Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Lullaby

I stood on the balcony watching my eldest brother's car go away, and then glanced at the next door, feeling indescribably sad.In my heart, Big Brother has always been firm, tenacious, and indomitable. I have been fortunate enough to have been to most of the rooms in Shen Qinyan's house, and I am also very familiar with the structure of his house.The second floor of his home is a study and two bedrooms.When he is at home, the place he spends most often is the study.Unlike many people's study rooms, the books on the shelves in his home are not for decoration. I often see him reading books very seriously, and he can really read them.

I think this is very rare. When I asked him, he answered me very seriously: "I left school too early, and now I regret it more and more as I get older, so I have to hurry up and study more." I nodded repeatedly in agreement, "I think it's never too late to study." He smiled slightly and reached out to touch my face. At this moment Shen Qinyan led me into the study.I was curious about the purpose of the cabinet on the left side of his study, but now I finally know. He reached out to open the cabinet on the left, bent down, and took out a huge wooden piano case from the cabinet.The body of the box is exquisite, the panel is arched outwards, and the inside is a cello. The body is brand new, the curve is round, and it is as gorgeous as silk.He opened the European-style closet, took out a matching piano stand by magic, and took out a sheet music from the bookshelf, and spread it out.

I sat down on the chair, resting my chin on the back of the chair, and sighed in surprise, "I didn't expect your cello to be so well preserved!" "It's not the piano that accompanied me when I was a child," he said. "When I ran away from home, I didn't take anything with me except my ID card." "Oh……" "Two years ago, when I passed by the Hill Music Store in Vienna, I accidentally saw this classic cello for sale, so I bought it. Except for the sound test, I never played it once." "I understand the feeling of collecting."

Hearing this, he lowered his head with a smile, sat on a chair, and carefully wiped the strings with rosin. "When I was a child, I hoped to have a precious cello, but I never got it. So, knowing that I would never play it again, I bought it." He said, "I really wanted to ask 'what song do you want to hear', but In fact, you can only listen to the simplest pieces." "It's okay." I said quickly. "Then I'm making a fool of myself." He bent slightly towards me, sat down with a calm face, held the cello in his arms with his left hand, and wound the bow with his left hand. His posture was standard, and his movements were smooth and coherent.He sat by the window, and the night outside the window was like a prelude to a performance on the stage.

He lowered his eyes and turned sideways slightly, leaving me with a perfect profile, like a painting.His fingers were long and his nails were beautifully manicured, smooth and even.I listened intently. Yes, this is an expensive cello, but it is also an excellent cello, with a mellow and beautiful melody, and a light melody flowing between the bowstrings, but with a small vibrato due to lack of proficiency—as far as I know , the cello often has a low voice like weeping, but he can play it so lightly and clearly, like a laughing child, and some syllables are like clear streams falling on stones, breaking into snow-white foam.

I think he must have put in a lot of hard work back then. Although it has been many years, he can barely say that his skills are fair.It's just that the song was too simple. The song he played was a nursery rhyme, "Lullaby". I... looked at him with a complicated expression, and clapped my hands, but the applause sounded somewhat lacking in confidence. He put down the piano and bow, and said to me calmly: "As you can see, I can only play this piece now." "The lullaby is also very good!" I said hard. He smiled, "That's right, you can play lullabies to your children in the future."

I pretended not to hear. The relationship between me and Shen Qinyan is going very smoothly, I feel like spring is blooming every day. I didn't think about hiding my relationship with Shen Qinyan, but when my elder brother called to ask about it, I was still a little surprised.After careful questioning, I found out that he learned about my boyfriend from Rong Jiaming.He asked me to talk to him right away, right away.I had to obey my elder brother's decree—because he would tell his parents otherwise. But the boss is always busy. I drove back to the city center after get off work, survived the traffic jam, and finally arrived at the financial building where Shengxuan was.The whole building was still brightly lit.

I also came here more than half a year ago, and this time it seems that the scale seems to be bigger.Because of the hard work of his eldest brother, Sheng Xuan bought several more floors as offices. The big brother's office is amazingly bright, and he had just finished a meeting with some of the directors when I went.Back in his office, he looked tired. The young assistant Zhan Wei knocked on the door with a cup of hot coffee and asked the elder brother: "Mr. Du, we are ordering takeaway. Would you... want it?" The eldest brother pointed at me, "Order one more." "I do not want it."

"have eaten?" "It's not..." "Then eat with me." "okay." "Brother, don't you have dinner with Sister Yao?" He nodded, "She's been busy with a big business case recently, and she works overtime until late at night every day." So it is definitely not a good thing to say that both parties in a relationship are workaholics. The wall clock on the wall had reached eight o'clock, and I regretfully said, "...it's not easy being a lawyer." The eldest brother leaned on the boss chair, his face was full of exhaustion, he sat on the boss chair with his brows locked and let out a soft breath.

I felt distressed when I saw it, "Actually, I don't think there is any need to expand the company. The current situation is also very good, and there is no shortage of money." The eldest brother shook his head, "It's different. In the financial industry, if you don't advance, you will retreat." "Oh, all right then." In terms of professionalism, the eldest brother is really like a full father.Dad is also a workaholic. It is not easy for him to build Shengxuan by himself and expand it to the scale that now occupies seven floors.Dad always left early and came back late, often on business trips, and usually he didn't come home until I went to bed at night.He works so hard to give us the best possible life.Fortunately, no matter how busy he is, he will spare half a day every weekend to read books and even play computer games with me, and play basketball with my brother.

Dad worked hard for thirty years, until two years ago he suddenly had a tumor in his brain, and the whole family was very nervous.Fortunately, the tumor was benign, and my father recovered completely after a minor operation.During his illness, his father reflected on himself and spent too much time at work, so he finally decided to unload the burden and do what he should have done when he was young. Since last year, he and his mother have traveled around the world. Came back once during New Years. I put the huge satchel on the sofa, walked behind my eldest brother, reached out and patted his shoulder lightly.The muscles in his shoulders were tense, showing that he had lived a life of high tension. The eldest brother turned around and looked at me slowly, "Why did you change your gender? Is it really because of having a boyfriend?" My face became hot. "It's...not really..." I scratched my neck, "I've always been considerate!" The eldest brother shook his head and laughed, as if he heard the funniest joke in the world. "The underground work is doing well, and I have been hiding it from me for two or three months." "...I didn't hide it either." I didn't deliberately hide it, I thought, who told me that Shen Qinyan and I were neighbors? "Shouldn't it be Xiao Yang?" "Impossible." "Joshinen?" I almost fell down on the thick carpet, "Brother, if Qiao Xining and I could do it, we would have done it long ago. Besides, he has a girlfriend now! It's Song Yihan, even if you don't read entertainment news, just read the newspaper You'll see it sometime." The eldest brother showed the first smile I saw today. "How did you know each other? On the Internet?" "……no." The eldest brother was surprised, "It's not? I thought it must be those friends on your network." This is really a wrong guess. I have a lot of friends on the Internet, many of whom are of the opposite sex, and many of them have met, but everyone will be surprised when they see me. possible development. The eldest brother fell into deep thought, and he looked at me with a frown, with a look of exploring puzzles. "colleague?" "It's not true... In short, we will know each other when the fate comes." "I didn't expect you to reject Rong Jiaming." The elder brother smiled slightly, "You are really a blockbuster." I was a little embarrassed, "When did he tell you?" "Before we were busy with work, so we didn't have time to dwell on these matters. When I was discussing the contract with him yesterday, he inadvertently said that you had rejected him a long time ago," the elder brother thought for a while, "He always thought you were right He has a good impression, but you don't seem to like him." "I don't think I'm compatible with him." The eldest brother picked up a pen and corrected the documents on the table, "Rong Jiaming is Desa's second son, generally speaking, no one would refuse." "I'm not short of money." I pouted. The eldest brother said while annotating on the document: "Although our family is not as good as the Rong family, we will never let you suffer any grievances." "No," I said triumphantly, "in this world, who would dare to bully me?" "That's right, I dare not." The eldest brother shook his head. "Where's your boyfriend? He won't bully you, will he?" "How is it possible? I feel like I'm going to bully him." The elder brother looked at me intently for a while, then nodded again, "I noticed you just now when you entered the room, today you look very good. Every time I saw you before, my face was as pale as malnutrition." You can't stay up all night with Shen Qinyan.He is like a big gear with a fixed period, and his life is extremely regular, which also drives me, a small gear, to live a regular life.So I admire him very much. As a public figure, he can coordinate the relationship between work and his own time, which is definitely not an ordinary person. I pursed my lips and laughed, "He takes good care of me." "I've always been worried that you wouldn't take care of yourself, but it's better now." The elder brother laughed, "You can tell me who it is after all this detour. What's his name?" "He—" I paused, "Brother, you set a time, and I'll bring him to see you. Let him tell you by himself." I deliberately sold off.It's not that I can't tell my elder brother now, but I want to pick a more formal time to tell him.You know, it is definitely a big deal for the youngest daughter of the Du family to have a boyfriend.Shen Qinyan is handsome and calm, and he also likes me very much.Every time I think that I have such an excellent boyfriend, I almost want to fly to the sky.If the eldest brother meets him, he will be surprised and delighted! "That's fine." The eldest brother has always been very patient, he agreed with my point of view, pressed the button, and the assistant lady appeared at the door. "Look, I'm free one night this week." The assistant looked at the notepad, "Mr. Du, tomorrow night is fine." I let out a "huh", and Shen Qin said that I have something to do tomorrow night, so I quickly asked, "Can't you do it on weekends?" "I have an appointment this weekend—" Before the words were finished, the eldest brother's cell phone rang suddenly.The eldest brother's expression changed just after he said a few words. After putting down the phone, he stood up, buttoned up the laptop on the table, walked to the window and grabbed the suit jacket on the hanger. There are not many things in this world that can change the face of elder brother. The last time I saw his anxious expression was when my father was sick in bed, I asked anxiously: "What's wrong?" The eldest brother put the laptop into the computer bag, picked up the car keys, "Yao Yao suddenly passed out and is in the hospital." I jumped up, "Ah, I want to go too!" The eldest brother nodded, "Alright." The eldest brother drove his Ford fast and steady, through the center of the city, and flew to the hospital. I was very anxious, and trotted all the way to the emergency room behind my elder brother, feeling that I hadn't exercised like this for many years.When she arrived, Yao Yao had already woken up, she was leaning against the bed with a pale face and drinking chocolate milk with a hanging bottle. The eldest brother strode to her bed and looked down at her. I saw a thin layer of sweat on my eldest brother's forehead, and he was like this before Dad's operation.The eldest brother has always given the impression of being reliable, and now he is also very nervous. "Du Zhe," Yao Yao weakly called the elder brother's name, "Why are you here?" The elder brother didn't make a sound, but looked at a man and a woman beside the hospital bed. They were Yao Yao's colleagues, and they all looked exhausted at the moment.After seeing the eldest brother, the leading man shook hands with the eldest brother.The two obviously knew each other well, so they explained the reason. It turned out that Yao Yao was busy with a commercial case recently. When she was discussing the details with her colleagues at night, she got up to pour coffee. After walking a few steps, she passed out in the conference room.It is said that it just fell down straight. Fortunately, the conference room was covered with thick carpets so that no major problems occurred.They rushed her to a nearby hospital, and after a preliminary diagnosis, they thought it might be hypoglycemia.Sure enough, after losing half a bottle of glucose, she woke up.Because they are partners, everyone in the law firm knew that Yao Yao was dating her elder brother, so they called her elder brother. Because it was not a serious illness, the elder brother let out a long sigh of relief.Me too, couldn't help but put a smile on my face. The other party said: "If Mr. Du comes, we will temporarily resign." The eldest brother nodded slightly, "Thank you." After they left, the emergency room was still crowded with people. I drew the curtain and separated a small quiet space. "Hypoglycemia?" The eldest brother sat on the edge of the hospital bed, frowned and looked at Yao Yao, "Why didn't I know you still had hypoglycemia?" Yao Yao smiled wryly, "I didn't know before I passed out. Probably because I was too tired during this time." In the information society, it is not easy for everyone, and the work pressure is not clear to the big brother.He pondered for a while, "I know you are very busy during this period, but you can't sacrifice your health. I will ask your partner for leave and take a good rest these few days. I booked a hot spring for the weekend, and I will take a rest with me Fake." "But... I have to appear in court next week." The eldest brother didn't completely deny it, but his tone sounded undeniable, "We will make a decision after seeing your recovery." Yao Yao pursed her lips and turned her gaze to me.I spread my hands to her, expressing helplessness.For the eldest brother, these words are already extremely gentle.There was no veto, no arbitrary opposition. After Yao Yao finished infusing a bottle of glucose, it was past eleven o'clock, and the doctor confirmed that there was no serious problem, and signed a discharge permit. My elder brother sent her home, and I, as a competent attendant, followed. We passed a 24-hour convenience store on the way, and my elder brother went to buy a lot of chocolates and snacks. Yao Yao frowned, "This is too much." The eldest brother turned a deaf ear to it. "Otherwise, Ali, would you like to take some back to eat?" My brother looked at me in the rearview mirror. I quickly waved my hand, "No, sister Yao, you can eat by yourself. I don't like sweets very much." Yao Yao shook her head and smiled. This is my first time to Yao Yao's house.Her parents both live in Linshi, which is 300 kilometers away from Jinghai. She also lives alone. The house is not too big. There are two bedrooms, one bedroom and one study room. Although she has woken up, she is still in a poor state of mind, and people seem to be floating when she walks. My elder brother and I helped her lie down on the bed to rest. Just laying down, the phone on the bedside table rang. Yao Yao glanced at the caller's number, she immediately lifted her spirits, sat up straight and picked up the phone.Maybe the sound insulation effect of the phone is not very good, or maybe it's too quiet in the bedroom, I heard a deep man's voice coming from the other end. Yao Yao smiled and replied docilely: "...Yes, Dad, everything is fine with me... The materials for the case have been prepared very well, Dad, your suggestion is very good... Don't worry, and the colleagues in the firm The cooperation is also very smooth... How is my brother's recent studies... How are you and your mother doing recently? Didn't your mother complain about abdominal pain last time... Well, I'm fine..." I have also studied abroad, and I know that when I am abroad, I always report good news but not bad news.In the next second, her expression froze suddenly, as if the person on the other end of the phone had said something extraordinary. In the next second, her fingers grabbed the quilt with force, "Dad, why did you bring this up?" My brother and I looked at each other. She lowered her head and answered vaguely, "I don't know", "Let me think about it", "I can't help it", and finally hung up the phone with a confused look on her face. The elder brother said, "What did you say?" "Some small things at home, don't matter." Yao Yao said, it could be seen that she wanted to make her smile look relaxed, but maybe it was because she was sick, the forced smile was not much different from crying. The elder brother didn't make a sound, just glanced at me, I understood, tiptoed out of the bedroom, closed the door behind him, and came to the living room.The voices of the two of them became faint and could not be heard clearly. I don't know exactly what elder brother wants to talk about with Yao Yao, but it's obviously a matter between the two of them, and I can't intervene. In Yao Yao's house, the living room and the balcony are connected as one. There is a cabinet at the entrance with a photo frame on it. I just glanced at it and knew it was Yao Yao's family of four.The parents stood behind the two children. Uncle Yao was dressed in a judge's robe, with a dignified face; the aunt was very dignified, even at this age, she looked picturesque. And in front of them are Yao Yao in her early twenties and a little boy who looks about ten years old. The little boy's face vaguely resembles his mother's shadow, very beautiful, with piercing eyes.The siblings stood side by side head to head, and they seemed to be in a very good relationship. A very warm photo, I couldn't help laughing—Yao Yao's family is really similar to mine, with a strict father and a loving mother, and two children, a boy and a girl. I sat on the sofa and waited for my elder brother to come out. I wanted to take out my mobile phone to play, but my eyes passed through the transparent glass coffee table, and I saw a stack of newspapers, magazines, and printing paper with a thickness of about ten centimeters on the bottom of the coffee table—I am definitely not Disrespecting people's privacy is by no means troublesome.However, the headline of the first newspaper, the cover of the first magazine, and the headline of the first printout that I saw were all related to Shen Qinyan. Is Yao Yao a fan of Shen Qinyan? I thought, since I put these things casually on the coffee table, I don't mind if I flipped through them a little bit. I bent down and roughly doubled.That stack of newspapers was full of entertainment and gossip news, from new to old, and there were two stacks of magazines, all of which were beautifully printed movie magazines, and the cover of each was Shen Qinyan.As for the printed press releases, as I expected, they were all related to Shen Qinyan. My heart was surging, I was holding the magazine, and my eyes subconsciously circled around the room——suddenly, I was caught by a stack of DVDs on the TV cabinet.When I took a closer look, as expected, they were all Shen Qinyan's movies, with a very complete collection. I am a little ashamed.Although I am Shen Qinyan's girlfriend, there isn't a single magazine with him on the cover.Although I was also paying attention to his entertainment news, I never thought about printing it out, and put them neatly into a pile and put them under the coffee table.As for DVDs of the movies he starred in, I don't have one either! Behind the collector is love.Ah, it turns out that liking a celebrity will indeed turn you into a collector. While waiting for my elder brother, I took out the latest entertainment newspaper in Yao Yao's collection, and turned to the latest gossip about him—"Shen Qinyan Ann Lu broke up rumors". Entertainment reporters are always full of imagination and enthusiasm. Exaggerated style of writing, the newspaper described the relationship between the two vividly, saying that the two had been together since their early twenties, but broke up four or five years ago.There was no one else around, and they were good friends, and they often ate together, so they were misunderstood. I thought the story was quite plausible, and the pictures were vivid, but I was suddenly startled by a loud cry from the bedroom. "Du Zhe, let me tell you, don't interfere with my affairs!" I was stunned. "...I have no obligation to tell you everything!" "...I'm fed up with your superior attitude! I know you have money, but not everything can be solved with money, do you know that!" "...What do you know? You don't know anything!" Every word and every sentence reveals intense emotions until the voice quiets down. Ten minutes later, the eldest brother came out of the bedroom with a gloomy expression.After such a heated argument just now, I can hardly imagine him smiling at this moment. I asked him softly, "Is everything okay?" He shook his head and nodded noncommittally, "Let's go, she's asleep." On the way back, I asked while driving: "Brother, what did you just say to Sister Yao?" "I asked her what she was worried about, and said I would help. She kept saying nothing. The more I asked her, the angrier she became, and finally she suddenly lost control and exploded." The elder brother leaned back in the chair, his face full of exhaustion. I said, "Brother, don't be sad. She is sick, so it is inevitable that she will be in a bad mood. She will be fine when she recovers." The eldest brother shook his head, "She's not you, and she forgets everything after it's over. She had something on her mind, but she didn't tell me. I regret it a bit, and shouldn't make up my own mind." "Don't worry, big brother, you are so kind," I said with certainty, "When she gets angry, she will understand that you are good for her." "Am I really that good?" After a few seconds of silence, the eldest brother asked me back.The shade of the trees on the side of the road cast on his face and flashed quickly, "Sometimes I feel that I don't have that much weight in her heart. When she is with me, she is always a little absent-minded." My eldest brother is so good, so smart, so confident.He has a successful career and deserves to be loved by many people.Doubt and regret are words that would never appear on Big Brother.I vaguely felt that the development of the relationship between elder brother and Yao Yao was not as smooth as I imagined—at least not as smooth as Shen Qinyan and I.I couldn't help but blame Yao Yao a little bit, it was because of her that my respected elder brother showed a lonely expression. "Brother, don't be depressed," I said, "If she doesn't care about your feelings so much, then find another girlfriend." The eldest brother said wearily: "Don't say stupid things. Let you change your current boyfriend, will you agree?" "Of course not—" I suddenly hoarse my voice, and stopped talking. There was silence in the carriage for a while, and the eldest brother spoke again, "Did you meet Shen Qinyan when you were an assistant beside Qiao Xining?" I felt my scalp numb, and subconsciously stepped on the brakes.Why did the elder brother ask me about Shen Qinyan?Ah, that's right, the first time I went to Yao Yao's house, I saw her full of information about Shen Qinyan, how could my elder brother not find it?Could it be that he thought Shen Qinyan was his - er, rival in love? "Why didn't you talk?" the eldest brother said, "I remember that Qiao Xining participated in the same movie as him." "I've seen it a few times." "Tell me." "He is very handsome and dedicated. Everyone on the set, from the cameraman to the prop master, praised him a lot," my old god replied, "Well, I saw that sister Yao has collected a lot of information about him, maybe he is just an enthusiastic fan. . Enthusiastic fans sometimes spare no time and energy to pursue stars." "Yao Yao is not young anymore, nor is she a girl in her teens or twenties." "Every star has fanatical fans. Brother, you haven't seen it. When I was Qiao Xining's assistant, I helped him deal with some gifts. There are too many fanatical fans. The one who impressed me the most was a man in his forties. Auntie, her daughter has gone to college, she is very enthusiastic and gave Qiao Xining a lot of presents, saying that every time she saw Qiao Xining, she felt like she was back to her youth." "Did Yao Yao ask you for Shen Qinyan's signature or something else?" "Not really." "Would real fans not want it?" I vaguely understand what big brother means.When I was Qiao Xining's assistant, I told Yao Yao more than once what I saw and heard on the set, and Shen Qinyan should have been mentioned as well.My elder brother thought that if sister Yao Yao was really his fanatical fan, he would inevitably ask a few more questions, just like the dreamy expression on her face when she talked about Gu Chijun with me.The actual situation is that she never took the initiative to ask Shen Qinyan a word in front of me. "No, big brother," I said, "there are all kinds of fans. If Sister Yao is only in her teens or twenties, it is not surprising that she is so fanatical about star chasing, but she is not that kind of little girl, she must be calm Much more, just silently paying attention to your favorite idol is enough. Just like I like Zhang Wei'an, although he made a record for Qiao Xining, I only went to the studio to watch it once." The eldest brother looked at me, wanted to say something, and finally stopped talking. After thinking about it, I said: "Brother, otherwise, you take care of sister Yao first, and my boyfriend is also very busy, so wait until we meet again?" I had a weird premonition that at this moment, I must not tell Brother, Shen Qinyan is my boyfriend. The eldest brother has no objection, "That's fine." Soon the car stopped at No. 17 Baisha Road, my elder brother entered the house with me, went back to his own bedroom, packed some clothes and was about to leave. "how?" "I'm worried, go back and spend the night with her." I stood on the balcony watching my eldest brother's car go away, and then glanced at the next door, feeling indescribably sad.In my heart, Big Brother has always been firm, tenacious, and indomitable.I never want to see him sad. What I didn't expect was that my own test came so quickly.