pianist from the sea

Chapter 90 It's Your Turn
The three came out of the concert hall and found a very ordinary Turkish restaurant to sit down. After the three ordered three Turkish meatloaf, Fu Diao and Yu Tianyou looked at He Shen.

"Teacher He, you come out like this... Doesn't Pretty Country really say anything?"

"No, what can the beautiful country say? They don't have anyone in today's competition. Even if there is... what does it have to do with me? I'm just a very ordinary associate professor with few resources. Their side The contestants are accompanied by a full-time professor, so there is really no problem with me."

"Professor?"

"Yes, they seem to be familiar with the judges of the Chopin International Piano Competition. They are probably chatting and discussing something about the competition, just like what we are doing now."

He Shen smiled at the two, then turned his gaze to Fu Tiao.

Fu Tiao was the key to what he was looking for when he came here now. After all, Fu Tiao was the third contestant this afternoon, and he really had to watch it if he was dead or alive.

The other contestants had their teachers following them, but Fu Diao was the only one who didn't have any teachers or companions, just like struggling alone.

Therefore, He Shen is very concerned about Fu Tiao.

"Fu Tiao, what did you think after hearing this morning's match?"

"Me?" Fu Tiao was stunned for a while, but did not answer immediately, but after thinking for a while, he slowly said: "The first contestant, Bies..."

"I'm not asking you about Bies. I'm here to ask you about Bies. After hearing his performance, listen to the players behind. Who doesn't know that this Bies is bound to die?" He Shen directly interrupted Fu Tiao , and spoke again to Fu Tiao very seriously.

"Fu Diao, you know what I want to ask you. What I want to ask is... What do you think of this morning's contestant, Zhao Chengzhen from South Korea? Do you have any thoughts?"

Fu Tiao became silent, and Yu Tianyou, who had been sitting on the sidelines watching the excitement, was also silent.

He didn't really want to mention Zhao Chengzhen, after all, Zhao Chengzhen's performance today really exceeded everyone's imagination.

It can even make people feel a little hopeless.

He Shen didn't let Fu Diao go, but repeated his words again.

"Fu Diao, I want to hear from you."

Fu Tiao was silent for a moment, and after a while, he took a slow breath, raised his head to look at He Shen, and shook his head slightly.

"Strong, very strong."

"I know he's strong, then what?"

"He was sick today and we both noticed that his hands were shaking all the time, his body was trembling, he was even moving his body before the game, it seemed like he was trying to get more comfortable with his body, but it didn't happen at all. Way, he's still trembling."

Fu Tiao exhaled the turbid breath slowly, looked at the passers-by outside the house, and said softly.

"He was sick, and he was able to play this kind of work even when he was sick. It may not only be sick, but he may have been very nervous at the time. In this case, he was able to play this kind of work and directly crush After all the works of this morning, Chopin in his music is really too shocking and too complete, I really don’t know what I should say.”

Yu Tianyou nodded in the same way: "Yes, I have the same idea as Fu Tiao. I listened to Zhao Chengzhen's performance this morning, and I don't know what I should do now. His performance is really shocking. That's it. This kind of shock that makes you desperate. If I were to play with him today, or let me play behind him, I might really be desperate. I don’t know what I should do to break everyone for him. That fixed impression of Chopin!"

Yu Tianyou leaned forward, looking at He Shen with a little excitement.

"Mr. He, I don't know if you have heard it. After I listened to his works, I even felt that he was Chopin. This competition was established for him! This kind of pure Chopin is really too much. It’s scary, that is, you will even have doubts about your own Chopin! I’m starting to doubt myself now, are the things I practiced before really Chopin? Or is it just a pure self-indulgence?”

"If you put it in a more fantasy way, this is the broken Dao heart in the legend, well, obviously I have not fought him head-on, and I have already been defeated by him. I still had such a little fantasy before, I think I may have a chance to enter the final and win No.1, after all, I have participated in the Chopin International Piano Competition three times, and this time I successfully passed the preliminaries and entered the main competition, maybe the protagonist this year is me!"

"But... when I heard that man's Chopin, I didn't even have the confidence to fantasize. I even thought I dared to fantasize about No.1? Am I crazy or the world is crazy! This Zhao Chengzhen really horrible!"

"And what's the scariest thing? It's that he played such an awesome performance while he was sick?"

He Shen didn't answer, but looked at Fu Tiao and nodded slightly at him.

"Fu Tiao, what about you? According to the one just now..."

"Teacher He, my name is Yu Tianyou."

"Well, what Yu Tianyou said, do you have a broken heart?"

Fu Tiao looked at the two people in front of him and couldn't help but ponder.

"I……"

"Hello! You ordered three Turkish hamburgers, as well as matching French fries. For drinks, you can go to the refrigerator to get them yourself!"

"Okay, thanks!"

Before Fu Diao could speak, the three Turkish meat buns ordered earlier were served.

Turkey meat sandwich is a very fast street snack. The outer layer of the grilled meat that has been coked by the Maillard reaction is cut off and placed in a heated bun, served with a lot of vegetables and strange sauces. It doesn't take long at all to be served directly on the table.

None of the three picked up the Roujiamo in front of them. Yu Tianyou felt that something was wrong, so he immediately got up and asked the two of them.

"Well... what do you want to drink? I'll get it for you?"

"Let me have a Coke, how about you, Fu Tiao?"

"I also have Coke."

"Ok!"

Yu Tianyou nodded immediately, and ran to the distant refrigerator to pick up the drinks for the three of them.

After He Shen waited for Yu Tianyou to walk away, he asked Fu Tiao again.

"Fu Tiao, you must answer me very clearly now, what do you think about Zhao Chengzhen? Do you also think that he is too powerful to fight against?"

Fu Tiao stroked his chin and shook his head slightly.

"No."

"Then what are you?"

"I have no idea……"

"do not know?"

"Well, I don't know, his Chopin is really outrageous. I have heard a lot of Chopin before, and I probably know what the concept of Chopin is, but when I heard Zhao Chengzhen's performance, I Inexplicably, there is a feeling that Chopin I heard before is all wrong, and only Zhao Chengzhen’s performance is correct. This is completely different from his state half a year ago! What I heard at the time was not so aggressive.”

After Fu Tiao took a deep breath, his expression was helpless: "Although there are still several hours before the competition, I can continue to practice and adjust my music, but now I feel that my own Chopin is all wrong. , as long as I have any repeated works with him, I will feel that his works are the correct way to play, and this feeling of denying myself is really not particularly comfortable.”

"Obviously for me, Chopin is just a shell, the point is to find out what to say with Chopin, but when my Chopin is denied, I don't know how to explain my simple shell. .”

Fu Tiao raised his head and looked at He Shen with serious eyes: "Teacher He, what do you think? What should I do now?"

He Shen opened his mouth and did not speak, but Yu Tianyou had already appeared in front of everyone with three cans of Coke.

He pushed the Coke behind everyone and looked at He Shen curiously.

"Mr. He, what did you just say?"

"It's nothing, just an ordinary chat, let's talk about the game." He Shen shook his head slightly, sucked back the words he had prepared, thought about the construction of the language, and spoke again to Fu Tiao.

"Fu Tiao, I don't know if you remember what I told you before, the things in your music?"

Fu Tiao was stunned for a moment: "The sea?"

"Not quite..." He Shen shook his head, glanced at Yu Tianyou beside him, sighed lightly, and his expression became extremely serious.

"Remember, don't care about your Chopin from the very beginning of this competition. Your Chopin is your weakness. What the judges want to hear is not your Chopin, but your music. Some other things in your music! The things that are unique to you in your music! Only those things are everything you need to survive in this game."

"Whether it's the sea, beauty, or freedom, you must know one thing. If you want to follow Zhao Chengzhen to fight your Chopin head-on, you have absolutely no chance of winning. You have heard it yourself, right? So you You should know that you and Zhao Chengzhen are not on the same route at all! You don't have to follow the path he gave you at all, you just need to be yourself, and that's it!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Yu Tianyou and nodded lightly.

"I don't know much about Yu Tianyou's style, so what I said to Fu Tiao may not be suitable for you. Just listen to it for yourself. If you don't like it...just pretend I didn't say it. Don't blame me."

After finishing speaking, He Shen picked up the Turkish meat sandwich on the table, took a bite, and walked out of the house with it.

Before leaving, he settled the accounts of Fu Tiao and Yu Tianyou together, which was not a lot of money anyway.

Fu Diao sat on the chair, looked at the Roujiamo in front of him and couldn't help thinking.

He was thinking about what He Shen had just told him.

Yu Tianyou took a bite of his Roujiamo in confusion, and said vaguely: "By the way, isn't He Shen your teacher? Why do you always feel that He Shen talks to you in a vague way? We are all acquaintances. As for being so cautious?"

"I don't know..." Fu Tiao sighed, picked up the last Roujiamo, took a big mouthful of Coke, and then put it down.

"Forget it, I won't eat lunch for the time being, I'm not too hungry. It will be my competition in a while. I'll go back to the concert hall to rent the piano."

"Hey! No!"

Yu Tianyou's eyes widened, looking at Fu Tiao who was going away, the Roujiamo on the table and three portions of French fries that hadn't moved, his expression gradually became helpless.

"Damn it, just give me a Coke for three servings of french fries, I can't finish it all, so why don't you give me your Coke!"

……

Fu Tiao has been thinking about what He Shen just said, walked quickly to the concert hall and reported to the staff, the staff sent him to a relatively spacious piano room and gave him more than two hours time to practice.

If this time is used for practice, it is definitely not enough. It is more to let everyone get used to the feel in advance, so as to ensure that the fingers will not become too stiff before playing.

Fu Tiao sat on the piano bench, looking at the 88 black and white keyboards in front of him, his expression became extremely dignified.

Just as what He Shen said to him just now, after he heard Zhao Chengzhen's music, his first reaction was to confront Zhao Chengzhen head-on, which was obviously brought into the ditch.

If anyone in the future wants to confront Zhao Chengzhen head-on with Chopin's feelings, then he is definitely looking for death, and there is no way out at all.

According to what He Shen said before, at least [-]% or even [-]% of the judges now support the Chopin International Piano Competition to be more formal, and the Chopin played by the performers should be more in line with Chopin's own feelings.

These people plus those neutral judges, at least can reach about [-]%.

In other words, at least [-]% of the jury gave Zhao Chengzhen a very high score.

If you follow the same route as Zhao Chengzhen, then it means that you will compete with Zhao Chengzhen for the hearts of [-]% of the judges.

But now that everyone has heard Zhao Chengzhen's performance, even if you think you can barely compete with Zhao Chengzhen, what's the use?

If it's just ordinary resistance, and you haven't reached the state of crushing Zhao Chengzhen, then no matter how much your performance resembles Chopin, it won't help. After all, Zhao Chengzhen seems to have come to the end of this road.

Obviously, this path does not work.

So what should we do at this time?

He Shen reminded Fu Tiao cryptically, asking Fu Tiao to focus on what he said before about his own characteristics.

This sentence directly awakened Fu Tiao.

The competition doesn't only have [-]% of the judges, it actually has another [-]% of the judges, and some of them are neutral.

Neutral votes are relatively average, even if they prefer to play more Chopin, then the score will not be more.

He doesn't have to worry about the judges who don't like the performance of the performers, he just needs to get the points he can get.

He is not Chopin, whether he is at sea or now, he has never been Chopin.

Chopin in the music he played was also a vehicle for expressing himself.

After all, a tool is a tool, and a tool can help people increase productivity, eliminating some pure manual labor, not replacing it.

If only Chopin is left in his music, then he will no longer be him, and there will be no beauty in his music worthy of his joy.

Zhao Chengzhen's understanding of music may be to be extremely pure, to integrate everything on the score through the musician's historical life, and to fit the original author as much as possible.

Fitting and imitating, the ultimate purity and transparency are Zhao Chengzhen's music.

Neither one is higher than the other, but...

Their way is not Fu Tiao's way.

"88 keyboards, the music on them is limited, but the possibilities that can be displayed on the music are infinite, and my music is also infinite!"

"The sea, peace of mind, infinite possibilities."

"This is my music."

Fu Tiao closed his eyes tightly, raised his hand, placed it on the piano, and pressed it down slowly.

hum...

The piano sounded.

Although the Chopin in it is not as good as Zhao Chengzhen's Chopin, the unique touch of Fu Tiao in the music becomes extremely shining in the music!

It was so shining that people couldn't take their eyes away.

The ultimate sparkle, the ultimate, the serenity.

……

The time came to 04:30 in the afternoon, and all the judges had returned to sit in the judges' seats, waiting for the start of the competition.

The staff of the Chopin International Piano Competition also came to the piano room at this time and knocked on the door of the piano room.

"Contestant Fu, your match will start in one hour and 10 minutes. Please go to the waiting room to wait in case you miss the match."

After the words fell, the door of the piano room opened from the inside, Fu Tiao walked out of the room calmly, looked at the staff member at the door, and immediately showed a smile.

"Okay, I see, let's go."

"Tuner, in fact, you can still practice for ten minutes, you just need to arrive at the backstage of the game before [-]:[-]..."

"No need, I can't practice anything in this time, I have found what I want."

Fu Tiao rejected the staff's kindness, followed her upstairs and came to the backstage of the concert hall.

There are two rooms in the background.

A large lounge and a small preparation room.

The small preparation room is for the competitors starting from third.

The first player enters the arena, the second player waits in the backstage channel, and the third player rests in the preparation room.

The rest of the players went into the big lounge to chat.

However, because there are many players who are the last few of the day, plus the intermission, they have to wait for a long time.

Therefore, some of them, especially the seven or eight players, will choose to go to the piano room to practice more, wait until the players in front are almost ready, and then come up to rest and adjust their mentality.

Therefore, there is actually only one person in the large lounge.

Only the number four player.

Fu Diao sat in the preparation room, the door was slowly closed, and the surrounding voices left him immediately.

He raised his head and looked around, the surroundings were very simple, only some high-backed chairs commonly used in restaurants were placed in the corners.

Acoustic cotton surrounds the entire preparation room, absorbing as much as possible of the surrounding environment.

On the white square table in the middle of the room, there is a banana, an apple, and a small glass of mineral water.

Seeing all this, Fu Tiao couldn't help but smile, picked up the banana and took a bite, then found a place to sit down, closed his eyes and quietly waited for his turn.

Not long after, the staff knocked on the door.

"Contestant Fu, it's your turn."

(End of this chapter)