Eighth sheet music
In Qiao Tian's eyes, Tang Xi fell silent after he said "It's okay". She thought that her friend only forgave her on the surface, but actually cared a lot in her heart.
Well, even if she cursed at this moment, it would be a normal reaction.
She grabbed her hand, met her gaze, and spoke carefully: "Xixi, I know what I just said was completely brainless. If you feel uncomfortable, you can scold me."
"What?"
Tang Xi was pulled away from his memories and was stunned for a long time before he realized what she was referring to.
She pursed her lips and smiled, "I'm really not angry. I always thought she was pretty good, not like a psychopath."
Qiao Tian uttered an "oh" and asked, "Since she doesn't seem to be mentally ill, why is she still locked up? Ahem, why is she still living in a mental hospital?"
Why?
As far as Tang Xi can remember, her grandmother was surrounded by tall bricks. They used to be red, but were later painted white.
She is a child, so she can't go in casually.
She was clearly an adult, but she couldn't come out as she pleased.
She stood outside the red wall. The ivy in front of her was much more dense than she was. No matter how hard she stood on tiptoe, she could not tell which window belonged to her grandmother from the densely packed windows.
Now, she doesn't even know what her grandmother's physical condition is.
She rubbed her trouser legs with her hands twice and opened her mouth, but she had no idea how to answer Qiao Tian.
Song Xingchui's eyes rolled around, and he suddenly picked up Qiao Tian's unfinished Coke, and while the two were caught off guard, he poured half a cup into Tang Xi's cup.
Two question marks popped up above Qiao Tian's head: "Sister Xingchui, you're not going to charge two thirty-eights for pouring it over, are you? Don't think we don't know the price of this big bottle."
Song Xingchui patted the bottle of Coke beside him and said, "You can think of it as imported from the United States."
Qiao Tian angrily said, "Do you think I don't know the Chinese on the bottle?!"
Song Xingchui said confidently, "I thought you were supporting my music career. Well, fine, I won't give you any drinks. I just wanted to do something."
Qiao Tian was too lazy to complain, so she pulled her lower eyelids with her fingers and made a face at her.
The bartender rolled his eyes and said, "If you act like a jerk again, I'll chop your hands off."
Song Xingchui ignored the bartender, pushed Qiao Tian's face away and looked at Tang Xi.
"I've decided that the first step in trying to understand Ms. Yu is to go find her mother."
*
Tang Xi had no idea how to get into a mental hospital. Her father would never agree to let her go, and as for her mother, she absolutely didn't dare to ask.
But she still chose to go to the appointment.
She hadn't been here for many years. The originally yellowed white walls were painted white, and a new round of ivy was spreading along the soil, mixed with a few withered roses.
She grew a lot taller, but the wall was not static; it also grew longer with age.
She looked up again, but still couldn't find her grandmother's window. When she looked forward, she saw Qiao Tian waving frantically.
Song Xingchui was originally standing aside, looking around. When he saw her appear in his sight, he half-pulled down his sunglasses and waved at her.
Tang Xi trotted over to the two of them and said, "You're here so early."
Song Xingchui shrugged: "I have to explore the way first."
Qiao Tian gave Tang Xi a thumbs up: "Sister Xing Chui said she has arranged everything. As long as you follow her, you will definitely be able to meet your grandmother."
Before the two of them moved, they bent down slightly to pick up the gift box on the ground. Only then did Tang Xi realize that both of them had prepared visiting gifts.
She was about to say that they didn't need to spend money, but Song Xingchui noticed her thoughts first, put his finger on her lips and shook his head seriously: "Don't ask, if you ask, everything is according to my plan."
Tang Xi kept her mouth shut, still not holding out much hope. However, she was now somewhat curious as to whether Song Xingchui had found a dog hole to sneak in, or asked one of them to pretend to be a psychopath, or whether the gift in front of her was used to bribe the doctor.
However, no one expected that she would show the rare composure of an "adult" and lead two girls who looked like thieves, swaggering into the elevator opposite the door, and deliberately raised her index finger to press the floor button.
The elevator dinged and arrived at the floor. She didn't look around, but strode to the nurse's desk, took out a card from her pocket and handed it to the nurse. She lowered her head and said something to her. The nurse not only didn't stop them, but also took the initiative to point them in the direction.
Shock was clearly written on Tang Xi's face.
Qiao Tian didn't hold it back at all: "Sister Xingchui, was that a bank card you gave the nurse?"
Song Xingchui exclaimed, "Why should I give the nurse my bank card?"
Qiao Tian cleared her throat, put her fingers together and made a card-pinching gesture, then lowered her chin towards Song Xing and said coldly, "Woman, take my money. As for what I do, don't ask too much."
Song Xingchui's mouth twitched violently. He shook her shoulders twice, lowering his voice and angrily said, "You should watch less TV. We are just visiting a patient. As long as we have registered our identities, what reason does she have to stop us?"
Qiao Tian couldn't believe it, "Isn't she afraid that we might do something bad?"
Song Xingchui rolled his eyes: "Why did we come to the mental hospital for such bad things?"
Tang Xi breathed a sigh of relief. She had indeed thought too much. She had been stopped before simply because she was too young and couldn't say her grandmother's name.
Her brows relaxed: "Sister Xingchui is right, we are just visiting, not taking anyone away."
Song Xingchui clapped his hands: "Tian, look at how smart Xi is. Where's your brain?"
Qiao Tian said confidently, "Xixi is the top student in the class, and I'm only in the middle. It's normal that I'm not as smart as her."
"Turning to pieces, huh?"
"yes."
Tang Xi's grandmother's ward was at the end of the corridor. As they walked along, they found that the door handles on both sides were no different from those in ordinary hospitals. There were no heavy chains, no alien creatures clinging to the windows, and no mentally ill patients who were shouting "Let me out" but were caught and given electric shocks.
The whole building is ordinary and even quieter than an ordinary hospital.
When Qiao Tian came back for the first time, she grabbed Tang Xi's hand and asked softly, "Is all the TV footage shot randomly?"
Song Xingchui patted her back gently, "I've always told you to watch less TV. You've been brainwashed. There are many types of mental illness. Grandma has the extremely common depression, which is one of them. Most people don't show high aggression towards others."
Tang Xi looked at Song Xingchui who was speaking slowly, and felt even more surprised.
Is grandma suffering from depression?
My father said,
"Your grandmother is a psychopath who is not in her right mind and could kill or burn anything at any time. That's why we have to lock her up."
Either her father didn't understand, or he was deliberately lying to her.
Tang Xi swallowed, her heart pounding against her chest. The breeze in the corridor was like someone slapping her in the face and cursing her stupidity.
"arrive."
Song Xingchui stood at the door of the ward.
Printed A4 paper is placed inside the transparent plastic panel on the side of the white door.
Patient: Lu Yao
Lu Yao is actually a name that sounds a bit strange.
She remembered her mother telling her that it was not her grandmother's original name, but she changed it herself later.
What was my grandmother's original name? And why did she change it?
Tang Xi found that she had no idea and had no intention of finding out. She curled her fingers slightly and grabbed the door handle before Song Xingchui: "Let me do it."
With a creak, the unlocked door was easily opened.
Grandma was lying on the bed with her eyes closed. I didn't know when her hair had turned white and her face was almost entirely covered with wrinkles. Her arms, which were exposed outside the quilt, were not much thicker than chopsticks.
Were she using these hands to take the chocolate out of the box and give it to her?
Her heart pumped the sour blood throughout her body, and tears instantly filled her eyes.
She clutched her clothes at her chest and forced herself to look away.
The nurse was napping on a folding bed nearby. When she heard the noise, she muttered, "It's time for rounds so soon today?"
She slowly stood up and opened her eyes dazedly. After seeing that the three people in her sight were not wearing white coats, she stood up suddenly and said in surprise,
"Who are you?"
Tang Xi took a step forward.
"Aunt Mo, I'm Tang Xi."
The caregiver was a very honest middle-aged woman. Even though she seemed a little clumsy, it did not affect my mother's decision to let her take care of my grandmother.
The woman frowned and thought for a few seconds, then nodded her head vigorously twice: "Oh, Miss Tang, you haven't been here for a long time. Ms. Yu is not with you today. I didn't recognize her at first."
After she finished speaking, she raised her hands and gestured in the air twice, revealing a rather surprised expression: "I only remember you being this tall."
Tang Xi said softly: "The last time I came here was five years ago."
The nurse scratched the back of her head and said, "Yeah, Aunt Lu misses you all the time, but who knew you wouldn't come for five years?"
Her tone was neither yin nor yang, and she even thought that she was simply expressing her longing for Lu Yao.
Tang Xi's body suddenly shook.
Before the atmosphere fell into a strange silence, Song Xingchui stepped between the two of them.
She shook the health supplements she had bought and said with a smile, "Hello, Aunt Mo. I'm a junior of Grandma Lu's friend. My elders were busy, so they wanted to send me as a representative to visit Ms. Yu and come visit Grandma Lu together. Unexpectedly, Ms. Yu was also busy, so Xixi, a high school student, took the time to accompany me!"
The nurse immediately believed Song Xingchui's words and nodded, saying, "Ms. Yu is a great pianist. Her rest time must be very irregular. Sometimes she comes at five or six in the morning before dawn, and sometimes she comes after dark."
Song Xingchui smiled and asked, "Aunt Mo, have you seen Ms. Yu's performance?"
The nurse shook her head repeatedly: "How can I, an illiterate person, possibly go to a piano performance? Even if Ms. Yu gave me the ticket, it would be like what is this, a waste of heaven's gift."
"Aunt Mo, please don't say that about yourself. Everyone has their own strengths. If you want me to take care of someone, I definitely can't be so careless." Song Xingchui blinked twice and moved closer to the nurse. "So, Aunt Mo, it was Ms. Yu who told you that she can play the piano?"
The nurse waved her hand and said, "Ms. Yu rarely talked about herself. Grandma Lu told me everything. She has a videotape in her drawer. It's all of Madam Yu playing the piano as a child. She played so well—haha. I'm not well-educated, so I can only say it sounded good."
The nurse said this and carefully opened the drawer and took out the videotape.
The old videotapes have been eliminated from the market, but this does not affect Lu Yao. He cherishes them and keeps them properly.
Tang Xi suppressed the heartbeat that was jumping up to his throat and asked,
"Aunt Mo...can you lend it to me?"
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