Chapter 247 Playing the Piano
Slime mold Wei Jingjing was sitting at the table reading a book.
The room was very quiet, with only the sound of gurgling water coming from the garden outside the window. Her piano teacher would be here in a little while.
Her piano teacher was an unmarried woman in her thirties, with a delicate face, wearing glasses, and a gentle look. She was a very strict teacher. When the slime mold Wei Jingjing first met her, she knew nothing about piano. Her master Yan Zhen did not predetermine her piano skills. Because Miss Wei never showed off this in class, her classmates had no way of knowing it.
So in that piano lesson, slime mold Wei Jingjing lost face. This was the first time she played the piano since she was born, and the result was predictable. A series of stuttering and broken notes made the piano teacher's face change immediately. Fortunately, this was a private lesson, and the only person she was embarrassed by was the piano teacher. The piano teacher did not get angry directly, she just opened the music score and started playing by herself.
Slime mold Wei Jingjing knew nothing about human music, but under the piano teacher's dancing fingers like a pair of butterflies, the clear piano sound flowed in the room. Those jumping notes were like winding streams, invading every cell of her body. She turned into a small fish swimming in the stream, and the water waves were like a cool breeze blowing towards her. She jumped out of the water and turned into a bird, and the end of the sky was shining with white water. The notes were like drizzles dripping from the endless sky, like mist filling the vast forest.
When the piano teacher pressed the last syllable, Wei Jingjing felt that the rhythm was still echoing in her ears, like the remaining warmth in the palm of her hand after it left the teacup.
It's amazing, is this the art of human language? To slime mold Wei Jingjing, different sounds are just meaningless noises except for being used as a language for human communication. But humans can connect these notes and play such beautiful and harmonious things.
Slime mold Wei Jingjing remained silent as a tribute to this wonderful performance.
"How is it?" said the piano teacher.
“It sounds good.”
"Yeah."
"Teacher, when you were playing, I seemed to see and feel many things, but I couldn't describe the specific feelings. But this is really beautiful."
"This is the charm of music. The piano is known as the king of musical instruments." The piano teacher played a few more clear syllables, "We all say that a piano can play a band. When you are really familiar with it, you will find its beauty and greatness. Each of its notes has a special meaning." The teacher stared at the black and white keys, "When I was a child, I was even younger than you at that time, and I didn't understand what the piano meant to me. At that time, I felt irritated when I saw the piano."
"Then why did the teacher learn piano?"
"I was forced by my mother. When I was a child, I cried every day while playing the piano. If my hand shape was not right, my mother would hit me with a ruler. Other children played outside on Saturdays and Sundays, but I had to practice the piano day and night. I even dreamed of being hit by a ruler while memorizing music scores at night. For a while, I kept thinking that I must smash the piano in the piano room so that I could get rid of it. At that time, I was too young and knew nothing about the sacred field of music. I only wanted to play. I even hated my mother."
“…”
"After my youthful and ignorant days, I grew up and experienced the beauty of the piano and fell in love with it. Playing is the sound of your heart and a baptism of the soul. It is because of my hard practice in my youth that I can experience the beauty of the piano today. Wei Jingjing, the piano is not something that can be fooled casually. Only if you respect it, it will show you its wonders. Did the song the teacher just played sound good?"
“It sounds good.”
The piano teacher turned around and said in a very gentle tone: "I know you have always wanted to play this piece for your mother. If you want to play it well, you must respect it and play it seriously."
"A song for mom?"
"Yes. During the first lesson, you told me that it was the song you wanted to play for your mother." The piano teacher's fingers danced on the black and white keys again, "Canon."
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Today, the piano teacher came again as usual.
Slime mold Wei Jingjing is no longer the ignorant slime mold who had never touched the piano and played randomly. During this period, she taught herself to play the piano, which was not difficult for her. She only needed to control her fingers to hit the piano in order according to the music score, and she could play like a human. She didn't know what Wei Jingjing's original level was, and there was almost no trace of her playing the piano on Wei Jingjing's mobile phone and computer, but her stumbling performance in the first few lessons did not attract the criticism of the piano teacher, so she must not be too high.
In this class, out of a desire to show her piano teacher her progress, she played the Canon very fluently from beginning to end without any mistakes.
When she finished playing, she thought she would be praised by her piano teacher. As she thought, the piano teacher was surprised and praised her, saying that her progress was amazing. But then the teacher gave her a comment that she was "too mechanical".
"Too mechanical?"
"Well," the piano teacher said, "you played very well, without making any mistakes, but there was no emotion at all. If I hadn't watched you play, I would have thought it was a mechanical performance. Wei Jingjing, playing is actually a release of the soul's emotions. You are already very good in terms of accuracy, but playing is not just about accuracy. I think you should be more relaxed when playing, your fingers should be more natural, your brain should be emptied, and your heart should be immersed in the music."
Slime mold Wei Jingjing thought that it was really troublesome for humans to play musical instruments. She had clearly played the piano correctly according to the score, so why was the piano teacher still not satisfied?
"If you practice hard, I think you'll be able to play it for your mother soon," the piano teacher said. "She will definitely be very happy."
Slime mold Wei Jingjing was skeptical about this. During the time she was replacing Wei Jingjing, she had only seen Wei Jingjing's mother Sheng Shihua a few times.
Her daily life is taken care of by her aunt and nanny, and the people she interacts with most are Aunt Tan and driver Liang. According to her observation, her life is . But compared with other classmates, her daily life is obviously different from that of an ordinary human family.
Her owner, Yan Zhen, also comes from a wealthy family with a good living standard, but is completely different from Wei Jingjing. Slime mold Wei Jingjing has met Yan Zhen's parents, An Yuan and Yan An, and has seen with her own eyes how much they care for their son and daughter. After communicating with more classmates such as Xu Kewei, slime mold Wei Jingjing realized that Wei Jingjing's family relationship is really different from that of an ordinary family of three.
"Are you saying that Wei Jingjing's father and mother are separated?" Master Yan Zhen looked surprised when he heard her report the situation.
"Yes. Wei Jingjing's father, Wei Hongzhuo, doesn't live with me. I heard from driver Liang that the couple separated many years ago and each lives his own life without interfering with the other's life."
"Are they divorced?"
"It seems not."
Captain Madara said, "I know, this is the standard wealthy couple!"
Master Yan Zhen asked, "What is a formal couple?"
"It means that there is only a legal marriage relationship between the two people, but they don't actually have the kind of marriage life that humans have."
Every two weeks on weekends, Wei Hongzhuo's driver would come to pick up slime mold Wei Jingjing. Wei Hongzhuo would take half a day to meet with slime mold Wei Jingjing and take her out for a meal. That was the only time that slime mold Wei Jingjing felt the warmth of family.
Wei Jingjing's father was very gentle to her. He would talk to her about her daily study and life, and often asked her what she wanted. Sometimes, the slime mold Wei Jingjing just pointed casually, and Wei Hongzhuo would immediately buy it for her without even frowning. Later, when Wei Hongzhuo asked her what she wanted again, the slime mold Wei Jingjing said, "Can Dad and Mom live together?"
Wei Hongzhuo was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and did not answer.
Compared to Wei Hongzhuo, Wei Jingjing's mother Sheng Shihua felt even more distant to the slime mold Wei Jingjing. Although they both lived in this garden villa, most of the time the slime mold Wei Jingjing couldn't see her.
The servants in the villa said that her mother Sheng Shihua was not in good health and needed to rest. She didn't like anyone to disturb her. Even Wei Jingjing was no exception.
Slime mold Wei Jingjing remembers the few times she met her mother Sheng Shihua. This nominal mother of Wei Jingjing almost never paid attention to her, and their conversations were limited to daily greetings. The impression of Sheng Shihua in the mind of the slime mold Wei Jingjing was only polite, cold and distant. Sheng Shihua was a beautiful woman, tall and thin, with fair skin as smooth as satin, a thin oval face and a pair of slightly raised phoenix eyes. The way she looked at people always had a slightly mean meaning.
Sheng Shihua's mother often reads books and drinks tea in the small courtyard behind the villa. No one can disturb her without her permission. When the slime mold Wei Jingjing broke into her private forbidden area not long ago, Sheng Shihua raised her head with a slightly irritated look on her face.
"Mother……"
Sheng Shihua turned her gaze directly to Aunt Tan, who looked a little bewildered behind the slime mold Wei Jingjing, "What's wrong with her?"
"Madam , I told her, but she insisted on coming to ask you in person," said Aunt Tan.
Slime mold Wei Jingjing said: "Mom, the school is going to hold a parent-teacher meeting. Can you ..."
Sheng Shihua glanced at her, and then she lowered her head, "I'm not feeling well, I can't go. Aunt Tan will make arrangements for you."
Thus, the conversation between mother and daughter ended.
Aunt Tan followed the slime mold Wei Jingjing and said, "Your mother is not always what you think she is. You have to be considerate of her."
Slime mold Wei Jingjing nodded, but she was still confused. In her mind, there was a layer of fog between Sheng Shihua's mother and Wei Jingjing, and she was completely unable to see and understand their relationship.
Apart from Sheng Shihua's cold attitude towards her, she was very considerate in other aspects. As long as the slime mold Wei Jingjing made reasonable requests, she would fulfill them almost immediately. From her studies to her hobbies, she never missed anything.
The slime mold Wei Jingjing knew that her life was superior among her peers, but she also clearly felt the weirdness in it.
Not long ago, slime mold Wei Jingjing had two companions, slime mold Yan Zhen and slime mold Liu Xingquan. Now with the return of the original owner, her two companions have officially stepped down from the task of playing the main role and retired gloriously. It is said that due to the outstanding performance of slime mold Liu Xingquan, the original owner Liu Xingquan also gave him the title of Platinum Star. In fact, slime mold Wei Jingjing is very envious.
Now, it is only a matter of time before Wei Jingjing returns.
But is this kind of life the family life of a normal human girl?
Slime mold Wei Jingjing opened the window.
The weather outside was very good, and the blue cat that Wei Jingjing raised was lying in the sun with its body stretched out.
A cute Siamese cat wearing a red bow and a blue coat was squatting at her window. Slime mold Wei Jingjing knew that it was an Ailt named Gin, a card-drawing European emperor cat, and had some connection with the original Wei Jingjing.
It seemed to care about Wei Jingjing and often came to check on the situation.
Slime mold Wei Jingjing thought about it and considered whether to ask the chef at home for a piece of salmon. It was also Wei Jingjing's guest, so she had to entertain him.
The Siamese cat named Gin suddenly spoke: "Something is approaching."
Slime mold Wei Jingjing said: "Ah?"
Gin raised his head and his two cat ears stood up alertly.
At the same time, Choi Myeong-ji was walking home in a depressed mood.
"Assholes! You have no loyalty! Yan Zhen, Liu Xingquan, I finally know you!" Cui Mingzhi said sullenly. When he walked to the corner of the street, he saw the vending machine.
The vending machine flashed its lights a few times.
Choi Ming-chi walked forward and placed his hands on the vending machine. "Yeah, I have something really cool too. I also have you! Vending machine!!"
At this time, a mother and her child walked past him, and the child whispered, "Mom, this brother is talking loudly to the vending machine."
The mother quickly grabbed the child and quickened her pace, "Don't look, there are a lot of psychopaths on the street recently."
