When Xie Yining landed, the lights were already on.

Uncle Gong received the news that Xie Yining was coming back yesterday, so he waited early at the pick-up gate, and when he saw someone coming out, he quickly went up to meet him.

"Master, are you tired? Give me your luggage."

Hearing being called young master again, Xie Yining was a little helpless.

When he first left the country, he was placed in a white family. Later, he had some unpleasantness with that family, so he moved out. When he was looking for a house, he happened to meet the down-and-out uncle Gong. He needed someone to take care of him urgently. Just let him stay at home.

Uncle Gong was grateful, so he kept calling him young master, young master. He corrected it for three years but failed to correct it. Every time Xie Yining felt that he had changed his words, he started to call again, simply 'stubborn'.

"Uncle Gong, don't call me young master." Xie Yining gave him the luggage cart, and continued: "I'm going to the hospital now, I'll take the car away, you take a taxi and help me take my luggage back."

"Hospital???"

Hearing these two words, Uncle Gong was startled. He grabbed Xie Yining's hand and looked it up and down three times, "Where is it uncomfortable? Is it serious?" After asking, he turned around and wanted to run to the car, "Don't worry , Uncle Gong will take you there immediately."

"It's not me." Xie Yining hurriedly grabbed him, a man in his 50s is still in such a hurry.He didn't have time to explain to the other party now, so he directly opened the door and got into the car, "I'll explain to you when I get back."

"Then when are you coming back?"

"I don't know." Xie Yining started the car, "It will probably be very late, don't wait for me."

"..." Uncle Gong could only watch helplessly as his young master walked away.

I don't know if it's his illusion, but I always feel that after the young master returned to the country, his whole person has changed a lot.

Xie Yining hurried, and it took nearly an hour and a half to reach the hospital.

The teacher is still lying in the intensive care unit and cannot go in to visit. He can only look in through the window.

Before he left, he was alive and well, and the person who called him a few days ago to tell him to hurry up and practice the new piece was lying there unconscious.

Xie Yining only felt that the world was impermanent.

The saying on the Internet is right, 'You never know, accident or tomorrow, which one will come first. '

So cherish every moment now.

Anne, the teacher's wife who had been guarding the door of the ward, was still in a calm mood. When she saw Xie Yining, she smiled at him and greeted him, but she looked a lot haggard.

Anne was born in an old noble family in Europe. She learned etiquette and rules from an early age, and her life is exquisite and refined. Whenever she meets guests, she must be well-dressed, even if he occasionally goes to the teacher's house for dinner, but today she is No makeup was applied, and there were only simple home clothes on her body.

Obviously because of the teacher's sudden coma, he lost his mind and couldn't take care of this much.

Xie Yining opened his arms and hugged her, "Anne, don't worry, the teacher will be fine."

"Mousse, thank you for coming back." Anne felt uncomfortable after finishing speaking, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you returned to China, if..."

"It's okay." Xie Yining smiled, and said slowly: "No matter where I am, I will come back if the teacher has something to do."

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome."

Xie Yining pulled Anne to sit down and asked, "How is teacher doing now? Why did you faint suddenly?"

Anne looked a little lonely when she heard this, but she still told him the matter in a low voice.

The teacher found out the problem during the physical examination in the middle of last year. Since then, he has been receiving conservative treatment.

"Beginning this year, his body has not been as good as before. The doctor has been advising him to undergo surgery, but Alan insisted on finishing his last world tour before saying that he wanted a perfect ending." Anne burst into tears as she said, " It's just that he didn't last until then."

Xie Yining's mood plummeted. The teacher was ill last year, but he didn't know until now.

If you think about it carefully, there are actually traces to follow, because since the middle of last year, the number of times the teacher sees him has obviously decreased. Except for class, he can’t see anyone at all, and his demands on him are becoming more and more. strict.

Even a small mistake will punish him to practice repeatedly, and even the frequency of practicing new songs is unprecedented.

He also thought that the teacher had changed his teaching method.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be because of this reason.

Xie Yining turned around and hugged Anne gently, comforting her softly, "It's okay, the teacher will be safe and he will wake up."

Anne wiped away her tears and shook her head, "The situation is not very optimistic. The doctor's suggestion is to arrange surgery as soon as possible."

Xie Yining frowned: "What about the risks?" As far as he knows, brain surgery is not easy to do, and if you don't worry about it, you will stay there.

Anne shook her head, and didn't want to talk too much. She looked at Xie Yining and said, "Mousse, I asked you to come back because I want you to help with the cancellation of the tour. I really don't have the energy."

Cancel the tour?Xie Yining was stunned when he heard this.

This is the itinerary that the teacher made last year. Although the teacher's condition is not very good, he does not agree with this decision very much.

"Anne, should we wait a little longer? At least wait until the teacher wakes up and ask him for his opinion." Otherwise, he worried that the teacher would be stimulated when he woke up and learned that they had arbitrarily called off his tour.

"The tour will start in almost three weeks, we can wait and see, maybe the teacher will wake up soon."

"Can't wait," Anne said wearily, "I'll come and tell him when the time comes, Alan will understand our decision."

"Anne, we can no longer…"

"Mousse," Anne interrupted Xie Yining rarely, "Even if Alan wakes up, the chance of performing on stage is very small." According to the doctor, it is almost negligible, or it is impossible.

"Even if it is an operation, there is only a [-]% success rate. There is a great possibility that Alan will not be able to get off the operating table." Anne said.

The words 'not coming to the operating table' were like a blow to Xie Yining's head, almost shattering him.

He didn't dare to believe it: "Impossible."

"Mousse, it's true." Anne rubbed Xie Yining's head. She and Alan have no children, and have been taking care of Xie Yining as her own child.

"I don't want to believe it either, but the doctor said so."

She said lowly, "So it's not that I want to cancel, but that we have to."

Xie Yining leaned against the back of the chair, a little slumped, he knew that what Anne said was the truth, but he still couldn't accept it, and couldn't imagine how much he would be hit when the teacher opened his eyes and got such an answer.

The piano is like the teacher's life. If the piano is gone, his life will be gone.

But touring is not just the teacher's business, so he is not allowed to refuse willfully.

Xie Yining clenched his fingertips and nodded, "Okay, I will contact the lawyer and the team as soon as possible."

"Thanks. Alan will understand."

After bidding farewell to his wife, Xie Yining went to the attending doctor to learn about the teacher's condition and treatment plan. It was indeed as what his wife said, the situation was not optimistic.

Coming out of the hospital, Xie Yining sat in the car for a long time.

The teacher became famous at a young age and has a weird temper. Except for his wife, he has no good looks towards anyone, so after decades, he is the only apprentice he has brought out.

I remember that when I was with the teacher just now, I was often scolded bloody by him, which made him feel that he had no talent in piano.And every time the teacher scolded him, he would come to coax him awkwardly, give him a piece of chocolate made by his wife, or play him a short cheerful tune.

In the teacher's opinion, if you want to be happy, you just need to listen to a cheerful piece of music.

But what he didn't know was that listening to him play happy tunes every time after being scolded was really tormenting.

Every time, he pretended to be happy and listened to it, and then silently prayed in his heart that he played it wrong.

But now, maybe there is no chance of being scolded.

Xie Yining turned his head to look at the hospital under the night, and drove away.

Early the next morning, he received a call from the teacher team, asking him to meet and discuss the plan to cancel the tour.

Xie Yining agreed, but he still went to the hospital first and went to the team's studio after seeing the teacher.

The person who received him was the teacher's assistant and the head of the studio, Jennifer Lopez, Ms. Jennifer Lopez.

Jennifer is a resolute woman, so after welcoming Xie Yining into the meeting room, she didn't beat around the bush, she briefly explained the current situation, and presented her plan.

"Announce the news of Alan's illness and hospitalization, then build momentum for his illness and achievements, and then cancel the tour and handle ticket refunds." Jennifer said, "This is the best plan, and it is also the way to minimize losses."

To put it bluntly, use the teacher's illness to play the emotional card, so that the audience will willingly refund the ticket, so that the concert hall and sponsors will not pursue liquidated damages.

Xie Yining can't tell what's wrong, or in other words, this is indeed the best way, otherwise, the right to use concert halls in 24 cities in ten countries, with a total of 96 days, would be enough for them to lose everything .

Xie Yining knew that he came here just for a formality, so he didn't say much, but turned around and asked the teacher's personal lawyer if there was any problem with doing so.

The lawyer handed him a document, "There is something, this..."

After discussing until evening, Xie Yining came out of the studio, declined Jennifer's dinner invitation, and drove to the hospital again.

This time Anne wasn't here, so he stayed a little longer.

Through the glass window, only a bit of the face of the teacher under the oxygen mask can be seen.

Although he couldn't see it clearly, Xie Yining knew how emaciated the teacher would be.

But he couldn't do anything, he could only silently pray that the teacher would wake up soon.

When I got home, it was already 10:30. Uncle Gong was waiting in the living room as usual, dozing off watching some TV show. Seeing him coming back, he hurried to the kitchen to get a midnight snack.

"I cooked some noodles, come over and eat some."

Xie Yining wanted to say that he couldn't eat it, but after looking at the noodle soup with scallions floating in it, he sat down anyway.

Uncle Gong sat opposite him, and carefully asked, "How is Teacher Alan?"

"Not yet awake." Xie Yining took a bite of the noodles, which were very chewy and tasted like seafood. It should be the noodles made by Uncle Gong himself, "Put in shrimp?"

"Yes." Uncle Gong was relieved to see that he was eating well, and explained, "It's mixed in the flour."

Xie Yining took another big bite, "It's delicious."

"Eat more if it tastes good." Uncle Gong said as he got up and went to the kitchen again, and brought him some sour radish, "I pickled this too a few days ago, the taste is not quite as good as in China, but it is still edible. "

"Yeah." Xie Yining picked up a small piece, which was quite crunchy, "It tastes good."

After getting a positive evaluation, Uncle Gong immediately cheered, "That's good, that's good."

Xie Yining also smiled, and suddenly asked: "Uncle Gong, do you want to go back to China?"

Uncle Gong was taken aback by the question, "Going back to China?"

Xie Yining nodded, "Uncle Gong, do you want to go back?"

The living room suddenly fell silent, except for the background sound of the TV that had not been turned off.

After a while, Uncle Gong smiled wryly and said: "It's been a long time since I've been out, who doesn't want to go back to the country, but how?"

"When I came out, I made a vow. I always felt that this place is full of gold, and I must make a new breakthrough to return home, but in reality? If you hadn't taken me in a few years ago, I'm afraid I would have starved to death on the streets of New York. .”

"As for my family, I'm afraid I'm dead. So what do you do when you go back? It's better to stay here and take care of you."

As he spoke, he suddenly realized, "Are you going back to China?"

Xie Yining didn't deny it, "I have this plan, but it's not so fast. Uncle Gong can also think about whether he wants to go back."

Uncle Gong responded, "Ah? Good."

After Xie Yining finished his supper, he took the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen to tidy up, and then went back to his room, not disturbing Uncle Gong who started to be in a daze after returning home.

This is not his whim, but a deliberate decision.

He wants to go back.

The author has something to say: This is a day without Mumu, mua!

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