Tokyo Martial Arts Story

By the way, although Yan Kai doesn't know how to play the guitar, he is still very familiar with and understands plucked instruments. Even if he doesn't know how to play, he can still tell a good guitar from a bad one.

Passing by a piano store, Yan Kai walked in head-on. When the clerk bowed enthusiastically to Yan Kai, and the words "Welcome" in his mouth were only in the beginning, Yan Kai coughed heavily, and directly bowed to the clerk who had bowed halfway. Stunned and stunned, I don't know what's wrong with this guest, so naturally I can't say what to say next.

After Yan Kai listened intently for a while, he scanned the price tags of guitars on the walls and shelves of the piano store, and immediately said to the clerk of the piano store: "Thank you, sorry for the trouble, and goodbye!"

After a set of three in a row, Yan Kuikui walked out of the door of the piano shop without looking back, leaving the clerk who had bowed halfway into extreme confusion.

What... is this man here for?Why did he just cough and leave, is he here to spread the virus?

The clerk who had such an idea in his heart immediately moved away from the place where Yan Kai had coughed just now. After thinking about it, he still felt that it was not safe. He ran to find disinfectant, and sprayed heavily on the area that was suspected to be contaminated by the virus.

Of course, Yan Kai, who has already left the piano shop, didn't know about this kind of behavior of the clerk. Even if Yan Kai knew, he would probably just smile and not mind.

Going to someone’s shop for no reason, coughing and then leaving. Facing this kind of confusing behavior, this shop assistant just sprayed the place where Yan Kai stayed with disinfectant a few times out of safety considerations. This is already very polite, generally Speaking of it, it is normal for the clerk to scold Yan Kai behind his back, but Yan Kai is not so stingy to care about this.

With that cough just now, Yan Kai actually plucked the strings of all the guitars in the piano shop with sound waves, and then he could distinguish the quality of the guitars from the very slight sound made by the light plucking.

Of course, Yan Kai quit the piano store just now not because the piano store did not have a good guitar, but Yan Kai’s budget was limited, and the amount he could use was only about 50 yen, which of course was enough to buy an ordinary one. guitar, but if you want to buy a really good guitar, it’s not too much to add a zero at the end, so Yan Kai bought the guitar today with the mentality of picking up the loopholes.

In addition to brand new guitars, the piano store on Mingdatong Street also sells second-hand guitars. After all, guitars are relatively expensive, at least for students. Therefore, it is necessary to trade second-hand guitars. Used guitars tend to vary in quality, and it's relatively not impossible to pick up leaks.

I tried several companies in a row using the same method, but the results were not satisfactory. Sure enough, the business level of a store that can open a piano store in the "Guitar Holy Land" cannot be so low. Even if it is a second-hand guitar, their valuation is also low. It's very reasonable. Reasonable means that Yan Kai can't take advantage of any advantage.

How big is the discount?How about a good volume?The price deduction is so deadly, there is no overflow of cost performance, can it be better!

It was the ninth time he walked out of a piano shop with quite high-grade decoration and scale, Yan Kai sighed, shaking his head in his heart.

But soon, Yan Kai changed his thinking. This time, he didn't go to those big piano shops with elegant store decoration, but to some piano shops with few customers and relatively simple store design.

It's just simple. There are so many piano shops that can open a store in this "guitar holy place" without getting caught up in it, so it's definitely not simple.

Yan Kai was convinced by the quality control of those big piano shops, so he could only go to those small piano shops to try his luck.

In most industries, the market will be divided. It is often difficult to take care of the high-end market and the low-end market in the same store. After all, the style is there, and it is easy to be unflattering at both ends. This is why there are many piano shops on Ming Datong Street. , instead of Yishui's big piano shop fighting for hegemony, the small piano shop also has a corresponding source of customers, that is, the student party who doesn't have a lot of money.

According to some unreliable statistics, the annual consumption of musical instruments in the Central Plains is only about 32/[-] of that in Japan. Although this is also related to the consumption level and prices of the two countries, even if those gaps are eliminated, the two countries will The attitude towards musical instruments is obviously quite different.

Due to the influence of "Happy Education" in Dongying, various clubs emerge in every school, and music is a large category of clubs. Basically, every school has many clubs related to music. In Dongying, playing music and musical instruments is very important. Ordinary things, but in principle it is not.

Central Plains students are under great learning pressure. Once most students do things other than study, they will be regarded as not doing their job properly by their parents. Basically, unless the family conditions are excellent, or they have special expertise and hobbies in music and plan to go to music In the student route, few students will spontaneously spend too much time and energy on music.

Note that what is mentioned here is spontaneity, and the parent's chicken baby is not counted.

And the students are even more stingy with their musical instruments. With that money, whether it's playing games or chasing idols, isn't it more delicious!

Therefore, it is incomprehensible for people from the Central Plains to buy a second-hand guitar by saving up part-time wages and pocket money for several years, but in Dongying, this is the best way for many ordinary students to get their first guitar. the usual way.

And the small piano shop that Yan Kai stepped into now is the kind of piano shop that mainly caters to ordinary students and specializes in second-hand guitars.

Walking into the store, the expected "Welcome" did not come, only a yawning mustache uncle leaning sleepily on the counter, muttering something, Yan Kai interpreted it with his lips, It seems to be cursing myself for losing the horse betting again, and I will never step into the racecourse next time, absolutely!

Ha ha……

Yan Kaixin sneered, he swears not a word about the dog betting curse, there is a rule in the Xue family's family motto, once the Xue family's children get involved in gambling, once they gamble, they will break their hands, and if they gamble for the second time, they will break their feet , the third time he will be expelled from the Xue family, and at the same time, he must not be poisoned. Once he is poisoned, he will directly break his hands and feet, abolish his martial arts and expel him from the Xue family. These two rules are absolutely merciless.

These two rules were established by Xue Dingshan's father, that is, Yan Kai's grandfather. The reason why such strict family rules were established is because Yan Kai's wife and grandfather, that is, Xue Dingshan's grandfather, was a gambler and a smoker. Opium ruined the body, addicted to gambling and lost all the family property. The Xue family, which was famous in Shanghai a hundred years ago, declined in a very disgraceful way. This is not to say that Xue Dingshan's grandfather still has a conscience and knows that the ancestral home cannot be sold, but that Xue Dingshan's grandfather smoked opium and died before selling the ancestral home, otherwise the ancestral home would definitely not be able to be kept.

Xue Dingshan's father suffered a lot because of his grandpa Xue Dingshan's deeds, and his mother died of anger early on. So he hated gambling and drugs, and vowed never to let those two things enter Xue's house again. At the same time, In the ancestral hall of the Xue family’s ancestral house, there is no spiritual tablet for Grandpa Xue Dingshan. It is said that Xue Dingshan’s father never set up a spiritual tablet for the opium-smoking gambler who died. Ancestral shrine.

And if the "Shame of the Xue family" who ruined the Xue family has done anything good for the Xue family, it is probably that he completely defeated the Xue family. After liberation, the poor and white Xue family was rated as a "poor peasant" , it can be regarded as indirectly helping the Xue family to avoid a disaster. Of course, no one in the Xue family will think well of him for this.

The clerk at the counter opened his mouth to bet on horses, and Yan Kai's first impression of this piano store became extremely bad, but he couldn't come in vain, so he coughed and plucked the strings of the guitars in the store with sound waves All of a sudden, it also shocked the brain of the shop assistant who was still not awake, and made him wake up all of a sudden.

Chapter 310 The third fierce JK

Yan Kai's cough woke up the confused clerk, he turned his head around in a daze, and soon saw Yan Kai who was listening to the echo.

Seeing Yan Kai's presence, the clerk smiled awkwardly, thinking that Yan Kai's cough was to wake him up, and walked out from the counter, with a business-like smile, "Guest, welcome!"

Although he is a gambling dog, he has to be said that he is the first staff member of the piano shop who did not regard Yan Kai as a dangerous person sent by the rival piano shop to spread the virus.

While the clerk was talking, Yan Kai had already received the feedback. He scanned several places and shot all those guitars with high-quality sound and price tags above one million yen. I landed on a guitar that looked old and was only priced at 35 yen.

A little old, but from the sound point of view, this is not a problem at all.

Listening to the echo, this should be a full-single-board guitar, that is, the top, bottom and side panels are all made of single-board (a whole piece of wood). The life of a full-single-board guitar is very long. Basically, it is more than 60 years old. If a person bought a full-body guitar when he was 15 years old, maybe this full-body guitar can be buried as a funeral object. If you don’t like this, pass it on to your grandson. Being forced to pick up girls is also completely fine.

This all-solid-board guitar seems to be about ten years old, and this depreciation will basically not affect its value.

Compared with the cheap and poor quality plywood guitar, the quality of the veneer guitar is better, and the price is of course much higher. The price of 35 yen is not only cheap for such a full veneer guitar, but also can Said it was too cheap.

If you can really buy a full solid-board guitar at such a price, it will be considered a profit.

After Jian Yankai entered the store, he only scanned a few times and then fixed his gaze. It seemed that he had already selected a target, and the clerk was a little surprised.

Generally speaking, people who come to him to buy guitars, especially those who look young like Yan Kai, will first pretend to be very knowledgeable, look at all the guitars displayed in the store, and then use He asked him with a dignified expression if he had any recommended guitars. In short, he was afraid of being ripped off and wanted the clerk not to fool them. People like Yan Kai who have identified a guitar for themselves in a few moments are rare, really rare.

"Please show me that guitar, please, thank you."

Yan Kai pointed to the guitar that he fell in love with.

The clerk glanced at the guitar that Yan Kai was pointing at, and a sudden look of surprise appeared in his eyes.

"Guest, I'm not talking too much, it's just that this guitar is different from ordinary guitars, so I advise you not to choose this one."

A full-body guitar with a price tag of only 35 yen is of course very eye-catching. There are also many customers who feel that they have missed it. They bought this guitar from the clerk, but most of them were persuaded by the clerk because the guitar was not Not for everyone.

"Oh, can you tell me why?"

Yan Kai turned his gaze to the clerk.

It's a bit new to choose to refuse when a business comes to your door.

"Hey, this...guest, I said it's useless, you can try this guitar first."

The clerk took the guitar off the wall and put it into Yan Kai's hands.

Without hesitation, Yan Kai fiddled with the strings a few times. He doesn't know how to play the guitar, but he knows how to distinguish a good instrument from a bad one.

This time, instead of slightly disturbing the strings with sound waves, he directly plucked the strings with his hands. Yan Kai felt the sound quality of the guitar more clearly. He didn’t find any problems when he heard it for the first time. But since the clerk said that this guitar is different from ordinary guitars, Then he naturally had to try a few more times, so he put the guitar in front of him, fiddled a few more times with his playing posture, and soon felt something was wrong.

Yan laughed, and he asked the clerk, "Is this guitar modified?"

When holding it to his chest in the posture of playing, Yan Kai quickly felt a little incongruity, and it was the same when he was plucking the strings, the sound quality seemed to have some changes.

The clerk didn't expect Yan Kai to be able to find the problem immediately. He was worried that Yan Kai would not be able to figure it out after a few random fiddles, so he planned to guide Yan Kai on how to use it. Now that Yan Kai felt it, the clerk would not hide it. He nodded and said: "That's right, the original owner of this guitar made relatively large changes to the guitar, which made this guitar play a very good sound in the hands of certain people, but for most people, this guitar A guitar is like a feral wild horse, it is difficult to be subdued, so this is a full-body guitar, but it only sells for 35 yen, and it has not been sold for almost ten years.”

The clerk thought of the female high school student who brought the guitar to him many years ago to sell it as a pawn. Such a guitar is actually not suitable for business, because it is suitable for too few people and is not suitable as a piece for Items sold by the general public.

As a special instrument for professionals, this guitar is excellent. The female high school student must have spent a lot of effort to transform this ordinary guitar into a good one that can produce excellent piano sounds. Guitar, but if it is sold to someone else, it would be a bit deceitful. If it weren’t for the fact that the female high school student was so desperate for money that it was already on fire, the clerk was afraid that the female high school student would make a mistake, and in order to go there for some indescribable Inappropriate activities, he would never accept this guitar at all.

Later, the fate of this guitar also proved that the clerk's judgment was correct at that time. Although this guitar was bought several times, it was quickly sent back. The guitar that could be said to be excellent changed hands repeatedly, the pearl was covered with dust, and the clerk actually felt very uncomfortable, so when someone planned to buy this guitar later, the clerk would persuade him first, otherwise he would use it a few times when he bought it back. Isn't it a waste of emotion to send it back after finding it inappropriate?

To be able to survive in the extremely crowded Datong Street of Ming Dynasty, the foundation of this piano store is not high-quality guitars and fair prices, but a strong human touch, many repeat customers, and even customers will spontaneously introduce acquaintances to come to this store and the next door. Compared with the big piano shop, it looks very shabby.

"Thank you for the reminder, but I still want this guitar, please settle the bill."

Yan Kai stroked the guitar carefully and said.

This guitar is indeed not something that ordinary people can control, but Yan Kai is not an ordinary person. He is confident that he can subdue this stubborn guitar that recognizes its owner.

Seeing that Yan Kai had made up his mind, the clerk could only sigh and said, "Okay, then I'll go get the piano case and put it in. If you find it's not suitable after you go back, I will still take it back here, but the price will definitely not be 35 yuan." That's the yen, please understand this. Please also be careful not to damage this guitar. Although this guitar is difficult to deal with, it is really a good guitar. I have actually been waiting for its owner to come Redeeming it, just waiting for so many years... hey!"

The female high school student seemed to have said that her parents ran away after owing a large amount of debt, and she also had a younger sister under the age of six who needed to be taken care of. Thinking about it, life should be very difficult now, and she really has no spare power to redeem it. This guitar is gone.

The clerk thought again of the female high school student who walked into the piano shop with this guitar in her arms many years ago. The teardrops in the corners of her eyes are the proof of her relationship with this guitar. No matter what, I will come back and redeem this guitar!

After paying the money, Yan Kai carried the guitar case on his back, turned around, and was about to leave the store, but a leaflet suddenly appeared in his eyes.

"Huh? Are you still in charge of teaching the introductory training of guitar?"

Yan Kai glanced carefully at the flyer that was randomly pasted on the glass door of the piano store and asked, before he was only thinking about choosing a guitar, but he didn't notice the existence of this flyer.

Uh, this has a lot to do with the fact that this leaflet is surrounded by various other types of leaflets. There are even Niu Lang shops in Kabukicho. This kind of leaflets are not suitable for posting here, right?It is said that it is a cowherd shop, but it dares to be called "Gaoyuantian". Isn't this a bit crazy?Oh, the NO.1 in the store is called "Honjo Kuangshi Lang", that's really crazy enough.

But that's not the point. The point is that Yan Kai discovered that among the pile of leaflets, there were leaflets from the piano store itself. Introductory tutorial for beginners, the teacher in charge of teaching is active JK, and these words are specially marked with a red explosion box.

Although there are some doubts about the guitar level of the active JK, but for Yan Kai, just providing introductory courses is enough, and he is not picky.

"Uh...you can't play the guitar?"

The clerk was stunned for a while. He obviously looked like a professional when he bought the guitar. After making a fuss for a long time, he couldn't even play the guitar?

The clerk began to regret selling the guitar to Yan Kai, but at this time the money and the goods had been cleared and the invoices had been issued. If he wanted to regret it, it would depend on Yan Kai's cooperation.

"I'm a quick learner."

Seeing the remorse in the clerk's eyes, Yan Kai rarely defended himself.

Originally, he didn't care what others thought of him, but although the clerk was a gambler, he didn't seem to have a bad heart, so he explained this extra sentence.

No, no matter how fast you learn, can you still learn to play the guitar in one day?

The clerk smiled wryly, but thought that if Yan Kai found that the guitar was not suitable for him immediately after learning the guitar, he might give up the guitar immediately, so that he could take the guitar back quickly, so he nodded, Said to Yan Kai: "Guest, wait a moment, I will find the person in charge of teaching the guitar."

Their piano store does provide introductory guitar courses, because a large part of their customers are beginners. They are impressed when they see other people playing guitars, and then rush to buy guitars on impulse. He has really encountered such hot-headed guests. In view of this, he took advantage of the opportunity to launch an introductory tutorial on guitar.

All in all, the business is not bad, the point is to help those boys and girls who like guitar, this is what makes him happiest.As for recruiting active JK as an instructor, it is entirely because he feels that peers are easier to get along with and are more conducive to teaching. There is an essential difference with those bad training courses that use the "active JK" signboard as a selling point to attract students. The difference is that I am not at all happy about the sudden increase in the training business by [-]% after the active JK was recruited.

Thinking of bringing another boy into the world of guitar, the clerk mustered up some energy, and he shouted upstairs: "Shaluo, there is a guest here!"

"It's so noisy, didn't I say not to shout at me so loudly when I was practicing!"

The clerk responded with a heavy yell, followed by the sound of small leather shoes stepping hard on the steps of the stairs.

The sound of "clack clatter" sounded on the stairs of the piano store. First, a pair of round-toed leather shoes appeared from the stairs on the second floor, followed by black calf socks, and then the dazzling white, plump and firm slender thighs. The short skirt that seems to be more than ten centimeters from the knee, the slender waist that is gripping... (don't ask me what is in the ellipsis, I was blocked before, I'm afraid) and a pretty angry face.

"Shaluo, I'm sorry, but you have to understand that the soundproofing on the second floor is good, I'm not so loud, I'm afraid you won't hear me." The clerk begged for mercy to the angry girl who came down from the second floor.

"Then you can use the line to call me!"

The girl was still very angry.

"But when you're practicing, you don't care about Line's news at all..."

The clerk smiled wryly.

The clerk's words made the girl's arrogance stagnate. When she practiced, she was indeed not sensitive to the surrounding noises, but even so, she would not admit that she was wrong!

The girl could no longer vent her anger on the clerk, she could only look at Yan Kai and said, "Shop Manager, is there a new customer? Is that him?"

After hearing what the girl said, Yan Kai couldn't help but glance at the clerk, no, it was the store manager.

I thought he was just an ordinary clerk, but unexpectedly he was the manager of this piano shop, which was a bit beyond Yan Kai's expectation.

The store manager smiled sheepishly: "Yes, Shaluo, I'll count on you as before!"

After finishing speaking, he turned to Yan Kai and said, "Guest, this is my friend's younger sister. Sharo Ishimi, who is here as a part-time instructor, please don't underestimate her just because she is still a high school student. Her brother is a very good guitar player." Hand, she learned from her brother since she was a child, and her guitar skills are equally good, you will definitely not be disappointed!"