Chapter 44 (1/2)
Chapter 44 A Full Live Broadcast of Smacking in the Face!
”The youngest, can I ask you one more question? Do you really play all those musical instruments?”
Surrendering to his mounting curiosity, Zhou Xiaotian asked again.
Zhu Benzheng and Sun Hao both halted their paces to gawk at Fang Qiu unblinkingly.
They were keen to hear the answer as well.
”Of course not. I'm not god, how can I play all kinds of musical instruments?”
Said Fang Qiu flatly.
”What?”
”You don't?”
The three all went dumbfounded.
”If you don't, why did you...”
”They how come you let Li Qingshi choose anyone as he liked?” Zhu Benzheng asked promptly.
”Yeah!”
Sun Hao and Zhou Xiaotian nodded frantically with interest.
”It's a psychological tactic.”
Fang Qiu grimaced, and then explained, ”I was imposing pressure on him. If he chose something I've learned, I shall play. As a result, he picked erhu, the one I do have learned.”
”What if he had picked something you haven't learned?” Zhu Benzheng added immediately.
”If so, I will go over there and play every instrument that I've learned one by one until there are only those I can't play. After playing a few different ones, I don't think Li Qingshi will have the face to say more mean remarks. In either case, I won't lose to him.”
Responded Fang Qiu quite relaxedly.
Hearing this, Zhu Benzheng, Sun Hao, and Zhou Xiaotian exchanged surprised looks in silence.
They never expected that Fang Qiu could do such calculation under that tense circumstance.
He did have considered everything.
”The youngest, you just made a clever deceiving move very smoothly. I didn't realize you're such a schemer until now!”
Sun Hao exclaimed, his eyes scanning Fang Qiu up and down as if he did not know Fang Qiu at all.
”I'm flattered.”
Fang Qiu cupped his hands to show his modesty.
”Well then, the youngest, which musical instruments can you play? Your plan has a flaw. What would you do if Li Qingshi was really shameless and asked you to play all of them?”
Asked Sun Hao, bending an arm around Fang Qiu's shoulder.
At those words, Fang Qiu smiled mysteriously and said, ”Take a guess.”
In fact, the reason why Fang Qiu learned so many musical instruments was simply that he was required to do so for his martial arts practice.
His old master did not intend to cultivate him into a talented man who excelled at all kinds of arts. Instead, he used the music teaching to nurture Fang Qiu's perseverance.
Without perseverance, one's mind was prone to be flighty.
Once the mind was flighty, it was hard to concentrate one's Qi, making it difficult to master real martial arts.
Therefore, as long as he got a hang of one musical instrument, he would immediately switch to another one and start from scratch. Each time he learned a musical instrument, he also enhanced his perseverance.
He kept on learning many things other than playing musical instruments.
His old master would not allow him a minute to relax. According to the theory of his old master, only when a man powered through his limits could he wake up his potentials and make a breakthrough.
But as his martial arts skills got better, he found himself learning musical instruments faster and faster, even though it was really hard at the beginning.
He never thought he was especially talented in learning musical instruments. He was just forced to learn them.
The process was extremely tormenting, and even he sometimes wondered how he persevered through.
However, if it was not for such practice, he would not have been able to reach the Guru Realm at the age of fifteen.
Just as they headed back to their dormitory.
”President of the student union of School of Chinese Medicine got smacked in the face by a freshman!”
This news speedily spread across the entire campus and went viral on the BBS.
It went extremely popular.
Everyone one knew the president of the student union of the School of Chinese Medicine was Li Qingshi, a campus celebrity who got good marks, good looks, and a good brain.
However, such an outstanding figure got smacked in the face by a freshman.
It aroused their intense curiosity.
”What kind of guy is this freshman?”
”How did he smacked Li Qingshi in the face?”
Those who heard the news instantly logged in on the BBS to learn the whole incident.
Although someone posted an onsite video, it was shot in a place very distant from Fang Qiu and Li Qingshi, the center of attention. Adding that the environment was rather noisy, most people skipped it to read the text elaboration.
At the top was a post identified as ”Hot”—Live Broadcast of Fang Qiu vs Li Qingshi, a freshman smacking the president of the student union of the School of Chinese Medicine in the face.
At the sight of the name Fang Qiu, they were all dazed, but soon something dawned on them.
”No wonder!”
”I've been thinking who on earth is so audacious to outperform that talented Li Qingshi. Turned out that it's Fang Qiu, who showed extraordinary talents at yesterday's Start-of-Term Ceremony!”
”How many times did Fang Qiu go viral on the BBS in this week?”
”Is this the third time or the fourth?”
”But we're still in the first week of this new semester! Holy cow, you're awesome!”
”Well, I remember this Fang Qiu is a student of the School of Chinese Medicine, am I right?”
”How come he took on the president of the student union of his own school?”
”Isn't he worried that Li Qingshi might make things extra difficult for him in the days to come?”
With all kinds of doubts, they clicked open the post.
It was obvious that the post was edited with a smartphone, and it was truly a live broadcast, though the live broadcast was already over. The last updated time of the post was 10:30 a.m.
As the time records displayed, the post writer sent the first message at 10 a.m.
”Big news! Big news! Fang Qiu just appeared on the sports ground. Li Qingshi threatened to cast a brick to attract jade—using his singing show as a modest spur to induce Fang Qiu's more valuable performance—his words sounded quite competitive...”
Then, a second one entered.
”Fang Qiu accepted the challenge. Good heavens, Fang Qiu is handsome!”
The third message.
”Li Qingshi is going to sing the song I want you, and he said he would present this song to a girl on the scene. Guess who is this girl?”
The fourth message.
”Li Qingshi's singing is really beautiful. My ears are mesmerized!”
The fifth message.