About the fact that I accidentally turned my sister into a cripple

Chapter 151 Inter-chapter: Memories of the Seven Bright Moons in the Sky Sea

Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons alternate constantly.

The October wind blows into the classroom of the Department of Literature in the afternoon. On the classroom with neat desks, there are books flipped by the wind
Tianhai Qimingyue's hair was flipped with her hands on the desk, she closed her eyes and breathed evenly.

The glass wind chime overflowing from the window makes the distant and vague memory seem to emerge in a dream
[A-flat minor, play the black keys first, then add some octaves. Variations. Variations, acceleration variations! ]
The chords are interspersed among the ripples, and the sad notes flow out, but they stop abruptly soon.

[July, you made another mistake. ]
Bertha Heike held her forehead with her slender and tender hands in disappointment. She glanced at her five-year-old daughter who was sitting in front of the piano, and criticized:

[Don't play this original piece by Powell so timidly.You have to understand that even though he was suffering from tuberculosis and suffering mentally, deep down, he still longed for something.He is discriminated against, so longs for approval.He was forced to be sent to a mental hospital for electric shock treatment, so he longed for justice. Driven by these reasons, he created such a passionate song! ]
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Tianhai Qimingyue stared at the piano under the moonlight, with her little hands resting on the cold bone-colored keys, and remained silent for a long time.

Bertha Hekeya knew that her second daughter didn't like talking very much, so she lowered her voice, put her arms up, waved to her and said: "Forget it, let Liuli come up, and you go down in July." ]
Tianhai Qimingyue walked off the piano stage in silence.

[Recall what you did wrong, think about it, and then improve. ]
Accompanied by her mother's voice, what followed was a little girl who was exactly the same age, appearance, and even clothes.

Tianhai Jiuliuli glanced at her silent sister and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by her mother who was urging her.

[Liuli go up and get ready to start, Cleopatra's Dream, starting from the movement that just made a mistake in July. ]
Bertha Heikeya took a step back, and reminded the second daughter next to her, [July, remember to see how my sister plays, summarize and review before you can make progress. ]
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Soon, Tianhai Jiuliuli sat on the high piano bench under the watchful eyes of her mother and sister.

She put her little hands on the keys, closed her eyes, and within a moment, the feeling that came to her heart made her slide the white keys, the music overflowed, and the chords were struck with her left hand, and the piano was blown in the long layered rhythm Vibrant melody.

Bertha Heikeya squeezed her chin, closed her eyes, listened carefully with her ears, and nodded continuously, [Keep the rhythm, yes. Yes. Yes, very good, the sense of crisis of the drumbeat is coming.]
The sound of the piano was getting better, Tianhai Qimingyue continued to watch the smooth movements of her sister on the stage.

The mother's voice also followed the song
[Powell, who was born in 1924, was beaten by the police because of racial discrimination, sent to a psychiatric hospital for electric shock treatment, and was imprisoned for half his life by mental torture and tuberculosis. And he is a musician who has received classical piano training since he was seven years old. Imagine him During the time spent in the mental hospital, imagine the depression he was imprisoned in the spirit and body!Imagine his wild desire to run, to break free!Imagine pouring everything into the expectation of speed and freedom
[Imagine a blue sports car, speeding on the endless highway, let go of all speeds, and rush to the distance with all your strength, and you can't see the vast skyline at the end]
Bertha Heikeya became more and more satisfied, and put her energy into her daughter's performance.

[Very well, it seems that the rhythm has been found, continue!Accelerate with all your might! ]
In line with her mother's fierce words, Tianhai Jiuliuli's performance on the piano became faster and faster, and became more and more passionate. Just a few fragments made her sweaty from nervousness on her forehead, but the musical notes bursting from the keys made her feel even more excited. People are full of excitement and yearning.

It's hard to imagine that this is a repertoire that a five-year-old girl can play.

But Tianhai Jiuliuli not only did it, but also won the praise of her mother who was already highly praised in the piano world.

After the end, Bertha Heikeya smiled and said to her:
[Although there are many syllables wrong in the middle, the overall rhythm has been maintained very well. The sound can be practiced, but the rhythm is the most difficult. ]
[You will lose rhythm in July, remember to learn more from your sister. ]
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[Come on, Liuli do it again, try to make few mistakes this time. ]
This night's practice seemed to last until 11 o'clock in the evening.

And Tianhai Qimingyue also stood below and listened to her sister's performance until 11 o'clock.

The mother's face became blurred in the silent standing. She said that she was going to make dinner for the two of them and let her sister continue to practice.

After she left, the elder sister stopped the piano and looked at herself who had been standing silently listening.

My sister's expression at this time seems to be very complicated, I don't know how to describe it.

The image of the elder sister praised by the mother seemed to reappear in front of my eyes.
Tianhai Qimingyue lowered her head.

[Sister, I want to go out for a walk. ]
[Do you want to go out again in July now? ]
[Um. ]
[Okay then, I will tell mom that you have to go to the toilet, it will take a long time. ]
[Thank you sister. ]
[You also have to remember to come back early, mom is preparing dinner for us]
[Ok.]
Tianhai Qimingyue walked out of the room, avoided the kitchen, and pushed the door back while going out.She looked up at the starry sky that could not be seen at all, and the light spots of stars were reflected in her small eyes.

She stared at it for a while, then quickly lowered her head and walked out of here.

Tianhai Qimingyue listened to Xia Chan's voice from the grass on the side of the road, and stopped and stopped all the way.

She walked past a telephone pole next to the intersection, then followed the road, crossed a path between trees, and came to the front of a wooden bungalow.

Beside a potato field.

Here, there is a little boy of similar age, holding a hoe, digging something next to a potato field.

Surrounded by shrubs and weeds.

"You are here again."

"." Tianhai Qimingyue, who was sitting on a bluestone, just looked at him quietly.

"Why don't you talk?" he asked.

"I don't like talking."

He glanced at the little girl sitting on the bluestone, shook his head and continued to hoe: "What a strange person, you don't look like a girl of your age at all, and you often run over to find me."

"What should it look like?"

"Well," he stopped the hoe in his hand, touched his chin and thought for a while, "I have a younger sister, do you know that she bounces around every day, makes troubles all day long, doesn't know how many bowls are left behind after eating, doesn't know that she is reprimanded by her father How many times haha, but every time she is scolded, she will hide behind me and want me to help her block her father's scolding.

"And what do you say, it's too quiet, madam is quiet."

"Isn't it good to be quiet? Both mother and father like to be quiet."

He obviously saw something on the little girl's clothes, leaned the hoe into the pit, and rested his hands on the handle of the hoe, "It's good to be quiet, every parent likes a quiet child."

Tianhai Qimingyue lowered her head, her feet dangling on the bluestone.

"Is the injury on your foot healed last time?"

"All right."

"That's good."

He looked at Tianhai Qimingyue, suddenly smiled and said: "I know, you should come here for vacation, and you will live in the newly opened resort hotel over there."

"How do you know?" Tianhai Qimingyue asked curiously, the little boy holding a hoe in front of her gave her a very different feeling.

"Judging from your clothes, your clothes are very valuable."

"Very high value.?"

"Well, it seems that you still can't understand the meaning of value, but you just need to know that the clothes you are wearing are probably enough for ordinary people to eat for two months."

"Is it worth it to eat two full months of food?"

"Well, I can't explain it to you, but 'two months' food' is indeed worth it," he picked up the hoe and continued to dig holes, "I think you are very smart, quiet and smart, at least my sister has never Can't think about the value of eating, just eat. Of course, this can't be blamed on her, she is only five years old."

Tianhai Qimingyue's voice was flat and small: "My sister is much smarter than me."

He smiled again, and avoided talking about this topic: "I guessed a little bit of your identity from your clothes just now, which reminds me of a person. Do you want to know someone who is smarter?"

"Who is it?" Tianhai Qimingyue tilted her head on the bluestone.

"Holmes."

"do not know."

"He has a reasoning called deductive reasoning, which is to start from the most subtle corners of everything, and then peel off the whole thing, filter it layer by layer, and finally reveal the truth!"

"Sounds great"

"You understand?" he asked curiously.

"I can understand a little bit."

"Is it that powerful?" He muttered to himself.

"What's so great about this?"

"For people of your age, it is very powerful. How about it, are you interested?"

"What are you interested in?"

"Listen to Sherlock Holmes' story. Since I still have things to do and I won't go back for a while, how about I tell you. If you can listen to it."

"Ah."

"Then I'll start talking, you just sit quietly and listen like last time."

"it is good."

Tianhai Qimingyue was still sitting quietly, listening to him slowly finish explaining John H. Watson's identity, telling about being shot in Afghanistan and retiring from the army, going to England for training, in order to live in a cheap and good house, he chose to rent with others, It tells that he met a strange person because of this, that is, the famous detective known all over the world-Sherlock Holmes.

The little boy spoke vividly, and followed what he said, making the proper gestures:
"He is over 182cm tall! He has a hooked nose and a thin body. He is extraordinarily energetic when he is working! When he is resting, he will sit on the sofa for a whole day. He is proficient in chemistry, fighting, psychology, Anatomy and geography, and he knows a little bit of violin! But he knows nothing about literature, philosophy, and astronomy, and he is not a doctor. He doesn't even know that the earth revolves around the sun.

"We rented together with him for quite a long time. Watson was very curious and observed him for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out what kind of job he was."

"What does he do?" Tianhai Qimingyue slightly tilted her head and asked.

"detective."

"detective?"

"Observation, secret filming, fighting criminals, disguise, searching for evidence, and highly focused attention. I don't know if you can understand it if you use these keywords to describe it."

"I can understand a little bit."

"That's good, you know that you know the person who helps the police find the criminal."

"Um"

Tianhai Qimingyue listened very carefully, because she really wanted to know how powerful this well-known detective Sherlock Holmes was.

It was the first time she heard of the profession of detective, and also the first time she heard the name of Sherlock Holmes.

She listened to him telling vividly how the two were involved in a case, how Holmes judged that the carriage was rented by the muddy mud of the carriage that no one had noticed, and how Holmes was at a loss when everyone was at a loss. , grasp all the clues, and tell them one by one, shocking everyone.

The self-confidence of Holmes when he told everyone about all the characteristics of the prisoner, Tianhai Qimingyue also seemed to be able to see some of it from the previous person.
The details are advanced layer by layer, the reasoning is fascinating, and the sense of transparency connected by countless irrelevant clues is a novelty that Tianhai Qimingyue has never felt before.

Is this the detective?

She shook her feet the whole time, and she finished listening to his "A Study in Scarlet".

Tianhai Qimingyue has been watching him.

"In the end, the two police officers asked Sherlock Holmes, who had devoted most of his efforts to this case, to go to other detective schools, but Holmes had already seen through everyone and said with a smile indifferently, 'In this world, what is important is not what you do. what, but to make others believe what you did'."

The story came to an abrupt end.

"What about later? Is there no later story?"

"Did you understand everything?"

"No," Tianhai Qimingyue shook her head with her face on her face, her calves were shaking back and forth, "There are many things I don't understand what you are talking about, but I know that the man in the tall hat is very powerful, and the police can't even catch him. He was able to catch it, and the other detectives, it was a nuisance."

He laughed, "That's enough. Being able to listen patiently and understand part of it proves that you are smart."

"Is there any later story about this detective?"

"Yes, but now that I've finished digging the hole, and it's getting late, I don't have time to tell you stories, and I can't remember all the stories, after all, I haven't read them for a long time." He suddenly smiled again, "Aren't you reluctant I leave?"

"Ah."

"That's right, but I'm sorry, I sneaked out. If my mother sees that I'm not in the house, she will definitely come out to look for me."

"I also sneaked out."

"Haha, that's really a coincidence. Coincidence, do you understand what it means?"

"Understood, but I don't know why you are digging the ground, and you have been digging for so long."

"This." He squatted down, took out a small bottle from the ground, and then walked in front of Tianhai Qimingyue.

"this is?"

"Butterfly, I caught a butterfly for my sister before, she said she wanted it, I caught one for her, and then kept the other one in a bottle, even though it was breathed out and given nectar, it still died , It’s not good to just throw it away. I’m afraid that my sister will be sad when she sees it, so I’m going to bury it, and then tell her that the butterfly flies away at night.”

"But the butterfly is so small, why did it dig such a big hole?"

"In order to chat with you, I dug with a hoe and grew bigger."

Tianhai Qimingyue watched from above as he buried the butterfly in the soil, and then watched him push the soil in with a hoe.

"My brother is a weirdo, he has been from the very beginning."

"Huh? Then you are also a weirdo. How can there be such a smart kid at this age."

"Isn't my brother a child too?"

"I, how should I put it? I know a lot of things, but after all, I'm still a child's body. Many memories will naturally fade away, at least when I was just born, I can't remember at all now, it's time to go home Alright, do you want me to take you back this time?"

Tianhai Qimingyue looked at the shadow of him looking up at the night sky with his hands on his hips, then suddenly lowered his head.

"I don't want to go back."

"why?"

"Didn't like it there."

"But you and your sister, didn't you come here to travel?"

"It's traveling, but I still have to practice every day. I'm not as smart as my sister, and my mother rarely looks at me."

"Do you practice the piano? Recently, I always hear the sound of the piano over there. I was never really rich before. I bought a new piano specially for traveling."

"Ah."

"You just said that you sneaked back, are you unhappy?" He asked.

"Um"

Tianhai Qimingyue lowered her head, and when she crossed her hands in front of her skirt, she found that he suddenly sat beside her.

There is a cool breeze at night, the moon hangs on the branches, and summer cicadas are noisy in the forest.

He put his hands behind his back and looked at the bright moon.

When Tianhai Qimingyue looked at him from the side, she could smell a little earthy smell on his body, and an indescribable emotion.

"In this case, let me tell you another Sherlock Holmes story, which will be another case in the future."

"really?"

"You look very happy, it's true, but after I finish speaking, you have to go home. Otherwise, sister and mother will worry about you."

"it is good"

Quietly listened to yet another novel and frightening story.

The absurd and strange atmosphere in the detective story seems to linger in my heart.

He sat beside him and was with him. All he had to do was look at him silently and listen to him, and he could know many different things.

When he said to himself "I'm going home", Tianhai Qimingyue also knew that he should go home.

"Can you find the way? Although this area is very safe, let it be so late at night. The road is too dark. Once the moon is blocked, you can't see anything. How about I take you back, anyway, it's not far away."

Tianhai Qimingyue looked into his eyes and just nodded weakly.

The road was really dark, without the flashlight in his hand, there was only an invisible road.

With the help of the night, it is possible to vaguely distinguish which of the hills are buildings and which are piled up tombs.

She followed him through the woods that lined the road.

From time to time, there was a clicking sound of stepping on the branches.

In the dark night, only the beam of light from the flashlight illuminates the lines of the trees.

"Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid. Don't, don't turn off the lights." Tianhai Qimingyue stood beside him immediately.

He turned on the flashlight again, and said with a smile to the little girl beside him, "That's just fear."

"Well, I'm afraid."

"If you're afraid, just follow closely. You'll be at the entrance of the village soon. The hotel is not far from grandma at the entrance of the village."

"it is good"

Tianhai Qimingyue was actually afraid for a while, and then returned to normal.

"Just now, you said that my sister is smarter than you, right?"

"... Hmm." After a long hesitation, he nodded and replied.

"Mom doesn't pay attention to you?"

"do not know"

"Although I have only met a few times, I know that you are very different, and you are really smart. At least I have never met a peer who is smarter than you. If your mother is partial, there is really nothing I can do to help you, but , I think you are capable, feasible, and smart, as long as you work hard, you will be able to achieve what you expect, for sure!" Halfway through his speech, he seemed to be unable to continue, "Forget it. It’s really not good for me to praise people.”

"Brother. Are you encouraging me?"

"Oh? You can see it, haha, do you think this kind of encouragement is too naive? It's just to make people work hard without understanding the status quo. It's really too empty, but I can't think of anything good for you. Come with your encouragement." While flashing his flashlight, he led the way ahead and let out a laugh that seemed to ease the atmosphere.

Tianhai Qimingyue followed behind, looking at him, watching him trying to encourage herself
"Thank you brother."

"It's nothing. Just some simple words of encouragement."

"I feel that you are different from ordinary boys. You know a lot and are a lot more kind. Although no one wants to talk to me." Tianhai Qimingyue's last words were so weak that only she could hear them.

"How about it!" He suddenly had a suggestion, stopped, turned around holding the flashlight, "I'm not good at encouraging me, so how about we make an agreement."

"Agreement?"

"Next time we meet, you will learn a little more, and I have prepared one more story that you like, and I will use this thing in exchange."

"Why do this?"

"Why? Well. Well. Because I like people who know everything."

"Like...someone who knows everything?" Tianhai Qimingyue murmured and repeated, and finally looked at him again.

"That's right, don't you think Sherlock Holmes is very powerful? You can figure out a person's career and identity from a little bit of detail. The more you grow, the more you will know the meaning that Holmes represents."

"Yes, very powerful." Tianhai Qimingyue remembered the story he told himself just now.

"Then that's the deal."

"Agreement, is it agreed?"

"Well, that's it."

"it is good"

Pull the checkmark and press the thumb.

Everything is simple and casual.

"Then go on, I'll continue to take you back."

"it is good"

As soon as the two of them walked through the village entrance with street lights, they found someone walking in front of them with a flashlight, as if they were looking for something.

The two stopped.

"It's mother and sister." Tianhai Qimingyue said weakly.

"Then I should go too. Goodbye. If you are free, come find me again." He smiled and waved to her. He didn't intend to meet the other party's parents and was about to leave first. "Remember what I said."

"Also, I want to say one more thing to you at the end. I don't know if you can understand me or not."

"Please say."

"Please don't hate yourself, at least, I think you are very smart."

After he finished the last sentence with a smile, he was beckoning and moved away.

Tianhai Qimingyue stood blankly by the side of the small gravel road, watching him beckon to leave, and his shadow drifting away on the path in the middle of the night.

He was getting farther and farther away, and the lamp in his hand seemed to be getting smaller.

Tianhai Qimingyue watched silently, held her little hands together, and counted the words he said to herself in her heart:
"As I said before. Next time we meet, we will learn one more thing. Also, this is already the fifth time I like people who know everything. Do you like people who know everything?"

Under the streetlights where only the humming of cicadas remained, the voice of my sister calling my name behind me had already passed.

"July."

"July."

"July!"

The light penetrated into the eyes, and the hazy consciousness was awakened from the distant memories. Tianhai Qimingyue, who was lying on the table in the literature department, saw Tianhai Jiuliuli who was bending over her, calling herself to get up.

"Good morning, sister."

Tianhai Jiuliuli looked sad, "School is over this afternoon, did you have a nightmare?"

"No, just dreamed of something."

"Didn't you say that someone is collecting my information on the forum? Let me come over."

"Well, yes, sister, there is such a thing." Tianhai Qimingyue propped her forehead, trying to find her mobile phone, but she couldn't find it.

Tianhai Jiuliuli said for her, "There's no need to look for it, it's five o'clock in the afternoon."

"Well, that person is almost here at this point in time, brother should have gone back."

As soon as this was mentioned, Tianhai Jiuliuli's voice also lowered: "Well, he probably has gone back by this time."

"Sister, are you already planning to pursue brother?"

"Yes, I told him I'm sorry, July."

"My sister doesn't need to apologize to me, she shouldn't have worried about me."

"But, what do you do in July? You were not when you were young."

"Childhood is something that happened when I was young, and I will forget it sooner or later." Tianhai Qimingyue's voice suddenly slowed down a lot, with a flat expression, "Besides, it's not that my sister doesn't know, and my brother won't accept my confession."

Tianhai Jiuliuli still wants to insist. She knows her sister well, and she understands better what it means to make "Qi Mingyue" confess.

"As long as you tell me about your childhood in July, he will recall it."

Tianhai Qimingyue shook her head: "Sister, I just met a few times when I was young, it's not a big deal."

"Haven't you met several times?"

"Really, I just saw it a few times."

(End of this chapter)