Second Piano Concerto

"Are you kidding me!" Tan Shuo sneered.

Qin Haiou looked at him calmly: "It's not a joke."

"Then are you kidding me?" Tan Shuo was about to get up as he said, "I'm busy now, you can play by yourself if you have nothing to do, don't come here to make trouble."

"I'm not teasing you." Qin Haiou held him down, and then took out his mobile phone, "If you don't believe me, I can ask my agent to fax the commission contract right now. Jin is right, say the number, and I will sign it immediately."

Tan Shuo looked at him, sat back in the chair, and was silent for a moment: "Why do you want me to write this stuff?"

Qin Haiou said: "I want to play this piece at my comeback concert."

Tan Shuo was helpless: "We discussed this issue yesterday."

"That's right," Qin Haiou nodded, "but we can discuss it again, this time it's my formal commission to you."

"Then I will give you a formal answer. I don't agree." Tan Shuo said while paying attention to Qin Haiou's expression. He thought Qin Haiou would be a little unhappy or frustrated when he heard this answer, but Qin Haiou was quite calm, as if he had Expected him to say that.

"Can you tell me the reason for your refusal?" Qin Haiou asked.

This question kept Tan Shuo silent for a longer time.In his view, the answer is obvious.In a concert, a piano concerto often needs to take up the entire half of the time. If it is a pianist's solo concert, then the performance of a concerto is the most important part of the whole concert, and this The quality and performance effect of this work will also directly affect the success or failure of the concert.Not to mention that he has not yet agreed to accept the commission, even if he does, if the work is not well written or the performance fails to achieve the desired effect, Qin Haiou will suffer a huge loss.

Before retiring from the music scene, Qin Haiou's image and performance had never been stained in any way. After retiring from the music scene, he has always kept a mystery to the outside world.Under such circumstances, if he decides to come back, his comeback concert must be successful, otherwise, once the concert is messed up, the price he has to pay will be greater than when he announced his retirement from the music scene.At that time, he will face doubts and pressure from all sides, including the media, and things will be far more than just hiding in Longjin Town.

Tan Shuo thought that Qin Haiou was just a whim last night, and he would forget about it after mentioning it, but he didn't expect that Qin Haiou not only did not forget, but his attitude became more determined and solemn.This made Tan Shuo feel very uneasy. He had to persuade Qin Haiou to give up this idea, because no matter how he considered it, he could not agree.

He was silent for a long time before he said: "This is your comeback concert. You must minimize the risk and ensure that the concert is safe. Therefore, you must choose the performance repertoire carefully. You'd better choose the one you are familiar with. , Play the repertoire you are good at, and also take into account the audience’s expectations for the repertoire. If you are playing a new work in this concert, and it is a large-scale work like a concerto, there are too many uncertain factors. Whether the work is good or bad, How well you adapt to the work and how well the audience will accept it are all unknowns. You can’t afford to lose this concert, and you can’t bet on a work that has never been released before.”

Qin Haiou didn't expect Tan Shuo to readily agree to this conversation, but he didn't expect that Tan Shuo refused the commission for such a reason.Tan Shuo had already thought about the issues that he hadn't started thinking about himself.

He was moved in his heart, but he still said calmly: "I have nothing to lose, the big deal is the same as before, playing for myself."

Tan Shuo smiled: "You are quite open now."

"Didn't you teach me this?" Qin Haiou looked at him and said.

Tan Shuo didn't answer.Qin Haiou said again: "You are worried about two things: the work is not good enough, or the performance is not good enough. Either of these two will lead to the failure of the performance, so you think that playing new works is very risky. But if you think so, it means that you have no confidence in yourself, nor in me."

Tan Shuo's face darkened, but he still didn't speak.Qin Haiou thought that he needed to put some pressure on Tan Shuo in this matter, but he didn't want to push Tan Shuo too hard. He thought about his words: "I won't force you, but please don't rush to refuse. If you I think this is difficult to achieve, so I consider it as a hypothesis, a... possibility. This will not bring loss to anyone." Then he looked at Tan Shuo's expression, "I will never force You do what you don't want to do, but at least think about whether you really don't want to do it."

Tan Shuo continued to be silent for a long time, and finally sighed.

This matter is too difficult for him, it involves too many complicated emotions, and it is also related to the success or failure of Qin Haiou's comeback concert.

Yesterday he also told Liu Yang that even if what Qin Haiou decided was extremely difficult, he would fight to the end. He didn't expect that he would become the object of his death today.Although Qin Haiou said that he was not reluctant, Tan Shuo could see from his attitude just now that if he did not agree, Qin Haiou would definitely think of various ways to persuade him.

Qin Haiou was calm from the beginning to the end, which showed that he was prepared and came to him after careful consideration.Tan Shuo knew that it would be useless to say anything now, so he had to use the strategy of delaying the attack first: "You let me think about it."

He thought that since Qin Haiou had already started thinking about returning to the concert, he would leave Longjin soon in order to recover his condition. If he could delay until then, he might not be obsessed with this idea.

Seeing him let go, Qin Haiou was very happy: "Okay, think about it slowly!"

He knew that Tan Shuo might not really think about it, it might just be Tan Shuo's delaying tactics, but it doesn't matter, he has plenty of time and patience, at least Tan Shuo should have realized today that this time he can't be perfunctory anymore thing, that's enough.

***

In the afternoon of the same day, Qin Haiou came to the rice noodle shop to help the cook again, and he was very busy when Ah Si suddenly appeared at the door of the shop and said that he had something to call for him.Qin Haiou was a little puzzled. Compared with other friends he met in the ancient town, Ah Si was a more solitary person. Qin Haiou didn't know him very well, and he didn't know why he came to see him at this time, but He quickly dealt with the work at hand, said hello to Tan Shuo and went out.

Seeing him coming out, Ah Si didn't speak immediately, but turned around and walked aside.There is a quiet corner between the rice noodle shop and the inn. It is a certain distance from the street outside. Normally, no tourists come in. Only the back door of the rice noodle shop is opposite to a side door of the inn. When neighbors on both sides visit each other, they often like it. Access from here.Qin Haiou followed Ah Si all the way to the innermost corner, until Ah Si turned to look at him, he found that Ah Si's face was very gloomy, and he felt even more strange.

Ah Si was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Where did you go last night?"

Qin Haiou was stunned for a while by this question, he didn't understand why Ah Si asked such a question.He was very happy last night, went out for a run, and jumped into the river, only to be caught by the patrol.But do these things have anything to do with Ah Si?

Seeing that he was stunned, Ah Si's eyes turned colder, and before he could answer, he continued to ask, "Do you know how long Xiao Jin waited for you last night?"

Qin Haiou didn't understand what he was talking about at all. After recalling it, he couldn't find any clue: "Why did she wait for me?"

Ah Si's eyes suddenly burst into anger: "You fucking say it again?!"

Qin Haiou frowned.Although he still couldn't figure out why Nalan Jin had to wait for him, he could already see that something went wrong in a certain link, which caused Ah Si to misunderstand him.But he really couldn't remember what Nalan Jin had said to wait for him.When did she say that, why did she wait for him?When and where?

He frowned and didn't speak, which made Ah Si even more angry, and his voice trembled when he questioned: "Who do you think you are, huh? Is it great to have a few stinky money! Xiao Jin hasn't touched anyone for so many years Don't worry, don't you think playing with her is fun?!"

Qin Haiou was a little dazed by his yelling, and it took him a while to realize the meaning of his words, and he was so shocked that he was speechless.When they celebrated Nalanjin's birthday last time, they learned that she liked someone, but Qin Haiou never knew, nor thought that that person would be him.This fact surprised him so much that he didn't even bother to think about what Ah Si had accused him of.

Ah Si saw his face full of astonishment, and thought he had been exposed, so he felt guilty. Just as he was about to say more, the back door of the rice noodle shop creaked, and Tan Shuo poked his head out from inside: "What's going on?"

Ah Si glanced at Tan Shuo, and said impatiently, "Don't worry about this!"

Tan Shuo was a little funny: "I can hear you yelling here in the kitchen. If you make it louder, all the customers in the store can hear it."

Ah Si pointed at Qin Haiou and said to him: "Do you know what he did to Xiao Jin last night?!"

Tan Shuo was stunned for a moment, then looked at Qin Haiou: "What did you do?"

Ah Si said: "He hung Xiaojin on the Xiaonan Bridge and asked Xiaojin to wait until almost midnight. When we came out of the bar, everyone on and off the bridge was astigmatized, and Xiaojin was still standing there!"

As he said that, he turned to Qin Haiou again: "Ask your own conscience, when did Xiaojin treat you badly? You went to her shop to provoke her, and now you leave her alone, and you still ask me Why! Do you dare to say that you didn't promise her yesterday? Are you a fucking man or not! "

Seeing him talking more and more excited, Tan Shuo opened the door and came out, standing against the wall and watching.Qin Haiou still frowned and looked at Ah Si. He didn't know why Ah Si accused him. He only knew that he had never had any other thoughts about Nalan Jin.He asked himself that he always respected the women around him. Although he had never been in a relationship, he couldn't even grasp this point. Besides, he had always regarded Nalan Jin as a good friend. How could he do anything to her? Ah Si said those things!

He suppressed the anger rising in his heart, and explained as calmly as possible: "I didn't like her, nor did I make her like me."

He originally said this sentence in response to the phrase "provoke". He wanted to explain that he didn't mean to make Nalan Jin like him, but he didn't know that such wording would be more likely to be misunderstood. In the four ears, it has completely changed into another meaning.

"You bastard!!" Ah Si's eyes turned red immediately, and he raised his fist to hit Qin Haiou.

Tan Shuo was watching from the sidelines, but when he heard Qin Haiou say "I didn't make her like me", he knew that something was going to go wrong. Looking back, Ah Si's fists were raised, and he hurried forward to push Qin Haiou away , Turn around and stop Ah Si.

Ah Si was so angry that he didn't care about others, he just raised his fist to hit Qin Haiou, but Tan Shuo pulled him away, losing his aim and center of gravity, and the punch passed through Tan Shuo's nose .

Tan Shuo was blown head-on against the wall by the punch, his eyes were full of stars, but he felt that the bridge of his nose was about to be broken, and the inside of his nose was hot, and when he raised his hand to touch it, he felt the blood on his hand, and screamed angrily : "Damn it! You fucking hit me!"

Qin Haiou was staggered by Tan Shuo's push. He stood firm and raised his head. He saw blood under Tan Shuo's nose. As soon as he raised his hand to wipe it off, the blood flowed out of his nose again and dripped down his chin.

Qin Haiou was already holding back his fire, but when he saw this scene, he heard a "buzz" in his head, and he raised his fist and threw it at Ah Si's face.