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Xiao Ran concentrated on special training for two weeks. He had an equal and complementary opponent and senior brother. He had a happy and fulfilling life.As for Lin Xi?It can only be said that Xiao Ran is preparing for the competition and has nothing else to do—that day, Lin Xi called him and asked him if he would like to try Japanese kimonos, and Xiao Ran was taken aback by the question. Only then did he know that Lin Xi had arrived on a business trip two days ago Kobe.

The two weeks of preparation for the competition passed in the blink of an eye.When the weekend came, Xiao Ran had to plan to pack up and go home. Monday was the preliminary round, so there was no need for him to stay at the professor's house.Ren Zhongxia's family is in another province, he and his boss will temporarily stay at Mr. Guo's house until the end of the game.Today's practice time is not long. At three o'clock, the two brothers came out of the piano room hand in hand. .

"Are you going back tomorrow?" The two stood in the living room, holding hands together and pressing hard, just like martial arts masters healing their wounds.

"I have to go home and get ready for the preliminaries on Monday."

"Preliminary round..." Ren Zhongxia snorted, "Don't tell me you'll be nervous!" He was waiting to meet Xiao Ran in the final, so what's the point of the preliminary round?

"Turn around." The two of them back to back, pulling each other's shoulders, "What are you doing at home?"

"Listen to music and relax. There will be "Black Swan" in the concert hall on Sunday, and I have already booked tickets."

"You really have a wide range of hobbies." Ren Zhongxia only loves the piano, and it depends on the situation.

"Okay, come here and poke here!" Ren Zhongxia made a small backhand grab, lowered Xiao Ran's waist, turned his arms behind his back, and pressed down lightly. "Xiao Ran, can you play billiards?"

"It's okay, why?" Xiao Ran hissed, Senior Brother Ren was good at everything, but he struck too hard.

Ren Zhongxia switched arms, "It happens that the old men are not here, let's go out and relax, I know there is a club in Binshi..."

"Senior Brother Zhong Xia," Xiao Ran said feebly, "Even if you are an idiot in the preliminaries, at least you have a little respect for the masters, okay?"

"Oh, I just want you to relax and watch the lap dance. I can relax and go clubbing and drinking. Co-authoring is as elegant as your hobby, right?" Ren Zhongxia gritted his teeth, and Xiao Ran immediately succumbed to the violence.

This time, it was Xiao Ran who gave Ren Zhongxia a small grappling technique.

"Give me some strength!"

"I'm afraid I'll sprain my arm..."

"It's just your little arms and legs, bitch!...Hiss, take it easy, take it easy, the competition is on Monday." Ren Zhongxia gave Xiao Ran another arm, "If I get disabled, I have to Even the champion, you are invincible!"

Xiao Ran rolled his eyes, and said it as if the two of them had divided the championship and runner-up right now. "Are you so sure? Are you not afraid of a potential dark horse suddenly appearing?"

"Impossible!" Ren Zhongxia shook his arms and stood up straight. Xiao Mian was so crazy that he could reach his level, and the chance of meeting Lin Xiaoran who escaped the world was a one-in-a-million chance. What do you think Lin Xiaoran's level is? Are there all over the street?

After stretching his arms and legs, Ren Zhongxia, a foreigner, took Xiao Ran out to find the club he was talking about.For a five-star membership club, Xiao Ran didn't know how Ren Zhongxia's family was, but based on the place he picked, he could probably guess that it should be good.When Xiao Ran and the others arrived there, it was not yet five o'clock in the afternoon, which was the time when the club was deserted, and there was no one in the bar.

Ren Zhongxia simply asked for an independent billiard room and named the snooker table.In his words, the technical content of fancy nine-ball is too low, and the table tennis is played with one hand.Xiao Ran didn't pay much attention to it, but he had to admit that snooker is indeed more difficult, the pocket is small, and requires high positioning accuracy, and the snooker table is also a circle larger than the nine-ball table.According to the rules, no matter how hard a player is at the table in order to make or save the ball, you cannot keep both feet off the ground anyway.Xiao Ran's technique is really good, but...

"All right—stop posing, you can't reach it!" Seeing that Xiao Ran didn't need to set up a pole to save the pink ball, but was short of performing Longyang eighteen poses while riding on a platform, Ren Zhongxia himself felt exhausted, " You are short, I will let you, allow your feet to leave the ground."

Xiao Ran turned back in grief and indignation, "You can say that my skills are bad, but you can't insult my height!"

Ren Zhongxia spat out a mouthful of water.He is 23, according to visual inspection, Lin Xiaoran is under his nose, so the height of Xiao Ran's junior brother... Cough cough, "It's okay, you are only twenty, as the saying goes, [-], run away..."

There were flames of anger burning in Xiao Ran's eyes, and then his character broke out and he cleared the stage, shaving Ren Zhongxia 89:0.

"Damn!" Ren Zhongxia screamed strangely, and the universe exploded, "You can say that I am not as good at playing the piano as you, but you can't insult me ​​by clearing the table at the snooker table!"

The consequence of the eruption of Ren Zhongxia's small universe is...someone was injured.

"Let me see if I bit my tongue?" Ren Zhongxia was terrified when he saw the strings of blood dripping from Li Ran's mouth. Your own mouth?"

This was really an accident. Ren Zhongxia was so busy looking down at his position that he didn't notice that Xiao Ran came over with a glass of water. Just as Xiao Ran was about to speak, he caught up with Ren Zhongxia's explosive shot, and his elbow just hit Xiao Ran's chin. Defensively, he knocked his upper teeth against his lower lip with a super hard smack, and then his lips began to bleed.

Ren Zhongxia brought Xiao Ran to the infirmary of the club. The sister doctor who was in charge of applying the medicine disinfected and wiped Xiao Ran's hemostatic medicine, while staring at Ren Zhongxia's back with a strange look.Lin Xiaoran's pretty face is unquestionable, not to mention the serene demeanor cultivated by the music, Ren Zhongxia's crazy look on his brows and eyes, one can see that he is an arrogant young man from a rich family, and his appearance can still be called a sunny handsome guy, These two boys are obviously at the stage of youthful vigor, and they came out of a private private room for VIPs. Carrying back to the mountain is so popular these days, and now one of them has a lip injury, and the other is obviously guilty and nervous, waiting on the saddle... You said it was hit with an elbow?Who are you kidding, the tooth marks are still on it!

"Are there any other injuries?" The doctor sister in her 20s pinched Xiao Ran's chin, pointing with sharp eyes.

Senior & Junior Brother: "..."

Originally, he wanted to go out to be happy, but he didn't drink any wine, didn't take a bath, and didn't even touch the chick's hands. After playing two rounds of billiards, Ren Zhongxia brought Xiao Ran back home injured.The injury to Xiao Ran's lip was not that serious, but it was true that it started to become red and swollen after the bleeding stopped.The two sneaked out to play before the competition, and brought back evidence of their crimes. Xiao Ran had two meals of white porridge that night and the next morning at the practical banquet with rich dishes. He was so hungry that his eyes were full of stars.Ren Zhongxia was carried to the corner of the house by his boss after dinner, and the golden rooster was independent, with two large dictionaries in his hand, saying that this way he could practice the stability of his hands.

Then, the redness and swelling of the lips did not go away, and the traces of the crime did not disappear, so Xiao Ran was taken home.

The first time Xiao Ran went out independently was to play in Anshi with his classmates for a week, and when he came back, he had a hickey on his neck.Well, it was an accident, it was those kids who went crazy after drinking, Lin Xi monitored the whole process, so he can be too generous to not pursue it.Going out independently for the second time, this is still under the eyes of the crown prince, and there are wounds on his mouth!

Lin Xi didn't believe or disbelieve the explanation that the injury to his lips was caused by his accidental knocking. It's just that every time Xiao Ran came back from independent trips, he had a bad record. With Lin Xi's character, he could allow this Do things like this happen over and over again?However, now that an important competition related to Li Ran's future is about to start, Lin Xi didn't hold on to this matter, and carefully confirmed that the injury on Li Ran's lip would not be too serious, so he took him to the bedroom to comfort him—— At least the emotions on the face don't seem to care much.

The Rubinstein Masters was dubbed by Zhong Xia as 'Passing Five Levels and Killing Six Generals'.The world is divided into five divisions, and each division will have preliminary rounds, semi-finals, and finals. The top three winners in each division will have a final battle in Warsaw.So the preliminary round that Xiao Ran is facing now is the first step of a genuine journey of thousands of miles.

Ren Zhongxia participated in the Masters Tournament, aiming to go to the Warsaw Finals. Of course, he would treat the preliminaries in the sub-divisions as nothing.According to Ren Zhongxia's plan before he came to Binshi, he not only wanted to rank among the top three, but his goal was even to hit No.1 in the Asia-Pacific region. Oh, of course, it was an accident that he met Xiao Ran later. After two weeks of challenges and running-in, Ren Zhongxia knew that Lin Xiaoran had the strength to compete with him.

From the preliminaries to the finals, there are two ways to go.One is to play in a regular and step-by-step manner. The preliminary round plus the rematch lasted for three weeks.The other is that in the preliminary round, seven master judges of different nationalities, backgrounds, and preferences can be 'amazed' to the point where they all give the green light and give them the right to go straight to the finals—Ren Zhongxia is a representative of it.

"Congratulations!" Xiao Ran waited outside the arena.

"It's a piece of cake." Ren Zhongxia said relaxedly and cheerfully.He has participated in many international competitions. Whether it is for the players or the judges, everyone is in the stage of "respecting his name for a long time". In addition, the judges have known Ren Zhongxia well before, and they have already known his level. Therefore, Ren Zhongxia It is convenient, fast, and logical to directly win the final right.

"Which game are you in?"

"02:30 in the afternoon." Xiao Ran said.

Ren Zhongxia frowned, this time is not good, very bad, it is recognized as one of the worst time periods.

Xiao Ran doesn't care, well, it's not that he doesn't really mind, it's just a fact, what can he do if he doesn't accept it?

Ren Zhongxia waved his thoughts away, "Anyway, as long as you perform normally, you are absolutely fine! Oh, how about your lips?" He pinched Xiao Ran's chin, lowered his head and looked closer, "Okay? Didn't you lose your appearance?" Then his own sin would be great.

"Hey!" Xiao Ran was helpless, was there any disfigurement on his lips?

"Cough-cough-"

Not far from the two of them, a hint coughed.Ren Zhongxia and Xiao Ran turned their heads together, it was Lin Xi.Xiao Ran was surprised.

"Xiao Ran, why don't you introduce me?" Lin Xi came over and put his hand on Xiao Ran's shoulder.

Xiao Ran avoided Zhong Xia's hand pinching his chin in a little panic. Although Lin Xi didn't express anything, he didn't know why the scene just now made Xiao Ran feel uneasy. "Uh, this is Ren Zhongxia, I... my senior brother. This is Lin Xi, mine..." Xiao Ran didn't know what to say.

"Parents." Lin Xi said.

parents?Ren Zhongxia looked at Xiao Ran and Lin Xi, and suddenly realized that it was Xiao Ran's brother, right?Ren Zhongxia didn't suspect anything else, and greeted him very politely, "Hello, Brother Lin."

Lin Xi smiled, "I heard Xiao Ran mentioned you, saying that you are very talented."

Xiao Ran's body trembled slightly, no, he never mentioned Ren Zhongxia's existence to Lin Xi at all.Before going to Professor Guo's house, when reporting to Lin Xi, Xiao Ran didn't know that another senior brother would live in with him. Later, Ren Zhongxia came unexpectedly, and Xiao Ran didn't tell Lin Xi.No reason, just didn't dare to mention it.

"Really?" Ren Zhongxia didn't notice any kind of undercurrent, he was very happy to complain to his parents, "Xiao Ran never said that in person, during the two weeks of preparation for the battle, he always hit me."

"Xiao Ran has a narrow face, so I'm probably too embarrassed to say it." Lin Xi rubbed Xiao Ran's hair with a doting tone, "But he and I admire you very much, saying that you have a sharp style and gorgeous skills..." Lin Xi was as calm as ever Glasses, with the appearance of a business elite, smiled and told Ren Zhongxia those non-existent nonsense, and then quickly became acquainted with each other.I don't know whether it was intentional or not, his position just separated Xiao Ran and Ren Zhongxia.

From the waiting room of the arena to the Shuijingfang Restaurant at noon and back to the outside of the arena, along the way Ren Zhongxia and Lin Xi's acquaintance quickly climbed to the point where they called each other "Brother Lin" very affectionately, and Xiao Ran, who was supposed to be the center of the relationship between the three of them , is reduced to a supporting role.Xiao Ran didn't feel unhappy, on the contrary, he was greatly relieved to see Lin Xi being talkative and appreciative of Ren Zhongxia's appearance.It's hard to explain Xiao Ran's mental state. He and Ren Zhongxia hit it off right away, but he was open-minded, but... Lin Xi, he... Xiao Ran didn't know why, when these two people who couldn't get along met, he felt a little guilty .

When Ren Zhongxia was called out by his boss, and only Xiao Ran and Lin Xi were left in the seats, Xiao Ran's inexplicable guilt reached its peak.Lin Xi didn't say a word, but Xiao Ran took the initiative to speak, "Uh...he is Professor Xu's closed disciple, well, he is a senior brother with Professor Guo, and I didn't know he would be at Guo Bo's house..." Xiao Ran was confused Confusing explanations, the preface does not match the afterword.

Lin Xi looked at Li Ran with no expression, and didn't speak, maybe it was only a few seconds late, but for Li Ran, this breath was infinitely prolonged, and he couldn't see that Lin Xi's jet-black eyes what do you mean.Just as Xiao Ran became more and more panicky as Lin Xi's silence lengthened, Lin Xi suddenly turned his body and softly comforted Xiao Ran in his ear, "Go to the competition, I have even prepared gifts for celebration."

Xiao Ran was surprised.For that unknown gift, Lin Xi's gentle attitude.

Lin Xi reached out and stroked Xiao Ran's hair, and finally gave Xiao Ran a reassurance before the match, "Do you think I'll put a young kid in my eyes?" These words were quite blunt, let alone Lin Xi's tone The undisguised contempt, but Xiao Ran finally relaxed. Since Lin Xi said that, it meant that he really didn't care.

Time is up.

Xiao Ran got up, walked briskly towards the competition area, even if his game time was the worst, so what?It only takes him ten seconds to wake up the drowsy judges who are tired and full!

Geniuses are so crazy - Lin Xiaoran is a little more humble than Ren Zhongxia, and there is no less pride in his bones!

In fact, it didn't take more than ten seconds. As soon as the first few notes jumped out of the piano, all the judges were lifted up by the irresistible surge in their hearts.If it is said that Ren Zhongxia's direct promotion to the finals is due to the judges' knowing it well.The appearance of Lin Xiaoran was a surprise to almost all the master judges.

Sonata in B-flat minor, the aura of passion, resistance, and courage flows from Xiao Ran's fingertips, covering the entire concert hall. The intense emotion in the sound of the piano almost makes all the judges excited. This is not only due to the passionate tone of the music itself , and even the player's perfect and strong emotional rendering.The sound of the piano, like a thunderstorm, stretched the strings in everyone's hearts more and more tightly, and the rest brought out the tense intervals of panting and anxiety that could not be concealed in the heart. The deep tranquility, the silence of accumulating strength under the volcano, the contemplation before rising up to resist... After a very short moment of rest, the peaks rise in vain, frenzy, clang, urgency, and high emotions...

Until - brilliant.

The whole passionate process took less than half an hour.

Perhaps, for the judges, this is the shortest half hour they have spent in this contest.After the song ended, the concert hall was silent for a long time, and then Yamano Jiro, the oldest member of the judges this time, stood up and took the lead in applauding for Xiao Ran.

There is no doubt about the right to pass through the finals.

Xiao Ran took the certificate of the right to the final and couldn't wait to go outside to announce the good news.He walked on the front foot, and the judges on the back foot slowed down and couldn't help but get together to comment.

"Incomparable!" This is the view of the Polish judges, who is the most famous performance master in the world today.

"It's wonderful, I...I can't believe it..." This master tutor from the Austrian Royal Academy of Music expressed the feelings of almost all the judges.Yes, can't believe it.Why has everyone never heard of such a child who seems to be playing with his soul.

"I know it might be unfair to others to say this, but, if nothing unexpected, the champion..."

"Hush! It's too early to say this now." Yamano Jiro said.

"Okay." The American judge shrugged, but his expression was quite disapproving of Yamano's words.There is a saying in their hometown: rotten eggs, as long as you take a bite, you will know that they are stinky, and you don’t have to wait until you have eaten them all.In the same way, it can be proved that delicious food can be known as delicious food as long as it smells, and it has nothing to do with comparison.