[Danmei Medium Chapter] Infernal Affairs

At the beginning of a new week, Shu Yi received a call from Ning Wen.

"I'm looking for the radio station to get the sound source. When are you free? I'll give you the CD." Ning Wen's clean voice came from the receiver and reached the eardrum.Shu Yi seemed to be able to see him smiling when he spoke.

"This Friday. I have evening self-study this week. I don't have time to go out." Shu Yi glanced at the class schedule posted on the corner of the table, and complained for the first time that there were too many classes.

"...OK. I'll contact you on Friday." Ning Wen hung up the phone.

Shu Yi put down his phone and immediately received another text message from his mother.

"I'll wait for you outside the east gate."

If it was a matter of study, my mother would go directly to the school to find a counselor or the head of the department without saying hello, but this time it was confusing.

So Shu Yi guessed that her mother shouldn't have come to ask and study.

He hurriedly ran outside the east gate, and his mother was standing aside with a dark face.Seeing Shu Yi running, he immediately stepped forward and asked, "Your dad and I are going to divorce, do you want to continue living at home with me, or go with your dad?"

"Huh?" Shu Yi didn't react for a while.

"You are an adult, and there is no issue of custody distribution. Just ask where you want to live, ah what?" The mother stood impatiently with her arms crossed.

"Mom, what happened to you and my dad?" Shu Yi tried his best to calm the emotional mother gently.

"Don't interfere with our affairs." His mother gave him a blank look.

In Shu Yi's impression, although the relationship between parents is close, they will not suddenly divorce.At home, if the mother is strong or strong, that is also determined by ability.The father has a gentle temper and a meek personality, and his earning ability is not as good as that of his wife who is a strong woman.They seldom quarreled, and something must have happened that made the mother decide to divorce.

And Shu Yi is an adult, it doesn't matter who he follows.

Mother asked this because she wanted Shu Yi to stand by her side and support her in fighting for more property interests.

Thinking about it this way, Shu Yi understood everything.

"Mom, I'm definitely following you. But if you don't explain things clearly to me, we may not have a better chance of winning than my dad."

Mother probably didn't expect Shu Yi to understand so well, she was stunned for a while, and said, "You haven't eaten yet, have you? Let's find a place to eat and chat while eating." Although the tone was still very hard, it was a little more than before easy.

There are many restaurants outside the east gate of the school, and the mother and son randomly chose one to sit down and order.While waiting for the food to be served, my mother said, "Your dad, cheated."

Shu Yi seemed to be struck by lightning, but he didn't know what to say.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the conscientious person of my father as "Desperate Saburo".How can there be a flamboyant cheating?

"Mom, is this real or are you imagining it?" Shu Yi still couldn't believe it.

Mother looked at him strangely, then lowered her head and took out the folded paper from her bag and still placed it in front of Shu Yi.

Shu Yi hesitated for a while, then picked it up and looked at it.

The content is disgusting.

He silently pushed back to his mother's hand.

"I made other women's stomachs bigger outside, and I dare to put the abortion sheet at home." The mother took the test sheet and grasped it tightly, as if to crush the papers, "That person who doesn't know what to do The woman also called me to persuade me to divorce, otherwise she would do everything she could to get back at me."

"She asked you to divorce and you just leave?" Shu Yi became anxious when she heard that.

"Shu Yi, you know what kind of person your mother is, I can't tolerate sand in my eyes." The mother pointed to her chest with a little excitement, "You just ask yourself, since you were a child, what things in the family were not taken care of by me? I still have to go out to work. And your dad, gnawing on that dead salary, doesn’t do anything at home. It’s just that he hasn’t been to your high school parent meeting once, and he doesn’t even know how high you are. What does he have? Qualifications? It’s not that I’m afraid of the mistress, but that I disdain to be with this kind of scum. Doesn’t the mistress just want to play games with our whole family? It’s so exciting to confront the wife. It’s a pity that I didn’t play with them interest."

"Mom, calm down." Shu Yi comforted her softly, and the guests at the next tables had cast strange glances.

Mother's eyes were a little red.She lowered her head, straightened her hair, and raised her head again.It just so happened that the waiter brought over the plate, and my mother sighed and said, "Let's eat."

Shu Yi ate his meal dullly, "Mom, I think you have to talk to my dad. Divorce is not something that happens alone."

Mother doesn't speak.

"I think we should take the golden mean and not be so extreme."

Mother surprisingly didn't scold him.

Friday is coming soon.

Ning Wen called Shu Yi in the morning and asked when he was free.In fact, Shu Yi was going home tonight, but this time he was embarrassed to postpone the time.So he asked Ning Wen to wait for him at home. .

When I got home, what I saw was, as expected, a mess.

There were broken things everywhere and no one cleaned them up.At this point, the father will definitely not be at home, and the mother is busy with work, so naturally there is no time to clean up the mess.

Shu Yi was shocked when he opened the door and saw such an embarrassing scene.

After 18 years of peaceful life, this situation is already considered turbulent.

Without looking at Shu Yi, his mother changed his shoes, went into the house and grabbed the broom, calmly urging him to eat.

"Mom, can I go out for a while?" Shu Yi didn't dare to look up, "I went to the cafeteria to eat after class. Someone asked me to do a project tonight." Half truth and half false.The truth is that he has already had dinner, but the truth is that someone asked him to do a project.

"When will you come back?" The mother may be exhausted by her father's affairs, so she didn't ask much.

"Um, I'll definitely be back by 11:30." The time of the last subway.

"You go." The mother said while sweeping the floor.

Shu Yi took the key and went out, heaving a sigh of relief.

It was a bitterly cold night in November.Shu Yi wrapped her coat tightly, and covered half of her face with a thick scarf, and ran quickly to the subway station, wondering why this winter came earlier than in previous years.The down jacket at the bottom of the press box should be taken out.

One hour later, stepping into the Hutong where we have been away for six years, we can’t say that things are different, but it is also "years have passed".The previously broken roads have been repaired with asphalt, and now walking in the dark will not be as deep and shallow as before.The exterior walls of almost all the residents have been repainted, which is a warm orange-pink at first glance.The tall ancient locust tree is still there, and the rope used by the neighbors to dry clothes is still hanging in place, as if time has not passed by them.

Standing in front of Ning Wen's house, he suddenly forgot whose appointment he was attending.

Six years is neither long nor short.If a person can live to be 84 years old, then six years is one-fourteenth of life; if calculated according to the time of adolescence, six years is a whole green age.

In the past six years, things have changed and the stars have changed. Everyone is a lonely planet, running silently on the established orbit and ignorant of the outside world.No tracks are crossed, and all encounters are rushed.

Just as he was about to knock on the door, the quaint wooden door opened from the inside.

Ning Wen, who was wearing a lambswool jacket over his pajamas, looked at Shu Yi in surprise: "I just wanted to open the door to see if you're here, so you came."

Shu Yi didn't know how to answer, so he just laughed twice.

"Come in." Ning Wen turned sideways to let Shu Yi in, and then closed the door.

Following Ning Wen through the courtyard and the living room, Shu Yi walked into Ning Wen's bedroom for the first time.

Under the warm lighting, the interior layout is like a layer of honey, exuding a warm atmosphere.His bedroom is very simple, with a bed, a wardrobe, and a desk. The only thing that is different from ordinary students is the computer and electronic organ on his desk.

Seeing that Shu Yi's attention was focused on the electronic piano, Ning Wen pointed casually: "I usually write songs here."

"Won't it disturb the neighbors?" Shu Yi asked.

Ning Wen shook his head, picked up the earphones from the table, "If you plug in the earphones, only you can hear the sound. Do you want to try it?"

Shu Yi nodded.

Then Ning Wen moved a chair over and sat side by side with him, each with an earphone plugged in.

Ning Wen put his fingers on the keys, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.

In the next second, the familiar melody floated out smoothly.

"Your Smile", your smile.

Even though the library is closed every day, this song is heard, but what Ning Wen plays is different from that one.This one is fuller, more lively, more soulful, more mournful.

After six years, many things are no longer simple.

Including this song "Your Smile".

When he used to listen to Ning Wen playing the piano, he couldn't see anything; but now, he saw Ning Wen chasing after a few steps and then stopping in the rearview mirror, and his mother who was walking anxiously wearing high heels, squatting when walking together. Friends who tie their shoelaces and raise their heads will go far away...

Always running, running.There is nothing to chase, nothing to want.

It is just counting the days in vain, passing these six years day by day.

The music stopped abruptly, but Ning Wen's slender fingers still kept pressing the chords.

"What's wrong with you?" He asked Shu Yi.

"I'm probably...in the past few years..." Shu Yi stammered, "I miss the time we used to play together."

Ning Wen smiled faintly, the curvature of the corner of his mouth was very nice.

Shu Yi didn't know what he was laughing at, he seemed to be laughing a lot.

"Ning Wen, how is your grandma? Why didn't you see her?" Shu Yi started a new topic.

Ning Wen withdrew his hands on the keys and clenched them tightly.

"She passed away when I was in the first year of junior high school." Ning Wen stood up, walked to the window, and opened the originally closed curtains.

The atmosphere suddenly became solemn, and Shu Yi blamed himself for asking questions that shouldn't be asked.To make up for it, he also stood by the window, and asked, "Won't your parents pick you up? It's so hard to be alone."

Ning Wen still shook his head, "During the May [-] incident in Yugoslavia, both my parents were killed. I have enough pension to live a good life." After finishing speaking, he gave Shu Yi a relaxed expression.

Shu Yi was tongue-tied and stood there like a wooden man, feeling overwhelming sadness for a moment.The more Ning Wen pretended to be calm, the more distressing he became.

Since he was a child, he lived in a family that was tabooed by the neighbors. His relatives died one after another because of his career, and finally he survived alone in this world.No one can survive now.

Shu Yi was dull and reticent, unable to find any words to comfort Ning Wen, so he patted him on the shoulder symbolically.

"Hey, Shu Yi, you see that there are no tall buildings in this area, and it looks pretty good at night." Ning Wen's eyes turned to the wider world outside, which was the roofs of residential buildings one after another.The lights are dim, exuding the charm of old Beijing.

"Oh, yes, I've carved the CD you want." Ning Wen returned to the desk, opened the drawer, took out the CD in a paper bag and handed it to Shu Yi, "It's a live recording, and the effect is not very good. .If you want to hear it in HD, you can come next time I rehearse."

"Thank you." Shu Yi took it, "Please."

"You're too polite, Shu Yi." Ning Wen stuck out his tongue, playfully like a child.

"Then... I'll go back first. Otherwise, my mother will be in a hurry." Shu Yi pointed in the direction of the door.

Ning Wen's smile gradually faded, but he just nodded and said nonchalantly, "I'm glad you can come. Shall I see you off?"

"Okay." Shu Yi and Ning Wen went downstairs together and came to the main entrance.

"I'm leaving?"

"Be careful on the road." Ning Wen waved his hand.

Shu Yi walked into the deep alley with ease, turned around the corner, and Ning Wen was still standing under the street lamp, watching him leave.Ning Wen just put on a coat over his thin pajamas, it was bitingly cold in November, he would catch cold standing like this.

So Shu Yi turned around again, and waved vigorously at Ning Wen, signaling him to go back quickly.Then quickly turned the alley and ran away.