"Sergeant, you are a hidden talent." Someone sighed.
Xie Huai didn't expect that Jiang Xu could actually play the piano, and everyone else in their group "knelt" down to Jiang Xu.
"Thanks to squad leader Wuwuwuwu, we don't have to be punished Wuwuwuwuwu..."
"Class monitor, you are my second parent, woo woo woo woo..."
Jiang Xu: “…”
"Can you really play the piano?" Xie Huai looked at Jiang Xu suspiciously.
Jiang Xu said: "Well, I studied it for a few months before and won the first prize at the municipal level."
Hey, please don’t make it sound so easy, otherwise we will think it’s very simple!
After hearing Jiang Xu's words, the students around him roared helplessly in their hearts.
To be honest, Xie Huai kind of wanted to listen.
Jiang Xu seemed to see through Xie Huai's thoughts. He asked Xie Huai: "Want to hear it?"
"Yeah," Xie Huai nodded without hesitation this time, "I want to listen."
"Come to my house on the weekend." Jiang Xu said.
Xie Huai was pleasantly surprised and a little surprised. He grabbed Jiang Xu's school uniform and said with a smile, "Can you play it for me?"
Jiang Xu subconsciously grabbed Xie Huai's restless hand and responded, "Yeah."
Xie Huai was happy now: "Okay, I'll come see you on the weekend."
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After finishing the exam with great difficulty, Xie Huai finally breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he had tried his best and he would just take the best possible score this time.
Xie Huai was in a good mood today. He didn't see Jiang Xu and didn't know where he had gone. He waited for a while but no one showed up, so he left.
Today, Xie Huai took another road for the first time. There was an alley of yellow poplar trees on that road. Xie Huai remembered that he often fought with people from other schools during his first year of high school. It was not that he wanted to fight, but every time he passed by here, he would encounter that group of people bullying the younger students.
So I couldn't help it and took action.
His mother Zhao Li knew about these things and asked Xie Huai not to meddle in other people's business. But how could such a heroic act be considered as a nosy matter? He couldn't stand it when others didn't help those who were bullied, so why shouldn't he do something about it
He knew he was being a bit heroic, but he didn't care.
So later on, he would intentionally walk along that path after school, and would help people if he saw them being bullied. Gradually, these people stopped appearing in that alley, and Xie Huai stopped walking along that path.
He was wearing headphones and walking slowly while listening to the songs on his playlist. When he reached the Huangjushu Alley, he vaguely heard sounds of beating and scolding.
No way, what a coincidence
Xie Huai took off his headphones and ran into the alley.
When he ran over, his legs went weak and Xie Huai frowned in pain.
"Hold."
He ran into the alley and came into stare-eyed with several people he hadn't seen in months.
The other party was just trying to see who was meddling in their affairs, but when they saw Xie Zhun's face, they suddenly lost hope: "Brother, why is it you again?"
Xie Huai: “…”
He also wants to ask why it's always you guys.
"What? Are you collecting 'protection money' again?" Xie Huai tilted his head slightly and caught a glimpse of the person who was held back by those men. He was wearing the school uniform of Shiwai University and seemed to be a freshman in high school.
Xie Xie Huai just stared at them like that. When he had a cold face and didn't say anything, it always gave people the illusion that he had a cold and gloomy personality, which made people shudder.
It’s not like they haven’t fought with Xie Huai before, but they always ended up losing because they simply couldn’t beat Xie Huai, even if Xie Huai was alone.
The leader turned around and looked at the trembling student, said "Pah", pointed at him with his index finger, and said in a bad tone: "You are lucky today."
After saying that, he turned around and called his group of younger brothers, intending to leave. They didn't want to fight with Xie Huai.
Xie Huai frowned, and when those people came over, Xie Huai stopped them.
"Apologize." Xie Huai said calmly, his eyes meeting the leader.
The man just felt a chill on his back, but it was impossible to ask them to apologize.
"Xie Huai, don't think we are afraid of you."
"Oh, is it so?"
Xie Huai took a step forward and stood on the right side of the man. Since Xie Huai was taller than them, he leaned over to whisper in the man's ear: "Do you remember the scene where I knocked you down?"
As he spoke, Xie Huai chuckled and then kicked the man in the knee. The man did not expect Xie Huai's sudden attack and fell to his knees.
His group of younger brothers didn't react either.
Xie Huai looked down at the person kneeling on the ground with interest and uttered two words softly: "Waste."
"Fuck your mother!" The man on the ground cursed angrily, stood up, picked up the iron rod at hand and was about to hit Xie Huai on the back.
Before Xie Huai could react, he saw the man flying away from him.
Xie Huai: “
He turned around and saw Jiang Xu, who had a cold face and was obviously very angry.
Xie Huai was startled. He didn't know why Jiang Xu was here. Then he subconsciously reached out and grabbed Jiang Xu's wrist: "Jiang Xu..."
Jiang Xu paused, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Xie Huai was not injured, then he looked up at the group of people.
That look seemed to be saying "Get out of here now".
After suffering a loss, the group of people ran away in a hurry, leaving their eldest brother here.
Big brother: “…”
Fortunately, Jiang Xu didn't look at him again. He held his back which was almost broken by the kick and ran away in a hurry.
The bullied student had long disappeared.
Xie Huai and Jiang Xu were the only two people left in the entire Huangjushu Alley.
Xie Huai knew Jiang Xu was angry. He tugged at Jiang Xu's school uniform and explained, "I didn't fight. I just couldn't stand them. Besides, they couldn't beat me."
Jiang Xu didn't say anything.
Xie Huai: "Jiang Xu, please talk to me."
Jiang Xu sighed helplessly: "Xie Huai, do you know that if that stick just now fell down..."
"Are you heartbroken?" Xie Huai asked Jiang Xu jokingly.
Jiang Xu: "Yeah, I feel bad."
Xie Huai's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, each beat faster than the last.
He was not stupid, and he knew why this happened. Either he was too excited, or his heart was moved. Xie Huai didn't feel excited now, so he was... moved
He is attracted to Jiang Xu? !
Jiang Xu didn't know what Xie Huai was thinking. He looked at him in a daze, and his mind had drifted away to who knows where else.
He rubbed Xie Huai's soft hair and whispered, "Xie Huai, go home."
Xie Huai came back to his senses, suppressed the emotions in his heart, and nodded: "Oh, well, let's go."
When they separated, Jiang Xu held Xie Huai's hand and said, "Are you still listening?"
Xie Huai didn't react to what Jiang Xu said at first. Then he remembered that he had said he wanted to listen to Jiang Xu play the piano. He smiled and said, "I want to listen."
"Okay, when are you free?"
"Tomorrow afternoon."
Jiang Xu let go of his hand: "Okay, I'll pick you up tomorrow afternoon."
“… OK.” Xie Huai agreed unconsciously. After returning home, he thought, he is almost an adult, why does he still need someone to pick him up
He angrily took out his cell phone and sent a message to Jiang Xu.
Xie Huai: Jiang Xu? Why don’t you just give me your home address? Don’t come to pick me up. I can find it by myself.
Jiang Xu: Okay.
A few seconds later Jiang Xu shared a location.
Xie Huai clicked on it and looked at the winding route, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Aren't he and Jiang Xu in the same neighborhood? Why is this road so complicated that it seems to span several neighborhoods
He thought about it and decided to take back what he said.
Xie Huai laughed and sent a message to Jiang Xu again.
Xie Huai: Why don’t you pick me up tomorrow? [Hahahaha.jpg]
Jiang Xu: Aren’t you coming by yourself
Xie Huai smiled awkwardly: How could that be possible? I was just kidding.
Jiang Xu: Okay, wait for me to pick you up.
Xie Huai: OK (≧O≦).
Jiang Xu looked at the emoticon sent by Xie Huai and smiled softly at the screen.
In fact, he hadn't touched the piano for a long time. As soon as he got home just now, he went to the piano room to familiarize himself with it. Fortunately, he had basically remembered it, and he gradually became familiar with it after a while.
He learned to play the piano in his first year of junior high school. He studied for more than six months and then stopped. Now thinking about it, it was not in vain.
Before going to bed, Xie Huai took out a vitamin pill. He had not touched this bottle of vitamins for two weeks. Ms. Zhao Li often urged him to take it when he was in the first year of high school, at least once every two days. Later, it gradually became once a week, and now he rarely touches it.
Xie Huai would only take one pill when he remembered to do so.
Not long after eating, Xie Huai fell asleep.
The next day, Xie Huai didn't wake up until after 9:30.
Zhao Li prepared lunch for Xie Huai before going to the company, and he just had to heat it up in the pot before eating at noon.
As I was thinking about it, I began to look forward to the afternoon.
At about 2:30, Xie Huai was still browsing Weibo when a WeChat message suddenly popped up on the top of his phone.
Xie Huai clicked on it and saw that it was sent to him by Jiang Xu.
Jiang Xu: I'm downstairs at your house.
Xie Huai turned off his phone, ran to the balcony and looked down, and saw a man in a white shirt and black pants standing by the pool.
Xie Huai knew at a glance that it was Jiang Xu.
The weather was a little cold today, so Xie Huai put on a thin coat and went out.
"Jiang Xu!" Xie Huai shouted, then ran towards the other party.
Jiang Xu looked at Xie Huai's hair, which was a little messy due to the wind, and suddenly smiled: "Why are you running so fast?"
Xie Huai's face was a little hot because of Jiang Xu's smile. He stretched out his hand to smooth his hair as if to divert his attention, and then said: "I'm just worried that you've been waiting too long."
After following Jiang Xu for a while, I saw Jiang Xu enter a building.
Xie Huai looked at the sign outside that read "Building 13".
Then a greeting slowly appeared above my head: "?"
He lives in Building 11. This doesn't make sense. The message Jiang Xu sent him yesterday was so confusing.
Jiang Xu stopped and seemed to see what Xie Huai was thinking, so he said, "When you sent me a message yesterday, I was walking the dog."
Xie Huai: "So?"
"I sent it to the wrong person, sorry. That's the route map for walking my dog." Jiang Xu looked at Xie Huai and spoke slowly.
There was absolutely no sense of guilt for sending the wrong message, and the apology was not sincere at all!
Xie Huai: “…”
Very good, he now seriously suspected that Jiang Xu did it on purpose.
But he was in a good mood now, so he was generous and didn't care about it.
There was no one else in Jiang Xu's house. Xie Huai took a look and found that the decoration style of his house was simple yet high-end, which was quite suitable for Jiang Xu.
Jiang Xu poured Xie Huai a glass of warm water, and Xie Huai took it and thanked him.
Then he followed Jiang Xu to his piano room.
The practice room is neither too big nor too small. There is nothing in it except a piano and a small sofa.
The decoration style is similar to the living room.
Xie Huai sat on the small sofa with the glass of water, then he watched Jiang Xu sit in front of the piano.
The slender white fingers without any calluses gently placed on the keys and slowly pressed them.
Even though Xie Huai didn't understand music, he still knew whether a song was good or not.
For example, Xie Huai thought the piece played by Jiang Xu was very beautiful.
After Jiang Xu finished playing a song, Xie Huai asked, "What's the name of this song?"
Jiang Xu turned his head to the side, and the whole room was extremely quiet for a moment. It was a long time before Xie Huai heard Jiang Xu's voice.
"Je t'aime."
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(End of this chapter)