Second Piano Concerto

They lived in the village.He wakes up every day listening to the sound of chickens and dogs, and relies on biogas lamps, bonfires and special torches for lighting after sunset.When playing outside, they eat glutinous rice and bacon prepared by their grandma, and when they return home, they have a wealth of local dishes and rice wine brewed by Xiaohei's family.In addition to chicken, duck, fish and pork, there is also raw beef with blood, which is eaten with spicy condiments.When I am thirsty, I drink mountain spring water or fried local tea. When I am dirty, I jump into the stream to wash my body and clothes.Every day on the small roads in the village there are feces left by passing livestock and dogs. At first, they paid attention to avoiding them, and occasionally they accidentally stepped on them, so they stopped to scrape the soles of their shoes before walking.Later, they stepped on them more often, and they gradually got used to the contact with livestock. After all, living in this place, it makes no difference whether the soles of their shoes are stained with mud or dung.

Qin Haiou originally thought that after they settled down, Tan Shuo would start collecting local music materials.But to his surprise, Tan Shuo seemed to have forgotten their purpose of coming here. From the next day, for several days in a row, he spent a lot of time in the kitchen of Xiao Hei's house, pestering his grandmother to teach him how to cook.From preparing food ingredients to cooking in the pot, he has to ask about everything and learn from it. He even goes with grandma to dig vegetables in the field or go to the chicken coop to dig eggs.Xiao Hei saw that he was very interested and grandma couldn't speak Chinese well, so he stayed to help explain.As a result, Qin Haiou and Zhao Fei were the only ones who went out to play.Zhao Fei took a relatively easy-to-operate camera for Qin Haiou to take pictures for fun, while he himself took a lot of pictures of him with Qin Haiou's camera.

Tan Shuo worked in the kitchen for a few days. Although he still insisted on cooking for his grandmother at least once a day, he gradually turned his attention to collecting folk songs.The folk songs in this area have never been disturbed and polluted by the outside world, and have always maintained the style and flavor passed down from generation to generation.The song comes from life and sings about life, all ordinary or important activities from sunrise to sunset, moonrise to moonset - such as labor, harvest, love, marriage, festivals, ceremonies... can be turned into beautiful singing.For people living here, singing is as necessary and natural as breathing, and it is often more expressive than speaking.Therefore, Tan Shuo and Qin Haiou don't even need to look for them deliberately, as long as they go around the fields and villages at different times every day, they can hear folk songs with different themes and contents from the mouths of men, women and children.

But their gains are far more than that.The news of the arrival of a distinguished guest in the village spread as early as the day the four of them arrived. The villagers were originally hospitable, but they found it strange that the distinguished guest of one family became the distinguished guest of the whole village. Everyone heard that the distinguished guest liked to listen to music, so they actively Organize some of the best voices in the village to sing for them.Therefore, whenever the sun sets and the day's work is over, the people in the village take turns to be hosts, gather the singers, and invite Tan Shuo and others to eat, drink, and sing together. .

In Tan Shuo's view, these folk songs are precious materials. He tastes and thinks from the perspective of the creator, hoping to fully understand and absorb the essence of them, and make them the nourishment of his own creation.But for Qin Haiou, unlike Tan Shuo, he has creative tasks, so he can completely relax to feel and experience this novel world.He loves the simple folk customs here, and also loves these beautiful folk songs. Whenever he listens to the villagers singing, he can't help singing along with them silently, wanting to keep these melodies in his heart.

Since there is no electricity in the village, in order to save battery, Tan Shuo used paper and pen to record folk songs as much as possible as long as conditions allowed, and only used a recorder when he encountered difficulties in handwriting.As he listened and memorized, it was inevitable that there would be omissions sometimes, which often needed to be supplemented by memory afterwards.Tan Shuo was pleasantly surprised to find that Qin Haiou had a super musical memory—he could memorize simple folk songs after only listening to them once, and he could remember those long and complicated folk songs pretty well—so he simply took Qin Haiou’s When the recorder is used, Qin Haiou will help to supplement and check anything that I haven't recorded or can't remember clearly.This greatly improved the efficiency and quality of recording, and made Tan Shuo much easier.

Tan Shuo did not explain to Xiao Hei the real purpose of his and Qin Haiou's trip, but only said that he wanted to listen to more folk songs here.Xiao Hei saw that he was always writing notes in a notebook when he was listening to music, and he often wrote with the notebook in his hands when he got home. After several times, he finally couldn't help asking: "Brother Tan, what are you writing?"

Before Tan Shuo could speak, Qin Haiou replied, "Your folk song!"

Curiously, Xiao Hei went up to take a closer look, and saw rows and rows of numbers written on the paper, as well as many messy alterations. He wondered, "Is this a song?"

Tan Shuo smiled and said, "Yes, if you don't believe me, I'll sing it to you!" Then he pointed to a row of numbers and began to sing.

When Xiao Hei heard it, it was indeed a melody he was familiar with, and he was very impressed: "Brother Tan, you are so amazing!"

Both Tan Shuo and Qin Haiou laughed.Tan Shuo just recorded the folk songs with numbered notation. Xiao Hei didn't go to school, and the folk songs in the village were passed down by word of mouth and there were no written records, so Xiao Hei didn't recognize them.

Zhao Fei was also very curious when he saw Tan Shuo tinkering with these things, but Tan Shuo only said that he just wrote and wrote casually as a hobby, and just brushed it off.

They played while collecting wind, and saw enough of the scenery on the mountain.Qin Haiou was afraid that Yu Doudou would be worried, so he went to the grocery store every evening to call her.At first, only the grandpa and grandson were looking after them in the shop, but within two days, there were more people in the shop—they were all women from the village, and there would be two or three of them every day, or sitting in the shop. At the door, or standing in the shop, some are still holding nursing babies.As soon as Qin Haiou came, they stopped joking and joking, and all stared at him, and the baby also stared at him.Qin Haiou couldn't understand what it meant, and the two sides couldn't speak the language, so he had to make a phone call on his own.His phone calls are usually very short, mainly to report Yu Doudou's safety. From entering the shop, making a phone call to leaving the shop, it usually takes no more than 5 minutes.Those women stared at him, and he didn't know how to respond. Every time he paid the phone bill, saying "Thank you, I'm leaving" to the little girl in the grocery store was all communication.When I come back the next day, the little girl will still be the same little girl, but the crowd of onlookers will change again.

Qin Haiou felt puzzled, so he told Xiao Hei and others about it.Xiao Hei laughed loudly when he heard this, and turned to Tan Shuo and Zhao Fei and said, "Take Brother Qin away quickly, I'm still waiting to marry a wife!"

Qin Haiou asked what was going on again, Xiao Hei smiled and said: "Brother Qin, the girls here are different from those in the city, if you fall in love with someone, you will grab them at home!"

Qin Haiou was taken aback, and said "ah", "Then, what should I do?"

He looked at Tan Shuo as he spoke, and now he admires Tan Shuo no less than he worships Wang Yifu. Whenever he encounters a problem, he always subconsciously thinks that it must be right to ask Tan Shuo, but who knows that Tan Shuo is not only cheerful Without answering, he raised his throat and sang:

"There are 99 people looking for her from afar every day,

There are 99 people looking for her nearby every day,

There are also 99 people who look for her during the day,

There are also 99 who look for her at night,

I search three times a day if I have nothing to do, and nine times a day if I have something to do..."

Upon hearing this, Qin Haiou realized that it was useless to ask him, so he only asked Xiao Hei.Xiao Hei smiled for a long time before replying: "It's easy to handle! Brother Qin, whoever you like is good, I'll find someone to match you. If no one likes you, just ignore them!"

Qin Haiou sighed silently. He had seen many scenes of being surrounded by music fans, but this was the first time he saw such a scene.Ever since he heard about the purpose of those women, he dared not look directly at their faces every time he went to the grocery store.He asked Yu Doudou if he could make a call the next day, and Yu Doudou asked why, but he refused to tell the reason.

Tan Shuo and Zhao Fei knew that Qin Haiou was very popular in the grocery store, so they sent him to buy instant noodles.Although the food in the village is very delicious, glutinous rice is regarded as the staple food every day, which is different from the usual eating habits. After a few days, the three of them began to miss those "normal" foods, and the only things they could find in the village were groceries. Instant noodles for sale.

Qin Haiou had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to run errands, and every time he brought back something other than instant noodles, such as a few milk candies or fruit candies, or a handful of dried fruits, which were stuffed by the girl at the grocery store. for him.

In the first few days when the three of them arrived in the village, Xiao Hei greeted them for daytime activities, eating, bathing, etc., and moved together.Later, they gradually became familiar with the place, and they no longer needed Xiao Hei to take care of them all the time, so they often took what they needed, and divided into two groups——Zhao Fei took pictures of the people and scenes he was interested in, while Tan Shuo and Qin Haiou took pictures with them. Recording equipment picks up songs everywhere.

One day when Tan Shuo went out to collect songs, he suddenly had an inspiration. When he got home, he didn't even bother to wipe off his sweat, so he sat down on the bench, took out his notebook and started writing.Qin Haiou saw that he was devoted to writing and Zhao Fei was not there, so he took a towel and soap to take a bath by the stream.Before that, they followed Xiao Hei to the waterfall every time to wash, but today Qin Haiou was lazy and didn't go that far, so he found a hidden pool nearby to wash.

After a while, Zhao Fei also came back, and Xiao Hei came to greet the three of them to take a bath.He heard that Qin Haiou had gone to wash alone, he didn't know what to think of, "Oops", turned around and ran outside.

Tan Shuo and Zhao Fei were taken aback, thinking that something serious happened, so they hurriedly followed.The two chased after Xiao Hei's back and ran into the woods, only to see Xiao Hei suddenly stopped in front of him, and shouted into the bush: "Sister and sister, don't look at it!"

As soon as he yelled, giggling laughter came from the bushes by the stream. Several girls came out from inside, and two who were originally hiding behind the rocks came out with a smile when they heard him yell. nod.They were holding baskets of clothes in their hands, and their hair was tied. It seemed that they all came to this pool to take a bath, but there was already a person in the pool, so they hid and peeked.

At this time, Qin Haiou had already heard the noise, wiped the water off his face and turned around, seeing a group of girls standing on the bank smiling at him, his mind was a little dazed.

Everyone on the shore laughed even harder, and Tan Shuo slapped his thigh happily from behind.Zhao Fei didn't have time to take off the camera hanging around his neck. Seeing this scene, his occupational disease broke out, his hands were faster than his brain, and he didn't even care about the focus. shutter.

Xiao Hei smiled and shouted to Qin Haiou: "Brother Qin, Brother Qin, come up quickly! This is a place for women to take a bath!"

Only then did Qin Haiou realize what was going on, his face blushed to the base of his neck, and he squatted into the water as soon as he got short.

"You, why didn't you say it earlier!" Qin Haiou blushed, his clothes and towels were placed on the rocks on the shore, and he couldn't reach them when squatting in the water, but the girls hadn't left yet, so he didn't dare to get up, "...Help me throw the towel over here!"

Xiao Hei wanted to bend down to get it, but was grabbed by Tan Shuo: "Masters, are you still afraid of being watched? Come up and get it yourself!"

Qin Haiou couldn't laugh or cry.

Xiao Hei couldn't bear to tease him with Tan Shuo, so he hurriedly turned around and drove those girls away.The girls laughed together again and walked away slowly while chattering in low voices.

Qin Haiou quickly got out of the water, grabbed the towel and wrapped it around his waist.Tan Shuo looked at the backs of the girls' heads and asked Xiao Hei, "What are they talking about?"

Xiao Hei glanced at Qin Haiou sympathetically: "They are saying that they have never seen a man with such white skin..."

Tan Shuo and Zhao Fei laughed so hard that they almost sat on the ground.Qin Haiou's ears were bleeding red, and he put on his clothes without saying a word.Xiao Hei pointed to the direction of the waterfall and explained to him: "This is the rule here. Men wash in the upstream, and women wash in the downstream. This pool is where women bathe. Men bathe, they should go to the top!"

Qin Haiou complained sullenly: "You never said that before."

Xiao Hei scratched his head and smiled, "I forgot to tell you guys, but I didn't expect you to come out by yourself!"

Qin Haiou had no choice but to admit defeat.Of course he wouldn't blame Xiao Hei for such a trivial matter, but when he thought that just now he thought he was the only one in this place, and he didn't know how long those girls had been hiding on the shore, he couldn't calm down.

After experiencing this incident, Qin Haiou never took a bath alone while collecting wind, and for a long time after that, the other three would laugh about this incident while taking a bath for a long time.