fingers of musicians

Wen Yuean turned the wheelchair to the piano, tugged He Yulou's sleeve, and said, "Brother, let's go together."

He Yulou withdrew his gaze and said, "Okay." He didn't tease Wen Yuean, and he didn't intentionally talk about strange conditions like before, so he just agreed.

The two sat together, the piano sounded again, playing with four hands.

He Yuge said: "Good words, let's go, go to my room. It's not fun with them, I just know how to practice the piano."

Chang Liangyan followed He Yuge to the bedroom and said, "I only know how to play the harmonica and clarinet, but I envy people who can play the piano."

He Yuge snorted softly, and said, "Do you want to learn? It's really hard to learn. Don't look at my parents, they are not bad tempered, but they are very strict when teaching the piano. Because of this, when I was young, I I won’t be able to learn. But my parents are kinder to me. If they don’t want to learn, it’s fine. If my brother doesn’t learn, I’m afraid my mother will break his leg. Anyway, if you want to learn piano, don’t Come to my house to study."

Chang Liangyan glanced back at He Yulou, lowered his voice and asked, "Then, what about him?"

"Him? You said you want He Yulou to teach you?" He Yuge sneered, "He can play tricks on people. If you let him teach you, you will definitely cry."

Chang Liangyan plucked the hair by his ears, and then looked back at He Yulou who was playing the piano. When he saw it, his eyes moved and he said with a smile, "Why don't I think so?"

The two girls were talking and entered the room.

Wen Yuean felt that He Yulou who was sitting on his left was a little absent-minded, so she stopped and called, "Brother?"

He Yulou continued to play for a while, then stopped, looked at the keys, and asked, "Do you want to eat watermelon?"

Wen Yuean didn't react for a while, he turned his head slightly to look at He Yulou's neck and the Adam's apple on it, and said softly: "What?"

He Yulou said, "I'm going to cut the watermelon."

The watermelon that Gu Jiapei bought the evening before was sunk in the well water in a bucket and kept in the freezer overnight.He Yulou picked up the bucket and took the watermelon to cut.The watermelon with red flesh and black seeds emits a little bit of cool air, and the sweetness seems to come out together with the cool air. In the sweltering heat, there is a refreshing melon and fruit aroma.

Wen Yuean watched He Yulou standing at the table cutting watermelon.

He suddenly felt that a round, bulky thing like a watermelon matched a tall and thin boy like He Yulou, because they all had a strange vitality, a cuteness that grew wantonly into a different appearance, and a cuteness that was different from others. This dreary, hot, sweaty world is incongruously refreshing and clean.

He Yulou's cutting is not proficient, because he no longer has much interest in melon and fruit snacks.The watermelon was peeled and cut into small crystal cubes, which were placed on two plates.

He Yulou picked up a plate, put a spoon on it, and handed it to Wen Yuean.

Wen Yuean picked it up and said, "A lot."

He Yulou smiled and said, "Wait for me to come and eat with you in a while."

After he finished speaking, he picked up another plate and took two spoons to knock on He Yuge's door.

Wen Yuean was holding the tray, and saw the door open from a distance.He thought that He Yulou would go in, joking with Chang Liangyan, teasing her with watermelon, just like teasing himself, but no, He Yulou just stood outside the door and said: "Here."

Then he came back and ate watermelon with Wen Yuean.

Wen Yuean only ate two yuan and said, "I can't eat any more."

He Yulou smiled and said, "Eat two extra yuan, at least I cut it."

Wen Yue placed the spoon and said softly, "It wasn't cut for me."

He Yulou said, "It was cut for you."

Wen Yuean glanced at He Yuge's closed bedroom door, then turned her head and looked out the window.The sun was very strong, and Zhizhi kept shouting outside the window, very noisy.

After a while, He Yulou asked, "You really don't want to eat?"

Wen Yuean looked out the window and said "hmm".

He Yulou didn't tease Wen Yuean with a smile as usual, but just said: "If you don't want to eat, just put it on the table." After speaking, he went back to his room to read.

Wen Yue'an sat there for a long time before slowly turning the wheelchair to the piano and practicing alone.

He played for a long time until He Yuge and Chang Liangyan came out of the room.When Chang Liangyan left, he said to He Yuge, "Hey, why don't you go swimming tomorrow and call your brother?"

Wen Yuean snapped her fingers, the piano made a low and short sound, and the sound stopped abruptly.

Chang Liangyan glanced at the piano, and didn't say anything about swimming, she felt that talking about swimming in front of Wen Yuean seemed unfriendly, so she just gave He Yuge a wink, and said in a low voice, "Ask him for me. "Then he also greeted Wen Yuean before leaving.

The next day, He Yulou really went out with He Yuge.

Wen Yuean sat in the yard all afternoon, playing chess with herself.He Yulou didn't come back until late in the evening, his hair was wet, he walked to the small side after entering the courtyard gate, casually took out a piece from the chess vat, and landed on the chessboard.

That move was very clever, but Wen Yuean took the chess piece away and threw it back into the chess tank.

He Yulou smiled and asked, "I'm not allowed to go down?"

Wen Yue'an took another step by herself before saying calmly: "Watch the chess and don't move."

He Yulou laughed hard: "Okay, don't do it." After he finished speaking, he leaned against the wall and watched Wen Yuean get down by himself.

The heat of summer evaporated the smell of He Yulou's body after swimming more and more intensely. The smell carried the water vapor on his hair, the unique smell of a teenager exuding from his skin, and accompanied by the smell of grass and flowers in the yard.

Wen Yuean held her breath, not to smell the scent on He Yulou that seemed to rule over all his senses in an instant, then picked up the chess pieces on the chessboard and put them into two chess jars.

"Wait a minute." He Yulou blocked Wen Yuean's hand, "Here, Baizi still has a chance."

Wen Yuean touched two white stones with the other hand and placed them in the lower right corner of the chessboard: "Take the ball and admit defeat."

He Yulou let go of his hand amusedly, and asked, "Then come play with me?"

Wen Yuean continued to put the chess pieces into the jar: "No."

Wen Yuean is not like this usually.

He Yulou didn't know where he had offended Wen Yuean again, he just felt baffled.

That summer, he seemed to provoke Wen Yue'an a lot.Every time he goes out, Wen Yue'an just ignores people when he comes back.

There are two worlds at home and outside.

The home is the same, but every day outside is different.

Different from the rows of books and piano scores on the shelves, the piano in the living room, the paperweights, pens and inks in the study, the school textbooks, the chess board in the yard, the shimmering swimming pool outside, and the green hills in the suburbs, The program of the Cultural Palace, as well as all kinds of piles of bricks and huge cement pipes used for Daxing construction - Chang Liangyan took advantage of other people's attention, pulled He Yulou inside, and kissed his lips in the dark.

She was bold and passionate, with full lips like soft, perfectly ripe peaches.

"Hey, what about the good words?"

He Yulou, who was in the cement management, heard the people outside walk a few steps and shouted.

Chang Liangyan put his hands on He Yulou's shoulders, put his head on his neck, and laughed softly.

"I'll go out first, you can follow after a while, don't let them see you." Chang Liangyan whispered in He Yulou's ear, and slipped out quietly.

Wen Yuean felt more and more obvious changes in He Yulou.

Once he went to call He Yulou for dinner, only to find that He Yulou was painting, not like the freehand brushwork of traditional Chinese painting like his painting of cups, but realistic and vivid in color like painting oil paintings.

The painting shows a pair of bare feet, stepping on the floor, the sun shines from the direction of the heels, making the ankles white and pure, and even the fiber fringe of the pants of the student uniform is painted meticulously.

Wen Yuean stopped at the door to see how He Yulou carefully colored the painting, and what kind of eyes he used to look at the feet on the painting.He kept pinching his empty trouser legs tightly, and after a long time, he called out in an almost calm voice: "Brother, eat."

When Zhong Guanbai was reading Wen Yuean's memoirs, he broke into a cold sweat when he read this paragraph.

Wen Yuean wrote that he hadn't thought about it, and he didn't understand the so-called love. They didn't talk much about liking or love at that time.At that time, he had very little contact with people, and there was nothing about the relationship between men and women in the books he read, and he was not very clear about the difference between men and women.All he knew at that time was that He Yulou was born to be with him, two people, a lifetime.

This has nothing to do with whether he and He Yulou are male or female.

Two people, a lifetime—just He Yulou, not another man, nor another woman.

However, starting from that painting, he discovered that He Yulou might also be with someone else.

From Wen Yuean's point of view, the biggest difference between him and this other person is not her gender, but her beautiful feet. He Yulou even liked them so much that he drew them.

After writing this paragraph in the memoir, there were no words on that page. Zhong Guanbai turned back and found that there was only one line on the last page:

But I don't have nice feet.

Wen Yue'an didn't fall asleep that night. He pinched the place where his thigh was amputated with his fingers, and looked out the window until dawn.

In the afternoon of the next day, He Yulou went out, alone, not with He Yuge.Wen Yuean waited for He Yulou to leave, and quietly turned the wheelchair to the gate of the courtyard. From a distance, she saw Chang Liangyan who was waiting under a tree running towards He Yulou, and kissed his face on the deserted street.

Wen Yuean raised her hand, and slowly touched her cheek, corresponding to the position where He Yulou was kissed, not far from the corner of her lips.

is here.He muttered silently.

After a long time, Wen Yuean went back in the wheelchair. When he entered the room, he fell down and lay on the ground like a doll without any response. When the pain subsided and his arms could move, he climbed back into the wheelchair without saying a word. on, turning the wheelchair to play the piano.

In the days that followed, Wen Yue'an always quietly entered He Yulou's room late at night, wanting to kiss the place that Chang Liangyan had kissed when He Yulou was asleep.

Sitting in a wheelchair, bending down to secretly kiss the person on the bed without being noticed is not an easy task. Wen Yuean tried many times, but always returned without success.

One night, Wen Yuean turned the wheelchair to He Yulou's bed again.

He Yulou's head was facing the outside of the bed, Wen Yuean carefully put her hands on the bed and leaned close to He Yulou.

That night, his lips touched He Yulou's face for the first time.

Posted for a long time.

Then he turned his head and pressed his cheek against He Yulou's lips.

Posted for a long time again.

Finally, lip to upper lip.

Wen Yuean listened to He Yulou's breathing and smelled his body, and kept bending over.

The lips that were touching were dry and a little cold, they just stuck together without any other movements.Wen Yuean felt that this was the happiest time for him in so many days, He Yulou was so close to him, he was so happy that he forgot the time and forgot to pay attention to the movement outside the door.

Suddenly, a beam of light shone on his face from outside the door.

"Wen Yue'an, what are you doing?" He Yuge shouted angrily.

She also found that Wen Yuean seemed to go in and out of He Yulou's room at night, but she came out soon after. She didn't take it seriously, but this time Wen Yuean went in and didn't come out, so she ran over to take a look.

At this glance, Wen Yuean's lips were pressed against He Yulou's lips.

When Wen Yuean came out, He Yuge stared at him, and said in a low voice, "You have something wrong."

The only thing she was lucky about was that He Yulou closed his eyes, probably sleeping, and didn't know anything, so he couldn't talk about participating in it.

He Yuge and He Yulou usually quarreled with each other, but when encountering such a thing, they immediately distinguished themselves from outsiders: "We don't have this dirty thing in our family, so don't provoke my younger brother."

She probably found a legitimate reason to hate Wen Yuean from then on.

Wen Yue'an has worked hard since she was a child to practice piano and learn music theory, Wen Yue'an was especially pitied by Gu Jiapei, Wen Yue'an, an outsider, is more like a child of the He family than her, these are not reasons, He Yuge does not admit it.

Wen Yuean said in a low voice, "I haven't."

He Yuge suppressed his voice and asked back: "Nothing? Doing that to Yulou while he was sleeping—" She was too dirty to even say what it was, "I caught you straight, and you still say no?"

Wen Yuean said, "There is nothing dirty."

He Yuge raised his chin and raised his head towards He Yulou's bedroom door: "It's not dirty? Then why are you acting like a thief? Wait until Yulou wakes up and then try doing it? Do you think he feels dirty?"

Wen Yuean didn't speak.

In the bedroom separated by a wall, He Yulou slowly opened his eyes.

He raised his hand hesitantly, curling his fingers slightly.

The back of the index finger slid across the lips and stopped on the cheek not far from the corner of the lips.