Settling the Wedding Date

Seeing Old Liu's expression turn extremely ugly in an instant, Liu Sizhe felt very uneasy. He was worried that Old Liu might lash out in embarrassment, but he was also worried that these words of his would make Old Liu depressed.

After a moment, Liu Sizhe said cautiously, "Grandfather..."

"Enough!"

Old Liu waved his hand and cut him off. "Just as you said, I do feel that I didn't handle this matter properly. Thinking about it now, I truly regret it."

Old Qian said, "Old Liu, you can't put it that way. In that kind of environment, it wasn't something one or two people could change. Society was so frenzied back then that even if you had genuinely wanted to reverse the situation, you might not have achieved anything and could instead have been dragged deep into the whirlpool."

Chu Chen picked up the conversation. "Exactly. After silk strings were replaced by steel strings, apart from social factors, the fact that the craftsmanship couldn't produce good silk strings was also a very important reason."

"Besides, steel strings are durable nowadays, and their smooth surfaces are praised by qin players. Their 'different from the ancient' sound, which isn't particularly simple and refined, was accepted by the new generation of qin players unfamiliar with the tone of traditional silk strings. Even qin players who had used silk strings gradually grew accustomed to them. That is the reality of modern qin history."

"Alas!"

Old Liu sighed. "I know everything you're saying, but I still feel as though there's a knot in my heart that I can't get rid of!"

Hearing this, Old Fei said, "Old Liu, as Old Qian and Little Chu said, let bygones be bygones. Besides, with the improvement in everyone's quality of life, people no longer treat musical tone as