Reed Akkad has lived for more than seventy years, what kind of situation has he not seen
He and Min Chen had known each other for more than ten years. Although he didn't have the same intimate knowledge as he did with Master Faller, it was okay to joke occasionally. And the best option at this time is-
Play stupid.
Yep, it's just being stupid.
I saw this famous violin master greeted Min Chen casually, as if nothing had happened, turned his head to look at his lovely student, and said, "Xiao Qi, you "No. 34" has improved a lot, which is beyond my expectations."
All those still standing: "… "
Min Chen sat calmly on the black piano bench, didn't speak, just looked at them with a long gaze.
Qi Mu, on the other hand, said in disbelief: "Teacher, it's not the 34th, it's the 24th..."
Professor Akkad coughed twice to hide his embarrassment, and he said, "Okay, Xiaoqi, please play this piece to me alone, if you can keep the ensemble just now. You don't need to spend any more time on this piece."
Now that Master Akkad has done it with all his might, as his lovely student, Qi Mu naturally gave the teacher a lot of respect, and started to play a solo "Capriccio No. 24" quite cooperatively.
When playing with Min Chen in the past two days, Qi Mu rarely had the opportunity to play this piece alone, but it was not impossible. But now, he is not a little nervous, but is looking forward to what kind of performance he can show.
Without the accompaniment of the piano, what kind of music would he play alone...
The result naturally surprised Qi Mu. He didn't expect that in the absence of piano guidance, he didn't feel blocked at all, but felt that it was completely released, and he was still able to capture the original subtle inspiration.
After listening to the song "No. 24", Professor Akkad also nodded and praised: "Although it is not as powerful as the ensemble just now, you are in control very well. For this song, you have already It's time for a solo recital."
Qi Mu put down the violin and said with a smile, "Thank you, teacher."
In fact, at Qi Mu's level, where does he need to hold a recital now
He has been able to hold solo concerts in his last life, and even a concert hall invited him. It's just because Master Akkad's requirements are too high, in his ears, only this "No. 24" can be regarded as truly outstanding among the songs that Qi Mu can play.
Professor Akkad touched his chin and suddenly thought: "Except for this "No. 24"... I will give you another piece in class tomorrow. I hope you can finish it within a week, okay?"
Before Qi Mu could answer, Derain, who was standing on the side, exclaimed, "Oh my God! One week?! Only seven days? How could someone be able to perfect such a difficult tune in seven days?"
Derain didn't know what song Professor Akkad would give Qi Mu, but he guessed that at least the difficulty of this song would not be lower than Paganini's "No. 24".
You know, Derain himself is still practicing Strauss's tunes, and he has only come into contact with two or three Paganini's tunes. Moreover, Derain's instructor gave him at least two weeks of practice time, so Derain felt that the time was too tight.
Hearing Delan's exclamation, Qi Mu helplessly raised the corners of his lips, glanced at him with a smile, and said, "Delan, you are still young, and I am two years older than you."
When Qi Mu was in Huaxia, he was the youngest member of the band. Now that he is in the academy, the 22-year-old can already be regarded as an "older student", and he is only a few years away from graduation.
It's normal for Professor Akkad to speed up his studies, after all... In a few years, Qi Mu will probably become the eldest senior in the violin department.
The tall and tall Derain touched his nose and smiled a few times. Professor Akkad swept the silly big man up and down with disgust, and continued to say to Qi Mu: "Xiao Qi, it's getting late today, so you can go back first. Get ready to go to the piano room tomorrow, our own The piano room, you know?"
Deliberately emphasizing the words "our piano room", Professor Akkad cast a gloomy look at the man who was still sitting by the piano. I saw Min Chen staring at them with a half-smile, tapping his fingers lightly on the piano cover.
Qi Mu smiled helplessly: "Yes, I will be in the piano room on time at eight tomorrow morning, teacher."
After Professor Akkad complimented Qi Mu with satisfaction, Qi Mu packed his things and planned to leave. Just when he turned around and planned to call Min Chen to go with him, Professor Akkad suddenly said, "By the way, little boy. Seven, you can go alone, Auston and I... have something to talk about."
Qi Mu was startled when he heard the words, he raised his eyes and glanced at Min Chen, then left with a smile. Before leaving, he wisely took away stupid Derain who was staring at the side, and closed the door of the piano room.
After a crisp sound of the door closing, only Min Chen and Professor Akkad were left in the quiet piano room.
The former is sitting leisurely on the piano bench, closing the piano lid casually. The latter was pacing the room with some hesitation. After a long time, Professor Akkad seemed to have made up his mind and walked to Min Chen's side.
"That... uh... Auston, there's something I don't know is clear to you..."
Professor Akkad's hesitant voice made Min Chen's brows rise. He raised his head to look at the other party, and said in a very gentle tone, "Reed, when did we become so estranged? If you have anything to do, you can talk about it. I'll do my best to help."
"..." Professor Akkad touched his arm involuntarily, wiping goose bumps all over his body.
After a long time, he said helplessly: "Okay, Min... In fact, this matter has something to do with Xiao Qi. You know, Qi has just arrived at the academy, and he has taken the special recruitment route. The band is relatively small, but he is definitely not the youngest generation in this academy."
Suddenly hearing a familiar name, Min Chen's casual expression suddenly became solemn. He frowned slightly and said, "So...?"
"In three years at most, Xiaoqi will reach the average age of graduates, but during this time I don't think he needs to go so long, he is almost wasting his youth in the academy. So I think... Let him and you and Keto Like here, take the road of graduating early."
Hearing this, Min Chen's fingers pounding on the piano keys suddenly stopped, his long eyebrows frowned, he looked up at Professor Akkad, and said bluntly: "Reed, Qi Mu's situation and me and Keto It's a little different here, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris has never had an early graduate student, and this is not Leipzig, nor Munich."
Professor Akkad shook his head: "Nan Min, before you, did Leipzig have students who graduated early?"
This made Min Chen suddenly stop his voice. He thought for a long time with a complex expression on his face, and finally said: "Kedori has a precedent."
"However, you don't have this precedent." Professor Akkad said confidently with a serious expression: "Min, since you can do it, so can my students. There will be precedents for everything, the National Conservatory of Music in Paris. The precedent of this may be set by Xiao Qilai."
Min Chen closed his eyes in silence, and did not say a word.
Seeing the other party's "already agree" appearance, Professor Akkad nodded with a smile, and then said in a flattering tone: "Since you also think... Xiao Qi should graduate earlier, then, Min, you take care of my students like this, are you? Shouldn't it be... should you do your best?"
In the end, Professor Akkad's fox tail was finally exposed.
Min Chen raised his eyes to look at him, his thin lips slightly hooked: "How can I help?"
"I discussed with the academy before that if Xiaoqi can get a high score of 90 or more in the two assessments every semester, he can graduate directly from the academy after a year. So... "
"Okay, I'll be a judge."
"So can you please... eh?! How do you know?!" Professor Akkad's eyes widened in horror, he looked at Min Chen up and down for a while, and asked, "When will you be able to do divination, Min Chen? ?!"
Min Chen lowered his eyes calmly, shook his head and said, "The day before you came back, Dean Deswa invited me to be the chief judge of the college's first assessment this semester. Originally I was still hesitating, but now If so... then promise."
Akkad: "@#%@$#^@%$@… "
The evening wind was blowing slowly, and today the sky of Paris was covered with thick clouds, blocking most of the rays of the setting sun. Min Chen wiped the piano for a while, then covered it completely, then got up and planned to leave.
As he packed up, he only heard Professor Akkad muttering in a low voice. The voice was too subtle. If it wasn't for Min Chen's excellent hearing, even he might not be able to hear clearly: "Okay... Min "Actually, you're still a good person."
Min Chen raised an eyebrow: "What?"
Professor Akkad said bluntly: "I've heard him tell you about your helping Evra in London before. I didn't expect that little fat guy named Jasco to be so stupid that he couldn't even save the score. Fortunately, you are here."
Only then did Min Chen understand what the other party was talking about. He nodded lightly: "Well, it's not a big deal."
Just as they were talking, the two planned to walk outside the piano room together. Professor Akkad hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Actually, Min... Even if you are gay, I don't mean to discriminate against you at all. I don't discriminate against gays. I'm sorry about the last time. I thought about it later, it seems that you haven't been with any girl in these years, so if you can find a lover to accompany you for the rest of your life, it will be a very happy thing."
Min Chen's footsteps stopped, he turned his head to look at Akkad, and asked, "I'm not gay?"
Akade waved his hand immediately: "No no no, I mean, whether you are gay or not, I wish you can find a lover who will accompany you for life." Of course, that person had better not be his lovely student.
I saw Min Chen make a meaningful "Oh", then he opened the door of the piano room, took half a step, and then turned his head calmly and left a sentence, "Then I seem to be... actually a homosexual". As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and left, not giving the little old man in the room any time to react.
After a few seconds, Professor Akkad growled angrily: "Auston Bertram! You tell me clearly, do you have any bad thoughts about my lovely student!!! You give I'm back!!!"
The layers of clouds that covered the sky gradually spread out as the evening wind blew. Under the warm and warm sunset, a handsome and tall young man leaned against the building of the violin department of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris with a piano case in his left hand, not knowing who he was waiting for.
Qi Mu wore a light gray coat today, as if she was afraid of the cold, and wrapped a long beige scarf around her neck. The wool scarf rubbed against the young man's face, so that half of his face was shrunk inside, very much like a small animal like a dumpling.
Before making Qi Mu wait long, he waited for the handsome man. He stepped forward with a smile and asked, "I didn't expect you to come out so soon. I thought Teacher Akkad would talk to you for a while longer."
Min Chen was also very surprised when he saw Qi Mu. He thought that the young man had left long ago, but when he saw that Qi Mu was waiting for him by the round stone pillar downstairs in the academy, Min Chen felt a little bit in his heart. After a while, an indescribable feeling spread from my heart.
"Well, nothing important."
Of course Qi Mu didn't take Min Chen's words seriously, but he knew that even Bai Ai's concerts were only considered "normal" in the other party's mouth, which shows that this man really never felt nervous.
Carrying the piano case, Qi Mu walked on the white cobblestone path and said, "During the practice session this evening, I really felt what you wanted to express. Thank you for practicing with me these past few days, it's a waste of time. It's your time." After a while, he said again: "Min Chen, in fact, I really think you are a good person. Although sometimes you don't express it very well, but... you still care a lot about people."
Hearing this, Min Chen raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
Qi Mu didn't notice the other party's abnormality. He raised his eyes to look at the rose-red sky rendered by the sunset, narrowed his eyes slightly, and recalled: "I used to... also knew a good person. He was very enthusiastic, because I just arrived here. The reason, also takes good care of me."
Qi Mu's words were very vague, and almost no one could guess what he was talking about. I just listened to him continue: "But then I found out that this person is actually really cold, he is cold to the core, it is really unbelievable that he actually... would be such a person."
After speaking, Qi Mu's voice gradually decreased.
In fact, after hearing the sound of Luo Yusen closing the door, Qi Mu dared to believe—
There are really people in the world who can be vicious like that.
Under the setting sun, the young man lowered his head slightly, and his handsome face was covered with a shadow. He lowered his eyes and looked at the raised pebbles on the ground. They reflected gem-like light under the sunlight.
Qi Mu didn't know, he looked down at the cobblestone, and the man walking beside him was staring at him with wide eyes.
The man's heart was beating thumping in his chest, and the rhythm was getting faster and faster. In the end, even Min Chen couldn't ignore the rhythm that his heart was about to jump out of his chest.
The pebbles on the ground were shining brightly, but they couldn't compare to the dejected expression of the young man in front of him.
The sound of students playing musical instruments could be heard everywhere on campus. Perhaps the music wasn't perfect, but it allowed Qi Mu to relax slowly, and the mood that was originally depressed because of a scumbag was much lighter.
Even Qi Mu himself didn't know, how could he suddenly say such words to Min Chen. However, after telling the secret hidden in his heart, Qi Mu felt a little relieved.
Some things, which have been suppressed in the bottom of my heart, just need a way to release. Like... Share with someone, even if the person doesn't understand what you're talking about.
Seemingly realizing that he actually regarded this man as a "vent barrel", Qi Mu smiled and rolled his eyes, looked up at the other party, and said, "I'm sorry, I said something to make you..."
Qi Mu's voice stopped abruptly. He stared blankly at the man in front of him, only to see that the other person was reaching out to touch his hair, and the fingertips had already touched his forehead, which made Qi Mu's heart tremble, and a strange feeling of numbness and crispness came from The places where the skin touched were scattered.
The man obviously didn't expect Qi Mu to turn around suddenly, he was stunned for a moment, then coughed lightly, and said, "There is a white petal on your head, I want to take it..."
Before he could finish speaking, Min Chen suddenly took a step back, staring blankly at the top of Qi Mu's head, without saying a word.
The beautiful atmosphere just now disappeared without a trace, Qi Mu frowned in surprise and asked, "What's wrong?"
"… There are bugs."
Qi Mu: "..."
The young man touched his hair reflexively, and quickly wiped a small white bug off his head. His movements were brutal and decisive, and his face was expressionless.
Min Chen: "..."
Seeing the wary look on the other side's face, Qi Mu finally couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Min Chen, if this makes Derain... No, let your fans see you as you are now, what would you do? manage?"
"… "
Qi Mu rolled his eyes and said maliciously and deliberately, "Probably... Fans turn to passers-by, passers-by turn to black?"
"… "
"Well, at least they'll be disappointed, after all, how would they think you'd actually... eh, are you angry? I'm just joking, don't worry, I'll never tell anyone about this, I Swear to God!"
"… "
"Okay, I don't believe in God, what about another? I swear by Paganini?"
"… "
"You don't even believe in Paganini? Well, then I really... eh?"
Qi Mu froze, his pale eyes widened in horror - his waist was tightly embraced by the other party at the moment, the distance was so close that he could even smell the faint scent of the other party's body.
The surroundings suddenly became silent, and Qi Mu didn't know if anyone would see this scene in the academy after school, but at this moment, he didn't have the heart to care about these matters, because he felt that his body became very sensitive. You can even feel the temperature of the other person touching his arm.
"I'm not afraid of bugs." A low, magnetic male voice rang in Qi Mu's ears, and the hot air he exhaled made him suddenly feel a little ticklish on the tips of his ears, "I just… disgusted them."
Qi Mu: "..."
So, are you still afraid
Until the evening after washing clothes alone, Qi Mu didn't understand: how can there be a big man who is so afraid of bugs
As for that hug you ask
Xiao Qi had already thought of the answer: "In order to prevent others from hearing the three words 'fear of bugs', of course, whispered in his ear."
So, in the once-a-week cross-ocean phone call between Qi Mu and Zheng Weiqiao that night, in the face of this always long-winded butler, Qi Mu did not tell what happened during the day.
What he didn't know was that in a certain high-end apartment on the other side of Paris, a certain man rubbed his fingertips and said in a low voice, "The clothes are really... very thick."
In the dark night sky, there is a dim crescent moon hanging. After Qi Mu dried all the clothes out, he looked at the thin Jianyue and said with emotion, "I can understand that I am afraid of snakes, tigers and lions, but why are you afraid of insects?"
"It's really incomprehensible..."
In fact, what is even more incomprehensible is that some people have lower emotional intelligence than others!