"My childhood memories only include the piano, and it doesn't even have as much of an impression on my parents as it does."
"Perhaps this has something to do with the never-ending quarrels between my parents. Every night I sleep in bed with my quilt covered, for fear of hearing their quarrels outside the bedroom door."
"This also led to me not liking to talk to the children around me since I was a child. I always felt that I was different from them."
"Fortunately, I was accompanied by a piano at that time, and I talked to it every day."
"Ever since I was little, I believed that the piano could understand what I was saying."
"And it gives me feedback."
"This is probably the most important reason why I like playing the piano."
...
Duan Ran spoke in an understatement, while Qin Jian listened quietly.
Time passed by, and it was already past 9 o'clock. The violin downstairs and the marimba next door had been playing for more than half an hour.
It's just that Qin Jian is not in much mood to enjoy the musicians' morning exercises. At this moment, all he can think about is a little figure sitting in front of the piano and growing up little by little.
As he was talking, Duan Ran suddenly stopped and said with a smile, "Why is your expression so heavy?"
Qin Jian shook his shoulders and said nothing.
moment.
"Actually, I told you some of these things when I was in Poland."
Duan Ran sighed, "It doesn't matter if I look back now. What I want to say more is that Hua Yunsai met you."
"The pieces you played in the first round of the competition made me think that you could also talk to the piano."
Duan Ran didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly smiled again.
moment.
"Do you know why I didn't return the notebook to you?"
Qin Jian thought for a while and analyzed, "Because you are afraid of communicating with strangers, and you don't know how to talk to me. I don't think you didn't deny it to me on purpose."
The Qin family's serious answer made Duan Ran laugh.
"Why do you think so well of me!"
"Okay, then tell me," Qin Jian spread his hands, "Isn't it true that you fell in love with me at first sight?"
"Don't be so pretty!"
Duan Ran said as he trotted barefoot and left the living room, "Wait for me!"
When she came back, she had a black notebook in her hand.
Qin Jian looked at it and saw that it was the notebook.
"look."
Duan Ran came close to him and turned directly to a page with scrawled handwriting that made him blush.
——
"5:37, not fast enough."
"Raise the ring finger of your left hand, raise it, raise it, raise it, 5:24."
"5:17, the right hand is slightly stiff when running, please relax."
"5:14, hurry up, hurry up, if you want to eat roast duck, come on."
——
"I saw this as soon as I sat down."
Duan Ran spread out the notebook on the coffee table and simulated the scene at that time, "When I saw this, I couldn't help but think, ah, this person can also talk to the piano."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, it's a bit confusing." Qin Jian waved his hand to interrupt Duan Ran, and then asked doubtfully, "Don't you still think that I wrote these words for the piano?"
Duan Ranli shook his head of course and pointed out mercilessly, "Don't you just want to speed up to 5 minutes and 7 seconds and then go eat roast duck?"
Qin Jian made a sound and was speechless: "Then how could you be sure that this book was mine?"
Duan Ran: "Didn't you come out of the piano room just now?"
Qin Jian: "It's possible that someone else left it earlier, but I happened to stay in this piano room again."
"Well, what you said is really possible." Duan Ran nodded uncontrollably, but then said: "I didn't think much about it at the time. I just intuitively thought you were the one who left it behind."
Qin Jian: "So this is the reason why you didn't return it to me?"
Duan Ran: "Actually, I wanted to return it to you later, but I didn't know how to talk to you. At first, every time I saw you backstage, you didn't dare to look at me. Are you afraid of me?"
Qin Jian: "Well, I'm not afraid, but I can't just stare at your face when we meet at that time."
Duan Ran: "Okay, I have good reasons and I forgive you."
Qin Jian: "?"
Duan Ran: "Haha, okay, okay, I'm sorry."
Qin Jian: "What about after the final? I remember it very clearly. By the time the final was over, we seemed to be relatively familiar with each other."
Duan Ran: "After the finals, I was a little reluctant to return it to you."
——
On the night of the final, Qin Jian surprised everyone with his rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, and not only won the cheers of the audience.
It also deeply moved Duan Ran in the rest room.
Every note flowing under his fingertips sounded to Duan Ran with a kind of affectionate outpouring.
This gave Duan Ran a stronger premonition, and she felt that she had found someone of the same kind.
And in the following experiences, Qin Jian would shock her almost every time he made a move.
Over time, Duan Ran unknowingly transferred his feelings about the piano to Qin Jian.
Her life with only the piano gradually turned into a life with only Qin Jian.
The piano gradually faded from her consciousness at some point. When she realized this, she had already graduated.
She is free and can pursue whatever she wants.
But when she sat back in front of the piano, she lost the mysterious connection with the piano.
There were no longer any restrictions on concert repertoire. During the days after her defense, she didn't know what she should practice.
However, at that time Qin Jian had already begun to set sail on the vast sea of Beethoven's piano works.
Confusion, restlessness, and anxiety plagued her through so many sleepless nights.
Fortunately, time gave her enough buffer.
In the last month before Qin Jian came to Vienna, she also gave herself one month.
This month, Qin Jian is busy starting her journey, and she is also looking for a new direction.
After all, she loved the piano deeply.
——
"But it's fine now." Duan Ran said easily.
After releasing the long-standing problems in her heart, she felt more relaxed physically and mentally, "I plan to record a CD of Liszt's virtuosic etudes this year."
Seeing Duan Ran's confident smiling face and listening to such energetic speech, Qin Jian's worries also dissipated.
Duan Ran seems to have found her personal future development direction.
And aside from being a boyfriend, as a piano lover, he is already very, very looking forward to this CD.
In his opinion, Duan Ran seemed to have an innate bewitching sensibility when he played Liszt.
As he waved his arms and raised his hands, lightning and thunder could be seen again.
Qin Jian: "A complete set?"
Duan Ran: "Of course."
Qin Jian took a deep breath and glanced at the piano by the window, "It seems that we have to prepare another piano in the next two days."
Duan Ran agreed, "But do you have to go to school first to report?"
Speaking of this, Qin Jian remembered that he had to report to school this morning.
"Have you reported it yet?" he asked Duan Ran.
Duan Ran: "Well, pack up and go. I'll accompany you to report to the undergraduate department, junior brother."