waste

The atmosphere in Li's house was like a party in a prison, it looked joyful, but in fact it was shrouded in dull depression.

Li Jue invited a few classmates to his home, three men and two women, sitting around the dining table, the table was full of snacks, and in the center was a double-layered cake with just blown candles.

Yao Yilei opened a bottle of orange juice and wanted to pour everyone a glass, but a girl shook her hand: "Auntie, we don't drink this!"

"What about Coke?" Yao Yilei put down the orange juice, and another boy waved his hand: "We want to drink beer."

"Beer?" Yao Yilei immediately refused, "No, you are too young."

"What's wrong with us just drinking beer?" Li Jue stood up abruptly, and ran to the refrigerator to take out the beer he had hidden long ago.

Yao Yilei is used to pampering this child, so she can only stand aside and watch him neatly distribute cans of beer to each of his companions.She walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows and looked out at the yard. Yuege Mountain Villa would not look too dark at night. On both sides of the path paved with light yellow stone bricks, there was a street lamp every three or four meters, which clearly illuminated the road ahead.

But the blue Mulsanne never came.

Yao Yilei sat on the sofa with her arms folded, with a magazine in her hand, she opened it on her lap, turning a page from time to time.Only in this way can she sit here, legitimately attend her son's birthday party, and legitimately wait for her husband to come back.

"Li Jue, you lost!" Someone at the dining table shouted happily, and the two girls picked up a lump of cream at the same time and wanted to rub it on Li Jue's face.

"I'll go, tell the truth, I'll choose the truth," Li Jue jumped two or three steps away from their hands, "Ask whatever you want."

"Are you asking casually?" One of the girls asked with a smile, "Don't you have a brother, what gift did he give you?"

As soon as the words fell, except for the two girls, everyone's expressions changed, including Yao Yilei.

Most of the people present knew that Li Jue and Li Xu had a bad relationship, and they either didn't meet each other, or they would have a violent quarrel if they met.

Those male classmates had seen it before when they came to Li's house to play, and the person involved might not have felt it. As onlookers, they always felt that Li Xu always held back his anger when facing Li Jue. tactic.

"What's the point of asking?" a fat boy tried to smooth things over, "ask some challenging topics."

The girl didn't realize that the atmosphere was wrong. She tore the shredded squid and said with a smile: "I just want to know what will be given to the brothers."

As soon as the voice fell, the side door of the living room opened, and then a boy whose height was almost at the same level as the upper door frame walked in with a guitar on his back.

The biscuit, which had been nestling on the cabinet with its tail crossed, opened its eyes immediately when it heard the footsteps of its master, and threw itself at Li Xu's feet, meowing.

Li Xu bent down to pick it up, glanced at the dining table through the intricately patterned screen, and looked away when he turned in.

The atmosphere at the dinner table became quiet from the moment he came in. The fat man approached the girl who was asking the question just now, and whispered, "Brother Li Jue."

"Oh my God, I don't look like Li Jue." The girl peeked at Li Xu, then at Li Jue whose face was darkened, "What's going on..."

For a moment, there was only the sound of biscuits in the living room, Li Xu rubbed its stomach, and stepped on the spiral staircase without looking sideways.

"Xiaoxu," it was Yao Yilei who broke the silence first, and she stood up eagerly, "Today..."

"Just today," Li Xusen swept her cold gaze across her face, "Don't call me by my name."

"Who the hell do you think you are!" Li Jue picked up the paper plate holding the cake and rushed over, just as he was about to greet Li Xu in the face, the latter quickly lifted Li Jue's wrist, and there was no food on the paper plate. How many cakes hit Li Jue covering his head and face.

Li Jue couldn't dodge in time, the double-layer cake Yao Yilei made with her own hands formed a layer on his head, and the fruit dipped in cream rolled down his face.

It happened so suddenly that everyone gasped, and Yao Yilei froze on the spot.In the past, when Li Jue was dissatisfied with Li Xu, Li Xu never made a move, and the most ruthless thing was to stab a few words.

Unless Li Jue mentioned Bai Shuang, Li Xu never bothered to talk to him.

This time, in front of so many people, it was really the first time in so many years that he embarrassed Li Jue on Li Jue's birthday.

What's more, he just fought back, Li Xu is the most innocent one in terms of right and wrong.

"Li Jue, I warn you, don't rely on someone pampering you to become lawless," Li Xu almost crushed Li Jue's wrist bones, his eyes were as cold as the wind blowing in a cemetery, "If you anger me, I can always do it." Destroy everything you own."

Li Xu returned to the room full of hostility, and sat on the bed for a long time but could not calm himself down.

Biscuit probably felt much better. He jumped onto his knees and stretched out his paws to scratch the bag containing the guitar. His vigor returned to normal.Li Xu caught it on the ground, and threw a ball of yarn for it to play with.

The guitar was newly bought, a very ordinary tan wooden guitar, which was extremely inconspicuous against the guitars with fancy patterns on the piano store, but Li Xu still caught it at a glance, thinking that one day when he had nothing to do, To fulfill the promise, play and sing a song for the wish.

Li Xu's mood miraculously calms down when he thinks of Shu Yuan. He puts down the guitar, charges the phone that has been shut down automatically for a long time, takes a towel and goes into the bathroom.

"Wow—"

Shu Yuan shuddered, and suddenly opened her eyes.He was lying on the desk, with an exercise paper under his arm, and the pen fell by his hand.

Maybe it was because the western medicine he had just taken had the side effect of making people sleepy, and he fell asleep unconsciously while doing his homework.

It's not the first time that someone splashed cold water on his face in a dream. Shu Yuan went from being terrified at the beginning to accepting it calmly now, but the moment of fear when he woke up from the dream still couldn't be avoided.

He moved his numb arm, took a look at the cell phone whose breathing light kept flashing, and Li Xu finally replied to his message 10 minutes ago.

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry." The tone was so flat that it couldn't be more flat, Shu Yuan couldn't help but reflect on whether his attitude towards Li Xu in the afternoon was too bad, otherwise Li Xu would have to call him out to meet him no matter what.

"If you need it temporarily, you can ask me to get it." Shu Yuan replied a text message.

Just as she was about to put down her phone and go to bed, Li Xu's call came in. Shu Yuan didn't expect him to come back again, her fingers wandered back and forth between the red and green buttons, and somehow slipped to the green side.

It was too late to hang up, Shu Yuan panicked and almost dropped the phone, Li Xu's lazy voice came out of the earpiece and got into his cochlea: "It's so urgent."

Fart, Shu Yuan cursed in his heart, and then said without emotion: "If you have nothing to do, hang up."

Shu Yuan's voice on the phone gave Li Xu a different feeling from reality, he would have the illusion that Shu Yuan whispered in his ear, like brushing his ear with a feather, very... Comfortable.

"It's something." Li Xu held the phone in one hand and scrubbed his wet hair with the other, "Has your fever gone?"

Shu Yuan paused for turning off the desk lamp: "How do you know?"

A soft laugh came from the phone: "I touched your hand today, it's hot."

Shu Yuan involuntarily raised her free hand to let her lips touch her arm, if it wasn't hot, the fever should have subsided.He looked at the back of his hand, then the palm, the wrist... Where did Li Xu touch today?

"It's back," he said dully, "it's not hot."

"That's good," Li Xu said, "The biscuit is also cured."

Shu Yuan climbed onto the bed and rolled herself into the quilt.He heard a cat meowing from Li Xu's side, maybe Li Xu was teasing it.

"What's wrong with it?" Shu Yuan asked, poking his head out of the quilt to look around.He didn't turn on the light, and only relied on the dim moonlight outside the window to see the environment in the bedroom clearly.In the past, he had to turn on the wall lamp to fall asleep, so as to avoid eyes peeping at him in the dark, but today he wants to try to break through this difficulty.

"It can't get used to the new cat food, and it causes stomach upset," Li Xu was pleasantly surprised to find that Shu Yuan planned to chat with him, and he tugged on the biscuit's tail, in exchange for the little guy's "meow", "Would you like to come and see it?"

That cute meow seemed to lure Shu Yuan to agree to Li Xu's invitation, thinking of the cat bell on Biscuit's neck, Shu Yuan hardened his heart: "No."

"Okay," Li Xu smiled, and didn't force him anymore, "I bought a new guitar today, let me play it for you?"

Shu Yuan wrapped the quilt tightly, buried half of her face in the pillow, and said in a muffled voice, "Isn't it Bess?"

"Guitar, too," Li Xu's voice was a little farther away as the phone rustled, as if he had put down his phone to get something, "Wait a minute."

Shu Yuan tried to close her eyes, and pressed the phone close to her ear.

"Here we come," Li Xu said, "play a song I know best."

After simply playing a few notes, the coherent music sounded, which was the familiar "Castle in the Sky" by Shu Yuan.His eyelashes trembled, but he didn't open his eyes.

He recalled the music box that he slammed to the ground when he voluntarily gave up his beloved dance a year ago.The music box is exactly the same as the one I saw at the flea market yesterday. On it, there are two little people dancing Latin dance with their arms around each other. Once it is wound up, you can hear exciting pure music.

Zeng Shuyuan always felt that this piece of music was clean and pure, and when she was in a bad mood, holding the music box and listening to it for an hour could relieve herself, but she never thought that she would cry when she heard the first note.

"Xiaoyuan," eight-year-old Shu Yuan is facing the first stage in his life. Liu Mian encourages him who is nervous behind the stage, "Mom chose this name for you because I hope you can get what you want at any time. The stage is yours." , the wish is also yours, whether it can be realized or not is up to you to grasp."

Later, the stage he was able to stand on got bigger and bigger, and the awards he got got more and more. When he thought he was getting closer to his dream——

bang bang.

In winter, his wish was shattered.