E Ending
"Xiao Hei has another job!" Yuxue and Xia Yu said.
Xia Yu thought for a moment and remembered the previous incident. He asked, "What kind of job?"
"It's for a cat house this time." The girl was excited.
"Is it the same one as before?"
"No, it's a different one."
A different one? How did they get the job for the different one?
The previous cat food commercial hadn't aired on TV yet.
Confused for a while, Xia Yu found the answer.
On the local forum, the video had already been posted, and it had become a popular thread.
There were two versions of the well-produced video, one featuring the black cat skillfully dodging all obstacles, and the other showing the black cat crashing through obstacles.
The comments were full of praise for the black cat's acting and agility.
The cat house job probably came from seeing this.
"When are we going to shoot?" Xia Yu asked again.
"This weekend or next weekend will work." Holding the black cat, Yuxue happily said.
Today was Saturday, and tomorrow was the weekend. That meant either tomorrow or seven days later.
In five days, it would be time for the third competition, and five days after that would be the final. He would be staying in A-Fang City during this time and would have no time at all.
So, it could only be done tomorrow.
"Let's do it tomorrow, and have Yi Wei join you." Xia Yu said, rubbing Yuxue's head.
"Okay, the pay for this job is still five thousand, hehehe." Yuxue's expression was excited.
It was only when the money was mentioned that Xia Yu remembered the matter of the bicycles.
During this time, he had always been forgetting, since he had been busy and had entrusted Yidian to pick up Yuxue from school.
The next morning, he took Yuxue to the mall, and each of them chose a bicycle.
The mall offered a delivery service, but an excited Yuxue rode her new bicycle all the way home.
When they reached the door of their house, she didn't go in but instead rode around outside.
Xia Yu stopped his bike and watched the girl.
It had been a long time since he had experienced this simple kind of happiness.
The last time he had felt this way was when he was a child, and he had taken his father's private money to buy popsicles with Kong Hanyue.
Thinking of his father, Xia Yu frowned.
He wondered where that guy had run off to.
In order to prevent his father from causing trouble, Xia Yu had asked someone to look into his whereabouts, but there was still no news.
"Brother?" A fair-skinned hand waved in front of Xia Yu's eyes. It was Yuxue's hand.
Grabbing the girl's hand, Xia Yu pinched her face: "Let's go home. We still have to shoot your cat house scene in the afternoon!"
"Okay!"
In the afternoon, Xia Yu cleared the space Wen Ziying had left and logged into the black cat's body to shoot the cat house scene with the girl.
The script involved him lying in bed, being pushed off by the fake poop-scoop officer next to him, having his body pressed with an arm, and having his blanket taken away, all to show that cats couldn't sleep with their poop-scooping officer.
Then there was a scene in the cat house, showing a peaceful shot to introduce the cat house.
It was a straightforward production, much easier than the previous cat food commercial, and the pay was the same.
After the shooting, the excited Yuxue received the payment and bought two small goldfish for Xia Yu.
Xia Yu wasn't particularly interested in the goldfish, but the black cat itself was very fond of them.
After coming out of the black cat's body, Xia Yu discovered that the black cat's bonus had become lv2, and he also gained three times the game points. If he had known that the black cat's favorability could be improved like this, he would have given the black cat a whole tank. At the same time when the bonus increased to lv2, Xia Yu's agility also became lv4. This skill improved quickly because of the fixed bonus it had received.
"What's wrong?" His daze was noticed by Kong Hanyue. Picking up a piece of potato chip, Kong Hanyue stuffed it into Xia Yu's mouth. Looking at Kong Hanyue's face in front of him and thinking about the good times they had together, Xia Yu's heart warmed. In the past, they often shared potato chips like this.
At this time, Liu Rong Lan cut in, "That potato chip just fell on her feet." "..." Extending his hand, Xia Yu pinched Kong Hanyue's face. "I didn't, I didn't, stop talking nonsense, it clearly just fell on the floor!" Kong Hanyue explained. After a while, Xia Yu let go of Kong Hanyue, took off his prosthetic armor, and rested his fingers.
During the rest time, Liu Rong Lan didn't let up and discussed Xia Yu's shortcomings with him. "Your practice speed is already quite fast, but it seems that the E-ending is still too difficult for you at the moment." Liu Rong Lan seemed a little regretful, "If you could play the E-ending in this competition, you would definitely astonish everyone and declare that there is a successor to our Hua School."
These days, Xia Yu had basically mastered POD042, and Liu Rong Lan couldn't wait to let him try the E-ending, but the result was disappointing. With lv4 level, he could already play all the songs, such as piano, and had learned all the famous songs. However, E-ending was not a normal song; it was originally a piece played by five to three guzhengs together.
Later, a master changed this piece into a piano and xiao duet, which was already the limit for ordinary people to play. However, the Hua School's E-ending required one person to play it! The requirements for finger flexibility were demanding and perverted. Xia Yu's previous lv3 agility couldn't even play it.
"Isn't that normal?" Kong Hanyue spoke up for Xia Yu, "Teacher, even you can't play the whole piece now!" Liu Rong Lan tapped Kong Hanyue's head and gave her a glance, "I'm 63 years old, what do you expect?" She looked at Xia Yu again, "However, I learned this piece when I was 20. Yu Yu, if you work hard, there's still hope you can catch up with me."
Liu Rong Lan's face was smug, and besides comforting Xia Yu, she also had a sense of showing off. Hearing her words, Xia Yu's first reaction was that she might have an agility bonus on her body. However, he didn't need it anymore.
"Alright, continue practicing with POD042. After this competition, I'll start your real training. Our Hua School has a complete finger exercise course, and after three years of practice, you should be able to meet the requirements." Liu Rong Lan's face was proudly filled with implication. Three years later, Xia Yu would be 21, while she would learn it at 20.
"Let me try again." Xia Yu put on his prosthetic armor again.
"Relax, although your talent is not as good as mine, but it's still a rare and outstanding ability," Liu Ronglan said nonchalantly. It wasn't possible that he couldn't play just now, and after a short rest, he could play again, right?
This wasn't a ridiculous TV drama where playing skills could suddenly explode, was it?
Xia Yu had already started plucking the strings, the speed at the beginning of the E ending was quite normal, but it would rise rapidly.
Ten seconds after Xia Yu started playing, Liu Ronglan already felt that something was wrong.
Before, Xia Yu had failed at thirty seconds, so playing for ten seconds was normal, but during these ten seconds, the previous performance was somewhat chaotic, but now it seemed to be effortless.
Under Liu Ronglan's surprised gaze, Xia Yu broke through thirty seconds and stopped only when he reached one minute.
"It's only one minute," Kong Hanyue regretfully said.
"Get lost," Liu Ronglan kicked Kong Hanyue.
She grabbed Xia Yu's hand and explained, "The difficulty doesn't change much after one minute, if you can hold on for a minute, you can hold on until you finish!"
"My dear grandson, work hard these few days, try to complete this piece before the final on the first, and show them that our Hua faction is not without successors!" Liu Ronglan laughed heartily.
Kong Hanyue, who was kicked, felt resentment and repeated Liu Ronglan's words in a loud voice, "Your talent is a bit worse than mine."
Liu Ronglan's face turned red, and she went to chase and beat Kong Hanyue.