The Great Era of Rebirth: 1993

  Chapter 1018, Inner dialogue

  The piano recital will be performed in a theater in the western suburbs of Berlin. There are more than 50 rows of circular seats indoors, which can accommodate more than 10,000 spectators at the same time.

  As reported by the German "Mirror", in the field of pianos in the world, the pianists who can stand on this stage today are all at the top of the pyramid.

   Without the strength and confidence, even if you try your best to stand up, it will only add to the jokes. Of course, for such a grand event like a concert, the organizers will naturally not play tricks. They all have a set of comprehensive evaluation methods for the invited pianists, of which strength and popularity are two very important reference indicators.

   Without coming to the scene, Zhang Xuan and others didn't know that Wenhui had become so popular in Europe. According to random interviews with the audience by on-site reporters, many people came here specially for her, among which audiences from Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden gave her the highest evaluation and the most enthusiasm.

   Zhang Xuan, Du Shuangling, Mi Jian and others had already made an agreement with Wenhui, so the tickets were reserved by Wenhui in advance.

   And Tao Ge and the accompanying doctor were just joining in the fun and had to buy tickets from the scalpers on the spot. However, Tao Ge has a wide network of contacts, so she doesn't need to come forward in person, as long as she bids, a middleman will deliver the ticket to her in person.

   Seeing the scalpers leave, Zhang Xuan asked cleverly, "How much does a ticket cost?"

   Tao Ge said: "Ten thousand."

  Zhang Xuan didn’t think it was RMB, “British pound?”

  Tao Ge nodded: "It's a good place to buy, but it's still doubled several times. It's such an outrageous price. I still have to grab it. It doesn't matter if I can't get it for a while."

  Looking at the black crowd, Zhang Xuan slammed his mouth. He didn't expect that the piano concert would have such a big market and be so popular in Europe.

  Tao Ge's position was originally not with these people, but she had her own way. With the double strategy of money offensive and excellent eloquence, she successfully changed positions with others.

   For this reason, Du Shuangling couldn't help feeling: "I thought that people who watched this kind of performance would not be moved by money."

Tao Ge smiled and said: "In a capitalist society, capital is king. As long as the money is in place, these serious-looking suits and leather shoes will become pious people. Shuangling, you have never dealt with them. You will have more contact with them in the future." It is natural to understand that they like to do one thing and say another, pretending to be fake, commonly known as double standards."

   After finishing speaking, Tao Ge turned to Zhang Xuan: "You will pay for all the expenses of my sister."

  My sisters.

   Today is a bit strong.

   In front of them, I don't know if it was unintentional or intentional.

  Under the watchful eyes of Shuang Ling, Mi Jian and the Wen family, Zhang Xuan did not hesitate: "It should."

  Before the concert officially started, Tao Ge took out his mobile phone and sent him a text message while chatting with the girls: Sister has a suggestion, it is best not to disclose the matter of Mi Jian's pregnancy to the outside world.

   Without waiting for Zhang Xuan's reply, she sent another message: This is just a suggestion.

The old man felt warm in his heart when he read these two text messages full of caring. After a silent meeting, he replied: Mi Jian has told me about this, she wants to give birth to this child quietly, and try not to let too many people Know.

  Tao Ge: As expected of Mi Jian, I think of you all the time, my sister suddenly felt that she was wronged by following you.

  Zhang Xuan is speechless: You are all wronged.

  Tao Ge glanced at him with a half-smile, and waved his thumb: We haven't communicated with each other yet. When we finish this ceremony, tell me about your grievances.

  Zhang Xuan: Don’t worry, I’m good at this.

Seeing such shameless information, Tao Ge smiled happily. If it wasn't for the wrong occasion, she would have turned over and sat on this man, and typed: Mi Jian is still in graduate school. To be on the safe side, I plan to visit her when I return home headmaster.

  Zhang Xuan: I will go with you,

  Tao Ge: No need, I can go alone, my family is familiar with the other party.

  Zhang Xuan insisted: I will bring Mi to meet.

  Tao Ge understood what he meant in seconds, and immediately said what was in his heart: My sister is sour.

  Zhang Xuan: Don’t be sour, I’ll feed you some milk later, to neutralize acidity and alkalinity.

   Tao Ge showed disdain: Yo! With all three of your favorites in mind, did you still give my sister a chance?

  Zhang Xuan: Don’t worry about scarcity but inequality.

  Tao Ge glanced at him, and then asked: Are you going to pay a thousand dollars after watching the show?

  Zhang Xuan: I hope not.

   Tao Ge asked: Is there anything I can do for you?

  Zhang Xuan thought for a while: Help me stabilize Shuangling, if only I could find an excuse to take Shuangling away, it would be easier for two of them to meet privately than three.

  Tao Ge: It's a bit difficult, and on that occasion, if Shuang Ling is not there, she will feel uneasy.

  Zhang Xuan: No, I believe her.

  Tao Ge: Sister is a woman, she understands women better than you. Shuangling seems to be your obvious girlfriend, but facing Mi Jian who is pregnant and Wen Hui who has achieved brilliant achievements, is she still in the upper hand?

  Zhang Xuan was silent.

   Tao Ge sent a text message: Although you prefer the three of them the most. But among the three of them, no matter in terms of appearance or temperament, Shuang Ling couldn't compare with the other two, and she was not as independent as Mi Jian and Wen Hui. But among the three, Shuang Ling sacrificed the most for you and also relied on you the most. Now she is the one who is most disturbed and needs comfort the most.

  Zhang Xuan: She is my wife, and I will not let her down.

  Tao Ge: Really? Why don't you believe me? If that's the case, you shouldn't mess with other women.

  Zhang Xuan was speechless: Don't find fault, now I need you to help me solve the problem, not create it.

  Tao Ge: When you are comfortable, my sister can't feel it, so don't make high-sounding demands on me.

  Zhang Xuan: Really not helping?

   At this moment, the scene suddenly became quiet.

  The lights dimmed a lot, and the concert was about to start.

  Tao Ge switched the phone from vibrate to silent mode and stopped replying to him.

   Seeing this, Zhang Xuan checked the ringtone mode of the phone and looked forward.

   With a burst of warm applause, the on-site conductor walked from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

   It was a bit of a surprise that the on-site conductor turned out to be a Japanese named Seiji Ozawa. He was dressed in a black suit and had curly gray hair. He looked very aura.

  Du Shuangling asked: "Sister Tao, is this person famous?"

Tao Ge answered: "This man was born in Shenyang. He once served as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He has conducted many large-scale concerts around the world. Like your man, he is the darling of major Western media. He is very powerful. one person."

  Hearing the words "your man", Du Shuangling blushed and stopped asking.

  After the short process at the beginning, under the gaze of more than 10,000 pairs of eyes, the accompaniment of Western symphony sounded, followed by the sound of elegant piano.

  The first one to appear at the venue was the world-class piano masterpiece - Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1. With the sound of moving music, the venue was extremely solemn.

  The pianist on the stage is playing attentively, and the audience below is very serious. From playing to listening, everything is sacred.

   Zhang Xuan listened to the music, but Wen Hui was thinking in his mind, what was she doing at the moment? Are you nervous about this situation?

   But he smiled again later, remembering that she once said that she has been used to performing on stage since she was a child. Every time she performs, she will automatically ignore the existence of the audience and immerse herself in her personal music world.

  Coincidentally, it may be because of a tacit understanding. When the old man is thinking about Wenhui, Wenhui in the waiting area is also thinking about it, and his mind is full of him.

  She was thinking about the acquaintance of the two during the four years of college, and about the past year after graduation, and what Zhang Xuan did before coming to Berlin.

  Suddenly, her thoughts changed, and Wenhui thought of Shuang Ling and Mi Jian who were present at the scene. Although the three of them hadn't formally talked about sensitive issues yet, they were not far away. She and the two have reached an agreement, it will be at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, at dinner time.

  It is past two o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still 4 hours before the agreed time in the evening. Wenhui is thinking: During these 4 hours, she and Shuang Ling are still good friends. And 4 hours later?

   Has it gone to the opposite side since then?

  No contact from now on?

   For a short while, she was very reluctant to part with this friendship, and she was reluctant to draw boundaries with Shuang Ling. She thought of giving up her relationship with him, thinking of escaping.

But looking back on those 9 months in the past, those 9 months without him, I lived like years, subconsciously yearn to see him every day, long to receive his text messages, long to receive his calls, even if I definitely won’t reply , but as long as there are traces of him, his life will not be so walking dead.

   "Walking dead", this is a very scary word, and it is a very scary life. Thinking of this, Wen Hui, who had such a short experience, slowly calmed down. She made up her mind, no matter what, she wanted to see him, even if it wasn't spectacular, even if she just cooked a meal for him, it would still be a taste in the world.

  She used to follow the arrangements of her family, studying, attending extra-curricular classes, playing the piano, learning cooking, everything was in order. But this time, she wanted to follow her heart for a while, even if the front was doomed to be bumpy.

  Piano pieces followed one another, and soon it was Wenhui's turn to take the stage.

  When someone came to remind me, when she heard her name being introduced outside, Wen Hui, who had been so confused just now, immediately changed into a pure and transparent person. In the thunderous applause, she walked to the stage dignifiedly like a princess.

  First shook hands with the conductor politely, then greeted the audience with a very friendly smile, finally looked to a certain corner, stared at someone for two seconds, and then slowly sat down in front of the piano.

  Wen Hui's last look, in the eyes of most people present, should be greeting relatives and friends, nothing unusual.

But in the eyes of Shuang Ling and the Wen family who are familiar with her, the meaning is quite different: this is in public, Wen Hui has never been so willful, even if Zhang Xuan was in her heart before, she would at most just glance at him, flashed by.

  How can you stay like today?

  Wen Yu and Wen Yu looked at each other, and saw the shock in each other's eyes: Huihui, this is a showdown, and it's a showdown in front of her sister-in-law.

   Unable to help, the two sisters suddenly worried for her.

  Lin Yuansheng is an old man. He looked at his sister-in-law, at the two sisters Wen Yu, at Du Shuangling and Mi Jian, at Tao Ge, and finally at the immobile culprit Zhang Xuan. At the end of the day, I looked back and forth, and looked at it one by one.

  Mi Jian is still calm, as if all external affairs have nothing to do with her. She has listened to Wenhui's piano album and thought it was good, and she has listened to it several times. Now she puts all her thoughts down and looks forward to Wenhui's live performance the most.

  Mijian didn’t respond, but Du Shuangling was also calm. As a smiling tiger, even if she had a panoramic view of Wenhui’s anomalies, even if she had an insight into Wenhui’s determination, she could still remain calm. This is her castle.

  As for Zhang Xuan, he continued to play dead. Afraid of colliding with the eyes of the people around him, he even restrained his peripheral vision from the corner of his eyes.

  Among the group, the one who reacted the most was her own mother, Zhou Rong. The words "heart like a stormy sea" are the best portrayal of her.

   Tao Ge smiled and sent a text message to Zhang Xuan: My sister likes to watch this kind of beauty fight for you, it's interesting.

  Zhang Xuan: .

  Tao Ge: It's a pity that Mi Jian and Shuang Ling are too calm.

  Zhang Xuan: Be an individual.

  Tao Ge: Your mother-in-law is probably going crazy.

  Zhang Xuan: What did you say?

  Tao Ge: My sister gives you advice, you should follow the old road, let Wenhui give birth to a child as soon as possible, and cook the raw rice for you, and the Wen family will lose half of their methods of taking you.

  The corners of Zhang Xuan's mouth twitched.

  Wen Hui started, playing Liszt's greatest work: Sonata in B major.

  Hearing that the culmination of Liszt's life was about to be played, the old man's heart immediately tensed up. Although he believed in Wen Hui, the tension at the scene could not go away.

  The pinnacle of the king of piano, it is not so easy to play well.

  Especially in this kind of high-end stage, as long as a little flaw can cause a sensation, I really sweat for her.

do not know why? While his daughter was playing the melody, Zhou Rong who was beside him unexpectedly observed Zhang Xuan.

  Seeing that Zhang Xuan was highly concentrated and looking nervously at the stage in front of him, Zhou Rong withdrew his gaze.

  Sonata in B major is the most prominent work in Liszt's piano music, which not only deeply reflects the contradictions in the author's personal worldview, but also profoundly reflects the contradictions in romantic ideology.

  The song is divided into four parts: introduction, main theme, first sub-theme and interlude main body.

The introductory part itself has no stable tonality, and it plays wonderfully based on the performer's own skills and insights into the tune. This is also a feature of Liszt's works, which can be called soul, which is different from an unstable and contradictory tone. Thinking is the same.

  After listening to the introduction, Zhang Xuan, who only had a half-appreciation level, rarely understood it.

   In other words, he understood Wen Hui's heart.

  At this moment, he had a kind of understanding, why did Wenhui choose this piano piece?

  Facing this relationship, she was actually conflicted and embarrassed.

   This is very appropriate to her current psychological changes. Falling in love with a man with a best friend is against common sense and the mainstream worldview she has accepted since she was a child.

  But love is romantic, and it always comes so unexpectedly that she has to make a choice before she is fully prepared.

   Zhang Xuan understood it, and naturally the eldest aunt Wenyu, who was present with the highest level of art, also understood it. After listening to the introduction part, she kept staring at her niece on the stage.

   After listening to the theme of the main part, Wen Yu made a decision: decided to take the initiative to talk to the old man after returning home.

  In the past, she didn't like talking privately with the old man very much, and she has done it for decades. The father and daughter have never communicated in private.

Because Old Man Wen and Wen Yu have accumulated unhappiness for decades, and they live in different countries and have different outlooks on life and values. And dilute.

  But Wen Yu is determined to compromise for his niece this time.

  She is a professor at the Curtis Institute of Music. She has been rooted in piano teaching for decades, so she naturally understands Huihui's heart better than ordinary people.

From a moral point of view, the love in Huihui's heart may not be so perfect, but in Wenyu's eyes, that is not a problem. On the contrary, she feels that this unruly love is just what Huihui needs, and it can give Huihui Deeper emotional precipitation can help Huihui's piano performance career to a higher level.

  So, Wen Yu decided to help.

When Wenyu made a decision invisibly, Mi Jianjing looked at Wenhui thoughtfully. At this moment, she felt an indescribable feeling in her heart. She felt that Wenhui was a bit like herself in some places. ? She couldn't capture it accurately.

  However, putting aside the relationship of "rival in love", Wen Hui's live playing conquered Mi Jian, and made Mi Jian like her a little bit. She herself is a quiet person. When she has time on weekdays, she plants flowers, trims grass, learns flower arrangement, and learns to make tea. This is also an art.

  Art, even in different fields, has commonalities in some places.

  Du Shuangling's musical aesthetics can't keep up with Wen Yu and Mi Jian's, but she can judge from the facial expressions of so many foreigners at the scene that Wen Hui's performance is very successful.

   She was very happy about this, but also very silent. But more is happy.

  After the main theme is played, there are two sub-themes next, one is heroic and tragic, and the other is about love.

  After playing these two sub-themes, the whole song has set a tone: that very uncertain love finally gained a certain quality.

  The last theme is the interlude theme, which is a new theme. It is probably the most certain theme in Liszt's "Sonata for Piano Sonata in B Major". It is interrupted suddenly and then followed by the coda. The whole piece ends with a six-bar chant played at a very weak and slow speed.

   "Papa papa!"

   "Papa papa!"

  When the last note fell into the dust in the quiet venue, the audience who had just been immersed in the music world woke up one after another, and generously gave satisfied smiles and warm applause.

   The applause sounded for a long time!

   Tao Ge on the right said with emotion: "It's great! It's so good, it's worth the trip! Sometimes my sister really envies you, you can win a proud girl like Wen Hui."

  Zhang Xuan really wanted to reply proudly, but considering that there are Shuang Ling and Mi Jian on the left, he lost his mind and suppressed it.

   Damn it! He loves Wenhui's ten fingers to death now, and he can hold them for a year when he goes back.

  Thinking so happily, the old man put his right hand into his pocket and sent a text message to Wenhui: I am proud of you.

  But this "pride" never got Wen Hui's response.

  Hey, grandma is a bear, the old man finally said something warm, and the flattery actually got on the horse's feet.

   Intuit embarrassing.

   Two hours later, the wonderful concert ended. Tao Ge gloated in his ear and murmured, "It's over, are you nervous? Do you think the three of them will fight?"

  Zhang Xuan didn't make a sound, just looked at her with pleading eyes.

  Tao Ge reminded: "Your eldest wife, second wife and third wife are all here, don't look at me like this, it will cause hatred. Besides, my sister is not even a lover now, there is nothing I can do!"

   Then she threw another sentence: "The sins I made, I will clean up by myself!"

  (end of this chapter)