Sui Yi drove the car onto the Huancheng Expressway again.
During the day, the traffic flow is heavy, and the roads outside the city are looser. The sunroof of the car was opened a slit, and when driving to the north, the wind roared in, the car was not heated, and the temperature was extremely low, but Sui Yi did not feel cold at all.
Walking to the open area, he called his father.
Sui Cheng figured out Sui Yi's habit of not calling him when he had nothing to do, and asked straight to the point, "What's the matter?"
Sui Yi didn't go around the corner: "I want Qin Weiyu's contact information."
The other end was silent for a moment, and said, "Is it for that child again?"
"Don't think of a way for me." Sui Yi said coldly.
Sui Cheng seemed to be in a good mood, but smiled and said, "I didn't say no, I haven't learned any skills since I left home for two years, but I have a good temper."
Sui Yi wrote down the number, and Sui Cheng asked him, "What are you going to exchange this time?"
Sui Yi was silent for a moment: "Go ahead."
He was ready to be made difficult, but Sui Cheng only let him go home for a meal when he had time.
It was better to hit the sun than Sui Yi rushed to the sun, so he drove the car home at noon.
The teacher was very happy to see him, and complained about why he didn't call first when he got home while busy letting the kitchen add vegetables. Sui Cheng also came back, not surprised to see Sui Yi, nodded and said "here", as if his son had been living at home and never left.
The teacher personally went to the kitchen to help, Sui Yi had nothing to do and didn't want to stay with Sui Cheng, so he went to the kitchen to find work. After washing his hands, holding down the yam on the cutting board, he was about to cut it with a knife. The teacher turned around and saw it, and was so frightened: "Put it down, put it down, where can you take the knife? What's wrong with hurting your hand?"
Since the beginning of Sui Yi's records, his hands have been the most precious parts of his body. The teacher wouldn't let him into the kitchen, nor let him play ball. In winter, he was not even allowed to go out with other children to play snowball fights. When he was ignorant, he was often angry and crying. The teacher would ask him every time, "Then do you still want to learn?" Qin", he replied "I think", the teacher breathed a sigh of relief, and then said of course: "Then don't go, cherish your hands."
He never doubted what the teacher said. He grew up to be 17 years old, and the only rebellious thing he did was to give up the violin and enter the entertainment industry.
He strays from a life where he can see the end at a glance, takes a very different path, and encounters a group of people who would never have intersected with him. When the violin was broken, the teacher's shocked and disappointed expression was vivid in his mind, but within two years, he began to doubt whether his choice was the right one.
After dinner, Sui Yi went upstairs and entered his room.
It has been uninhabited for more than two years, and the house is still the way I remember it. He walked to the one-man-high glass cabinet next to the desk, and gradually became fascinated by the trophies and certificates he had won in competitions at home and abroad.
The teacher knocked on the door twice, walked in, stood beside him and said with a smile, "Are you very proud of your former self?"
Sui Yi shook his head: "No."
He has nothing to be proud of, the past is the past, not to mention that he believes that his efforts can only account for a part of it, and the teacher's constant teaching for more than ten years is the key to his persistence and achievement.
"Remember this?" The teacher pointed to a certificate for the third place in the International Youth Violin Competition at the top of the window. "You were 12 years old and didn't win the first place. When you received the award, you had a small face. I cried when I got off the stage, and said I would never play the piano again."
In fact, Sui Yi can't remember clearly. When he was ignorant, he often said "don't play the piano". In the end, under the warm words of the teacher, he held on to his tenacity and persevered. .
"I'll tell you a secret." The teacher said warmly, "Actually, every time I comfort you, I'm not as calm as I seem on the surface. I'm very afraid that you will really give up and stop learning, and that all your previous efforts will be in vain. ."
Sui Yi turned to look at him with surprise in his eyes.
The teacher smiled and rolled his eyes: "Can't believe it? My calmness is just pretending, in fact, I'm more afraid than anyone else. Back then I thought I was afraid that you would give up so many years of hard work, self-destruct your future, and think you did what you did. Everything is for your own good."
Saying that, the teacher raised his hand and gestured to him and Sui Yi. The little boy who used to be only about his waist was now taller than him.
"In the two years that you were away from home, I slowly figured out that it's not just playing the violin that can prove your ability and value, what I can't let go of is actually my dedication to you and imposing my own wishes on you. But the road should be your own. No matter what you do, as long as you have something to gain, it is right. The higher your anger, the less I should pretend to be someone from the past, trap you at the bottom of the well, and stop you. Explore the outside world on your own."
At the end, the teacher said with relief: "The most rare thing in life is freedom. You can do what you like without any scruples. That's good. The teacher is still proud of you."
When Sui Yi was leaving, Sui Cheng happened to be going out too. The teacher stopped him at the door and put a scarf around him gently: "You have a bad spine, so you can't be cold."
Sui Yi felt dazzled and tightened, so he quickened his pace and walked out.
"Sui Yi," the teacher stopped him from behind, "the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and your dad and I will be waiting for you at home."
Sui Yi didn't respond, and heard his father say, "What do you want him to do back? Haven't seen enough on TV? Hmph, I'm not ashamed to be surrounded by a group of little girls all day calling 'husband'."
"This is also his ability, don't say a few words." The teacher pressed Sui Cheng back, loudly shouted to Sui Yi who had already walked to the gate of the courtyard, "It's fine to bring one more person back, you don't need to say hello to us."
Sui Yi immediately thought of Ning Lan, and then felt that he was going crazy. He opened the door and stepped on the accelerator of the car, and he rushed out without looking back.
He knew that his father called him back to make the teacher happy, and the feeling of returning home was not as unacceptable as he imagined, but he still couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.
During the Spring Festival last year, he wanted to stay in the dormitory alone, but Gu Chenkai and his aunt called him to go by phone from left to right, but he had no choice but to go to Gu's house for the New Year. This traditional festival has no special meaning in his eyes, and he would rather read a book quietly than a group of people making noise.
Seeing that the Chinese New Year is approaching, Ning Lan had already gone home at this time last year, and the two of them have been communicating on WeChat. On New Year's Eve, Ning Lan also sent him New Year's greetings...
Why do you think of him again
Sui Yi opened the car window irritably, and then called Gu Chenkai.
An hour later, he parked the car near the address sent by Gu Chenkai, got out of the car and looked around, and found a winding iron staircase in the corner at the end of the alley. Going down the stairs, pushing open the only door in front of you, the sound of rumbling music came over you.
Sui Yi has only been to a light music bar, and this is the first time he has entered a 24-hour underground bar. He walked inside, and being in it, he did have the illusion that he could forget the day and night outside, today and today.
At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, there were a few people sitting at the bar and the booth. Sui Yi crossed the dance floor and saw a gray-haired man in sunglasses in front of the bar, and raised his hand and patted his shoulder.
Gu Chenkai was startled when he turned back: "So fast! I thought you would definitely not find such a hidden place, and I was going out to pick you up."
Sui Yi sat down beside him, glanced at the dazzling array of wine in the bar cabinet, and glanced at the cup in Gu Chenkai's hand: "Drink less."
"This one has no degree, it's quite delicious, brother, would you like to try it?" Gu Chenkai enthusiastically promoted it.
Sui Yi shook his head and asked the waiter for a beer.
Gu Chenkai looked past him and searched carefully: "Are you alone?"
"Otherwise who else?"
Gu Chenkai fiddled with the wig that was not very obedient, and said with a smile: "I see, men, occasionally I want to go out for a drink with my partner behind my back."
Sui Yi looked at him with strange eyes: "You drink too much."
"I don't." Gu Chenkai stretched out his index finger and tapped his back, "Look at that big-breasted sister, I bet she must have come for you."
Sui Yi was not in the mood to play these boring bets with him, grabbed the cup in his hand, turned around, and drank it all.
"My wine!" Gu Chenkai wailed, snatched the cup back again, raised his head and poured it into his mouth, only drank the last two drops, licking his lips in a daze, looking at his cousin who was approached by the beautiful sister, Lying down with his face against the table, he bit his cuff aggrievedly.
The brothers hang out in the bar until dark.
As the clock struck zero, the din in the bar was at its peak, and most of the crowd crowded onto the dance floor to cheer and celebrate a foreign festival that might have nothing to do with them.
Gu Chenkai hiccups, removes the wig stuck on his eyes, and reaches out to push Sui Yi, who is also lying on the table.
"Brother... bro, wake up, Valentine's Day is coming... "
Gu Chenkai's sunglasses were now on Sui Yi's face, and he raised his heavy head: "What happened to Valentine's Day?"
"You... you must not make a phone call... to..." Gu Chenkai hiccups again, the DJ's sudden shouting made him think for a while, he forgot what he was talking about just now, and simply changed the subject, "Brother, we... Where are we going to sleep tonight?"
Gu Chenkai, who was half-drunk and half-awake, proposed to go back to the dormitory, but Sui Yi rejected it, and then carried him to a nearby hotel to open a standard room.
Sleep until the afternoon.
When Sui Yi woke up, he had a splitting headache, thinking that the so-called drinking alcohol to relieve his sorrows was a lie.
He went to take a shower, and when he came out, Gu Chenkai sat on the bed with a blank face, and saw that the corners of his mouth were down: "Why are you, brother."
Sui Yi's headache was relieved a lot. He picked up the phone and glanced at it. There were no missed calls or text messages. He threw the towel that wiped his hair and the phone on the chair: "Otherwise, who do you think it is?"
Gu Chenkai's mouth was flat: "Pretty sister..."
This kid actually went to the bar to pick up girls. Sui Yi's parents were ill, so he picked him up and gave him a lesson, which made Gu Chenkai cry, thinking that you are not much older than me, why don't you also go to the bar to have fun.
Naturally, he did not dare to refute. Gu Chenkai raised his hand and surrendered, admitting his mistake, promising not to do it again next time, and then came out of the fighting shower, and saw Sui Yi fiddling with his mobile phone again, his eyebrows twitched, and Fuzhi said in his heart, "Wait for the call. What about bro?"
Sui Yi patted the phone on the table: "No."
He felt that he was too busy, so he just touched his mobile phone when he had nothing to do, and the phone calls and text messages didn't come up. By chance, he swiped the news of Ji Zhinan's public marriage relationship with someone outside the mysterious circle. In the photo, Qin Weiyu and Ji Zhinan were facing each other shoulder to shoulder. Reporters and media, the two have no fear on their faces, and even have some determined tenderness and sweetness.
Sui Yi was sure that he had put it down, but seeing such photos and reports, he was still bored.
At this time yesterday, he had a quarrel with Ning Lan about the exposure of Ji Zhinan's marriage certificate, or it was his unilateral venting, saying something that he thought was too impulsive in retrospect.
Yesterday on the expressway, Sui Yi had already called Qin Weiyu to explain the matter. He should not go to trouble Ning Lan, but Sui Yi was still a little uneasy. I don't know what else to do to get rid of this depression.
"Go back bro," Gu Chenkai said, "Isn't there someone waiting for you in the dormitory?"
Sui Yi wandered outside just because he didn't want to go back. Hearing Gu Chenkai's words, he didn't say a word, and turned his head to look at the gloomy sky outside the window.
Gu Chenkai stretched out his jacket and shook it twice. He smelled the smell of tobacco and alcohol and curled his lips in disgust, and then said, "Ning Lan will be leaving after New Year's, so why don't you two take it easy now..."
Before he could finish speaking, Sui Yi hurriedly interrupted: "Go? Where is he going?"