Pilot

At almost nine o'clock in the morning, Sheng Xia knocked on Shi Ye's room door, carrying bait and soy milk, and called him to get up.

They finished breakfast together.Sheng Xia said that he wanted to invite Shi Ye to his house for dinner. His birthday is today, and his mother will cook a lot of delicious food.

Shi Ye didn't really want to go, saying that he didn't want to go out today, so he wanted to stay in the room and play the piano.Sheng Xia said that I also thought about it, so let’s go to my house and have more musical instruments.

Shi Ye thought to himself, it seems a bit strange for people to keep refusing to celebrate their birthdays, so they agreed.At noon, they went to a very old shop outside the ancient city to drink rice noodles, and watched the proprietress quarrel with the boss.Shi Ye didn't finish his meal, he ordered too many snacks, and when he paid, the boss rolled his eyes at him, saying that his eyes were big and his stomach was small, wasting food, and Sheng Xia was laughing beside him.

It was a very nice day, hot and windless.

It has been a long time since Shi Ye had dinner with his elders.

The picture of eating with the family is very long in my memory.At that time, his family always had a lively meal, his father would always bring his colleagues back, and his mother had many friends.When eating, Shi Ye was on his mother's lap at first, and then he would be carried on other people's laps non-stop. Those uncles and aunts took turns to feed him, and they would buy him snacks and fruits when they came to the house.

Zhao Jie said, "Mr. Shi, eat more."

"Just call me for an hour."

"Okay, hour." Zhao Jie smiled impeccably, "I should have thought of you that day. Before Shengxia told me that there was a very good guitarist at home, but I was not at home a few days ago, so I missed it."

Ye actually sat on pins and needles during that meal, feeling uncomfortable all over.Everything Zhao Jie said to him seemed to be fine, but Shi Ye always felt that the other party cared about something, and seemed to see through everything.Maybe it was his delusion?Delusion at best.

Zhao Jie asked, "When will Xiao Xiao leave?"

Shi Ye scraped the vegetables that Sheng Xia had given him to the side, and said, "I haven't figured it out yet."

"It's better to plan things early." Zhao Jie said, "You young people always think about the past and ignore the future, and don't think about things thoroughly. When you are young, would you like some wine?"

Shi Ye said yes, so Zhao Jie asked Sheng Xia to bring over the fruit wine made at home, and poured each other a glass, but only gave Sheng Xia a drink.

When toasting, Zhao Jie said: "Midsummer, Mom sometimes feels sorry for you. You didn't have many friends when you were young, and I was busy, so I didn't have much time to accompany you. Just miss it like this, and you have grown up too. Eight. I will be an adult in the future, and my mother hopes that you will be a good person. I don’t ask you to become a very powerful person. As long as you don’t hurt others, you can be safe and healthy. Happy birthday.”

Shi Ye also said, "Happy birthday."

Happy birthday, Shi Ye repeated in his heart.Sheng Xia lowered his eyes and talked to his mother, looking very obedient.They talked about the college entrance examination, about their grades, about who and who next door went abroad, studied in prestigious universities, and got scholarships.Talk about things that are far away from Shi Ye's life, things that Shi Ye can't interrupt.

After eating, Zhao Jie said to check the score.Sheng Xia is not happy, saying that today is my birthday, can't you make me happy for a day.

Zhao Jie said: "No matter how much you take the exam, I feel very happy. At least we have passed the college entrance examination, and you have persisted. Mom is happy for you. It doesn't matter how much you take the exam. The important thing is that you finish the exam." , we want to have a result, we need to see the result.”

Sheng Xia didn't even raise her eyelids: "According to this logic, it doesn't matter how many exams you take."

Seeing Zhao Jie's helpless expression, Shi Ye persuaded Sheng Xia: "Check it out, I'm quite curious, the college entrance examination, check the score or something."

Sheng Xia puffed up his face, sighed inwardly, and then slowly went upstairs to get his admission ticket, took out his mobile phone and checked the sub-network slowly, entered information slowly, slowly Click to query.

Discussion: What kind of experience is it to check the college entrance examination scores in front of idols?A: I really want to die.

Zhao Jie and Shi Ye poked their heads around and looked at the phone interface, but they couldn't get in after being stuck for a long time.Sheng Xia was very proud: "Look, I can't get in. The website must be very crowded today, let's talk about it tomorrow."

Shi Ye was a little unbelieving, so he simply took Sheng Xia's phone over, logged out and re-entered it for him, and clicked query again.

Zhao Jie and Sheng Xia watched him move.It's strange, it's obviously nothing to do with him, but Shi Ye is looked a little nervous instead.The college entrance examination, grades, university, things so far away from him, things he has never experienced... At this moment, he has a real feeling that this is indeed a very important thing, for others, for a family explain.

The page stuck for a while, and the screen remained blank.During those few seconds, Ye's mind was also blank. The three of them were quietly staring at their phones, and the atmosphere became tense for no reason.

Sheng Xia reluctantly said: "...Don't check it, it can't be found out."

The results page jumped out in the next second.

Name: Midsummer

Candidate number: xxxxxxxxxxxx

Admission ticket number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Language: 79

Math: 112

Foreign language: 128

Comprehensive Science: 181

Total score: 500

This score was an accident in Zhao Jie's accident. She jumped up happily: "My son! You are too competitive, son! 500, son!"

Estimated score has been only around 450.

Shi Ye's reaction was probably the most confusing of the three: "...you are a science student?!"

Sheng Xia: "...doesn't it look like it?"

Shi Ye thought to himself, what if the good grades are not good?And Sheng Xia doesn't look like someone who can take 112 in math? ?

He was shocked in his heart, and asked questions like a cannonball: "Why are you so poor in Chinese? You didn't pass, didn't you all say Chinese is the easiest? Why are you only 79?"

Sheng Xia: "...I don't like writing essays."

Shi Ye poked his finger at the phone: "You will pass the test with a few more points, two digits, don't you think it's ugly?"

Sheng Xia: "There are some things I can't help..."

Shi Ye: "The perfect score is 150, right? Did you not finish all the questions?"

Zhao Jie: "...Well, when I was young, in fact, his grades are not bad, he is the one who is at the bottom of their class..."

Shi Ye frowned, and continued to say: "Isn't Chinese very simple? Why can't you even pass it?"

Sheng Xia's face was full of ellipses, very unconvinced, "It's really difficult! I can't understand it! Teacher Shi Ye, why don't you praise me for my math test of 112!"

"Why do you say you did well in the exam? Can't you face up to your shortcomings? You can't even learn Chinese well. Don't you think it's funny to say it?"

"People always have things they are not good at..."

"People always have to be brave enough to face their own shortcomings. Look at you, you failed."

Zhao Jie: "...Well, let's eat first."

Zhao Jie was obviously very happy, and she was a little absent-minded when eating, and she kept calling her relatives and friends to spread the score of Shengxia.After dinner, a friend of Zhao Jie came to talk to her about sending Pu'er to Anhui next season.Taking advantage of Zhao Jie's greetings with others, Sheng Xia quietly took half a bottle of fruit wine and the cake he ate two bites of, and went back to his room with Shi Ye.

That was Shi Ye's first time entering Sheng Xia's room.After seeing this room, Shi Ye understood why he had to set aside an empty room to store things, because Shengxia's musical instruments were really much more than he imagined, and this room was piled up everywhere.Sheng Xia said that this is where he usually sleeps and does his homework, and he only goes to the small attic when he relaxes.

The most special is the midsummer bed.It is made of wood, and there is a piano beside the bed, which is a disassembled piano.

Shi Ye smiled when he saw it: "Like Freddie?" Sheng Xia nodded.

"Think it's fun?" Shi Ye stepped forward and tried a few notes, and it was accurate, "Freddie was living in a rented apartment because he was very poor, and he and Mary slept on the bed, the room was small, and the piano was next to it. The pictures in the film are beautified, but the reality is certainly not so romantic."

"It's not for romance, but sometimes I lie down and just want to touch the piano."

There is also a record player next to Midsummer's bed, and there is a vinyl in it.Next to the record player is a good-looking radio, and there are several tapes in the drawer, the top one is Faye Wong's.

Shi Ye turned on the record player and played a song by Red Pepper.

Good songs can also easily make people feel better.Shi Ye listened to the melody and said, "I quite like the guitarist of Red Pepper. Let me test you? How many notes?"

Sheng Xia sat on the head of the bed and said just come.

"Find the chords?"

Sheng Xia laughed: "This is too simple."

He knelt down on the bed, and began to match the chords with the piano along with the singing and the guitar, and said while playing: "This... one inversion of G, three inversions of A and D, and no inversion of A."

Shi Ye sat next to the record player, at first he just watched, then he picked up the guitar next to him, he played, and Sheng Xia sang.

When they are tired of singing, they talk about their favorite songs and bands.

Sheng Xia said: "Teacher Shi Ye, I still remember watching your video and you commenting on those bands."

Shi Ye said, "Oh, my black history."

It is indeed black history.At that time, Shi Ye spoke freely, saying that Guns and Flowers were not the mainstream, talking about the empress, saying that Nirvana was too crazy, talking about this and that.

"That's what I mean." Shi Ye was not at all embarrassed, "Did I also mention your favorite band?"

Sheng Xia smiled: "No, I only like Pilots. You don't seem to have said that your band is bad."

Shi Ye also followed him with a smile: "Then I'll tell you now. The current pilots are like a supermarket discount buy one get one free, a garbage band that is about to expire. The singer is a dick, and the guitarist plays it." The guitar is getting softer and softer, and the bass player is on tour. The only thing that is stable is our drummer Xiao Xiang. A woman holds up half the sky, but she fell in love some time ago and told me that she intends to get married and have children to live a happy life Life."

Sheng Xia took out his notebook from the shoulder bag next to him and said, "Mr. Shi Ye, don't be discouraged. When your throat was uncomfortable before, I really wanted to write you a letter or something to encourage you. Write it down in the notebook." I did. I didn’t want to go to school for a while in my third year of high school. At that time, I had exams every day, and I hated writing Chinese papers. Every time I couldn’t write in the exam, I wrote lyrics and scores. The teacher criticized me every day. Later, in order to force myself to study hard Writing essays, I found a lot of books to motivate myself, and even copied them down, let me read them to you, okay?"

Sheng Xia began to read his so-called chicken soup: "——failure is because we are always making progress, and repeated failures are because we have never stopped pursuing progress. People need to keep climbing and pay the price of failure. Any Everyone..."

Shi Ye couldn't take it anymore, so he interrupted him: "Did this thing inspire you?"

Sheng Xia nodded very firmly: "Very useful! I memorized this, and copied it in the original form during the college entrance examination! I asked our Chinese teacher, and she said that this is a universal sentence. There are ten points."

Shi Ye was so teased that he kept laughing.It's just that his life won't be able to add more points just because of a piece of chicken soup, but more than ten points.

"I really don't know how to write. The teacher said that my words don't convey the meaning." Sheng Xia said, "Teacher Shi Ye, do you feel this way? Language is really a weird thing. If you don't pay attention, you will lose your meaning." I think sometimes people are really weird. They always say things that others can understand, but they don’t need to. I think they may not know what they want to express, but just want others to understand. Many people say they don’t understand I talk, but is that my problem?"

"People who listen don't understand, and think your words don't convey the meaning, maybe you just have no patience to listen." Shi Ye said, "But the purpose of speaking is to let others understand. You, why do you think so strangely all day long? s things?"

Shi Ye didn't think that Sheng Xia was really not good at words, but he thought that Sheng Xia was very good at speaking.Stuttered as a child?Clumsy?not like.When Shi Ye heard Sheng Xia talk, he felt that he was singing, which was better than singing. Slowly, his eyes were fixed on you, very focused.

"Look, many people have said this about me, saying that I'm weird, weird, a little lunatic, and my brain is a little abnormal." Sheng Xia shook her head and smiled, "Everyone likes to use their own ideas to explain each other, what kind of person they are, I just think that other people should be what they are. Most of them are what they are, and it’s strange for a few to be different. Am I the strange one? I also think others are strange.”

Shi Ye plucked the strings, and he looked at Sheng Xia.

"Yes, yes." Shi Ye said, "You're right. It's not you who are weird, it's us who are too weird." He paused, "The college entrance examination is over, are you happy?"

Sheng Xia thought for a while before saying: "It's okay, I'm not happy when I'm happy. The feeling of excitement is over. Although I'm still quite happy, but after thinking about it, I don't think so."

"It seems to be like this in life. A lot of things that I thought were great at the time, but later I think about it." Shi Ye seemed to be a little happier than Sheng Xia, "You are here, you have grown up."

Sheng Xia nodded, "Well, I've grown up."