"You're in a hurry, there's still a month left."
"A month has passed in a blink of an eye. Let alone you, I have never played with anyone else, let alone a trio. We have to practice, get in touch, and find the right piece. It will take time."
"Actually..." Liu Man hesitated for a moment, but still said, "During the winter vacation, I played with Tang Tu, four-handed."
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Li Xiaoru was dumbfounded.
"There seems to be something wrong with my ears. You... Who did you say you were playing with??"
Liu Man was not going to continue to hide Li Xiaoru, and told her truthfully, "During the winter vacation, Professor Qiu gave me a part-time job opportunity. It was to play a supporting role in a movie. Tang Tu was the second male lead in the movie. I and him There was a piano duet scene, so I had experience playing the piano with other people."
"Wait, let me calm down," Li Xiaoru's mind was in a mess, "That is to say, after the piano major assessment at the end of last semester, Professor Qiu called you away alone to invite you to make a movie, so you are in magic during the winter vacation. I stayed for 20 days, first accompanied Xiao Keer, and then made a movie. I still made a movie with Tang Tu. The two of you even played the piano together. The next step, do you want to tell me that you successfully made Tang Tu Snatched it from Shen Mozhen?"
Li Xiaoru's last words frightened Liu Man. Liu Man looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so she lowered her voice and said, "Don't talk nonsense, Tang Tu and I are just a cooperative relationship. contacted him."
"No wonder Tang Tu paid attention to your Weibo during that time, and even liked and forwarded it." Li Xiaoru's doubts were all explained, she pretended to be angry,
"Okay, Manman, your ability is getting stronger and stronger, but you are really a good friend, you can keep everything from me."
"I didn't know how to tell you at that time, I was afraid that Nina would be angry."
"Whether you talk about it or not, she will get angry and break up with us," Li Xiaoru became angry when she mentioned this, "I also convinced her, she goes back to the dormitory very late every day, and she can persist in discord in the dormitory. If I say a word, if I don’t say it, I don’t say it, and I don’t say anything, I want to apply to the counselor for a change of dormitory.”
"She's not a bad person, she's just too strong," Liu Man had no choice but to lose her friend Wang Nina.
Li Xiaoru sneered, "In this world, how many real bad guys are there? No one would really kill and set fire, right? But you can't hide behind people's backs, everyone's life is not easy."
Liu Man was puzzled, "What's wrong with you?"
Li Xiaoru shut up all of a sudden, stopped talking, and urged her, "Quickly send a message to ask if Wen Fangfei is free this afternoon, and ask her out."
She was so anxious that Liu Man had no choice but to send Wen Fangfei a WeChat message, "Hello, do you have time later? Li Xiaoru and I have something to ask for your help."
Wen Fangfei quickly replied to the message: "It happens that I don't have classes this afternoon, so I'm free anytime."
The three agreed to meet outside the school, at the same Starbucks.
It wasn't during the rush hour for commuting to and from school. This time, there was no one in Starbucks. There were three girls with outstanding temperament sitting in the soft seat in the back, and a cup of coffee was placed in front of each of them.
Liu Man told Wen Fangfei about the chamber music ensemble, and Wen Fangfei was very surprised, "No wonder you said you wanted my help..."
Li Xiaoru said, "If you feel inappropriate, you can tell us directly, it's okay, we can find someone else."
Wen Fangfei didn't speak, she drank coffee in small sips, as if she was considering their request carefully, Liu Man and Li Xiaoru didn't urge her, and after a few minutes, she said,
"We can try it first. I have learned Guzheng for 14 years, but I have never played it with the piano. If the effect is not good, you can find someone else to avoid failing the exam. And recently I have to work for Mo Sister Zhen's graduation concert rehearsal, I'm afraid I won't be able to spare so much time to practice with you."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, as long as you are willing to help us," Li Xiaoru said quickly, a big stone in her heart fell to the ground, and she felt relieved.
Liu Man also thought it was okay, she was not as anxious as Li Xiaoru, she said to Wen Fangfei, "Thank you."
Wen Fangfei smiled mischievously, "Don't say thank you first, it's not too late to thank me after you pass the exam."
Liu Man and Li Xiaoru have found a partner for the trio, and the next task is to find a suitable piece of music.
The three discussed with each other, and Wen Fangfei said, "If you choose traditional Western classical music, there are many things that need to be changed on my side. If you choose ancient Chinese classics, you two will also have to make a lot of adaptations, and those songs are basically It is not suitable for piano performance. We are not professional arrangers, and we only have one month to modify it. It may become worse and worse. The best way is to choose modern and modern pieces, which can be compatible with Chinese and Western instruments at the same time.”
Li Xiaoru had a flash of inspiration, "How about "The Butterfly Lovers"? The most original version of "The Butterfly Lovers" violin concerto has elements of Chinese flutes. Song, compress the original long track to 5 minutes."
"Yes, yes," Wen Fangfei agreed very much, ""Blessed Lovers" is indeed very suitable, it is a well-regulated piece, and you only asked to play it for 5 minutes, so the difficulty has been greatly reduced. As long as we cooperate well, you will definitely be able to go well Pass the exam."
"The Butterfly Lovers" is too well-known. In Liu Man's memory, the original owner also played it on the piano. She recalled the melody of "The Butterfly Lovers", and it was indeed a perfect fusion of the piano and the zither. She nodded and said, "I have no objection either. .”
So the three finalized the performance track as "Blessed Lovers".
"I'll go to the library to find a relatively official piano score of "Blessed Lovers" in the past two days, shorten the duration, and arrange the voices of me and Manman," Li Xiaoru said to Wen Fangfei, "Then I put the I will send you the music score, and you can make corresponding revisions according to the characteristics of the guzheng, so that we can combine it as soon as possible."
Wen Fangfei said, "I don't have a big problem here. I used "The Butterfly Lovers" as an etude before, and I have some proficiency in the repertoire. Now it depends on how you divide the work. I can just do it here."
In order to thank Wen Fangfei for her help, Liu Man and Li Xiaoru specially invited her to have a dinner outside the school in the evening, and the three of them talked happily.
After sending Wen Fangfei away, Li Xiaoru half-jokingly said to Liu Man, "God saw that Wang Nina broke up with us, so we met Wen Fangfei, so, friends are always there."