pianist from the sea

Chapter 8 Future Enemies

The staff member's voice fell, and the surrounding became extremely silent. The contestant who was just about to go on stage couldn't help but stop and looked at Fu Tiao behind him in disbelief.

It's not shocking that someone called someone out. During the qualifiers, I heard that the judges would often call out a contestant to chat with him about the details of the competition. This is very common.

About ten players can see two or three.

But the problem is, the caller is wrong!

The amazing judge is the piano priestess, one of the top pianists in the world, Marta Argerich!

At present, he is the most active and one of the most powerful judges in the Chopin International Piano Competition.

No, there might not even be one!But the strongest players!

Everyone swallowed involuntarily, looking at Fu Tiao standing there, they didn't know what to say for a while.

Since Argerich wants to meet this player from Huaguo, does it mean that this player can be counted as entering the first round ahead of schedule?

Just when everyone else is still worried about their qualifier results, someone can directly enter the first round?

This is too enviable!

Of course, it doesn't mean that this place can enter the first round by default. For example, Fu Diao asked Argerich to go through the back door.

Rather, Fu Tiao's performance can attract Argerich's attention. At this level, there is absolutely no problem in the first round. Even if the words are a little full, there may be no problem in the second round.

As for the third round and the fourth round of the final, although it is not certain, there is also a chance.

In other words, being able to be favored meant that Fu Diao had a chance to be a seed player for a short time.

"The third contestant! Claudius! Please hurry up and get on the stage! The judges are already waiting for you!"

The staff responsible for the announcement pushed open the backstage door and shouted at the third contestant who was standing on the stairs. Then they woke up everyone and hurriedly went to do what they should do now.

But looking at their situation, I'm afraid their mentality will be completely unbalanced for a while.

A few Dongying people who had been carefully filming in the distance looked at Fu Tiao with great interest, holding a camera to shoot him from various places in the distance, as if they wanted to record his appearance.

Fu Tiao didn't feel the thoughts of the people around him, and he didn't bother to meet the distant shots. He only had one question on his mind.

Who is Marta Argerich?

Why is it that when this name is mentioned, the people around are all shocked, with admiration and longing?Like seeing God?

According to Fu Tiao's original idea, if a person he doesn't know suddenly wants to see him, he can just refuse, and there is no need to think too much.

But looking at the situation of the people around her now, this so-called Marta Argerich is definitely a big shot!If it is definitely not good to directly refuse, what should I do now?
Fu Tiao thought for a while, and could only follow the staff to the corner of the concert hall, watching the man nod slightly.

"Okay, I see. I'll be there tomorrow night. What time? Where? When?"

"At six o'clock in the evening, it's in Ms. Argerich's studio. This is an invitation card. You can go there by yourself according to the address on the invitation card!"

The staff member in charge of delivering the message respectfully handed Fu Diao a pure white invitation card, then bowed slightly, turned and left.

Fu Diao looked at the invitation card in his hand, shook his head, and casually stuffed the invitation card into his music score.

The qualifiers have come to an end for Fu Tiao, and he can do whatever he wants in the remaining time.

If you have money, you can travel in Europe at this time and look around.

If you don't want to finish your tour of Europe, at least you can take a Chopin cultural tour.

But the problem is, he has no money.

So Fu Tiao didn't go far, but just walked to the entrance of the concert hall and found a cool place to rest.

He didn't have much money on him, so he found a small newsagent and bought a small glass of espresso for five PLN.

The coffee is made from a coffee machine, and the taste is average, just pure bitterness, without the sour taste and aroma of good coffee beans, and there are some coffee bean residues under the paper cup.

When he was on the boat, he often drank this kind of ordinary coffee beans, but he was not uncomfortable with it. He just leaned against the outer wall of the concert hall, slowly sipping the bitter coffee in his cup.

The current time is almost 11:30, and there is no concept of time when playing. The entire concert hall is dark, only relying on some dim yellow lights for illumination.

When he finished playing all the works, he looked at the sunshine above his head, and he understood why Mr. Broz had been cursing the local government in Warsaw.

The sun doesn't irritate people, and it is so warm on the body that people can't wait to lie down and sleep.

But maybe because of the smog, even on a sunny day, he still felt that the whole city was foggy.

"The city is as gloomy as a boat. I really don't understand why so many people want to come to this place."

Fu Tiao shook his head.

He suddenly remembered that when he was on the sea, it seemed to be foggy too, but there was only water vapor over there.

At that time, she was standing on the deck with a black veil and a black umbrella, staring blankly at the seascape in the distance.

Everything is a thing of the past, she should not wait for herself, but marry and live out her life in a beautiful country with peace of mind, maybe even give birth to several children.

After Fu Tiao finished his last sip of coffee, he sighed, reached out to throw away the paper cup, and planned to go back by car.

There are still many people around outside the room, as if they are waiting for the performance of the players inside.

There are a few people with Japanese faces, surrounded by many cameras with the NHK logo written on them.

It's not doing interviews or making movies, it's like a vlog recording life, surrounded by those Japanese players.

"Does it feel weird?"

A Chinese voice sounded, and a man about 1.9 meters long with curly hair stood beside Fu Tiao, also holding a cup of coffee, drinking it with a smile, and said casually.

"This is NHK, a TV station in Japan that makes a documentary about the Chopin International Piano Competition. They will make a documentary every year. During the qualifiers, they will start looking for players who have the ability to become finalists, and then record their performance experience."

"It's not just the players. When it's time for the race, there's also a documentary about the tuner, and even a behind-the-scenes documentary."

"It's very interesting. If you have time, you can take a look. I have been photographed before, but my level is not good. I didn't even make it to the first round, so they just took me as a passerby. It didn’t give too many pictures.”

"If you are the kind of thug, maybe you will have a special screen to introduce your origin."

Fu Tiao turned his head and frowned slightly.

"You are……"

"Oh, you don't know me. My name is Yu Tianyou. I have participated in Xiao Sai twice."

Yu Tianyou grinned, stretched out his hand and gestured: "Xiao Sai requires contestants to be aged 18-28. I participated for the first time when I was less than 18 years old, and then participated for the second time when I was 23 years old. Now I am 28. I just got stuck in the timeline and participated in the third time."

"The third time?" Fu Tiao was shocked.

This thing can still participate three times?

According to my memory, there seems to be a player who has participated twice, but that player has a chance to enter the finals, and now you suddenly appeared and participated three times alone?
"That's right, the third time. After all, I'm not willing. Who would want to be eliminated in the first round? It's just a pity..."

Yu Tianyou raised his head, looked at the gray sun above his head, and sighed helplessly.

"Although I can enter the qualifiers every time, I may still not be able to enter the round of 160 to 80. This thing is too difficult, and Chopin is too outrageous. I feel that this thing is similar to Bach. Yeah, it's a whole other thing."

After finishing speaking, he drank the coffee in his cup, threw it to the blind corner of the arch pillar, and smiled.

"Okay, I'm going back to the concert hall first, and I'll go and see who is awesome this year. Fu Tiao, you played very well. If I'm not wrong, you will definitely be able to enter the first round this year. As for second round……"

"What happened to the second round?"

"Forget it, nothing."

Yu Tianyou waved his hand, pointed at the concert hall, and asked.

"Let's go? Continue to go in and listen? Listen to other players' playing? Maybe they are all your enemies!"

"Future, enemy."

(End of this chapter)