Chapter 8: Summer
"I'm not stinking, I'm going to have a discussion with Mr. Huang. I've met all the people who claim to understand music, and I've talked to them about it. ”
Zhao Jing said this, as if she wanted to test Huang Guolun's ability.
Returning to his seat with a tray of water cups, Zhao Jing stacked the cups in a row on the dining table, and poured different amounts of water into them one by one with mineral water, so that the cups emitted resonant sounds of different pitches.
Zhao Yan smiled and complained: "Teacher Huang, don't laugh at her, she doesn't know where she learned the kung fu of these three-legged cats." ”
"My three-legged cat's kung fu is much better than many people who claim to know music, okay?"
Zhao Jing glanced at Zhao Yan and asked Huang Guolun to fight: "Teacher Huang, let's compare the two of us to play the water cup, I don't think you are necessarily better than me." ”
The more Huang Guolun came into contact, the more he found that this little Zhao girl had a very sharp personality, and she dared to challenge him in his old profession.
That being the case, he will destroy the little girl's majesty.
smiled, and watched Zhao Yan add water to all seven water cups without saying a word.
He thought that Zhao Jing was going to come to something advanced - rubbing the mouth of the cup with his fingers, so as to start a very beautiful resonant string, many street performers will do this skill, this hand is very handsome.
As a result, Zhao Jing picked up a wooden chopstick and knocked the cup with the chopsticks to try the sound.
She's just playing with the easiest water cup tapping!
Huang Guolun laughed secretly in his heart, this thing even Huang Tao can, does Zhao Jing really want to use this little insect carving skill to compete with him?
Zhao Jing tried the sound seriously, but after listening to a few notes, she felt that it was not accurate, so she added water again, and it took a little five minutes for her to pour seven water cups into the pitch she wanted.
Zhao Yan took advantage of this time to return to the back kitchen, took off his kitchen skirt, and came back with two cups of latte.
Zhao Jing snatched a cup and took a sip of the rich milk foam on the coffee, with a very enjoyable expression on her face.
It seems that she likes to drink the coffee made by Zhao Yan very much.
Zhao Yan is indeed a must when making coffee.
Licking off the milk foam on her upper lips with the tip of her tongue, Zhao Jing was ready to perform her skills, and asked Huang Guolun ostentatiously: "Teacher Huang, do you know how to play this?"
As he spoke, he knocked on the water cup with two chopsticks, played the simple children's song melody "Little Star", and sang with the rhythm of the water cup: "Twinkle and twinkle, the sky is full of little stars, hanging in the sky to shine, it is our little eyes......"
Zhao Yan listened to Zhao Jing's singing, and felt so embarrassed.
If you want to put aside ordinary people to watch Zhao Jing's talent show, it is estimated that they will applaud her, and think she is quite powerful.
But in the eyes of professionals like Huang Guolun, Zhao Jing is too pediatric, and it is full of loopholes.
The sound of the seven cups of water that Zhao Jing added to the water was all inaccurate, and the sound she wanted should be Sol, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, and La from left to right.
But the Sol flat and La tones are half a note off, and the other notes are not very accurate.
Zhao Jing's singing is quite accurate, she purely relies on the sound she sings to cover up the sound she plays, at this level, if Huang Guolun is the judge of the talent show, he will directly turn off the lights for her.
Zhao Jing herself thinks that the skill she practiced when she was bored is very outstanding, at least when she usually compares with others, ordinary people are not as good as her playing. She knows some friends in the music industry who don't even play as well as her. So she always felt that she could rely on this to crush others.
People who are born to be in the limelight just like all kinds of dazzling, and there is no way.
After singing "Little Star", Zhao Jing was still not addicted, and played and sang the simpler "Two Tigers".
The way she sings is quite cute, but the level of playing is getting more and more miserable in Huang Guolun's god-level ears.
“…… One without eyes, the other without ears, it's weird, it's weird. Hey. ”
After singing, Zhao Jing smiled with satisfaction.
The beautiful eyes picked up Huang Guolun and asked him, "Teacher Huang, what do you think of my playing?" ”
"Ahem, you can sing okay, and you have a fight with those children in my son's kindergarten, but you can play ...... I really don't dare to compliment, a lot of the pronunciation is not accurate. ”
"Poof. ”
Zhao Yan, who was drinking coffee, was amused by Huang Guolun's objective evaluation.
Zhao Jing secretly competed and said, "Then it seems that your son's kindergarten children are all musical geniuses." A lot of people can't play at my level. ”
Huang Guolun said from the perspective of a music teacher: "Most people can reach your level with a little practice. If you can't play well, it's just that you don't want to practice. ”
Without waiting for Zhao Jing to fight back, Huang Guolun took a step closer and asked Zhao Jing: "You didn't systematically study music when you were a child, right? If you have practiced a musical instrument professionally, you will know that your tone is almost out of tune as soon as you hear the sound of your water glass. ”
Zhao Jing frowned and argued: "I'm quite accurate, how nice it sounds to pop up." ”
"It's just that you think. I'll help you readjust it and give me the chopsticks. ”
Huang Guolun stretched out his hand to tell Zhao Jing to pass the chopsticks, and moved all seven water cups in front of him, re-adding water to those who should re-add water, and pouring water to those who should pour water out, and soon he calibrated the sound of all seven water cups.
Waving two chopsticks, Huang Guolun re-played "Little Star" and "Two Tigers" for Zhao Jing and Zhao Yan with an extremely soft feel.
Unlike Zhao Jing, who needs to use singing to cover up the sound of the water cup, Huang Guolun simply uses the melody played in the water cup so that anyone can hear what kind of work it is.
The feeling of his playing is much more beautiful and soft than Zhao Jing, and there is no sense of pause between each note, just like a clear sound jumping out of a music box, full of pure childhood flavor in one go.
"Yes, you. Zhao Jing couldn't help but praise Huang Guolun.
Zhao Yan buried Zhao Jing: "This is the master, you learn a little." ”
"Have you practiced before?" Zhao Jing asked Huang Guolun.
For a professional musician who has studied music for more than 20 years, this is just a small skill of carving insects, something that can be played with it. ”
Zhao Yan laughed at Zhao Jing: "Look at you are still showing off, this time you are smiling and generous." ”
"What kind of smile and generosity, I said, I'm talking to Teacher Huang. Zhao Jing saw that the melody of Huang Guolun's men did not stop, and asked him, "Can you play anything else?"
"Yes, what do you want to hear?"
Zhao Yanti said: "Little Swallow"?"
Zhao Jing said: ""Little Swallow" is too simple, I can play it, Mr. Huang is so confident, let's have a difficult one, can you do Hisaishi's "Summer"? This is one of my sister's favorite pure music." ”
"I can try. ”
Huang Guolun's gentle answer surprised both Zhao Yan and Zhao Jing.
Zhao Jing was originally deliberately embarrassed by Huang Guolun, how could such a difficult musical work pop up with a water cup!
Unexpectedly, Huang Guolun actually came down!
A little surprise flashed in Zhao Yan's soft eyes, she had never seen anyone play "Summer" with a water cup, and she was eager to see this miracle.
Zhao Jing pushed the hanging hair behind her ears and questioned, "Are you bragging, Mr. Huang, can you play "Summer" with a water cup?"
"These cups will definitely not work, you can bring me a few more cups, a few more sets of notes, and I can try to play the simplified version of "Summer" in the key of C. ”
Zhao Yan picked up the girl's pillow on the sofa, with two sweet dimples embedded in his mouth, and asked Huang Guolun curiously: "Have you played "Summer" like this before?"
"No, I've only played 'Summer' on the piano, not on the glass, but I can try. ”
As soon as she heard this, Zhao Jing immediately got up and went to get a cup for Huang Guolun: "If you want to use a cup to play "Summer", I'll ...... Oops, hey!"
turned around and said this to Huang Guolun, but before he finished speaking, the pointed heel of the white high heel worn by his left foot was tripped by the crack in the floor, and Zhao Jing didn't stand firmly, and fell forward in embarrassment.
Fortunately, she is agile in practicing yoga, and she held on to the wall between the electric lights and flints, so she didn't lose her heels.
Zhao Yan hurriedly asked, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, I heard that Mr. Huang can play "Summer", I was excited, hey. ”
Feeling embarrassed, her embarrassed face turned pink, Zhao Jing tried hard to adjust her mentality, turned her head and continued to compete with Huang Guolun: "Teacher Huang, if you can really play "Summer", I will absolutely obey you!"
Huang Guolun smiled and said nothing, why do you obey me, you still serve the wall.
Quickly went to the back kitchen and brought Huang Guolun another bunch of water glasses.
Zhao Jing returned to her seat and watched without blinking as Huang Guolun added water to more than 20 water cups and calibrated the pitch one by one.
"So many cups, can you bounce them?"
Zhao Jing still questioned Huang Guolun, she felt that Huang Guolun was a bit suspicious of pretending to be forced to get so many glasses of water.
Huang Guolun said: "I can play the 88-key piano, what are these cups." ”
Zhao Jing raised the bar: "You can play the piano with ten fingers, and you can only use two chopsticks to knock so many cups, it's not the same thing." I've never seen a drummer hit so many drums at once. ”
Huang Guolun thought to himself, that can only mean that you are short-sighted. I won't scold Zhao Jing with my mouth, so as not to make this little girl narrow-minded and thin-skinned and angry.
In the spirit of excellence, it took Huang Guolun more than ten minutes to tune all 21 cups.
Zhao Yan went to turn off the stereo in the store.
The atmosphere in the café suddenly became quiet and sultry.
Zhao Yan sat on the sofa opposite Huang Guolun with a round and cute pillow that resembled her figure, looking forward to Huang Guolun's successful performance.
Zhao Jing hugged her arms, a little bit to see the excitement, she wanted to see how many brushes the teacher Huang in front of her was so bad that she used her son to pick up girls.
HUANG GUOLUN TOOK OFF SOME OF THE BLACK JACKETS THAT STRUNG HIS SHOULDERS, AND IN ORDER TO BE HANDSOME THIS NIGHT, HE DIDN'T WEAR A SWEATER INSIDE, BUT WORE A BLACK AND RED PLAID SHIRT IN THE SAME DARK COLOR, BURBERRY'S, WHICH WAS QUITE STYLISH.
Unbuttoned the cuffs of his shirt, pulled it up twice, and then picked up two "chopsticks and drumsticks", and he simply tapped it from the low register: "Ding...... Bite...... Ding......"
The water cup made a crisp sound, a bit like a piano note, but there was no aftertone, it was all short notes.
After Huang Guolun knocked out a few melodies, he completely found the rhythm and feeling.
He said to the two girls, "I tried to play." ”
"Hmm. ”
Zhao Yan nodded gently, his warm eyes full of expectation.
Zhao Jing saw that the melodies that popped up during Huang Guolun's audition were extremely beautiful and smooth, and finally didn't dare to question Huang Guolun casually, but thought curiously in her heart: Is this guy really so powerful?
Huang Guolun is much more powerful than she imagined!
From the first stanza of "Summer", Huang Guolun used the natural sound of a water cup to create a fresh and warm dreamlike atmosphere in the café.
Huang Guolun only knocked a short section, Zhao Yan was about to hold her breath, she couldn't believe her eyes, someone could actually knock out such a beautiful and moving melody with such an ordinary thing as a water cup and chopsticks!
With Huang Guolun's perfect percussion advancement, the classic "Summer" by the music master "Jean Hisaishi" takes on a new life in the café.
Summer has passed, but this romantic song that touches the heartstrings and ups and downs collided between Huang Guolun's cups and chopsticks made the two girls all fit into the warm and fresh atmosphere in the movie "Kikujiro's Summer", and they were very intoxicated.
After his ears became better, Huang Guolun himself did not expect that his perception, imagination and interpretation ability of music would have such an unprecedented improvement.
Originally, before playing, he was not very confident that he would be able to play "Summer" perfectly the first time.
After playing it, he realized that he had a more perfect interaction with the water glass than he imagined, although this interaction was a little less interesting than the interaction between him and the piano and guitar, but there was still a tacit feeling of meeting old friends.
In the middle of the game, he even closed his eyes, relied on his feelings to find the position of the cup, and threw himself into the performance.
This aura is much better than those famous music masters!
Huang Guolun closed his eyes, knocked the water glass more and more moving, and the jaw that Zhao Jing saw was about to fall to his chest!
With the idyllic bookshelves and luxurious sofas as the background, the warm and soft lights in the store reflect on Huang Guolun, which is so warm and comfortable, and his playing is so easy, as if weaving casually, he has woven the most beautiful music picture for the world, really handsome!
This summer picture scroll, as its name suggests, gradually framed Zhao Yan and Zhao Jing, two girls with different personalities.
Impressed by this wonderful form of music, Zhao Yan never dared to take a big breath, her warm eyes secretly swam on the water cup and Huang Guolun's face, she secretly sighed: Are all the current high school music teachers so powerful?
Zhao Jing, who has always had prejudices against Huang Guolun, gradually became excited in Huang Guolun's ungodly water cup playing.
Huang Guolun used a song "Summer" to turn his image upside down in Zhao Jing's heart.
Although Zhao Jing is still angry about Huang Guolun's use of his son to pick up girls, but putting aside Huang Guolun's character, this teacher's magic skill of knocking on the water cup is really handsome!
So handsome that Zhao Jing had the urge to apprentice to Huang Guolun on the spot!
When Huang Guolun's "Summer" plays to the end-
"Jingle bells. ”
The wind chimes on the door of the café rang.
It was a couple of customers who pushed the door in.