The world's number one pianist

He Shen did not appear in front of everyone. He was still traveling and moving forward in various places around the world.

No one knew where He Shen had gone.

Only a few people, a few pianists who happened to be traveling in the same place, met He Shen. After communicating with each other, they said goodbye again.

He Shen just didn't tell others his whereabouts.

However, all his business and artistic activities are still going on.

The performances that I had arranged with other pianists in advance are still going on.

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Unlike others who continued to communicate after the performance, He Shen left immediately after the performance, without giving anyone a chance to keep him.

Even if some people wanted to come over and chase He Shen to see where He Shen wanted to go, they couldn't find them.

This, on the contrary, created a special personality of He Shen, a solitary personality.

Under the operation of the brokerage company, this person brought more benefits to He Shen.

Even though He Shen is only performing the most basic and smallest range of performances in this world, he maintains his international reputation.

His reputation is also developing in a better and better direction.

In addition, his performance has never turned over once. Every performance is developing towards a higher level without any sign of weakness.

His reputation is getting wider and wider.

The reputation of He Shen, a Chinese pianist who never fails, is also spread all over the world.

Even if He Shen plays each time, the time is very short, and the interval is very long.

But with subsequent operations, every time He Shen played, the effect was so good that it exploded.

The cooperation between He Shen and Barenboim was even praised by official newspapers in beautiful countries and Europe.

They were all there, hyping He Shen's performance.

"The world's best pianist!" 》

"The top pianist of the younger generation and even the middle-aged generation!" 》

"Classical Music Players, Hope for the Future"

"Top Performers from China"

Countless reputations have been placed on He Shen. Coupled with the publicity from above in China, He Shen has become a representative of Chinese classical music.

Compared with other performers, such as Lang Liangyue, Li Diyun and others, he is more pure.

He truly dedicated himself entirely to music.

He is also full of love for classical music in the true sense.

But for He Shen, what he loves is not just classical music.

He Shen is full of love for all music, music that can truly touch people's hearts.

He loves all music and all beautiful things.

The pursuit of beauty in everything around him is what he has always pursued in music.

Whether classical music is sad, painful, or a variety of other emotions.

He Shendu pursues to perform this piece of music with such profound beauty.

It is so beautiful that it makes people feel suffocated, and makes people feel the deep beauty.

He Shen did not stay in the classical music world, he visited many people in other fields.

For example, the literary world.

Those elders in the literary world have a keener sense of beauty.

Compared with those young people, their writing is not so complicated, and their writing is full of another kind of beauty.

The beauty of words.

These beauties cannot be felt through intuitive feelings.

Therefore, He Shen is more willing to follow these people, communicate, and discuss everyone's feelings about beauty.

In addition to music, there are also movies, architecture, fine arts, sculptures, etc...

He Shen is extremely greedy and absorbs the beauty of music from everyone around the world.

He travels around the world, communicates with others, and exchanges each other's sense of beauty.

That kind of beauty that can cultivate oneself.

He Shen felt the discussions of everyone around him. He felt as if he had learned a lot, but he also felt that he was lacking a lot.

There is a lot less of what I should really express.

Everything belongs to others, and there is nothing of his own in it.

Because of this feeling, He Shen immediately understood that he should retreat into seclusion.

Retreat and absorb what you have gained before.

Now that my absorption of the outside world has reached a critical value, there is no need to continue to push forward.

Therefore, He Shen immediately booked a flight back to China and hid in his house.

Without notifying anyone, I just hid in the house alone, feeling my own music and thinking about other people's interpretation of beauty.

All these things about beauty passed through He Shen's brain.

He is looking for how he should interpret the music he wants!

He Shen closed his eyes and sat quietly on the piano bench, the sound of wind seemed to come to his ears.

These sounds made He Shen feel a different sense of beauty.

And this beauty made He Shen seem to smile.

He looked at himself and shook his head helplessly.

"Am I...obsessed?"

He Shen stood up, walked to his bookshelf, and looked through the works he wanted to play without making any more sound.

He was listening to the wind.

Listen to the call of the wind.

Listen to the flow of music in the wind.

He seemed to feel that he had grasped that pulse, that pulse of music.

He could interpret everything he wanted to interpret!

He Shen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he threw the music sheet in his hand aside, quickly returned to his piano, and put his hand on the piano.

Then, he smashed it down.

Boom!

The music sounded, but no one listened except He Shen.

…

Zhao Zitong finally learned about He Shen, but she didn't go to find He Shen.

She just sat in He Shen's piano room every day.

In the piano room of He Shen's piano studio, which belonged to He Shen alone in Jiangzhou Conservatory of Music.

She just sat there.

On the left was her, and on the right was Ji Mengting.

The two were preparing for their respective competitions.

Since Ji Mengting's breakthrough, she seemed to be much more relaxed, and she found her own music.

But Zhao Zitong didn't feel much more relaxed, but even heavier.

She tried to let go of a lot of things, for example, her feelings for He Shen.

Rather than continue to fall for He Shen, it is better to just cut off the thoughts and never think about these things again.

Put all these things behind her head and play the music seriously.

Let her heart be completely on the music.

In this way, maybe she can live a happier life?

However, she felt that she might not be able to do it.

Zhao Zitong sat on the piano stool, deliberately adjusted the piano stool to the highest position, and swung her legs casually. She looked at Ji Mengting with a happy look on her face, with a smile on her face.

Ji Mengting looked at her, frowned, and suddenly spoke.

"What are you laughing at? You are about to start the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, but I don't have to prepare for the competition. What are you laughing at?"

"Ah? No~"

Zhao Zitong grinned and said with a smile: "Thank you for taking this piano room back for me. When He Shen left, people kept saying that this piano store should be returned to the school. I didn't expect you to be able to take it back!"

"What else?" Ji Mengting rolled her eyes at Zhao Zitong and said casually: "I won the third place in the Chopin International Piano Competition!"

"Although Although I didn't get the first place, I got the third place, signed with He Shen's agency, and am still making progress. I can feel the progress myself. What else do I want? "

"This is enough. I will take this to negotiate with Zhou San. Isn't it a deal? This is just a private piano store for one person. With the two of us being He Shen's students, why doesn't Zhou San give us this piano room? "

Zhao Zitong raised her head in boredom, shaking her white and tender legs, looking at the metronome in front of her, and said casually.

"Yes, why didn't Zhou San give us the practice room? Indeed..."

"What do you want to say? Ever since I won the Xiaosai award, you have been slacking off all day. What do you want to do?"

Ji Mengting suddenly stood up at this time. She looked at Zhao Zitong puzzledly and said, "You are almost ready for the competition. Why don't you look anxious at all? Are you preparing for the competition or am I preparing for the competition?"

"It's me~" Zhao Zitong said casually. She didn't look at Ji Mengting, but continued to stare at the metronome in front of her.

Her tone became extremely low, with pain and entanglement.

"But, whether I get a rank or not, what does it have to do with me now? What's the difference?"

"My parents told me a lot of things before, telling me that girls shouldn't be too strong, otherwise you won't be able to find a partner!"

"I didn't take it that seriously at first. After all, if you play the piano seriously, just play the piano. Why do you need a partner?"

"Then I just took a look at the people my parents recommended and looked at them."

"These people are said to be very outstanding. They are all very good!"

"They are about 1.8 meters tall, well-proportioned, handsome, and are simply fresh meat. And each of them has good professional grades!"

"Basically, they are all associate professors."

"But when I look at them, all I can think of is He Shen..."

"I always compare them with He Shen."

"In the end, I found that no one can compare to He Shen, and no one is worthy of me!"

"So..."

Zhao Zitong sighed, and her eyes didn't know where to look.

She continued to speak.

"So, I don't know if I should lower my grades a little bit, to the same level as those people?"

"I'm afraid that after finding these people, I won't be able to talk to them about music and music aesthetics."

"I'm always afraid that they will be dismissive of art and aesthetics, and they are more willing to understand science."

"Even if they can play the piano a little, and hold some rock concerts."

"I'm still afraid..."

"Mengting, what should I do?"

"I'm already... 26?"

Zhao Zitong looked at Ji Mengting in front of her, but Ji Mengting avoided her sight.

She herself didn't know what to do, and she was also urged to get married at home.

She didn't want to get married, but she didn't want to devote herself to music either.

Like Zhao Zitong, she has already devoted too much to music, so she is unwilling to devote more of her life to music.

But here comes the question.

Who is qualified to marry a top classical music performer like her?

The third place in the Chopin International Piano Competition is definitely enough to gain a foothold on the world stage and move towards a higher peak.

Plus, she has the same agency as He Shen behind her.

Ji Mengting, fearless!

Zhao Zitong looked at Ji Mengting and couldn't help but smile, shook her head, didn't say anything, just continued to swing her legs.

Just when the two were in a daze, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

The two did not speak to agree, and the man pushed the door open directly. It was Zhou San.

Zhou San stood at the door and saw that the two were there, and couldn't help but smile: "Yes, both are here? Come, take this."

He handed them a document in his hand and said.

"He Shen's concert, I brought it for you specially. He said he must give you two a copy."

"Huh?"

The two stood there, looking at Zhou San in front of them, and didn't react for a while.

But soon, Zhao Zitong reacted, ran over, ran to Zhou San, stretched out her hand to take the document in Zhou San's hand, and her eyes shone.

"This, this is... He Shen's concert?"

"Yes, He Shen's concert."

Zhou San smiled, threw another document to Ji Mengting, and said.

"This is hard to get. How can I say this performance? He Shen's publicity to the outside world is a summary of his first half of his life. Therefore, this concert will only be held once and will not be toured."

"And, this concert will not sell tickets to the public, but will invite all media and all top performers."

"In addition, no one will be invited!"

"So you keep these two tickets, don't lose them!"

After that, Zhou San waved to the two people and left them with a smile.

Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting looked at the tickets in their hands, and the light in their eyes gradually lit up.

Go get married, I'm going to watch He Shen's concert now!

So what if He Shen ruined my life? I'm happy!

...

He Shen's concert was held at Jiangzhou Grand Theater.

This is where he rose to prominence, and where he first took a step towards the national stage and the world stage.

Therefore, He Shen decided to put the stage here to interpret the first half of his life.

Countless people came to Jiangzhou from all over the world, looking forward to He Shen's performance.

After all, there is only one pianist who is the strongest in the world and keeps improving.

That is He Shen!

Now it has become a consensus of most people.

He Shen is a top pianist, and may even be the world's number one pianist!

He Shen's piano level has reached the world's number one level.

And, compared with other veteran pianists who are constantly regressing, He Shen's level is constantly improving.

Always moving towards a higher peak.

Without any slackness.

Because of this, He Shen's reputation in the world is getting louder and louder.

He Shen's concert this time also attracted everyone's attention.

However, everyone tacitly did an action.

That is, shut up.

They didn't say anything about He Shen to others.

They kept everything about He Shen firmly in their hearts and didn't announce it to the outside world.

After all, this concert, a concert that belongs to them alone, who would announce it to the outside world?

It's not too late to talk about it after the performance. Now that it's said, some people may have ideas.

For example, buy concert tickets from some people.

If you want to buy it, you can definitely buy it.

After all, this ticket was given to them by He Shen, and they didn't ask them to pay, which is equivalent to He Shen recognizing them.

Therefore, if someone pays tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars to buy this ticket.

No matter how unmoved you are, you are still easily affected.

After all, who doesn't like money? The reason for not liking it is just because there is not enough money.

In order to ensure that they could see this concert, those people decided not to release the news of this concert for the time being, and wait until the concert was over and the record of this concert was released before deciding on other things.

Money can continue to be earned, but this is only a one-time personal concert, but there will be no next time!

Therefore, they quickly discussed with the company and came to Jiangzhou.

As a result, people came, but they did not report in advance.

This also led to the people in Jiangzhou seeing many foreigners coming to Jiangzhou, but they did not understand their intentions.

Some people even called the police because there were too many people coming, causing the police in Jiangzhou to investigate the matter specifically.

It was not until they found out that He Shen was preparing to hold a concert that they reluctantly put their minds at ease.

After all, He Shen's concert was reported.

He Shen did not know what he had caused in the whole Jiangzhou, and he did not care.

After letting his music reach the end, he slowly put his hands down.

He looked up at everything around him, at his hands, at the distance, and at his room, and the whole person was a little dazed for a while.

After a long time, he slowly woke up from his confusion.

He got up, walked to the door, and reached out to pick up an envelope beside him, which contained a ticket.

No, not just one ticket, but many tickets.

All the tickets for He Shen's previous concerts were placed here.

This time, He Shen took out his last concert ticket, put it in the letter, and put it away.

Looking at the documents in his hand, He Shen stood there for a long time before slowly leaving the house.

He Shen did not go to the concert hall, but walked to the station, followed the car, and came to Ningcheng Railway Station.

Follow the train to the south.

After sitting on the train for three or four hours, He Shen arrived at his hometown.

The changes in his hometown were very big, and He Shen could not recognize everything around him.

The high-speed rail was opened in his hometown, but it was a pity that it was not bordered by Ningcheng, but by Haicheng.

The hometown built an elevated bridge, and the traffic was very busy, similar to Ningcheng.

The road in his hometown has also become much wider. The ordinary four-lane cement road when he left has become an eight-lane road.

Everything around him has changed.

But has that person changed?

He Shen hesitated a little, pinched the letter in his hand, and wanted to leave.

But in the end, He Shen still walked towards his hometown.

He stretched out his hand to hail a taxi, and took the taxi to the city center quickly, and then got off near the old city and came to a road that was not wide, with only four lanes, and was covered by sycamore trees.

The surrounding hospitals and schools were demolished and replaced with entertainment plazas.

His home has not been moved, it still looks the same, but it is much older.

Looking at the fingerprint door at the door of his house, He Shen was stunned for a moment.

This door has never been changed, and it is still the fingerprint door before he left.

After hesitating for a moment, He Shen put his finger on it.

Click...

The fingerprint door is very old, and it took a long time to react to He Shen's fingerprints. Just when He Shen thought it failed, the door opened.

He Shen looked at the door in front of him, took a deep breath, and walked into the room.

The room was very quiet, as if no one was there.

But He Shen knew that there was definitely someone at this time.

"Who?"

A low voice came from the room, and with a few coughs, a dignified old man came to the door of the room, looked at He Shen, squinted his eyes, and didn't speak.

And He Shen didn't speak either.

He just picked up the file in his hand, walked to the man, opened the file, and put it in front of the man bit by bit.

Golden Piano Award champion, first round, second round, third round ticket.

China Music Higher Education Competition first round, second round, third round ticket.

Chopin International Piano Competition, first round, second round, third round, fourth round ticket.

He Shen's first tour concert ticket after returning to China.

He Shen's master class ticket.

He Shen's China concert tour ticket.

He Shen's first record, and electronic record.

He Shen's European tour concert ticket.

Spring Festival Gala ticket.

American tour concert ticket.

…

Countless tickets, countless reports, all gathered here, forming a thick stack.

The praise for He Shen was so much that He Shen blushed.

Everyone said he was the best pianist in China.

They said he was the world's number one pianist!

As long as He Shen survived, he would always hold the world's number one throne.

He Shen took out the last ticket and placed it on the document in front of him.

He looked at the man in front of him, his lips slightly opened, and thousands of words were only exchanged for a low hoarse roar.

Like a wounded young animal, he slowly asked the man in front of him.

"Am I... qualified now? Can I become a pianist? Dad?

He Shen's father was silent. He looked at He Shen and wanted to pat his shoulder, but he couldn't do anything.

He said too much to him, so much that it hurt his son who had been away from him for nearly ten years.

Looking at this information and these tickets, his eyes fluctuated.

He looked at He Shen, and then at the information, tickets, and reports in front of him. His lips couldn't help but move. He wanted to say something, but in the end he just coughed a few times and didn't say anything.

He turned back to his room, and after fiddling for a long time, he found another pile of documents.

This was a box of documents, and the tickets and reports in it were more than what He Shen had in his hand.

Looking at these documents, He Shen's originally slightly dim eyes couldn't help but reveal a glimmer of light.

He Shen looked at his father, and his father also looked at him.

He Shen spoke slowly again.

"Am I... qualified now? "

Finally, the father closed his eyes, and after a long silence, he opened his eyes solemnly and looked at He Shen, his voice equally hoarse.

"Enough, a long time ago, it was enough!"

"You are in my heart, always..."

"The world's number one pianist!"

(The end of the book)