pianist from the sea

Chapter 198 I Knock?Fu Tiao?
Later, Fu Diao followed Zhao Chengzhen and the two of them took the girl who insisted on coming together, and went to a Michelin French restaurant that Zhao Chengzhen liked very much, but he was not very willing to go.

But it was not like what Zhao Chengzhen said before, he asked Fu Diao to treat him, and in the end he paid the full amount, including the girl's share.

He said that he lost the street piano competition with Fu Diao at that time, and he didn't have an exact bet before, but now it's just right, so he simply took the meal money as a bet.

Because it is dinner, and the Michelin rating is there, the price for a single person is more than 300 euros, and for three people together, it is almost [-] euros.

Looking at the bill that Zhao Chengzhen brought over, Fu Diao couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.

Although he now has tens of thousands of euros from the Chopin International Piano Competition in his pocket as living expenses, and some signing money from Deutsche Grammophon, he has the money from selling records before, and Bro The reward given to him by Mr. Ci at that time.

Excluding his recent use, there are about [-] to [-].

But seeing the one thousand meal money, his heart still couldn't help but ache.

The price is really expensive!
He still remembered that he had just come here, and when he was living and lodging in Warsaw, he was saving a few euros there, and even drinking coffee was the cheapest coffee on the street, which was less than one euro for a cup. kind of.

Who would have thought that a meal would cost a thousand euros now?

and……

Fu Tiao looked at Zhao Chengzhen, and found that Zhao Chengzhen looked at the bill indifferently, so he could not help coughing lightly, and asked as if he didn't care.

"This restaurant...do you come here often?"

"It's not too often, is it? It's just that if there are events or dinners, I will choose this place. Normally, I still eat in the cafeteria."

Zhao Chengzhen wiped his hands with a wet cloth beside him, and smiled at Fu Tiao.

"You don't think I eat like this every meal, do you? How is it possible? I'm not a rich man in business, or a world-renowned artist. I'm just a very ordinary person who plays the piano. I can eat a quarter It was very good last time, even I haven’t eaten here once in the past few years, it’s very difficult to make a reservation at this restaurant.”

"But it's expensive to eat once a season..."

After muttering with a laugh, Fu Tiao coughed twice, and said to Zhao Chengzhen, "Anyway, thank you very much, thank you for your hospitality!"

"You're welcome. If you can, I suggest you get me a ticket for your concert. I've been searching for a long time, but I can't find anyone selling your ticket."

"My ticket..."

Hearing this, Fu Tiao couldn't help being dazed for a moment. He seemed to have never paid attention to the situation of his ticket sales, so he couldn't help but took out his mobile phone to look at it, and searched for his ticket sales situation.

Finding that all the tickets were in the waiting sequence, and they could only be purchased after the previous person refunded the ticket, he shrugged helplessly at Zhao Chengzhen.

"Sorry, I don't seem to be able to get my tickets. I'll ask Deutsche Grammophon if there are any extra tickets that haven't been released, but I think...the chance may not be great."

"Is that so..."

Zhao Chengzhen just said it casually, and didn't pay much attention to it, so she waved her hand and said indifferently: "Forget it, if you really don't have any, there is no problem, then I wish your concert all the best."

"Thank you."

After Fu Tiao thanked Zhao Chengzhen, Zhao Chengzhen took the two of them to visit several landmark buildings in Paris and introduced some of the history of those buildings. Then everyone dispersed and returned to the city according to their respective routes. Rest in your own hotel.

It is worth mentioning that the student from the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels was even more unlucky.

When she was visiting the Eiffel Tower with Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen, she stepped on Xiang who was disguised as mud directly under the tower.

She always felt that her dream of Paris was shattered again.

No wonder the two of Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen had to go around, so it was like this.

Does the government in Paris really care about nothing?Don't they care that the Eiffel Tower is full of garbage and shit?
Are you sure this place is really called Paris, and not some other inexplicable place you've never heard of?
But no matter what, their night trip to Paris finally came to an end, and the city of Paris had mixed impressions on Fu Tiao.

The upper and lower limits of quality of life here are fantastic.

For example, here you can enjoy the most luxurious old money life from the whole of France. There are top luxury shops with huge floor-to-ceiling windows everywhere on the street. Even if you don’t go in, you can feel the noble temperament.

They also have their own characteristics in terms of diet.

To put it bluntly, it is called focusing on marginal utility, but to put it bluntly, it is a French seven-course meal with a small amount and a very distinctive style.

Although it looks relatively small, because it takes a long time to finish a whole meal, people with a normal appetite can finish a whole meal in a state of [-]% full, feeling full without being particularly full.

Even if you are not full, there is enough bread to fill you up.

Most of the cars driving on the street are those big brands, and it is not uncommon to see sports cars whizzing away.

While enjoying the luxury, you can feel the dark side of the city very clearly.

It is not hidden in the corner, but openly displayed in front of you.

Refugees squatting on street corners smoking marijuana, and many homeless people who just want to get cash, receive more than 1000 euros in subsidies a month, and are completely unwilling to work.

There are also those garbage bags piled up on the street, and there is no way to control the robbery and theft.

This city is more sexy than Berlin, elegant and luxurious, full of aristocratic atmosphere, and multiculturalism blends here.But at the same time, the city is also showing the back of poverty, forcibly propping up its own suit.

It is difficult for you to use a unified impression to describe this city, because she is too tolerant, any kind of people can come in, and any kind of culture can be revealed, which also makes this city, in the eyes of some people, become Extraordinarily attractive.

It's not just the cultural art and romantic charm that it displays externally.

Of course, all this is not real to Fu Diao, after all, he is just a passer-by, passing through Paris and going to perform in Paris.

If he is someone like Zhao Chengzhen who wants to work in Paris, he can pay more attention to the situation in Paris and see what kind of city Paris is.

But he has already decided that he is going to study in Berlin, so he may be a little curious about Paris, but he will never put his attention on Paris.

After living in Paris for a few days, Fu Tiao came to a small bar according to the address on the invitation letter given by the principal of the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels.

Called a bar, the place actually looks a bit like a cellar.

It was far away on the corner of the street, in an inconspicuous location, with a door open.

Just a door with a simple Bonjour written on it, and a couple of buried windows on either side.

The window is also covered with colored stickers, so you can't see the inside at all from the outside.

On the corner of the street where this door is located, there are seven or eight doors like this in this row, and you can't see the specialness of this place at all.

Not even the words Bonjour hanging on the door, Fu Tiao couldn't find where this place was at all.

Fu Diao stood at the door of this bar, holding the invitation letter in his hand, and after struggling for a long time, he knocked on the door slowly.

dong dong...

There was a dull sound from the wooden door, and there was even a tingling sound. Fu Tiao always felt that the door was about to break down soon, and it might rot at any time.

However, shortly after Fu Diao knocked on the door, a man in light pajamas opened the door.

Fu Tiao was stunned, and immediately apologized, "Sorry, I seem to have made a mistake..."

"Are you looking for the Bonjour bar? Here it is."

The man looked at the invitation letter in Fu Tiao's hand, and said casually with a yawn: "Normally, the old and the new should come together. It's normal for the new to feel something wrong when they come here for the first time, but wait until later." It was much better when you were here, you are a little early now, we haven't opened yet."

"Um, then shall I go out for a stroll first?" Fu Tiao couldn't help hesitating when he heard the man's voice, "If you haven't opened yet."

"No, just give me the invitation letter, and then you can sit inside first, the beer and drinks inside are free tonight, but if you want to order some wine, cocktails, vodka and other drinks, It takes money."

The man yawned again, reached out to take the invitation letter in Fu Tiao's hand, opened the door, and took the lead to walk down the house.

After opening the door, Fu Tiao discovered the reason why this place is not easy to be found.

Although the door is open on the street, this bar is a very typical European basement layout.

When you enter the door, there is a staircase that goes down and turns, and there are many decorations on the walls on both sides of the staircase.

There are some European and American license plates, tires, and some landscape paintings.

At the end of the stairs, there are two more doors.

These two doors are built into a triangle, and you can wipe your shoes and take off your hat inside, and then enter the house after packing up.

And when Fu Diao officially entered the bar, he had already gone through three doors.

Fu Diao put his coat casually on the clothes rack, and looked around the layout of the bar.

This is a very ordinary jazz bar. There are basically no other special things in the store, just a very long bar counter and a lot of tables made of wooden barrels and wooden boards.

The chairs were those high stools, also made of wood.

I don't know if it was hammered by myself or a special design. These chairs are very rough and match the entire style of the store.

And in the middle of the room, there are stages one by one.

There is actually a nine-foot grand piano on it, which is still Steinway.

On the side of the piano are other instruments, such as cello, double bass, saxophone.

The person who opened the door for Fu Tiao before had already changed his clothes. He came out from the back door wearing a striped shirt and denim overalls. He walked up to Fu Tiao with a glass of 1L beer and handed it to him. Following his gaze to the musical instruments in the middle of the stage, he immediately understood Fu Tiao's thoughts and explained.

"These instruments are all our own, because not everyone brings their own instruments when they come here, especially this kind of double bass, saxophone, these instruments are very troublesome to carry, so we directly customized some For customers who come over, although it is not as easy as buying them themselves, these instruments are basically the best we can buy."

After that, he walked into the room, took out a violin case with a very delicate shell, stroked the pattern on it lightly, opened it very carefully, showed it to Fu Tiao, and said with a smile.

"Look at this, Stevadiqin! Siqin!"

He stroked the surface of the instrument in his hand extremely gently, as if stroking his wife, extremely gentle, and even his expression softened quickly, without the exhaustion and carelessness when he opened the door before.

"Although she has not passed the hands of the top musicians, and she is not a famous violin, but for me, for this shop, this violin is the most perfect goddess, although it can also be given to others. People use it, but I will never allow those who have never touched the violin and know nothing about the violin to touch her! Absolutely not!"

"Is she also available for guests?" Fu Tiao asked.

"Of course, but it's only limited to those top masters. If it's just ordinary people, we won't lend them out. We will only give them a more ordinary violin to use. However... the violin is relatively easy to carry, so Not many people would borrow."

Speaking of this, he picked up the bow that was set aside, hooked the strings, and after playing an impromptu composition, he put the violin back into the violin case with an expression of great enjoyment, and put it away. went back.

After everything was cleaned up, he walked back to Fu Tiao's side, picked up a card and handed it to Fu Tiao, and couldn't help asking.

"This is our membership card. Next time you don't have an invitation letter, you can use this card to come in, but... I have a question. Although we don't check the qualifications of members here, we basically rely on everyone You can only come in by mutual recommendation, but I am still curious, that is, who recommended you? Among our members, your age may be the youngest group. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you don’t want to say it, don’t force it , what we focus on here is privacy."

Fu Tiao didn't need to hide it, he said bluntly: "The principal of the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels, he gave me this invitation letter."

He looked around the bar. From the current point of view, these musical instruments are the most conspicuous in this bar. The musical instruments that are completely invisible in other bars are piled up on the ground in good condition and no one cares about them.

As for the other decorations, there are not many special things in it. It is a very ordinary European rural style bar.

Fu Tiao spoke lightly, but in the ears of the staff member or the boss, it sounded like thunder.

he asked in disbelief.

"The dean of the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels?"

"Yes, what's the matter? Isn't his invitation acceptable?"

"No, it's not impossible, it's just..."

The man's expression was extremely complicated, and he sat there for a long time to organize his words, and then he said: "How should I put it, you may be the first person he recommended..."

"First?"

"Well, because our bar is a bit like a membership system, we pay special attention to the qualifications of the recommenders. When inviting newcomers to join, the old man will also be restricted. If the newcomers are not from the jazz circle, they can only give one time. Invitation letter, all drinks are paid by yourself, even if you come next time, you are not allowed to come in. If you force a recommendation invitation letter, invite someone who is not in the jazz circle, or the level does not meet everyone's requirements, then the qualifications of the old man will not be able to come in. Will be affected, will be revoked membership for one year, violated many times, will be directly kicked out of our circle..."

The man took a sip of beer, shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is a place where people in a small circle entertain themselves, and all the expenses in it are paid for by the group of people who organized this party in the first place. Occasions, so we would rather limit the circle a bit higher, and don’t want too many people coming in to make a mess. The principal of the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels is such a person. He is one of the organizers of this circle, but although he is an organization Or, no one can kick him out, but he has not sent a single invitation letter for so many years, and you are the first."

After all, the man patted Fu Tiao on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Although I don't know what you have attracted the attention of the founder, but now you are a member of our small group, and you want to come later." Come at any time, it doesn't matter if you don't come, anyway, this is a very free place, there is no coercion, and you don't need to pay, all in all, enjoy this night!"

After finishing speaking, the man turned and left, and began to clean up the bar, preparing the bar for the evening opening.

As time passed, many people came into the originally clean bar, and the person before him also smiled and greeted every customer who came in.

Although Fu Tiao didn't know any of these people, but judging by their conversation and clothes, none of them were the kind of mediocre people who knew nothing about music, and they all seemed to be the kind of well-known artists.

After the group of people came in, they quickly chatted with their friends. From the corner of their eyes, they looked at Fu Tiao full of curiosity, and wanted to negotiate with Fu Tiao, but seeing Fu Tiao's cold demeanor when he was in a daze, always Feeling that Fu Tiao is not the kind of person who likes to socialize, he can only give up for the time being.

Fu Tiao sat there and waited for a long time. When the room gradually became lively and all the seats were gradually filled, a familiar accent and language came from the door.

"Hey, you believe me, the exchange tonight must be good. I asked many friends for this single invitation letter before I got it. No one else wants it yet!"

After the words fell, the two pushed the door open and entered. He looked around, his eyes fixed on Fu Tiao who was alone in a daze not far away, and his voice was slightly distorted.

"I knock? Fu Tiao?"

(End of this chapter)