They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes

Two days ago, Ming Lu actually found that guitar.

The craftsman of the luthier is very good. There is almost no waste of wood on the surfboard, and they are skillfully embedded into the body of the violin according to the arc.It's just been thrown in the corner of the storage room for ten years. The guitar case has been unglued and disintegrated, the strings are full of rust, and the tone has become soft and dull.

Fortunately, the seaside is not too dry, and the deformation and cracking of the panels are not serious.Ming Lu sent someone to a professional technician to repair it, and replaced it with new strings. The repaired guitar is now placed in Luo Chi's room.

The reason why I didn't tell Luo Chi immediately... was because I didn't know how to explain this matter to him.

Now Luo Chi doesn't remember that Aunt Ren has passed away.

"Sir." Ming Lu said in a low voice, "I asked Xun Zhen, and he also thinks...it's better not to talk about it."

Ming Weiting slowed down his strength, carefully lifted Luo Chi's head and neck, and took a soft pillow under it.

Luo Chi's breathing was fairly steady, but he seemed to be asleep and still had something on his mind. He curled up on the sofa, frowning unconsciously.

Ming Lu hesitated for a while, and tried to ask: "Madam Ren is on a business trip? There is an important business that needs to be discussed with her in person, and she won't be able to come back for the time being..."

"He's so uncomfortable." Ming Weiting said in a low voice, "Why doesn't Mrs. Ren come?"

Ming Lu was stunned for a moment, and then he also realized that this kind of statement obviously cannot stand scrutiny at all.

Luo Chengxiu would have thrown his injured son, who had just been found, to the hospital, and spent three months abroad to negotiate business... But it would have been impossible for Ren Shuangmei to do so anyway.

Luo Chi's illness was not as simple as breaking his leg.He himself would not have been unaware, nor could he be completely unaware of his physical condition.

Xun Zhen came to see that the effect of Luo Chi's recuperation these days is better than expected, and he can start preparing for surgery in one to two weeks after recuperation.At that time, I will have to go back to the hospital for a lot of examinations, and the medicines used will be more irritating to the body.

If Ren Shuangmei was still there, even the most important business would be thrown aside by her, and she would rush back to accompany Luo Chi herself.

There is no sound logic in it to explain the past.

Even if he doesn't remember too many things, Luo Chi is actually very smart and sensitive, and will not blindly accept all the information without any doubts... Luo Chi may have discovered that Mr. Shadow and Uncle Lu have something to hide from him, I don't know how to speak to him.

Probably because of this awareness, Luo Chi suddenly remembered the game of truth or dare, and pulled them to play together.

But to be honest...

Ming Lu stood where he was, in a dilemma after all: "Sir, Huo Miao has only been happy for a few days."

Now this childish and carefree Luo Chi is certainly not complete, but Luo Chi is taking care of his body, so it is very important to maintain a relaxed and happy mood.

Besides, Ming Lu couldn't help but think that Luo Chi's life in the past was too hard.It's what it should be if you can play happily for a while without worrying about anything.

Ming Weiting didn't speak, but brushed Luo Chi's forehead hair aside, and touched his forehead with the back of his hand.

He intended to see if Luo Chi had a fever or night sweats, but he suddenly noticed something, bent his shoulders and said softly, "Huomiao?"

Ming Lu was stunned for a moment, and looked over in astonishment.

The medicine that Luo Chi took at night contained a strong sleeping ingredient, and it was difficult to wake up after a deep sleep.He had already taken the medicine tonight, he should have been very sleepy long ago, and Ming Weiting took him to rest.

Ming Lu was about to go quickly, but when he saw Ming Weiting shook his head slightly, he stopped again.

Ming Weiting raised his hand, covering Luo Chi's eyes.

Luo Chi closed his eyes, quietly curled up on the sofa, motionless and silent, his eyelashes trembling silently in his palm.

Ming Weiting waited until the faint trembling stopped, then moved his palms, carried Luo Chi out of the sofa, and stood up.

He silently shook his head at Minglu, and left the living room with Luo Chi in his arms.

Walking up the stairs to the second floor, Ming Weiting put his arms around Luo Chi's shoulders, let him lean against him, and slowly patted the thin back in his arms.

Luo Chi will not be unaware.The changes in this villa, Luo Chi's own physical condition, Aunt Ren has not come back after waiting for so long... The answer is actually not difficult to find, but after finding the answer, how to try to believe and accept it.

Luo Chi still has a lot of regrets about this matter.

He failed to see Aunt Ren's last side, failed to fulfill Aunt Ren's last wish, sprinkled the ashes into the sea to travel around the world, and failed to tell Aunt Ren in time that he wanted to be a family with her so much in his dreams.

Because of these, Luo Chi always felt guilty and tied himself to Aunt Ren's tomb.This is the real reason why he never left here.

Luo Chi was worried that Aunt Ren would feel bored sleeping alone in that cold and luxurious cemetery without anyone to talk to.

Aunt Ren likes excitement, excitement and stimulation so much, how can she stand boredom.

……

Ming Lu followed up lightly and pushed open the door of the bedroom on the second floor.

He watched Ming Weiting put Luo Chi on the bed, then went to skillfully put the pillows and arrange the quilt, then turned on the ambient light under the bed, quietly exited the room and closed the door.

Ming Weiting covered up the quilt and sat on the edge of the bed.

The lighting in the bedroom is dim and soft, and the visual effect is very comfortable.

The terrace does have a good view, and it is quite spacious. The moonlight dyes half of the floor tiles into silvery white.The light coming in from the window fell on the carpet and extended to the edge of the piano stand.

The room was exceptionally quiet, and I could hear the sound of the waves not far away just by sitting by the bed.

Ming Weiting sat for a while, stretched out his hand and stroked Luo Chi's hair lightly: "Huomiao."

Before Uncle Lu returned to the villa, he had chosen a big adventure because he couldn't answer a question, promising to find a peach-flavored candy for Luo Chi tomorrow.

In fact, there was nothing special about that question, Luo Chi just wanted him to talk about something that happened before.

……

As for the reason why he couldn't answer, it was just that Ming Weiting didn't make preparations in advance.

In fact, he was not good at chatting at all, let alone talking about himself, and he couldn't find anything suitable to say for a while, and he could describe what happened without careful wording.

Ming Weiting put his hand over Luo Chi's eyes again, this time the eyelashes in his palm were very quiet, and he couldn't feel any movement.

"Five years ago." Ming Weiting said, "My father passed away."

Ming Weiting was silent for a while, and continued: "During that time, I didn't know what it was like."

The Ming family is distantly related, and Ming Weiting was brought up by Ming Lu. He doesn't remember any warm memories related to his family, but there is also no conflict or harm.

The previous generation of the Ming family passed away unexpectedly in a shipwreck, and the situation was very chaotic at that time.For the next three years or so, I will basically be busy with this matter, and I don't have much spare time for people to think about it.

But even so, Ming Weiting would still think of the bewilderment he felt when he first heard the news when he suddenly realized it when sitting down occasionally.

Sadness and longing will only come later, and the initial feeling is just a loss.

People with close connections suddenly disappear, and they will never be found again, and suddenly there is a strong loss of not knowing which direction to go.

So even if it was far from empathetic, he could still imagine why Luo Chi didn't cry at Mrs. Ren's funeral.

"I met you ten years ago." Ming Weiting stroked Luo Chi's hair, "I didn't get off the boat to look for you at that time because I was thinking, how could there be such a cool fire, no one would You shouldn't bother him."

He didn't know that Luo Chi didn't know this himself, so he wrote down the cool word and repeated it to the other party.

The Ming family has been living on the cruise ship, and occasionally disembarks to go to the island for vacation.No matter how luxurious a cruise ship is, there are always boundaries, and no matter how big an island is, it is surrounded by water. Those boundaries should not be used to trap the fire.

"I regret it because of it."

Ming Weiting said, "I just thought there should be no boundaries, but you lost your home that year."

Luo Chi's eyes were covered by him, and his chest didn't move at the last word, as if this body suddenly forgot to breathe.

Ming Weiting didn't move that hand away.

He noticed that Luo Chi was shaking his head.

Maybe it was because the fog was too far away from the outside, or maybe the medicine he took had already taken effect, the strength Luo Chi could muster was too weak, and the strength of shaking his head was almost undetectable.

But Luo Chi was still shaking his head stubbornly, unwilling to give him even a little bit of responsibility.

So Ming Weiting also changed his words: "...But."

He noticed that Luo Chi stopped to listen, so he continued: "However, based on what I would do at that time, if I got off the boat, I would probably knock on the door and invite you to be a member of the Ming family."

The Ming family has always been like this. Blood relationship doesn't really matter. When they see talented people, they will invite them to join.Uncle Lu was the doorman of the hotel back then. He was invited by his grandfather to board the boat when he was a teenager. It has been nearly sixty years of ups and downs.

He would choose not to get off the boat too early, Luo Chi was probably already fast asleep at that time, it was probably Aunt Ren who came to open the door and met an unexpected guest who came late at night to change Huo Miao's surname.

"Then," Ming Weiting imitated him, "Auntie will throw me out with a broom."

Luo Chi coughed.

Ming Weiting saw Luo Chi's mouth suddenly pursed, and his heart suddenly warmed up.

He didn't know the origin of this warmth, and he felt the air from his eyelashes gently scraping his palm, so he moved his hand away.

The light in the room would not irritate the sight, Luo Chi opened his eyes and saw him at a glance.

Mingwei Pavilion met Luo Chi's gaze.

……

It's different from these days, Luo Chi is not without troubles and remembers nothing, but he is not separated by fog.

Luo Chi's eyes were quiet and clear, because of his assumption just now, those eyes were bent a little, and there was no moisture.

Ming Weiting called him in a low voice: "Huomiao."

Luo Chi's eyes were even more bent. He looked at Mr. Shadow, and wanted to mobilize his energy to speak, but Ming Weiting pressed his wrist lightly: "Listen to me."

Ming Weiting has been studying together day and night these days, and finally gradually understands Luo Chi's thoughts and feelings.He touched Luo Chi's eyelashes, and when he saw Luo Chi blinking, his heart relaxed and his expression softened.

He thought of the 13-year-old Luo Chi, who alone supported Aunt Ren's spirit, returned gifts to the guests, and was Aunt Ren's child alone.

Luo Chi would never cry at that time, not only because of the intense blankness that left him alone for a moment, but also because Luo Chi would never let Aunt Ren worry.

On the day when the conch was found missing, Luo Chi learned how to hide a part of himself without a teacher.

Luo Chi lost his home overnight, was no longer protected by anyone, and no one taught him what to do, so this became the only way for him not to worry Aunt Ren.

In the middle of the night when he was sent out, he was almost suffocated by the unbelievable bad news, and he could only endure the bone-biting pain by biting his arm, so he was stuffed into the safest place and hidden in an airtight manner. ten years.

"I won't worry Auntie." Ming Weiting said softly, "Let's hide."

Luo Chi blinked and raised his head curiously.

Ming Weiting hugged his shoulders and picked him up from the lying flat position.

This time Luo Chi tried his best to cooperate with his movements, but the strength he could use was too weak after all, so he had to hold his arm to stabilize himself on the head of the bed.

Ming Weiting helped him to sit steadily, then stood up, and took off his coat from the hanger.

This coat was specially brought up by Ming Lu and placed in the room.Ming Weiting didn't have the habit of using perfume, and he didn't touch cigarettes after he started taking care of Luo Chi, and there was no special smell on it.

Ming Weiting returned to the bed, he covered Luo Chi with his coat.

Luo Chi was taken aback by the sudden darkness.

In fact, he was not used to this kind of darkness where he could not detect the outside world, and the dormant anxiety spread silently.Luo Chi's breathing was a little short, and he couldn't help but want to leave immediately.

But the next moment, someone penetrated the darkness and hugged him firmly again.

Ming Weiting would hug him, probably because Luo Chi was inconvenient to move, or his body was too weak and he really had no strength.

Because it is to take care of people, Ming Weiting carefully grasps the strength every time, and pays special attention to the position of the force, so as not to let Luo Chi hang in the air or be crushed.

The strength this time was different from the previous ones, Luo Chi was almost completely restrained by that strength.

He was almost restrained by that kind of force so that he couldn't move at all, or it wasn't for this purpose, the other party was holding him tightly, and the force was to drag him out of something——

Luo Chi coughed loudly.He was sitting in the newly renovated bedroom of the villa—of course he knew very well that the villa had been renovated, and he knew very well that this was not the sea-watching villa he was familiar with—he was sitting in the bedroom, but he seemed to be taken from a It was dragged abruptly out of the pitch-black sea of ​​ice.

He thought he was dead, and then forcefully dragged him upstream.

He was dragged down by the sea, but someone insisted on him going up.

Luo Chi coughed uncontrollably, he was no longer in a hurry to get out of the coat, he fumbled through the coat to the arm that was dragging him up.

He squeezed the strength out of his bones and sent it all to that hand.

"Huomiao." Ming Weiting said, "People will not be trapped by a tomb."

Luo Chi held his arm.

"The Ming family has been at sea for generations. Some people were sent to land, and some were sprinkled into the sea. After death, people are free, and they will become wind, clouds, and waves."

Ming Weiting said: "Because anything is possible, there is a hypothesis."

"There is a hypothesis that Auntie turned into a sea wave and found the lost conch."

"The ocean currents on the bottom of the sea can only go in a certain direction, and cannot turn around. It is not fast to carry conch."

"That fan is very bad, always running around."

"Missed many times and took many years."

Ming Weiting is not good at telling stories at all, especially this kind of unprepared content, he will stop after saying a sentence, and then continue to speak.

"One day, my aunt finally found this fan. Tired and angry, she rolled up a conch and threw it out."

Ming Weiting thought for a while: "It hit this fan's head."

Luo Chi coughed and laughed in his arms.

Luo Chi laughed and trembled all over, his breathing became more and more rapid, and the hand holding Ming Weiting's arm also began to tremble slightly.

Little by little, he curled up and slowly hid himself in the coat.

"Then." Ming Weiting whispered, "I picked it up."

That day Luo Chi just remembered about the conch, Ming Lu reminded him, Ming Weiting once gave this answer - he didn't know the contents of the conch at the time, just to appease Luo Chi, so that answer can't really count .

But after that day, Luo Chi didn't ask him again.

Luo Chi didn't ask him, so he had to make up his own story and give the answer himself.

Ming Weiting hides him with his coat, so that Aunt Ren will not be sad when he sees Huo Miao.

Ming Weiting spoke the answer slowly next to Luo Chi's left ear through his coat.

"I found it." Ming Weiting said, "That's why I came to pick you up."

"Now."

Ming Weiting asked softly: "I have this honor. Shall I invite you home?"