Ch. 9.2 Relax, Don’t stress up
There were mixed sounds in the hall. Shi Qingning knew that Bai Yexi didn’t like crowds of people, so he went up to pull him and took him out of the piano store.
The air outside was much fresher than inside, Shi Qingning took a shallow breath, turned around and asked,
“Are you okay? “
Bai Yexi’s expression was calm, and one couldn’t see any reaction from him about what just happened to him at all.
“It’s okay. “
Shi Qingning was relieved and was about to lead person away. Unexpectedly, the piano shop here was too noisy. People from other piano shops had already come to the door to eat melon 1To watch gossips and watch the fun. As soon as they came they bumped into the person who had been playing piano everywhere in the last few days.
The protagonist of the event Bai Yexi, who is usually the one practicing the piano, was talking to someone.
Seeing that, many people exclaimed.
“Oh my God, he’s not mute…!”
Shi Qingning: “…”
Shi Qingning frowned and was about to speak, but suddenly heard the person besides him speaking.
“What’s wrong?”
Shi Qingning turned around and saw Bai Yexi’s cold green eyes looking at him, apparently not hearing the few whispers in the noisy background.
“Nothing,” Shi Qingning said, “I just saw a few rude people.”
He didn’t want Bai Yexi to listen to those words again.
The less of such things he hears the better.
While thinking this way, Shi Qingning didn’t pay attention to those people again.
In fact, he is younger than the child he talks about.
Shi Qingning only said, “Let’s go.”
“Yeah.”
Shi Qingning and Bai Yexi, together with Wen Ming and a few black-suit wearing men, went to a commercial building not far away and tried playing a few pianos on the spot.
Shi Qingning has his own piano, and there is even a sunroom specially prepared for him in the new villa.
This time he was looking at pianos mainly to help Bai Yexi choose one.
The reason why the tuner Wen Ming came with them was because Shi Qingning wanted to choose a piano and wanted to ask professionals to help make suggestions.
Unexpectedly, Wen Ming also became a huge help to support the scene at the piano store.
The piano selection process was very smooth. Unlike that kind of piano store that sells pianos and also gives lessons, the store Shi Qingning and the others went to was a high-end professional piano store that specialized in customized pianos. The quality of the pianos was naturally higher than the former one. At least more than one level.
However, when choosing a piano, one not only needs to look at the quality and timbre of the piano itself, but also the compatibility between the user and the piano. That’s why Shi Qingning specially found time to ask Bai Yexi to come to the site to make the selection in person.
But Shi Qingning didn’t tell Bai Yexi that this was a piano specially bought for him.
He just said that he was asking him to help with the testing.
After selecting the piano, there was also a piano chair. The staff of the piano store said, “The pattern on the piano chair can be customized. Do you gentlemen have any patterns you want?”
Shi Qingning said without thinking much, “Mint.”
After noticing Bai Yexi’s gaze, Shi Qingning paused and said once again,
“Well, add a lemon branch next to it.”
Shi Qingning thought, this will make it look like it is not just specially customized for Bai Yexi.
It won’t burden him psychologically.
After everything was finalized and selected, Shi Qingning and Bai Yexi left together, preparing to return to the Shi family home .
The piano will be delivered later, and Wen Ming stayed behind in the store to handle some follow-up details. Shi Qingning and Bai Yexi took the car back alone. Before getting in the car, Shi Qingning thought of something again and asked.
“Mint, do you get motion sickness?”
This kind of detail didn’t seem to be mentioned in the novel. But now when Shi Qingning was facing him, he always felt that Bai Yexi looked too thin, which involuntarily made people worry about his body.
“If you get dizzy, sit in the front passenger seat,” Shi Qingning said. “It’s easier to get dizzy in the back.”
Before he could finish speaking, Bai Yexi had already followed him into the back seat.
The two sat side by side in the back seat, less than a palm apart, as Bai Yexi said.
“Not dizzy.”
Shi Qingning felt relieved and pursed his lips with a smile.
“That’s good.”
When the boy smiles, his lips curve in a beautiful way, showing infinite tenderness.
So nostalgic.
In the afternoon, the sun was just above their heads, and the dazzling sunlight was shining in through the car window, turning the atmosphere inside the car ethereal and warm.
Golden sunlight sprinkled on the young man’s beautiful face, outlining the rays of the sun.
It is impossible to imagine a more beautiful situation than this one.
Bai Yexi looked at him, his cold green eyes finally no longer looking dark under the sunlight, instead reflecting a bright and intoxicating emerald green.
The young man sitting besides him was still thinking about what happened just now.
“That piano store owner is so irritating.”
Shi Qingning frowned. He was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and his face was still a bit immature. When he was angry, his cheeks would unconsciously bulge slightly, giving off a very cute look. Looking at him like that, his heart felt very itchy.
However, such a foolish child is still worrying and giving instructions to him seriously.
“When you encounter people like this in the future, you must expose them on the spot to prevent them from cheating you as well as other in the future. If you find it troublesome, avoid such people in advance and also if you see someone you don’t like…”
Bai Yexi kept looking at him.
Shi Qingning had become accustomed to the other party’s reticence, so he brought up suggestions again and again.
“If you want to practice the piano again in the future, just come to my place.”
He remembered that he had said before that due to poor health, he has not been able to practice the piano for too long. Now seeing Bai Yexi playing the piano so seriously, Shi Qingning changed his story again.
“You know, I’m not in good health and can’t practice piano for too long, so the piano had been left empty for a long time. You can just use it…” Before Shi Qingning could finish his words, he was suddenly interrupted by someone who had been listening quietly to him till now.
“Don’t say that.”
Shi Qingning was startled.
He saw Bai Yexi frowning, which should be regarded as one of the most volatile expressions Shi Qingning had ever seen on this cold and lonely boy’s face. When he was clearly being slandered by the boss or even provoked by Jian Ren, Bai Yexi did not even frown and always turned a deaf ear to them.
But now, Bai Yexi looked very serious as he listened to Shi Qingning’s casual sentences word by word.
“It’s not good to talk bad about your body.”
Bai Yexi said.
“Don’t say that again.”
He didn’t even want to repeat what Shi Qingning said about “not being in good health.”
Like an extremely superstitious person.
Not even willing to say a single negative sentence.
Shi Qingning couldn’t help but be surprised. He was stunned for a while before he remembered and nodded.
“Okay.”
He didn’t expect Bai Yexi to care so much about such words. He thought that Bai Yexi was just like what he showed on the outside. Rarely getting his emotions fluctuated and no care about anything.
Due to many years of experience, coupled with his withdrawn personality, Shi Qingning always felt that Bai Yexi was too unhuman and lacked the things as well as feelings in ordinary people. That’s why Shi Qingning had been reminding him all along, fearing that he would be bullied.
Shi Qingning blinked, his eyelashes curled like butterfly wings, quivering slightly in the sunlight.
“I thought… I thought you didn’t care much about what other people said,”
He continued.
“That boss just slandered you like that, and you did not even argue with him.”
Bai Yexi was silent for a while, then whispered.
“Meaningless.”
So you mean that there is no point in arguing with that boss?
Shi Qingning thought and then back questioned him smoothly.
“Then is it meaningful to talk to me?”
Bai Yexi fell silent again.
It was only after Shi Qingning finished asking that he realized that his words seemed a bit ambiguous. He was about to take back his words when he heard the boy’s low and hoarse reply.
“Yes.”
There was elegant light music playing in the car, and mixed with his low-magnetic and slightly hoarse sound, Shi Qingning couldn’t confirm for a moment whether he heard three more words behind Bai Yexi’s answer.
The words –
“All of them.”
‘Does it mean that he finds all of their conversations meaningful?’ Shi Qingning thought.
That’s not right, he thought again, because Mint 2I’ll be using Mint And Lemon with their Chinese names simultaneously, according to which one suits the sentence better. even takes every ‘umm…’ seriously.
Shi Qingning turned his head to look at the boy beside him. The sunlight fell on Bai Yexi’s long hair, then on his cheeks, giving his already jet-black long hair a satin-like sheen. Shi Qingning also saw a plain chain wrapped around Bai Yexi’s neck. It was a long silver chain, exuding a faint light. The chain was wrapped twice, once like a neck ring, and next like a necklace. The loop hanging loosely and falling on the thin collarbone.
Very beautiful.
Bai Yexi itself is very beautiful.
Shi Qingning thought.
In his heart, Mint has always been a very good kid.
When the two returned to the Shi family house, the piano teacher had already arrived and there was no time to show Bai Yexi around, so Shi Qingning and Bai Yexi went directly to the piano room.
The room was on the second floor. The lighting here is very good. The warm sunlight shines in through the floor-to-ceiling windows without any obstruction. It is worthy of the name of “Sunshine Piano Room”.
There were already two pianos in the room. The piano teacher was sitting next to one of the pianos, smiling as she watched the two children take their seats.
She is a very kind old lady with slightly long curly white and delicate hair, and her eyebrows look like they have a unique charm bestowed by time.
The old lady was also famous for being a beauty when she was young, so much that even now her beauty can not be matched by many younger generation. Mother Shi had once even asked her to help her draw her eyebrows. Wearing a Sichuan embroidered shawl, she gave instructions to the two children in a gentle voice.
“Keep your wrists flat, yes, relax.”
Both of them have played the piano before, and Shi Qingning is not a beginner, so there is no need to learn the basic playing postures from scratch.
However, his sitting posture still received a bit of criticism.
Its too shameful.
“Don’t be so tense, sweetheart.” The old lady said warmly, “If your back is too straight, you will get tired after a while.”
It’s not like Shi Qingning has never tried to relax, but there is always something wrong.
He has never experienced a state where his body is too relaxed. The shadow of congenital heart disease makes Shi Qingning fight for his fate all the time. Even now after recovery, it is still difficult to change.
Shi Qingning was distressed when he suddenly felt a light and gentle touch from his back.
It was Bai Yexi who was sitting in front of another piano, reaching out and trying to sooth Shi Qingning.
Then Bai Yexi gently exerted force, leading the young man to straighten his waist slightly and change into a more suitable and more relaxed posture.
“Yes,” the teacher’s smiling voice came from the side, “That’s it, very good.”
Shi Qingning quietly turned his head and smiled gently at the person next to him.
The smile looked very cute and sweet.
So did the soft voice.
“Thank you.”
The person who was thanked seemed to pause for a moment, and the cold green eyes that were originally staring at him also immediately looked away.
“Oh, boy.”
The teacher shook her head.
“Now it became your turn to be stiff!”
