Zheng Wang

Chapter 33 Qin

The atmosphere in the room was delicate to a critical point.

Guan Zan was still a little overwhelmed with shock, standing still, his eyes always unconsciously looking at the innocent skin in the wastebasket.

Ke Jinrui was much calmer than him. After throwing away the things, he cleaned up the folders scattered on the desk, and finally raised his eyes to look at the blindfolded kid, and said with ease: "Don't stand there, the old man finally came here Come, let's have tea together."

Guan Zan, as if waking up from a dream, hurriedly curbed his messy thoughts, walked over and sat down next to Ke Su, and brought him a cup of tea that Xu Zhendong had poured.Guan Zan's face was still a little red, but he smiled naturally, and asked out of words: "The teacher said that Uncle Xu brought me something, what is it?"

Ke Su was so hot that he couldn't drink the freshly brewed hot tea, so he put the cup back on the tea table, continued to shake the folding fan, and fanned Guan Zan by the way.He didn't rush to answer, and told Xu Zhendong: "Now we are also entering the door, you go down and bring the piano case up."

Xu Zhendong said "OK", turned around and went out.

Only then did Ke Su explain to Guan Zan: "I customized a kite for you. Xiao Xu went out to do this. The next day after I came back, I couldn't sit still with my family, so I asked him to follow me again." Come out and run."

Originally, he had no intention of asking, but as soon as Guan Zan said this, he was flattered and opened his eyes slightly in disbelief: "Made for me?"

"Yeah, how can a musical instrument learner not have his own exclusive musical instrument?" Ke Su smiled kindly, reached out to touch the top of the young apprentice's hair, and then sighed a little, sounding slightly regretful, "It's just a pity I bought your father’s zither. Instruments and other objects have memory, they will remember the owner’s habits, high-quality materials are of course expensive, but what really makes it unique is the person who has played the strings.”

Guan Zan does not have his own qin, but this does not affect his understanding.

Maybe it's just a coincidence.

He remembered that many years ago, the buyer contacted by Sun Yanhong came to carry the zither. Before the two parties could complete the transaction, the nursing center called, saying that Yuan Xin had fallen ill and was in serious condition.Yuan Zhijun immediately took Guan Zan to the hospital after picking up the phone.Yuan Xin went crazy that day and smashed the whole ward. Later, two nurses pressed her to calm down and increased the dose before she barely fell asleep.

It wasn't the first time Guan Zan saw Yuan Xin going crazy, but it was the first time he felt that his mother was so scary that Yuan Xin was tied up on the hospital bed, and Yuan Zhijun led him to accompany him, so he didn't dare to get too close .

Yuan Xin slept for a long time, and cried after waking up.

From crying loudly to crying silently, crying until the sky went from bright to dark, and finally her voice became hoarse and she couldn't make a sound, only intermittent sobbing.

Musical instruments remembering people may be a kind of beautiful conjecture, and it is the longing for the dead entrusted by the living to the dead with the help of dead objects.However, the two got along for a long time before they were alive, and they lived so that there was me in you and you in me, and they became one in the eyes of others. The so-called seeing things and thinking about others is probably nothing more than that.

But on both sides, Guan Yuwen still left too early, Guan Zan's memory and feelings for him stayed in the distant past, and thinking about it now will not feel too regretful.

He just thought of Yuan Xin's miserable appearance crying to the point of collapse, and thought of how a mad patient could be so sad and hopeless. He thought that his mother must have loved his father very much back then.Fortunately, love to the extreme, but unfortunately separated from yin and yang, this kind of relationship is both sweet and torture.

Ke Su didn't notice that Guan Zan was distracted, and felt sweating, so he picked up his teacup to drink tea, and then said to Ke Jinrui, "It's so hot at noon, where are you taking Xiao Guan?" He paused for a moment. Then he said, "Isn't Xiaoguan staying at his uncle's house when he comes back? Why did he come back to your place?"

Mr. Ke understands that his family status is low, and his father and father are reminiscing about the old days, so he just needs to be by his side, and it is easy to make the old man dislike him if he speaks out.At this moment, Ke Su called the roll, and he gained a little sense of presence, and replied frankly: "I went to the bank to pick up his father's piano."

Ke Su was stunned when he heard the words, and immediately looked at Guan Zan: "Have you got it back?"

Guan Zan nodded, just now when he entered the door to patronize Teacher An Dun, he left the piano case in the entrance.He got up to bring the box, removed the tea set, put it on the coffee table in front of Ke Su, and said, "I don't understand Guqin at all, and I haven't seen it a few times, and I don't even know what it's called. I brought it back purely for Mother has explained." He bent down and opened the piano case, "Teacher should understand, right?"

The piano case was old, and the cowhide on the edge was worn to a certain extent, and it looked old, but everything inside the case was in good condition. The piano was not directly exposed, but was tightly wrapped by a piece of silk.

Ke Su's eyes were red, and he stretched out his hand tremblingly to lift the silk away.

He understood it very well, because this piano was a generous gift that Guan Yuwen had prepared for him after returning from his performance at the Sydney Opera House.

"This is a Tang Dynasty guqin, Fuxi style, cut from a whole piece of fir, without splicing." The old hand slowly stroked the pine-yellow body of the piano, and after a while, lightly hooked the index finger and plucked the strings.Completely different from the timbre of the guzheng, the timbre of the guqin is thicker and full of meaning.Ke Su's fingers trembled slightly, and his voice trembled: "This piano is made of jade, with its heart and goose feet, and the carving is exquisite. Yueshan and Jiaowei are made of aged red sandalwood. Look at these two structures, are they neatly crafted? Not a little bit off?"

Guan Zan listened carefully, and he looked wherever Ke Su pointed.He is a complete layman to the guqin, and he can't see the way. He just thinks that this piano is red with brown, and the surface paint is timeless, bright and clean, and it is indeed very textured.

Ke Su said in a deep voice: "The craftsman painted the qin with vermilion lacquer, antlers and gray tires, and the surface of the qin was decorated with broken patterns of snake belly and broken patterns of ox hair.

Guan Zan heard the clue, and couldn't help frowning, and looked at Ke Su hesitantly: "Teacher, have you seen this piano?"

Withdrawing his hand, Ke Su's eyes burst into a smile, mixed with tears, he took Guan Zan's hand, guided him to stretch out a finger, and plucked the string he plucked just now.

"Taste it, do you have any memory of the teacher?"

Guan Zan was shocked instantly, with both surprise and surprise in his eyes: "This piano used to be yours?" After he finished speaking, he felt something was wrong, and murmured inexplicably, "But why did your piano end up in my father's hands? I’ve seen it since I was a child, and it’s placed in the study, and my dad would go in and play it occasionally.” Guan Zan recalled the past, his eyes curled up with a smile, “He probably doesn’t play the guqin very well. One piece. I didn't know until I grew up that the piece he played was called "Yangguan Sandie", which is a low-level piece."

"How's your level?" Ke Su asked without answering.

Guan Zan thought for a while, then smiled and said, "It's not that good. When I was a child, I thought it was ugly, but after listening to other people's version, I found that my dad's playing is really ugly."

Ke Su was amused and couldn't help laughing loudly.

At this time, Xu Zhendong, who was picking up the zither in the car, went back and forth. As soon as he entered, the two stopped to chat.

Guan Zan's eyes lit up when he saw the brand-new leather piano case in the opponent's hand, and immediately put the previous question behind him.Ke Su could see that he liked it, and was also happy in his heart, and told Xu Zhendong: "Open it to Xiaoer's piano room, the new piano is very new, and it needs to be adjusted slowly to be smooth."

Guan Zan was startled, subconsciously looked at Ke Jinrui, and frowned suspiciously: "Mr. Ke still has a piano room?"

Ke Jinrui smiled, and said lightly: "It's a rule at home, you have to prepare a room for playing or not, otherwise the old man will not like it." After speaking, he opened the drawer on the side of the desk, took a key from it and handed it to Xu Zhendong.

Guan Zan stared at the things the two of them handed over, and suddenly remembered the locked room on the second floor.

Ke Su was in a particularly good mood. He pinched his little apprentice's fat face, and said with a smile, "Have you been lazy for a while and haven't touched the piano? Are your hands raw? Go up with your Uncle Xu to try the new piano, tomorrow teacher To be checked."

Guan Zan's mind had already flown to the second floor with Xu Zhendong, and when he heard the words, he agreed happily, dropped the guqin and ran away.

Not long after, there was the sound of opening and closing the door on the second floor.

The living room became quiet, the smile on Ke Su's face disappeared, and his face turned black with seriousness.The old man stood up on crutches, walked swiftly to the son who didn't let him worry, and angrily took out the leather pad from the wastebasket.Ke Su didn't dare to yell loudly, for fear of being heard by Guan Zan, so he lowered his voice and asked, "You son of a bitch, tell me, what is this?!"

Ke Jinrui didn't think the old man would use this kind of thing as a fly swatter. He had been waiting for the volcano to erupt for a while, and he calmed down a long time ago, and calmly asked, "Dad, why did you bother?"

Ke Su was so angry that he wanted to hit his son with the things in his hands, and said angrily, "You can do whatever you want, do you think I have taken care of it? I still want to live a few more years, and I don't want to be punished." You bastard is going to die early!"

Ke Jinrui stood up, helped the old man sit down in front of the high-back chair, and coaxed the old man with a good temper: "Look at what you said, when did I make you angry?"

"Doesn't this make me angry?!" Ke Su slapped his skin and said, "Guan Zan is still a child! He is so young and doesn't understand anything. How dare you mess with such a thing when he lives here?" Let it go? What if he sees it? How do you explain it as an elder? Don't spoil him, okay, throw it away for me!"

Ke Jinrui: "..."

Mr. Ke thought to himself, where does your precious little apprentice know nothing?He is simply not too good-natured!Yesterday, you used this thing to hit yourself on the thigh to seduce your own son, otherwise how could you fall into the hanging chair?

But this kind of thing can't be said, because Ke Su has already identified the two of them.In the eyes of the old man, the little apprentice is the most obedient little white rabbit, pure and innocent, while his own son is a hopeless wolf with a big tail, black to the bone.

"Okay, don't be angry, I'll throw it away." Ke Jinrui stuffed the leather pad back into the wastebasket. Seeing that Ke Su was panting with excitement, he went to the coffee table and filled the teacup with hot water, then brought it to the teacup. The old man moistened his throat, and waited for the breath to pass so that he could continue to scold him.

Ke Su took a big sip of tea and asked, "I just saw that the corners of Xiaoguan's mouth were bruised, and there were bandages on his hands, what's the matter?"

The old man came suddenly, and this time he couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.Ke Jinrui quickly sorted out the words in his mind, and explained in a more gentle manner what happened after Guan Zan came home that day.He said it very lightly, without mentioning the words "hands-on", and replaced it with "conflict" and "embarrassment", but Ke Su was still annoyed, and put down his teacup with a "smack", discrediting Yuan Jiahe. The apprentice's son scolded them together.

"That day I agreed to let Guan Zan go back because of her attitude. I didn't expect that Yuan Xin's sister-in-law is really not a fuel-efficient lamp. She even raised a little bastard who dared to beat my apprentice?" Ke Suyue said more and more gasping. Even worse than before, "This matter can't be finished, you have to do it for me!"

Chief Ke finished scolding and said, "It's done."

Ke Su couldn't calm down for a while, and with a dark face, he was silent for a while, and said, "I have something to do this time."

Ke Jinrui: "About Guan Zan going to school?"

"Well." Ke Su said, "I have notified everything that should be notified. I will not go back for a few days. I will have a meal with everyone on the weekend and introduce Xiaoguan to introduce his brothers and sisters. In the future, I will also be in Yangyin. Take care of me."

"What about the exam?" Ke Jinrui asked.

"This time has been delayed too much. What's the test? The meaning is over!" Ke Su said naturally, "Guan Zan is my last student. How many years can I live with my body? I said Adding a student in, they can not give this face, who dares? Besides, do you think your sister is as disobedient as you?!"

Ke Jinrui: "..."

Mr. Ke has a talent for language, and he can abduct his son back with just three sentences.His skillful techniques and smooth transitions made others feel no disobedience, only that Mr. Ke should be scolded.