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"You might as well go and do a lion dance."
Fu Hai rambled on: "Yesterday I met a master. He glanced at me and suddenly asked me if I could play the piano."
“When I said no, he said it was a pity for me.”
Cen Yao asked in confusion, "What's a pity?"
Fu Hai said, “He said I have an extraordinary appearance, that I am a fairy descended from heaven, and the reincarnation of Liezi. I should be proficient in all the arts, especially the zither. If I were to learn the zither, with my extraordinary talent, I would surely amaze everyone.”
Cen Yao chuckled: "Did he mention giving him fifty coins in exchange for his next plan to help you reach the top?"
Cen Qiong walked over carrying a new zither, and smiled gently.
Unexpectedly, this young master Fu is quite simple-minded.
Fu Hai said, "I originally thought he was a fortune teller, but I didn't expect that the Taoist priest would leave after saying that."
“I went back and told my junior sister. After hearing my description, she said that it was very likely that it was Pharmacist Li from Peach Blossom Island in the East China Sea. She said we might as well give it a try.”
Cen Yao scoffed, "Which junior sister? Xia Yuelan? She's hardly ever been to school, and you actually listen to her?"
Fu Hai said, "No, it's Junior Sister Lingyue."
“Song Lingyue? She… she’s also acting strangely, it’s hard to understand her,” Cen Yao muttered.
Song Lingyue rarely speaks to outsiders, which makes her appear aloof and intelligent.
Cen Yao didn't know whether her skill level was high or low, but she looked quite impressive.
She then added dismissively, "There seems to be a legend about Pharmacist Li from Peach Blossom Island, but he's from the East China Sea, why would he come all the way to An County? Nonsense!"
At this moment, Fu Hai held the string in his hand.
After assigning myself the skill level of "medium", I actually felt that I had a thorough grasp of the characteristics and timbre of various musical instruments.
These strings, under his fingers, seemed like Sister Butterfly and Sister Little Night stacked together, which he could manipulate however he pleased.
He smiled slightly: "Perhaps what that person said is true? Let me give it a try."
Gently press down with your fingers and pluck the strings...
Chapter 190 Let's try it in broad daylight and on the blue sea?
The two sisters, Cen Qiong and Cen Yao, saw him suddenly become solemn and serious, sitting upright, pressing and lifting with his left and right hands, his posture upright.
He exuded the air of a master teacher, which made me secretly shudder. I wondered if he was really a master, and that he was just pretending to be weak to deceive others.
At least his posture and the way he twisted his fingers at this moment looked quite professional.
Then I saw him standing there, looking embarrassed and motionless, like a catfish that was stuck.
At this moment, Fu Hai was completely embarrassed under the serious gazes of the two sisters.
What should I play?
He suddenly realized that he didn't know any musical scores at all.
The only musical score I know is this one, "The Song of the Rising Tide of the Blue Sea".
—“The Song of the Rising Tide of the Blue Sea: It truly lives up to its name and needs no further explanation.”
In this music hall, besides the two sisters, there were many young girls learning to play the zither, and outside there were young girls practicing martial arts, as well as female teachers coming and going.
Azure... Tide...
Fu Hai has not yet tested this "Song of the Rising Tide of the Blue Sea".
But judging from the past performance of this garbage system, he knew very well that it was definitely not a good thing.
After attaching the "Desperate to Death or Ascension to Heaven" to oneself, one still needs to personally touch it or attach it to certain martial arts techniques.
This "Song of the Rising Tide of the Blue Sea" spreads through the sound of the zither, and it is clearly a kind of mass destruction.
If it were to be played, it would be in broad daylight.
What if all the young women in the Phoenix Dance Hall were in the "Azure Sea Tide," and as far as the eye could see, there was a scene of surging waves?
What will happen next?
At this moment, Fu Hai really had the urge to "give it a try".
You should know that climbing up from the foot of the mountain is fraught with difficulties.
But once you reach the top of the mountain, jumping down from any direction is a simple matter.
Looking at a sheer cliff, it's easy to feel the urge to "jump off and see what's going on."
The same applies to morality.
Becoming a moral exemplar is difficult, but becoming morally corrupt is all too easy.
"Do you have any sheet music for me to look at?" He suppressed the urge to try and looked at Miss Cen shyly.
Cen Yao, standing nearby, chuckled and said, "Where's your extraordinary talent? Where's your astonishing presence?"
"You've learned to imitate it quite well. Was that expert you mentioned earlier just made up?"
"I think you should give up learning the piano and become a fortune teller on the street. Maybe you can actually fool people."
Although Cen Qiong shook her head and chuckled, she also felt that her younger sister was too sharp-tongued.
While you're right, it's no wonder people won't like you if you keep digging into their shortcomings like this.
She was afraid her sister would go too far and drive others away, so she told her sister to go cry tonight.
So he interrupted his sister and said, "As for sheet music, we have it all here."
He picked up a few sheet music books from the other side, glared at his younger sister, and said, "Teach her properly."
Cen Yao chuckled to herself, thinking to herself, "He doesn't know anything, how can I teach him? Besides, to be honest, who doesn't start learning the piano from a young age?"
The younger a person is, the stronger their ability to learn. If you start learning the piano in your teens, it's too late!
Cen Qiong was furious when she saw that Cen Qiong was still laughing.
When I asked you to teach someone properly, did I really mean to teach him to play the piano?
Even if someone can't learn it, a few words of encouragement and asking them to stay a little longer will allow you to spend some quality time with them.
This younger sister likes someone, but she also wants to annoy them.
What kind of weird personality is this?
Cen Qiong saw her younger sister take the sheet music and show it to the young master Fu from Xiaodiancang Mountain.
Although his attitude seemed awkward, he was clearly very happy.
The pent-up frustration I had been feeling during that time was completely gone.
She shook her head with amusement, not wanting to disturb them, and let her younger sister explain the "simplified musical notation" to the boy.
Cen Yao took a very basic sheet music and explained it to Fu Hai.
Musical scores in this era were all written in words, with left-hand fingering instructions at the top and right-hand fingering instructions at the bottom.
Initially, the text used was extremely complex in order to explain things clearly. Later, someone simplified the text of the musical score, which is called "simplified notation," but it is still very complex.
There is no Fu Hai in another world, where he uses various symbols to represent musical notes in a simple and clear way.
Fortunately, Fu Hai's "qin skills (medium level)" were not to be underestimated. After memorizing them, he was able to gradually master them.
"If you really want to learn the piano, you have to start by practicing these simple sheet music!"
Cen Yao opened a simple sheet music book meant for young girls in the building who were just learning to play the piano, and lightly played one of the pieces.
The melody was simple, and to Fu Hai, it roughly belonged to another world, like "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
Some people study piano their whole lives and still find themselves singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
He picked up another sheet music and flipped through it page by page.
Cen Yao played for a while and realized that he hadn't listened to her explanation at all.
Actually, this kind of thing is quite complicated to learn, and she didn't expect him to understand much of it all at once.
Seeing him flipping through those advanced sheet music pieces, I couldn't help but laugh and cry: "What are you looking at! Even after studying for so many years, I can't play those sheet music pieces very well."
"You can't even crawl yet, and you want to learn to run?"
Fu Hai continued flipping through the pages: "Is it that difficult? I feel it's alright."
Cen Yao pouted and said, "Hehe, you really don't understand anything."
“Take the piece ‘Tao Zhong’ that you’re playing now. Only the Luoxia Qin can bring out its majestic and grand effect. Its fingering is complex and powerful, and its artistic conception is like the surging of rivers and seas. In the entire An County, there are no more than five people who can play it completely.”
Fu Hai picked up the Luoxia Qin that had just been demonstrated from the side and said, "Let me try it."
He glanced at the little girls practicing their instruments, then followed their example and burned an incense stick. He asked a passing maid for a basin of water and washed his hands.
The way of playing the zither is quite particular; this is what is known as a sense of ritual.
Cen Yao saw him holding the "Tao Zhong" on the table, and he actually sat behind the incense table, posing.
With a chuckle, she leaned over the table and said with a smile, "You're really going to play it? You really know how to pick something, choosing the most difficult one. You're trying to make me laugh to death." She laughed so hard she was shaking.
Fu Hai ignored her, closed his eyes to concentrate, and then slowly opened them again.
On the other side, Cen Qiong stood at the palace gate and saw the boy, who was not even a beginner, spread out the most complicated musical score and even put on a serious posture. She couldn't help but shake her head.
I originally thought that although my younger sister had a quirky personality, she was still quite talented and proud. The boy she liked so much must be extraordinary.
Upon closer inspection today, it seems that this young man is somewhat arrogant. To put it nicely, he's conceited; to put it bluntly, he's shameless. I wonder how he managed to catch the eye of his sister.
Just then, Feng Nihong, the owner of the Phoenix Dance Pavilion, floated over, glanced at the young man about to play the zither in the side hall, and said, "Miss Qiong, who is that young master...?"
Chapter 191 Am I really a genius?
"Young Master Fu Hai of the Dragon Claw Sect of Xiaodiancang Mountain!"
Cen Qiong smiled slightly, "He is my sister's classmate. We met him on the road earlier and he said he wanted to learn the piano, so I brought him over to try it out."