Trainee

Li Qi thought about what Xue Bo said at the dinner table just now, and it was indeed a bit deliberate.

Daniel said again: "Actually, he doesn't need to belittle his team. I heard that people in their team support him very much, and they are willing to push him to the middle position every time. It doesn't look like they have bad feelings. look."

Xia Le asked: "Then what did he mean when he came here just now?"

"That's why I said, I hate playing brotherly love the most." Daniel sneered, looked at Li Qi and said, "He shouldn't be able to do anything in a big storm, but after all, he is in a company, and he won't be able to do anything in the future." It is inevitable to get in touch with him, you should be more careful about him and stay as far away from him as possible.”

Li Qi nodded: "Understood, thank you bro."

Daniel's eyes widened when he shouted, from the comfort of his hair to the soles of his feet, he leaned on the back of the chair and swayed twice, then looked at Li Qi with bright eyes and said, "You shout again."

Li Qi: "Brother?"

Daniel's eyes were crooked with a smile, he stretched out his hand to rub Li Qi's head, and pulled him into his arms, if it wasn't for the back of the chair, the two of them would have hugged each other.

Poor Xia Le can only stare at them, his eyes fall on them, and he wants to go to block them but dare not.He already knew that the person opposite was Li Fang, and he would not be able to say some things even if he was beaten to death, and he was jealous of his own brother, even Xia Le himself felt that he was crazy.However, thinking that Li Qi has been thinking about his elder brother for so many years, he has not changed his original intention, and he still treats Li Qi wholeheartedly. That impostor was also beaten up, and the game is about to come. This bitter training life is finally coming to an end. Xia Le's There was a burst of excitement in my heart, and I became inexplicably happy.

He was having fun there, but Li Qi was a little baffled. He glanced at him and separated a little distance from Daniel.

When going back, Li Qi deliberately took a few steps down and walked with Xia Le. Xia Le chatted with him as usual, and reported everything habitually. Li Qi put his hands in his pockets while walking and listening. , suddenly said: "I have nothing to do with Daniel."

Xia Le was stunned for a moment, "Huh?"

Li Qi glanced at him, and said again: "He and I are ordinary friends, you don't have to worry, he...he is different from you."

Xia Le's heart skipped a beat, and suddenly his heart started beating fast. Li Xiaoqi thought he was jealous and was trying to please him and explain it to him!Xia Le couldn't help laughing just at this thought, but he immediately tightened his smile, twisted the corners of his mouth to hide his emotions as much as possible, and said, "Actually, it doesn't matter."

Li Qi blinked and looked at him inexplicably.

"Brother, has he been away from you for ten years?" Xia Le patted his head and said with an inscrutable expression: "You have been deprived of your brotherhood for ten years, and now God has changed it in a different way." It's not too much to make up for you, it's fine for me to look at Daniel, so you can treat him as your big brother."

Li Qi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, kicked him and said, "Fuck you, you can call everyone brother."

Xia Le smiled and avoided, her eyes were crooked, not angry at all.

Li Qi tried a few words, but he didn't see his rejection of Daniel before. He was a little surprised, and didn't know how Daniel tamed Xia Le easily.But the current situation is only good for their group and not bad. If he can't think clearly, he simply doesn't think about it.

Time passed in rehearsals day by day, and finally it was the last night before the competition.

The people in the other groups were desperately staying in the piano room and practice room, as if they were going to stay up all night, but Li Qi and the others returned to the dormitory early. According to Daniel, this last step is to Rest and recuperate.

"The body is the capital of the revolution. If you burn it out, you won't be able to make it to the stage tomorrow. What's the difference?" Daniel leisurely lay on the bed with his legs crossed, eating the fruit box that Xia Le just sent over. "Today Go to bed early—where are you going?"

Li Qi sat by the bed and bowed to put on his shoes, without raising his head, he said, "I remembered that there was a sheet music left in the piano room, I went to pick it up, and I'll be back in a while."

Such obvious loopholes, Daniel knew it was fake after hearing it, but he didn’t stop him, but the fruit was not interested in eating it, so he casually threw away the fork and said: “Come back early, I won’t wait for you stay up."

Li Qi's heart warmed up, and he smiled and said, "Understood, I will be back soon."

The reason why he went out was actually because of that man, who sent a text message just now, saying that he must go to the piano room.Although Li Qi was utterly disappointed in him, the word "Li Fang" carried too much weight in his heart, so much so that he had no way to ignore such strange information.

Just go, the worst is to be more disappointed, anyway, the relationship between the two has become like this, how bad can it go?

He was already familiar with the road to the piano room, and he arrived at the door in a short while. The door was ajar, and there was no sound of the piano pouring out from inside. There was only a man standing quietly by the window, with his back to Li Qi, He was holding something like a newspaper in his hand.

Li Qi opened the door and walked in. After a few seconds of silence, the word stuck in his throat could not be uttered, he just greeted dryly: "I'm here, what do you want to say to me? "

"You're here, sit down first." The man turned around, his tone was calm, completely different from the harsh attitude he had treated him a few times before, and even a little gentle, but the corners of his mouth were still wounded, and he was more personable than before. A little more embarrassed.

Li Qi stared at the wound on his face, but the other party turned his head away, with a bit of annoyance in his eyes.Such a "big brother" is both familiar and unfamiliar to Li Qi, but it makes him feel even more uncomfortable and uncomfortable. He frowned and said, "Your injury... forget it, what do I have to say, I don't have that much time. , I have to compete tomorrow.”

"I know, it's because you want to compete that I have to tell you tonight no matter what." He lowered his eyes, handed the newspaper in his hand to Li Qi, and said, "You can read it yourself."

Li Qi took it half-believingly, looked at this ordinary old newspaper, and was surprised to find that the year was six years ago.It is full of English, and the edges and corners have been dimmed and yellowed, but it is still very well preserved. It can be seen that it has been carefully preserved.

"...The Westin International Piano Competition..." Li Qi's English is not bad, and the contents of the newspaper don't contain any too advanced and uncommon words. article.

The picture accompanying the article is a group photo of all the contestants. With blurred pixels and a large number of people, Li Qi couldn't tell who was who, but this photo is not the point.

In the second paragraph of the article, the reporter specifically mentioned that the two teenagers who won the championship and runner-up respectively are both Chinese-Americans with the same surname, one is Li Fang and the other is Li Chengze.

Li Qi's hands began to tremble a little.

"This was the first time that Li Fang and I met in a competition that year. I had a very small score difference from him. The judges said that our skills were close, but I couldn't compare to him in controlling the emotional level."

Li Fang, oh no, it should be Li Chengze.He pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his voice was so flat that there was almost no ups and downs: "After that, I started to learn from my teacher, that is, you and Li Fang's mother. She has always been my idol, and she is like a palace in my heart. Existence. Unfortunately, she can only see Li Fang in her eyes, no matter how good I play, I will always be No.2."

"I don't actually have that much dissatisfaction or hostility towards Li Fang. He plays better than me. I don't want to admit it, but I can't change the results and the evaluation of everyone after participating in so many competitions. So I have to I admit that he is indeed more superb than me, maybe he is more talented than me. But one day, he suddenly told me that he never regarded me as an equal opponent. In his eyes, being able to compete with him There is only one person who is shoulder to shoulder." Li Chengze said, slowly shifting his gaze to Li Qi, with a sarcasm smile on his lips, "You should be able to guess who he is talking about."

Li Qi opened his mouth, feeling dry and difficult, unable to say anything.

Li Chengze ignored him, and continued on his own: "I live in Li Fang's shadow, and I don't think there is anything shameful about it. I have already recognized this matter, but in Li Fang's eyes, I am not If it's the second pick, then I can't accept it. Especially, a person like you who has never won an award in any competition and has mediocre qualifications at first glance, how could I lose to you. "

Li Qi said: "So you came to pretend to be my brother? Humiliate me in my brother's name?"

"Humiliation? I never thought of humiliating you. I just wanted to see how powerful the talented and unparalleled person Li Fang said is." Li Chengze leaned back in his chair and made a self-mockery "Unfortunately, the timing for me to find you is not right, and I am doomed to have no chance to prove that I can beat you. The most difficult thing to surpass is not the profound and exquisite skills, but the absolute sound. That kind of voice and memory will last a lifetime." It remains in people's minds, even if it has become a blurred mess, it still cannot be erased, and it cannot be surpassed."

Li Qi looked at Li Chengze in front of him, feeling complicated and didn't know where to start: "So why did you ask me to talk about this tonight? According to your logic, you should really hate me."

"I don't hate you. You are someone who has nothing to do with me. All I care about is music." Li Chengze raised his hands and covered his eyes, and said solemnly: "You have a competition tomorrow, and you will bear the hatred for Li Fang." On stage, I can’t do this kind of thing. Music should be the purest thing. I mixed my selfishness before. I did this wrong. Tell you this tonight, just take it as my apology to you .”

Li Qi seems to understand his logic, and feels that this person is a bit paranoid, but he can't hate him for no reason: "Is that all you said? Don't ask me not to tell my brother?"

Li Chengze said: "Your brother already knows about it, so you don't have to think about it. I don't have so many worries, and I don't—"

Before he finished speaking, Li Qi rushed to him and picked up his collar, his eyes were fixed on him, his voice was almost trembling: "What did you say? My brother knows?"

Li Chengze: "You... what are you doing? Let me tell you that Li Qi has a camera in this room!"

"Where is my brother? Is he here too, isn't he coming back with you?" Li Qi couldn't suppress his emotions at all, completely ignoring Li Chengze's words, the veins on the back of his hands were bulging, "I What about my brother? Why hasn't he shown up all this time? He knows you're pretending to be him, so why didn't you come to me? Why!"

"...You let me go first!" Li Chengze was a little bit overwhelmed by three people locking his throat for a lesson the past few days. After pushing Li Qi away forcefully, he frowned and rubbed his throat and said, "Why are you so excited!"

Li Qi said: "Just now you said that my brother knew about you impersonating him. If someone else is not here, how could he know? Tell me where he is?!"

Li Fang looked at him for a while, then suddenly sneered and said, "When did I say your brother is back?"

Li Qi said, "You just said..."

Li Chengze said: "He knows that there is a reason for him, I have nothing to say about this issue."

Li Qi said angrily: "Didn't you say that you are afraid that I will be distracted from tomorrow's game? Throwing such a blockbuster and not finishing your sentence, you are here to make trouble for me on purpose!"

Li Chengze: "...I didn't mention whether your brother is in China or abroad, right? You're getting agitated, what's none of my business?"

Li Qi: "You—!"

"I've already told you what I should tell you. If you want to know other things," Li Chengze straightened his neckline, glanced at Li Qi as if there was nothing there, and cleared his throat, "I'm not [-]% sure. Sure, but if you win the game tomorrow, Li Fang...he should show up."

Li Qi has quickly put away the thought that he didn't hate Li Chengze just now, and now he really wants to punch Li Chengze hard in the face.

"Then what if he doesn't show up?" Li Qi asked unwillingly.

Li Chengze said impatiently: "That's because he doesn't want to see you. I don't care about this kind of thing. Don't go too far. I don't want to go through the troubled waters of your brothers anymore. After finishing talking, go back quickly." .”

Even if Li Qi had endured it for many years, his temper was going to explode right now: "You, are you going to tell me or not!"

Probably because of his inquisitive posture and the fact that he let go of some digressions just now, Li Chengze and him looked at each other for half a minute, and finally gave an ambiguous answer: "If you want to know Li Fang's whereabouts, you can trade tomorrow's game results. If you don't qualify for the qualifying round, don't ask me about Li Fang. If you ask, I won't tell."

"Provocative method? Want to encourage me to play well?" Li Qi sneered, but the atmosphere between the two was not as tense as before. "What are you trying to do?"

Li Chengze said displeasedly: "I don't plan anything, just take it for Li Fang's face, and give you another chance, let me see how capable you are."

"Even if I get the qualification, it's not for you. I only work hard for the people I care about." Although Li Qi was stubborn, he agreed decisively, "After the competition tomorrow, I hope you don't give up again."

Li Chengze corrected: "I never coaxed you, I just lied to you for a while."

Li Qi: "..."

He was the one who lied to others before, so how can he still have such a righteous posture now?

It's not difficult for Li Qi to imagine that Li Fang must not have given Li Chengze any good looks when he was with him. After hearing what he said, you can't be friendly with him even if you want to play friendly!

This man simply owes a lesson!

The author has something to say: Li Chengze: Hmph, only music is my destination.

Daniel: ...Really, if I hadn't been separated from my brother when I was a child, you would have been beaten to death by both of us long ago.

Li Qi: My brother is right.