A Tooth For a Tooth

(1)

Playing the piano is easy to say, although Xu Yao played it in front of Yang Ren before, but he learned that piece many times when he was a child, and it has been stored in his memory after playing it many times.Although the birthday song is simple, the score is completely meaningless to Xu Yao, and he has no way of knowing how he is playing, and cannot get any feedback.

"I don't." Xu Yao wanted to stand up, but was pushed down on the piano bench by Yang Ren.

"You try." Yang Ren refused to give up.

Xu Yao shook his head: "I can't hear my own voice, I'm already embarrassed to talk to you, and let me play the piano? I can't hear what I'm playing."

"Can't I just read the score to you? The birthday song is a child's song, it's super simple." Yang Ren scolded him, first because he wanted him to show off in front of his daughter, and second because he wanted to Satisfy your desire to watch him play the piano again.

"No, I can't hear how to play it." Xu Yao refused, and took his hands off the keys.

"Why not, think about Beethoven." Yang Ren acted like a baby and started talking nonsense.

Thinking about it, Xu Yao never seemed to reject Yang Ren. After a long time, he finally agreed. Yang Ren happily searched the numbered notation on the Internet, then asked Xu Yao to memorize it, and then listened to him sentence by sentence. Slow to help him correct.

He couldn't hear the rhythm at all, but Xu Yao trusted him very much. Although he felt that he played badly, he didn't shy away from Yang Ren and practiced bravely.

(2)

Asking a normal person to play the simplest little song actually doesn’t take too long to practice, but no matter what Xu Yao does, he has to put in more energy than everyone else. Fortunately, Yang Ren is with him, and the old man is playing chess next door. Every night, the two of them huddled in the old man's room to practice the piano.

Just before Xiao Ai's birthday, Xu Yao was able to play the little song stumblingly. Occasionally, there was a place where the rhythm was not accurate, and Yang Ren was not worried. He could hear it anyway. If Xu Yao played slowly, He just sang slowly. If Xu Yao played a line fast, he sang it fast.

Everyone's plan was perfect, and the three elderly people also started to prepare birthday dinner at home. There were almost one dish, and they started to work since the afternoon.The two families really merged into one family unknowingly, and with the love of so many family members, Xiao Ai's personality and mentality naturally developed in a good direction.

The three old men were busy cooking and had no time to pick up the children, so Yang Ren drove Xu Yao to the school gate together.When I got up this morning, Xiao Ai hadn’t forgotten about it. She asked her father if she could hear the birthday song when she came home from school in the afternoon. Xu Yao smiled and agreed to her. Thinking of this, Yang Ren felt very happy. Today must be a very happy day It more or less made up for all the bad experiences the poor kid had had on his birthday night.

There are always a lot of parents gathered at the school gate. Yang Ren parked the car and helped Xu Yao get down. In front of so many parents, Xu Yao no longer had the nerve to take out his blind stick, so Yang Ren pulled him slowly and Arrived at the gate.

There were so many people and noisy, it was not convenient for Yang Ren to tell Xu Yao what he saw, so he just stood there waiting for the children, one class after another came out, and Xiao Ai's class followed. "Xiao Ai! Tongtong!" Yang Ren waved his hand holding the car keys to them.

(3)

Xu Yao could feel Yang Ren's movements, and knew that the children had come out, so he stood up straight, and tried to adjust his eyes to a level-view position, hoping that the children would not be ashamed by being too blind.

The two were about to welcome the children when they heard another voice from the crowd calling, "Aisu!"

Few people call Xiao Ai like that anymore. Yang Ren didn’t realize that he was calling him a child when he first heard it. When he looked up, he saw Su Zhi. She was wearing heavy makeup and was standing at the door holding a bouquet of flowers. There is another man beside her, who should be her current husband.

Yang Renru was facing a big enemy, she never expected that after such a long time, why would she suddenly come to school to find her child, and it was still in time for her birthday, she didn't know how much the whole family had prepared for this baby's birthday, she also I don't know that Xu Yao has practiced the birthday song hundreds of times in order to make the child happy.

The student team dispersed, Yang Yitong came to look for his father, but Xiao Ai froze there and did not follow.

Yang Ren could vaguely remember the last time he and Su Zhi were at the gate of the school, but this time Xu Yao was still there, and he didn't want him to experience such a cruel moment.

"Baby, happy birthday." Su Zhi walked over with a smile, and sent a large bunch of sunflowers to Xiao Ai's arms.

Xu Yao didn't know what was happening in front of him, and felt that only Tongtong was holding his hand, so he asked, "Where's Xiao Ai?"

"She..." Tong Tong pointed at Xiao Ai with his other finger, but he didn't know how to tell Uncle Xu.

(4)

"Su Zhi is here." Yang Ren whispered in Xu Yao's ear while no one was paying attention.

Xu Yao naturally didn't expect that woman to appear, and the relaxed expression when he was talking to Yang Yitong just now disappeared in an instant.

Seeing Xiao Ai holding flowers, Su Zhi slowly raised her head, brushed her broken hair with her hands, and said to Yang Ren and Xu Yao: "I will take Xiao Ai to celebrate her birthday today."

Yang Ren's anger didn't hit any one place, and he didn't care how crowded the crowd was, he just said, "No way!"

"Why not? I haven't seen the child for so long, why not celebrate her birthday with two men?" Su Zhi said.

Hearing what the two men said, Yang Ren trembled with anger. Just as he was about to let go of Xu Yao's hand to grab Xiao Ai, he felt Xu Yao's arm was firmly grasped.

"Don't quarrel." Xu Yao's face has returned to calm, "Let Xiao Ai go, Mom's birthday song must be better than Dad's."

Yang Ren knew that Xu Yao didn't want to speak in front of so many people, and he didn't want Su Zhi to see how helpless he was now, so he stopped talking and acquiesced to all this sadly. He only hoped that he could take Xu Yao with him as soon as possible. Get away from here.

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