The Attempt to Reconciliation Chapter 8

Mr. Lin...Oliver.

"Mr. Lin? Which Mr. Lin?" Mrs. Bai asked in surprise.

Secretary Cheng did not answer her, but handed the gift box to Aunt Zhang. He helped Roger up first: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay." Roger wiped the dog hair off his face and arranged his clothes, "Thank you."

His face and eyes were red, but he didn't show any shyness.

"If you encounter any difficulties, you can try talking to me." Secretary Cheng glanced at Mrs. Bai and whispered.

"No need." Roger shook his head, "I won't bother you."

"You're welcome." Secretary Cheng said gently, "Mr. Lin cares about you very much. He asked me to come here just to tell you that it doesn't matter whether you go to dinner or not. Your health is more important."

He glanced at Mr. Bai and Mrs. Bai sitting on the sofa, and said in a more serious tone, "You must have your own reasons for not wanting to keep the appointment tonight. Mr. Lin will not force you. If someone blames you for this, he will be happy to help you solve the problem."

When he said "solve the problem", he worded it like a threat.

"The Mr. Lin you are talking about cannot be from the Beidou Group..." Mrs. Bai's eyes gradually widened and she looked at him in disbelief.

Secretary Cheng's lips curved perfectly: "Yes."

Mrs. Bai hurriedly tidied up her clothes: "How can you make a special trip for such a thing? Secretary Cheng, our family Roger is not sensible today. I will apologize to Mr. Lin on his behalf and ask him to pay special attention to Mr. Lin another day." Apologize. He is young and acts impulsively. I hope Mr. Lin will not blame him for the cooperation..."

"We can continue to discuss cooperation." Secretary Cheng said warmly, "Mr. Lin also said that if Teacher Bai has any conditions, whether it is revenge, frequency of meetings, environment, or the brand of piano, just mention it. He likes Mr. Lin very much. I hope you can perform in the most comfortable state."

Secretary Cheng said meaningfully: "During this period of cooperation, Mr. Lin does not want to see any scars on Teacher Bai, whether physical or emotional. These are Teacher Bai's family members and must take good care of him." "

The words were spoken to Madam Bai and others.

Mrs. Bai agreed repeatedly.

Secretary Cheng said this and turned to leave.

Roger grabbed him, put the gift box into his hand, and whispered: "Thank you Mr. Lin for me. However, I am in a bad state now and cannot take on this job. Take the gift back and give it back to him Bar."

Secretary Cheng's smile froze at the corner of his mouth.

Roger's attitude was firm: "I'm very grateful to Mr. Lin for affirming me, but I really can't agree."

After a brief moment of shock, Secretary Cheng quickly returned to his usual calmness: "It doesn't matter, just keep it for now. However, I can't make the final decision on cooperation. You need to talk to Mr. Lin yourself."

After saying that, he walked away.

Roger stared blankly at his figure walking away.

He looked down at the gift box in his hand. The gift box is exquisitely packaged, and you can tell at a glance that the contents inside are of great value.

My chest felt warm and cramped, and two emotions, sweet and sour, grew alternately in my heart.

If it were not Oliver, but anyone else, he would definitely be very grateful.

Unfortunately it is Oliver.

The atmosphere in the living room was much more cheerful.

Mrs. Bai changed from her previous harshness and said to him affectionately: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you and Mr. Lin had met? You see, Mr. Lin is so satisfied with you, and you can't give up."

Roger's lips moved: "But I'm not going to play the piano for him anymore."

Mrs. Bai was stunned and raised her voice: "What did you say?"

"I'm not going to play it for him." Roger said firmly.

"Why?"

"Because I can't play well. I don't want to play anymore. It's impossible to make an exception because of him."

"Ah?" Mr. Bai narrowed his eyes, as if he heard something incredible.

"Tell me about you, Mr. Lin doesn't even care that you missed your appointment today and you still lost your temper," Mrs. Bai said sadly, "I really don't understand what you are thinking."

Roger whispered: "I just don't want to play it for him."

"You have to play for him even if you don't want to play!"

The golden retriever started to show his teeth again and whine in protest.

Mrs. Bai was angry again. She was afraid of hurting Roger and angering Oliver, so she took the dog as a target.

While beating the dog with her slippers, she pointed at Sang and scolded Huai: "White-eyed wolf, why are you so fierce?"

Roger hugged the dog and lowered his head silently.

Fortunately, Benjamin came not long after.

The parents of the Bai family have always cared deeply for this outstanding eldest son, and their demeanor became much gentler when they saw him.

Benjamin walked in from the door carrying a bag of snacks and was slightly startled when she looked at the people in the living room.

Mr. Bai said angrily: "Benjamin, you came just in time. Please advise your brother. And this dog, catch this beast for me."

"Dad, Mom." Benjamin regained her cold expression, put the bag next to Roger's seat, rolled up her sleeves, and grabbed the dog by the scruff of the neck.

Unexpectedly, the cream is crazy. No matter who comes, just take a bite.

"Cream." Roger stopped in time.

Cream let Benjamin go, rushed to Roger's side, and stood on the sofa to show off her power.

Roger forced out a smile and hugged it tightly.

Mrs. Bai was still smiling when she saw him, she covered her chest again, and complained to Benjamin: "Benjamin, look at your brother. In these years, he has not lived at home. What has he learned from people outside? He also teaches dogs Bite?"

Roger stopped smiling: "Naiyou doesn't bite. He is a working dog with a good temper."

"Is this called a good temper?" Mrs. Bai almost lost her breath and said with tears, "Benjamin, you can think of a way."

"Dad, Mom, you go back and rest first." Benjamin glanced at Roger and said calmly, "It's getting late and your bodies can't hold on."

"How can this be possible? We haven't finished discussing your brother's matter yet."

"I'll talk to him." Benjamin said calmly, "My brother is usually closer to me. There are some things he can't tell you, but you can tell me. Let me persuade him."

"You must persuade him. After playing for so many years, he suddenly said he doesn't want to play anymore. What's going on? That's Oliver. I don't have any extra requirements. I just want to hear him play. What a great job. He just didn't accept it." Mrs. Bai grabbed his hand and said, "It's up to you. Your brother can't let it end like this."

Mr. Bai just snorted heavily.

Benjamin sent them out of the gate and then came back.

Roger was holding the dog and feeding it thawed canned food.

It's made from beef, and you can see the beef nuggets, and it's so delicious when the dog licks it.

"You didn't go out with Jackson today." Benjamin sat down opposite him, "He called me to look for you."

"I told him I didn't want to go, but he insisted on coming to see me." Roger hugged his knees and huddled on the sofa, "I don't want to take this job."

"If you don't answer, don't answer." Benjamin said calmly.

Roger finally smiled.

He has known since childhood that his brother is the best to him.

Benjamin was taciturn and he was very afraid of Benjamin at first. But whenever he fell or hit something because he couldn't see, Benjamin was the first to rush to him and pick him up.

When he was young, he always stayed with Benjamin. He listened to music and Benjamin sat next to him and read.

Neither of them spoke, but when he heard the sound of the pages turning, he knew Benjamin was beside him.

Very reassuring.

"Brother," he sat next to Benjamin and leaned on his shoulder, "I don't want to play the piano anymore."

Benjamin said calmly: "Okay."

"It's not that I'm overly ambitious and look down on the job Jackson took for me. Nor am I giving up on myself and thinking I'm not good enough. I just don't like it anymore."

"Um."

"Even if Oliver asks me to play, I don't want to accept it."

"good."

"The conditions proposed by Oliver are very tempting, and he is very kind to me. If it were before, I would definitely accept it, but now..."

When he thought about what happened to Oliver in his previous life, his heart hurt.

"It doesn't matter." Benjamin said, "The past was the past, and the present is the present."

It was brought here lightly.

"I..." Roger relaxed a little and said hesitantly, "I haven't decided what to do next. I want to try more."

Benjamin took out her mobile phone and asked, "How much do you want?"

Roger:?

"Pocket money." Benjamin said, "You haven't found anything to do yet, so I will give you pocket money every month."

"I have savings." Roger refused.

"Yeah." Benjamin lowered her head and pressed the screen a few times.

Roger's mobile phone lights up and displays "A friend has transferred money to you".

He looked up and Benjamin looked at him calmly: "Take it."

DJ Roger accepted and 50,000 was received.

"Transfer this much first, the limit has been reached today." Benjamin put away the phone, "We will talk about the rest later. Or you can just swipe my card."

Roger couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, hugged Benjamin and said affectionately: "Thank you, brother."

A smile appeared on Benjamin's cold face, and she held his arm: "I'll go talk to my parents. You don't have to worry about it."

The two people were looking at each other and laughing, when a furry head suddenly stuck in the middle, shouting at Benjamin with a mouthful of beef flavor: "Woof woof woof woof."

"Buttercream, don't scream." Roger brushed away its head.

Cream lowered the corners of her mouth in aggrieved manner and leaned into his arms.

"This is my brother, not a bad guy." Roger pinched the dog's mouth, "You can't bark, understand?"

The corners of Cream's eyes and mouth were drooped, and her tail hung weakly: "Woof."

"It thinks you're neglecting him." Benjamin said, "You touch him."

Roger looked at the listless dog, then at him, doubtful: "How do you know?"

"experience."

Roger rubbed the dog's head tentatively and comforted it warmly: "I'm not angry with you. I know you're afraid that others will hurt me if they get too close to me, but that's my brother and he won't hurt me." To me. You are a dedicated dog and do a great job."

Cream seemed to understand what he said, her eyes lit up, her tail wagged vigorously, and she kept jumping up.

"Don't lick me..." Roger covered his face to avoid the attack of the dog's tongue, "The dog hair got into my mouth!"

Benjamin's mouth curved slightly, looking at the man and dog fighting tenderly.

He asked Aunt Zhang to take away the crazy dog ​​and help Roger pick up the dog hair on his body: "Your eyes are completely healed now?"

"Yeah!" Roger blinked, his dark eyes shining like stars.

"Where did you find the doctor?"

Roger's eyes wandered: "A foreigner..."

Fortunately, Benjamin didn't ask any more questions: "It's fine as long as it's cured. There's no problem for the time being, right?"

"No." Roger said, "I'm in good health."

"Good enough to have barbecue and drink."

Roger felt that he was transparent in front of Benjamin: "How do you know..."

Benjamin's eyes were filled with narrowing, and he said slyly: "I smell it. You smell of wine and barbecue."

Roger raised his sleeve and smelled it: "I'll take a shower right away."

"It doesn't smell bad." Benjamin said, "Let's just sit and talk."

Benjamin handed the snacks into his hand: "I asked someone to buy them before closing."

Freeze-dried fruit. Roger likes to eat this very much.

Especially the strawberry ones, sour and sweet, especially delicious.

When Benjamin got off work, the store was already closed, so she could only ask other people to prepare in advance.

Roger opened the package, took a freeze-dried strawberry, and bit off the small tip.

"Is it tasty?"

"tasty."

It's sweet and can make people forget all the unpleasantness that happened today.

"I just contacted Lucas today. He said his teacher is very interested in your illness and may be able to help you find a treatment."

"Doctor Xu?"

Lucas and Benjamin were classmates in junior high school, and they had always been in contact. Roger had known about him for a long time, but because it was inconvenient for him to go out and because he was shy, he had barely spoken to him.

"Do you remember him?" Benjamin asked, "I thought you didn't know who he was."

"You... mentioned it before." Roger's mind was racing.

"It should be." Benjamin didn't pay much attention, "I didn't expect you to find a way first."

"Will Dr. Xu return to China soon?" Roger asked.

"Not sure. Why, do you want to see him?"

"Um."

After all, Lucas had cured his eyes in his previous life. Although his eyes healed on their own in this life, Roger still wanted to thank him.

Benjamin thought for a moment: "That's fine. He liked you when you were young, so it would be nice to get to know him now."

"When I was little, did he like me very much?" Roger asked.

"Every time he comes to our house, he always stares at you. He also stands at the door of the piano room and eavesdrops on your playing, which scares you so much that you think there is a trafficker trying to kidnap you." Benjamin rarely showed irritation, "Irritated" died."

"I don't know," Roger smiled, "Then when he comes back, we can find time to have dinner together."

The two chatted for a while. Roger saw that it was getting late and urged Benjamin to go home.

Benjamin stood at the door, reluctant to leave: "I will visit you often in the future."

"I know, you go back first. It's easy to get into trouble if it's too late."

Roger sent Benjamin away and called Aunt Zhang to come out and clean up the living room.

The living room was made a mess by Mr. Bai and Mrs. Bai. I feel sorry for Aunt Zhang, she has to clean her room so late.

Roger was too embarrassed to let her do this during her break, so she helped tidy up the sofa, which scared Aunt Zhang and kept shouting stop.

"You go and rest, I will just clean up." Aunt Zhang said, "You have just recovered from a serious illness and cannot do such heavy work."

Roger couldn't resist her, so he had to take a shower first.

He filled the bathtub with water and slowly soaked himself in it.

The water temperature is just right, so crispy that it makes your bones melt.

Roger curled up her toes comfortably and stared at the wall in a daze.

Benjamin left, and those suppressed emotions emerged again in the warm water.

Mrs. Bai's words echoed in his mind.

"Everything is your fault. You deserve to play badly. If others play badly, look for problems and practice hard. What about you? Go out to eat, drink and have fun."

"My playing skills are getting worse and worse, and I still look down on my superior skills. Why don't you look at your current level? Are you worthy of such a high price?"

"Don't you think of us as your parents?"

He stared blankly at the opposite wall.

Maybe what Madam Bai said is right.

He really didn't think of them as his parents.

He became blind due to illness when he was five years old. From that time on, he became the transparent person in the family.

He is not the only child in the family, and his brother is so outstanding. Since you already have an excellent child, why spend time on this disabled child?

Although he lives in the Bai family, in fact, most of the family has forgotten his existence. They only think of him when they hire a nanny, and they have to recruit someone to take care of this little blind man.

For eighteen years, he has been an invisible person in the family. No one except his brother remembers his existence.

It wasn't until he won the award that his parents finally noticed him and began to praise him and buy him new clothes and delicious food.

Roger was very happy at first, because he could finally hear his parents' praise. Even if he knocked something over because he couldn't see, his parents wouldn't scold him, but would ask him if it hurt.

That was when he was most proud.

But once again, he heard the conversation between his parents and Jackson, and then he realized that his parents' "love" was only because he was famous, could make money, and it would be prestigious to talk about it.

If he loses these, he ceases to be their child.

From that day on, Roger found that he couldn't play the piano well.

The piano practice process that was originally a pure enjoyment turned into torture. Every time he played the piano, someone said in his ear: Play well. If you don't play well, you will lose the person who loves you. If you can't do anything well, how can you deserve their love for you?

The heat of the water in the bathtub made his eyes hurt, and they became wet when he rubbed them.

Madam Bai was right, it was his own problem. There was no way he could cross this hurdle.

Even if you move out and practice over and over again, it won't help.

In his previous life, he met Oliver and gradually regained his previous feelings while playing the piano for Oliver.

Oliver liked to listen to him play the piano, and he also liked to play the piano for Oliver.

Only by playing the piano for Oliver could he completely relax and not worry about whether the other party would be angry because of his mistakes.

As for this life...

He and Oliver have no future, and the same should be true for him and the piano.

Roger splashed water on his face and scrubbed the sore corners of his eyes.

Does he really not want to play the piano?

Roger walked out of the bathroom after soaking his skin until it wrinkled.

Aunt Zhang came up and knocked on the door: "Mr. Bai, are you asleep? What should I do with that gift?"

He almost forgot that Oliver had just asked someone to bring him a gift, but he hadn't looked at it yet.

Roger hesitated for a moment, then asked Aunt Zhang to bring up the gift.