Just like the two pieces of "Sword Roaring Jianghu", when the story of "The History of the Martial Arts" came to Yan Kai's mind, it was also accompanied by several pieces of music. Of course, he had to restore these pieces, and among them Yan Kai felt that the melody of the song was more suitable to be played on a guitar, so he went out today specifically to buy a guitar and take a look at where he could learn guitar.
Xue Wenrong is proficient in the classical instruments of the Central Plains. She is proficient in the harp, harp, and pipa.
Yan Kai learned the music from Xue Wenrong, and he knew everything Xue Wenrong knew, but he also didn't know the Western instruments that Xue Wenrong didn't know, so he needed to learn it again.
It's a pity that Xue Wenhai has already gone to the nook and cranny at this time. He can't even get through on his mobile phone and can't be contacted at all. Otherwise, Yan Kai wouldn't need to find anyone else to learn from. Xue Wenhai can play the guitar, and he can play it very well. good.
There is no need for Xue Wenhai to come over and teach him personally. He only needs video tutorials and can learn it in one or two hours at most. Yan Kaixue's other instruments are like this, so he doesn't think learning the guitar will make any difference.
He has been in Tokyo for several months, but Yan Kai is still not very familiar with Tokyo. Mainly because he is too lazy to get familiar with it. He usually only moves between the private Kamijian School and Mingshan Apartment. The place where he works is whether it is Xinchuan Building or a tea house. They are all on this line. The other most visited place is the Kampo Pharmacy in Bunkyo District. Some time ago, I bought medicinal materials for Eve’s supplements there. Because I went there too many times, the boss was quite good at it. He wanted to become a member. When he was getting the medicine, he also took the opportunity to tell Yan Kai about other pharmacies in Tokyo that sold Kampo medicine. If there was something wrong here or there, or there was something wrong with the age of the medicine, his place was the most authentic. I went back and forth, Yan Kai. By the way, Kai also learned that besides this Kampo pharmacy in Bunkyo Ward, there are several good stores in Tokyo where you can buy traditional Chinese medicine.
If we pick out the pharmacies that have been criticized the most by the owners of Kampo pharmacies in Bunkyo Ward, they are basically the Kampo pharmacies with the best quality and reputation in Tokyo.
As for where to buy good medicinal materials in Tokyo, Yan Kai can now be regarded as knowledgeable, but where to buy guitars, he can say that he has no idea at all. After asking Kasumigaoka Shiyu online, Kasumigaoka Shiyu Tell him that there is a street in Ochanomizu, Chiyoda District, known as the "Holy Land of Guitars". In just over a thousand meters long, there are more than ten or twenty various music shops, each of which is very large in scale. , some even occupy several floors, where there are all types and brands of guitars. Whether you are a novice or an experienced player, you can find what you like there.
And because of the concentration of stores, the business competition in the "Guitar Holy Land" is extremely fierce. The discount rate in each store is very amazing. It can be said that the discount is to the extreme, and the service is also very good. So if Yan Kai really wants to buy a guitar, he can go Go try it on Datong Street tomorrow.
After Yan Kai listened to Kasumigaoka Shiyu's words, he immediately went to check it online. Well, the explanation of Mingdatong Street on the Internet was basically the same as Kasumigaoka Shiyu's introduction. Obviously, the senior also read it to Yan Kai after temporarily searching it online. But considering that she also had good intentions, Yan Kai decided to stop attacking her once.
When we came to Mingdadong Street, this street was indeed as Kasumigaoka Shiu said. There were many piano shops. Looking around, there were piano shops everywhere on both sides of the street. In the piano shops, the music played by customers trying to play the piano was scattered randomly. On the street, there were many music shops on the back. There are also many people walking around with guitars, and the name of "Guitar Holy Land" is well deserved.
Since he came here specifically to buy a guitar, Yan Kai did not intend to deal with it with a casual attitude, but planned to find a really good guitar. Otherwise, if he just wanted a guitar, he could just buy one online, and he would not need it. When you go out, why should you come to the site to see the real thing?
Seriousness is the basic condition and the first condition for doing anything. Only then can you think about how to do it well. If you are not serious, the beauty you think about is just a fantasy.
The difference between the talkative king and the strongest king is often just the seriousness of doing things.
Therefore, Yan Kai does everything seriously. He has always been indifferent to the things around him for this reason. Not being interested is on the one hand, and he is afraid of being distracted on the other. Although this will make him appear He is very lonely and has difficulty making friends than ordinary people, but Yan Kai doesn't care at all.
Yan Kai has always shown a serious look on his face, but he will never be perfunctory in his actions, including the guest lecturer who promised Erina Nakiri to be a training camp. He looks casual, but in fact he works seriously.
Even for the wild survival in the first two days, he took those Totsuki students there after visiting the points in advance to ensure the safety of the students and the condition of the surrounding ingredients. As for the trouble that Yukihira Soma caused later, this was due to Yan Kai's inexperience. An oversight, but you definitely can't say he didn't take it seriously.
After the formal teaching, Yan Kai asked himself, he was really teaching the students, but...
Hey, it’s okay not to mention this. Anyway, he is too lazy to be a teacher in the future, and he is tired!
There are so many music shops on Datong Street in the Ming Dynasty. If you want to choose a good guitar, it would be too time-consuming to go to them one by one. Yan Kai’s time cannot withstand such trouble, but fortunately, Yan Kai does not There is no need to go from house to house and try them one by one. In addition to trying them out in person, he has other ways to find good quality guitars.
By the way, although Yan Kai can't play the guitar, he is still very familiar with and understands plucked instruments. Even if he can't play, he can still distinguish the quality of the guitar.
Passing by a music store, Yan Kai walked in head-on. Just when the clerk bowed to Yan Kai enthusiastically and barely started to say "Welcome" in his mouth, Yan Kai coughed heavily and bowed directly to the clerk who was halfway bowing. He was stunned and dumbfounded. He didn't know what happened to this guest, so naturally he couldn't say the next words.
After Yan Kai listened attentively for a while, he scanned the price tags of the guitars on the walls and shelves of the music store, and immediately said to the clerk of the music store: "Thank you, excuse me, farewell!"
After a set of three, Yan walked out of the door of the music store without looking back, leaving the half-bowed clerk in extreme confusion.
What is this person... here for? Why did he cough and then leave? Are you here to spread the virus?
The clerk who came up with this idea immediately moved away from the place where Yan Kai coughed just now. After thinking about it, he still felt that it was not safe, so he ran to find disinfectant and sprayed it heavily on the area suspected of being contaminated by the virus.
Of course, Yan Kai, who had left the music store, didn't know about the clerk's behavior. Even if Yan Kai knew about it, he would probably just smile and not mind.
I went to a store to cough for no reason and then left. Faced with this kind of confusing behavior, the clerk was just thinking about safety and sprayed disinfectant on the place where Yan Kai had just been. This is already very polite. Generally speaking, Speaking of which, it was normal for the clerk to curse Yan Kai behind his back, but Yan Kai was not so stingy as to care about it.
With that cough just now, Yan Kai actually sent out sound waves to pluck the strings of all the guitars in the store, and then he could tell the quality of the guitar based on the extremely slight sound made by this gentle pluck.
Yan Kai quit the music store just now, of course, not because the store didn't have any good guitars, but because Yan Kai's budget was limited, and the amount he could use was only about 500,000 yen, which was of course enough to buy an ordinary small guitar. A good guitar, but if you want to buy a really good guitar, adding a zero at the end is not too much, so Yan Kai bought the guitar today with the mentality of picking up the slack.
In addition to brand new guitars, the music store on Datong Street in Ming Dynasty also sells second-hand guitars. After all, guitars are relatively expensive instruments, at least for students. Therefore, second-hand trading of guitars is very necessary. The quality of second-hand guitars often varies, and it is relatively not impossible to find something missing.
I tried several companies using the same method, but the results were all unsatisfactory. As expected, the business level of a music store that can be opened in the "Holy Land of Guitar" cannot be that low. Even for second-hand guitars, their valuations are very low. It's very reasonable. Reasonable means that Yan Kai can't take advantage of it at all.
How big is the discount promised? Did you say it would be very curled? The price is so low, and there is no overflow of value for money, how can it be better?
After walking out of a piano shop with quite high-end decoration and scale for the ninth time, Yan Kai sighed and shook his head in his heart.
But soon, Yan Kai changed his mind. This time he did not go to the big piano stores with grand store decorations, but to some piano stores with fewer customers and simpler store designs.
It's just simple. Any music shop that can open a store in this "Guitar Holy Land" without being involved in it is so cheap, it will definitely not be simple.
Yan Kai was convinced by the quality control of those big piano shops, so he could only try his luck at those small piano shops.
In most industries, the market will be divided. It is often difficult for the same store to take into account the high-end market and the low-end market. After all, the style is there, and mixing them together will easily endanger both ends. This is why there are many music shops on Datong Street in Ming Dynasty, but there are large and small ones. , instead of the big piano shops competing for hegemony, small piano shops also have corresponding customers, that is, those students who do not have a lot of money.
According to some statistics that I don’t know whether they are reliable or not, China’s annual consumption of musical instruments is only about one-thirtieth of Japan’s. Although this is also related to the consumption levels and prices of the two countries, even if those differences are eliminated, The attitudes towards musical instruments between the two countries are obviously very different.
Due to the influence of "happy education" in Japan, various clubs have emerged in each school, and music is a major category of clubs. Basically every school has many music-related clubs. In Japan, playing music and playing musical instruments is very important. It's a normal thing, but it's not the case in Jaejoong.
Students in Zhongyuan are under great pressure to study. Most students will be regarded as not doing their job by their parents once they do anything other than study. Basically, unless they have excellent family conditions, or they have special expertise and hobbies in music and plan to pursue a career in music. For those who follow the undergraduate course, few students will spontaneously spend too much time and energy on music.
Note that what we are talking about here is spontaneity, and the parent’s behavior does not count.
And students are particularly stingy about spending money on musical instruments. With that money, whether it’s to play games or chase idols, wouldn’t it be more fun!
Therefore, it is incomprehensible to people from the Central Plains to save several years of work and pocket money to buy a second-hand guitar, but in Japan, this is the last time many students from ordinary families get their first guitar. The usual way.
The small music store that Yan Kai is now in is the kind of music store that mainly caters to ordinary students and specializes in second-hand guitars.
When I walked into the store, the expected "Welcome" did not arrive. There was only a yawning old man with a mustache leaning sleepily on the counter, mumbling something. Yan Kai interpreted it with lip reading, It seems that he is cursing himself for losing again in horse racing. He will never step into a racecourse again next time, absolutely!
hehe……
Yan Kaixin sneered, and he swore that he didn't believe a word of the dog gambling curse. There was one in the Xue family's family motto that once a descendant of the Xue family gets involved in gambling, his hands will be broken once he bets, and his feet will be broken the second time he bets. , he will be expelled from the Xue family for the third time, and at the same time, he must not be poisoned. Once he is poisoned, his hands and feet will be broken, his martial arts will be broken, and he will be expelled from the Xue family. These two rules are absolutely merciless.
These two rules were imposed by Xue Dingshan’s father, Yan Kai’s maternal grandfather. The reason why he established such strict family rules was because Yan Kai’s maternal grandfather, who was also Xue Dingshan’s grandfather, was a gambler and smoker. Opium ruined the body, and gambling led to the loss of all the family property. The Xue family, which had been famous in Shanghai a hundred years ago, declined in a very shameful way. House, this does not mean that Xue Dingshan’s grandfather still has a trace of conscience and knows that the ancestral house cannot be sold, but that Xue Dingshan’s grandfather smoked opium to death before selling the ancestral house, otherwise the ancestral house will definitely not be retained.
The various actions of Grandpa Xue Dingshan made Xue Dingshan's father suffer a lot since he was a child, and his mother was angry to death early. Therefore, he hated gambling and drugs and vowed never to let those two things enter the Xue family again. At the same time, There is no memorial tablet for Grandpa Xue Dingshan in the ancestral hall of the Xue family's ancestral home. It is said that Xue Dingshan's father did not set up a memorial tablet for the bad gambler who died of opium smoking. He also said that people who were exposed to those two things were not worthy of entering the Xue family. Ancestral temple.
And if the "Xue family's shame" who caused the Xue family to die did anything good that was beneficial to the Xue family, it was probably that he completely ruined the Xue family. After liberation, the poor Xue family was rated as a "poor peasant" , which can be regarded as indirectly helping the Xue family avoid a disaster. Of course, no one in the Xue family will miss his kindness.
The clerk at the counter opened his mouth to bet on the horse race. Yan Kai's first impression of this music store became extremely bad, but he couldn't come in vain, so he coughed and used sound waves to gently fiddle with the strings of the guitar in the store. It shook the unconscious clerk's head and made him wake up.
