If you can love like this

Chapter 64

"Prince" turned around when he heard the sound, his dreamy face was facing me, as if he was not surprised at all, he was smiling, his eyes twinkled like stars, he had stopped playing, and he greeted me in English: "Hi, Miss Cathy.Nice to meet you. (Miss Cathy, nice to meet you.)”

At this moment, I was so stupid that I didn’t know how to move. It was Julia who helped me downstairs. David quickly introduced me: “This is the piano teacher Mr. Qi asked me to find for you.”

"Hello, my name is Steven." The fake foreign devil was the first to speak, with his arms folded, he walked slowly, and stretched out his noble hand towards me.

I came back to my senses, roughly understood what was going on, and reached out to shake hands with him.As soon as he received my hand, he squeezed it hard, as if he was going to crush me, but his face was as if nothing had happened.

I almost cried out in pain, and wanted to withdraw my hand in a panic, but he smiled at me and said, "You are very beautiful, just like angel. (You are very beautiful, just like an angel.)"

If it wasn't for someone beside him, I would have kicked him twice.Fortunately, he let go of his hand in time, looked me up and down with interest, and threw a series of English words: "Have you just woke up? What did you dream about? Did you dream about me? (Did you just wake up? What dream did you have? Did you dream of me?)"

Only then did David notice that I was wearing a nightgown, with bare feet and loose hair. He quickly got up and left in a polite manner.As soon as he left, the fake foreign devil pinched my face again, and this time he said in pure Mandarin: "The bread in the United States is very nourishing, and it has made you fat and rosy. !"

This scene was seen by Julia next to her, her eyes widened in surprise, and I hurriedly told her: "There's nothing else going on here, you can go in." I also spoke English.The fake foreign devil laughed, "That's right, I speak English fluently and have made some progress. Who taught me? My old neighbor?"

Julia has already entered the kitchen, I looked at this "alien", and I haven't recovered from the huge shock, "You...how did you come here?"

"I came here by plane, can't I swim from the Pacific Ocean?"

"How do you know... I'm here?"

The "alien" grinned at me with white teeth, dazzlingly beautiful, "Is it difficult to know where you are? I have been in Seattle for more than a month, and I have been wandering around. I often see you in the lake. Feed the mandarin ducks."

I was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly remembered the familiar figure I saw on the boathouse by the lake a few days ago.
"You, you..." I restrained my heartbeat, not recovering from the huge shock.

"Why are you stuttering? Don't you even forget your mother tongue? It's outrageous!" Listen, is this a paid teacher?You taught me a lesson before the class even started!

"What are you doing here? Where do you live?"

"Just live on the houseboat."

"Houseboat? Like the one where Tom Hanks lives?"

"Well, rent it, why do you like that movie too?" He laughed, and gave a very reasonable explanation for his sudden appearance, "I heard that your family is looking for a piano teacher, and I am just looking for a job. So I came here to apply, why, am I not qualified to teach you?"

The look on my face told him that I didn't believe what he said.

"You don't believe it? It's true. I'm bankrupt, do you know that Milan has ruined my entire family and owed a lot of debts. I have no choice but to hide here." He spoke clearly and logically. Seriously, it doesn't look like you're lying.

My heart suddenly clenched, "Aren't you... very rich?"

"No amount of money can withstand her tossing like that." He sighed, very tired and frustrated. Although the deep-rooted arrogance still couldn't be concealed between his brows, the decadent expression seemed to have really experienced a life change.He said very pitifully: "I am very poor now, I have no place to live, so I can only live in a houseboat, which is still rented, and I can't find a suitable job for a while, so I just saw in the newspaper that you are looking for a piano teacher. I have to come here to make a living. You know, I can't do anything but play the piano..."

His sad appearance almost broke me, I felt that my brain was not enough, the incident happened too suddenly, I couldn't allow me to think about it, I was just very sad for Qi Shuli.If he is still on the plane now, if he knows that the piano teacher he hired is Geng Mochi, I'm afraid he will jump off the plane.

"What are you thinking about?" This guy found trust in my face, became unruly, put his hands on my shoulders, like an old friend he hadn't seen for many years, and sat on the sofa with his arms around me.I said worriedly: "I'm afraid that Qi Shuli will jump off the plane."

"Well," Geng Mochi nodded again and again, "I think so too."

Seattle used to be a place where Indians lived. Sealth (Sears), the Soguamihi Indian chief, was guarding the land where he lived. The famous speech "Seattle Sky":
"How can you buy the warmth of the sky and the earth? We don't understand. We Indians regard every part of the land as holy... When the white man roams the stars after death, he has long forgotten the land where he was born. After the death of the Indian Never forget our beautiful birthplace. Because the earth is our mother, mother and child are united, and they are one with each other.”

The first time I heard this story, I was deeply moved. It reminded me of love in reality. Some people are separated when they are separated, and no one will remember the other.Even if some people are separated, they want someone else to be their ghost. Even if the body is already rotten, being his ghost can take you to any corner of the world, even to hell; there are some people who are born a ghost, They are entangled endlessly when they are alive, and they will also cling to you after death, or simply get into your heart.When you are happy, he arouses your sadness, and when you are sad, he aggravates your sadness, lest you forget him...Unfortunately, Geng Mochi is the ghost that sneaks into my heart and occupies all my thoughts, no matter where I am, Even after escaping to Seattle, he always expressed his existence, or his past existence, in my heart all the time.

"Are you a human or a ghost? Is there such a rascal?"

I was really helpless for Geng Mochi's sudden appearance. Qi Shuli was still in New York, and I didn't know that his nemesis had come to Seattle.If he knew, how should he respond?

"In your eyes, I've always been a scoundrel. Since when have you never treated me as a scoundrel?" Geng Mochi said forcefully, as if I was a scoundrel in his eyes.

"You can find another job, or I can lend you some money and you can find a job elsewhere, okay?" I begged him.

Geng Mochi showed his peculiar devilish smile, opened and closed his mouth, and said inhuman words: "I can go, you can go with me, we will take Qi Shuli's money and fly far away, just like you and me back then It’s like going to Shanghai.”

"That's elopement!"

"It's just elopement. It's not like you haven't eloped before."

"We can't escape. You have never experienced how powerful he is. No matter where we go, he will always find us..."

"Yes, no matter where you go, I can always find you. You should have learned how powerful I am, right?" Geng Mochi was proud.

Of course I have learned that this man's ability is not inferior to that of Qi Shuli, how else can we say that they are each other's nemesis?No one buys into anyone else, when they were in Xingcheng, the two were neighbors; later when they went to Japan, Qi Shuli rented a house opposite him and monitored his every move; now, Geng Mochi is also lying in ambush without anyone knowing Nearby, he can see me feeding mandarin ducks by the lake, what else can't he see?
There was no way, I couldn't bear to drive him away, so I had to accept this established fact and let him be my piano teacher. No matter what, he was a compatriot, and my compatriots were in trouble. I couldn't let him live on the street.Qi Shuli explained to him after he came back, I believe he will not be indifferent, and he is still a reasonable person.

Two hours a day, one hundred dollars an hour.

This is the salary that Qi Shuli told David to pay.

I don't know if the price is high or low. I asked David, and David said that it is not too low. Many students from music colleges do not exceed fifty dollars per hour as tutors.

"He is not a student! (He is not a student!)"

I stared at him. This kid really doesn't know Taishan. He is a performer, and he actually regarded him as a student. I immediately ordered: "Increase his hourly salary to two hundred dollars!"

"No, I have no right to do so. (No, I don't have this right!)"

"I have! (I have!)"

Geng Mochi came to the class on time the next day, dressed in a beige dress, with freshly trimmed hair, looking radiant, how could he look bankrupt?He sat down on the sofa opposite me, and I immediately smelled a faint scent of perfume, which was very familiar. It was the same smell when I met him face to face in a cemetery in Star City many years ago.The mysterious and remote aura seems like a world away, disturbing people's heartstrings, and my mind suddenly became confused. Did he do it on purpose?I know his habits. He usually doesn’t use perfume. He only uses it when he’s in a particularly good mood, or when he has an important date. He’s in a good mood today?
Needless to say, he became my tutor easily. Could he be in a bad mood?And when he knew that I had increased his hourly salary to two hundred dollars, he immediately smiled, and his teeth gleamed again, "Thank you, you are so kind to me, I really can't repay you..."

"Do you want to make a promise with your body?" I knew what he was going to say next.

"I want to promise, do you want to?"

"I don't want to!" I interrupted him and said sternly, "Sir, the reason I pay you is for you to attend classes, not to listen to your gossip."

"Okay, class!" He was straightforward, got up and asked me to sit by the piano, and pulled a chair to sit next to me, "Play a piece for me, I'll see how good you are, so I can teach you according to your aptitude."

I didn't want him to look down on me, so I played a more familiar piece, Lao Bei's "Moonlight", I thought I could play it well, and I was waiting for him to praise me, I didn't want him to hit the back of my head, "What a mess, you play such a classic piece like this, Beethoven will jump out of the grave when he hears it, you think you are playing cotton, you have no sense of rhythm, you are out of breath, you have to die Yet?"

I made a rough estimate. During the two-hour course, I received more than twenty hits on the back of the head. How about $[-] in two hours, just for these twenty hits?My brain is really flooded, and I asked him to be a tutor!Give him a raise!

When it was lunch time, he didn't even want to leave after teaching. He walked around the house and asked him what he was looking for.He said he was looking for traces of my life, and at some point he lit a cigarette and held it between his fingers, and the indescribable loneliness and sadness filled my heart with the smoke.

"Smoking less, your health is not good."

"Are you still concerned about my body?" He let out a long breath, as if remembering something, and suddenly said, "Is there any water? Give me a glass, I want to take medicine." Then he took out two bottles of water from his pocket. A small medicine bottle, I was stunned, he is still taking medicine?Really, I forgot that he was still a patient, so I felt sore, and hurriedly shouted to the kitchen: "Julia, give me a cup of water please. (Julia, pour me a cup of water!)"

Julia quickly brought a glass of water from the kitchen and handed it to me. She tilted her head and smiled sweetly and asked, "Anything else I can do for you, Miss?" (Miss, do you have any other orders?)"

I know, because she saw the "Prince of the East" here, she couldn't help laughing: "No, you can go and do what you need to do. (No, you go to work.)"

"OK." Julia nodded, bowed, walked briskly into the kitchen, and glanced at Geng Mochi with nostalgia when she passed by Geng Mochi.Geng Mochi didn't look at her at all, he took the water I gave him with a displeased face, "I want you to pour water for me, but you order others, is that how you respect your teacher?"

"Then how do you want me to respect you?"

"Get some steamed crabs for me to eat."

"Steamed crab?" I widened my eyes in surprise, "You... how do you know?"

With a smirk on his face, he winked at me, "Your neighbor, Mrs. Henry, said so."

I want to die!This guy must have been ambushing near my house for not a day or two, even I know how to steam crabs, Mrs. Henry's mouth really can say everything, I really don't know what else she revealed.

I had insomnia for several days.I don't know how to explain the real situation to Qi Shuli, should I tell him before he returns to Seattle, or wait until he comes back, I can't make up my mind.Geng Mochi came to the lectures on time every day, but it couldn't be considered punctual, because he always came at dawn, and the time to go back was getting later and later. Except for not sleeping here, most of the time of the day wasted here.He is about to move half of his house to me. He thinks my sofa is uncomfortable, so he brings his oversized wool cushions; he thinks my slippers don’t fit well, so he brings his gray brocade slippers too. I thought my water cup was not pleasing to the eye, so I brought his green crystal cup; I thought my coffee was not good, so I brought a large can of hand-ground coffee powder to my house... In short, every time Come on, he won't be empty-handed, which really makes me sick, and the two hundred dollars an hour's salary, he took it all back to my house.

I was very dissatisfied, "Qi Shuli will be unhappy to see these things when he comes back."

"Then he will go out."

"This is his home!"

"That's OK, you just move out and live on the boat with me!"

I'm too angry to say anything...

But I always feel soft-hearted when I look at him. Although he talks and laughs and is in good spirits, I can feel that his body is very weak. He has to take medicine on time every day. During the two-hour class, he has to rest at least three times. Whenever I go out with him, I feel tired after walking too far, and I am out of breath when walking up the slope of the boulevard. Although he is very brave, he often shows that he is unable to do what he wants.The time he stays with me is getting longer and longer every day. In fact, I know it well. He just wants to spend more time with me.

Why didn't you cherish it before?I thought of this question again!Up to now we still don't belong to each other, the short-term happiness is just an ambush for a long-term parting, and this parting may last for a lifetime, we can't go to the end of the world.Because according to him, although the operation two years ago pulled him back from the clutches of death, the healing of his heart has also reached its limit, and it can extend his life for several years. The power of heaven.

Even so, we didn't deviate from each other when we were together, not even kissing, after all, I am now Qi Shuli's girlfriend, and he is not free (his nominal marriage to Milan is still in progress).Although he looks a little sloppy and uses various excuses to stay by my side, he is a well-bred person, and he is still a gentleman in his bones, knowing what to do and what not to do.

It’s just that I don’t quite understand why he doesn’t let me go to his houseboat. I asked to go several times, but he refused. When he came to class that day, I asked to go again, saying that he was in poor health and was running around. too tired.He refused again, because the inside was too shabby, and he was afraid that I would feel sad if I went there.

"Is it shabby? I think it looks very luxurious on the outside. There are so many boathouses by the lake, but yours is the most eye-catching." I expressed doubts.

(End of this chapter)