Second Piano Concerto

Tan Shuo and Liu Yang settled down on the party and discussed some specific details.As for Qin Haiou's identity, if Qin Haiou wants to come back, he will return to the spotlight sooner or later, and it doesn't matter whether he needs to keep concealing it.

Two days later, Liu Yang came to the inn and told everyone about the birthday party.As soon as she left, Zhuzhu reminded Tan Shuo with a smile: "Don't forget to bring a gift this time!"

Tan Shuo was thinking about how to bring the topic to this, when he heard what she said, he immediately yelled: "You women are so troublesome! Gentlemen don't like to celebrate birthdays, and even if they do, they'll be spent with a drink!"

Zhuzhu sneered: "No one put a knife on your neck, so don't go if you don't like it! Why didn't you say that in front of Liu Yang just now?"

Tan Shuo wanted to say more, but was pulled by Qin Haiou.Tan Shuo shut his mouth, Zhuzhu gave him a glare, turned around and went to work.

Tan Shuo turned to Qin Haiou and said, "I don't mean anything else, it's just that this gift is too troublesome. I give it every birthday every year, and I don't know what to give!"

Qin Haiou was also thinking about this: "I don't know what to give."

Tan Shuo said: "Just give her an autographed CD and make sure she's happy."

Qin Haiou shook his head: "Not good." He was very grateful to Liu Yang for his care in the past few months, so he wanted to give her a special thing, something commemorative.

Tan Shuo looked at his expression, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "I thought of it!"

"What?" Qin Haiou asked.

"During the party, you play the song I wrote to her. It's a birthday present from the two of us." Tan Shuo said.

"This is a good gift," Qin Haiou was delighted, "Let's do it like this!"

But he hesitated again: "But, do I want to play in front of everyone?"

"Oh!" Tan Shuo seemed to have just remembered, "I forgot about this. Forget it, this is not good, I will think of another one."

Qin Haiou looked at his hands and stopped talking.

He knew that if he did what Tan Shuo said, Liu Yang would be very happy, and this was also an opportunity for him to try to perform in front of other people.Perhaps in the process, he will have the opportunity to find a solution to the problem.Even knowing it, however, he still felt uneasy, not at all sure that he would be able to do it, and his determination couldn't help him suppress that nervousness.Now he has a wish and an opportunity, but he still feels at a loss as to how to do it.

This anxiety made him hesitate immediately, but he also knew that he couldn't keep hesitating.He looked at his hand for a long time, and the complicated thoughts in his mind gradually faded away.If you don't even dare to take this step, then everything else will be nothing but fantasy.No matter what, he must at least do something first, even if he fails in the end, the situation will not be worse than the current one.

Qin Haiou looked back at Tan Shuo, and finally said, "I want to try."

"Ah?" Tan Shuo seemed to be still worried about the gift, and was taken aback when he heard this.

"I want to try what you just said, play this piece on my birthday." Qin Haiou said.

Tan Shuo had been patiently waiting for him to express his position, and he didn't dare to disturb him at all. Hearing what he said now, he knew that the first hurdle had been passed, and he pretended to think about it: "It's okay... this matter Let's not tell her, on her birthday, if you can play, then surprise her, but if you don't want to play, she won't know, what do you think?"

Qin Haiou nodded, which could indeed avoid possible embarrassment.He had already made up his mind, and at this moment he breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly remembered another matter.

"Tan Shuo," he asked, "didn't you say that this song was written for me?"

Tan Shuo was really stunned for a moment this time: "Don't be so stingy, just let me borrow flowers to offer Buddha!"

Qin Haiou laughed softly.

**

The next morning, Qin Haiou came to Liu'an's piano room and began to prepare for the performance at the birthday party.

In the past, such gatherings of friends would have been regarded as private occasions in his opinion, and playing on such occasions is not the same as performing on stage formally.But now, due to his own problems, except when facing himself or facing Tan Shuo, all performances in front of people give him the same feeling as a formal performance.Although the upcoming party is far inferior to a normal concert in terms of scale, it is not only himself or Tan Shuo that he has to face.He needs to face more people, these people are not only his friends, but also his audience, when he imagines that scene, he finds that they are even as strange as ordinary audiences.

This feeling made it difficult for Qin Haiou to relax.So after making a decision, the first and most important thing he wants to do is to practice the piano.In the past, he would definitely practice the piano before the performance. This is an indispensable link and a habit that he cannot change.However, when he sat down in front of the piano, Qin Haiou was at a loss.

Usually before the concert, he always has a set of repertoire to practice, must play repertoire, alternative repertoire, extra repertoire and so on.But this time, all the repertoire he wants to perform is only the four pages that Tan Shuo gave him, and he can memorize everything on these four pages backwards, and he can play the piece from beginning to end with his eyes closed. From the tail to the head, not only that, but he can pop it in various tricks, and he only needs to choose one of them to complete the performance.

It wasn't until this moment that Qin Haiou realized that he had nothing to practice.

Knowing that there is nothing to practice, but feeling that if you don't practice, you can't feel at ease, knowing that you have practiced more than enough, but suspecting that you still haven't practiced well enough, this kind of contradiction makes Qin Haiou anxious.He still went to Liu'an to play the piano every day, and practiced the sketch several times a day, but this did not calm his anxiety.This emotion gradually emerged with the passage of time. At first, it only made him distracted occasionally, or seemed a little absent-minded when speaking, but the situation continued to deteriorate very quickly. He became depressed as a whole, and nothing seemed to make him lose Delighted from the bottom of his heart, nothing really interested him.

Seeing that Qin Haiou was bored all day, Zhuzhu thought he was bored because he had stayed in the town for too long, so she suggested him to go out to play.However, in Tan Shuo's view, Qin Haiou's change meant another sign—even if he knew that he would play in a relaxed place, even if no one forced him and he could choose to give up, Qin Haiou was still giving Put pressure on yourself.This seems to have become a kind of inertia for him, and once he is caught in it, it is difficult to stop. If he cannot be effectively intervened and the situation is allowed to develop, he will repeat the same mistakes and push himself into a dead end.

Tan Shuo realized this, but felt it was very tricky.Things have progressed to this point, and Qin Haiou is in such a state. Now, if you want to exert any influence on him, you must be cautious, otherwise, if you are not careful, all the previous efforts will be ruined.

Tan Shuo called Qin Haiou to the second floor of the rice noodle shop and handed him a small packaged box.Qin Haiou was a little puzzled, so Tan Shuo said, "I've already bought our gifts. If you don't want to play on that day, you can give this to her."

Holding the box in his hands, Qin Haiou was stunned for a while, and gradually came back to his senses.

He didn't expect that Tan Shuo even considered this.

His anxiety has grown so much these days that he has almost forgotten that he can choose not to play.But this backup gift reminded him that he didn't have to move forward, he had a way out, and if he didn't want to move forward, he could stop or retreat to a place where he felt at ease.

Looking at the small gift box in his hand, Qin Haiou suddenly felt relaxed and felt much better.

It's like a person walking on the edge of a cliff, who was only thinking about the abyss under his feet, but suddenly found a safety rope tied to his body, and someone was pulling him tightly at the other end of the rope.At this moment, the abyss became less scary.

Tan Shuo came up with this method in order to relieve Qin Haiou's pressure, and this method did work in a short period of time.However, as the day approached, Qin Haiou became anxious again uncontrollably.He was very nervous, the same tension he had felt before his last concert, making him fidgety, so depressed that he didn't have the heart to do anything.