The six-fingered boy Li Xintong fell in love with this instrument composed of 88 black and white keys the moment he touched the piano, and when his fingers touched the keys, he could feel the sound of the piano resonating with his heartbeat.

The first time he liked his hands, he could only use five fingers when playing the piano, and the sixth finger with the little finger cocked in it would make people feel awkward, and it made the whole hands have some incongruity when playing the piano. The third finger and the fourth finger of Li Xintong's left and right hands have a little coexisting connection, if the third finger moves, the fourth finger will also unconsciously follow the slight movement.

Five fingers are the best choice in nature in the process of human evolution, and the sixth finger of a six-fingered person is generally not flexible, just like an appendage and a superfluous thing. But Li Xintong's is different, the six fingers of each of his hands are perfectly symmetrical, because his six fingers are the middle finger divided into two, in short, he has two middle fingers in each hand.

Therefore, even if Li Xintong wants to have surgery to cut off one of his fingers and become an ordinary person, it is impossible for him to become an ordinary person, because the finger he has extra is not an immovable appendage, but a finger that exists completely and normally. Cutting off that finger would not be appropriate, but would make his hand even more strange.

In daily life and when playing the piano, Li Xintong will subconsciously touch the keys with the five fingers in front of him, leaving a little finger in the air.

Lin Ping looked at Li Xintong who was playing the piano and said with a smile: "Li Xintong, why don't you try to use your sixth finger?"

After Li Xintong heard Lin Ping's words, he first retracted his hand from the piano with some vigilance and caution, and then clenched it into a fist and did not speak.

Lin Ping continued to smile and said: "The piano is an instrument that relies on fingers, isn't your six fingers your advantage? ”

Li Xintong looked at Lin Ping and then at Yu Mengfei again, but did not speak.

Yu Mengfei said with a smile: "The piano was created by ordinary people with five fingers, so the playing method is also based on the five fingers of ordinary people, so I can only teach you how to play five fingers." However, you Teacher Lin is right, since you have a unique advantage, you can try to play a piece with six fingers at the same time. ”

Yu Mengfei touched Li Xintong's back and said with a smile: "Of course, this may be difficult, you first follow me to learn the piano sheet music and normal five-finger playing, and then slowly try to play with six fingers." ”

Li Xintong nodded and did not speak.

At this time, Yu Mengfei said with a smile: "In this way, I will teach you the stave again." Do you remember what I told you about scales? ”

In the previous music class, Yu Mengfei taught the children in the mountains the basic knowledge of music lessons and taught them to sing some basic songs.

"I remember. A little boy mischievously said, "1234567."

Yu Mengfei said with a smile: "This is not called 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, but do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si." ”

Then, Yu Mengfei took the simple score of "Worm Flying" written on the blackboard just now as an example, and once again told this group of children the basic knowledge of simple notation.

Among all the children in the audience, Li Xintong listened very seriously, and looked at the simple score on the blackboard.

Lin Ping stood next to him and listened to Yu Mengfei's lecture on music knowledge for a while with the children, and then planned to leave after the class.

Lin Ping turned around and was about to walk out of the classroom door, when Li Xintong, who was staring at the blackboard, said softly, "Teacher, can I try it?"

Lin Ping turned his head to look at Li Xintong, who was looking at Yu Mengfei and asked in a pleading tone.

Yu Mengfei looked at Lin Ping at the door, then nodded with a smile and said, "What are you going to try?"

Li Xintong hesitated and said, "I...... I think, I can use six fingers to play this song "Worm Flying". ”

Hearing Li Xintong's words, Yu Mengfei and Lin Ping glanced at each other, with surprise and joy in their eyes.

Yu Mengfei nodded, and then replied affirmatively: "Of course." ”

So Li Xintong sat down in front of the piano again, he took a deep breath a little nervously, and then gently put his hands on the piano, first put the five fingers of each hand on the keys, and then slowly put the upturned little finger on the keys.

To learn the piano, you must first learn fingering.

The piano is divided into different major and minor scales, a total of 12 major and 12 minor, not every tone uses the same fingering, the most basic tone for beginners is C major. There are many kinds of fingering to play the piano, generally speaking, it is a straight finger, that is, one-to-one, that is, one finger corresponds to a syllable, and then there are finger piercing, finger crossing, finger expansion, finger contraction, and homophonic finger change.

However, these fingerings are for normal ordinary people to learn piano fingering, and are not suitable for Li Xintong with six fingers, if Li Xintong really wants to use six fingers to play the piano, then he can only improve his own fingering on the basis of five fingers.

This is not a simple matter, there is no experience of predecessors, and there is no guidance from relevant teachers, Yu Mengfei cannot guide Li Xintong, all she can teach is normal piano playing and music knowledge, after all, Yu Mengfei is a normal person with five fingers, and she can't understand Li Xintong's feelings with six fingers.

In the matter of six fingers, no one can help Li Xintong, Li Xintong can only rely on himself, alone on this lonely and peculiar road to grope forward. He is like a cocoon walking in the darkness looking for light, whether he breaks out of the cocoon and becomes a butterfly or dies in the dark, no one can help him much.

Li Xintong sat in front of the piano, put six fingers on the piano keys with two hands according to the fingering of the fingers, and then gently pressed the first key, Lin Ping and Yu Mengfei on the side looked at him expectantly.

As soon as he played the first sentence, Li Xintong frowned and shook his head slightly, and then stopped, he failed, and he himself was a little uncomfortable.

"It's okay, try again. Lin Ping smiled and encouraged.

Li Xintong glanced at Lin Ping, then nodded, put his hand up, and pressed the keys again.

Maybe he was a little nervous, or maybe he didn't get used to it, Li Xintong seemed to be a little in a hurry, his six fingers clashed by themselves, and the rhythm was messed up after playing less than half of it.

"It's okay," Yu Mengfei said with a smile, "Don't force yourself, if you really can't use five fingers, after all, you can play with five fingers very well, much better than when the teacher first learned." When the teacher first started learning, I was beaten by my teacher several times on the back of my hand, thinking that my hand shape was not good-looking, my fingers were not strong, I played too ugly and my brain was stupid, and I couldn't remember the simple score and always stumbled. ”

Saying that, Yu Mengfei laughed to herself, she recalled the time when she was a child to learn the piano, at that time she really hated the old woman who taught her piano, but after learning the piano, Yu Mengfei was extremely grateful to her.

Li Xintong didn't seem to hear Yu Mengfei's words and put his fingers on the piano again, two hands, twelve fingers, shuttling on the piano keys.

Fail!

Fail!

Every time he plays the two tones of 6 and 7, Li Xintong's fingers are always a little unwilling, and he will always get stuck or press wrongly, and the whole track will be declared a failure.

And Li Xintong's whole person seemed to be stunned, trying to play the piano with his six fingers again and again, Yu Mengfei was a little scared when he saw him like this, and wanted him to stop, but Lin Ping pulled Yu Mengfei and motioned Yu Mengfei not to disturb Li Xintong.

Lin Ping knew that Li Xintong had entered a state of selflessness at this time, and it could also be said that he had fallen into a demon, and he would not survive if he was not crazy.

After several successive failures, Li Xintong finally stopped, and then looked at the black and white keys in a daze without speaking.

"Li Xintong. ”

Yu Mengfei shouted softly, but Li Xintong put it on the piano again as if he hadn't heard it, then closed his eyes and gently pressed his fingers-

"The dark sky is low, and the bright stars are ...... with each other"

As the last key slowly pressed and lifted with his fingers, this simple children's song "Worm Flying" was finally played by Li Xintong, and he played it with twelve fingers of two hands.