Chapter 4 fourth quarter

Some people with intellectual disabilities can sometimes display unbelievable special talents in specific fields.For example, after only watching the scenery for five minutes, the number of windows in the building, the number of wires, and even the number of sewer access covers on the road can be completely presented on the drawing paper; The calendar of the year, when asked which day is what day of the week, can answer correctly; or read a certain article in a book once, and can answer which page that article is on in an instant. This phenomenon is known as savant syndrome.I don't know how many cases there are in China, but this is not a very small number in European and American countries.

Chiori can be said to be one of the people with this special talent.As long as she listens to it once, she can remember the whole piece of music, but she doesn't just read the score at all.I guess, she should have no idea about the music symbols on the music score, but I can't confirm whether this is really the case, and, at the beginning, she didn't even touch the piano. If I hadn't noticed at the time, maybe Chiori's talent would have been buried forever.I can be sure that Qianzhi's parents are people who have nothing to do with music. If that incident hadn't happened, Qianzhi and I should be two people who have nothing to do with each other!

This was already seven years ago. Due to the complicated involvement of many events, Chiori, who was neither relative nor relative, became my family. At that time, no one thought that the matter would develop to this point.Moreover, at that time, my mind was full of my own affairs, and it is no exaggeration to say that I was desperate for life. When I heard Chiori correctly humming the piece I played casually in frustration, I didn't take it seriously at first and just asked her if it was her favorite piece, but the eight-year-old Chiori shook her head and said She heard it for the first time.At first I just thought it was incredible, but when I thought that Chiori couldn't even speak well, I was very surprised.At that time, I thought that Qianzhi might be lying, but I didn't think she would deliberately fabricate such a thing. I thought that it was the first time Qianzhi had heard it, but I couldn't help being half-believing.

I asked Chiori to hum it again, and there really wasn’t a single mistake, not only the highest note was hummed unambiguously, but also the length of the beat was correct, exactly the same as every note I played just now .Let me ask Chiori again, is this really the first time you hear this piece?She nodded timidly.I asked again, when did I remember?Now?But I only played it once! "But, it's now—" after Qianzhi finished speaking, she immediately knelt down and cried loudly. Perhaps it was because my expression was too scary and my attitude was too tough, Chiori thought she had done something she shouldn't have done, stared down at the ground, and kept saying sorry and sorry repeatedly.I calmed down the turbulent thoughts in my heart, stroked her head comfortingly, and helped her up.

"I'm sorry to scare you. But can you hum it to me again?" After I bent down and said this, Chiori raised her cautious and terrified little face.After a while, her eyes were red, swollen and bloodshot from crying. "—So you don't hate me?" "Well, I promise." Then, Chiori nodded vigorously and hummed the same piece of music to me again.Although the occasional sobs make the rhythm a bit out of tune, the other parts are still correct.I asked again, do you remember the other sounds?She nodded immediately.This time I sang the lowest note, which was still correct, and even the part that was a little out of tune because I couldn't play the ring finger was reproduced very accurately.

"It's amazing!" I'm not sure if I'm smiling at Chiori, but I'm sure that what Chiori possesses cannot be explained by common sense.I sat on the sofa, and asked Chiori to sit on the sofa opposite me. "Do you remember all the sounds?" Qian Zhi didn't make a sound, but just nodded. "In the place with the most tones, how many tones overlap?" Qianzhi tilted her head: "One time, most times, have, how many, sounds?" I repeated it slowly, and then again, Chiori finally nodded vigorously, counted with her right hand very seriously, and continued to count with her left hand when it was not enough, and finally stretched out two palms to me, indicating that there are nine notes in total.

When Chikori was counting, I also played it again in my mind to confirm.There are four on the left and four on the right. The correct answer should be eight tones.Just when I was thinking unhappily that Yu Zhi had counted wrong, I suddenly realized that there were two short trills in the syllable of the right hand. The beat in the air, then, the correct answer is indeed nine tones. Stunned, I stared straight at Chiori's face.Could it be that her head really remembered all the tunes she played just now?Looking back at Chiori, she stretched out her hands towards me, only the little finger of her left hand was raised high, and her face was full of confidence.I couldn't help smiling wryly, although I really wanted to ask her to hum it all out to confirm, but unfortunately, the human throat can't express the chords of music.

"Chiori, have you ever played the piano?" Chiori's head shook wildly from side to side, maybe she thought it was a bad thing that she hadn't played, so she immediately showed a sorry expression.I told her don't worry, I'm just asking.But Qianzhi still had a frightened expression on her face, and her whole body shrank even smaller.I sighed, and tried to repeat it in a gentle tone, Chiori finally showed a face of relief.Only then did I realize that what Chiori was listening to was not words, but voices. "May I teach you how to play the piano?" Qianzhi tilted her head again, showing a puzzled look, and a smiley expression appeared on her face, it seemed that she was not frightened.

"Do you want to learn to play the piano?" This time I pointed to the practice upright piano, tapped on the keyboard, and tried to ask her with body language.Qianzhi opened her eyes wide, her little head kept nodding up and down, and there was a happy expression on her face that I had never seen before, which was another expression of her emotion besides timidity.