Chapter 24: Singing I'm Serious (23)
ββ¦β¦ Don't worry about it, you'll come! Xiao Lengxuan looked at the girl who suddenly spoke out of the window, and replied as if she was being grabbed by her pigtails.
"I just can't play the piano, and I don't have a problem with my ears." The girl's voice retorted a little aggrieved, "You obviously played it wrong just now." β
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It turns out that this memory was originally like this. The original owner was attracted by the sound of the piano and secretly ran into this aristocratic school and got acquainted with Leng Xuan, who was studying here.
Leng Xuan "unilaterally" regarded her as one of the few geniuses in music like himself. Really starting from scratch as her leader in music.
"What?! You won't read the score! Xiao Lengxuan looked shocked.
"Scores?" Looking at the tadpoles of different sizes and appearances on the five bars, the original owner wondered, "Is that how you know what to play through this?" β
She leaned forward and picked up the pieces of paper on the music stand, "It's amazing! Like a child who has been given a new toy, he is very excited, "Can you teach me?" β
The first time I saw her communicate so actively, the little boy didn't react at once, until he saw the girl's gradually lowering eyes, and then hurriedly said, "Cut, it's not simple." β
"Come here," the boy sat down at the piano, "Uncle Ben taught you by hand, it's an honor, isn't it?" β
In this way, Xiao Lengxuan taught her the most basic knowledge of music introduction, and every day of this class, as if agreed, she would sneak here here. As a secret base for the acquaintance of these two children, this music classroom seems to be forever eroded by time.
For Leng Xuan, his favorite place was also that place, that time. That's what he looks forward to every day, and when the evening sun shines through the curtains on the black piano by the window, he picks out his favorite or newly learned tunes to play. He doesn't need to follow the wishes of his teachers or his father, he just needs to enjoy playing.
Then at the end of the song, he could see that his friend was already standing outside the window. It looks like I've just heard it, and it's more like I've been listening there for a long time.
But not that time.
He chose his favorite Pirates of the Caribbean again, and when he habitually looked out the window, he didn't see the man.
"Hey, didn't you come?" He opened the glass window and poked his head out to look around, "So you're going to be late, hahahaha......"
"Then I'll have to think about how to punish you in a moment!" Before the boy returned to the piano, in fact, he probably knew the identity of the little girl, he had not worn a school uniform, he did not have a communicator on his wrist, and although he wore it neatly every time he appeared, the fabric was very rough and simple. I don't think I'm a student of our school.
His father has an almost strict desire to control him, and he will not allow him to communicate with such a child. But it doesn't matter, he won't be as honest and obedient as a pug.
Switching to a tune, the boy waited as he finished each piece in earnest. The sunset by the window was his only audience, but until the audience left, he didn't wait for the girl today.
"Missed the appointment." Not disappointing or angry, the boy covered the piano with a dust cloth and left the music room. In fact, they did not seriously agree on the time and place, one waited naturally, and the other arrived on time. It was only when the wordless tacit understanding between the two of them was suddenly broken that he felt powerless for the first time.
He hadn't asked who she was, he didn't know where she lived.
"Honestly, tell me what the hell you did!" When passing by the school security room, Leng Xuan heard that the people inside were angry, and through the hidden door, he saw the girl who was supposed to appear standing inside with her head down, motionless.
"Hand over what you stole or don't blame us for being rude!" Another security guard hit the girl on the shoulder with a stick.
"Hey!" Leng Xuan slammed the door open, "You're not finished!" β
"She's my friend, coming to me." He pointed at the girl, "Got an opinion?" β
"Leng Shao......" One security guard hasn't reacted yet, why did the eldest young master of the Leng family suddenly appear here, and the other security guard has already begun to explain.
"Leng Shao, this child is a street child," he let go of the hand that was just grabbing the girl's collar, "We've all seen her many times, don't look at her very well-behaved now, she is usually a thief!" β
"Yes, yes." The security guard, who came back to his senses, interjected, "This kind of child is used to being wild and can't be taught well." She must have come in to steal. We've seen her several times but haven't been able to find her once, and you say this school is ......."
"This campus is full of kids with big names like you, and if something bumps and falls, isn't it a dereliction of our duty?" The security guards flattered, saying, "Some time ago, some classmates said that they lost something, and it must have been done by this little brute." β
"I lost something and don't know how to check the surveillance?" Leng Xuan questioned, "Or did you tell me that so many cameras in the school are decorations?" β
"This ...... There are also blind spots in this monitoring. β
"I took her with me." Bypassing the two security guards in front of him, Leng Xuan took the hand of the original owner, "If you really have anything to compensate, just look for me." After speaking, he dragged the heroine out of the security room.
In winter, the night falls early, and without the symbolic rays of the sun, the temperature at night drops even faster.
"Hey, you're not cold, aren't you?" He put his warm cotton jacket on the person next to him, but was dodged by the girl.
"Don't, dirty." Instead of looking at the boy's gaze, the girl looked at her messy clothes from tugging with the security guards.
"Why are you ......" wanted to complain about why the girl was always so soft, and she didn't know how to refute the two rude security guards, but finally changed her words, "I'll get you a pass." β
"Thank you, you." The girl happily wiped the ashes from her face, and before the boy could breathe a sigh of relief, she said, "I'm leaving." "Today is here to say goodbye.
The boy was stuck in the middle of laughing, and he wanted to ask why, was it time to move? In the end, "Where are you going?" β
"I don't know."
How can anyone not even know where they are moving?! The boy was a little angry, "Can you learn to take the initiative?" β
"If you don't resist yourself, you can only become a doll to be manipulated by adults."
"I've long understood that." The lights of the road shone by one, and the shadows of both men shrank and lengthened.
The girl stopped, reached out and tugged at the corner of the boy's coat. "Thank you, you." She was as serene as she was every time she came to the window to listen to the boy play. The two of them just stopped under a street lamp, and the people who came and went around them looked at them from time to time, with ridicule and curiosity in their eyes.
"Really." Taking his clothes back from the girl's hand, Xiao Lengxuan patted the girl's head, "Anyway, it's the last time we will meet, don't make the atmosphere so embarrassing." β
Then he patted his chest like a little adult, "If you want to eat or play, I'm a guestββ! β
As a result, the two found that there was no place to talk except music.
"I really can't understand," Leng Xuan sighed, "Obviously about the same age, I always feel that you and I are not people living in the same world." β
"Hmm." The girls picked up a black eyepatch from the hawker stall, it was a simple pirate blindfold, and the boys loved to buy this game of "pirate captain".
"Do you like this?" Taking the blindfold from the girl's hand, Leng Xuan walked around behind her and helped her put the blindfold on. "Poof, hahahaha-" He looked at the unknown person in front of him, wearing gray-blue short-sleeved trousers, obviously a girl but didn't have long hair, his clothes were a little dirty like a tomboy, and he really had the demeanor of a young pirate with an eye patch.
"Do you like pirates because of that tune?" He asked.
"Well, it's free." One eye is obscured, making the light in her other eye even more dazzling.
"Then wear it and go, shall we?" Leng Xuan took her away, "Don't look back, you've already paid." β
The darker the night, the brighter the city lights, and there are always those who can't sleep here to party all night long.
"You, aren't you going home?" The original owner asked, because one eye was covered, and the boy said that it was easy to see the road clearly, so he simply led her away.
"No one cares if I live or die in that place." Leng Xuan replied, "It's good that they can take care of themselves." β
They arrived at the door of a music shop, the original owner of which had wandered many times. Just from the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, she could often see people choosing instruments, and she liked to look at them outside and listen to the sounds they made.
"Hey, I said, I've been teaching you for so long, do you have to call me a teacher?" Leng Xuan led the original owner into the Jiale Fang, and very easily, stepped over the threshold that the original owner had never dared to think of, and let her see the world inside.
"Wow." She let out a small exclamation, and covered her mouth again for fear that others would find out. Whether it's a wooden guzheng or huqin, or an ocarina that has been cut so light that it reflects the light overhead, she can't imagine how dazzling they are played.
"Hey, don't just look at it, did you hear what you just said?" The boy was a little dissatisfied with the repetition of the question just now.
"Yes, teacher." It was a very soft, soft voice, and it made him blush a little when he heard it in the boy's ears.
"Ahem, that's pretty much it," the boy pushed her forward, "you're a teacher today, and I'm going to give you a gift for my teacher, so you can choose whatever instrument you like." β
"Favorite instrument......" the girl thought for a moment, "piano." β
"Hmm." was knocked by Leng Xuan, and the original owner covered his head a little aggrieved.
"Can you take the piano with you? You turtle, rely on resistance? β
Hearing that she couldn't choose the piano, the girl's eyes were a little gloomy, Leng Xuan couldn't see that she rubbed her hair again, and looked at the little head that was already messed up before she was satisfied. "I'll do it anyway." He walked to the guitar area and began to pick one by one.
"I don't have any money." As if she had reacted, the girl tugged at the corner of his coat and signaled that it was better to leave.
"It's all a gift," the boy frowned, then unfolded and laughed as if he had thought of some kind of idea, "by the way, you can take this account on credit first." β
I tried a note on the guitar and was very satisfied with it before handing it to the girl, "When you release an album in the future, come to my company." β
"We've made an appointment, little pirate."
"You're going to wait for me."