Chapter 112:

Li Wenyu finished taking a bath, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon.

When he returned to the room, Pei Xinzheng was standing in front of the glass cabinet in a daze. Model toys were neatly placed in the cabinet. Apparently no one had touched them for a long time. There was a photo frame in the leftmost grid. Li Wenyu I remember it was the family photo that used to be displayed in the living room downstairs.

Pei Xin came to his senses when he saw him coming back. He took out his hand from his pocket, turned around and found something in the drawer of the desk. Li Wenyu didn't know when he put it inside. It was a blue velvet box.

Pei Xin held it in his hand and walked towards Li Wenyu.

"...I bought this for you, and I don't know if you will like it."

He opened the box, and inside was a watch. The gears and diamonds were as pale as shadows under the bright light, and the dial was silver-white and perfect. It must be like a bright full moon.

Li Wenyu didn't speak, and there was no emotion on his face.

Pei Xin lowered his eyes and explained. His long eyelashes cast shadows in the overhead light and trembled slightly when he blinked: "When you bought me a watch before, I said that I would also give you a watch on your birthday. Then you left. " I didn't have time to give it to you."

"I bought this watch two years ago. Although your birthday hasn't come yet this year... I'm afraid I won't have time to give it to you."

Li Wenyu's palms were still wet with moisture, and he smiled. After a moment: "It's very beautiful, but too expensive."

This was the rejection that Pei Xin had long expected, but he couldn't help but said a little lowly: "It's just a watch. If you don't like it, just put it anywhere." Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't wear it."

Li Wenyu glanced at the old and damaged mechanical watch on his wrist that still kept turning, and said after a while: "Thank you."

"You came to Huaiyun Island specifically to pick up this piece. A watch?"

Pei Xin paused and didn't answer, but asked again: "You asked me if my hands could still play the piano. Why?"

Li Wenyu's eyes softened: "I thought playing the piano was something you liked to do."

He remembered that when Pei Xin said a long time ago that he would never play the piano again, his cold and green face would also show a little gloom.

Pei Xin seemed to find the answer unexpected, and a wet light escaped from his dark eyes: "... My hand is healed. Can you listen to me play a piece of music?"

Li Wenyu held his hand tightly. He didn't know what kind of emotions Pei Xin was bringing him to City C. If it was just to say a final farewell, it would be too easy for people to fall into a trap.

He closed his eyes: "Okay."

Pei Xin stretched out his hand and took him to sit on the edge of the bed.

It was almost sunset time, and the colors of dusk filled the entire room. Pei Xin's left hand was shaking a little when he rested it on the keys. It turned out that he hadn't played the piano in five years.

Li Wenyu was originally a little worried about his hands, but now he frowned but said nothing. He thought that maybe Pei Xin needed a little confidence sometimes.

But when the sound slowly flowed out from the keys under Pei Xin's fingers, the tone was calm and gentle, his eyebrows frowned deeper and deeper, and then became a little blank at a certain moment, like a robot that had pressed the pause button.

The familiar tone almost instantly reminded him of the song from the movie he had watched. It was like a dream, telling a story of love at first sight that was so beautiful that it seemed like an illusion.

He had heard the same sound in the piano classroom. Perhaps, earlier, he had heard it more than once in the apartment and in this small foreign-style building.

Pei Xin's hand had not fully recovered. The piece was soothing and brisk at times. It was difficult and even unbearably painful for his injured fingers, but he did not play wrong or pause at any point. Anyway, this is the last time.

I don’t know if it was the setting sun that warmed the piano keys. When he reached the last syllable, his left hand was uncontrollably hot and trembling. When the last vibrato echoed in the room ended, he expressionlessly held the wrist of his left hand with his right hand. , turned to Li Wenyu and gently tugged the corner of his lips: "Brother Yu, I told you that my hand is fine."

The camphor tree in front of the floor-to-ceiling window was blown by the evening wind, and then fell The scattered tree shadows that came also swayed, and the interplay of light and shadow on Pei Xin's face seemed to be enough to make the white horse turn around, making Li Wenyu seem to have returned to a dream that was very similar to the scene many years ago.

——"Li Wenyu, are you cold?"

——"Brother Xiao Yu, I just told you that my hand is fine."

It turns out that it couldn't be a nightmare.

Li Wenyu's eyes slowly refocused and he looked at his face seriously: "You play very well."

Pei Xin's eyes were bright, like a child who finally got praise from the teacher: "You can do it if you like it." Okay."

The velvet box in Li Wenyu's hand was warmed by the cover, and he thought coldly and silently, if coming to Huaiyun Island to see the sea was a trap that Pei Xin often used, then no matter five years ago or five years later, he would always Falling in again and again.

The sun sets so quickly in autumn on the island, and it’s only just past six-thirty when night falls.

Li Wenyu took a total of four days of leave because the project required heavy work and required remote working.

At about 8 p.m., he held a video conference with the team, and then began to change the plan.

Pei Xin sat quietly next to him, turning the volume of the movie to the minimum, and taking out his cell phone to look at it from time to time. Li Wenyu accidentally scanned it while he was drinking water and found that he seemed to be using the surveillance camera in the apartment to watch Xiaobai's movements.

"Are you looking at Xiaobai?"

Pei Xin rubbed his eyes, smiled and turned the phone screen away: "Xiaobai is drinking water."

From the surveillance perspective, Xiaobai was small and round, playing lazily on the sofa. After rolling away, he tried to get into the bedroom, but was blocked by the locked door. After that, he leisurely went back to drink water, his tail wagging like a propeller, and he didn't seem to be surprised or missing the disappearance of the two of them.

Li Wenyu curled his lower lip, feeling that he missed Xiaobai a little.

Pei Xin had taken medicine during the day and didn't need to take any more at night, so they slept in two separate rooms that night.

But Li Wenyu's long period of taking care of Pei Xin's medicine seemed to have formed some kind of biological clock. He woke up twice in the middle of the night and fell asleep again when he realized that there was no one around him.

When he woke up in the morning, he heard the clear chirping of birds, like the sound in the mountains and forests on summer.

While they were walking, they saw a panoramic view of the island on the side of the path. Many natural attractions on Huaiyun Island were damaged, including the sea view garden they had visited before.

Pei Xin originally wanted to see if there were any other scenic spots suitable for viewing the sea, but most of the map was blocked by a chubby little civet cat that was lazy and refused to move. Pei Xin raised his eyebrows casually and was about to communicate with it. Li Wenyu smiled and pinched the kitten's chin twice: "Forget it, let's just keep walking forward."

After passing a museum , they went around to an old street with more tourists. There were scattered people standing in the snack bars on both sides, and an old man sat under the old tree at the end.

Perhaps because of his unique appearance and clothing, Li Wenyu recognized him almost at a glance as the old man who loved to play chess that he had met before.

But the difference this time is that his chessboard is no longer as unnoticed as before. Instead, there are a few curious young tourists gathering around, and a student-looking boy is sitting opposite him playing chess.

"I lost." The young man flirted with his friend next to him to discuss countermeasures to no avail. Faced with a chess game that was hopeless, he had to admit defeat in despair.

Unsurprisingly, the old man smiled and waved to him casually: "Come back tomorrow!"

The young man stood up dejectedly, but the old man smiled and looked to the other side: "Young man, come on."