Second Piano Concerto

Two days later, Yu Doudou left Longjin Town alone.At the same time, Qin Haiou officially moved into Xiaopengmen and began to practice piano in retreat.He hasn't practiced the piano well for more than half a year, but now he has a clear goal and the belief that he must win. He plunged into the piano room and practiced for at least 8 hours a day. Except for eating, sleeping, necessary exercise and rest, the rest Almost all of my time is spent in the piano room. Even when I am not playing the piano, I must be listening to piano CDs or pondering over scores.

During this period of time, Qin Haiou seemed to have evaporated from the ancient town. Except for Tan Shuo and Liu Yang, no one in the town knew what he was doing when he locked himself in that quiet courtyard.As the weather turns cold after winter and the end of the year is approaching, the ancient town has once again entered the off-season for tourism.Since Qin Haiou was still in the town, Liu Yang didn't close the shop to go out this time. Even though she knew that there was nothing missing in the small Pengmen, she would still take care of Qin Haiou's life from time to time.Chen Ganning has a good impression of this lady who loves the piano and is easy-going and polite, not to mention Qin Haiou, he also welcomes Liu Yang to play the piano in his piano room when he is resting.For Liu Yang, this was something that she never dared to think about before. The first time she sat in front of Qin Haiou's royal grand piano, she felt like she was dreaming, and she was so nervous that she didn't even know how to release her hands. After several times, she gradually got used to this dreamy feeling and began to enjoy the fun of playing on this wonderful piano.In addition, this is also the first time Liu Yang has seen with his own eyes, as a top professional pianist, how much hard work and sweat Qin Haiou has to put in on the piano every day.The intensity of Qin Haiou's practice now is not the same as when he played the piano in Liu Yang's piano room. Liu Yang hoped that he would make a successful comeback, but also couldn't bear to see him work so hard. Every time he came out of Xiaopengmen, he felt complicated ,Mixed feelings.

Contrary to Liu Yang's well-measured visits, Tan Shuo always came to the door suddenly at unexpected times, and after coming in with a stack of scores, he went directly to the piano room to find someone regardless of whether Qin Haiou was practicing or not.If Qin Haiou hadn't greeted her in advance and told her not to stop Tan Shuo from coming to the piano room to find him at any time, Chen Ganning would have thought that this person was deliberately interfering with Qin Haiou's piano practice, and he might not even be allowed to enter the gate of the small courtyard.

Because Yu Doudou specifically asked to pay more attention to Tan Shuo before leaving, whenever Tan Shuo came to the courtyard, Chen Ganning wanted to know more about him.But Tan Shuo didn't do anything else when he came to the small courtyard, he just talked to Qin Haiou in the piano room, asked Qin Haiou to play the scores he brought, and then left anxiously with the scores.During this back and forth, Chen Ganning often couldn't even speak a word with him, let alone understand him.Until one day, things happened unexpectedly. After Tan Shuo came out of Qin Haiou's piano room, he just walked to the gate of the small courtyard. Run under the tree.

Chen Ganning saw this scene in the main room, not knowing what he was going to do, so she walked to the window and watched quietly.Unexpectedly, after Tan Shuo ran under the tree, he sat down on one of the bamboo chairs, took out the score under his arm, took out a pencil, lay down on the small table, and began to write.

At this time, Qin Haiou had already started practicing the piano. He obviously didn't know that Tan Shuo walked to the door and turned back. The door of the piano room was closed tightly, and the sound of the piano could be faintly heard from inside.And Tan Shuo didn't seem to plan to look for Qin Haiou again, he seemed to have completely forgotten everything around him, and only had the score written by himself in his eyes.He lay there and wrote non-stop for a quarter of an hour, and Chen Ganning also watched him in the room for a quarter of an hour. Finally, seeing that he still had no intention of stopping, Chen Ganning poured him a cup of hot tea and put it in front of him. Try asking: "It's cold outside, do you want to go inside and write?"

Tan Shuo didn't answer, didn't raise his head, and didn't react at all. He didn't seem to notice that there were more people around him, or that there was an extra glass of water on the table, and he just continued to write his own.Seeing him like this, Chen Ganning had no choice but to go back to the house.About half an hour later, Tan Shuo stood up suddenly, quickly put away his pen and score, and walked straight out of the gate of the small courtyard.Chen Ganning went over to take a look, and found that the cup of tea had not been touched, and it had already cooled down.

This small episode changed Chen Ganning's view of Tan Shuo.After Qin Haiou finished practicing the piano that day, Chen Ganning told him about it.After Qin Haiou heard this, he thought that Tan Shuo made Chen Ganning unhappy, so he explained for him: "He is like this, he is very devoted to writing and doesn't care about people. Don't mind, in fact, he didn't do it on purpose. He usually He’s a very nice person to get along with.”

Chen Ganning hurriedly said that she didn't mind, and she really didn't mind.Although she doesn't know whether Tan Shuo's works are good or bad, she can clearly feel his enthusiasm and selfless state when he creates.It was this state that she had felt countless times from Qin Haiou in front of the piano.Although the intuitive impressions of the two men are very different, they are surprisingly similar in this regard.Chen Ganning felt that she should really know more about Tan Shuo, not from the perspective of Qin Haiou's manager, but put aside all these and get to know this person objectively and truly.

Time passed slowly in the gradually quiet town.Tan Shuo's rice noodle shop has not opened since Caifengqian closed.After Caifeng came back, he immediately locked himself in the room on the second floor of the rice noodle shop, and first he was busy writing down all the thoughts that were crowded in his head.These ideas were inspired by local music during the wind gathering, but due to the limited conditions at the time, he couldn't write them all down on paper. Now he writes them into small fragments one by one, and there are dozens of them before and after.After "saving" these ideas, he began to sort out the various materials brought back by the wind gathering, extracting the essence of them to ponder and study.

During this process, Tan Shuo successively created several melodies that can be used as themes.The theme of a musical work is not only the core of its content, but also the core of its form. It is the most important gem in the work, and it is also the seed that makes the whole work grow and take shape.After Tan Shuo wrote these melodies, after repeated screening, deliberation and revision, he finally selected one of them as the main theme of this concerto, and thus determined the other secondary themes in the work one by one.After this major event was completed, he began to build the structure of the work on this basis, also advancing layer by layer from primary to secondary.It has been more than a month since he conceived all the theme and structure of the work, and the framework of the work was basically formed.Until then, Tan Shuo finally started to create the first movement.

These days, Qin Haiou has been practicing the piano in the small tent door. Sometimes Tan Shuo would come over and ask him to play some clips and ask him about his feelings and thoughts. Other than that, he was busy with his own business.Qin Haiou, like Tan Shuo, lived a life that hardly ever went out.However, he still enjoys the time to go out for a run in the morning and evening, especially now in winter, when it dawns late and gets dark early, and some shops are closed. When he runs, the town is often soaked in mist like clouds, and the air is fresh and humid. , the surrounding lights were sparse, and the road was so quiet that he could only hear his own breathing and footsteps, which made him feel very relaxed.

That night Qin Haiou came out for a run as usual, and while running, he suddenly heard a faint sound of a piano.That is not the sound of the piano, but the sound of the guqin.He changes his route every day according to his mood. Since he has already memorized the layout of the ancient town, he knows where to go with his eyes closed. At this time, he stops to look for the direction and finds that Nalanjin's tea shop is just a few steps ahead. , a thin light projected on the dark path, fragmented by the shadow of ivy.

Since the last time he went to the tea shop to apologize to Nalan Jin, Qin Haiou hadn't seen her for a long time. Hearing her piano sound at this time, he felt a little nostalgic. He is not unfamiliar with the song:

Remnant Snow Condensing Brilliance Cold Painting Screen

Luomei flute has changed three times

no one is in the moonlight

I am a melancholy

I know what's the matter with tears

Recalling life in the sound of heartbroken

Nalan Jin played this piece for Qin Haiou when she was a beginner, but her mood was completely different then.When Qin Haiou listened to her play this piece again tonight, he felt that the sadness in it was really indescribable. He repeated it twice when he played "What's the matter with you?"

Qin Haiou stood under the window and listened to her finish playing. He took a deep breath and ran forward.