night sky train

The first rainstorm of summer is coming unexpectedly.

Under the deep night, the sky seemed to be pierced with a hole, and water leaked out.Thunder and lightning continued in the darkness, and the whole world seemed to be flooded by torrential rain.

There was another loud thunder, Wei Yi shrank his neck in fright, and the pen in his hand was crooked.

Bean big raindrops hit the window outside with a crackling sound.Wei Yi didn't turn on the fluorescent lamp in the living room, but turned on a small warm yellow lamp on the coffee table to illuminate the scattered music scores in front of him.

He looked up at the heavy rain outside the window, and found that the window was not tightly closed, causing rain to splash in through the cracks in the window, which had already wet the screen and the walls around it.

Wei Yi hurriedly got up to close the window.He looked out the window at night and wondered if his brother was still working outside at this time?

While he was still worried, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure downstairs from the corner of his eyes. The man was holding an umbrella that seemed to be blown away in the next moment, moving slowly in the rainstorm.Wei Yi had good eyesight, so he took a closer look at the window sill, and found that it was Granny Xu who lived upstairs in his house.

This mother-in-law is in her 70s and has lived alone for many years. She is thin and thin, with gray hair all over her head, and she even speaks softly.At this moment, Wei Yi saw her in the rain for the first time, and was almost startled. He didn't have time to think about why this mother-in-law walked alone in the rain at night, so he hurried down with the key and umbrella.

As soon as Wei Yi went out, he felt what a violent storm was.He held up the umbrella and ran out, and the trousers and shoes became soaked within a few steps.He didn't care too much, stepped on the puddle and ran to Granny Xu, and put the umbrella on the old man's head, "Grandma Xu!"

The thin old lady was pitifully drenched by the rain, and she couldn't see things clearly at night. Hearing this, she looked in Wei Yi's direction, "Ah, you are—"

Wei Yi took her shoulders into his arms, touched the water in his hands, and thought to himself, the old man is not in good health, what if he gets sick from the drench.He took an umbrella to shield Granny Xu from the rain, and almost dragged the old man back.

The two returned to the corridor, Wei Yi kicked his feet, and the building lights came on in response.The old and the young were more embarrassed than the other, and Wei Yi only went out for a short while before he was drenched by the rain, and his clothes were all wet.On the contrary, Granny Xu, who kept covering her upper body with an umbrella, looked better than him.

The old man laughed when he saw him: "So it's Xiaoyi, good boy."

"Grandma Xu, why are you walking outside alone?" Wei Yi wiped the water from his face, frowned and said, "It's so dark and raining so hard, it's too dangerous."

"Oh, I'm going to worship Buddha in the temple, who knows that it's raining so much suddenly."

"Come back by taxi."

"Taxis are so expensive..."

Wei Yi had no choice but to help the old man upstairs, "I'll take you back."

The steps were wet, Wei Yi was afraid that the old man would fall, so he helped the old man to the door of the house.Unexpectedly, Granny Xu slowly took out her pockets all over her body, but she didn't find her own key.

"Strange, where is my key..."

She looked in the satchel again, muttering: "It seems to be left at home."

Wei Yi was dumbfounded: "Then...does your family have a key?"

"My son and they all live in other provinces, alas."

"Then I'll have to find the lockpicker." But Wei Yi didn't know the phone number of the lockpicker at all, and it was obvious that Granny Xu didn't know either.Wei Yi hesitated for a while, and took Granny Xu's hand, "Grandma, you go home with me first."

Wei Yi carefully took the old man back to his home.He was a little out of ideas, he didn't know where to find a lockpicker at night, let alone whether others were still at work at the moment.After thinking for a long time, I had no choice but to call Chen Jifeng.

Fortunately, Chen Jifeng quickly picked it up.Wei Yi told him about the situation, Chen Jifeng didn't ask anything else, he just asked them to wait at home, and he came back soon.

Wei Yi wiped the water off Grandma Xu's face with peace of mind.He was afraid that the old man would get sick, so he wiped it with a towel and blown it with a hair dryer. It took him a long time to dry off the water on the old man's body.

Granny Xu sat on the sofa with her back hunched, looked at him with a smile, and called him, "Xiaoyi."

"What's the matter, mother-in-law."

"What a good boy, so handsome and kind-hearted."

"nor……"

"What a petty thing."

"nineteen."

Granny Xu laughed: "It's about the same age as my granddaughter."

Wei Yi concentrated on brushing her hair, only said "um", and didn't notice the look in Granny Xu's eyes that she liked more and more the more she looked at him.

"Xiaoyi, my granddaughter looks good too."

"That's good."

"You can be friends." Granny Xu patted Wei Yi's hand lightly, "You are both young, so you must have a lot of topics in common."

Wei Yi nodded out of politeness, and Granny Xu happily took out an elderly mobile phone from her bag, and pressed the keys one by one to get out the address book, "I'll give you her mobile phone number, save it, when the time comes You can chat, talk about something."

Wei Yi didn't understand yet, he was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and said in a daze: "That's not necessary."

"Oh, it's okay, just be friends..."

The doorbell rang immediately, and Wei Yi hurriedly stood up, "I'll go and open the door."

Chen Jifeng came back quickly, and there was still a master lockpicker carrying a bag by his side.The first time he saw Wei Yi, he frowned displeasedly, but he didn't say anything. When he looked at Granny Xu again, he put on a smiling face, "Grandma Xu, I found a master lockpicker for you."

"Oh, thank you Ji Feng, I always trouble you to do this and that for me." Granny Xu came over and thanked you non-stop.

"It's alright, no trouble."

Chen Jifeng was reaching out to help the old man out, but Granny Xu walked up to Wei Yi, stopped suddenly, and hastily took out her phone, "Xiaoyi, I haven't given you my granddaughter's phone number yet, take a look .”

"Ah?" Wei Yi didn't know why she was so obsessed with giving him her granddaughter's phone number, but he couldn't resist this persistent mother-in-law, so he had to take out his phone too, thinking about agreeing first before saying, "Okay, you say... ..."

A hand stretched out, grabbed Wei Yi's cell phone together with his fingers, and pressed it down.

The moment the skin touched, Wei Yi was stunned.

Chen Jifeng tugged Wei Yi to the side, then took out the cell phone from Granny Xu's hand, and put it back in the satchel, with a helpless and funny expression on his face, "Grandma, I didn't say you, how old is your granddaughter?" ah?"

"16 years old, what's the matter?"

"The little girl is still underage, what are you in such a hurry for?"

"Isn't this an adult soon? Besides, Xiaoyi is only 19 years old..."

"Grandma Xu, please stop making trouble."

"Isn't this making friends—"

"What kind of friends do you make? I don't know how much you think about it. Let's go and open the door for you."

Without further ado, Chen Jifeng helped Granny Xu to go out, took one last look at Wei Yi, and said in a low voice, "Why are you still standing there in a daze, hurry up and take a shower."

Wei Yi's reaction was half a beat slow: "Taking a bath?"

"The clothes are so wet, and I don't know how to change them for so long." Chen Jifeng frowned, "Do you want to get sick without taking a bath?"

Wei Yi finally came to his senses, nodded obediently, turned around and went back to the room.

After taking a bath, Wei Yi changed into pajamas and sat in front of the piano to practice the piano as usual.Thunder and lightning flashed outside the window, and the torrential rain poured down, but Wei Yi remained calm and unmoved.He suddenly remembered that on a rainy night in the past, there was a lot of rain outside the window, he and his grandmother were sitting in a warm room, he sat in front of the piano and practiced, and his grandmother stood aside and watched him until he finished playing a song.

Dalia rarely praised him. Most of the time, the mother-in-law of this naughty child was hurting him, or trying to make him happy.But Dalia rarely praised him after listening to him play the piano that day.

"Sometimes I feel that the sound of your piano is like a luminous river that can pass through the boundless dark rain." Dalia looked at him and smiled, "I hope you will always treat him with such a gentle and powerful heart. piano."

"—and everything you love."

Wei Yi suddenly interrupted the sound of the piano.His fingers still kept pressing the keys, but they didn't play the next note.

He closed his eyes, slowly got up from the bench, and walked to the window.

The water flowed wildly on the glass windows, blurring the sky and heavy rain into a dark world in the water.Wei Yi looked out the window for a long time, the light and shadow in his eyes were flickering, always as warm as stars.

He took a deep breath, as if he had finally made an important decision, turned around and walked to the coffee table to pick up his phone.

Wei Yi nervously exited the chat interface with Chen Jifeng and sent a message.

——Brother, is Granny Xu back home yet?

Soon Chen Jifeng's message came back: I replied early.

——So are you ready to sleep?

——Just lying on the bed, ready to play.

Wei Yi couldn't help laughing.

——If you are not sleepy, let me play the piano for you.

——The rain outside is so loud that I can't even hear you playing.

Wei Yi swallowed, and made a phone call.

Chen Jifeng picked it up, and a deep and pleasant voice came over: "Why, do you still want to broadcast live to your brother?"

"Yeah." Wei Yi squeezed the phone, a little red rose from the tips of his ears, "Yes, is it okay?"

"Okay, of course." Chen Jifeng yawned lazily on the other end of the phone, "It's my honor to be the only audience for the little pianist, and also the VIP seat."

Wei Yi pursed his lips and smiled.He put his mobile phone on the piano, sat back on the stool by himself, couldn't help but cleared his throat, "Then I'll start playing, brother."

"You play."

"Don't hear that you are half asleep." Wei Yi said to the phone, "Listen carefully."

A burst of low laughter came, and Chen Jifeng's voice moved closer to the microphone, "Okay, I'll listen carefully."

Wei Yi adjusted his sitting posture, put his hands lightly on the keys of the piano, his heartbeat had drowned out the sound of overwhelming rain at some point.

He played Chopin's Second Piano Concerto for Chen Jifeng.

Occasionally, thunder roared in my ears, and the moment the lightning flashed, the piano and the spread sheet music were reflected in white.Wei Yi restrained his unsteady heartbeat, and his fingers slid across the warm keys, stringing up high and low notes smoothly, following the burning behind the piano master when he wrote this concerto in wandering and war a hundred years ago Feelings to explore the nameless friendship in a corner of the world a hundred years later.

"I hope you can always treat everything you love with such a gentle and strong heart, Willie."

"There are ups and downs all my life. If you didn't play well before, it doesn't mean you will play well in the future; if you don't play well now, it doesn't mean you will play well in the future. Have you ever studied dialectics, huh?"

"One day, you will have a good home, and someone who loves you will appear and accompany you for the rest of your life."

——Brother, if I say, I hope this person is you...will you agree to me?

After playing a song, there was silence on both sides for a while, except for the sound of heavy rain all over the world.

Wei Yi pinched his fingers, took the phone nervously, and was about to say something when his nose itch suddenly, and he sneezed into the phone unexpectedly.

Wei Yi: "..."

Chen Jifeng: "..."

The other end of the phone burst into laughter for a moment, and Wei Yi blushed instantly: "Don't, don't laugh!"

Chen Jifeng managed to slow down, "No, I was very absorbed in listening to it, but you sneeze and you immediately returned to your original shape..."

Wei Yi wanted to touch his forehead, the good atmosphere was completely ruined by his sneeze, and he forgot half of what he wanted to say next.

"Okay, don't talk. Have you taken a shower yet, why are you still cold?"

"I washed it."

"Stop practicing the piano, hurry up and lie down under the quilt to keep yourself warm."

Wei Yi had no choice but to go back to the room and lie down on the bed, wrapping himself up with the quilt.He huddled under the quilt like a little bug, and asked in a low voice, "Brother, how am I playing?"

"From the perspective of my tone-deaf audience, I feel that I can play much better than before."

Wei Yi couldn't help laughing.He hugged the quilt and rolled around on the bed, then asked: "Where is it much better?"

"It's just... the feeling seems to be more abundant, and the playing is quite vigorous. Anyway, it sounds good. If you ask me to explain it in detail, I can't tell."

"En." Wei Yi responded, and when he spoke again, his voice was a little hoarse due to nervousness, "Then...brother, do you know the origin of this song?"

"I really do not know this one."

"This was written by Chopin to a female student of the music academy." Wei Yi nestled under the quilt, his face was a little red, but he continued in a low voice: "He...he likes that girl, but he dare not say goodbye to her." She expressed her love directly, so, she created this concerto."

When Wei Yi said this, his cheeks and ears became hot with nervousness, so he had to pull down the quilt a little to let himself breathe.

The other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds, Wei Yi almost sweated, thinking that Chen Jifeng understood what he meant——

"This artist's way of expressing his love is advanced." Chen Jifeng's voice sounded a little teasing, "When expressing his love, he created a world-famous song or painted a world-famous painting, which is different from us mortals."

Wei Yi: "..."

"No, that..." Wei Yi became anxious, "It's mainly this song, it..."

"But I think if you like someone in the future, maybe you can also talk about this piece of music to the other party. This way you can show off your piano skills and tell others that you like him. How convenient it is."

Wei Yi was taken aback and closed his mouth.

On the other end of the phone, Chen Jifeng's low, magnetic, gentle voice sounded a little alienated.

"What do you think, Wei Yi?"

A dull thunder sounded slowly behind the distant clouds, and the heavy rain seemed to have no end, engulfing the whole world in the water curtain, gradually overshadowing the beating echoes of Wei Yi's chest.

"……Is such that."

Bright lightning pierced the darkness of the house.Chen Jifeng was leaning halfway on the bed, his silent silhouette outlined in the night, the light on the phone screen dimmed, Chen Jifeng turned off the screen, and threw the phone on the bedside table.

He exhaled slowly, closed his eyes, and pressed the center of his brows with some headaches.

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Next, I would like to ask Zhang Yu to bring a song "The Rain Keeps Falling" for the two of you