.
She had no home.
So in fact, she is not worthy, Ji Qianyu was silent for a moment, took out her newly purchased mobile phone, dialed a number that had not been contacted for a long time, and when she connected, she whispered to the puzzled voice on the other end of the phone.
"Teacher Xu Jing? I'm Ji Qianyu. ”
"I'm sorry to trouble you at this time, there was a little problem with the wind, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time for the performance in two days."
As the most important event of the school recently, Xu Jing naturally did his best, and was watching the fourth program rehearsal in the school's auditorium at the moment. When he saw Ji Qianyu's number flashing on the screen, Xu Jing slapped his head, and suddenly remembered that this group of programs that had not participated in the rehearsal should also be asked, so he would come to the last overall rehearsal to see the final effect of the whole. So he picked up the phone enthusiastically, and as soon as he started, he was interrupted by Ji Qianyu's words.
After hearing Ji Qianyu's words clearly, Xu Jing instantly felt that his eyes were dark. Whether she is in charge of the process of the show, or out of concern for her friends, this news is enough to make her feel like the world is falling apart.
Xu Jing gasped, hurriedly left his seat, went around to the corner to answer the phone, and listened to Ji Qianyu's concise explanation of the situation as he walked. She knew that Fu Yufeng was depressed, and now she didn't doubt that Ji Qianyu was difficult and vague, but asked her hesitantly: "That...... What are you going to do with your show, I'm going to take it down temporarily? ”
To her surprise, Ji Qianyu on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment before asking her: "I know that if Fu Yufeng doesn't perform, this show should not be eligible to be selected for performance just by me." But something is special, I just want to ask Mr. Xu, can you help me fight for it and keep this show? ”
Xu Jing raised his eyebrows in a little surprise.
"May I ask why?" She asked gently, not loudly, but the meaning was expressed very clearly, "If the teacher is not mistaken, the reason why Ji must participate in this show is because of the wind, right?" Now he can't play, you ......."
After asking, she waited patiently for a while, and finally heard Ji Qianyu answer quietly, not loudly, but quite calmly and firmly.
"Yes." She said frankly, and then smiled faintly, her raised voice seemed to be full of endless bitterness, and just listening to it made people feel slightly hot in their eyes.
"It's because he can't play anymore that he thinks about it...... Bounce it to him. ”
"Even if he probably won't hear it."
Because it's so important.
So can't give up.
Other than that, she didn't say anything more. Xu Jing pursed his lips silently, hesitated for a moment, and nodded slowly.
"Okay, I'll fight for you." She took a deep breath, then asked, "Or is it still ""?" ”
Ji Qianyu narrowed his eyes and nodded silently.
“…… Kindness. ”
"Between You and Me".
In the next two days, she really came early and returned late, and she was extremely busy.
Du Ruoxiao was frightened from the moment she moved back, although she hated Ji Qianyu a lot, but except for the accidental exposure in front of the bulletin board, she actually didn't want to tear her face with Ji Qianyu. She has always been a little afraid and jealous of Ji Qianyu, so the two always unconsciously have to wear a smile when they get along, lest they make Ji Qianyu unhappy again.
After she got dressed and went out, she hung nervously outside for a day, and when she hesitated to go out to live, she found that she didn't bring a mobile phone charger, so she went back to the bedroom in a gloomy way, and when she came to the door, she found that the light was dim, and Ji Qianyu really didn't come back.
This discovery immediately relieved her, and when she lowered her head and took the key to open the door, she found that something was stuffed in the crack of the door. After opening the door, he curiously pulled out and looked at it, and found that it was two narrow envelopes, both with Ji Qianyu's name written on them.
For Ji Qianyu? She just moved in today, and the things were delivered here...... Or two? Du Ruoxiao took the envelope and looked left and right suspiciously, so curious, but because of his fear of Ji Qianyu, he didn't dare to open the well-sealed envelope to really open it, so he had to put the two letters on Ji Qianyu's table, tiptoe to wash himself and go to bed, and quickly fell asleep, striving to be out of sight, and not to get along with Ji Qianyu unnecessarily for a minute.
So when Ji Qianyu pushed open the door of the dormitory in the early morning of the same day, Du Ruoxiao was already asleep in his bed. She walked nonchalantly to her desk and stumbled upon two envelopes on it.
To be precise, she wasn't surprised that a letter would arrive here, but she didn't expect it to be two. She casually opened one of them, unfolded the paper, and looked carefully at the lines of German on it, word by word.
She said how Luke's little bastard had come all the way to Austria without staying in Austria. Although he has the name of coming to the Academy of Fine Arts to investigate cooperation, it would be too stupid to really believe that the heir of the Winster family can be invited for this reason. How did the ancient aristocratic family cultivate their first heir, as the closest bystander, she witnessed it from childhood to adulthood, although she had a lot of rights, but she also had heavy responsibilities, and she never found a reason to come out and hide and then make waves.
Luke stayed here longer than an heir could have on a private vacation. Since he had been so conspicuously bent on her since he had been delayed in returning, she was almost certain that something had gone wrong within the family.
When she left the Winster family a year ago, she was ready to break with this ancient family from the moment she stepped on the plane, and it was true that she was removed from the family.
This year, she changed her number once, completely cut off contact with the family, and in the country where the news is closed, she doesn't know anything about the family's recent situation at all. In front of the Winster house, Luke Akari provoked her, and then the woman secretly stumbled on her, leaving only a biological father who was completely indifferent to her, and there was no difference between having and not having it.
She has been Ji Qianyu for more than a year, and completely abandoned Winster, a surname full of honors, but Winster refused to let her go, since Luke dared to do it, don't blame her for her flaws. She has lived in the Winster family for 20 years, although she has been pressed by her stepmother and stepbrother, and she has suffered countless losses, but she does not necessarily have even a cronies. After a gap of more than a year, she reconnected with each other, and just two days later, she received a detailed response about the current situation of the Winster family.
The letter was not long, only two sheets of stationery. She read it four times, and when she put down the letter, there was already a sneer on her lips.
As she expected, something went wrong within the Winster family. However, the problem did surprise her - it was actually her extremely cold father who was in a state of health, and he was terminally ill in just one year, and now he has less and less time to be sober. Her cheap stepmother now took good care of him, and Luke, without his strict father's control, had time to travel all the way here to find her trouble.
No, it's not just about trouble, I'm afraid there are deeper considerations. Judging from her father's current condition in this letter, I am afraid that his life will not be long. At that time, the day of death will be the time when the heir will succeed the head of the family—and if there is a second heir beside him at that time, I am afraid that even if he succeeds in ascending the throne, he will inevitably have many dreams at night.
After all, looking at the meaning of the letter, her father was awake from time to time and insisted on sending someone to find her. Why did he insist on doing this, I'm afraid those two were even more curious than he was.
Not only curious, but also frightened, restless, and quick to get rid of.
The second heir, Diana Winster, stuffed the letter back into the envelope, shredded the envelope, and threw it into the cup next to her. The words on the envelope faded away, staining the water a somewhat cloudy dark gray. She stared at it for a while, then took out her phone, clicked on a contact, and sent a message.
"How are your skills, have you ever made a mistake when you were hacking a computer? Have you ever been caught?"
"Don't just question a man's skills, okay?" Zheng Yang replied to her very dissatisfied, thought about it after reading her question again, and solemnly reminded her very vigilantly.
"I'm a good law-abiding citizen, and I don't do anything that would get caught...... Say yes in advance, if you want me to do you a favor, it's fine, but I won't sneak into the bank and add a few zeros to your account - if I have that ability, I'll change it for myself without saying a word, right?"
"Is there a problem with sneaking into the PC to copy the information records?" You need to go over the wall, and the language is German." Ji Qianyu ignored his gags and carefully explained the basic information to him.
"It's a personal computer, but the protection system should be tight. Secrecy is not as good as the state-owned system, but the family is very powerful, and in order to protect the secret, most of the checkpoints set up will not be too few."
「…… You're playing big, huh?" Zheng Yang paused for a few seconds, and replied to her very unexpectedly, "The probability of feasibility is quite low, I haven't seen that kind of protection system, it's very time-consuming to decipher, big sister." Don't you have any power-ups?"
"I have a basic version of this protection system on my computer, you can take it and study the principle." Ji Qianyu replied, adding lightly after Zheng Yang's string of ellipses, "My own protection system, there is definitely no virus, rest assured to study."
"You're dealing with your own family? What a feud." Zheng Yang asked her a little, Ji Qianyu smiled noncommittally, moved his fingertips, and replied to him lightly.
"The more you are in your own family, the deeper the hatred becomes. Don't you think so?"
"Of course, I think so too." After a while, Zheng Yang replied to her voice and smiled quite well.
"After all, what I have to deal with is also my own family."
Ji Qianyu put down the mobile phone and got up, found out that the computer was connected to the network, and asked Zheng Yang to toss the remote control by himself. She sat back down in her chair, picked up another letter with some confusion, read it for a few seconds, and raised her hand to tear it from the seal.
The letter was only two pages long, but this one was only one page of paper, which was shorter than the previous one. But Ji Qianyu read it for a longer time than the one just now, and there were only a few sentences on the letter, to the effect that Yan Yi heard Chu Ming mention a few recent things, since the money and goods have been traded, he will not break off the cooperative relationship due to a little accident, he directly sent Ji Qiufu's address to Ji Qianyu, whether to go or not, it all depends on Ji Qianyu's own meaning.
He added a sentence at the end of the letter: Sister Fu has already married and had children for many years, and her son is now in junior high school, and his life is very peaceful, and he should be very happy.
Ji Qianyu took the letter paper and looked at it silently for a while. Then stuff the letter back into the envelope as you did before, and tear the envelope a few times. She crumpled a ball of shredded paper, moved her hand over the cup, hesitated for a moment, and slowly retracted it.
She pursed her lips, unfolded the shredded paper in her hand little by little, and slowly put it back together. Countless lines of cold code flashed on the illuminated computer screen next to her, and she stared at a dim lamp, broken letter paper spread out on the table, and the endless night outside.
In the distance, the lights of thousands of homes, the bustling and noisy music, no one responds to the song.