Second Piano Concerto

It took Tan Shuo three days to write. Except for going downstairs to look for food, he almost shut himself in the room on the second floor of the rice noodle shop for the rest of the time. He didn't know when he was creating and when he was sleeping.Qin Haiou didn't dare to disturb him during the day, and there were always other people around when he was eating, so it was inconvenient to ask, so he finally found an opportunity to ask him how he was doing in private, but found that although his people went downstairs, his mind stayed in the room. On the second floor, no matter what he said to him, he just responded with "um" and "ah" casually, and he didn't listen to other people's words at all.Qin Haiou had no choice but to help him take care of the business in the store.The window of Tan Shuo's room is facing the street. Qin Haiou would look at the lighted window every night when he came back from running, imagining what the owner of the house was doing inside.

This was the first time Qin Haiou saw Tan Shuo enter the state of creation.During this process, Tan Shuo seemed very excited and devoted, highly focused on the work in his hand, and ignored any people and things outside.Qin Haiou could see that Tan Shuo enjoyed the process, which surprised him a lot.He had always suspected that the reason why Tan Shuo switched to selling rice noodles was because he was not recognized or lost his creative enthusiasm, but now it seems that no matter what Tan Shuo is writing and how good he is, at least his creative enthusiasm is still well maintained. .Qin Haiou ruled out this reason, but his curiosity became stronger.He suddenly had an idea, if possible, he would like to take a look at Tan Shuo's works, maybe then, he would be able to understand what was going on.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye.On the third night, Tan Shuo sent the demo to Li Zhenqiang as promised.Li Zhenqiang fed back the commissioning party's revision suggestions the next morning. Tan Shuo was woken up by his phone call, and as soon as he got out of bed, he threw himself in front of the computer to revise the demo.Unexpectedly, this change was changed to the afternoon, and when the demo was finally finalized, Tan Shuo was already dizzy and dizzy from hunger.He went downstairs to the rice noodle shop to find two marinated eggs, and walked towards the inn while eating. When he entered the yard of the inn, he saw Qin Haiou feeding Doudou with bibimbap, and cried out in distress: "Save some for me! I starving!"

Qin Haiou hadn't been in the mood to read for the past two days. In his spare time, he was either playing outside or teasing the dog in the inn. Seeing that Tan Shuo was so hungry that he started to compete with Doudou for food, he hurriedly got up and said, "There are still some in the kitchen, I'll go Here you go."

After he finished speaking, he went to the kitchen to bring out the food left for Tan Shuo.Tan Shuo stuffed the last half of the marinated egg into his mouth, took the rice bowl and sat down under the eaves to pull it up.

Qin Haiou poured a glass of water for Tan Shuo, stood aside and watched one person and one dog eat, and waited until Tan Shuo had eaten half of the rice and stopped to drink water, then asked, "Is it all done?"

"It's done!" Tan Shuo was in a good mood, and he took out a piece of money from his trouser pocket, checked the denomination and handed it to Qin Haiou, "Buy me a watermelon."

Qin Haiou knew that he was going to invite everyone to eat watermelon, and was about to leave after receiving the money, but Zhuzhu's voice came from behind: "I have already bought today's watermelon, you should save it for tomorrow! Xiao Qin, Come and help me cut everything from this melon."

Qin Haiou looked back and saw that Zhuzhu had already carried the watermelon to the table in the main room and brought the knife, so he put down Tan Shuo's money and walked over to grab the handle of the knife.

"Wait!" Tan Shuo jumped up holding the rice bowl, "I'll cut it, I'll cut it!"

"What are you doing?" Zhuzhu was startled by him.

Tan Shuo put down the rice bowl and snatched the knife, cut up the whole watermelon with lightning speed, picked up the rice bowl and continued to eat.

"What's wrong with him?" Zhuzhu asked Qin Haiou.

At this moment, Qin Haiou especially hoped that Tan Shuo could speak perfunctorily as usual, but Tan Shuo was too busy to explain.Qin Haiou had no choice but to play dumb.

Zhuzhu didn't think much about it, and instead asked Qin Haiou to eat watermelon with the guys.At this moment, Tan Shuo's cell phone rang.Tan Shuo picked up two mouthfuls of rice, hugged the rice bowl with one hand, and took out his mobile phone with the other to take a look. Seeing that it was Li Zhenqiang calling, he got up and went outside to pick it up.What Li Zhenqiang brought was not good news. Because the frequently used musicians happened to be absent, there were three instruments in Tan Shuo’s works that could not be recorded by musicians, but the recording time was set for tomorrow. Li Zhenqiang used his various relationships to Unable to find a suitable candidate, he came to tell Tan Shuo the sad news.

Tan Shuo got angry as soon as he finished speaking, holding the rice bowl and cursing at the door of the main room: "Fuck! Why did you go so early? Didn't I give you the work the day before yesterday?!"

Li Zhenqiang is also very depressed: "Do you think I just started looking for it today! I usually rush to each other when I have nothing to do, and when I really need to hire people, I go abroad. I can't catch any performances! Let me tell you, I will never take this kind of work again, it’s all caused by this urgent work! I won’t do any money they give me in the future! It’s so fucking annoying!”

Qin Haiou was eating watermelon in the house, but Tan Shuo got angry suddenly for some reason, so he couldn't help but follow him with the watermelon in his hand.In fact, he didn't have the habit of eavesdropping on other people's privacy, but now that he was familiar with Tan Shuo, seeing Tan Shuo frowning in distress, he wondered what happened and if he could help.

Tan Shuo didn't notice Qin Haiou, walked aside and continued: "What about the school? Why don't you go to the school and catch two students to record it!"

The school he was talking about naturally meant the Conservatory of Music.Li Zhenqiang howled when he heard the words: "My Lord Qingtian! The school is on summer vacation now! Besides, even if I can really find students, you know what you wrote. Do you think it is reliable to let those students practice in the studio for one night? ah?!"

Tan Shuo was so annoyed: "You let me think about it! I've been busy today and I don't eat until now! You at least wait until I finish eating!"

"You eat, you eat!" Li Zhenqiang hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

Tan Shuo held the phone in his hand and was stunned for a moment, unable to think of any solution.He has long stopped interacting with people in that circle, and now that even Li Zhenqiang can't find anyone, it's even more impossible for him to find anyone.He put his phone back in his pocket, still planning to finish his meal first, but when he turned his head, he saw Qin Haiou standing aside and looking at him, holding half of an unfinished watermelon in his hand, with a very concerned expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Qin Haiou asked.

Tan Shuo frowned and said, "The demo has passed, but now I can't find anyone to record it."

"What do you want to record?" Qin Haiou asked.

"There is still a shortage of violins, cellos, and pianos." Tan Shuo sighed, and said, "This matter is too urgent, and the people I used to use in the past happen to be absent. Without recording, the effect of the finished product will be greatly reduced.”

Qin Haiou asked again: "How long is the piece? When will it be used?"

Tan Shuo said: "The total length is 6 minutes. All must be recorded within tomorrow."

After he finished speaking, he returned to the table and picked up his rice bowl.Qin Haiou thought for a while, finished eating the watermelon in his hand in two or three bites, left the main room and returned to his room.He closed the door, took out his mobile phone and sat down by the bed, quickly found a contact person, and sent a message first: Is it convenient to answer the phone?

After he sent it, he waited quietly.But less than ten seconds passed, the other party actually dialed back the phone directly.Qin Haiou quickly picked it up.

"Seagull! Seagull? Is that you, Seagull?" The caller seemed very pleasantly surprised, but also a little bit unbelievable.

"It's me." Qin Haiou said.