Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 534 Meeting Jessica Again (Second Change)
When the song "Jinghong" was played, the crowd applauded one after another, and some people booed for Cheng Yanqiu to play another song.

Cheng Yanqiu clasped his hands together to thank the audience, and then he didn't stay any longer, but came over and dragged Yu Dong to continue shopping.

After the two walked for a while, Yu Dong turned around and looked back.

Not far behind them stood a girl who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, with long blond hair.

This girl has been following them since just now, for quite a while.

Seeing Yu Dong and the others turning their heads to look at her, the blond girl walked a few steps forward and arrived in front of the two of them.

"You guys, don't you remember me?"

The couple looked at each other with some doubts. No matter how they thought about it, they couldn't remember where they had seen this girl.

"Little girl, did you recognize the wrong person?" Cheng Yanqiu asked.

The girl shook her head, "I won't make a mistake. Two years ago in the spring, you were here and played "The Bell" in front of that piano. I still remember your name, your name is Qia Yingqie."

Cheng Yanqiu remembered that when he was playing the piano here two years ago, he met a child and got her name. At that time, the child's pronunciation was not standard, so he pronounced her name as "Qia Ying Qi".

only……

Cheng Yanqiu looked up and down at the tall, slender girl in front of her, with an unbelievable expression on her face: "You are Jessica..."

The girl showed a bright smile: "Yes, my name is Jessica Johnson, I didn't expect you to remember my name."

Yu Dong also remembered her.

It's just that Jessica two years ago is completely different from the tall and beautiful girl in front of her.

At that time, Jessica was small and looked about ten years old. She was wearing a small black suit, with short hair, parted crookedly, and her hair was combed oily. She looked like a boy.

Cheng Yanqiu was also surprised and said, "You have changed too much."

Jessica touched her long hair with a smile: "I just have long hair."

"You are also much taller, I remember..." Cheng Yanqiu gestured with his hands, "At that time you only reached my armpit, but now you seem to be almost as tall as me."

"Of course, I'm going to be 14 soon."

Soon to be 14 years old... Yu Dong twitched the corners of his mouth, Europeans and Americans are really precocious.

Cheng Yanqiu didn't expect to meet Jessica again here, and he was in a good mood, so he took her to have a chat.

Jessica lives nearby, so she often comes here to play, and she often plays the piano that Cheng Yanqiu plays.

Today, she was wandering around, when she heard the sound of a piano, she ran over to see who was playing it, but she didn't expect that it was the vocal teacher from China that she met two years ago.

In the past few years, she has never forgotten the song "Bell" played by Cheng Yanqiu. She has had many piano teachers, but none of them can play that kind of feeling.

"Can you come to my house to play? My house has a very good piano." Jessica suddenly invited, "My house is not far from here, just a short walk away."

Cheng Yanqiu was a little confused: "But I'm with my husband..."

"He can go too."

"..."

Seeing the expectation in Jessica's eyes, Yu Dong said with a smile, "I don't care. If you want to go, we can go and have a sit, and it won't take long."

"Then... let's do it."

"Thank you, my piano will definitely not let you down." Jessica said happily.

……

Jessica's house was indeed not far from the third pedestrian street, and the three of them walked there in ten minutes.

This is a manor-style villa with a large area. The flowers and plants in the garden have obviously been carefully taken care of, and they are patchwork without looking messy.

When they entered, they saw gardeners trimming flowers and plants.

"Your house is big and beautiful." Cheng Yanqiu boasted.

"Yeah, so you believe I have a nice piano at home?"

"I believed it."

After entering the house, Jessica asked someone to make three cups of coffee, and then took Cheng Yanqiu and the others to the piano room.

The piano Jessica mentioned is a Steinway b211, which is really very good, and it happens to be the same as the Steinway in Yu Dong's family.

It wasn't until this time that Jessica asked the question that was pent up in her heart just now, "What song did you play on the pedestrian street just now?"

"It's an episode of a movie." Cheng Yanqiu replied.

"what movie?"

"The movie hasn't been released yet."

"Hasn't it been released yet?" Jessica showed a puzzled standard definition, "Since it hasn't been released, why did you play it?"

"Because I wrote it."

Jessica sat on the piano bench and fell silent for a moment. She didn't expect to get such an answer.

After a while, she spoke again, "Can you still compose music?"

"Occasionally."

"Then... can you play this piece again?"

"of course can."

……

Cheng Yanqiu and Jessica sat in front of the piano and chatted while Yu Dong was bored by himself, so he wandered around in the piano room.

This piano room is not small in size, in addition to the piano, there are many other musical instruments.

There are portraits of some famous musicians on the wall, such as Beethoven, Mozart...

Through the windows of the piano room, one can just have a panoramic view of the garden in front and other houses around.

This is a villa area, and there are many houses like Jessica's house, but the decoration style of each villa is different.

Like the building opposite.

Standing in Yu Dong's position, he could clearly see the opposite yard. Unlike Jessica's yard, which was full of flowers and trees, there was a small football field in the opposite yard, which looked much simpler.

On the football field, there is an old man playing football with a boy.

……

Modison felt that the holidays were a little boring, so he could only play football with his grandfather in the yard. Jessica, who was across the street, was always away, and his good friends didn't do anything other than play games.

The ball was kicked from the grandfather's feet, and he kicked the ball back again. The boring things always get more and more boring.

Suddenly, he heard a vague piano sound coming from the opposite door.

Is Jessica back?
Did she come back so early today?

"Modison, catch the ball."

Seeing Modison stopped, Grandpa reminded him.

Modison kicked the ball back, "Grandpa, you must be tired, take a rest."

Before he could wait for his grandfather to respond, he ran out in a hurry.

From his yard, and then to Jessica's house.

Because he was a neighbor for many years, Jessica's servants quickly let him in.

"Is Jessica back?"

"Just came back." The servant nodded: "I brought two guests..."

Modison couldn't hear what was said later, he had already gone up the stairs now.

When he reached the door of the piano room, Modison shouted: "Jessica, is it because the sun is too high that you came back so early today?"

The sound of the piano stopped, and Jessica stared angrily at Hardison who had just entered the door.

"Hardison, I've told you many times, don't bother me when I'm playing."

Hardison was also a little confused, he didn't expect that Jessica was not the only one in the piano room.

"I, I didn't know you had guests." Hardison said weakly.

"I didn't tell you about the guests. I mean, as long as you hear the sound of the piano in the piano room, don't bother me."

"But you play the piano as long as you are at home, and you are not at home when you are not playing the piano."

"So, don't come to me."

Yu Dong watched the two of them quarreling, and smiled with the corners of his mouth pursed.

The young man ran over from the opposite door with an excited face, and Yu Dong watched the whole process.

It appears that Jessica already has admirers.

The two exchanged a few words, Jessica probably saw Cheng Yanqiu and the others, so she didn't continue, she just rolled her eyes and said, "You can stay in the piano room, but you can't make a sound."

"Ok."

Jessica continued to discuss the music with Cheng Yanqiu. Hardison stood at the door and stared blankly. Yu Dong saw his blank appearance and waved to him with a smile.

Hardison came over with doubts.

Yu Dong smiled and asked, "You live across the street?"

Hardison was stunned, "How do you know?"

Yu Dong pointed to the window facing Hardison's house, and Hardison immediately understood.

"How long have you known Jessica?"

Hardison nodded: "Well, I moved here when I was four years old, and Jessica's family was already here at that time."

"That was a long time indeed."

……

Being bored, Yu Dong chatted with the little boy.

At the beginning, Hardison was still a little restrained and not easy to let go. Later, he chatted and talked a lot, especially when he knew that Yu Dong and the others were not familiar with Jessica. After arriving, he was more relaxed.

It seemed to him that since Yu Dong was not familiar with Jessica, even if he said more, it would not reach Jessica's ears.

When he first met Jessica, he mistook Jessica for a boy, and for a long time afterwards, their relationship was very good, like buddies.

But in the past two years, Jessica has suddenly changed, becoming a girl. For a while, he couldn't accept it...

Yu Dong also found it very interesting to hear Hardison talking about the past between him and Jessica. It sounds like they were childhood sweethearts, but they were not childhood sweethearts.

At noon, Jessica invited them to stay for dinner again, but they refused.

Jessica wrote Cheng Yanqiu her home phone number, and asked Cheng Yanqiu to contact her when he had time.

Before leaving, Yu Dong was quite surprised to see an "Old Book" on the coffee table in the living room, and asked, "Is this book yours?"

Jessica shook her head, "No, it belongs to my grandma. She loves reading. She read this book all day yesterday."

Yu Dong smiled: "She has great taste in reading."

Jessica shrugged: "But I don't really like the books she reads."

(End of this chapter)