Flight of the Bumblebee

"Where are we going?" Shi Leping asked uneasily looking at the black lights outside the car window, and the faint shadow of the mountain moving backward.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you to silence you." Wang Sheng concentrated on driving the night road without a single light on the road.

He opened the car window and looked out. This place is already far away from the city center, and there are no cars coming from other directions everywhere. He never knew that there was such a place in this city.

"Are we in the country?"

"Well, it used to be a fishing village. Some primitive villages are still there. They are called protection. In fact, villas and resorts have been built nearby."

"Oh—I see," he joked, "This is to take me to your den."

Wang Sheng replied to him with a smile: "It's still a den, I'm not hiding in that golden house."

"Maybe doing some kind of sex business, trafficking women and children or something."

"What do you take me for?"

While speaking, the car body was a little bumpy, and Wang Sheng drove up the mountain.

Shi Leping looked at the surrounding scenery curiously. There were more vegetation and tree barriers, but he still couldn't see clearly.He knew that the car was going uphill, but he didn't know where Wang Sheng would take him.

The scenery in front of him gradually opened up. He first saw a little light past Wang Sheng, and as the vehicle drove, he saw the stream of lights and the sea of ​​lights.When Wang Sheng parked his black Audi firmly on the mountainside, the whole city was already under his feet.

Shi Leping's eyes widened. He felt that the scene in front of him was no less than the four night scenes he had seen one by one.There is such a good place in the city, and the crowds are sparse, so it has not been developed into a "must-see attraction in X University" or "the place you should go to in S City in XX's lifetime".Judging from the journey along the way, I am afraid that little is known about this place. If Wang Sheng hadn't led him today, he would never have thought of coming here.

He asked in surprise, "How did you find this place?"

Wang Sheng shrugged and said disapprovingly: "This is private land, look at that—" He pointed behind Shi Leping with his finger.

He turned around and saw a villa hidden in the night, but he couldn't tell how big it was.

"When did you become so rich?" Compared to the beautiful night scene, the man in front of him who had known him for more than ten years surprised him even more.

"I'm a rich second generation."

"You're just a 'second generation'."

"I told you that I made a lot of money by flipping houses. Didn't you say that my biggest advantage is opportunism? I bought this house a few years ago from a bankrupt boss after the financial turmoil. It's quite dilapidated, it's just a house The view ahead is better.”

"You just said that this is private land. Could it be possible to start from the uphill road..."

"Hey, the land and the house were bought and sold by force, so I had no choice but to buy half of the mountain. If I didn't buy it, the road up the mountain would not be mine, and I would have to fly in by helicopter at that time."

"You said that the house is quite dilapidated, so do we have a bed to sleep tonight?"

"..."

"Wang Sheng? Why are you in a daze?"

"If I say it's broken, you really think it's broken. I spent a lot of money on the decoration! Don't worry, there must be a bed for you!"

"I don't want to sleep on the bunk." Shi Leping said, and took out the two boxes of beer from the back seat.Wang Sheng stood behind him and said, why don't we drink here, go in and drink, I have good wine in my collection. "

But Shi Leping said, you still know wine, leave those wines to your little lover, today I will not get drunk or return here, and recall the past years. "

Wang Sheng laughed loudly and said, "Are you going to rely on these two boxes of beer to compete with me?"

Shi Leping said: "I can't drink you anymore, how can I compete with you. I drink my own, just to get drunk." He opened a can from the box, leaned on the car door and drank a few mouth.

Wang Sheng said: "I didn't buy this wine for you. You didn't say you wanted to drink it. Drink less, or you will have a headache tomorrow."

He put down the beer, "By the way, I forgot that I have work early tomorrow morning."

Wang Sheng walked up to him, took out a can of beer from the box, opened it and drank it down.Shi Leping kept smiling as he watched him finish the whole can, and then jokingly said, "It's fine if I get dumped, but are you also dumped?"

Wang Sheng took two steps forward, waved his arms, and threw the empty beer can towards the night view of the city, and fell into the bushes at the foot of the mountain, making a clear sound when it hit the tree branches in the night.He turned around, looked at Shi Leping and said with a smile: "Why, I'll let you be in a bad mood."

Shi Leping shook his head helplessly, and he said: "At first I wanted to talk to you, to resolve it, but I didn't expect you to be in a bad mood, what should I do now, I'm going to find someone who wants to listen to me at night People?" He took a few more sips of his wine.

"Then I'll try to listen. I told you I was in a bad mood just now, and I lied to you." He bent down and took out another can from the box.

Shi Leping complained: "Eight out of ten sentences are false, I really can't tell which of your sentences is true and which is false."

"It's true what I told you."

"Ha! I heard this sentence, it's fake!"

Wang Sheng raised his head and laughed loudly, and said, "You can hear it this time!"

Shi Leping sighed suddenly, and Wang Sheng asked him, "Do you still want to?"

"Can you not think about it? It's been five years. I've never liked someone for so long in my heart."

Wang Sheng didn't care about it: "Five years? I don't think so long. It's only five years, how many five years are there in life, why bother to fall in love with a single flower."

"I can't explain it to a prodigal like you!"

"If a person likes you for ten years, twenty years, what would you say?"

"Who would love me for so long!"

"I'm just making an analogy."

Shi Leping lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said seriously: "Comparing this way, five years seems insignificant."

"Right!"

"But," Shi Leping raised his head and looked at him, those eyes seemed to see through him, which surprised Wang Sheng, only to hear him say: "Love is not measured by the length of time and the sooner or later we know each other. .”

This sentence hit Wang Sheng's heart, he smiled and said: "Yes, you are right, love should not be measured by time." He drank the wine in his hand, and only he knew the taste.

Facing the sea of ​​lights in the city, Shi Leping began to talk about the past. As he said just now, he just wanted to talk to someone.

"Xiaoxiao's parents both passed away during SARS, and they had no relatives on both sides. My dad took her back to Vienna after attending the funeral. When I saw her for the first time, I thought: It's just a child, She looks like something, who is showing a bad face all day long. I didn't have a good impression of her at that time, and I was just a teenage boy, and I didn't understand her at all. Parents' little girl.

Later, in my dad's violin classroom, I realized why she was so mean.Geniuses don't need to accommodate others, no matter how young they are.Her piano sounds like a peak that I will never be able to cross, and it compares me in an instant.For a while, I often complained to myself, was it because I didn't work hard enough?Is it because I don't understand the song deeply?Or did I inherit the lowest genes from two gifted parents, why can't I even compare to a child?

So I practiced harder, in order to catch up with this genius.

A few years later, through my father's recommendation, Xiaoxiao and I went to participate in the competition together. I failed in the preliminary competition, but she advanced to the final, passed all the way, and finally won the grand prize. At that time, I was sincerely happy for her.You know what happened next, my mother came and caused a commotion in the college, and all the students and teachers knew about it.She asked my dad for someone in the office, but my dad didn't agree at first.My mother, what a powerful woman, she tricked Xiaoxiao away with two tears.It was also at that time that I saw my younger brother A Yan for the first time after many years.You know what I was thinking? "

He turned around, looked at Wang Sheng and asked.Wang Sheng said I don't know, what are you thinking.

Shi Leping said: "I was thinking—it was great not to go with my mother at the beginning, although she didn't like me at all. My brother's original name was Shi Yanping, which was my father's name. Later, he went with my mother and changed his name to Xing Yan. He is different from me. He can play Beethoven at the age of three. When my mother divorced, she would take him away no matter what. A heavyweight international award. When I came to Vienna that time, I met me in the corridor. It looked like a transparent glass doll. Standing there was just a decoration. Don't say a word."

Wang Sheng interjected: "Hearing what you said, I also remembered. When I first met him, I heard many people call him 'glass bead boy' behind his back. I thought it was his skin color. Those who understand them are talking about his temperament, like a blue glass marble, gloomy and empty. I remember feeling a chill down my spine when I first saw him."

Shi Leping continued: "As soon as I saw Ayan, I knew that we lived two completely different lives. Although I spend a lot of time practicing on the violin every day, I have friends and social activities, and I am not lonely. He was so different from me, with so few signs of sociality that not even a medieval ascetic would have been so unsocial.

"Seeing him, I just feel lucky for myself. I finally realized that I have no talent in music. No matter how accurate the score is, I will never be able to play the order like the two of them." Heart-pounding tune.

"The two of them were dragged by my mother to fly all over the world, and they released records and held concerts. Neither of them complained. Thinking about it now, Xiaoxiao probably fell in love with A Yan at that time, the melancholy and lonely piano genius, isn't the little girl Do you like all of these? Even an irresponsible older brother like me would feel sorry for my younger brother once in a while. Do you know how he got sick halfway through the tour?"

"Is he sick?" Wang Sheng asked.

"Xiaoxiao said that he had been taking medicine, but he never said what disease he was suffering from. During that time, his condition declined very badly, and my mother pushed her too hard. Xiaoxiao never complained about Ayan, even if he was In front of all the audience, she threw her on the stage and ran away. She only complained about my mother and me. Although she didn’t say anything, she must be thinking in her heart: As his brother, you should care a little bit. With him, maybe that would never happen."

"It's not your fault, don't blame yourself."

"Why do you think I have known where he went with his passport all these years, but I didn't go to him, and secretly extended his visa and gave him money?"

Wang Sheng was taken aback by his question, he had never seriously thought about this question.

Seeing the expression on his face, Shi Leping couldn't help laughing and said, "Do you think I didn't want to let him back to be with Xiaoxiao by doing this? I'm not that dirty."

"I didn't think so." Wang Sheng said, "I know you are not this kind of person."

Shi Leping laughed lightly, and after a moment of silence, he said: "My brother is very poor. I didn't realize it until he ran away. That day, he jumped off the stage and walked through the auditorium. I ran out of the escape exit. Everyone was stunned. I saw Xiaoxiao standing alone under the spotlight, and it was the first time I saw her cry. Everyone present that day, including me and my mother, couldn’t understand better than Xiaoxiao. A Yan. At that time, she should know the most about what happened to him, and if he left like this, he might never come back again.

"When I saw Xiaoxiao's tears, I thought of chasing them out. Unfortunately, it was a step too late. He left everyone far behind and disappeared into the crowd. It was a chaotic day, and the audience in the theater was noisy. I want to refund the ticket, and I want to help my mother deal with the mess left behind. When I got back to the hotel, Ayan ran away and his luggage was gone. I thought I would see him when I returned to China, but who knew he would run away like this , as if avoiding us on purpose, he walked from north to south, and from south to north, and the area north of Qinhuai in so many cities in China, and finally disappeared.

"I dare not go to him rashly. I want him to stay away from my mother and go out to relax. It doesn't matter how many years. He avoids us like a god of plague, so I won't go in front of him. It was originally for his own good , I wanted to make up for my previous mistakes, but I didn't expect to hurt him instead. I'm too arrogant."

Wang Sheng was also speechless at the moment, so he could only put his hand on his shoulder and pat him lightly, telling him not to think so.In fact, he was as sad as he was.

"Xiaoxiao should hate me. I'm an irresponsible older brother, and I've never done even the slightest bit of responsibility to my younger brother."

"At least you found him now, don't blame yourself anymore, you've done a good job."

Shi Leping turned to look at him, with a bitter smile on his face, and he asked, "Aren't you surprised why I fell in love with Xiaoxiao?"

Wang Sheng didn't expect him to bring up this topic at this time, so he nodded blankly.

Shi Leping told him: "The boys in our family matured late. Although I had several girlfriends before, I never really liked anyone. That was the first time. After A Yan opened the door and ran away, I chased him out. When I was looking for him at the door, Xiaoxiao’s piano sound came from inside, she played the piece that was supposed to be played by two people with tears in her eyes, standing alone under the spotlight. No one in the auditorium was listening, all the heads They all looked towards the open door. When I saw this scene from the door, I thought it was absurd and at the same time felt that Xiaoxiao, who was crying and playing the violin, was beautiful and lonely on the stage. Since then, I will never forget it. I said I like her, not a joke, can you understand?"

Wang Sheng swallowed, feeling tens of thousands of fishbone stuck in his throat, he moved his lips and said, "I don't understand, you like her so much."

Shi Leping smiled and said: "Probably our family is full of lovers. My father still can't forget my mother. Even though the two places have been separated for so long and this woman has a bad personality, he still loves her deeply. Until now, I don’t want to keep other women by my side. You also watched that video that day, and my brother was completely trapped. If that man named He Qi breaks up with him, he probably won’t be able to survive. "

"What about you?"

"Me? I don't know..."

Hearing his answer, Wang Sheng didn't know what expression to use to face him now.

"I think..." Wang Sheng lowered his head, hid his expression, and even controlled his voice properly, and could hardly hear the emotions in his heart: "Since Xiaoxiao has clearly rejected you, I think... this relationship, it's better to let it go." Let it end."

"you're right."

He thought he heard it wrong, and suddenly raised his head to look at Shi Leping, but saw tears all over his face.Shi Leping wiped his face with the back of his hand, opened the car door, took a tissue from inside, sat in the car and blew his nose, and there was no trace on his face when he came out.Even if it was Wang Sheng in front of him, he didn't like to cry in front of others. Wang Sheng understood, so he wouldn't joke about it.

Who knew that his heart was being lingering, and he was executed artistically with one knife at a time.

He couldn't help chuckling from the bottom of his heart, full of self-mockery.

They drank a lot of wine that night, Shi Leping was drunk, and fell asleep on the back of the chair with a flushed face.Wang Sheng can't get drunk, alcohol can't kill him, let alone paralyze him. He actually drank the remaining cartons of beer one by one in the dark.

He leaned against the car door, and the tears he shed melted into the wine.