"Well, I learned two skills from a master last year. Of course it's not comparable to a professional, but there's still no problem in adjusting the tune and maintaining the main components." While Lin Yue was chatting with her, there was no pause in his hand movements. Adjust the three registers quickly and skillfully.
Pei Yin's piano skills are not low. Her family has cultivated her talent in music since she was a child. She hires a repairman to tune the piano almost every year. .
The piano in front of her is not a new one bought in recent years, but an old thing that has been with her since she was five years old. It is a Yamaha U3M. It has been used for almost 30 years today. She married Qian Yukun. She didn't get a new one after that, which shows how much she likes this piano. After Qian Sanyi ran out because of Lin Miaomiao's quarrel with her, she once sat in front of this piano and cried, thinking about Qian Yukun's betrayal of her. , her son also began to resist her, and she was the only one who stayed with her for more than thirty years and never left her. He witnessed her change from a little girl to a big girl, then put on a wedding dress and became a bride, and then gave birth to a child, and her marriage changed. , separated, and to this day, it can be said that this piano has entrusted a lot of memories and emotions, and it has extraordinary significance to her.
So she was very sure, "Of course it's incomparable to the professionals" and so on. It was definitely a modest statement.
Ding……
Ding……
Lin Yue pressed the key a few more times and nodded slightly.
"Do you feel better?"
ah?
Pei Yin recovered from his distraction and trembled: "What?"
"I asked you if you feel better." He asked, pressing the keys several times from low to high.
"Well, much better."
This is not a compliment, the pitch has definitely improved a lot.
Lin Yue put down the cover: "There is still a small problem. It is a common problem in pianos in the 1970s and 1980s. The quality of the hook string of the hammer is not very good. It has not been replaced for more than 30 years, right?"
Pei Yin shook his head.
Lin Yue continued: "The sensitivity and rebound of the hammer will be affected when it is damp. It may be fine for normal playing, but if you switch to difficult music, the feel will become worse."
That's right.
The students she accepts are all older children who are a little over 10 years old. The songs they usually play are not very difficult and their pronunciation is quite fluent. But when they switch to high-level songs like "Moonlight" and "Travel Years", it takes a lot of time to play. There is a bit of astringent feeling.
"I came here in a hurry this time and didn't bring the hook rope. Next time, I will help you replace it. The feel should be greatly improved."
Lin Yue wrapped the tuning wrench, tuning fork and damping felt and put them back into the wooden box.
Normally, in this situation, a normal person would be polite and say no, but she hesitated, and finally just took out a wet wipe and handed it over: "Thank you very much for today, please wipe your hands."
"You are welcome."
Lin Yue took the wet wipe and wiped the dust on his fingertips.
Pei Yin pondered for a moment and asked, "I haven't seen Ms. Deng and her daughter coming or going recently. Did they... move away?"
"Yes, moved."
"I heard from Sanyi that her daughter has just started day school. She is currently in her most critical senior year of high school. Why did she just move out?"
Lin Yue looked at her deeply: "It's very simple. Her daughter is very prejudiced against me and always wants her mother to cut off contact with me. The real reason why she is willing to move here is to get close to your son. You should be able to detect this."
Pei Yin smiled awkwardly. As a woman, she could certainly understand Deng Xiaoqi's thoughts.
"It's a pity that your son has no feelings for her at all. She recognized the fact and knew that there would be no good results if she endured it any longer, so she showed up with her mother and forced Deng Xinhua to sever ties with me. You have seen the final result." After answering the above question, Lin Yue added with a half-smile: "So you are also such a gossip."
The embarrassment on Pei Yin's face became even stronger, because this matter was not just a matter of gossip or not, it was also a matter of paying attention to other people's privacy. After all, who in Jiangzhou didn't know about his relationship with Deng Bancheng.
Unexpectedly...these two people actually broke up.
But if you think about it carefully, it's normal. What mother doesn't put the lives of her children first? Deng Xinhua did the same to Deng Xiaoqi, and she did the same to Qian Sanyi.
"correct……"
Seeing Lin Yue carrying the wooden box, looking like he was about to leave, she thought about how she should express her gratitude. The verbal thank you just now was too insincere. Since Deng Xinhua left him alone, the most sincere gesture should be to keep him. I was having lunch at home, but then I thought about the relationship between Qian Sanyi and him, and I was suddenly in a dilemma.
"Do you feel sorry for not expressing your regret?"
Lin Yue revealed her thoughts with one word, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Last time you heard me play half of a violin piece, it's not rude to go back and forth. How about... you play the piano for me once, how about it?"
Say thank you with a piano piece?
"Okay." She sat down in front of the piano, raised her head and said, "What music do you want to listen to?"
"That's it." Lin Yue said, pointing to the music score placed on the music stand.
Pei Yin raised her head and glanced. On the music stand was the song she had taught her students to play before, a piece of music called "Castle in the Sky" that could be said to be terrible.
"This song...are you sure?"
Lin Yue smiled and said: "What's so uncertain about this? The music is not important, but the intention is. I'm not your piano teacher. Could it be that you want me to order a piece of "Fantasia of Bells"?"
Fantasia of Bells?
Pei Yin's face is a little pale. This thing is not something that ordinary people can do. Her piano skills are good. Compared with the pianists in the band, her level is not much different. But when it comes to playing this, she panics when she hears the name. You can imagine And you know how difficult it is, so difficult that even a Xiaoxian champion will inevitably make mistakes.
"So..." Lin Yue shrugged and pointed to the music stand, probably meaning "City in the Sky".
"OK."
Pei Yin took a deep breath and pressed the keys lightly with his fingers.
Beep beep beep, beep beep beep...
Beep beep beep, beep beep beep...
Her shoulders were slightly sunk, her back straight, her head slightly raised, and her long fingers bouncing on the keyboard.
Just this piece of music, you can play it without looking at the music score, it’s not difficult at all.
However, with the idea that she should be sincere if she wanted to thank others, she tried hard to get involved and show a sense of agility and elegance, instead of pursuing skills and fluency like teaching those teenagers.
After playing for almost half a minute, the melody suddenly changed. She opened her eyes and saw that there was an extra person on the right side of the seat where students could observe her playing the piano up close. The young man, who was one side older than her son, had his hands flat on his hands. On the keys, she was playing along with the melody she had composed.
"You...what are you doing?"
She stopped involuntarily and looked at him in astonishment. Changing from a solo to a double collaboration, improvising the score, etc. were not something that an amateur pianist could handle.
When Lin Yue saw her stop, he shook his head and said nothing. He just stretched out a hand to play a few notes on the keys, and then looked at her expectantly.
Pei Yin frowned and thought.
He smiled slightly, repeated the action just now, and clicked the keys a few more times.
As time passed, her frown relaxed, and a little surprise and a little hesitation appeared on her cheeks.
Lin Yue signaled with his eyes again.
She stared at the keyboard for a few seconds, then slowly raised her arms and put her hands on them again, but it was different from before. Her right hand was placed in the treble range, and Lin Yue's left hand passed under her arm and was placed in the middle range. .
Ding ding ding ding… dong dong dong…
Ding ding ding ding… dong dong dong…
The lively notes burst out and danced throughout the room.
An old woman carrying a vegetable basket passed by on the sidewalk downstairs. Her fluffy wool rolls were very delicate. She had spent a lot of money on perming her hair. When she heard the melody floating upstairs, she couldn't help but pause. He came down and looked curiously in the direction of the sound of the piano.
It has been more than two years since Pei Yin and Qian Sanyi moved to Building 14 of the Village Garden Community. Residents nearby know that she is a soprano singer in the orchestra and a part-time piano teacher, but she usually plays beautiful and soothing melodies. , rarely plays such lively and lively music that makes people laugh.
The playing time was not long, only about a minute. When the last note faded away, Lin Yue let go of his hand.
Pei Yin did not move, her hands were still on the keyboard, and her whole figure seemed to be frozen. If she stood on the opposite side and looked carefully, she should be able to see a flash of red at the base of her ears.
Without him...
This melody was far more ambiguous than "I like you" or "I miss you", and she felt it was very appropriate for the occasion.
In terms of movies, there are still some movies related to piano. The most famous ones abroad are "The Pianist" and "The Tuner". In China, there are only a handful of them. "Steel" was released two years ago. "Piano", and an old movie "The Secret That Cannot Be Tellable" from ten years ago, and when Lin Yue first arrived, he asked her to play it together, which was the latter's excerpt of the male and female lead playing with four hands.
Music-themed movies are a niche genre, and there are not many piano-related movies. As a pianist, I must watch every movie and try to play the tracks that appear in it. Speaking of which, Pei Yin is not much older than Jay Chou, and can be said to be a figure of the era. Although she was already married and had children when "The Untold Secret" was broadcast, literary and artistic women always prefer romantic love stories to big bosses. Accordingly, Yes, I am familiar with the tracks in the movie, and the storyline is naturally still fresh in my memory.
Putting aside the time-travel element, the heroine Xiao Yu is actually twenty years older than the hero Xianglun. Here she is also a little more than twenty years older than Lin Yue. If he wants her to play this song together, then he... Can it be said to be implying something? Of course, it's possible that she was overthinking it and that he simply liked this piece of music.
Who is Qian Yukun?
A graduate of the Engineering Department of Fudan University, a science student, he became a money-oriented businessman after entering the society. This is true, but the couple will inevitably lack a common language due to their different concerns, and their marriage was arranged by their parents, which is barely acceptable. However, as the saying goes, childhood sweethearts are not as good as falling from the sky, which means that it is difficult for the relationship between childhood sweethearts to produce heartbeat and love. This is what is missing in Pei Yin's marriage. He has been putting off divorce before, but it is just Because she received a rigid and conservative education since childhood, she was worried about her parents' reputation and worried that her son would be negatively affected. It was difficult for a woman who aspired to be a good wife and mother to overcome the hurdle in her heart.
Now that I meet a man who can be rebellious to the point of being lawless, artistic enough to make people shine, and can be romantic, knows her feelings, and can keep up with her rhythm, it would be a lie to say that he doesn't have any ideas in his heart.
If it were any other young person, a generation behind her, she would only lament that the younger generations are terrible, and there are only so many talents in the history. The problem is that he is Lin Yue. This guy's personality mainly focuses on an Oedipus complex, and he likes mature women, and then associates it with An Lili. What she said when she came here to declare her sovereignty... What can I say about her now? She actually has a pounding heart that only a young girl would have in her spring, a feeling of panic mixed with expectations, self-doubt, and worrying about gains and losses.
She has focused on her children since she got married. Her work circle is not large, she has few daily contacts, and she has a literary heart. Therefore, Pei Yin is completely different from people like Deng Xinhua and An Lili, even if she is forty Even though she is 10 years old, she still has an innocent girl's heart. The question is whether she can inspire it.
For other people, it may be difficult, but for Lin Yue... To borrow a very reasonable saying, since ancient times, deep love cannot be retained, only routines can win people's hearts.
The age difference of a generation and the spiritual compatibility, the son's resentment and his own desire, the pedantic conservatism of the virtuous woman and the bohemianness of the rebellious boy... These conflicts and contradictions are stumbling blocks in the way, but they are also a catalyst. The more you want what you can't get, the more you want the taboo, which is the essence of literary films. So can Pei Yin, a literary woman, resist the temptation of the forbidden fruit?
Dong dong dong...
Dong dong dong...
Very suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside, breaking the ambiguous atmosphere in the house.
Pei Yin bounced off the piano bench like a spring. She didn't dare to look at him. She blushed and pointed to the door nervously: "I...I'll open the door."
After saying that, he seemed to run for his life and walked towards the door.
Just when her hand touched the door handle, she stopped again, using this action to relieve her tension. If Qian Sanyi was standing on the other side of the door, wouldn't she put herself in an even more embarrassing situation?
But then she thought again, her eldest son had never been absent from school before, and there were still two hours until school was over. It basically couldn't be him... Who was that? An Lili? She already got what she wanted. Two days ago, she forced Qian Yukun to post their marriage certificate on WeChat Moments. Why are she still here?
If not them, then who?
Anyway, as long as it’s not Qian Sanyi.
With this thought in mind, she grasped the door handle and twisted and pulled it. The door opened, and what appeared on the opposite side was a man's face with slightly bulging eyes.
"Jiang... Yuwen?"
She was stunned for a while before she realized that the man standing in front of her, wearing a suit and tie, with a slicked back and a successful man's attire, was Qian Shouzhong's protégé and Jiang Yuwen, her and Qian Yukun's little brother.
"You're not..."
"America? I came back yesterday." Jiang Yuwen looked at his former sister-in-law, his eyes shining with an emotion that he couldn't hide no matter how hard he tried.
"Then...why didn't you tell me in advance?"
"I don't want to give you... and my eldest brother a surprise." Jiang Yuwen noticed something was wrong with her expression at this time. He said she was embarrassed and a little nervous: "What's wrong? Did I come... at the wrong time?" ?”
Perhaps in order to answer this question, Lin Yue coughed lightly and walked out carrying the wooden box containing the piano repair tools: "Are you having a guest? You go ahead and do your work first."
Only then did Jiang Yuwen realize that Pei Yin was not alone at home. His attention had been on Pei Yin just now, and he didn't notice anyone else next to the piano. At first, he thought he was the goddess's student. After all, he was only eighteen or nineteen years old. , but a closer look showed that the face was almost exactly the same as the young man who made trouble at his mentor's birthday party in the video sent to him by his friends in China.
"It's you?"
His face suddenly fell.
Although in his opinion, Qian Yukun was the one who did the wrong thing, but if the eldest brother hadn't raised his mistress, he wouldn't have had a chance, right? In addition, this boy hung him up in front of the guests and said that he had always been thinking about his sister-in-law. The unsaid enmity of Qian Shouzhong, who was angry and sick, must be settled with this boy.
"Huh."
Lin Yue also pretended to be surprised and said: "Isn't this Jiang Yuwen who just won the Hussein Award not long ago? What? Do you really want to return to China to develop? I don't know where to develop? Career or relationship? By the way, you go Have you seen that old guy from the Qian family? I heard he's still in hospital. It's been several months. I don't know if he's getting better or not?"
Lin Yue hated this Jiang Yuwen very much. The most important thing was not that he would come to snatch women. The most important thing was that Jiang Yuwen was worthy of being Qian’s apprentice. He was basically carved from the same mold. In the TV series, when he got off the plane, Qian Yukun and An Lili kindly went to pick her up at the airport, but what was the result? The couple was left standing there, blushing.
Whether Qian Yukun and Pei Yin divorce is their own business. The eldest brother doesn't treat the younger brother badly, right? He hosted a banquet at the airport and introduced his new wife to him. Qian Yukun's father was his mentor. This was not only rude but also uneducated. He always emphasized that he was a man in science and engineering and did not know how to make mistakes. Can you hide your emotions so you can shirk responsibility? Being uneducated has nothing to do with whether he is a man in science or engineering. With this kind of emotional intelligence, why would you go back to China to hang out? Still domineering? I've been fooled to death by others and I don't even know who I've tricked.
Looking at the plot setting of him courting Pei Yin in front of Qian Yukun and Qian Shouzhong, it really makes people feel that either the screenwriter is guilty or this guy is sick. If it is the relationship between Lin Yue and the Qian family, he can be manipulated in any way. It doesn't matter how disgusting the Qian family is. The problem is that Jiang Yuwen is Qian Shouzhong's apprentice and Qian Yukun's younger brother. What's the difference between this and slapping Qian Yukun in front of him? The bigger problem is that Qian Shouzhong still sides with him. On the other hand, when Lin Yue was watching this paragraph, he was thinking, couldn't it be...that Jiang Yuwen is Qian Shouzhong's biological son? If Qian Yukun were to be tougher, he would sever the father-son relationship with Qian Laoguo.
While looking forward to the eldest brother's divorce so that he can date his sister-in-law, he also looks down on his eldest brother for keeping a mistress. This is a typical example of being a bitch and setting up a memorial ceremony for someone at the same time.
(End of chapter)
