Second Piano Concerto

Qin Haiou returned to the inn room, threw the music score aside, and sat down beside the bed.

His thoughts were confused and his anger was still there, but in fact, from the moment he left the rice noodle shop, he had already started to regret it.

He didn't go to Tan Shuo to make Tan Shuo angry, nor did he go to Tan Shuo to argue with Tan Shuo.He wanted to ask clearly what happened back then. He obviously wanted to help Tan Shuo, but in the end it turned out like this.

He sat sluggishly for a long time, until all kinds of emotions gradually calmed down, and he suddenly felt dry mouth, tired and thirsty.He hasn't eaten much since yesterday afternoon, and he has hardly slept. After several emotional ups and downs, all that remains is a deep sense of frustration.

He got up and went to the table to pour down the cold soybean milk, washed his face again, and fell back on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

Until now, what puzzled Qin Haiou the most was Tan Shuo's attitude.

Qin Haiou didn't understand, as the author of "Xinghai", wouldn't Tan Shuo be angry?Doesn't he want to take his work back?Why didn't he stand up, instead of hiding? !

From the time they started talking to the end when they broke up unhappy, Tan Shuo said almost nothing.He just told Qin Haiou repeatedly that it was impossible to confront Sun Chen, but he avoided talking about the details of the entire plagiarism incident.He was surprisingly calm at first, until Qin Haiou asked Sun Chen again how he saw the score of "Xinghai", his mood fluctuated a little, but he still refused to answer this question.

This in itself is a strange thing.

Qin Haiou finally calmed down at this moment, and recalled Tan Shuo's reaction carefully, only to find that Tan Shuo had shown serious resistance from the beginning of the conversation, but not only did he not calm down and think about the reason, but instead he thought about it. As soon as it got hot, he questioned Tan Shuo, and even accused Tan Shuo.

Looking back now, Tan Shuo was avoiding this matter not only during the conversation just now, but also when the manuscript was discovered.

Qin Haiou regretted it very much.He was too impulsive. At first he preconceived that Tan Shuo was plagiarizing, and he was very troubled by it. Suddenly he found the fact to be the opposite, and he was busy asking Tan Shuo what was going on. Seeing that Tan Shuo refused to answer, he was right. Tan Shuo lost his temper.

From the beginning to the end, he only wanted to solve the doubts in his heart, but never considered Tan Shuo's feelings. In the end, he couldn't blame others but himself when he hit a wall.

A casual and easy-going person like Tan Shuo has never seen him care about anything with anyone, and most of the time he has a smile in his eyes, but he said such hurtful words just now, which shows that Tan Shuo at that time Shuo was extremely angry.

Qin Haiou looked at the ceiling and heaved a long sigh.

He wanted to help Tan Shuo, but he messed up the matter, what should he do now?

Qin Haiou closed his eyes, forced himself to clear away all distracting thoughts, and reconsidered the matter.

He took out what Tan Shuo said just now and pondered it sentence by sentence.

When he asked Tan Shuo why he didn't expose Sun Chen, what did Tan Shuo say?

Tan Shuo said, is it useful?

Then what?How did you answer yourself?

Qin Haiou suddenly realized that he had completely missed the point of Tan Shuo's words just now.

From the moment he discovered the truth, he always wondered why this mistake lasted for ten years.Hearing Tan Shuo say that the evidence was not sufficient, his first reaction was that Tan Shuo did not tell all the details at that time. He felt that if Tan Shuo told him, they could work out a solution together.

However, he ignored that the reason why Tan Shuo said that was because Tan Shuo had already tried it back then.

Tan Shuo must have tried to find physical and personal evidence.He tried it, but it didn't work. Even if he exposed it, he had no chance of winning. That's why he said, will it work?

Qin Haiou didn't understand the bitterness in these three words, he just kept asking Tan Shuo.

Now Qin Haiou finally understood, but his heart was also tugged.

Even if Tan Shuo didn't say what he said today, just think about it calmly, with Tan Shuo's character, he couldn't have allowed this to happen from the very beginning.The composer's works are like his own children. If "Xinghai" was taken away, it is impossible for Tan Shuo ten years ago not to have thought of a way.Although what happened at that time is still unknown, the final result is that "Xinghai" became "Song of the Long Night" and became Sun Chen's work, while Tan Shuo left the music industry and never created again. He has never published any piano works, and has never published any works again.

That is to say, ten years ago, Tan Shuo failed.He watched his works being taken away, but he was helpless. Maybe it was because of this that he chose to leave in despair.

This made Qin Haiou very sad.He thought of his most difficult time, compared with Tan Shuo, he was lucky.He has his family and his management team, they have blocked many troubles for him; he has Zhu Zhu, Liu Yang, Xiao Jin... and his new friends in Longjin Town, they are all by his side to take care of him He also has Tan Shuo, the person who has been solving his problems since the first day they met, and he has shown him greater hope.He was indeed desperate, but at that time, he was not alone and helpless.

But what about Tan Shuo?Judging from the results of the incident, no one could help Tan Shuo ten years ago.As a student who has not yet graduated, he could not provide sufficient evidence and could not find strong witnesses. Tan Shuo must have been very desperate and helpless at that time.

Qin Haiou wondered if Tan Shuo really forgot that the manuscript of "Xinghai" was still in a corner of the bookcase.Perhaps it was because he dug out the manuscript and reminded Tan Shuo of the past, so Tan Shuo threw the manuscript away.

When Tan Shuo found out that he was peeking at the manuscript, Tan Shuo's expression turned bad for a moment. Tan Shuo must have been very angry at that time, but he quickly controlled his emotions and changed the topic.

At the moment when he just turned out the manuscript, Tan Shuo briefly explained the reason for not letting him read it in one sentence. What was Tan Shuo thinking at that time?

And what kind of mood did Tan Shuo throw the manuscript into the trash can, and what kind of mood did he say "the junk written in the past", now Qin Haiou dare not even think about it.

He stared straight at the ceiling, but all the fragments of memories about this incident appeared in front of him. Tan Shuo's strange reactions in the past finally had correct explanations.However, Qin Haiou didn't feel relaxed because of this. On the contrary, the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt.Even if everything is smoothed out on the surface, it must be a long and painful process. Qin Haiou can't imagine how Tan Shuo endured these ten years.

He let these thoughts swirl in his head until a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.When he got up, he glanced at the time, it was already past the lunch time, he walked over to open the door and saw that it was Zhuzhu again.

Seeing that the soy milk on the table was gone, but the steamed buns were still there, Zhuzhu looked at Qin Haiou and asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

"I'm fine." Qin Haiou said.

Zhuzhu was still worried: "You'd better go downstairs and have something to eat."

Qin Haiou hesitated for a moment, then nodded.He didn't want Zhuzhu to worry, but when he thought of meeting Tan Shuo downstairs, he felt very uneasy.He followed Zhuzhu to the kitchen, thinking about what to say if he saw Tan Shuo, but found that the food served by Zhuzhu was a bit too much, which was more than he could finish, so he said, "Sister Azhu, I I can't eat that much."

Zhuzhu laughed and said, "It's because Tan Shuo didn't come that we have so much left over. If he came, you wouldn't even want to eat! Eat more, even if you suffer from heatstroke and lose your appetite, you still have to eat!"

Qin Haiou hesitated, "Shouldn't you save some for him?"

Zhuzhu said: "If you haven't come after this point, you must not come. You can eat freely, these are all yours!"

Qin Haiou picked up the chopsticks and touched the rice, feeling depressed.Tan Shuo didn't come over for dinner. Is it because he was too busy, or because he was still angry?

Qin Haiou didn't know how to eat, so he didn't eat much, so he took a few mouthfuls and returned to his room.He opened the two scores again, hoping to find some clues, and then searched the Internet for information about Sun Chen and "Song of the Long Night". "Song of the Long Night" is so famous that there are many interviews and articles about this work on the Internet.Qin Haiou quickly found what he wanted. Sun Chen talked about the creation process of "Song of the Long Night" in an interview. Since it was in a public place, this passage was also reported by different media, and the content was very unanimous.

According to Sun Chen, "Song of the Long Night" was not specially created for participating in the composition competition. As early as two years before that competition, he had already completed the composition of this work, but in order to keep improving and make the work more mature, he Constantly polishing and revising, it was not until January of the same year of the competition that he finally finished revising the work.

This statement does not contradict the creation date on the score of "Song of the Long Night", but it reminds Qin Haiou of another thing. There are some traces of revisions on the manuscript of "Xinghai", but judging from the date when Tan Shuo left it, this manuscript should have been revised in March 10 years ago, so the revisions on this manuscript should have been made in March carried out later.That is to say, after Tan Shuo completed major revisions to this work in March, he made more revisions one after another.

Qin Haiou took two pieces of music scores and compared the revised parts of the manuscript with "Song of the Long Night".He found that "Song of the Long Night" was plagiarized from the version before the modification in almost all the places that Tan Shuo modified.Only in two places, the content of "Song of the Long Night" is different from Tan Shuo's version before and after the revision. These are obviously modifications made by Sun Chen himself after the plagiarism is over.

It can be seen from this that what Sun Chen plagiarized was the revised draft completed by Tan Shuo in March, and he did not know the content of subsequent revisions made by Tan Shuo after March.

But what's the use of knowing this?This still doesn't provide any useful clues.

Qin Haiou became anxious again.At the same time, he was also worried, and every time he got up and went to the window to look in the yard, hoping to see Tan Shuo there.Usually in the afternoon, Tan Shuo would come to the inn to chat and eat watermelon, but from noon to night this day, Tan Shuo never showed up.

Qin Haiou couldn't sit still anymore, and stayed in the yard after dinner, looking in the direction of the rice noodle shop but didn't dare to go forward, feeling upset.

He didn't want to argue with Tan Shuo, even when he mistook Tan Shuo for a plagiarist, he was trying to avoid unpleasant things from happening.

But now that things have happened, what should he do?

Qin Haiou didn't think there was a real conflict between himself and Tan Shuo.In the final analysis, it was his fault.It was his recklessness and lack of consideration that caused Tan Shuo's fierce reaction.Now that he has tried to think about this matter from Tan Shuo's point of view, and has understood Tan Shuo's pain, he should apologize to Tan Shuo instead of hiding here and waiting for Tan Shuo to appear by chance.Such an approach is still evasion, which is no different from his evasion of his own fear of the show.

Tan Shuo was right.If he wants Tan Shuo to face plagiarism, at least he has to face his own problems first.The first thing he needs to do right now is to face Tan Shuo.

Qin Haiou thought hard, and finally figured out what to say when he saw Tan Shuo.When he came to the rice noodle shop, he thought he could see Tan Shuo on the first floor, but unexpectedly, there was only one Ah Mao who was very busy in the shop, and when he saw him, he howled, "Brother Qin! You've come!"

Qin Haiou didn't have the heart to say anything else to him, so he asked directly, "Where's Tan Shuo?"

"I want to know too!" Amao cried, "I haven't seen him since I came, and when I called him, his cell phone was turned off, and there was no one in the inn!"

"Isn't he upstairs?" Qin Haiou asked.

"I don't even know about that!" Amao was depressed.

Qin Haiou exited the rice noodle shop and looked up at the window on the second floor.He didn't pay attention just now, only then did he realize that the lights on the second floor were not turned on.He stood downstairs for a while, still unwilling, so he went upstairs to knock on Tan Shuo's door.He knocked intermittently several times, waited for a while, and was about to turn around and go downstairs when the door suddenly opened.Then, with a "snap", someone turned on the light in the room.

Tan Shuo stood inside the door with half a cigarette in his mouth, squinting his eyes slightly, it seemed that he hadn't adapted to the sudden lighting.He glanced at Qin Haiou, took down the cigarette butt and said, "Come in." After speaking, he left the door half open, turned and walked in.

Qin Haiou cleared his mind and followed him into the house. As soon as he entered the door, he was choked by the strong smell of smoke.The room was hot and stuffy, the air was bad, and the ground around the swivel chair was full of cigarette butts.

Tan Shuo went to the window and pushed it open, then turned on the air conditioner and switched it to the blower mode.After finishing all this, he turned to look at Qin Haiou, was silent for a moment, and said, "I said it seriously this morning, it's my fault, don't take it to heart."

Qin Haiou looked at him, feeling sore in his heart, he couldn't say a word of what he had thought up before.

"Sit down." Tan Shuo said again.

As he spoke, he sat down on the swivel chair, lowered his head and continued to smoke the remaining half of a cigarette.Qin Haiou looked around and found the small wooden stool he used to sit on among several cardboard boxes.Every time he came to Tan Shuo's place, he liked to sit on this small wooden stool and read a book, and gradually this small wooden stool became his fixed seat.He sat down on the stool and looked up at Tan Shuo, but Tan Shuo was still smoking silently, and no one spoke for a while.