pianist from the sea

Chapter 117 That's Chopin's Ultimate, Not My Ultimate
The Chopin works played by Zhao Chengzhen are very nice, or it can be said that after the three Chopin International Piano Competitions, the Chopin is the best, or even the best one.

His performance in the third round directly surpassed Fu Diao in the second round.

This extreme Chopin moved countless judges and audiences, who silently praised Zhao Chengzhen's performance in their hearts.

For them, they just want to hear the most perfect music, and it doesn't really matter who plays the music.

But for some other people, such as those who support Fu Tiao, it is not so easy.

Faol was actually the most anxious.

He found that his traffic is dropping recently. Although he has always said before that he doesn't value those traffic at all, and doesn't care what kind of comments these viewers want to make, but the people who really see him are leaving one by one. This feeling is very uncomfortable and powerless.

A large part of these people went to some official live broadcast rooms to listen to more professional commentary on musical interpretation, especially before Fu Tiao's performance, and wanted to see if Fu Tiao had a chance to win a higher score. The score, and the other part is to go to some more joyful live broadcast rooms to listen to the commentary.

They're amateurs anyway, so why not be happier?

Fao himself is an ordinary up master, and he still focuses on music reviews, and is not known for his piano performance level at all, so no matter how he can say it, what he says is not as professional as those top big guys, but More interesting than that, he is not as funny as those entertaining Up masters.

Before, it was possible to rely on no one to explain the Chopin International Piano Competition to mix up the traffic a little bit, but now the boss has come and snatched all the traffic, and only half of the original people on his side are still watching his live broadcast.

If it was normal, he might sigh and say a few words along with the barrage, let them all come over to see him, help him increase his traffic, let classical music rise again, and see if he can get some fans.

But now, he was in no mood at all. Fu Tiao, the contestant he cared about the most, who he hailed as the most hopeful to win the championship this year, was facing a predicament.

A predicament he had absolutely no idea how to break out of.

The fat man next to Fao looked at Zhao Chengzhen's performance and couldn't help but sighed softly: "Why is Zhao Chengzhen so strong? Is his current level stable at the state when he broke through before? I feel like he has pushed his upper limit back to the top. Stepped up a notch."

"I feel similar too..." The other person nodded: "Zhao Chengzhen's level is too good, I really don't know if Fu Diao can successfully break through Zhao Chengzhen's defense line and get a very high ranking, although I am very impressed with Fu Diao It's very promising, but this matter...is really difficult, and I really don't understand what Fu Tiao should do to defeat Zhao Chengzhen."

Faol remained silent, bowed his head and did not speak.

Everyone else was discussing Zhao Chengzhen's awesomeness, which made him upset.

During the interval between Zhao Chengzhen's music performance, he slammed the table to wake everyone up from Zhao Chengzhen's influence, and then said in a low voice.

"To shut up!"

"?"

Everyone looked at Faol in puzzlement, not quite sure why he suddenly lost his temper, and there were question marks floating in his barrage.

"What the hell? Is the anchor crazy?"

"If you see that the players you support have no hope, then you'll be ruined."

"Huh? I don't understand. What do you mean? Fu Diao is gone?"

"I haven't played yet, but to be honest, the possibility of Fu Tiao's continued existence is really too low, and he may really be crushed and unable to get up."

"..."

Fao was disturbed by the barrage of everyone, he took a deep breath, fixed his eyes on Zhao Chengzhen in front of him, and spoke with incomparable force.

"It's not over yet! There is still a chance! Fu Tiao still has a chance! As long as he plays better than Zhao Chengzhen, then he still has a chance!"

"Aren't you talking nonsense?" The fat man next to him immediately frowned, and spouted: "It seems like no one knows, but the problem is that what Fu Diao is going to do now is not like the second round. The last work It's about the same as Zhao Chengzhen. If it's still the same as the second round, then the total score difference between Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen will be one point. This one point is not so easy to chase! Even if the score difference in the fourth round is very big , but most of those people are from the back echelon, not the front echelon! And even if Fu Tiao can get one point in the fourth round, but overall, he is only stronger than Zhao in concerto, and not as good as Zhao in other things. Then it is very likely that the judges will not like it!"

"What Fu Diao wants to do is to directly defeat Zhao Chengzhen's biggest momentum suppressed by snowballs when he just played!"

The sound fell, and there was no sound in the room.

The other person had paused the game sensibly, looking at Faol and the fat man.

Faol lowered his head, clutching his head vigorously, with a tangled expression, and said with difficulty.

"I know, I know... just, I can't be reconciled! He is clearly Hua Guo's greatest hope, but why does such a strong opponent suddenly appear? Obviously, Zhao was not so strong when the competition just started, why is he so ridiculously strong now? ? Why?"

"Made... Fu Tiao, you must be stronger on horseback, you must beat Zhao! If you lose again in the third round, then the Chopin International Piano Competition may never have the chance to win the championship again. Even if you perform perfectly in the last round and have a certain probability of winning the championship, your chances are not great! Madema, why is Zhao Chengzhen so strong this round! Damn..."

"..."

Fao fell into despair. Shan Yi, who was far away in Chuanzhou, had just sent Li Diyun away. He returned to the house and lay on a wooden chair, unable to sleep. His wife said.

"Shan Yi, still not sleeping?"

"Wait, I'll sit for a while, you go to bed first."

"Go to bed early, you have to get up for a run tomorrow morning, and you have Xiao Wang's piano lesson at 08:30 tomorrow morning, don't forget, it will be an open class at eleven o'clock."

"Well, I see, you go to bed first."

After Shan Yi said a few words to his wife in the room, he returned to the chair, his body pressed tightly against the arc of the chair, his eyes were a little dull, and he didn't know where to look.

He just felt tired for no reason, and he didn't know why, but there was always a feeling of powerlessness in his heart, as if there was nothing to do.

what's going on?

Shan Yi thought for a while, then looked at the photo on the side.

There are photos of his students winning awards.

Chopin International Piano Competition Li Diyun, Chen Sa, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Zhang Hao, Elizabeth International Piano Competition He Shen.

Many, many people.

Oh, right!is that one!
He thought for a while, then suddenly remembered something, slowly got up and turned on the TV.

He wants to listen to the Chopin International Piano Competition. Before Li Diyun said that Fu Tiao has a competition tonight, he wants to watch it. He has been paying attention to Fu Tiao a long time ago, especially when he heard that Fu Tiao entered the second round and won a very When the ranking is one high, he will pay attention.

Now in the third round, I don't know what kind of things Fu Tiao can show.

Shan Yi turned on the TV, and a wave like pulsating static electricity jumped onto his hand, making the hairs on his hand stand up one by one, and it took a long time for it to dissipate, while green ripples appeared on the TV screen .

After the TV was turned on, he glanced in the direction of the bedroom, reached out and turned the volume of the TV to the lowest level, then moved a small chair to sit in front of the TV, and tuned the channel to the classical music channel.

This is a private channel in the set-top box. It needs to be purchased with money. He has always renewed the subscription. Recently, this channel also broadcasts the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Unlike CCTV, they directly broadcast the complete episodes of the competition, and they don't care whether the audience will be bored. It feels like the same works are always the same.

After Shan Yi switched the channel to the Chopin International Piano Competition, he just sat there, listening to the music coming from his ear, motionless, and then slowly closed his eyes.

At this moment, it was Zhao Chengzhen's performance. He had already played the last piece of Chopin's prelude, and the next one was Chopin's first piano scherzo, to make up for the time.

Shan Yi didn't make any comments, but his lips could not help but clenched slightly.

Zhao Chengzhen's strength made him feel uneasy, he somehow felt that Zhao Chengzhen's performance had the appearance of a champion, just like what he had heard from Li Diyun more than ten years ago.

That sound was great and he liked it very much.

But this voice came from Cho Sung-jin, Cho Sung-jin from South Korea, and he didn't like it.

"The Chopin International Piano Competition...is getting more and more difficult."

He slowly opened his eyes, looked at the screen in front of him, and murmured.

As the times gradually move forward, the piano teaching method is also gradually advancing. He can even say that his previous teaching method has a tendency to be a little outdated. Now the players who come out are getting stronger and stronger. shocking.

For example, the current Zhao Chengzhen, he never imagined that there are still people who can perform such powerful works at the Chopin International Piano Competition.

As for the ones whose strength can completely suppress Zhao Chengzhen, Shan Yi feels that they may be people like Li Diyun, others... are more difficult.

What about Fu Tiao?
Shan Yi suddenly remembered that he came to watch Fu Tiao today, not to watch Zhao Chengzhen pretend to be aggressive. He immediately withdrew his attention and focused on analyzing Zhao Chengzhen's current performance and Fu Tiao's last round of performance.

After Zhao Chengzhen stabilized at the level of the previous round of breakthroughs, his level has grown significantly. Anyone can tell that he is strong.

And Fu Diao...

Shan Yi thought for a while, and just sighed lightly.

"Come on..."

He didn't want to say anything more. Now this situation can't be solved by thinking about solutions. You can't even target him specifically. You can only use the same level of hard power to confront Zhao Chengzhen one-on-one.

So, can Fu Tiao show the kind of strength he wants?

Can he resist the pressure from Zhao Chengzhen?
Shan Yi didn't know, he could only give blessings in his heart.

Suddenly, he felt a cup of warm white tea handed over to him, and a gentle voice that was also slightly tired said softly.

"Chopin International Piano Competition?"

"Um……"

"I'll just say why you haven't slept until now. You have class tomorrow, and you usually go to bed by this time."

The wife said softly, shaking her head helplessly: "Who are you looking at?"

"Fu Diao."

"Fu Tiao, the one you mentioned earlier, Xiao He brought a very talented student?"

"Yes."

Shan Yi nodded slightly, pointed at the TV in front of him, and whispered, "Now it's Zhao Chengzhen from South Korea. When he finishes, it will be Fu Diao."

"Oh……"

The wife nodded slightly, got up and turned up the volume of the TV, then pointed to the recliner behind her and said.

"Don't be so close to the TV, you sit behind and come, I'll get you some boiled water."

Shan Yi was taken aback, he didn't think that his wife would do this, but he didn't refuse, but smiled cheerfully, got up from the small bench, sat on the reclining chair behind, and said to his wife: "Don't you Sleeping? Don’t you have class tomorrow?”

"No, we will sleep together after you finish watching."

"It may take more than an hour to watch."

"fine."

"Then make me a cup of tea? Just use the... Longjing that Di Yun brought earlier?"

"Drinking tea at night, you don't sleep anymore?"

After all, a pot of boiling water was boiled, followed by a piece of apple.

"Eat some fruit."

"Okay, thanks."

Shan Yi took the apple, and lay down on the chair with his wife, listening to Zhao Chengzhen's performance in front of him.

His wife gnawed at the apple slowly, with a calm expression, while Shan Yi put the apple aside, touched the thermos, felt the temperature of the palm, and kept changing the position of the fingers to keep the palm from getting too hot.

Zhao Chengzhen played casually on TV, and a sense of weightlessness emerged spontaneously. This feeling has attracted countless people, and even Shan Yi is a little bit biased towards Zhao Chengzhen.

After all, what he played was really perfect.

It's just a pity that the piece he was able to hear was too short. Not long after Shan Yi turned on the TV, Zhao Chengzhen's performance ended.

Accompanied by the last few notes, the audience's applause instantly swept the entire concert hall, and countless "bravo" echoed the applause one after another.

It was obviously just an ordinary game, but there was endless applause like a concert, and Zhao Chengzhen bowed to the crowd to thank them, thanking them three or four times without subsidizing.

There was thunderous applause.

Inside the house, it was even more silent.

"Single meaning!"

"Ok?"

"You said that Fu Diao can defeat Zhao Chengzhen?"

"I don't know, he hasn't played yet."

"That's it... then it can't be."

"Well, I'm not sure."

The two fell into silence, and the only sound left in the room was the sound of choking apples.

As the apple was gnawed away bit by bit, leaving only the last few black seeds hanging on the core in the center, my wife let out a long sigh.

"Okay, I'm done eating, then I'll lie on the bed first, you don't need to turn down the volume of the TV, let me listen to it in the house, let me listen to see if your uncertainty can become certain in the end, listen Listen to your fancy student level, how is it?"

Shan Yi was silent, and finally nodded slightly: "Okay."

After the words were finished, the wife got up, took away the fruit cores and sundries, and walked slowly into the bedroom. There was only Shanyi left in the room.

He looked at the screen, sighed again, and said softly.

"It's hard..."

In addition to Shan Yi, there are piano professors and music industry practitioners in other places who are paying attention to this competition, but everyone is very pessimistic.

There was a short intermission on the screen, and the dedicated host of the Chopin International Piano Competition was exchanging some details about Chopin with a judge, telling the audience how to understand Chopin in order to make their music more perfect to the greatest extent .

The backstage has given the video of Fu Tiao being prepared.

Fu Tiao stood at the entrance of the concert hall, looking at Zhao Chengzhen who was walking off the stage. The two looked at each other without any expression.

All the cameras were aimed at Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen, trying to capture the conflict between the two, but unfortunately they didn't.

Zhao Chengzhen just glanced at Fu Tiao, walked directly into the room without saying anything, and was about to conduct an interview.

Fu Tiao, on the other hand, stared straight at the backstage door in front of him, waiting for the staff's reminder, and prepared to go on stage.

The two just passed by without any conversation.

The "Bravo" in the second round disappeared, leaving only indifference and confrontation.

In fact, at this moment, the two of them didn't know what to say, and they had nothing to say.

Zhao Chengzhen's performance has been recognized by everyone, and he has also played to his limit. Next is Fu Tiao's performance.

If Fu Tiao plays well, then everything will be fine.

If there is something wrong with the performance, there is nothing to say, just admit defeat, don't say what is good or bad, it is glorious to lose, small wins, big wins, super big wins and so on.

So Zhao Chengzhen only planned to go backstage and wait to watch Fu Tiao's performance to see if Fu Tiao had the ability to make a comeback.

Fu Tiao, on the other hand, put all his attention on himself, and didn't bother to pay attention to external objects.

The sound in the concert hall gradually became noisy, and the audience had already returned to the room after taking a rest in the toilet, chatting excitedly about Zhao Chengzhen's performance just now.

The surrounding staff first entered the final preparations before the game.

A staff member quickly walked up to Fu Tiao and nodded slightly: "Fu, please stand at the stairs in the backstage, your performance is still 30 seconds away."

"Ok!"

Fu Tiao nodded, stepped into the backstage door, stood in front of the stairs, looked up at the staff in front of him, and waited for their instructions.

"Dior Fu! Huaguo! Piano choice: Steinway D274!"

"Selection of Works: Chopin Mazurka Op33-1, 2, 3, 4
Chopin Piano Sonata No. [-]!
Chopin's untitled piece, God bless Poland!

Chopin Polonaise, hero! "

Whoa!
The applause sounded instantly, and countless people looked expectantly at the baffle at the entrance, waiting for Fu Tiao to enter the stage from behind the steps.

Everyone was saying that Fu Tiao could fight Zhao Chengzhen, Zhao Chengzhen was already so awesome just now, so Fu Tiao should at least be a little more awesome than Zhao Chengzhen, right?

Probably?

Thinking of this, everyone's applause became more enthusiastic, and they tried their best to welcome Fu Tiao's appearance.

"Contestant Fu, here we come!"

"it is good!"

Fu Tiao adjusted his bow tie, the buttons on his cuffs, and the button on his lower abdomen a little bit, nodded slightly to the people around him, and stepped forward.

boom!
The moment Fu Tiao appeared, the already extremely enthusiastic applause became even more enthusiastic, and some people even showed fanatical expressions.

And these expressions soon spread to Shan Yi, Fao, Pavel, Olga, and others.

Some people thumped in their hearts for an instant, secretly saying that it was not good.

Now everyone’s expectations for Fu Diao have surpassed that of Zhao Chengzhen. It would be okay if it was normal, but the question now is that Zhao Chengzhen has shown enough perfect strength. Can Fu Diao really reach the level beyond Zhao Chengzhen and respond to the audience’s expectations? ?
If there is no way to respond, or even just at the same level as Zhao Chengzhen...

The audience will feel dissatisfied!
Some people even kept cursing the group of people who promoted Fu Tiao. If they hadn't kept promoting Fu Tiao, I'm afraid Fu Tiao wouldn't have such a high profile. Surprise.

Now it's not just about being on par with Zhao Chengzhen, it's about surpassing Zhao Chengzhen.

Now it's a bit difficult to ride a tiger.

but……

Fu Tiao didn't say anything, he bowed slightly to the crowd, sat on the piano bench, and raised his hand.

When the concert hall fell into silence again, his hand gently pressed down, and an unparalleled musical impact instantly rushed to the crowd.

For a time, the audience was shocked.

Shan Yi, who was almost falling asleep, couldn't help but raise his head at this moment.

This... music?
(End of this chapter)