Carrara, Carrara, the roulette wheel drives the chain, the chain drives the hub, and a small car shuttles through the streets and alleys with the sound of ticking beads.

Sitting on the back seat of the car, Sophia put her left hand around Adam's waist, put her right hand in her pocket, and said calmly: "Although I have said it many times, I still want to say it again, this is called a bicycle, or a bicycle, not a 'car'." ”

Adam in the front seat struggled to pedal for a period of uphill, panting and answering freely: "It's so difficult to find a parking space now, so the luxury car at home won't be driven, and it's more convenient to drive this one." You don't have to have a Rolls-Royce, don't you?"

"Yes~Yes~"

"The tone must not be so perfunctory!"

Sophia in the back seat hugged Adam's waist, feeling the tight abdominal muscles, the surging life tension was transmitted all the way from the palm, Sophia raised her hand and patted Adam's thigh muscles: "How are your knees?"

"With Sophia's miracle doctor, of course, it is the medicine to get rid of the disease. ”

As the uphill slope reached its top, Adam was gasping for breath and finally kicked off the uphill road into the downhill road. Whoosh, in the early summer evening, the wind blows around you, bringing a little coolness.

Sophia looked at Adam's sweat-soaked back, her right hand quietly clenched in her pocket. There was a cool and hard thing in her pocket that was held in the palm of her hand, and Sophia suddenly spoke: "I've paid my salary." ”

"Oh. "Adam was careless.

"It's not expensive, but I have a gift for you. ”

"Oh?!" Adam instantly came to his senses, turned his head and said in surprise: "What a gift, I'll take a look!"

"This is it. Sophia's right hand pulled out of her pocket, and what she was holding shone in the sunlight was nothing but a harmonica with no packaging at all. Sophia looked serious: "I remember, you said you love music." ”

"Uh......" Adam quickly turned his head and blocked his fluttering eyes with the back of his head, when did he say he liked music...... Oh oh oh, there you have it, I remember! But that's just a casual remark, what should I do now......?" Of course, I have an international standard for piano and violin, but this kind of civilian instrument is of course disdainful to be learned by my noble son Adam. ”

"It's okay, I've learned, I'll blow it to you. With that, Sophia put the harmonica to her mouth without saying a word. She didn't care whether it was on the street or in the crowd, and she played on her own. The melodious harmonica sounds, soothing and beautiful. The wind blows her long black hair, and the strands of hair flutter in the wind, and she is immersed in her own musical world, quiet and beautiful.

After listening to it for a long time, Adam suddenly turned his head and asked seriously, "What kind of tune is this?"

"Does it sound good?"

"Sounds good. Adam nodded earnestly, as sincere as a child.

"Teresa Teng's song, goodbye_my_love, goodbye my love. ”

"Wait...... "Crooked nuts speak Chinese.

"Teresa Teng. Sophia corrected her pronunciation again, and glared very seriously: "Deng, Li, Jun." ”

While talking, the bicycle arrived home.

Adam made an elegant aristocratic manner: "Come, back to our luxurious and noble manor villa, please get off ma'am!"

It's certainly not a luxurious manor house, it's just an old house in a run-down neighborhood. The staircase in front of the door was half in disrepair, and behind the door was an upward staircase, and when Adam carried his bicycle up the stairs, the soles of his feet creaked against the wooden planks, as if they could be trampled and broken at any moment.

It was fine on the street, but when the door of the house was opened, Adam's expression immediately sank slightly.

This old house is narrow and old, and when the two of them first moved in, they didn't even have the lights on, and Sophia needed to repair the distribution cabinet by herself. The sewers are even more difficult, and Adam, a noble man, needs to roll up his sleeves and put on gloves to go to the toilet. Every time you go home, you need to go up a long slope, and the area is far away from the bustling area of the town, so it is not convenient to go anywhere.

At night, even if you don't turn off the lights, you can hear the rustling sound behind the wooden planks around you, which is a myriad of American cockroaches crawling. Teacher Yang and Xiao Geng met in Chengdu to change the size of the Spartan super strong enough ruthless, in fact, the ancestor of the kind of large small strong is the American cockroach. The wooden planks of this dilapidated old house are almost moldy, and it is the ideal nest for the American cockroach. As soon as there is a little scrap of things in the kitchen, they will swarm out of various cracks, like the disaster scene of a horror movie.

Such a dilapidated old house, if you want to talk about advantages, also has the only advantage - cheap.

In this era of rising inflation and increasingly aggressive bank interest rates, Adam ran for three days to find such a rental house. It was able to be rented because the landlord turned away all three black couples for the sake of the same white people.

A super scientist, a super nobleman, if the current life can be summed up in one word, it is poverty.

In Santiago's recollection, Adam was at the lowest point in his life at this time. Adam, whom he knew, had only opened a small company and was running it desperately. But what Sandiego didn't know was that Adam had lost almost everything when he met Adam a little earlier. Don't say anything about your son, let alone a small company, his current work, if the son of Zade knows about it, I'm afraid he will be shocked.

Tick-tock, Adam flipped the bike over and put it on the ground. Dressed in a pants vest and a towel over his shoulder, he overhauled the bike in front of him in the dim light. His hands were oily, but he didn't have the time to wash them, and he was sweating profusely, but it was impossible to turn on the air conditioner.

This rental house does not have air conditioning at all.

In the kitchen, Sophia stir-fried lightly. Adam suddenly sighed, and looked up at Sophia's side, the ethereal girl who seemed to be flying out of the sky, and the noble girl who should live in heaven on earth, was now single-minded. While cooking and washing clothes, I was still looking at a whiteboard hanging on the wall, thinking about something.

Adam put down the jet-black rag in his hand, his eyes lowered, and he thought about something.

"The meal is ready. Sophia's voice interrupted Adam's reverie.

"Well, good. ”

After eating, I washed the dishes and chopsticks. When he first came here, Adam was clumsy, and his original life was too far away from this kind of place, this kind of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. But after these days, he has been able to expertly wash the dishes and save excess water.

"I see you didn't forget to look at the whiteboard when you were cooking," Adam's words were not as many as before, and his tone was slightly low: "Are you still thinking about any complex academic problems?"

"Not really. Sophia took a pen and wrote on the whiteboard: "I'm working on a bicycle. ”

"Bikes?"

"I'm looking at how to make Adam's pedaling easier. Sophia writes and draws on the whiteboard: "Well, it's almost, it should be okay if you transform it like this." ”

"Oh......" Adam brushed the plate, and a warm smile gradually bloomed on his lips.

Suddenly, Sophia put a patch of ointment on Adam's knee. "Here, put it on, take care of the joints. ”

"What's this?"

"Too strong exercise will damage the knee, and unscientific movement trajectory and force will wear down the joint cartilage. Chondroitin is a bit expensive, so I figured out a way to work around it and made this ointment for you. More or less, it should work. ”

"Oh, the dressing, by the way, what is this ointment made of, it feels very effective!" the ointment warmly released the heat, and Adam looked up, and the temperature in his eyes warmed. "If that's the god, how about we make more of this ointment to sell in the future?

"Sent it? Sounds good. Sophia pinched her chin, her posture was almost the same as that of Teacher Yang, and then she nodded suddenly: "Okay, let's make a little more, this one is made of cockroach powder." ”

"Cockroach Powder...... Wait, that doesn't mean ......" Adam was suddenly moved.

"We have a lot of cockroaches in our house, and cockroaches are a species with high medicinal value, so I caught a lot of cockroaches, dried them, and then ground them into powder to make the simplest ......."

"Don't say it!" Adam suddenly roared, and suddenly reached out and grabbed Sophia's hands. He looked carefully at the hands in front of him and didn't say a word. Surrounded by fumes and dish soap, Sophia's fingers were no longer as white and smooth as before. It was hard for him to imagine the scene of the woman in front of him using such a pair of hands to catch cockroaches, grind them into powder, and make ointment.

"What's wrong?" Sophia looked at him tentatively, "It's disgusting, it doesn't have to be like this, I smuggled it to the laboratory to process it, and it was very finely ground......"

"No, it's not disgusting, I'm just ......" Adam's eyes were red, he didn't know where to look, he didn't know what to say. After a while, he took a sharp breath and smiled: "I just suddenly remembered that I would be the same as a civilian instrument." Today I found a guitar at the thrift market, and the tone is not bad. How about we play that song you just played?"

"Okay, okay, wait, I'll draw the score!" Sophia immediately jumped up for joy, her happiness was so simple.

【goodbye_my_love，】

[My love, goodbye. 】

【Goodbye_my_love，】

[I don't know what day we will meet. 】

The sound of soft, soothing music soaked the dilapidated hut and the night passed peacefully. Before dawn the next day, Adam dressed up and went downstairs.

"I'm leaving, I'll be back to take you to work after delivering the newspaper!" Adam waved at Sophia behind him, and then stepped on his bike and sped away. The bike has been tweaked and some structure has been added to make it easier for him to pedal. With a warm plaster on his knees, today he has to deliver takeaways, express deliveries, and day jobs in addition to newspapers.

Who let him receive an elite family education since he was a child? Damn, he didn't even have a diploma......

Adam faced the wind, his eyes deep.

I was going to take you back to the United States to live a good life......