The hotel room that Fang still booked for Cross was also a suite, and after the three of them went upstairs and entered the room, they sat down on the sofa in the living room together. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Our company's Huaxia agent has already prepared a production room for me locally, and the raw materials and production tools have been prepared. As soon as Cross sat down, he got straight to the point, "As long as we agree on what kind of guitar we want to make tonight, I can start working tomorrow." There is no limit to the type of guitar you can make, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, even four-stringed bass and ukulele or five-string banjo, which are similar to guitars, I can also do it, you name it. ”

"It's still a six-string guitar, of course. Xiao Yao said. I can play other pianos myself, but most of them are just casual play, and I use guitars a lot.

"No problem," Cross nodded, "electric guitar or acoustic guitar, are there any requirements for appearance and materials? color, shape, size, material, you can ask for them, or I can design them for you." ”

"The shape can also come as required?" Xiao Yao said.

"Of course, otherwise how can it be called a tailor-made exclusive guitar. Cross laughed, "And I'll only make one of these instruments, and I won't help anyone else make the same one." ”

"So cool?" Xiao Yao's heart moved, remembering the cool dragon qin of Wang Leehom in his previous life, and said to Cross, "I want an electric guitar, the shape I have designed myself, it is very special, I can draw it for you now, please wait a moment." With that, Xiao Yao got up and went to the desk in the room, picked up the pencil and blank letter paper provided by the hotel, returned to the sofa and began to draw.

It didn't take long for Xiao Yao to hand a picture of the appearance of a painted guitar to Cross and said, "Mr. Cross, can you make such a piano?"

"Oh my God, what is this?" After receiving the picture handed by Xiao Yao, Cross immediately glared in surprise.

"It's a dragon. Xiao Yao said, "The dragon of Huaxia." ”

"I remember," Cross laughed, "just like those in the Yanjing Forbidden City? I heard the tour guide say that the dragon was the symbol of the Chinese emperor in ancient times, and it seems that you have a lot of heart." He remembered that when he visited the Yanjing Forbidden City before, he had seen reliefs of this animal on the walls and pillars.

"Uh... The dragon is not only a symbol of the emperor, it is the totem of our Chinese nation, and we Chinese people call themselves the descendants of the dragon. Xiao Yao sweated.

"I see. Cross nodded.

"Can you do it?" Xiao Yao asked again.

"It's not easy, but this one looks so cool that I'm going to make it. "What about colors and materials?"

"Silver, I want to use carbon fiber, so it won't be too heavy to carry. Xiao Yao said.

"No problem," Cross nodded, "but the production cycle will not be short, I estimate that it will take about a month, and I can't make this shape alone, I still need help." ”

"Is there anything I can help with?" Xiao Yao took the initiative to ask.

"No, we have people in our company who specialize in this. Cross shook his head and said, "I'll ask the company to send someone from the United States to help me." The only thing you need to do is wait for this instrument to be made, take a picture of it, and let us put the photo on the company's official website, okay?"

"No problem. Xiao Yao nodded immediately, and then asked, "Can I visit during the production?" I'm also interested in how to make guitars. ”

"Of course. Cross smiled and nodded, "This piano will spend a lot of time on the production of this dragon, I will have a lot of free time in the early stage, if you want, I can teach you how to make a guitar." ”

"Thank you, of course I want to learn. Xiao Yao said happily.

"The idea of this instrument is fantastic, and it gives me a new idea for making guitars in the future. "I heard that you wrote the song "Sugar" in "Daydream", and the idea for the surprise attack on the real wedding scene in that music video also came from you. It seems that you are not only a great musician, but also a guy with a lot of imagination. I love you and it's a pleasure to teach you how to make a guitar. So, you're welcome. ”

After agreeing on the guitar to be made, Xiao Yao and Cross chatted for about half an hour. Although Xiao Yao can't make guitars, he still has a comprehensive understanding of musical instruments, and Cross, as a master instrument maker, is naturally very proficient in music, so the two of them chatted very speculatively. In the end, when Xiao Yao took Fang Yi to say goodbye and leave, he had already changed his words and called him "Nick" directly at the request of Cross.

Although it is already night in Huaxia, due to the time difference, it is the time to work during the day in the United States. After Xiao Yao and Fang still left, Cross also immediately contacted the company headquarters in the United States and asked to send another special person to help. Even though Cross told the person in charge of the company that the production cost of Xiao Yao's guitar was expected to reach about 100,000 US dollars, the people at the company's headquarters agreed without hesitation when they saw the picture of the guitar drawn by Xiao Yao that Cross had passed over, and said that they would immediately arrange for the company's experts who are proficient in carbon fiber and special shape production to fly to Huaxia to help.

Since Xiao Yao studied in Shenju, Xiao Yao's private team also moved from Yanjing to Shencheng. Xiao Yao's private team now has two people, one is the agent and assistant Fang Yi, and the other is the makeup artist and assistant Pei Minyi, both of whom are young girls in their early twenties. After moving to Shencheng, the two simply rented an apartment not far from Shencheng and lived together.

Xiao Yao went to the United States alone during the summer vacation, saying that he was going to visit a friend, but after he came back, the whole video caused an uproar in the United States, causing an airline to apologize publicly, and then it was revealed that he wrote songs for American rock bands and helped them come up with ideas to shoot MVs, which became popular in the United States again. Xiao Yao's team naturally pays attention to these things. Looking at these news, Pei Minyi felt that Xiao Yao had a proper international style. As Xiao Yao's makeup artist and assistant, she will definitely have the opportunity to follow Xiao Yao to foreign countries in the future. While she was excited, she also began to worry about her English.

Fang is still in charge of the brokerage matter, it is not within the scope of her work, and while Xiao Yao is in military training, there is nothing that needs her, so after she came to Shencheng to settle down, she immediately found an English training class and went to make up for English.

Making a guitar is not a performance, and Pei Minyi, a makeup artist, is not needed, and the assistant is still accompanied by Youfang, and now it is not needed for the time being, so Xiao Yao and Fang still don't bother her with English learning, and they still act together.

The next day, Xiao Yao and Fang still drove to the hotel to pick up Cross, who led the way to the guitar making room that the agent had prepared for him. After selecting the materials for the strings, fretboards and other parts of the dragon qin, Xiao Yao, who was fine, followed Cross to learn how to make a guitar.

A day later, Cross's helpers also arrived in Shencheng. The new instrument producer, Ake Robinson, is in his thirties, almost ten years younger than Cross, but he is Kroos's helper, not his assistant.

Strictly speaking, Ake Robinson is an instrument maker, but not a guitar maker, because he is an expert in material modeling, and he specializes in the design and production of certain special requirements of musical instruments from various materials. Nicholas Cross, a luthier who excelled at handcraft, was more like a modern sculptor who was good at using instruments and equipment, but he knew more about music than ordinary sculptors. His mission in Shencheng this time was to help Cross make the winding dragon on the qin's body.

This dragon qin was designed by Xiao Yao, and the appearance picture was also drawn by Xiao Yao. As an American, Ake Robinson didn't know much about Huaxia's dragons, so Ake Robinson could only discuss some details with Xiao Yao, the designer of Huaxia. Xiao Yao took this opportunity to introduce Ake Robinson to what the dragon of China looked like.

"The dragon is a legendary animal, there is no such thing in reality, but it is not imaginary, every part of its body comes from animals that exist in reality. In addition to finding a bunch of close-up pictures of Huaxia dragons from various angles for reference for Ake and Robinson, Xiao Yao also pointed to every part of the picture and explained it to him in detail, so that he had an intuitive impression of each component of the dragon. "The dragon of China has a head like a camel, antlers on its head, rabbit eyes, ox ears on its ears, a snake on its neck, a belly like a large oyster, carp scales, eagle claws on its claws, and its paws on its feet are from tigers. This is the dragon of China!" There are many descriptions of dragons in ancient China, which can be summed up as "nine resemblances to their shapes", and Xiao Yao also tried his best to explain them in a language that Ake Robinson could understand.

"You mean that the dragon of China is a synthesis of nine different animals?" Acre Robinson seemed to understand.

"So to speak. Xiao Yao nodded.

"You Chinese ancients really have ideas," Ake Robinson looked at the design of the guitar drawn by Xiao Yao, and then looked at the bunch of pictures of dragons that Xiao Yao helped him find, and felt that he had grasped the details of various parts of the dragon, and suddenly felt that there was a score in his heart, "Okay, I think I know what to do." ”

After Ake Robinson began to work, Xiao Yao's learning objects also changed from one person to two, while learning the production of materials and modeling with Ake Robinson, and learning to make ordinary-looking guitars with Cross.

During the entire National Day holiday, Xiao Yao did almost nothing, and spent all his time in that guitar making room. Even after the holidays ended and the school began to hold classes, Xiao Yao often took advantage of the break to run here to learn from the two master instrument makers. Xiao Yao's learning ability is very strong, and he knows enough about the guitar as an instrument, so it didn't take long for Xiao Yao to learn how to make guitars from Nicholas Cross. As for Ake Robinson, after seeing how he made the dragon on the body of the piano, Xiao Yao simply completed the production of the smaller dragon head on the headstock under the guidance of Ake Robinson.

A lot of the materials in the guitar making room are readily available. In the process of learning guitar making, Xiao Yao will inevitably take the abundant raw materials in the production room to practice his hands and try to make some guitars by himself. At the beginning, Xiao Yao worked with Nicholas Cross to make a few regular-shaped acoustic guitars.

The guitar that Xiao Yao made himself must be taken away. The raw materials in this guitar making room are indeed sufficient, but after all, it is not my own place. Even if the two producers taught him to make it for free, the raw materials that could be consumed to make guitars were bought by other people's Huaxia agents. It stands to reason that in addition to the fact that the dragon qin was promised to be made for him for free, Xiao Yao should still pay according to the price of the raw materials consumed in the process of learning guitar making.

After learning a lot of methods from Ake to make a unique shape of the body with special materials, on the one hand, for fun, on the other hand, in order to save money, Xiao Yao began to use various waste materials and tools in the production room as raw materials for guitar production, and as a result, he really made a few strange-looking "non-mainstream" guitars, so that the two musical instrument makers who had been shocked by Xiao Yao's "dragon qin" once again marveled at Xiao Yao's "whimsy".