Chapter 26

The old man was rubbing against Li Wenyu's neck, like some kind of small animal looking for a scent. Li Wenyu didn't dare to move for a while. After a while, Pei Xin's lips fell on his chin. , and went up to find his mouth.

Li Wenyu hurriedly pushed him away and pushed him to sit up from the sofa.

Pei Xin seemed to be frozen by him, his face reflected the flickering colors of the TV, and his expression could not be seen.

Li Wenyu's eyes fell on the stain on his clothes again, and he reached out and tugged at the hem of his clothes: "It's your birthday today, is this the cake you eat?"

Pei Xin followed him, nodded and said lightly: "It's my cake, but I didn't eat it."

Li Wenyu somehow heard a bit of grievance from it. He felt that Pei Xin like this was so new that he couldn't help but smile a little: "Why, someone still dares to smash the cake on you. "

Pei Xin fell silent, his face suddenly turned cold: "Do you want to laugh at me?"

Li Wenyu was stunned. He originally thought that Pei Xin was playing with his friends and smashed the cake, but hearing this tone, why? None of them look alike.

He slowly shook his head and said something mysterious: "If you run out of cakes, you can buy another one."

Pei Xin smiled coldly: "If you buy it, will you eat it with me?"

Li Wenyu did not answer.

The movie on the screen in front of me didn’t know when it would end, and the picture playing the ending song became darker, plunging the whole room into a deep gloom, but the music was soothing, accompanied by a quietly flowing melody, soft and soft. , but very catchy.

It was many years later that Li Wenyu learned that the name of the song was "One Minute Friend".

A gust of wind blew outside, causing the curtains on the balcony to flutter and make a rustling sound like the pages of a book.

Li Wenyu suddenly looked at the piano in the corner. He said, "How about you play the piano for me and I'll eat cake with you?"

Pei Xin followed his eyes to look at the piano. There was no luster in his black pupils. After a long while, He turned around and looked at Li Wenyu: "Can you also play the piano? Why do you suddenly want to hear me play the piano?"

Li Wenyu smiled softly, his eyebrows were gentle, and the smile on his lips was warm, as if he had just melted. "I can't, but my dad used to like to play the piano. He taught me, but I didn't play well, and then I never heard anyone play the piano again."

Pei Xin's voice was very soft. : "Would you like to give it a try?"

Li Wenyu paused and was pulled from the sofa to the piano. This piano is very new, as if it has never been used since I bought it.

Pei Xin pushed him onto the piano bench, stood behind him and put his hands lightly on his shoulders: "Try it."

Li Wenyu blinked, remembering that many, many years ago, his father Li Yuanzhou took him like this. He walked to the piano and said with a smile: "Try it."

He was too young at that time, probably about the same height as the piano, but Li Yuanzhou taught patiently. Looking back now, he almost forgot Li Yuanzhou's face. Time is really a terrible thing.

Li Wenyu's hands were placed on the keys, but there was no warmth. Relying on the very vague impression in his memory, he played the simplest melody, which is "Little Star" that every beginning piano player will play.

He is indeed very unskilled and his gestures are unfamiliar, but his hands are beautiful, resting on the keys, and his well-manicured fingertips seem to be coated with a layer of crystal white light. It is a pair of hands that are very suitable for playing the piano.

Li Wenyu laughed so embarrassedly that he looked up and looked at Pei Xin. Pei Xin was also smiling, with a very serious smile on his face.

Li Wenyu stood up: "I, I'm done trying, it's your turn."

He gave up his position, but Pei Xin didn't move. The smile on his face faded: "I won't play anymore."

Li Wenyu turned around He curled his lips and said, "It's okay. You can't play worse than me. Even if you are worse than me, I won't laugh at you." This was

the first time Pei Xin heard Li Wenyu talking to him in this tone. Seeing his usually aloof and cold face become gentle and calm, my heart suddenly seemed to skip a beat, and the rhythm behind it became chaotic.

Li Wenyu was too nervous to play the piano just now, and now he was a little thirsty. He took a sip of wine and felt much relieved.

After quenching his thirst, he found that Pei Xin had not moved yet. He felt strange and his heart suddenly sank. He said softly: "Or is your hand injured and you can't play the piano anymore?"

Pei Xin twitched the corner of his mouth lightly, but he didn't There was not much smile, but some unexpected loneliness: "It's almost the same. Anyway, I can't play the piano anymore."

Li Wenyu's face suddenly blushed a little, he shook his head, and his tone was like a Chinese teacher reading the text on the podium: "No Do you know what you can't do? There are no desperate situations in the world, only people who are desperate."

Pei Xin really laughed and sat on the sofa again: "You are using your usual self. Tell me what you heard."

Li Wenyu said seriously: "Gudrian said it."

Pei Xin nodded: "That's good."

Li Wenyu pushed him: "You know what you said. Why don't you try it?"

Pei Xin felt something was wrong, and when he looked through the lamp, he realized that the man's face was completely red. He stretched out his hand to pry Li Wenyu's face to take a closer look: "Are you drunk?"

He thought that the alcohol content of this wine was higher than that of ordinary beer.

Li Wenyu was just a little dizzy. He was stable when standing and sitting. Apart from blushing, everything else looked normal. He avoided Pei Xin's movements and his tone was very calm: "No, I just drank a bottle."

He looked at Pei Xin's face, suddenly laughed, and made a crude guess: "You don't Maybe it’s because he was injured that he couldn’t play the piano anymore, so he became like this. “

Because he couldn’t realize his dream, he became a mentally ill person with no moral bottom line.

Pei Xin looked at him quietly, his eyes partially covered by his broken hair, but he was still clear-headed, with affection on his eyebrows and loneliness on his eyelashes. He smiled lightly: "Drink the two cans of wine on the table, and I'll tell you." Why. "

If you don't remember anything after tonight, just be friends for one night and just chat.

Li Wenyu seemed to be aroused with a little secret curiosity and desire to win. He picked up a can of wine and opened the cap, raised his neck and drank heavily. The smell of mint exploded in his mouth, and Li Wenyu quickly drank a can.

He opened another can. He felt that the wine tasted just like a drink. It was not a challenging thing, and he drank it all in one gulp.

On the last sip, he drank too quickly and choked. Water droplets flowed from the corners of his lips to his neck, and finally disappeared into his collar.

He put the empty can back on the coffee table, his mouth still bulging like a hamster storing food.

"You can say it." Li Wenyu drank too much water at once, one of which was iced, and felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach.

Pei Xin couldn't help but laugh when he saw him like this. He leaned his head lazily on the back of the sofa and stared at the ceiling idly, with a few small laughs coming from his throat. After laughing, he slowly said: "Actually, it's nothing. I'm in the same situation as you. The person who taught me to play the piano stopped teaching me, so I stopped playing the piano."

Li Wenyu felt that he had been fooled, and he was afraid After drinking two large cans of water in winter, this man just said a few words to deal with himself. He continued to ask: "Who taught you how to play the piano? Why didn't you teach me anymore?"

Pei Xin still maintained the same posture: "My mother."

Li Wenyu was stunned and stopped asking, but Pei Xin paused for two seconds and continued: "My mother taught me to play the piano when I was four years old. She is a very famous pianist. She taught me until I was eleven. When I was there, he suddenly said that I was not worthy of playing the piano and that I would not be allowed to play the piano again.”

The light was too dim and Li Wenyu could not see Pei Xin’s expression clearly. He shook his head subconsciously: “How could that happen? Your mother is a famous pianist. How could she not want someone to succeed her?"

"There is a successor," Pei Xin repeated the word playfully, with a mocking tone. "Maybe she feels that I am not worthy of succeeding her, and she has never acknowledged me."

Li Wen . Yu was stunned, and then said as if sighing: "No one will not love their children." His face became increasingly red, and it spread like a burning cloud to the place covered by his clothes, which was even more obvious under the warm light.

Pei Xin only glanced lightly and was convinced that he was drunk: "She has wanted to strangle me since I was born, but unfortunately she failed. The first time I remember seeing her was when I was four years old, and she taught me as soon as we met. Playing the piano, I didn’t even know she was my mother at that time. "

Li Su was still very young at the time. She was an internationally renowned pianist and had mentored many outstanding students. But when it comes to Pei Xin's teachings, she is particularly eager for success, because she doesn't believe that her union with that man will have any good results. She taught Pei Xin how to play the piano just to prove that he had no talent in this area.

But it turns out that Pei Xin is talented and different from ordinary people. After discovering this incident, Li Su was finally willing to keep Pei Xin by his side, as if he had finally accepted this seed that represented his failed life.

It wasn't until she was eleven years old that the relationship between Li Su and Pei Pingjin deteriorated again. She kicked Pei Xin out of the villa where she lived and told him never to show up again.

It was a very bright afternoon in Pei Xin's memory. The cicadas were chirping in the garden of the villa, as clear and vivid as the sound of the piano flowing from his hand.

Later, Li Su and Pei Pingjin came down from upstairs one after another. Li Su rarely smiled, but whether she smiled or not, she was a beauty. That day she was smiling, but it was crazy, with no trace of blood on her face. She grabbed the lamp next to the sofa and smashed the piano angrily.

The fragments of the desk lamp flew everywhere, and each fragment frightened the young Pei Xin.

Pei Xin never finished playing the piece he had been practicing for a long time, and the sound of the piano suddenly stopped in his life.

Li Su grabbed his shoulders and pushed him and Pei Pingjin out. The last thing she said to Pei Xin hysterically was: "Your hands are not worthy of playing the piano at all. You and your son are equally disgusting!"

Later, he changed from Uncle Wang to Pei Xin . He learned from his mouth that Li Su's expression that day was probably similar to the day he was born.

When Li Su just gave birth, the nurse held the baby to show her. Unexpectedly, the woman who was lying quietly on the hospital bed suddenly strangled the baby's neck like crazy. In her eyes, this child is a symbol of her failed marriage, an object worthy of hatred, and a curse on her life.

Only it is not the continuation of her bloodline, nor the sustenance of her love.