pianist from the sea

Chapter 129 Emilia Poniatowska

Fu Tiao saw that the next contestant had arrived, so he didn't stay too long. For him, his rehearsal in the concert hall was over.

He and Jacek returned to the bottom of the stage to re-confirm some adjustments they had made on the conductor before leaving.

When Fu Tiao officially walked out of the concert hall, he raised his head and looked at the sky. The sky had become gloomy at some point, and there was no longer any sunshine.

It's almost five o'clock in the afternoon. It seems a little too early to go back to sleep at this time. After thinking about it, Fu Tiao wandered around the city of Chopin with He Shen and Yu Tianyou to see what's going on in the city. Everything about Chopin.

For example, Chopin's former residence, Chopin Museum, or other Chopin memorial stores. After all, they have been in Warsaw for so long, and they haven't come out for shopping. They practice piano and rehearse every day.

However, when Fu Tiao and others came to the Chopin Museum and were about to visit the museum, they suddenly discovered that the player Szymon Nehring from Poland also came to the Chopin Museum.

Different from Fu Tiao and others, Szymon Nehring came to the museum on behalf of all members of the Chopin International Piano Competition, and played the piano used by Chopin hundreds of years ago with representatives from various countries, as well as some royal nobles and rich people.

Fu Tiao and others were stopped when they first arrived at the museum, and they were not allowed to enter the museum until Fu Tiao showed his certificate of participation in the competition.

Most of the seats in the small concert hall in the basement were occupied by those nobles, and Fu Diao and others could only watch Nehring's performance from the sidelines.

The main reason why the organizing committee did not invite Fu Tiao, Zhao Chengzhen or even Hamelin to perform was that the organizing committee of the Chopin International Piano Competition announced the most popular award in advance, and did not discuss professional ability and The level of strength, only discussing whether it is liked by the audience, Nehring won this award without a doubt as a Polish.

It's not that I'm unwilling or uncomfortable, I don't think it's fair or anything. After all, this award has no effect on Fu Tiao and others, and they don't live in Poland. These royal family, rich and noble people can't affect them at all, even if they communicate with each other. It is also difficult to give them a little help from abroad, and he can't even get money. On the contrary, he still needs to play a whole concert for these people.

Those who can't get paid for work, whoever likes to do it.

Fu Diao and others stood aside and watched Nehring's performance with a smile.

Nehring didn't perform particularly complex content, but took some familiar works and performed them on Chopin's piano to please everyone.

His strength is definitely higher than the works he is currently playing, and even many of his unique features have not been shown, and Fu Tiao and others are just listening to it while standing aside.

It seems that everyone is going through the motions, as a native of Poland, to show their enthusiasm for classical music and respect for Chopin, that's all.

After Nehring's performance, he talked with everyone one by one. Looking at Fu Tiao and others who had been listening to his music in the distance, they couldn't help being stunned, and then nodded to them very friendly.

Everyone is just an ordinary competitive relationship, and there is no need to fight so desperately. Besides, he doesn't expect to win the championship and fight against Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen, so he sees Fu Tiao and others are extremely friendly.

After everyone finished talking, Nehring walked up to Fu Diao and the other three who hadn't left yet, smiled and stretched out his hand, and said, "Fu, I didn't expect you to come here today."

"The rehearsal with the band is just over, and it's not time for dinner yet, so come over here." Fu Diao reached out to shake hands with him, and then looked at the people walking around the room socializing, and couldn't help saying curiously: "These are ..."

"The minister of the Polish Ministry of Culture, the mayor of Warsaw, some politicians in the parliament, the old 'nobility' in some places, well, not that kind of old nobility, but a new kind of nobility." He whispered to Fu Tiao , then turned to look at the group of people, and shrugged his shoulders casually: "This can be regarded as a political activity. What everyone values ​​more is not music, but social interaction in this place. I didn't play very happily... …But it’s nice to have access to a piano that Chopin used before.”

"Chopin's piano? That's really nice."

Fu Diao looked at the piano, which was placed in the center of the stage and was being re-encircled, fixed and protected by the staff, and nodded slightly.

Unless these things are invited by the government, it is difficult for anyone to come across them. It is very rare to be able to meet Chopin’s piano. Compared with talking with those politicians, it will increase his confidence and allow him to touch the piano that Chopin played before. , this is the real reward.

Nehring chatted casually with Fu Tiao and the others, and then returned to communicate with the noble politicians, while Fu Tiao and the others took a casual look in the room.

Because the people in this room are relatively noble people, in order to protect these people, there are always some people around them staring at them. Fu Diao and the others felt a little cautious, but there was nothing they could do. After taking a rough look, he prepared to leave first.

However, just as Fu Diao was about to leave, a slightly crisp voice came from behind Fu Diao in extremely strange Chinese.

"Hello! Fu Dio!"

Fu Tiao and the others turned their heads, and a girl wearing a light pink lady's coat and a lady's hat stood behind Fu Tiao and the others. She stood there with a smile, took off her white velvet gloves, and stretched out an extremely slender and straight line. With a graceful left hand, he switched back to extremely pure English to Fu.

"Fu Di'ao, using the way you call Hua Guo, is it correct to call me like this?"

Fu Tiao glanced at He Shen and Yu Tianyou beside him, unexpectedly, the two of them showed expressions of watching a play, stepped back a few steps, and gave Fu Tiao encouraging eyes, as if they were supporting him in what he was doing.

Fu Tiao thought for a while, but he didn't figure out what this person was going to do. He couldn't help hesitating a little. He took a few steps forward, held her hand lightly, and after letting go, he asked, "Yes, what you said No problem, but the name after that should be pronounced, not Dior."

"Dior, Dior, carving, hanging..."

She read it several times in a row, but she couldn't read it accurately, and the more she read it, the more strange it became, and she couldn't help showing a look of distress.

"I'm sorry, your name is a little difficult for me, it always seems to be a little bit off, I'm really sorry."

"Forget it, just Dior, the gap is not too big."

"Okay, Dior, I'm really sorry." She once again apologized sincerely to Fu Tiao, as if it was very impolite for her to not be able to pronounce other people's names correctly.

Seeing her like this, Fu Tiao didn't feel comfortable correcting her pronunciation, so he asked casually, "By the way... what do you want from me?"

"Is there something?" She pointed her finger on her chin, raised her head and thought for a while, then shook her head with a smile: "I should have nothing to ask you, but I am more surprised that you can appear in the Chopin Museum. Only Nehring, after all, almost all of the performers are from Poland every year, I didn’t expect to see you this year.”

After that, she suddenly remembered something, looked at Fu Tiao, and immediately asked, "By the way... did I not say my name?"

"Yes."

"Ah, so, I'm sorry." She took a small step back, saluted Fu Tiao very gracefully, and then said gently: "My name is Emilia Poniatowska, From the Poniatowski family."

"Poniatowski?" Before Fu Tiao could speak, He Shen, who was behind him, read out in surprise. Looking at Fu Tiao's puzzled eyes, he immediately shook his head slightly, signaling Fu Tiao to wait a while.

However, Emilia had already looked at them, saluted them slightly, and said in the same gentle tone: "He Shen, Yu Tianyou, I'm sorry that I was a little negligent and didn't greet you in time."

"No, no, nothing, nothing."

He Shen immediately scratched his head and smiled, dragged Yu Tianyou who was watching the show outside, casually waved his hands and said, "You guys continue to talk, Yu and I will go to see other places first, so we won't bother you."

After that, without waiting for Emilia's response, he dragged Yu Tianyou out of the room. There were only some security staff and Fu Tiao Emilia left in the room.

Emilia stood there, looking at Fu Tiao, her expression gradually relaxed. She pointed to the direction in front of her and asked Fu Tiao.

"Dior, do you want to go shopping together?"

"Go for a walk?"

Fu Diao was a little hesitant, but seeing Emilia's ready-to-walk pace, and seeing He Shen and Yu Tianyou who had disappeared from his sight, he could only agree, and followed her quickly, casually Visit this museum.

Emilia seems to be very familiar with this museum, knowing the details and history of each place. In order to take care of Fu Tiao's English, she used some simple vocabulary as possible to describe the cultural relics. Tell the meaning.

The voice is soft and euphemistic, which makes people listen very comfortably.

She pointed to a sheet of music on the wall, and said to Fu Tiao relaxedly: "Look at this sheet of sheet music, this sheet of sheet music was presented to the museum by our family, and it is said that it was written to Prince Poniatowski back then. Yes, but it’s not actually noted on it, if you have the opportunity to go to Lazienki Park, you should be able to see the Chopin sculpture placed there.”

"Oh yes, there is also this piece of music. I played this piece of music when I was a child, and my family told me that this piece is an unrecorded piece by Chopin. I played the piece God Bless Poland, so I was very surprised when I saw you, because I rarely heard your pianists from the Chopin International Piano Competition play this piece.”

"Aha, and this one, these are letters between Chopin and Grzymala, a former adjutant of Prince Poniatowski, a friend of Chopin's, who during the war against Russia He was imprisoned in Poltava for three years. He was not just an ordinary friend. He was a member of the parliament, an examiner of the Administrative Court, the governor of the Polish Government Bank. He talked closely with Chopin. We have a lot about Chopin. Items are obtained from him."

"Well, there is another one, this is Chopin's love letter when he was chatting with his lover in Paris~ The above content is not very easy to translate, so I won't translate it for you one by one, if you are interested, you can ask The person in charge here."

"and this……"

As if she was in her own home, she introduced everything related to Chopin in a sparse and ordinary way, and she could give an overview of every item, as if she had been to this place countless times.

Of course, she was just introducing, without any other superfluous actions.

The two walked from the basement to the top floor. After looking at the last item, she turned to look at Fu Tiao with a smile, and asked softly: "How is it? Have you made any progress with your Chopin? Do you feel that you are interested in Chopin's?" Have a deeper understanding?"

Fu Tiao didn't speak, but thought seriously, and finally nodded slowly: "Yes, I do have a deeper understanding of Chopin, and I have new ideas about some details about Chopin, but I have a question."

"Huh? What's the problem?"

"Exactly, why do you seem to be so familiar with this place?"

"Because... I come here often, and I'm tired of hearing those people say the same words every time." She walked forward slowly without looking back, "It's not just the Chopin International Piano Competition that does this." The same is true for the Chopin Piano Competition in Poland, I have participated in it many times, and the adults in my family often say that, as I talk, I will memorize it.”

After that, she stopped her footsteps, turned to look at Fu Tiao behind her, and asked with a hint of naughty: "By the way... don't you wonder why I left you alone? Don't you think it's very ambiguous?" ?”

"Ambiguous?" Fu Tiao turned his head to look at the seven or eight staff members standing in various corners, pursed his lips, and didn't say much, just said casually: "I'm not curious, because you have already said, Said you were pleasantly surprised by my arrival, so you left me alone..."

"Hey..." Emilia didn't expect Fu Tiao to answer like this, she couldn't help being a little surprised, and then she chuckled: "Well, I did seem to have said that, but the main reason I keep you is because I like your performance very much Oh, compared to other players, such as Zhao from South Korea, Hamelin from Canada, or Nehring from Poland, I always feel that their performances lack a surprise, and they are a bit flat now .”

"And your music..." She looked into Fu Tiao's eyes, and Fu Tiao couldn't help but look away. Then she smiled and said, "Your music has a sense of the vastness of the sea, the mystery of the sea, and the beauty of the sea." Power, I seem to have never heard this strange interpretation in other people's music, they seldom interpret Chopin as the feeling of the sea, even the sea etude, they will not interpret it in this way."

"However, as far as I am concerned, I think your music is still a little boyish and not mature enough, especially compared with those top masters, this feeling will be particularly obvious... Although I The level of playing the piano is mediocre, not comparable to those of you players in the Chopin International Piano Competition, but I grew up listening to the top masters live, and my ability to appreciate music is not weaker than yours!"

"So... Dior, come on, I'm looking forward to your performance in the finals, I look forward to whether you can give me more surprises, come on, I hope you can sign me when we meet next time."

"Amy!" A group of well-dressed people emerged from the stairs. An extremely graceful and luxurious lady at the front looked at Fu Tiao and Emilia together. After thinking for a while, she smiled and nodded to Fu Tiao , then looked at Emilia, and said, "Amy, let's go, the event is over."

"Okay, Mom!" Emilia agreed, waved her hand slightly at Fu Tiao, and said softly, "Then goodbye, Dio."

"goodbye……"

After Fu Tiao's voice fell, Emilia turned around gently, walked towards the distance with incomparable elegance, blended into the crowd, and then disappeared from Fu Tiao's sight.

It passed by like a breeze, and dispersed like a breeze. It was just a simple meeting and a brief chat about Chopin, without any unnecessary things.

Fu Tiao walked out of the museum in a daze, the sky was completely dark, Yu Tianyou and He Shen were standing in the corner talking without knowing what, when they saw Fu Tiao coming out, they immediately surrounded him.

Yu Tianyou asked excitedly, "How is it? Did she say anything to you? Did she say that she likes you? Is there a story about the gray knight and the princess on the white horse?"

Fu Tiao thought for a while, and seeing Yu Tianyou like this, he couldn't help whispering deliberately: "If you like it, yes..."

"Yes?!!!" Yu Tianyou's voice was high-pitched.

"But she said she likes my Chopin, that's all, nothing like what you think."

"Cut... boring." Yu Tianyou's expression instantly became speechless, seeing the smile on the corner of Fu Tiao's mouth, he could only wave his hands fiercely, not bothering to pay attention to Fu Tiao.

After He Shen watched the two of them fighting, he couldn't help laughing, and then said seriously: "But Fu Tiao, just kidding, he is one of the top nobles in Poland, and the biggest one in the city is Wazin Ki Park is actually her family’s estate, which originated from the end of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century, and experienced the efforts of three generations, from a country gentry to a member of parliament, and finally became the royal family of Poland.”

"Of course, their royal family doesn't enjoy the power of the king now, but their family power is far beyond your imagination. They even contributed to the establishment of the Chopin International Piano Competition. The Emilia just now should be the Younger son of the royal family, because you are in the museum, you are a contestant in the Chopin International Piano Competition, and this is a public event, so we can go in, although I don’t know what she said to you, but why? Come on, don't overthink it."

"Well, I know, she just gave me a brief introduction to the history of the collections in the museum, we didn't have much contact with other things."

"That's good, let's go, let's go to eat, you two chatted for a long time and we are hungry, what do you want to eat? As long as it does not exceed 10 euros per person, I can treat you!"

Yu Tianyou stood on the side angrily: "Tsk tsk... I knew it, Mr. He, you are so picky."

"Okay, Yu Tianyou, you pay for your own dinner today, and I'll treat Fu Tiao to it. It's just right. It's 15 euros for each of us, and the meal is more refreshing."

"Don't! I was wrong! Teacher He, I was wrong!"

Everyone was playing around, forgetting what happened just now, whether it was Emilia they met, or the small concert just now, these had nothing to do with what they were going to do in the future.

They chatted casually, went to a Greek grilled fish restaurant in the distance and ordered a grilled fish, and complained that the European and American grilled fish simply cooked the fish and ordered another order of French fries.

Even though the meal cost of the three of them exceeded 30 Euros, He Shen still paid the money, and everyone went back to the hotel after a leisurely dinner to make final adjustments.

And the time soon came to October NO.18, the final day of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

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