A happy and spicy lunch ended with the two women discussing how to maintain their figure.
After the meal, the two returned to school.
Before leaving the piano room on the first floor, Ye Yi asked He Jing if he would go around the streets tonight, and He Jing asked Ye Yi to change the day.
So the two of them went back to their piano rooms and waited for the students who would come to class in the afternoon.
The two classes flew by in a flash.
...
After class in the afternoon, He Jing hurried back to Yangcheng.
At a quarter past five, a family of three drove to the old man's house.
Grandma Qin Jian is full of dumplings tonight.
As usual, He Jing would definitely make a video call to Qin Jian for a dinner like this tonight.
Today is no exception.
After the five members of the family had just eaten a few bites of the meal, Grandpa Qin Jian hurriedly urged He Jing: "Jing Jing, hurry up and make a video for Qin Jian."
"Okay, grandpa, wait a moment," He Jing put down her chopsticks, took out her mobile phone and made a video call to Qin Jian, and then handed the mobile phone to Mr. Fang's hand.
The video was quickly connected.
"Ah, grandpa...grandpa..."
"Grandpa!"
Qin Jian's face just appeared blurry on the phone screen, and then Qin Jian's intermittent voice came.
Mr. Fang saw his eldest grandson again through the screen. He was very happy for a moment. He quickly picked up a plate of dumplings and said loudly to the camera: "The dumplings made by your grandma are still hot. Come and eat!"
On the phone, Qin Jian opened his mouth and said, "Grandpa, feed me!"
Qin Jian's words made the whole family happy.
The dumplings were definitely not available, but Qin Jian spoke to his family members one by one, and finally the phone was returned to He Jing's hand.
"How are you preparing for the big star songs? There hasn't been any movement lately."
Looking at Qin Jian sitting in the piano room on the screen, He Jing joked.
Qin Jian sighed on the screen, "Oh, sister, are you...".
The video was stuck, and Qin Jian's mouth was open on the screen, his eyes were staring, and he was motionless in despair.
After a while, the video was hung up and Qin Jian called.
He Jing picked up.
"Sister, you don't know——."
What followed was a two-minute complaint.
He Jing deeply understood Qin Jian's difficulties. Regarding the selection of competition repertoire, she had just experienced it not long ago, especially the repertoire that both countries wanted to play.
She hesitated for a long time about the final repertoire of the Fifty States Piano Competition. In the end, she submitted the Puerto II Concerto almost right before the deadline for repertoire submission. Her first plan was to submit the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
He Jing: “What did senior sister say?”
Qin Jian: "Sister Lin Jun let me decide by myself."
He Jing sighed, it is true that in the end, it is up to you to decide on the competition repertoire, especially for such a top international competition.
The choice of track can almost affect the final result.
He Jing: "Don't worry, there is still time, let's think about it carefully."
Qin Jian also sighed: "Oh, by the way, sister, I'm going to call you later today. Have you got your parents' passports from the office?"
He Jing: "Don't worry about this. I will tell you in advance when the departure date is set."
Qin Jian: "Okay sister, I understand, then you can eat quickly. I see you have just started eating."
He Jing: "Well, go practice the piano quickly. If you need anything, call me."
Qin Jian: "Yeah, don't worry, it's over."
He Jing: "Bye."
Qin Jian: "Bye."
...
Putting away the phone, Qin Jian sighed to himself again, and then fell into thinking again.
His recent experience was completely opposite to the one before coming to Bergen.
During the last period of time in China, he was worried about choosing the sonatas for the third round of competition every day. At that time, he didn't know which one to choose because he didn't call for any of the three.
Now he is once again stuck in the difficulty of selecting the final round of repertoire. This time his problem is that he likes both concertos very much.
It goes without saying that Xiao Yi, no matter which chapter of the three movements, touched him when he dreamed back at midnight.
In Qin Jian's mind, Xiao Yi is a moving poem.
Especially the second movement.
Just like Chopin's own description of this movement - 'It is full of romance, has a quiet and quite melancholy character. It wants to express the impression that people gaze at the moving scenery and evoke beautiful memories in their hearts, as if in a charming place.
In a dreamland under the moonlight on a spring night.'
This magnificent feeling fascinated Qin Jian.
He had a strong desire to express this piece, and the content he wanted to express was something he had never heard in any version.
If he can reach the finals, he wants to show his understanding of Xiao Yi to everyone.
This is purely from his perspective on the track itself.
From the perspective of song selection for the competition, Xiao Yi’s chance of ‘winning’ is far greater than Xiao Er’s. This is the history of the Chopin Competition.
Almost all previous Chopin Competition champions have chosen ‘Xiao Yi,’ although it sounds more like a tradition, but it seems to be the case.
The candidate for the championship is the answer given by the people on the jury, and nearly a quarter of the big names on the jury are the champions of previous Chopin Competitions.
Qin Jian had to consider their final preference. What if they preferred the players who chose 'Xiao Yi'?
but.
Qin Jian also had an inexplicable feeling for Xiao Er.
When Qin Jian was initially preparing these two works, when he learned that the background of Xiao Er's work was that Chopin wrote it after falling into unrequited love, he became very interested in this work.
Because the heroine of unrequited love is not George Sand, but an ordinary girl from the vocal department of the Conservatory of Music.
You must know that Chopin only wrote two piano concertos in his life, one of which was written for that girl to learn.
This had to interest Qin Jian.
As he continued to learn more about it, Qin Jian found a copy of Chopin's letters among the materials he collected.
In the letter, Chopin wrote: 'In the past six months, I have dreamed of her [a girl from the vocal music department] almost every night, but I still haven't exchanged a word with her. I just wrote the slow movement while missing her.'
So Qin Jian listened to Xiao Er's slow movement again with this emotion, and then he fell.
Although there are different opinions in the history of music, some music critics said that this work was Chopin's farewell gift to his motherland before he decided to go to France, and some historians said that this work was Chopin's description of his first love.
Qin Jian knew that Chopin was gone, and Qin Jian didn't care whether Chopin fell in love with the female student in the end, but he was sure that he did feel a strong sense of secret love from the slow movement of this work.
Sore, swollen, and itchy.
"This feels so wonderful."
Qin Jian also wants to perform this passage on the court.
It's just that you can't have your cake and eat it too. I won't say which one is better, but you can't change it if you can only choose one.
Before dinner, Qin Jian played the second movement of Xiao Er's Concerto for the last time, and then left the piano room.
After dinner, he found the old bartender busy in the shop.