Chapter 148 Seriousness Does Not Mean Like
Zheng Xiuheng turned his head and looked at Kim Taeyeon who was hit hard. He suddenly asked speechlessly, "Is it necessary to be so unhappy? Looking at you, it feels like I did something bad to you!"
Kim Taeyeon was really unhappy at the moment. It was about to end, but she was actually scared by a cute little fox. It was so speechless, so frustrating, and so unfair.
"Senior, I, I, I..." Kim Taeyeon's voice was a little urgent, and it seemed more like it was filled with resentment.
Zheng Xiuheng was amused by her appearance. After thinking for a while, he said seriously, "Actually, I don't really understand why you must learn the piano. If you want to repeat your last answer and want to play like me, play the same music as me, I think this is a completely untenable reason. In fact, in my opinion, you don't like playing the piano at all!"
"Senior, even if you are a senior, I will be angry if you say that!" Kim Taeyeon unexpectedly raised her voice, as if she was irritated by Zheng Xiuheng, and coupled with what happened just now, she couldn't help her emotions and shouted.
Zheng Xiuheng was not worried that she would be angry, but smiled at Jin Taiyan and said, "Stretch out your feet first, I will apply medicine for you. Although this little guy often bites people, it is definitely not a contagious disease or infection, but it still needs to be dealt with!"
Kim Taeyeon didn't know if she was too angry, causing some blood to boil, and she stretched out her right foot and placed it on Zheng Xiuheng's thigh, and then...
"Yes, I'm sorry, I'll do it myself!" Kim Taeyeon was not a person with an extroverted and domineering personality. The moment she put her right foot on Zheng Xiuheng's leg, she became much more sober. She looked at Zheng Xiuheng with some embarrassment and said, lifting her right foot and retracting it.
However, Zheng Xiuheng boldly reached out and grabbed her ankle, then pulled her foot back onto her leg, looked at her and smiled, "Putting aside other things, it was indeed my pet that bit you, I can handle this little thing, and besides, shouldn't you be angry now?"
Hearing Zheng Xiuheng's ridicule, Jin Taeyeon was a little embarrassed, but she did reply angrily: "How can you say that, senior? I practiced so hard and wanted to find you to be my disciple, but senior..."
"But being serious doesn't mean liking it, and being sincere doesn't mean liking it. If you really liked it, you wouldn't be bothered to find me to be your apprentice. On the contrary, if you really liked it, you would look for a teacher to teach you from the elementary level. I don't know what you really think. Although you are very serious and believe in my method of playing with your feet, and you can actually play with your feet, the dry notes don't sound pleasant. I believe you can feel it yourself. So, I told you to play with your feet to deceive you!"
Zheng Xiuheng held Taeyeon's little foot with his right hand, and wiped the bitten part on her instep with a cotton swab in his left hand. Holding a girl's foot actually feels quite special, after all, it is a girl's more private part. Taeyeon's little foot is soft and fleshy, and it feels good, but Zheng Xiuheng did not touch it randomly, but cleaned the bitten part for her while talking to him.
Kim Taeyeon was listening very seriously, but at the end, her eyes widened, and it seemed that Zheng Xiuheng's words really stimulated her a lot.
Zheng Xiuheng looked at Jin Taiyan's surprised expression, but he didn't feel any remorse. Instead, he smiled and said, "Are you surprised? Actually, I am also surprised. I am surprised that you actually believed it. Don't move. I did lie to you, but from another perspective, that method is not wrong. It just may not be effective for you!"
Feeling the little foot in his hand trying to pull back, Zheng Xiuheng held it tightly and spoke in a casual tone.
Hearing this, Kim Taeyeon stopped her actions again. Only then did she realize that the senior in front of her was not someone she could admire so easily.
"Senior, what do you want to say?"
"I just want to tell you to sing well. I like your humming better than listening to you play the piano. If you really want to learn piano, I can introduce you to a teacher, but in my opinion, this is more like a waste of your own time. I even think that it is better to use your free time to read books than this option. Of course, the premise here is that my judgment that you don't really like playing the piano... is correct !"
After sticking the two band-aids side by side on the instep of Kim Taeyeon's foot, Zheng Xiuheng finally released her right foot. Kim Taeyeon quickly took it back, feeling embarrassed, angry, and a little confused.
"Senior, why do you think so? I don't understand your thoughts and I can't agree with them!" Kim Taeyeon said angrily while putting on her socks.
Zheng Xiuheng replied calmly: "Because everyone can like something. They can like many things, such as eating meat, watching movies, and playing basketball. It is easy to do what you like. Although many people are affected by objective factors, this is not the case with your desire to play the piano. But your like is too entangled. If you really like it, you should just start learning it simply. At this time today, you can also easily play "Ode to Joy" with both hands. If you are talented, you can even hear a little color of your own!"
"There's no shortcut to this kind of thing. I believe you must have doubted the special training method I mentioned, right?"
Every word of Zheng Xiuheng's words entered Jin Taeyeon's mind. Slowly, this girl, who was still a little angry, suddenly lowered her head with a red face. In fact, she knew what she was thinking in her heart best, but Jin Taeyeon felt that she really liked playing the piano, so she felt aggrieved and angry that Zheng Xiuheng had deceived her and denied her. However, after hearing Zheng Xiuheng's calm voice, she thought about it carefully and found the answer easily.
"In fact, the special training method I mentioned is true. It can indeed be seen as a spiritual practice. In fact, it is a formal playing practice for... people without hands!"
Kim Taeyeon raised her head and looked at Zheng Xiuheng in surprise, and suddenly felt very confused.
Zheng Xiuheng smiled and recalled the time when he had to undergo N surgeries on his arms and he played the piano with his feet out of boredom. This was purely an act of killing time. It allowed Zheng Xiuheng to play with his hands with 120% concentration in the future and achieve a higher degree of completion.
This is not a special secret method, it's just that it's easier to make mistakes when using your feet. If you don't want to make mistakes, you can only use all your strength and control everything 100%. Zheng Xiuheng has been lying down for a long time and has undergone many surgeries, so he started with complete single-note performances at the beginning, then tried normal playing fingerings in the middle, and finally played with all his heart.
Just like a person who lost both hands is learning about emotions, there are such people in this world. It is not strange because unlike Kim Taeyeon, Zheng Xiuheng really likes it, so he will be serious and focused no matter how he plays.
Zheng Xiuheng just said that he deceived Kim Taeyeon, but that was just his original intention. However, the method he described was not considered deception. If Kim Taeyeon really believed him, really wanted to learn the piano well, and really liked it, although it would waste some of her time, after she returned to normal, she would be more likely to focus on playing. However, Zheng Xiuheng's purpose in saying this was not to preach.
If we use the terminology from ACG dating games, this behavior is similar to brushing up on favorability.
Seeing Kim Taeyeon becoming more and more confused, Zheng Xiuheng asked with a smile: "Have you continued to practice touching the keys and playing with your hands during this period? How does this time compare to practicing with your feet?"
Kim Taeyeon was getting more and more confused. When she heard Zheng Xiuheng's question, she could only answer truthfully, "I spend more time practicing with my feet!"
"Remember what I said last time?"
"What?" Kim Taeyeon asked in a daze, almost confused by Zheng Xiuheng.
"Don't be too anxious to speed up your progress. You need to practice a lot of basic finger exercises repeatedly. When finish practicing with your feet, you can resume your normal learning progress. It seems that practicing with your feet is not suitable for you. At the same time, you really don't like playing the piano!"
"senior!"
"Do you know why?" Seeing that Kim Taeyeon looked a little anxious again, Zheng Xiuheng asked with a smile.
Kim Taeyeon was stunned for a moment and shook her head in confusion. At this moment, she did not realize that her emotions were being constantly controlled by the senior in front of her.
