Chapter 20 Encounter
The elegant sound of the piano echoed in the teahouse, and at this moment, Busujima Saeko, who had just separated from Yan Kai, and a strong man quietly walked into the teahouse and slowly took their seats.
After sitting down, the strong man said to Busujima Saeko: "Junior sister Saeko, the master has said that murderous intention cannot be accumulated, it must be properly vented, but venting alone is not enough, you need to use some means to calm your mind."
"When Master was still in China, he would come to this teahouse to listen to Qin Ming tea when he had free time. Master said the effect was pretty good, so he asked me to take you here to give it a try. If the effect is good, you can come here more often in the future.
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The mature man warned Busujima Saeko, and at the same time handed a delicate card to Busujima Saeko.
"This teahouse is a membership system, but the card does not recognize the person. This is Master's membership card. You can bring one person into the teahouse, so I will give it to you first," the middle-aged man explained to Busujima Saeko.
"Yes, Brother Tanaka!" Busujima Saeko said politely to the mature man.
This mature man is none other than Takeshi Tanaka, the disciple of Busujima Saeko's father. He is not only the direct disciple of Busujima Saeko's father, but also the right-hand man of Busujima Saeko's father. He is the most trusted person around Busujima Saeko's father, and many
If Busujima Saeko's father didn't have time to do important things, he would leave them to him.
For example, this time I gave Busujima Saeko a secret hand scroll of Busujima style swordsmanship. Apart from Tanaka Ken, Busujima Saeko's father would never trust anyone else to get the secret hand scroll.
There is a big age difference between Busujima Saeko and Tanaka Ken, almost twenty years old. As long as Busujima Saeko can remember, Tanaka Ken has started to act alone and is not often around Busujima Saeko's father.
It was not until recent years that Busujima Saeko's father went overseas, and he was afraid that he would be too busy alone, so he specially brought the mature and steady Tanaka Ken as his deputy, asking Tanaka Ken to take care of some chores for him.
So Busujima Saeko has respect for this senior brother, but lacks closeness.
In fact, most of the other disciples of Busujima Saeko and Busujima Saeko's father were also like this. Except for senior sister Takayanagi Haruka who was also female and had a smaller age gap with Busujima Saeko, the other disciples did not have much contact with Busujima Saeko.
However, since they are from the same school and are direct disciples of their father, even if they are not familiar with each other, they can be trusted unconditionally.
For a sect like Busujima-ryu with a long tradition and strict rules, the friendship between fellow disciples is sometimes even stronger than the blood relationship - after all, brothers and sisters can kill each other, and the father may be soft-hearted and not know how to punish his children, but brothers and sisters can kill each other.
Master would definitely be willing to kill an incompetent disciple.
While the two were talking, the waiter in the teahouse had already served tea to them.
Tea is good tea. Whether it is tea leaves or spring water, or even the skill of the tea master who makes the tea, it is the best choice. Mr. Kamijou is very willing to spend money in this regard.
But neither Busujima Saeko nor Tanaka Ken paid attention to the tea, but focused their attention on the continuous sound of the piano.
The waiter shook his head inwardly. Ever since the Central Plains man surnamed Yan arrived, no one would care about the fine tea every time the Central Plains man played the piano. This was a waste of the best time for tea tasting.
What's even more outrageous is that when Yan Kai finished playing the piano, they remembered that after drinking tea, they always muttered that the teahouse was really neglecting them. They had to pay a sky-high membership fee every year, but they were served this kind of cold tea.
This feeling was more like being fucked by a dog than fucking a dog, but it also gave the waiter no room to vent his anger. After all, he couldn't afford to offend either the guests or Yan Kai.
While listening to the sound of the piano, Tanaka Ken introduced to Busujima Saeko in a low voice: "I heard that this piano master is new and his piano skills are very extraordinary. Several of Master's friends praised him highly after hearing his piano music.
, so I specifically asked you to arrange club activities to come at this time, because he only plays the piano during this period, and he only plays three days a week, and he is only here on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays every week."
Busujima Saeko tried her best to listen, but it was difficult to pull her mind away from the sound of the piano. The soft sound of the piano was like a pair of tender little hands, pressing her spirit with moderate force, giving her soul a comfortable massage.
It made her spirit feel more comfortable than ever before, and also brought her unprecedented tranquility.
Somehow, she thought of Yan Kai's comics again. Although Yan Kai's comics brought her pleasure rather than comfort, excitement rather than tranquility, they all had such a magical power that touched her mind.
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It wasn't until the song ended and the sound of the piano stopped that Busujima Saeko regained consciousness a little, picked up the teacup in front of her, and took a sip.
Well, the tea is cold...
Fortunately, Busujima Saeko is a sensible person. She knows that this is because she missed the time to drink tea, so she can't blame her for going to the teahouse.
After playing one piece of music, Yan Kai did not rush to play the next piece. Instead, he put out the incense that had not yet been burned and put on another type of incense.
Different luthiers have different habits when playing the piano. Burning incense is inevitable, but some luthiers change the incense after the incense is burned out, while some luthiers will change different incense according to different piano music to fit the artistic conception of the piano music.
When Yan Kai plays the piano, he is one of those people who is rather cumbersome (describing things as troublesome and unfavorable). Not only does he have to burn different incense to play different tunes, but he also has to press the incense into different shapes.
Of course, it is impossible for Yan Kai to admit that he has chicken feet. He calls this a sense of ritual, which is very stylish.
Busujima Saeko and Tanaka Ken arrived late, so they couldn't grab a good position and could only see Yan Kai's back.
At first, Busujima Saeko's attention was focused on the sound of the piano, so he didn't notice anything. But when Yan Kai stopped playing the piano and started playing with the incense burner, Busujima Saeko saw a hint of familiarity in the back figure.
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Why...the more I look at him, the more he looks like Kaijun?
Busujima Saeko shook his head. He felt that he had been thinking about how to imitate Yagyu Ikken's duel recently, and he was dizzy. How could Yan Kai be here? He should be working part-time now.
And as the sound of the piano sounded again, Busujima Saeko could only temporarily suppress the doubts in her heart, listen quietly, and let the sound of the piano soothe her tired spirit.
The previous battle with Yan Kai, despite the short time, was much more energy-intensive than the previous one-class fight every day, and my spirit became quite sluggish because I was substituted for Yagyu Ichiken. Before, I had just been
He was just holding on in front of Yan Kai and pretending that nothing happened.
If it weren't for Brother Tanaka's repeated requests, Busujima Saeko would have really wanted to go back to the gym and lie down on the bed to sleep for five or six hours.
But fortunately, I listened to Brother Tanaka and came here. The sound of the piano was actually more restorative than sleep. It made Busujima Saeko's condition much better. The restless murderous intention was also calmed down a lot, and she was mentally relaxed as never before.
There are so many things that are unprecedented...
Busujima Saeko lamented that in recent times, she seemed to have experienced many differences and firsts, and all of them seemed to have started with meeting Yan Kai.
Yan Kai is only open for two hours, as all the regular customers know, so more people came one after another during this time period, but by the time of the intermission, the teahouse was already packed, and those who came late could only shake their heads and leave with a wry smile.
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Sharing a table? It doesn’t exist. They are all respectable people. How can it be possible to share a table? It doesn’t matter if you miss listening to piano music once, but you can’t lose your style and face just because you listen to piano music.
Moreover, the rules of the tea house are that you cannot share tables.
This teahouse was originally opened for Mr. Kamijou to entertain himself. Later, some like-minded friends came and it was barely able to support itself.
And whoever can be friends with Mr. Kamijou is a simple person, and they all have quite extraordinary wealth.
After learning about the existence of Mr. Kamijou's teahouse, many opportunistic and relationship-seeking flies began to gather around him, hoping to make friends with Mr. Kamijou and his friends.
Mr. Kamijou was so annoyed that he changed the teahouse to a membership system and got rid of most of the flies. However, there were still some big-headed flies with strong capital. They even paid the high membership fees and had to get close to eat shit. Oh, no.
It was to make friends with Mr. Kamijou and his friends.
As a last resort, Mr. Kamijou could only set up a few more rules.
One is that you are not allowed to share seats. This teahouse is mainly used for meeting friends. If you are not friends who have made an appointment, please don't join in casually.
The other one is not to make any loud noises. Mr. Kamijou opened this teahouse to keep it quiet, so of course it cannot be disturbed by others.
Once these two rules were established, those annoying flies were finally eliminated. And because of this unique style, it did attract some guests who also wanted to be quiet, but the number was never large, so this teahouse has always been
It is a loss-making state.
Of course, Mr. Kamijou doesn't care about this. Isn't it just for making money to lose? He is happy to lose with the money and happy to lose.
Therefore, there are generally three types of guests in this teahouse. One type is Mr. Kamijou's like-minded friends, the other type is idlers who want to be quiet in busy areas like Chiyoda, the wealthy idlers, and the third group is from the Central Plains culture.
A friend of mine liked the decoration and atmosphere of this teahouse and felt that the style of this teahouse was worthy of their wealth, so they became members.
People like Busujima Saeko's father are just examples and cannot be included in the classification.
Originally, Mr. Kamijou's teahouse had been open so quietly, with only a few customers sitting around at the same time. Until Yankai came, he only played a few times and the reputation was completely established, making the teahouse members
ushered in a wave of growth.
Of course, I still didn't make any money, but Mr. Kamijou didn't care.
He had asked Yan Kai for extra time before, but this was not to increase membership, it was purely because he also liked to listen to Yan Kai play the piano.
Mr. Kamijou, you are rich and willful!
Time passed quickly, and Yan Kai realized that the time was almost up. He finished playing the last song, extinguished the incense, stood up and bowed slightly to Mr. Kamijou who was sitting in front, then waved his sleeves and left.
This action was requested by Mr. Kamijou to highlight his strong character. Yan Kai didn't care, so he did it. He just complained in his heart from time to time that he was a middle-aged person.
When Yan Kai turned sideways and left, Busujima Saeko, who had been watching Yan Kai's back, was suddenly startled, and quickly covered her mouth that was about to scream - it was too immodest to scream in public and could not be done.
Chapter completed!