TLC: Rin
Duan Yuche hadn’t heard of this before, so when going home at night, he prepared to open the computer and searched for it to listen. In the end, as soon as it was turned on, the computer was still stuck at the interface that Cao Feng had taken to use last time.
On the screen was a document, and the document was full of some confusing messy codes, which was a bit like the kind of code when a blue screen occurred.
He didn’t care either, so he closed it and searched out 《A Spray of Plum Blossoms》 to listen.
When Cao Feng knocked on the door with his homework in his hand, he heard music through the door, but he didn’t know what it was. After opening it, hearing Fei Yuqing’s voice, he couldn’t wait to find a crack in the ground to get in.
Duan Yuche was still in the midst of assembling his Jumbo puzzle, which required extraordinary patience. Seeing Cao Feng come in, he blurted out, “The song you recommended is good.”
At first, the tune seemed a bit tacky, but after listening carefully, he found that the lyrics were beautiful. Even if he was beaten to death, it would be impossible to write such beautiful lines.
Cao Feng really didn’t expect him to like it. He was a little surprised, and then smiled: “You like listening to Chinese songs?”
“I listened when I was learning Chinese. My mother likes Teresa Teng.”
It was the first time Cao Feng heard him mention his mother, and he was stunned for a moment. He sat next to the puzzle blanket and said, “Is your mother in Switzerland?”
When he first came, he found out that there was no hostess in the house, and Duan Shumin didn’t explain it to him either. He only said in reference to his younger brother, “When your didi was a child, he lived in Switzerland with his mother for many years and was spoiled by us. If there is anything you don’t understand, just go along with him.”
Duan Yuche’s movement of fiddling with the puzzle piece stopped, but it was only a second, it was very brief, he didn’t even look up, and his tone was calm: “She’s in heaven.”
After a moment of silence in the air, Cao Feng whispered, “I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine.” He shook his head and didn’t mind.
Cao Feng originally came to accompany him to do his homework. Now, he didn’t dare to ask him whether he would do his homework. He silently took away half of the puzzle pieces: “Let me help you assemble.”
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Duan Shumin just saw Cao Feng carrying exercise books and textbooks when going in. He even thought the two children were studying. Why was the room so quiet? He secretly opened the door and took a look, only to find that the two children were sitting on the ground playing puzzles.
Llr wbnfwfca bo bqfclcu atf vbbg kjr mjeuta ys Gejc Temtf, tf ibbxfv eq obg j rfmbcv ab obmer bc tlw.
Gejc Vtewlc kjr j ilaaif fwyjggjrrfv, jcv mbeutfv vgsis: “Qbgxlcu bc j qehhif?”
“Zc.” Gejc Temtf kjrc’a kliilcu ab ajix ab tlw. Gejc Vtewlc tjr yffc fierlnf atfrf qjra ofk vjsr. Lf vlvc’a xcbk ktja tf kjr kbgxlcu bc, jcv tf boafc vlvc’a rff tlw.
Duan Shumin walked in: “Is it fun? Shall I play with you guys?”
Duan Yuche didn’t speak, and Duan Shumin was bewildered. What’s wrong with this kid?
He said, “Have you finished all your homework?”
Duan Yuche glanced at him, and was about to say that he didn’t. Then he heard Cao Feng say, “It’s finished. Didi had just finished writing. I accompanied him to do it.”
Duan Yuche’s gaze turned to Cao Feng, as if puzzled. Cao Feng continued: “I’ve accompanied him to do all the homework for the past few days. He submitted every day, and the teacher also praised him for studying seriously.”
Duan Shumin immediately smiled, rubbed his son’s hair firmly, and said, “I knew it, how could my son not be as good at studying as I am. Wouldn’t he be much better than me? Keep working hard.”
Although he had no requirements for Duan Yuche, he still cared about his academic performance after all. These days, parents love to compare who’s children study well. Every time there was a branch meeting, commendation, or communal meal, he would shut up when it came to this topic, and someone always asked if his child had gone to senior high school and how many points he had scored in the exam. Moreover, he also asked Duan Yuche before. Duan Yuche said that he didn’t want to go abroad to study for college, which meant he wanted to stay in the country, but with this grade of his… Even if he had prestige in Linzhou City, it would be impossible to send his son with a vocational level to a good university.
As soon as Duan Shumin left, Duan Yuche asked Cao Feng, “Why did you say that just now?”
“I…” Cao Feng paused and looked at him carefully, “I’m afraid uncle will scold you.”
“He won’t scold me, at most he’ll be disappointed in me.”
“But I didn’t lie to Uncle either. You’ve been submitting your homework every day during this period.” Those who failed to pass their homework would have to stand still as a punishment. Duan Yuche hadn’t been punished in the last two weeks.
“I just copy, that’s all.” He didn’t even lift his head, he just looked for a piece, and after he pieced it together, he grabbed a handful of langweixian and stuffed it in his mouth.
Cao Feng wanted to cheer him up a bit, so he tried his best to find something to say: “There is a piano in your room, why don’t you even play it? You obviously play so well.”
“I don’t play well. It’s because you don’t understand it, that’s why you think I play well, and I don’t like playing the piano either.”
“Then why…”
“Because…” Duan Yuche didn’t really want to say this. He felt as if he was opening the wound for others to see. He was silent for a few seconds, shook his head, and asked, “You like hearing me play the piano?”
Cao Feng said he liked to.
“Then I’ll play it for you once more next time.”
When he was young, his mother was always not at home and often left him in the care of the German next door. When he called his mother, she always said that the exhibit wouldn’t end for a number of days and she couldn’t leave. She asked him to wait a little longer, and said she would bring him a present when she returned.
When his mother didn’t come home, he was the only one in the house. Little Tommy tried his best to ask his aunt to come so he could see her. He told her that he had learned piano lessons from his neighbor, but he couldn’t learn it well, so he wanted her to teach him.
His aunt had just graduated from the music school at that time. When she heard this, she immediately came to see Tommy, her little nephew. She was overjoyed to find that he actually had a high level of talent.
At last, he learned his first full piece. He asked his aunt to call his mother, and asked her to go home and listen to himself playing the piano, which worked——after a few days, she came back.
In the morning, Duan Yuche got up late from bed and had breakfast in the car. It was a corn cake made by Cao Feng, but Cao Feng called the corn “maize”.
He liked it quite well, because there was also a layer of plum paste on it, and the paste was also made by Cao Feng himself. The taste was very different from the kind bought in the supermarket.
Cao Feng was holding a brand new English-Chinese dictionary and was memorizing words.
Duan Yuche saw that he was muttering the words in his mouth and was memorizing the spelling, but he just didn’t make a sound, so he reminded him: “You won’t get results by memorizing it like that. You have to speak it up.”
“But…” Cao Feng was a little ashamed. He didn’t dare to read it out loud because he knew that he would be laughed at if he didn’t read it well.
“No one will laugh at you. If you don’t raise your voice, what you speak will always be mute English.” Duan Yuche acknowledged the importance of English very much. Even if he went to school in a French-speaking area, the teacher still taught in English.
“Okay.” Cao Feng responded and read out in a low voice: “Ability.”
He had to memorize a hundred words every day. He could even memorize the spelling. He had to get up every morning and had a dictation by himself in the room.
Duan Yuche listened to him read a few with a very soft voice. He pieced the letters together and read at the same time. It wasn’t up to standard at all, so he gave him a suggestion: “You shouldn’t study like that. I remembered when I was studying Chinese, I watched the news network and read along. So if you are studying English, you should listen to the BBC radio. You come to my place in the evening and I will lend you my computer. You watch the news and learn their pronunciation, it’s much better than trying to figure it out yourself.”
Cao Feng was so happy when he felt that Duan Yuche had the intention to teach himself, and nodded repeatedly.
At the end of class, Zhou Zeliang from the next class ran into the Class 7 classroom, looked for Duan Yuche, and said, “It’s National Day this week. Do you want to go out for a few days?”
“Where to? With whom?”
“Let’s go to Wu Town. Have you been there? We’ll drive ourselves there.”
“Just us? I can’t drive either.”
“With my cousin as well, he’s with my sister-in-law and said I should take someone with me. I was thinking I would be a third wheel if I went alone. If you don’t go, I won’t go either.”
Duan Yuche hadn’t thought about where to go this National Day, so when he heard it, he agreed.
Zhou Zeliang added: “Oh, by the way, Guo Guo and the others said that we haven’t gathered together for a long time. Isn’t it your birthday next month? How about having a party? Just play cards altogether, sing a song, and then drink a liquor.”
Duan Yuche had no objection: “You guys choose the place, my treat.”
Cao Feng, who had passed by twice pretending to pick up water, heard the two words birthday.
Didi is going to celebrate his birthday?
Cao Feng returned to his seat and saw He Tiantian, his female classmate at the front desk, looking at the book on his desk and asked him, “You like reading Shakespeare?”
The book was just borrowed today. He read quickly and had a good memory. He specially made a few pages of excerpts prior to Stray Birds, and simply returned it, then replaced it with a programming book and a book of Shakespeare’s 《Four Tragedies》.
He just started reading it, but just after reading a story, he felt very sad, and he didn’t know if his younger brother was always so melancholy because he had read too many tragedies.
Perhaps when they have common topics and hobbies, he’ll know how to please him.
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Duan Yuche’s English name is Tommy? Dang
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