Joker's Band Game Story

Ren Amamiya casually remarked, then glanced at Yaoling Li: "Since you can't buy groceries, then what about your cooking skills..."

"I think I should be fine. I often cook dumplings or steam buns at home..."

The more she spoke, the less confident she became, and looking at the dishes, Li Yaoling also felt a little guilty.

She had originally planned to go home and try cooking a meal, but now...

"Not surprising at all... In that case, if you don't mind, come to my house for a meal. Of course, you can use the groceries you buy."

"Sure, sure, hehe."

Upon hearing that she could get a free meal, Li Yaoling immediately said that there was no problem.

Ren Amamiya didn't know why she was so outgoing. Was it just because he could speak Chinese?

Okay, that's not important. What's important is that I can save money on groceries today.

Chapter 4 of the National Version of Love Sound?

Wow~ Your house is really big! Do you live alone in a house with five (or eight) rooms?

"Well, for the shoes, let's use my mother's slippers for now."

In the entryway, Li Yaoling looked around the room with shining eyes. Although she lived diagonally opposite Amamiya Ren, the two houses were still quite different in layout.

The living room is directly opposite the entrance hall, and the kitchen is inside the living room. Next to the kitchen is a staircase that leads to the second floor.

Ren Amamiya took a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet. He didn't have many slippers; including his own, he only had three pairs. He rarely brought people into his house, and Li Yaoling was only there because she was a neighbor.

A close neighbor is worse than a distant relative, so the neighborhood relations have always been very good. Sometimes neighbors will come to visit, or ask for favors.

So even if the other person wasn't Li Yaoling but a man, Amamiya Ren would still treat him the same way, though he would be more casual about it.

After all, boys are more casual with each other, and when it comes to the opposite sex... it's really rare to see someone as overly assertive as Li Yaoling.

"Hey~ you don't have a TV at home."

Li Yaoling arrived at the entryway and noticed the TV cabinet was empty, which she found strange.

“I don’t usually watch TV. My parents originally planned to buy a TV, but since I don’t know how to use it, and they are away from home most of the year, they simply gave me the money to play music.”

"Hey! I've been wanting to ask this for a while now, do you always carry two guitars with you when you go out?!"

Two... guitars...

Very good, another music newbie.

"It's not two guitars, it's one guitar and one bass."

"Bass? Didn't they say it doesn't matter whether there's a bass or not during a performance?"

Very good, bass joke.

Amamiya was already immune to bass jokes; she'd heard them far too many times in her past life.

So he only explained the bass to Li Yaoling when he put the vegetables in the refrigerator: "But you can actually hear the bass in the room. If you call the other instruments building blocks, the bass is the glue that helps the instruments come together."

"So you can play bass and guitar too? That's amazing!"

"And you? Do you play any musical instruments well? In Japan, it's easy to make friends if you can play a musical instrument."

Ren Amamiya casually asked a question, but his words made Yaoling Li hesitate for a moment.

"Um... have you ever heard of a suona?"

"…Anything else?"

Indeed, it's easy to make friends by playing musical instruments, but the suona... is a different story.

"That's all, hehe..."

Li Yaoling stuck out her tongue; she really didn't have any other musical instruments she was good at.

If it's just the suona, it would be too difficult to find a band, as the suona is a rather unpopular instrument in Japan.

Actually, playing the suona well is quite impressive, but probably not many sheet music would include it. In addition, this instrument is so noisy that even entertainment bands would dislike it if played poorly.

“Being good at singing is also an option.”

“Singing? I’m very good at singing. My grandma says I sing very well.”

Upon hearing this, Li Yaoling immediately sang a few lines of a folk song. Although Amamiya had never heard this folk song before, he could tell that Li Yaoling had some singing skills.

The voice is clear and crisp, the melody is catchy, the pronunciation is stable, and the breath control is steady.

Yes, she plays the suona, so her lung capacity is definitely sufficient.

"You can try being the lead singer at school... Oh, your Japanese isn't very good."

Ren Amamiya realized that the prerequisite for the other party to become the lead singer was to learn Japanese well first.

"Ah, I know that, but Japanese is so difficult."

"Simpler than Chinese."

Ren Amamiya casually remarked that he understood why Yaoling Li was so unfamiliar with Japanese. Of the four skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—Chinese speakers tend to excel in reading and writing rather than listening and speaking, but when they actually travel to other countries, listening and speaking become more important than reading and writing.

If you can't understand or speak, then communication will naturally be quite difficult.

"So your top priority is still to speak Japanese. In that case, let's communicate in Japanese from now on. If you don't start developing your Japanese skills early, you won't be able to integrate well into this environment."

"Hey, wait a minute, can it be a little later?"

"Da Mee Yo~"

Amamiya chose to communicate with the other party directly in Japanese. He felt that Li Yaoling was being a bit too familiar with him.

Could it be that they felt a natural affinity because they both spoke Chinese? That won't do; he has to correct that.

When she started speaking Japanese, Li Yaoling, who had been almost sprawled on the sofa, immediately sat up straight. She tried her best to translate what Amamiya Ren said into Chinese in her mind, while also thinking about how to translate what she should say next into Japanese.

In fact, this is the process in everyone's mind, but it seems slow because of a lack of proficiency.

Take typing as an example. Typing is a conversion process. You first convert the word you want to type into pinyin in your mind before typing it out on the keyboard and making a selection. That's why some people type quickly and some people type slowly. Once you're familiar with this conversion process, the word you think of will automatically be converted into the corresponding key in your mind.

Li Yaoling needed this familiarization process, so Amamiya told her to practice properly.

However, I wasn't too harsh on myself, and I spoke very slowly.

He believed that Li Yaoling couldn't possibly be completely ignorant of Japanese; how could she have come to Japan to study alone without some ability? She just lacked experience.

Should we take her to visit the neighbors more often and ask them to look after her?

"Can you make desserts?"

Ren Amamiya asked while chopping vegetables in the kitchen.

There is no wall separating his kitchen and living room, so communication is very convenient.

It looks strange, but it's actually quite normal. Japan doesn't use as much oil as China. They sometimes eat very light food, and with range hoods, there's usually not much smell from cooking that gets into the living room.

More importantly, without this wall, the living room feels much larger.

"Uh... I know a little bit."

"Really? Then you can knead the dough. Try to build good relationships with your neighbors so they'll look after you."

As Ren Amamiya spoke, he pointed to the flour sack not far away: "What kind of desserts can you make?"

"Uh... mantou, how do you translate mantou (in Chinese)?"

When Li Yaoling started thinking about how to translate this kind of word, Amamiya Ren already knew what was going on with her.

So, being able to make desserts means being able to steam buns, right?

But that's not bad. If you can steam buns, you'll learn other desserts quickly too.

"Let's make some egg tarts and give them to the neighbors after we finish eating."

"Uh... what should I do?"

"Egg Tart, I still recommend that you learn more vocabulary about everyday items to avoid problems in this area."

Amamiya Ren repeated it again. It seems that Li Yaoling's vocabulary is still not enough. & Ling Meng Wu Yin (7) Ba Ba Ling 7 (Yi #).

"Ah... I know. I'm already in Japanese class, and I'll probably graduate and go to university next year."

"Going straight to university next year? Aren't you going to high school?"

"High school? I finished it in the country. I came here to go to university."

Li Yaoling managed to spell out the words with difficulty, and Amamiya Ren understood the meaning after going through it in her mind.

Studying abroad is generally done at a specific stage, such as junior high, high school, or university. Chinese students coming to Japan typically attend a special course for six months to a year to adapt to Japanese. This usually allows them to have normal conversations.

"Then I recommend that you don't go to Chinatown to work when you're there."

"Eh? Why?"

"Because in that case you won't have an environment to learn Japanese. If you're not prepared to slack off, I suggest you go back to China. The hardest part of being away from home is the first six months. If you can get through that, you'll integrate. If you can't, you might as well go home as soon as possible."

Ren Amamiya's words on this point were harsh, but they were also a form of advice. A short, sharp pain is worse than a long, drawn-out one; either persevere or give up decisively.

He always had a feeling that Li Yaoling was so close to him only because he could speak Chinese, and that she had a desire to escape from him.

This is human nature, but this behavior must be stopped, otherwise she will not be able to train properly.

"Why does Amamiya seem more like an adult (in Chinese)..."

"what are you saying?"

Li Yaoling's rambling was overheard by Amamiya Ren, who looked up and continued, "One more thing, it's best not to speak Chinese in front of Japanese people. They won't understand and will think you're cursing them."

"Hi!"

Li Yaoling answered immediately, having spoken so much Japanese that she had forgotten that Amamiya Ren knew Chinese. Sure enough, switching between languages ​​for so long had made her brain a little overwhelmed.

The two of them chatted as they cooked, while rice was steaming nearby.

The dishes were ready quickly, but the rice still needed to be steamed for a while. Ren Amamiya placed the dishes on two plates and put them on the table first.

"Wow, the Japanese really do eat separately."

Li Yaoling walked to the side and looked at the dishes: "They're so bland."