Married to the Demon King

Yu Jiu spent the whole summer in the piano room.

Practice as much as you can, read music or read a book to rest when your hands are tired, and play discs on the stereo when your eyes are tired.

Lin Cong'an haunted his piano room countless times, and found that he rested quite frequently, and he was no longer as desperate as he was when he was practicing black keys, so he didn't care anymore.

After the hottest July and August, Yu Jiu and Lin Cong'an went back to the old house to live for a while.

There is no mobile phone or computer, and no electrical appliances except audio equipment. This feeling is fresh at first, but after a while, it has a calming effect.

On this day, Lin Cong'an invited the old Chinese doctor who had videotaped to the old house and asked him to do a routine checkup for Yu Jiu.

Outside the window, the leaves were rustling by the wind, the sun was westward, and the house was shady.The old Chinese doctor held Yu Jiu's hand, from the fingertips to the wrist, and pinched it piece by piece.

"Is there any pain?" the old doctor asked.

"No, it's just here... Aww, it's a bit sore." Yu Jiu hissed, and Lin Cong'an glared at the old Chinese doctor.

"Haha, it's right to be sour here, I squeezed it hard!"

Yu Jiu: "..."

After pinching, the old Chinese doctor packed up the medicine box: "No problem, it's pretty good, I still say the same thing, everything should be done in moderation."

"Practice and rest, even if you walk slower than others for a while, it's better than dying before the finish line."

Yu Jiu turned his wrist, remained silent for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Mr. Sun, may I ask...there is a knife mark on the wrist. Could it be the incision of some kind of disease?"

The old Chinese doctor raised his eyebrows and looked at him strangely: "Hey, you are asking, what kind of disease is a knife mark? Why don't you say it was cut by an apple?"

"...is a friend of mine." Yu Jiu no longer vague information, and said to the two of them: "I used to play the piano and won an award, but later said that I would never play again. I saw a strip on the outside of his wrist... like Traces of surgery."

He made a gesture, and the old Chinese doctor fell silent.

"There are too many possibilities." He said: "You young people don't take your body seriously. A person, a whole, any part, will be tired and strained after a long time. Athletes ... and those who play the piano, those who play games, those who draw... Ouch, this hand..."

The old Chinese doctor wrinkled his face: "There are a lot of champions who come to me every year, and they all make themselves up. Tenosynovitis is the most common, and it can be mild or serious. If it is serious, it needs surgery."

Both Lin Cong'an and Yu Jiu's faces darkened, and the old Chinese doctor said angrily, "So you, you should pay more attention, you know? You should relax every day... you should rest..."

After sending the old Chinese doctor away, Yu Jiu stared out the window for a while.

He remembered Lu Yang's smile when he said "no way".

"Why are you sighing?" Lin Congan rubbed Yu Jiu from behind after seeing off the old doctor: "What kind of friend are you?"

Yu Jiu talked about Lu Yang's situation, and said: "He said this is his last competition... I don't know if he still practiced the piano."

If you practice, it may aggravate the hand injury.If you don't practice, you won't get good grades.

Yu Jiu can't help, so he can only treat his hands more carefully, hoping that his luck will continue to improve and he will not be troubled by injuries.

It feels like September has just entered, and it's almost gone in the blink of an eye.

Autumn came suddenly, and the temperature in Autumn City dropped severely.Originally, it was the season change time when Yu Jiu was prone to get sick, if he changed places and made a fuss, there was no guarantee that he would really get sick.

To be on the safe side, Lin Cong'an packed Yu Jiu up and took him to Warsaw in advance, and returned to China to deal with the work after confirming that there was no problem.

This year there is not only the Xiao competition, but also the biennial Qingyin competition.Since the popularity of Yu Jiu exploded last time, the Qingyin Competition has also received more and more attention. Weibo and the media have paid attention to both sides at the same time. The classical music circle has never been so lively as it has been recently.

The preliminaries and semi-finals have been completed, and many new faces have emerged. They speak with the piano and let the world see.

From October [-]st to [-]nd, there is a pre-match concert.

Yu Jiu didn't go, and hid in the hotel to watch the live broadcast of the final of the Qingyin Competition.

This year's champion was not upset, and fell to a female player who has been learning piano for 20 years.She is beautiful and elegant, and her parents are both piano teachers. It can be said that her roots are growing up.

She also cried when she got the trophy, and told everyone that she hated the piano before she got the trophy.But I love it when I win the award.

Some people were surprised, some people laughed.

Yu Jiu understands her feeling a little bit, it is really hard for people to persevere if they don't get rewarded for years of hard work.

But only those who persevere may have the chance to touch the trophy.

……

On October [-]rd, the Chopin International Piano Competition officially started.

The official round is divided into three rounds——

In the first round, from No. 3 to No. 7, half of the eighty contestants were eliminated.

In the second round, from 8th to 12th, there are [-] contestants left.

In the third round, from the 14th to the 16th, there are ten contestants left.

The final is the final, from the 18th to the 20th, ten contestants compete for the championship.

The entire competition process will be broadcast live on Youtube and the official website. There are also live broadcast websites in China that have purchased the copyright. People from all over China can watch the whole process as long as they don’t mind the jet lag.

Due to the long period of the previous competition, and each performance lasted for more than 25 minutes, "Mayfly" specially made a special feature for watching the competition, and made an index of everyone's time.

Among them, the most popular ones have also been specially marked red.Of course, Hua people have special marks, and everyone is familiar with the audience.

The Qingyin competition just ended, Xiao Sai was seamlessly connected, the traffic of the live broadcast website surged, and the programmers worked overtime every day.

The four-day competition passed quickly, and when the results came out, countless people nervously opened the pictures.

Fatiano, Su Xiyan, Jin Chengyan and other popular players are all kept, while Huaguo only has four left.

They are Yu Jiu, Lu Yang, Zhao Meng, and a male player named Liang Feifan.

The topic quickly focused on the four of them.

@我的头味呀: I rely on me to think that xxx plays super well, right?What happened to Lu Yang?There is a wrong sound and it is still in?Where is the head of the judges?

@蓝海啊我的泪: What’s wrong with Lu Yang, he’s so soft, he’s not as strong as Yu Jiu [doge]

@王忍剑: Who was it at the beginning! ! !Say we are long! ! ! !The worst education! ! !Not worthy of being number one in the country! ! !stand out! ! !Let me hear the popping sound! !

@胡头土脸地坐坦下: Hee hee hee I knew that brother Lu was going to enter when I saw his face, and my face-seeing skills have become more refined.

@虫子血：Brother Lu almost hit my heart, not too well.Some people think they are better than Xiao Sai's judges?If someone can make two wrong notes, doesn't it mean that he plays well?

@阿伟活生: Awei is dead! !Killed by Yu Jiushuai! !I always feel that he has grown up compared to two years ago! !

……

Because of Lu Yang's wrong pronunciation during the competition, and Yu Jiu's enthusiasm, after the first round, all the discussion points were on them.

But the quarrel is temporary, after one night, only blessings are left on Weibo.

After all, there are only four people left, and they will carry on carrying the hope of the entire Hua Kingdom.

Yu Jiu knocked on the door of Lu Yang's room, and asked worriedly, "Lu Yang, are you okay?"

Lu Yang came to open the door as usual, with a faint smile on his face: "What's wrong?"

This is a hotel provided by the organizer. It is not far from the concert hall, and the practice room is also there. The hotel itself is very ordinary.

"It's nothing, I'll just come...to see you." After Yu Jiu finished speaking, he laughed to himself, and the atmosphere was not right because he was so cautious: "I want to ask if you have seen Weibo."

Lu Yang was the one who parachuted in front of the netizens. Before this, Huaguo Weibo users had never seen his name.

After learning that he is a strong player who can directly enter the final without the qualifiers, and that he is tall and handsome, many people have unlimited expectations for him.

The higher the expectation, the heavier the rebound.

When everyone is playing correctly, there is no standard answer to music.But if you play wrong, it is a hard penalty.

Many netizens clung to him, and they spat at him yesterday, wondering if Lu Yang would be frightened.

And Yu Jiu was also a little worried about his hands, because after he finished the game, in the hotel at night, Yu Jiu saw him put a bandage on his wrist.

Lu Yang asked, "What is Weibo? I play Twitter."

Yu Jiu: "...It's good that you didn't see it! Ah, I'm about to send Ju Han to the airport, do you want to come with me?"

"Okay." He pulled off a thin windbreaker jacket casually: "It's just fine, I can't practice the piano now."

Ju Han Xiao Sai's trip ended first, he dragged his suitcase and stood in the airport hall, looked at Yu Jiu and then at Lu Yang, and said sincerely: "Both of you are amazing."

After hugging each other, Ju Han said to Lu Yang: "Brother Yang, especially. Your nocturne is so nice."

What Lu Yang played wrong was the etude, but the nocturne was completed perfectly.

It is this nocturne that makes some people intoxicated on Weibo, and some people question the lightness.

But Yu Jiu knows that it is not "light" at all, it is a performance of the peak of control, it is extremely difficult "soft".

The judges are not idiots, allowing Lu Yang to enter means that they recognize Lu Yang's strength.

Yu Jiu admitted that he would never be able to play Lu Yang's realm in terms of nocturnes alone.

Maybe it's because Lu Yang himself is a gentle person.

After sending Ju Han away, they randomly found a nearby restaurant for lunch.

"In the second round, there must be dance music." Yu Jiu asked him, "Can you handle it?"

"I'll try my best." Lu Yang smiled: "The first Scherzo in E major, the second waltz in A major, and finally 'Heroes'."

Yu Jiu frowned: "...it's too much effort for a hero."

Polonaise in A flat major - Hero.

The most magnificent of the sixteen Polonaises composed by Chopin.The waves are magnificent and surging.

It is popular because of its nice sound, and it is a power song that Yu Jiu is good at.

But can Lu Yang do it?

"Don't underestimate me." He blinked and took a bite of the pasta that was served: "If not, would I still choose?"

Having said that, Yu Jiu still said: "It's quite tiring to play at the end. What if you use too much force and affect your next game?"

Lu Yang said softly, "Maybe there will be no next time?"

Lin Cong'an finally arrived in Warsaw two days later.

Yu Jiu picked him up and entered the concert hall together, waiting for Lu Yang to compete.

Yu Jiu and Zhao Meng felt nervous sitting in the auditorium because their initials were late and it was the last day of competition.

Seeing Lu Yang walk onto the stage and bow gracefully to the judges and the audience, Yu Jiu whispered to Lin Cong'an, "It's him...that Lu Yang. He's amazing."

"En." Mr. Lin replied in a businesslike manner, without any concern on his face.

Yu Jiu knew that he was a little jealous, so he laughed a few times, but didn't continue to praise.

Zhao Meng's attire today is very exaggerated.

For her male god, she wears cross necklaces of various shapes around her neck, holds a ceramic Guanyin statue in her arms, Buddhist beads in her left hand, and Bodhi in her right hand.

Yu Jiu: "...you actually entered the security check like this?"

Zhao Meng: "I explained, I said I was a pantheist, and I gave Uncle a wink, and he let me in."

What Yu Jiu could say was a thumbs up.

The pace of the game was very fast. As soon as Lu Yang sat down, the piano sounded.

The first two songs were completed fairly well, with occasional bright spots, and nothing unusual could be seen from his face. Yu Jiu felt that he was in good condition.

The waltz ended, there was a pause of less than two seconds, and the beginning of the heroic polonaise hit the keys heavily!

The audience and judges are in high spirits!

The brilliant melody, tactfully rising in Lu Yang's proper rhythm processing, is gorgeous and warm, like a blooming flower.

Both Yu Jiu and Zhao Meng held their breath, their minds tensed.

When entering the second paragraph, a low tone sounded from his left hand, and Yu Jiu's heart skipped a beat: sinking.

In the second section of the Heroic Polonaise, the left hand imitates the sound of horseshoes with extremely fast sixteenth notes, while the right hand is compared to a loud and high-spirited horn.But Lu Yang's left hand did not have the strength to keep up, and the tone was not deep enough.

In the third paragraph, there was another roundabout at the beginning, which was very pleasant to hear, but the breath that held everyone's attention firmly dissipated.

Lu Yang finished playing.

His hands trembled slightly, but he didn't show it on his face, and bowed to step down.

Zhao Meng tugged at Yu Jiu's sleeve in confusion: "Is it okay? Jiujiu, do you think it's okay?"

"Okay." Yu Jiu said.

It's a good performance, but it's also a pity performance.

Yu Jiu Zhao Meng and Lin Cong'an left the table early, Yu Jiu looked around and told them that Lu Yang might still be in the men's locker room.

"I'll call him, Cong'an help me get the bag." He handed the bag to Lin Cong'an, and walked forward with ease.

The dressing room is very large, with rows of floor-to-ceiling mirrors separated by shelves. When Yu Jiu opened the door and entered, Lu Yang was standing in front of the mirror, looking down at his hands.

"Lu Yang."

"Huh?" When he turned his head, the confused expression disappeared instantly, and he smiled habitually and said, "It will be here soon."

Yu Jiu hesitated for a moment and said, "It's a pity."

Lu Yang paused.

"I thought...but I couldn't."

After re-bandaging his hands, Lu Yang carried a shoulder bag and walked towards them with Yu Jiu.

Zhao Meng burst into tears, she didn't know what she was crying, but couldn't help it.Lu Yang gently embraced Zhao Meng, asked Yu Jiu for a pack of tissues, and handed them to Zhao Meng to wipe her face.

"My love." Yu Jiu introduced Lin Cong'an, and Lu Yang stretched out his other hand to shake Lin Cong'an: "I have admired Mr. Lin for a long time, and they often discuss you."

"No!" Zhao Meng raised her head hastily, her voice still choked with sobs: "When did I talk about Mr. Lin behind his back? What if Mr. Lin hates me when I say this—"

Three people: "..."

Color control really doesn't matter the occasion.

No matter what the result is, those who finish the competition are entitled to rest. Just as Zhao Meng proposed to eat Burger King, there was a chaotic flow of people around him.

She was so crowded that she almost fell to the ground, but Yu Jiu supported her.

"What's the situation?!" Several people retreated to the corner together, and Zhao Meng shouted in confusion, "It seems to be a reporter?!"

Yu Jiu was also taken aback, the results will not be released until the end of the second round, did something happen?

English and French were mixed with Italian and Polish. It was a mess. After a while, sirens sounded outside, and several men in white squeezed into the crowd.

The ambulance is coming?What are they talking about?Who is sick?

At this moment, a somewhat familiar wail came from far and near, and it was Fatiano.

He has already finished the first three competitions against Lu Yang, why are you crying here now?

Yu Jiu looked up, and immediately understood—he was holding his right hand high, and his palm was scratched by some sharp object, dripping with blood.

Fatiano's hand was also injured!

This is the hand of a star player and a world-renowned young pianist!

No wonder an ambulance was called...

Yu Jiu was staring at the center of the crowd, when suddenly he felt a warm palm, and Lin Cong'an grabbed him.

"Be careful." He frowned slightly: "In case of a bump."

Yu Jiu stretched a little: "I know."

As the doctor put Fatiano into the ambulance, the reporters rushed out, and there was room to stand in the hall.

The four gasped and looked at each other.

Yu Jiu said: "Fatiano also... But it doesn't look like the hole is deep."

Lu Yang also nodded: "Skin trauma, but I don't know if the shadow will affect the next game."

In terms of severity, Xiaopang's injury was completely incomparable to Lu Yang's, but he was a star player, and even if it was just a cut, reporters rushed to report.

But one day, the news that "Fatiano's right hand was injured during the race" spread all over the world.

Netizens lamented that it was too unlucky, it didn't hurt sooner or later, but it happened at this time.

More people are worried, will he continue to play?

On the night the question was raised, Fatiano tweeted that he would continue to finish the race even though he was injured.

So dedicated, so inspiring!

The favorability of netizens at home and abroad soared, and some even shouted: Fatiano is too strong and brave!The judges must take care of him for the sake of his injury!