But the woman in the photo would not answer.
She just smiles and gazes at Mordecai in front of her.
Mordecai hugged the photo for a long, long time and finally fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, he pretended to be fine, sneaked into his grandmother’s room, and put the photo back.
When he came out again, he bumped right into someone.
“What were you doing sneaking around in there?” Cedron lifted his philtrum lips and uttered an inquiry.
Those beautiful narrow eyes were now tightly knitted.
Mordecai started to get weak.
Shrinking his neck, his eyes shifted away, “Nothing, just checking to see if grandma is up yet, and if she’s not, I can spill my guts so I don’t have to practice today.”
You have to know that the former Mordecai, was not a one-star hater of practicing the piano.
She hated it to the bone.
So going to the old Mrs. Navarro’s room early in the morning just to beg for a chance to not have to practice the piano made sense.
Cedron’s furrowed brow eases a bit, “No piano practice today.”
Mordecai: “!!!”
He was anxious and subconsciously clutched the corner of Cedron’s coat, “Why ah daddy, I haven’t practiced that song yesterday particularly well yet, I want to practice it some more!”
After saying this, Mordecai regretted it.
He really wanted to smash his own mouth.
Why did you say that for a good reason?
Just now, he had said that he didn’t want to practice before he came to see his grandma, but now he was acting very anxious, it was just like saying the same thing before and the same thing after!
As expected, Cedron’s eyes began to become suspicious as he looked at him.
“What the hell are you doing in there?”
In his voice, there was already a bit of sternness.
Mordecai got scared and shrank his neck as he replied, “I … I really didn’t do anything, daddy, I just went in to look for grandma.”
“Cedron!” at this moment THE OLD Mrs. Navarro came up, and with a stern face reprimanded, “What’s the good of scaring the child; he came to me, I’m afraid, because he wanted to practise the piano a little longer, that he might go to the hospital and teach Amad!”
Mordecai hurriedly nodded along with this, “Yes, yes, that’s right!”
So it’s normal to be ambivalent about practicing the piano.
He just wanted to learn the piece for Amad, not really enjoy playing the piano.
The old Mrs. Navarro was smiling at the side, and opened her mouth to lament, “I think according to this, we should let Amad call you his godfather, and then stay in our house, so that Mordecai can set an example as a good older brother, and learn all those skills that he refused to learn in the past even when he was dead.”
Hearing this, Mordecai’s face pulled longer than an eggplant.
If he had to learn so many things in the future, what was the point of living?
But on second thought-
This way Amad could stay with him forever.
It didn’t seem like it would be that difficult to learn these things.
It’s still possible to endure it by gritting one’s teeth!
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Cedron speak, “Don’t joke about it, it’s already enough of a headache for me to have such a son, I’m afraid I’ll be annoyed to death if I have two more children.”
After a pause, he looked at the old Mrs. Navarro, “You’re also old, don’t always think about these things, taking good care of your body is the most important thing.”
THE OLD Mrs. Navarro waved her hand, her face full of disbelief, “I’m in good health, I still have to teach Anna the art of healing, so don’t worry, I’ll live well until I teach Anna.”
“Teach her and you’ll live well too.” Cedron corrected.