The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 68: None of my business?

Chen Qiu looked at Rui Jia in front of him, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily. He never expected that Rui Jia would come to the door of his concert hall so late at night.

This is also a bit outrageous.

Although I know that Rui Jia may be very busy recently, and I heard that she has been busy with work, she is not so busy?

Really are……

Chen Qiu sighed, reached out and took off the double bass from Ruijia's back, and carefully placed it in his concert hall to prevent her double bass from being bumped.

After all, a piano costs at least around 10,000 yuan, and even less expensive ones cost 7,000 to 8,000 yuan.

If he remembered correctly, Rui Jia's violin seemed to have been made by a fairly good violin maker and had a history of more than ten years.

So this piano must not be damaged.

Putting aside the value of the violin itself, Rui Jia will definitely be preparing to buy a new one after it breaks down. Purchasing a double bass is quite difficult. You can't just pick one from a piano store and take it home.

After buying a new piano, I also need to get familiar with the position of the strings again. It is not like a piano that you can start playing as soon as you pick it up.

If the piano breaks down, it might be gone in a month or two.

Looking back, she might not be able to participate in the national competition, which would delay the overall progress of the band.

So after Chen Qiu carefully put the piano away, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Fortunately, when Rui Jia fell, she was facing the ground with Qin on her back instead of lying directly on her back.

If she's lying on her back, that's really bad.

After confirming that the piano was put away, Chen Qiu returned to the door of the room. Looking at Rui Jia who was sleeping on the floor, he couldn't help but clicked his tongue, reached out and grabbed Rui Jia's huge coat, and dragged her into the concert hall. He casually threw it on a certain seat and clapped his hands.

Rui Jia slept soundly, being dragged for a long time without any reaction.

Well, the most I can do is curl up my body to make myself sleep more comfortably.

Seeing Rui Jia lying comfortably on the chair in the concert hall, Chen Qiu couldn't help but rub his eyebrows and sighed.

"What are these things? It's true. I'm getting ready to go to bed in the middle of the night. How can I come here to my door..."

He shook his head, too lazy to pay any attention to it. He just left a small light for Rui Jia in the concert hall, then closed the door of the concert hall and returned to his desk.

Originally I just wanted to clear my head, but I didn't expect that most of it had dissipated at this time.

He looked at the last bit of unfinished music score and the bed in the room. After thinking for a long time, he finally gave up the idea of ​​forcing himself to sleep. He continued to return to his seat and began to study the details of the music. Mark what you should play next.

He didn't even notice that Rui Jia, who was sleeping on the chair, rolled from the chair to the ground with a clatter.

The carpeted floor didn't wake her up. She just thought she was at home, so she continued to sleep on her side.

Until the next morning…

Rui Jia sat at Chen Qiu's dining table with a gloomy face, her head lowered involuntarily, and she didn't dare to say a word for a long time.

Chen Qiu served Rui Jia a bowl of white porridge from the pot and placed it in front of her. After getting her some pickles, he sat down opposite her, holding a bowl of soy milk and said expressionlessly.

"Have a meal."

"oh oh……"

Rui Jia swallowed a sip of saliva, carefully picked up the white porridge in front of her, raised her eyelids and glanced at Chen Qiu, and after tentatively mashing a little into her mouth, she found that he had no reaction, so she immediately took a big mouthful.

Then he was burned by the scalding white porridge, and he quickly took a sip of soy milk to recover.

She looked at Chen Qiu with an extremely embarrassed expression. She put down the porridge in her hand sheepishly, scratched her head at Chen Qiu, smiled innocently, and said haha.

"Um, Commander Chen Qiu, the porridge is a bit hot. I, should I put it here to cool down first?"

"Ah."

Chen Qiu took a sip of soy milk, nodded lightly, and said nothing.

But precisely because she didn't say anything, Rui Jia's expression became even more embarrassing.

She didn't know what happened to her last night. When she woke up, she lay down in conductor Chen Qiu's concert hall and fell asleep.

Fortunately, she fell at the door of Chen Qiu's concert hall. If she had fallen elsewhere, she felt that she might be finished.

But why did I walk towards Chen Qiujia Concert Hall?

Although the concert hall and dormitories are in the same direction,...

Rui Jia took the soy milk and blew bubbles to hide her inner embarrassment.

Chen Qiu, on the other hand, said nothing and continued to drink the soy milk from his cup.

The atmosphere in the room gradually became awkward.

Just when Rui Jia was thinking about finding some topic, Chen Qiu suddenly spoke.

"Is there something wrong with your work over there?"

"Eh? Commander Chen Qiu, you, how do you know?"

Rui Jia was stunned. She didn't expect that Chen Qiu's first words would be this, and she said bluntly that there was a problem with her work.

But Chen Qiu obviously has nothing to do with that music shop?
How did he know?
Rui Jia tentatively turned to Chen Qiu and said, "Well, Chen Qiu is in command, you, how did you know?"

"My guess."

Chen Qiu shook his head, took another sip of the soy milk in the cup, and said slowly.

"If I'm not wrong, they said they would give you a salary increase, several times more, to trick you into doing more work. You did it, but after the workload doubled several times, your salary was not as high. A lot, right?"

"Yep……"

"So what do you think? Should you continue working? Or resign?"

"I……"

Rui Jia didn't know what to say.

She just put down the cup in her hand, lowered her head and looked at the soy milk in her cup in a daze.

Chen Qiu is right.

There is a very important question before me now, which is my next choice.

Should you continue working or choose to resign?

Keep working, work part-time for a month, work more than 40 hours a week, pay no social security or taxes, and get thousands of dollars in cash.

If I resign, I will lose several thousand yuan, as well as the expectations of my parents and the love of those unlovable children.

and so.

"I think……"

"The boss of that local music store should have told you that children like you very much and parents also like you very much, right?"

Before Rui Jia could say anything, Chen Qiu said directly.

Rui Jia's pupils couldn't help but dilate. She looked at Chen Qiu in disbelief, with confusion in her eyes.

"I-I haven't said anything yet?"

"I know it all, it's just a normal routine, nothing new."

Chen Qiu shook his head, blew on the bean skin formed on the soy milk, and said casually.

"I will use the pitiful salary increase to tell you that your efforts are rewarded. I will use children and parents to hold you back, telling you that those children can't survive without you, and then maybe use some of the things you have done recently. For example, you may not be in particularly good spirits recently, and there is feedback from your parents, asking you to pay more attention to suppress you, tsk, a typical slap for a sweet jujube, or a sweet jujube that is not very sweet."

Rui Jia was completely stunned before she finished listening.

Are everything Chen Qiu said correct?

How did Chen Qiu know?
Is he and the boss's daughter working together?
No, it's not.

Chen Qiu is definitely not with the boss's daughter, because Chen Qiu should look down on the boss's family.

So how did he know?
Rui Jia's throat was a little hoarse, and she spoke with difficulty: "You...how did you know?"

Chen Qiu raised his eyelids, looked at Rui Jia who was stunned, and sighed.

Sure enough, just as he thought before, there was no difference.

Maybe even what you say doesn’t change.

Therefore, he spoke without taking it seriously.

"Because I've seen it a lot, I know it. After all, this is just the basics. I've seen people who were tricked into joining the franchise before. After asking for millions, they said they wanted to open a music store together, and then transferred the legal person to I hired him and made him the second-in-command. After the transfer, I went to engage in activities. After taking a lot of money, I turned around and ran away. Now that person seems to be still paying off his debts. How about it? Do you still feel lucky? of?"

"what?"

Rui Jia was stunned. She blinked her eyes. She never thought that learning art could be like this?
Isn’t this what gyms do?

Why study art?
Rui Jia was a little at a loss and could only look at Chen Qiu, feeling on pins and needles.

However, Chen Qiu didn't react at all. He just nodded on the table, pointed at the rice porridge in front of her, and said to her.

"The porridge is almost cold and ready to eat."

"Huh? Oh, okay, okay..."

Ruijia nodded, scooped up some pickles with a spoon, put them on the porridge, and ate them slowly bit by bit.

Her brain hasn't reacted yet.

The only emotion in her heart now is confusion.

If she had followed her original plan, she would have normally taught part-time lessons in a piano store, and then played double bass part-time in several orchestras. After graduation, she would have been able to work full-time in a music store, or become a teacher in a school. .

By the way, I play double bass part-time in the band at night.

However, the sudden workload at the music store recently made her a little exhausted physically and mentally, and she basically spent all her time at the music store.

She has even made plans to become a piano teacher in the future.

However, what happened now completely disrupted her plan.

She began to doubt whether her future career plan was right or wrong.

Can being a piano teacher really become my future career?

Rui Jia was a little confused.

Calm was restored between the two.

It wasn't until the last mouthful of porridge fell into Rui Jia's stomach that she realized that she not only slept at Chen Qiu's house one night, but even ate a meal from him, and immediately thanked Chen Qiu.

"What about that, Commander Chen Qiu, thank you for your help last night and this morning. Thank you very much."

"It's okay, it's easy." Chen Qiu waved his hand. "Well, um, let me clean up the table. I'm really sorry for making your table dirty."

Rui Jia felt a little embarrassed when she saw the mess on the table, and quickly stood up and started to clean up, trying to get rid of this embarrassing mood.

However, just as she was cleaning up, Chen Qiu spoke again.

"By the way, have you really decided on your future career direction?"

"Ah? Career direction?" Rui Jia was stunned for a moment, then quickly said with a smile, "Well, I actually have some ideas, but I'm not sure yet. After all, I think it will be quite profitable to become a teacher in the future."

"So what are you going to do with this music store now?"

"I……"

Ruijia was stuck again. She didn't know what to say, so she smiled and prepared to avoid the question.

"I haven't thought about it yet. I plan to do it first and look at it later."

"Are you sure?"

"Huh? What?"

Rui Jia turned around, only to find that Chen Qiu's eyes had been staring at her, and his eyes were very powerful.

"Are you sure you want to keep doing it over there?"

"I……"

"If you're sure, forget it."

Chen Qiu shook his head, faced the table again, continued to drink his soy milk, and spoke while drinking.

"But I have to tell you, you are actually not good at teaching. Although you can lower your body to coax the children, you don't have the feeling of a teacher. Those children are not very obedient, are they? Are they particularly noisy? ?”

"You..." Rui Jia couldn't help but stop moving in her hands.

She turned off the water from the faucet, turned around, looked at Chen Qiu's back, and swallowed.

"How did you know?"

"How do I know? I can hear it with my ears!"

Chen Qiu laughed.

He didn't turn around, just pointed to his ear casually, and said with a relaxed expression.

"When you first started playing music, you had the feeling of trying your best. To be precise, you should be a social animal, right? Every time you come to practice, your goal is just not to make mistakes and follow the pace of the team. That's it.

Since you don't make mistakes, I don't actually have much expectations for you. After all, not everyone in the band has to be a star player. Sometimes, those role players are equally important in the band. "

Rui Jia looked at Chen Qiu and said nothing.

Chen Qiu continued: "When you entered the Haicheng Competition later, your music was not particularly outstanding at the beginning, and you were not even particularly outstanding in the entire bass part, so you were not the principal double bass player. .

But what surprises me is that there is light in your music! "

Chen Qiu turned around, looked at Rui Jia behind him, smiled and nodded at her, pointed to his ears, and spoke to her.

"Your music is no longer monotonous and boring. It starts to have something of its own in it. It's a kind of expectation, a surprise, and a feeling of longing for light. This feeling even overwhelms the control of the double bass principal! It's very interesting. So even though you are often late, I don't particularly care.

But until recently... your music changed again, became heavy and lacked power. "

"Because I have too much work?"

Rui Jia asked tentatively.

Chen Qiu nodded slowly: "Yes, yes."

"really……"

Rui Jia sighed and lowered her head.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it."

"Well, I know. After all, you told me when you first came to my place, saying that your parents have always said that they spent a lot of money to support you, went bankrupt, and even borrowed money to let you study music. I hope you can You have your own development on this road, in order to repay your parents for their upbringing, so you have to keep making money to repay them and make them less tired."

"Well, yes, I'm sorry, Commander Chen Qiu, I..."

"So I didn't criticize you for being late before, do you remember?"

Rui Jia was stunned for a moment. She suddenly remembered that it seemed that Chen Qiu had not criticized her the few times she had been late recently.

Chen Qiu, can you hear these things?
She looked at Chen Qiu with a hint of disbelief in her eyes.

However, Chen Qiu didn't show any expression.

He just spoke slowly.

"I listened to your music. When you were in the orchestra, your music obviously gradually increased and you were willing to move forward with the orchestra. But when you worked hard, especially when you were working hard to be a teacher, your music It lost a lot of color, and the whole became gray and weak.

So, for you, purely from the perspective of a conductor, purely from what I heard in the orchestra, you may not be suitable for teaching. I don’t know how you perform in your piano store. Maybe You like it very much, but I can't hear it. "

Chen Qiu shook his head, stood up and walked to Rui Jia. After patting her shoulder, he pointed to the door and said to her.

"I've put your piano in the piano cabinet by the door for you. You should be able to see it when you go out. You don't need to wash the dishes. I'll just do it myself later. Now, you can go."

"Ah? Oh..."

Rui Jia looked at Chen Qiu and took two steps back in a daze, her expression extremely complicated.

She didn't know what she should say now.

But just like Chen Qiu said, do I really like teaching?

Although playing bass in an orchestra and teaching in a piano store are all ways to earn living expenses.

But if you compare the two with each other, which one do you actually like better?

Rui Jia slowly walked to the door of the concert hall and found her piano.

The piano is in perfect condition, no damage at all.

She held the huge double bass and walked out of the concert hall. Instead of continuing to walk towards the school, she just sat on the steps in front of the concert hall and watched the people coming and going in front of her.

Suddenly she had an answer.

She doesn't like the piano store.

She likes the orchestra and the feeling of everyone working together.

In the piano store, there was a little girl who often poked her with a bow, a little boy who often put his boogers on his piano bag, and a lot of messy little bastards who were extremely troublesome.

In fact, they had no respect for her at all, and they didn't really regard her as a teacher.

Not only that, but that group of parents.

Would they report themselves if they really liked them?
Why do they sign up for so many classes, especially those in the evening after school and after they have finished their dinner?

It was obvious that those people completely regarded themselves as a nursery!

She is not a double bass teacher, nor does she teach music!
For the music store owner, for the parents, and for the children.

She actually only has one identity.

Doesn't matter, great and cheap nanny.

That's it!

Ruijia suddenly understood. She took out her mobile phone from her pocket and found the phone number of the daughter of the music store owner.

After two beeps, the voice of the piano store owner's daughter sounded, still as gentle as before.

"Hey, Ruijia? What's wrong? You called me so early? What's the matter?"

"I..." Rui Jia picked up the phone and was about to say harsh words, but because of her personality, she swallowed and did not dare to say it immediately. She just hesitated and said, "No, it's nothing. I think..."

However, before the word "resignation" was uttered, the boss's daughter seemed to feel something and spoke to Ruijia casually.

"Speaking of Ruijia, if you have nothing to do, I'm just going to look for you. Your work attitude has been a bit bad recently. I just got up this morning and received a lot of complaints from parents. They said that you were in a daze during class, Rui. Jia, what do you think we should do? If you keep doing this, it won’t be easy for me to deal with. I obviously like you so much..."

Rui Jia's heart gradually calmed down.

She recalled Chen Qiu's words before and her own thoughts.

Listening to the constant accusations in her ears, she even felt a little funny.

So she whispered.

"Then, quit me, just quit me."

"Huh? What did you say? I didn't understand?"

The boss's daughter opposite was obviously stunned for a moment, and her tone was not so steady. She quickly spoke.

"No, Ruijia, I didn't say I wanted to fire you. I just told you that your work attitude has not been good recently and you need to work harder. I have no intention of firing you. Don't worry, I will help you with these complaints." You blocked it, after all, I like it very much! Right? You should also know how I treat you, right?"

"Well, I know, but if you quit me, wouldn't everything be solved? Tell me, right?"

Rui Jia smiled softly.

She looked at the busy traffic in front of her and felt that her world was gradually broadening.

She was calm, but the boss's daughter opposite was dumbfounded.

She never imagined that her hard-working donkey would give up her job. She quickly said to Rui Jiada;
"Ah, you, how can you stop doing it? Because of you, we just sold hundreds of thousands of courses! In the future, half of this money will be yours! You, how can you stop doing it? Rui Jia, let me warn you, we have a contract, think carefully about how much money you will have to pay if you violate the contract!"

"But our contract is just a part-time contract. Both parties are equal, and I have completed the minimum working period. Our contract was automatically terminated a few months ago. I am also going to ask you for a new contract. You said there was no rush, did you forget?"

The other side was stunned.

But Rui Jia was not stunned.

She said in her usual tone.

"So, in order not to worry you about the new contract, and in order not to worry about your parents' complaints, I decided to resign. That's it..."

"Ruijia! Think about it! Think about those children, think about them! They like you, and those parents, they always like you. What will they do without you?"

Listening to the boss's daughter's increasingly anxious voice, Rui Jia just smiled in relief.

She picked up the phone, put it in front of her mouth, and spoke in a mocking tone to the boss's daughter opposite.

"But these... are none of my business?"

　This chapter had 3000 deletions, deletions, and changes. It was originally going to be about the interaction between Chen Qiurijia and Chen Qiurijia, but after writing 2k words, it felt wrong. I always felt that it was going in the direction of the heroine, so I deleted it. I wrote another 2k words, but it still doesn’t feel right.

　　After going around in circles for a long time, I finally deleted all the interactions between the two, and Rui Jiakai woke up.

　　Finally, regarding Rui Jia’s explanation, please jump to “A New Year’s Letter to Book Friends”

　　
　
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