The two squatted in the shade on the side of the street, occasionally glancing at two dogs in heat from the corner of their eyes.
"Why isn't it over yet?" Cao Ye felt a stone on the ground and threw it out, muttering.
"Who knows." Liang Sizhe stood up, went to the store opposite to buy two popsicles, walked back and handed one to Cao Ye.
Cao Ye took it and tore open the wrapping paper and said, "It's not over yet, how long will it take..." Then he turned his head and glanced again. The two dogs were still shivering on top of each other. It was really hard to look at them in broad daylight.
Liang Sizhe smiled: "You ask me about your dog?"
"Hey, tell me," Cao Ye turned his face and asked Liang Sizhe in a low voice, "Will Xiaobai give birth to a baby?"
"That might not be the case."
"That's mixed blood..." Cao Ye turned his head and murmured into the air.
Chuan'er said it quite foreign. Liang Sizhe laughed again.
After the popsicles were eaten, Caesar's side didn't end. Cao Ye didn't need to walk over to lead it. Caesar ran over by himself, wagging his tail in a pleasing face, and handed it to Cao Ye with a dog leash in his mouth.
Liang Sizhe said in his heart that the dog really follows the master, and the tricks of being a good boy are surprisingly consistent.
Cao Ye took the dog leash from Caesar's mouth with disgust and taught him, "What's the matter with you, Xiaobai is so much younger than you!"
Caesar came over to arch him, Cao Ye squatted and took a step back: "Hey, hey, don't hit me!"
Seeing that the master was not close to him, Caesar turned around and gave Xiao Bai a reluctant "wang".
Xiaobai also looked at it, and returned a "wang" affectionately.
It was love at first sight... Liang Sizhe smiled and said, "I think they are quite in love... What's the matter, are you going to keep him here?"
"I think, my grandfather won't let him. He said that he is going to breed Caesar in the next few days..." Cao Ye said to me and turned his head sharply.
"Not so much..."
"If it falls in love with Xiaobai, can it be successfully bred with other dogs?"
"Then give Xiao Xiaobai to your grandfather."
"You..." Cao Ye looked down at Caesar who was wagging his tail at him, "Why didn't I see that you were such a dog before!"
Liang Sizhe laughed again, Cao Ye wanted to laugh as soon as he looked at Caesar, the kind he couldn't stop, how could this kid be so cute...
After dinner, the driver who brought Cao Ye in the afternoon drove over to pick up Caesar.
When the two entered the house, Cao Ye threw himself on the bed and said, "I'm so happy to have an air conditioner. The person who invented the air conditioner is really great."
"Is this temperature okay?" Liang Sizhe brought the remote control of the air conditioner and lowered the temperature.
"Perfect!" Cao Ye said, reaching for his phone, "I want to make a video with my mother."
The KTV downstairs was not at its loudest yet, but the noise could still come in through the cracks in the window. Cao Ye put on his headphones and leaned on the bed board to start a video with his mother.
Liang Sizhe turned down the volume of the TV, and watched the old translated film broadcast on CCTV6. The film was not very attractive. Cao Ye's words kept digging into his ears, making it difficult for him to not pay attention.
The way Cao Ye gets along with his mother is completely different from that of Cao Xiuyuan. Liang Sizhe has seen him face off with Cao Xiuyuan before, like a little lion in a state of preparation, but when he videotaped with his mother, it completely turned into a cub mode.
During the time they were together, Cao Ye would call his mother every few days, but he never called Cao Xiuyuan. Liang Sizhe has a vague feeling that Cao Ye's feelings for Cao Xiuyuan seem to be contradictory. He longs for Cao Xiuyuan's closeness and concern, but he never takes the initiative to show goodwill to Cao Xiuyuan or betray him... But that's fine, if Cao Ye really gives Cao Xiuyuan made a phone call, fearing that the lie he told would soon be exposed...
"Mom, show you the air conditioner that my dad asked someone to install for me." Cao Ye stood up and stepped on the bed, holding up his phone to the air conditioner hanging on the wall, "It's going to kill me a few days ago!"
"My dad, he's okay with me, he bought me breakfast once, and asked someone to come over to install the air conditioner. I heard that Uncle Yin said that they are now exploring the scene abroad. I guess they are quite busy..."
"...I practiced the violin, really, I even carried the violin on my back," Cao Ye jumped out of bed, walked to the table with bare feet, opened the violin case, took out the violin, and held the phone in one hand, while the other Carrying the neck of the piano in his hand, he walked towards Liang Sizhe and handed the phone to Liang Sizhe, "Help me get it."
He sat beside Liang Sizhe's bed and posed a violin-playing posture: "I practice the violin every day. By the way, Mom, I'll introduce you to my friend."
As he said that, he put the violin aside and sat down a bit towards Liang Sizhe. Liang Sizhe moved to the side to make room for him. Cao Ye took off an earphone from his ear, put his hand in Liang Sizhe's ear, and then took the phone and pointed the camera at the two of them.
Seeing that he was going to say hello to Cao Ye's mother, Liang Sizhe leaned on the bed and straightened his back, and greeted the screen politely: "Hello, Auntie..." Before he finished speaking, he saw the person on the screen clearly. , suddenly said, "Mr. Li, Li You?"
He wasn't so surprised when he first met Cao Xiuyuan—after all, he didn't realize that it was Cao Xiuyuan at the time, but Li You was different. Li You's status in the violin world was no less than Cao Xiuyuan's position in the Chinese movie scene. I didn't expect to meet the master violin player I once admired in this way.
"You are so thoughtful," Li You smiled at him in the video, "I heard him mention you when I called Xiao Ye last time. I've caused you trouble these days."
"No," Liang Sizhe straightened his body subconsciously, "He... is quite sensible."
"You're still a child yourself, so just say that another child is sensible..." Li You said with a smile.
Cao Ye tilted his head, tucked himself into the video screen, and complained to Li You: "He relied on himself to be two years older than me, and always asked me to call him Brother Si Zhe." Li You smiled: "You are It's time to call my brother, children are also divided into big and small..."
"Hey, I won't call, Liang Sizhe," Cao Ye hooked Liang Sizhe's neck with his arm and turned to look at him, "I will call you Liang Sizhe, do you dare to agree?"
In front of Li You, Liang Sizhe was embarrassed and simply raised his hand to slap him away. He could only say to Cao Ye's very close face, "Are you the King of Silver Horns?"
Li You laughed until she leaned forward and closed her back. She was completely different from the temperament goddesses she had seen on TV in the past. She smiled and said, "God, it's really hard for you, Si Zhe..."
After a while, Cao Ye took the phone away and continued the video with Li You lying on the bed. It took a while for Liang Sizhe to calm down. He is not interested in gossip in the entertainment industry. He has watched Li You's performance videos but never knew about her personal life, so this is the first time he knows that Li You and Cao Xiuyuan are husband and wife.
Li You feels very gentle, but it also gives people a kind of peace of mind. Liang Sizhe understands why Cao Ye has grown into such an innocent and carefree character. Li You treats him as a child. Although fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boys are no longer really children, Cao Ye's unique child-like nature has been preserved intact... The nature and the growing environment are perfectly integrated, no wonder he grew into a Such a rare young man.
The violin industry and the film industry are a perfect match. No wonder everyone in the crew likes Cao Ye to play Xiaoman, and if they are anyone in the crew, there is no way to guarantee complete rationality and objectivity. After all, this role was born for Cao Ye. what…
After a few minutes, Cao Ye hung up the video. He threw the phone aside, raised his hand and slapped his arm hard. There was a crisp sound, and then he showed Liang Sizhe the mosquito corpse in his hand: "There are mosquitoes again. !"
"Well, open the window for a while in the afternoon." Liang Sizhe glanced at it, took the remote control, and turned up the volume of the TV.
Cao Ye ran to the bathroom to wash his hands, and said loudly through a wall: "Ah... I knew I wasn't calling you downstairs! Is there any toilet water?"
"No more." You use a small half bottle at a time, and you have been cleaned up by disaster.
Cao Ye came out of the bathroom, stood at the end of the bed and asked Liang Sizhe, "Where's the mosquito coil?"
"It's used up." The small shop downstairs closed in the early hours of the morning. At this time, there was nowhere to buy mosquito coils.
"I really got bitten a lot of bags, haven't you been bitten?"
"No..." Liang Sizhe looked down at his bare arms.
Cao Ye scratched the mosquito bag on his arm: "Why don't mosquitoes bite you?"
"I don't know... Maybe they all ran to bite you."
Cao Ye screamed "Ah" frantically, raised his hand and patted his arm again, looked down at his arm, and counted: "I've been bitten three times!"
He scratched his lower back again, turned his head to look at it, and suddenly exploded even more: "Why did you get bitten on your body while wearing clothes!"
Because just now when you were lying on your stomach, a part of your waist was exposed. Liang Sizhe thought to himself.
Cao Ye fought wits and courage with mosquitoes for half an hour, running around the house to fight mosquitoes, but the mosquitoes seemed to be full of blood and were very alert and nimble. As soon as he approached, he flew away before he could raise his hand.
"Forget it," he said desolately, sitting on the edge of the bed half an hour later, "forget it."
Liang Sizhe laughed: "If you move too much, they won't bite you."
"Then what do I do when I sleep?"
"Turn down the temperature of the air conditioner, and you can sleep under the quilt."
"Oh." Cao Ye said, "I am too miserable, am I equivalent to your humanoid mosquito coil machine?"
"Maybe it's true." Liang Sizhe smiled. Cao Ye's statement is quite appropriate. Although he didn't attract mosquitoes very much before, he would occasionally be bitten out of a bag or two. He was with Cao Ye, but he didn't get bitten at all. He thought about it and asked, "There are still some mosquito coils left on the rooftop, do you want to go up?"
"Go!" Cao Ye said without thinking.
When he got out of bed, he caught a glimpse of the violin that Cao Ye had just put on the bed. Liang Sizhe's heart moved. Just as he was about to speak, Cao Ye first picked up the violin and said, "Let's put the violin on our back too."
"Okay." Liang Sizhe said.
Cao Ye put the violin back in the case: "You can use a fishing rod to catch it."
"Don't...let's carry it on your back." This qin is worth a lot at first sight.
"Oh," Cao Ye said, "Okay."
He opened the window and climbed onto the windowsill. Liang Sizhe handed him the qin in the room, then put it back on himself, climbed out and closed the window tightly.
The rooftop was as quiet as always. Liang Sizhe didn't sit on the edge of the rooftop tonight. He took a few old newspapers and put them under him, sat down and looked up at Cao Ye and said, "Since there is a violin, play one for me. listen?"
"Do you really want to listen?" Cao Ye raised his hand and scratched his hair.
"You brought the violin, you should know that you can't escape this procedure, right?" Liang Sizhe looked at him with a smile, "Come on."
Cao Ye held the neck in his left hand and the bow in his right: "You look at me like this, I suddenly get a little nervous."
"What are you nervous about?" Liang Sizhe was amused by his words. "Your mother is Li You. You dare to pull in front of her, but don't you dare to stand in front of me?"
"Hey, that's different, okay..." Cao Ye put the violin on his left shoulder, put the bow in his right hand, and looked at Liang Sizhe, "Which song?"
As soon as he showed his posture, he was completely different from the usual giggling little dude. Liang Sizhe looked at him and thought about it, "Just the one you heard last time, "The Devil's Trill"."
"That is so difficult!" Cao Ye exclaimed suddenly, "Can you change it to something simpler..."
"Try it, come on." Liang Sizhe smiled.
"Okay..." Cao Ye compromised.
The gentle music of the violin sounded in the night, the young man tilted his head slightly, his hair fluttered slightly with the action of pulling the strings, and Cao Ye's serious face showed an unusual calmness.
"Devil's Trill", Liang Sizhe's favorite piece of music before the accident, it is called a violin dazzling song. The process of playing involves bow jumping, sliding strings, bowing, tremolo, rubbing strings, double overtones, etc. Lots of tricks, he likes the feeling of being completely immersed in it, with all the attention on the violin.
Liang Sizhe stared at Cao Ye. He thought that this piece was in Cao Ye's hands, and he pulled out a completely different style from his own. He simplified some difficult parts, but he made his own in other parts. I added some kneading strings, and if I wanted him to comment, it would probably be... Not enough practice, but more than enough spirituality, the same feeling that Cao Ye himself gave him.
The song is very long, Cao Ye stopped after a while, put down the hand holding the bow, looked at Liang Sizhe with a nervous and expectant expression on his face: "Just pull it here, is it alright? "
It was the first time that Liang Sizhe saw a nervous expression on his face. He looked at Cao Ye and said with a smile, "I think it's good. Did you add the vibrato yourself?"
"Well..." Cao Ye said a little embarrassedly, "Sometimes I add it unconsciously, is it too much?"
"No, I think it's very good, and it's just right."
"You seem to be commenting on my teacher..." Cao Ye took the violin off his shoulders and said with a sigh of relief, "Why am I so nervous when I play the violin in front of you?"
Liang Sizhe smiled and said, "How do I know..."
Cao Ye thought for a while, then analyzed himself: "It may be that you are about the same age as me, and then you are much stronger than me."
"I'm more than two years older than you, okay? Besides, I'm not necessarily much better than you, I'm about the same level."
"How is that possible, you are the head of the orchestra!"
Liang Sizhe glanced at him: "What did Mu Ke and the others tell you?"
"Um… "
"What else did they say to you?"
"It's nothing else, just say that you are very good, and you are in the middle of music."
"Calling for wind and rain?" Liang Sizhe felt a little amused when he heard this description, "They said that?"
"My own conclusion..."
"Oh, the idiom little prince." Liang Sizhe smiled.
"Then... do you want to try it?" Cao Ye squatted down in front of Liang Sizhe and handed the violin and bow to him, "Try a simple song?"
Liang Sizhe didn't even think about this scene when he played the violin again in front of other people, but maybe the atmosphere was really good tonight. The violin's mood will be so relaxed.
The faint pine scent of the violin drifted into the nostrils, the bow touched the strings, and the long-lost familiarity flowed between the stiff fingers. Liang Sizhe's fingers moved. an instinctive neural reflex.
But at this moment, he was soberly aware that he could no longer pull a song smoothly.
Then he was surprised to find that he could accept this fact calmly, just like he calmly picked up Cao Ye's violin at this moment.
At this moment, he realized that the violin had really become a scar on his body. During the days and nights he spent with Cao Ye, the thick scab that would bleed when lifted had disappeared without knowing it. , gradually healed into a smooth, soft scar that would no longer be painful to touch.
It's amazing how this difficult process has transitioned in such an imperceptible and gentle way.
"What song do you want to play?" Liang Sizhe looked at Cao Ye and asked the same question as him just now. He thought about it and smiled, "Let's play "Little Star" that you taught me."
The fingers of the left hand are not very flexible, but it doesn't matter, Liang Sizhe knows that it doesn't matter how badly this song is played.
One after another, he pressed out the notes jerky with the fingers of his left hand. Cao Ye didn't sing along this time. He squatted in front of Liang Sizhe and sat in front of his audience, with the clear moonlight tonight in his slightly curved eyes.
In Liang Sizhe's mind, the timbre of the song he sang came to mind, it was crisp and clean. How did the lyrics come from? right-
"Upabovetheworldsohigh, Likeadiamondinthesky."
High in the night sky, you are like a diamond.