webnovelvip Chapter 68
Chapter 68
It was afternoon when they went to the beach, and it was dusk when they came back. The bluestone road was covered with brilliant sunlight, and the shadows of old trees beside the road slanted down. The cat that often came to visit raised its head from the courtyard wall, yawned, and then Stretching a long lazy waist, landed lightly, and disappeared around the corner.
Dinner was sweet and sour fish and beef brisket with tomato, and according to Xie Fei's preference, I fried a seasonal vegetable.The soup is stewed in a casserole, it is chicken soup, with a few herbs, the bitterness has been removed in some way, and it smells quite delicious.
Xie Fei and Gu Fangyan sat opposite each other on both sides of the stone table. He still didn't develop the habit of chatting while eating, but he wasn't in a hurry to do things later. The chopsticks moved leisurely and slowly.
The sunset was rather fast. The setting sun gradually sank below the sea surface, the sky light converged on the west side, and the night light spread in all directions. The whole small town was infiltrated in quiet colors.Today's weather is quite good, the clouds are thin, the sky is clear, and when you look up, it is full of stars.
As the night fell, Gu Fangyan raised his hand and pressed on a certain pillar, and the lights hidden in the vines and flower stands turned on, the light was light and soft.
After she was full, Xie Fei put down her chopsticks, sat up straight, and stretched her waist: "It seems I should do the dishes this time."
There is no dishwasher in the kitchen in the small courtyard. Xie Fei doesn't like having strangers at home after being ill, so Auntie Cook always leaves after cooking, so he and Gu Fangyan divide the work, and the two take turns washing the dishes.
"You can't be lazy." Gu Fangyan stretched out his finger and flicked it on Xie Fei's forehead.
"I just wanted to express my feelings, and I didn't intend to escape." Xie Fei got up slowly and cleaned up the dishes.
The unfinished fish is left to the cat who grew up eating all kinds of food. The leftover half pot of tomato soup can be used to cook noodles, and the chicken soup is left in the casserole. The cooking aunt has a special skill. It becomes something else delicious.And the cooking aunt had cleaned the kitchen stove before leaving, so Xie Fei didn't have much work to do.
He walked towards the kitchen with the bowls and chopsticks, and when he was about to enter the door, he turned to Gu Fangyan and said, "You can go to the preparations."
It is self-evident what the preparation is, Gu Fangyan nodded and said yes, then asked: "Where is the plan?"
"In the yard, you can see the stars." Xie Fei said.
Gu Fangyan said "Hum", turned around and walked to the other side.Xie Fei looked at his back and exhaled almost inaudibly.
Xie Fei was nervous.
How can you not be nervous about this kind of thing?
He can't forget the countless attempts he has made, and the despair that day on the broken tower in the back mountain.But he still has to do that, his life cannot stay behind the shadows forever, he has to step over, or find a light to dispel the shadows.
Xie Fei took a deep breath, then turned around resolutely and walked into the kitchen.
A quarter of an hour later, Xie Fei returned to the yard.
The starlight is still quiet, the lights in the flower stand and grape stand are soft and bright, Gu Fangyan is standing behind the stone table, and there are two piano boxes on the stone table.
"Why did you bring two violins?" Xie Fei walked over.
Gu Fangyan smiled softly: "I thought you guessed it all."
One of the two violin cases is very familiar to Xie Fei. It is the violin he has been using since he changed to 4/4 size. Later, the violin bridge was broken and sent for repair.At that time, Ming Rong had stopped playing, so he used Ming Rong's instrument, which was repaired and brought back, and kept in the box.
But Gu Fangyan didn't give him the piano, but pushed another piano case over: "You use it."
"What about this one?" Xie Fei raised his jaw and asked, pointing to the matte black piano case.
Gu Fangyan met his gaze and said, "I will use it."
Xie Fei opened her eyes wide and asked in surprise, "You know?"
"No." Gu Fangyan shook his head, smiled softly in Xie Fei's eyes, "You don't know what kind of piano you want", and said, "So I want you to teach me."
Almost at the same time when Gu Fangyan finished speaking, Xie Fei guessed his thoughts.He had a sore nose, but still bent his eyes and smiled: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Gu Fangyan rubbed Xie Fei's head.
Xie Fei walked to the piano box and reached out to open it.The light in the yard is soft and bright white, and when it shines on things, it will not deviate too much from the original color. This is a brown-black piano with quite beautiful lines. Xie Fei picked it up to take a closer look and plucked the strings.
The voice is quite light.
"...Brother Gu, this piano costs 80 yuan, right?" Xie Fei raised her head.
"To tell you the truth, it was discounted when I brought it." Gu Fangyan said.
In the musical instrument industry, discounts are not too big, and the time is too short, Gu Fangyan has no time to go abroad to buy goods with relatively good prices.Xie Fei was silent for a moment: "9.9% off?"
Gu Fangyan laughed: "If you are too touched, just promise yourself with your body."
"..." Xie Fei snorted softly, "I'm not that moved."
"Then how do you plan to repay me?" Gu Fangyan asked.
The person opposite him thought for a while: "Save the pot and sell the iron to pay off the debt?"
Gu Fangyan narrowed his eyes.
Xie Fei pretended to be thinking again, looked Gu Fangyan up and down, and said tentatively, "Or...flesh compensation?"
"Is it different from a promise with your body?"
"Yes." Xie Fei nodded seriously.
Gu Fangyan understood the meaning of his words: "The difference is that you don't intend to take responsibility?"
Xie Fei laughed, then shook her head: "Brother Gu, you misunderstood me, am I that kind of person? Of course not."
No one mentioned the smashed violin on the dilapidated solitary pagoda, and Xie Fei didn't think about the music scores that Ming Rong left behind during his lifetime. After saying that, he put the violin back into the violin case, picked up the violin bow inside, Tighten slowly.
Gu Fangyan looked at his appearance, stopped joking to tease his thoughts, and whispered: "Mr. Xie, is the first lesson about to start?"
"Then let's get started."
Xie Fei took a deep breath into her lung cavity, then exhaled slowly, recalling the process of learning the piano at the beginning of the year, and said to Gu Fangyan: "You can play the piano, so you don't need to learn the staff, so you must first understand the structure of the piano. head, pegs, strings, fingerboard..."
He pointed at the violin in Gu Fangyan's hand with his bow, and told him one by one from top to bottom.
"The violin has four strings, from left to right, they are E string, A string, D string, G string..."
"Then the posture of holding the piano..."
The young man's clear voice fell into the night, a little slow, but also a little difficult and heavy. He narrated to Gu Fangyan. When it was his turn to demonstrate, after pursing his lips, he put the shoulder rest on the piano without the slightest hesitation. Flip the wrist again, and clamp the piano frame to the neck.
"The standard is that the qin does not fall off the shoulder after the left hand is released." Xie Fei let go of her hand, and turned to Gu Fangyan with the qin on her shoulder.
Gu Fangyan tried it.It has to be said that he is a smart student. It takes a long time for ordinary people to practice the posture. After trying it two or three times, he found out the trick: "Actually, it is supported by the collarbone and pressed by the lower jaw?"
Xie Fei was too young when she learned this point. After learning it, she didn't pay attention to the principle. After feeling it, she nodded to Gu Fangyan.
The two stood facing each other, each with a piano on their left shoulders. Xie Fei glanced at the shadow on the ground and couldn't help laughing.
"This feeling is quite strange." Xie Fei put down the piano, "I never thought that I would teach others to learn the piano one day."
Thinking of something, he said meaningfully: "In case I fall down in the future, I can still make a living by this."
"Will I make you down?" Gu Fangyan was not satisfied with his statement.
"I said in case—" Xie Fei dragged his tone, "I used to think that if I became poor, I would go to a place with a lot of traffic like the subway underpass to make money by performing arts."
Gu Fangyan hit him: "Subway stations are not allowed to perform, you are violating the urban traffic management regulations."
Xie Fei retorted: "I'm talking about the underground passage."
Gu Fangyan was serious: "I will be kicked out by the city management."
Xie Fei: "..."
Xie Fei glared at Gu Fangyan: "I said, why can't you think of something good?"
"Okay, I'll be with you when the time comes." Gu Fangyan laughed softly, and changed his words, "I've learned the first step now, what's the next step?"
"The movement of the left hand and the posture of holding the bow with the right." Xie Fei set up the piano again. "As for the standing posture... there are several opinions in the industry, but I think it's fine to do whatever feels comfortable."
For Xie Fei, these postures are as natural and simple as eating and sleeping. When she raises her hand, it is a perfectly standard movement.
After learning these most basic postures, the next thing to learn is to play the open string tone.
Without any surprise, Xie Fei's hands began to tremble.He bit his lower lip, trying to use the pain to calm himself down a bit, at least not to look too embarrassed in front of Gu Fangyan, but it was useless, the fear was there and never dissipated.
Those images mixed with red and black came back to his eyes, but in the next second, he was kissed by Gu Fangyan.
A kiss that was extremely gentle and careful, like a spring breeze melting ice and snow, dispelling Xie Fei's fear little by little.
The picture faded away, and Xie Fei lowered her eyes with trembling eyelashes.
After a while, he sat down, reached out and grabbed a grape leaf, and said softly to Gu Fangyan:
"Every time I try to play, an image pops up in front of me. An image of her dying."
"She was sitting behind the long dining table at home with the strings lodged in her wrists and bleeding all over the floor."
"It was raining that day, and I had just participated in a competition and won a gold medal. But she died like that, maybe when I was on stage, maybe when I attended the celebration banquet. Anyway, from that time on, I ..."
At this point, Xie Fei couldn't continue. He lowered his eyes, spread his palms, and stared at his own palm lines without blinking.He has broken palms, the palm lines are fine and broken, and the lines are criss-crossed, and there is no one without twists and turns.
"Those are in the past, what we have to do now is to look forward." Gu Fangyan bent down in front of Xie Fei, kissed him again, and reached out to him, "Come, hold my hand, let's try together, Don't be afraid."
Xie Fei raised her eyelids, looked at Gu Fangyan for a moment, and nodded: "Okay."
Gu Fangyan moved the stone bench, sat down side by side with Xie Fei, and picked up the piano and bow again.
Xie Fei put his hand on Gu Fangyan's, took a deep breath, lifted the bow in his hand, put it on the strings, and slowly pulled it down.
The temperature from Gu Fangyan's hands was very warm, and at the same time, Xie Fei smelled a very familiar smell.
It's clear and cold, with a hint of awe, the smell of cedar, and Gu Fangyan's pheromone.
Different from possessing and conquering, Alpha's pheromone comforted Xie Fei, like the softest breeze blowing his face, like the sweetest clear spring flowing through his heart, gradually, his hands finally stopped shaking.