The Eye of the Storm

It was dark at night on the roof, and the street lamps in the alley could not reach this height, and it was all illuminated by the crescent moon above the head.

Correspondingly, the fireworks and noisy human voices downstairs can't float up, only the night breeze is blowing, making this place really rare and clean.

It was not the first time Liang Sizhe climbed onto the rooftop.Before him, no one except the roof repairman had probably climbed on it.The visitors on the first and second floors are all passers-by. Those who live in the guest house on the third floor go out early and return late. .

Liang Sizhe squatted down, removed a brick from a corner of the roof, and pulled out a newspaper—that was what he brought up a few nights ago.He spread the newspaper on the edge of the terrace, sat on it, and put his legs under it.

Ordinary people are somewhat afraid of heights, but Liang Sizhe is very talented in this area. Not only is he not afraid of heights at all, but he also likes to stand on a high place and look down, the higher the better.

He took off the acoustic guitar from his shoulder and put it on his lap, and plucked the strings casually with his right hand.The resident singer was right. After changing the strings, the tone of this acoustic guitar is indeed not bad.Next time we meet, treat that person to a meal.Liang Sizhe thought.

Liang Sizhe is a violin learner. He has been holding the violin and "sawing wood" since he was four years old. In the 17 years of his life, he spent more time playing the violin than sleeping.

But the students of the attached music high school are known for their versatility, and Liang Sizhe is the best among them. In addition to his professional violin, he also has a little experience with other stringed instruments, such as cello, viola, guitar, bass...

All kinds of stringed instruments have something in common. He is proficient in the violin. As long as he remembers how to play other instruments, he will always get started faster than other people who know nothing about the instruments.

The guitar is a six-stringed violin, and the feeling of playing it is actually quite different from the four-stringed violin.He recalled how to play the guitar well, and then hung his left hand above the strings, and it didn't fall down for a long time. Which one should he play better?

Many pieces that he practiced in these years appeared in his mind, such as Serenade, Carmen, Canon, Swan, Butterfly Lovers, Bach's Xiao Wu... Those scores seemed to be engraved in his bones and blood. Although he hadn't touched the violin for more than a year, Thinking about it now, the scores I practiced countless times in those years are still vivid in my mind...

Then... play the song he played last time.It's been a long time.

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Cao Ye sat on the bed, put his left hand on his right shoulder, and moved his arms, neck and shoulders.

That buddy...is called Liang Sizhe, right?I really didn't see it, but there is such a hand.What is he doing up there?Thinking about philosophy of life?

Cao Ye opened the window, leaned out and looked up, but couldn't see anything.His curiosity has always been strong, and now he is eager to climb up and have a look.He has always been famous for his boldness. Just as this idea came to his mind, one of his legs was already on the window sill.

He grasped the window sill, and slipped out of the window leaf. Everything followed suit—only he forgot to close the window.

Not to mention, although Liang Sizhe climbed quite easily from below, when it came time to fight in person, he really had to take it easy.

If you want to climb to the roof smoothly, you must have three qualities: one is long legs, otherwise you will not be able to step on the steel plate connecting the drainage pipe next to the building wall; the other is thin, the steel plate has been exposed to wind and rain for years If it is overweight, it is easy to cause the steel plate to break; the third is to have good arm strength, and you must firmly grasp the window edge of the upper floor, otherwise you will not be able to climb up at all.

It so happened that Cao Ye possessed all three physical qualities.

Just one thing, he was a little afraid of heights.So when he squatted on the window edge on the fourth floor and looked down, he couldn't help but swing in his heart—it was a lie to say that he had no regrets, and impulsiveness was the devil. He was now in a dilemma.

Close your eyes and go on.Curiosity killed the cat, and it was much better to climb up than to stay below and listen to the ghosts and wolves on the second floor.

Going up to the fifth floor, the noise of the KTV on the second floor gradually weakened. Among the chaotic noise downstairs and the rustling leaves, he suddenly heard a faint music coming from the top of the building——the sound was crisp and clear, which made him Thinking of Liang Sizhe's hand reaching into the window to take away the acoustic guitar, it's just that the song was played awkwardly, it sounded like a novice, and it took a long time to find a melody.

——Struggling to climb to the rooftop to practice guitar?What a mess.

Cao Ye regained his composure, holding the drainpipe with one hand, and the edge of the roof with the other. With all his strength, he bent his legs and climbed up, stepped on the roof with one foot, and with another effort, the whole person climbed up.

Cao Ye patted the dust on the bend of his legs, straightened up and walked towards Liang Sizhe.

He walked lightly and slowly, every step he took, he stepped on the notes played by Liang Sizhe.Then he approached, fearing that someone would be killed. When he bowed down, he bent his arms around Liang Sizhe's neck, leaned close to his ear, and lowered his voice, "Hello!"

Unexpectedly, a person appeared from behind. Liang Sizhe's reaction was quite calm, but his body froze a little, and the movement of playing the guitar in his hands also stopped. He turned his face and looked up at Cao Ye, with no expression of joy or anger : "How did you come up?"

"Didn't expect that?" Cao Ye was smug, and said a second line from a film and television drama that he didn't know where he learned, "I, Mr. Cao, went to heaven and earth, omnipotent, these two floors are trivial." After speaking, let go of Liang Sizhe , squatting next to him, looked down at the downstairs, and was startled, "Hey, it's really tall."

Liang Sizhe didn't speak, and silently put the acoustic guitar aside.

He really didn't expect that Cao Ye would follow him up. This building is not so easy to climb. When he came up for the first time, he squatted on the fourth floor, almost unable to go up or down.Later, I gradually figured out the surrounding structure and climbed a few times boldly, and then I became more and more handy.

It's just that I didn't expect Cao Ye to follow his example, and he was so courageous that he really followed him up.

Liang Sizhe didn't show it on the surface, but he was actually a little upset inside - the first night he climbed up, he looked at the open and flat roof around him, sat on the other side of the roof, facing away from Yinsi Street where Lan Banquet was located, Blowing the cool wind, looking at the rushing vehicles not far away, leaving behind all the loud noises and the choking smell of oily smoke, how comfortable he was then, how miserable he is now.

The territory that belonged to him was invaded, which made him feel a strong sense of discomfort.There will probably be no place to lick the wound alone in the future.

However, Cao Ye hadn't realized the fact that he wasn't popular, so he looked at Liang Sizhe curiously and asked, "You were practicing guitar just now?"

Liang Sizhe looked at the traffic on the street in the distance, and said calmly, "Yes."

"Then... go ahead, am I bothering you?"

Liang Sizhe wanted to say, "Isn't this obvious?", but the aggressiveness of the words was reduced by more than half: "It's okay."

Cao Ye stretched out his arms, brought over the wooden guitar that he had put aside, plucked the strings a few times, and muttered in a low voice: "But shouldn't beginners start with "Little Star"? Why do you know "Little Star"? Devil's Tremolo" ah..."

Liang Sizhe was startled.He played so badly just now that he didn't even finish a bar. Cao Ye actually recognized that he was playing "The Devil's Trill"?

Cao Ye didn't pay too much attention to Liang Sizhe's mood swings. He squatted there and fiddled with the acoustic guitar, looking for notes one by one with his head down, humming softly along with his mouth--in terms of playing the guitar, he is not much better than Liang Sizhe, just I probably know how to play the notes, but I have no skills at all.

But the boy's voice was clear, and he just jumped out word by word, and it sounded a kind of magical power to comfort people on the quiet rooftop:

"twinkletwinklelittlestar, how I wonder what you are

up above the world so high, like adamon din the sky”

Cao Ye only knew these four sentences, and finished playing them with jerky fingering. He smiled at Liang Sizhe with embarrassment: "I'm better at playing, not as good as you."

Most of Liang Sizhe's restlessness faded away.

That's right, this is not Yancheng, and Cao Ye is not his classmate in the music high school.This is Beijing, where no one knows him. Cao Ye is the son of the famous Cao Xiuyuan.He realizes that he can be a novice guitarist, a novice violinist at will, play the worst violin with confidence, and not have to worry about anyone coming to expose his scars.

It's such a good feeling.

For a while, Cao Ye, an uninvited guest, appeared on the rooftop, and it didn't seem so difficult to accept.

But after he figured it out, he had another question in his mind. How could Cao Ye know that he just played "The Devil's Trill"?Did he also learn the violin?

This song is quite difficult to play, and its popularity among the public is not too wide. If you can tell the name of the song with certainty after listening to it, it should be because you are familiar with the melody, right?

It's just that Cao Ye squatted aside and played with the guitar quietly, and didn't mention it again, and Liang Sizhe didn't ask.

The two chatted silently for a while, Cao Ye took the initiative to chat with Liang Sizhe: "It's too noisy downstairs, is it so noisy every night?"

"Yes, do you want to do business?" Liang Sizhe said lightly.

"Then can I still sleep?"

Liang Sizhe turned his head to look at him: "Didn't you just sleep?"

"Oh... I didn't sleep," Cao Ye scratched his hair, "I was lying on my stomach thinking about life."

Can you numb half of your body without falling asleep? ... The young man is really bone-chill.

"Thinking about what?"

"Who am I, where am I from...and where am I going." Cao Ye pretended to be deep.

Liang Sizhe smiled cooperatively, but didn't answer.

Cao Ye squatted beside him, with his arms on his thighs.He felt more secure squatting, sitting on the edge of the roof like Liang Sizhe, feeling that he would fall down at any time.

Liang Sizhe smiled, and it reminded him of Lin Yan's little boyfriend again—really, it's incomparable, it's not a rank at all, it's instant kill in all directions.

"Is it safe for you to sit there?" Cao Ye felt the need to remind, "Why don't you sit back? This height is quite dangerous."

"It's okay." Liang Sizhe didn't take this reminder seriously, "I'm used to sitting, I can't fall."

After a while, Cao Ye brought up the episode just now: "I think you have to start with "Little Star" to learn guitar. Let me tell you, this song is very cost-effective. You can practice four lines, and the whole song That's all."

Liang Sizhe smiled and said, "That's true."

"Do you want me to teach you? We should be able to earn a meal when we go to perform on the street later."

Liang Sizhe chatted with him indifferently: "How can you earn so much money for meals..."

"Then do you think I can earn a meal by playing and singing those few lines just now?"

"It's a good idea..." Liang Sizhe chuckled, and when he turned around, Cao Ye was looking at him pitifully: "Brother Sizhe, why don't you treat me to a meal? No……"