A Young Woman's Heart

"Hey, hey, it doesn't matter what it is!" Mo Xueyao complained on the other end of the phone.

"Those... handicrafts?" Yu Shu glanced at her friends beside her; they seemed even more excited than she was.

"Okay! Yu Shu said she wants handicrafts!" Mo Xueyao's voice suddenly faded into the distance, while Wang Jiale and Hua Yinyin's voices could be heard from afar.

"I...I'll tell you!" Her voice suddenly became very close, much louder than the noisy background noise, "What kind do you want?"

"It's fine, whatever..." Yu Shu was already somewhat helpless.

"Pfft, at least describe what's there..." Wu Shanshan laughed so hard her whole body shook.

"Hey, don't you have any concrete ideas?"

"If I choose it myself... will there be no surprise?" Yu Shu pouted, but was too embarrassed to say that it was too noisy over there and listening to the sounds was too tiring.

"What?" It seemed that because her voice was too soft, Mo Xueyao on the other end did not hear her at all.

"Well, anything is fine!" She pouted, seemingly a little unhappy.

"Okay, then..." This sentence seemed to be spoken to someone else, because the phone was quickly hung up before the speaker could finish.

Wu Shanshan chuckled and teased from the side, "Shu'er's seniors are really decisive and efficient."

"Ugh... my ears hurt from listening to that." Yu Shu put down her phone. "I'll just play Dafu..."

“Oh! A guitar!” Jiang Yu Ruo interrupted her.

……

Chapter 258 Guitar

(One)

Wu Shanshan trembled in fright at her shout: "Ah..."

"Does Shanshan play the guitar?"

"Just bought it, I've been using it to learn on my own lately..."

"It's a classical guitar."

"Well, I thought it would be more convenient if it wasn't plugged in, but I didn't expect it to be so heavy..." Wu Shanshan sighed, "Learning musical instruments is just too difficult."

“A guitar…” Yu Shu muttered to herself, because her synthesizer could also produce the sound of a guitar.

"Can I touch it?"

“It’s okay, it’s okay…” Wu Shanshan hesitated a bit, “Just don’t… don’t break it.”

"Don't worry!" Jiang Yu said, reaching out to gently touch the guitar and strumming the strings.

The strings and the soundbox resonated, producing melodious music.

"It sounds great!"

"Right, it's quite expensive..."

"It looks like it's been taking a long time?"

"Uh... because it's secondhand, my family can't afford a brand new one." Wu Shanshan couldn't help but walk over to the guitar and pick it up. "I begged my dad for so long before he finally bought it for me, and because of this, I have to do a few more practice tests every week. Just thinking about it is painful. The worst part is, I haven't even learned how to play it yet..."

"I don't know much about stringed instruments either..." Yu Shu was helpless. In comparison, keyboard instruments are much simpler. After all, you can make a sound by pressing a key. As long as you know the sheet music, you can play it right away. Unlike stringed instruments, it is not easy to make them produce the corresponding pitch.

"Let's learn this today!"

"Huh?"

"Are there any textbooks?" Jiang Yu asked excitedly, looking very proactive.

"Of course I can. I practiced according to the textbook, but I still can't play a decent piece."

"Give it a try!"

"Um...I...I want to see too?" Yu Shu timidly raised her hand.

"Alright, alright..." Wu Shanshan glanced helplessly at the Monopoly cards on the table and could only put them away again.

……

(two)

"Ding~"

"Boom~"

"Duang~"

"Oh my, what a strange sound." Yu Shu smiled, then shrank back slightly. "It feels like it makes your skin feel a little tingly."

"That's the power of music!" Jiang Yuruo was having a lot of fun.

"Let me try, let me try... Hey, it can actually make this kind of sound?"

"Is Shanshan unable to understand this part?"

"Um……"

"Let me see..." Yu Shu glanced at it, comparing the sheet music and the guitar tablature, "That's roughly the gist of it..."

"Put your finger here?" Jiang Yuruo was looking at the instructions for actual operation, fiddling with the pick a few times. "Oh, is it like this?"

"Wow, that's fingerstyle guitar... Ruoruo, you might be a guitar prodigy!"

"Right!" Jiang Yu Ruo said without any modesty, "I'll try again!"

……

(three)

As the sun sets, night slowly descends.

A few streetlights lit up sporadically, and a row of colorful lights hung from the tower cranes that were still working at night.

As the misty night deepened, the girls, who had been playing guitar for two or three hours, finally began to feel tired.

Are you hungry?

"fine?"

"It takes a while to make rice balls."

"Hmm—then, shall we cook?" Yu Shu tilted her head.

"Cook!" Jiang Yuru nodded vigorously, then gently, slowly, and carefully placed the guitar back in its place. "The guitar is really nice!"

"Hmm! A real guitar definitely sounds much better than what comes from an electronic synthesizer."

"After all, it can be changed." Wu Shanshan couldn't help but feel a little proud when talking about her guitar.

The three girls went downstairs and busied themselves in the small kitchen.

Actually, you don't need to prepare anything to make rice balls, but for two girls who don't cook much, it was still a bit chaotic.

"Hey, hey—! It tipped over!" Yu Shu shouted anxiously. Wu Shanshan turned around, but still couldn't catch the rice cooker that had slipped off the edge of the sink.

Water and rice splashed everywhere, and Yu Shu, who tried to rush over and grab the rice pot, slipped and fell because of the flying rice and water.

She plopped down on the ground, her little face scrunched up: "Mmm..."

Jiang Yuruo, who was standing at the door, stepped forward, helped her up, patted the two of them on the shoulder, and pushed them to the doorway.

"Huh? Huh?"

"Ruoruo, what are you going to do?"

"I'll do it!" Jiang Yuru couldn't stand it anymore. Of the three of them, she was probably the only one who would cook regularly.

Otherwise, these two would probably blow up the kitchen just by cooking rice.

"You want to make rice balls, right?"

"Hmm...right, let's cook rice first..."

"Leave it to me!" Jiang Yuruo quickly cleaned up the kitchen again, then rapidly washed and rinsed the rice. "Should the rice for the rice balls be a little stickier?"

"Hmm...should we?"

"Then add more water..." She carefully controlled the amount of water, then wiped the outside of the rice cooker with a dry cloth, and put it into the rice cooker to start cooking rice.

Of course, she wasn't idle either. She peeled the large sausage she had just taken out and quickly sliced ​​it into even pieces. Her knife skills were comparable to those of a chef in a restaurant.

"Be careful..." Yu Shu's face was full of worry.

"Yeah, don't cut your hand."

Jiang Yu didn't answer, but simply gave them both a confident smile.

"Knock knock knock—"

After slicing the ham sausage, she peeled open the salted duck egg, took out the yolk as intact as possible, cut it in half, and chopped the egg white into small pieces.

"Is that right?"

"Yes...that's how it is." Wu Shanshan was a little surprised. "Does Ruoruo often cook at home?"

"Yes, often!"

"No wonder..."

"Grandpa is always too lazy to cook, so I cook for myself."

"As expected of Ruoruo..." Yu Shu exclaimed sincerely.

At that moment, she received a text message on her phone. She opened it to read it, and Wu Shanshan, who was next to her, also came over.

Yu Shu placed her phone between the two of them: "Yu Shu, have you eaten? I bought you a surprise souvenir! We're already in the dorm building, getting ready for dinner, we're starving."

"Hmm, does Xueyao-senpai often send you text messages like this?"

"No, not really," Yu Shu said, blushing slightly. "It's just that this time when we went out, they said they would share things from over there with me... that's why they've been sending me so often."

"I see."

Yu Shu held her phone in both hands and typed a message: "I'm having rice balls for dinner tonight. I'm at Shanshan's house."