Chapter 33: The Gift
The first update
Chery came back two weeks later, and when he came back, he brought back the piano for Qingyu. [With _ dream]Δ the big ship was transported to Dagukou and changed to a car.
So from the beginning of transporting things into the palace, he began to complain about the road conditions along the way. Just transport a piano, it's so hard, so what if you transport something else?
Xianfeng didn't expect it to be just a piano, why did it come in one big wooden box after another. According to the rules of the palace, these are to be unpacked and checked, but Xianfeng didn't let them, and the two followed those boxes into the Yongshou Palace.
Qingyu also looked at those big wooden boxes, not surprised, just full of happiness. Seeing Chery again, he looked up and down, "Can you go?" β
"I knew that Niangniang liked to be carried by others, and I would be carried by people below." Chery saluted first, and then said to her with a smirk.
"I heard there was a wheelchair, I thought you would be in a wheelchair!" Qingyu actually didn't expect to see a Chery walking upright.
Then he asked someone to bring Rong An and showed him, "This is our Rong An, Rong An, this is the uncle who often gives you gifts." The Eniang music box you like was given by this uncle. β
"Thank you, uncle!" Rong An obediently performed a half-squat salute to Chery, she was taught very well, this is the etiquette that a royal princess should have.
"Slaves don't dare to be!" Chery is busy with Rong An's big gifts, he is still a minion, and the princess can be polite, but it doesn't mean that he can accept it.
"Okay, Chery brought a craftsman in to install it for you, don't you just need a piano? How is it so big! Xianfeng was very satisfied with his daughter's upbringing, and smiled and asked Chery to get up.
"Well, sure enough, I often buy machinery, and I know that this thing has to be bought like this. Buy it abroad, it won't be so broken. People put semi-finished products, transport them to other people's homes and then install them, and half a day's work will be good. Now, I'm only scared for a few days. Qingyu is still very happy that the piano has finally been sent back.
She also had a triangular one at home in England, but she didn't bring it back home. After returning to China, she did have a vertical one in her house, but she was too busy to play. It's just that when I eat the tail teeth every year, I show off on stage.
It was only when she listened to the foreign ladies talk about the piano that she remembered that the only thing she liked. I was busy asking Chery to get her one back. Xianfeng had also seen the church organ, and he was only curious about the big pipe, which could amplify the sound. He thought it was a little play. Of course, even if he knew that it was a big play, he would not let Chery get it back. Qingyu asked him for something for the first time, and he wanted to be satisfied.
"I bought it from Germany, Steinway, it's a new brand, but I asked them to customize it for my mother." Chery bowed his head and said, he was a little apprehensive, this brand was a small brand that was created two years ago, but he heard a very beautiful story, so he gave up the old British brand and went to this place to bother customizing.
βsteayοΌ Ha! Thank you! Qingyu opened his mouth, he brought a Stanway, and felt very sorry. Think about it, in the history of piano, Steinway is indelible. However, it was also established in 1853. At this time, it's really a bit shallow.
Legend has it that Heinrich, the founder of the Steinway Piano Company, used to work as a luthier in an organ factory and learn to play the organ in his spare time. He later became a church organist. In the church, where all people are equal before God, Heinrich Steinwig, a poor man, meets a beautiful girl from a wealthy family, Juliana Timmer.
In February 1825, the beautiful girl he loved all his life agreed to his marriage proposal. The happy bridegroom came up with a special idea for the wedding gift: he solemnly presented the first piano he had made, a new style of piano of high quality, which he had quietly and painstakingly made over several months. It was his gift to his lover. Later, he founded the Steinway Piano Company.
In the centuries that followed, Steinway pianos were synonymous with the world's best pianos. Even Qingyu is not poor, but she is not willing to spend money to buy one for herself.
And what she remembers most is that she saw a Steinway upright piano customized by Wilhelm II for his beloved yacht in the piano museum, with an all-mahogany exterior and a finely carved pattern, which really made people fall in love at first sight.
"The villain thinks, the mother likes it, I believe that the Chinese people will like it soon, the villain has ordered a set of equipment to come back, I believe it will be able to return soon." Chery bowed his head again and bowed to the old man. Now that he has finally put his mind at ease, Qingyu likes his gift very much, whether she knows the meaning behind it or not, he is still happy.
Qingyu got up and decided to take Rong'an to see someone else install the piano. A group of eunuchs struck down, and the wooden planks wrapped on the outside and the various fillers wrapped around were taken away, revealing a very gorgeous outer board of the piano body. Qingyu was moved, she really didn't expect that one day, she would really be able to play the world's top customized piano.
"In fact, the piano is really not expensive, it is the most annoying to transport it from Dagukou to the capital, and the small ones are afraid of knocking off the paint on the piano." Chery still shouted behind her, how could these people not care about their intentions that they had worked so hard to get back?
Qingyu was too lazy to take care of him, he didn't transport it himself before co-authoring, so he didn't know. Now he came back with him by the way, so he said that their road is not good, and you have the ability to find someone to repair the railway! Of course, no one seems to have made a steam locomotive now.
She pulled the lovely Rong An together and watched a few foreigners install pianos in their main hall. She said that she was very happy and felt that Chery had finally done something that made her happy. I know to buy the complete parts and come back, and then ask the piano technician to install them for myself. It's much better luck than getting a big box, and of course, more importantly, it's not messy.
The two foreigners are very smart, seeing that these eunuchs are very useful, they make gestures to command people to move and lift them, the eunuchs in Qingyu Palace are all smart, although they can't understand, but people will look at their faces, and they will do it quickly and well, and Qingyu went, she couldn't understand German, and asked them if they could speak French, so the progress was faster, Qingyu did the translation, and the people were united and soon the appearance was set up.
"It's so pretty! Even engraved with a dragon? Xianfeng also came to see, obviously the foreigners' toys were placed here, not abrupt at all.
"The lid is a dragon, and the cover is a phoenix." Chery hurriedly stepped forward to explain, and finally someone saw that he had a good intention. Let people lift the tripod, and sure enough, there is a standard phoenix pattern underneath.
Rong An watched obediently from the side, holding Qingyu's hand, "Eniang, what is this?" β
"This is the piano, Rong An's favorite music box has one like this, remember?" Qingyu pointed to the music box of the grand piano on the side, and said to Rong An with a smile.