A few days later, Huaxia Conservatory of Music.

On the west side of China's top art school, in an area known as the Qin Garden, some students whispered as they watched the building cordoned off by security.

"Why hasn't the third theater opened yet, it's already the second day of lockdown, could it be that there are some big stars performing in it?"

"It's impossible, if it's a star performance, the school should have a notice. And the stars usually use the first and second theaters for their performances, and the third theater is used for our piano department performances, and occasionally it is used to hold piano recitals, I think it should be under maintenance! ”

"The maintenance will give you a notice, right? It's weird! ”

These future pianists were full of surprise, and Alice, who was walking towards the Third Theater with Huang Ye, frowned slightly when they heard their conversation.

"Your school closed the Third Theater to censor Meng Xu's academic performance, if these students know the truth, will they riot?" She asked softly, the personality of children who study art is generally more free than that of other children of the same age, and the students of Huaxia Conservatory of Music are even more famous for their individuality, and it is obviously unfair for the school to open the back door for Meng Huo.

"It's okay." But Huang Ye disagreed: "Even if you know, it's okay, what is the difference between Meng Huo's kid and a star now?" It's not surprising that he has this kind of treatment. ”

Alice was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "That's what I said." ”

She looked up at the building in front of her, which had a structure similar to the 'piano', and sighed slightly: "This scene is the same as it was a few years ago......

"A few years ago?" Huang Ye said strangely: "Have you been here?" ”

"No...... I've never been to the piano garden, but I've been to the first and second theaters a few times. Alice smiled: "What I said is the same as when I was in Ninghai No. 1 Middle School, do you remember?" Back then, you also blocked the school building. Every time I went to pick up Meng, I would hear other students complain. ”

She kind of missed that time. But a few years later. Meng Shu's aura still hasn't changed. Although he has left Ninghai No. 1 Middle School as an adult, he is still so lonely and outstanding in this new campus, divided into two completely different worlds from other students.

"When you mentioned that, I just remembered that you have been following that kid since a few years ago......" Huang Ye glanced at Alice, feeling very strange in his heart, Alice had been following Meng Shu three years ago. Let's not talk about the pick-up and drop-off, but why are you still following him now?

"You're very busy with work, how can you have time to come to Yanjing?" Huang Ye said tentatively.

"I happen to have a job and need to come here."

Alice's answer was not leaky, of course, the work was half-truth, in fact, she overheard Meng Shu playing the piano, and followed with curiosity. The two walked into the Third Theater, which was locked down, but it didn't look like there were many people inside, and dozens of people were already seated in seats large enough to accommodate thousands of people.

Most of these people sit in the back. Listening to the play from a distance, only four or five teachers in charge of the review sat in the first row.

"Here are the top students in our school." Huang Ye quietly explained to Alice, "The school arranged for them to come here to watch Meng Huo's academic audit. This can also add a little insight to them, of course, this matter is confidential, and they have also checked their personal devices when they enter the door, and they can't even bring their mobile phones in. ”

The Huaxia Conservatory of Music knows very well that the song that Meng Huo is playing is a very important song, so the review is very strict.

Alice nodded, her gaze swept from the audience, these young college students listened to the piano quietly, some of their faces were envious, some were surprised, and some were jealous, Alice knew very well what they were thinking, Meng Shu's piano strength was not an exaggeration to say that it was professional, and many professional pianists could not compare to him.

"Huh? That's ......" She suddenly noticed that it wasn't just the students in the audience, there were other people. Alice frowned slightly, then raised her feet and walked over there, Huang Ye was surprised by her actions, but when she saw the direction of her footsteps, her expression also became surprised.

"Isn't that President Kong of the Pianists Association?" Huang Ye found that Kong Wei, the president of the Huaxia Piano Association, and several other big names in the piano industry were sitting in the audience, even including piano stars like Qin Lang. There were more than a dozen such people, sitting on the other side of the students, and Huang Ye didn't notice it at first.

He walked over, and when he approached, Alice had already greeted the people inside: "President Kong, I haven't seen you for a long time, Mr. He, you are also there......"

She greeted them one by one, and she knew more people than Huang Ye, which made Huang Ye sigh that she deserved to be the signature agent of China Entertainment, and after leaving her job for so many years, her connections didn't seem to have decreased much.

"Miss Xu, it's rare to see you again."

Kong Wei and the others happily replied to Alice, and then they chatted, they talked here, and their voices were not deliberately lowered, but in the spacious theater, these sounds were just a drop in the ocean, and they did not affect the voice of the piano at all.

Huang Ye stood aside and listened to the piano, paying attention to Alice from time to time and their topic, he was very interested in two things, and the director was a little absent-minded, but among the dozen or so people in Kong Wei, except for a few who talked to Alice, the rest listened to the piano carefully, and two old people were even more intoxicated and enjoying the music.

Their eyes were closed, and their fingers gently twitched to the rhythm of the piano, as if they had filtered the sound around them and put their souls into the sound of the piano. Huang Ye was a little ashamed, the people sitting here were very focused, they were real pianists, completely different from his half-ass.

At the end of a piano song, the audience burst into applause. Dozens of people were all applauding, but it was very sparse in the spacious theater, and Meng Yu on the stage glanced at Alice in surprise, but quickly withdrew his gaze and talked to the judges in the first row.

"It's the first time I've seen this kind of semester assessment." Watching Meng Shu step down, Kong Wei said with emotion: "Don't say it's a semester assessment, even if it's a graduation assessment, you can get a full score!" ”

"I can't stop watching, although the song just now is not a world famous song, but his playing skills, I think it is not difficult to win the top three in the Chinese New Pianist Competition." Qin Lang said with a somewhat complicated expression, he received the news and came to see it curiously, but he was shocked.

"The first three rookie pianists have wronged him too much, his piano is amazing, and he is no longer a newcomer." An old man's slap was the most durable, and after he stopped, his palms were a little red: "Qin Lang, you are not as good as him!" ”

His words were very sure, Qin Lang's face was red, but he didn't dare to object, so he could only dodge and say, "Teacher, are you thinking too highly of him." ”

This old man was his teacher, and hearing his teacher praise a person who was younger than himself, Qin Lang felt very uncomfortable.

"The layman looks at the bustle, the insider looks at the doorway, what level he is, in fact, you should know it in your heart." The old man glanced at Qin Lang and sighed slightly: "In the eyes of ordinary people, a professional pianist and a top pianist are almost the same, they know whether it is good to enjoy a piano piece or not, but they can't tell what is good to hear." ”

"You are a professional pianist, you are already an expert, so it is impossible for you to tell whether the piano is good or bad."

“……”

Qin Lang was silent for a moment, and then lowered his head with some shame: "I'm sorry, teacher." ”

He could hear that the piano was indeed very powerful, and the piano was an art in which the body and soul were in harmony. Every pianist is pursuing the ultimate of both, but the lower the level of the pianist, in fact, the higher the physical requirements, 95% of the pianists in the world are pursuing the skill of playing, and the remaining 5% can freely control the piano and pursue the harmony of the soul.

Of course, this is not to say that the remaining five percent of people do not have to pursue better techniques, in fact, they are also pursuing, pursuing better techniques that express the soul of music. But that skill can already be said to be miraculous. Qin Lang has not reached that level, he is still limited by his body and his fingers, and the young man in the center of this theater, he has already surpassed this level.

His piano skills are enough for him to play any difficult tune freely. This is exactly what the old man said, he looked at Meng Shu with some heat, and exclaimed: "I have never seen such a talented young pianist, he has only been learning the piano for a few years, but his skills are impeccable, genius, really a peerless genius!" ”

At the age of twenty, it is not uncommon for people to achieve such a high level of performance, and there have been several such geniuses in history. In fact, in today's China, there are a few pianists between the ages of twenty-five and thirty who can compete with Meng Huo, but these people are without exception not practicing since childhood, and there is no one like Meng Huo who started practicing the piano at the age of fifteen or sixteen.

"Elder Liu said so, then we really have to pull this young man over?" Kong Wei's eyes lit up, and he said: "Such an outstanding pianist, it's really a waste to put him outside." ”

Alice's eyes narrowed, and sure enough, when she saw these people, she wondered if they wanted to enter the music industry, and sure enough......

"Meng Huo is not interested in the music industry, and now is not the time, it seems that I have to find a way to stop them."

Alice thought to herself, but just as she was thinking about what to do, another old man spoke slowly.

"No, this kid doesn't need a teacher anymore, and we're not qualified to teach him......"

She smiled with satisfaction: "He has gone his own way, and the pursuit of piano and music does not have to be performed on the stage, this kid does not admit it...... But his piano told me that no matter where he was, he would never give up the piano, he had already entered the Tao, and just like us, he would continue to pursue the ultimate in art. ”

"That's enough...... He doesn't have to be a musician to be able to burn in the wild. ”

The old man believed that in a few decades, China would give birth to a pianist who would be famous for centuries. (To be continued......)