Sheet music number 19
Tang Xi did not react for a long time when his father suddenly told him off.
She didn't want to let her emotions blind her again, she simply couldn't understand why her father did this.
Why on earth did he have to make them turn against each other?
Tang Xi ended his brief disbelief and fixed his gaze on his mother standing beside him.
The mother did not meet her eyes, but kept staring at the wrinkled white paper in her father's hand, and her expression was quite colorful for a moment.
Song Duzhou was calm, probably because he had already known the "truth" from Song Xingchui.
Tang Xi looked at his silent mother and for the first time he longed for her to say something no matter what. Even if she was sentenced to death, it was what she 'deserved'.
She failed to live up to her mother's expectations.
So, she pointed at her nose and cursed, just like she had imagined a thousand times.
"Tang Xi, I thought you were just young."
"Tang Xi, you're playing the piano so badly, and you still have the mind to think about other things?"
"Tang Xi, I think you are crazy."
Her mother's silence made the surroundings quiet, and the smell of disinfectant became more pungent. Until she slowly moved her gaze to her, her heartbeat easily overwhelmed all her senses.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
Mom, say something.
Even if I had to tell her,
"Tang Xi, I really regret wasting my time communicating with you."
Giving someone pain is better than being tortured to death like this.
Tang Xi didn't know if her prayers worked, but her mother finally moved. She suddenly raised her arm, but did not go straight to her head. Instead, she chose to stay in front of her.
Mother's eyes were as sharp as a loaded pistol, firing the bullet at father without reservation.
"Tang Guangyao, she's just doing what she likes. What qualifications do you have to be disappointed in her?"
Her arms were not thick, they were even slender. There were no dazzling ornaments on them, nor were they so bright and dazzling as to blind the eyes. However, they were able to successfully attract her attention and make her unable to look away.
In fact, his shoulders were broader than her father's, making her feel a million times more reliable.
"Do you see clearly what this is?" Tang Guangyao pulled the registration form to both sides again, making the wrinkled paper almost flat again.
Yu Ji's tone remained calm: "I'm not severely nearsighted, so of course I can see what's written on it, but I really don't understand why you're showing this to me."
Tang Guangyao sneered, "The date filled in above is two months ago. She kept it a secret from you for over sixty days! If the nanny hadn't found the registration form on the table while cleaning, you wouldn't have known about it until the piano competition started and she didn't attend. Yu Ji, your daughter is lying to you!"
"I didn't mean to lie to you. I just haven't decided when to tell you. Besides, I clearly locked it in the drawer. The key is only..." She looked at her father opposite her in a daze.
Her mother smiled and finished her unspoken words: "Tang Guangyao has the keys to every door and every drawer in the house. Did you sneak into Tang Xi's room?"
Her father sneaked into her room and rummaged through her things?
The feeling that her father 'respected her' in Tang Xi's mind also completely collapsed at this moment.
Tang Guangyao's face flushed and paled, and then he stomped his foot hard and said angrily, "How could I possibly rummage through my daughter's room? What a nanny! She actually stole my key, rummaged through the owner's room, and even came to tell me about it."
Tang Xi felt that her father either still treated her like a three-year-old child, or he didn't care about their opinions and was completely immersed in the world he had created. Otherwise, how could he tell such a clumsy lie.
She clearly saw her mother roll her eyes.
Thinking he had successfully shirked responsibility, the father immediately launched a new attack. He pointed at the title on the registration form and said sarcastically, "Alice, this is the pop music competition audition form. I understand why the teachers always say you're not paying attention to the piano competition. It turns out you're focusing on this shoddy competition."
"It's not some fake competition. The judges are all very famous pop singers, and one of them has even been on the Spring Festival Gala." This was the first time Tang Xi couldn't help but refute his father.
The father showed a slightly surprised expression: "A famous pop singer, could it be her... hehe."
He shifted his gaze from scanning Song Duzhou to look at Tang Xi again and said, "Anyway, as far as I know, the Music Association doesn't recognize its legitimacy. Even if you work hard to win first place, it won't be of any benefit to your future university studies or employment, right?"
Benefits for employment and college? Tang Xi was a little confused about the purpose of his father asking this question.
She just likes pop music, so she wants to participate in it, not the piano competition. There is no need for so many reasons.
Soon, she got the answer.
His father spread his hands and let out a long sigh. "That's right. You've never experienced any setbacks since childhood. You probably think that even if you waste your time on whim and participate in some useless competitions, it won't matter if you waste only a few years. Anyway, Dad will cover you."
He shook his head again: "Alice, Daddy still dotes on you too much, so you don't know how hard we work to make money."
"Doting." Yu Ji opened his lips, his smile slightly mocking. "Tang Guangyao, you're really the same as you were twenty years ago. You think you're giving others things you don't want, and you call it love."
"I'm giving you things you don't want? Yu Ji, do you have any conscience? Ask yourself if I've treated you badly over the years. I've given you the best food, clothing, and everything else." Tang Guangyao couldn't help but raise his voice.
Yu Ji didn't answer his question immediately. Instead, he turned to look at Tang Xi and asked, "Tang Xi, are you participating in the pop music competition to win first place?"
Tang Xi straightened his back and blushed, and for a moment he couldn't decide what to answer.
She certainly didn't participate in the pop music competition just to win first place. If she really cared about first place, she should have just continued to compete in piano. Although she wasn't sure of first place, she was absolutely confident of being in the top three.
As for the pop music competition, she knew her own strengths and weaknesses very well. After listening to Qiao Tian's songs, she had no desire for ranking.
Why did she insist on participating in a competition that she might lose? After all, she didn't have to compete for victory or defeat from beginning to end, and she didn't even care about flowers and applause. She just wanted to do something that was not forced by her parents.
She wondered, since her mother urged her to practice the piano day after day, could she really accept her completely different and unacceptable hobby at this moment?
When the mother refuted the father's words just now, was it because she was refutating him, or was it because she could really understand her own self?
Tang Xi's mind was in a mess, and she really didn't dare to speak carelessly, so as to avoid letting the good relationship between mother and daughter that had been finally restored disappear again.
She didn't want to disappoint her mother, so she just pursed her lips and looked at her pitifully without saying anything.
Yu Ji met his daughter's gaze. Although he could not communicate with her telepathically, seeing her current expression and combining it with her previous misunderstanding of him, he naturally understood why she didn't speak.
This child.
The villain in her heart began to shake her head and sigh.
She raised her hand and patted her shoulder, helplessly saying, "Tang Xi, let me ask you this another way. Are you not participating in the piano competition because you are afraid of not getting a place?"
Tang Xi answered without hesitation: "Of course not!"
The mother continued, "So I can assume that you want to sign up for the competition because you like pop music, right?"
"yes!"
She nodded quickly, but when her chin touched her neck, she began to regret her decisiveness.
Damn it, isn't this the same as admitting that she doesn't like the piano?
She began to feel uneasy, but fortunately her mother did not show any anger.
On the other hand, her father kept shaking his head. "Alice, Daddy is really disappointed in you. I spent so much money to cultivate you. Do you know how many people dream of this? And you... well, if you weren't a girl, your life would be over, you know that?"
"I think your life is truly ruined." His mother crossed her arms, her eyes turning crescent again. "You casually call the stage others dream of a 'fake competition' and assume others need rankings to prove their worth. Tang Guangyao, if you truly believe people need strength to prove their worth, then I think you're the most worthless person here."
Tang Xi didn't understand what had happened to his father, and he trembled even more violently. He raised his finger and pointed at his mother, completely unable to hide his anger, and yelled,
"How dare you say I'm worthless? Yu Ji, do you think you're superior just because you love the piano? Let me tell you, I love the piano just as much as you do. And you actually just give up like that? I think you're the completely worthless guy!"
The smile on my mother's face disappeared in an instant, and the string music turned into a waning moon, which was only one step away from being a total lunar eclipse.
Song Duzhou sneered, "Tang Guangyao, what did she say was wrong? In terms of strength, you are not as good as her and me, or are you really blinded by the term 'music master'? And, blaming her for her youthful mistakes doesn't make you right."
He tugged at his tie, as if thinking of something that would allow him to successfully stand on the winning seat. A mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Forget it, I'm just wasting my time talking nonsense with you. Yu Ji, I don't think you'll learn your lesson unless I teach you a lesson."
"Since you know someone is willing to lick my shoes, you should know that you are no longer as valuable to me as you once were. Now you are just an old, faded woman that no one wants. Piano... Haha, I will just treat all these years of hard work as feeding a poisonous snake. From now on, I will no longer interfere in your affairs. You can bring as many people as you want to your family, but I will live somewhere else. From today on, I will not give you a penny."
After he said that, he turned around and prepared to leave.
"etc."
He thought his threat had worked, and a smug look appeared on his face again: "Even if you want to beg me now, it's too late."
Who would have thought that Yu Ji was not only not panicked, but also looked surprised: "Please? You don't think that I just mentioned divorce to threaten you to change, do you?"
divorce?
Tang Xi covered her mouth and screamed.
Tang Guangyao said in panic: "Don't say this in front of the children."
Yu Ji had no intention of stopping and continued, "If my memory serves me correctly, it was you who started this dispute today. You know that once I set my mind to something, I will go to great lengths. Now, for the sake of our daughter, I want to give you one last piece of advice. Agree to my request, or I'll see you in court."
Tang Guangyao took a step back suddenly: "You can't do this!"
Yu Ji smiled and said, "What you said just now is actually correct. I should be ashamed of giving up without struggling back then, so today I will never take a step back."
Tang Guangyao's face turned pale: "I think you are really crazy."
Yu Ji sighed and said, "I am the biological daughter of the crazy woman you mentioned. It is not wrong to say that I am crazy."
She left quickly and decisively, holding Tang Xi with her left hand and Song Duzhou with her right hand, and started to walk out.
Song Duzhou shouted "wait a minute", turned around, picked up the file bag on the table and immediately held it in his arms, then followed the two of them.
As soon as the door closed, a roar came from inside.
"Crazy, all crazy!"
Along with the shouting, there was the sound of something hitting the ground.
Tang Xi had never seen his father out of control, and he never expected that among his parents, the one who was more emotional and argumentative was not his mother.
She could never have guessed that one day the person in this family who could truly understand her heart would be her mother.
She clenched her mother's hand tighter and tighter. This time, she would never easily withdraw her head into her shell because of a meaningless misunderstanding.
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