Chapter 216 Good Partner [Third update]
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"Performing on New Year's Day? Just you? You look as lifeless as a dead person all day long. What are you dreaming about!"
"I'm telling you, I have to go out with someone later, so you just stay at home and wait until it's time to send Junhao to the foreign language class."
"I don't do anything serious all the time. I think about these things every day... Also, did you tell your second uncle about the money I asked you to tell him?"
An hour before the first New Year's Day party rehearsal started, Zheng Yifeng stood in the living room with an expressionless face, like a piece of wood that had lost its life, listening to the accusations and scoldings of the female hostage in front of him.
There was a notification tone from his phone and he looked down.
"One Leaf Knows Autumn": Have you set off yet? I just met up with Bai Qingxia, and I found that I forgot my guitar. I ran back to get it now. Let me know when you are about to leave.
Just as Zheng Yifeng was about to reply, his phone was snatched away by the woman in front of him.
He raised his head and looked at his stepmother.
Standing in front of him was a beautiful woman wearing a mink velvet coat and a burgundy skirt. She had fair skin and a good figure. Although she was nearly forty, she still had charm.
And she has such a gentle face that people can't believe that such harsh words came out of her mouth.
Zheng Yifeng vaguely remembered that when he was a child, when he first met this woman, she would squat down and pinch his cheek with a smile, and then she would hold him tightly in her arms with red eyes and speak gentle words in her mouth. ：
"Little guy, you are cute and pitiful. From today on, I will be your mother, okay? I will take good care of you so that Fengfeng will also have a mother's child in the future."
But since his father disappeared, his stepmother's temperament has changed drastically. Zheng Yifeng sometimes thinks that she is a pitiful woman, maybe.
"Are you even listening to me?!"
The stepmother questioned him with her cell phone.
Zheng Yifeng said: "I taught him the route to the cram school last time. He can walk by himself and does not need me to send him."
The beautiful woman smiled angrily: "Zheng Yifeng, you are not yet an adult, but you already regard him as a burden, right? If I am not here, can you still leave him alone and ignore him?"
Faced with the woman's unreasonable troubles, Zheng Yifeng took a deep breath and didn't want to respond.
"Speak! Are you mute?!"
Seeing that the boy was silent, the woman continued to speak harshly: "Just like your mother, she is lifeless, gentle and quiet on the surface, but she hides so many bad ideas in her heart. Oh, what kind of son is born from this kind of person. ”
Zheng Yifeng clenched his fists and gritted his teeth unbearably: "Yes, what kind of son is born from what kind of man!"
After he finished speaking, he looked fiercely at his brother who was hiding behind the sofa, as if he meant something. Suddenly, with a "pop" sound, the woman slapped him on the cheek.
Zheng Yifeng tilted his cheek and panted heavily, and the woman also panted heavily. The living room fell into silence for a long time, except for the gentle crying of his brother behind the sofa.
The woman snorted softly, her eyes turning slightly red, and then sneered: "Don't blame me for treating you like this, Zheng Yifeng. If you want to blame, blame him. The person who abandoned us, it was all his fault that this family became like this."
"You are discarded trash."
"Me too..."
"When others don't see any hope in us, they will give up on us without hesitation, put us aside like garbage, and never bother us again."
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Zheng Yifeng's fingers stopped on the keys. He turned his head and looked at Su Miaomiao beside him.
Su Miaomiao turned to look at him, showing an apologetic smile, and then anxiously observed the broken violin, wondering if there was a chance to make amends.
In the audience, Lu Yuanqiu couldn't help but shake his head: "Oh, these two New Year's Day party rehearsals are useless. Don't know the autumn in a leaf, let's call it a troubled autumn."
Bai Qingxia looked at the scene on the stage with some worry and clenched her fists. Just like Su Miaomiao would comfort her when she was sad, she also wanted to go over and comfort Su Miaomiao at this moment, but she couldn't do this. thing.
"What should I do..." the girl murmured softly.
Lu Yuanqiu said: "There is no way to repair a broken violin string. At least it can't be done now. Either Zheng Yifeng plays the piano by himself or gives up the whole performance." Bai Qingxia turned to look at him, feeling worried for Su Miaomiao.
Zheng Yifeng looked at Su Miaomiao's back, silently lowered his head and looked at the black and white keys. He knew what it meant when the violin strings were broken, and the show could not be carried out.
However, he was a little unwilling.
He thought about his hesitation when he sent a message to the teacher, the harmonious atmosphere of "harmonizing the piano and the harp" during practice in the piano room, the words "Come on" Lu Yuanqiu said to him before going on stage, and the reason for his persistence. That slap from my stepmother when I was going to rehearse a show.
"When others see no hope in us, they will give up on us."
Zheng Yifeng also thought of this sentence.
He has given up many things and been given up many times, but this New Year's Day party is the only thing he has seriously insisted on to get to the end.
But now that the ending is approaching, it is probably the fate of giving up again.
The fate of garbage is so difficult to change.
The audience under the stage made a bustling noise. Editor Hu looked back and signaled the camera crew to pause the recording first.
"It's a pity that this program was originally on the video material selection list, and I heard that there was a pair of teachers and students on stage." Editor Hu said.
Please...you...collect 6...9...books...!
Qin Luo sighed and started to look at the programs at the back of the program list.
The host, Four-Eyed Girl, saw that Su Miaomiao had not finished playing the violin. She walked up to the stage to observe, then came to Su Miaomiao and asked: "How are you, teacher? Can you fix it?"
Su Miaomiao turned around helplessly and shook her head, but she quickly said: "Zheng Yifeng can continue playing on the piano. I will leave first."
The four-eyed girl looked at Zheng Yifeng and asked, "Senior Zheng, do you want to play alone?"
Zheng Yifeng twitched the corners of his mouth, smiled and shook his head: "No need."
He stood up and looked at Su Miaomiao, as if he was about to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything. He just smiled at her and said, "Let's go down first."
Su Miaomiao frowned: "Zheng Yifeng, be obedient and finish the playing by yourself."
Zheng Yifeng shook his head with a firm look on his face: "No, a program without a partner...has no meaning if it continues."
After he finished speaking, he lowered his head silently and walked behind the curtain. Seeing this, the four-eyed girl picked up the microphone and said to the audience: "I'm sorry, everyone, there is something wrong with the props, so this show..."
Before she finished speaking, Su Miaomiao suddenly grabbed the microphone.
This scene made Lu Yuanqiu and others in the audience suddenly open their eyes.
...The microphone has been snatched away all the time? ? The four-eyed girl was stunned.
Su Miaomiao smiled and said: "The show continues."
After she finished speaking, she returned the microphone to the four-eyed girl, then caught up and took Zheng Yifeng's hand: "Yifeng, wait."
Zheng Yifeng turned around and saw Su Miaomiao smiling at him and encouraging him with a sweet voice: "Follow me."
She led Zheng Yifeng to the piano and sat down. What puzzled Zheng Yifeng and everyone present was that Su Miaomiao actually sat down next to him.
The two were sitting side by side on chairs. The woman turned her head and asked him seriously: "Yifeng, do you know Mozart's "Sata for Four Hands in C Major"?"
Yes... But Zheng Yifeng looked at her in surprise.
Su Miaomiao couldn't help laughing and tilted her head: "What's wrong? Can't the teacher also play the piano? Huh?"
Zheng Yifeng smiled: "Yes."
Su Miaomiao nodded, looked at the black and white piano keys in front of her, and put her white hands on them with a sweet tone:
"Then let's change the show, good partners."
(End of chapter)