Chapter 094

Zhen Zhen looked towards the violin, reached out her hand and carefully took the violin out of the case.

Taking it out was also careful, holding it in her hand and looking at it, she asked Squire Huai Ming, “Where did you get this?”

Shui Huaiming looked at her and said, “I asked someone to buy it.”

Zhen Zhen didn’t need to ask the exact price to know that this was definitely a luxury item.

Even bicycles and sewing machines were luxuries these days, not to mention things like this that could never be seen.

Suddenly she felt pain, and looked at Shui Huaiming and said, “I don’t know anything about this, it’s too much of a waste.”

Shi Huaiming said, “As long as you like it, it’s not a waste.”

Zhen Zhen couldn’t help but smile again under her eyes and at the corners of her mouth.

Well, I’ve already bought it, so I won’t say anything else.

This thing was a novelty for Jenny, and after accepting it, she picked up the bow and looked at it carefully.

After looking at it, without posing, she directly put the bow on the strings and carefully tried to pull it twice.

She thought she could hear the sound of a violin, but it didn’t come out the way it should have.

Zhen Zhen froze for a moment and turned her head to look at Servant Huai Ming in confusion.

He had never been in contact with these things, so of course he didn’t understand them either.

He took the bow from Zhen Zhen’s hand and also put it on the strings and pulled it twice, but there was also no sound.

So the husband and wife looked at each other, puzzled and puzzled.

After staring at each other for a while, Zhen Zhen laughed out, “Forget it, I don’t know anything about it.”

Serving Huai Ming looked toward the violin and tsked softly, “This foreign thing, there is really a bit of a doorway in it.”

Zhen Zhen: “If there is no way, then not everyone can do it?”

It was getting late, so Zhen Zhen and Shihua Ming naturally didn’t go on trying to figure out what it was all about.

The two of them put the strings and bow back into the qin box, covered the qin box, and put the qin box away.

They put the strings and bow back in the case, covered it up and put the case away. When they went to bed, Zhen Zhen was still enjoying herself and feeling fresh, even though she hadn’t even played it yet.

She said to Squire Huai Ming, “I’ll go to the library tomorrow and find some relevant books to come back and read.”

Saying that, she turned her head to look at Servant Huai Ming, “Will you even be able to read the books?”

Servant Huai Ming said, “Let’s take a look first, it’s just for fun anyway.”

Zhen Zhen spoke in a relaxed tone, “If you really can’t, find someone who can teach you.”

Squire Huai Ming: “Yes.”

The two of them talked about the violin and fell asleep.

When Zhen Zhen fell asleep, she played her violin in her dreams.

The sound of the violin was melodious in her dream, and when she woke up, the sound of the violin still lingered in her head.

After breakfast the family goes out together.

Dan Sui’s vacation time was over, and she carried her backpack to school with DouDou as before.

Dantong Xingyu and MiMiXiaoMai paired up, and the four of them headed to the preschool.

Zhen Zhen waited a little while for Wen, and then ran into Chen’s wife, who was pushing her cart out of the yard.

Smiling and greeting her, Mrs. Chen said, “I heard that Sui Sui went to the dance troupe yesterday to take the exam?”

Zhen Zhen smiled and replied, “Yes, after the exam, I’ll be able to get down to earth.”

Chen’s sister-in-law, “Spike’s little body will definitely pass the exam.”

After laughing about Dan Sui for a few moments, Zhen Zhen asked Chen’s sister-in-law, “Where’s your family’s Cheng Chen? Have the results of the conscription come out yet?”

Speaking of this, Chen’s sister-in-law’s face smiled even more, looking at Zhen Zhen and Ah Wen happily said, “The results ah have come out, my Cheng Chen was approved to enlist in the army, after the New Year to go.”

***

It’s not long before the New Year, and this batch of graduates who enlisted in the army or went to the countryside are all leaving after the New Year.

Everyone departed from the same starting point at about the same time, going in different directions in life.

The reddish sun slowly climbed higher along the treetops.

The sunlight spread out on the lake, and the surface of the lake shimmered.

Cheng Chen sat on the withered grass by the lake, tilting his head to look at He Ziran in front of him standing at attention, at ease, saluting, and marching.

He Ziran was wearing a brand new military uniform, and he looked extraordinarily energetic when he saluted.

After the performance, He Ziran looked at Cheng Chen and asked, “How was it?”

Cheng Chen tilted his head to look at him and directly gave him a thumbs up.

This uniform is Cheng Chen’s, he has not worn it himself, so he first gave He Ziran a fresh try.

He Ziran will be going to the countryside to join the army after the New Year, so he will only be fresh for a while, and will not be able to really wear this uniform.

He Ziran stretched out his hand to Cheng Chen, Cheng Chen grabbed his hand and got up from the ground.

The two did not go back to school, and played for a while at the lake, taking stones to throw to the lake to hit the water.

Throwing a stone to hit a string of water drift, Cheng Chen asked He Ziran: “Where do you sign up to insert?”

He Ziran said, “I just signed up for one, it’s the same wherever I go, anyway, it’s a poor countryside.”

Cheng Chen looks at him and says, “If you perform well in the countryside and get credit, you should be able to become a soldier.”

He Ziran laughed, “Forget it, from the day my father was imprisoned, this is how my life will be.”

Cheng Chen: “Don’t be so discouraged all the time.”

He Ziran: “I don’t call it discouragement, I call it optimism, and I’m open-minded.”

Said to the lake gently threw a small stone, “that do not see open, just like this stone, poof ……”

***

After lunch, Zhen Zhen and Squire Huaeming did not rest at home, but went to the city library.

Now that their children were older, they basically didn’t stick to them when they were fine, and they had more time to themselves.

The two of them went to the library to look for books related to music and violin.

Naturally, the books they looked for were all introductory books, but just casually flipping through them, they also felt as if they were heavenly books.

When she left the library with the books, Zhen Zhen said in a small voice, embarrassed: “I’m this old, I know nothing about music, and suddenly I’m studying the violin, if people knew, they would laugh their teeth off.”

Servant Huai Ming said, “What do you care what others say when you study something for fun.”

Zhen Zhen thought about it and thought that it was true, she was just looking for some fun in life, she was just happy.

She took the borrowed books home and put them away, and went to work with Wen without mentioning what she had done.

She didn’t tell Zhong Minfen or the kids about it either, but after washing up in her room at night, she secretly thought about it with Shui Huai Ming.

Last night, she was thinking blindly, but today she borrowed some books and came back, so she was reading and thinking at the same time.

After pondering for a while, Shui Huai Ming said to Zhen Zhen, “I know, you need to put rosin on the bow of the zither in order to pull out the sound.”

Zhen Zhen listened to him and looked into the zither case with him, and saw that there was a piece of rosin inside.

Now that they had figured out this little trick, Zhen Zhen and Servant Huai Ming naturally began to figure out how to put rosin on the zither bow.

It was the first time they touched the bow, so they were very careful with everything, and when they struck the rosin, they were very careful with their hands, rubbing a little bit of rosin into the bow hair.

Finally, the bow was finished, and Shui Huaiming breathed a soft sigh of relief.

He sent the finished bow to Zhen Zhen and told her, “Now try it again.”

“Good.” Zhen Zhen took the violin out of the case and took the bow out of Squire Huai Ming’s hand next.

Still a little nervous, she exhaled gently, carefully placed the bow on the strings, and tried to pull it back and forth twice.

This time the violin really made its own sound.

Zhen Zhen unconsciously widened her eyes slightly and looked up at Squire Huai Ming, her eyes full of joy.

Yes, for a complete noob like her, being able to play a sound was already a great joy.

With this novelty-filled joy in her heart, Zhen Zhen worked with Shui Huaiming to figure out how to play the violin again. It’s not important whether you can play a tune or not, but first you have to get the posture right.

I don’t know whether the posture is standard or not, but it is.

Zhen Zhen sat on the chair, holding the violin with her left hand and the bow with her right, placing the violin on her left side above her collarbone.

When she was done, she cleared her throat and said to Shi Huai Ming, “I’m coming.”

Squire Huai Ming sat across from her and said cooperatively, “Come on, I’m your most loyal audience now.”

Zhen Zhen pursed the smile at the corner of her mouth.

The laughter could not be suppressed, so she just slowly put the bow on the strings and pulled it back and forth two more times.

After pulling it she suppressed the urge to laugh out loud and looked at Squire Huai Ming again and asked, “How was it?”

Shi Huai Ming applauded her, “It’s simply heavenly music!”

Zhen Zhen couldn’t help but laugh, laughing so hard that her shoulders shook.

Then just as she was having fun, a knock suddenly sounded on the door of the room.

Zhen Zhen slowly stopped laughing and calmed herself down as she served Huai Ming to get up and go open the door.

After opening the door and seeing Dan Sui standing outside, Servant Huai Ming asked, “Why are you still up so late?”

Dan Sui tilted her head and looked at him, “I heard a bit of a strange sound that came from this room of yours.”

When she finished speaking she stuck her head directly into the room and saw Zhen Zhen holding a violin in her hand.

Her eyes widened slightly and her voice was filled with surprise, “Where did we get a violin in our house?”

Servant Huai Ming answered her, “I bought it for your mom to play.”

Buying such an expensive thing to play with?

Dan Sui looked at Shui Huai Ming again, “Dad, you’re so biased.”

Servant Huai Ming gently patted her on the head, “There’s nothing to worry about, hurry up and go to bed.”

Dan Sui didn’t want to go and asked Zhen Zhen, “Mom, do you know how to pull?”

Zhen Zhen smiled and said, “Your father says I pull heavenly music, do you think I can?”

“……” Dan Sui tilted her head again to look at Squire Huai Ming, “I didn’t realize that you were still so good at bragging dad ……”

Serving Huai Ming didn’t talk too much nonsense with her, and directly gripped her shoulders to make her turn around, “What does a child know, go back to bed.”

Dan Sui: “……”

She understands a lot, okay?

***

Watching Dan Sui go back to her room, Servant Huai Ming closed the door.

For the time being, he didn’t feel sleepy, so naturally, he came back and continued to ponder the violin with Zhen Zhen.

When he got sleepy, he put the violin away and went to bed to lie down to sleep.

The lights went out and the room was plunged into darkness.

Zhen Zhen yawned and said, “Music is really a magical thing, I don’t know who invented it.”

Squire Huai Ming said, “Probably when there were people.”

Being sleepy, the two fell asleep without saying a few words.

The next day they got up in the morning light and repeated a day similar to yesterday.

Because there was an extra violin in the house, which amounted to a novelty toy, there was a little more fresh and interesting content in the day. Zhen Zhen and Squire Huai Ming began to work together every day to figure out the pentatonic score and learn simple music theory.

And every evening, the sound of a violin would come out of their room from time to time.

Uh, yeah, just, the sound of violins.

***

Danhoe hadn’t been around since, except for the first night when she’d come to join in the fun for a while.

She didn’t know anything about the violin either, and she still preferred dancing to violin.

She had also been thinking about the acceptance status of the Song and Dance Troupe ever since she had taken the Song and Dance Troupe’s admission test.

The day that the troupe released the admissions information was the day after the school’s winter vacation.

Without waiting for Zhen Zhen and Shi Huai Ming to bring, Dan Sui directly pulled on Doudou and ran to the troupe to see the admission situation.

It took some time for the acceptance notices to reach everyone, but the results had already been announced.

Dan Sui and DouDou stood in front of the bulletin board to look carefully, Dan Sui heart nervous, subconsciously squeeze DouDou’s hand.

Doudou’s eyes were still sharp.

Dango hadn’t finished reading it yet, when she suddenly said, “I got in!”

“!” Dan Sui’s heart jumped at her words, and she hurriedly asked, “Where where where?”

Doudou pulled her hand out of Dan Sui’s and lifted her finger to show her.

Dan Sui’s eyes fell on Doudou’s fingertips, and sure enough she saw her name.

It was still a bit of a surprise to be honest, so she froze for a while looking at her name.

Doudou shook her twice more, “See? You don’t recognize your own name?”

Dan Sui slowly turned her head to look at Doudou, she looked at Doudou and blinked for a moment, then suddenly hugged Doudou, excitedly jumping and screaming, “I got in! I actually got in!”

Doudou jumped after her, “Spike, you’re great!”