pianist from the sea

Chapter 237

Perhaps it was because Fu Diao came here to study for a degree in performing arts, or because of some other reasons, Fu Diao was quickly released by the customs in Frankfurt, allowing him to enter the European Union from France.

However, he may be the most relaxed of the group of people traveling with him.

He didn't bring a lot of personal belongings with him, no laptop or tablet, just a very simple change of clothes and countless music scores.

Those customs didn't understand the gold content of these scores, and they didn't know that this set could cost at least a few thousand euros, so they released Fu Tiao directly.

And behind Fu Tiao was a man dressed in very trendy clothes, and the one with an Apple Watch, a tablet and a laptop in his hands was terrible.

Like Fu Tiao, he all came to Germany to study, but he was directly taken away by the customs right after he came here and asked him to pay taxes.

Because his belongings will be used in Germany in the future, he did not simply come here for tourism, so according to the laws of Germany, he has to pay taxes.

Fu Tiao hadn't gone far when he heard the man's wailing and the German Customs urging him to pay a fine of five or six hundred euros.

Is this considered to have experienced the high taxation of Germany before entering Germany?

Fu Tiao thought for a while, but didn't continue to wait here. He followed the crowd to the turning point. After resting in the luxury lounge of the Lufthansa headquarters, he followed the plane to Berlin.

This was the first time he came to Berlin by plane, and the impression he landed at Tegel Airport was not particularly good.

The first reaction when I came to Tagore Airport was to confirm that this place is the Capital International Airport?

Fu Tiao looked at the gray-black buildings around him and the small luggage waiting area of ​​less than [-] square meters, full of doubts.

All the previous airports were super-large airports. For example, he was at Jiangdong International Airport in Haicheng. He even had to run if he wanted to go to a place. The distance between many boarding gates can be described in kilometers.

That's called a big one.

Even the Frankfurt International Airport just now is not inferior in size, and it is still extremely empty.

But now, at the Berlin Capital International Airport, that is, Tegel Airport, you can't see that kind of generous feeling at all, what you have is just small.

After walking about 50 meters from the airport, he had already entered the terminal building. It was less than 200 meters from the time he got out of the plane to his luggage.

This was just an outrageous start, and what was even more outrageous was that Fu Tiao hadn't reached the luggage waiting area before he found that his luggage had already started to move around on the luggage tray.

Convenience, speed, and... old, this is Fu Tiao's first reaction to this Tagore International Airport.

However, being old is not a big problem. For Fu Tiao, convenience and speed are the most important points.

From the time the plane stopped and landed until he got out of the plane, got his luggage, and left the terminal, it took a total of ten minutes, and everything was done.

Normally, this can only be seen at some small airports in China, but I didn't expect to see this scene at the Capital International Airport in Germany.

However, just as Fu Tiao was feeling emotional, a young voice came from Fu Tiao's ear.

"Fu Diao!"

Fu Tiao turned his head and saw a tall and thin man about 1.8 meters waving at him, ran towards him with a smile on his face, stretched out his hand to take his luggage and said with a smile.

"Fu Diao, I'm a student of Principal Zhou San. Wu Tian, ​​Principal Zhou San should have told you about this, right? I'll pick you up at the airport and help you with some simple business in Germany...By the way, Fu Diao, do you speak German?"

"Thank you." Fu Tiao smiled at Wu Tian, ​​and then said: "As for German...I don't know it."

"Ah, I don't know German... Forget it, in fact, it's not a problem if you don't know German in Berlin and Frankfurt. After all, this is an international metropolis, and you can easily live here even if you speak English, but if you go to some small places, such as... Hannover."

Wu Tian smiled and pointed out: "If you go to Hannover, you must use German in that place. That place is a small city on the German side, just like you go to a small city in China. It is quite convenient for you to use English in Haicheng, but you really don't need much English when you go to a small city. Everyone is German, and there are some English speakers, but not many."

With that said, Wu Tian walked out of Tagore Airport with Fu Tiao's luggage.

There is not much difference from what you see indoors. The scenery outside the Tagore Airport terminal building is also very familiar with khaki, with a hint of gray and black, giving people the feeling of being foggy.

Just as Fu Tiao was looking at the surrounding scenery, Wu Tian waved his hand, pointed to the side passage and said, "Fu Tiao, this way, go down here, my car is parked below."

After that, he grabbed Fu Tiao's bag and walked underground, and soon came to an empty semi-underground garage with only a few small lights providing light.

It is said that it is an underground garage, but it is actually on the ground.

It is not an underground garage, but it is completely under the airport terminal, with almost no lights, and a very thick gray-black, large, and rough-style building.

Wu Tian seemed to have gotten used to this a long time ago. With the sunlight reflected from outside, he threw Fu Tiao's luggage into a four-seater, two-meter-long small car, patted the roof of the car, and smiled at Fu Tiao.

"Come on, let's go, I'll take you to your house for a look."

"A house? Have you already found a house for me?" Fu Tiao was curious. He originally thought that Wu Tian was just here to pick up the airport and take him from Tegel Airport to the center of Berlin.

After all, he had just glanced around the airport and found no traces of subway trains at all.

It's like being isolated.

Wu Tian nodded as a matter of course.

"Of course! Principal Zhou specifically reminded me. Besides, if I don't help you find a good house, do you plan to live in a hotel for a few months? It's not easy to find a house in Berlin. If you don't have inside information, if you want to rent a house, you may have to go directly to Brandenburg at the farthest. Even if you want to rent a house in the center of Berlin, you have to pay an extremely expensive fee."

After that, he went to the self-service payment machine to pay the fee, got in his car, and said to Fu Tiao.

"But don't dislike my small car. After all, I am also studying at the University of the Arts in Berlin. It is very good for me to have such a car. There are not many rich people who can study here in Germany. Most of them are from ordinary families. They have to work hard on their own."

"I don't dislike it, after all, my family's situation is not good."

Fu Tiao shook his head slightly, got into the car, followed Wu Tian out of Tagore Airport, and walked towards the center of Berlin.

Small airports have the benefits of small airports, and large airports have the benefits of large airports.

This Tegel International Airport is just like what he showed. Although it has an international name, it is the fourth largest airport in Germany after Frankfurt, Munich, and Dusseldorf.

But in reality, this is a small city airport.

From Tegel Airport to the center of Berlin, it only took about 15 minutes.

Some of that time was also blocked in the city center.

Before Fu Diao could react, he found that he had come to Potsdam Square, which was near the place where he ate pork knuckle last time.

Everything around became clear, the Brandenburg Gate in the distance, Potsdamer Platz, and the golden Berlin Philharmonic Hall, everything was connected.

Fu Tiao was stunned, and couldn't help asking Wu Tian: "By the way... how far is it from Tagore Airport to the city center?"

"It's not very far, is it? If it's Brandenburg Airport, that is, the airport that has not yet been built and is about to transfer the function of Tagore to it, it may be much, much farther. I remember more than 30 kilometers or [-] kilometers. However, Tagore Airport is the international airport in Berlin. It is only seven or eight kilometers away from where we are now, which is not too far away."

"Seven or eight kilometers..."

Fu Tiao didn't know what to say for a while.

Again, small airports have the benefits of small airports.

Although Tagore Airport is ugly, featureless, and gray everywhere, it always feels a bit dilapidated, without the prestige of an international airport.

but……

Tagore Airport is small!
From coming out to getting the bag, it's only 300 meters, isn't it better than those who need to run a distance of one or two kilometers to get the luggage?
It takes about seven or eight kilometers to drive from the city center to Tagore Airport, and it takes about ten minutes to drive there. If there is no traffic jam, it can even take about 10 minutes to drive. Isn’t this better than those who drive from the city center to the airport? It takes more than half an hour and an hour?
Although those big airports are glamorous and imposing, the number of planes they accommodate every day starts from thousands to thousands, and planes land every minute.

But isn't such a small airport more convenient than those big airports?More comfortable?
Originally, Fu Tiao's first impression of Tagore Airport was not very good, but now that he felt the convenience, Fu Tiao had no more thoughts.

He just felt that it was great to have Tegel Airport here in Berlin.

only……

When the car was waiting for a red light near Potsdamer Platz, Wu Tian sighed helplessly.

"However, Tegel Airport will disappear soon. It is said that the Tegel Airport will be dismantled in 2012, and then replaced by Schönefeld Airport near Brandenburg."

"2012? No, it's not 2016..." Fu Tiao didn't understand.

Wu Tian explained over there:

"Yes, the original plan was to demolish it in 2012, but you know the efficiency of the Germans. They always want to design some beautiful and super-strong buildings, such as the Elbe Concert Hall and the Stuttgart Railway Station, but the actual construction capacity can't meet their ideas. So it is obvious that the construction deadline has been delayed for four years. No one knows how long it can be delayed, but it will probably be soon."

Speaking of this, he didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly smiled: "Oh, by the way, the Hamburg Elbe Concert Hall has been successfully built among the three major building jokes in Germany. As for the Stuttgart Railway Station... it has not yet taken shape, and it may take more than ten years to build. Recently, I heard that the budget was increased by another 200 billion, but it ended up being smashed in, and I couldn't even hear a sound, tsk tsk."

"And the airport in Berlin... let alone, it may be built soon, I don't know..."

When the red light turned green, Wu Tian shook his head and continued to drive forward with Fu Tiao.

Walking past the gate of the Berlin Philharmonic, and crossing another bridge, at the second red light, Fu Tiao originally thought that he would continue to drive to the vicinity of the urban elevated rail transit in front, but he didn't expect Wu Tian to turn directly and walk towards the gravel road beside the subway station entrance.

This is a very simple and unadorned road. Except for the huge stone block about 50 meters ahead, the rest are all extremely regular concrete floors.

The concrete floor of this road is completely different from the concrete floor on Potsdam Str they just walked on. There are often many patches on the concrete floor on Potsdam Str Road, which look gnawing.

But the road here is extremely smooth, without any patches on it.

Before Fu Tiao could speak, Wu Tian drove the car to the end of the road, found a random place to park, and smiled at Fu Tiao.

"Kurfürstenstrae, Kurfürstenstrae, Stase means road, Kurfürsten is the name of this road, German means Kurfürstenstrae, this is Kurfürstenstrae, not Kurfürstenstrae, don't get confused, and the residence I found for you is the fifth floor of this Kurfürstenstrae.

After all, he waved to Fu Diao, telling Fu Diao to follow him up without taking off his luggage.

This is a building that isn't new, or... it looks a little old from the outside.

Gundam's door even feels like someone needs to be in charge of the door to open it.

Wu Tian took out the key from his pocket, and after opening the door, there was a long corridor about 50 meters away.

The long corridor leads directly to the garage and the garbage room at the rear, and their entrance is on the right side in the middle of the corridor. Another wooden door can only accommodate two people through the small door.

Wu Tian opened the wooden door and led Fu Tiao to climb upstairs.

The wooden stairs creaked, and the two quickly arrived at the fifth floor.

The fifth floor is the penultimate floor of this floor, and Fu Diao is a little confused as to why Wu Tian chose this room.

He actually kind of wanted an attic.

Could it be that...the interior of this house is well decorated?Is it an extremely modern and luxurious house?
But it doesn't look like it...

After thinking about it, Wu Tian opened the door.

The first time I opened it, it was actually not amazing, but ordinary.

This is a very ordinary room. A long corridor connects the living room and the bedroom. The place is not too big.

Apart from……

Right opposite the door, there is a staircase?
"This……"

"Don't worry, follow me."

Fu Tiao was stunned for a moment, but before he could speak, Wu Tian waved his hand and asked Fu Tiao to follow.

Fu Tiao followed Wu Tian from the fifth floor to the sixth floor, looked at Zhou Zhou, and then couldn't help but froze.

On the left hand just upstairs is a very large living room, about thirty to forty square meters in size.

In the center of the room stands a piano.

The open windows on the sloping roof let the sunlight softly shine on the piano, and the Steinway piano shines brightly.

There are tables and sofas around, and it is completely possible to hold a small concert here.

And that's not all about this room.

The sloping white roof does not slope down all the way, but stops in front of the balcony and falls vertically to create a separate balcony.

The balcony is covered with flowers and plants, and the breath of life in the room emerges instantly.

"How is it? Are you satisfied?"

Wu Tian swayed in the living room with bare feet, looked at the room with a smile, and said softly.

"In many places in Europe, you are actually not allowed to practice the piano casually, because there is a quiet time (Ruhig Zeit) here. In order to give everyone a good rest, if you exceed the quiet time and still make noise there, the harassed person has the right to call the police."

"But here... you can practice the piano a little longer."

He pointed to the floor under his feet and the surrounding thick walls and smiled.

"Downstairs is your space, the walls next door are muted, and even your living room door is muted."

"And it's not all about this room, come to the balcony."

Wu Tian dragged Fu Tiao onto the balcony, looking at the scenery outside the window, Fu Tiao couldn't help being stunned.

The sixth floor where he is located is the highest floor in this area. Standing outside the window, he can see everything around him.

In the distance, the lush and green Triangle Park (Gleisdreieck), where sparse tourists are camping and playing.

The church in the distance stands there alone, which makes people feel calm.

For some reason, Fu Tiao has begun to like this room.

"Going out is Sanjiaodi Park. Passing through Sanjiaodi Park is the subway station. Take two subway lines to Postan Square, and take four stops in the opposite direction to Xuandihou Street."

"There is a beer bar opened by young people under the subway. The beer in it is very delicious. We can have a drink together later."

"Go in the direction we just came. At the intersection, that is, about 500 meters away, there are high-end stores Rewe and Edeka. There is also a super cheap Turkish supermarket with meat quality far superior to supermarkets. Fresh vegetables are everywhere."

"And the school is also on this road. Although it will be one or two kilometers away, there is a direct subway when you go out, which is actually very convenient."

"Everything in this house is perfect, quiet, safe and comfortable, except for one thing that is not good, that is, there is no elevator, but other than that, you can't even find any shortcomings."

Wu Tian grinned proudly at Fu Tiao and said with a smile.

"How is it? The house I found for you is not bad, right? The normal rent plus Steinway's rent is a total of 300 euros a month. The average price in this area has reached more than 600 euros. Even a [-]-square-meter single room costs [-] euros."

"How about it? If you think it's good, you can live here first. I'll go to the landlord to sign the contract tomorrow. If you're not satisfied, I'll find you another place. I still have a few places nearby that I can offer you."

"No, no need..."

Fu Tiao shook his head slightly, walked to the piano, gently stroked the keyboard of the piano, played a melody casually, closed his eyes slightly, felt the reverberation of the piano in the room, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily raised.

This room is very nice...

It's not just simply putting a piano here, but the acoustic treatment is really done, and there won't be any redundant echo in it.

Piano calibration feels good too.

And all this for just one thousand euros a month?

Looking at everything in front of him, Fu Tiao couldn't help being a little puzzled, and asked.

"By the way...why is this place so cheap? What about the owner? This room, this piano, everything is not arranged casually. It is obvious that the landlord has carefully designed it. Why doesn't he live here? He..."

"Because this place is the home of a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts."

Wu Tian smiled at Fu Tiao and said.

"He recently went to the Zurich Conservatory of Music in Switzerland and was hired as a professor there. He struggled for a while and got a name at the Freiburg Conservatory of Music. He ran on both sides and earned much more than Berlin, so he planned to rent out his house in Berlin. The original price was [-] Euros, I remember..."

"Then why..."

Before Fu Tiao finished speaking, Wu Tian interrupted to explain.

"Because of you!"

"I?"

"The professor's first intention was to sell this room and see who in the conservatory wanted to buy it. However, all the professors have their own well-designed rooms, so they can't sell them. They can only rent them out. The two thousand euros for rent is too expensive. At that time, I just got a message from Principal Zhou Wednesday, so I asked if it would be cheaper if Fu Tiao came to rent it."

"And he agreed?"

"Yes, and then he agreed, very readily."

Wu Tian grinned.

"One thousand euros, not including your water, electricity and heating. You pay for it yourself, and you can use the piano as you like. Even a cold rent of one thousand euros for this house is already very good. Normally, the market price is faster than two thousand euros."

"But that's not the point. This price is just a small discount that the professor gave you."

"The point is..."

He raised a finger at Fu Tiao, and said in a very mysterious whisper.

"The point is to rent instead of buy. This house is about 12 euros. You can run away if you don't want to buy it after renting it out, but if you want to buy it, the full amount you pay later can offset all the money you rented before. That is, if you rent for 38 a year, and [-] for ten years, if you want to buy it after ten years, you only need to pay [-]."

"However, he has a condition, that is, you can only rent the house to you here, and you cannot rent it to other people. Otherwise, the rent must be at the market price, and you will not be given any discounts. After all, he only gave you such a house for your sake, and he will not give it to others if they want it."

"How? Think about it?"

Fu Tiao looked at Wu Tian in front of him, and then glanced at the scenery outside the window.

Berlin is really beautiful, with green plants everywhere, especially when you stand on the balcony and look at the golden color outside the window with the cool breeze blowing, you will naturally relax a lot.

Therefore, he looked at Wu Tian, ​​smiled and nodded.

"Okay, let's go to this one."

　You can see this place with a live map.

　　I was recommended this house before and went to see it on the spot, but the rent is too expensive, I can’t bear it, I’m here to study and not exclusive, why live in such an expensive house...

　　But I live near this place, just a few traffic lights away. Although the balcony view is not as good as this place, it is still quiet. The point is that it is cheap. It costs 700 euros a month. Although it is much more expensive than the 500 euros for a single room in the suburban area, it is already a more conscientious and cheap price near where I live.

　　In addition, Tegel Airport will stop operating in November 2022 and become a public park for free visits.

　　


(End of this chapter)