heartstrings

After more than a month, Ke Ruochu followed Sheng Ruqi back home again.I remember the last time she came here, she was so nervous and embarrassed, and she was full of thoughts that she would never get in touch with Sheng Ruqi again.

It can be seen that the plan can never keep up with the changes.

As soon as the door opens.

The room is as clean and bright as ever.

Make people feel comfortable.

The big sweet bean came up to meet him at the first time, sticking to Sheng Ruqi, very unhappy.

Standing next to Sheng Ruqi, Ke Ruochu was still a little apprehensive, but just remembered the skinny mangy dog ​​at night. By comparison, she seemed to have gotten the cuteness of Tiandou, who was so silly.

Sweet Dou probed, a little shy, but wanted to get in touch with Ke Ruochu.

"Tian Dou seems to remember me?" Ke Ruochu looked at Sheng Ruqi and said in surprise.

Sheng Ruqi bent down and rubbed Tiandoudou's head, as if coaxing a child, "Yes, we Tiandoudou are the smartest."

Ke Ruochu looked at Sheng Ruqi's face when she lowered her head and smiled, as if as long as she teased the dog, she would become extraordinarily gentle, a kind of gentleness that would not give people a sense of distance.

"Do you dare to touch him?" Sheng Ruqi remembered that Ke Ruochu said that she had been bitten by a dog, so she was always afraid of dogs.Tonight too, a little stray dog ​​scared her silly.

Ke Ruochu hesitated. Last time she came here, she didn't dare to touch it. The sweet beans are too big. If it is a small dog, maybe she can be more courageous.

"Try." Sheng Ruqi straightened her waist and turned to Ke Ruochu, "Usually, after doing something you're afraid of once, you'll find that it's nothing."

Ke Ruochu understands this truth, the more you run away, the less courage you have, and the less courage you have, the more you run away, it's a vicious circle.

Then, it went on in a daze.

That's how she treats her mother.

Ke Ruochu realized tonight that she should really deal with the problems between her and her mother instead of just avoiding them. Maybe the things that happened tonight were not so bad.

From a not-so-close distance, Ke Ruochu reached out to Tiandou, because Sheng Ruqi was standing beside her, she felt a sense of security, and she was not so afraid in her heart.

Palms rest on a furry head.

Give it a little more kneading.

Don't look at Tiandou's size, but he is actually docile and cute. Ke Ruochu gave him a kiss, and he wagged his tail and twisted his body, acting coquettishly towards Ke Ruochu.

Seeing Tiandou acting coquettishly, Ke Ruochu tried to get closer to him, to be more intimate.Ke Ruochu never thought that when he dared to pet the dog, he would still find it cute.

"Why is it called Tiandou? He is obviously so big." Ke Ruochu has always been curious about this question. When hearing the name Tiandou, most people can only think of cute and soft.

With a bright smile on her face, it seems that the eyes of innocent people are much clearer and more beautiful than ordinary people. Sheng Ruqi stared at Ke Ruochu, and said slowly: "Because a smile is sweet."

"Can he laugh?" Ke Ruochu was dubious and asked seriously.

"Yes." Sheng Ruqi still stared at Ke Ruochu: "It's easy to blush after teasing."

blush easily...

Ke Ruochu was slow to react, knowing that Sheng Ruqi had teased her again, but she seemed willing to let her tease him.Ke Ruochu didn't speak, just looked at Sheng Ruqi and smiled again.

"The room you slept in before Bai Meng, she basically never comes to my place now, it's vacant."

Sheng Ruqi really hoped that Bai Meng could live with her for a long time, and that one more person would at least be able to talk to her, but after the girl fell in love, she completely left her as a sister out of the sky.

Ke Ruochu nodded, she never had any objections.

After taking a shower, it didn't take long to turn off the lights.

Ke Ruochu turned over on the bed more than a dozen times, but couldn't fall asleep all the time. It wasn't because he found the bed in a strange place, but just filled his mind, thinking a lot as soon as he closed his eyes, and feeling bored.

The bedside table lamp was turned on and off by her.

Repeated several times, finally it is still on.

Ke Ruochu hugged a pillow in her arms, leaned against the bed and frowned for a while, opened the quilt and got out of bed, she walked to the French windows and opened some curtains.

The room is on the second floor, just connected to the rooftop.

Anyway, he couldn't sleep, so Ke Ruochu simply opened the window, wanting to go to the rooftop to enjoy some fresh air.

But Ke Ruochu found that the rooftop lights were on.

It turned out that I wasn't the only one who didn't sleep.

She looked around and saw Sheng Ruqi sitting at a long table in a nightgown, with a notebook and an ashtray on the table, with her arms resting on the edge of the table.

Of course, there was still a cigarette in his hand, which was almost finished.

The roof on the second floor was specially designed by Sheng Ruqi. The original intention at the beginning was to facilitate gatherings and lively things. She is a person who can't calm down.

Hear light footsteps.

Sheng Ruqi's eyes moved from the computer screen to her back. Ke Ruochu was wearing her nightgown, and her long hair was loose casually. Looking at it this way, she looked much more mature.

After looking at it, Sheng Ruqi turned around again, and asked, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

Ke Ruochu had already walked in front of Sheng Ruqi.

Sheng Ruqi stared at the files on the computer, and asked again: "Can't sleep?"

"En." Ke Ruochu responded.

After Sheng Ruqi extinguished the cigarette in her hand, she turned her head and looked at Ke Ruochu again: "Why are you standing there stupidly? Sit down."

Ke Ruochu sat down beside Sheng Ruqi, noticed several cigarette butts in the ashtray, and glanced at the computer screen again, it should be some documents from work.

She was still working overtime so late.

Ke Ruochu was full of apologies, and hurriedly apologized to Sheng Ruqi, "Sorry, I delayed your work today."

"No, I couldn't sleep, so I found something to do." Because of insomnia, she found something to do at work to pass the time, which was a common state for her.

Ke Ruochu felt better. She stared at the cigarette butts, couldn't hold back after much deliberation, and asked softly, "Why do you smoke so much?"

Sheng Ruqi: "I just smoked one."

Ke Ruochu reminded seriously, "You've already smoked one before."

Looking at the pair of watery eyes in front of him, Mr. Sheng was at a loss for words, and he didn't know what to refute her, so he said after a while: "Then I won't smoke today."

Two insomniacs were blowing the wind on the roof.

Ke Ruochu looked up at the starry sky from time to time, and from time to time glanced at the people beside her from the corner of her eye. Her slender, white fingers touched the control panel of the notebook lightly, as if she was busy again.

Suddenly, I felt that sitting stupidly beside her seemed quite disturbing.

I wish I had someone to accompany me.

Sheng Ruqi didn't feel disturbed, but liked the feeling of having someone by her side, which was better than being alone, "Don't you want to sleep yet?"

Seeing Ke Ruochu's downcast face, Sheng Ruqi closed her notebook, thinking of something, she got up and said, "Come with me."

Ke Ruochu followed without knowing.

Sheng Ruqi took Ke Ruochu to the study on the second floor.The floor-to-ceiling windows open to the south, facing the lake, with an excellent view.

Ke Ruochu immediately noticed a piano by the window, "You play the piano too?"

"Occasionally."

Sheng Ruqi slid down on the keys with her fingertips, making a series of sounds, remembering that she was really amazed by this girl tonight, since both of them suffered from insomnia, "I can't sleep, why don't I play the piano for my sister?"

"Okay." Ke Ruochu immediately agreed.

Speaking of it, this should be the most proactive time she has ever played the piano.

After Ke Ruochu sat down in front of the piano, he looked back at Sheng Ruqi, "What do you want to hear?"

Sheng Ruqi sat aside, "Anything you want."

Ke Ruochu just casually flipped through the music score, and whatever she found, she didn't have a favorite piece of her own, after all, she had always been resistant to playing the piano.

The melody sounded in a quiet room with a soft prelude.

Sheng Ruqi leaned comfortably on the sofa, propped her head, and listened quietly. She had thought that Ke Ruochu would be much happier when she played the piano, but it turned out not to be the case, as if something was on her mind.

Just one song.

"Why do you want to learn piano?" Sheng Ruqi asked.

Ke Ruochu flipped through the music score again, and said in a low voice, absent-minded: "My mother likes it. She always wanted to learn it but had no chance, so she let me learn it."

After a pause...

"When I was young, my mother would let me play the piano for her when she was in a bad mood. However, if I played badly, she would get angry again. Later, I didn't want to make her angry, so I started practicing the piano every day." Ke Ruochu started to play the music score again, and narrated while playing.

For some reason, it seems that the desire to talk tonight is particularly strong, and Sheng Ruqi didn't ask her so much.

Ke Ruochu said these words with a faint smile, and accompanied by the cheerful melody, it was as if the clouds were calm and the wind was light, but Sheng Ruqi could hear something else, and when her mother was mentioned, her mood was obviously much depressed.

Some things that happen when you are young often leave an indelible impact long afterward.

"I didn't like studying medicine at the beginning, but my mother planned it for me, and then I learned it..." Ke Ruochu stopped talking, feeling that she was going too far, why did she tell Sheng Ruqi these things? .

He bowed his head and played the piano quietly.

Sheng Ruqi walked up to Ke Ruochu, sat down, squinted at her, and asked, "Have you ever thought about what you like?"

"I don't know..." Ke Ruchu really couldn't answer this question. She was distracted for a while and the rhythm was messed up. She looked at Sheng Ruqi and asked with a smile, "Sister, do you think I'm very independent... very useless ?”

Self-deprecating smile.

Because that's how she feels in her heart, she doesn't even know what she likes, and every day is like living for others.

Sheng Ruqi stared at her for a moment, but she just replied softly: "You don't have to play if you don't like it, and you don't have to wrong yourself for everything."

Ke Ruochu looked at her, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.Why can she speak her heart in every word.

Sheng Ruqi lowered her eyes, tapped the keys twice, and made two crisp sounds, "One has to be selfish to be happy."

Selfishness is the only way to be happy. It was the first time Ke Ruochu was taught to be "selfish" in life. She was really special.

Sheng Ruqi raised her hand, casually flipped through a few pages of music scores, and said, "I'll play, if you can't play well, teach me."

"I..." Although Ke Ruochu has played the piano for many years, he dare not teach others easily.To put it mildly, her temperament is modest, but to put it badly, she is a bit inferior.

It had already begun, Ke Ruochu held back what he hadn't finished speaking, and immediately kept quiet.

A pair of slender hands lined up on the black and white keys are more delicate and beautiful, the fingering is proficient, the movements are elegant, and there are almost no flaws. Ke Ruochu wants to say that she is too modest, and she needs to teach herself.

Ke Ruochu silently stared at Sheng Ruqi's hands, and sighed in his heart, indeed, a person with good-looking hands is very eye-catching, whether he is smoking or playing the piano.

With the melody in his heart, Ke Ruochu's mood also became calm, as if he would listen to her play all night.

There was also a score for four-handed playing on the music score. The two of them didn't say anything, but after one of them looked at each other, they reached a tacit understanding, and both hands covered the keys almost at the same time.

Sheng Ruqi turned her head away: "It started?"

Ke Ruochu concentrated: "Yes!"

Sheng Ruqi started the tune first.

Ke Ruochu followed.

It is a tune that is so familiar that it can no longer be familiar.

Ke Ruochu pressed the keys seriously, and as the rhythm became lighter and lighter, the little fingers of the two would occasionally rub together inadvertently. Every time they touched each other, Ke Ruochu felt a little embarrassed for no reason.Slowly, she couldn't help but smile on her face, which never faded away.

Obviously it was "Canon in D Major" that she had vomited since she was a child, but she played it tonight... She actually found it very interesting, and even wanted to play it a little longer.

Maybe she didn't hate playing the piano itself, but hated her mother's meticulous arrangements for her, and even more hated herself but couldn't change anything.

Right now, Ke Ruochu chooses not to think about anything, let go, and just enjoy the fun of combo bombing.

Never been so happy.

The fingers of the two continued to walk on the black and white keys tacitly, and the cheerful and fresh melody surrounded their ears.Sheng Ruqi tilted her head to catch a glimpse of the dimples on the corners of the girl's mouth when she lowered her head and smiled, then lowered her head too, and smiled while playing the piano.

Tonight is a rare and not boring night.

Before I knew it, the night was already deep.

If it wasn't for this single-family villa, the two of them played the piano enthusiastically in the middle of the night, and they would have been reported for disturbing the people.

After the end, Sheng Ruqi teased, "Take me with you for the next performance, I think we have a good understanding."

"Okay." Ke Ruochu repeatedly agreed, and after nodding, she realized that she was just joking with herself.

Sheng Ruqi touched her neck, feeling a little itchy, "It's late, go to bed."

Ke Ruochu saw many mosquito bites on Sheng Ruqi's neck, and she touched it several times, because her skin was too white, so it was particularly eye-catching.

"Wait for me." After speaking, Ke Ruochu got up in a hurry, ran back to his room, and fumbled for something in his bag.

A minute later, Sheng Ruqi saw that Ke Ruochu had returned with an ointment in his hand.

"I'm often bitten by mosquitoes too, and it's much better if I just wipe this." Ke Ruochu squeezed out some ointment on his fingertips, and first lowered his head to apply a little bit on the mosquito bag on Sheng Ruqi's arm.

Ke Ruochu's eyes were focused, his movements were light and careful, and he didn't miss a single thing.

In a daze, Sheng Ruqi also looked at it seriously, and she actually found the feeling of being cared for by someone in a girl ten years younger than herself...

On the neck and back of the neck.

When Ke Ruochu was about to brush away the other party's long hair, she raised her eyes to look at Sheng Ruqi, her hands were hanging in the air, she wanted to reach out and then retracted.

Realize that this action is too intimate.

After hesitating for a second or two, Ke Ruochu still hooked Sheng Ruqi's fluffy hair with his hands, and gently brushed it aside for her.

After doing this action, Ke Ruochu found that she was more intimate than she imagined, so she felt embarrassed, she immediately lowered her head and squeezed some ointment on her fingertips to divert her attention.

Sheng Ruqi didn't speak, she just stared at Ke Ruochu's face, the more she looked, the more she couldn't move her eyes away.Some distracted.

"There are also..." Ke Ruochu didn't notice that she was being stared at all the time, otherwise she would be embarrassed, she concentrated on lighting the ointment, and continued to lightly dab it on Sheng Ruqi's neck.

The neck is cool, with a little mint and rose scent.

It smells good.

It's just that Sheng Ruqi's collarbone and neck are sensitive areas. It just so happens that Ke Ruochu's wrist rubs against her collarbone from time to time, and his fingers are rubbed with ointment on her neck...

Let her touch it like this again.

My neck doesn't itch anymore, but...

Soon.

Sheng Ruqi took the ointment from Ke Ruochu's hand, not letting him touch it again: "I'll do it myself."

"Well," Ke Ruochu raised his head, just like a piece of wood, typical provocative without knowing it, and asked Sheng Ruqi with a simple smile, "Do you feel better?"

"It's better, you go to bed."

"You go to bed earlier too."

After Ke Ruochu left, Sheng Ruqi touched her neck again, sat in the study for a while, then got up and went back to her room.

Ke Ruochu gets up very early, she has a biological clock in her body, so she is destined not to stay in bed, let alone staying at someone else's house.

Sheng Ruqi also got up early, but when she changed her clothes and went downstairs, she found Ke Ruochu playing with Tiandou in the living room.Yesterday I was afraid of becoming like that, but today I am familiar with it.

"Morning sister."

After Sheng Ruqi walked up to Ke Ruochu, she handed her something, "Take it."

Ke Ruochu recognized at a glance that it was the necklace that she had dropped, and she had asked Sheng Ruqi to throw it away for her.

"It's better to handle it yourself."

Ke Ruochu took it, "Yes."

Sheng Ruqi saw that Tiandou and Ke Ruochu were having fun, and that Tiandou kept pestering her, so she asked, "I'll take Tiandou out for a walk, shall we go together?"

"Okay~"

After going out, there is a road around the lake within a few steps. It is very convenient to walk the dog. Sheng Ruqi led Tiandou, and the two walked leisurely side by side.

The wind in the summer morning was warm and comfortable, and the two slowed down by the railing along the lake.

Just in time for the sunrise by the lake, it is beautiful.

However, Ke Ruochu selfishly felt that the people around her were prettier, so she would sneak a few glances from time to time along the way.

She didn't go to the office this weekend, Sheng Ruqi dressed casually, with a slightly tight top that hooked her curves, and a pair of loose and casual trousers, which made her waist look slimmer and her legs longer, with perfect proportions.

"Sister, do you bring sweet beans out at this time every day?" Ke Ruochu asked.

Sheng Ruqi flicked her hair that was blown away by the wind, "Take him out for a walk on weekends, and leave it to others at ordinary times."

Ke Ruochu thinks about it, too. I heard from Bai Meng that her sister has her own company to take care of, so she must be busy, so she doesn't have time to walk the dog every day.

The sun grew brighter and hotter.

After standing for a while, Ke Ruochu took out the previous necklace from her bag and looked at it. She directly raised her hand and threw the necklace into the lake. There was no ripple on the sparkling lake surface, and it just disappeared without a trace.

Throw it away, let it go.

"Are you willing to forget her?" Sheng Ruqi saw that Ke Ruochu threw the necklace decisively, without the slightest nostalgia. She heard Ke Ruochu mention that the necklace was going to be given to the person she had a crush on before.

For the first time, Ke Ruochu raised his head and said freely, leaving aside his humbleness: "I don't like her anymore."

"I'm enlightened, that's how it should be." Sheng Ruqi leaned against the railing, quietly looking at Ke Ruochu's side face, the corners of the girl's mouth were raised, and the smile under the morning light was full of vigor.She thinks this idiot is a treasure, and it is worth meeting someone who likes her wholeheartedly and treats her well, instead of being a fool at the best age.

"Sister," Ke Ruochu recalled their chat that night at night, she suddenly turned her head and asked Sheng Ruqi, "Have you ever had a crush on someone else?"

Sheng Ruqi was quiet for a while: "Yes."

A relaxed, nonchalant tone.

Ke Ruochu finds it unbelievable. She always feels that someone else has a crush on her, and she is so good at teasing...does she also have a crush on others?

"Why, don't I look like it?" Sheng Ruqi asked Ke Ruochu back, as if she could read minds.

Ke Ruochu still wanted to hear something about her, but Sheng Ruqi didn't say anything more, she just said that the sun was too hot, let's go back.

September, the end of summer.

School starts.

Ke Ruochu also got his wish and moved back to the school dormitory, but his life was still a mess as before.

The relationship between her and Yuan Luzhi is often in a state of "cold war", because she no longer obeys her mother's orders.

Yuan Luzhi was naturally very annoyed, always saying that the older she was, the less sensible she became.

In the second year of graduate school, I was even busier with my studies.

In addition, Ke Ruochu went to the "purgatory on earth" - the emergency department. Apart from the full study and work, she basically had no time for herself and was under a lot of pressure.

On weekends, after get off work.

The sun went down, and night fell.

Ke Ruochu walked slowly along the road around the lake by himself, looking around habitually from time to time, but he still didn't see any familiar figure.

It's been more than half a month.

Every weekend, Ke Ruochu would take the subway for several stops from school to walk around Huanhu Road, just to relax.In fact, I secretly hoped to "encounter" her with a certain fluke mentality.

Sheng Ruqi said before that she would walk Tiandou in this area on weekends.

Lying beside the railing, Ke Ruochu quietly blew the lake breeze.

After that night, Ke Ruochu began to have an inexplicable sense of dependence on Sheng Ruqi, and felt that when he was with her, he could escape from his bad life for a short time, and would be much less unhappy.

Therefore, Ke Ruochu often came to take a walk by the lake.

What if it happens?

She is not your own sister, how can she always accompany you, Ke Ruochu complained to himself more than once in his heart.She suddenly envied Bai Meng for having such a big sister.

Ke Ruochu is a person who is not good at taking the initiative.

In other words, sullen and cowardly.It makes sense that she doesn't have many friends. Generally speaking, she won't talk to others without talking to her first, let alone ask someone out.

The same is true for Sheng Ruqi.

The last time she called Sheng Ruqi, she just thought she owed him a meal.

Although he didn't take the initiative to contact Sheng Ruqi, Ke Ruochu didn't know how much he wanted to receive a call from the other party, and wanted to hear her say to himself in a teasing tone, "Do you miss my sister? Do you want to have dinner together?"

I started thinking about something...

Ke Ruochu came back to his senses and found that it was past nine o'clock.

Feeling empty in his stomach, Ke Ruochu remembered that he was so busy today that he forgot to eat dinner, and turned around to go back, but when he crossed the road, he didn't see a battery car rushing out of the corner.

Got scratched badly by a car.

Fell to the ground.

The palms of his hands on the ground were numb and painful, Ke Ruochu opened his palms to look, and sure enough, a large piece of skin was scratched, and blood oozes out, with some gravel and dust mixed in.

Sure enough, you must not think about things when crossing the road.

Ke Ruochu blew on his palms, and when he was about to get up silently, he heard a sound of dog snorting.

She turned to look.

It turned out to be sweet beans...

Sweet Bean's mouth is slightly open, and it really looks like it can laugh.

"What are you thinking, walking so carelessly?" Familiar voice and tone.

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Sheng Hooligan who feels that he can't do anything to Little White Rabbit but can't help caring about his wife, and Ke Baitu who likes his sister but loves her to death

One more chapter first, and another chapter tonight.