his mermaid

***

The weather forecast showed that it would be cloudy and rainy today, and sure enough, it began to rain as we walked on the road.

A huge black cloud floated overhead, making the whole sky dark as if it was approaching night.

The door of the car opened under the washing of the rain, and the two people who got out of the car held up two long umbrellas, one large and one small.

"What a big villa!"

"Run to the door quickly, it's all wet."

The driver of the car got out of the car, and quickly propped up a long black umbrella to see him off.

They finally came to the door of the villa in the rainstorm.The doorbell rang loudly.

After about a minute, a servant came to open the door, and then the puppy slipped to the door barking.

"Miss, are you alright?"

"It's okay." Yuhan bent down to wipe the water on her legs, and it was only a short distance from the door when she got off the car, but it was enough to wet her shoes and calves. "Hello, Xiaoxue."

She found that Yueguo had worn Xiaoxue with a dog suit that looked like a hoodie.

"Who is this?"

Aunt Li looked at the boy Yuhan brought with him. He had big double eyelids and looked very aura. He looked about twelve or thirteen years old. He was wearing a blue and black bow tie and the autumn uniform of the first middle school students. In his hand is a handbag and an umbrella.

"This is Shu Yan, Brother Yaochen's cousin."

To be precise, he is the son of my mother's cousin, who has met Yaochen several times.His mother and Shu Lan were friends, and Shu's family had a huge family gathering every year, the pomp was like a wedding banquet for ordinary people, and they would naturally meet some distant relatives.

"Are you here as a guest?" Aunt Li said with a smile, finding slippers for them and putting away the wet umbrella.

"I heard it's a cousin's house of mine." Shu Yan stepped on her shoes, rushed in with her bag in her hand, and asked, "Is he at home?"

"No, Mr. Jiang is not here for two days. He said he will be on a business trip for three days."

So Aunt Li didn't quite understand why there would be guests.

Shu Yan ran into the house, and Xiaoxue followed him to the sofa and sat down.

"Oh, actually." Yuhan said with a smile, "I'm here to find Brother Yueguo."

It is entrusted by others.

Two days ago, I met Shu Yan's mother for dinner. She said that her son was too naughty. Shu Lan suggested that he learn to play an instrument and calm down. It's not too late to start learning at the age of twelve or thirteen.

And she happens to know a boy who can play the piano and lives with her son, who is talking about Yueguo.If Shu Yan is willing to go and have a look, he can learn the piano along with him.Of course Shu Yan's mother agreed, and when Shu Yan heard that he was going to go sightseeing at the beach house, he was naturally eager to try it.

Turning around, Shu Lan explained to Yuhan that this was just to let Yueguo relieve her loneliness, otherwise the life of the disabled would be too boring. Last time she refused to let Yueguo raise a puppy, she regretted hanging up the phone.If Yue Guo does not agree to teach, he can also play the piano with the children.

"I'll call you teacher when I see you later." Yuhan sat on the sofa with his younger brother and reminded him, "Yueguo has trouble with his legs and feet, so you know what to say or not to say."

"Understood, you have said it many times, be careful to be heard later!" Shu Yan looked at Yu Han impatiently.

"Do you want some fruit?" Aunt Li asked.

"Cut it, kids will love it."

"Why do you keep calling me a child?"

"You are just a child."

"You're so annoying, don't call me that." Shu Yan glared at her.

"Got it, handsome guy." Yuhan ravaged his hair.

Why is it so deserted in the living room?She felt cold, so she didn't even take off her horn button coat when she entered the room.

Yueguo was at the time when she was supposed to supplement her nutrition, but there was no food on the tea table. Just as she was feeling strange, the wheelchair slowly moved down from the elevator on the first floor, and then slid into the living room.

"Brother Yueguo, your wound has healed."

Yuhan saw that his mental state was not as good as before, sitting in a wheelchair, weaker than when he went home last time.Although the person is not skinny, his face is somewhat pale.

"recovered."

She went up to push the wheelchair, tried to smile enthusiastically, and pushed him to the side of the sofa: "Don't you wear prosthetics? Didn't you say you need to move more? It's not good to sit for a long time."

"Because..." He looked at the child sitting on the sofa, "It's raining, I'm tired."

The moment their eyes met, Shu Yan suddenly sat upright and nodded: "Hello, teacher."

"Hello." Yue Guo smiled with the corners of his eyes bent.

"This is Shu Yan, Yan of the Three Fires, he is brother Yaochen's cousin."

Yuhan hugged his shoulders and introduced,

"I didn't expect it to rain, which made people feel bad. I wanted to bring Shu Yan to you to learn how to play the piano from you."

The recent days are always rainy and cool in autumn, but today's rain is particularly turbulent.

Yueguo was wearing a cardigan sweater, and the blanket was thick under his body.

"Shu Yan, do you want to learn piano?" Yue Guo asked lightly.

"Ah, yes."

He stared at Yue Guo's face intently, as if he was attracted by the teacher's frail temperament, and lamented that there are people in the world with such slender speech, and he is a man, and his disabled body does not detract from his elegant temperament at all.

Even Sister Yuhan's aura is tougher than him, but he is different from those sissy men who deliberately show off. In addition, Yueguo is disabled, and his weak posture makes Shu Yan feel sympathetic.

Yueguo raised his hand and moved it. Even Yuhan was a little envious of his slender and fair fingertips.

"I haven't played the piano for a long time, so I don't know how good it is."

"I heard that you were a music teacher before, so there must be no problem." She patted Shu Yan's head, "You just take him to play, don't take it too seriously. Then he comes over every week, and someone will accompany you."

"I can try to take him to learn the piano, if he is interested. But the tuition fee is free..."

Yue Guo was a music teacher in a primary school at the beginning, but he resigned later. He taught one-on-one pianist lessons in a piano store, targeting children. He likes children, and the professional examination for teacher qualification certificates for primary schools is relatively simple. Some.Later, when the piano store's business was in a downturn, and he wanted to interview for a new school, a car accident happened.

"It's great if you agree, the tuition will be paid according to your standard."

"No... no tuition fee." Yue Guo shook his head lightly.

This child is Yaochen's cousin, and Yaochen took so much care of him, he couldn't ask for tuition fees, and it happened that someone came to accompany him, he was actually very grateful and happy, and didn't think about charging at all.

"It's not professional if you don't charge, it's still teaching anyway."

"I said no, really." Yue Guo twitched the corners of his eyes, a little at a loss.

"Shu Yan, what do you think?"

"Sister Xiaohan, don't force the teacher, you see that he is very difficult." Shu Yan sat back and raised her head.

"Oh-oh." Yuhan realized that Yueguo was frowning, and she nodded heavily.

After playing the piano, the puppy was taken away by Aunt Li.The three of them went together to the large French window where the piano was placed in the living room.

Because of the rain, the huge windows were covered with raindrops, and even with the hollow floor-to-ceiling windows, the light in the room was dim.

Shu Yan sat down, poking the keys lightly with her fingers.It can be seen that this grand piano is very expensive, what if he pokes it and breaks it.

Yueguo's wheelchair moved to the piano, and he introduced the functions of the keys, strings, pedals, etc., as well as the origin of the piano, famous pianists and pieces, and so on.But after listening to it for a while, his heart seemed to fly away, and he didn't listen to what he introduced at all. He asked Yueguo to play the piano for him quickly.

A 12-year-old child is full of emotions, and Yueguo can see his rebellion in Shu Yan's eyes. Such a child is difficult to teach, in short, it is much more difficult to teach than elementary school students.

Yueguo sat in front of the piano with the help of a cane, and chose two simple, familiar piano pieces.

"I have heard my classmates who are learning the piano play it, but no teacher can play it so smoothly." Shu Yan yawned.

"Then do you want to learn these tunes?"

"Listening to the same music all the time can make you sleepy."

It can be seen that Shu Yan is a little interested, but he can't concentrate fully, and he will definitely get bored if he is asked to do repetitive things all the time.Yue Guo has already started to feel troublesome to him.

"If you want to learn the piano, you have to work hard and keep practicing."

Shu Yan yelled loudly, "Forget it! What I hate the most is hard work. School is already very busy, and there is a lot of homework. I want to come and relax my tired body and mind!"

Yueguo covered his mouth and laughed, the boy's tone was very cute.

Seeing his gentle smile, Shu Yan felt ashamed for a moment and blushed a little.It must be that his speech just now was too exaggerated, and the teacher was laughing at him.

"Ah, I'm not really interested in learning the piano. Why don't you come and listen to the teacher play the piano every week? Anyway, you don't charge tuition, so don't teach me."

Shu Yan hurriedly explained in a panic.

"It's all right, you are welcome." Yue Guo nodded with a smile.

"It must be boring for you to be alone at home, you must want someone to come and play with you."

"That's true..." Yue Guo smiled bitterly, "It's so boring, there is no one to talk to except the puppy to play with me."

It turned out that the disabled were so pitiful at home, Shu Yan felt compassion again, seeing Yue Guo's sincere smile, he felt sad instead.

Yueguo seldom smiles from the bottom of his heart, and there is nothing to be happy about at home.In the past, when he was teaching at a school or taking classes in a piano store, there would always be cute children who amuse him, and then he would share the funny stories online.Thinking about it now, it seems as far away as the experience of the previous life.

"Can't you talk to that aunt?"

Shu Yan was referring to the aunt who opened the door just now. She was wearing very simple home clothes and an apron.

Shu Yan's concept of age is rather vague, from 20s to 50s, as long as they are not gray-haired, they are all called Auntie.

"She is of my mother's age, we don't talk much..." Yue Guo replied.

In fact, Aunt Li has a lot of friends. Except for taking care of Yueguo, housework, and cooking time, she has been holding a mobile phone to chat with others, or playing cards on the mobile phone for entertainment. As soon as Yaochen comes home, she will go back to her room. Stay here and never disturb the two of them.

Yaochen asked her to go home one day off every week, and she would usually dress up early and go out to play. I heard that her son was going to college in other places, and she gave him 6000 yuan in pocket money every month. The salary Yaochen gave was quite generous. She also told her not to cross the line and not to communicate with Yue Guo too much.When he was looking for a housekeeper, he considered this issue. He couldn't find young people, especially male housekeepers, so he deliberately looked for an honest aunt in her 50s.

Yueguo looked up the music score on his mobile phone, and played a few more pieces he knew.Two hours passed quickly.

Finally he felt a little tired and let Shu Yan play by himself for a while.Then he walked to the restaurant to drink water on crutches.

Yu Han followed Yue Guo and asked, "Has the doctor come recently?"

"I don't come here very much. I want me to practice walking more and pay attention to rehabilitation issues."

"You don't even wear a prosthesis, it's so inconvenient." Yuhan looked at his empty side, but fortunately he was wearing a very neutral skirt to cover it, if it was pants, I really don't know what to do.

"Not customized yet... I want to discuss with Yaochen after he returns home."

"Then do you have your own fancy?"

"No, I heard from Yaochen that he didn't want to buy it in China, so I didn't pay attention."

Ever since he had an awkward fight with Yaochen, the matter has been dragged on for more than half a month, and he didn't dare to ask more questions.

In the past few days, the conversation between them has become less. Yaochen is busy every day until late at night before returning home, and he doesn't call on the phone. When he gets home, he has already fallen asleep, and he has no chance to talk during the two days he left S city. .

Maybe being busy is just an excuse for him to be too lazy to go home early to accompany him, because there is nothing to talk about, just go to bed and sleep together, the occasional sex is also carried out in sleep, or in a semi-forced state, he can't understand anything pleasure.After finishing it, he went to bed, and when he woke up to take a shower the next day, Yaochen also left early to go to the company.

"Oh, your relationship is very good, why do you listen to him everything?"

"Yeah." Yue Guo nodded, "After all, he paid for it. I don't know much about prosthetics."

Yuhan can't let Yuhan see that his relationship with Yaochen has faded.

This is also good, because he is plain, his heart is rarely disturbed, don't most couples get along in a plain way?It was the same with Shijie before.It's just that he often wonders in frustration whether he will break up soon.

"I'll come back next week, and I want to leave a teacher's cell phone number."

Shu Yan found his mobile phone in his schoolbag, because he is a junior high school student, with a height of 1.5 meters, the mobile phone looks very big.

After exchanging numbers, Yueguo felt that the empty contact page gradually became lively. It must be because of the fire in Shu Yan's name that it had this effect.

"If there's anything, can I call you?"

"Well, yes."

Shu Yan put the phone back into her schoolbag with confidence: "I'm going to try calling tonight. It's too boring to do homework at home at night. If I'm talking to the teacher, my parents have no reason to stop me. Then, goodbye."

"Goodbye, see you next week." Yue Guo waved to him.

By the time they left, the rain had stopped.

***

In the evening, Yaochen called. He went to City H to attend a charity party, and he said he would bring some gifts when he returned home tomorrow.

Hearing the gift, Yue Guo looked forward to it, as if he had just been dating Yaochen for a few days.But he must have come back very late.

"By the way, Yaochen... Yuhan and one of your cousins ​​are here today."

"What is your name?"

"His name is Shu Yan, don't you know him?"

"know."

Among the relatives of the mother's family, there is indeed a boy.After searching in his mind for a few seconds, he remembered that cousin's face.

"What is he doing?"

"Yuhan said he brought him to learn the piano. He is very smart. I didn't charge tuition."

"Why is there no tuition fee?"

"It's free."

Because he was Yaochen's cousin, Yueguo was embarrassed to ask for tuition.Moreover, the arrival of Shu Yan added a bit of warmth to the desertedness of the house, and it was a pleasure to chat with him.

Just listening to Yue Guo's tone, one can tell that he has a good impression of that child.Otherwise, how could he not charge tuition fees, and take the initiative to bring up this matter, like sharing a happy event, Yaochen hoped that he would report everything, but this kind of news that made him feel uncomfortable was not included.

He adjusted his emotions and said, "Have a good rest."

"Okay...then when are you going home tomorrow?"

"night."

"Do you still have to work after getting off the plane?"

"Something happened."

His words are never too clear.Yueguo also knew that Yaochen had many fields that no one else could go beyond.

Returning to City S at noon the next day, Yaochen went to the company first. Instead of going to his own floor, he went to Yuhan's office first. That floor was full of ordinary employees. In the corridor he passed, he could hear The women whispered, or murmured excitement.

"I heard that you took my cousin to look for Yue Guo at home."

"Brother Yaochen." Yuhan sat on the chair, "It's what mother meant, and she also felt that Yueguo was bored at home."

Yaochen does not deny this point, but he does not think it is necessary for Yueguo to make new friends.

If he had to say the reason, he doesn't like people whose life circle is too complicated.He hoped that the life of Yueguo would be as monotonous as possible, and it would be fine to give Yueguo a little fun once in a while, if there was too much, he might leave himself.

"Yueguo used to be a piano teacher, right? He can teach Xiaoyan how to play the piano." Yuhan said.

"How did you know he was a piano teacher?"

"Have you talked to him before?"

"The child didn't even pay the tuition fee, and asked Yueguo to teach him how to play the piano?"

"Yueguo doesn't need tuition fees. Even if it's not teaching, Xiaoyan can still go to listen to Yueguo brother play the piano every week." Yuhan couldn't help but said, "They get along very well."

"yes."

There was a gloomy look on Yaochen's expression.Thinking of Yueguo getting along happily with others, he would feel uncontrollable anger because of this.Moreover, he was a relative on the mother's side, so he couldn't easily stop him now.

It was late in the evening after the company had dealt with the affairs, and he was preparing to go home with a gift, when Yueguo's phone was actually busy.

After calling twice in a row, the line was still busy, so he turned the car around and went to the health club.

It was almost midnight when I got home, and even the puppy was sleeping in the den in the living room.

Yaochen went straight into the bathroom to take a shower.I don't know if there is a problem with the air pressure, but there is only rushing warm water, and the temperature can't jump up.I didn't find out until after I took a shower because I forgot to boil the water, but even if I boiled it, it became cold so late.

Because it's autumn, I come out of the shower and I'm cold.A human figure bulged slightly on the thin velvet quilt, and Yue Guo curled up in the quilt like a cocoon.

Yaochen threw a blanket over it.Today happened to be the rest day for Aunt Li to go home. No wonder the weather has changed. Yueguo couldn't even find the blankets, because they were all stacked on the top floor of the locker.

"Good night."

Yue Guo suddenly opened his eyes.

I don't understand why Yaochen is so busy so late. He doesn't smoke or drink, and after taking a bath, he doesn't smell like a woman or anything else. He doesn't know what Yaochen did. Since he couldn't guess, he chose to continue to sleep .

"Where is your mobile phone?" Yaochen stood beside him to check.

"Huh?" Yueguo noticed that the phone was actually held by his pillow.

"I called you a few times today, but they were all busy." Yaochen squatted down, "Who are you talking to?"

He found Yueguo's phone, took it away, stood up again and turned his back.

Maybe the moon will lie, so he has to see it for himself.

But after a casual analysis, it was probably from that kid Shu Yan who called.Since it is not locked, he can open it at will, and the call page shows Shu Yan's name, and their call time is two hours and eight minutes.

"I'm sorry." Yue Guo said subconsciously, "I was on the phone before. It was around eight o'clock..."

"On the phone from about six o'clock to about eight o'clock?"

"No, not that long."

It was a vague memory of him, for he had been sleepy early and had gone to bed after supper.

Shu Yan called to chat with him, probably to talk about his school affairs, he was squeezed out by his classmates because of his superior family personality and arrogance, no friends, parents constantly exert pressure and so on, only when he was doing homework, could he get alone time .The Shu family can also be regarded as a big business owner, and Shu Yan is also placed with high hopes by his parents.

He probably talked about those youthful troubles, and he didn't pay attention to them at all.I didn't expect time to pass so fast. Did you talk for two hours?

During this period, he missed Yaochen's call, that's why Yaochen came home so late.

"Don't let me lose contact with you."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Apart from this, it seems that there is nothing to say, and Yaochen won't listen to it.

He sat up, Yaochen's current attitude was like asking his wife if she had a husband who had an affair, staring at the glowing screen with cold eyes, not knowing what he was looking for.

Moments later, Yaochen put the phone on the bedside table.

He deleted a batch of contact phone numbers that he didn't know when to save, almost some water and electricity companies and doctors, including Shu Yan.

"If you're bored, just call me."

"Yes, I see." Yue Guo nodded.Waking up in the middle of the night, he was exhausted.

"Call every hour so you don't get bored and tell me what you're doing."

"Understood, Yaochen, go to sleep."

He took the initiative to lift the quilt, and then fell asleep on the other side of the bed which was still cold.

When we first dated, I still thought it was very sweet, and complained that I was too clingy, but now I find that when this matter becomes a "task", it will cause pressure.

He thought that Yaochen had become indifferent to him, but he didn't expect that it would be more forceful.

☆、Chapter 19