Chapter 20 Section five

After returning to the room, Mariko and Chiori still haven't come back. I opened the screen of the window to let the wind into the room.Sitting on the floor and lighting a cigarette, I feel my throat is very thirsty, and I really want to drink beer.But I just met Ogiwara at the bathhouse, so the kitchen should have been closed long ago!The other staff members may still be there, but I strongly feel that the trip will be in vain, so I finally decided not to go. When I was about to drink tea to quench my thirst in desperation, there was a knock on the door. "I am back." At the same time as the door opened, Chiori's voice came into her ears. Behind her was Mariko who had changed into casual clothes, her half-wet and half-dry hair was still steaming.

"Qianzhi is very good, she is not troublesome at all - Kisaragi, may I bother you?" Qianzhi had already answered for me first, "Yes, good!" "Can you?" Mariko asked again as if to confirm. "Of course, please come in." I replied. Mariko was holding the washbasin in her hand, and it was covered with a towel, "Anyway, the matter has been exposed, if you want, can you treat the school affairs as a side dish and have a drink with me?" After finishing speaking, she lifted the towel, There were actually two cans of beer underneath.I couldn't help but smile on my cheek.

"You look happy, Kisaragi-san." "Ha——because I just met Ogiwara in the bathhouse, I thought the kitchen had already been closed, and I was about to give up." "Then my sixth sense is really good! In fact, I also have the key to the kitchen. I asked Chiori: 'Does Daddy drink beer?' She replied: 'Yes!' So on the way back, I went around and got two cans ,that is really good." I said to her standing at the door, "Come in!" Mariko tilted her head, deliberately raised her voice and said, "With Chiori here, you shouldn't have any bad intentions for me!"

"Don't worry, I will be a gentleman." "Yes! That's a pity." This person is really going his own way. Although I thought so, I didn't know how to respond, so I could only smile wryly.There was beer on the coffee table, and Chiori yelled, "What about me? What about me?" She kept asking where her drink was. "Yes, Chiori's is this." Mariko took out a can of orange juice from under the beer. She is such a considerate person, I couldn't help but admire her. Chiori, who watched us toast with beer cans, also happily clinked her canned juice with us. When she was about to drink, she bumped over with a "click". The afternoon nap helped, and Chiori's spirit was unbelievably good now.

After taking a sip of beer, I finally felt a chill in my throat.I can probably assert that there is probably nothing in the world that tastes better than a beer after taking a bath, or a cigarette after eating fried food.Regarding beer, Mariko seemed to feel the same way. She narrowed her eyes slightly, frowned comfortably, and hiccupped happily. The expression on her face was as convincing as her tongue.Only Chiori drank the juice quietly and leisurely. For a short time afterwards, we happily chatted about our school days.Starting from rumors of haunted music classrooms, imitating the appearance of the dean of students, eight students who were caught drinking in the news club were all expelled from school, and the principal's same speech in the school magazine for two consecutive years. Tucao and other things.Different school years but the same school, there are so many common topics, I thought to myself while talking and laughing with her.

Chiori didn't stay by my side, but lay on Mariko's lap, nodded and listened carefully.Indeed, almost all the topics were spoken by Mariko, no wonder Chiori chose her. "Speaking of the school celebration, the last year's school celebration is when Mr. Kisaragi played the rondo of "Walstein" at the opening ceremony." When she said this, I remembered that my tutor had asked me, "After all, you have studied here for three years, just once. I hope you can play the piano in front of your classmates." It turned out that that time was the school celebration.

Incidentally, "Walstein" is as much a Beethoven piano sonata as "Moonlight".And the rondo happens to be the third movement, but for some reason, there isn't any theme title that just says rondo. "Well, I have the impression that it seems to have played on stage." In fact, I have played "Walstein" countless times. It's not that I forgot that performance, but I don't remember where I played it. "I have always only listened to Beethoven's symphonies. His symphonies are really impactful, but he wrote far more piano pieces than symphonies."

"That's right! He is also a pianist himself, but if we infer from the records, I heard that his disciple Chen Nier is more advanced in playing skills. But Chen Nier will definitely not be able to write music that surpasses the master. Now he can Only a few piano textbooks appear in his name. The conclusion is that God will not give a person two things at once." "Beethoven is indeed a master of music. He is not like a musician, and he is completely different from the previous musicians. Of course, I am not denying the musicians before the classical school. I also like Handel or Bach very much, but Beethoven, how? That being said, it's very different."

"Bei, bei?" Qianzhi interjected. "We're talking about Beethoven, the one whose music you don't listen to." After I said that, Chiori still tilted her head in a puzzled look.In desperation, I had to hum a short section of the first movement of "Pathetique". "Oh, oh." Qianzhi made a sound with a knowing expression. "Difficult." She nodded and said, even politely adding a sound like a sigh. "Yeah, it's difficult just to listen to it, and it should be even more difficult to play." But Chiori yelled dissatisfied, "No—yes. Difficult, fingers, different. I said, difficult."

I thought to myself, what the fuck are you talking about? But Mariko stared at Chiori and murmured, "Is that so? Maybe it's true!" "Indeed, for example, in the eyes of the world, Beethoven is sometimes like a philosopher. Don't you feel that way? Or don't you think so?" "Well, and he seems to be a difficult person to deal with. It is said that every housekeeper has been working for a short time. This is a famous anecdote." "So, something like this, I think it should be reflected in my own music!" Indeed, this is also a fact. The later, Beethoven's score will make people feel why there are such notes here.But surprisingly, these notes can blend smoothly with the melody.Compared with Mozart's works, which are faithful to the basic chords, the two are quite different.During the twenty-one years of Mozart's life, when he died young at the age of thirty-five, the two breathed the air of the same era, but even so, their works have no similarities at all.Moreover, Mozart, who seems to have no idea what sorrow is, is also rumored to be a cheerful person who laughs every day.

On the other hand, the hearing-impaired musicians also left many scores that can only be said to be full of errors. Among the works currently in circulation, there are also scores revised by his disciples and later musicians. So, can even those hopelessly incongruous sounds be said to be deliberately wrong?But after all, mortals like us really can't hear the chords that echo in the mind of this genius who was far away in a foreign country two hundred years ago and has now returned to the dust. I shook my head and blurted out, "I don't understand." Then I remembered that Chiori couldn't remember the composer's name, but she always made a distinction between the composers. I couldn't see how she connected Mozart with Mozart's music. Clue.While she was listening, she kept stealing back from me, while Chiori, who was beside her, was very bored, and began to yawn as she lay on her lap. "It's really incredible! But people who subconsciously think that as long as they want to understand, they can understand whatever they want, maybe they are wrong. Si, I seem to feel that I am looking forward to tomorrow's concert even more." Suddenly Mariko exclaimed.She looked out of the window through me. "What's wrong?" Chiori just happened to raise her head at the same time I asked the question. "It's nothing. I didn't notice it because I closed the screens before. The one just now was probably a shooting star! By the way, have you seen the night sky? The starry sky here is beautiful. Hey! Why did I forget to recommend something important again! " Thinking of what Ogiwara said in the big public bath, I can only smile wryly. "Turn off the lights and no bugs will fly in. Would you like to admire the starry sky?" Mariko asked.Qianzhi immediately nodded in agreement, "Stars." Perhaps because there was still moonlight, even though the lights were turned off, the room was not as dark as imagined.It's just that the world turned pale, and after the eyes adapted to the darkness, even Mariko's expression and Chiori's yawning expression could be seen very clearly.Chiori stood beside her in front of the window, and I raised my head behind them and looked up. "Ah, I'm sorry, I covered you." Mariko squatted down after finishing speaking.The screen window was rattled by the wind, and the shadow of the grassland swaying in the night wind was clearly visible. "Wow—" Qianzhi yelled. "Where is it?" I leaned out the window and looked up at the night sky, where the stars spread.It's a pity that the moon seems to be hidden behind the building, and only the stars in the sky can be seen, as if the sunlight falling from the treetops is reflected on the water, and the entire night sky is shining with stars. I leaned my body further out, and directly below was Mariko's head. There was a burst of fragrance from her freshly washed hair, and my heart skipped a beat.Coincidentally, she also raised her head, her eyes met, her pupils were deep and dark. "Huh?" Chiori beside her said in surprise.We—I guess she should be too—was in a panic, and the newly born relatives passed by in a flash, and we each looked away.After a while, I said, "It's time to turn on the light!" "Si, turn on the light!" She replied.I walked towards the switch, and I heard her voice again - "Ah, there's another shooting star", and Chiori's response.light is on. "How about it, isn't it beautiful?" She closed the screen and said proudly to me.Then he said slowly to Qianzhi, "Qianzhi, do you know? Before the shooting star disappears, just repeat your wish three times to the shooting star, and your wish will come true." "Wish, wish?" Chiori, who didn't know why, replied sleepily. "Yeah, wish. It's what Chiori wants to do, or what she wants to be." "Want to be what? Want to be, wanna be—" Qianzhi kept repeating in her mouth, but her eyes were already dimmed from sleep.She rested her head on Mariko's lap, and Mariko stroked Chiori's hair, then straightened her skirt, raised her head and said to me, "Before, I always wanted to have brothers and sisters, this is my little wish. I said I lived in a farmhouse, but actually I married into a farmhouse, but my marriage was not smooth and I was kicked out, so I am a divorced woman. After the divorce, my parents also passed away one after another. If it wasn’t for Fujimoto ——He is my father's friend——Take me in, I have nowhere to go. So, I can only work here, I really work hard, so serious that I even want to praise myself. "But sometimes I still feel very lonely. After all, outsiders are no match for real family members. This fact often makes me feel deeply. The feeling between people is very special. I have felt like this before, As long as I think that I was once a special existence to someone, I will feel—very sad, very painful, and often make me want to yell in pain." Mariko spoke slowly in a low tone that was completely different from before, and I didn't know how to respond for a while. After she finished speaking, we didn't speak again. In the distance, he didn't look at me, nor did he look at Chiori, the gaze looking down looked at a little bit as if looking for something.Finally she raised her head again, "Ah, I'm so annoying, I'm sorry, why did I say these strange things again? Does Mr. Kisaragi have similar experiences? If so, you can tell me—" She hesitated again Pause, because my eyes are unconsciously looking to the left hand. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Mariko leaned her hands on the coffee table, nodding and apologizing repeatedly, "It's too bad, Mr. Fujimoto always tells me that every time I think of something, I blurt it out, although it's not a bad thing, but I'm always ill-considered , I often ask me to pay attention to my words and deeds. You should think so too? So, I have no right to criticize the future at all, and I am really sorry." "No—don't pay too much attention to that matter, I won't think about it anymore." "It's because of this that I feel more sorry. Oh, how can I ask such a thing casually! I really am." Seeing her frowning and apologetic from the bottom of her heart, I couldn't help feeling a strange feeling in my heart.I clenched my teeth and tried my best to hold back a wry smile, but an uncontrollable hehe came out of my throat.At first there was a surprised expression on Mariko's face, but like a chain reaction, she then showed a shy smile. "Oh, I want to be—" Qianzhi didn't seem to be asleep, she suddenly raised her head as if remembering something, we couldn't help but look at her, she rolled her eyes and looked at us in turn, and continued, "Qianzhi, I want to be... ...want to be...to respect father's hand..." Then Chiori opened her mouth and yawned even bigger, and dawdled to my side, constantly talking about how sleepy, how sleepy.Mariko's shoulders slumped greatly and she sighed, "Do you know that Chiori thinks that way? This is what I call my real family. I was really defeated by her. Although I envy Chiori, I think I envy you even more." She resumed her previous bright tone, chattering non-stop, "Ah! You haven't made the bed yet, men are like this, so people can't help nagging." After making the bed quickly, she said, " Chiori, come sleep here." But Qianzhi just kept saying how sleepy she was, then hugged my arm and refused to leave. "It's time for me to leave too. It's better for you to go to bed early, because you will get up early tomorrow. I will definitely dig you up responsibly, and it is best to be conscious-but it is really a pleasure to chat with you, thank you you." "Where, I also feel very happy." "Is that so? That would be great. I take my leave, then, and good night." "good night, see you tomorrow." Qianzhi and I sent her to the corridor, and before leaving, she said: "Jiyue, have you ever heard the phrase 'God helps those who help themselves'? It was only after I came here that I realized the meaning of this phrase. I thought this phrase came from the Bible. After searching for a long time, I realized that I was looking in the wrong direction. , It is said that this sentence comes from Greek tragedy. Of course, this sentence does not mean that the gods in the sky will only help you. I think the subject of this sentence is not the sky, but the surrounding or environment. That is to say, if you If you don't try your best, no one else will help you. "After seeing the conditions of the patients, I feel this way even more. If I don't want to work hard to get better, then the people around me won't put in too much energy! I'm sorry, I just want to think of something , I can’t help but want to say it. I’ve tried to survive hearing this sentence, so I’ve always wanted to let everyone know and share this sentence. Sorry, I seem to digress again. This time I really want to say good night Alright." Mariko nodded and turned to leave. Chiori watched Mariko leave with a weird expression, and then hugged her arms again, but she couldn't defeat Sandman, bent her knees, and squatted down, refusing to move.I had no choice but to pick her up and put her on the bed, it was already late at night.As soon as Chiori touched the bed, she let out a sleeping snort.Tomorrow's concert will be fine, just as I was thinking about it, what Chiori said just now was clearly imprinted in my mind—I want to be my father's hand, don't you? "So you thought so." I dimmed the lights and went to the window to smoke.After hesitating for a while, I opened the screen window. It was indeed a very beautiful starry sky. I puffed out a puff of smoke while thinking, knowing that I would be woken up at 4:30 and had to go to bed quickly, but I always felt that it was a pity to fall asleep like this. I just I want to gaze at the night sky quietly. At that time, there was no cloud in the night sky, and the place where the line of sight was, was full of stars. There was not even a trace of rain in the sky at that time.