Atypical Cafe Love

However, following the Yinhe Orchestra, several commercial performances were connected one after another, and two of them even went to other places.After all, it is not a chamber orchestra affiliated with a government agency. A small part of its income comes from concert schools, and most of it depends on commercial performances. Naturally, it will not miss the opportunity.After receiving a wave of commercial performances, Yinhe is preparing for several concerts in the future.Commercial performances are all performed for laymen, and there is nothing wrong with occasional small mistakes, but concerts are a matter of serious preparation, especially for this performance, most of the songs are directly from the hands of the head of the group, and the training is more serious.Ning Siqin is busy with rehearsals and piano practice every day, so the meeting to eat and get to know each other has been postponed. Although Zhao Su has been begging to see each other with a raging heart of gossip, but he himself is also catching up with the performance season. It was also to practice the piano more, and things dragged on.

This dragged on until May.May and June are the time when students are preparing for exams, and very few people are willing to start learning and buying pianos at this time, so Ning Siqin and Zhao Su are very busy, but Chen Songmao has a lot of free time. Taking two or three hours to practice English every day, the progress of assembling the two pianos has also improved a lot.One day he rarely received a call from Zhao Su. Zhao Su asked, "Have you received the invitation from Senior Brother Bai? Are you going?"

"What invitation?" Chen Songmao asked, Zhao Su was very surprised: "Wedding invitation! Didn't he invite you? No way!"

Before Chen Songmao could answer, the doorbell rang—the invitation was delivered to him by the postman just at this time.Both he and Zhao Su graduated from a famous music school in city C. After graduation, they returned to city A where their family lives to develop. Therefore, there are not many alumni in this city, and the relationship has always been relatively close.Chen Songmao flipped through the invitation: "Go, of course. Do you want to go there together?"

"No need, I'll just go there by myself. See you at the door?"

The wedding was on Sunday morning, Chen Songmao hung up Zhao Su's phone, and immediately called the piano shop to transfer another class.On Sunday morning, when he drove to the designated hotel, Zhao Su was already waiting there. As soon as he met, he asked, "Why, didn't you bring the long-haired brother with you? Didn't the invitation say that you can bring your partner?"

"Don't call him long-haired brother, he has a name. Ning Siqin." Chen Songmao said, "I've been busy recently, so I haven't asked him, and he probably doesn't know you and my classmates, so it's not interesting to come here .”

"You are completely in love." Zhao Su shook his head and sighed.Chen Songmao asked: "How is your pursuit of that girl going?"

He successfully diverted Zhao Su's attention, and the latter began to talk endlessly about his process of chasing a girl—the girl was a college student who was about to graduate, and suddenly wanted to learn piano, so she came to him for guidance.The two greeted the happy senior brother, found the corresponding table and sat down, Zhao Su stabbed him suddenly: "Hey, isn't that your long hair—isn't that Ning Siqin?"

Chen Songmao looked in the direction he pointed, and was quite surprised: Although half of his figure was blocked by the decorations in the venue, Chen Songmao was already familiar with Ning Siqin, so he could tell at a glance that it was indeed him.Ning Siqin was standing on the side of the field with a violin in his hand, and Chen Songmao stood up: "I'll go say hello."

How could Zhao Su let go of such a great opportunity and just follow suit.Chen Songmao went over and patted Ning Siqin on the shoulder, Ning Siqin turned his head and saw him was also very surprised: "You—are you coming to the wedding?"

"Yes, the groom is a senior brother." Zhao Su poked his head from behind and replied, "What about you?"

"I'll play the accompaniment." Ning Siqin raised the violin in his hand, "The bride's idea, I think this is more romantic than the wedding march."

"Didn't Yinhe have rehearsals recently?" Chen Songmao frowned worriedly, "Don't be too tired."

"No." Ning Siqin raised his head and smiled at him.Chen Songmao pointed to the table where he and Zhao Su were sitting—it was a table in the corner, and it was not full yet. "Would you like to come and sit?"

Ning Siqin shook her head: "No, the wedding will start soon, I'll wait here for a while."

"Remember to visit us when you are free." Zhao Su added with a smile.

The three of them stood on the spot and chatted for a while—Chen Songmao was very tired because he needed to interrupt Zhao Su's spirit of gossip that ignited from time to time, but Ning Siqin kept smiling slightly, and he didn't seem to feel it. What an offense.After the wedding started, Ning Siqin interrupted the conversation and put the violin on his shoulder.

The two took a few steps back and squeezed to the side of the aisle. Ning Siqin picked up "Praise of Love", the main theme of this song is repeated - as long as it is slightly adapted, it is easy to achieve a seamless single cycle.Accompanied by his playing, a couple of newlyweds walked slowly on the red carpet.Zhao Su sighed in a low voice: "I didn't expect Senior Brother Bai to look handsome in a suit."

"En." Chen Songmao said in agreement, but a thought suddenly popped up in his mind: Ning Siqin is also handsome in a suit.

He couldn't help turning his head and glanced at Ning Siqin, who was concentrating on playing the violin, but then pushed back the idea—marriage is too far away, so far away that it seems almost impossible now, Chen Songmao doesn't want to be here The above wasted a lot of unnecessary consideration.

After the ceremony of exchanging rings and oaths was completed, everyone returned to their respective tables and waited for the food to be served. Ning Siqin also changed the tune, playing "The Boat Song" from Tchaikovsky's "Four Seasons".Zhao Su couldn't help complaining: "Brother Bai used to love piano music and adapt violin when he was in school. It seems that this hobby has not diminished at all after all these years. I bet he changed this score by himself, believe it or not?"

"I believe." Chen Songmao said, "Actually, Senior Brother Bai has very distinct personal characteristics in changing the piano music to the violin. Listen to the passage just now, he especially likes to use overtones."

"That's right, Senior Brother Bai really likes to use overtones. Back then, he changed... Which song was it? "Pine Snow Grass"? The overtones were used insanely, and the teacher finally beat him back to change it again." Another classmate from that year explain.

Everyone laughed and recalled the past at the conservatory.Zhao Su said: "Actually, I think this kind of music is not suitable for performing at the wedding scene. You can hear the scene is so chaotic. The details of the violin performance are basically covered by the background sound of the environment, and the sound quality is quite lost. And this piece The expressiveness of the piano itself is stronger.”

"The violin performance is just for a romantic atmosphere. You can hear it more clearly in the surrounding area. If you are far away, it's better to play it with a stereo." A female classmate said, "You two know that violin?"

"Songmao's friend." Zhao Su answered for him first, saving Chen Songmao from the embarrassment of whether to answer a friend or a boyfriend.

"Oh, his level is quite good, but the music is not suitable." The female classmate said.Zhao Su asked: "Then which song do you think is suitable?"

"It's fine to play "Laputa in the Sky"."

Before he finished speaking, "The Boat Song" ended, and Ning Siqin really pulled up "Castle in the Sky", and everyone at the table burst into laughter.Ning Siqin changed the tunes for a round, and when the bride and groom finished toasting, the background music was replaced by a stereo.After a while, Ning Siqin walked over carrying the piano case.

The groom's classmates in City A couldn't even sit at the two reserved tables, so Chen Songmao reserved an empty seat for him beside him in advance, and raised his hand to greet him when he came.A table of people greeted him in a hurry, and Chen Songmao introduced: "They are all my classmates in college, and there are also seniors and sisters."

"What about the junior, the junior has no human rights!" The only junior at the table joined in the fun.Chen Songmao hurriedly added it, and introduced to everyone: "Ning Siqin, now in the Galaxy Chamber Orchestra."

Everyone was halfway through the meal, and after saying hello, they continued to chat and eat.Zhao Su asked, "Have you had lunch before?"

Ning Siqin smiled: "I've eaten, I just came here to wait for the payment, and listen to your chat by the way."

He really didn't speak much the whole time, except for occasionally chatting with Zhao Su and Chen Songmao, he just listened to other people's chats in silence. When others talked about interesting things in school, they also mentioned Chen Songmao, and Ning Siqin smiled Looking at him with raised eyebrows, Chen Songmao felt a little bit embarrassed by his history being exposed in front of his sweetheart.Gradually, most of the people had enough to eat and drink, and they all put down their chopsticks and started chatting.While chatting, they began to gossip about the bride: "I don't know how Senior Brother Bai managed to catch up with such a beautiful girl."

"How else can Lao Bai chase after him, stalk him to death, who knows how talented he is?"

"Really, you don't think the bride looks a bit like the 'Chu beauty' from our school?" A classmate said suddenly.

"Who?"

"Don't you remember? It's that Chu Junya, the beauty of our department, who had a very good relationship with Chen Songmao back then. Later, her boyfriend got jealous and mistakenly thought that she had cheated on Chen Songmao, so he was aggressive Call the door."

"Really, there is still this paragraph?" The only junior asked curiously, "What happened later?"

"Later... of course it was a misunderstanding." The former classmate was suddenly a little embarrassed.Chen Songmao explained with a smile: "At that time, I hadn't changed careers yet, and I learned piano from her. I had more contact with her, but I was misunderstood by her boyfriend. But there is really nothing between us. After explaining it clearly, it's nothing. Bloody plot."

The junior said oh and didn't ask any more questions, but everyone else at the scene knew it well - the reason why the student didn't explain in detail before was because it would be embarrassing to explain in detail: the reason why Chu Junya's boyfriend believed it so easily There is nothing between them, because Chen Songmao is gay, and of course it is impossible to develop any relationship with Chu Junya.Although Chen Songmao is usually a good person, everyone accepts the issue of sexuality, but it is a bit uncomfortable to talk about, and he has always avoided this topic.A female classmate asked: "Who still has contact with Chu Junya? She seems to have changed her number several times in the past few years, and I haven't spoken to her for a long time."

"She's in city D, working as a piano teacher." Another female classmate replied, "I chatted with her on WeChat a few days ago, and I'll give you her mobile phone number. She seems to be a teacher at the Conservatory of Music in city D now. It is said that the new boyfriend also has a D tone."

The two girls got together and exchanged cell phone numbers.Chen Songmao glanced at Ning Siqin unintentionally, but saw that he was frowning, his face was a little unnatural, not the relaxed look just now.He reached out and touched Ning Siqin's hand lightly under the tablecloth, and gave him a questioning look.Ning Siqin forced a smile: "I just remembered that I have something to do this afternoon, so I won't be here to chat with you. I'll go over there first and ask about the payment."

"Wait a minute, we're done eating anyway, shall I go back with you?" Chen Songmao said.Ning Siqin hesitated, but did not refuse, and the two stood up together.Another classmate asked: "Leaving so early?"

"I came here in the morning because I was begging for a shift shift. I went back early, and we happened to be on the way, so we left together first." Chen Songmao said.He followed Ning Siqin to find the person in charge of the wedding to settle the performance fee, and walked out together, Ning Siqin was exceptionally silent the whole time.When he sat in the car, Chen Songmao finally couldn't help asking him: "What's the matter? Is it for Chu Junya? Or D tone?"

"...D sound." Ning Siqin said, "Don't you know? I graduated with a D sound."

"I don't know." Chen Songmao said, "You didn't mention it. Why, did you have a bad time with your alma mater?"

Ning Siqin pursed her lips: "That's right. Back then... when I was in school, there were some unpleasant things."

He didn't go on talking, but Chen Songmao didn't cooperate with his silence for the first time, but continued to ask: "Is it convenient to talk about it?"

"You want to know?" Ning Siqin asked.

"There have been many conflicts with classmates at school, and even the alma mater is unwilling to mention them. I think these things should have a great impact on you, so I want to know." Chen Songmao said calmly, "Of course , if you are not ready to let me know, I can wait for a while."

He has always been gentle and easy-going, never gossip, never aggressive, and he is basically obedient to Ning Siqin. At this time, he didn't say "you don't have to say it" but said "wait a moment", his attitude is already It's clearly laid out.Ning Siqin looked at him: "Okay... in the future. These things are quite complicated. I will explain to you slowly when I find an opportunity in the future."

Chen Songmao nodded and started the car: "Don't worry."

"Also." Ning Siqin said, "Since you haven't checked me now... don't check me in the future, okay? I will explain to you myself one day."

"Okay." Chen Songmao agreed.

"If one day you investigate behind my back, we will break up." Ning Siqin said.

Chen Songmao looked at him in surprise, Ning Siqin's face turned pale, but his expression was very firm.He nodded and agreed more calmly: "Okay."

The author has something to say: Elgar's "Praise of Love"

Tchaikovsky "The Boat Song"