Wang Kai and the photography guy are already waiting for Fu Tiao. They have even set up the interview curtain and piled up the bottom light, side light and front light luminous panels in the room.

Wang Kai couldn't help but smile and waved his hand when he saw Fu Tiao coming in.

"Fu Diao! Here, here, come, let's take a photo first."

After that, Wang Kai pulled Fu Diao, who was still a little confused, and stood in the middle of the black curtain. He quickly adjusted the position of the luminous panel to show the outline of Fu Diao's face more clearly, and then asked Fu Diao

.

"Fu Diao, just think of an action. If you can't think of it, I can give you a few options. Stand normally, interlock your hands, sit on a chair, lean on the piano next to you, and support your chin with your fingers. You can choose any one.

Everything is fine.”

"Action? What action should you take?"

Fu Diao didn't know why, he glanced at the piano next to him hesitantly, leaned his body on the side of the piano, put his hands naturally in front of his body, looked at Wang Kai and asked: "Is that so?"

"Well……"

Wang Kai found several angles, his expression was a little tangled: "It feels ordinary, not handsome enough, how about something simpler? You sit on the piano bench and put your arms on the edge of the piano? Or you bend your body slightly and put your elbows on your legs.

Come on, put your hands together and put them in front of you?"

"so?"

After Fu Diao made a few moves according to Wang Kai's instructions, Wang Kai quickly and slightly adjusted the light-emitting board, and asked the photographer next to him to take several photos of Fu Diao with the camera hanging around his neck.

nodded.

"Okay, the momentum is coming out, it would be better if the eyes were more sharp."

Fu Tiao's mind was full of questions, and he tried to keep his sight as sharp as possible, staring at the camera without moving.

He had no idea why Wang Kai asked him to take pictures.

He tensed up, stared at the camera, and asked with as little movement as possible: "What is this photo... about?"

"For publicity."

Wang Kai flipped the camera around his neck to Fu Diao and said with a smile.

"Three days of competition and four days of rest. You have one week to rest and recuperate. Then three days later, after the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee notifies us of the fourth round promotion list, we can make your photos into

Posters are posted in this city, and you can even sell some of your photos specifically, and sell your photos in the form of blind boxes to increase the popularity of the Chopin International Piano Competition."

After that, he saw that Fu Diao's expression seemed a little confused, so he immediately added.

"Of course! If someone specifically buys your peripherals, you can get subsidies! You don't have to worry too much about this! We will definitely not let you lose money! After deducting the production costs of photos and other items, the organizing committee

The club will give you 50% of the gross profit share. The more you sell, the more you earn! But the blind box thing is shared equally by everyone. Oh, by the way, we’ve finished filming, so you can stop.”

"That's it..."

Fu Tiao nodded blankly and sat down.

He had no idea that the Chopin International Piano Competition could be played like this.

But this is not surprising. As the most commercialized competition, the Chopin International Piano Competition is actually very normal to be operated like this.

You must know that the Chopin International Piano Competition itself only charges an registration fee of 100 euros, and the total registration fee for all contestants is only more than 30,000 euros.

But you have to know that the first prize of the Chopin International Piano Competition is 40,000 euros, the second place is 30,000 euros, the third place is 20,000 euros, the fourth place is 15,000 euros, the fifth place is 10,000 euros, the sixth place is 7,000 euros, and the remaining finalists are all

Give a reward of 4k euros.

In other words, if 10 people enter the finals, then at least 128,000 euros will be given as a reward. The more people who enter the finals, the more rewards will be given.

In addition, a reward of 5,000 euros will be given for the best concerto selected by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the best mazurka selected by Polish Radio, and the best polonaise selected by the Chopin Society.

The Best Chopin Piano Sonata awarded by Christian Zimmermann was a full 10,000 euros!

If all the awards are given out, then the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee may directly give out a reward of 153,000 euros. This is still the case where there is only one person for each award. If there are 2 winners for each award,

For 3 people, the price will be more.

Although the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee has many sponsors, they also need to do some marketing to make some money.

After all, simply taking other people's money always feels soft.

Being short-tongued and being soft-handed is not something you just say casually.

They are actively marketing these players to increase their influence and prepare for their future.

After Fu Tiao and Wang Kai and others confirmed a suitable makeup photo, Wang Kai took him deeper into the house.

At this place, the old photographer put down the camera around his neck, replaced it with a larger, darker and thicker camera, opened the matte box and pointed it at Fu Diao without making a sound.

Wang Kai also opened the recording pen in his hand, took out the small notebook in his pocket, smiled kindly at Fu Diao, and said.

"Okay, here comes the interview, which is a necessary part after each round of competition. Player Fu Diao, you should be very familiar with interviews, right? Let's not talk nonsense and start directly. We are still the first

Question, how do Fu Diao players view their performance in the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition? Are they very satisfied with their performance?"

The camera's red light turned on, and it was obvious that it had started recording. Fu Tiao sat on a chair in the corner of the room, cleared his throat, nodded, and spoke with some relief.

"It's quite satisfactory, because it has reached the level I expected. I think about my music again, and some problems in my music that I have not noticed, and how should I resolve these problems, so that I can

The music and Chopin itself have become a complete whole again, rather than just themselves. For example, the chord progression I played at the beginning, a simple TSpDpDD5DT, we should not just think about the problem of TSpDpDD5DT, but should

Think about it, what does this TSpDpDD5DT mean to me, what does it mean to Chopin, why did he choose DD5 to go to D, instead of going directly from Dg to Dp and then to T..."

The corner of Wang Kai's mouth twitched, and he immediately reached out to stop Fu Diao from continuing.

"Okay Fu Diao player, we get it. It goes without saying about terms like DD5, D, Dp, Dg, T, Sp. Simply put, this performance makes your music more complete.

, your thinking about Chopin can be integrated into your music, making the Chopin in your music more concrete, and your own interpretation clearer, is this probably what you mean?"

"Well, yes," Fu Tiao nodded.

"Okay, I understand." Wang Kai turned the page of the record in his hand, looked at the questions above, and continued to ask Fu Diao: "Although it is a bit early to say this now, I actually really want to know what you think about it.

What do you think of player Zhao Chengzhen? As far as I know, he should be the most difficult player you encounter in the Chopin International Piano Competition, especially since he has been suppressing you in the first two rounds. Now in the third round,

Are you confident that you can defeat Zhao Chengzhen and win the first place in the third round?"

Fu Tiao did not speak. Instead, he looked at Wang Kai with some confusion and said hesitantly: "Third round? Didn't he and I already finish the competition? I won."

"ah?"

"Zhao Chengzhen's performance in the third round was very impressive. If his most perfect state in the second round is used as the benchmark score of 80 points, his performance in the third round should be able to score around 90 points. He put all his consciousness into it.

Putting it above music, thinking about the ultimate of Chopin, he also achieved the most extreme Chopin he could achieve, even the extreme of this game. If we simply discuss Chopin, I think no one can beat Zhao Chengzhen.

Bar."

"Huh? But player Fu Tiao, you just..."

"But what I played was not Chopin's ultimate performance."

Fu Tiao looked at Wang Kai who was a little stunned in front of him very seriously, and explained to Wang Kai bit by bit.

"What Zhao Chengzhen plays is the ultimate of Chopin. What I play is not the ultimate of Chopin. What I play... is the ultimate of myself. What I have been pursuing is to maximize myself without destroying the composer himself."

interpretation, and I also achieved the ultimate in myself in this competition, the music I pursue."

"The benchmark is still based on Zhao Chengzhen's score of 80 points in the second round. His score in the third round was 90 points, and my score..."

"It's a perfect score."

There was no joking in Fu Tiao's expression, it seemed very natural, and he was not blushing or shy at all because he was praising himself, as if he was stating a very simple thing.

"He is very strong, and there is nothing wrong with that. He has been improving, and there is nothing wrong with that. It's just that I am stronger than him now, and I am progressing faster than him. That's all."

Wang Kai looked at Fu Diao and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. Then he smiled bitterly, motioned for the cameras behind him to turn off first, and then said to Fu Diao.

"Fu Tiao, are you sure you say that? I feel like saying this is a little too arrogant? As a Chinese, aren't we the most humble people? I feel that the public opinion in China is not good, and many people may scold you.

Are you arrogant? Giving those people a point of attack is not a good thing."

"But, is this a fact?"

Fu Diao was puzzled: "Zhao Chengzhen really doesn't play as well as me. Didn't you hear that?"

"I……"

Wang Kai was speechless and didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only helplessly spread his hands and wave them casually in the air.

"Well, you can say whatever you want. It doesn't matter if you are a little arrogant. This may be liked by some people abroad. After all, many of them like people who are a little arrogant and have personality, but don't like people who are like

Machine factories produce uniform robots."

"But I'm really not arrogant..." Fu Tiao said weakly.

"Okay, okay, I know you're not arrogant." Wang Kai didn't bother to listen to Fu Diao's quibbles. He gestured to the camera next to him and asked him to turn on the video recording function again, and continued to ask Fu Diao.

"Okay, now for the last question, if you make it to the fourth round, is there anything you want to say?"

"What I want to say..."

Fu Diao thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "There's nothing to say. I shouldn't have much trouble entering the fourth round, right? If I can't get in, none of the three of us will be able to get in today, so I'm entering the fourth round."

There should be no problem...but if Zhao Chengzhen's limit is just here, then he probably still can't beat me in the final of the Chopin International Piano Competition, that's about it."
To be continued...