Flight of the Bumblebee

As soon as Xing Yan and the others stepped onto the floor, they were stopped by Niuniu's mother.She took out two pairs of indoor slippers from an old shoe cabinet nearby and asked them to change them.He Qi felt a little cramped when he put on the lady's slippers. He lowered his head to look at Xing Yan's feet, and found that his feet were even worse, with the entire heel hanging outside.These two pairs are obviously the pair of mother-child shoes, there is nothing left in the shoe cabinet.Looking around, the traces of their existence in this room have been eliminated.Perhaps the slippers that Xing Yan and the others are wearing at this time and place are the only evidence here that can prove that they once lived here.Niuniu's mother probably forgot to pack them up, or left them where they were on purpose.When she took out these two pairs of old slippers from the shoe cabinet, He Qi couldn't see any signs of hurt on her face.

Niu Niu took Xing Yan's hand and pulled him to the sofa to sit down, but she deliberately ignored her.I could only walk to the sofa silently by myself, and sat down at a place far away from Xing Yan.

Niuniu's mother brought out two cups of boiled water from the kitchen and put them down in front of them. He felt so embarrassed, so he hurriedly stood up, took the cup from her hand, and repeatedly said sorry for disturbing him so late.

The woman smiled at him, her lips were bloodless under the fluorescent light, and there were obvious dark circles around her eyes.He Qi could finally see her face clearly.Her features were featureless, her cheekbones were sun-spotted, her eyes hadn't yet had crow's feet, and the baby fat on her cheeks hadn't completely faded away. She didn't look much older than him.I had seen her a few times in a hurry in the stairwell before, and my impression was that she was a person with a short stature and great energy.She was always hurrying down the stairs, passing by like a small hurricane, as if in a hurry to do something.

He didn't remember exactly what that man looked like, but he was not tall in his impression. He liked to stand on the balcony and smoke, and he could smoke several cigarettes at a time.After smoking, I have to clear my throat and spit a few mouthfuls of phlegm downstairs.This was the most unbearable, every time he heard the "grunt grunt" sound, he quickly covered his ears and ran into the house in a hurry.

And the root of all evil, fucking man.This one is really hard to forget.His mother just came from her hometown in the last six months. Before she came, although the downstairs was not harmonious and happy, it was an ordinary family like the one living next to it, and no serious quarrels were heard.After she came, there was a small quarrel for three days, and a big quarrel for five days. Sometimes the police had to be called to help deal with it.The old lady was adding oil and vinegar to the fire while adding fuel to the flames. Of course, the man turned to his mother.Soon the fight became so loud, why sometimes I was woken up by them early in the morning on weekends, and when I got up, there was no place to let the fire go, and the vacation was wasted after all.

Xing Yan said that Niu Niu would not be happy growing up in such an environment, so he agrees with it with both hands.Not only a child will not be happy, but if he lives with these two top performers, on the first day he will be able to perform an explosion on the spot - BOOM!This is to be angry.

The woman told him that I was embarrassed. She smiled weakly and said, "You take such good care of Niuniu, it really makes me feel ashamed as a mother."

He Qi politely said to her: "Where is it! Niu Niu looks so cute, everyone likes it."

When Niuniu heard his words, she immediately answered, "Liar!" Then she stuck out her tongue at him, grabbed Xing Yan's arm, and begged, "Shall we go play marbles? I played marbles together."

I don't know what's going on, but when Xing Yan entered the room, he seemed quite restrained. The big man who was originally about 1.8 meters hunched his back and became as tall as He Qi.He was sitting on the sofa with his hands full, he didn't know where to put his hands, so he had to stretch them on his knees.No matter what Niuniu told him, she ignored it and kept saying, "Wait a minute! I'll play with you later."

He Qi immediately understood that Xing Yan was not used to getting too close to strangers.Now in this room, there is only one person he is not very familiar with, and that is Niuniu's mother.Even if there is no physical, verbal, or even eye contact between the two, for Xing Yan, just being under the same roof is enough for him to be nervous.

Looking at Xing Yan's aggrieved expression, He Qi suddenly remembered the purpose of his trip.He turned his head suddenly, the water glass he was holding in both hands, a little water spilled out of the glass due to his excessive movement, but he didn't pay attention at all, looking at Niu Niu's mother with scorching eyes, and asked: "You need a Piano teacher?"

The two people in the room were taken aback just after speaking, Xing Yan suddenly raised his head to look at him, suspecting that he had heard wrong just now.

He Qi put the water glass back on the table, pulled Xing Yan up to the dazed mother Niuniu, and held Xing Yan's hand in front of her as if she was selling a product.And said: "He really can play the piano. Look at these white and slender hands, which are as beautiful as a woman's. At first glance, they are the hands of a pianist!" Xing Yan felt irritated for the first time. Feeling a little annoyed at saying this in front of others without asking him, he struggled hard, but was dragged back by He Qi, and suppressed his hand with all his might.

Xing Yan's chest was beating uncontrollably, and his breathing was a little faster. He lowered his head, tried to suppress his anger in He Qi's ear, and asked him in a deep voice, "What exactly do you want?"

He Qi said: "You will know in a while." The woman's eyes widened unconsciously, and on He Qi's face was a forced smile that even Xing Yan could see.

He didn't understand what He Qi wanted to do now.In order to embarrass him or embarrass himself, he is obviously not good at communicating with others, so he still pulls him to say such words.He hadn't touched the keys for so long that he had long forgotten how to put his fingers in the correct position.He told Niu Niu that he wanted to teach her how to play the piano, but it was just casually, how did it get into his ears?What's more, since he has never heard him play, how can he be sure that he is very good at playing the piano.He is very good at playing the piano, who told him this?Sleepwalking?

The three adults in the room looked at each other, Niuniu ran over and hugged her mother's thigh, and looked up, each of them had extremely dramatic expressions on their faces.Xing Yan wanted to be angry or not, but her mother was completely out of the situation, her eyes wandered between the two of them, what else, she smiled awkwardly for a moment, but soon she seemed to have strengthened her determination, her eyes sparkled looking at her mother.

"Piano teacher?" The mother looked down at her child, and said shyly, "My child doesn't need a piano teacher, and we can't afford one."

"It's only 20 yuan a day!" The woman frowned, and He Qi changed her words: "15 yuan! One day! He can also help with childcare, anyway, he doesn't have much work, and he usually has a lot of free time. And he is a good man, I dare to risk my life Guaranteed, he is definitely not the kind of pervert who likes to be close to children!"

There was cold sweat on Xing Yan's forehead, he looked at He Qi and thought: What and what is he talking about, doesn't it sound more suspicious?

Niu Niu was helping him from below, grabbing his mother's pants and dancing, saying, "Learn the piano! Learn the piano!"

She still wanted to refuse, He Qi directly took Xing Yan's hand and walked towards the closed bedroom door.He didn't know which room Niu Niu was in, so he just opened one at random first.The woman behind exclaimed: "What are you going to do?" Xing Yan was also frightened by his sudden action, and was dragged forward involuntarily while calling his name.

He Qi opened a door, it was pitch black inside, and there was not even a mat on the bed.He opened another door before the woman stepped forward to stop her. Sure enough, Niuniu's electronic piano was placed on the children's desk at the end of the bed, and there were some messy things on it, all of which were Niuniu's cheap toys.

He Qi turned on the light, and dragged Xing Yan to sit down on the cramped children's chair.The woman was rushing to the door when she saw the scene in front of her stop inexplicably.Niu Niu also ran over, hugged her mother's thigh and stood outside the door looking at the strange atmosphere of these two people, speechless.

"Play the piano!" Looking at Xing Yan who was sitting there motionless, He Qi couldn't help saying in a commanding tone.

"No!" Xing Yan seemed to be fighting him today, he had never spoken to He Qi in such a strong tone.

In such a hurry, he knelt down and said to him half-persuasively and half-coaxingly: "Play whatever you want, Xing Yan. Play what you remember, okay?"

Xing Yan looked puzzled: "He Qi, what do you want to do?"

He Qi's face was full of anxious sweat, he glanced at the mother and daughter standing outside, with an expression of being unable to speak out, and said to Xing Yan in a low voice: "In short, you just play it, just for Niu Niu, It's also for me, you can play "Little Star" casually."

His eyes were full of pleading, this was the first time He Qi looked at him with such eyes.

Xing Yan's heart was beating on his eardrums, and he felt panic.It was like standing on a spotlight stage many years ago, and the noisy voices around him drowned him layer by layer like waves.For a moment, he even wanted to turn around and flee here desperately, leave this room, leave this city, and go wandering again, leaving everything that happened these days behind him.But the moment he met He Qi's eyes, he lost all the courage to leave.

"I love you." He Qi told him so.On the Baishui bridge with no sense of architectural beauty, and the rushing river below, He Qi hugged him tightly and said these words to him.

The black and white keys made him uncontrollably afraid.

That afternoon, the asphalt road steamed by the sun seemed to be right under his feet. He crossed the black and white zebra crossing and distanced himself from the people chasing him. His life was divided into two parts.Like a rest at the end of a music bar, he only heard a crisp "ding" and then nothing.

It wasn't until he met He Qi that the movement of his life began to play again.

Xing Yan's fingertips were hot, and his fingers trembled unconsciously. He looked at He Qi, and his throat could not make a sound.He Qi urged: "Play something, Xing Yan, just treat it for me."

His hands finally placed on the black and white keys, and the cool touch of the plastic keys at night made him burst into tears, blurring his vision.Thousands of music scores poured into his head like opening the valve of memory.He Qi's eyes sparkled with excitement, and to remind him of the song, he hummed softly and slowly: "Twinkle twinkle twinkle...the sky is full of little stars..."

At first, Xing Yan just played independent notes along with his humming, his finger joints became a little stiff because of not moving for a long time.Gradually, He Qi couldn't keep up with his speed, and Xing Yan's fingers moved faster and faster on the keys. The nursery rhyme "Little Star" that he was supposed to play unknowingly became a song that He Qi had never heard before.Xing Yan's fingertips seemed to be flickering with incredible light on the keys, He Qi's eyes widened. At this moment, he looked like a star in the sky, far away and beautiful, so dreamy that it was unreal.