What exactly is he thinking?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look up. This time, he stayed at the bow of the boat. Although the hull kept rising and falling with the surging of the river, he stood there like a rock. His figure and eyes were so firm, as if even the river water flowed by him, he could not shake or change him at all.

Seeing that Pei Yuanxiu and I had not responded, Wu Yanqiu smiled and said, "I hope you can accomplish it."

“…”

"Tomorrow, the Xu hour, the lower officials will still wait for the good news for the two of them here, and also wait for Miss Li."

“…”

"Goodbye to the Lord."

After saying that, he saluted us again. The entourage behind us walked up and took the huge brocade box from the servant, which seemed to be a little heavy. Then Wu Yanqiu took them and left.

This time, before we waited for the boat to leave, we all turned around and walked towards the carriage. Pei Yuanxiu still carried Li'er first, then held my hand with one hand and the other with my waist, and carefully helped me on the carriage. Then, he came up by himself.

The attendant also presented the box.

The carriage quickly drove forward with the driver's shout.

Again, silence.

I don’t know if it was because I spent too much energy on the trip today or for some other reason, Li'er did not crawl around the carriage or drag us to chat like before, but sat cross-legged and quietly beside me. On the other side was Pei Yuanxiu, who also sat quietly.

After a while of silence, the carriage ran into Jinling City. The vendors on both sides of the street that had not had time to clean up were still shouting and shouting, and passers-by on the street were greeting and talking, but the sound outside made the almost tight depression and dullness in the small carriage.

Li'er finally looked up and looked at me, then looked at Pei Yuanxiu: "Mom, dad, why don't you talk anymore?"

Pei Yuanxiu and I looked at each other, and then looked at her.

But they were all at a loss.

No matter how dirty the adult world is, children should not know. It is precisely because of this that when I was in the palace, my bad relationship with Pei Yuanhao was always hidden from Nianshen. Li'er didn't know what painful past my father and I had experienced, and he didn't know what kind of barrier we and his father were now.

But when she asked this, the atmosphere in the car became even more awkward.

Pei Yuanxiu immediately smiled and said, "Li'er, what's there?"

Fortunately, he changed the subject and Li'er's attention immediately left the point of "Why don't we talk?", and everyone's attention was also placed on the brocade box lying quietly on the other side of the carriage.

Pei Yuanhao's gift.

Looking back at the things in the mountains of brocade boxes yesterday, looking at this box that is almost the same length as Li Er's height, it is a bit difficult to guess.

This time, Li'er pouted: "Look at it, it's weird."

Oh? Weird?

Pei Yuanxiu and I both looked at each other, probably remembering those completely inappropriate clothes, shoes and socks. What was there this time, and Li'er said it was strange?

We took the heavy box and opened it.

Inside, there is a piano.

At first sight, I was a little surprised and didn't understand why Pei Yuanhao gave Li Er a piano that she didn't know how to play at all. However, when I looked at it for a few more times, my heart couldn't help but sank.

This piano is wide and long, and the body of the piano looks particularly thick and solid, giving people a sense of calmness and restraint. The guqin is made of high-quality fir wood. As soon as you open the brocade box, you can smell a strong rosin fragrance. The body of the piano is covered with vermilion red paint, but it seems that because of the time, the color of the red paint is not so bright and bright, and some places are brown, and even the corners of the piano body have mottled traces of the red paint falling off.

This is an old piano.

I also noticed that around the inside of the brocade box, there was a layer of fishing net-like things, and it looked a bit ragged. Logically speaking, such brocade box is used to give gifts. Even if it is not inlaid with gold and silver, it should be covered with brocade. How could it be a layer of broken net?

My brows frowned, and Pei Yuanxiu, who was beside me, also had a slightly deeper expression.

Pei Yuanhao gave an old piano and put it on a bad net.

Old piano...

Bad net...

For a moment, I also fell silent.

I immediately fell into an unspeakable, almost depressing silence in the carriage. I looked at the ancient piano silently, lying quietly in the brocade box, like a person who had been silent for a long time, but could see everything in the world clearly and thoroughly.

If the last time, the mountain-stacked brocade boxes sent by Pei Yuanhao were like a third party watching the cold war between me and Pei Yuanxiu, then this time, his feeling of existence became stronger and stronger.

Especially when Li'er reached out and tweaked the strings.

The "clang" sound made both of us tremble.

Li'er raised his head and said to me, "Mom, are you weird? Who can give me a gift or an old or used thing? And the box is so ragged?"

...

I didn't know how to answer her for a moment. I looked at the old piano again, reached out and slowly closed the box, and said, "It's very strange. But don't dislike others just because the things given to you are not good. This is polite, do you know?"

She nodded.

This time, it was completely quiet.

Pei Yuanxiu and I were silent, and even Li'er didn't say anything. The three of us sat quietly, but our eyes seemed to fall on the long brocade box involuntarily.

Old piano...

Bad net...

It turns out that Pei Yuanhao has this meaning.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Only then did I remember that when Wu Yanqiu asked someone to send the brocade box over, he said, "This is what my master wants to give to his wife." But I thought he was going to give a gift from his son in this name, so I didn't expect to refuse, but I didn't expect that there was an old piano inside.

I couldn't help but feel a little amused.

But it's real, I don't want to cry or laugh.

After a while, the carriage returned home.

When we walked to the small bridge and it was time to split the way, Pei Yuanxiu naturally wanted to go back to his study. I was about to turn back to call Li'er, but I saw her walking to the servant and giving instructions, then took the brocade box and hugged it myself. She was not too tall, and the brocade box was long held by her, almost a little taller than her, and seemed a little clumsy.

I asked, "What are you doing?"

"I want to take it back."

"Will you just let them take it down and leave it alone?"

She looked up at me and said, "Mom, didn't you say that even if this thing is not good, don't dislike it? I plan to take it back."

I frowned slightly: "Take it back, you won't be able to play."

"But, mom, you know?"

"..." I was stunned for a moment.

Just now, Li'er immediately said happily: "I knew that my mother was so powerful, she would definitely play this. Otherwise, why would he give us this?"

As she said that, she looked back at Pei Yuanxiu: "Dad, are you going to listen to your mother playing the piano?"

Pei Yuanxiu looked up at me.

From yesterday to today, we have looked at each other countless times. Although they are very calm, they are really awkward. I can't even look at him again every time. When he looked at me, his eyes seemed to be struggling and entangled. Such glances, even without those fierce quarrels and painful fights, would be a torture for the two of them.

Finally, he said, "Dad will not go. Dad has a lot of things to deal with."

"oh……"

"Don't play too late, take a break early. Tomorrow--" he said, looking up at me, then immediately lowered his head to look at Li'er: "Let your mother decide."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Li'er stood on the bridge holding the big box, looking at him, and then looking at me.

I also turned around and said lightly: "Let's go."

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In fact, except for standing on the dock for a while today, I almost always sat and lie down at other times. I shouldn’t be too tired, but when I got back to the house, I felt a kind of exhaustion of physical and mental exhaustion. After taking Li'er for a while, I sat back on the couch alone.

But I heard Li'er running around in the room, doing something.

After looking back, I realized that she had put the piano on the table, and then looked back at me with a hopeful expression: "Mom, can you play the piano for Li'er?"

I looked at her quietly for a while before I supported her weak body and walked over and sat at the table.

He reached out and tweaked the strings, and immediately heard a clanging, seemingly hard sound.

Although this piano is old, it seems to have a good tone.

I smiled and said, "What do you want to hear?"

"Li'er doesn't know, I'm fine with me, okay?"

I smiled, sat down, adjusted the zither peg for a while, and then played a divine man Chang.

The guqin is different from other instruments, and the guqin music is also different from other music. It has so many exciting ups and downs, and it is more of a faint charm, but it is not something that Li Er can understand and appreciate at his age. However, she still stood quietly beside me, watching my ten fingers flying on the strings, as if she was wearing a butterfly, as if she was enjoying the music, and as if she was looking at a scroll.

At the end of the song, I asked her with a smile: "Is it good?"

“…”

She looked at me with a dazed expression, as if she didn't know how to answer.

After hesitating for a while, she said, "It sounds nice to play anything."

I laughed loudly.

While laughing, he reached out to rub her soft heart and said with a smile: "It sounds good, it sounds good, it sounds bad, it sounds bad, and you don't have to think that everything you do is right because you like your mother."

“…”

"Mom, there are times when you make mistakes."
Chapter completed!