Atypical Cafe Love

Perhaps it was the naturalness of getting along with Ning Siqin that made Chen Songmao not even realize how fast their relationship progressed.Autumn goes to winter solstice, and then winter to spring. When the weather has warmed up enough that he no longer needs to wear a windbreaker, he suddenly realizes that Ning Siqin and him have only known each other for half a year, but they are already familiar with each other as much as he is for six months. Friends for seven years.

When this thought came to him, he was turning off the range hood in the kitchen and went to answer the door.Behind the door was Ning Siqin, who smiled slightly at him: "Is the pineapple I brought you delicious last time?"

"You can try it yourself." Chen Songmao let him in, "I made pineapple rice."

"Of course I kept the pineapple that my mother brought me." Ning Siqin raised his eyebrows and said, "As for inviting me to eat together?"

"If you are poisoned, I can at least hold you back?" Chen Songmao said.He knew that his ability to tell jokes has always been very cold, sometimes even embarrassing, but Ning Siqin would laugh every time: "Well, then I came here on purpose to live and die with you."

Chen Songmao was teased by him unexpectedly, the key is that he didn't know whether the other party was really teasing on purpose.Ning Siqin very acquaintedly went to the kitchen to set the table and chopsticks, and stole a small piece of pineapple from his share to eat. When Chen Songmao followed, he heard him sigh happily: "Thank you so much, your pineapple cured me."

"It's your pineapple." Chen Songmao said, Ning Siqin laughed. "Why, have you been busy recently?"

"Busy is not busy, but our rehearsal today is really terrible." Ning Siqin said, "The technical college of City A previously invited our group to their school celebration concert through a relationship, but their school student union turned out to be too unhappy. Reliable, the matter that was settled two months ago, until now, who will be in charge of contacting our group has not been decided! Changed to the square, have they read the name of our group, Galaxy Chamber Orchestra, indoor! The piano has to be moved from a nearby concert hall, two spare pianos, not pre-tuned at all, and one of the strings is full of rust , I can’t press several keys, and I can’t play them at all. Zheng Zijun has such a good temper, he almost lost his temper on the spot.”

"Looking at the series of things you said in one breath, it seems that you almost got angry on the spot." Chen Songmao frowned, "Has the matter of tuning the piano been settled? Is there anything I can do for you?"

"It wasn't my turn to get angry, and the leader scolded them like dogs on the spot." Ning Siqin said, thinking that the scolding by their leader really relieved his anger, and the expression on his face relaxed, "Send the piano that has a problem. It has been repaired, and there is another student union that promised to find someone to tune it within a week before the performance. In fact, when the repertoire was set, the head of the group discussed with them whether the specified repertoire needed a piano part. The other party said it was necessary, and now we have rehearsed it. , let’s do this again.”

"Thank you for your hard work." Chen Songmao said sympathetically, "You should have a final rehearsal before the show, right? When is it?"

"The performance will be today next week, and the rehearsal will be the day before." Ning Siqin said.Chen Songmao thought about his schedule, and shook his head: "No, I have an appointment to tune the piano that day. I wanted to say, if there is no work, I will follow the piano to see the condition of the piano."

"It's fine if you have a job. I think they are the student union of the school after all, so they shouldn't be so unreliable." Ning Siqin said, "The probability of two pianos having problems at the same time is a little low."

"Don't be crowed." Chen Songmao hurriedly stopped him, Ning Siqin looked at him unexpectedly: "I thought you didn't believe this."

"Believe it or not, as a piano tuner, it's better not to mention such things indiscriminately." Chen Songmao said, Ning Siqin shook his head amusedly, but did not bring up this topic again.Chen Songmao continued: "However, on the night of your performance, I remember going to Qinghu Road to tune the piano. It should not be far from City A Technical College? Maybe after tuning the piano, I can catch up with you to watch your performance."

"If you can get there, you can definitely see us. We are performing on the school playground." Ning Siqin said, "However, it's okay if you can't see it, the performance effect of that venue and that piano must be poor Far away, today they still recorded the sound of the rehearsal, I can't bear to listen to it."

"The objective conditions cannot be changed. In terms of technology alone, your group is already very good." Chen Songmao shook his head and said, "Okay, let's continue chatting with you, the meal will be cold."

He is a person who has always adhered to the principle of eating without talking, so Ning Siqin only chatted with him before meals, and stopped during meals.By the time the meal was over, the topic had been changed.

At this time, Chen Songmao did not expect that he would actually receive a call from Ning Siqin in the next few days.

The one he went to tune the piano that day was an ordinary family with a child learning the piano. The child was just learning it as a hobby, to cultivate their sentiments. The piano is also a very ordinary piano, but it has been used for a long time, and one key is not very flexible.Chen Songmao slightly repaired the structure that was a bit stuck inside, and when he was testing the sound, the phone buzzed and vibrated.

He glanced at it, it was Zheng Zijun's phone, and hung up casually, thinking that it would not be too late to call him back after tuning the sound - Ning Siqin had told him earlier that the Yinhe Chamber Orchestra's performance was relatively low , By the time he finishes tuning the piano, they probably haven't played yet.Unexpectedly, within a few seconds, the phone vibrated again, this time it was Ning Siqin, and Chen Songmao hung up again.Almost without stopping, Zheng Zijun's phone call came in again.Chen Songmao apologized to the hostess: "I'll answer the phone first."

He walked a few steps towards the corner of the room and connected the phone. He had just fed him for a while, and Zheng Zijun's anxious voice came through immediately: "Brother Chen, where are you now, can you come to City A Technical College right away? I beg you to come and save your life !"

"Don't worry, what's the matter?" Chen Songmao asked.

"We are waiting in the backstage right now, and the piano string that was just placed next to me broke by itself!" Zheng Zijun said, and Chen Songmao was also taken aback. They didn't expect such a thing to happen to them by chance, " Ning Siqin said that you are tuning the piano on Qinghu Road, can you come over right now and our group will play in an hour!"

"Are there any spare strings? Is the broken string long enough?" Chen Songmao asked immediately.

At this time, he was really afraid that Zheng Zijun didn't know anything about tuning the piano. Fortunately, he was not, but the result he got was equally bad: "No, it's broken in the middle, and I can't continue to use it."

"What are the strings?" Chen Songmao asked immediately.

"That's right, just the normal one." Zheng Zijun was obviously a little confused.

"No, I'm asking, bare or silk-wound?"

"Naked strings!"

At this time, Chen Songmao was extremely thankful that he had always prepared a spare piece of strings in his work bag. "Okay, I'll be there right away. You'd better come and pick someone up at the gate of the school. But let me tell you, the time is too tight. It will take me 10 minutes to get to the school. Even if I arrive, I can't promise to help you on time." Change the strings and adjust the sound. You'd better ask the host immediately if you can adjust the sequence of the program, or delay the previous program."

Zheng Zijun was very grateful on the other end of the phone.Chen Songmao hung up the phone, and the hostess was listening all the time, asking: "Why, our piano is not tuned properly, so you don't care?"

"I'm really sorry, my friend is in a hurry, I have to go there right away." Chen Songmao apologized again and again, "It's really my fault for this kind of problem at work. You can see if this is okay. Now the keys have been repaired, and the only thing left is a little Adjust the pitch. Let the children practice in the next few days, and I will make an appointment with you to continue to tune your piano, and you will be exempted from half the price."

Half of the price is in the early [-]s, the hostess hesitated and agreed.Chen Songmao wrote her a note as evidence, immediately put away his tools and ran downstairs, and drove to City A Technical College as fast as the road conditions allowed.He saw a familiar figure with long hair and sunglasses at the school gate from a long distance away. The car stopped for a while, and Ning Siqin immediately opened the door of the passenger seat and jumped into the car: "Hurry up, go straight ahead!"

"Don't be in a hurry, and don't be too angry." Chen Songmao glanced at his face, and comforted him.Ning Siqin was so angry that his face turned pale: "Can you not be angry? They stipulated that the music should have a piano, and they did this when things came to an end! It's not like you don't know the effect of a sudden lack of an instrument in a symphony performance, isn't it? Are you cheating on our regiment! Just now our regiment leader said that we will not cooperate with the school in the future!"

"It wouldn't be such a map shot." Chen Songmao patted him on the shoulder to comfort him, "Which way to go next?"

"Turn right. Go straight to the end."

The small playground at the school was already full of people, and cars were parked around it.Their car stopped slowly outside the playground, Ning Siqin pushed Chen Songmao: "You go first, I will find a place to park. There is a small gate on the side of the playground, and you can go around to the backstage by walking along the path on the left hand side. .”

Chen Songmao picked up the tool bag and hurried over.In fact, Ning Siqin didn't need to give such detailed instructions. There was also a choir member in a black suit waiting on the side of the playground, and asked, "Mr. Chen?" He went backstage.When they passed by, they heard thunderous applause on the playground, and the host had already stood on the stage.

The backstage is at one end of the square, next to the two small rooms next to the stage. Right now, it is full of performers who are about to take the stage. It is noisy and busy. The Galaxy Chamber Orchestra is crowded in a corner. Everyone has a sullen face. Chen Songmao has not yet approached. , I heard their group leader—it should be the group leader—talking with the students who arranged the program at the top of their voices.Zheng Zijun was so anxious that his face was sweating. When he saw him coming, he greeted him as if he had met a savior: "Thank you so much, Brother Chen!"

The members of the orchestra spontaneously moved out of the way, and the back cover of the piano had been lifted. Chen Songmao stepped on the stool, leaned in and took a closer look: "Ning Siqin said that they agreed to tune the piano, but this piano should not have been tuned, right?" ?”

"No." A member next to him answered angrily first.Chen Songmao nodded: If he was still in this state after being tuned recently, he really had the urge to strangle the tuner to death with the strings.While talking, he had already taken out the tool, quickly removed the original string, threw it aside, and wound a new string on it.This may be the most chaotic working environment he has ever experienced: the sound of the stereo on the stage in front is loud, and the voices of the actors in the backstage are also noisy. The head of Yinhe is scolding the third person who came to negotiate.Chen Songmao finally finished changing the strings and was already sweating.He straightened up and asked loudly, "Can two people push the piano? There is no way to test the sound here."

The author has something to say: If the piano lacks maintenance, the strings will break by themselves, although the probability is low...

There are two types of piano strings. Bare strings are used in the middle and high ranges, and silk-wound strings are bare strings wrapped with copper wires and used in the low range.