Flight of the Bumblebee

When Wang Sheng found him, he was sitting on a stone by the lake, sparkling waves were rippling on him, and larks were singing in the woods, calling above their heads.

"Your father asked me to come and look for you," Wang Sheng said, and sat down next to him. "He said that your mother and brother have already arrived at the airport."

Shi Leping snorted coldly, still looking at the calm lake, "She came rather quickly, she must have smelled the prey."

Wang Sheng was silent, he knew that Shi Leping had never liked his mother.Not to mention the ten years of separation, I have never visited him once, and I have never made a phone call. It is obvious that Germany and Austria are so close, but as a mother, she seems to have forgotten this son.This time, the purpose of coming here was not for him, but his father's female disciple, his junior junior sister, who had just won the championship in the international violin competition and stood out from the crowd, including Shi Leping.Unfortunately, he was brushed off in the first round, and he wasn't even qualified to be her opponent.

After the game, he was depressed for several days, and it was Wang Sheng who dragged him to Venice for a few days to paddle the public Dora (a small boat with two upturned ends, a unique means of transportation on the lake in Venice), and he recovered somewhat. usual smile.

They also went to see Xiaoxiao on the day of the final. Like the audience present, Wang Sheng and Shi Leping were so nervous that they wanted to vomit.After all, the person standing on the stage was their little junior sister. Although she and Shi Leping would argue with each other when they met, Wang Sheng could tell that he was more nervous than anyone else for this competition, so he specially traveled from Venice two days in advance I rushed back just to cheer up Xiaoxiao.Wang Sheng also didn't understand whether Shi Leping's feelings for Xiaoxiao were jealousy or longing, or a kind of awkward behavior towards the little sister who was not very obedient, probably all of them.So when Shi Leping told him on the phone that he fell in love with Xiaoxiao a few years later, it was a slap in the face, which made it difficult for him to accept it for a while.

I will graduate from this school next year, and the summer vacation will start tomorrow. Wang Sheng said that he will go home, so this is probably the last time the two of them will see each other this summer.

He picked up a flat stone from the ground and threw it vigorously towards the water.The stone smashed several times in parallel on the water surface before sinking. However, the water surface was no longer calm at this time. It was shaking with a circular pattern, spreading out circle by circle.

Shi Leping felt that it was boring. He was full of worries and didn't have the energy to accompany Wang Sheng.

Seeing him like this, Wang Sheng said, "If you don't want to go, then don't go. Sometimes I don't want to see my parents."

Hearing what he said, Shi Leping laughed instead, "You? Do you want to see your parents? Don't talk too much, who doesn't know that you make five international calls to your mother a week, and the chat lasts for most of the day. The expenses on the bill The most expensive item is the phone bill, obviously you usually eat so much."

Seeing that he was laughing at him, Wang Sheng couldn't help but said: "Okay, who told you? It must be Huang Qisheng, right? This person usually likes to talk nonsense. When I go back, I must tell him about him stealing my underwear. Everyone!"

He shares an apartment with several classmates in an off-campus apartment. Huang Qisheng is from the vocal music department and is also Chinese, but he is a year younger than them.Because Shi Leping made friends with him, he often went to the apartment they shared to eat, drink, and sleep on the bed, and he had already mingled with everyone else in the apartment.

Shi Leping smiled and said that you have to make other people shut up too, Huang Qisheng did not say this alone.

While talking, he lowered his face again, and suddenly asked Wang Sheng: "What kind of person is your mother?"

Wang Sheng said: "An ordinary beautiful woman."

Shi Leping asked again: "What about common law?"

Hearing his question, Wang Sheng also felt sad for him.Knowing that he has never enjoyed maternal love since he was a child, and he doesn't even know how "ordinary" a mother is, how can Wang Sheng describe it to him?

"My mother likes to play mahjong!" He planned to start from the worst place, "She has a group of good sisters, who play mahjong games in the living room at home every now and then, and sometimes they play all night long, betting money and so on. I don’t like it very much. But my father is a very casual person, he told me that my mother’s hobbies are only making faces and buying clothes, if she is not even allowed to play mahjong, then she is too pitiful.”

Shi Leping asked again: "Can your mother cook?"

Wang Sheng smiled wryly and said: "It's better to be able to cook, the key is that she doesn't even know how to use a rice cooker. When I was young, I wanted to fry a poached egg for me on a whim, which almost caused an accident in the kitchen. Fortunately, the aunt who cooked that day also Now, turn off the gas in time, or we might not be sitting together now."

"It sounds like your mother is not ordinary at all."

"In terms of clumsiness, she is indeed very unusual. Last time I made you a sandwich for breakfast, and you dismissed it as a 'Master Sandwich'. Be content, inherited my mother's genes, and the things you make are edible It's already good."

Shi Leping clasped his hands together and said reverently, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were carrying such a heavy shackle of fate. Next time I won't dislike your sandwich again."

"Oh! I suddenly remembered that my mother can cook soup, but she just put the ingredients prepared by others into a casserole and cook for a few hours. Strictly speaking, she doesn't seem to be able to..."

Shi Leping was amused by him, and he laughed loudly on the stone. He told Wang Sheng that your mother is really interesting, but you are too hurtful to be a son. If I have a chance in the future, I must complain to your mother face to face.

Wang Sheng made a gesture to cover his mouth, and the two of them fell down on the lawn next to them.Originally, Wang Sheng sat down on the lawn, and lay beside him at the back. The two leaned together, looking at the sky broken into pieces by the lush branches and leaves, looking for the clear blue in the black tree shadows. color.

The wind in the afternoon made people drowsy, Shi Leping put his right hand behind his head, closed his eyes and meditated, just like the afternoon they officially met.

Wang Sheng looked at his profile and suddenly sighed leisurely.Shi Leping opened his eyes and asked him what was bothering him.He said that we will be graduating soon, and there is still time for the last semester. Thinking about it makes people feel sad.

Shi Leping sat up on the lawn and asked him what he wanted to do after graduation, would he still work with the band members?

In the second year of school, Wang Sheng recruited a few people to start classical rock with him. He also recorded a few demos at his own expense and sent them to several music companies, but there has been no news so far.

Wang Sheng said: "You said they disbanded a long time ago. One told me to go to Southeast Asia to be a street musician, one told me to marry and open a hardware store after graduation, and the other said to go to Antarctica to see penguins. What can I do. I can only graduate first, and then talk about the future. If the college lets me repeat a grade, it will be miserable, and I don’t want to stay on campus without you.”

Hearing the topic of graduation, Shi Leping's heart was also clouded.This is the test that everyone who is about to leave the ivory tower and embark on an important journey in life has to accept. Where should we go in the future, and where should we go?

Wang Sheng also sat up and asked Shi Leping, "What do you want to do after graduation next year?"

"I plan to go to England for further studies." Shi Leping said.

"So you've already made a plan! Why didn't you tell me?" Wang Sheng was in a panic. This was the first time he heard about it.

"I never even told my dad."

"Even Teacher Shi doesn't know?" So, he was the first person in the world to hear the news, which made him feel extremely happy, so Wang Sheng said to Shi Leping without thinking: " I'm going to take the postgraduate entrance examination in the UK too!"

"You?" Shi Leping looked at him suspiciously, "Can you do it?"

"I can do it, as long as I work hard, I can do it. You told me that!"

"But even though I worked hard, I was still eliminated in the preliminary round." I am afraid that this matter will be regarded as a lifetime shadow by him.

"That's because you were nervous at the time, and I saw it." Wang Sheng defended him.

Shi Leping lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said to Wang Sheng: "You have to start preparing from this summer vacation, after all, the requirements in the UK are quite high. If you fail the exam, I will have to go alone. "

"If I pass the exam, can we live together?"

"Yes, but I'm not like you. I may feel wronged that you live in a cheap apartment with me. If you complain a word, I will throw you out."

"No wronged, no wronged!" Wang Sheng replied excitedly, his eyes lit up, as if a beautiful vision was right in front of him.Imagining the possible days in the UK in the future, I couldn't help saying: "I can't wait for that day!"

He grabbed Shi Leping's hand and said, "You study hard in school, and I will play the violin in the tavern to earn living expenses, make many like-minded friends, and form a classical rock band!"

Shi Leping looked at him with disbelief on his face, and he joked: "Young master, don't think about it, just pass the exam first. If you fail the exam, I won't let you live with me no matter what. "

"Then I'm nearby..." He wanted to say that I will rent a house near you, and I will live with you in England.Shi Leping snapped back and said, "If you don't pass the exam and still follow me shamelessly, then I'll break up with you." As soon as these words came out, Wang Sheng was cut off. Originally, he was just thinking about it. It's not impossible to follow him secretly, now you have to bite the bullet and take the test.After all, Shi Leping knew him well and knew what to say to make him serious.

This sentence blocked all the organized words in Wang Sheng's throat. Seeing him staring at him blankly, Shi Leping patted his butt and stood up from the ground, pushed his shoulder, and said to him: "What are you still doing? Let's go."

When Wang Sheng asked where he was going, he said reluctantly, "Although I don't want to see my mother, I might as well go and see my brother whom I haven't seen for many years. I don't know if he looks like me."

After hearing this, Wang Sheng patted the grass on his buttocks and stood up, and said to him: "Then let's go, I also want to meet your genius brother and see if he has one more finger than ordinary people."

"What do you mean, how can you play the piano with one extra finger?"

Seeing that Shi Leping was a little angry, Wang Sheng quickly added: "I was wrong, I was wrong, I shouldn't say that about your little brother." He pushed Shi Leping forward from behind, and said, "Hurry up, hurry up!" Hurry up, it will be too late!"

As they were walking, another student in the class called Wang Sheng away, saying that Professor Schmidt had something to do with him. Wang Sheng complained all the way and left with that person, leaving Shi Leping alone. He wants to face the two strangest family members alone.When Wang Sheng was around, he could still inspire him to be brave, but now he was alone, and the steps he took were extremely heavy.

What should I call her when we meet?Still call mom, even though she didn't care about you for many years.Or don't even look at her to show your anger and protest?

It's been so many years, please forgive her.

no way!no way!

After all, you are also her son, and she is also your mother, and this cannot be changed forever.

He was so full of thoughts, lowered his head all the way, walked along the corridor to the door of his father's music room.Before he got close, he heard two people arguing fiercely from inside.The door was open, and a familiar-looking teenager stood in the doorway, looking at the wall expressionlessly.

What's so nice about the walls.When he thought of this, his heart skipped a beat.The boy turned to look at him, his eyes were empty, and he didn't recognize who he was.

"Ah... Ah Yan?" Shi Leping called out uncertainly.

The man he called "Ayan" didn't respond at all, and the quarrel in the music room stopped. At this moment, Shi Leping heard two sobs.What a familiar scene, in his still ignorant childhood, this kind of drama was played out at home every day until the couple divorced.Shi Leping didn't want to see the woman's face at all, just hearing those two hypocritical cries made him sick.Listen, sure enough, my father compromised again.Standing in the music room, Xiaoxiao watched the two people in front of her negotiate with her as a bargaining chip, unable to decide her own fate.The person who can't decide his fate is the one in the corridor, his expression seems to say: It doesn't matter, whatever is fine.

Shi Leping suddenly felt uncontrollable anger, not only towards his mother, whom he hadn't seen in more than ten years, but also towards his weak and incompetent father.He pushed open the door and walked in, pointed at Xiaoxiao and yelled at his father: "Dad! You just agreed? Have you asked her opinion?"

"I'm talking to your father, who let you in." Those beautiful eyes, bright red lips, but the words she spoke were cold everywhere. This was the first time she said to her son who had been ignoring her for more than ten years. In a word.

Shi Leping laughed at himself, how lucky he didn't make you look more favorably.He didn't look at her, but continued to say to his father: "Xiaoxiao is still young, she shouldn't be exposed to these things too early now, just wait a few more years, Dad."

It's not that he has never seen a so-called genius who died in music. When he was young, his father told him the story of "Shang Zhongyong". He was afraid that Xiaoxiao would become a desperate tool to make money in the hands of this woman.After all, she is her biological son, so Shi Leping still has some understanding of her.

But no matter how hard he argued, his father was still stubborn and unwilling to accept his opinion.Xiaoxiao didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, but when his mother strode out the door with the corner of her mouth raised in victory, Xiaoxiao still gave him a grateful look, thanking him for everything he had done for herself just now.

Shi Leping didn't understand: "Why don't you fight?"

"What am I fighting for?" Xiaoxiao said with a wry smile, "From the moment your mother planned to come to Vienna, I was destined to follow her."

"Is this your own decision?"

"No, I can't change the result, I can only try to live with it."

"You're only 16, I'm worried..."

Xiaoxiao smiled: "You really sound like my brother, even though I don't have a brother."

Shi Leping said helplessly: "It's strange, we've lived together for so long, and this is the first time we talk like brother and sister."

"Who told us that we didn't see each other right before." Xiaoxiao said, and then opened her arms to embrace him, and a strange emotion sprouted in Shi Leping's heart.As Xiaoxiao said, she was too young and ignorant before, and always looked at this genius "sister" who appeared suddenly with colored eyes, but now that she has grown up, she has a lot of pity and helplessness.

At this moment, he resented his father, his mother who was always cold, and his ignorant self before.If he had realized this earlier, he could have become a good elder brother, instead of being at a loss when facing Xiaoxiao who was hugging him with full of remorse.