Chapter 35 second quarter

On the next Monday, Miho came to Kuribayashi's house to give lectures as promised.Kuribayashi greeted him with a smiling face like a good gentleman, but there was no sign of his wife. Before class started, Miho asked Kuribayashi a few questions in order to confirm his musical foundation, and the results were far beyond expectations—of course, unexpectedly bad.Kuribayashi knew nothing about music, knew nothing, not even what the notes represented.The only thing he could answer was: "Is that the treble clef? A mark like a snail. But I don't understand the meaning." "Have you ever taken music lessons?" Misui couldn't help asking, she wasn't being sarcastic, but genuinely found it incredible.

Li Lin stroked his thin-haired head, smiled wryly and said, "Of course I have learned it before, but I believe that this thing is completely irrelevant to me, so I have never attended a class seriously." He sighed and said with emotion : "If I had known this, I would definitely have studied it seriously." "I knew that?" Shiho asked curiously. "It's nothing, I mean I regret it." He quickly rounded up. After knowing Lilin's level, Miho took out the prepared teaching materials according to the plan.This textbook is called "Learn Piano with Me", which is written for children aged four to preschool.

"Maybe you think this textbook is too childish, but no matter what you do, it is important to lay a good foundation." Because this is a children's textbook, Miho was afraid of Kuribayashi's embarrassment, so he explained it first.But she was clearly overthinking.After hearing this, Li Lin not only nodded his head heavily, but also said: "You are right, and I think this is better." After speaking, he excitedly opened the textbook. On the first day, I only did the touch practice of the piano.The fingers and rhythm of touching the keys will change, but it is still very monotonous, but Kuribayashi did not show any dissatisfaction, and kept waving his ten fingers silently according to Miho's guidance.Judging by his appearance, it seems that he is very happy just touching the piano.

Looking at his side face, Misui thought to himself, I hope his enthusiasm can last forever. As the number of classes increased, Misui had to admit that her previous worries were purely superfluous.Kuribayashi's enthusiasm for learning the piano has not diminished at all. Judging from the speed of his progress, it is obvious that he usually practiced a lot.Kuribayashi has no special talent, he can even be said to be clumsy, and his memory is poor, but every time Miho comes to class, he finds that he has actually mastered the previous teaching content. One day, after Miho left Kuribayashi's house, she realized that she had forgotten something and turned back again.It was clear that the class had just ended, but the sound of the piano came from the second floor.She looked up, only to see the figure reflected in the curtains swaying intently.

Every Tuesday is the day Miho goes to introduce her to Kuribayashi's Hashimoto's class.Hashimoto's daughter is in sixth grade this year, and Miho has been teaching her since graduating from music university five years ago.The girl is very talented and progressing rapidly, and the Hashimotos owe it to Miho to teach her well. One night, Miho was about to say goodbye and go home when Hashimoto suddenly asked her, "How is Mr. Kuribayashi doing now? Are you still in class?" "Yes, of course." At this time, it had only been two months since he started teaching Kuribayashi. "I go twice a week."

"Twice? He'd really put his money down. How old is his daughter?" "Uh, that's not his daughter." "Not a daughter? But I heard that he has only one child..." "Yeah, so, actually..." Miho suddenly remembered that Kuribayashi had asked her to keep it a secret, "I teach the daughter of Mr. Kuribayashi's relative." "Ah, isn't Mr. Kuribayashi's daughter? It turns out that's the case, so it's understandable." Hashimoto had a sudden realization expression. "Understandable?" "Yes. At the beginning, when Mr. Kuribayashi asked me if there was a piano teacher to introduce him to him, I felt very strange. He really doesn't seem like a person who would let children learn piano."

"why?" "He belongs to the type who has no interest in music. He despises not only music, but all arts. He usually says that even if all those things disappear, the earth will continue to rotate. He also says that listening to music and watching paintings are not enough for food .” "I didn't expect that." Hashimoto's words surprised Miho.This was so far from the Kuribayashi she knew, it didn't sound like they were referring to the same person. "So Kuribayashi-san has no hobbies?" "Not only does he have no hobbies, he is also not interested in professional baseball and other sports, and he doesn't care about fashion trends. I'm just saying this here. When I'm alone with him, I always worry about what to talk about. As a result, Just talk about work."

"Then he loves his job?" "To put it bluntly, it's like this, but because you don't have any hobbies other than work, in the end, you suffer a lot at work. It's okay to be respected by your subordinates. The upper management also thinks this person is boring, which is terrible. Some people obviously have no ability to work. , just relying on being good at golf, he actually climbed to the high position of minister." "Oh." Miho remembered that Kuribayashi once said that he regretted not studying music seriously.Could it be that he also realized that having no hobbies is a major defect, so he suddenly thought of learning the piano?

If so, his words and deeds in the company should be completely different from before.Thinking of this, Miho tentatively asked: "How is Mr. Kuribayashi's situation recently? Are you still concentrating on work?" Hashimoto's answer was beyond her expectation. "Yeah, he's still the same. Oh no, it's even worse than before. He didn't rest during his lunch break today. I think he must have taken his work home to do it." Miho thought to himself, if he knew what Kuribayashi was busy at home, what kind of wonderful expression would he show.