Second Piano Concerto

With the deepening of the collection, Tan Shuo has more and more ideas, but these ideas are relatively scattered, mostly flashes of inspiration, which are not enough to build the framework of the work.But Tan Shuo was not in a hurry, he would jot down whatever came to his mind, and think about it slowly when he was free, or discuss it with Qin Haiou.Qin Haiou likes this kind of discussion very much. This is the first time for him to witness and participate in the whole process of creating a work. Although he is still in the preparation stage of creation, Tan Shuo attaches great importance to his opinions, which makes him feel more seriously. And think about the material you come into contact with.

When they came to the village, they were catching up with the end of the autumn harvest. When the autumn harvest is over, the villagers will usher in a festival to celebrate the harvest.It is said that on that day, all the men, women and children in the village will gather in the open space in the center of the village to hold celebrations, singing and dancing all night long.

Tan Shuo had heard Xiao Hei mention this matter long before he came here, and now that the festival is approaching day by day, considering that there are not many spare batteries left, he simply removed the batteries of all the devices and left them behind. For the festival day.

The open space where the celebration was held was the one next to the grocery store, a place Qin Haiou was very familiar with.In the center of the clearing was an old tree with lush branches, and many bird nests were built on the tall branches.On weekdays, men and women in the village often come to this tree to rest and sing in antiphonal songs after a busy day of farming.Among the folk songs recorded by Tan Shuo, quite a few love songs are collected here.On the day of the festival, he and Qin Haiou came to the tree early, and saw that a tall firewood pile had been set up there, and a big drum was erected beside the tree, and some villagers were scattered around. Seeing them coming, they enthusiastically Invite them to sit down and drink and eat.

These villagers wear clothes made of black, white, gray or dark blue cloth in their daily work and life. They go in and out of the wooden-colored hanging buildings, step on the dark brown soil, and walk among the emerald green terraced fields. , backed by the boundless green hills.However, on the day of the festival, all the people put on costumes, and the plain clothes were replaced by exquisite embroidery and shiny silver ornaments. People seemed to be repainted by multicolored brushes, like bright streams converging in this open space.

The huge visual impact made Qin Haiou dizzy. After sitting down, he still couldn't take his eyes off the colorful crowd.Gradually, more and more people gathered in the open space. In the afternoon, young guys from other nearby villages also arrived one after another. They all set off before dawn and rushed over from the other side of the mountain.People in this village put some stools on the open space for everyone to sit on, but these stools were far from enough, so most people—especially the girls—brought their own small benches, and some people simply sat on the ground .

Everyone will drink on this occasion. Rice wine is both water and a beverage. Only after drinking the wine can singing and dancing be performed.Infected by the festive atmosphere, Qin Haiou put his worries aside, and when the villagers tried to persuade him to drink, he readily took it and drank it.At the beginning when he first arrived in Longjin, when he was drinking at Brother Long’s restaurant, he was so depressed that he became unconscious after only a little drink, but now he is no longer confused, his whole heart is open and warm, not only is he not drunk, Instead, he drank more and more vigorously, and after a while, his cheeks were flushed, his eyes were shining brightly, his whole body was steaming, his head turned around restlessly, looking at the happy crowd around him, eager to become one of them.

At this time, there happened to be a group of young men and women singing to each other under the old tree. Qin Haiou heard the familiar tunes from them, which were all folk songs he had learned in the village these days.He was itchy and couldn't sit still any longer. After a girl across from him finished singing and it was the man's turn to pick up the song, he suddenly stood up and sang loudly to the group of men and women.

These young men and women express their love through songs. For them, the melody of the song is second, and the most important thing is that the meaning of the lyrics can respond to each other.But Qin Haiou can't speak the language of this nation, and naturally he can't sing lyrics, so he can only sing the melody he thinks is suitable.He has a nice voice and strong imitative ability, he yelled a few times with the help of alcohol, and he sounded decent.A group of young men under the tree were stunned when he rushed out halfway to steal the limelight, but the girls whispered to each other and laughed, looking here one after another, scrambling to answer his song.

Tan Shuo was recording and writing at the same time, and stopped writing when he heard the singing, watching the excitement.Qin Haiou happily sang seven or eight back and forth with the opposite party, and several girls ran over and surrounded him, one of them took his arm first, and pulled him to sit on the bench he brought with a smile.Qin Haiou's alcohol was getting stronger, and he was still thinking about the antiphonal song in his mind. He didn't think much about being pushed and pushed all the way by them, and walked over there in a daze.Xiao Hei had been sitting under the tree to watch, and when he saw this scene, he asked Tan Shuo, "Brother Qin, is he really going to sit on that sister's bench?"

"What's wrong?" Tan Shuo didn't understand why he asked.

Xiao Hei was stunned, then lowered his voice and came over: "Don't you know? The girls here are very unrestrained. If she likes you, she will invite you to sit on her bench. If you sit, it means that you agree. Now, you can have a baby in no time."

Tan Shuo was taken aback, and immediately threw the pen and paper and the tape recorder and dragged him to jump up: "Damn, how could we know this kind of thing! If you don't hurry up and pull him back, we won't be able to go around if something happens!"

"This is a good thing!" Xiao Hei wondered.

Tan Shuo didn't bother to explain to him, so he turned to pull Qin Haiou.Xiao Hei hurriedly followed, and the two frantically pushed aside the crowd and pulled Qin Haiou back.Xiao Hei whispered to Qin Haiou: "Brother Qin, you have to think about this bench before you sit on it! It's a custom here that whoever sits on the bench will sleep on the bed!"

Qin Haiou looked at him in a daze, and after a while, he suddenly realized that he was terrified and woke up from the wine: "I, I, I didn't sit, I didn't sit!"

Tan Shuo couldn't help laughing at the side, and just breathed a sigh of relief, but Xiao Hei nodded in agreement: "That's right! I also think that sister just now is not good, but the one on her left looks good, with fair skin and double eyelids, what do you think? How about it?"

Qin Haiou was speechless and just shook his head.The girls didn't know what they were muttering, and after waiting for a while, Qin Haiou didn't see him, so they came to pull him again.Qin Haiou backed away in fright, and hid behind Tan Shuo. Seeing this, Xiao Hei had no choice but to stop them, and it took a lot of talking to dispel their thoughts.

After this experience, Qin Haiou shrank back and didn't dare to move. He was completely sober and didn't dare to drink anymore.Tan Shuo saw that he was nervous when he saw a girl approaching, so he took him to record songs in the crowd, and went to eat various snacks prepared by the villagers for the festival.As the sky darkened, the firewood pile on the open space finally ignited. A young drummer came under the tree and beat a big drum. Immediately, the men and women who sang in antiphonal circle formed a circle around the fire and began to dance to the beat of the drum. People from the crowd keep joining them, making the dance team grow rapidly.

Tan Shuo and Qin Haiou were also dragged into the dancing team by Xiao Hei.Both of them have received professional music training, and their sense of rhythm is naturally not a problem. They quickly mastered the basic rhythm of dance steps and clapping hands. As for whether the dancing posture is good-looking, no one cares about it in this indulgent and joyous occasion.The firelight illuminated everyone's faces with bright smiles, and people's emotions were as hot as fire.This scene went on and on, and when the young drummer got tired, another drummer came to replace him.Tan Shuo danced a few rounds with the crowd in a daze, when he suddenly heard the sound of the drum stop and changed, which was completely different from what he heard just now, so he knew it was played by an experienced veteran. With a bow, he got out of his own team and walked towards the drummer through the gap between the outer teams.

Seeing Tan Shuo running away suddenly, Qin Haiou followed his back to see what he was going to do, but saw him standing motionless in front of the drummer, watching him beating the drum intently.Qin Haiou realized that this might be very important, so he also left the team and walked through the crowd to the drum.The two of them sometimes stared at the dancing drumsticks, and sometimes looked at people's dance steps. By comparing the two, Qin Haiou finally understood the difference between this drummer and other drummers—he was not only responding to people's dance steps. , is guiding and stimulating the atmosphere of the audience, his drums are like a big tree that grows by itself, pulling out branches in all directions from the solid and stable trunk, full of vitality and creativity.

The two watched it fascinated for a while, and Tan Shuo suddenly turned his head and exclaimed: "This rhythm is really awesome, the master is among the people!"

"Yes!" Qin Haiou also nodded excitedly, "Although the basic rhythm is fixed, there are many changes that can be derived from it. Using rhythm changes to drive emotional changes is very contagious!"

Tan Shuo rubbed his chin, sneaked into the crowd and pulled Xiao Hei out. When the dance was over and the drummer stopped to rest, he asked Xiao Hei to help translate and asked the drummer if he could teach them how to play drums.

When the drum master heard that two foreigners wanted to learn how to play drums from him, he immediately demonstrated them enthusiastically and proudly—he first played it once, and then asked the two to play it again, starting from the simplest, playing the rhythm he was familiar with. Teach them in groups.

Qin Haiou knew that Tan Shuo didn't really want to learn how to play drums. He wanted to take this opportunity to better feel and understand these rhythms, which was also one of the purposes of their collection.Qin Haiou put all his energy into it and concentrated on learning while memorizing.At first, they will know the simple rhythms one by one, and those more complex rhythms, after the drummer demonstrates, even if it is difficult for one person to memorize them independently, the two can quickly understand the rhythms accurately after a short discussion and mutual complementarity. unmistakably restored.This learning speed surprised the drummer, and he frequently looked at them with admiration.At the end, the drummer seemed to have finally made up his mind. He rolled up his sleeves, spit on his palms, stood in front of the drum and meditated for a moment, then picked up the drumstick and beat a series of dense drum beats.

This group of drums not only lasted for a long time, but also had an extremely complicated rhythm. After listening to it, the two looked at each other, both shocked.They realized that this time, the drummer hiding in the mountains might have used his housekeeping skills, and this was what Tan Shuo was most interested in.Tan Shuo immediately grabbed the drum stick and tapped while remembering, but he was forced to stop because of blurred memory before he reached less than one-third of the way.Qin Haiou pointed out some mistakes and omissions for him, took over the drum stick and hit it a few times, but it was also difficult to continue.The two had no choice but to ask the drummer to play again.

Seeing that they were finally stumped, the drummer happily played again.This time, the two successfully moved forward for a while and figured out the general structure of this group of rhythms, but there are still many details that are fleeting and cannot be remembered clearly.So the drummer played again, they memorized again, three times and four times if two times failed, and after more than half an hour of tossing and turning, the two actually learned this set of rhythms completely and accurately.The drummer admired them very much, and invited them to sit down and drink after the lesson.The drum master said that this complex rhythm was passed down from generation to generation by the drum masters in the mountains. The master taught and the apprentice learned. There is no written record for reference, so he can only memorize and practice by hand. In his generation, he was the only one among several apprentices who had learned it. He did not expect to be able to pass it on to two people at a time today, and he is also very happy about it.

Tan Shuo thanked the drummer with wine and recorded his drumming, and the two came back and sat down.They gained a lot tonight, Tan Shuo was inspired almost immediately, and fell into thinking about creation.Qin Haiou didn't want to disturb him, so he went to play with Xiao Hei again, but every time they returned to the tree, he could see Tan Shuo sitting there cross-legged, writing and scribbling in his notebook with concentration by the light of the fire. Nothing has changed.