The Eye of the Storm

The two squatted in the shade by the street, glancing at the two dogs in heat from time to time.

"Why isn't it over yet?" Cao Ye muttered as he touched a stone on the ground and threw it out.

"Who knows." Liang Sizhe stood up, went to the small shop opposite to buy two popsicles, walked back and handed one to Cao Ye.

Cao Ye took it and tore off the wrapping paper and said, "It's not over yet, how long will it take..." As he spoke, he glanced back and saw that the two dogs were still stacked on top of each other, shaking so hard that it was unbearable to look at them in broad daylight. .

Liang Sizhe laughed: "Ask me about your dog?"

"Hey, tell me," Cao Ye turned his face and asked Liang Sizhe in a low voice, "Will Xiaobai give birth to a baby?"

"That might not be the case."

"That's a mixed race..." Cao Ye turned his head and murmured into the air.

Chuan'er said it in a rather foreign way.Liang Sizhe laughed again.

The popsicles were finished at Caesar's side, and Cao Ye walked over to hold them, so Caesar ran over by himself, wagging his tail in favor, and handed the dog leash to Cao Ye with his mouth in his mouth.

Liang Sizhe thought in his heart that a dog follows its master, and the tricks of being a good boy are surprisingly consistent.

Cao Ye pulled the leash from Caesar's mouth with a look of disgust, and taught him a lesson: "What's the matter with you, Xiaobai is so much younger than you!"

Caesar leaned over to hug him, Cao Ye squatted and took a step back: "Hey, hey, don't touch me!"

Seeing that his master didn't get close to him, Caesar turned his head and reluctantly "barked" at Xiaobai.

Xiaobai also looked at it, and replied "Wow" affectionately.

It was love at first sight... Liang Sizhe smiled and said, "I think they hit it off quite well... What's the matter, you plan to keep him here?"

"I think, my grandfather won't let me. He said that he's going to breed Caesar in the next few days..." Cao Ye said to me, and turned his head suddenly, "You said that today's matter will not have any impact!"

"It shouldn't be..."

"If it falls in love with Xiaobai, can it be successfully bred with other dogs?"

"Then give Xiao Xiaobai to your grandfather."

"You..." Cao Ye looked down at Caesar who was wagging his tail at him inexplicably, "Why didn't I realize that you are this kind of dog before!"

Liang Sizhe laughed again. Whenever Cao Ye met Caesar's eyes, he wanted to laugh. He couldn't stop laughing. Why is this kid so cute...

After dinner, the driver who brought Cao Ye here in the afternoon drove over to pick up Caesar.

When the two entered the room, Cao Ye threw himself on the bed and said, "I'm so happy to have an air conditioner. The person who invented the air conditioner is really great."

"Is this temperature okay?" Liang Sizhe brought the remote control of the air conditioner and lowered the temperature.

"Perfect!" Cao Ye said, reaching for the phone, "I want to video with my mother."

The downstairs KTV was not at its loudest yet, but the noise could still come in through the cracks in the window. Cao Ye put on his earphones, leaned against the bed and started videoing with his mother.

Liang Sizhe turned down the volume of the TV a bit and watched the old dubbed film shown on CCTV6. The film was not very attractive, but what Cao Ye said kept piercing into his ears, making it hard for him not to pay attention.

Cao Ye's way of getting along with his mother is completely different from that of Cao Xiuyuan. Liang Sizhe has seen him face off with Cao Xiuyuan before, like a lion cub preparing for battle, but when he video-videos with his mother, he completely turns into a cub mode.

During this time together, Cao Ye would call his mother every few days, but never called Cao Xiuyuan.Liang Sizhe had a vague feeling that Cao Ye's feelings for Cao Xiuyuan seemed to be very contradictory. He longed for Cao Xiuyuan's closeness and care, but he would never take the initiative to show kindness to Cao Xiuyuan... But that's fine too, if Cao Ye really I called Cao Xiuyuan, I'm afraid the lie I told will be exposed soon...

"Mom, let me show you the air conditioner that my dad asked someone to install for me." Cao Ye stood up and stepped on the bed, raised his phone to face the air conditioner hanging on the wall, "I was so hot to death a few days ago!"

"My dad, is he okay with me? He bought me breakfast once and asked someone to come over to install the air conditioner. I heard from Uncle Yin that they are currently surveying locations abroad. They must be quite busy..."

"...I practiced the violin. Really, I even recited the violin," Cao Ye jumped out of bed, walked to the table with bare feet, opened the violin case and took out the violin. Holding the piano neck in one hand, she walked towards Liang Sizhe, and handed the phone to Liang Sizhe, "Help me get it."

He sat beside Liang Sizhe's bed, and posed as if he was playing the violin: "I practice the piano every day, by the way, mom, let me introduce you to my friend."

As he spoke, he put the violin aside and sat down a little towards Liang Sizhe. Liang Sizhe moved to the side to make room for him.Cao Ye took off an earphone from his ear, raised his hand and stuffed it into Liang Sizhe's ear, then took the phone and pointed the camera at the two of them.

Seeing that he was going to say hello to Cao Ye's mother, Liang Sizhe straightened his back leaning on the bed, and greeted the screen politely: "Hello, Auntie..." Before he finished speaking, he saw clearly the picture on the screen. The man suddenly said in a daze, "Li, Teacher Li You?"

He wasn't so surprised when he first met Cao Xiuyuan—after all, he didn't realize that it was Cao Xiuyuan at the time, but Li You was different. I never expected to meet the master violinist I once admired in this way.

"Hello, Sizhe," Li You smiled gently at him in the video, "I heard Xiaoye mention you on the phone last time, so I'm causing you trouble these days."

"No," Liang Sizhe straightened his body subconsciously, "He... is quite sensible."

"You are still a kid yourself, so just say that the other kid is sensible..." Li You laughed.

Cao Ye tilted his head, stuffed himself into the video screen, and complained to Li You: "He always asks me to call him Brother Sizhe because he is two years older than me." Li You smiled and said, "You are You should call me brother, children are also divided into big and small..."

"Tch, I won't call, Liang Sizhe," Cao Ye put his arms around Liang Sizhe's neck, turned his face to look at him, "I'll call you Liang Sizhe, do you dare to agree?"

In front of Li You, Liang Sizhe was embarrassed to simply and rudely raised his hand to slap him away, and could only say to Cao Ye's close face, "Are you the king of Silver Horn?"

Li You laughed so hard that she was completely different from the goddess of temperament she had seen on TV in the past. She laughed and said, "God, it's really hard for you, Sizhe..."

After a while, Cao Ye took the phone away and lay down on the bed to continue videoing with Li You. It took Liang Sizhe a long time to calm down.He is not interested in gossip in the entertainment industry. He has watched Li You's performance videos but never learned about her personal life, so this is the first time he knows that Li You and Cao Xiuyuan are husband and wife.

Li You feels very gentle, but also gives people a sense of peace of mind. Liang Sizhe somewhat understands why Cao Ye has grown into such a naive and carefree character. Li You treats him like a child. Although a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy is no longer a child in the true sense, Cao Ye’s nature that belongs to a child is still intact... The combination of nature and growth environment is just right, no wonder he can grow For such a rare young man.

The violin world and the film industry are perfect, no wonder everyone in the crew prefers Cao Ye to play Xiaoman. If I were anyone in the crew, I couldn’t guarantee complete rationality and objectivity. After all, this role was born for Cao Ye ah……

After a few minutes, Cao Ye hung up the video. He threw the phone aside, raised his hand and slapped his arm hard, with a crisp "snap", and then showed Liang Sizhe the dead mosquito in his heart: "There is another mosquito." !"

"Well, the window was opened for a while in the afternoon." Liang Sizhe glanced at it, took the remote control, and turned up the volume of the TV.

Cao Ye ran to the bathroom to wash his hands, and shouted through a wall: "Ah... I would have known I would not call you downstairs! Do you still have toilet water?"

"It's gone." If you used half a bottle at a time, it would have been wiped clean long ago.

Cao Ye came out of the bathroom, stood at the end of the bed and asked Liang Sizhe, "Where's the mosquito coil?"

"I've run out." The small shop downstairs was closed after midnight, and there was no place to buy mosquito coils at this time.

"I was really bitten a lot, didn't you get bitten?"

"No way..." Liang Sizhe looked down at his bare arms.

Cao Ye scratched the mosquito bag on his arm: "Why don't the mosquitoes bite you?"

"I don't know... Maybe they all ran to bite you."

Cao Ye let out a frenzied "Ah", raised his hand and patted his arm again, looked down at his arm, and counted: "I've been bitten three times!"

He scratched his lower back again, turned his head to look, and suddenly became even more angry: "Why are you bitten on your clothes?"

Because just now when you were lying on your stomach, a part of your waist was exposed.Liang Sizhe thought.

Cao Ye fought wits and courage with the mosquitoes for half an hour, running around the room to beat them, but the mosquitoes seemed to be full of blood, and they were extremely alert and flexible. As soon as he approached, they flew away before they could raise their hands.

"Forget it," he said half an hour later, sitting on the edge of the bed, "forget about feeding them to death."

Liang Sizhe laughed, "They won't bite you if you move more."

"Then what do I do when I'm sleeping?"

"Turn down the temperature of the air conditioner, you can sleep under the quilt."

"Oh." Cao Ye said, "I'm too miserable, am I equivalent to your human-shaped mosquito coil machine?"

"Maybe it is true." Liang Sizhe said with a smile.Cao Ye's statement is quite appropriate. Although he was not very attractive to mosquitoes before, he would occasionally get bitten out of a bite or two. When he was with Cao Ye, he didn't get a bite.He thought for a while and asked: "There are still some mosquito coils left on the roof, do you want to go up?"

"Go!" Cao Ye said without thinking.

When he got out of bed, he saw the violin that Cao Ye had just placed on the bed. Liang Sizhe was moved, and just about to speak, Cao Ye picked up the violin first and said, "Let's carry the violin on our backs too."

"Okay." Liang Sizhe said.

Cao Ye put the violin back into the case: "You can catch it with a fishing rod."

"Farewell... let's carry it on your back." This piano is worth a lot of money at first glance.

"Oh," Cao Ye said, "Okay."

Pulling open the window and climbing onto the window sill, Liang Sizhe handed him the piano in the room, then he padded himself behind, climbed out and closed the window tightly.

The roof was as quiet as ever. Liang Sizhe did not sit on the edge of the roof tonight. He took a few old newspapers and put them under his body. He sat down and looked up at Cao Ye and said, "Since you have a violin, play it for me." listen?"

"Do you really want to listen?" Cao Ye raised his hand and scratched his hair.

"You brought the violin here, you should know that you can't escape this procedure, right?" Liang Sizhe looked at him with a smile, "Come on."

Cao Ye held the violin neck in his left hand and the bow in his right hand: "You look at me like that, and I suddenly feel a little nervous."

"Why are you nervous?" Liang Sizhe was amused by his words, "Your mother is Li You, you dare to pull in front of her, but you don't dare in front of me?"

"Hey, that's different, okay..." Cao Ye put the violin on his left shoulder, put the bow on it with his right hand, and looked at Liang Sizhe, "Which piece to play?"

As soon as he puts on this posture, he is completely different from the joking little dandy. Liang Sizhe looked at him, thought for a while and said, "Just the song you heard last time, "Devil's Vibrato"."

"That's so difficult!" Cao Ye yelled suddenly, "Can you change it to something easier..."

"Try it, come on." Liang Sizhe said with a smile.

"Okay..." Cao Ye compromised.

The melodious music of the violin rang out in the night, the young man tilted his head slightly, his hair fluttered slightly with the movement of pulling the string, Cao Ye, who was serious, showed an unusual calmness on his face.

"Devil's Trill", Liang Sizhe's favorite song before the accident, it is called a violin virtuoso, and the performance involves bow jumping, string sliding, bow stomping, vibrato, string rubbing, double overtones, etc. A lot of technique, and he likes the feeling of being completely immersed in it, with all the attention on the violin.

Liang Sizhe stared at Cao Ye, he thought that this piece was in Cao Ye's hands, and he pulled out a style completely different from his own. He simplified some difficult parts and brought them over, but he made other parts by himself. Added some vibrato, and if he were to comment, it would probably be... lack of practice, but more than enough spirituality, the same feeling that Cao Ye himself gave him.

The piece was very long, Cao Ye stopped after playing for a while, put down the hand holding the bow, and looked at Liang Sizhe with a nervous and expectant expression on his face: "Just pull it here, is it okay? "

It was the first time for Liang Sizhe to see a nervous expression on his face. He looked at Cao Ye and smiled and said, "I think it's very good. Did you add the vibrato yourself?"

"Hmm..." Cao Ye said with some embarrassment, "Sometimes I add it unconsciously. Is it too much?"

"No, I think it's very good, it's just right."

"You seem to be criticizing my teacher..." Cao Ye took the violin off his shoulders and said with a sigh of relief, "Why am I so nervous playing the violin to you?"

Liang Sizhe laughed and said, "How would I know..."

Cao Ye thought about it, and analyzed himself: "It may be that you are about my age, and then you are much stronger than me."

"I'm two years older than you, okay? Besides, I'm not necessarily much better than you, about the same level."

"How is it possible, you are the chief of the orchestra!"

Liang Sizhe glanced at him: "What did Mu Ke and the others tell you?"

"Um……"

"What else did they tell you?"

"There is nothing else, just say that you are very powerful, and you can call the wind and rain in the music school."

"Call the wind and call the rain?" Liang Sizhe felt a little funny when he heard this description, "That's what they say?"

"I summed it up myself..."

"Oh, the idiom little prince." Liang Sizhe said with a smile.

"Then...do you want to try?" Cao Ye squatted down in front of Liang Sizhe, and handed the violin and bow to him, "Play a simple song?"

Playing the violin again in front of other people, Liang Sizhe didn't think about this scene at all, but maybe the atmosphere tonight was really good, he took the violin by accident, and he didn't even think about it, picked it up again The mood of the violin will be so relaxed.

The faint pine scent of the violin wafted into the nostrils, the bow touched the strings, and the long-lost familiarity flowed between the stiff fingers. Liang Sizhe's fingers moved, which was a subconscious reaction formed by his uninterrupted practice for more than ten years. An instinctive nerve reflex.

But at this moment, he clearly knew that he could no longer play a piece of music smoothly.

Then he was surprised to find that he could accept this fact calmly, just like he calmly picked up Cao Ye's violin at this moment.

At this moment, he realized that the violin had really become a scar on his body. During the days and nights he spent with Cao Ye, the thick scab that would bleed when lifted unknowingly faded away , Gradually healed into a smooth, soft scar that could be touched without pain.

It's amazing that this difficult process has achieved such an imperceptible and smooth transition.

"What song should I play?" Liang Sizhe looked at Cao Ye and asked the same question as he did just now. He thought for a while and smiled, "Just play the "Little Star" you taught me."

The fingers of the left hand are not very flexible, but it doesn't matter. Liang Sizhe knows that it doesn't matter how badly he plays this piece.

One note after another was pressed jerkyly with the fingers of his left hand. Cao Ye did not sing along this time. He squatted in front of Liang Sizhe and sat in his audience, his slightly curved eyes reflecting the clear moonlight tonight.

Liang Sizhe's timbre when he sang this song appeared in Liang Sizhe's mind, crisp and clean, how did he sing that line?right--

"Up above the world so high, Like adiamond in the sky."

High in the night sky, you are like a diamond.