Chapter 43 Donating a Goal! (1/2)
”Does he really know how to play the Chinese zither?”
Before the question hung in their heads for long, Fang Qiu already started to play.
It was still the Oceans' Roar!
”Impressive, bro!”
”It's the fourth one!”
”Is there any musical instrument that you can't play?”
”Li Qingshi's face must have already been slapped swollen!”
As playing, Fang Qiu shot chilling looks at Li Qingshi.
In fact, he had better play the Chinese zither with fake nails. Even though real nails were more flexible and convenient, they were not thick enough. If one plucked the strings with your own nails, the sound you produced would be thin and dull, especially when you plucked at the low pitch area where the notes tended to be ethereal. Adding that due to the limited plucking angles, it would be hard to catch the best angle, which in turn would affect its sound and the techniques you could employ.
But so what?
If he ought to perform several songs in a row, he would have to wear fake nails.
However, now that he was only going to do half or one-fourth of a song, it would not hurt to play with his own nails!
Li Qingshi's face darkened so much that it appeared to wring wet, while his eyes that landed on Fang Qiu was full of incredulity.
He just could not believe a man could really master so many musical instruments.
Especially when this man was Fang Qiu!
This was utterly beyond his cognitive competence. ”How is it possible that a man can play musical instruments like that?”
”Even if his interests for musical instruments are varied, how come he is so talented and have so much time to learn all of them?”
”How old is Fang Qiu? Only seventeen!”
”For an ordinary guy, even if he has kept learning until he is twenty-seven, thirty-seven, or forty-seven, he will not be able to master four or five musical instruments!”
Nevertheless, Fang Qiu's performance is not over. He left the Chinese zither but then scooped up a bamboo flute.
”The fifth musical instrument!”
As music flowed out, Li Qingshi's confidence completely crumbled.
The talent he had been proud of seemed so insignificant in front of Fang Qiu, rendering him rather ashamed.
Helpless!
He felt deeply helpless!
As if all his strength was sucked away in an instant, Li Qingshi's face looked pale, and his legs nearly gave way.
A bamboo flute solo.
It was the same Oceans' Roar.
How sarcastic the familiar melody sounded now!
The song he practiced meticulously was easy to play for Fang Qiu. The skills he had been treasuring turned out to be quite lousy. Now he realized he had made a laughingstock of himself before the expert.
After playing a chapter, Fang Qiu laid down the bamboo flute and picked up a violin.
”Gosh!”
”There is more!”
This was mind-blowing for everyone.
”Do you still want others to live?”
”Even if you don't leave a way out for Li Qingshi, you ought to give us a chance to survive, don't you?”
”Since you're so talented, in contrast, we're all sh*t. The years we've lived is just a waste of time!”
”Enough, please call it a day now.”
”We can't take more!”
”You're amazing, all right? We admit you're brilliant!”
However, Fang Qiu did not place the violin on his shoulder and start playing. Instead, he googled at Li Qingshi frigidly and demanded, ”You want to see more?”
All the eyes instantly focused on Li Qingshi.
”Want more?”
Li Qingshi looked embarrassedly scarlet.
It was not proper to say yes, because he needed no more proof to know he already lost to Fang Qiu.
But it did not feel right to say no. It would sound like he was admitting his defeat, wouldn't it?
Throwing in the sponge in front of all these people was something he would never do.
At this, Fang Qiu snorted, placed the violin back and said, ”Such being the case, don't do more sordid deals under the table. Show your abilities openly, whatever you have. I'll outperform them one by one. If you're not convinced, just bring it on!”
”Outperform your abilities one by one!”
”Not convinced? Just bring it on!”
Those words made the crowd stir again.
Today, they finally learned about this student named Fang Qiu.
”His talents are stunning!”
”His behavior is quite domineering!”
”He even dared go against the president of the student union in public, but he did it in a way open and aboveboard!”
”Just put everything on the table. I'll defeat you with my own strength, and then, I shall see what demurs you can still hold.”
”That's what a truly powerful person should be!”
”Sure enough, all the plots and schemes are useless in front of overwhelming strength.”
All the people there were clear that today Li Qingshi suffered a crushing defeat. The talent that made him a celebrity on campus was now completely outshone.
Although Li Qingshi was quite brilliant, compared to the nature-defiant Fang Qiu, his brilliance was just like the light of a firefly, never able to compete with the bright moonlight Fang Qiu was radiating.
Seeing Li Qingshi did not speak a word, Fang Qiu sneered and said to his three roommates, ”Let's go.”
Zhu Benzheng, Sun Hao, and Zhou Xiaotian immediately held their chins up, stalked to catch up with Fang Qiu and took off with him.
”Fang Qiu won it, which means our Dormitory 501 won it!”
”Of course, we shall keep our chins up!”
”We're just so arrogant!”
”You don't agree?”
”If so, try to overtake Fang Qiu!”
”He'll crash you!”
As they walked past a corner of the sports ground, Fang Qiu suddenly came to a halt. At the sight of that banner, he gave a sigh in his mind.
”Poor thing. At a blossom age but got caught in such a tragedy. How pathetic!”
Those on the sports ground had been staring at Fang Qiu all the way out. When they saw Fang Qiu stopped in front of the donation desk, they quickly came up with their speculations.
”Will Fang Qiu really make a donation?”
At the scene, Li Qingshi's eyes gleamed. He trotted over to the donation desk and announced, ”We should help our schoolmate who is in trouble. I'll donate a thousand yuan!”
He said those words out loud, so people in the surroundings all heard him clearly.
And they were all taken aback at Li Qingshi's generosity.
Although a thousand yuan was not much for most working men, it was still a lot of money for students.
After all, they were all relying on the funds that their parents earned painstakingly to pay their college tuition, and even their money for living expenses was not much.
Therefore, many only donated fifty yuan or a hundred yuan, five hundred tops. Jiang Miaoyu was one of those who pitched in five hundred yuan.
Despite the small amount of each donation, there were a large number of students, which was sufficient to combine into a huge donation.
As Li Qingshi made the one thousand yuan donation.
The staff taking charge of the donating affair took the lead to applaud, which developed into a round of applause.