Shanghai morning

After knocking on the door, Wang Yao quietly waited at the door with his hands down. There was no sound from the room allowing him to enter, only the sound of music became smoother and louder.

Perhaps the musicians inside hadn't heard the knock, and would not be doing their duty if they left quietly now.But Wang Yao didn't choose to retreat, he has retreated too many times.He mustered up the courage to knock on the door again, and he tapped his knuckles more forcefully on the wooden door to make a clearer sound. At this time, the music was slightly lowered, and it was impossible for the people inside the door to not hear it.

But still no one answered.Wang Yao suddenly thought that this might be Roderich's usual practice. If Luther came to him, he would have to wait for Luther to open the door and come in.Wang Yao took a deep breath, and pushed tentatively, the door was easily pushed open a gap, and warm light leaked out from the gap.The door was fully opened, and Wang Yao had to narrow his eyes slightly. When he got used to the light in the room, he couldn't help being fascinated by the scene in front of him.

The golden-red light of the setting sun pours out from the large floor-to-ceiling windows to fill the entire empty room, and also flows on the piano in the center of the room. The elegant figure of Roderich sitting by the piano is surrounded and protected by the soft light. It seemed that not even the setting sun could bear to allow this otherworldly musician to be touched by even a speck of unclean dust.Even embraced by the warm light, Roderich remained pale and thin, yet unnaturally...beautiful.

Seemingly turning his pretty face inadvertently, Roderich had already seen the person at the door, his expression intoxicated by the music immediately cooled down, his slender fingers stopped jumping, and the music stopped abruptly, he asked coldly : "Luther asked you to come?"

Wang Yao was very nervous and embarrassed, but he didn't want to leave like this: "No, I came in without authorization. I'm sorry to disturb your playing the piano."

Roderich didn't care what Wang Yao was saying at all: "Why didn't Luther come?"

Wang Yao didn't know how to answer: "Maybe he will come soon...I'm attracted by your music, I can't help but come to listen..."

Roderich suddenly lost his temper: "Then why don't you stand outside the door honestly? Why do you have to spoil my mood like this? Haven't I lived hard enough in this family? Even a stranger will make me unhappy!"

Facing the sudden change, Wang Yao didn't know how to deal with it: "I don't mean anything malicious, I just..."

"Well, that's true," Roderich continued self-consciously, "This is to let me understand that I, like you, should not be in this house!"

Before Wang Yao could digest this inexplicable sentence, Luther's voice sounded behind him: "Yao, why are you here?"

As if he was caught doing something bad, Wang Yao couldn't explain it at all, and wished he could slip away immediately.He didn't know how to answer Luther's question, so he almost huddled in place.

Fortunately, Luther didn't make things difficult for him: "I'll come here, you go to Ferry's studio, he's back."

Before Luther could finish his sentence, Ferry from downstairs shouted away: "Yao, are you upstairs? My God, the sunset today is so beautiful! I want to bring out this color!"

Wang Yao took advantage of this step to step down quickly: "Thank you, Luther."

Ferry had already run into the studio, took off his shirt and threw it aside, wearing only a crumpled shirt: "Come on, let's start! I'm very motivated today!"

Wang Yao also entered the studio, closed the door behind him, and completely isolated himself from the space that only belonged to Luther and Roderich.

On the day of the Western New Year, Wang Yao received a postal package. As soon as he saw the handwriting on it, he felt a sense of disgust and a faint fear: it was from Honda Ju, and this was the first time that Honda Send something to his home.

His residence has long been a secret to Honda Ju, but this kind of clear intervention in his life made Wang Yao feel uneasy. He considered whether to change the place, but there is no cheaper house to rent in Shanghai.Unwrapping the package roughly, there was an extremely exquisite doll inside, and the beautiful and luxurious doll dress looked like a valuable thing, Wang Yao guessed that the doll should be worth hundreds of yuan.There was a small card at the bottom of the box, with a line of neat small words on it: "A small gift, please pass it on to Lingmei for me, and wish you a happy New Year." The signature is the three words "Honda Chrysanthemum" that Wang Yao does not want to see the most.

Angrily opening the cabinet, Wang Yao threw the expensive dolls together with the box, and suddenly noticed another thing in the cabinet - a small wrapped box, which was a Christmas present from Al.At that time, due to Xiaotai's affairs, Wang Yao hurriedly threw this gift in the cabinet, and later forgot to open it.

At this moment, Wang Yao was a little curious and decided to take it apart to have a look. He carefully tore off the wrapping paper and opened the box.Inside the box is a metal cross that doesn't look like new.There was a piece of folded paper pressed on the bottom of the box, Wang Yao opened the letter paper, and on it was Al Zhangyang's handwriting: "God is never with us when we need him, but if he can bless even one person, I hope this The person is you."

A warm feeling suddenly rose in his heart, Wang Yao held the cross on the palm of his right hand, the small metal ornaments actually made him feel heavy.

After the New Year, Xiaoyue's original house had a new resident, and Wang Yao couldn't help shouting when he saw that charming figure twisting into the alley: "What? How could it be her!"

Wanwan also saw the new neighbor: "Unlucky! Why did she move here!"

Before they had time to accept this new change, the charming girl downstairs had already yelled, "Brother Wang, are you at home? I'm Xiaofei! Help me carry my luggage!" For three days without a break.

Wang Yao felt his whole body go numb.

Ivan in the attic accidentally pierced the manuscript paper with the tip of his pen.

After a while, Wang Yao, Wan Wan and Yi Wan all came downstairs. Xiao Fei was wearing a blue dark flower cheongsam and a thick coat that was a little shorter than the cheongsam. She smiled affectionately with peach eyes: "Oh, are you all here? Too Alright! Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to carry these things up!”

Wang Yao had no choice but to go forward to help her move things.Ivan took the first step: "I'll do it." He picked up Xiaofei's suitcase and went upstairs, and Wang Yao followed behind with other miscellaneous things.

Xiao Fei chattered endlessly in the back: "We will be neighbors in the future, and I have to ask you to take care of it! Earlier, as soon as Xiao Yue left, I was staring at this house, and I would rather live next to old acquaintances than those on the street. It's much better for sisters and children to squeeze together! Oh, you don't know, their hands and feet are not clean, and they will throw things if they can't see it! I lost a pair of earrings before, and the third princess must have touched them! This girl is a pickpocket, she uses her own money to raise a pretty face, lest people cheat her for money and sex, and if she loses her money, she will steal from her sisters. She is really shameless! But her good friend is going to lose her head, this is offending It's no fun to kill the Japanese!"

The last sentence caught Wang Yao's attention, and he immediately asked, "Did you offend the Japanese? What's going on?"

"Hey? You don't know? It's what happened last time!" Xiao Fei exaggeratedly twisted her soft waist to the extreme, "Didn't the workers on the dock fight with the Japanese last time? A face full of flowers."

Wang Yao nodded: "I know this, so Xiaotai and the others went to Nanyang."

Xiaofei went on to say: "Everything will be fine when we leave! Those who were arrested and quickly arrested are unlucky, the Japanese demanded that they all be killed!"

Wang Yao was surprised: "Why? Isn't it for the wages? Why do you kill people for such a thing?"

"Hey! How can it be that simple?" Xiao Fei lowered her voice, "There are revolutionaries among those workers, and they beat the Japanese to death!"

"What?" Wang Yao was stunned. "Revolutionary party? They dare to kill the Japanese?" He thought for a while and then asked: "Is it true that all the workers are revolutionary party? I also know a few, and they are all honest people." !"

"You don't understand this, do you? The Japanese never leave troubles behind when they do things, and they don't worry if they don't kill all the troublemakers." Xiaofei pointed her tender hands, "Actually, among the arrested workers, only A revolutionary party, he recruited as soon as he entered, but the Japanese would not let anyone go.” At this point, Xiaofei whispered nervously: “And I heard people say that the revolutionary party has accomplices, and the Japanese intend to Catch them all, so now the prisoner is still left alive, waiting for his accomplices to throw themselves into the trap!"

"Well, that's a good idea!" Ivan said with a smile.

Wang Yao couldn't laugh, he suddenly felt a little bit resentful to the arrested revolutionary party, for having so many innocent people die with him.He resented those Japanese's rampant behavior even more, how could there be a place for reasoning now?

"Oh! It's getting late, I have to start work!" Xiao Fei yelled.It was getting late, and it was time to start work, Wang Yao and Yiwan left knowingly, it is not good to disturb people's business.

Not long after, Xiao Fei, with her jet hair combed and heavy make-up, went out, her water snake-like waist twisted happily in the enchanting red cheongsam.

Ivan and Wang Yao lay on the attic window and looked down. When Xiaofei walked out of the alley and disappeared, Wang Yao asked Iwan, "Iwan, do you think those workers still have a way out?"

"It's hard to say," Ivan said squinting at Wang Yao, "If someone pays for ransom, they should be released. It depends on whether their family members can afford the money."

But for those who carry the labor on the pier, whose family can afford to redeem a person?Moreover, most of them are bachelors with three sticks of chopsticks, and they will die when they die.

"Where is the revolutionary party?" Wang Yao thought of the core figure in the whole disaster.

"I'm afraid he's going to die," Ivan said, "unless his accomplices go to jail, but this should be in the hands of the Japanese." He said with a mysterious smile: "I hope they will make more troubles." Movement and stillness, a logical play is not fun, more surprises are more exciting!"

"This year..." Wang Yao couldn't help sighing.How can I live in peace?

The so-called hard times.