Chapter 39: Daughter of the Sea
Jingzhi didn't immediately withdraw her hand, but gently pressed it on Jason's hand, hoping to pass the warm current that gushed out of her heart to Jason through her fingertips, taking away the melancholy on his face and relieving the grief in his heart.
Jason's left arm froze there, his left hand resting on the table, not moving at all. He blinked his eyes to make sure that there were no extra tears in his eyes, so he delicately stuffed the handkerchief into his jacket pocket with his right hand, and said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect to hear this song again in my life......"
"You mean 'The Wedding of Dreams'?" Jingzhi felt that she should say something, so as to ease the "sad" atmosphere at this time, so she said casually, "This is a very nice piano song, I like it very much......"
"You...... Want to hear a story? Jason's words could not tell whether he was sad or happy.
In his opinion, the things that have been suppressed in his heart for many years and have not been mentioned to anyone may be a blessing to spit out to Jingzhi, a stranger, today. It's a pity that the ending of this story is too sad......
"Listen to stories? Well, I like to listen to stories the most, and I don't refuse to come! After speaking, Jingzhi took a big sip of the drink, licked the foam at the corner of her mouth, smiled faintly, and said, "Listen to ......."
Seeing the tenderness and kindness in Jingzhi's eyes, Jason exhaled a long breath and asked softly, "You...... Believe in love at first sight? ”
This question is difficult for Jingzhi to answer. Before today, she had never experienced the taste of love, let alone love at first sight.
Therefore, in her opinion, the so-called love at first sight is nothing more than a cover that people add to their ordinary lives, which sounds very beautiful, but in fact it is self-deception.
However, today, since the moment she walked into Ruyiju and saw Jason, she felt that her gaze was firmly nailed to Jason; Her heart, all at once flew out of her own body, landed on Jason's body, and could never fly away, never fly back.
"I believe in love at first sight," Jingzhi said with a smile, "although it may be as rare as a snow lotus on the Tianshan Mountains, a night pearl in the deep sea, or a thousand years of ginseng, I still believe that there will always be love at first sight......
"Well," Jason nodded wistfully, "I also believe in love at first sight, because my dad and my mom are love at first sight." ”
Hearing Jingzhi's answer, Jason completely unguarded, opened the conversation, and began to tell the story about his parents.
"My mum has lived in London for many years. Mom's parents were both archaeologists who studied ancient civilizations in Asia. Mom is their only daughter. She also has a younger brother who is two years younger than her.
Her mother has loved music since she was a child, and her family also supported her and sponsored her to learn piano playing.
After graduating from university, my mother joined a well-known chamber orchestra in London, and often went to other European countries with the orchestra to play piano music. ”
Speaking of this, Jason's face showed a proud expression, so that Jingzhi could not be difficult to guess that Jason's mother must have played the piano very well when she was young, and she must have been a very good pianist at that time.
"At that time, the place my mother wanted to go to the most was Beijing." Jason shrugged, "But I haven't been able to find a chance." She is very eager to see our Forbidden City and the Great Wall. However, at that time, transportation was not as developed as it is today, and Mama's orchestra only performed in a few countries in Europe that were relatively close to the UK. ”
Jason's description of his mother's desire to go to Beijing is very similar to the mood of the youngest mermaid princess in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Daughter of the Sea" who looks forward to leaving the sea and visiting the land where humans live.
Later, a chance accident changed my mother's life.
At that time, a Chinese friend of my grandfather's lived in Chinatown.
One day, he suddenly told his grandfather that he was going to open a big hotel in Beijing, and asked him if he could let his mother play a tune at the hotel's opening dinner, which was the highlight of the dinner.
My grandparents didn't agree. It was only later that my mother felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and after repeated requests, my grandparents reluctantly agreed.
Mom was so happy! She told me that at that time, she had lived for more than twenty years, but she had never been so happy!
Later, my mother successfully arrived in Beijing, and her piano performance was also very successful.
That night, my mother put on our Chinese cheongsam for the first time, and the song she played was ......"
At this, Jason choked up.
This time, the warmth of Jingzhi's palms had brought Jason's fingers back to normal body temperature, and he felt the warmth from Jingzhi's heart. His heart was no longer immersed in the cold world, he didn't shed tears, but continued with red eyes: "Dream Wedding" ......"
Jingzhi saw that Jason's spirit had recovered a lot. Although he still looked a little melancholy, the past came to his heart, and it was a surprise blow to him.
Now, more than half an hour has passed, and Jason's face is starting to improve. The redness on his face had gradually subsided, making his emotions not look as out of control as they had just been.
"Mom was the only foreign performer they invited.
That night, my mother wore a white cheongsam, which amazed the audience. Mom's hair is blonde," Jason said, shaking his head slightly, "the same color as my hair." ”
Jingzhi looked at Jason's blonde hair. It was this color that made Jingzhi mistake Jason for an Englishman when she first met him.
"At the dinner, my father met my mother for the first time and fell in love with my mother at first sight. Because of my mother's beautiful face, wonderful performance, and because of "Dream Wedding......
Not long ago, his father was forced by his grandfather to arrange a blind date, which made him very distressed. He longs for free love and is unwilling to accept a marriage arranged by his parents.
At that time, my father had just become a department manager at a hotel.
The hotel was run by grandpa. Dad just worked at the grassroots level to gain experience and prepare for inheriting the family business in the future.
The owner of the big hotel that opened that day was a friend of my grandfather. Coincidentally, it was supposed to be a dinner party attended by grandpa himself, but in the end, because grandpa suddenly became unwell, he had to ask his father to take him to attend.
Dad was very resistant to Grandpa's request at first. At that time, he was in a cold war with his grandfather because of his blind date. In the end, Dad compromised and went to the dinner alone.
Almost all the people at the dinner party were middle-aged people, and my father was a young man in his twenties, and few people talked to him.
That night, Dad was almost always alone, sitting there, silent.
At the end of the dinner, Mom's appearance made Dad's eyes shine. She played her father's favorite tune.
Dad told me that the moment my mother's fingertips touched the keys and the piano sounded, his heart left his body and flew to my mother, never to return. ”
Jingzhi heard what Jason just said, and the hand that touched Jason's finger couldn't help but tremble, so that she had to immediately withdraw her hand and put it on her chest, so as to hide the secret in her own heart: she also fell in love with Jason at first sight......