Second Piano Concerto

The next afternoon, Qin Haiou went around the town again.Since there was no progress from several parties, Tan Shuo had to start preparing to move out of the ancient town when he saw that there were no houses to see.Qin Haiou had already been familiar with the streets and alleys of the ancient town when he was wandering and running. Recently, in order to help Tan Shuo find a house, he inquired about the shops on each street, but he still couldn't find a suitable one. storefront.He didn't know what else to do, so he continued to try his luck in the town while considering the feasibility of renting the old house near Liu'an.

The weather has been hot since summer, and Qin Haiou is not as leisurely as tourists, and his back is sweaty after walking for a long time.He went to a roadside stall to buy a bottle of ice water, and when he saw Cao Nan's thrift store in a blink of an eye, he hurriedly hid inside to blow on the air conditioner.

In the thrift store, a couple was standing by the wall looking at the old leather bags and old paintings hanging on the wall. Cao Nan didn't go up to say hello. Instead, she sat on a bamboo chair in the corner with her legs crossed and flipped through an old magazine. Seeing Qin Haiou When he came in, he shook the magazine in his hand at him.

"It's so hot!" Qin Haiou covered the shop door with his backhand and said.

"What is this!" Cao Nan disdainfully said, "The days of sticking out your tongue are still to come!"

Qin Haiou walked to the air conditioner and drank a few sips of water to feel better.The two were chatting casually, when they heard the young man in the couple ask, "Boss, how do you sell this?"

Cao Nan turned his head and took a look, and said, "With the frame, it will cost 20 pieces."

The little girl on the side asked, "Is there anything else?"

Cao Nan got up and walked over: "Yes! There are more than 100 pieces of this set! If you buy more, I can give you a discount."

Qin Haiou listened to what they said while drinking water, and looked back at the things hanging on the wall over there.He originally just glanced at it casually, but after this glance, his gaze was pulled back abruptly, so startled that he almost spit out the water from his mouth, and suddenly coughed.

There was a rectangular picture frame hanging on the wall, and a page of handwritten music was framed in the picture frame.

Qin Haiou threw down the mineral water bottle and rushed over, ignoring the young couple standing in front of the picture frame, leaning forward to read the content in the music score carefully.

He was even more excited when he saw it, and he was finally able to confirm that what was contained in this picture frame was nothing but a page from the manuscript that Tan Shuo had thrown away earlier!

He reached out to take off the picture frame, the surprise in his heart could not be added, staring at the sheet music and asked: "What else? Where are the others?!"

Cao Nan was baffled by his appearance: "What's wrong in the back room?"

Qin Haiou paused. He couldn't explain this to Cao Nan, so he said, "I want to buy it, I want to buy this!"

Cao Nan was stunned for a moment, before he could react, the young man at the side turned cold: "First come, first come first, this is what we saw first."

Qin Haiou felt anxious, and blurted out, "Then I'll pay double the price!"

Now Cao Nan finally realized what Qin Haiou was talking about, and regardless of the young man, he pointed at the score and said triumphantly, "Well, isn't this good? I picked it up at the recycling point near Lao Tan's house! Ms. Liu has a lot of gadgets, but hers are printed, mine are handwritten! You see, how decorative and nostalgic it is when framed, and it is a work of art when hung at home, absolutely extraordinary!"

Qin Haiou listened to him patiently, and said anxiously: "What about the rest? Can you show me the rest?"

Cao Nan was very happy to see that he recognized the fruits of his labor so much, and immediately turned and went into the room to get the rest of the scores.

At first, the couple was unhappy because Qin Haiou wanted to compete with them to buy things, but after hearing Cao Nan say that the thing was picked up, they had great doubts about this "work of art", and exchanged silently With a look in his eyes, he turned around and walked outside.When they came to the door, the little girl glanced back at Qin Haiou and muttered "crazy".

Qin Haiou didn't notice this at all.Tan Shuo's manuscript was lost and recovered, which made him very excited.He held the picture frame in his hand and wanted to open it and take out the music score inside.While fiddling with it, Cao Nan came out with a large stack of papers. Qin Haiou put down the picture frame temporarily, took the score in Cao Nan's hand, and checked it.

Cao Nan said: "I've counted. There are more than 160 sheets in total. After being framed, each sheet will sell for 20 yuan. If they are all sold out, they will cost more than 3000 yuan. But I don't know when they will be sold out."

Qin Haiou flipped through the score and said, "Is everything here? You sell it to me, I want it!"

Cao Nan was pleasantly surprised: "You want all of them? Then I can give you a discount, but I can't afford so many boxes at the moment."

Qin Haiou said: "It's okay, I don't need a frame, I just need paper."

Cao Nan said: "Oh! Then I can give you a little more discount!" As he spoke, he grabbed the calculator and poked it a few times, "It's thanks to your red hand that I was able to pick up this thing, um, I will give you another friendship The price is 200!"

Qin Haiou didn't care how he calculated it, and when he said 200, he immediately took out 200 yuan and gave it to him.Seeing that the deal was completed, Cao Nan happily patted Qin Haiou on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Qin, you know the goods! This is a rare thing. If you miss this one, you don't know when you will be able to pick it up again next time." ! You have to keep it well!”

Qin Haiou quickly sorted out all the music scores in page order.For the convenience of framing, Cao Nan has dismantled all the pages, and the cover is gone. Fortunately, the content of the work is still intact, from the first page with "Xinghai" to the last page of the third movement. down.It's a pity that some places have been stained with something in the trash can, and it has become a dirty piece, and the original notes can no longer be seen clearly.

In any case, Qin Haiou was overjoyed to get this manuscript back.In the end, he deliberately flipped through the lower right corner of the last sheet of music, where there was indeed the ending line of the third movement, and the music ended here.Qin Haiou was very satisfied and got up to leave immediately.He couldn't wait to rush back to the inn, went back to his room, and closed the door.Here, no one will bother him, and Tan Shuo will not suddenly snatch the score from him. He finally has enough time to take a good look at this work.

Qin Haiou put the music score on the table, washed his face with cold water, and then wiped the stained places on the music score, then sat down and started to flip through the work from the first page.

This time he looked at it slowly and more carefully, not only the piano part, but also all the parts of the orchestra part one by one.As he watched and thought, his fingers tapped lightly on the table.Soon, the intimacy of deja vu surged up again, and as the music continued to unfold, this feeling became stronger and stronger, and it was more obvious than the last time I saw this work.Qin Haiou paused, recalling and searching in his mind.He felt as if he had seen this work somewhere, he must have seen this work somewhere.

He thought about it for a while, then continued to look down in this doubt.He slowly turned over a few pages, his eyes lingering on those familiar places for a long time.Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind like lightning, and he finally understood where this sense of familiarity and intimacy came from, and he finally remembered when and where he had seen this work.

No, to be precise, what he saw was not the one in front of him, but another one.

Tan Shuo's "Star Sea" is very similar to "Song of the Long Night"!