Chapter 10: Two Eggs and One Star
[10] Two eggs and one star
"Amateur grade 10? That's already the top of the amateur piano exam!
"It's not uncommon for elementary school students to have passed the 10th grade. β
Although Tong Mu's voice was still soft and gentle, Hu Yiting could see that there was still a faint smile on her face.
Hu Yiting took the opportunity to compliment: "Your tutor is really good." I mean, even if you're so humble in front of someone like me who can't read music, your parents must be amazing.
When Tong Mu heard Hu Yiting say this, he immediately restrained the smile on his face.
Hu Yiting thought that she was disgusted with her compliments, and hurriedly turned the topic back to the score.
Next, Tong Mu hardly spoke, and focused on Hu Yiting's humming score.
As an amateur piano player in the tenth grade, the lyrics are not difficult for her, but the difficulty is the multi-part stave required for instrumental performance. Because Tong Mu hadn't heard the original song after all, he only heard Hu Yiting howl once, where could he write the instrumental accompaniment out of thin air.
Hu Yiting patted Tong Mu's chest and reassured: "Don't worry, it's no problem." I have the tune in my head, the instrument is chosen, I hum the accompaniment, and you can write the score. β
Tong Mu was surprised when he heard this, and looked at Hu Yiting again.
Seeing that the boy in front of him was still smiling, Hexi was full of a calmness that was not commensurate with his age.
As Hu Yiting hummed one by one, Tong Mu couldn't help but gradually marvel at his talent, and felt that Hu Yiting might really be a musical genius.
Relying only on Hu Yiting's humming, Tong Mu wrote very hard, and the score was recorded very slowly.
There are no other musical instruments in the piano room, so they all rely on Tong Mu to play the piano and try out.
Hu Yiting listened to Tong Mu playing, and occasionally said:
"It's a little bit lower and a little higher here...... Yeah...... The tempo should be a little faster here...... Okay, that's it...... There's a pause here......"
In order to record a detailed score, the two tossed until half past eleven at noon, and Hu Yiting's stomach began to rumble with hunger.
Hu Yiting didn't even know a simple score, so it was not easy to convert the accompaniment music in his memory into symbols on the stave, such as ascending and descending tones, chromatic tones, whole tones, tempos, bars, cycle periods, and accent positions. Thanks to Tong Mu's strong musical skills, it also exhausted her.
Hearing the school bell ringing for the fourth class, Hu Yiting hurriedly said: "It's really hard for you, I didn't expect to be so tired from recording music." β
Looking at the finished score in her hand, Tong Mu felt relieved on the one hand, but also shocked on the other hand, she didn't expect Hu Yiting to be able to compose such a complex piece of music out of thin air in her mind.
Tong Mu winked at Hu Yiting a little mischievously, and said, "Although the song is very good, you don't know anything about staves, I really don't know how you can create such a complex soundtrack." β
Hu Yiting's face flushed, and he hurriedly said: "I am a genius, don't use worldly eyes to evaluate a genius." The music is like a picture in my mind. β
"Flutter".
Tong Mu couldn't help laughing: "Genius child, go home quickly, don't you still have an exam in the afternoon?"
"Are you still in the piano room in the afternoon?"
"I was in the dance studio in the afternoon. β
"You're so idle, you don't have to take a cultural class for a day. β
"Your thorough examination occupies the kindergarten building, and our kindergarten teacher class can't attend classes, so we can only take a vacation. β
"It's better to take a real vacation. β
"That's not good, the people in our class today are all going to participate in the city's middle school students' literary and artistic performances, either practicing in the piano room or practicing in the dance studio. β
"City middle school students' literary and artistic performances?"
"Well, if you win the first prize, you can be sent to the Department of Early Childhood and Special Education of Normal University, which is a college diploma, which is better than the secondary school diploma of the fifth kindergarten teacher class to find a job. β
"What's the show you're on?"
"The piano soloist sings IwillalwaysloveU. β
"Whitney Houston's 'Bodyguard' theme song?"
"Have you seen 'The Bodyguard'?"
"I'm in my third year of junior high school, so why haven't I seen it. β
"I can't see it, you know a lot, I watched it for the first time in my third year of high school this year, and I was very impressed by the theme song. β
Only then did Hu Yiting know that Tong Mu was in his third year of high school, three years older than himself.
"And when am I coming to you?"
"Every day after school, I was here until the door closed at half-past six. β
"I remembered. β
"Go back to dinner. β
"Shall we go together?"
"I brought food and ate it at school. β
"Then I'll go first. β
"Goodbye. β
Bidding farewell to the child herd, Hu Yiting came out of the piano room excitedly.
Just a few minutes after leaving the school gate, Hu Yiting found that he had left his schoolbag in the piano room, so he had to quickly fold it back.
As soon as he entered the piano room, Hu Yiting saw Tong Mu.
I saw her sitting in the corner of the small piano room, holding an aluminum lunch box, which contained a cold steamed bun and a few dried radish, and next to it was an enamel tea jar, the boiled water in it was boiling hot, steaming with mist.
This scene shocked Hu Yiting, Tong Mu, a beautiful woman, actually ate this kind of lunch!
No reason!
"Losing weight?" Hu Yiting popped up a common concept in his previous life.
Tong Mu saw Hu Yiting go and return, and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"
"I forgot to take my school bag. β
Tong Mu glanced at the old blue canvas schoolbag on the ground next to the piano: "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention just now." β
Hu Yiting quickly denied his idea that Tong Mu was losing weight.
He was tempted to say, "You're just going to eat this?"
But he was afraid that this would hurt Tong Mu's self-esteem, so he had the heart to invite Tong Mu back to his house for dinner, but he was afraid that Tong Mu would refuse, and he was afraid that his family would wonder why he would bring a senior high school girl home.
Hu Yiting finally left silently, he ran to the school commissary, took out six yuan five in his pocket, and bought three tea eggs for one yuan five.
Hu Yiting was very familiar with this kind aunt's face, and took the three tea eggs wrapped in old test papers from this aunt's hand, and he rushed to the piano room quickly, but his steps became slower and slower.
He remembered that Tong Mu might be too careful, he would think that he would look down on her, that he would think that he had other intentions, and that he would even think that he deliberately belittled her, so much so that he felt that he could buy her with three tea eggs.
Although Hu Yiting didn't mean this at all, he couldn't help but worry, and then he began to wonder why he was so unnecessarily careful, can't a boy express his concern for a girl without scruples?
Hu Yiting finally stopped by the potholed basketball court and stood in the noon sun with a tangled face.
"Why do you want to do so much?"
"Am I really old?"
The midday sun was incandescent and pure, and Hu Yiting felt warm all over his body when he stood there, and every pore was lazily open.
So he smiled, and without the slightest hesitation, ran briskly to the piano room.
Hu Yiting interrupted Tong Mu's lunch again.
"Tong Mu! I just walked a few steps before I remembered, after the physics exam, I was hungry, so I bought three tea eggs, but I forgot to eat them in my school bag, you can help me eat them, I will go back to eat lunch, if I bring it back, my parents will see it, they will definitely scold me." β
Hu Yiting was full of nonsense, and he said without pause, like firing a machine gun, and after speaking, he felt that his face was as red as the barrel of a gun, as if steam could come out when he poured water.
Without waiting for Tong Mu to react, Hu Yiting blushed and heartbeat first.
He quickly put the paper bag wrapped in tea eggs on the piano, turned around and rushed out of the piano room. He ran as fast as he could, fearing that he would hear the child's refusal or be overtaken.
As a reborn, Hu Yiting figured out one thing, it doesn't matter what others think of him, he cares more about his own heart.
He thought that as long as he didn't break the law, he should live more freely and freely.
From the moment he met Tong Mu, he wanted to love well once and make up for the regret that he had never experienced love and marriage in his previous life.
What love is, Hu Yiting doesn't understand it. He had experienced unrequited love at most in his previous life, but because he had never confessed, the other party didn't know his mind at all.
"In this life, I don't want to be a nerd anymore, and I don't envy others anymore, I want to let go of my love once, at least give it a try, if it fails...... It's worth it, too.
Tong Mu was interrupted twice by Hu Yiting for lunch, feeling that he was like a daredevil, and he was disobedient.
Rao is mind was clear and she couldn't react immediately, and before she could speak, Hu Yiting ran away.
Tong Mu was afraid that the brine would stain the paper bag and dirty the piano, so he hurriedly took the three tea eggs off the piano. The paper bag was still warm to the touch, and it couldn't have been bought by Hu Yiting an hour ago.
So Tong Mu held three tea eggs and stood in front of the piano in a daze.
The aroma of tea eggs begins to reach the nose.
As if involuntarily, Tong Mu sat down quietly to open the paper bag, and with her dexterous and slender fingers, peeled off the tea eggs one by one and put them into the lunch box.
The tea eggs are boiled very deliciously, and the dark brown texture on the surface is as dense as the ice surface after spring, and they appear one by one as the eggshells peel off.
There is probably no girl in this world who will be seduced by tea eggs, but when she met Hu Yiting's child herd, Qia Qia can't remember the last time she ate tea eggs.
Three stripped tea eggs were lying in the lunch box, fragrant, and Tong Mu suddenly found that her mouth was full of saliva, so that she had to swallow a long mouthful of saliva.
Of course, if Tong Mu is willing to think carefully, she had eaten tea eggs and was not interested in this thing before her father who was shot stabbed to death her cheating mother and mistress.
But that was four years ago, when she was in her second year of junior high school.
According to the guardian of the court ruling, she lived with her only relative, her aunt, for four years, trying to shield everything that happened before the second year of junior high school from her brain as much as possible.
Tong Mu didn't want to eat it, but he made a god peel the eggshell.
Tong Mu really didn't want to eat it, but he poked one with chopsticks.
Tong Mu told sΓΉ that he should never eat it, but he took a bite of it.
The taste of the tea eggs was really fragrant, and Tong Mu couldn't stop eating it, so he ate three in one go.
There are only three of them...... At first, Tong Mu wanted to eat only one.
The aunt who opened the commissary was the wife of a teacher in the school, who had moved from the countryside to the city but had no regular job, and the school allowed her to open a commissary in the school in order to solve the practical difficulties of the teacher's family.
The best sellers in the small shop are tea eggs, braised eggs and Polaris brand soda.
In particular, the tea eggs boiled here are made of exquisite materials and sufficient heat, and the braised eggs and Polaris brand soda are nicknamed by the students as two eggs and one star in the five.