Myriad Realms Free Mercenaries

Chapter 417 Huaxia Guzheng VS Western Piano
The first layer of the food box contained eight peony-like dumplings. Zhu Xiaomeng smiled and said, "This is a small crab dumpling. I haven't made it for a long time. The craftsmanship is a bit rusty. I hope Mr. Jessica doesn't mind."

It would be a ghost if you would mind!Jessica smiled and nodded to Zhu Xiaomeng to express her gratitude, and then opened the second layer of the food box.

"This is lotus root starch osmanthus cake."

The eight cakes are golden yellow and exude a faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus. The third layer is a small plum blossom cake, which is placed in the shape of a branch of plum blossom.

All the guests present were amazed at Zhu Xiaomeng's cooking skills, but in the face of everyone's praise, Zhu Xiaomeng only responded lightly, giving people the feeling that there was a hint of arrogance in the politeness.

As soon as Jessica put away the food box, the butler came over and told him that the meal was ready, so everyone went to the restaurant together.

To be honest, this dinner at Jessica's family was quite sumptuous, but with Zhu Xiaomeng's pastry pearls in front, all the delicacies were eclipsed by it.

The only thing that made everyone feel that this meal was meaningful was the conversation between the Zhu brothers and sisters. Whether it was astronomy, geography, or history and humanities, the two brothers and sisters could use the most incisive language to summarize the results of everyone's discussions.

Coupled with their noble temperament, everyone felt as if they were dining with the royal family, but they ignored their masters.

These guests are all respectable villagers in Murfa Village, but they have never met a few people like the Zhu brothers and sisters.

In the UK, you must not associate village with words like poverty or peasants, otherwise, you will be slapped in the face every minute, and it will be very painful.

Take Jessica's house as an example, well, maybe it can't be simply called a villa, it should be called a manor, and the so-called villa is just a corner of this manor.

But even this corner covers an area of ​​more than one mu. In the manor, there is a small orchard and a vegetable garden.

Naturally, it is time for everyone to relax after dinner. Men may go to the smoking room to smoke, and women may go to the lounge to have a rest and chat, or go to the entertainment room to play the piano and sing.

Seeing that Zhu Xiaomeng attracted all the men's attention by himself, the ladies were of course a little unconvinced. After a lady played a very good piece of piano, everyone unanimously pointed their finger at Zhu Xiaomeng who was resting quietly by the side.

The men were attracted by the women's voices, and they heard Zhu Xiaomeng say apologetically, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to play the piano."

When the ladies heard this, they immediately felt as if they had won a war. They were all triumphant and sarcastic. Although they were relatively restrained and did not say anything too unpleasant, it was still very uncomfortable.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Mingjie snorted coldly, and said mockingly: "The piano is just my sister's childhood toy. My sister is good at Guzheng, the king of Chinese musical instruments."

"Brother, stop talking, I'm a little tired, let's go back first!" Zhu Xiaomeng obviously didn't want Zhu Mingjie's anger to be shown in front of everyone, at least they were visiting someone else's house now, so they couldn't be too rude anyway.

But Zhu Mingjie refused to let it go, and said coldly: "I want them to apologize to you for their rudeness, no one can bully you like this."

Seeing that things were going to become a big mess, Jessica had no choice but to smooth things over, "Mr. Zhu, I don't think they meant to underestimate Lingmei. They just thought that a noble person like Ms. Zhu shouldn't know how to play the piano."

Who knows that it’s okay if he didn’t say anything, but Zhu Mingjie was even more angry when he said it, and said mercilessly: “What is a piano? It’s also a string instrument. Harder."

"It's just that you people are ignorant and don't understand anything. Some people with little knowledge dare to stand here and laugh at others?"

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar at the scene. After all, the piano was invented by them Westerners, but now they were so belittled by an Easterner. They were naturally dissatisfied and clamored for Zhu Mingjie to apologize.

Seeing the scene like this, Zhu Xiaomeng smiled helplessly at Jessica, and said softly: "Mr. Jessica, I think so! You send someone to my house and bring my guzheng. I will do it for you on the spot. Let everyone play a song, and I will make amends for everyone!"

Jessica also felt that this was the best solution, and immediately sent a waiter to Zhu's house to pick up the zither.

When everyone heard what Zhu Xiaomeng said, their voices became quieter. Only Zhu Mingjie was still standing beside Zhu Xiaomeng angrily.

Zhu Xiaomeng held his hand and whispered something in his ear, which made his face look better.

After a while, the waiter sent by Jessica returned to the entertainment room with a large and a small piano on his shoulders. Zhu Xiaomeng frowned slightly, and said lightly, "Why did you bring my brother's guqin too? I Didn’t you say that you only need to bring my guzheng over here?”

"This... this..."

The waiter who went to pick up the piano looked at Zhu Mingjie and said, "Your bodyguard asked me why I wanted to pick up the piano. I told him the reason. He seemed very angry. He slapped... a table was broken with a slap, and then he Ask me to bring this piano over, say...say..."

"What?" Jessica asked impatiently.

Seeing this, the waiter finally spoke out, "He said he wanted to open the eyes of us foreign devils to see the profound and profound Chinese culture."

Hearing this sentence, the faces of the "foreign devils" present turned green, and they were so angry that they almost rushed up to beat up the unfortunate waiter.

Only the brothers and sisters of the Zhu family sat leisurely on the sofa and smiled, and Zhu Mingjie whispered something in Zhu Xiaomeng's ear from time to time, completely ignoring everyone's anger.

Seeing that the anger could not be appeased, Jessica had no choice but to walk up to the Zhu brothers and sisters, and said cautiously: "Mr. Zhu, Ms. Zhu, look at this..."

Zhu Xiaomeng patted the back of Zhu Mingjie's hand lightly, stood up, walked to the guzheng with a smile, put on the tortoiseshell nails skillfully, and then took a deep breath.

The crowd also fell silent. Although they still had disdain on their faces, the novelty still prevailed when they saw the Guzheng in front of Zhu Xiaomeng's eyes. They really wanted to meet the king of musical instruments in China.

Zhu Xiaomeng looked around at everyone, smiled, and stroked the strings with his right hand, a series of smooth piano sounds slipped out from the strings, it does not have seven complete scales like a piano, each scale has only five Sound, but it is precisely this that constitutes a unique oriental charm.

As Zhu Xiaomeng's fingers pinched or kneaded, or shook or trembled on the zither, a beautiful oriental picture scroll gradually emerged in front of everyone.

The light rain in early spring gently washes away the dust on the roofs of the old city, and the willows spit out new buds, shaking gently in the gentle spring breeze.

Under their twigs, the two friends were sitting at the stone table under the tree. It seemed that they were about to say goodbye. Although the wine was in front of them, they just stared at the surrounding scenery in a daze, their eyes full of reluctance.

The sad emotion in the sound of the piano infected everyone. The whole tune was simple and smooth, full of sadness and parting, and even reminded everyone of some old friends whom they hadn't seen for a long time.

As soon as the melody ended, Zhu Xiaomeng could hear Zhu Xiaomeng's slightly sad voice reciting softly: "Weicheng is rainy in the morning and the dust is light, the inn is green and the willows are new, I advise you to have a glass of wine, and there is no old friend when you leave Yangguan in the west. "

When she chanted the last line, everyone saw the tears in her eyes, it seems that she played it with emotion!
(End of this chapter)