bookcurios Chapter 1150 1 A Belly Full of Tricks
Chapter 1150 1 A Belly Full of Tricks
After Su Xing added the two aunties on WeChat, she was about to put her phone away when someone else held up a phone and shoved the WeChat QR code in front of her.
"Hey beautiful, let's add each other on WeChat."
Su Xing looked up and saw a man in his twenties or thirties.
He was smiling at her, waiting expectantly for her to scan the code.
Just as Su Xing was about to refuse, the aunt who said she could play the pipa reached out and shoved the man's phone aside.
"What are you doing?! Do you think just anyone can add a young girl on WeChat?!"
The man complained, "If you can all add it, why can't I?"
Aunt Hulusi then spoke up, "We are like-minded friends, young man, what are you thinking? Do you really think we can't see through you?"
The young man argued, "What could I possibly be thinking? Couldn't I also play a musical instrument and want to chat with this young lady?"
The woman playing the hulusi (a type of Chinese flute) sized up the young man with a suspicious look. "Oh? What instrument do you play?"
"Oh... I can play the guitar..." the young man said, sounding a little unsure of himself. But he quickly added, "The beautiful lady hasn't said she doesn't want to join. It's not appropriate for you ladies to make decisions for her like this, is it?"
Su Xing finally found a chance to speak, and she said, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to play the guitar, and I don't have any plans to learn it for the time being."
She had already put her phone in her pocket, making it clear that she didn't want to add any random people.
Aunt Pipa raised her chin and glared at the man with her nostrils flared. "Did you hear that? That young lady doesn't want to add you!"
The young man felt he was losing face, and said to Su Xing, "Beautiful lady, you're really being disrespectful."
The three older men also gathered around, glaring at the young man with hostile eyes.
The old man playing the suona swivel looked the other person up and down, "How much is your pride worth?!"
The old man playing the erhu sneered, "You little rascal, you're obviously full of tricks!"
The old man playing the flute said, "Young man, stop arguing. You're still too green."
Among the onlookers, some spoke up.
"You're just after the girl because she's pretty, aren't you?"
"If someone doesn't want to add you, continuing to pester them will just be harassment."
"I'm speechless... there are all sorts of people here!"
Even without losing its head, it kept a wary eye on the young man and barked a warning "Woof!" at him.
Su Xing grabbed Bu Diu's leash and said to Bu Diu, "Shh! Quiet!"
The young man took two steps back, his face flushed, and said, "Oh, it's just asking for WeChat, I haven't done anything wrong, have I? Fine, if you don't want to add me, you don't have to..."
He pushed through the crowd and fled in panic.
Among the onlookers, a few who had initially hoped to take advantage of the situation and add Su Xing on WeChat now quietly put their phones away.
Su Xing is the kind of person who is extremely beautiful and hard to find in real life. She is so stunning. What's more, this beauty is also talented and interesting. If given the chance to add her contact information, many people would want to try.
It wasn't just men; some girls were also taking out their phones just now.
The three elderly men also wanted to have a chance to continue their conversation with Su Xing, but because of the little incident just now, they were too embarrassed to ask to add each other on WeChat, fearing that they would be seen as having ulterior motives and being disrespectful to their elders.
The old man playing the flute thought for a moment and said to the auntie playing the hulusi, "Why don't you add this girl to our group? We can chat more when we have time."
The auntie playing the hulusi looked at Su Xing and said, "We have a group chat where we get together to play instruments and stuff when we're not doing anything. But we're all just amateurs. Would you like to join?"
Some people in the group have been playing folk music for years, while others only started learning after retirement. Their skill levels vary, and she was a little worried that Su Xing would look down on their group.
Su Xing smiled and said, "Sure, I've only been learning for a few months. Compared to the teachers, I'm still a complete amateur. I really hope to learn more from everyone."
Although she had joined such a group in Luoyang, she didn't mind having more of these groups. Even though these group members weren't professional folk music masters, there was still something she could learn from each of them.
Aunt Hulusi smiled, her eyes crinkling, "Okay, I'll add you in!"
The woman playing the pipa next to me said, "You're such a modest girl, and you know how to talk."
Aunt Hulusi added Su Xing to their group chat and said, "If you're not in a hurry to leave, how about we collaborate on a piece?"
The three old men also stared expectantly at Su Xing.
Su Xing smiled and agreed, "Sure, what piece shall we play?"
The crowd of onlookers, who were about to disperse, stopped when they heard this.
Su Xing and several elderly men and women discussed it for a while and decided that the piece they would play together was "Happy Sheep".
It's not the Happy Sheep from the Sheep Village on the Green Green Grassland, but the classic folk music piece "Happy Sheep" composed by Master Liu Mingyuan in 1958, which is often used as accompaniment music for festivals and celebrations.
Many people may not be familiar with the name of this piece, but as soon as the melody starts, more than 99% of people will realize that they have heard it before.
Su Xing and several newly acquainted folk music enthusiasts all picked up their instruments, got into position, and prepared to play together.
The core instruments of this folk music piece are the banhu and bamboo flute, with auxiliary string instruments such as the erhu and zhonghu, and plucked string accompaniment including the yangqin, pipa, guzheng, and zhongruan. Sometimes, the percussion instrument, the wooden fish, is also used as an embellishment.
Unfortunately, not all the musical instruments were available at the event.
Aunt Pipa was a little disappointed that she hadn't brought her pipa with her.
Su Xing chose the erhu this time and began to play along with everyone.
As soon as the music started, everyone around recognized it.
Some people started discussing it quietly.
"I thought it was the Big Bad Wolf trying to eat Pleasant Goat..."
"Hearing this music makes me feel like it's almost Chinese New Year..."
"So this song is called 'Joyful Sheep'."
The little girl on the bench next to them craned her neck to look at Su Xing, then at the musical instruments in the hands of the grandparents, her eyes full of curiosity and interest.
Suddenly, she didn't want to learn to dance anymore; she wanted to learn how to play with these toys that could be blown and pulled!
After Su Xing and several elderly men and women finished their duet, the people around them gave them a warm round of applause.
Grandpa Flute laughed and said, "Girl, you're really good. With you here, Old Cai has no chance to use his skills."
The erhu player scoffed at the flute player, "Tch! She should have played the flute just now, let's see if your flute playing could have drowned her out!"
The old man playing the suona (a traditional Chinese wind instrument) had a headache listening to this. "Enough already, don't let the young people laugh at you."
Just as Su Xing was about to say something, her phone rang.
She took out her phone and saw that it was a call from He Xu.
She answered the phone, "Hello? Are you done with your work?"
"Yeah, just finished." Hearing the noise on her end, He Xu asked, "Where are you?"
Su Xing said, "I'm sure I won't lose it in the park. I just met some teachers who play musical instruments, and they are all very nice people."
The old men over there had stopped arguing and were all listening intently to what Su Xing was saying.