Chapter 13: Talent
Facts have proved that no matter what era it is, no matter how far mortals have evolved, where there are people, there is competition, and there is pressure.
So even though it's the interstellar age now, the children still have to attend various interest classes......
In this regard, there is a difference between the home star and the departing star.
Or because the pace of life on the home planet is more casual, the competition is not as fierce as that of the star, or there are some historical and cultural traditional factors, parents on the home planet are particularly keen to send their children to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, dance, gymnastics, sports and other talents, either to cultivate children's artistic temperament and cultural accomplishment, or to strengthen the body;
Parents on the planets are mostly pragmatists, and are more interested in sending their children to early classes in various subjects, cram schools, or training in survival skills that will help them plan their careers in the future.
Shang Ni and Shang Yao, who live on their home planet, are naturally not exempt from vulgarity, the difference is that compared to the bitterness shown by the other students in the class in the face of the pressure of going to school, Shang Ni and Shang Yao are very good in the sixth grade of Mortal Primary School.
Because the sixth graders are about to face the entrance exam, it is very important to add points to their talents, and the parents of the students in Shangni's class are taking their children to make the final sprint, running around the major exams and competitions. And Shang Ni and Shang Yao only need to selectively show the tip of the iceberg in their vast talents according to their respective moods.
Shang Yao has the heels of a divine beast, and he began to refine his body in his mother's womb and almost didn't refine his sister, and now he has resumed the cultivation of the Great Perfection in the foundation building period, and his physical condition is amazing, and he will be able to learn all kinds of sports as soon as he learns them, and he will refine them after a while. After discussing with Shang Ni, Shang Yao finally chose gymnastics as a bonus talent. Shang Yao was interested in mecha control when he entered the Health Institute in the future, and gymnastics, a project that requires high physical coordination, is also a good plus.
After all, Shang Yao was born to play with wings in the sky, although the wings are invisible now, but the balance of the body and the coordination in the air are engraved in the bones, not the kind of acquired training that can be compared. The coaches who had seen Shang Yao's training were all amazed, praising him as an excellent seedling, and scrambling to take him under his command.
The reaction of the coaches made the two elders of the Shang family feel very excited, and they were all pleased that their eldest grandson was outstanding no matter what he studied. If it weren't for Shang Yao's cultural achievements, the two elders of the Shang family would want him to take the route of a sports student, maybe he would be able to represent his home planet in the interstellar Olympics in the future, and win another interstellar Olympic champion back. Olympic champion, this is the treasure of the town, and the weapon of prosperity and wealth!
Shangni, on the other hand, chose the direction of the instrument directly in order to save trouble.
After all, he was a person who had lived for tens of thousands of years, and he had nothing to do in the last few thousand years, and Shang Ni had mastered almost all the instruments in his long life. Even if you only learn a general, or just a short-term interest, and soon leave it behind after getting tired of playing, this short-term is also based on the "century" as the time unit, even if you can't learn a specialization, the proficiency is full. This kind of thing will never happen to Shang Ni if you don't practice for three days, and any skill will no longer be a skill after accompanying you for countless centuries, and it will almost become a natural instinct engraved in your bones, and it is impossible to become unfamiliar in just a few years.
So when Shang's mother asked her about her hobbies in private, she casually chose the first instrument that came to mind, the guqin.
After all, in the cultivation world, the guqin has always been the first weapon to force it, no matter whether it is an immortal or a fairy, there are few who can't. Guqin is perfectly suitable for various occasions such as fighting, competition, parties, and dating, and is a necessary skill to enliven the atmosphere, show the style, and chase Taoist couples. In addition, the guqin and her real name "Gu Qing" also have a special feeling of homophonic stalks, so among all the musical instruments, she is indeed the best at playing the guqin, although she has not deliberately practiced hard, but it is the level of casually immersed in this way for seven or eight thousand years.
Although Shang's mother is a little strange why her daughter wants to learn the guqin, there are still very few children who take the initiative to learn this traditional musical instrument these years, but as long as it does not involve major issues of right and wrong, Shang's mother has always respected her daughter's decision. As for the second elder of the Shang family, what does Shang Ni want to learn? If it weren't for Shang Ni's weak birth since she beat her mother's womb, and her small body didn't look like she could withstand the toss, they even felt that Shang Ni should accompany Shang Yao to learn gymnastics, so that the two sisters and brothers could take care of each other whether they were training or participating in competitions. Now that Shang Ni can't learn gymnastics, what difference does it make if he learns, isn't it all a waste of money?
Who knew that Shang Ni gave everyone a surprise.
Even if Shang Ni's status in the hearts of the elders is far inferior to Shang Yao, the guqin enlightenment teacher that the elders invited back for her is still the best teacher that people at the level of the Shang family can get, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a famous master of the mother star.
After teaching Shang Ni for a period of time, the famous teacher was amazed by her, and felt that with Shang Ni's talent, it was entirely possible to become a generation of people who were famous in the entire Star Alliance. If Shang Ni is young, but the fingering skills taught by the teacher, all the skills can be demonstrated in the next lesson, which can also be attributed to diligence and hard work, although it is worthy of praise, but it is not surprising, but the teacher actually heard the meaning of the piano from Shang Ni's piano sound!
With the meaning of the piano, a piece of music is no longer a simple arrangement and combination of notes, but is marked with someone's unique mark and is given life.
At best, a skilled technician can only be regarded as a technician, but if you want to be called a "home", you must be able to use music to express your own opinions, express your feelings, and even influence the emotions of others, which is the meaning of the piano.
You must know that a seven or eight-year-old girl like Shang Ni practices a basic skill, and to put it bluntly, it is to brush up on proficiency. As for the meaning of the piano, it needs to be supported by emotion, experience and understanding. Even from Shang Ni's own point of view, she has played very perfunctory, but the teacher still clearly heard the dust and indifference in the simple children's etudes played by Shang Ni, which is simply too rare. Many skilled professionals may not be able to lyrical with the piano, let alone children, such a talent is simply God's appreciation.
Compared with Shang Yao's athletic talent, Shang Ni's talent on the guqin surprised the elders of the Shang family even more, after all, artistic talent and athletic talent sound different, and the developed limbs are easily reminiscent of another not-so-beautiful four-character word.
Even the second elder of the Shang family rarely showed unprecedented kindness to Shang Ni. After all, sports expertise has always been a matter of focusing on results rather than processes, since Shang Yao can't really take the route of a sports student to get the gold medal back for his family to get the interstellar Olympics back, what's the point of not having a gold medal?
But if there is a guqin that is well-known throughout the Star Alliance, it will be different, which will greatly improve the family image of the Shang family, so that the Shang family will completely break away from the ranks of the nouveau riche in the eyes of the world, and force Ge Lizeng. And this image enhancement will not disappear because Shang Ni will get married and have children in the future and no longer live in the Shang family, no matter where Shang Ni marries in the future and what opportunities he has, the world will remember that Shang Ni is a musical genius cultivated by a family with a background like the Shang family!