Second Piano Concerto

When Qin Haiou came to the recycling point, he immediately rummaged through the trash can.At this time, a lot of rubbish was piled up in several buckets, and the smell was bad due to the hot weather, but Qin Haiou didn't care about it, and after picking up the rubbish on the upper layer, he went to pick up a branch to search for the trash below. , After a while, I was so busy that I was sweating all over my body.Neighbors in the neighborhood all went to this place to throw rubbish. Some people bumped into him and looked at him with strange eyes. They didn't understand why this young man who looked very gentle on weekdays suddenly picked up rubbish today.

Qin Haiou didn't care about others.In fact, he knew in his heart that the hope of finding Tan Shuo's manuscripts here was very slim, because the garbage trucks regularly transported away the garbage here every day. Yesterday's stuff had already been taken away by the garbage truck before dawn today, so even if he turned the place upside down now, it would be useless.

He felt suffocated thinking of this.If this is true, he can't understand it anyway. He can't understand why Tan Shuo did this, why did Tan Shuo throw away his work? !

Just as he was looking for it, he suddenly heard someone shouting not far away: "Xiao Qin?"

Qin Haiou looked back and saw that it was Cao Nan.

"Have you also discovered the joy of picking up trash?" Cao Nan stepped forward, a little surprised and a little wary, "Are you trying to steal my business?"

Qin Haiou shook his head and continued to search.He was not in the mood to explain to Cao Nan at all.

Cao Nan looked at it for a while, then said: "Since you turned it over last time, there seem to be more good things in this place, and it really made me find some interesting things! Come to my shop when you are free. I'll show you!"

Qin Haiou frowned, turned over one bucket, and then went to another, still without saying a word.

Cao Nan didn't know what he was thinking, but when he saw that he was so absorbed in the search, he said generously, "Okay, I'll give you this place! I'll go to another place to search!" After speaking, he took the trash can and left.

Qin Haiou searched for a long time in this row of trash cans by himself, but he couldn't find it in the end.Feeling very frustrated and lost, he stood in front of the trash can in a daze for a while, finally threw away the branch, and walked back slowly.

He returned to the inn, went upstairs to take a shower, changed his clothes, and went downstairs to the rice noodle shop.Both Tan Shuo and Amao were busy in the store. Qin Haiou walked to the stove, looked at Tan Shuo and said, "Why did you throw it away?"

Tan Shuo was stirring the soup with a large spoon. Hearing this, he was startled for a moment, and then realized: "What are you keeping for the rags I wrote before? Throw away these useless things as soon as possible, so as not to have to work hard to move them when we move!"

Hearing what he said, Qin Haiou felt very uncomfortable. After observing his expression carefully, he didn't think he was perfunctory or lying.In any case, now that the manuscript was nowhere to be found, and all speculations had lost their clues, Qin Haiou had no choice but to give up even though he was unwilling.Since Tan Shuo himself thinks so, what else can he say?After all, it is Tan Shuo's work, and he has no right to interfere with what Tan Shuo wants to do with it.Now, he hoped that Tan Shuo had lied to him. He hoped that the manuscript was still there, but Tan Shuo hid it and refused to show it to him.

While thinking about this silently, he helped Amao clean up the dishes.As soon as he piled up several bowls on the empty table, he saw Nalan Jin standing outside the gate, looking into the shop.

"Ouch, little sister Xiaojin, why are you here!" Tan Shuo paid attention to the customers passing by, and seeing her suddenly appear, he put down his work and went up to talk to her.

"Brother Qin!" Nalan Jin walked in, greeted Qin Haiou first, and then turned to Tan Shuo, "Old Uncle Tan, why can't I come?"

Tan Shuo said: "You bastard, usually you don't leave the gate. If you want to drink tea with you, you have to queue up to get a number. What's the matter today, and you came here in person? Why didn't the leader notify you in advance when he came to inspect the work? How much pressure is put on the people in our rice noodle shop!"

Nalan Jin smiled and said, "Uncle Tan, I'm just here to inform you that next week's Liu'an store celebration plus my birthday are not on the same day, but Liu Yang and I plan to do it together, and everyone happens to be very lively, so you can't help but come." !"

"What? You celebrate your birthday again! Isn't your birthday this year already over?" Tan Shuo shouted.

Nalan Jin ignored it. She looked at Qin Haiou, her eyes fixed on his face: "Brother Qin, are you free next Wednesday night? Liu Yang told me that I must invite you, and you will come to play with me too." Bar?"

Hearing what she said, Qin Haiou couldn't help being stunned for a moment.When he went to the coffee shop to practice the piano yesterday, Liu Yang had already told him about it, and even asked his agent to buy Nalan Jin's birthday present. I felt a little strange.But he didn't think too much, nodded and said: "Thank you, I will go."

Seeing that he agreed, Nalan Jin was very happy: "Wednesday at 9 o'clock in the evening, at Liu'an, if you want, you can come earlier..."

Tan Shuo said anxiously: "Okay, okay, don't rush to talk about this! I have an urgent matter here, and I am looking for your help!"

"What's wrong?" Nalan Jin asked.

Tan Shuo talked about the landlord wanting to take over the house, and then said: "Miss Liu's side is full of old houses, so I don't count on her. Please help me keep an eye on your neighborhood, if I can't find it before the end of the month , I'm going to live on the street!"

Nalan Jin smiled and said, "If you live on the street, I will give you a gong."

Qin Haiou has been searching for housing information in Longjin Town on the Internet in the past few nights. Hearing what they said, he remembered something: "I saw a house on the Internet earlier, and it looked pretty good."

Tan Shuo shook his head: "The information on the Internet is unreliable, you must see it on the spot to know."

Qin Haiou said: "I have made an appointment with the landlord to see the house tomorrow, will you go?"

Nalan Jin looked at Qin Haiou in a little surprise, then put away his joking expression, and said to Tan Shuo, "Don't worry, I'll go back and ask for you."

At this time, there were customers in the shop urging rice noodles, Tan Shuo hurriedly thanked Nalan Jin and went to work.Nalan Jin looked at Qin Haiou again, and asked softly, "Brother Qin, why are you so hot that your hair is all wet?"

Qin Haiou touched his head and looked at the water in his palm: "I just took a shower and it's not dry yet."

Nalan Jin smiled: "You are busy, I'm going back. I will tell you about the renting of the house."

"Thank you." Seeing her leave, Qin Haiou lowered his head and put away the bowl again.

**

In the next few days, Tan Shuo was desperately looking for a house.Qin Haiou went to ask Zhuzhu on the day the landlord came to the door, and Zhuzhu told him that it was the peak season, and commercial shops in the ancient town were very hard to find, and it was even more difficult to find a two-story building similar to a rice noodle shop. It's even more difficult, but she still suggested that, in addition to asking acquaintances to help pay attention, you can also look for it online.

Qin Haiou's acquaintances in the town are all Tan Shuo's acquaintances. He can't help in this regard, so he has to search the Internet every day.But the fact is, as Zhuzhu said, there are almost no openly rented shops in the ancient town, and all the houses that can be found through normal channels are houses that urgently need to be resold for special reasons.Tan Shuo's needs are special. He needs a shop to sell rice noodles and a place to live. The only choices he has are housing without a shop, or having a shop but sharing the same stall with others.Tan Shuoben also considered that if he couldn’t find a place with a shop and a house, he would first rent a shop alone and move out of the ancient town by himself, but now he couldn’t even rent a suitable shop.Qin Haiou searched around the Internet, and finally found a piece of information that met the requirements, but the next day he went to see it with Tan Shuo and found that the place was different from what was described on the Internet and could not be used at all.Tan Shuo was quite calm about this, but Qin Haiou was inevitably a little bit shocked.

Qin Haiou saw that it was difficult to find a house directly, so he began to think of other ways.He had never worried about such a thing, nor had he ever had financial troubles, so the first way he thought of was to add money to the landlord.He thought that if he paid more rent, the landlord might agree to renew the contract, but Tan Shuo rejected this idea as soon as he put it forward.Tan Shuo told him that it was useless to add more money. The landlord didn't want to charge more money, but wanted to take back the house for his own use.Qin Haiou had no choice but to fall into distress again.

So busy, in a blink of an eye, it was the day of Liu'an's store celebration.Tan Shuo, Zhuzhu and Qin Haiou were still discussing about the house on the way to Liu'an. It wasn't until they were about to walk on the Xiaoxi Bridge that Tan Shuo suddenly woke up and yelled: "Not good!"

Qin Haiou and Zhuzhu stopped and looked at him.

"I forgot to buy a gift for Xiao Jin!" Tan Shuo shouted.Recently, he was so busy looking for a house that he completely forgot about the birthday present.

Zhuzhu smiled and said, "This is great, just wait to be punished!"

"Punishment for what?" Qin Haiou asked.

Zhu Zhu said: "I can't tell, anyway, he will not escape today."

Tan Shuo looked around and saw a bush of jasmine blooming on the side of the road. He stepped forward and grabbed a handful and held it in his hand: "That's it! Borrow flowers to offer Buddha!"

Zhu Zhu shook her head with a smile, and the three of them came to Liu'an and entered the shop through the main entrance.At this time, there were not many customers in the store, the overall light was dimmed, and many candles were lit on the table.Because it is a store celebration, the store has been specially decorated, which is more emotional than usual.The party table is set in the backyard, with lights and candles, wine and cake.Because everyone was free at this time, everyone came together. Zhao Fei, Cao Nan, Xiao Hei and others were all there, but Shou Xing himself hadn't come yet.A pile of presents was already piled up on the table. Zhuzhu and Qin Haiou saw each other and put the gifts they brought on the table.

Seeing this, Tan Shuo felt a little guilty, threw Jasmine onto the chair, and said, "I'll go and see what there is to eat!" After speaking, he quickly ran to the kitchen.

As soon as he left on his front foot, Nalan Jin came on his back foot.The crowd blessed her noisily for a while, and then urged her to unwrap the presents quickly.Nalan Jin unwrapped the presents one by one, and while unpacking, seated the givers according to their numbers, and thanked them one by one.However, when she unpacked an unremarkable small box, she was stunned, looking at the things inside the box, and remained silent for a while.

"What?" Cao Nan was curious, and leaned over to look, "Is this a button?"

"Is it dirty?" Zhao Fei despised, "This is the Qin emblem! It is used on Guqin, a set of thirteen pieces, it looks like it is made of white jade."

"So advanced!" Cao Nan said, "Why are there thirteen and not twelve?"

At this time Nalan Jin finally said: "I really like this Qin emblem, who gave it to me?"

As she spoke, she raised her eyes and looked in Qin Haiou's direction.She had paid attention to it just now, and she remembered very clearly who gave what. Now besides the box in her hand, there was only one gift left on the table. She already had a guess in her heart about who gave this set of white jade qin emblems.

"It was from Tan Shuo." Qin Haiou opened his mouth and said.He secretly counted the heads just now, except for Tan Shuo, everyone brought gifts.He didn't want to embarrass Tan Shuo. Seeing that there were not many gifts left, Tan Shuo's lack of gifts would soon be exposed, so he used his own gifts to replace them.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhuzhu at the side immediately cast a surprised glance, but did not speak knowingly.What was even more surprising was Nalan Jin, who stared blankly at him for a long time before laughing again: "When did Lao Tan become so tasteful, why don't I know!"

Qin Haiou had no confidence in lying. Hearing what she said, he was even more afraid that she would not believe her. He immediately picked up Jasmine that Tan Shuo had thrown on the chair, handed it to her, and said, "Sorry, I forgot to buy you a gift. Happy birthday to you." hapiness."