Licheng Twilight

Chapter 34

This winter is a bit different. Mu Mu and Ding Chuyi's birthdays are on the same day. Aunt Su wanted to take this opportunity to formally introduce Mu Mu to friends in the circle, so she started preparing for it very early.

Although she was tired, Mu Mu saw that she was having fun, so she stopped talking.It's just that when Aunt Su asks her to go to the clothing store to try on clothes from time to time, she obediently goes to try them on. She knows that Aunt Su attaches great importance to this. What mother doesn't want to dress her daughter up beautifully.

In the end, she chose a light blue floor-length dress. Mu Mu was already thin, and with a height of 1.6 meters [-], she looked extraordinarily tall and elegant.When she walked out of the fitting room, Ding Chu was stunned for a while, and Aunt Su nodded in satisfaction, and bought it without thinking about it.

The skirt is an off-the-shoulder dress, and it will still be a bit cold in this season. Aunt Su thought about helping Mu Mu choose a pure white fluffy shawl, and Mu Mu felt a lot warmer when she wore it.

Ye Tianche has been very busy recently, Mu Mu rarely sees him once or twice a week, and occasionally goes to his house to look for him, but he is always in a hurry to go out, and the two of them have no time to say a few words.

One weekend, Mu Mu went shopping with Lin Lier. Lin Lier is an absolute shopaholic. After shopping all morning, the harvest is really scary. The two of them are a bit tired carrying big bags and small bags. They are thinking about finding a place to rest When she saw a coffee shop not far ahead, Lin Lier pointed her finger, walked over quickly without saying a word, and pushed the door sideways to let Mu Mu go in first, and then she trotted to keep up, throwing the things and the whole thing was gone. The person slumped on the sofa in the cafe.

The waiter at the coffee shop approached them courteously and asked them what they wanted to drink. Lin Li'er ordered a latte, and Mu Mu ordered a cappuccino.

The coffee shop is very warmly decorated, and it gives people a sense of comfort and relaxation, especially in the center left of the shop, there is a white piano, and the melodious piano music pours down like gurgling water. Mu Mu propped up her chin, sipped her cappuccino, and exclaimed, "This man plays the piano really well."

Lin Li'er pursed her lips, and listened carefully for a while before saying, "Well, it's really not bad, on par with Ah Che's level." She smiled a little maliciously, and the hidden anxiety factor became active again, suggesting He said, "Ah Mu, if we met in the past, maybe we would be a handsome guy." From their perspective, they could only see that it was a boy with a straight back.

Mu Mu shook her head and refused, "It's not very good."

But Lin Li'er refused to let her go, stood up and pulled Mu Mu directly to the piano, reached out and patted the boy sitting by the piano on the shoulder, "Hi, handsome guy, my friend wants to meet you."

The boy turned his head, his face covered with dark clouds, "Lin Li'er, you can't be more reserved, whoever you say will dare to marry you in the future."

It turned out to be Ye Tianche, Lin Li'er was dumbfounded for a few seconds and then started laughing and pretending to be stupid, then she firmly chose to sacrifice her comrades to preserve her strength, and withdrew first with big bags and small bags.

"Mumu, don't be led astray by that crazy girl," Ye Tianche rubbed his temples, "You're such a grown-up, why haven't you shown signs of growing up yet?"

Mu Mu obviously didn't care much about these things, and just asked, "But——what are you doing here?"

"Part-time job," he blinked and smiled mysteriously. Then he remembered that he was still working. When he turned around and saw the boss staring at him, he quickly sat down and started playing the piano again. "Mumu, go back first." , I'll tell you when I get home."

Mu Mu didn't want to disturb him any more, but she refused to leave, and sat quietly back to her original position, but she didn't expect to sit for an entire afternoon.

He played for five full hours, and even if there was a break in between, it was only a few minutes. Seeing that his normally fair fingers turned red, Mu Mu felt very uncomfortable.On the contrary, he kept counting the banknotes in his hand and grinned almost to his ears, looking like a miser.

"Why are you working so hard?" She found an OK bandage, and carefully wrapped his frayed fingers, "Let's hear Feng Yin quit his job?"

"No," he smiled casually, his swarthy eyes rolled around in their sockets, as if he was thinking about something.

"So you are working two jobs now?" Mu Mu was puzzled.

"Of course," he looked proud, shaking his hand holding the piggy bank, and the sound of the coins colliding with each other was very clear, "I earned all of this myself."

"What are you saving money for?"

Ye Tianche laughed, but his joking tone was rather imposing, "What else can a man do with saving money? Naturally, it's for marrying a wife."

He said that he wanted to save his wife's money. Does this mean that he already has someone he likes, and if so, who would it be, and who would be so lucky?
But what he said was half-truth, and Mu Mu didn't know whether to believe it or not, but she subconsciously didn't want to ask any more questions, so she just lazily responded and changed the subject casually.

It’s another year of Christmas. Santa Claus in a big red padded jacket carries a bulging backpack and starts to walk around the streets. He sneaks into the house through the chimney when the children are asleep, and puts gifts on the children In a sock under the bed.But there are no chimneys in Chinese houses, and Santa Claus can't come in, so we have to ask the children's parents to pass the gifts to them.

This is a Chinese-style version of a fairy tale about Santa Claus. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether many things are true or not. It’s not a bad thing to learn to leave a little room for imagination and keep a little innocence, even if we have no way to do it. We can also try our best to preserve these original beauty for others.

Mu Mu's first Christmas present this year was from his elder brother Ding Chuyi. It was a pair of white high heels studded with crystals. He bought them from a lot of stores. It matched the light blue dress perfectly. .

Although the heels were not high, Mu Mu, who had never worn high heels, was still terrified to walk all the way in them.

She put on a little makeup, and the light blush on her face set off a pair of dark jade-colored but clear eyes. Her long hair was draped around her waist, pinned to one side with a crystal hairpin that Aunt Su bought for her, and it was jet black. Her long hair fell vertically like a waterfall, but it was slightly curled at the end. He watched her walk down the stairs step by step, holding the hem of the floor-length dress with both hands, and a few crystals on the tip of her shoe. It was exposed, reflecting the lights of the banquet hall with colorful effects, dazzled his eyes.

A long time later, when Ye Tianche recalled the scene at this time again, he could still clearly remember her entire attire that day, even the details of her mouth, as if the whole thing had been engraved in her heart. That beautiful one was so unreal, but the others didn't feel the same way. They all said that Mu Mu was indeed pretty that day, but not so stunning.

Could it be that beauty is in the eye of the beholder?He scratched his head and thought for a long time before realizing that he had overlooked an important point, lifted the table and cursed, fuck!Who said my girl is not good-looking? !
In fact, when it comes to the question of appearance, Mu Mu received relatively good evaluations, which are generally good-looking, or delicate, and so on. There are really few people who say she is beautiful, and among them, there are also some compliments ingredients.

Well, the facts are almost like this, so Ye Tianche is really, uh, a little unreasonable.

He played two piano pieces at her birthday party, one by Chopin and one written by himself called "Light".

The whole melody of the song "Light" fluctuates a lot. At the beginning, it is a slow crooning, with a trace of despair and coldness, like a person groping forward in the dark alone, and there is an unpredictable darkness ahead. I don't know how far it is, and I don't know if there is a way out, and then a little light slowly ignites at a certain moment, and the whole rhythm becomes rapid. Mu Mu can almost imagine Ye Tianche's fingers flying on the piano keys. The jumping scene and the melody make people's whole heart hang, and they don't even dare to breathe too loudly, the light expands little by little, and finally at the exit, there is the morning sun that sprinkles the ground, and the warmth climbs to the ground in an instant , the melody gradually becomes tender like water, like boating in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River on a summer morning, with a woman picking lotus singing softly beside her.

At the end of the song, he got up and walked straight to her, smiling tenderly against the light, and handed her the sheet music that he had composed over three months. On the top of the cover, there were a few concise and powerful words , "TO: Mumu".At the end of the title page, the words "Ye Tianche" were neatly written.

Mu Mu was so surprised that she couldn't speak, she didn't expect that the birthday present he gave her would be this, holding his painstaking efforts for more than three months, she only felt a heavy heart, an indescribable sense of fulfillment, that Perhaps it is what people call happiness.

But he just smiled, stretched his hand out of his pocket and took out an exquisite small box, opened it in front of her, and there was a necklace lying inside, it was just a very ordinary necklace, but it didn't have any hanging on it. Pendant, only one ring.

"Although it's not something expensive, I bought it after spending all my wife's money." He took the necklace and put his hand around her neck to put it on her, "Mumu, you have to take good care of it." ah."

After hearing this, she was so happy that she was about to go crazy. Today he gave her too many surprises. This happiness came too unexpectedly and too unreal, so that what she showed was involuntary worry and uneasiness.Why did he act as if he was about to say goodbye to her, why his smile never reached his eyes, why even when he was most careless, she looked up at him with a hint of sadness, desperately I wanted to see something in his eyes, but he just kept smiling and didn't show any strangeness.

"If you are just like this, my silly sister may not be able to understand your thoughts." Ding Chuyi shook the orange juice in the glass and said lightly, "Not many people have heard the Chopin piece you played. Even fewer people know that story."

Ye Tianche smiled bitterly, "I only dared to play because I knew she couldn't understand, do you understand?"

Until a long time later, when Mu Mu heard that piece by Chopin again by chance, her first reaction was to shed tears involuntarily. A girl in the company thought she was moved by the piece, so she Said, in fact, there is a beautiful story about this piece of music. It is said that Chopin fell in love with a woman at first sight at a ball. Following this inspiration, he improvised this piece of music at the ball, and played it perfectly. This is used to express the love for the woman, and later this incident became a good story, and it is often used by piano lovers, so it has an alias, called Confession Song.

(End of this chapter)