Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 31 31. The Cousin in the Mirror
This was Li An's first taxi ride in Rongcheng.

Sitting on the soft back of the chair, a piercing exhaustion spread to his whole body.

Rubbing the back of the chair, Li An found a comfortable position, and placed his hands casually on the sides of his legs.

The sideways gaze moves out of the window.

The bustling street is full of hustle and bustle, the wheels are turning, people are opening their mouths, and the neon lights on the side of the road are flashing.

In stark contrast to the quiet interior of the car.

A window separated, like two worlds.

"A new round of heavy rainfall in this city is coming next week, please do well."

Listening to the car radio in front of my ear, the miniature city in front of me seemed to bring Ang Lee back to a scene that seemed familiar.

I seem to have seen this scene before.
Gradually the brain became more and more blurred.

In the end, the two eyelids finally closed uncontrollably.

"Emergency broadcast, a new round of heavy rainfall in this city is coming next week, residents are requested to take personal protective measures to avoid human and financial losses"

Um--

On the sofa, Sun Yuman let out a long breath.

After listening to Chen Xuan's words, she was finally in the mood to eat melons.

It's no big deal, Xiaomi just misses her mother a little bit.

It is understandable that apart from the four years in college, Chen Xuan has not been away from her mother for that long.

When Chen Xuan suddenly told Sun Yuman on the phone at the beginning of the year that he would come to Rongcheng to find her, Sun Yuman immediately thought that Chen Xuan was coming to Rongcheng to play, and was very happy.

After chatting, I found out that the conflict between Chen Xuan and her family had completely escalated, and she wanted to come to Rongcheng to join her.

Although I admire Chen Xuan's courage in my heart, I still have to ask the question clearly.

Sun Yuman understands Chen Xuan's family situation. His father is a civil servant and his mother is a doctor. They are not in the middle class, and they are well-off. They are considered a very wealthy family in the local area.

When she was a sophomore, Chen Xuan proposed to her family that she wanted to continue her studies abroad after graduation.

Father Chen didn't immediately veto it, and delayed Chen Xuan for two years on the grounds that the situation abroad was too chaotic and unsafe.

As a result, when Chen Xuan mentioned this to her family after graduating from university, Chen's father told Chen Xuan not to do it.

"If you want to go to school, you can continue to study in China."

"If you don't want to go, take the civil service exam."

Faced with Chen's father's resolute attitude, Chen Xuan can only base her remaining hope on her father.

But Chen's mother's attitude is, listen to your father.

This is where the conflict erupts.

Chen Xuan felt like a puppet whose fate was arranged from birth.

It is not up to her to decide who the kindergarten can only play with and who she cannot play with.

Look at your cousin!
It is not for her to decide whether she wants to learn the violin or not the flute in elementary school.

Look at your cousin!
It was not up to her to decide whether she wanted to stay in class two or transfer to class four in junior high school.

Look at your cousin!
She wants to go home with her classmates after high school, and doesn't want her family to pick her up at the school gate, that's not something she can decide.

Look at your cousin!
It is not for you to decide whether you want to go to a university in the south or not in a university in the north.

Look at your cousin!
It is not up to you to decide whether you want to go abroad to continue your studies after graduation, and you don’t want to regret it in the future.

Look at your cousin!
Chen Xuan likes a gentle and kind cousin, who was her best friend before going to college, but she can feel that her cousin is not happy like her.

After graduating, my cousin obeyed the arrangement of the family, put away her flute, and gave Mendelssohn's scores to her, who was still in her sophomore year of high school.

At that time, Chen Xuan's dream was to play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E flat minor, which was her childhood regret.

Later, my cousin was successfully admitted to the civil service, and finally married into a high-ranking family that made all the relatives and friends around me envious.

Now she has matured, shed her greenness, and can skillfully play every bar of Mendelssohn.

It was finally time for my cousin to graduate from college.

However, Mendelssohn has not blown her for a long time.

There was even a kind of powerlessness engraved in her bones, Chen Xuan felt that this was probably her fate of being born into this family.

Reluctant to make her parents sad, she also put away her flute and took the civil servant test.

Everything started off fine.

Until the day when she ate her cousin's child's full moon wine, when Chen Xuan learned that her cousin was going to quit her job and become a housewife.

She looked at the smiling faces of the family, and then at the fat cousin who was calmly breastfeeding the child.

At that moment, she was suddenly surrounded by a strong sense of suffocation.

The gentle cousin who had accompanied her throughout her childhood seemed to have died in her heart at that moment.

A darkness enveloped her, and she seemed to see her future in her cousin's mirror.

"Look at your cousin, she has children."

Perhaps this was the last straw that broke the camel's back. He failed the public examination for the first time, and what awaited Chen Xuan was not consolation.

The emotions that had been pent up in my body for 24 years completely exploded.

The contradiction escalated.

Facing the two paths given by her father again, Chen Xuan resolutely chose the second one this time.

He left home with only 8000 yuan in his possession.

She wants to prove to her father that she can survive without this family.

On the first day when she came to Rongcheng, Sun Yuman took her to this apartment with her suitcase and gave her a room card.

On the third day after she came to Rongcheng, she spent the night alone in a completely unfamiliar environment, and she was afraid of the door knocking suddenly in the middle of the night.

On the eighth day after arriving in Rongcheng, she entered the office on the west side of Lantian Yudong Campus, and she was not used to it.

On the tenth day after arriving in Rongcheng, a male teacher came to the west office and sat at the table opposite her, and she was even more uncomfortable.

As time slowly passed, from forcing myself to adapt a little bit to today, although it was not easy to live alone without the family in the process, what I gained more was free breathing.

Now she likes her life more and more, but she often misses her mother.

Chen Xuan called Sun Yuman tonight because she was a little homesick after taking her mother's call.

Apart from looking for Sun Yuman in Rongcheng, she doesn't know who else she can talk to about these things.

"What's the matter with me? The traffic is so convenient now. It's just a matter of a ticket..."

Sun Yuman picked up the watermelon on the coffee table and ate a spoonful into his mouth, "But then again, Xiaomi, you really don't plan to go home in the future?"

Don't look at Sun Yuman's usual carelessness, he is never ambiguous on key issues, "Even if you stay outside in the future, family conflicts have to be resolved."

Chen Xuan sighed slightly: "I can understand their thoughts, but I really don't think that's for my own good. My dad is used to being strong in the workplace, and also in family issues. He never takes into account my mother and me. idea."

"Just now my mother said on the phone that my father misses me."

"If you miss me, why don't you call me yourself and tell me that you can even send me a message. In the past three months since I've been in Rongcheng, I've always sent him a message. Has he ever sent me a message?"

"I know he is determined that in the end I will obediently bow my head and go back."

"I have made up my mind to choose my own life. No matter where I am in the future, when I have the ability to prove to them that I can support myself, I will make it clear to them."

Speaking of which, Chen Xuan looked at Sun Yuman for help, and said with aggrieved eyes: "Xiaoyu, do you think I'm ignorant?"

(End of this chapter)