northernbook Chapter 195 Zhou Dajiang is stunned
Chapter 195 Zhou Dajiang is stunned
The night before the holiday, Zhou Sisi was still in the small study.
During this time, she had already completed her designs and had accumulated quite a few serialized sketches. She figured it was okay since she had a guzheng at home, so she asked Qi Xinrui for a copy of Donghua music scores. She was currently researching how to convert the scores into the simplified notation she was familiar with.
Qi Xinrui had already told her how to notate the music score when she gave it to her during the day.
"We use gongche notation, and generally use he, si, yi, shang, chi, gong, fan, liu, wu, yi and other basic symbols to represent pitch." After saying this, in order to make Zhou Sisi remember it clearly, she also played it again on the guzheng.
After all, Zhou Sisi had studied piano for so many years that she understood it immediately. These words on the sheet music were equivalent to the modern sol, la, si, do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si. It was okay, just a change of symbols, not difficult to remember.
Qi Xinrui is not good at dancing, but she does have solid knowledge of music theory when it comes to playing. In addition to basic notation, she also explained to Zhou Sisi how to represent symbols such as the octave higher and the octave lower of the same note, as well as semitone sharps.
So, at this moment, Zhou Sisi was in the small study, checking her notes and looking at the music score, and then translating it.
Song Tingye entered at this time. Ever since his last successful wall climb, he'd developed a routine: every day at the end of the Xu hour, he'd practice in his room. So, this was the easiest time for him to climb into the backyard. Zhou Dajiang and his wife in the backyard had already gone to bed; only Zhou Sisi's study light was still on.
Zhou Sisi was startled to see him come in so blatantly. She quickly pulled him away from the window and asked in a low voice, "Why are you here?"
Song Tingye hadn't seen the little girl for several days, so he couldn't help but look at her a few more times, and then he stammered and told the little girl that the Duke's Mansion would come to propose marriage tomorrow.
When Zhou Sisi heard this, she was shocked. What should she do? Her parents were not prepared at all.
Zhou Sisi whispered, "Can I not come?" She was almost crying. She didn't want to tell her parents so soon.
Song Tingye looked straight at her, his tone firm, "No, my sister said that my private relationship with you would damage your reputation, and my family also thinks so. However, I am not coming here to formally propose marriage tomorrow, but to communicate with both families first. Once my uncle and aunt agree, I will send a matchmaker to formally propose marriage.
Then we will start the process until we get to Najib. After Najib, we will be officially engaged and we can start dating normally. "
Seeing his serious expression, Zhou Sisi knew that he cared about his reputation, so she had no choice but to compromise, "Okay then."
She had no idea what to do at the moment. This was her first time falling in love, let alone getting engaged. But as long as it wasn't an immediate marriage, an engagement was fine...
She still had to think about how to tell her mother. Forget about her father, as she was afraid that he would get angry. Song Tingye should bear the brunt of his anger.
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The next morning, Zhou Dajiang didn't have to get up early for work, so he slept in. Chen Xiuying felt sorry for her husband's hard work and didn't wake him up.
After Zhou Sisi finished washing up, she dawdled down to the restaurant. Her brothers hadn't gotten up yet, and only her mother was eating breakfast. After thinking about it, she didn't say anything immediately, deciding to wait until her mother finished eating.
Finally, Chen Xiuying glanced up and saw that her daughter was hesitant to speak, obviously something was wrong, so she asked her casually, "What's wrong? You won't eat, and you look absent-minded. What happened?"
Zhou Sisi bit her lip, thinking that if she stuck her head out, she would get stabbed, and if she withdrew her head, she would get stabbed too, so she might as well tell the truth. She mustered up her courage and said, "Mom, I want to tell you something. Please don't be angry."
Seeing that her daughter was quite serious, Chen Xiuying couldn't help but become serious too, "Tell me, what's the matter?" As for whether she was angry or not, that depended on the situation.
"Today, the Duke's Mansion is coming to our house to propose marriage."
……
"what?!"
Chen Xiuying was so surprised that she dropped her chopsticks. It took her a long time to react. She stared at her daughter with wide eyes, "Tell me again, what happened?"
So Zhou Sisi blushed and briefly told the story between her and Song Tingye.
After hearing this, Chen Xiuying was so angry that she didn't know what to say. Her daughter had grown up and had a lot of thoughts on her mind, and she didn't even tell her as a mother!
She only thought of telling him about it when he was about to come to her house. Fortunately, he was someone she knew well. If it was someone she didn't know, she would have cried too late.
Okay, the child's father should not sleep anymore, get up quickly, someone will be coming to the house soon. After thinking about it, he quickly told Sun Ma that there would be someone coming to the house today, so he should prepare more food and ask Sun Dashan to buy anything that was missing immediately.
She quickly made the arrangements and called the person out of bed, but before she could say anything, the person arrived.
Chen Xiuying had no choice but to go out to greet them herself and told Zhou Dajiang to get up and pack up quickly. Before leaving, she thought for a moment and still felt uneasy, so she warned him: "If you hear anything later, be sure to calm down."
Zhou Dajiang had just been called up and his head was still confused. He didn't hear clearly what his wife said at all.
Who could have imagined that someone would come so early on a holiday? He had originally planned to take advantage of the break to sleep in, rest up, and then call Dalin and Xiaosen from the Tian family to explain the principles of glasses. But now, all his plans have been ruined.
Everyone's here, get up quickly. By the time he had finished packing and arrived in the living room, they had already been chatting for quite a while.
To show their importance to the marriage of their two children, the Duke's Mansion had sent out all its staff today. Zhou Dajiang didn't understand the situation and was a little confused when he saw the Song family members coming.
However, he didn't have time to think too much, and hurried forward to greet General Song, the old lady, and Song Zhao and his wife, and then said apologetically: "Zhou was too sleepy today, and made everyone laugh."
General Song laughed heartily and waved his hand, "It's okay, it's okay. It's normal for young people to sleep a little longer. I hope you don't blame us for coming here so hastily."
Zhou Dajiang also laughed along, "How could it be possible? It's so rare for my godfather, godmother, elder brother and sister-in-law to come over. I'm so happy, why would I blame them? That's ridiculous."
Seeing that he was in a good mood, Song Zhao quickly said, "Dajiang, our two families are not strangers, so I'll be frank. We are here today for Tingye and Sisi's marriage.
Tingye is deeply in love with Sisi, and we like her very much too, so we came here today to exchange messages. If you and Xiuying agree, we would like to choose a date to propose marriage."
Zhou Dajiang!!!!!!!
His originally smiling face froze immediately, his eyes staring blankly at Song Zhao, his voice so unclear that even he couldn't hear it clearly, "Brother, what did you say?"