Princess of Nongmen

Chapter 784 Can rely on craftsmanship to make a living, but rely on art to make a living
Cang Qianche is a smart person, the more he is like this, the less he will be serious with Liu Ya.If she really wanted to promise something, Liu Ya would probably be pissed immediately.What's more, if you can't make a promise, it's better not to say it, and everything should wait until he can come back.

Liu Ya is usually not a talkative person, but today it is rare to want to speak out her thoughts.And she didn't mean to shy away from Cang Qianche, at least she thought that Cang Qianche would not compete with her for land or job.

Talking about his plan all the way, he walked towards the city.By the way, I asked someone how to get to the piano store in this city.Qin is an elegant thing, but a piano store may not be an elegant place.Moreover, people who can make pianos are also called craftsmen, and it is not necessarily possible for such a craftsman to play a piece of music.This is the so-called "people who make brushes may not know how to write, and people who make pianos don't know rhythm."

I found a piano store, which was a workshop not far from Ximen.There are still a lot of wood piled up at the door, but they are all hardwood materials with beautiful patterns.Some wood looks like it has been around for many years, and the oiliness of the wood itself has come out, and it looks rustic and oily.

Cang Qianche did not go in to look at the qin immediately, but looked at the wood at the door first, then nodded to Liu Ya and said: "If the qin of this family is made of such materials, we can find a reliable one. Good violin to start with."

Liu Ya was listening while tying the horse, and then asked: "Is this the Tongmu you mentioned?"

"Some are old ebony." Cang Qianche pointed at a piece of dark wood and said, "It's hard, like gold and stone. This is a good material."

Just as he was talking, a middle-aged man came out of the workshop, with a thin figure and sunken eye sockets, he looked as if he had been hungry for a long time; and his face was as pale as paper, and the corners of his mouth and the center of his eyebrows were somewhat sallow. With a trace of sickness.

Liu Ya is considered a good doctor, so when she saw this man's face, she knew that he should be caused by long-term lack of sleep and improper diet.And maybe he doesn't like to be active, so he has such an ugly look because he is bored in the house all day.

Cang Qianche was also taken aback, but he didn't know whether it was the owner of the workshop or a customer who came to buy the piano, so he backed off a step and opened the door.

The man looked at Cang Qianche and asked, "Master, do you want to buy a piano?"

Having said that, Liu Ya and Cang Qianche knew that he should be the boss.

Cang Qianche nodded and said: "I want to buy a Yaoqin, the tone is better. I am not so picky about the texture."

The man smiled slightly and said: "If you don't pick the texture, how can there be a good qin? The young master just said so well, why are you showing cowardice now? This ebony is used as a qin, and the sound quality of the paulownia is the same? If it is the best Guqin, if you don’t meet a bosom friend, you won’t be able to play its tone.”

After hearing this, Cang Qianche smiled slightly and said, "I don't dare to tell my bosom friend. I haven't played the piano for a long time. Now I just want to find a suitable piano and play a song for the girl next to me."

"If you don't meet your bosom friend, the qin is like a bright pearl thrown in the dark; a good qin is also ruined. If you choose the qin, please come in and have a look. I have a qin here. I don't know if it suits your wishes." After the man finished speaking, he stepped aside. He got up and asked Cang Qianche to go in.

Cang Qianche stretched out his hand to hold Liu Ya's hand, and entered the room hand in hand with her.The room is not big, but it is surprisingly clean, and the layout is extremely simple.A ground table, four futons; a set of plain pottery water utensils on the table.

Against the wall stood a wooden shelf with several wooden samples on it.Just by looking at those samples, one can tell that this piano shop should have been around for quite some time.There are also a few thin booklets and a few sheepskin scrolls randomly placed on the shelves.

Cang Qianche glanced at it, his eyes lit up slightly, pointed to a parchment scroll and said, "Is that the Guqin score?"

"Exactly." The man nodded and said, "However, after many years, it has become somewhat incomplete. It is not for sale. If you are interested, you can take a look."

Cang Qianche said: "Let's look at the qin first." Then he looked around the room and asked, "Where is the qin that the master mentioned?"

Liu Ya also discovered that this room is only furnished with these two pieces of furniture, there is really no place for a piano.Isn't this a piano shop?
The man said: "Wait a minute, it's right in front of you, I'll get it now."

After finishing speaking, the man went to the wooden shelf and moved it aside.Take out a piano case from behind.Put it on the floor table, knelt down on the futon, then opened the piano case, and took out a guqin inside.

Both Liu Ya and Cang Qianche were startled, this is a piano shop, but there is only one piano?

The man seemed to see Cang Qianche and Liu Ya's doubts, so he smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, the reputation of my piano shop has been passed down for several generations. My ancestors can produce a few good pianos from generation to generation, and it is really beautiful. But From my generation, since I took over the piano shop, there has been a rule that only sell to those who are destined to sell the piano, and only after finding the sound for the piano can you sell it. Therefore, each time I only make one piano, I have to find a bosom friend for this piano. , will make the second one. It’s just that there are too few people who really understand the piano, and there are fewer bosom friends; and even fewer pianos are sold.”

Now Liu Ya roughly understands why this man looks sallow and emaciated.Dare to say that this is a "Qin fanatic", who has a good handicraft passed down in his family but does not rely on his ability to make a living, but relies on art to make a living. It is probably because the business is not good, and he is about to starve to death.

But art is really priceless, you can say it’s worthless, but if you really meet a soulmate, it’s hard to find, and you can’t say that he did something wrong.

Anyway, Liu Ya didn't know how to play the piano, so she just stood aside, silently watching this man pretending to be aggressive.

Cang Qianche probably also felt that this matter was quite strange, so his interest did not diminish. He walked over and sat on the futon, carefully looking at the guqin in the piano case.After a glance, his expression was obviously startled, then he looked up at Liu Ya, then at the artist man, and said, "This piano...I want it."

"My lord, I haven't tried the piano yet, so I can't sell it." Fan Er, an artistic man, was quite tall, shaking his head, like an old monk in meditation, his eyelids drooping.

Liu Ya walked over, sat on another futon, and looked at the guqin that made Cang Qianche fall in love at first sight.

From the appearance, Liu Ya really didn't see anything special.I can only feel that the piano board of this piano should be made of the kind of ebony outside.The color is black but not dark, with a deep rhyme after years of experience.But how about the sound quality, Cang Qianche has never played it, so why is he so determined to buy this piano?

(End of this chapter)