Chapter 112: A Chance Encounter in the Piano Workshop

"Yes, I like to listen to the piano. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info I heard Xiyun Gong playing the piano by chance, and since then I often go to Yanguilou to listen to the piano. Of course, I just like to listen to him play the piano, and I like him as a friend, not between men and women. Lu Wensi silently added in his heart, although the other party did not regard him as a friend.

Ever since he liked the sound of Xiyun's piano, he had known him. The other party went to Yanguilou two years ago, and no one knows where he came from, nor why he voluntarily entered Yanguilou.

Xiyun has a cold appearance to everyone, unlike him, although he usually has a straight face, but that is only because his facial expression is small, even if he smiles, others can't see it, so he thinks he has a cold face. But Xiyun's coldness comes from within, rejecting all those who approach him. It's been two years, and I haven't seen anyone he has dealt with. I don't know what kind of past made him what kind of character he has now, it's really mysterious.

After Lu Wensi noticed that he explained the misunderstanding to Bai Yi, the other party was a little depressed, and said in a tone of confusion: "Why do I think you are a little disappointed after knowing that I don't like men?" ”

Bai Yi hurriedly adjusted his expression, smiled frankly, and said seriously: "How come!" Lu Gongzi is too worried, I'm just sorry that I misunderstood you. ”

The other party's expression was natural, maybe Fang was his illusion, and Lu Wensi didn't ask again.

Knowing that the other party likes to listen to the piano, Bai Yi can also play the piano, the two chatted from Shi Kuang to Boya, from "Guangling San" to "Hu Ji Eighteen Beats", and found that each other's preferences and perceptions of qin music have many similarities.

Bai Yi's piano broke a string that day, and in the afternoon he was going to a familiar piano workshop to get a string and go back to repair it by himself. But a few steps out of Shanshizhai, he ran into a colleague from the ministry, and he was taken away on business, leaving Bai Yi to go to the piano workshop by himself.

The shopkeeper of Shanshui Qinfang is surnamed Yao, wearing a gray muslin robe, which may have been accompanied by the qin for a long time, and he does not have the shrewd philistine of ordinary businessmen, but has the taste of Confucian merchants.

Shopkeeper Yao greeted Bai Yi with a smile as soon as he saw him, and said in a familiar tone: "Bai Gongzi hasn't seen him for a long time, how are you doing lately?" ”

In the early years, someone came to the piano shop to deliberately find fault, and Bai Yi helped out, so he was more familiar with Yao's shopkeeper. It's just that he has rarely touched the piano in recent years, and he has come to the piano workshop less often.

Bai Yi said with a smile: "Thanks to the shopkeeper Yao, everything is fine." How has the shopkeeper been doing business lately? ”

"Okay, okay. Is Bai Gongzi here to pick the piano today? ”

"I'm here to pick the strings today, and my strings are broken."

Shopkeeper Yao opened a long wooden box, took out a string and said: "The strings just sent from the south the day before yesterday are made of Jiangnan silk, all of which are made of fine silk threads with white color and uniform thickness, and the sound of the piano is pure and full of charm." ”

Bai Yi has bought it many times in Shanshui Qinfang, and the shopkeeper Yao is honest, and the things he took were all good goods, so he didn't pick much and took the checkout in his hand directly.

"There are also a few new pianos in the workshop, which are made of pine wood, Bai Gongzi want to see them?" Shopkeeper Yao accepted the money with a smile and introduced it to Bai Yi. This kind of refreshing and non-bargaining guest is always the favorite of the shopkeepers.

"Okay." Bai Yi nodded.

Most of the pianos in Shangdu are made of paulownia wood, with azusa wood as the base, and he once saw a passage in "The Legend of Lang Huan", to the effect that Lei Wei thinks that the piano made of pine wood with continuous and melodious is better than that made of paulownia wood. The use of pine wood to chop the qin was also the creation of Lei Wei, and the Lei Qin was also very popular in the Tang Dynasty.

Shopkeeper Yao led Bai Yi through the Duobao partition into the inner room, and there was a piano on each of the long tables placed on the wall, which was a new piano that had arrived recently, and there were also more than a dozen pianos hanging on the wall. He brought a pot of tea and put it on the small round table in the middle, let Bai Yi take his time, and he went outside to greet the other guests.

On the three tables to the south are pine pianos, made of yellow pine, red pine and masson pine, of which the yellow pine is the hardest wood, and the Korean pine is the most dense and straight, and the Masson pine is in the middle of both aspects.

Bai Yi's piano that plucked the red pine lightly should be imitated by the thunder qin of the Tang Dynasty, with a sense of the weight of the thunder qin, and the sound is warm and strong. He was caressing the body of the instrument and admiring the texture on his face, when he heard the familiar sound of a clear spring passing through the stone.

"Shopkeeper, can this piano be repaired?"

It's the voice of Xiyun.

I didn't expect to meet him here.

Bai Yi walked to the partition in a few steps, and through the gap in the lattice of Huanghuali Mountain, he saw Xiyun, who was still dressed in red, pointed to the tail of the piano he was holding in his hand, and said, "The crown horn here was accidentally broken, can it be repaired?" ”

The hardwood with shallow grooves at the tail of the piano used to frame the strings is called the dragon gum, and the edge on both sides of the dragon gum is the crown horn, and half of the crown horn on the cloud qin is broken.

Shopkeeper Yao looked at the whole qin carefully, and said: "The crown and horn of Gongzi's piano are made of lychee wood, and in the early years, there were lychee wood sold in the store, but now few people use lychee wood to make pianos, so they don't enter lychee wood anymore." At present, the store has the crown horns of red sandalwood and red sour branches, but they do not match Childe's piano. ”

Xiyun pursed his beautiful lips, he asked many piano shops and said that there was no lychee wood, and this one or other shops recommended that there might be.

"I have the horns of lychee wood." Bai Yi walked out of the partition, "Didn't I buy a lychee wood piano from Shopkeeper Yao before, but then the piano fell, and I didn't play it again because the pitch was not good, but fortunately, I still have it, I can remove the crown horn on the piano to this son." ”

"With Bai Gongzi's crown horns, I can help Gongzi repair this piano." Shopkeeper Yao looked at Xiyun with a smile, "I don't know what Gongzi wants?" ”

Xiyun doesn't like to owe favors to others, but this piano has a special meaning to him, he glanced at Bai Yi, who was smiling gently, and finally nodded, and said in a cold voice: "Then thank you for this son, I will ask the shopkeeper to estimate the price of the crown horn, and I will think that I bought it from you." ”

Bai Yi's inspiration flashed, thinking that the person in front of him was in Yanguilou, maybe he could help him solve his doubts for many days, so he bent the corner of his mouth and said: "Childe is polite, I was ready to discard that qin, and it can be regarded as playing its last role if I can help you." Forget about the money, if you really want to thank me, why don't you invite me to a cup of tea and help me answer a few questions. ”

Bai Yi is handsome and has an outstanding temperament, and Xiyun is sure that he has never seen each other. The answer to his doubts was a little unclear, but the other party did him a great favor, and it was not too much to invite him to tea, so he nodded.

"Yes."