living in the pocket of a nemesis

An Qiao did intend to find him a practice partner, but he searched a lot. After seeing Ye Tang's performance, the other party bluntly refused, saying that his own level would not be of much help to him, so he had no choice but to give up.

But An Qiao didn't seem surprised when he heard him say that.

She just nodded, and asked very gently: "Why do you suddenly want to practice with me? You said before that it doesn't matter if you want it or not."

"Because..." Ye Tang blinked. In fact, he didn't know why he wanted to look for it. "It's better for two people to be together?"

"But he doesn't seem to have learned much," Ye Tang hesitated at this thought, "How about I teach him?"

An Qiao laughed when he heard his words. The sparring partner has always been used to assist teaching, but now the sparring partner he is looking for is not from a major, and he is patting his chest and saying that he wants to teach the sparring partner to play the piano?

Who is who's sparring partner.

Seeing that An Qiao didn't speak for a while, Ye Tang was a little anxious, wanting to prove his idea was right, and used his own set of logic to guarantee to the other party: "Is this okay? You let him and me first... No, stay with me Practice for a while, if I can win the prize in this piano competition, I will continue to let him stay, okay?"

Ye Tang ignored the series of contradictions in his words, and still looked at her expectantly.

"Then what kind of partner do you want?" An Qiao led him out of the piano walk and asked him.

She asked Ye Tang this question before, but the other party couldn't answer it either.

Asking again now, Ye Tang began to think seriously.

"You don't need a teacher's level, or you'll have to find a teacher." Ye Tang held An Qiao's hand with one hand, and rested his chin with the other hand, "I just think he seems to be very good except for his lack of systematic skills. .”

In fact, Fu Linfeng didn't play too difficult a piece at that time, but Ye Tang thought about it and said so.

He was not sure whether his mother would agree, but he even thought about it during this period. If his parents disagreed, he would go to the teacher who had only had one class before and wait for him. Linfeng played the piano again.

"Okay." To his surprise, An Qiao nodded without thinking too long, and just said, "Since you found it yourself, you have to invite me personally."

"No problem!" Ye Tang smiled immediately, and even quickened his pace impatiently, "Fu Linfeng said he was going home, didn't he just live next door to that teacher! Why don't we go today!"

An Qiao didn't expect Ye Tang to be so obsessed with this matter, he froze for a moment, and was dragged forward by Ye Tang.

She didn't stop in the end.

It took less than two hours from the time the decision was made to the time he arrived at the boy's door.

Ye Tang heard the noisy sound of piano practice next door. An Qiao worried that he was uncomfortable, so he took the initiative to knock on the door.

At first there was no response from the door, and when Ye Tang was about to drag An Qiao home in frustration, he finally heard the sound of the door lock.

The young man who had just met a few hours ago stood in front of them again at this time, but the difference from the afternoon was that his brows and eyes looked colder now, like a silent island.

Fu Linfeng was undoubtedly surprised. He curled his finger on the door, stiffened for a while before saying, "...Please come in."

His home can barely be called tidy, but the kitchen that hasn't been cleaned and the bathroom with the door ajar seem to imply that everything in front of him is just the result of hastily tidying up.

"Who?" Ye Tang heard a sharp female voice.

He was taken aback and subconsciously looked over.

Sitting on the sofa stained with unknown stains was a woman with disheveled hair, extremely thin, with an abnormal paleness in her exposed skin, her back was slightly arched, exposing the outline of a pair of bony shoulder blades.

"My mother." Fu Linfeng explained with one hand behind his back.

Although it was said that Ye Tang was to be invited in person, An Qiao didn't expect that there were other people in the family. He immediately subconsciously embraced Ye Tang, introduced himself politely, and then smiled at the other party: "Meet your friend again today." The child once, I wonder if he is interested in coming to my house to be the child's training partner?"

"In terms of the number of times, because Tangtang will practice every day, but it mainly depends on Xiaofu's own time. The number of times per week is not fixed, and can be arranged reasonably." An Qiao talked eloquently.

"That's right," Ye Tang added with the courage to follow his mother, "Just come to my house! I can go to their school and wait for him after school!"

All the invitations were aimed at Fu Linfeng, but he himself was still standing straight not far from the living room, neither leaving nor approaching.

His back was still straight, but his head was lowered, so Ye Tang couldn't see his expression clearly again.

The woman on the sofa didn't speak for a while.

An uncomfortable atmosphere spread in the living room. After about 3 minutes, the woman stood up and smiled at the guest.

"Linfeng, what do you think?" She looked at the two and smiled, but threw the question to her son.

"I..." He raised his head this time and looked at the expectant child beside him.

Ye Tang had been staring at him all the time, finally met his eyes, and immediately looked at him with a more earnest gaze.

Promise me, promise me...

Fu Linfeng's eyes flickered, and he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth for the first time, so he pursed his lips in frustration, and said in a low voice, "I haven't learned much... maybe not."

"Yeah, my children just go to the next door to listen to it from time to time. You see, my family doesn't even have a piano, so how can I be your family's partner practice." The woman smiled apologetically, "He can't do it, he's not at that level."

"Don't be level." This time Ye Tang spoke before An Qiao.

"Don't be level. I've heard it today. It's not like he can't do it." Ye Tang grabbed his fingers and lied, "I just learned it too, so I asked my mother to find me a training partner."

As if he was afraid of being rejected again, Ye Tang simply leaned towards Fu Linfeng and looked up at him: "Can you do it?"

"As for the remuneration, we can give you double the price of the normal sparring partner, as long as Xiao Fu is willing." An Qiao added.

The woman counted in front of her face, and then said to Fu Linfeng with a smile: "Then how many times a week? As long as there are more times, you can buy the piano by yourself in two months."

The person she named still remained silent.

"Then let him decide for himself." The woman seemed to feel bored, and sat back on the sofa by herself, "Thank you for the invitation."

"Your mother said you can do whatever you want!" Ye Tang seemed to have found a breakthrough, "It doesn't matter if you don't have enough time, you can only come once a week, how about it?"

"You play Bach very well, better than me." Ye Tang praised him with bright eyes, "Really. It doesn't matter if you don't. I also have a piano teacher. If he teaches me, I will teach you secretly."

An Qiao actually wanted to tell Ye Tang to go back, but when he wanted to speak, he didn't make a sound.

In the end, after Ye Tang searched for an unknown number of conditions, the boy standing by the wall finally said, "Okay."

Although he agreed in the end, when Fu Linfeng came to the door for the first time, he still resolutely refused to ask for An Qiao's reward.

After giving the contact information that day, the two of them didn't stay longer, until a week later, Fu Linfeng took the initiative to call and said that he could start as a sparring partner in the future.

When Fu Linfeng came to the door for the first time, he was visibly cautious. He no longer wore his junior high school uniform, but changed into a new set of clothes, and stepped into the door almost stiffly.

In contrast, Ye Tang was very excited. He first took him to eat the tea prepared by An Qiao, and then took him to the piano after the other party relaxed a little.

He still remembers how Fu Linfeng pressed the keys for the first time.

It's not pure joy or surprise, but an expression mixed with complex emotional fluctuations.

Ye Tang usually attends classes twice a week, and of the remaining five days, Fu Linfeng will come over for almost three days.

In the beginning, Fu Linfeng was always very silent, trying not to speak as much as he could, but maybe after getting along for a long time, he finally became a little more active. According to Ye Tang's father, "The kid seems to have finally gained some popularity." .

He is still very indifferent to other things, but every time he comes to the door, he is very serious.

And just as Ye Tang thought, he did not receive any systematic education.

When he first came, his fingers were very stiff, and his hand shape had some problems. He couldn't even play the basic fingering exercises fluently, and he couldn't even say some basic marks.So he can't play too fast or too complicated scores, but it is amazing that he can barely play the content of the original repertoire without understanding those notations.

Sometimes Ye Tang stayed in the school piano room for a long time, and the driver would pick up Fu Linfeng. While Fu Linfeng was waiting for him, he would also try to practice in the piano room.

As time went on, Ye Tang pestered him to talk more and more. Ye Tang taught him to read music, played rhythm for him, took him to listen to classical music records, and told him about how he just learned to play the piano.

Bach has been complained about by him several times, but not long after, when Fu Linfeng played all the polyphony he complained about before, Ye Tang opened his mouth and said, "I suddenly feel that before The third part is not so difficult to understand."

He didn't expect that he would teach as a sparring partner for a year and a half, and Fu Linfeng really played the role of sparring partner in the following days.

He complained to Fu Linfeng: "I think Liszt made it so difficult to write the song, it must be for revenge on Czerny."

Later, Fu Linfeng went to practice his Paganini etude.

Ye Tang watched him finish playing with his mouth open, and changed his words: "It's okay, thank you Czerny!"

Even An Qiao found it unbelievable. After all, her original intention was to find a companion that the child liked. At first glance, she thought Fu Linfeng was good, and she never cared about his level.

As a result, the other party really became a training partner.

She clearly saw it several times. For example, when Tang Tang was at the bottleneck of practicing new repertoire, although the other party could not speak any systematic or professional terms, he could use his own method to give Ye Tang guidance, or emotional interpretation, Or a deeper level of understanding.

Art is common. Although she has not studied music well, An Qiao, who is also an art worker, is keenly aware that the partner picked up by her son seems to be really different.

She knew that her son was born with musical talent, and she was even more pleased with his non-impetuous practice.

But even if she is considered a half layman, she can tell in the past two years that the talent of that taciturn child is much higher than that of ordinary "talented" people.

It seems that his understanding of some music and scores is innate.

She saw how the two of them were practicing together, and she always felt that there should be something to do.

Although Fu Linfeng still didn't charge her a penny, she still bought a piano and sent it to Fu Linfeng's home on the grounds that the other party had taught her children for two years.

When Fu Linfeng practiced with Ye Tang for two years, Ye Tang had won the National Children's Piano Competition for two consecutive years, the first runner-up and the second runner-up. With his hard work, even his teacher said with satisfaction, "This time, the hope of going further is greater."

When he signed up this year, An Qiao was looking for a photo for him to fill in the information. Ye Tang, who was practicing with Fu Linfeng, suddenly walked over mysteriously: "Mom, I have something to discuss with you."

"Shall we give Fu Linfeng a name too?"

At that time, Fu Linfeng was 16 years old, just able to be stuck in the upper limit of teenagers and able to participate in the competition.

"Xiao Fu?" An Qiao said, "Then have you asked him?"

"I asked, but he doesn't seem to be very willing." Ye Tang was a little melancholy when he said this.

"Then the other party is not willing anymore, why did you report to him?" An Qiao asked patiently even though he had already guessed what Ye Tang was thinking.

"Because I think he is very powerful, very powerful," Ye Tang used two words "very", "very powerful, but every time I say it, he doesn't believe it every time."

"Really! Mom, you should have seen it many times!" Ye Tang was very excited when he said this, and even a little frustrated after the excitement, "I learned so long before him, but he just chased very fast."

"He's better than me now, and I want to catch up with him."

"Then you think Xiaofu is better than you, so why do you sign up for him? The teacher said that you have great hopes this time, what if Xiaofu really goes and he wins the prize but you don't?" An Qiao touched Touched his face and asked.

"That's different!" Ye Tang said excitedly, but he didn't know how to describe the difference, so he stammered a few times, "It's...that's...he's so good, we should sign up together! He won the prize I am also happy, no, as long as he goes, he will definitely win the prize."

"Of course I will practice hard, what if I can surpass him this time?"

Ye Tang thought of something, and his originally excited face drooped again: "But he doesn't think he's amazing. So...I want to prove it to him, let him know how powerful I am."

An Qiao continued to look at him patiently.

"And he's actually not that unwilling to go." Ye Tang said, "He's afraid that if he goes, he won't get the prize, and his mother will say that it's a waste of time to fetch water from a bamboo basket. But he hasn't gone yet, how could he know? It's over!"

"Let's give him a name, shall we?"

It was the first time in Ye Tang's life that he cut first and played later. He quietly handed over the registration form for Fu Linfeng while Fu Linfeng didn't know about it.

He found the photo above from Fu Linfeng's student ID card. The boy on the film hadn't grown up yet, and his eyebrows and eyes were silent.

It wasn't until he received the receipt that he had successfully registered that Ye Tang carefully told Fu Linfeng about it after a training session.

"..."

He anxiously waited for Fu Linfeng's response.

Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to have not heard about it, and asked him: "Then have you chosen which song to play in the preliminary round?"

Seeing that Fu Linfeng wanted to change the subject, Ye Tang Buyi said, "What about you!"

"I do not know."

"As soon as you say you don't know, I know that you will definitely not go then." Ye Tang was very dissatisfied, "I knew it!"

"You have taught so much! I have never played in front of others! They don't even know how good you are..." Ye Tang became more and more frustrated as he spoke, "It was the same when you promised to be my training partner."

Ye Tang suddenly had a flash of inspiration when he said this.

At that time, I kept staring at Fu Linfeng, and the other party finally agreed.

It seems that it has been the same for the past two years, if I grind a little more...

He began to try to transfer the way he used to deal with An Qiao to Fu Linfeng, including but not limited to mentioning this matter tirelessly every day, saying "Then go to the competition, okay?" After a practice session on the weekend, the other party couldn't resist him, so he finally agreed.

But when Fu Linfeng agreed, his lips were still tight and he was very silent. He just said "yes" after Ye Tang bothered him countless times.

But this didn't affect the young master's happiness. He simply dangled around Fu Linfeng's body: "I knew you would definitely not reject me!"

In the end, the two chose the repertoire for the performance. Ye Tang chose Hungarian Rhapsody, while Fu Linfeng chose Chopin's Nocturne.

Even in order to worry about Fu Linfeng running away, Ye Tang simply suppressed him and lived in his home for two days, saying that he would go with him.

In the end, Ye Tang even picked out the clothes for him.

The time soon came to the day of the game.

According to the order of drawing lots, Fu Linfeng will play before Ye Tang.

The venue was chosen in the open air of a certain hotel, with a piano for competition in the middle, surrounded by a circle of pools, which was very pleasing to the eye.

The weather was perfect that day, except for the judges sitting in the first row, the rest of the seats were also full.

Ye Tang and Fu Linfeng sat in the waiting area backstage, listening to the players in front of them play one by one.

"Although this is not very good, but I heard that you are still the best one." This is not the first time Ye Tang has participated in this kind of competition, and he has a good attitude, so he is still praising the people around him without hesitation. "real!"

It's just that the young man beside him is still very stiff, very nervous, and doesn't say a word.

Fortunately, Ye Tang got used to it and continued to babble: "So don't be afraid..."

He squeezed the other person's palm, and it was fine, it was dry.

That shouldn't affect performance.

A few minutes later, news came that Fu Linfeng was preparing.

"Okay! Let's go!" Ye Tang was even more excited than him, but he had already said enough words of encouragement, and he didn't know what to say.

He thought for a while and said, "I knew the story of Liszt and Chopin when I first practiced the piano. Tell me, if there is no Liszt, how long will it take for Chopin to be known to the public?"

As if he didn't understand why Ye Tang said that suddenly, Fu Linfeng was taken aback for a moment, and said, "A person like him, even without Liszt, shouldn't have waited too long."

"Well, because Chopin is a genius." Ye Tang shook his head and said, "But geniuses need to be discovered."

The staff had already started to urge Fu Linfeng to stand up and walk forward.

"Wait!" Ye Tang called to stop him for the last time.

The young boy who was still young at that time stood on tiptoe and tied a bow tie for him that was passable with his own hands.

Ye Tang looked at Fu Linfeng's astonished expression in the white suit, and only smiled at him.

"Let's play then, young Monsieur Chopin."

The author has something to say: a few minutes late!But also very fat!

The next chapter writes back to the present

Don't be serious about classical music, it's all the author's fooling around, it's just my own understanding otz

(Ha, but Bach is a real childhood shadow) (I didn’t mean to say that Bach was bad)