cpa300_4(); What the hell was he thinking?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but raise my head to take a look, this time, he stayed at the bow of the boat, although the hull of the boat has been rising and falling with the surging of the river, but he stood there, but he was like a rock, both in shape and in his eyes, he was so determined, as if even if the river water flowed by his side, it could not shake and change him in the slightest.

Wu Yanqiu saw that Pei Yuanxiu and I had not reacted, and said with a smile: "I hope the two of you can do it." ”

“……”

"Tomorrow, Xia Guan will still wait here for the good news of the two, and also wait for Miss Li."

“……”

"Resignation."

After saying that, he saluted us again, and the entourage behind us stepped forward and took the huge brocade box from the hand of the attendant, which seemed to be a little heavy, and then Wu Yanqiu turned around and left with them.

This time, we didn't wait for the boat to leave, we all turned around and walked towards the carriage, it was still Pei Yuanxiu who picked up Li'er first, and then held my hand with one hand, and supported my waist with the other, and carefully helped me into the carriage, and then he himself came up.

The squire also brought the box.

The carriage soon staggered forward with the shouts of the coachman.

Again, silence.

I don't know if it's because I spent too much energy playing today, or for some other reason, Li'er didn't crawl around in the carriage or pull us to chat as energetically as in the past, but sat cross-legged and sat quietly next to me, and on the other side was Pei Yuanxiu, who also sat quietly.

After being silent for a while, the carriage ran into Jinling City, and the small vendors on both sides of the street who had not had time to clean up were still shouting and selling, and there were passers-by on the side of the street greeting and talking, but the sound outside became more and more set off the almost tense depression and dullness in this small carriage.

Li'er finally raised her head to look at me, and then looked at Pei Yuanxiu: "Mother, Daddy, why don't you speak?" ”

Pei Yuanxiu and I glanced at each other, and then looked at her.

But they were all a little overwhelmed.

In the world of adults, no matter how much dirt there is, children should not know about it, and because of this, when I was in the palace, my bad relationship with Pei Yuanhao has always been concealed, and Li'er doesn't know what painful past I and my father have experienced, let alone what kind of juncture I and his father are at now.

It's just that when she asked, the atmosphere in the carriage became even more awkward.

Pei Yuanxiu immediately smiled, and then said, "Li'er, what's in there?" ”

Fortunately, he diverted the topic, and Li'er's attention immediately left the point of "why don't we talk", and everyone's attention was also on the brocade box lying quietly on the other side of the carriage.

Pei Yuanhao's gift.

Thinking back to the contents of those piles of brocade boxes yesterday, and looking at this box that is almost as long as Li'er's height, it is a little difficult to guess.

This time, Li'er pouted: "You see, it's weird." ”

Oh? Weird?

Pei Yuanxiu and I both glanced at each other, and probably remembered those completely out of place clothes, hats, shoes and socks, what was there this time to make Li'er say strange?

The two of us took the heavy box and opened it.

Inside, there is a piano.

At first glance, I was a little stunned, and I didn't understand why Pei Yuanhao wanted to give Li'er a piano that she didn't know how to play at all, but when I looked at it two more times, my heart couldn't help but sink.

This piano is wide and long, and the body is extraordinarily thick and stocky, giving people a sense of calm and introverted; The guqin is made of high-quality cedar wood, as soon as you open the brocade box, you can smell a strong fragrance of pine resin, and the body is coated with vermilion red lacquer, but it seems that because of the passage of time, the color of the red lacquer is not so bright and bright, and some places are brown, and even several corners of the body have mottled traces of red lacquer falling off.

This is an old piano.

I also noticed that around the inside of the box, there was a layer of fishing net-like stuff attached to it, and it looked a little tattered. It stands to reason that such a brocade box is used for gifts, even if it is not inlaid with gold and silver, it should be foiled with brocade, how can it be a layer of tattered net?

My brows furrowed, and Pei Yuanxiu on the side also looked slightly dark.

Pei Yuanhao gave an old piano and sent it over in the rotten net.

Old piano ......

Rotten Net......

For a moment, I was silent.

Immediately the carriage fell into an indescribable, almost oppressive silence, and I silently looked at the old qin, which lay quietly in the brocade box, like a person who had been silent for a long time, but who had seen everything in the world clearly and thoroughly.

If the last time, the mountain of brocade boxes sent by Pei Yuanhao was in this carriage, like a third party who was watching the cold war between me and Pei Yuanxiu, then this time, his feeling of saving zài became even stronger.

Especially, when Li'er reached out and plucked the strings.

The sound of "clanging" shook both of us.

Li'er raised her head and said to me, "Mother, it's not strange for you to say it's strange." How can anyone give a gift, an old, used thing, and the inside of this box is still so tattered? ”

……

I didn't know how to answer her for a while, but I glanced at the old piano again, reached out and slowly closed the box, and said, "It's very strange." But you don't dislike others just because what they give you is not good. It's polite, you know? ”

She nodded.

This time, it was completely quiet.

Pei Yuanxiu and I were silent, and even Li'er didn't speak again, and the three of them sat quietly, but their eyes seemed to fall on the long brocade box involuntarily.

Old piano ......

Rotten Net......

It turned out that Pei Yuanhao still had this meaning.

I just remembered that when Wu Yanqiu asked people to send the brocade box over just now, he said, "This is what my master wants to give to my wife", but I thought that he was going to give a gift to Li'er in this name, so I didn't think of refusing at all, but I didn't expect that it was an old piano inside.

I couldn't help but feel a burst of crying and laughing.

But it's real, I don't want to cry, I can't laugh.

After a while, the carriage returned home.

When our group walked to the small bridge, and when it was time to part ways, Pei Yuanxiu naturally wanted to go back to his study, and I was about to turn around to call Li'er, but I saw her walk in front of the attendant and give an order, and then took the brocade box and held it myself. She wasn't too tall, and the brocade box was held by her for a long time, almost taller than her, and looked a little clumsy.

I asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm going to take it back."

"Wouldn't it be better to let them take it down and put it away?"

She raised her head and looked at me: "Mother, didn't you say that even if this thing is not good, don't dislike it?" I'm going to take it back. ”

I frowned slightly: "Take it back, you won't be able to play." ”

"But, mother, you will, right?"

"......" I was stunned.

At this moment, Li'er immediately said happily: "I knew that my mother was so powerful, she would definitely play this." Otherwise, why did he give us this? ”

As she spoke, she looked back at Pei Yuanxiu again: "Daddy, do you want to come and listen to my mother play the piano?" ”

Pei Yuanxiu glanced up at me.

From yesterday to today, the two of us have looked at each other countless times, although they are very calm, but really, they are also very embarrassing, I can't even look at him a second time every time, and when he looks at me, his eyes seem to be struggling and tangled, such a look, even if there are no fierce quarrels, painful fights, it is nothing less than a kind of torture for two people.

In the end, he still said, "Daddy won't go." Daddy still has a lot to deal with. ”

"Oh......"

"Don't play too late, go to bed early. Tomorrow—" He said, glancing up at me, and immediately lowered his head to look at Li'er, "Let your mother decide." ”

With that, he turned and left.

Li'er stood on the bridge with the big box in his arms, looking at him and at me.

I also turned around and said lightly, "Let's go." ”

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In fact, except for standing on the dock for a while, I was almost sitting and lying down the rest of the time, and I shouldn't have been too tired, but when I returned to the house, I felt a kind of physical and mental fatigue, and after tidying up a little with Li'er, I sat back on the couch alone.

But I heard Li'er running around in the house, and what he was doing.

When I turned around, I found that she had put the piano on the table, and then looked back at me with an expectant expression: "Mother, can you play the piano for Li'er?" ”

I looked at her quietly for a moment before I walked over and sat down at the table.

Reaching out and plucking the strings, I immediately heard a clanging, somewhat rigid sound.

Although this piano is old, it seems to have a good tone.

I laughed and said, "What do you want to hear?" ”

"Li'er doesn't know, my mother plays something nice for me, okay?"

I smiled, sat down, tuned the piano a little, and played a Shenren Chang.

The guqin is different from other musical instruments, and the guqin music is also different from other music, there are so many passionate ups and downs, more of a faint charm, but it is not that Li'er will understand and appreciate at this age, but she still stands quietly beside me, watching my ten fingers flutter on the strings, like a butterfly wearing flowers, and as if enjoying the music, and like looking at a picture.

At the end of the song, I smiled and asked her, "Is it good?" ”

“……”

She looked at me with a stunned expression, as if she didn't know how to answer.

After hesitating for a while, she said, "Anything sounds good." ”

I laughed.

While laughing, he reached out and rubbed her soft heart, and said with a smile: "Good is good, bad is not good, and you don't have to think that your mother is right to do anything because you like your mother." ”

“……”

"Mother, there are times when you make mistakes."

She looked at me in a daze, and after a while, asked, "What did my mother do wrong?" ”