Atypical Cafe Love

"The guest room is prepared for my parents to come back to live sometimes, and occasionally friends will come to borrow it. For the bedroom, because I like to sleep in a big bed." Chen Songmao said, stuffing the little bear between the two pillows.Ning Siqin turned his head to look at it: "Well, it looks much better this way."

Although he made a serious expression, upon closer inspection, he could find that he was actually pursing his lips and trying to hold back a smile.Chen Songmao said: "I originally wanted to put the piano room, but forget it, it's too messy inside."

He said and opened the door.Ning Siqin followed him in, his eyes widened as soon as he entered the door: "Are you assembling the piano yourself?!"

"Actually, it doesn't count." Chen Songmao said as he turned on the light, making the room brighter. "Many parts of the piano body require professional equipment or carpentry skills, which I can't do. The ones who really assemble it by themselves are actually just The internal structure, such as strings, bridges, pegs, etc., can be learned while installing."

The area of ​​the studio is actually not small, but with two pianos occupying it, it suddenly looks crowded.Ning Siqin leaned against the wall and walked around to the upright piano with a higher degree of completion, and pressed two keys casually: the one in the high-pitched range didn't ring, while the one in the low-pitched range rang.

"I haven't finished installing the strings in the treble area yet." Chen Songmao said, "Don't move the keys around the middle C, I haven't fully tuned the strings there yet."

Ning Siqin quickly withdrew his hand: "Sorry, will it affect your follow-up work?"

"It's okay, it's not going to happen." Chen Songmao smiled, walked to his side and played a set of scales in the low range, "Just for stability. When tuning the piano, the sudden breaking of the string should be the cause of every piano tuner. It might be a nightmare. It may be especially true for a few students in our class, because I have seen it with my own eyes."

"Didn't you come across it before?" Ning Siqin asked.

"It wasn't me, it was a classmate in my class. During an exam, the strings were too tight and broke suddenly. It was still winter, and he was wearing a thick sweater, and he was cut by the broken strings. A bloodstain was cut on the arm. The force hit the face, disfigurement, and even blindness are possible."

Ning Siqin took a light breath: "Is this dangerous?"

"In fact, this kind of thing rarely happens, and the position where we tune the piano and the position where the strings break will be affected, and other components inside the piano body are blocked. Generally, it is not so serious. It was because of the exam. The most important thing is to practice the piano, the back panel of the piano body has been disassembled, and there is no cover, that’s why.” Chen Songmao explained, “But it’s always a psychological shadow, and I will be more cautious when tuning the piano from now on. "

"It can be seen that you are a cautious person." Ning Siqin said, "But you really scared me just now, I thought it was you who hurt you."

"How to say?"

"When I was at City A Technical College, I saw you tuning the piano with your left hand." Ning Siqin said, "Your right hand seems to be a bit weak? And you are not left-handed."

"Have you noticed?" Chen Songmao asked a little surprised.Few laymen would pay close attention to how the piano is tuned. Even if it was just because his piano tuning was of great importance and time was tight at that time, he felt a soft heart. "This has nothing to do with broken strings. When I first learned to tune the piano, because I practiced too hard and the way of exerting force was not correct, I suffered from tenosynovitis in my right hand. But the practice can't be broken, so during that time I learned to tune with my left hand. Qin's skills, after the right hand recovered, I will pay attention to it in normal times, and the two hands are rotated."

"It's no longer affected?" Ning Siqin asked.

"If you exert force suddenly, it will still hurt a little, and it usually doesn't affect it at all." Chen Songmao smiled at him, "Let's not talk about broken strings."

Ning Siqin didn't mention it again, and looked at the two semi-finished pianos with great interest, and looked at the books in the two bookcases.When he was about to leave the room, he asked in a casual tone, "Are you very jealous of piano broken strings?"

"No, why ask like that?" Chen Songmao looked at him in surprise.

"The previous time at City A Technical College..."

"Ah, that's okay." Chen Songmao shook his head and said, "Did I say it too seriously before? In fact, we don't want to encounter broken strings, just because we may be injured when we encounter them when tuning the piano, just like Ordinary people don’t want to see flower pots falling from the sky when they go out, there is no taboo or taboo. As long as there is no injury, a broken piano string is a normal failure, and it’s just a normal repair.”

In fact, it is not always the case. Most piano tuners do not have this taboo, but a few people still have it—for example, Chen Songmao’s teacher, who always thinks that it is very unlucky to meet broken strings when tuning the piano. Most of his students disagree, but the teacher is old and has some conservative views, so they are unwilling to argue.Now Chen Songmao is afraid that Ning Siqin will be worried, so naturally he won't tell him about it.Ning Siqin's expression relaxed a little: "Really, that's good."

That being said, there was a bit of annoyance in his expression after all.Chen Songmao wanted to change the subject, but before he could decide what to say, suddenly there was the sound of a key opening the door.Ning Siqin looked over in amazement, before he could speak, the door was already opened, and Zhao Su was standing at the door.The three of them startled each other - for Chen Songmao and Ning Siqin, this is just an description; for Zhao Su, he really jumped up: "Oh, I'm sorry, Songmao, do you have a guest? This is the elder Brother Fa? You—"

Chen Songmao had a premonition that he would say something like "Have you finally met someone?", and interrupted in time: "You haven't seen each other yet, have you? This is Ning Siqin. This is Zhao Su."

Both of them had already heard each other's name from him many times, Ning Siqin nodded with a smile, Zhao Su also greeted him, and then turned to Chen Songmao: "I really didn't know you had arrangements for the afternoon. Not available?"

"There's nothing inconvenient about it. In fact, I'm just here to deliver something." Ning Siqin smiled.

"However, if you have nothing to do in the afternoon, I would prefer you to stay." Chen Songmao said before he could say goodbye, and turned to Zhao Su: "What's the matter? I rarely see you coming at this time in the afternoon."

"I want to borrow your card from Chujiang Piano Store." Zhao Su said, "Using your card can enjoy the employee price. In the afternoon, I will take the girl I am chasing to buy a piano there." His eyes were on Chen Songmao He and Ning Siqin turned around, "I won't invite you to go with me, is there any reliable shopping guide over there?"

"What misunderstanding do you have about Chu Jiang? Our shopping guides are very reliable." Chen Songmao joked while taking the card, "Go to the store to find Sister Wei, Fang Ziwei, she should be on duty today. If she has other customers, please find her." Xiao Liu, Liu Zhiyang. I recommend that you would rather wait for Sister Wei to introduce her, she has a lot of experience in recommending Qin."

As he spoke, he handed over the card, Zhao Su took the employee card and left, winking at him apologetically as he went out.After Chen Songmao closed the door, Ning Siqin had already sat down on the sofa by himself, and raised an eyebrow at him, "I often hear you talking about Zhao Su, but I didn't know you have such a good relationship before."

He said it lightly, as if he just mentioned it casually, but Chen Songmao looked at him for a moment and asked, "...Are you jealous?"

"Isn't Zhao Su straight?" Ning Siqin said with a smile, "What kind of vinegar can I eat?"

"He is straight." Chen Songmao nodded and sat down beside him, "We are indeed just friends, but he is my most important friend, so I don't want you to have any misunderstandings about him."

"I remember you said that you have known each other for ten years." Ning Siqin said.

"Yes, I have known him since high school." Chen Songmao said.

He talked about the conflict between Zhao Su and his parents because of him, and how he persuaded Zhao's father and Zhao's mother with hundreds of pages of information.Ning Siqin had been listening quietly, and when she heard that Zhao Su was finally released by her parents and reluctantly allowed the friendship between them, she smiled softly: "...that's great."

His eyes were lowered, but his tone sounded a little lost for some reason—even vaguely, there was a feeling deeper than loss.Chen Songmao stopped talking and looked at him inquiringly, Ning Siqin signaled him to continue talking.

The development of their friendship after that was actually very ordinary. They were admitted to the same top domestic music school in C City, but Chen Songmao only continued to study piano for one year before deciding that he was really not suitable to continue on this path.By chance, a domestic piano tuning master came to give a lecture at their academy. Chen Songmao seized the opportunity and went to ask for advice. The master was out of town and it was inconvenient for him to accept apprentices, but he introduced another C. Chen Songmao, a well-known tuner in the city, asked for advice several times. Finally, the teacher was moved by his sincerity and appreciated his talent, and accepted him as an apprentice—that is, his current teacher.While Chen Songmao completed the rest of his studies at school, he managed to get a diploma; at the same time, he learned piano tuning from his teacher.But he still lives in the school dormitory, and Zhao Su, who is in the same dormitory and the same class, has done roll call and sign-in for him many times, marked out the key points many times, and even donated his own piano to practice for him. Later, Chen Songmao helped him There is never a fee for private tuning.Afterwards, they graduated separately, their careers are related to each other, and their circles of contacts overlap, so they have never broken contact.

Ning Siqin listened quietly all the time, hardly interjecting, and when Chen Songmao finished his brief speech, he smiled and asked: "So you and Zhao Su are... lifelong best friends?"

Chen Songmao nodded: "You can say that."

"Instead, I'm more envious and jealous." Ning Siqin shook his head, "It's rare to have such a friend."

"I also think it's rare." Chen Songmao said, "If there is a chance, let's have a meal together?"

"Are you cooking?" Ning Siqin asked.

"Every friend I know will do everything possible to get food." Chen Songmao said helplessly, "Is my cooking really delicious?"

"If I didn't know you, I'd say you're pretending to be X now." Ning Siqin said.

"I really don't think my dad, my stepfather, cooks much better food than me." Chen Songmao said, "I'm not very interested in cooking. Later, I learned from him when I lived alone. It's only about [-]%."

"So, until you lived independently, did you eat the food cooked by your stepfather every day?" Ning Siqin asked with a delicate expression.

"Yes."

Ning Siqin silently picked up the pillow next to him and slapped him across the face.

The author has something to say: Let me explain, Zhao Su is really straight, straight and straight.

Ning Siqin was also really jealous.