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Chapter 189 So, the Shamisen Contest

Because of Ms. Yoshida Haruko's request at the moment, and Hoshimi Yuki also agreed, Takizawa Yuya naturally agreed as he didn't want to spoil the fun.

However, there was only one shamisen in the tea room, which was not enough for two people to play together. At this moment, Ms. Yoshida Haruko asked someone to get it.

Takizawa Yuya stepped forward first, came to the upper part, and knelt beside Hoshi Jianxue.

"Bring the shamisen and other things." said Yoshida Haruko.

"Yes." Takizawa Yuya and Hoshimi Yuki responded together.

Then, in the boredom before the arrival of the shamisen, the guests at the tea party began to chat in low voices one after another. Takizawa Yuya looked at Hoshimi Yuki beside him and started a conversation with the girl.

"Miss Hoshimi."

"What?" Xing Jianxue sat very attentively, not even looking at him.

"Do you remember how to play it?"

"Are you doubting me?"

"You've only studied it for a few minutes, right? I'm worried you've forgotten it."

Xing Jianxue didn't say anything, but finally looked at him and glanced at him, and her eyes had already answered.

"Okay." Takizawa Yuya asked again, "What are you going to play later?"

This question stumped Xing Jianxue, and the girl was stuck.

"Sure enough." Seeing Xing Jianxue's look, Takizawa Yuya sighed helplessly as he had foreseen it.

One fact: he learned to play the shamisen systematically, at an elite level, with skilled fingering techniques, but he didn't know much about musical notation.

As for Hoshimi Yuki, with her extraordinary talent, she learned how to play the shamisen in a few minutes, but she only knew one song, "Gion Minor Melody," because it was on the teaching video. As for the others? She didn't learn them either.

Xing Jianxue also realized the problem now.

She looked at Takizawa Yuya and asked, "You don't know how to do it either?"

"Obviously." Takizawa Yuya replied.

"." Both of them were silent.

Perhaps this is the drawback of rapid learning, otherwise anyone who studies normally would be able to come up with a few songs.

Hoshimi Yuki's only song, "Gion Minor", had been played last time, and there was nothing new to play it again this time, not to mention that Takizawa Yuya beside her might not be able to play it either.

So, just after thinking about it, Xing Jianxue took out her cell phone.

“Let’s learn it on the spot,” she suggested, and began searching for shamisen sheet music.

Soon, Xing Jianxue stopped, turned slightly towards the phone screen, and asked Takizawa Yuya beside her for advice.

"This one?"

Takizawa Yuya looked over.

The first thing I saw was Xing Jianxue's hand.

The white wrist stretched out from the sleeve of the kimono, as white as white porcelain, and clean with an almost transparent texture. A few traces of blue blood vessels could be seen on it, making it look very delicate, making people want to hold it and take care of it.

".Where are you looking?" Xing Jianxue frowned with a headache.

".Oh." Takizawa Yuya came back to his senses and looked at the larger phone held in the slender hands - by the way, the phone case was white, and there was a cartoon penguin pattern printed on the back - the same as Hoshimi Yuki's Line avatar, which he saw when he took out the phone just now.

On the phone's screen, the shamisen score of a piece of music called "Sakura Sakura" was displayed.

Takizawa Yuya took a quick look and said, "That's fine."

"Then this one." Xing Jianxue quickly decided.

After all, there is not much time to prepare, so there is no need to waste too much time on selecting songs.

Once the selection is made, it is natural to start looking at the music score.

"Come closer." Xing Jianxue said suddenly.

"Huh?" Takizawa Yuya was puzzled.

"How are you going to see if you don't sit over here? Hurry up." Xing Jianxue urged.

".Oh." Looking at the position next to Hoshi Jianxue, Takizawa Yuya thought about it, followed his body's instinct, agreed sincerely, and decided to put the matter of "taking out his own mobile phone to look at it" aside.

Although it would be more convenient for each of us to watch it on our own mobile phones, since the beautiful girl invited us, we would obviously choose to watch it together.

Also, it turns out that Xing Jianxue can be stupid sometimes.

Thinking of this, Takizawa Yuya sat closer to Hoshimi Yuki until his shoulder could lightly touch the girl's shoulder. The two of them calmed down and stared intently at the music score on the screen.

However, after just watching for a while, Takizawa Yu couldn't help but get distracted.

It seemed like this was the first time he was so close to Xing Jianxue.

The vague touch of the shoulder, the light, clean fragrance at the tip of the nose, and the peripheral vision of the eyes
Takizawa Yu couldn't help but look at Xing Jianxue's neck.

The white and slender neck sticking out from the kimono attracted my attention. I sniffed it gently and felt as if I could smell the scent of Xing Jianxue's body, which seemed very tempting.

As Takizawa Yuya was watching, he suddenly heard Hoshi Jianxue, who was staring at her phone, sigh helplessly:

"Mr. Takizawa, at this time, are you still going to do this?"

".Sorry." Takizawa Yuya sat down and looked at the screen again, then explained, "You smell too good, it's easy to distract people."

"." Xing Jianxue glanced at Takizawa Yuya with disdain, thinking he was a bit perverted.

But there was nothing he could do, so he finally said, "Don't forget the music while you're playing later."

"That's not the case."

Takizawa Yu is an elite shamisen player after all, and his memory is not bad either. He can play a simple piece of music with ease.

There is even less need to worry about Hoshimi Yuki. Perhaps in terms of pure skills, she is not as good as Takizawa Yuya, but in terms of learning ability, she is actually far better than him.

Anyway, learning a piece of music temporarily is not a difficult task for either of them.

Seeing Takizawa Yuya answer like this, Hoshimi Yuki stopped paying attention to him. She was also aware of his abilities.

After this little episode, the two of them calmed down again and looked at the music score quietly. Occasionally, they would gesture in the air with their hands together, looking very unified.

Since I don't have a shamisen, I can only simulate it this way.

After a while, Xing Jianxue stopped first. She looked to the side and saw Takizawa Yuya still staring at the phone in her hand.

Seeing this, Xing Jianxue's mouth corners curled up slightly.

She won.

I wanted to say something out loud, but after thinking it over, I decided not to disturb Takizawa Yuya. Instead, I tilted the phone a little closer to Takizawa Yuya so that he could see it more clearly.

After another while, Takizawa Yuya also raised his eyes.

At this moment, he saw the girl staring at him with a slightly annoying yet cute smile on her face.

It's annoying because that smile clearly suggests he's lost, and it's cute because this guy is really cute.

"It seems like you lost." Xing Jianxue said with a slightly smug look on her face.

He really has a strong desire to win, and he has to decide who wins or who loses.

"Childish." Takizawa Yuya commented, "Ms. Hoshimi, we are now in a cooperative relationship."

"No matter what, the fact is that you lost." Hoshimi Yuki did not accept Takizawa Yuya's excuse.

"Okay." Takizawa Yuya said, "If that's the case, if you must compete, then I don't think you win."

"What is the problem?"

"In fact, just learning quickly doesn't prove anything, right? In the final analysis, how well you master it and how well you play it in the end, shouldn't that be the most important thing?"

Xing Jianxue blinked, lowered her head to think, and nodded: "That's right."

"So, it depends on how well you play. I don't think I will lose." Takizawa Yuya was also aroused by the girl's desire to win.

Anyway, he is an elite shamisen player, and if Xing Jianxue remembers correctly, he is also at a professional level.

Even if we only talk about this piece of music, Xing Jianxue may have mastered it faster and perhaps more deeply, but there is still a gap between them.

"Really?" Xing Jianxue was even more motivated by Takizawa Yuya's words. The girl put down her phone and flicked her long hair. "In that case, how about a competition?"

"Let's compete. Then, how should the loser be punished?" Takizawa Yuya followed confidently and proposed reward and punishment measures as usual.

"Hmm." Xing Jianxue thought about it, but before she could come up with anything, Takizawa Yuya thought of it first.

He looked at Xing Jianxue's beautiful figure in her kimono.

Hoshimi Yuki in kimono has a different kind of charm than Hoshimi Yuki in Kamishiro uniform.

"How about this, if I win, you will wear a kimono and give it to me, give it to me. Hmm."

Yuya Takizawa looked down at the girl's kneeling, flat legs.

"Give me a lap pillow," he suggested.

The moment he proposed this, Xing Jianxue looked at him with disgust.

"Mr. Takizawa, as expected, your head can only hold these things."

Takizawa Yuya followed her and provoked her: "Why? Do you think you will lose?"

"That's a poor way of provoking me." Xing Jianxue snorted coldly, "But you're right, I really don't think I will lose."

"Come on, then. What are your conditions?"

Xing Jianxue hesitated for a moment, then said: "If I win, you will admit in front of all the guests at the tea party that you are a pervert."

Takizawa Yuya was stunned and glanced at the people at the tea party.

A dozen ladies from various famous families admitted that they were perverts among such a group of people. In a day, this news would become the gossip among these ladies, and then Takizawa Yuya's reputation would be ruined.

".How vicious." Takizawa Yuya sighed, "But - I agreed. I don't think I will lose."

"Okay then." Xing Jianxue nodded, "Then how about leaving the criteria for judging the winner to the guests present?"

Takizawa Yuya thought about it.

If the guests present were asked to vote, needless to say, Xing Jianxue, as the eldest daughter of the Xing Jian family, this identity cannot be ignored and will definitely make people favor her.

However, since most of the guests present were female, Takizawa Yuya felt that based on his looks, who knows how many ladies would prefer him.

Moreover, even if we ignore these off-field factors and only consider the level of shamisen, Takizawa Yuya feels that he will not lose.

"Okay." He replied.

"it is good."

Then, the two of them began to explain what had happened to Ms. Yoshida Osamu beside them. After listening, Yoshida Osamu immediately laughed.

"If Xiaoxue and Master Takizawa are interested in this, then of course that's good."

As soon as she spoke, a guest responded immediately and asked, "Ms. Yoshida, what's wrong?"

Yoshida Haruko told the story of the competition between Takizawa Yuya and Hoshimi Yuki, and after she finished, the people at the table responded in large numbers.

"Let us vote? That's interesting, of course!"

"Okay, let's see who is more powerful, Miss Hoshimi or Mr. Takizawa."

"Oh, well, we'll definitely vote fairly."

Naturally, everyone would agree to something that could add fun to the tea party.

Soon, people below started placing bets in advance.

"It should be Miss Xingjian. After all, I have always heard that Miss Xingjian is very talented and beautiful, especially in the field of music, and has a very high level of attainment."

"Master Takizawa, right? Master Takizawa's father is also a great shamisen player. And when he played last time, Master Takizawa proved that he is just as good as his father."

"."

There was a lot of discussion below, and soon, someone brought two shamisen.

Then the place fell silent. Everyone looked at Takizawa Yuya and Hoshimi Yuki with great interest, looking forward to their performance.

Only Ishikawa Yuko and Kobayashi Keiko always had an inexplicable meaning in their eyes when they looked up at the two people above.

This made Takizawa Yuya's expression slightly stiff as he was about to start the competition.

(End of this chapter)