Second Piano Concerto

Tan Shuo didn't wake up naturally until noon.

He got out of bed slowly, put on his clothes and pants slowly to wash up, then walked downstairs slowly, took off the door panels of the shop door one by one, and piled them on both sides of the door.

Longjin Town is an ancient town with beautiful mountains and green waters. It got its name because there are many aborigines with the surname Long.Tan Shuo has opened a rice noodle shop in this town, and it has been a long time in the blink of an eye.In recent years, tourism in ancient towns has become more and more popular, and Longjin Town will inevitably be developed.For this reason, many merchants in the original town renovated their shops, but Tan Shuo is still one of the few daily shops in this town because of laziness and because he likes the original appearance of the old house. One of the stores that need to load and unload door panels.

He finished removing all the door panels, exposing several tables in the store, and took out the board with the price list on one side of the door panel, and his stomach suddenly growled.

While cleaning the table, Tan Shuo was thinking about how to fill his stomach. At this moment, he looked up inadvertently, and saw a young man with the appearance of a student standing outside the store door, looking at the flamboyant vegetable price list, as if Hesitating whether to come in or not.

Tan Shuo was overjoyed.Now is the off-season for tourism. Although he still pretends to open a store every day, in fact, sometimes he may not be able to wait for a customer from afternoon to night.Someone came just after the opening today, and he thought it was a good sign.

He immediately greeted him with a smile on his face, and greeted him sincerely and cordially: "Little classmate, how about a bowl of rice noodles?"

The young man looked at Tan Shuo, then at the sign above his head that said "Old Tan Sauerkraut Powder", his face was still hesitant.But he doesn't seem to be a person who is good at rejecting others, so although his eyebrows have not yet shown a clear attitude, his feet have already entered the store following Tan Shuo's invitation.

Tan Shuo laughed, and hurriedly led him to the table he had just wiped, put the rag on his shoulder, and introduced politely: "Our signature dish, Old Tan sauerkraut powder! Appetizing and refreshing, not delicious No money! Do you want to try it, little classmate?"

While listening to his introduction, the young man quickly browsed the simple one-page menu on the table, and nodded in a daze.

"Okay! A big bowl of old Tan's sauerkraut powder!" Tan Shuo yelled with his thick neck, and immediately shouted some excitement for this deserted small shop.Originally, he had a clerk in this shop, but there was no business in the off-season, and he could do it all by himself. In order to save wages, he sent the clerk home.Tan Shuo has always been very confident in his craftsmanship. Now that he has a job, he immediately boils water happily and prepares rice noodles and sour soup.His shop is small, and the cooking and eating places are in the same place. There are stoves behind a few tables, so that he can look at the only customer in the shop while boiling rice noodles.The young man was sitting upright, with his hands neatly placed on the table, probably because he had nothing to do, so he picked up the menu and looked at it over and over again.He was wearing a white shirt and beige slacks, with a clean and serene demeanor, unlike a town resident who was relaxed with empty hands, and he didn't look like an ordinary backpacker. Seeing his hesitation and bewilderment earlier, he looked more like an arrival Students who visited the ancient town but did not make a good strategy.But the students should be in class at this time of the season, and he is so calm, it doesn't seem like he skipped class.Tan Shuo thought about it, and felt that this person might just look innocent and tender-faced, with a bookish air, so it was easy to be misunderstood.

The young man's fingers were long and his nails were cut short.Tan Shuo glanced at those hands, and ended his viewing of the customer without thinking too much. He scooped up the hot rice noodles for one person from the pot, and at the same time thought about whether he should also scald a bowl of porridge for himself. Make it for brunch.

He brought the steaming rice noodles in front of the young man, turned back to the stove, and this time took two servings of rice noodles and put them into the pot.He went to bed late last night, didn't eat supper, and skipped another meal this morning, and now he was so hungry that his chest stuck to his back, and a serving of rice noodles was not enough for him.

While the rice noodles were cooking in the pot, Tan Shuo raised his eyes to look at the table again, wanting to see if the customer was satisfied with his craftsmanship, but saw that the young man suddenly stopped chopping his chopsticks and coughed a few times, and frowned. .

Tan Shuo was taken aback, feeling bad, could there be something wrong with that bowl of rice noodles?That's what he did!He hurried forward and asked: "What's the matter, isn't it delicious?"

The young man shook his head.

Tan Shuo looked at his expression: "Are you afraid of spicy food?"

The young man nodded, but said, "It's all right." Then he picked up a few sticks of rice noodles and ate them.He ate slowly and painfully.Seeing his difficulty swallowing, Tan Shuo thought that the rice noodles were cooking in the pot and there were no other customers in the store at the moment, so he said, "Don't eat if you are afraid of spicy food, I will change a bowl for you."

The young man shook his head again: "It's a pity to throw it away."

Tan Shuo laughed, thinking that this little classmate was interesting.He didn't try to persuade him any more, he just took out the hot rice noodles in the pot and made a bowl of clear soup, and took the bowl of sauerkraut powder away without any explanation, and pushed the clear soup in front of the young man: "Eat this bowl, this bowl The bowl is not spicy!" Then he took a pair of chopsticks and sat down across the table, holding the bowl of sauerkraut powder and eating it with a snort.

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Qin Haiou looked in surprise at the person sitting across from him who was devoting himself to sucking rice noodles.In his memory, only his father and elder brother ate the leftovers when he was a child, and he never knew that this could be the case between two strangers.Tan Shuo devoured the food, which made Qin Haiou feel embarrassed before he had another idea. The owner of the rice noodle shop didn't seem to be trying to accommodate customers who couldn't eat spicy food. He seemed to really want to eat that bowl of sauerkraut. Powder, so I changed bowls with myself.

Qin Haiou didn't move his chopsticks for a while, but Tan Shuo found out, raised his eyes in his busy schedule and asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing..." Qin Haiou didn't know how to express his feelings, he couldn't say "I'm really embarrassed, why don't we change it back"?What's more, just as he was in a daze, Tan Shuo had almost finished eating that bowl of sauerkraut powder!

Qin Haiou had no choice but to concentrate on eating.The clear soup powder was delicious, and he also thought it was easy to eat, but he soon discovered that this bowl of clear soup powder was almost twice the amount of that bowl of sauerkraut powder, and it seemed that it was indeed the lunch that the shop owner prepared for himself after he was extremely hungry.He suddenly felt a little sorry, and he didn't know if this person would still be able to eat in exchange.

Of course Tan Shuo didn't know what the young man in front of him was thinking.He finished the bowl of sauerkraut powder and even the soup, but he still didn't feel full, so he put the empty bowl on the table, stood up and said to Qin Haiou, "I'll go out for a while, put the money in the bowl after you finish eating." Just go down." After speaking, without waiting for Qin Haiou's response, he patted his stomach and left from the back door of the small shop.

Qin Haiou watched Tan Shuo's figure disappear outside the narrow door, was stunned for a while, then lowered his head and continued to eat his rice noodles.

The reason why he appeared alone in this small town was purely by coincidence.

After that concert, he cut off all contact with the outside world, and even his friends had no way of knowing his real situation.At that time, his second sister, Qin Haibei, happened to be going to sketch near Longjin Town. Qin Haibei saw that his younger brother was in such a low mood, so he brought him along, hoping that he could rest here and adjust his state.Only his family and a very few people in Qin Haiou's management team know about this matter, and the ancient town is in the off-season and is far away from the city. The residents in the town are far from the world Qin Haiou is familiar with, so there is no need to worry about it. Expose your whereabouts in front of the media.

In order to come to this ancient town, the two siblings first flew to the provincial capital of the area, but before the plane landed, Qin Haibei received an urgent call from his alma mater, saying that he was an important guest of the international exchange art exhibition held by the school. The co-host was suddenly absent due to illness, and the school was struggling to find a suitable replacement. At this time, it was pleasantly surprised to find that Qin Haibei happened to be in China, so Qin Haibei was arrested just at the beginning of the journey.

Qin Haibei couldn't refuse, so he had to book a return ticket for the day at the airport, leaving Qin Haiou alone in this strange place.Qin Haiou took a car from the city to the county seat, and then transferred from the county seat to the ancient town. By the time he took the address Qin Haibei had left and found an inn to stay in, it was already early morning the next day.

From birth to now, he has spent more than four-fifths of his life playing the piano. He has never traveled alone, and he doesn't know what to do when he arrives in this ancient town. Bei is an old acquaintance, and he took great care of him. He not only reserved a room with the best view for him, but also introduced him to the attractions around the ancient town in detail.However, Qin Haiou had been tossing around with planes and cars all day, and he still had to recover from his fatigue after staying here. Therefore, he spent the past two days wandering around the town, and did not leave immediately to visit the scenic spots.

Today he was walking in this town, and when he passed by the rice noodle shop, he found that this small shop, which was closed yesterday, had opened. Had the boss's lunch.In his heart, he felt that the boss was weird, but he also thought he was a good person, so before leaving after eating the rice noodles, he put some extra money under the bowl.

A bowl of sauerkraut noodles costs 15 yuan, and a bowl of clear soup noodles costs 12 yuan. Qin Haiou thought that the bowl of clear soup noodles he ate should be counted as two servings, which is 24 yuan.He has not been able to spend a penny since he walked out of the house. The change in his wallet is only two 10 yuan, one 20 yuan, and one 50 yuan.He thought for a while, stacked the 50 yuan note and placed it under the empty bowl.

After he finished this, he left the rice noodle shop and walked to the inn where he stayed.In order to maintain a good state of performance, he has always had the habit of taking a nap. Although he no longer needs to perform, this habit has not changed.He ate the three meals yesterday at the inn, and the proprietress of the inn told him that if he felt that the food outside was not to his taste, he could go back to the inn to eat.He had already eaten at noon today, but when he saw the door of the inn and remembered the proprietress' advice, he suddenly realized that he hadn't thought well.I don't know if the proprietress has prepared his meals. If she did, wouldn't she be left behind.

The inn is next door to Lao Tan Rice Noodle Shop.Qin Haiou pushed open the fence door at the entrance of the inn and walked in. The yard was empty, except for a chow lion raised by the proprietress sitting on the steps on the first floor, and a person squatting beside it.When the chow sat up, it was about the same height as the person squatting next to it. There was a dog food bowl in front of it, and the man was holding a rice bowl in his hand, both of which were about the same size.Qin Haiou took a look at the person and felt that the person looked familiar, so he took another look, and was surprised to find that it was the owner of the rice noodle shop who had just left in a hurry.I saw him holding the rice bowl and putting the rice into his mouth, eating it so deliciously, it was impossible to tell that he just ate a bowl of rice noodles 5 minutes ago.

Looking at this scene, Qin Haiou finally established his first impression of Tan Shuo, that is, this man is especially edible.